ALL RIGHT MY MIGHTY FOLLOWERS, THE STORY IT'S NEAR THE END! Also this is the longest chapter I have writen... wow.
Once again, thank you kindly for the reviews… and enjoy what's about to come... let me warn you that there is going to be blood in this chapter... Muajaja!
"Pitch" Jack said the word like it was poison, as he glared at his enemy.
"Oh good, you remember me" Pitch said in a cheery tone.
"Where is she?" Jack managed to ask in a calm yet cold voice.
"Ah… down to the main point… so soon?" Pitch asked, smiling. Jack's glare intensified.
"Well, well, you really care about dear Toothiana. Well, here she is" the Boogeyman said with a wave of his hand. Tooth appeared right next to him, tied up with black sand. Her mouth was constricted with a piece of cloth, to prevent her from speaking. Jack clenched his fists.
"Let her go" he demanded.
"Humm… no" Pitch let out a cold laugh as Jack's eyes widened up.
"Haven't you realized it yet? I finally have the chance to get my revenge. You're right where I wanted you to be, both of you. The rest should probably come sooner or later to end them as well… But in the meantime, I made a deal with my ally" Pitch said.
"Ally?" Jack asked in confusion. Tooth tried to shout, and shook her head violently, trying to warn him about something. He turned around just in time to see a fire ball coming directly at him. He barely ducked it. To his horror, he knew who had a tendency of throwing those things at him.
"Hello Frost" Amelia said with an evil grin on her face.
Meanwhile, in the prom, chaos had ensued. People were looking frantically for Tooth after they heard her scream. The rest of the Guardians, the Burgess gang, Rosi and Amanda were also looking for Jack.
"He obviously knows where Tooth is" Jamie said.
"Yeah, but where could he had gone?" Rosi asked.
"Or better yet, who could have done this? I thought Tooth said no one knew about you guys being human" Amanda said. A realization hit North. He counted the events on the last two days. Tooth's nightmare, Jack's heat wave…
"Pitch and Amelia. They knov" he said.
"What?! But how?" Bunny asked.
"It doesn't matter. Ve need to find out vhere they took Tooth, because they may have knovn hov important is Jack for her, meaning that…" North started guessing.
"It's a trap" Bunny finished realizing the danger that Tooth and Jack where facing.
"I know this is all important and all, but who the heck is Amelia? Because I'm certain you are not talking about Amy Pond" Amanda said while ignoring the confused look Rosi gave her.
"The summer spirit" North said. Both girls let out a silent "Oh".
"But guys, have you stopped to think that maybe… it's also a trap for you?" Jamie asked.
"Yes, kiddo. We know" Bunny said. Everyone fell silent. Amanda then noticed a burnt paper in the ground.
"Um… guys? I just found this" she said as showed the rest the note that Jack received. North cursed in Russian.
"Let's go" he said.
"We are going with you" Jamie said.
"No kiddo. This is between us and Pitch. And Amelia too, I guess" Bunny said.
"But we can help!" Cupcake said.
"Yeah! Just like the last time!" Pippa said.
"Last time was different. We were immortal. Even if you kids would have stop believing, we wouldn't die. We would just be weak" Sandy said. And with that said they left.
"They are going to get killed" Rosi whispered in horror.
"Not if we do something about it" Jamie said as he glanced at a clock. It was 10.30 p.m
"Oh come on Frost! JUST DIE ALREADY!" Amelia growled in frustration as she threw three fireballs at Jack. They had been playing the same game for like, what? 30 minutes? An hour? Jack didn't know. He just knew that as soon as he dodged the first fireball, he had been running around the lake and the woods surrounding it while attempting not to became 'Frost-a-la-beef'.
"Why are you doing this?!" Jack asked before dodging another fireball.
"Why? WHY?! BECAUSE YOU DON'T DESERVE TO EXIST! EVERYONE WAS HAPPY UNTIL YOU SHOWED UP! YOU CAME AND RUINED EVERYTHING! YOU, WITH YOUR STUPID SNOW DAYS AND SNOW BALLS AND IDEAS OF FUN!" Amelia screamed in rage. Jack froze in his spot at this revelation. He knew that Amelia didn't like him, but this… attempted murder was definitely something completely immoral.
Seeing that Jack was distracted, Amelia decided to take the opportunity to fire at him. Jack tried to move out of the way, but the fireball managed to burn his right shoulder. He fell to the ground hissing in pain. Amelia smiled and proceeded to place her foot over Jack's injury, while enjoying Jack's scream of pain and ignoring Tooth' looks of horror. Pitch just stood at the edge of the lake, smiling as he watched the scene.
"PITCH!". Two voices entered the scene.
"Oh, North, Bunny, Sandy. I was starting to wonder where you had been" Pitch said as he turned around. As soon as he did, however, Bunny charged against him, slamming the Boogeyman into the floor as he punched him in the face. Seizing the opportunity, Tooth managed to break free from her sand ropes and charged against Amelia, slamming her into the cold frozen ice. Meanwhile, Pitch had retaliated by sending a sand horse to hit Bunny. He then proceed to command more sand minions to attack North and Sandy, who were trying their best to avoid the black sand.
Jack quickly got up as soon as Tooth fought with Amelia. As he clutched his injured shoulder, he also charged against Amelia, who had recovered from Tooth's attack and was now pulling the Tooth Fairy by the hair.
"Why are you working with Pitch?!" Jack angrily asked as he grabbed a rock and threw it to the summer spirit.
"To get rid of you!" she answered as she dodged the rock and dropped Tooth to the ground.
"And what did he promise in return?! Believers?!" he said as he threw another rock. Tooth managed to get up and soon followed Jack's example. Amelia was about to answer until one the rocks hit her. Letting out a scream, she created a blade made out of flames and threw it at Tooth's direction, who moved just in time.
"Oh this is just hilarious! All of you human, and trying and failing to stop me and Amelia! This is just great!" Pitch said as he laughed, enjoying the Guardians´ efforts to stay alive. Jack decided to attack him, but before he could do something, Amelia ruined his chance.
"Behind you!" she said. Pitch turned and grabbed Jack by the throat.
"Really, Jack? What made you think that was going to work" he asked in a slight bored tone as Jack tried to get free from the firm grip around his neck.
"Jack!" Tooth and North screamed, but before they could get to him, Amelia created a ring of fire around them, preventing them to aid him. Sandy and Bunny were in a similar position with the sand minions.
"Nothing can save you! You will all be gone before Man in Moon gives you your powers back!" Pitch gloated.
"And now, dear Guardians… prepare to-!" a water balloon hit Pitch right in the face, cutting his dramatic speech.
"Excuse us Pitch… you have company" Jamie said as he held a water balloon. Behind him, the rest of the gang, Rosi and Amanda were holding water guns and had bags full of 'weapons'.
"That's Pitch?" Rosi asked.
"What is it with bad guys and British accents?" Amanda asked to no one in particular.
"Kids?! What are you doing here?!" Tooth asked.
"Saving your butts" Cupcake simply said.
"It's not safe!" Bunny yelled as he struggled with the nightmares. The kids ignored him.
"ATTACK!" Rosi commanded. And once again, chaos ensued. The children and teenagers charged against the nightmares with water and kitchen flour. Amelia got soaked with water balloons and water pistols. The twins gave North and Tooth some plastic swords; Bunny and Sandy received flying disks and jumping ropes from Amanda. In the middle of the commotion, Pitch dropped Jack to the ground as he drew a black cycle and tried to get rid of him. Jack moved in time and Pippa managed to throw him a hockey stick, which he gladly used to hit Pitch in the face.
"This has to be the craziest idea ever, Jamie. I like it" Jack said as he and the kid got rid of some horses.
"Yeah, it took some time to convince Amanda and Rosi that this would work" he said. Jack laughed. He glanced over his shoulder and saw Pitch coming over Tooth, who hit him square on the face and dropped him, unconscious. The nightmares stopped attacking almost instantly.
"Way to go girl!" Rosi said.
"Well, no one kidnaps me and gets away with it" Tooth said.
"Speaking of kidnappers" North said as he gestured to Amelia.
"What time is it?" Bunny asked.
"11.30" Amanda replied as she glanced at her phone. Jack walked towards Amelia.
"What do you want?" she asked in frustration.
"Answers, Amelia. Why did you join Pitch?" Jack asked.
"He offered me the chance to get rid of you" she simply said.
"That's all? What about the others?" he continued pushing.
"I really didn't care what happened to them" she growled as she felt her power surface. With one rapid movement, she pushed him aside and grabbed Tooth, making a line of fire that separated the others from Jack and her. With a wave of her hand, she made the same transparent flames she summoned yesterday appear in her hand. She held them close to Tooth.
"But, I'm reconsidering that. He promised me that we would make you suffer, and since you seem to be in love-" she said the two words with a mocking tone as she looked at the struggling Tooth. The only reason she couldn't get away was because Amelia was burning her hand. "- with her, it would be a pity that she was gone, don't you think?" she said, her eyes glinting with evil. Jack paled.
"Amelia you- you wouldn't get this far. THAT WOULD BE MURDER!" he said with horror.
"Well, it certainly wouldn't be the first time… do you know how many people I have killed with these flames?" she asked. But before anything else could be said or done, Amelia was soaked once again with a water gun. Amelia dropped Tooth in the watery commotion and Jack caught her.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"If I ignore the pain in my arm, then I'm perfectly fine" Tooth replied through gritted teeth. They both got away of Amelia while she turned around looking for the culprit, to find it in Rosi, who had found a hole in the circle of flames that the summer spirit created.
"Listen lady, I don't know you and you don't know me, but I can't allow you to break the happy couple" Rosi hissed as she charged the water pistol.
"YOU FOOL!" Amelia said in rage. She blasted Rosi with the flames she had planed using on Tooth. The brunette couldn't get out of the way in time and the flames hit her square in the chest, sending her backwards and into a tree. She fell to the ground, and she didn't move.
"ROSI!" they all screamed in horror. Amanda rushed to her friend's aid. In the middle of all of this, no one noticed that Pitch had woken up, nor that he had positioned himself behind Jack… and that he had a black dagger in his hand…until it was too late.
"Pity for your friend. She is probably as good as dead" he said. Before Jack or Tooth could react, he plunged the blade into Jack's stomach. The winter spirit let out a silent scream, as he felt his body go numb.
"But so are you" Pitch said as he twisted the blade and got it out. Jack dropped to the ground on his knees as the blood from his wound started to spread.
"JACK!" Tooth screamed. Everyone turned from Rosi to Jack and gasped in horror.
"You two… YOU TWO ARE MONSTERS!" Jamie yelled at Pitch and Amelia. They both laughed as Pitch commanded more nightmares to appear. The rest didn't have any other choice but to resume fighting as Tooth laid Jack down and took him in her arms as she ripped a part of her dress and pressed into the wound. Meanwhile, the battle wasn't going on well: Everyone was being cornered by the nightmares; some were preventing Amanda from helping out Rosi, who still remained unmoving.
"Jack… Jack, please, stay with me, it's almost midnight. You are going to make it" she said. Jack opened his eyes slightly. He felt tired… and in a great amount of pain.
"Tooth…" he tried to say, but she cut him.
"Save your strength, okay?" she said, tears starting to form in her eyes. Jack gave her a weak smile.
"Rosi… we owe her this… me and you…" he said. Tooth nodded in agreement.
"Yes, we do" she said. Jack coughed and some blood came out of his mouth. Tooth held him closer.
"Everything is going to be fine" she assured him.
"Tooth… look at me" Jack said weakly. His voice was barely a whisper and it was a miracle that Tooth could nearly hear because of the battle around them.
"What is it?" she asked. Jack looked at her eyes.
"I love you" he said as he exhaled difficulty… and he closed his eyes. His chest stopped moving.
"No… no! NO!" Tooth said as she tried to make out a heartbeat. She wasn't finding one.
"Jack… Jack! JACK!" she cried. He was dead. She hugged his body as she kept on crying. Pitch and Amelia laughed.
"FINALLY! One Guardian down and four more to go!" Pitch said. He smiled when he saw the horror and fear in the children's and Guardians faces. He looked down at Tooth holding Jack. He almost felt pity for her.
"Don't worry, Toothiana. You shall join him soon" he said as he drew his cycle out. Tooth prepared herself for the strike…
… That never came. Confused, she opened her eyes and saw that she was being surrounded by familiar silver light.
Midnight had arrived.