Nighthuntress - Eeek! *runs and hides* hehehee... sorry but I had to end it there otherwise this chapter wouldn't make any sense, but I promise to make this chapter the longest one that I have to make up for the shortness of the last one
Nicole - Don't worry you'll find out in this chapter . . . but I do have a very bad habit of not telling until the next chapter, buuuut since this is going to be a long chapter maybe I'll tell but who knows ^^
Still only own my OCs
"Jackie?" I opened my eyes to find Jacquelyn standing over me with worry held in her eyes.
"Sis?" I tried to sit up, but was unable to since she tackled me into a hug.
"Thank goodness you're alright!"
"Jacquelyn?"
"Yeah?"
"Can't . . . breathe."
"Sorry!" She let me out of her death hug and I could finally breathe again.
"It's okay. Where are we anyway?"
"No clue." Looking around, we found that we were inside a giant cage suspended from the ceiling along with other cages that were empty except for the one next to us.
"Hey Jacquelyn? I think I might be seeing things, but are those our dogs over in that cage over there?"
"Where?" I pointed to the cage and she tried to get as close as she could to try and see for herself if our dogs really were in cages.
"I think so, let's make sure. Frosty!"
"Wynter!" The second we called out their names, their heads shot up and started looking around. They stood up as their eyes landed on us and started barking happily.
"Well, it seems the little duo is awake." We both turned to find Pitch standing behind us. Both Frosty and Wynter started growling as Pitch started walking towards us.
"Stay away from us." I sounded more confident than I felt. Pitch looked over at me with amusement in his eyes.
"Why would I do that, when both of you have something I need."
"What do you mean?" The room grew colder as Pitch moved closer, but the only one who noticed was Pitch.
"It seems your powers are beginning to develop." He started to reach out towards both of us and I felt a wave of cold wash over me and it grew rapidly, when he was just a few inches away from us I let it out with a scream.
Jack's POV
"You sure they're down there?" We all were looking down into the hole that seemed to go down into eternal darkness.
"Call it instinct, but I know they're down there. An elemental's instinct is never wrong." No one questioned me and we all jumped - or flew - into Pitch's lair, the first thing that greeted us was
"STAY AWAY!" Along with a sudden blast of winter magic that came deep within the lair.
"This way."
Jackie's POV
"I said, STAY AWAY!" Ice shot towards Pitch, but he moved just before it hit him. Now frost was spreading where the ice hit, both me and Jacquelyn had no idea what had happened. Pitch did (of course).
"It would seem you powers are developing faster than expected-"
"What?"
"- I will be back, I have some . . . unwelcome guests to attend to." and he turned away and exited the cage, but my mischievous side wanted the last say.
"Ugly says what?" I muttered. Pitch turned back sharply with his eyes narrowed
"What?"
"Nothing." I replied. Both Jacquelyn and I started laughing as soon as Pitch was out of sight.
"The oldest trick in the book," Jacquelyn laughed, "bravo!" I got up and bowed,
"Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week."
"You always find a way to lighten up the situation don't you?"
"Yes. Yes I do. Now, let's find a way to get our dogs."
"Agreed." We thought for a minute and came up with an idea that seemed the most effective. We started swinging the cage back and forth to reach our dogs and before long, we were just a few inches away from their cage.
"Who would've known that the Bogeyman would forget to lock the door?"
"Yeah, who knew." Frost was now climbing up the cage bars, we had opened the door so that it wouldn't freeze shut.
"Get ready to jump!" We waited for the right moment to jump on the ledge of the other cage and when we did, we felt a strong gust of wind carry us to the dogs' cage and it set us down on the ledge.
"Whoa! I didn't know that we could do that!" I exclaimed
"Do you think this is what Pitch meant by powers?"
"Possibly, but right now we need to worry about getting Wynter and Frosty out."
"Right." We fumbled with the lock for a while and tossed ideas back and forth on how we could unlock the cage. Then it hit me
"Jacquelyn? You know how Jack is able to control his powers through his staff?"
"Yeah?"
"Well, what if we used our gloves to help conduct our powers?"
"That seems like a great idea! But I left my glove back at North's."
"No you didn't." I took her fingerless glove and bracelet out of my pocket along with my black fingerless glove and bracelet and put it on. We both felt a surge of winter magic go through us and into our glove. I looked at Jacquelyn and asked, "Shall we see if it works?"
"Lets." The glove became colder and an ice key started forming in the palm of my hand,
"Neat, now lets get our dogs out." I placed the key inside the lock and felt it shift into the right key shape and turned. The cage unlocked and out bounded Wynter and Frosty. Both of us stared in amazement as they were just running around us in midair.
". . . . I'm not going to ask how they are doing that."
"Me either. Jackie, lets get out of here before Pitch decides to come back."
"Good idea."
"Jackie! Jacquelyn!" We both looked down and saw Jack below us with cuts and bruises.
"Did you just get out of a fight Jack?" I asked, he looked up and saw us clinging to the side of the cage with Frosty and Wynter running around us in midair like it was nothing.
"In fact I did, but we need to get out of here." We both nodded and jumped down, softy landing on our feet, "let me guess. Your powers are beginning to surface?"
"Apparently, we don't know why though. Do you?"
"Yes, but we can talk about it when we get all of you back to the pole."
"Fine." Jacquelyn and I said in unison, but I started to worry.
What if Pitch over throws the Guardians? We won't be able to help. Unless. . . I looked at my hand and tried getting a weapon to form.
Soon, a sword started to form on my open hand, the first to form was the hilt. The grip fit comfortably in my hand when I grasped it and a single frost line spiraled down from the bottom of the pommel to the top of the guard. The pommel was a 3d wolf figure with a half moon behind it, you could easily see every detail of the wolf as if it was real. The guard consisted of icicles sticking out everywhere and covered the shoulder of the sword with a dark blue snowflake gem in the center of the guard. The entire length of the sword was about as long as my arm and the blade was so sharp that you could get cut just by looking at it. Even though the whole thing was made out of ice and frost, it felt and looked unbreakable.
"Awesome," I looked at Jacquelyn and Jack and they were just as impressed as I was. I twirled the sword around and was pleased with how light it was and how easy it was to handle, "your turn Jacquelyn."
"Okay." She concentrated and before long, the same sword started to form in her hands. The only difference was that the pommel was a 3d dragon with a full moon behind it, "cool." We both looked at Jack who was leaning against his staff.
"Ready?"
"Yup." We darted up the stairs with Wynter and Frosty close behind. I grew worried as I saw that they had nothing to protect themselves so I snapped my fingers out of instinct.
At the sound of my fingers snapping, ice started to form on both dogs. It spread from their nose all the way down to the tip of their tail, covering their weak and vulnerable spots along with their limbs with a thick coating of ice. The armor had delicate frost designs on it along with spikes where the joints were, giving it a delicate yet strong look. And on both of their foreheads was a single blue gem. The armor allowed them to move freely like they would if they didn't have it on, I didn't have to worry about them freezing seeing as frost was settling where they stepped.
"What did you do to our dogs?" I looked forward and found Jacquelyn looking back at Frosty and Wynter who were enjoying their new armor.
"I gave them armor to protect themselves if they get attacked."
". . . Seems legit." When we finally reached the top, we saw that the other Guardians were fighting Pitch along with some Nightmares. And it looked like a stalemate. I looked to Jacquelyn with a mischievous smile.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?"
"If you mean by ambushing Pitch so that the Guardians get the upper hands. . . then yes." We gave Jack a little wave a charged towards Pitch.
Aaaand there I go again with the cliffhangers -w-
I'M SORRY! BUT I CAN'T HELP IT! please don't hurt me.
Til next time :)