Danny stopped the globe a few minutes later. He frowned in thought. He floated into the air and circled the globe slowly.
"Do me a favour? This was where Pitch started right?" Danny called and pointed to a town in Europe. North edged closer and nodded.
"Yes, how did you know that?" North replied.
"Because that's where I spoke with Pitch before I went on my unwanted vacation," Danny answered and floated through the air around the globe before stopping by a city in Russia. He tapped the clump of lights and checked the name of the city.
"And I've found where Pitch will hit next," Danny announced.
"Wait! How? Please don't vanish again," Jack quickly asked. Danny looked at Jack and grinned.
"It's called teleporting. But I figured it out. He's hitting as many towns or cities he can at night. Night time is a scarier time for most kids. He'll probably go back to those few lights he missed on Hallowe'en. He'll be able to frighten them easier then. So I figured out where he started and using astronomy I figured out which towns or cities Pitch could reach in a night," Danny explained.
"So Pitch threatened you. What changed?" Bunny recalled. Danny landed gently on the ground.
"He didn't threaten me Bunny. He made a deal with me. One I had to agree to to protect a few kids I've been working with," Danny replied. Jack, North and Sandy stepped closer to Danny, curious. Bunny kept his distance and Tooth and Jamie remained where they were. Tooth telling Jamie what Danny was saying.
"So what was this deal?" Bunny prompted. Danny sighed.
"Tooth, might want to stop saying what I'm saying. This will just frighten Jamie," Danny warned. Tooth turned to Danny and gave him a concerned look.
"Do you know how influential fear can be on kids? Fear can stop children being who they are. It can stop them believing in you guys, which I think is what Pitch is doing. Fear is a dangerous thing. And Pitch has enough control over it to focus it enough to scare a child to death. Pitch told me that if I didn't back off, he'd frighten the kids I work with to death. So I backed off. But I told him if any child got hurt because I wasn't there. I'd come back," Danny explained. Danny turned to Tooth.
"Your call if you tell Jamie that but Diana, his friend, was one of the kids Pitch mentioned," Danny called.
The guardians stared at him in shock.
"If that's all your questions, I'm burning moonlight. I should really go after Pitch," Danny broke the silence.
"Wait, Pitch beat you last time," Jack reminded him. Danny raised an eyebrow.
"You think that Pitch won that? He ran away scared. Trust me, he may have thrown the last blow but I won that exchange," Danny informed them.
"Pitch was afraid of you?" Bunny scoffed. Danny folded his arms and glowered at Bunny.
"Says the kangaroo sized rabbit that can't look at me without shaking with fear?" Danny growled. Bunny snarled angrily at Danny and took out a boomerang.
"Bunny!" Tooth warned.
"No, let him come if he wants. But he might want to check the chapter on Pariah Dark before picking a fight with me. I still have my ghost powers despite being a magical being now. And I'm not afraid to use them," Danny advised. Jack noticed the veiled farewell and he jumped onto Danny as he teleported away, bringing Jack along with him.
Everyone blinked in shock, Jamie since Jack just disappeared for no apparent reason, the guardians since Danny vanished with Jack in a puff of green mist.
"Ha, good. He's running scared," Bunny bluffed. Everyone left raised a disbelieving eyebrow at him.
"We have to go after him," Tooth decided and turned to North as he pulled out a snow globe.
"I want this place cleaned up by the time I get back," North shouted to his elves and yetis.
"My sleigh," North muttered to the snow globe and threw it into the air where it exploded into a white swirling portal and they stepped through. Bunny reluctantly getting on the sleigh and Jamie refusing to go home. Giving in to the teen, North shook the reins and the reindeer ran forward and took the sleigh and its passengers into the sky. North pulled out another snow globe and shook it, his words lost to the wind and threw the snow globe in front of him and the sleigh vanished in the sky through the resulting portal.
Yeah, not much to say really… let me know what you guys think.
Until the next chapter.