I am so sorry it took longer than I planned to update! We're moving, so... craziness in my household! Still, here you go!
INT. JAMIE'S BEDROOM- NIGHT
Jamie plays with a TOY ROBOT as DRAWINGS AND CHARTS of mystery creatures hang on the wall behind him: UFO's, aliens, Bigfoot, you name it. There's even a drawing of Jamie flying in midair on his sled..
JAMIE (O.S)
|.. I did this jump and it was amazing and I slid under a car and it was awesome! Then I was flying down this hill and I was like whoosh, whoosh, whoosh through all these cars, and then the sled hit this, this thing, and I was like way up in the air.
The parents all smile at Jamie, at how excited he was telling his adventure of the day.
He mimes flying in the air with his robot, then CRASHING to the bed as Sophie and their dog sit listening-
JAMIE
-and then BAM! The sofa hit me, and, and see? (opens mouth, tries to say 'my tooth came out') Ah hoo hay ow!
We reveal JAMIE'S MOM in the room. Sophie LAUGHS and tries to stick a finger in the gap in his gums.
JAMIE'S MOM
Alright you, tooth under your pillow?
Jamie sets the TOY ROBOT on his nightstand, and then grabs a stuffed rabbit next to his pillow to reveal a CAMERA AND FLASHLIGHT.
JAMIE
Yeah. I'm ready.
"Children always try to stay up and see Tooth." Emma chuckled.
"You and Jack did the same." Lucy laughed. Emma smiled, bittersweet. She'd stopped believing, after Jack died.
JAMIE'S MOM
Now, don't stay up trying to see her, Jamie, or she won't come.
JAMIE
But I can do it this time! You wanna help me, Soph? We can hide and see the Tooth Fairy!
SOPHIE
(crazed)
hide, hide, hide, hide!
"She is so excitable, she's a mess." Renee laughed.
"But we love our children for it." Samantha agreed, laughing.
Jamie's Mom picks Sophie up off the bed and lifts her over her shoulder. Their dog gets up and begins licking Jamie's face.
JAMIE'S MOM
uh uh, straight to bed now, mister.
JAMIE
Mom...
We see Jack Frost, outside, hanging upside down watching them through a window. A pang. The glass frosts over.
The smiles in the room fade as everyone sees Jack's forlorn expression.
"I should have been there." Emma whispered.
"You couldn't have known." Monica tried to reassure the time spirit.
"But I should have. I let my fear keep me away from my own family." she replied.
Never again. a small voice in her head whispered.
EXT. ROOF OF JAMIE'S HOUSE- CONTINUOUS
Jack flips onto the roof, a little pensive. He makes his way toward the roof's peak and looks up at the MOON, in full view. It lights up the night sky.
JACK
If there's something I'm doing wrong, can you, can you just tell me what it is?
(No response)
Because I've tried everything and no one ever sees me.
(No response)
You put me here. The least you can do is tell me, tell me why.
Lucy felt tears start sliding down her cheeks. Renee looked over at the other woman and her face fell into one of sympathy. The worst thing for a mother to go through was watching her child hurt and not be able to do anything about it.
A beat. The Moon shines silently down.
Jack turns away in frustration.
Jack leaps off the roof, onto a telephone pole, and begins walking across some telephone wires.
A stream of Dreamsand suddenly zips behind him, then another, which swoops around in front of him. Jack turns and looks up, a smile now on his lips.
"It's beautiful." Emily whispered.
JACK
Right on time, Sandman.
The Dreamsand descends from the sky, and drifts into windows around the town. Jack runs along the telephone wire until he can reach out and intercept one of the passing streams. An adjacent stream takes the shape of a dolphin which turns toward Jack before turning to sand and continuing on its way to a waiting child. Then, we follow one of the streams into a window.
INT. CUPCAKE'S BEDROOM- BURGESS- CONTINUOUS
Dreamsand floats into a window, where CUPCAKE is in bed, hugging a stuffed unicorn in her sleep.
Alex smiles fondly at his daughter. She was a sweet girl, when you managed to get past her tough exterior.
The Dreamsand swirls over her head, and morphs into a little girl riding a unicorn. The girl smiles at the lovely dream as it flies around the room.
Then the room darkens as a wispy, shadowy figure with a familiar laugh crawls out from under the bed, and rises up.
It's Pitch
Alex scowled.
"He'd better not touch my daughter." he growled angrily.
He notices Cupcake's dream.
PITCH
ohhhh, I thought I heard the clippity-clop of a unicorn.
What an adorable dream!
His face softened, seemingly moved.
PITCH
(leans down to Cupcake)
And look. At. Her. Precious child. So sweet, so full of hope and, there's only one thing missing... A touch of fear.
Pitch reaches into Cupcake's dream and touches a bony finger to the unicorn. It shudders, turns ashen and black, and disintegrates. Cupcake flinches in her sleep. Pitch snickers, delighted.
"Calm down, Cupcake's fine. It was only a bad dream. It was gone-" Emma assured.
"-when she woke up. That's what Jack always told you." James Overland said. Emma smiled.
PITCH
hahaha! That never gets old!
Pitch swirls the dreamsand around and it all turns into black corrupted nightmare sand.
PITCH
feel your fear. Come on. Come on, that's right.
The black sand morphs into a horrific, shadowy bucking horse- a NIGHTMARE.
PITCH
yesss. What a pretty little nightmare you are.
"Nightmare. I get it. A female horse is called a mare." Poppy said. A few people cracked smiles or laughed at the pun.
Gleefully, he grabs the Nightmare's mane-
PITCH
now, I want you to go tell the others the wait is over.
and sends it out the window, where it joins a posse of other Nightmares coursing through the streets. they take off and fly into the night sky.
EXT. BURGESS- NIGHT
Pitch steps out into the street from an adjacent alley, avoiding the rays of moonlight. He looks up to the sky and stares at the Moon.
PITCH
Don't look at me like that, old friend. You must have known this day would come. My Nightmares are finally ready. Are your Guardians?
"Yes!" Thomas exclaimed.
"They were. Jack and I didn't become Guardians until a few days after this. Jack still helped, and I made sure to keep a close eye on it all." Emma explained.
EXT. BURGESS- NIGHT
Jack walks along a telephone wire as the dreamsand disappears from the sky. Suddenly a shadowy figure and an unfamiliar noise zips by behind him.
JACK
Whoa!
"What was that?" Lucas asked.
"It looked like a very large rabbit." James Overland said.
In the background, residents get ready for the night.
RESIDENTS (O.S.)
(walla)
Did you leave the windows open again? The garage door is wide open.
Jack leaps over a house to an adjacent tree to investigate and again, something zooms behind him. Jack jumps down from the tree and onto a truck in a nearby alley.
EXT. STREETS OF BURGESS- NIGHT- CONTINUOUS
Suddenly: WHOOSH! The SHADOW flashes by, knocking over a trash can.
Jack jumps down from the truck and backs up out of the alleyway into a clearing...
BUNNYMUND (O.S.)
Hello, mate.
Cue groans from the Colonial residents of Burgess. They were starting to greatly dislike this rabbit.
Jack turns around, ready to strike. He squints as into the light steps...
BUNNYMUND
Been a long time. Blizzard of 68, I believe. Easter Sunday, wasn't it?
Jack is completely bewildered-
JACK
Bunny! You're still not mad about that are yah?
BUNNYMUND
Yes.
"He accidentally caused a blizzard about fifty years ago." Emma explained.
Bunny whips out his boomerang and casually looks at it as he holds it in his hands.
BUNNYMUND(CONT'D)
But this is about something else.
(beat)
Fellas...
Before Jack realizes what's happening a HUGE HAND reaches into frame and lifts him off his feet.
"HEY!" A number of people from the colony exclaimed.
"They'd better not hurt him!" James Bennett exclaimed in the defense of his best friend.
JACK
Hey!
YETI
Durbha wahla
Jack has been snatched up by two huge YETIS
JACK
Put me down! What the...
Jack is shoved head first into a sack. A yeti whips out a snow globe, and smashes it onto the ground.
YETI
Durtal bardla burdlew
A MAGIC PORTAL opens up in front of them. The yetis make way for Bunny to leap in, but he demurs-
YETI
Dwbard urghwetee.
BUNNYMUND
Me?
(laughs)
Not on your nelly. See you back at the pole.
He STAMPS HIS FOOT twice on the ground which SWIRLS OPEN- a RABBIT HOLE magically appears. Bunny leaps into it and disappears along with the rabbit hole. In its place, from out of the ground grows a small green plant.
YETIS
Bwardla arghl
The yetis throw Jack through the magic portal
"If they had to kidnap him they could have at least been more gentle and not scare him half to death!" Lucy exclaimed angrily.
JACK
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
The yetis then charge after and disappear into it.