The Light In The Shadows (Book 2!)

Cold And Dark

The guardians walked through the woods, trying to find their way to Spirit Island.  "Um, do you know where we're going?" Tooth asked.  "Um, North, that's where the ship came from" Anna pointed at the broken pieces of the ship that headed forward.

Anna read through the books, looking at all the illustrations, symbols of symbols and magic, crystals, and more.  "Okay, there has to be an easier way of doing this without a Sleigh," Maui said.  "There is" Jack smirked as he winked at Elsa.

Elsa and Jack were laughing with glee and mischief, they created an ice path forward leading the crew away.  Anna stood in the back because her powers were melting the ice.  "AHH!" North, Eugene, and Maui screamed as they uncontrollably slid down, while the girls and the kids screamed with joy.

"Uh, Jack, what happened the last time you did this?" Anna asked.  "Uh, Jamie lost a tooth," Jack said.  "Haha, wait, what?" Anna asked as she quickly stopped laughing, she didn't wanna lose a tooth. 

"Are we almost there?" Amber asked, enjoying how beautiful the wind made her blonde hair.  Merida enjoyed the wind in her hair, she felt like she was riding her horse, Angus, through the woods.

Jack decided to have a little fun, he flew the ice path higher into the sky and quickly dove down, laughing at Bunnymund's screams of terror as he did a loop.  "I hope you like the loopy-loop, kangaroo" he grinned.  "I hope you like carrots!" Bunny held his stomach, feeling like he was about to throw up, and somehow hoping it would hit Jack.

"We're here" Elsa and Jack's ice path came to a halt as they looked in the distance, they saw an island, it was completely white, but one problem...

It was blocked by a whole ocean.  "Let me try," Moana said, but as she approached the Ocean, something felt different about this part of the sea.  "This feels...different" Moana said.  "Something isn't right," Hiccup said, he had a bad feeling in his stomach.

"Your right, dragon tamer" a voice called from behind.

They looked behind to see Pitch, Dr.  Facilier, Mor'du, Mother Gothel, Hans, Te Ka, and Drago, with a whole gang of nightmares and shadows behind them.  "You followed my hints" Dr. Facilier leaned on his staff.  "Back off," Rapunzel said, her eyes started to glow.  "Oh, daughter, you so funny" Mother Gothel laughed.  "Were not you daughters," Rapunzel and Cassandra said in unison.

The guardians got in a battle-ready stance.  Elsa and Anna's hands started to glow, Hiccup, North, and Cassandra drew their swords, Merida took out her bow and arrow, staring the Mor'du, Moana clenched her Oar in her hand, as did Jack with his staff, and Maui with his hook, Sofia got out the whip of her Enchanlet, and Amber and James held up the swords they got from North.

"Go," Pitch said, and the nightmares and shadows attacked.

The guardians fought off every nightmare and shadow that came their way, Anna's fore, Elsa's ice, Rapunzel's solar energy, Cassandra's black rocks, Moana's water, Maui's shapeshifting, Merida's bow and arrow, Hiccup's sword, Totthless's fire, and more.

As Jack continued to blast the nightmares with frost, a swarm of black sand made its way towards him and plunged him into the sea, he didn't even have a moment to catch his breath. 

"Jack!" They yelled, they wanted to help him, but couldn't, they were too busy fighting their own battles.

Jack fell deeper and deeper into the black sea.  This was too familiar to him.  The cold around him, stinging him, he's never felt pain like this out of all the years he's been alive.  His lungs clenching and begging for air within him.

He tried to free himself, but he dropped his staff on land.  Fear filled his entire body.  The water.  The water scared him.  He was far too familiar with the sense of drowning, unable to escape.  He remembered the land above him, unable to reach it.  He sank deeper, and soon, he began to lose consciousness.  The sinking feeling...returning.