Hey guys! :D I'm backkkkkk! *dodges food* Ok ok, I'm sorry I've gotten super lazy about update please forgive me! DX But last night me and my cousin tried to go to a dance, only to find out after my aunt had dropped us off that the dance had been moved to a different building and there was a musical going on. So we had to wait out side IN THE FREAKING COLD FOR AN HOUR for her mom to get back and hopefully take us to the right place. Only a cop had pulled her over and told her her back lights were broken and she decided to take us home, which on the way we almost hit a cat who was sitting in the middle of the freaking street and now since I was in the cold my ears feel like they're stuffed with cotten and I'm coughing up my lungs. ; - ;
Enough excuses though, you're wanting your chapter. :P Enjoy Chapter 24 (while I get some sleep -_-)
"North, North! I told you I'm not going with you guys!' Jack shouts to the man as he dodges around the rushing yetis. 'There is no way I'm getting on some rickety old…..sleigh?"
Jack watched, dumbfounded, as two massive doors opened. Rain deer as tell as him self, not counting the antlers, came marching out. One got close to Jack and tried to head bunk him but North pulled it away by the antler before it could.
Behind the huge rain deer was a bright red sleigh small plan like wings on the sides of it. As it lowered it's self closer to the ground Jack could see a 3-D globe sitting on the console.
North stood next to Jack, grinning smugly at the boy's awed look. Bunny, on the other side, staring at it wearily.
Jack was silent for a moment before he put up one finger. "Okay. One ride, but that's it."
Bunny looked shocked but North just grinned. "Everyone loves the sleigh."
"Bunny, what are you waiting for?" North asks as he begins starting up the sleigh.
"I think my tunnels might be faster, mate,' Bunny taps his foot against it. 'and safer."
"Get it!' North snorts as he grabs Bunny by the back of the neck and shoves him in the back. 'Buckle up!"
Bunny fumbles around desperately. "Where are the bloody seatbelts?!"
North laughs. "That was just expression. Are we ready?"
The yeti shook his head but North ignored him. "Good. Let's go!"
North snapped the rains and the rain deer began running at top speed.
Bunny pressed him self against the bench, Sandy sitting casually next to him and Jack was standing in a surfer's stance.
Jack chuckled as he looked back at Bunny to see his claws digging into the wood.
"Out of the way!" North cheers, wide grin on his face.
They entered a dark tunnel going down, it brightened as the sleight meet a part the made it slide sideways. North cheered as the made the rain deer go faster down a narrow passage and into a area where yetis could be seen working on pillars.
Jack turned his head back to stare at them as they pasted, some waving at them.
"Slow down, slow down!" Bunny cries.
North only laughs and pulls a lever, making the sleight go even faster much to Bunny horror as they rode on the walls.
"I hope you like the loop-de-loops!" North says looking back at them with an excited grin.
"I hope you like carrots." Bunny retorts, trying to keep his lunch from coming up.
Sandy raised his hands joyfully, mutely whooping in excitement.
Jack ran to the side as he watched the sleight finally come out of the tunnels and onto a wood ramp that lead to open air. He crouched on the railing as it took off, grinning widely as they did or maybe because Bunny was screaming like crazy.
North laughs as he does a small loop. "Blast off!"
Jack jumped to the back to watch as the workshop began to shrink behind them. Bunny looked over the side only to fall back against the seats, possibly green under his fur. "Ohhhhhhh."
Jack looked at Bunny and crouched on the back of the sleight. "Hey Bunny, check out this vie-whoa!"
Jack cried as a gust of wind pushed him off. Bunny's eyes widened as he looked around wildly. "North! He's-!"
He looked over the side and saw Jack sitting casually on the legs. Jack smiled innocently. "Aw, you do care."
Bunny's worried look turns angry. "Oh rack off, you bloody show pony!"
Jack hopped back in as North called back to them. "Hold on, everyone. I know shortcut!"
"I know I should have taken the tunnels"' Bunny mutters as he shrinks in his seat. North looks at him with a mischievous smile before pulling out a portal ball.
North leaned his lips against it. "I say…Tooth Palace."
He throw it ahead of the sleight and it broke open mid-air, a fuzzy picture of a palace in its rippling form.
As quick as a flash they were though and flying towards a high mountain with what looked like towers built on it. Streaks of black filled the air, heading towards them.
"What?" North mutters in confusion.
The streaks were soon on them, revealing to be horses made of black sand.
"What are they?" Bunny shouts as North dodges the horses best he could.
Sandy made a golden umbrella appear as one almost hit him, Jack crying out in surprise next to him.
Jack watched as one was chasing blue colored blurs. "They're taking the tooth fairies!"
He watched as one ate a fairy, adding it to the few he could see in its stomach. It continued to chase another but Jack quickly jumped off the sleight and grabbed the fairy in his hands before it could get her. He landed as gently as he could as he opened his handed to look at her.
"Hey little Baby Tooth, you okay?" He asks softly.
She looked at him with mismatched eyes, one brown the other blue, and squeaked a yes. Or what he assumed was a yes anyway.
They had made it to the mountain and took a cave in, beautiful golden towers hung from the ceiling.
North moved around them as they flew and Jack was shocked when North thrust-ed the reins into his hands. "Here, take these."
He quickly took hold of them, fear they would crash other wise. North jumped on the front of the sleight and pulled out his two swords, slicing though any of the horses that got too close.
North sliced one and golden containers fell out of its stomach.
"They're taking the teeth!" Bunny gasps as he picks one up and looks at Sandy. Sandy looked at the black sand on his arm, a confused and worried frown coming to his face as he looked back at the large rabbit.
"Jack look out!" North says, Jack had been listening to the others and hadn't notice they were going towards a large rock pillar.
He pulled back and the rain deer took a sharp turn to the right going in between two towers and landed on a circular platform.
Tooth was flying around wildly.
"Tooth!' North calls to her. 'Are you alright?"
She flinted around worriedly. "They…They took my fairies. And the teeth. All of them! Everything is gone."
The other Guardians grouped around her as she floated to the ground and landed on her knees.
The fairy Jack had saved popped out of his hood and squeaked happily as she flew over to her mother.
Tooth saw her and sighed in relief as she holds her. "Oh, thank goodness. One of you is all right."
"I have to say, this is very, very exciting." A dark voice echoes around them. "The Big Four, all in one place. I'm a little star struck."
Pitch appeared a level high, sneering down at them. "Did you like my little show on the globe, North? Got you all together, didn't I?"
He scoffs, as North grunts angrily.
"Pitch you have 30 seconds to give back my fairies or I'll-!" Tooth cries, flying at him only for him to disappear.
"Or what?' Pitch asked mockingly. 'You'll stick a quarter under my pillow?"
"Why are you doing this?" North asks, pointing his sword at Pitch.
Pitch frowned, pointing a finger at them. "Maybe I want what you have…to be believed in."
Jack's ears perked, looking at Pitch with a mix of curiosity and weariness.
"He didn't just want to be believed in,' Bunny mutters darkly. 'He wanted to kill us and turn the world back to the dark ages."
The other guardians nodded, but Jack's was a bit hesitant. He could slightly understand why Pitch did so much to be seen. After all if he had been left alone another century or so he would likely have gotten desperate enough to accept Pitch's deal.
"Maybe I'm tired of hiding under beds!" Pitch growls as he disappears, his shadow moving over the walls to another spot closer to the Guardians and Jack.
"Maybe that's were you belong!" Bunny shots back, taking a few threatening steps forward.
Pitch appeared below then, literally, and scoffs. "Oh go suck an egg, rabbit."
Bunny tried to grab him but he vanishes again.
"Hang on,' Pitch's voice echoes around them. 'Is that…Jack Frost?"
His dark chuckle makes them look around carefully. "Since when are you all so chummy?"
"We're not." Jack mutters, staff at the ready.
"Oh good. A neutral party.' Pitch says from behind Jack making him spin around. 'Then I'm going to ignore you, but you must be use to that by now."
Hurt flashes in Jack's eyes. Where Bunny was attacking because of what Pitch said or just because he hoped to catch him by surprise; Jack wasn't sure but Bunny raced forward boomerang in hand.
"Pitch, you shadow-sneaking ratbag, come here!" He shouts.
Tooth noticed him a level up and grabbing Bunny's other boomerang she shot up towards him with a battle cry.
Only to fly backwards with a scream of surprise as one of those black sand horses formed in front of him.
Baby Tooth squeaks as Pitch laughs. "Whoa! Whoa! Hey easy, easy."
He runs his hands over it a bit of sand gathering in it. "Look familiar, Sandman?'
Sandy looked at his own sand before glaring at Pitch.
"Took me a little while to perfect this little trick. Turning dreams into nightmares.' He stroked the horse's nose lovingly, smirk twisting his think lips. 'Don't be nervous, it only riles them up more. They smell fear, you know."
"What fear? Of you?' Bunny laughs. 'No one's been afraid of you since the Dark Ages!"
"Ah the Dark Ages,' Pitch says with nostalgia. '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 a just a bad dream. 'Oh there's nothing to be afraid of!' 'There's no such thing as the boogie man!' Well that's all about to change."
They all looked around as the colors started to flake off of the palace. Pitch's eyes lit with glee. "Oh look it's happening already."
"What is?" Jack asks in shock to the others.
Tooth gasps as Pitch speaks up for her. "Children are waking up and are realizing the Tooth Fairy never came. I mean, such a little thing. But to a child…"
"What's going on?" Looking at Tooth worriedly as she stares dazed into the distance.
"They…They don't believe in me anymore." Tooth says softly, eyes lowering apparently still in shock.
"Didn't they tell you Jack?' Pitch laughs. 'It's great being a Guardian! But there's a catch. If enough children stop believing everything your friends protect, wonder, hopes and dreams it all goes away. And little by little….so do they. No Christmas or Easter, or little fairies who come in the night. There will be nothing but fear and darkness. And me. It's your turn, not to be believed in."
Bunny had had enough and with a yell threw his boomerang at Pitch. It came at him twice but he dodged them, when the second came he jumped onto his nightmare and shot towards the ground.
The Guardians were on his tail in an instant. Jack hesitated for a moment before jumping down him self.
Hope you liked! R&R plz! Ta!
GWDG