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You all stepped through the portal and onto a rooftop across the stress from the coffee shop that Hanna was already waiting at. As the portal closed you turned to North and thanked him for providing it. Tooth, Sandy, and North all seemed very interested in your demonstration that you were about to give on Bunny's behalf. Jack boredly played with a snowflake he created, lying on his floating staff and Bunny looked quite displeased. You smirked at his bitterness and began your lesson
"You see the girl sitting at the table outside of the cafe?" The three interested guardians shuffled over to the edge and nodded when they saw her, Bunny rolled his eyes and Jack was completely ignoring you, but you didn't care. "That's Hannah, I've been tracking her and man named Adam for the past six months, today they will meet and fall in love." You see Adam walking down the street about to turn the corner. You ready your bow with a idea arrow aimed at him and quickly you explain "I'm going to shoot him and he'll get the thought of coffee and he and Hanna will see each other and feel love at first sight."
Adam is about to pass the cafe and you let the arrow fly, letting your hand that held the arrow fall to you hip and your arm with the bow to hang at your side and smirked watching your handy work. "You see sim-" before the arrow hits him a black mist catches the arrow and holds it there in mid air. Everything slows and you realise who the culprit is. The mist snaps the arrow in two, weakening you, you fall to your knees holding your heart, but Hannah and Adam are more important right now so you quickly aim another one at him, he hadn't quite past the cafe so theres still time. The arrow flies and is caught and snapped again, and you crumple farther down. You watch as the light in Hannah's eyes fade and you try one last time and the mist caught it, but its to late, Adam left, Hanna is leaving as well, their heartbeats fade from yourse. The anger boils up in you and you pick yourself up, everyone is obviously shock stricken and are just now regaining composure.
A shadow flickers and you shoot at it, but the mist catches the arrow. From the depths of the darkness a slender, gray figure appears. Pitch. The guardians arm themselves but Pitch raises a slender clawed finger and the mist begins to bend the arrows and his sharp voice chuckles out "now we wouldn't want little Cupid to get hurt again, now would we." And with that everyone dropped their weapons after shared looks of displeasure. Pitch slinked out of the darkness and approached you, you intensely glared at him like everyone else. He smirked evilly when he reached you and guided his spidery fingers to raise your chin and he trailed them down it to it which he held. All the while he said "Poor Cupid lost two hearts to eternal loneliness, how does it feel, to lose at your own game?" He held your gaze maniacally, and capture your chin so that you'd stay where you were "But" he continued " don't think that me targeting makes you special, you're not the first. The Patriot was the first immortal being that I killed, next was the Star Gazer, and so on to you, the 8th." Tooth gasped, while the others glared harder. Pitch chuckled darkly "And ill drag your death out, unlike the others that were quick. Because eight is my favorite number, ill kill you, slowly, torturously, and ill enjoy every second of it." He grinned wickedly and you stood as tall and strong as you could, boring you eyes into his soul, if he had one.
And as you did he sidestepped a boomerang, which sailed over his shoulder and was caught again by Bunnymund. Pitch just tsked him shaking his finger as he turned to the bunny "that was not a smart move." With a flick of his wrist he slinked back into the darkness and the mist broke both of the arrows at the same time then whisked away.
The pain felt like your heart contracting and the pain was so great you shriveled to the floor, your vision blurring, the yelling of your voice distancing itself from your withered body. And then everything went black.