New Guardian (ON HOLD)

Chapter 23

Holy Crap, I never thought this or any of my stories would get this far. I'm amazed, 23 chapters. I would like to thank every person that read this, even if you didn't like it. Those who gave me input and most of all, those who have been with this story through it all. *Gets teary eyed* Thank you, I couldn't have done it with out you. I ask for those G.I. Joe, Transformers, Inception, and Looking Glass Wars trilogy to read my other stories. ANYWAY ENJOY! I haven't had any soda or sugar, so it shouldn't get psycho in this, but it might. I'M SORRY FOR THE SHORTNESS!

"We should at least get her body, to show respect to who she really was." Jack dove into the pool before Bunny could stop him. She was on the bottom, but some bubbles escaped her mouth. She was still alive. Phoenix looked back to normal, fine, but confused. Jack grabbed her arm and pulled her back up. Once they were on dry land she started coughing up water.

"Wh- what happened? The last thing I remember was going to Pitch, then blackness." Phoenix was shaking. She had a cut on her stomach that was fatal, she would have died either was. "Jack! Jack, North isn't going to make it unless he gets help right this second." Tooth looked frantic. "What happened to North?" Tooth looked at Phoenix and understood instantly that she had no clue what happened.

Phoenix stood, shakily, and went to North. There were slight burn marks around the stab wound. "Did I do this?" She sounded horrified, but she looked worse. She was on the verge of passing out. Collapsing next to North she said, "Don't worry, you'll be fine but this will burn like hell." North groaned quietly. Phoenix put one hand on the pool of gold blood and another on the wound. North's body jerked suddenly, but Phoenix didn't notice. SHe glowed gold slightly, and the pool of blood was slowly decreasing. The wound looked like a scratch now and the color in North's face was returning.

"How nice, you use your last bit of energy you have to save the old man." Death appeared, and he looked angry. Phoenix was panting trying to stand again. "Well now you don't have strenght to fight me. Now to finish off my plan." Phoenix collasped, she didn't have enough blood. "You can't kill her," Jack said moving between Death and Phoenix.

Death smirked, "I'm not going to kill her, I'm actually doing her a favor." Little did they know everything they did to provent this actually helped me, Death though, chuckling on the inside.

"What are you going to do?" Jack hadn't moved. "What's the one thing you must all crave even slightly?" Everyone stared at him blankly. He moved to Phoenix, dispite Jack standing there, and touched her forhead. Color returned to her face, but something was different. As Death dissapeared he said one last word, finishing off his phrase from before, "Humanity."