One Battle Faught!

Jack's PoV:

I was looking forward to going back to my room at North's place. I was a quite tired from all the fun I had not to mention I had to get away from Bunny pretty fast. I had spread a bit of winter fun in the Warren again and he wasn't happy about it at all. I wonder why.

Before I went to my own room I stopped by Valentina's. I just wanted to know how she was doing. To my luck her window were open, so I sat down in the window sill watching her. She was in the middle of creating a ball out of, what looked like, wind or something like that. Wow, she sure had come some way since last I saw her. She then went on to toss it around in the air and made different things with it. Hm...she was practicing. Odd, I wonder why.

Something made her lose concentration and the ball rolled over towards her desk. I see it hadn't taken her very long to fix up the place. It was filled with hearts and all the shades of red one could think of. Either she had some sort of obsession with hearts or she just loved Valentines Day very much.

Any way she looked for the ball and she almost had it when it rolled under the bed and continued over the window. I picked it up. She kept looking for it under the bed and from were I was sitting I had a perfect view to her cleavage and then her butt, she changed her position from time to time so either one was clear in my line of view. After a few minutes like that she gave up and stood up.

"Hm, maybe I need a different view." That was when my mouth decided to move on it's own.

"Well, I like the view just fine." Wait...wait...that wasn't what I wanted to say! XD

Frankly I didn't even want to say anything at all! Sorry!

Funny, how that didn't come out at all.

"Well, it wasn't for your enjoyment. Now give me that ball!" Okay, now she was just plain asking for it. I couldn't help teasing her. She was behaving as Bunny right now. I needed to help her loosen up a bit.

Start a conversation.

"Love what you did to the place. So how long did it take?" Her expression softened just a bit, but not to the extend where it were like on the first day we met. She still looked annoyed. "A few minutes, give or take. Now give me that ball before I color your hoodie neon pink." I like the color on my hoodie just fine, thank you very much. No annoyed girl is gonna color it neon pink! For that I pulled out in the open air and took the ball further out of her reach, just when she was about to get it.

"Now now that is no way to greet someone, is it?" She made a groan and stretched out the window to get the ball. It was actually amusing to see her stretch out, nearly falling, just get some silly ball. Was it important to her? I grinned and tossed it up and down while I made sure to stay just out of her reach.

Her eyes were like colored lightning...not sure I'd like to be at the receiving end of her wrath when she got to that point. She looked as if she was just about to let me have all the divine punishment she could muster when she looked away for a bit before looking back at me.

"I give up. What kind of greeting do you want?" The words came out half way like a whip cracking and half way like she had resigned to her fate.

I had no idea really. I pretended to think about it, because my mind was completely blank! By then my mouth moved on it's own again to my deepest regret!

"I'd like a kiss." Where did that one come from?! I am so sorry! I didn't mean that. And by her reaction I might as well have said something else more hurtful. She gave me this shove-it-up-your-ass-look and pulled inside again.

I still held on to the ball when I came inside her room. She was sitting on the floor making a new ball. I placed the first one in the window sill and walked over to her and sat down behind her. I felt bad about what I had done so I hugged her.

It didn't help. She kept claiming to not be angry with me, but I could hear it in her voice. And something else. Something I couldn't put a finger on what was, but I wanted to know what was bothering her. I wanted to help if I could.

The end of it all was that she really did color my hoodie neon pink. That's it! Here I'm trying to help or what ever and she colored my hoodie neon pink?! Obstinate woman! I really felt hurt by her lack of trust in me. But it somehow didn't feel right to just leave her alone, so I made sure it looked like I flew away when in reality I just sat down under her window. Something really wasn't right with her today. That was when I heard her speak!

"I'm sorry Jack, but it's best you don't know. For you own sake." I could hear her crying and crumbling something that sounded faintly like paper. I needed to speak to North. Something wasn't right.

I resisted the urge to go in there to comfort her. It would probably just complicate things if I did.

I searched a bit and found North in his workshop. A knock on the window caught his attention and he opened it to let me in. "Ah, good to see you back again, Jack." "I need to speak to you about Valentina. Something's not right. Have she been like this since I left a few days ago?" "Well, she did close herself into the room once it was finished. And don't ask me how it got done so quickly! All I know is I argued with Bunny and then there was a lot of noise from her room and PUFF it was done! She stay in room and only come out for dinner, some times lunch. Yuletide is worried too. Not to mention today! At lunch today she was strangely silent. She always have something to talk about." I thought about it for a minute. Indeed there was something strange going on with her. I just had this feeling she was about to do something stupid or in worst case something dangerous.

I would leave her alone for now, but later I'd have to pester her to talk to me about her recent behavior.

"North, we need to keep a close eye on her for now. I got this gut feeling she's about to attempt something." The words had barely left my lips as there were this 'wuuush' sound. Both of us bolted for the nearest window and there she was! Going down the outer wall of the castle! I had almost gotten out the window to go save...suicide is never the answer...when the strangest thing happened: She started flying! All North and I could do was watch her in sheer amazement. She did mention something about having been able to fly, right? I could barely make out an outline of a pair of wings. They could only be seen in rays of sun. Either way she seemed to have a lot fun. And it looked like she did for a while, with a mistake here and there. She nearly crashed into the mountain and then she clipped a corner with her shoulder, losing a wing in the process, I was about to jump out to help her when she had made a new one. Talk about thinking fast. *Smiles*

She flew around the castle a few times trying out a few things. It later seemed like she had gotten a hang of it again. That was when she left the castle grounds and flew off.

I had to follow her. Who knows what she's up to and in her state of mind she might get hurt or worse hurt someone else. I turned to North. "I have to go after her! Call the others and then follow as quick as you can. I think she may go back to Pitch's place. Don't ask how I know, I just do. Call it a gut feeling, if you like. See you later!" I called on the wind and I took off in Valentina's direction. It didn't take me long to spot her. Why did she want to go back to Pitch?

Valentina's PoV:

After Jack left I, as you might have figured, cried to my hearts content for a few minutes.

Many kinds of thoughts ran through my head, all kinds of scenarios ran before my eyes, but eventually I came to the conclusion that it didn't matter now as I didn't know any of it for sure. Of course I was afraid for Mime's life an' all, but what would it help her if I just kept wallowing in self pity?

Well, since Pitch had said in the letter that he wouldn't kill her if I flew, so I decided that it was high time that I refreshed some skills.

Since both air and ice would make perfect wings I imagined huge wings to carry me and pulled it from the air from outside the window and some from the ice Jack left when he sat there. I briefly got the feeling I had known him very well at some point, but I had no memory of it! What had happened that made me forget a whole lifetime? Surely I had been someone else before I became like this. I have no idea what kind of spirit/fairy I am. Just that it has something to do with colors and imagination.

I could feel the wings form on my back and how they settled. I closed my eyes to further concentration. I felt this immense power sweep through my whole body and for a split second I could almost feel my memories return, I could almost remember, but also just almost. When I was done with creating the wings it all disappeared like it had never been there in the first place.

Hahahahahahahaha!

Huh? Who was laughing?! I turned around, but I could only see an empty room. Chills ran down my spine. Something horrible was going to happen soon. And I'm not talking about what I'm about to do. It felt a bit further into the future, but I couldn't tell how far. Any way I shook off the feeling and jumped out the window. The air felt like ice in my lungs as I tried to breathe while falling. Come on, you stupid wings! Work! I swear I fell right past North's office. And was that Jack? What was he doing there? No matter I had more urgent stuff to worry about now: like how to avoid hitting the ground...that got closer and closer real fast!

Just as I was sure I'd crash and smash to pieces I thought about flying next to Baby Tooth and that somehow triggered some memory inside my head.

I had closed my eyes while falling and now that it didn't feel like I was going to hit the ground with hundreds of miles pr hour I opened them. I nearly hit the mountain side, but besides from that it was an absolutely fantastic and wonderful feeling! Not to mention the view! Because I was busy admiring the view, not looking where I was going, I almost crashed into the mountain (again) and later I hit a corner on the castle with my shoulder and therefore lost a wing. Though strong they were still frail in some ways.

But it was only a matter of making a copy of one wing to make the other again. Disaster averted. I flew around for a little while, practicing moves and control, and then I took off towards Pitch.

I could feel my heart race in my chest. I was nervous and slightly afraid, but I didn't let it get to me. If I had felt sure in my abilities then everything would go/could wrong.

I knew I was hurting my new friends, but on the other hand I didn't want them to get hurt fighting my battles. Though I'm sure they could hold their own, but still. I had done just about everything alone till now and I figured I could do so again.

That nagging feeling of something bad happening kept popping in and out of my head. Well, if I couldn't shake it, I'd just ignore it for now.

I arrived at Pitch's cave and something smelled wrong! As I went in I wondered what had changed since I left.

The whole place looked worse than I remembered it or was it just because I had seen something more wondrous? I had just gotten into the main cave when a blunt object hit me hard in the back of my head and I fell unconscious.

Sorry for the delay! I had some stuff come up, that and I needed a break from witting a bit. Also the chapter is quite short this time, but I'll make a comeback with a longer one later on. I don't know if it'll be the next chapter or the one after. It depends on the story and stuff, but I can tell you guys right now that the story is gonna be epic!

Enjoy! Don't forget to RxR!