Just if you haven't read any of these yet, here are some pretty goof RotG stories. There's '1 of 5 –or—It Takes Time' by Shadow-StrikeRaven, 'Winter Child' by Sisaat, and 'A Hundred years Later' by Lliri. You'll have to read 'Black Sand Experiment' by Lliri before 'A Hundred Years Later' though.
And just for a recap. In the last chapter, Jack and Bunny found out that Pitch was sick too and they returned to the Pole to find Tooth in a coma. Wow nothing much really happened there…
"So, if it isn't Pitch, who is it?"
North and Bunny could only shake their heads. At that moment, Sandy came flying in the room with Baby Tooth. He looked very determined with images of Tooth floating above his head.
North took the hint. "This way Sandy. She's over here."
They all went back to Tooth's room and North slowly opened the door, dreading what might have happened in the last hour or so.
As soon as the door was open, Sandy shot into the room. He hovered over Tooth and slowly lifted her with some of his dream sand. He seemed to be looking for something, but nobody else had any idea for what. They all froze as North suddenly broke out into a fit of coughing.
"You're not catching it too, are ya Mate?" Bunny tapped his foot nervously. "We should probably get out of here."
Sandy swooped over and shook his head. A series of images appeared over his head.
A few seconds later, Bunny gasped. "You think Plague is doing this? He wouldn't dare mess with us."
Sandy just shook his head. The gesture said that he only knew what Plague was doing, not why he was doing it.
Jack shivered. Plague was a nasty piece of work. His job was to spread plague for the good of humankind, though jack couldn't see anything good in killing people. The few times they had met, Jack had not liked Plague. He seemed sort of slippery and took too much pleasure in death and illness.
He swallowed. "I guess we have to go find him then."
The others nodded and Sandy led to way to North's storage rooms. About halfway there, North fell into a groaning heap on the ground.
"North!" Jack rushed over to him, almost tripping in his haste. He knelt down to listen for a heartbeat and was relieved to find one, even if it was a bit weak. Sandy shook his head sadly, then lifted North up and placed him on a couch in a nearby room.
"Bunny, you should stay here. Take care of them. Try to keep them alive. Me and Sandy'll go to find Plague. We'll make him stop if he doesn't agree to." Sandy shook his fist in agreement with Jack. Bunny looked from one to the other. He didn't like being left out, but it seemed that he was outvoted and someone was needed to stay and take care of North, Tooth and all the yetis, elves and reindeer. He sighed in resignation.
With that sign of agreement, Jack took off, dragging Sandy along with him. They reached the storage room and grabbed one of the globes there. Jack looked at Sandy.
"Where are we supposed to go?"
Sandy only shrugged. Jack put a hand to his head and though for a moment. Where might he be?
"Plague told me once that he liked being where there was most hurt and death. Now where would that be now?" He hadn't realized that he had spoken out loud and jumped now when Sandy pulled at his shirt. Jack watched the images appear.
"You can read people's dreams? Find out where he might be?"
Sandy nodded and proceeded to close his eyes and send out tendrils of dream sand. They all shot off in different directions and less than 5 minutes later, they all came back and Sandy opened his eyes. He wore an unmistakable expression of horror. A picture of North's Workshop appears above Sandy's head.
"He's here!?"
I know that was a short chapter, but I had to rewrite it 4 times due to small problems in my plot. Anyway, this is going to be a very short story. There are probably only going to be 1 or 2 more chapters. I'm going to start working on a story with a bunch of 'one-shots'. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've just seen people using it here so… Anyway, I was thinking that I will probably end up editing this story and including it as a 'one-shot' because it's so short already. I don't know yet though.
