Mwhaha, Well I'm back, with a New Chapter…. Well let's see what Sophie has in store for her Brother and Jack….. Something tells me it's not looking too good for them….

Just as a note, there will be flashback throughout the Arc, each dating back to either just before the war to just after the first war.

Chapter Twenty-Three: Keeping the Peace.

Sophie walked into her room, feeling satisfied that she'd shouted at them enough that she'd made a point, Why were they arguing when there was enemies to fight and Family around them?

Then again they'd both yelled back, finding fault with her argument, but at least they had stopped shouting at each other for (What she guessed) once. She decided to check that Jamie was okay, remembering the 'Final' Battle and how much she only just realised that Both the boys had changed, Jack had matured slightly and Jamie had grown in strength,

**Flashback**

Sophie stood up on the hill, between Jack and Jamie, lightning and Rain falling around them, the army of Spirits, Element Soldiers and Animals, gathered around them the enemy down the hill,

"Ready?" Jack asked looking around, the 'Captains' nodded,

"For Freedom! For Believers!" Jamie called, an Answering roar followed along with the soldiers charging forward, towards the army, Jack and Jamie (As Always) Flying above them, Swords and staff in hands as they crashed into the centre of the army, ice and Lightning blasting around them.

Sophie herself was busy duelling two Beasts, her sword, fashioned from the finest silver blocking the rough, daemonic looking blade, she span around and cut them both down, standing tall she watched as the commander of the enemy charged forward slamming Soldiers away, she ran forward and brought her blade forward, trying to fight the great foe.

When she was defeat, the enemy raised his blade above her heart and prepared to slam it to down through her heart, then Bunny appeared, his boomerangs launching off towards the darkened figure, stopping the blade, then North's blade blocked the attack and the large man stepping over Sophie to duel with the figure.

**End Flashback**

Sophie sighed at this point, rubbing an eye as she knocked on Jamie's door, hoping against hope that he answered without shouting, to her disgust, the door didn't open. She knocked again and again, and again. Each time her anger grew until she kicked the door, which opened instantly.

Sophie smiled as she walked inside, The room beyond was plain, as if it were a guest room. There was only a bed, wardrobe and desk in the room, the desk covered with books, paper and pens. The wardrobe door left open and several copies of the same outfit sat there.

Then she turned her attention to the bed, there was clearly a human form under the blanket, curled up in a ball.

"Jamie?" Sophie asked placing a hand on Jamie's form,

"Why Soph?" Jamie's voice came out broken, "Why us?"

"Because you're the best, always were and always will be" Sophie replied,

"But… it hurts so much" Jamie replied, "To yell at him, to hate his calm manor"

"Its how you cope, Jack… probably would do the same…. If he was you" Sophie replied,

"But… I need to stay strong…. I can't just fall down and cry.. I need to look strong… Jack just's…. he's there" Jamie replied,

"I Know…. Maybe you need to be telling him this, not me" Sophie replied,

"He'll have left by now… back to the ice Fortress, its where he spends all of his time" Jamie replied, "Its like he can't bear to be near me anymore…."

"That's not true" Came A voice from the doorway, Sophie turned to face Rose standing there, she glided into the room and created a pure white rose placing it on the desk, "Jack is with Mother at the moment, deep within the Tree, its where he goes after ever argument, every battle. Jack always was her favourite, not that anyone minds."

"What do they do?" Sophie asked,

"Mother keeps Jack going, I think without her he'd buried himself in his lake again…" Rose replied sitting next to Sophie.

"I Thought you all hated Jack?" Sophie asked,

"We learned to respect him during the first days of the war." Rose replied, "Even Reece holds high respect for Jack now"

Then Reece appeared, "We have a problem, Remember that army down by the edge of Mothers domain?"

"Yeah?" Jamie poked his head out from under the blanket and looked at Reece.

"Jack's just marched his army out of the Fortress, their heading straight for them" Reece replied,

"And Jacks?" Jamie asked,

"Right in the front row" Reece nodded,

"Rally the spirits we can, I'm going to try and help" Jamie replied vanishing in a glow of white light,

"How does he do that?" Sophie asked

"Warp? Manny granted us the power just after the grand battle, Wind takes too long to get us places, so we warp there instead" Reece replied, "Any Rose, can we….?"

"Count on the army of Spring to come" Rose vanished followed by Reece, Sophie looked around she was alone in Jamie's room, she rushed out towards where Mother would normally stand, however all she could find was an empty throne and two doors, from behind which she could hear snoring, poking her head inside she saw her kids asleep, gold sand floating above their heads.

Sophie then noticed two things in the throne room she could've sworn weren't there before, her armour, blade and shield as well as a snow globe.

She instantly smiled grabbing the armour and snow globe, readying herself for battle.

(The Battlefield)

Jack stood infront of his men, they were lined up behind him as he once more drew his sword and staff, watching the opposing army of daemons, their leader clearly visible in the centre of the field, walking forward, Jack followed suit until they were a few steps away from one another.

"I Am Jackson Overland Frost, One of the High Commanders of the Spirit army and Guardian of Fun, I Request you answer my question before we begin" Jack told the enemy commander,

"What isss it you want to know?" The beast called,

"Where are they?" Jack asked,

"Where are who?" The Beast asked,

"Where is the Brotherhood? The brotherhood are the leaders of this army, so where are they?" Jack asked,

"Where did you get thissss information?" the Beast asked,

"I Figured it out, the Tricksters can duplicate anything, even spirits. So it was quite easy to work out that they'd been the ones to battle that day, where as the Brotherhood remained in the shadows growing ever stronger, its was them who has been killing off believers in an attempt to weaken us, now I shall not repeat myself again, where are they?" Jack asked,

"Well, well, well, it has been a long time Jackson, it is nice to see you again. And such FEAR I smell, do you know that your tale is coming to an end, that your anger will destroy you, that the night you sleep, my ultimate Nightmare will engulf you, destroying you for eternity?" Came a cold voice from Jack's left, Jack breathed in and looked around,

He knew what he'd see there, but seeing them, made his heart beat faster out of fear.

Standing there was the entire of the Brotherhood, Pitch Black stood in the centre, a battle axe in hand,

"Pitch Black, how many times must we kill you?" Jack asked raising his staff and blade,

"You Can't kill fear Jack…. And I AM FEAR ITSELF!" Pitch called as the Daemon army marched forward and the Brotherhood charged at Jack, who sighed and charged headlong in to battle once more, knowing there was no chance of victory.

And Scene!

There we go, just a little bit of character bonding there, as well as a flashback to the war, and then the return of the Brotherhood (They just won't quit will they?)

Anyway, I'm going to need 222 reviews.

Next Chapter will see:

Jack Vs. The Brotherhood (All seven members)
The Return of the Guardians.
Nature's might Unleashed
Possible Jack/Jamie rebonding?

Find out Next time