I'm listening to How Far We've Come by Matchbox Twenty. It's cool. :P Anyway Enjoy Chapter 9:Nightmare Greetings!

Jack had traveled around a lot in his 300 years of life. He had been pretty much everywhere a winter spirit could go but there was only one place he went to the most.

It was a small cave, not very deep but it always seemed to call him back when he was sad or in a dark mood. He always gets this light distant feeling of comfort. He knew this was where Dad had turned him immortal all those years ago.

He whimpered slightly at the thought of his dad. He curled into a ball at the back of the cave and let the tears out. Snow and frost grew around him with his emotions running so high, but he didn't bother to care.

He wanted this to all be just a nightmare. He wanted so desperately to wake up in the IceCastle with Dad holding him in his arms, Glace, Moroz and Schnee sitting around him says comforting things. He didn't want to be away from them, after so long of them feeling like his own brother and sisters. He didn't want his Dad gone, he didn't want any of this to be real.

He felt someone near the entrance and a shadow fall over him. He jerked up to see Pitch looking at him with pity.

Pitch took a step closer, he tried to move back but he was already against the wall so he just curled into him self tighter. "Now you understand why I tried to get you to come with me, Jack, don't you? The Guardians are un-trust worthy people."

Now any normal 10 year old would agree with Pitch, join him, and take them down. But Jack Frost wasn't a normal 10 year old.

He is 310, he has been around a long time to know when something is wrong and when something is right. Sure he made mistakes sometimes, like when he takes a prank too far, but that didn't mean he was completely naïve.

Now that his head was slightly more clear now he understood it wasn't the Guardians' fault for his Dad's death. Bunny had tried to help, even if he couldn't do anything. He had just been so in shock and denial that he wanted to blame someone for it.

Jack stood shakily and wiped his tears away. "You're wrong. They are, you aren't. I already told you 'No' Pitch, and I'm staying with that answer."

Pitch's pitying look turned to dark humor, he shook his head and made a 'tsk' sound with his tongue. "I'm sorry, Jack, but that is not an option."

Jack was about to blast Pitch and try to get back to the Guardians, when a hole opened up under him. "Wha-ahhhhhh!"

He cries out as he falls through, accidentally dropping his staff as it closes behind him.

Pitch smiled cruelly as he picked up the staff and twirled it around in his hand. With a quick flick of his hand it snapped in two.

He laughed darkly as he made a horse out of nightmare sand and hopped onto it. "Lets go give North and the other Guardians an early Easter gift, shale we?"

The horse stomped a hoof on the ground and took off into the air.

(Pitch is a jerk isn't he? 0.0 Line Break 0.0 Is Jack ok?)

North and the others had fixed up the Guardian Hall just enough to sit and think while the yetis and elves fix up the rest of the work shop.

"We can't just sit here, mates!' Bunny was exclaiming as he hopped around. 'Jack is out there, and who knows what Pitch will do to him if he gets to him before we do!"

Sandy looked down right depressed, he made a shape of Jack, a map and a question mark.

Tooth nodded sadly. "Sandy is right, Bunny. We don't know where Jack is! Oh the poor boy, he just lost his father!"

North sat quietly for a moment, he was about to say maybe they could take the slide to find Jack, when a dark laugh made them all pause.

Suddenly Tooth shot up, a look of complete rage on her normally sweet face. "Pitch Black you get out here this instant!"

Pitch stepped out of a shadow a few feet away from them, amusement lit up his golden eyes and his hands held behind his back. "Hello to you to Toothiana."

Tooth fisted her tiny hands. "Pitch you have 3 seconds to tell us where Jack is or else I will knock all your teeth out!"

The other Guardians where surprised at Tooth's hostility but still agreed with her.

Pitch gave them a fake look of innocence. "What makes you believe I know where Jack is?"

Bunny gave his a flat look as he took out his boomerangs. "Because you're a bloody psycho, who has been after Frostbite this whole time."

Pitch put a hand over his chest. "You wound me, Bunnymund."

Bunny scoffed. "Good, now tell us where Jack is."

Pitch sighed. "Sadly I can not tell you that, but I do have a gift for you from Jack."

Sandy looked highly confused and showed it by making a few question marks above his head.

Pitch chuckled, he took his hands from behind his back and throw the two pieces of Jack's staff to the Guardians. "Enjoy, Guardians!"

Before they could get over the shock of seeing the staff he disappeared into the shadows once again.

Bunny ground his teeth together as he softly picked up the pieces. "We have to find him, mates. We just have to."

Sandy and North nodded angrily and tooth nodded weakly as she lightly touched the staff, as if it would fall apart any moment.

Bunny and the others finally noticed how frail looking the staff looked without Jack's winter powers coursing through it. It looked so pitiful that if they didn't know it belonged to a powerful immortal child they would have though it was just a stick that had fallen off a tree.

(With Jack while Pitch talked with the Guardians)

Tumbling through the air wasn't a new feeling to Jack. After all it had token a lot of practice before he was able to be as good as he was riding the wind. What made it scary was it was pitch black, no pun intended, but he couldn't even see an inch past his nose.

But that wasn't even as bad as the sudden and painful shock that went through his heart to the rest of his body. You know how when your leg is asleep and it feels numb, and then once you start to try to wake it up you feel like there is a ton of pins and needles in it? Well put those together and you get 5% of how it felt to Jack.

Not having felt this much pain before and it happening so suddenly made him scream.

He didn't know how long he had screamed but soon his scream had turned to weak coughing sounds. His mouth felt dry and his through felt raw and hot, it made him want to shove an ice cube down his throat. Sadly he couldn't because his powers didn't work as well without his staff. He could make snow balls no problem but there was no snow around as he fell.

He gasped for air as it was knocked out of his lunges when he slammed into hard ground.

He groaned as he tried to curl up. He shouldn't have run away from the Guardians. Now Pitch had him and who knows what he would do to him!

He whimpered slightly in fear as he looked around. He was in a cage, it was slightly big, just enough for him to stretch. Most of his surroundings where hidden in shadows, but with what light that peaked into the place showed him the place seemed to go one forever.

He hadn't even realized he had been looking around in awe till Pitch spoke up. "You like your new home, Jack?"

Jack glared at him. "No, you really do have terrible taste in home furniture."

Pitch laughed. "Ah there is that old 'Jack Frost wit' I have over heard so much about."

Jack snorted. "At least we can add eavesdropper to 'The List of Things that makes Pitch creepy.'"

Pitch sneered. "I will take that as a complement."

Before Jack could retort Pitch moved foreword and held his chin.

Pitch patted his head in fake sadness before a wicked grin took over. "It's a shame you aren't willing to work with me on your own. I will have to get power from you a different way."

Jack tried to jerk away but Pitch just dug his nails into his cheeks more. "How will you do that?"

Pitch waved at hand as if it was obvious. "By putting you in an unawake-able nightmare of course. I would say sweet dreams, but you won't be having any."

The last thing Jack heard was Pitch's evil laughter before falling into a nightmare-ish coma.

R&R! Ta.

GWDG