From the chapter name, you can probably guess what is going to happen so before reading, please either say this next sentence out loud, or at least read it.
I, (insert name here), promise to not gather an angry mob and go over to Lunrav14's house demanding retribution or some dismembered body part (including the head). I also promise to refrain from killing Lunrav14 until this fanfic is done. This I swear on the Man in The Moon (considering its an RoTG fanfic).
Okay, now that's taken care of, you may read the story. I don't own RoTG and please review afterwards (and do not locate the nearest pitchfork).
Sandy and I raced through town chasing the nightmares. The nightmares ran all over town, but Sandy and I kept pace as we weaved through the houses. We flew through an abandoned warehouse, crashing though boxes, barrels, crates, and I think I heard a really angry cat hiss at us. As we exited the warehouse, Sandy managed to touch one of the nightmares and it swirled around until a dolphin appeared where the horse had been.
While Sandy was doing that, I chased the second nightmare into a corner and used a gust of wind to trap it. I fingered a raindrop in my hand and the horse retaliated.
"I didn't think nightmares were afraid of anything," I said as I threw it into the wind. The raindrop made contact with the nightmare and the nightmare turned into a pile of golden sand. I quickly painted a flask and scooped the sand into the glass bottle. I then did a little bit of magic and a small white bottle design appeared on my dress, the glass bottle gone. Pockets are a pain, so I store small objects on my dress. I flew back up, looking for my friend.
"Hey Sandy!" I yelled. I looked around, but I couldn't find the little golden man anywhere. I looked at Little Sand and she shrugged her shoulders. I scratched my head in confusion and flew off in a random direction. "Sandy!" I called, starting to get a little nervous. I kept turning around, expecting Pitch to jump out of every shadow. I didn't see anything behind me, but I expanded my flute into a staff and flew onto the roof of a building. The roof was empty, so I relaxed a little bit.
"Misty," a hard voice behind me said. I whirled around and came face to face with Pitch Black. He had a sneer on his face. "What are you doing here? I thought the Guardians would have kicked you out after the little show you put on."
"It seems the Guardians are more accepting than you thought," I said with malice. I wasn't going to let Pitch get the best of me anymore.
"Perhaps, but I'm not here to fight you," he said with a nonchalant tone in his voice. He walked away from me and I noticed a very angry Sandy standing not five feet away from Pitch. His arms were crossed and he was staring Pitch down. Pitch took a glance at Sandy and gave a short laugh.
"Now Sandy, I though we were over that little-" Before Pitch could finish, Sandy flung a dreamsand whip at Pitch. It slammed into Pitch and he went flying back. Pitch picked himself up and formed a large scythe out of the nightmare sand. He swung it at Sandy who dodged the attack. Sandy snapped his whip and it wrapped around the scythe. With a flick of his wrist, he flung it out of the way and then proceeded to wrap a whip around Pitch's waist. Sandy then flung Pitch into the sky and slammed him into the pavement below. I, meanwhile, looked on in shock.
"Note to self, do not make Sandy mad," I said as Sandy floated next to me. He gave me a smirk that said it all. We flew down as Pitch was scrambling to his feet.
"Okay, okay, you can't blame me for trying," Pitch retaliated. Sandy's eyes were burning with hatred and my anger was rising too. We walked closer as Pitch finally made it to his feet. "It wasn't the best of ideas to attack so soon, and it wasn't the best of ideas to mess with your dreams. So, I've got a better idea…" Pitch looked up and his eyes glowed yellow.
"Why don't you take them back!" With that, hoards of nightmares surrounded us. They came from over the rooftops, from the alleyways, and some appeared right out of the shadows themselves. Sandy and I moved back to back as the nightmares circled us.
"Which half do you want?" I asked Sandy. He gave me a shoulder shrug and a how-should-I-know look.
"Okay then, I watch your back and you watch my back. How does that sound?" I asked. I glanced in Pitch's direction and tensed up everything. I was waiting, waiting for one nightmare's nose to twitch, waiting for a shot of nightmare sand, waiting for a-
"Boo."
That works.
Sandy brought out a dreamsand whip and I whacked a few nightmares with my staff. Sandy grabbed my waist and we shot up into the air, propelled by the golden sand. I steadied myself on the flying dreamsand cloud and brought out my flute. I promised to watch Sandy's back, so that meant no close range. I blew a loud, high note. A large swirl of water came shooting out and hit many nightmares in a row. Another high note resulted in a powerful gale that blasted the nightmares apart. Sandy's dreamsand whips destroyed many of the nightmares, but we were heavily outnumbered.
Ringing sleigh bells brought my attention to below us. North, who still looked half asleep, was driving his sleigh with a passed out Bunny, Tooth, and Jack in the back. North crashed into a building and they all jolted awake.
"What's going on here!?" Bunny shouted as North swerved away from the building.
"A fight!" I shouted back as a nightmare came within two inches of my face. I slammed my flute into the nightmare and turned in the sleigh's direction. "And we really could use a hand!"
Tooth and Jack took to the skies and started to fight. Tooth used her body to slam through the nightmares, cutting them to shreds with her wings. Jack blasted many of the nightmares with ice and they dropped out of the sky. Bunny had thrown a few egg grenades, but used his boomerang to cause most of the damage. North was busy driving the sleigh, but he occasionally managed to cut a few nightmares with his swords.
Jack slammed his staff into some of the nightmares around Sandy and me. He continued fighting the onslaught of nightmares that were directed specifically at us. I blew a forceful gale at the nightmares and the sand swirled around. A well-placed raindrop turned them into streams of golden sand that became a part of the dreamsand cloud. Jack took a hit from a nightmare and was blown back in our direction. I grabbed his hand and flung him back at the nightmare. He slammed his staff into the nightmares and then sped away.
"I'm going to help Tooth and Bunny," Jack said as he flew off. I looked over to where Tooth and Bunny were fighting. A large concentration of nightmares was around them, almost as large as the one surrounding Sandy and I. Bunny was hopping from nightmare to nightmare to stay up and Tooth continued to ram through the nightmares, but they just kept coming. When Jack got in the mix, the nightmare count lessened, but the onslaught continued. I did a quick head count and something occurred to me.
Where was North?
I scanned the skies looking for North's sleigh. I spotted him flying solo a ways from everyone else. A few nightmares surrounded him, but nothing that he couldn't handle. I glanced up in Pitch's direction and instantly knew something was wrong. After all, the nightmare king doesn't smile often.
"Sandy! We've got to help North! This onslaught is just a diversion!" I shouted. Sandy nodded and we rocketed in North's direction. Jack seemed to have noticed or he heard what I had said because he flew in along with Tooth. Bunny hopped from a nightmare and landed on Sandy's dreamsand cloud. We raced forward as the nightmares closed in around North. Pitch brought up his hands and a withering black mass appeared. I gasped. A fearling. Fearlings hadn't been seen in years and they were deadly to humans and spirits alike. Pitch threw the fearling and the world seemed to move in slow motion. The fearling spun through the air, collecting nightmares as it went. It grew into an arrow of pure fear and before we knew what had happened, it struck North right in the chest. The world stopped for a fraction of a second.
"No!" I screamed. The sleigh threw North off and he was left suspended in the air. He looked terrified, like he was reliving the worst moment of his life over and over again. Pitch laughed manically.
"Sweet dreams, old man," Pitch said as a black cloud swirled around North as the fearling worked itself deeper into his body. He took one last look at us and gave a sad sort of smile. The sand covered him up and he was gone. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. North, Santa Clause, the leader of the Guardians, gone. Gone like Stella was.
"No," Jack whispered, his face full of shock. Sandy and Tooth looked horrified and Bunny was standing very still, as if he was trying to deny what had just happened. The wind swirled around me, sad and angry.
North! I heard Acionna wail. Yes, wail. Acionna is over a thousand years old; she's allowed to wail. I could feel the anguish and hate coming off her, and since we were connected, I felt the emotions being transferred to me.
Misty, this is my fight, Acionna said in colder tone than usual. A strange sensation came over my body as she merged her soul with mine. My senses became sharper and memories that were older than time itself flooded through my mind. I stood up, no longer feeling like Misty, but like Acionna, the water goddess.
I jumped up from Sandy's dreamcloud and charged straight for the Nightmare King. Pitch sent a wave of nightmare sand at me and I was knocked backwards. I felt the nightmares around me, their overwhelming fear trying to consume me, and I let the anger out.
A warm feeling started from my chest and spread down to the tips of my toes. The wind rose around me and moisture gathered in the wind. Clouds formed in the swirling mass with me at its center. The wind spun faster and faster until the whole mass was larger than the city below me. I screamed and the large gathering of water, clouds and wind rushed Pitch. This wasn't an ordinary storm. This was a storm that hadn't been seen in over millennia, and Pitch remembered it. Pitch's eyes widened as the mass overtook the nightmares and spun him out and away from us. Acionna pulled herself from my body and the winds died out. Next thing I knew, I was falling from the sky. I felt strong hands catch me and fly me down to Sandy's dreamcloud. I looked up and saw Jack holding me tightly. Tooth fluttered over to me in concern.
"Misty, how did you do that?" she asked me as Jack set me down on the cloud. I met eyes with Jack and I knew that he knew what had happened. Acionna hadn't possessed me exactly. Think of it as sort of a back up power that activates under stress.
"I don't know Tooth. I didn't know I could do that," I said. I looked to Sandy and Bunny. They both had downcast eyes and somber faces. I looked at Jack and he brought out a snow globe he had been saving.
"The North Pole," he whispered. Jack threw the snow globe and Sandy flew the dreamcloud through the portal. We appeared at the North Pole, and slowly flew down to the globe room. As we entered the globe room, the yetis cheered that we were back, but they then stopped. They looked around with confused expressions on their faces. We landed on the ground and a yeti came up to me.
"Arragra?" he asked. I didn't speak yeti, but I knew what he was saying. I sank to the ground in defeat. A few tears leaked out of my eyes and I wrapped my arms around myself. The inhabitants of the North Pole seemed to get the message because they all gasped, yeti and elf alike. I sat on the ground, a tear running down my cheek as I tried to accept the impossible. The tear dropped from my check and landed on the mural below me, obscuring the face of the greatest and kindest warrior who ever lived.
"North, I'm sorry," I whispered as the world fell silent.
*looking outside bedroom window at angry mob demanding my head* Okay, who didn't swear the oath? I realize that that was a bad idea, but I have my reasons, sick and twisted as they are. Please no flames and I promise to update as soon as possible. *rock comes smashing through my window* Um...got to go!