I had been waiting for jack in the spot we were in last night for a long time, playing with the grass and animals. Every once awhile I would search the sky for Jack hoping that he'd be there with his lopsided smile, but there was nothing but the clouds and a couple birds. I sighed a continued waiting for him. Minutes turned into hours and the hours turned out to be the whole day. Just sitting there, last night had been rough on me and I really wanted to tell him about my awful dreams, I wanted to ask him if he also had bad dreams when he first woke up. I looked up into the sky, I had about 5 hours of my day left. What a waste of f time, I should've knew he wouldn't come, he's probably a real busy guy, being a guardian and all. I sighed and laid down in the grass, debating with myself whether I should explore or wait for him a little longer, I looked around d the forest. I stood up deciding that I would explore a little and come back to see if he were there, I called for Chester and in the matter of minutes he showed up. Once he was by my side we started walking, there were a lot of different flowers and a glistening stream, the water ripples reminded me that I haven't bathed since I woke up. It made me kind of glad that Jack didn't show up, my hair was probably greasy and smelly, not to mention my body odor. I scrunched up my face in disgust, and started following the river downstream, the sun was just barely starting to set so I hurried to the end of the stream trying to get there before the sun set all the way. When I finally reached the pond that the stream had led to, I scrunched my nose, the pond had an awful stench to it, and it was full of mud and moss alone with some goopy liquids. I sighed and walked around the river looking for a little bit of cleaner water, but the cleanest spot there was was muddy and full of plants. It would have to work. I stuck my finger in to check the temperature of the water, it seemed warm enough, I put both my hands in and let the water slip into my palms. I brought the water to my face but before splashing it onto my skin I looked at it for awhile. It was perfectly clean, and completely see through. I unconsciously dropped the water and placed my hands back into the muddy liquid, I held still for a moment and slowly the water started to appear more clean. I smiled with joy and tried to force more power into my hands, like what I did when I made flowers grow. It grew clearer quicker and started spreading from the one spot, it took about ten minutes until the pool of water was completely see through. I laughed a little and slipped off my dress and under clothing, I jumped into the water with a big cannon ball. When I came back up I inhaled a deep breath and looked at the sun, I only had a couple for minutes till the sun was gone. I started washed all the mud and dirt off of my that came from last nights storm and then cleaned Chester, who didn't seem to like being in the water very much. I scrubbed my clothes until I felt like they were clean then I stepped out of the water and rung my hair out. I set my clothes on a branch to dry and looked for some leaves that would make a comfortable bed. I found elephant ear leaves and made a nice little mat out of them, a breeze came and made me shiver, my clothes probably wouldn't be dry for the morning, I sighed and curled up in a ball on my little homemade bed soon to find Chester joining me, he wrapped his furry, warm body around and I smiled, "Guess I can always count on you, huh Chester?" Chester looked at me with his dark eyes and I watched them smile, I smiled back and cuddled into his warm fur. Before I could fall asleep I felt Chester tense up, he looked at me in worry and tried to stand up. I sat up covering my chest as Chester looked in numerous directions, "what's wrong Chester?" That's when I heard it

"Well if its not the new protecter, Mother Nature, I don't think we have met yet." I gasped when a dark figure suddenly was in front of me, the man had yellowish eyes and a grey skin color, his hair was spiked back and he sneered towards me. "Let me introduce myself, my name is Pitch Black

Jacks POV

I glided through the dark city that I was assigned to in Canada, even after twelve cities and towns, there were no signs of pitch. Once it was midnight we were all suppose to meet in the city that we arrived in from Norths globe. It was already elevon o clock and I still didn't get a signal from one of the guardians saying that they found him, maybe North was wrong, maybe he was somewhere else. I continued to search for another hour and the headed back to the meeting city, when I got to the center of the city, tooth and bunnymund were already there. My feet thudded on the ground and I looked at them hopefully, "did you guys find any signs of him even being in this area?" Bunnymund angrily shot a glare at him "if I found the slightest sign of him being here I would've put off a signal." I slouched against the wall with nothing else to say. North arrived ten minutes later with a frustrated look on his face "couldn't find that bastard anywhere!" Tooth flew towards him, trying to calm him down, "it's ok, he's probably just not in this area, we'll look for him tomorrow." Sandman arrived slowly, he bumped into a couple of walls and then yawned. We all laughed despite the fact that we were all on the edge. North went through his jacket and gabbed a snow globe and threw it, and jumped in followed by sandman. I said my goodbyes and jumped into a current of wind, I swayed side to side until I finally reached the forest that dawn usually locked herself up in. I looked in all the places that she usually stayed, the tree with the odd flowers, the stream and the place were I last left her, I looked a little longer when my eyes came upon a deer, it looked frantic and scared it was also carrying some clothing in its mouth. I walked slowly up to the deer until it noticed me and stood perfectly still. I stopped moving and looked at the clothing in its mouth. They were Dawn's. I inhaled a sharp breath and slowly approached the deer, I held my hands out trying to show it I wasn't going to do any harm, but no matter what I did the deer didn't relax at all and then I remembered what Dawn had said about a deer she named Chester. As calmly and softly as I could I called to it "Chester?" The deer relaxed only a little bit "where's Dawn, Chester?" The deer looked at me for a bit longer then started swinging its head, and started trotting into the forest. I took the hint and started following the animal down a stream. Once we reached the bottom I was amazed to see a crystal clear pool of water until the deer nudged me, it lead me to a certain spot by the river and dropped the clothing by a tree. I looked around the spot trying to find a sign that showed that Dawn was here, I scanned the ground as horror griped my chest. There was black sand scattered on the ground around the clothing, I picked some of the sand up and let it run through my fingers, "pitch" I muttered with anger. I stood up quickly and flew off to go get north and the others, leaving the confused and scared deer alone.

Dawns POV -earlier that night-

"Pitch?" Jack had mentioned something about a man named pitch but I couldn't remember the details.

"Yes..." He smiled wickedly as I watched black sandy horses approach from behind him. I covered my body the best I could I and stood up, trying to show none of my fear. "Well if you could please excuse me, I ha-" I choked on my words as I felt hands wrap around my neck and lift me off the ground. I coughed and kicked, trying to get out of his grip. "My beautiful nightmares have been telling me of a lot about a young new protecter. They had called you Mother Nature, a very very powerful position in this world, extremely powerful, fortunately for me, you don't know how to use these powers yet." My vision started to blur as I tried to comprehend what he was saying, I could hear Chester's yelps as he tried to Head butt Pitch. Pitch tried to kick him away "blasted deer!" I used this opportunity to try to escape, I pried his fingers away and started running with Chester close behind, I stumbled over numerous things put of my lack of oxygen, I gasped and coughed as we ran through the forest. I could here the odd horses and an awful laughter, "you think you can easily run away from my nightmares?!" Tears rushed down my cheeks as I gave Chester a look. "Chester, go, go and somebody!" The deer then jumped in the opposite direction and quickly galloped away. I pushed myself to go faster a kept on running, I felt weird, not from the lack of air but I like something was off. I felt a rush of wind and looked up, jack. It was Jack, he was swaying from side to side in a rhythm. I was filled with hope as I opened my mouth to yell out to him, a hand quickly covered my mouth that muffled my cry. "Oh, I'm sorry it seems as though he can't hear you, we better go" the voice dripped with hatred and anger. A strong pain hit the back of my neck, my vision went to red that quickly faded to black.