His Evil Half
Chapter 8: The Bright Side Of The Dark Side
Jack Frost scrambled to his feet. "Guys! Guys!" He yelled. North and Bunny were still fighting Eerie, but they looked up while shooting their boomerangs and swinging their swords at him. "What is it, mate?" Bunnymund yelled, still throwing his boomerangs at an exhausted looking Eerie. "I know how to defeat Jan!" Jack yelled. He turned to Tooth and Vanessa. "Go help Santa and Bunny!" He instructed quickly. "I'll deal with Jan!" The two female guardians looked at each other, and then Jack, and then finally, they nodded and sped off to join in the fight with Eerie. Jan walked towards her twin brother, an evil glint in her eyes. Jack lifted his staff and fired a shower of large snowballs at her. Then, to his fellow guardians' surprise, he turned and ran. He heard a gasp from Vanessa. "Jack, what are you doing?" Tooth yelled.
"Fight her!" North bellowed, still slashing his sword to keep Eerie and his dark mist away from him.
Bunnymund said nothing, only because he had just found a way to sneak up on Eerie, and was too busy hammering the evil man on the head repeatedly with giant boomerangs.
Jack Frost was still running, a plan clear in his head. Occasionally, he turned and fired a snowball or two, or even a bit of ice shards at Jan, but he spent 80 per cent of the time running. Minutes later, they had distanced from the area where North, Bunnymund, Tooth and Vanessa were probably still trying to take down Eerie, and Jack ran into a corridor, with Jan hot on his heels.
Unluckily, this corridor he had chosen to run in had a dead end.
Luckily, it was all according to his plan.
Jack skidded to a halt in front of the wall, and turned round to see his evil twin sister standing there, closing in on him very slowly. Jack smiled sadly and put up both of his hands in a typical surrender pose. "Fine. You got me." He said to Jan, who was surprisingly struggling to raise her staff. "Kill me." As he expected, Jan didn't respond. Her fingers seemed to be turning to jelly, as her breathing seemed to become faster. Jack raised his voice. "Just kill me, Jan!" He yelled. Jan looked at him, and to Jack's surprise, the evil glint disappeared from her eyes. "I can't." she murmured.
"Why?"
"I…"
"WHY?!"
Jan lowered her staff. "I just can't. I can't kill you." Once again, Jack saw a faint glow of light, a bit brighter than the first, on Jan's chest. "Come on." Jack said, a bit tauntingly. "You're Eerie's partner in crime, right? You're supposed to kill me then, right?" Jan gulped, her voice shook as she looked at Jack. "I never wanted to hurt anyone, Jack. Not even you. Not even your friends." Just as Jack had hoped, the light on Jan's chest began to glow brighter.
"Then, why did you side with Eerie?"
"Eerie created me. I'm not your real twin sister. He controls me and my actions." She sighed, and raised her staff at Jack again. "And I have to do what he says." Jack faced her, no trace of fear in his eyes. "No, you don't! Eerie may have created you, but that doesn't mean that he controls you!" He called out. Jan's blue eyes opened wide. "Really?" the light was glowing much brighter now, and spreading to all parts of Jan's body. Jan stared down. Jack smiled. "You control yourself, Jan. Don't let the darkness control you." Jan, seeing her brother smile, smiled back. Not in an evil way. "You're… right." Then, the whole corridor was lit up in a bright, white light. And when it faded, Jack opened his eyes, taking in the shocking and most relieving and happy sight he ever saw.
