I DON'T OWN ANYTHING!
Taina POV
If he lays a single finger on her I will kill him. I can't stand to see her go through what I just did. All I felt was pure pain and agony. Like knives stabbing into my skin. No, I won't let him hurt my daughter. I know what he put her through all these years. I had to watch him abuse her right after I died. I wish I could've done something.
I'm just glad she had Jack with her. I love Jack like my own son. His mom and I were great friends when we were kids. When we put Jack and Crystal together, they wouldn't leave each others sides. When we would separate them they would start crying their eyes out. We actually made a bet that they would get together. I said they would by 18(Technically they did, so I won the bet). She said they would by 14. I know he would protect her with his life. If he walked in on Rick abusing her, no doubt he would jumped in and take the blow.
"I'm gonna go work in the back. Sweet nightmares." Rick said as he left the room. Oh thank goodness. I can't stand to see his face anymore. And to think I once loved him.
"I seriously doubt that," I mumbled. Now's my time to escape. I closed my eyes and started to concentrate. Suddenly, the chains started glowing blue and they turned into ash. I've been waiting for the right time ever since 300 years ago. And now that Rick's plan is done, I need to go.
I stood up and started flying to the roof. I went straight through it. I closed my eyes and took in the moonlight. "Manny, please help her through this. I know I can't protect her from everything, but I can at least try. When Rick comes, I know she'll be in pain. Help me make up for all the years that I wasn't there for her. When I died life only got harder for her. If it wasn't for Jack I don't know what she would've done. I don't know why you took Jack's life. But help him too. If Rick kills Jack, she will be lost. She won't know what to do. She'll lose all hope for living. She'll lose the meaning in life. She'll give into the pain. There was once a time where I loved Rick. If he died at that time I would react the same way. I would probably kill myself. Please protect her! Give her the strength she needs. Please..."
Suddenly, I saw something. It was Jack. He was in massive pain. I heard Crystal's screams in the back round and the evil laugh of Rick. Is that happening now? No it can't be. Rick's in his Lair. "Was that a vision?"
"Yes. Go to the North Pole and warn them."I heard. Heh, I think that's the most I've ever heard him talk.
And so I did.
I didn't see anybody when I got there. Though that didn't mean that nobody was there. I laughed at the Yeti's making the toys. They didn't try to kick me out, for they have known me for quite a while. Instead, they welcomed me.
"Hey, Phil. It's nice to see you too. Do you know where North is? It's an emergency." He immediately took my hand and led me to some room. He opened the door and I chuckled at what I saw. North was sitting there, eating a cookie, while carving a toy train out of ice. He hasn't changed a bit. The only difference is that he has more wonder filled in his eyes.
"Anything new, North?" His head shot up at the sound of my voice. "Taina?" He asked in his thick, russian, accent.
"The one and only!" In a blink of an eye he was engulfing me in a bone-crushing hug.
"I haven't seen you in 300 years! How are ya'?" Same ol' North.
"I'm well. And judging by your jolly attitude, I'd say you are too." He chuckled but then got a worried look on his face.
"Where have you been?" I sighed and turned toward the door.
"Gather the guardians and Crystal."
Crystal POV
"Crystal get back here!" Jack laughed as he chased me. I giggled. In case your wondering, I did NOT take his staff. I asked if I could touch it and he said, "No touchie!"
According to him, he's trying to get back at me for making the snow drop on him...and the water balloon...and the other various times that I hit him with something...Nothing personal.
"Got'Cha!" Jack exclaimed as he wrapped his arms around me from behind and spun around. I gave a small shriek and laughed. "Jack! Let me go of me if you want to live." I'm finally able to sound threatening! Yay me!
"I'm already dead." He whispered in my ear, making me go all mushy on the insides.
"I know. It was worth a shot," Yay, I got a full sentence out! We've been together for not even a day and we're already this close. Is that good or bad?
"Brings back old memories, doesn't it?" He said. I turned around so I was pressed closely against him. He wrapped his hands around the small of my back and leaned forward so our foreheads were touching.
"Yep. Now kiss me if you want to live." He chuckled.
"Your wish is my command, Cryssy." In a blink of an eye, his lips were on mine. I kissed back. He brought his hand up and caressed my cheek while his other hand pulled me closer. Before we knew it, we were making out. Oh, how I love our no need for air!
A couple minutes later, he pulled away. "Northern Lights." He mumbled. I turned around and saw the northern lights.
"Wow. Now I know why you didn't wanna be a guardian. I mean, they're all hard work and deadlines. You're snowballs and fun times. It just doesn't make sense." I grumbled and shook my head. Jack laughed. "If you were a guardian, you would understand." Wha-?
"Don't go acting like you know EVERYTHING about guardians."
"I'm not."
"Sure."
"Come on!" He took off. I followed.
"Okay, North, what do you want this time?" Jack groaned as we flew into the globe room. Wow, I've never seen this room before. I looked at the big globe. On the globe was a billion dazzling lights. Wait, wait, Jack told me about this! Each light represented a believer...
Bunny, Sandy, and Tooth were already there. Sandman was just looking around, confuzzled. While Tooth was giving orders to her little fairies and Bunny was painting an egg. Baby Tooth flew right over to me. "Hey Toothie." I greeted her. She chirped something that sounded like a 'Hi'.
"Pain?" North asked someone. Wait, what pain?
"What's going on? Who's in pain?" I asked. Everybody turned around and looked at me. Jack and Bunny were already in a fight. But something caught my eye.
"Mom? You're...Taina?" I gasped. It was her!
"Yes, Crystal. It's me. I see you still have the neckla-" I interrupted her by flying into her arms and hugging her. I haven't seen her in 312 years(Sorry if I got the math wrong. I imagine that Taina died when Crystal was 6)!
"Mom! It's you. Oh my goodness. I missed you so much! I thought you were dead...too!"
"I missed you too, sweetheart. Aren't we all dead?" She laughed. I laughed, too.
"Where have you been? Why am I only seeing you now?" Her face fell. All joy and laughter, gone.
"That's actually what I'm here for. Everybody, listen up!" I turned around and saw Bunny and Jack fighting about something. All I heard was 'Kangaroo'. Ya' know what? I actually think I know why they're fighting.
"Jack, stop." He turned towards me and bowed his head like a scared, little, puppy and flew over to me.
"Yes, Cryssy. Oh, hey Taina. Wait, TAINA? What are you doing here?" He asked, surprised.
"Nice to see you too, Jack." She laughed and ruffled his hair. He gently swatted her hand away.
"Taina! You know I hate it when you do that!" He grumbled and crossed his arms, the sad puppy gone.
"Yes I do. Now, as to why I'm here...Crystal, it's your father. He's back. He's been keeping me hostage for 300 years. I could have escaped, but I didn't. I knew he was up to something so I stayed to find out his plan. All the children in the world are in danger." I froze. He's back? Jack's fist held onto his staff tighter.
Bunny looked at us, a look of anger and confusion on his face, "Back? What do you mean 'Back'? Who's her father? Is it Pitch?" Pitch...as my dad? No, just no.
"No! Pitch is NOT my dad, nor will he ever be!" Insert shudder here. I continued, "Rick is my dad. He is the one that killed me. He abused me as a human. And, apparently, he's back."
Tooth was shocked, "You mean, the one that killed you in your memory, is here?" I nodded. Jack stepped up.
"Come on guys! We've taken down Pitch Black for crying out loud! Rick can't be any worse!"
"Oh he's 10 times worse." My mom piped in. Gee thanks, mom.
"Jack's right. Sure, rick is 10 times worse, but we're stronger! Tooth has her little fairy armies, Sandy has his dreamsand, Bunny has his boomerangs and his exploding eggs, North has his swords, Jack has his staff, hopefully Rick won't break it, and I have my, uh, my ice powers? I guess...Anyway, we can win this fight! Who's with me?"
"I'm in." Jack said immediately after I stopped talking.
"I'm in. Anyway, you can't fight him without my help." My mom has a point.
"I'm in!" North said, excitedly and took out his swords.
"I'm in!" Tooth said.
Sandy made a thumbs up appear above his head. I looked over to Bunny. "Bunny?"
"Anything to protect the children." He took out his boomerang.
"Yay! Now mom, what's Rick's weapon?" I asked. She looked down. It can't be good.
"Pain. He has his crossbow thing that causes pain. If he shoots you, you get thrown into a pit of misery. I've been shot a total of 56 times in 300 years. But that's not his only weapon. If he looks you in the eye, he makes you see what you never want to see. Whether it actually happened or not. In my case, it's seeing Crystal in pain or dying."
Pain? Well it makes sense after what he put me through as a human. He makes you see what you never want to see. In my case, that's seeing JACK in pain or dieing...again. No, I can't afford to think like that. I WON'T let him hurt Jack. If he kills him, he kills me.
Taina continued, "His plan is to kill all of you and put everybody in pain in misery..." The children..pain and misery...
My eyes turned red. My nails dug into the palms of my hands. Red dust took over my wings and my dress as I flew higher off the ground.
"Oh no, not again." Jack groaned.
"What's going on?" North, Taina, Tooth, and Bunny asked. Jack flew up and touched my waist, gently. The part that he touched turned back to normal.
"Wait a minute..." Jack said in wonder. He grabbed the back of my head and pulled me into a passionate kiss. Suddenly, my body suddenly turned back to normal. My eyes turned blue again while the red dust disappeared. I was brought back into the real world. I heard Tooth squeal in the backround.
"What's he doing? This is no time for kissing!" Bunny said in anger.
"He's turning her back." North said to Bunny.
All to soon, he pulled away. "You okay, Cryssy?" He asked, worryingly.
"I-I think so." I'm not really sure if I am okay. I mean, if we screw up just a little bit, the world could be a goner.
"Hey, Taina? Any chance you know how to help Crystal with her little protective problem?" Jack asked my mom.
"Hmm I can try something. We'll try it tomorrow, it's pretty late. Tomorrow's a big day."
I couldn't sleep. Not that I needed to. Though sometimes it's nice to get some sleep. I changed out of the dress that Tooth gave me to a light blue, knee-length, one shoulder dress that had a little string belt around the waist. I also took my hair out of the ponytail and just left it loose.
I found myself sitting on the edge of a cliff that overlooked the city of Burgess. I needed some place to calm down. I'm still a little freaked out by what happened earlier. I mean, I just found out that the world is in danger and it's up to me, my mom, and all the other guardians to save it. All of us against buckets of pain...fun...
This is all just too much.
"Hey, you okay?" I heard from behind me. I already knew who it was. Jack came over, sat beside me, and pulled me into his chest.
"No, I'm not okay. Everyone's in danger because of me! Everyone on this planet could be in pain because of me! You and all the other guardians could die beca-becau-" I couldn't finish what I was saying before I burst into tears. Jack just held me and whispered soothing things in my ear. "I-I-I j-just can't s-stand the th-th-thought of you d-di-dieing b-b-because of me!"
"Aw, Cryssy! I'm not going anywhere. This isn't all because of you. Just because he's your dad, doesn't mean that it's your fault." He soothed.
"Y-yes it does! T-this is m-my f-fight, not y-y-yours!"
"He made it my fight the second he killed you! Crystal, I love you more than anything else on this planet. I'm not just gonna sit here as he hurts you wherever he is! I'm NOT saying that you're weak and that you can't take care of yourself. But let's face it, we both know that we're both gonna get hurt, somehow, " He took a breath to calm down,
"I'm not gonna let him hurt you, Cryssy. I would rather die than see him hurt you." Well we're not gonna let that happen, are we?
"You can't die. That would just hurt me more." I whimpered. He chuckled.
"I said I would RATHER die than see him hurt you. If he hurts you, I'm not just gonna go kill myself. Does that make sense(A/N Seriously, does that make sense? And if it does, can you please explain it to me? I don't get it. It just sounds right. -Scarlett)?
"Yes it makes sense...sorta." I giggled.
A couple more minutes later, nobody has said anything. Jack decided to break the silence.
"I love you. You know that, right?"
"I love you more."
"I seriously doubt it."
Those last words may have just sounded cliché to anybody else...
But they meant the world to me.
FUTURE STORIES!
A RotG version of 'Brave'. Crystal will be Merida. HUMAN CRYSTAL! Jack will be her secret boyfriend that when she goes on her break, she meets up with him in the woods. Nobody knows that he is her boyfriend. Don't worry, I already know how to make it work. HUMAN JACK BUT HE STILL HAS WHITE HAIR AND IT TAKES PLACE IN THE TIME THAT 'BRAVE' TOOK PLACE! That totally was NOT the summary.
A RotG version of 'Soul Surfer' Jack will be Bethany. Crystal will be Alani. HUMAN JACK AND CRYSTAL! Though Jack still has white hair.
A RotG version of 'The Hunger Games'. I don't really know how to explain this one. Just keep an eye out for it! HUMAN JACK WITH WHITE HAIR!
A RotG version of 'Tangled'. HUMAN JACK AND CRYSTAL! You guys already know how this will work out!
There was gonna be a RotG version of 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1...But now that I think about it, no, just no.
RANDOM THINGS!
Ever wonder if Baby Tooth was the spirit of Jack's little sister? Lilly and Baby Tooth both have a beauty mark under their right eye.
Ever wonder if Jack hit his head on the ice and cracked his head/skull and got knocked out? Or worse...DIED BEFORE EVEN HAVING THE CHANCE TO DROWN!
Did you know that the word 'mirror' has 6 letters and only half of them are 'r's?
EVER WONDER WHAT PITCH WOULD LOOK LIKE WITH EYEBROWS?
TRIVIA ABOUT THIS STORY!
1. Crystal was originally going to kill herself after Jack died.
2. Taina means 'Mystery'
3. Jack is sexy.
4. Taina was originally going to be named 'Mary' and her and North fall in love but...just no.
5. Jack is sexy.
6. Crystal has a very good sense in style.
7. Jack is sexy.
8. Crystal was named after snow crystals.
9. Crystal's signature color is aqua blue.
10. Jack is Sexy.
DID I MENTION THAT JACK IS SEXY?
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ps- I'm sorry that part of this authors note is bold. You have no idea how I make my chapters.