Here's the new chapter! I did it as soon as I could since so many people asked for it :) Thanks to all of you that are currently reading this right now, it means a lot to me I'm sure other authors understand the enthusiasm of even one review to your story, you feel sorta really ish-high! LuvFiction Xxxx, AyameKitsune, GreatWolfSpirit, Taranodongirl1, bluekittenish, starskulls, winterwiccan, lilyflower5189, ReaderWriterDreamerGirl7, Alaia Skyhawk, leeluluirty, MusicNinja7551, Witch08, lilalove88, you are all Gods and Goddesses to me! I'd like to thank also all of you who put my story on favourite or on alert; you have no idea how hyper I am because of it! Well, here's the chappie you've all been asking for! I changed it a bit at the ending, making the memories in italics so it's better to understand, I'll also be doing the same thing for all the other chapters with memories in them. Enjoy :D
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They've been walking in the dark for so long that the Guardians lost track of the time. After minutes, or perhaps even hours, they finally saw a small source of light at the end of the tunnel.
Bunny sighed in relief. "Finally! I hate this place! Gives me the shivers." He ran to the end of the narrow tunnel and when he arrived there, he stopped abruptly and drew a sharp breath.
"Guys," He breathed. "Come and see this."
The Guardians hurried to where Bunny was looking, leaving Jack and Baby Tooth behind, and when they saw the scene, their eyes widen.
In a dark cave, even bigger than Tooth's palace, hung several hundred rusty cages holding Tooth's miny fairies.
"Pitch's lair! I knew I recognized why there was a stupid old bed in the middle of the forest!" Tooth shrieked then zoomed to try to open her fairies' cages. But when she tried to, her hand passed clean through the locks.
Bunny shook his head and said "It's no use Tooth! Were in a memory, remember?"
Tooth sighed in defeat. "Yes, but how was I so stupid not to realise that my fairies were here the whole time? I could have set them free!"
"Shh! Baby Tooth!"
The Guardians turned to see Jack had come to the end of the tunnel and was currently trying to get Baby Tooth to stop chirping around.
Baby Tooth was now squealing madly and tried to push and pull Jack to the opposite direction, but the spirit simply brushed her off, much to her frustration.
Jack gasped when he saw the cave and stared for a few seconds then shook himself and flew quickly from cage to cage, the small fairies chirping loudly to him.
"Shh! Keep it down!" He whispered harshly. "I'll find a way to get you out of here just as soon as I-"
His voice was cut off when he heard the same voice of the little girl calling out again. He looked around and he set his gaze on the huge mountains of teeth canisters piled up on the floor.
His eyes widen and he leaped down to the pile of teeth, digging around wildly and looking at the end of each boxes to see if one of the faces looked like him.
"Looking for something?" A familiar voice said mockingly.
Jack scrambled to pick up his staff and shot a jet of ice blindly behind him. He saw a shadow on a wall and flew quickly after it, the Guardians following suit.
Pitch's laughter echoed across the whole cave. "Don't be afraid Jack, I'm not gonna hurt you."
Jack huffed a laugh. "Afraid? I'm not afraid of you."
"But you're afraid of something." The nightmare king's bodiless voice resounded around them.
"You think so huh?" Jack said uncertainly, slowly circling around to see Pitch in order not to get attacked by surprise. Even when the Guardians knew they were invisible, they still were on their guard.
They suddenly saw Pitch walking calmly below them and they jumped down cautiously behind him, in case of a trap.
"I know so." Pitch said, turning around to look at Jack." It's the one thing I always know. People's greatest fears…" He looked distant for a moment, as if he was concentrating on something. He smirked like he found what he was looking for.
"Yours," He sneered, "Is that no one will ever believe in you."
Jack gasped in shock as if he didn't expect Pitch to say that. He took a few steps back then yelped as he fell in the darkness, the Guardians with him.
He tumbled to the ground harshly then picked up his staff, hurrying to his feet and running blindly into a wall.
"And worst of all, you're afraid you'll never know why. Why were you chosen to be like this? Well fear not, for all of your answers are in this little box."
Jack turned and looked at Pitch behind him, holding out a canister with the face of a brown haired and mischievous looking teen at both ends.
"Do you want them Jack? Your memories." Pitch said with a taunting smile.
Bunny growled in outrage. "Now that's just plain mean!"
Jack looked at the box in wonder and made a move to get them but shook his head sharply and withdrew his hand.
The Boogeyman laughed again and disappeared. Jack glanced around and flew away again, diving to the ground and holding his staff ready for an attack.
Pitch spoke again. "Everything you wanted to know, in this little box. Why did you end up like this? Unseen and unable to reach out to anyone? You want the answers, you want to fly away with them. But you're afraid of what the Guardians will think! You're afraid of disappointing them! You want to fit in but you don't know how, you feel like they are using you but you don't want to think about it!"
Jack looked around in terror, eyes full of pain like he's been holding together for years and now he was close to breaking.
Tooth's eyes were shinning with unshed tears. "Is that actually what he thought?" She whispered. "That he's like a fifth wheel to us? A simple tool that we're going to throw away after we're done with it?"
"Well let me ease your mind about one thing. They'll never accept you." Pitch said
Jack hunched over and put his hand on the side of his head. "Stop it! Stop it!" He yelled frightfully.
The Guardians froze in shock; they've never seen Jack lose control of his emotion before. Most of the time, he would brush his problems off with a joke or a smile. This time, he was letting his emotions flow freely without a thought.
"After all, you're not one of them." Pitch taunted.
Jack slipped his mask on again with difficulty and hid his emotions once more. "You don't know what I am." He said, his voice still a bit shaky.
"Of course I do." The nightmare king said behind Jack and the Guardian of fun turned around sharply and pointed his staff threateningly. "You're Jack Frost! You make a mess wherever you go. Why, you're doing it right now!" Pitch exclaimed then threw Jack's memories at the spirit who caught them in surprise.
Jack looked at Pitch with dawning horror. "What did you do…?" He whispered.
Pitch chuckled darkly. "No, that's not the point Jack. What did you do?" He backed away into the shadows with an evil cackle and disappeared once again.
Jack raised his staff and ran after him, slashing randomly into the darkness. His staff literally glowing with power. He groaned in frustration then turned back only to run into a big stone wall. He pushed against it and his eyes suddenly widen in worry. "Baby Tooth!" He exclaimed then made a move to turn back to look for her but then gasped softly when he saw the scene before him.
He was in Bunny's Warren and crushed eggs littered the floor, not one of them was spared.
"Happy Easter Jack." Pitch's voice resounded then faded away with his laughter.
"No…" Jack whispered in shock then flew off quickly to look for the Guardians.
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The Guardians found themselves looking at a clearing full of children looking hopelessly for non-existent eggs. Memory-Bunny was looking at them with wide eyes behind a bush then leaped out to go meet them.
"There's nothing there. "One of the kids said sadly.
Bunny hopped up to them and tried to hand them one of his hastily painted eggs. "Yes there is! I mean, these aren't my best looking googies but they'll do the pinch!"
"I can't believe it," A little girl said with a sad frown.
Bunny laughed nervously. " Huh, yeah I know but-"
"There's no such thing as the Easter Bunny." The little girl concluded.
Bunny looked like he was panicking slightly. "What? No that's not true! What do you mean there's no such thing as-"
He abruptly stopped talking when a little boy walked pass him without a notice.
"They… They don't believe in me…" He whispered in shock and doubled over in hopelessness.
Bunny sighed sadly at the memory and Sandy patted his back, he had no idea that this had happened, no one told him. Maybe that was their big secret, or part of it.
Then they saw Jack looking at Bunny hunched over in the grass. He had this look of oh my gosh, this is all my fault in his eyes.
"Jack!" A thick Russian-accent voice said. "Where were you? The nightmares attacked the tunnels, they smashed every eggs, nothing made it to the surface, not one egg in one town." North said sadly.
"Jack!" Another voice said and Tooth rushed over, a few of her feathers falling to the ground. She looked relieved to see him safe but her smile turned into a confused frown when she saw what was in his hand. "Where did you get that?" She said, pointing to the memory case.
Jack looked like he wanted to explain but be didn't know how and he stumbled upon his words. "I was…It's…"
Tooth looked around in worry. "Where's Baby Tooth?" She pieced the puzzle together and her hands flew to her mouth in horror. "Oh Jack, what have you done?"
Sandy looked accusingly at her and she looked away, she regretted saying that to Jack without knowing what happened.
North frowned in understanding. "This is why you weren't here? You were with Pitch!" He exclaimed.
Jack tried to reason with them. "No listen! It isn't as it seems…"
"He has to go."
Jack looked dumb-struck. "What?"
Bunny glared at him. "We should never have trusted you!" He yelled.
Jack stumbled back, eyes gleaming with tears.
Sandy was now glaring at the three other Guardians who hung their head in shame; they didn't even let Jack explain what happened, they just assumed that he betrayed them. If they listened to him instead of yelling, a whole deal of trouble would have been dodged.
"Easter is new beginning, hope. And now it's gone." Bunny whispered brokenly at them then walked away.
Jack looked at the other Guardians but they mirrored Bunny's actions, they turned away from him.
The spirit of winter looked as if all of his dreams suddenly evaporated in thin air and that he didn't know what to do anymore. The Guardians didn't accept him, as he thought they would.
He fished North's wooden Baby out of his hoodie pocket and threw it on the ground, leaving the Guardians with a cold gust of winter wind, tears tracking down his cheeks.
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Well there you go! Sorry I left you guys again with a cliffy. I feel so bad! But I didn't know where to stop so I stopped there, and also I have a lot of homework and I wanted to post this before the week end. I hoped you liked it though, well there goes the excitement of my boring day and now I have to turn to math and French *sigh*. Those who don't have any homework for the week end, you guys are flipping lucky and I wish I was at you school. So Peace out!
Loks
