The room North had given Scarlet was likely the one of many of the rooms in the shop. It had a lots red color to it and Scarlet liked this, but she didn't really like the green. She never liked black, but her whole life she wore it. It had been hours since she had left and she was already missing her room. Even the darkness and loneliness of the liar made her miss it. The one thing that bothered her most was that they seemed like they were hiding something. They had accepted her so easily. It was strange because her father was their worst enemy. Why would they accept her with her being an enemy because of her father? Maybe, just maybe, Jack and Emma thought she was kidnapped in a way. She did say she was reborn, but she really didn't. Another thing that bothered her that was even though North seemed nice enough, how would the others react? Who could she even trust? Jack and Emma were the only other people she had met besides her dad. Her mother had died when she was 2 and she had no memory of her. That man of sand also was considered dangerous and her father said if he even touched her she could die. Scarlet had no idea why because her father touched the sand all the time. He had cleaned up those piles of sand by touching them. Why couldn't she touch it and why hadn't this man found her until now? With this all in Scarlet's head she couldn't sleep, but the darkness helped her nerves. Scarlet decided to go out and see if they were trying to do anything to hurt her. She opened the door and looked out to see some strange figures near the balcony. One was a girl with feathers. Likely the bird girl. A giant bunny that carried some sort of curved weapons. Obviously the bunny. There was another guy who was yellow and sleeping with his head on his shoulder. He looked like the sand in her room.
"I'm telling you that she can't be the guardian of myths and legends!" North said almost shaking the room. "She must be lying to trick us and bring Pitch to our doorstep!"
"Geez, mate. The girl was said to be locked in a dark room all her life. He could have lied to her or something." The giant bunny said spinning around his boomerangs.
"She seems like a sweet girl…" Emma started to say.
"I can't find any baby teeth for her!" The bird lady said flying around the room with smaller versions of herself.
"As I was saying…" Emma started again.
"They're going to keep interrupting you… Since you're not a guardian, they try to avoid you."
"Coming from the boy who was on the naughty list his whole life!" Emma yelled at Jack looking like she would punch him at any minute.
"Am I interrupting anything?" Scarlet asked walking out of the shadows.
"Not at all… We were just discussing some things, mate." The giant bunny said looking like the dumbest liar in the world.
"Sandy… Hey, Sandy… Wake up…" North said nudging the sandman with his arm.
The man of sand starts to wake up and stares right at Scarlet.
"Is something wrong?" Jack asks landing back on the ground.
Sandy just keeps starring at Scarlet as if knowing she was Pitch's daughter.
"Is the chubby guy ok?" Scarlet asks jumping over the railing.
"He looks mesmerized." Jack said poking the yellow guy with his staff.
"Hello?" Scarlet says waving her hand at the man of sand. "Are you ok?"
The man of sand shakes his head as if Scarlet's words woke him up.
"Why aren't you?" Scarlet says kneeling down eye to eye with the man, but being cautious in case her father was right about her dying.
An image of sand appears above the man's head, but looked like a question mark.
"Why is he doing that?" Scarlet says looking over at the others.
"He can't talk… Guess it's his traits." Emma says shrugging her shoulders.
"What are you asking then?" Scarlet asks the guy made of sand.
Another image appears that looks like an exclamation point and the man of sand stands back away from Scarlet.
"I'm not going to hurt you…" Scarlet says putting out her hand forgetting about what her father said.
The sandman looked at her hand then up at Scarlet to try and say something.
"It's ok." Scarlet said looking at the man knowing for some reason he was scared of her because her father was the king of fear.
The man shakes his head and takes another step back.
"Do you not like handshakes?" Scarlet asks noticing it wasn't this, but wanted to seem like she didn't know why.
The man shook head and stares at her if asking if she knows that it was dangerous.
"I can see your fear… I was afraid of you guys my whole life… Now I find you are scared of me…"
The man shakes his head as saying that wasn't it.
"If it's not me you're scared of then why are you scared?"
"I think he thinks Pitch did something to you and doesn't know if to trust you." Jack says seeming like he knew everything.
Scarlet gives him a glare that would have killed him if looks could kill.
"I'm just saying…" Jack says as he puts his hands up defensively.
"So why are you scared of me?" Scarlet turns her attention back to the little sandman.
He shakes his head and points to her as if saying he wasn't scared of her, but that she should be scared of him.
"Why should I fear you?" Scarlet says almost amazed thinking her father was right.
The man takes a bit of sand and sprinkles it on her hand.
"Ow!" Scarlet yelps and steps back as she looks at her hand then at the man, who looked as feared as she was.
"What did he do to her?" Emma says looking like she was going to kill sandman.
"I think he doesn't mean to…" North says stroking his beard.
"Frosty. Give her some ice." The giant bunny says almost pushing Jack into Scarlet.
As Jack was putting ice over her hand the sand on her hand started to turn black then back to yellow and repeating.
"Guys…" Jack says in and alarmed voice the same time as Scarlet sees it. "The sand is turning black."
"Black?" North says almost knocking the bunny over while plowing to see.
"What… What's going on?" Scarlet asked in a scared kid's voice not knowing what was happening.
"It looks like Pitch gave you the power to turn Sandy's sand black…" North says looking up at Scarlet making sure she wasn't faking being scared.
"What does that mean?" Scarlet says looking at Sandy who was likely the only one who knew.
An array of images appeared over his head, but most were blurred.
"How… Why does it turn black?"
"Pitch uses Sandy's dream sand to make nightmares and haunt kids' dreams and give them fear." Emma says walking next to Tooth and leaning on her staff that had red, blue, and white light showing throughout it.
"I've never had a bad dream…" Scarlet says looking at Sandy. "I've never had a good dream till a day ago."
When she said that Sandy formed an exclamation point over his head and formed a sand ball in his hand.
"What are you…?" Scarlet started to say, but the sand hit her and she fell to sleep.