Author's note: Hey guys. I'll be away for two days so soz for that. Anyway, this is where I'll start following up with the movie.

Enjoy!

North was at was having a normal day at the Pole. Well, as normal as you can get when you're Santa Clause and have yetis and elves running about.

He was whistling to himself as he sculpted tiny objects out of ice; it had become a hobby of his.

He'd just completed a small train and tested it on his ice track. As expected, it worked splendidly and took off into the air. North clapped happily as it soared into the air.

Only to be crushed 2 seconds later.

"Ah!" North gasped at Phil the yeti who had slammed the door into North's poor train.

Phil gasped back.

"How many times have I told you to knock?" North grumbled.

Phil said something in yetish.

"The Globe?" North frowned. He followed Phil to the globe room where a gigantic globe stood in all its glory.

North leaned against the railing and saw as the lights symbolising the children who believed started to go out.

What in god's name is this?

"Check the axis." North said worriedly to Phil.

Phil was about to do as asked when a dark shadow passed over the globe. North stared disbelievingly as black sand-like substance erupted from the top of the globe and covered it entirely in a swirling vortex of darkness.

"What….?" North's blue eyes widened as he saw a humanoid figure form out of the blackness. It chuckled evilly and as suddenly this all had begun; it was over. The black substance disappeared.

North stood there for a minute, too shocked to say anything. He regained his composure and looked over to Phil.

"We need to call the others." He walked over to a lever near the globe and pulled it downward. Instantly, beautiful lights formed above the Pole and reached outward; finding their way in the sky towards the other guardians.

"That'll do it." North muttered to himself and walked towards his office.

That black sand…. That humanoid figure…. That laugh….

Could it be?

Pitch Black.

But… It didn't make any sense. How could Pitch be powerful enough to rise? North thought he had been doing a good job along with the other Guardians to provide joy to the children. How had there been enough fear in the world for him to rise? Had they been doing anything wrong?

Before he could dwell on the thought any longer he heard familiar voices out in the globe room.

He walked outside towards the globe. Tooth along with her mini fairies were buzzing about, Bunny was painting an egg and Sandy was asleep in a corner.

"Thank you for coming here." North spoke in a deep voice and spread his arms welcomingly. Bunny turned in the direction of his voice, Tooth fluttered towards him and Sandy woke up in a jerk.

"I hope you called us here something important, mate." Bunny said.

"Oh trust me it is." North replied.

"I saw Pitch!" He looked at the others, wide-eyed. "At the globe!"

"Pitch?" Tooth exclaimed. "Pitch Black?"

"Yes!" North looked at her.

"Wait, wait, hold on a second." Bunny sighed. "Are you sure you saw the Boogeyman?"

"No, not exactly." North bit his lip. "But there was a shadow," he gestured dramatically. "And a figure!"

"A shadow?" Bunny looked irritated. "This is why you called me here? Three days before Easter?"

"No, I know it was Pitch! I feel it!" North looked at them and grabbed his abdomen dramatically. "In my belly."

"In your belly?" Bunny eyed him. "Sandy, can you believe this guy?" He looked over to the guardian who formed a question mark above his head out of sand. "Yeah, you said it." Bunny said and took out another egg to paint.

"But North seems so sure, Bunny." Tooth said. Bunny was about to reply to her when one of her fairies chirped something and she flew away after her.

"I swear," Bunny said. "If I did this to you three days before Christmas-"

"Easter isn't Christmas." North sparked the never ending argument. He started walking towards the globe.

Bunny followed him grumpily, "North, I have two million eggs to paint!"

North said something about the number of toys he made and it wasn't long before they started arguing, completely oblivious to Sandy trying draw their attention towards him.

North was about to tell Bunny another stupid Christmas fact when he heard a bell ringing violently to his side. He saw Sandy standing and angrily shaking an elf.

"Sandy, can't you see we're trying to argue?" North said, to which Sandy formed a little moon above his head and pointed at the hatched roof. Moonlight shone through and North looked up at it.

"Manny!" He bellowed. "It's been a long time, old friend!"

A huge beam of moonlight fell on the floor in front of the guardians. The light formed a shadow of a figure that the guardians knew all too well.

"Pitch!" Tooth exclaimed. North looked at Bunny and patted his belly in a told-you-so way.

The light got more intense and the tiles on the floor separated to give rise to a pointed crystal.

"Guys!" Tooth jumped excitedly. "You know what this means?"

"He's choose another Guardian." North said.

The light refracted from the crystal and met at one point to form an image.

It was of a boy in a hoodie with a curved staff and a girl with long hair and a leather jacket. Their arms were linked.

"Mavis Grey and Jack Frost." North smiled.

That's all for now! I know it's short but I updated twice today okay. Anyway, see ya!