Breath taker

Part 8- Greeting An Old Enemy

Hi! I keep forgetting to tell you guys about this thing. So each of the guardians have their own little headquarters, where they work. Sandman's is one that I've made up from the little that I know about him and my imagination. The movie is based off of the books, which have more information on all the guardians, so they probably have a different headquarters for him in them. Unfortunately, I do not have the books so I do not know what it might be. So his headquarters is one that I made up.

"Hang on everyone! I have a shortcut." North called out. He pulled out a snow globe and whispered to it "Sandcastle." . Immediately the inside of the snow globe changed to reveal a golden castle. North threw it in front of the sleigh and it smashed, transforming into a magic portal.

They flew through it and on the other side, they saw chaos. The sandy golden castle which sat atop a golden cloud was being covered in black shadows. Around it were nightmares, flying back and forth, spreading trails of black sand over top the castle.

"What are they doing?" the Grim Reaper yelled. "They're getting rid of the dream sand!" Bunny realized. Sandy seemed to remember something. Pulling on Jack's sleeve he made a bunch of signs above his head.

"What is it Sandy? Air conditioner? No? Water wheel? Fixing something?" he asked trying to guess what he was trying to say.

"The machine that makes the dream sand?" the Grim Reaper guessed. Sandman nodded and pointed at her. "The what?" Jack asked.

"Sandy's castle has a machine in it that takes the joy of children and the song of lullabies and turns it into dream sand. If they're destroying the castle, then they'll be destroying the machine. Sandy won't be able to use dream sand anymore! Wait, how did you know about it Reaper?" Bunny asked her suspicious of her.

"He was charading the sentence with his sand. I'm decent at charades. I guessed the sentence Did I know what it meant? No. But thanks for explaining it. Also how did you get water wheel out of that?" she asked Jack, unamused at Bunny's constant suspicions of her.

"Guys, they've spotted us!" Tooth called out before Jack could respond. Looking up, they saw that about half of the nightmares were charging at them.

They immediately went into action. Sandy used his golden whip to strike down nightmares, Bunny threw his boomerangs, North, wielding one sword, struck down nightmares while holding the reins, Tooth ran through the nightmares with the point of her beak, Jack shot ice blasts at them and the Grim Reaper flew off the sleigh, her scythe in hand she struck down the nightmares, one by one.

While the other guardians concerned themselves with the nightmares attacking the sleigh, she flew forward toward the nightmares attacking the castle, slicing down at least twenty five of them before joining the Guardians who were landing now.

As she rejoined them, they were getting out of the sleigh, Sandy immediately rushed out of the sleigh and into the castle, to where the sand machine was. They all followed suit, and were shocked at what they saw.

The entire inside of the castle was black, dark. Everything, from the sandy walls, to the sandy floor, to the golden glass ceilings was now black.

"I'd make a joke about this, but it clearly isn't time." the Grim Reaper said as they ran down the hallways, after the Sandman.

They then, broke through to the main room, which held the dream machine. They gasped at the sight.

The dream machine was completely black, and covered in cracks. The chute which dropped the sand into the room was empty. The piles of sand in the room were the black sand of nightmares.

"It's destroyed. It's completely and utterly destroyed." Tooth said, shocked at the sight.

"Well, well, well. You've all finally arrived. The big five, all together again. I'm a little amazed. Did you like my show on the globe North?" the voice of Pitch could be heard, filling the room. Looking up, the guardians noticed him, standing on top of the dream machine.

Angry, the Sandman stepped forward, a look of hate on his face, but no dream sand above his head. Looking up, he appeared shocked at the lack of sand above his head.

"What was that little man? Can't say anything without your sand? That's a pity. For you." Pitch laughed.

Lorelai stood slightly away from the guardians, thoughts pacing through her head at the sight of Pitch.

Not him, why did it have to be him? I'm going to kill him. I hate him.

"Wait a minute? Is that the Grim Reaper?" he chuckled, disappearing from sight. "How have you been Azrael? It's been too long since I've seen you." he appeared behind her.

She brought her scythe down on him but he vanished before she could hit him.

"Not long enough." she muttered through gritted teeth.

Calm. Calm. Calm down. Don't give him the advantage. Stay calm. Stay in control. Don't give him that pleasure. Be calm.

"Oh really? I'd disagree. You left last time without saying goodbye. You must have been very busy for the past one thousand something years for me to have been unable to find you." he laughed cockily.

"Maybe I didn't want to be found." she whispered.

"Oh really? Well then, either way, as interesting as your appearance is, you aren't my priority right now, so I'll just ignore you for now." he said reappearing, facing the Guardians.

"What do you want this time Pitch?" Tooth asked.

"Oh, same as last time, you know. Be believed in, destroy any form of hope and belief that the children have in you. Only this time, I will succeed. And there will be no more light. Only darkness and fear."

With that, he disappeared.