Chapter 5 – Resting time
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I woke up from my sleep, yawning loudly, and looking around the room and noticing my arm feeling stronger. I pull away the linen that was covering my recently broken arm, and examined it. It had healed for sure, but my slightly tanned skin had a giant black splotch around the elbow. I touched it and twitched, feeling a rush of pain and fear rush through my veins. For now, I'd have to hide it from the others, and tell them later. I still pondered the idea of how it had happened, but my thoughts were quickly destroyed by North bursting through the door, smiling. He looked down at me and then slowly his eyes drifted to my elbow, and he quickly ran over, grabbing the scarred appendage.
"What is this?" he said roughly grabbing the dark mark, making me gasp out in fear and pain, pulling away from him.
"I-I don't know. It was there when I woke up." I said looking worried at the mark "Is it bad?"
"Well, I don't know. Never seen such a thing in my life. Sandy would know, yes?" he said, examining it and prodding it gently, making me shudder at each poke. He noticed the effect and ran off quickly. I got out of the bed after I was sure that he was gone, and quickly clothed myself and walked around nervously. The door burst open, North leading Sandy and Tooth in as Phil held back a screaming Jack. Bunny soothed him and closed the door. Panic spread through me as the image of a screaming, crying friend was kept out of my room. I began to sit up, but was quickly pushed back down by the Christmas spirits strong hands. I squirmed and fought, beginning to cry as Tooth and Sandy poked and prodded at the spot, making images of Jack and Bunny being stabbed and corrupted by his evil shadows. The thoughts were stuck in my mind as I tried everything I could do to escape the suddenly serious North and make sure my friends were okay. Sandy quickly covered my arm in his dream sand, but all that happened was the black on my skin spread, coating my entire left arm. I screamed as I was filled with unwanted pain and fear. I started growing pumpkins and ghosts in my attempt to escape. Suddenly, the room disappeared just as Jack had escaped, running towards me. It felt as I was falling from that tree again, and I was.
I landed roughly on the ground, and quickly scrambled to my feet, looking frantically around. I grabbed for my bag, but found it missing. Well, at least I still had the blade. I heard a deep laugh, and then felt a warmness rubbing my back, quickly moving towards my chest. I spun around to see nothing, and the feeling quickly left. I tried to use the breeze to float away, but found it gone. No wind. Weird. I walked towards the exit, but instead of meeting the road, I walked straight into the Warren, for the first time ever. I knew it was to be the perfect place, but it looked rather…dead to me. I walked towards Bunny's house and walked in. I called out for him with no response, so I figured he was napping. I walked into his bedroom and screamed as his corpse lay on the bed, ripped open and coated in that sand. I went to grab his paw, but found myself beneath a tall icy rock. I saw a dot falling, growing bigger and then realized it was Jack! I watched as he fell, thinking he would stop and float beside me, laughing. Instead, he slammed into the ice, splitting his head in two. I cried out and ran to him, hugging him, crying. I never had told the others, but Jack was the one who sought me out at a young age. I fell for him, hard and wanted to ask him out soon. It looks as that would never happen. I went to pull him from the ice, but the scene faded into many visions. Sandy being choked to death, Tooth's wings ripped from her as she was stabbed many times, and North being gutted, all by Pitch. They're voices drifted to my ears, with pleas of help, and asking why I just watched as they got violently killed. I broke down into tears and fell to the ground, curling into a ball.
I gasped and sat up, finding myself back in North's warm home. North! I looked and saw that the black was completely gone from me, but I was restrained. I cried and fought the binds, and Jack walked into the room. Jack! He was okay!
"Jack! Your not dead!" I said smiling at him, but seeing his sad face looking up at me.
"Evan, we saw what you saw. We heard your thoughts too. That black on your arm was pure fear. It seems that yours is losing the ones you love. Us." He said, walking over to the bed and looking into my eyes.
My eyes widened in horror, thinking of how I admitted my love for him. I blushed and turned my head, hiding my face in a mixture of embarrassment and guilt. Jack looked down at me, and smiled lightly.
"Evan, I love you too. But, I'm not the only one that does." he said, kissing me on the lips and walking out with a slight blush to get North.