Author's note: sorry this is a little late but i've all read got the next 2 chapters lined up and ready. set 200 or so years after chapter 3

Chapter 4

New arrivals

If Jack wasn't worried enough with all the fire around having pitch know his secret and having him right there in front of him "Get Jack out of here bunny we'll hold them off"

"I want to stay" he called to north and the others as bunny tried to pull him away toward the middle of the small island of clear air to make a tunnel.

"Jack mate, what about the fire?" bunny asks a touch of concern in his Australian accented voice.

"I'll be fine" he says just as the night mares attack.

Watching the horrible battle from a distance a young girl is sitting in the tops of a sapling which would not have been able to support her weight except for the fact that the breeze as keeping her aloft she was barely touching the thin tree. She watched with horrified eyes fear in her heart at the horrendous battle but it was quickly over, almost all the night mares turned to dust. She relaxed but just slightly her fear still going strong. Pitch was cornered nowhere to go then he looked directly at her. Her fear spiked again then he smiled at her not the warm welcoming smile she had seen humans use but a smile of triumph.

"Tisk, tisk, Guardians letting an innocent child watch you kill my night mares" an evil look in his amber eyes "her fear is so. . ." he pauses to find the right word "delightful" he laughs wickedly.

"Tooth" North says quickly "find the child"

She scans the tree line beyond the dying flames spotting the girl in the tree immediately she rushes off. Oh no the girl says to herself eying the speeding fairy aimed directly at her as the other guardians mouths move as they talk to Pitch, but curiosity gets the better of Jack and he steals a glance at where the fairy is going she is almost at the tree trying to calm the child with gentile words "JACK LOOK OUT!" She yells as loud as she can before disappearing to the shocked fairy.

She is too far away, only bunny hears the warning, he calls to Jack "Snowball behind you!" Jack turns just in time to take a step back from the blow it still hit him and sent him flying toward the flames but no serious damage only minor burns.

Pitch is furious that the child intervened he disappears into the shadows intent on following her trail of fear.

Tooth arrives back "Where is the child?" North queries.

"I don't know after she yelled for jack to look out she vanished."

"I didn't hear anything" Jack says.

"I heard her mate, that's when I told you to watch out snowball."

"I agree sandy, we better find her she might have fallen out of the tree she might be hurt" North says after watching Sandy's golden streams.

"She couldn't have gotten far and she'll be easy to spot" Tooth replies.

"What do you mean by that" sandy signals to the other guardian.

"Well I know this is strange, but I swear her hair was as white as Jacks" her odd state ment is drowned out by North.

"TO THE SLEIGH!" is the mighty call from North.

"Faster, just a little bit faster" she whispers to herself "he's right behind you, you've got to relax he can sense your fear" she takes a deep breath and turns to face the night mare king. He's so close behind her he probably herd her talking to herself.

"Why yes I can" he says. Oh great he herd me. Suddenly he takes a step forward "You interfered with my plan" and evil grin crosses his face "Now you'll pay the price." Nothing she could do no option he's going to kill her, 'wait I can do something I'll do a temporary power block on him it'll be painful thou' she thinks to herself oh well I've got to try something. Jingle bells are heard over head as he holds up the scythe above her, she reaches up faster than any mere mortal and puts pale a hand and his cheek she screams as she takes all his hurt, anger, annoyance, and every other bad emoting and memory.

The black sand scythe suddenly drops from his grip disintegrating into nothing he tries to call it back but the sand on the ground only quivers he stares at the panting girl in front of him "What did you do!" The malevolence in his voice making her regret her choice his hand shoots up and grabs the staff in her hand before proceeding to hit her with it. The guardians above, hearing the scream are now in shock at what they are now seeing he was beating the pore girl, with the strange white hair "NO!" Is the cry from the youngest guardian he jumps off the sleigh and hits pitch with a powerful ice blast before standing protectively in front of the now unconscious girl. Pitch seeing the other guardians coming down holds the girls staff in two hands "NO!" Jack yells again knowing full well how much pain there is when your staff is broken too late the thin branch snaps in half over Pitches knee. He turns to see the girls eyes open wide and an even more terrible scream escapes her lips as her body shudders and convulses once before going still, to still he is at her side in a moment her clothes in tatters as if she had dived into a thorn bush North arrives and seeing a child in such a state bringing out his fatherly side. He and bunny are instantly trying to find the source of the child's injuries checking for a pulse and breathing. Jack turns to see Pitch nowhere in sight but the broken staff lying on the ground. If I can fix my staff maybe, the thought has him running over to the broken branch he grabs both ends and puts the damaged parts together again, he stands and concretes a blue light greets him as he heals the staff.

A sudden intake of breath is the only sound as the girls slight frame shoots up ward many hands trying to hold her down and voices trying calm her. She looks over toward Jack her eyes wide and falls asleep as a hand full of dream sand is cast over her head.

"Those eyes" jack whispers remembering far back in the past a memory he had told no one about because that day he had lost the first real person to see him other than other spirits "It can't be her"

Tooth hearing his mumbling flies over "Jack what's wrong?"

"It's her" he says.

"She's fine we'll take to North's place and she'll be fine" a touch of concern about the strange answer.

"No,no,no you don't understand I know her!"

"How?"

"She saw me she was the first to see me but I lost her I couldn't save her" he's in hysterics now.

"NORTH!" she cries over to where they are gently trying to lift the smaller teen into the sleigh.

He glances over at jack now crying with tooth patting his back trying to calm him. Snow starts falling not light fluffy snow that makes you want to laugh hard ice like and falling fast. "Jack calm down its ok you're going to be fine, she is going to be fine" stressing the last word to make him understand. Sandy sneaks up behind the immortal teen and throws a hand full of dream sand over his head. They load both teens onto the sleigh before north throws a snow globe and they shoot off to the North Pole.

Author's note: hope you like it the next couple chapters will be coming out soon review if you think its good :)