Chapter 4

Pitch Black paced back and forth in frustration at his dark globe shining with all the Guardians believer's lights making it seem like it was the night sky, as his Nightmares eyed him warily. When Pitch lost the battle of Burgess and his minions turned on him, he had a hard time getting them back under his control, but he wasn't a old Lord High General of the Galaxies for nothing. Or at least had the memories of that faded time in his life.

He glared at the small strip of skin that appeared a few days ago on his right palm that was very slowly spreading. That was not part of the plan at all. The general was gone, dead, out of existence. Pitch slowed his angry thinking as he realized what made the skin pop up again. That family comment he made to Jack. Growling he ran into the shadows and came out under the deepest shadow that was being cast in a children's room. Twins from the look of it.

Pitch grinned evilly. He had some children to scare and hopefully gather some more of dark into himself, and cast this human side of him gone once and for all. As the shadows lengthened so did he, the terror of the dark was a delicious feast that he ate up in spades. As Pitch moved from shadow to shadow to house to house from alley ways to dim lit park paths, he glanced at his hand periodically. Finally, after a long nights work from coast to coast, the patch of skin had retreated, but a small scab of it remained.

He frowned at the scar looking wound. Calling on his darkest nightmare, he set off for the old country, were the dark was deepest and people still believed. Pitch Black willed his story to change once, he can do it again. Jack Frost will not defeat him. He had no power here, not anymore. He made sure of it.

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Bunny woke up first in Tooth's Palace and something whispered in his ear to gather his staff and chocolates. He nipped a snow globe from the now awake North, and got some supplies. He was still chuckling when he came back to see Tooth grab the still sputtering immortal teenager and heard her say, "Focus! You need to concentrate." Then she got distracted by Jack's teeth and stuck her fingers in his mouth. Her little mini-mes, Baby Tooth and Vanish gathered around Jack, listening intently at Tooth's instructions and sighs of awe. It was like being at the doctor's office while a student was visiting everyone to learn about the trade.

Jack now completely distracted from the Elsa/North kid thing, back up into the air to get away from Tooth. He gently swatted away all the tooth fairies, but let Baby Tooth stay on his head, who settled down a content coo. "Whoa, no touching my teeth? Remember? We have a deal."

"Oh right. Vanish, go get Jack's teeth." Tooth instructed her little sister who was trying her earnest to fluster Jack more then usual. Vanish pouted at her sister but went to work. Jack told Tooth his siblings names, Anna aka Mary and Jacknoick Ardelean.

Baby Tooth switched to Jack's shoulder as other mini-fairies went and grabbed those tooth boxes. Tooth lead the group to the pond near the mosaic art.

Vanish handed Jack his tooth box with bow and went to hover back with the other mini-fairies as Tooth took Baby Tooth onto her shoulder. She held Jack's siblings boxes in her hands.

Tooth flew out into the middle of the pond with the two boxes and let them go. They hovered in mid-air. Jack was standing on the ice turning his tooth box over and over in his hands. "Now what?" He asked uncertain. He was over the shot of warmth Vanish's presence always seem to give him.

Tooth smiled. "I don't know if what you say is true with your missing memories, but if it is true then this will bring to light what once was hidden. I haven't done this in ages. I almost forgotten how to do it." She smiled at her sister, who came and took her hand.

"It's how I knew I had a sister, a real sister. When Vanish's first teeth appeared from my mini-fairies, I didn't know what to think. So I concentrated on the love that my father and mother had for me. Instead of more mini-fairies coming from that love." Tooth's smile light up her face and lit her eyes.

Tears hovered in her eyes. "I saw Vanish's own memories, how my parents survived to have Vanish. It lead me to her, and I brought her back here. We haven't left each others sides until the Battle of Burgess." She didn't mention the unspoken friendly sister rivalry for Jack's attention. The poor teenager was embarrassed enough by Vanish's wild side.

"Jack I need you to concentrate on your frost magic, the memories of your family that you remember and form teeth to fit into the missing holes. Then Vanish and I will do the rest." Tooth's gaze looked up at the floating pillars of teeth making everyone follow. "It will look like that, but it will be different."

Tooth went over, steady Jack's tooth box as he formed three teeth and opened the box to put the teeth in. Before even the memories in the box could play out, a rush of cold light, like the core of a star being so hot it was cold, rushed out and frost started to form. Tooth had to yank back her hand before she got frostbitten.

Everyone backed up as Jack held his opened tooth box with wide eyes. He shot up into the air with the now opened boxes of his siblings their memories overlapping each other, forming and reforming in a triangle shape. But everyone's eyes were looking every where else once Jack stopped in mid air.

The frost that overlapped the boxes to form a surface so the memories would play out didn't stop at the other two boxes that were connected to Jack's. Instead of stopping there from Jack's box small glistering threads of light made from the thinnest frost possible shot out crossing up and down the whole palace, like the largest spider web ever dotted with fresh dew just before dawn.

Jack could now move his hand from his tooth box. He was left gasping at the overwhelming onslaught of memories that he couldn't really make sense of. "What, what's going on? I can recall so many children who knew me, even some adults. I, I, don't understand. I wasn't invisible and alone for so long like I thought. I had a family."

Jack closed his eyes to stop the images, and surprisingly had some success. He found he could speed up or slow down or even in some cases, erase the memories. The first one he did on accident, so he didn't do it for any of the others, he just shoved them all into the back of his mind.

He privately decided to never to mention the lady who threaten to throw herself into a volcano if Jack didn't marry her. She didn't of course but, luckily the man who became her beloved husband rescued her. Last that he knew they were still madly in love with each other. Honestly it was a bit nauseating at times.

Tooth and her fairies once the light frost show ended was tallying up all the people that Jack claimed to know. Once they were done, Tooth came down to the gathered group, as Jack's frost strands disappeared into light, leaving just the three siblings boxes connected to each others.

Tooth was frowning, something she had never done or at least in front of her friends. Stern yes, battle ready yes, but worried enough to frown, no. "There's a memory that one of my mini-fairies found that involves all of us. Well two really. It's a bit unsettling."

The intact memories outside of the tooth box came as a teardrop shape made of clear frost. Jack was the only one who could handle it. They watched as Jack dropped the teardrop frost onto the ice. It would change everything or almost everything they knew about themselves and their memories.