Chapter 2: The Plan

When Jack reached the bottom of the hole under the bed, he was greeted by a flickering flame that was coming from an old lantern hanging on the wall next to an archway, if you called a roughly dug out hole on the side of a wall an archway. Grabbing the lantern from its hook, Jack began walking down the narrow passage. The walls were bleak and seemed to go on for forever. Every once in a while loose rocks and dirt fell from the ceiling and sides, sometimes landing on his head or in his hoodie. It felt like he'd been walking for eternity through all the twists and turns that made him feel dizzy and claustrophobic. Then, just as he felt he was going to burst if he didn't get out of there, he came to a sleek black door with a gray stain glass window. Jack opened the door; in front of him he saw a giant cavern with a 25 foot high ceiling with large chains hanging from it in odd places, as if something used to hang there or something was going to hang there. There was also a large, possibly iron, globe off to the left that had billions of little golden lights shining all over. Jack took a few steps into the cavern toward the globe wondering what its purpose was and where Pitch could be hiding.

"Jack Frost, I'm so glad you could make it." Pitch greeted him from the doorway Jack had just walked through, a sly smirk on his face. Jack said nothing; he was already none too keen on the shadow spirit. Suddenly he heard a few faint neighs from behind him. He turned around to see several black horses, made of sand with shining yellow eyes, coming out of the shadows. Pitch started to walk toward them, "Don't be afraid of my nightmares, it only riles them up." He mentioned teasingly, but Jack could tell he was telling the truth about the last part.

"I'm not afraid." Jack retorted; following Pitch over to the globe he saw earlier.

Ignoring Jack's comment, Pitch gestured to the globe, "Do you know what these lights represent, Jack?"

He took a moment to look at it up close, "The people on Earth?"

"Not just people. They are every child that believes in those Guardians." Pitch scoffed at the last word. His disdain for them showed in his golden eyes before moving on. "I'm going to snuff out every last one of those lights, with your help of course, and then it will be us that they all believe in."

"Alright, and how exactly do you plan on taking down the big four?" Jack asked skeptically.

Pitch smiled as if he was pleased Jack asked, "This year Christmas falls on a new moon and it will be harder for North and his reindeer to see. But if we add a blizzard on top of that, visibility will be close to impossible." He began to explain. "We attack him and stop him from delivering presents to all the kids. They will stop believing in "Santa Clause" and make him and the other three weaker. The Guardians won't see us coming." Pitch boasted and snickered at the thought of it and the possibility of finally getting what he's sought out for a very long time.

Jack wasn't too impressed, but he did have to admit that there was a chance it might actually work. However a few things didn't quite make sense. "How is taking down the Guardians going to make kids believe in us?"

"Once the Guardians are out of the way, there will be no one to stop us from spreading fear and ice in the hearts of all the children. They will believe in us." He emphasized on "will" as if to say "resisting will be the last thing they ever do." Without taking his gaze off the globe, Pitch stated, almost half to himself, "Tomorrow night we start spreading the fear," the next part directed toward Jack "All you need to do between now and Christmas is to make this winter the coldest one yet." He half smiled at Jack and stalked into the shadows, a few nightmares following behind him.

Jack grimaced, Pitch was still holding back on some of the plans. There were parts that didn't make sense and there were very few helpful details on the plan in general. Jack sighed and turned back to the door that led into the passageway he took to get there. There was no point in not trying out Pitch's plan. Who knows, maybe it will work out. Though Jack knew that if it didn't, Pitch would be the one who was afraid.

{ Well, that's the end of Chapter two! Please let me know what you think about it! Sorry about how short it is, I still really like how it's turning out.

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