The First One (ROTG FanFic)

Chapter One

~An Insane Amount Of Years Later At The Final Battle~

*POV-Third Person*

The Guardians and their small group of children skid to a stop. Jack Frost and Santa Claus, more commonly known to the Guardians as North, look up at Pitch Black on his Nightmare horse on the top a tall building. Toothiana and Bunnymund both look up also. The kids stop and stare openmouthed, one of the children keeps running, cheering, then sees Pitch and turns around yelling.

Pitch smirks smugly.

"You think a few children can help you? Against THIS?" He speaks, gesturing to the massive cloud of pure Fear in the form of Nightmaresand.

North points his sword up at Pitch, but wavers and has to lower it to use it as a tool to help him stand up. Tooth and Jack go to help him. Jamie, one of the kids, takes a step forward, worried. Jack turns around and tried to reassure him.

"They're just bad dreams, Jamie." He speaks soothingly. Jamie still looks worried. Bunny, turns around and speaks also.

"We'll protect you, mate." He says to Jamie and the other children.

"Aw, you'll protect them," Pitch chuckles darkly. "but who'll protect YOU?"

The Guardians look down, unsure. Jamie thinks quickly then looks determined as Jack puts a hand on North's arm reassuringly, then steps towards Pitch determinedly, unaware of Jamie stepping forward also. Jack stops and looks at Jamie confused.

"I will." Jamie speaks firmly. Jack looks at him in shock.

Cupcake, another of the kids, also steps forward firmly.

"I will." She walks forward and stops to stand next to Jamie. Two others, both boys and both brothers, both also shove each other forward and speak.

"I will."

"I will." North and Tooth exchange a look of disbelief. Jamie looks back at his friends as the only other girl in the group, besides Cupcake, steps forward along with the young boy who had ran forward earlier.

"And me." She says. The young boy looks at the others helplessly.

"Uh... uh, I'll try." He says unsurely. Jack and Jamie exchange a glance and Jack nods approvingly, then they all look back at Pitch, a new determination on their faces as they raise their weapons/fists.

"Still believe there's no such thing as the Boogeyman?" Pitch says mockingly and motions the massive cloud of Nightmaresand forward. As the could rushes forward to meet the small group of heroes, Jamie looks straight at Pitch, unafraid.

"I do believe in you, I'm just not AFRAID of you." Jamie speaks as everyone else looks around in fear. As the cloud condenses into a focused stream, Jack looks up at it in fear and everyone cowers back, everyone but Jamie. Jamie raises one hand towards the Nightmaresand.

As the Nightmaresand touches his hand, it turns into Dreamsand! The Dreamsand flows around them, and goes backward, making the rest of the Nightmaresand into Dreamsand.

"Whoa-oh-oh!" Jamie exclaims in wonder and awe as everyone looks around at the Dreamsand.

From the top of another building, a lone figure stands in the darkness, watching the events unfolding in front of her. She sighs, reluctantly doing nothing. She knows that she cannot change the course of it until the very end when Pitch is unconscious and Sandman, Sandy, comes back. How does she know these things you wonder? Well, she's Lady Genevieve. She knows all.

Anyways, the children and Guardians are laughing while they look around. Pitch, on the other hand, is looking around in horror and anger that his plan didn't work. Suddenly, Tooth can fly again, the children cheer, and North returns to his healthy self and can stand again.