Wrong Side of the Moon

Chapter IV -The Guardian's Failure-

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Chapter IV

–The Guardian's Failure–

Sunday, 8 April 2012

HJP's POV

Jimmy looked uncertain at Jack, before walking slowly towards Harry and Pitch. His brown eyes looked up at Pitch with a mix between fear and expectation.

"You really can throw a snowball?"

"I'm the Bogeyman; I can throw more than just snowballs." Pitch retorted.

"Are you trying to make me afraid of you?"

"You don't need to be afraid, Jimmy!" Bunny argued.

Jimmy looked at Harry as he threw a snowball at Bunny.

"You should be afraid. If you never know fear, you can never fully grow up."

"Did you believe in the Guardians as you grew up?"

Harry leaned down and sat on the back of his heels to be at the boy's height.

"No. They gave up on me. Even to this day they badmouth me and call me names. But I do believe in Pitch. Even before I was turned into the Spirit of Death." Jimmy made a move to touch him, but Pitch stopped his hand. "If you touch me, you die."

"That's a terrible gift." Jimmy argued.

"I know." Harry agreed with a smile. "What do you think Jimmy Bennet? Do you want a lifetime with no pain and death and only hope and wonder... or do you want to live in a world where you have both?"

"There's never too much fear..." Jimmy put in, before glancing at the Nightmares. "At least as long as we can still hope and dream."

"Dream, hmmm?" Harry commented and picked his coin-pulse, from the inside golden sand started falling down. "Sandman is real." Harry whispered.

"Sandman is real." Jimmy repeated.

Harry smiled at the boy and threw a breath of powder into his eyes, while mixing it with nightmare sand.

"What are you doing, Banshee?" Bunny asked.

Harry looked at him with a glare and let Pitch pull him into the protection of shadows.

"If you believe in the Guardians and the Nightmare King, clap your hands." Harry clapped his hands, be repeating. "If you believe in the Guardians and the Nightmare King, clap your hands." Harry and Jack clapped their hands. "If you believe in the Guardians and the Nightmare King, clap your hands." The Guardians' eyes grew as Jimmy mid-sleep started clapping his hands. "If you believe in the Guardians and the Nightmare King, clap your hands." As Harry clapped the next time, the Guardians started regaining their powers.

Sandman appeared out of Jimmy's eyes and smiled at Harry, who bowed his head back. Dreams and Nightmares started moving and the lights in the sleight Globe started shining.

"Can you hear them? The clapping all over the world?" Harry asked. "Remember that next time you try to erase Pitch from their lives again."

"Vhy do thiz?"