Thank you so much for the reviews! I really appreciate you guys taking the time to let me know how I'm doing.
I know this can be kinda confusing at times and I really plan on pulling it all together at the end. Hopefully everything will make sense in a couple chapters. Also I laughed when I read that some of you get excited when you see A LINE! Mainly because I do too when I see it in stories. It seems like something thrilling is going to happen!
Disclaimer: Still don't own Rise of the Guardians... There is something from the books in this chapter. I don't own those either.
Jack was angrily pacing around the room. He had to get his brother back. He had to figure out what was going on. Sandy had woken him up after he fainted and fixed his arm up the best he could. He knew he should go to the hospital and get his shoulder looked at, but he had more pressing matters to deal with.
Sighing Jack looked around the room. Sophie was huddled next to Dylan's motionless body with Sandy sitting beside her comforting her. Jack looked away from that part of the room tears forming in his eyes again. He couldn't believe Dylan was gone. It was impossible.
"Damn it!" Jack yelled punching the wall.
Sandy put a hand on Sophie's shoulder before getting up and going over to his friend.
"What is going on?" Jack asked angrily. "Why did my teacher attack me? Why is Dylan-" He couldn't finish that sentence it hurt too much to admit his friend was actually gone. "Why is my hair white and my eyes blue?"
Sighing Sandy picked up and pen and paper. He started to write. He wrote down everything Jack would need to know. While he was writing Jack pulled Sophie into his arms and tried to comfort the sobbing girl the best he could. She was clinging to his blood stained hoodie desperately. He was going to have to add tear stains to the ruined hoodie as well as blood. Sandy handed the note to Jack.
First things first. Pitch is not your teacher he is the king of nightmares. Pitch some how sent you here into this nightmare. In reality you are laying unconscious in the North Pole in North's workshop. I noticed the black sand swirling around you and tried to stop it with my gold dream sand. In doing so I some how got pulled into your nightmare. Dylan is dead because it would hurt you and cause fear in you and your younger siblings.
They are not really your siblings though. You're hair turned white and eyes blue because you are Jack Frost. You are the winter spirit. You had a sister that you died saving. You fell in to a frozen pond when you were a human and drowned. You managed to push her to safety though. You are a guardian.
"If this is my nightmare I have to have some sort of control to it right?" Jack asked. "I want Dylan alive and well again. Even if this is a nightmare I need my friend! I need his help with keeping Sophie safe."
How do you plan on changing the fact he's dead?
"I believe!" Sophie muttered quietly. "Like in the books."
"Would that work?" Jack asked Sandy.
It has in the past.
"Then I believe." Jack and Sophie continued to say the two words over and over again until a weird shadow surrounded Dylan and he gasped.
"Dylan?"
"Bunny!" Sophie yelled jumping out of her brother's arms and running over to the taller boy.
"Not quite." Dylan said smirking grabbing Sophie in his arms. "Nice try though."
"Who are you?" Jack asked angrily jumping up. Sandy stood right next to him ready to fight.
"I'm a fearling. One Pitch thought he had control over." It laughed. "I'm going to destroy you and you." He pointed at the two boys. "When I'm done I'm going to destroy Pitch."
"Whatever just put Sophie down!" Jack said almost exasperatedly. Everyone here seemed to want to destroy him or his family. It was tiring "I will fight you and if you destroy me fine. Just let her go!"
"Fine," The fearling let her go and she went to go run back to Jack. "No no no little one." He said snapping his fingers Sophie fell to the ground tied up with black sand rope. "Just you and me Frosty!"
Sandy noticed Jack's staff had some how materialized into the room right next to the window. Jack must be remembering more of who he really was and realized he needed it. Jack casually walked over to the wooden object and picked it up. Smirking at the fearling he used the hook to grab Sophie and pulled her to him. With her in his arms he grabbed the neck of Sandy's shirt and jumped through the window.
"Wind!" Jack yelled and the wind was suddenly helping them taking them away from the fearling.
A line! Jamie in North's workshop...
"Jamie what was the argument about?" Tooth asked the boy.
"It was stupid!" Jamie said angrily. "I don't feel like talking about it!"
"Mate it could help us understand what happened to Jack." Bunny told him.
"He was fine when he left!" Jamie said shrugging. "Upset but fine."
"Upset is not fine Jamie." North said putting a hand on the boy's shoulder. "Did you say something that upset him?"
"I said I hated him." Jamie muttered so low they almost didn't hear him. He was so mad at himself for saying it.
"Why?" Tooth asked shocked.
"A few years ago my dad died in a car crash." Jamie said looking at his shoes. "Sophie was too young to understand and the other day she asked what happened to dad. He hit some ice and lost control of his car. He ran into a semi. He was dead before anyone got on scene."
"Oh honey." Tooth said hugging the boy.
"Jack makes ice and snow." Bunny said and Jamie nodded pushing away from Tooth.
"I don't hate him!" He cried. "I was upset. I know it was an accident and that Jack couldn't have even done anything to stop it from happening. I think he was afraid I was going to stop believing in him."
"That would be a very powerful fear." North said sighing and frowning.
"This is all my fault then?" Jamie asked looking at each of them.
"It was an accident Jamie." Bunny said. "It's Pitch's fault not yours."
"He would have anything to be afraid of if we hadn't of argued!" Jamie protested.
"Friend's fight," Bunny said simply. "Jack and I do all the time. Now why don't you go and sit with Jack. Try talking to him I think he can still hear you."
"Alright." Jamie muttered and walked into Jack's room.
"That has to be how Pitch was powerful enough to beat Jack." Tooth said sadly.
"I think Sandy is in Jack's nightmare as is Pitch." North said patting his belly. "I feel it in my-"
"Mate if you finish that I'm going to knock you out with my boomerang." Bunny threatened. "Let's go talk to MiM. Maybe he will finally help us."
Jamie sat down in the chair next to Jack. He looked at the older boy and frowned. He sniffled slightly and using his sleeve cleared all the tears off his face. Bunny had said to talk to Jack, but he didn't know what to say. He looked around the room sadly.
"This room is really dull." Jamie said looking at the bare walls. "You need some pictures or posters. Maybe some frost bunnies and eggs."
Jamie looked back at Jack. The black sand swirling around him looked so wrong and out of place. Jack deserved gold sand and good dreams. Jamie thought of when his friend and him helped stop Pitch before. All the nightmares turned to gold sand when they touched them. Maybe the black sand was the same?
"Bunny said not to though." Jamie said pulling his hand away from his friend. He was lucky the guardians even told him anything was wrong with Jack. He shouldn't ruin it by disobeying them. "If it helps it wouldn't matter though!" Mustering up his courage and banishing all fear from himself he took a deep breath and touched Jack's shoulder.
ANOTHER LINE!
Pitch had a horrible feeling in his stomach. Something was not right here. He couldn't figure out what though. He dropped Jamie to the floor unceremoniously. They were at his class room because he had no where else to go in this world. Something else he forgot to handle. Things just escalated so quickly here.
"Hey!" Jamie yelled annoyed. "Your going to be sorry when Jack gets here!"
"Quiet boy!" Pitch said running a hand across his face. "I'm trying to handle something!"
"You killed Dylan!" Jamie yelled upset. "Why would you do that?"
"I-I didn't mean to! Things just got out of hand!" Pitch said clearly upset about that.
"You stabbed him! You had a knife to my throat!" Jamie said trying to figure out how that wasn't meaning to do something.
"I wouldn't have hurt him normally!" Pitch said desperately trying to get Jamie to understand that. "I have no idea what came over me!"
"I do!" They both looked over to the door and saw Jack standing there. Sophie in his arms still tied up with the black sand and Sandy right next to him.
"What?" Pitch asked confused. "Why is she tied up?"
"One of the fearlings took over Dylan's body. He tied her up." Jack said frowning. "Untie her!"
"Of course!" Pitch said snapping his fingers. The sand disappeared.
"Thank you bad man." Sophie muttered.
"The fearling wants to destroy Sandy, you, and me." Jack told Pitch as he set Sophie down. She ran over to Jamie who hugged her tight.
"I didn't mean for this to happen!" Pitch said desperately. "I was upset! I deserve to have someone believe in me too!"
"You're right Pitch." Jack said simply. "I know how it feels to have people walk through you and ignore you. Fear won't get you believers though."
"It's my power though!" Pitch said sadly looking at his hands. "I give nightmares."
"Which are necessary!" Jack said to him leaning against his staff. "They just don't have to be so bad where they are actually harming the person."
"Things just move so fast!" Pitch said frowning. "I don't always control it."
Jack was about to say something when there was a loud crash from behind Jack and Sandy. It knocked Jack to the ground and Sandy was thrown across the room. Dylan laughed and picked Jack up by the neck.
"This was so much easier then I thought it would be!" He laughed squeezing Jack's windpipe.
"Leave him alone!" Pitch yelled forming his sand scythe.
"Pitch, you can't possibly think you can beat me?" Dylan asked laughing. He dropped Jack who fell to his knees coughing just barely conscious now. Dylan strode past him and towards Pitch a sword forming in his hands. "I've been a part of you since the beginning!"
"I'm well aware of that," Pitch said through clenched teeth.
"Alrighty then!" Dylan said swinging his sword at Pitch.
The fight was intense as the two used there black weapons against each other. Every so often on of them would throw some other sort of sand weapon into the fray. Pitch was swinging the scythe with fierce determination. He was not landing any of his blows. Dylan was so fast and he was very skilled in dodging. Dylan swung his sword at Pitch once more and as Pitch blocked the attack Dylan threw a sand knife into his exposed side. Screaming Pitch clutched his side as the sand disappeared. Pitch looked up at Sandy and Jack who were now next to each other and swallowed.
"I'm sorry!" He yelled to them. Dylan swung at Pitch again. The nightmare king dodged most of the attack the tip of the sword caught his cheek though. Blood started to run down his face.
"Don't look at them!" Dylan roared. "We are fighting not you and them!"
"I'm losing anyway why do you care!" Pitch yelled he turned towards the two guardians. "Wake up Jack!"
Jack felt funny. He had no idea how to describe how he felt. He watched as the walls started to disappear around them. Sandy was gone and no longer beside him. All the furniture destroyed or not began to disappear. Jack looked over at Sophie and Jamie.
"Jack!" They yelled. He ran to them kneeling in front of them hugging them tightly. He felt Sophie vanish. She was there one second and gone in another.
"Jack I don't hate you!" Jamie cried. He was getting fuzzy it was like watching a television with bad reception. "You need to wake up!"
"Don't go Jamie!" Jack yelled at the boy, but it was too late he was gone already. Jack turned and looked at Pitch. "What's happening?"
"Don't be afraid Jack." Pitch said grabbing his shoulder. He still had a hand on his bleeding side. "You're waking up!"
Dylan's body began to vanish and a shadow was left standing there. It was angry. Jack didn't know how he knew that, but he did. It rushed at Jack and Pitch. Pitch gave Jack a good shove causing the boy to start to fall to the ground. He saw the shadow rush into Pitch and the nightmare king doubled over in pain. Jack was about to hit the ground when he suddenly sat up gasping and looking around.
"Jack?" A small voice asked frightened.
"Where... where am I?" Jack asked calming himself down.
"You're at the North Pole." Jack looked over and saw Jamie sitting next to him and Sandy standing there looking at him. "Go get the others Sandy!"
"Jamie." Jack said smiling at the boy. Sandy left the room to get the other guardians.
"I'm so sorry Jack!" Jamie cried. "I don't hate you!"
"I know bud." Jack said hugging him.
Holy moly two chapters within two days I'm on a roll! Any who let me know what you think about this there is going to be one maybe two more chapters of this then it is finished. I like the idea of Pitch being a not so bad guy. I feel as though he's just strongly misunderstood. Anyway! Please review! Thank you for reading!