Surprise! It's early! So, just for a recap: The tooth fairies, reindeer, egglets are sick. Tooth is starting to fall sick but she refuses to accept that. Jack has just flown off by himself to find Pitch and confront him. Thanks to all my new followers; Dark Jacky, Lliri, PrincessRakka, alpha-wolf96, and xTheDarkShadowsx. I'm sorry if I got any of your names wrong. I'd never be able to keep writing without any of you.

Jack alighted by the entrance to Pitch's lair. The bed frame was looking strangely ominous. Jack paused a moment to consider it. Why did he choose a bed frame? After a moment, he shook his head annoyed at himself for wasting time and jumped through the hole.

North ran to the window and shook his head as he saw Jack do loop-the-loops in the clouds.

"There he goes again. Never considering the consequences. I guess the mission's up to us, like always." Bunny tapped his foot angrily.

Tooth scolded him. "He's just trying to help Bunny! You shouldn't be so hard on him." Some of her fairies flew around his head, muttering at him in their language. Bunny flapped his ears around, trying to get rid of the fairies.

"Alright! Maybe I was being a bit hard on the kid, but it's still irresponsible to go running off to find Pitch. He's looking for trouble." Bunny looked at Tooth in concern as she broke out into another fit of coughing. Her fairies buzzed over to her, trying in vain to help her.

"No- *cough* -I'm all right." She straightened up, waving everyone away. They kept staring at her in concern. "No, really. I'm all-"She fainted suddenly as a ball of gold sand hit her in the face. Bunny leapt forward and caught her just before she hit the ground.

North and Bunny looked accusingly at Sandy and he looked at them with the most innocent face. He was obviously saying 'Who? Me? What did I do?'

North glared at him for a moment more, then broke out into a grin. "No Problem. She'll stay here then. Bunny, you can go back up Jack. He can't take Pitch on by himself. Sandy needs to get back to work. He'll just keep an eye out for Pitch. I'll head off to Russia first."

Bunny and Sandy nodded and Sandy conjured an airplane and flew off towards the sunset where most children would be going to bed. Bunny looked at North for a moment.

"I'll kill him if he gets himself hurt." He looked like he was about to say more for a moment, then shook his head and jumped down the hole he made.

North sighed with exasperation. Why can't Bunny just let Jack know how much he cared? Even just once.

Jack landed lightly in Pitch's lair, barely making a sound. He brought his staff up into a defensive position. He could sense that something was wrong, but he wasn't sure what. He slowly turned a full circle, trying to detect what made him so uneasy. There was nothing there. Wait! That was it! There was nothing there! No Nightmares or any of Pitch's evil stuff in general. There was nothing but some piles of black sand.

He cautiously reached out and touched some of the sand. Nothing. No nightmare visions, or movement or anything. What was that? He spun around at the sudden noise behind him, staff up and ready it fight Pitch. He almost collided with Bunny.

"Watch it, Frostbite!" He held up his paws, glaring at Jack.

Jack glared back. "It's your fault for sneaking up on me!"

Bunny was too busy staring around the lair. "It looks like a battle field here. What happened?"

"I don't know. The sand here's harmless though. No sign of Pitch though." They both spun around at the sound of a low moan coming from the middle of the lair. So far both of them had only investigated the outskirts. They slowly crept forwards together, Bunny drawing some boomerangs as he went.

There was something laying there, half in and half out of a shadow. Bunny signed to Jack that they should encircle it. They started creeping off to either side. The thing moaned again and shifted. Jack gave a small gasp of surprise. It was Pitch. He looked up at the guardians and whispered something. Jack started leaning down to hear what it was.

"Frostbite?" Bunny sounded nervous.

"Sha - dows." Pitch's whisper was barely hearable even when he was right up close to him. He nodded once and grabbed Pitch's arms.

"Jack? What are you doing? You know this is probably a trap?" Bunny edged back a little, holding up his boomerangs.

"We need to hear what he has to say. The shadows will revive him."

Bunny just glared suspiciously at Pitch, and then slowly followed them into the shadows. Pitch coughed a little, and then leaned up on one elbow.

"Nightmares – gone – fell apart" Pitch could barely manage more than one word at a time.

Jack glanced up at Bunny. This could be even more worrying. It couldn't be Pitch or any allies he might have. If it wasn't him, who else could it be?

"We have to get back to the Pole. North has got to be back by now." Jack straightened up.

"And just leave him here?"

"He can't do anything to us right now."

Bunny turned without saying a word and opened a tunnel.

North was in a panic when they got back. He could only beckon them towards one of the bedrooms, too flustered to get any words out.

What could be wrong with Tooth? Bunny had seen that they were heading to the room where they put Tooth, but didn't know what could have happened so quickly.

Jack, for his part, had no idea that Tooth was over there, but could sense the worry in Bunny and North. What's going on?

They finally reached Tooth's room and gathered around the bed. She was lying there as still as death, her face a white pallor. At first, they all thought she was dead, but then they could detect the faint rising and falling of her breathing. They all sighed with relief.

But how could her condition deteriorate so quickly?

Okay, so not my best writing. But I'll hopefully get as much feedback as I could to help me improve on it. Again, thanks to all my supporters. I didn't think that I would have this many followers so fast.