~Chapter 4~
AN: Here's chapter 4! This takes place three hundred years later, during the movie, and is in Elizabeth's P.O.V. Sorry if I get something wrong, but I haven't seen the movie since November and I don't have perfect memory when it comes to dialogues. Stupid photographic memory. Anyway, I'll do my best.
~Elizabeth's P.O.V.~
I flew across Burgess looking for something to do. Sure, I spread love, but it's not like I go around around willy-nilly making random people fall in love. I make sure people are right for each other. Like Jack and I were when we were alive. Jack and I were good friends in this life, because he still doesn't remember, but every time I see him, my heart breaks a bit more. I'm glad were such good friends though, don't get me wrong, but I wish he'd remember. It almost kills me that he doesn't. And here he comes now.
"Hey, Lizabeth!" He said. He always called me that. It was my nickname.
"Hi, Jack!" I said. I learned to hide the fact that I was a bit sad that he still didn't remember from before.
"How's the match-making going?" He asked. He was pretty oblivious to me.
"Pretty good, I guess. How's the blizzard-making going?"
"Pretty awesome, if I say so myself. There are snow days all over the state!"
"Does that mean your gonna spend the day trying to get kids to see you again?" He gave me a huge grin.
"No, I was gonna go read a book." He said sarcastically, which ended up with the two of us laughing. Then, he surprised me.
"Wanna come with? Maybe we'd have a better chance of being seen if we both try." He had ever asked me to go anywhere with him before. Sure, we hung out a bit, but we didn't have much time to go anywhere, and the places we went were almost never at the same same time. I was pretty sure I was blushing.
"Why would you wanna take me anywhere?" I asked. "I'm like the last person any one would be seen with. If any one saw me, anyway."
"What-? That's not true! You're a great person to hang out with, Lizzy!" Another nickname.
"Fine! I'll go!" I said. The two of us flew off and passed a few kids who were excited about all the snow. One of the kids, a 10 year old with brown hair and brown eyes, was going on about big foot. And the Easter Bunny. And other myths. Okay, the Easter Bunny is real, but he doesn't exactly like me or Jack.
"The Easter Bunny is real." The kid said.
"Oh, he's real alright. Real annoying and real full of himself." Jack said. The kids didn't hear him though. The kids went down the path to a wide open field. Jack mumbled something to himself and then threw a snowball in the kids' direction and flew off. Naturally, I followed.
"Okay, who threw that?" The brown haired boy said, a huge grin on his face.
"Well it wasn't big foot,kiddo." Jack replied, even if the child couldn't hear him. The snowball Jack had thrown ended up starting a snowball fight. The kids had fun for about half an hour and then started walking home. Jack of course followed and the brown haired boy, who had a sled, was caught by Jack's ice and went for a little surprise sleigh ride onto the road and flew into the park. Literally flew. He landed in a crash onto the ground, and his friends were all relieved when he got up. Too bad that relief was short lived. A couch slammed into him and when he got up, he had a tooth in his hand. The group walked away talking about the tooth fairy with a desperate Jack following.
"Hey, what about all that fun we just had? That wasn't the tooth fairy, that was me! What's a guy gotta do to get a little attention around here?" The brown haired boy, his friends called him Jamie, walked right through Jack as they passed. I put a comforting hand on his shoulder but he just brushed it off and flew away.
"Jack, wait!" I called, flying after him. He stopped and landed on somebody's roof.
"Sorry about that,Lizabeth. I guess I was just a bit frustrated." He said.
"It's fine, Jack. Don't worry." I said. We sat on the roof for a while and talked when Jack suddenly got up.
"Did you see that?" He asked.
"No. But don't worry. I believe you." I replied. He flew away and gestured for me to follow. He landed in an alley and I landed next to him. A figure stood in the shadows, seemingly watching Jack.
"Ello, mate. Long time. Blizzard of 68' I believe." The voice said.
"Bunny. Your not still mad about that, are you?" Jack asked.
"Yes. But this is about somethin' else." Bunny said. A couple of yetis suddenly came out of the shadows and grabbed Jack by the hoodie.
"Hey! Put me down!" Jack yelled before they shoved him into a large red sack.
"What are you doing?!" I screamed.
"This ain't your business, Sheila." Bunny said.
"One, my name isn't Sheila. It's Elizabeth. And two, you just shoved my best friend into a sack. It's kinda my business." It killed me to say 'best friend' because I still loved Jack, and always had, but Jack wouldn't know what I was talking about if he asked so I had to say it.
"Alright,then. Boys." Bunny said. I felt something yank me up and looked back at some yeti holding the collar of my dress. He didn't shove me into the sack, but the other one threw something and the yeti holding my dress collar threw me and the sack holding Jack inside through the portal that formed. Jack screamed from inside the sack but I didn't. I was too busy trying to stop from falling onto the wooden floor. Sadly, my attempts were in vain. The sack Jack was in thumped on the floor next to me and climbed out.
"Whoa..." He gasped. He looked up at about the same time I did and we saw the Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman staring down at us.
"The big four, all together. Santa Claus, Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, ad the Easter Kangaroo." Jack said. The Easter Bunny shot Jack a glare. He wasn't actually a kangaroo, but Jack loved annoying him.
"I must have done something really bad to get you four together." He said. "Am I on the naughty list?"
"Naughty List?" North/Santa chuckled. "You hold the record. But now,we are wiping clean slate."
"How come?"
"I tell you 'how come'. Because now, you are guardian!" North exclaimed. "Music!"
"No music!" Jack said, slamming his staff against the ground. I was a bit relieved that no one had noticed me standing in the background. At least they didn't until Jack started talking.
"You don't want me. You're all hard work and deadlines. And I'm snowballs and fun times. I'm not a guardian. Right, Lizabeth?" He said. I was busted. I waved shyly at the four guardians standing in front of me before they wen back to their conversation.
"Jack, I don't think you understand exactly what it is we do." Tooth started. I kinda zoned out while they explained to Jack about the guardians. I was a little busy admiring the workshop. There were yetis everywhere making toys, and elves running around eating cookies and drinking egg nog. The sound of Tooth's voice snapped me back to reality.
"I said, what's your name?" Tooth asked.
"Oh,uh sorry about that. My name's Elizabeth." I answered, feeling like an idiot.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Tooth, guardian of memories." She said.
"Really? Memories? That's awesome!" I said. Maybe she could help Jack remember. Suddenly, she gasped.
"The palace." She mumbled and started flying off.
"What's going on?" I asked her.
"My palace is being attacked." She said.
"I'll go with you!" I said, catching up.
"Oh, thank you."
"No problem. If its being attacked, the more help you can get,the better."
When we got there, horses made of black sand a lot like the Sandman's dream sand were everywhere. Some were capturing the mini fairies by swallowing them, but some had teeth containers inside them. I grabbed my bow and arrows and shot some into dust. The fairies were flying away but getting captured again. Some teeth containers fell at my feet and I just kept shooting. I saw North's sleigh flying by, Jack steering it while Bunny clutched the sides, North slashing the things with his swords,and the sandman hitting them with dream sand whips. The sleight crashed a few feet away from me and the others climbed out.
"So this is where you've been." Jack said. I nodded and continued to shoot the black horse things.
"Well, if it isn't the big four,all together." A voice said. "And who's this. Is that? Jack Frost? Since when are you all so chummy?" The voice asked.
"Am I that invisible?" I asked.
"We're not." Jack said, answering the voice's questions.
"Good, then I'll just ignore you. But, you must be use to that." He voice said. Then, out of the shadows, a tall man appeared. The was taller than Bunny, easy, and wore a long black robe. His hair was spiky jet black and his skin was grey and he emanated fear. "And, as for you, love bird, I won't even regard you." He said. I hated being called 'love bird'. It was annoying. But something told me that if he acted like I didn't exist, it would be better for me. The guardians and him went at it, but after a bit, they stopped.
"Oh no. The children." Tooth gasped. The Tooth Palace started crumbling a bit. The man, who I had learned was Pitch Black, the boogeyman, disappeared into the darkness.
"What's going on?" Jack asked.
"The children." Tooth gasped. "They, they don't believe in me anymore."