"Would all of you stop fighting!" Crystal's mother yelled into the back seat.
Crystal sat back there with her sister Sierra and her older brother Tyler. Michael was in his car seat crying in the very back, and Seth was trying to calm him down. Sierra and Crystal were yelling and smacking each other, fighting over who got to play with what in the car.
"Crystal, stop fighting with Sierra already." Their father commanded irritated.
"But dad!" Crystal yelled.
"Look we're going into a tunnel!" Tyler said dragging the girls' attention from the argument.
"Wow!" They breathed staring out the window.
Their mother looked back thankfully. The ground began to shake, the cars stopped and waited, trying to figure out where it was coming from.
Crystal spotted a flower out on the side of the cave, a tulip, her mother's favorite. She looked back at her mother and knew she had made her angry by their petty argument. She opened the door slightly and slid out racing towards the flower quickly before the cars started to move again.
"We have to get out of here quickly! The tunnel will collapse!" Father yelled worriedly.
"Kids buckle up!" Mother said quickly. She gasped as she quickly looked around. "Crystal? Crystal, where are you?" She shouted.
The others looked around quickly searching for their missing sister.
"Mom!" Sierra said pointing outside into the tunnel.
"Crystal!" Mother quickly raced out the door, dodging the cars and grabbing Crystal.
She raced back to the car but jumped back as a piece of rock dropped from the ceiling and landed in front of the car. Her family filed out of the car quickly, huddling together.
"Quickly!" Her father said. He quickly ushered the family along the side of the tunnel, making them rush to the end.
Crystal tripped, falling onto the floor. Her father quickly picked her up and carried her towards the end. The tunnel quivered dangerously, cracks snacking across the rocks, and bits and pieces began falling onto the road.
"DADDY!" She screamed looking up towards the ceiling.
He looked up as a piece of the ceiling began to fall. He pushed her to the side of the tunnel just as the rock fell on him, her mother, sister, and brothers.
"Daddy! Mommy!" She screamed crying.
"Crystal come on!" Tyler had caught her on the side of the tunnel and picked her up, racing towards to end of the tunnel quickly. "Don't look."
He covered her face from the scene back there, blood pooling out from beneath the rocks. The tunnel quaked one last time as it all began to fall. Tyler ducked to the floor, pulling Crystal beneath him as the rocks fell around them and on top of him.
"Tyler?" She cried.
It was so dark she couldn't see anything. Her eyes adjusted to the dark and she sucked in a breath and began to cry harder.
"Tyler. Tyler. Tyler!" She cried harder and harder. "Come on! Wake up!"
Tyler's head was bleeding above her as his body pushed its weight upon her and lay limp. His eyes cracked open just a bit as he stared down at her.
"Why did you have to pick that flower?" He said accusingly. "It's all your fault. You killed us!"
"Is anybody alive in there?" A voice shouted inside.
Crystal shot her eyes open and looked around, noticing she was still in Pitch's hideout. It was the third time that day that she had that nightmare. She couldn't take it anymore. The only thing keeping her sane at the moment was the letters that her family had written her, telling her how much they loved her.
Her body thrived for sunlight; her muscles turning to water and her mind fogging up from lack of sleep. She didn't know how much more she could take of these nightmares. Her eyes were forming black and blue bags underneath and her eyes were so bloodshot that it was almost as if she was seeing red. She tried to fight the sleep that seeped into her bones, but it was useless as darkness regained her once again and nightmares swallowed up her dreams.
"Have you had enough?" Pitch laughed evilly as he stared down at her.
He crouched down and looked at her. He smirked victoriously as she looked up at him slightly. Her eyes no longer had light inside of them as she stared aimlessly at the ground. He felt proud, he had taken away any strength she had, and now he broke her emotionally and psychologically. She was just an empty shell, moving like a puppet now. It would be easier for him to make her fall for him now, create the life he wanted with her mother that he never got.
"That's a good girl." He said reaching out to her chains and unlocking them.
Her arms dropped to her side uselessly as she continued to sit there staring at him.
"Let me give you a little prize. I'll show you my world." Pitch said offering his hand out to her.
He picked her up quickly when she didn't move, and tugged her along to the outside as her muscles threatened to drop her at any moment. Moonlight shone down on her as her strength started to regain its strength. Her mind cleared some of the fog, and her consciousness began to come back, but she was still broken inside, killing herself over what had happened to her family.
"Isn't it beautiful?" He asked waving his hand around the dark world.
He gazed up at the moon and sneered at it. Waving his arm he put a shroud of darkness around them, making them invisible to the eyes of Manny who was searching for her. He gathered a couple flowers and handed them to her, watching as they instantly bloomed in her grasp.
"You remind me so much of your mother." He said running his finger along her face gently. "She was so beautiful. If only she didn't go to that man!"
He composed his anger quickly as he looked at her. She stared up at the moon with dull eyes still as she moved like a doll with no soul. He frowned as he ushered her back towards his home and quickly let her walk around. He no longer had any fear of her running; she was too broken to do anything.
A week went by as he continued to show her his world. Of the nightmares he sent to children, of the shadows he hid beneath. He never let her pass the surrounding woods, for fear that the Guardian's would find her, and he never let her out in the day. She would gain too much strength from the sun.
"Crystal!" He cooed gliding into the hideout and looking around.
She was sitting in a chair looking at the wall as if it was the only thing in the world. Her eyes stared off into space as he glided around her chair and stood before her with a proud smirk playing on his face.
"I got you a present." He said holding out a small box to her.
He grabbed her hand gently and placed the box in her upturned palm. He waved her on to open it and watched with hungry eyes as she opened the box and found a ring. An onyx jewel sat upon the top and showed no sparkle in it. The ring twisted with silver metal, shaping around the jewel like smoke was curling around it.
He waited for an answer for her, making it impossible for her not to tell what he wanted. His face grew angry and disappointed as he watched her stare at the ring as if nothing was there.
"Are you not happy for it?" He seethed at her angrily.
She shook her head. Nothing could make her happy here. Her family's death was on her now, and she could feel herself slowly slipping into herself, close to being trapped inside her mind. She placed the ring back inside it's box, setting it on the table next to her and walking off without another word.
Pitch stared after her in boiling anger. He yelled as he flipped the table over and threw the box at the wall, making the ring fall out of it and clatter to the floor noisily. "I'll make you mine. Just wait."
The darkness watched from the corner of the room, unknowingly to the boogeyman who raged a temper tantrum below him. He had been watching them since Pitch first took her, waiting for the moment when she was alone and he could take her for himself. He was going to take her, and use her broken being to his advantage. To turn her against Manny and blame him for everything that happened.
But Pitch was constantly around her, and when he wasn't he sent his nightmares to watch over her and keep her broken.
"Just you wait Crystal," The darkness said eerily as it peered from the corner to her. "I'll take you from here and let you exact all the revenge you want."
He followed her around the cave, but a nagging feeling grew stronger in his chest as he watched her. He pushed it down, ignoring it like he had this whole week. He felt sorry for her, and what had happened to her. To see her broken like that was making him feel sad and protective over her. His heart told him to punch Pitch till he could no longer stand for making her look like that. But instead he continued to push it away, acting as if it wasn't there to begin with.
"Any luck?" Jack asked Bunny as he tried to regain his breath.
The Easter Bunny shook his head sadly as he watched the others arrive one by one.
"Any luck?" Jack asked again towards the others this time.
"None," North said. "I even checked his cave where he had her last time. But it was all gone. He moved everything."
"I've checked near houses in case he was hiding just beneath our noses, but he wasn't anywhere in sight." Tooth said apologetically.
Sandy put up Pitch's nightmares over his head and put an 'X' afterwards showing he hasn't seen any sign of the nightmares either.
Jack punched the tree next to him, sending it into an ice statue and killing it from the inside.
"Jack, calm down." North said stepping forward. "We'll find her."
"It's my fault! I shouldn't have let her out of my sight!" He complained as he slumped to the floor.
Sandy floated over and patted his back. He shook his head and pointed to himself, telling them it was his fault.
"It's no one's fault. Pitch would have found any way to get her even if we were there." Bunny said crossing his arms.
"What did Manny mean by something more dangerous that Pitch?" North asked himself as he stroked his beard.
"Maybe he meant the darkness?" Tooth suggested looking at all of them.
"That could be it." North agreed nodding his head. "Manny seems real intent on destroying this darkness before we do anything to Pitch."
"It seems to me Manny wants to save his own skin." Bunny said angrily. Blaming someone else so he wouldn't have to blame himself.
"We'll find her," Jack said frustrated. "if it's the last thing I do. I'll find her."
They watched helplessly as he stood up once again and took off into the air, determined to find Crystal before anything happened.
"Jack!" Tooth yelled flitting after him.
North grabbed her ankle, stopping her from going after him. He shook his head staring after Jack like a helpless bystander. "let him go."
"If any of us can find her, it'll be him." Bunny said watching with a sad expression on his face and ears down on his head. "I just hope she's alright."
"You don't think they've done something to hurt her do you?" Tooth asked worriedly.
"I don't know." North said sadly.
"Crystal!" Pitch shouted looking around the hideout for her. "Where are you?"
He stopped as she stood there looking at the globe and all the lights on it. She turned her head and looked at him with disinterest, angering him further.
"Why won't you take my offer?" He yelled accusingly.
"I don't want to marry you." She said monotonously.
"Because of Jack?" He accused, seething his words out.
"I love him." She said simply.
The darkness watched with interest as he listened to her confession, and saw as Pitch's anger began to bubble over, making it harder for him to contain it.
"Why Jack?" He yelled.
She stood there staring at the globe, wanting to ignore Pitch and his yelling. "Jack is the only one I want. He was always there for me, even when my family was gone."
The darkness flinched along with Pitch as they stared at her with disbelieving eyes. The darkness couldn't believe she told such things. He thought the Guardian's were out to destroy all other myths. But here he learned that instead Jack had protected her all this time, when he couldn't do a thing.
"You're the same as your mother!" Pitch yelled walking up to her and grabbing her wrist harshly. "She left me too! To go to your stinking father! He wasn't any good for her! He couldn't create a whole new world for her! Yet she still went with him!"
The darkness shuddered in anger as he glared at Pitch. Not only was he insulting someone he hardly knew, but he was hurting Crystal in the process.
"He did create a new world for her. He was her new world." She said looking at him like he was a hurt puppy; with pity.
"Don't look at me with those eyes! Those same eyes as your mother!" He yelled pushing her away from him.
"If you would stop wallowing in the past you would find someone just as she did, just as I have." Crystal said, a small piece of light reappearing in her eyes. "She made a family. She lived happily with him and her children! What more could there be?" She asked accusingly, feeling her heart defrost from the cold and mend its broken self. "She didn't want someone who could do anything and give her everything! She wanted someone who could make her happy!"
"But YOU were the one who killed her! YOU took her from me!" Pitch accused raising his hand and smacking her hard across the face.
She sat there on the rocks, the light fading once again as the nightmares flashed through her head of her family dying because of her and her brother blaming her for all of it. She let her hand drop from her cheek and stared at the floor helplessly.
"If it wasn't for you, I would have had another chance to get her! To make her fall in love with me!" He raised his hand again, ready to strike her with his built up and bubbling over anger that was taking him over.
The darkness shot forward, throwing Pitch away as he stood protectively in front of Crystal, keeping the darkness to shroud him from her sight. He stared at her helplessly and saw the light was completely gone from her once again, sending that icy dagger and nagging inside of him once again. He began to reach down to her, before reeling back and glaring at Pitch.
"Don't you ever lay a hand on her again!" He seethed at Pitch, poison dripping from every word.
He disappeared without another word, leaving Pitch sulking against the wall and Crystal sitting on the cold floor, ready to give up. He let the nagging feeling take over as he left the hideout and set out to do anything to help.
He quickly searched the shadows for anyone that he could trust to help her, when finally he came upon Jack standing in the clearing him and Crystal often met up at, in the vain hope that she would be there waiting for him.
He moved the shadows around making it look like the horses Pitch uses for nightmares, sending it past the edge of the clearing, but enough to grab Jack's attention. He squinted his eyes looking closely for what he saw just moments before.
"Is someone there?" He called out wondering if it was a child.
Once again he sent a nightmare on the edge of the clearing, and this time Jack saw it and instantly followed it. He didn't let it out of his sights, knowing it could lead him to where Crystal was, or to where Pitch was.
"You're not getting away." Jack said increasing his speed and flashing through the sky towards the nightmare.
The darkness followed closely underneath in the woods that held shadows everywhere. He flashed an image into the nightmares head, showing it where it needed to go and what it needed to do. He flashed away once again leaving the nightmare to do its job.
The nightmare lead Jack to a lake bordered on one side by a mountain, and a waterfall cascaded down in front of it. A golden whip lashed out and made the nightmare disappear as it stood before the lake.
"Sandy!" Jack said happily as he watched his friend float down next to him, angry and alert. "Do you think this is where Pitch is hiding out now?"
Sandy shook his head as he put up a magnifying glass and put a circle with a line going through it, showing he had already searched the place and found nothing.
"Why did it lead me here?" Jack questioned looking around and keeping a tight grip on his staff. He looked up at the moon hoping it would give him an answer.
The darkness rushed as fast as it could towards Pitch and his hideout, secretly seeping in and looking for Crystal. She lay on the floor a bruise spreading on her face already from the hit and her eyes turning dark as she needed the much needed light.
He flashed down and kneeled next to her, brushing her hair aside as he placed his hand on her cheek, taking the bruise away and leaving her skin the way it was before. He reached out a hand to lift her up when a punch came and knocked him on the jaw, sending him spiraling to the ground with a flash of pain.
"Did you think I'd let you take her that easily?" Pitch sneered at him. "Do you think I didn't know you were watching us all this time?"
"You have no right to keep her here." He seethed back.
"Oh? Weren't you the one who wanted to take her all for yourself before?" Pitch inquired making him flinch in guilt.
"That's different." He said snapping at Pitch.
"How is it different? You wanted to take her from the Guardians just as I did. And you wanted her all to yourself, out of the reach of Manny and the others…same as me. Now how is that any different?" Pitch argued with a victorious smirk playing on his lips.
The darkness stood up, facing Pitch directly with his glare.
"You think I don't see how you look at her? Quite protective for someone who just wants to help her." Pitch said with an uninterested shrug. "But that was your downfall, you see, it told me who you were."
He stepped back in surprise as he watched Crystal began to come back to reality.
"Shut up," He said his voice a rough whisper.
"You don't want her to know?" Pitch teased inching towards Crystal.
He flashed in front of her, keeping the darkness around him to hide him from her sight. He felt guilty for not telling her who he was, but if she knew…she would hate him forever. He wouldn't be able to handle her hate.
"Don't get distracted." Pitch said quickly flashing behind him and grabbing Crystal by her arm, yanking her up and away from him. "I told you I wasn't going to give her up so easily."
He glared at Pitch hard as he flicked his wrist sending shadows to surround Pitch. He stopped as Crystal screamed out, her last strength seeping out of her.
"Tsk tsk," Pitch said shaking his head. "Hurting the one you want to most protect."
The darkness clenched his teeth and balled his fists as he stared with hurt at Crystal. He got an idea as he took a step back, showing Pitch his defeat.
Pitch smiled evilly and victoriously. "Good, now leave."
He swooped up into the ceiling, making it look as if he left through the cracks in the rock. Pitch release Crystal slightly giving him enough time to appear behind Pitch and grab her. This time he didn't cover himself with darkness, knowing that was how Pitch saw what he was doing.
"Do you really want her to know who you are?" Pitch said agast at his reappearance.
Crystal tried to look up at him, but his hand came over and covered her eyes, holding her tight so she couldn't struggle and try to see who he was. She didn't have enough strength to fight him anyways as she lay limp against him, her legs shaking and threatening to drop her.
"She won't know," He said.
Something in his voice hit a nerve inside of her that warmed her up, yet also sent an icy dagger into her heart, confusing her body on how it should feel. She wanted to see who he was and why he was helping her now when he was the one supposedly trying to harm her.
"No!" Pitch yelled furiously, lunging towards the two.
He swiped his hand across the air, drawing the nightmares out and sending them towards Pitch, and flinging him towards the rocky wall hard. Pitch hit the wall, making his breath escape him and leave him crumpled on the ground with his nightmares standing around him ready to attack if he got up.
"I'm not someone you can easily defeat." He said glaring at Pitch.
"Neither am I." Pitch refuted, snapping his hand and sending the nightmares back at the darkness with more anger than he ever had before. "Even if you do take her now, I will keep targeting her until I have her all to myself! I won't ever give up!"
"Then you'll have to fight me to get to her." The darkness threatened him. He floated into the air, and sent the nightmares crashing into the wall in an explosion of black sand.
Pitch shuddered at the look the darkness was giving him then. One that would kill if it could. It said everything Pitch needed to know about who he was.
"Why?" Pitch shaked. "We're after the same goal."
"Because I will not let you harm her in the process. My goal is only to exact revenge on Man in the Moon." He told Pitch coldly.
Crystal shivered from the sudden cold that enveloped the whole cave, desperately hanging onto the darkness that had a hold of her. She could feel her consciousness coming back to her slowly the more she listened to the man holding her, and feeling his warmth seep into her.
Who was this man to create such a reaction from her? How is it that he can bring her out of something not even her letters could do? She so desperately wanted to see who he was in hopes that he would bring back some of her memories, but the more she struggled to see, the tighter around her eyes he held.
"If you come near her again I won't be so merciful." He threatened towards Pitch looking at the boogeyman who stood quaking in his shoes as he looked at the darkness surrounding the cave with the cold.
The darkness whisked off with Crystal in his arms, keeping her eyes covered and her shielded against his body in case Pitch decided to send a sudden attack at any moment.
"To think he has grown so powerful." Pitch mumbled staring at the spot they were just in. "Manny what have you done. You have doomed us all."
Pitch stared up at the moon hoping Manny would give him some sort of reassurance, but when none came, he had to swallow his fear and hope something would happen.
"She's the only thing that can save us."
Pitch turned quickly to find Manny standing there with a serious face and arms crossed.
"Were you think at all when you made him?" Pitch yelled at his friend. "He will kill us all!"
"Crystal is the only one that can stop him. That is why we have to keep her away from you Pitch. If she continues to be near you, you will take away the power able to defeat him." Manny told him quickly.
"What power?" Pitch asked accusingly.
"The power of light." Manny said simply, looking at him. "The Guardian of Spring, is also known as the Guardian of Life. Children are able to see her because they believe in spring are so full of life. Others see her when their loved ones are hurt or dying. People know her as the Guardian Angel. She is the one who can give and take life."
"Why did you give her such a power?" Pitch asked confused and hurt. "She isn't able to control such a power!"
"You know the answer to that." Manny said gruffly, knowing his time was running out to be down there. "He holds her close to him. She can change him just as easily as he changed himself."
"It could kill her." Pitch said sadly. "You know it could kill her, yet you still allow her to take such risks?"
Manny looked down guiltily as he faced the moon, his home. "If it could save us all, I'm willing to take that risk."
"That's selfish. To give her a new life, only to have it taken away." Pitch said snarling at Manny. "To think everyone looks to you for help, yet your doing something so selfish just to save yourself."
"I will help her as much as I can." Manny said, fading out from the land.
"What about Jack? Does he know?" Pitch asked stepping forward. "The others? Do they?"
Manny shook his head.
"If you don't tell them. I will." Pitch threatened.
"Very well. I will tell them truth, but it won't change anything. She will still have to fight him. He will come looking for her no matter what." Manny said faintly as he disappeared from in front of Pitch completely.
The darkness carried Crystal quickly, knowing the moonlight was giving her strength and soon he wouldn't be able to hold her still and fly at the same time. He saw the lake coming into view with the mountain just behind it.
Jack and Sandy were just about to give up and leave as they searched the whole place and didn't find a single thing there that could help them find where Crystal or Pitch was.
"Come on Sandy, let's go look somewhere else." Jack said feeling defeated and frustrated. He was worried on what was happening to Crystal and if she was alright.
Sandy tugged on the boy's sweatshirt, catching his attention as he pointed up into the sky. Jack stood with his staff in front of him as Sandy brought out his whips, ready for any fight the darkness would bring for them. It landed quickly next to the lake as it crouched down, almost as if setting something down carefully.
It ignored them as they shouted out to him. He placed his hand on her face as his other still covered her eyes. He leaned close until his mouth was next to her ear.
"What happened wasn't your fault. It was a natural disaster and you had nothing to do with it." He told her, making her tense. "Don't ever blame yourself for what happened."
He uncovered her eyes and watched as she blinked, the light forming back into her eyes as tears formed in them. She quickly looked at him, hoping to see some part of him again, but he was surrounded by shadows, covering him completely and leaving nothing in sight for her to see any kind of feature.
He couldn't let her see who he was. He had to let her go for now. He couldn't let her become like him, even if it killed him he wouldn't let that happen. He turned a cold shoulder to her as she reached out her hand to him. This is why he had to destroy Manny, so he wouldn't turn her into a weapon like he did him.
"Wait," She said quietly, her voice breaking.
He ignored her as he flew up into the air, calling the shadows with him, and leaving her in sight for Jack and Sandy to see her finally.
"Crystal!" Jack yelled, dropping his staff quickly and running to her.
She turned to his voice and quickly looked back for the darkness, only to see that it was gone and nowhere in sight. Jack enveloped her in his arms, holding her tight and rocking her back and forth as tears slid down her cheeks. They were tears of sadness for the memory of her parents accident, tears of fear for what Pitch did to her, tears of thankfulness for the darkness helping her, tears of anxiousness for what the darkness and Pitch were talking about, but mostly tears of happiness to finally be back in Jack's arms.
She gripped his sweatshirt tightly on his shoulder blade, letting her tears spill into the cloth and for his touch to warm her more than she had been that whole week.
"It's okay, I'm here. I'm here." Jack cooed brushing her hair down.
He kissed her hair as he looked down at her worriedly. He pulls her back once she stopped crying and took a good long look at her. "Are you okay? Are you hurt?"
She shook her head, wiping the tears from her eyes. "I'm just so happy to be back."
He sighed thankfully bringing her back with a warm smile. "You're not ever leaving my arms again."
She let out a small laugh as she kissed his lips gently and placed her forehead to his. "I don't think I'll want to leave for a very long time."
Sandy floated over and tapped her shoulder. He looked at her guiltily and instantly started throwing up images of him apologizing over and over again. She pulled him close to her and hugged her arms around him.
"I'm sorry Sandy. I left and worried you so much!" She said, making him shake his head and look up at her.
He smiled as he hugged her back, sending a smile on her lips.
"Can you stand?" Jack asked carefully standing.
She tried standing up, but her legs gave beneath her, lacking the strength to do so. Jack bent down and picked her up carefully in his arms. She wrapped her arms around his neck and let her head fall against his shoulder. Sandy picked up his staff and they quickly flew off to the Workshop where she would be safe.
Jack felt right with her in his arms again. He knew she would never be out of his reach or sight again. He felt completely helpless while she was gone and didn't want to feel that way ever again.
By the time they reached the North Pole Crystal was shivering from the lack of strength and sunlight. Jack decided to ignore the doorway and quickly fly to the window of his work room, flinging it open with wind and sending the cold air and snow into the room. Sandy shut the window behind them quickly, opening the door and walking out onto the stairway, looking for the big man wherever he was.
"North!" Jack yelled.
"Jack! What are you doing here? Aren't you looking for…" North stopped as he spotted the shivering Crystal in his arms.
"Bunnymund!" North shouted, bounding for the stairway.
Bunny appeared in front of North on the stairway, looking irritated. "What is it? I don't have time for this! We have to find Crystal!"
"Get some blankets quickly! And call Toothianna!" North shouted, pushing past Bunny as he gave commands to the elves to help.
"Why?" Bunny asked turning around. He stopped as he spotted Crystal and quickly hurried off to do what North said.
"Place her in this room." North said quickly ushering them towards a room away from all the noise.
Jack walked inside and noticed the bed to the side, guessing it was the room North had prepared for Crystal when she stays here. He placed her under the covers and placed more on top of her shivering form as Bunny quickly brought them in. He was gone the next second, hurrying to find Tooth.
"How?" North asked as everyone flew in.
The elves had brought warm milk and cookies for if she woke up and had brought a heater in to warm the room up quickly.
"The darkness brought her to me." Jack said sitting on the bed next to her.
She turned over and rested her head on his leg as he slid his fingers through her hair, playing with its long strands.
"The darkness? But why?" Bunny asked.
"I don't know." Jack said staring at her worriedly.
Her shivering stopped as she curled up and relaxed.
"Something's not right. I think Manny is hiding something from us." Bunny said accusingly.
Tooth was fluttering all around, placing warm cloth's on her head, and tucking the blankets around her like a mother would.
"We'll ask later, right now we need to make sure she's alright." Tooth said waving the problem away. "Right now stress is the last thing she needs."
Crystal grumbled as she sat up and leaned against Jack, relaxing as he placed his legs on either side of her, one bent up and the other lying straight, and placed his arms around her.
"Crystal! Here eat!" Tooth said worriedly as she placed the plate of cookies in front of her and the warm glass of milk.
She looked down at the cookies and placed one in her mouth, feeling the chocolate melt on her tongue. "Do you have some soup?" She asked with a small smile to make them relax.
They all relaxed as North had the elves bring some soup, knowing she was alright now.
"You probably want me to explain what happened huh?" She asked worriedly as she looked down at the warm soup in her hands.
North ruffled her hair as he looked down at her with a smile. "Tomorrow. Right now you relax. Leave everything to us."
She watched as the others left to do what they need, happy that she was safe and with them now. She relaxed against Jack and soon fell asleep, knowing there wouldn't be any nightmares, and feeling safe with him there with her.
I have a message to any and all who are reading. I really hope this doesn't sound selfish, but I want to ask for any of those who have a deviantart account and can draw if you would be willing to draw Crystal, The darkness, Manny, Time, or her and Jack. I have a devianart account by the name of TenshiNoCrystal, but I can't draw too well. I thought I did but compared to others on there I can't draw much. I have seen people who will draw pictures of OC's in stories and I thought I could take the chance to ask all of you. SO please if you could, message me on deviantart or here.
Much THANKS