Chapter 29
I woke up, gasping for breath, I was on a frozen pond. No. the pond. Where jack had died, saving me. My hair was wet and I was freezing cold, unfortunately still wearing my guardian clothes, and not my human hoodie. This time it looked like I had fallen in. I neared the hole where I had fallen in. I peered through it, anxiously looking for Jack. Relieved, I stood up, but seeing water drop from above onto the ice, freezing instantly, I looked up, shading the sun from my eyes.
Jack's brown cloak swaying the wind, the icy water dripping down from his foot.
"Elevator up!" I smirked, remembering the first time I came across the "elevator."
I looked around him, not entirely sure as how he was floating in the air, since there's gravity and all. His hair was white. This must be after he became a guardian. But nothing was happening. I took a nervous breath, and put my fingers on his neck to see if he was breathing.
He wasn't. He hadn't been for a long time. Something happened that made him die in the guardian world. That's impossible though! I told myself. A guardian can only die if another guardian kills him. That's what the Big Four Guardians said. I backed away from him, refusing to believe it. I backed away too far, because before I knew it, I stumbled over the edge of my stump. And unlike Jack, gravity worked on me. I shrieked gripping onto the one-story-house-tall stump's edge. I made another plant come up below me. It rose slower than I would have liked, but soon I felt a sturdy surface below my feet. I lowered the stumps, and then backed away from Jack, tears swelling up in my eyes. I bent down, hugging my knees, rocking back and forth.
"This can't be real. This can't be." I muttered. Every time I said it, the more I believed it was true.
"Pitch is just messing with you. That's it! I remember… The spider. me drowning… the orphanage… Come on! It's just a stupid dream! Wake up!" I pinched myself trying to wake me up.
I shut my eyes tightly. After a few minutes, I peered open my eyes. Darkness. I sighed of relief. Never before had I been so amazingly excited to be in the dark, except when I'm trying to sleep.
"I'm not afraid of you any longer!" I yelled out, the tears shaking out. I clenched my fists, and concentrated. I felt a T-Rex's saliva being dripped down onto me. Making a face, I continued to concentrate, not breaking it just to see a man-eating dinosaur hungrily waiting for me stop ignoring him so he can feed off my fear. I'm just NOT in the mood. I laughed. Normally humans aren't annoyed by life-threatening situations. But I started to tire of it, just the same.
My laughter echoed, and I smiled, opening my eyes. Tooth and Sandy were peering at me, I looked at Jack, still unconscious, looking rather uncomfortable where Sandy and Tooth had dragged him to. I smiled. Raising the plants below him, I made a bed.
"Hi." I said simply, watching amusedly Tooth's and Sandy's confused faces.
I wasn't sure just how to explain what was going on, but suddenly Pitch hit Bunny hard, making him slide against the ground, cuts and bruises all over him. North tried to help him up, but he was also growing weak, barely standing up himself. And I realized that I shouldn't be explaining right now anyway.
"Welp! That's my cue!" I grinned, sitting up. Groaning, I held my head.
"Unbelievable. Your head gets hurt in your enemy's mind, and you still have it on your physical body." I sighed annoyed. I caught Tooth's grin and Sandy's stifle of laughter.
"See? Laughter's a good thing!" I laughed again. "Seriously. If I had known Pitch wore a dress, I really wouldn't have been so scared. He probably did that on purpose." I said jokingly.
Sandy and Tooth started laughing again. I got up, Tooth and Sandy each grabbing one of my hands.
Stumbling over to where North and Bunny were, I stood blinking, not really used to light quite yet.
Bunny said, "You all right, mate?"
I nodded, scoffing. "Are you?" glancing at the largest cut, on his leg. Bunny nodded, trying to get up, grunting. Rolling my eyes sarcastically, I grew some moss bandages (now that I know I can control them) around Bunny's wounds tightly, Bunny growing more and more unconscious from the loss of blood. I nodded to North, as I stood up and North took Bunny up, and went to the rest of the guardians.
Pitch's shadow walked in front of me, making me stop abruptly.
"Helping each other. How sweet." he said dryly, his voice looming everywhere.
A warm breeze flew past us, dancing along wherever it saw fit. Bunny and Jack slowly pushed themselves up. I smiled brightly.
"And you know how to use your healing powers. Great." Pitch said sarcastically. I smirked.
"I do have to thank you though, Pitch."
Pitch stared at me. "What?!"
Grinning, I said, "Well, if Doctor Walker hadn't gone, then I wouldn't be as strong as I am today." I smiled genuinely at him.
Pitch growled leaping forwards at me with his sword. I jumping back, and dodging his efforts to kill me.
"You-" I dodged another blow.
"…still adopted me.." I continued, ducking.
Pitch grunted, but I continued. "So… Is this a father/daughter dance?" I said teasingly.
Pitch let out an irritated yell and attempted to strike my face again, but I dodged quickly, barely missing.
"I have to admit, I was expecting it to have a little less violence…." I teased more.
I winked at the guardians. This was true, but I was mostly doing it to annoy and tire Pitch and fill the Guardians in on what they missed, though I honestly wasn't really sure if I wanted them to know, but I decided, if I was supposed to become one of them, then they should know the truth.
But there was a question that was bothering me.
"Pitch. If you already had one…. why did you adopt another?" I looked up at him, making him stop in his tracks. He looked down.
"…She…. passed on… already. At first, I did actually want another, and you were perfect considering your gifts, but I knew you'd probably betray me either way, I just decided to not get too…. uhm…" he struggled for the right word. "attached."
I was shocked. He was actually afraid he'd love me?! He made me feel like he didn't even care remotely about me! He made me feel like NO ONE could EVER care about me! I backed away from him, staring down at my feet. I smiled, not a genuine one, but a sarcastic mean kind, almost life-threatening kind of scary. Wrong, I know. But I was pretty darn irritated.
"Well, I was afraid you'd take me back, and you were afraid you'd love me, so I guess one of our fears had to come true." I growled, but I breathed in deeply and let out.
"But just listen to her! She's inside your head! I've talked to her! She's saying you're being USED!" I tried to talk sense to him.
But he wouldn't listen. "NO! You're making her up!"
I frowned sadly. "Well. I know what I saw. So… since you apparently didn't think that was right, then obviously your boss is using you, and making it up, so it looks like I'm lying." I crossed my arms triumphantly. But all Pitch did was narrow his eyes.
All of the sudden he threw black sand, and I quickly threw my plants back, but the sand was coming closer, my plants still weak. The black sand hit me, sending me high and then falling back down on the earth, bruising my back. Groaning, I got up. Pitch coming closer to me, and the other guardians.
Pitch brought his sword up and swung it down towards me, when Jack flung him off with ice. He pulled me up with his hand. The cold didn't really bother me anymore.
Pitch waltzed back spewing sand at me and Jack, and both of us pushed our powers at him, and we both walked towards him slowly inching our way to victory. Corny, but effective.
Jack's and my powers flung him backwards. He tried to get up, but he was too weak.
"Good job! I was beginning to think that Pitch would actually win! That'd be weird, wouldn't it Pitchy Witchy?" Someone said.
Jack and the others looked at me funny. so I said, "What?" Then I gasped and covered my mouth, suddenly realizing that I was the one talking.
"Why can't you people just stay out of my head?" I whiningly muttered. And the other person in my head laughed evilly. Cheesy, but accurate.
whoot! :D
only one more chapter and i finish my goal! :D
(thirty chapters before school starts)
oh but don't get me wrong
i'm still going to be writing :)
just slower pace XD
