NOTE: Okay so what I'm starting to do now is I'm going to have each paragraph from someone elses perspective. So it's not just going to be from Billie's and Jack's point of view because I feel like I haven't had the other characters like Tooth, Bunnymund, North etc involved in the story that much. So I hope it's not too confusing haha. Now read the chapter...
Chapter 5
Jack
I had been sitting by the window for the whole day. I let my finger abstractedly draw lines that seemed to intertwine with each other on the patch of frost that I had freshly made a while ago. It was as though my finger was automatically moving as I was in a world of my own, somewhere very, very far away from Earth. The voice inside my head kept on shouting, stop sitting around! You're the Guardian of Fun for crying out loud! Not the Guardian of "Depression"! But how could I have fun when I certainly wasn't in the mood for it? I had just watched someone get crushed by a van, and I didn't do anything, anything to help! But it wasn't just any old someone. It was Billie Valentine, the girl who didn't believe in us Guardians. There was one question that was bugging me: How could she see me if she didn't believe in me? And more importantly, how could she push me? Most people who don't believe walk straight through me, like I'm a ghost or something. So how could she touch me when she had made it very clear that she didn't believe in me at all? I could have thought about that for ages, but someone touched my shoulder and everything snapped back into focus as I returned to the real world.
"You OK mate?" an Australian voice asked. I turned my head to see who it was and found that it was none other than Bunnymund, a.k.a the Easter Bunny. Well, more the Easter Kangaroo than anything, but he would have flipped if I'd said that out loud.
"Oh, never better." I replied back, sarcastically, and with no enthusiasm at all. In the corner of my eye, I saw him roll his eyes and he let out a small sigh. He came over and sat opposite me and started fiddling with one of his boomerangs.
"You know you're one heck of a terrible liar," He said, frostily. I laughed under my breath and he looked up at me, "I'm being serious."
I cocked my head to the side and felt a grin stretch on my face, "Really now?" I questioned.
He nodded and went back to playing with his boomerangs, "That's the first time you've smiled in over 12 hours," he said and laughed a little, "never thought I'd see the Guardian of Fun looking so damn depressed."
I was surprised that Bunny had even noticed the blank expression that I had been wearing on my face, but he was right. I had been absent from the world for 12 hours, and I had been miserable than ever. I had a perfectly good reason for it though. I had gone to the hospital to see if Billie was alright, but she wasn't. She had died. She had died because of me. That was what made it worse. She saved me from getting killed, but it's supposed to be the other way round. It should have been me saving her. I'm a Guardian, and I let her die. Now that makes me the worst Guardian ever. I jumped when I heard bunny click his fingers,
"Hello? Earth to Jack!" he shouted and carried on clicking his fingers, obviously trying to grab my attention.
"What?" I asked as I rubbed my forehead with my fingers. I must have got a headache after thinking to deeply. Whoops.
"We've got a problem," he told me. There was something about the tone of his voice that sent a chill down my spine, "Man in Moon has news about Billie."
The mention of her name made me worried and sick at the same time, "News? About Billie?" I asked, gingerly, "what about her?"
"Manny," he said, "he brought her back."
Billie
"OW!" I squealed as I felt I sharp stab in my foot. I was expecting it to be something really sharp, but it was only a bobby pin. Epic fail. I picked it up and found that it would come in handy. I took a bit of my glossy red hair and twisted it round the rest of my hair that I had pulled over onto the right hand side of my shoulder, and slid the bobby pin into place so it looked as though I had made a bobble out of hair. Well, I always have been artistic. I carried on walking deeper into the mysterious forest and soon I felt tired and needed to rest for a while. All that walking, in bare foot, was really tiring. I sat down on the cold snow, back up against a tree and closed my eyes.
I was nearly asleep when I heard something fall onto the snow in front of me. I yelped and jumped, but to my surprise a bow was there. I looked at it for a few seconds and slowly decided to crawl over to it. When I came closer to it I soon found that there was no arrow. How strange. Why would there be a bow but no arrow? I cautiously picked the bow up and turned it slowly in my hand. It was silver and it was surprisingly light. I had expected it to be heavier, but no, it wasn't. I suddenly stopped what I was doing and it occurred to me that this bow had fallen from the sky. How had that happened? And why? Was it meant to be for me? Was it a sign? A gift…? I looked up at the sky and saw the bright moon.
"Did you give me this?" I asked it. There was no reply, "if you did, then why is there no arrow?" Again, there was no reply. I sighed and walked away. It was still snowing, and it was getting heavier. It was too cold to be out in only a nightdress and a blanket, but there was no where I could go. I finally looked up at the moon for one last time and whispered, "Help me."
What was I doing? I knew that I wasn't going to get an answer back, so I picked up the bow and started walking deeper into the forest.
Tooth
The glistening light from the Man in the Moon shone down on us through the wide opening in the roof. He said that he had revived Billie Valentine back from the Underworld which I was absolutely delighted about, as she in no way at all deserved to be down there. For someone so young and so fragile, the Underworld was no place for her to go. With eyes that hadn't seen the wonder and joy in the world. I wouldn't have wished for anything else then for her to have that chance back, and I know that the other Guardians thought that too. Especially Jack. Although Billie didn't know Jack in person, he knew her. Yes it's strange, but it's true. Jack was always by her side since she was young, helping her through the dark times by bringing wonder and excitement to her eyes. One summer, Jack made frost appear on a tree that was near to Billie, and she was so stunned by the fact that there was frost in the middle of summer when the sun was shining and the sky was blue. She had always believed in Jack, but it pained him as she couldn't hear or see him. He wasn't a Guardian back then, meaning that he was oblivious to the world. I guess that's why he was so sad when she died.
The door burst open and in came Jack, gripping his staff tightly in his hand with a worried/confused expression on his face, "What's going on?" he demanded, angrily.
"Take it easy boy!" Bunnymund said to him, putting his hand on Jack's shoulder, "calm down."
Jack took a deep breath and sadly said, "Just tell me what's going on."
North began to open his mouth to answer Jack, but he was suddenly interrupted,
"Maybe I should tell him," A familiar and cruel voice echoed through the room, "seeing as though she was my test subject."
Jack's eyes widened, "What?" he whispered, quietly.
We all turned around to face the globe, and to our surprise, standing there, was Pitch, the Bogeyman, "Looks like I crashed the party just in time," he cackled, with an evil smirk on his face…
Here is Chapter 5! I am soo sorry that this took forever to write, but I've been so busy since it's been Christmas and my Birthday was yesterday etc but it's here now :D I hope you guys like it and the story is building up, finally! I hope you's all read the note at the beginning because that is pretty important. I'm blabbing now lol but again thank you all for reading my fanfic, I really appreciate it! Please follow and leave a review, I like getting feedback :) Chapter 6 should be out sooner than this did (fingers crossed)! Oh and sorry for spelling mistakes and all that! Byee! x
