"I can't handle all this pacing!" Jack suddenly burst out from the ceiling where he had been walking upside down. "She said it would take a couple hours, max! She's been in there for five!" Heart had gone into Tooth's room after her conversation with Jack at noon. Outside, the sky had grown dimmer as the sun-sorry, Rector Sol- set in the horizon. Sandy had left to go check on his Dreams back in Africa (he had gotten sick of pacing, too), and North was yelling at some yetis for building 30 dozen dolls instead of 30. Bunnymund and Jack were still hanging out at the balcony by the globe, Bunny painting eggs and Jack was... yep, pacing the roof.
"Why don't you find something else to do?" Bunnymund asked, dabbing another green polka-dot on a pink egg. "There is nothing else to do, my anxiousness keeps getting the best of me." Jack continued to complain. He looked over at a red-faced North, still screaming at his yetis in rapid fire Russian. "Why don't I have minions to help me with my job?" Jack asked jealously. Bunny looked at him curiously. "What is that supposed to mean?" he asked, confused. "Well, all the rest of the Guardians have them. You have your walking eggs, Tooth had her fairies, Sandy has his Dreams, and North as his yetis and elfs. Why did Tasar Luna skip me?" he asked.
"Maybe you do your job well enough as it is. I can't say, I don't see you that much." he said after a minute. "Why do you ask?" "I don't know, I just need someone to yell at who can't yell back." Jack said, giving another jealous look to North. Bunny followed his gaze. "You know, Heart doesn't have any 'minions' either." he said. "Yeah, but technically she's not a Guardian." Jack pointed out with a sigh. "I guess that makes us both loners." Bunny turned back to his painting but continued to talk to Jack. "Well, you got us to talk to now. And you and Heart seem to have a lot in common."
Jack looked at him but couldn't think of anything else to say. Luckily he didn't have to. Just then Heart opened the door and braced herself against the frame. Her eyelids were fluttering wildly, trying to stay open, and her knees were knocking together. Her hair had fallen in front of her face and her elbows shook from holding herself up against the doorway. Bunnymund put down his egg and brush. "What happened?" he asked, concerned at her appearance. She looked at him like she was dreaming. "Tooth's going to be fine." she said wearily. "Well, now it's you I'm worried about, lass." he said, putting her right arm over his shoulder, Jack doing the same on her left. "You look like your going to pass out." "I'll be fine." Heart protested halfheartedly. "I just need a little sleep..." She suddenly slumped forward, unconscious.
"That's what I thought." Bunny said with a smile. Together, he and Jack got her down the stairwell and to the row of rooms they were staying in. North spotted them as they pasted and stopped yelling long enough to look at them questioningly. "She just needs some sleep." Jack explained with a smile. North gave them a doubts look but eventually went back to his yetis. Jack opened the third door on the left and he and Bunnymund lay Heart on the bed, her wings carefully set off to her side. Her skin was warm to the touch (which made sense), so they didn't bother with the covers. Then they both left to let her sleep.
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It was the next morning. Heart had slept fifteen hours straight and had yet to wake up. No one had bothered Tooth; Heart's warning of her needing a few days to heal floated in all of their minds. The rest of the Guardians had gathered together on the balcony in front of the globe again. "So," Bunny said after a moment. "What do we do now? We can't exactly wait a week for Tooth to get better. Who knows what Shade will do in that time."
Sandy flashed a few symbols over his head, careful to keep them slow enough for everyone to see them, as Heart wasn't there to interpret. "Of course!" Jack exclaimed. "Sandy needs to make more dreams, and we need to help him! Sorry I hadn't thought of that." "Well, than, let's get going! We need to get to the Castle again!" Bunnymund joined in. "I will go prepare the sleigh!" North said, walking towards the elevator. Bunny nodded in agreement. "Yeah, good idea, and I'll... hey, wait! I refuse to take another ride in that thing!..." He took after North, trying to convince him not to 'prepare the sleigh'.
Just then a yawn came from down the stairs and Heart came climbing up, rubbing her eyes. Jack stared at her. She looked over at him and paused at the top of the stairs. "What?" she asked suspiciously. "What happened to you?" he asked. "Um, I spent five hours in a healing process that cost most of my energy before sleeping fifteen hours straight. Why?" she asked, confused. "No, I meant what happened to your head?!" Jack asked in horror. Heart stared at him before looking into the nearest wall mirror. Her hair was all leaning to the right and stuck up in every direction, full of tangles and knots.
Heart sighed before rubbing her eyes again. "I am not a morning person." she said. "Uh, yeah. I can tell." Jack said skeptically, eyeing her hair. Suddenly a yell from Bunny, "You take that back!", came from the other room. Sandy looked up before turning to Jack with a questioningly look. "Yeah, we should probably check that out." Jack agreed. "You go do that." Heart said, crossing her arms with a smile. "It might be dangerous in there." Jack rolled his eyes and walk in with Sandy beside him. Heart smiled as they walked away before frowning and looking next to her. There stood a yeti staring at her intently. "What are you looking at?" Heart challenged. The yeti grunted in what sounded like a surprised question. "No, I am not your aunt's sister-in-law! Go get me a hairbrush!" Heart exclaimed angrily. The yeti reluctantly turned away to comply but not without another skeptical look at Heart. "Where would you even get that idea?" Heart grumbled, trying to smooth down her hair.
Jack and Sandy came in dragging a unconscious Bunnymund into the room. Heart gave them a startled look. "What happened?" "North and Bunny got in another 'Christmas is better than Easter' argument, and I guess North just said it outright." Jack explained with a smile. "That got Bunny pretty wound up, and Sandy had to put him out with the Dreamsand while the yetis restrained North. There trying to calm him down right now." Heart laughed hysterically. "Wow, these guys never change!" she said through giggles.
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In the end, Bunny slipped into one of his tunnels when no one was looking, North hopped on a reindeer (A large reindeer. A very large reindeer), and Jack, Sandy, and Heart all had to follow North through his snowglobe portal. While they had been gone, the Dreams that had managed to stay away from Shade's Shadows had replaced the door, fixed the twisted gates in the courtyard, and had even wiped the gold globe clean of any leftover purple sand. "So, what do we do first?" Heart asked. Sandy thought for a moment before flashing a little image of a girl sitting next to a book, then a small bubble over her head of her and her mom. "We need kids memories to get a feel of what they dream about?" Jack guessed. Sandy nodded before making a little gold tooth above his head. "Then to the Tooth Palace, we go!" North said before turning back the way he came towards his reindeer. Jack turned to Sandy and Bunnymund. "Why don't you guys get things ready here while we go get some teeth." Sandy nodded while Bunny just grunted. Jack took that as a yes and took off after North and Heart, who had already taken off and were heading to the portal.
A moment later, they were one of the many balconies of the Tooth Palace, where a group of fairies greeted them. Jack hopped down as they all s warmed him. "Hey, guys! How's it been?" he said warmly, brushing a tiny fairy away from his mouth. One of them twittered nervously at him questioningly."Yeah, Tooth's fine, she's just going to be gone a little while longer. She got hurt, but she's getting better." he explained. The fairy gave a high-pitched twitter of relief. "Hey, can we barrow some teeth? Sandy's place got attacked and he had a bunch of Dreams captured, and we need to make more. And we were thinking memories would be a good place to start." The fairy started to nodded but stopped and turned to Heart, seeming to just have noticed she was there. She glared at her and pointed, turning to Jack and chirping another question. "Who, Heart? What about her?" Jack asked, looking at Heart for an explanation.
She sighed. "The little beasties take after their boss. None of them seem to trust me, though I don't know why." she said, rolling her eyes. The fairy in front of Jack balled up her fists and charged Heart, little wings zipping. She didn't get very far before Jack gently but firmly plucked her out of the air by her wings and pulled her back. "Hey, let's focus on the task at hand, 'kay? We just need some teeth, we'll bring them back as soon as we can." he said, bringing the conversation back on track. The fairy thought for a minute, then cast one more angry look at Heart before finally giving in with a curt nod.
"Thanks, we'll bring them straight back." Jack repeated. She nodded again before wiggling out of Jack's fingers and zooming off with her friends. Jack turned back to North and Heart. "Alright, let's grab some teeth!"
Sorry, this chapter didn't have very much happen in it. But I have kinda busy lately and haven't really had a whole lot of time on here. Don't worry, big surprise coming up that I'm super excited about!