Chapter Five

I reread that part…it sounds awkward to me…bleh. It was unedited. All of them are unedited. Maybe I should get a beta reader.

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"Now where are we?" Bunny groaned, feeling a bump on his head on where he had collided with the stony ground.

They were definitely out of Pitch's lair, but this didn't look much better. A desolate place, that part was obvious. Darkness and grim seemed to hang at every corner of the stone walls.

"Why, this is Pitch's abandoned lair in Germany, of course!" Jack said, perching on his staff somehow.

The Guardians shot to their feet. "What happened to you?" Bunny asked.

Jack grinned, completely carefree. "I was turned dark two centuries ago," he explained. "When Pitch captured me, along with a few other new spirits. They managed to escape, of course, in the process leaving me." Jack's expression soured into one of disdain. "That was the tipping point, and I turned into one of Pitch's puppets. I do try to wrestle myself out of his control, but…" he shrugged, as if indicating he was helpless. "It's no use. Nightmares patrolling the perimeter, the children that he managed to turn as well, and also the occasional Fearling here and there."

Then he brightened considerably. "Enough about me. Where do you need to go next?"

North stared at the completely different teen. "Er…Burgess…?" It turned out more of a question than anything.

"Burgess. Stay tight, then, and don't scream!" Without warning, Jack launched himself into the air, and the Guardians gave a yelp. They were flying.

Bunny was downright screaming his head off, shouting curses at the white haired spirit, whilst Sandy was sitting upon one of his golden sand clouds, enjoying the sudden and unexpected flight immensely. Tooth was also grinning, her white sparkling teeth revealed openly. North was bouncing at the air currents, whooping. "Faster!" He shouted over the wind. Bunny's eyes bulged wide open-well, wider than they were already.

"Are ya trying ta kill us?" He screamed. "He's a bloody immortal, and we are human!" The others ignored him, though Sandy spared him a pitying glance. Jack grinned tauntingly. "Afraid of a little height, Cottontail?" He ordered the wind to dive forwards, and Bunny clutched North for dear life as Jack performed a series of airborne patterns. The wind nudged them teasingly, and turned a loop de loop. North pumped his fist into the air, shouting, "Yeah!". Bunny was too startled to say anything, Sandy was smiling, and Tooth was hovering around, darting energetically.

And so the Guardians began their journey back to Burgess, unaware of the threat that awaited them below.

School starts soon. Not much time to write left.