A/N: So, I know I may be a bit off with what they were saying in the beginning scene, especially with what Tooth was saying. I'm sorry, but she talks really fast, so it's really hard to tell what she is yelling. If it matters that much to you, you can listen to the movie and try to figure out what she is saying. If you succeed, congratulations! Tell me what she says in the reviews and I'll fix it. If not, well, deal with it.
North laughed as he jumped roof to roof. "Follow me! Quickly! Quickly"
Jack shouted, "How are you doing, rabbit? Come on, try to keep ahead.
"Yeah, right, okay. I tell you to stay out of my way, but what's the point? You won't be able to keep up anyway!" Bunny shouted back.
"Is that a challenge, Cotton-Tail?"
"Oh, you don't want to race a rabbit, mate." Bunny started speeding up.
"Whoa!" Jack cried in surprise. She too started speeding up.
"This is a race? Oh, this is going to be epic!" North yelled, popping in and out of chimneys.
"Four more cross-bites over there. Some teeth, two blocks away each. Oh, look, they're everywhere!" Tooth cried happily. She flew straight into one of the billboards. This one happened to be advertising toothpaste.
Jack flew over to her and landed on top of the billboard. "You okay?"
"I'm fine. Sorry, it's been a really long time since I've been out on the field."
"How long is a long time?" Jack asked.
"Four hundred forty years, give or take," she shrugged sheepishly. Then a tooth caught her eye, she pointed it out and she took off, giggling like a schoolgirl. Baby Tooth and Jack both shrugged, then went off to collect teeth.
Jack opened a window to one child's room, only to find Bunny standing there, laughing at her. Jack frowned and shot ice at Bunny with her staff.
"Twins!" North cried with glee as he took their teeth under their pillows.
"Oh, jackpot!" Bunny hissed happily, taking a handful of teeth from the pillow. He looked around at the room. "Looks like you're a bit of a brumby, eh mate?"
North laughed. "Easy as pie!" He reached out and was about to grab the tooth when a tunnel appeared from under him. Both he and Bunny struggled, while Sandy strolled in and grabbed the tooth. The two protested. "No! Nonononono! That's my tooth! Sandy! Sandy!"
Jack gracefully leapt from building to building, before diving into a window. Just as her feet touched the ground, Bunny created a tunnel, causing the girl to fall threw it as the rabbit stole her tooth.
Tooth and Baby Tooth were in a child's room when Tooth accidentally grabbed a mouse instead of a tooth. Baby Tooth lunged at it and tried to pound it, but Tooth pulled her off. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Take it easy there, champ. He's one of us. Part of the European division. Ca va?" The mouse just squeaked angrily and threw down its hat.
For hours, the three male guardians and Jack played pranks on each other as the competed for the most amount of teeth. Jack would make the boys slip on the rooftops, Bunny would make tunnels, Sandy or North would swoop in and steal them. Bunny even light some logs in a fireplace as North was going down the chimney. "Ho, ho, ho." North's yell could be heard from halfway across the city.
After a few hours, Jack and the boys proudly showed their bags of teeth to the Tooth Fairy. "Wow! You guys collect teeth and leave gifts just as fast as my fairies!" she praised. Then she paused as she saw the look on their faces. "You guys have been leaving gifts, right?" Sandy nodded, then shook his head. They all winced.
Had anyone been awake at that time, they would have seen quite the sight, as the Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, Sandman and Jack Frost waited in line at the Brooklyn Bridge Coin-Laundry, waiting to get quarters.
They all placed the gifts where they had taken teeth from. Sometimes it was a quarter, sometimes it was candy canes, or Easter eggs, or even a Christmas tree. Then, when they were all finished, they popped through the portal and left the city to go to a different one.
What they didn't notice was the Nightmare that watched them. It ran back to Pitch's lair to report what it had seen.
Pitch had noticed that the lights were all still shining. "The lights. Why aren't going out?" His Nightmare gave him the report. "They're collecting the teeth?" All the baby fairies started to squeak, happy that the Guardians were helping their mother out.
"Oh, pipe down or I'll stuff a pillow in you!" Pitch roared. This was not going according to plan. He growled at his horse, making it rear back in fright. "Fine. Have your last hurrah. For tomorrow, all your pathetic scrambling will be for nothing." He created a picture of the Sandman out of his evil black sand, then crushed it. This time, his plan would not fail.
Tooth and Jack sat beside a young boy. One Jack recognized very well. She admired the picture Jamie had drawn of the sledding trip Jack had taken him on. "Left central incisor. Knocked out in a freak sledding accident," Tooth said. She looked at the younger girl. "I wonder how that could have happened. Jack?"
She stopped looking at the picture and laughed. "Kids, huh?" The look on Tooth's face told her she wasn't fooling anyone, but Tooth decided to let it go.
The fairy left a quarter under the pillow, and flew back to admire the child. "This was always the part I liked most. Seeing the kids." She looked at the boy sadly. "Why did I ever stop doing this?"
Jack sat down next to the bed. "A little different up close, huh?"
"Thanks for being here Jack," Tooth said, flying over to her. When Tooth placed a hand on Jack's shoulder, she did her best not to flinch. Tooth was trying to be a comfort, something Jack appreciated. "I wish I had known about your memory. I could have helped you."
"Yeah, well, look let's just get you taken care of, then its Pitch's turn." She flashed one of her famous, mischievous grins.
A grunt broke the two up, as North squeezed through the small door frame. "Ah, here you are!" he said. Sandy followed him in. Tooth shushed them, and pointed at the sleeping boy.
"Oh. What gives, slow pokes?" North whispered. Then he remembered to ask the important question. "How are you feeling, Toothy?"
"Believed in!" Tooth grinned.
North laughed. "That's what I want to hear."
"Oh I see how it is." Bunny had popped out of a hole. His arms were crossed. "All working together and make sure the rabbit gets last place." He jumped out of his whole. The rest of the group shushed hi like Tooth had to North, and pointed to Jamie.
Jack strode up to Bunny. "You think I need help to beat a Bunny?" She pulled out a bag filled with teeth. "Check it out Peter-Cottontail!"
Bunny was unimpressed. "You call that a bag of choppers?" He pulled out a larger bag filled with teeth. "Now that's, a bag of choppers."
"Please, please," North said, stepping between them. "This is about Tooth. It's not a competition." He paused. "But if it was…" he threw a huge bag of teeth onto the floor in front of the group. "I win." He started cheering loudly.
Everyone stared at him for a second, then they all froze when a light hit them. Jamie had woken up, and was holding a flashlight. The boy gasped. "Santa Clause." He had seen them. "The Easter Bunny? Sandman?" He shone the light on each of their faces. "The Tooth Fairy! I knew you'd come!"
Tooth gave an awkward smile. "Surprise! We came!" She laughed nervously.
Jack stepped forward. "He can see us?"
Knowing that no one else would be willing to tell Jack the truth, Bunny knew he had to break it to her. "Most of us." Jamie's light shone on every face, except for Jack's. The young girl sighed, and looked down.
"Shhh! You guys! He's still awake," Tooth reminded them.
She was right. "Sandy, knock him out." Bunny gave the little man a nudge. Sandy nodded and smacked his fist against his palm.
"Huh?" Jamie looked really confused.
"With the dream sand, you gumby," Bunny said in exasperation.
They were interrupted by the growl of a protective dog. Jamie tried to pull his dog away. "No, stop, that's the Easter Bunny! What are you doing, Abby? Down!"
Holding up his paw, Bunny said, "Alright, nobody panic."
Jack was trying not to laugh. "That's um, that's a Greyhound. Do you know what Greyhounds do, to rabbits?
"Well I think it's a pretty safe bet he's never met a rabbit like me." Sandy, agreeing with Jack that this would not end well, got a ball of dream sand ready. "Six foot one, nerves of steel, master of ti chi and the-crikey!" Jack had just rolled her eyes and hit Jamie's alarm clock with her staff, setting it off and startling Abby. The dog yelped and lunged at Bunny.
Bunny stumbled back and leap away from the angry Greyhound. In doing so, he hit Sandy, causing him to almost drop, then juggle the dream sand.
After a few seconds of Abby chasing around Bunny, Sandy final caught his sand. Everyone else was yelling at either Sandy or the dog by that time. "Sandy!" North urged. Sandy took aim to throw, but was knocked over by Abby when he did so. The sand ended up hitting Tooth. She fell to the floor, and started dreaming about teeth.
Sandy tried again, only this time he hit Bunny. The rabbit fell over and dreamed of carrots. By time Sandy knocked out Abby, North had also been hit. Jamie went flying due to North's weight when he landed on Jamie's bed. Sandy caught him and put the boy to sleep.
"Whoops," Jack simply said. She was crouched on Jamie's dresser, having gotten out of the way to watch the show. She noticed Bunny's dream carrots grab North's dream candy canes and start swinging them around. "Oh I wish I had a camera right now," she snickered.
The Sandman just gave her a look as he put Jamie back to bed. Then Sandy noticed the Nightmare in the window behind Jack. Jack turned, and when it flew away, she jumped out the window and flew after it. "Sandy, come on! We can find Pitch!"
Carefully stepping over the Guardians, Sandy made his way over to the window. He gave the room a look, then shrugged and followed Jack.
He failed to notice a little two year old girl enter the room.
Sophie, having heard the commotion, crept into her brother's room. She giggled when she heard Santa snore. Jumping up to reach him, she knocked out one of North's snow globes. "Pretty!" she gasped. She picked it up, but paused when she saw Bunny.
"Bunny, hop, hop, hop!" she said, accidentally causing the snow globe to change into a portal to Bunny's Warren. "Oh!" Sophie cried, tripping over Abby. In doing so, she dropped the snow globe and made the portal open. Being two, she simply laughed and jumped in, closing the portal behind her.
The Nightmare raced across Burgess, Jack and Sandy in pursuit. Jack was laughing the whole time, enjoying the rush. As Jack continued to fly after the first Nightmare, Sandy paused to catch a second. He jumped on it, and when he touched it, the Nightmare changed back into dream sand. Sandy changed the sand into a manta ray and flew on it.
Jack jumped around buildings and across roofs before letting out an icy blast. "I got it!" she cheered. She jumped up to admire it. The black sand was frozen solid. "Sandy! Sandy, did you see that?" she called. "Look at this thing," she said, mostly to herself.
Pitch came up behind her. "Frost?" Startled, Jack whirled around, her staff pointed at the Boogeyman. She let out a blast of ice, but Pitch moved out of the way, and back into the shadows.
"You know, for a neutral party, you spend an awful lot of time with those weirdoes," Pitch noticed. He appeared on the roof above the winter spirit. "This isn't your fight, Jack,"
"You made it my fight when you stole those teeth!" Jack snapped.
"Teeth? Why do you care about the teeth?" As far as Pitch knew, Jack didn't have any memories. What would she care about the memories of children?
He didn't notice the Sandman sneak up until Sandy was right beside him. He gasped and stumbled backwards. Then he laughed. "Now this is who I'm looking for."
Sandy, who had been standing there with his arms crossed, whipped out his, well, whips, and flung them at Pitch. He dodged them, barely, and brought out his own tool; a giant pick-ax sort of thing. Jack was trying to go help Sandy, but every time she got close, she had to hit the ground to avoid getting hit.
It was a ferocious battle between the two. Then one of Sandy's whips caught Pitch's wrist, and the Sandman yanked Pitch upwards and slammed him back to the ground. He then smashed Pitch against a couple of walls before throwing him off of the roof. Pitch landed and a car and bounced off, skidding across the road. He groaned loudly.
A car alarm was loudly going off. Jack looked at Sandy with admiration. "Remind me not to get on your bad side." They both flew down to confront Pitch. The Boogeyman had a cut on his head that was dripping with black blood, and his face had plenty of scrapes from the road.
"Okay, easy. You can't blame me for trying, Sandy!" Pitch protested, shuffling away from the pair. "You don't know what it's like to be weak, and hated!" He got to his feet. "It was stupid of me, to mess with your dreams. So, I'll tell you what; you can have them back." His face changed into an evil one instead of a scared one.
All around the pair, Nightmares appeared. From the sewers, to the roofs, they came in the hundreds. Jack and Sandy went back to back, circling around, trying to see just how many they were up against.
Jack managed to remain calm. "You take the ones on the left, I take the ones on the right?" she suggested. The Pitch appeared on his own horse, ready to attack as well. Sand whips formed in Sandy's hands. Jack was starting to think it would be Sandy against Pitch, while she dealt with the army. They did not have great odds.
"Boo," Pitch said, and the horses attacked. Jack braced herself, while Sandy quickly fought against the Nightmares. The sounds of bells rung in the middle of all this, and North's sleigh flew past them. All the Guardians in it were snoozing. 'Lot of help you are' Jack thought, turning her attention back to the army in front of her.
The Guardians slammed into the ground a few times, then flew up and bumped against a church, jerking them all awake.
Meanwhile, Jack and Sandy were giving it there all, fighting off hordes of Nightmares at a time. Realizing that they were going to get overwhelmed soon, Sandy grabbed Jack's arm, ignoring the fact that the girl jerked as soon as he touched her, and shot both of them into the air.
He spun around and threw Jack away from the collecting group of Nightmares right below them. Jack spun around, then went back to fighting every Nightmare that came near her.
Finally, the rest of the Guardians caught up with them, and Tooth jumped out of the sleigh to help Jack.
Pitch laughed, knowing that this would be an intense fight, and he and the rest of the Nightmares flew up to join in the battle.
Bunny, who couldn't actually fly, jumped off of the sleigh and started battling Nightmares on the roof tops. He managed to knock out quite a few of them, before leaping back onto the sleigh. North, who couldn't fly either, pulled out his swords and stood up on the sleigh, slashing through the stallions.
Somehow Tooth and Jack had gotten separated. Jack couldn't see how the fairy was doing, but she was holding her own just fine. As two Nightmares came at her from opposite directions, she let herself fall and they crashed into each other. As she fell, she tumbled into another Nightmare, causing her to drop her staff. She cradled her hand for a moment (that sand hurt when it hit bare skin) then scrambled to grab her staff. She managed to wrap her fingers around it, just as her feet hit the sleight.
She glanced up and saw Bunny looking at her. "You might want to duck." It took a second to register what he meant, but then she quickly hit the deck, feeling a boomerang zip past her head and into Bunny's hand. He smirked at her.
Tooth soon caught up with them, but Sandy was still on his own, fighting far more Nightmares than the rest of them. He was so busy, he didn't see Pitch fly up a bit of a ways behind him.
"We've got to help Sandy!" Jack cried. The amount of Nightmares that the little golden man was fighting alone, terrified her.
North nodded and aimed the sleigh towards his fellow Guardian.
Pitch decided to make his move while Sandy's back was turned. He raised his arms, pulling back an invisible bow, and shot a very real, very large black arrow at Sandy's back. Hit it spot on.
Sandy froze as the realization hit him. It hurt, a lot actually, but he barely noticed the pain. Luckily for him, he went into instant shock.
Jack cried out. "No!" Ignoring North, who called out her name, she pushed off of the sleigh wing and flew towards Sandy and Pitch as fast as she could.
The shock was fading, and Sandy could now feel the pain in his back. He struggled to breathe. This was one of the times Sandy was grateful to be a mute; he didn't want any of his fellow Guardians, or the young little winter spirit, to hear him scream. He turned to face Pitch, pain on his face, but the fear hidden. He would not give Pitch that satisfaction.
"Don't fight the fear little man," Pitch taunted. 'Fat chance' Sandy thought.
Tooth tried to fly up and follow Jack, but she had to retreat as a Nightmare came at her.
"I'd say sweet dream, but there aren't any left," Pitch said, softly. He smiled, evilly.
Sandy tried to take a step, but he stumbled. He could feel himself be overwhelmed by the black sand. He knew that he would be consumed soon, but if he was to turn into a fearling, he would do so standing and glaring at Pitch with defiance. As the last black sand consumed the last bit of the Sandman, he closed his eyes, his face almost peaceful.
The three Guardians all stared in shock and disbelief. "Sandy?" North's voice was hushed, barely heard by the other two sitting right beside him.
Jack completely froze for a few seconds. "No." Then he yelled out angrily and pressed forward.
Pitch looked unimpressed. It was time to teach this meddling little winter spirit a lesson on who to mess with. He knew that she tended to push the wrong spirit's buttons, usually for attention. 'But I am the Nightmare King' Pitch thought. 'Not just some summer spirit.'
He raised his hands, and the wave of Nightmares that had been attacking Sandy obediently rose up and went for Jack.
The odds looked impossible. The Guardians knew there was no chance they could go to Jack's aid in time, so all they could do is watch in horror as the Nightmares grew closer to overwhelming the little spirit. They saw Jack hover for a moment before the swarm reached her. There were so many, every trace of the girl had vanished in the black cloud.
No one spoke a word. Pitch was looking at where the girl had disappeared with a satisfied smirk. Then, something unexpected happened. A flash of blue and white emerged from the cloud of black sand. Jack, who was not thinking very clearly, summoned an unimaginable amount of energy and hurled it at the Nightmares that surrounded here. Both her and her staff were glowing with power as the shock of her attack spread across the entire wave of Nightmares, freezing them, and turning them into dust. Pitch was knocked off his cloud, and let out a small cry as her fell towards the ground.
All the remaining Guardians looked around frantically for the young winter spirit. North was the one that spotted her first. "Jack!" he yelled. Tooth flew up and caught Jack, slowing the spirit's fall and pulling her to where the sleigh was. The girl's body was limp, completely worn out. She was barely conscious.
Tooth gently placed the girl onto the back of the sleight. "Jack. How-how did you do that?" she asked, Jack let out a small groan and pushed herself onto her elbows.
"I…I didn't know I could," she gasped. She stared at her staff.
From below on the ground, Pitch watched as the Guardians and Jack went through one of North's portals and vanished. Surprisingly, he wasn't angry. Instead, he was laughing. "Finally! Someone who knows how to have a little fun."
So, yes, this fanfic is going to have blood in it. Truthfully, Jack is probably going to be the one that bleeds the most, especially after I'm done with the movie because for some reason, everyone loves Jack in distress almost as much as they love the character. Well, maybe not that much. But to be honest, I too am a big fan of it. Then I feel like a terrible person afterwards. :-) By the way, this was by far my longest chapter! Almost 4000 words! So, um, review! I'll love you lots!
