Thank you so much for the reviews! They made me super happy! This chapter may end up being short unless I think of something pretty awesome while writing. There is going to be some action in this chapter.

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Jack sighed and parked his car in the school's parking lot. Sammy had text him asking for a ride from his after school program. After a week of sitting in bed he was permitted to drive again thankfully. It meant Dylan didn't have to take his car to get Sammy. Dylan wasn't the best driver. Jack was still pretty weak though so Dylan had wanted to go with him, but someone had to watch Sophie and Jamie. Jack sighed and climbed out of his car.

"Jackson Bennett?" Jack turned to see Mr. Black standing behind him. "Feeling better?"

"Oh, yes sir." Jack said kind of smiling. "The doctor told my mom I'll be fit to go back to school on Monday. I'm just here to get my homework and Sammy today."

Sandy came over suddenly and waved at Jack motioning for him to get back in the car and leave.

"Don't worry Sammy." Jack said smiling. "I just have to go grab my books from my locker. Dylan neglected to bring them home for me once again."

Jack excused himself from his teacher and friend and went to go to his locker as quickly as he could. Pitch walked over to Sandy.

"I don't know how you managed to get in here or what you plan on doing, but you won't stop me in here." Pitch said smirking. "You're powerless here Sandy."

Sandy glared at him and tried to form his sand whips. He did not succeed fully. He had formed useless gold sand floating around him. Pitch laughed and formed his scythe. The two stood glaring at each other Sandy trying desperately to form any weapon that could help him.

"If it's a fight you want you got it." Pitch told him swinging the scythe at the boy. Sandy jumped as high as he could to avoid the attack. He managed to form a sand ball and decided it would have to do. He threw the sand at Pitch who laughed and ducked out of the way. Pitch continued to lash out with the scythe and Sandy started to grow tired from dodging all of the attack. He didn't miss all of them. Pitch had caught his left arm and right leg with the tip of the blade. Sandy collapsed to one leg breathing heavily. "Oh come now! You used to have such fight in you Sandy!"

"What's going on?" Jack asked standing in front of the two shocked. Seeing the blood seeping through his friends clothes he dropped his books. He went to rush to his friend's side but stopped. He looked at Pitch and the weapon in his hand. "Sammy! What's going on? Where did that scythe come from?"

"I've already explained to you what's going on Jack." Pitch said. "This is your nightmare and that's not the Sammy you know."

"What do you mean my nightmare? Aren't nightmares suppose to be bad?" Jack asked confused. "I just got sick so what? That is Sammy! You're just crazy."

"Nightmares can start off fine and well then mutate. Unfortunately this one is going to have to mutate a bit faster then I would have liked. I wanted to have a bit more fun here, but oh well." Pitch said still holding his black scythe. "That's the Sandman from your "dream world" Jack. All those dreams you've been having are actually memories of your real life. Sophie is the only one here whose nightmares are real."

"The evil horses!" Jack said eyes widening with fear.

"Ah the fear! Yes, those horses are heading to get your precious brother and sister right now Jack." Pitch sneered. "There's nothing you can do to stop them."

Jack looked at Sandy for some sort of sign that his teacher was lying and that his life was normal. Sandy just looked down sadly and nodded at Pitch's words. Pitch laughed and sent a blast of nightmare sand at the two.

With Jamie, Sophie, and Dylan.

"Bunny!" Sophie yelled frightened shaking the Australian boy who was sleeping on the couch.

"Sophie why are you trying to wake him up?" Jamie asked sleepily from the love seat.

"The bad sand horses are coming." Sophie said pointing outside. Jamie raised an eyebrow but stood up and looked out the window.

"What are those?" Jamie asked eyes wide fear showing in them.

"Nightmare horses!" Sophie said going back to trying to wake Dylan up.

"The ones you've been dreaming of?" Jamie asked confused. Still looking out the window.

"Yeah!" She said shaking Dylan's arm vigorously. "They hurt Jack! He won't wake up!"

"Jack's not sleeping Soph," Jamie said turning to see his sister giving him a no duh look. "Oh! You mean Dylan! You're not waking him up right. Stand back."

"What are you gonna do?" Sophie asked as Jamie launched himself on Dylan.

"Blimey! What's going on?" Dylan asked jumping up throwing Jamie to the floor. "I told you never to wake me up like that again!"

"You wouldn't wake up," Jamie said shrugging.

"Dylan! There are bad sand horses coming!" Sophie said pulling the older boy to the window by the sleeve.

"Let's get upstairs to my room ankle biters." Dylan guided the two upstairs as the sand horses crashed into the door. Seeping under the doors the were forming up again inside the house. "Faster mates!"

"Jamie, I'm scared!" Sophie said tears forming. "I want Jacky."

"He's coming Soph!" Both boys told her Dylan scooped her up and rushed to his room. He set Sophie down on the be and Jamie sat next to her comforting her. Dylan dug through a box until he found his boomerangs. He pulled them out and stood ready by the kids.

"Don't worry I will protect you two." He promised looking at the two as the first of the horses came into his room. He threw his boomerang and it exploded into sand the weapon came back to his hand and he easily caught it.

A line!

"Tooth! Sandy is missing!" North said worriedly.

"What how?" She asked surprised.

"He was here with Jack and now he is no where to be found!" North said frowning.

"I still haven't found any sign of Pitch!" Bunny said jumping up from one of his tunnels. "How's Frostbite doing?"

"I was about to go check up on him." Tooth told her fellow guardian.

"Sandy is also missing Bunny!" North said loudly bringing the conversation back to the original topic.

"Maybe he just had to go work?" Bunny said knowing that wasn't the case. "Can we check on Jack I have a really bad feeling."

They all went to the room Jack was in and Tooth gasped. Black sand was completely surrounding Jack's body and the boy's face was just visible. He looked like he was in terrible pain. Bunny swore and left the room. North and Tooth just stood there stunned.

"We have to fix this now!" Bunny yelled almost kicking several elves has he stormed out.

"Where are you going?" Tooth asked tearing her eyes away from Jack to look at Bunny's retreating form.

"Jamie fixed the nightmares the last time and turned them into good dreams maybe that's the answer!" Bunny said thumping the floor. A tunnel appeared and he disappeared without saying another word.

"North, we can't involve Jamie in this!" Tooth said to the man.

"I have failed Jack." North muttered still looking at the winter spirit.

"Don't you do that!" Tooth said slapping him hard across the face. The man looked at her stunned. "I'm sorry but we have not failed yet! He is still alive right there!"

"Yes but he shouldn't be in this situation!" North said sadly.

"But he is!" Tooth said angrily. "Right now all we can do is try and think of how to help him! Bunny went to get Jamie. Do you really think it's good for the boy to see Jack like this? It would be too traumatic for him!"

"What if he could help?" North asked. "I don't think it would endanger the boy to at least talk to Jack. He will not touch the sand until we figure out more about it."

"We need Sandy for that. This is his kinda of power." Tooth said sighing. "I don't agree with Jamie coming here and I don't think Jack would like it either."

With Jack and Sandy...

"NO!" Jack yelled throwing his hands up in front of himself squeezing his eyes shut. He braced himself for the pain and terror that should be coming.

"This isn't possible!" Pitch yelled angrily. Jack opened his eyes and gasped. In front of them was a huge frozen mass of black sand. Stunned Jack looked at Sandy. Sandy was just staring at Jack a shocked expression on his face. "You aren't suppose to have your powers here!"

"Snow?" Jack asked looking around himself as snow started to fall gently around them. "The kids!" Jack yelled forgetting about the snow and everything else for a minute. "We have to go Sandy!"

Sandy nodded and followed Jack to his car. They left an angry Pitch standing in front of the school. Jack left in such a hurry he left his books behind. Such a small thing, but details are everything. In one of his class folders was a picture of a slightly younger Jack with Jamie and Sophie. Pitch smirked and laughed he knew he would have access to the two in a little bit when the Australian got tired. He could feel the fear from the dream form of Bunny. It was wonderful.

Jack and Sandy rushed home. Jack wasn't driving as careful as he should and almost got into several accidents. That didn't matter though he had to get to his house. He had to get to his siblings and save them. He was getting tired though horribly tired. He was suppose to be taking it easy. Nothing today had been easy and relaxing for him.

"How did I make the sand freeze?" Jack asked the short blonde boy. Sandy did not have the means to explain it to him. "Was what he saying true? Is this just a nightmare? Am I really just asleep somewhere?"

Sandy nodded to all of the questions. He was glad Jack had thought to ask yes or no questions instead of complicated answer questions. As they pulled on to Jack's street both boys stopped and stared in horror at the house. It was surrounded by black sand horses.

"Jamie! Sophie!" Jack yelled throwing the car in park and jumping out. "Dylan!"

"Jack?" They heard a shout from the second floor window. Jamie's head popped up and he beamed upon seeing his brother. "Jack! I knew you would come!"

"I'm here bud don't worry!" Jack yelled a few of the horses turned and started towards them.

"Jack!" Jamie yelled worriedly.

Pitch appeared suddenly in the shadows outside the front door of the Bennett's house. He mockingly waved at Jack before going inside. Jack yelled out in rage and got back in his car. He threw it in drive and cleared a path to the door the horses exploded upon impact with the front of the car. Jack climbed out and ran into the house. Sandy was following close behind.

"Pitch!" Jack yelled throwing Dylan's door open angrily. He stopped when he saw the seen in front of him.

Dylan was on the floor in a heap. There was a small pool of blood by him. Sophie was unconscious on the ground next to him. Jack sighed in relief at the fact there were no visible injuries to her. The thing that scared him the most was Pitch standing in front of him holding a knife to Jamie's throat. Jamie was crying looking at him with pleading eyes that broke his heart.

"Let him go!" Jack said through clenched teeth. He made to move further into the room, but Pitch stopped him pressing the knife further against Jamie's throat. A small trail of blood flowed down Jamie's neck.

"Jack help." Jamie cried.

"What do you want Pitch?" Jack asked desperately.

"I want to be believed in! I want to have kids know who I am!" The man yelled. "I want what you wanted! You got it why can't I?"

"Your doing it wrong!" Jack said frowning. "Jamie believed in me because he wanted to not because he was forced into if by fear!"

Sandy looked at Jack confused. Was he starting to remember who he really is? Pitch lowered the knife slightly then stopped looking around him sadly.

"Fear and darkness are all I know thanks to the fearlings." Pitch said quietly. In an instant before Jack could react Pitch threw the knife at him.

"NO!" Someone in the room shouted and there was a sicking thump of the knife sticking into a body. Jack fell to the floor holing his shoulder. Blood was pooling into his hand. The knife was stuck in his right upper shoulder.

"Don't worry about the girl. I couldn't bring myself to hurt her she's just sleeping." Pitch told him.

"Jack!" Jamie yelled as Pitch vanished with him.

"Jamie!" Jack cried out jumping up ignoring the pain running at the spot where Pitch just was. "Jamie! No!"

"Jack?" A voice asked weakly from the other side of the room.

"Dylan!" Jack yelled rushing over to his friend's side.

"I'm sorry mate. I couldn't protect them." Dylan said pulling a hand away from his stomach wincing when it came back red with blood.

"You did your best." Jack said as his friend faded away. Jack choked back a sob and went to Sophie's side. "Little fairy please wake up?"

"Jacky?" She asked timidly. "Why is your hair white?"

"What?" Jack asked getting up and looking in the mirror. Sure enough he had snow white hair and bright blue eyes. Whether from the blood he lost or shock Jack fainted.

Bunny, North, and Tooth...

Jamie ran into the room Jack was in as soon as he got to the North Pole.

"Jack?" Jamie asked cautiously. He had been told by North he was not allowed to touch Jack. He was just to try talking to him.

"Jamie!" Jack cried out in his sleep.

"Tooth! North! He said my name!" The boy said excitedly. He turned back to Jack. "Jack, I'm sorry about what happened! I didn't mean to start an argument with you!"

"Wait Jamie when did you and Jack get in this argument?" Tooth asked suddenly.

"A couple weeks ago why?"

"That's when Jack started acting funny. Then Bunny found him unconscious." Tooth explained. "I think your argument might help us figure out what happened!"

Okay so it's kinda a long chapter... Please leave me reviews! I love hearing from you all it really helps me think of new ideas!