...
"Really?" Izzy and Martha asked. This was an odd turn of events, but they did miss home.
Bunny looked upset at this, as he stood and went over to North, "What about-" But North just held his hand up and walked over to the girls. "So... Ready to head back home?"
Martha and Izzy exchanged glances and then smiled, "Yes."
...
North had taken the girls back to Izzy's house. With him were all the guardians to say their goodbyes.
Bunny and Jack were particularly upset to see their new friends leave.
"I'm gonna miss you guys..." Izzy frowned and Martha agreed.
Jack smiled with a hint of sadness in his smile, "Don't worry Izzy... We'll still be near."
"Yeah," Bunny nodded, "We gotta make sure Pitch wont bother you anymore."
The girls were at the least a bit happy because of that. They hugged and the Guardians were soon gone.
As they left, Izzy and Martha covered themselves with leaves and dirt, prepared to tell their parents they had gotten lost.
Once the family was united, things started to calm down a bit.
Pitch hadn't shown up much and signs of him had seemingly vanished. That didn't mean he was gone, though...
The girls even had their own guardians to protect them. Even as time passed and signs of Pitch had gone, the two guardians still like to hang with the girls. Jack would visit Izzy and he always talked about her meeting Jamie. In fact, Jack would go back and forth between seeing Izzy and Jamie.
Bunny, on the other hand, liked to bring some eggs over to Martha's and paint with her in an old storage building she had. They shared lots of laughs and interest and grew closer the more Martha got older.
Whenever Martha would go over to Izzy's house, the two would head out to tree hallway, which is Izzy's and Martha's little hide out, and hang out with their new friends. They also introduced one of their friends to the two guardians, however, she favored Tooth than Jack and Bunny.
...
3 years later,
"So, Bunny, what should the background color be for this painting I'm doing?" Martha asked as she held up a blank canvas.
"Depends on what ya want ta' paint on it." Bunny shrugged as he worked on some new designs on a practice egg.
They were currently at tree hallway, waiting for Izzy, Emma, and Jack to come back from their little hike. Emma was Izzy and Martha's friend they had met two years before.
"Hmm..." Martha hummed in thought, "I'll just do purple, because that's-" "Your favorite color." Bunny finished for her with a chuckle. She said that all the time and Bunny could literally repeat that sentence for her.
As the two began laughing, the northern lights appeared. Bunny looked up and then to Martha.
"Whats wrong?" Martha asked as she looked up and nothing was there.
"Northern lights.. Usually means somethings wrong..." Bunny stood up and put the egg he had away. "We gotta get going... See ya later, Martha." Bunny smiled and opened up a hole in the ground with a tap of his foot. He hopped in and headed to the pole.
Jack wasn't too far behind, he had taken Emma and Izzy back to where Martha was.
"We'll be back girls." Jack said and waved goodbye as the wind took him to the pole.
Martha looked at Emma and Izzy then shrugged, "Hope everythings alright... So what should we do now?"
Emma smirked, "Lets do something they wouldn't want us to do."
Izzy nodded, "Yeah we can go and walk around in the woods as it gets darker and hope nothing tall and dressed in a black robe catches us while our guardians aren't around."
Martha and Emma looked to Izzy and paused for a second before smiling and agreeing, "Okay!" So Martha packed up her stuff and Izzy led the way deeper into the woods.
...
"Alright, North, whats the problem?" Jack flew in as he watched Bunny hop over to the fire.
North frowned, "Pitch is back."
Bunny and Jack frowned as well. They saw Tooth talking with the her baby tooths in order to keep tabs on her palace and Sandy was checking the globe with the Yetis.
"Then we need to head back to the girls and-"
"He's not going after girls." North said as he looked at the globe. The one light that stayed on when the guardians needed someone to believe in them the most, was flickering.
"Jamie!" Jack was gone in a flash and the guardians weren't too far behind.
...
The girls noticed the clouds were getting darker, which added to the atmosphere around the girls. Something was about to happen.. only it wasn't in their location.
Izzy looked to Martha as she looked up at the clouds, "Do you think this has to do with the guardians?"
"The weather didn't say anything about it being cloudy or anything..." Martha frowned, "Lets get back home and use that snow globe North gave us... They might need our help."
Izzy and Emma nodded and they began making their way back to Izzy's home.
...
Once at Jamie's house, Jack flew to his window to check on him. He wasn't in his room and neither was Sophie in hers.
The wind carried Jack around town looking for his first believer. Only, he found Pitch instead.
"What have you done with Jamie?!" Jack growled with anger.
Pitch was standing in the middle of the street and he had a smirk on his face, "What are you looking at me for? I don't have him"
Jack shot ice at Pitch and he dodged it, "Not this time, Frost." Pitch took out his scythe ready to take out Jack when Sandy came in with his dream whips and yanked Pitch back.
Tooth flew in with Sandy as Nightmares started to appear. Some went for Jack as his back was turned and she rammed into them, making them disappear. "Thanks Tooth!"
Bunny jumped off North's sleigh as it flew over and threw his boomerangs to a few Nightmares.
Pitch rubbed his head and looked up at Sandy who had his arms crossed. The nightmare King stood back up and frowned at Sandy, "Youre not going to stop me this time, Sandman."
Sandy got his whips ready and Pitch got his arrows ready. Pitch and Sandy circled each other for a moment then Sandman made the first move.
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