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Chapter 2: Trouble at Tooth palace

Everyone followed North out to where he said he keeps his sleigh.

"Boy boys!" he said, clapping his hands, and the yetis went right to work.

"North! North! I told you I'm not going with you guys!" Jack said, trying to get through to their heads.

"There's no way I'm getting on some rickety, old . . ." he slowed himself down when he saw the gates open and the sleigh was being pulled out, "sleigh?"

The first thing to come out were the reindeer. They weren't at all what Jack was expecting. They stood tall and strong, bucking and stomping on the ground hard, almost resembling horses and then, the sleigh itself came out. It was nothing what Jack was expecting. It was so big, had a bunch of seats, wings on the sides to help it in flight, and a globe propped in the front. He remained speechless for a moment until he said, "Ok, one ride, but that's it!"

"Everyone loves de sleigh," North said with a smile and a laugh. Jack hopped into the sleigh. Sandy seated himself in the back.

"Bunny! What are you waiting for!?" North asked, seeing that Bunny hasn't gotten into the sleigh.

"I think my tunnels might be faster mate," he said, hitting the side of the sleigh with his foot and watching it wobble a little.

"Get in!" North grabbed Bunny by his leather sash and plopped him down into a seat.

"Buckle up!" North said. Bunny looked around him, but there were no sign of any seat belts.

"Whoa whoa whoa, where're the bloody seat belts!?" he asked, more nervous than ever.

"Ha! That was just expression!" North turned his attention to the yetis that were making a few last checks on the sleigh, "are we ready!?" The yetis spoke to him in their language, quickly finishing some adjustments. Then they all stepped back.

"Yaaah!" North shouted, and with a snap from the reigns, the reindeer were off. Poor Bunny was almost thrown back, he dug his claws in the wood, making claw marks on it. Jack chuckled at him, knowing how scared he was. They all went into an icy tunnel, with Bunny screaming all the way. Jack stood up during the ride, enjoying it and looking around with wonder. At one point, North then pulled a lever and then sleigh went into a loop on the icy walls, clinging onto the ceiling.

"I hope you like de loopy-loop!" he shouted.

Bunny was about to gag, but he held it back, "I hope you like carrots!" he shouted back, knowing that North was messing with him.

Sandy raised his arms into the air like you would in a roller coaster ride. Light was seen at the end of the tunnel, and the road ended.

"Here we go!" Jack stood one of the edges of the sleigh, cheering loudly when the sleigh was in the air. Jack walked to the back of the sleigh and looked at where he had sunk himself down in the sleigh, trying to calm down, yet looking sick.

"Oh," he (Bunny) groaned.

"Hey Bunny," Jack said, kneeling down from where he was, "check out this view-" he didn't finish, when he stood up while taking, a great, gust of wind blew him right off the sleigh.

Slowly, but eventually, Bunny looked down from the sleigh . . . . . and there was Jack, seated on the sleigh's landing gear.

"Awwww, you do care," Jack said, grinning slyly at Bunny. Bunny glared, "Oh rack off you bloody show-pony!" he said angrily, and got back into his previous position in the sleigh and jack hopped into the sleigh.

"Hold on everyone! I know a shortcut!" North announced. Bunny groaned even more.

"Oh, I knew I should've taken the tunnel!" North pulled out a plain snow globe and gave it a few shakes.

"I'd say, Tooth Place," and he threw it ahead, a portal opened up, just like the one used to bring Jack to his workshop. Another snap from the reigns, and the reindeer flew right into it.

When they were through, Jack saw mountains and clouds everywhere. It was indeed a beautiful sight. But then suddenly, coming from the mountains, were herds of what looked like to be scary looking horses made up of black sand.

"What!?" North said, not expected this at all. He pulled on the reins and tried to maneuver the sleigh to avoid clashing with the

horses. Completely forgetting his sickness, Bunny hopped to his feet. Sandy created an umbrella out of his sand and used it to shield himself from the horses. Jack examined one of the nearby horses, and noticed that it was chasing Tooth's little fairies, capturing them by swallowing them and storing them where their stomach would be.

"They're taking the tooth fairies!" Jack exclaimed. Jack looked up and saw one fairy that was desperately trying to get away, but the horse was hot on her trail. He flew up in an attempt to rescue her a succeeded in saving her.

"Hey little Baby Tooth, you ok?" he asked in a soothing voice, trying to calm Baby Tooth down. She responded with a few squeaks and nods. "Here! Take over!" he ordered. Jack obeyed and North jumped up on the sleigh with his large blade and sliced the horse, destroying it. Something dropped into the sleigh that came from the horse. It looked like a case of some sort. Bunny picked one up and figured something

out.

"They're stealing the teeth!" Some of the horse's black sand had rubbed off onto Sandy. He collected some into his hands, his face showed saying that he might know what was causing this.

"Jack look out!" North yelled when he saw that Jack wasn't paying attention to where he was driving the sleigh. Jack pulled hard on the reins, trying to avoid crashing into one of the floating pillars. They all landed hard on one of the columns. Everyone got out of the sleigh and heard a horrified gasp. Tooth was flying everywhere, trying to see if one of her fairies had managed to avoid getting captured.

"Tooth! Are you alright!?" North asked.

"They took my fairies. And the teeth, all of them," she said, distress in her voice, "everything is gone." Everyone gathered together, trying to comfort Tooth.

"Everything . . . ." she said, landing on the ground.

"Not everything," jack said, and opened his hands, revealing the one fairy he saved. Tooth's face lit up instantly, seeing one of her fairies.

"Oh! Thank goodness," Tooth said, holding her precious fairy, "one of you is alright."

"I have to say, this is very very exciting," a booming voice suddenly said, "the big four, all in one place." Looking up, everyone saw the source of the voice. It was Pitch Black, he stood above them on a column with something shiny and thin swinging around his finger like a hula hoop.

"I'm a little star-struck." He faced North, "Did you like my show on the globe North? Got you all together, didn't I?" North scoffed under

his breath, knowing that he had fallen for Pitch's trap.

"Pitch!" Tooth yelled angrily. Pitch disappeared as Tooth flew around where he was, trying to find him to give him a piece of her mind, "you've got thirty seconds to return my fairies-"

"Or what?" Pitch appeared on a different column, "you'll stick a quarter under my pillow?"

"Why are you doing this?" North asked with a determined look on his face.

"Maybe, I want what you have," Pitch said, pointing a finger at the guardians, "to be believed in." Those words really struck a chord on Jack he too knew what it was like to have the desire to be seen and believed.

"Maybe I'm tired of hiding under beds!" Pitch snapped.

"Maybe, that's where you belong," Bunny said.

"Oh go suck an egg rabbit," Pitch replied , appearing under the column where Bunny was. Bunny lashed out at him, but Pitch was gone in an instant.

"Hang on, is that Jack Frost?" Pitch's voice asked. He chuckled a bit, "Since when were you all so chummy?"

"We're not," Jack said, holding his staff at ready to attack if he needed to.

"Oh good, a neutral party," Pitch appeared not too far from Jack, "then I'm gonna ignore you. But you must be used to that by now."

Jack noticed more closely that pitch had Hailey's tiara, his eyes widened and he glared at Pitch.

Jack's P.O.V!

"THATS HAILEY'S TIARA!" I shouted getting the other guardians attention.

"Indeed." Pitch said as he tossed it at me like a frisbee.

I caught hailey's tiara and held it in my hands and made sure it wasn't broken.

"She was another obstacle in my way, but now she is mine." Pitch said with a smirk.

"WHAT DID YOU DO!?" I snapped at him.

"I thought she would of better use locked up for my later plans." Pitch said.

I felt the rage boiling in my stomach and in my chest. I saw Bunny lunged himself at Pitch, but Pitch used his shadows to disappear. Tooth flew over to Bunny, grabbed his boomerang, and charged with a war cry at Pitch who had reappeared on a different column. He just smirk at her attempt, and before Tooth could strike, a black horse appeared, bucking and stomping hard, defending Pitch. Baby Tooth gave a frightened squeak and hid inside my hood.

"Whoa! Hey, easy girl," Pitch cooed, the horse stopped as Pitch stroked its' mane.

He gathered something in his hand and held it out for everyone to see. It was the same black sand that Sandy had inspected earlier.

"Look familiar Sandman?" he asked, "took me a while to perfect this little trick."

" turning dreams into nightmares has always been my specialty. Don't be nervous," he added, "it only riles them up more. They smell fear."

"What fear!? Of you!?" Bunny shouted with a laugh as he took his boomerang back from Tooth, "no one has ever been afraid of you since the Dark Ages."

"Oh the Dark Ages. Everyone frightened, miserable. Such happy times for me. Oh, the power I wielded. But then the Man in the Moon chose you to replace my fear with your wonder and light. Lifting their hearts, and giving them hope. Meanwhile everyone wrote me off as just a bad dream. 'Oh there's nothing to be afraid of.' There's no such thing as the Boogieman.' Well that's all about to change." As the words left his mouth, one of the pillars suddenly began to crumble and lose its' beautiful color. The same thing happened to another and another and another, all around, everything was losing its' shape and color.

No one's P.O.V!

"Oh look, it's happening already," Pitch said with an amused smirk.

"What is?" Jack asked. The look on Tooth's face said that she knew what was happening.

"Children are waking up, and realizing the Tooth fairy never came. Heh, it's such a little thing, but to a child . . . ." I still couldn't understand why the palace was falling into pieces.

"What's going on?" she asked Tooth.

"They . . . . they don't believe in me anymore," Tooth answered.

"What!?" I exclaimed.

"Didn't they tell you Jack? It's great being a guardian, but there's a catch: if enough kids stop believing, everything your friends protect, wonder, hopes and dreams, it all goes away. And little by little, so do they."

"They go away?" Jack asked, not liking the sound of that.

"Hehehehe, no Christmas or Easter or little fairies that come in the night. There will be nothing but fear and darkness. And me. It's your turn not to be believed in.", Bunny threw his boomerang, Pitch almost got hit but he summoned his one of his Nightmare and rode off. The guardians went after him, along with Jack who flew behind, hoping to be of some help. Bunny threw some egg bombs, the Nightmare was able to dodge them and escaped through a hole in a rock wall. Everyone was now standing at the bottom of Tooth's place, it looked to be a very small forest area where a little pond and rock art were. Tooth saw the few tooth capsules that fell in the sleigh on the ground, she held one in her hands like it was the most fragile thing in the world. Jack knelt down next to her. "Sorry about the fairies," he said, trying to lift her mood.

"You shoulda seen them, they put up such a fight," Tooth said with a forced smile.

"Why would Pitch take the teeth?" Jack asked, returning to the situation at hand.

"It's not the teeth he wanted, it's the memories inside them." Tooth explained.

"Whaddya mean?" jack asked.

"That's why we collect the teeth Jack, they hold the most important memories of childhood." Tooth flapped her wings and hovered over to the rock art. Jack followed by freezing a path on the pond.

"My fairies and I watch over them," she explained, "and when someone needs to remember what's important, we help them." She

looked up at the art, "We had everyone's here, your's too, and Hailey's."

"Uh, my memories?" Jack asked. "What do you mean Tooth?"

"From when you were young, before you became Jack Frost." Jack couldn't understand.

"I wasn't anyone before I was Jack Frost."

"Of course you were, we were all someone before we were all chosen." Both Jack was dumbstruck.

"You should've seen Bunny's!" North said with a laugh, overhearing their conversation.

"Hey, I told you never to mention that!" Bunny reminded, pissed that North would bring that up.

"Well . . . I just assumed that . . . ." Jack was at a loss for words.

"Are you saying that we had a life before all this?" Jack asked, now getting a little excited.

"With-with a home and a family!?"

"You two really don't remember?" Tooth asked.

"All these years, the answers were right here. If I find my memories, I'll know why I'm here!" Jack flew around, letting some of his "happy energy" out, "You have to show me, then you can show Hailey hers!"

"I . . . I can't. Pitch has them." Tooth admitted.

"Then we have to get them back!" Jack stated. Before Tooth could say something, some of her feathers started to fall off her.

"Oh no . . . ." Everyone's attention was drawn to the rock art, parts of it were fading away and crumbling, just like the pillars did back up in

Tooth's palace.

"The children . . . we're too late . . ." Tooth said with a sullen face.

"NO! NO! No such thing as too late!" North shouted, not wanting for Tooth to give up. He paced back and forth, thinking hard. "Wait . . . wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait . . . . . I got it!"

As he said this he swung his blade at the last thing he said, almost cutting Bunny in the face.

"WE will collect the teeth!" he announced.

"What!?" Tooth asked, thinking that this was a ridiculous idea.

"We collect teeth, children keep believing in you." Tooth tried to talk some sense into him, "We're talking seven continents, millions of kids-"

"Give me break. You know how many toys I deliver in one night?" North said with a grin.

"And eggs I hide in one day?" Bunny added.

"And Jack," North called, "If you help us, we will get you your memories and Hailey's when we find her." Tooth chuckled, happy to see that this really could work out. Sandy gave a thumbs up, showing that he was gonna help as well. Bunny groaned in annoyance hearing that Jack was going to help them. Jack smiled and said. "I'm in."

Meanwhile…

Hailey was curled up in a cage with black sand Chains on her ankles. She heard pitch's Dark chuckle and she looked up the cage swaying around more she saw Tooth's fairies also in cages but they were smaller than the one she was in. Pitch suddenly appeared at her cage holding a tooth box with her face on it.

"Well look what I found." Pitch boasted.