Good Luck Mr. Snowman

Ten

Jack, Sandy, and I chased the two nightmare horses through the city sky. Sandy followed one horse through an open window and Jack and I followed the other to a rooftop where Jack froze it.

"I got it!" Jack exclaimed, flying over to it, "Sandy, Clover did you see that?"

"Nice job, but ice can thaw out you know," I replied as I shattered the ice encrusted nightmare horse by shooting a clover dagger at it from my staff.

"Look at this thing," Jack poked the pieces with his staff.

"Clover, Frost," Pitch came out of the shadows behind him and Jack tried to shoot him with ice, "You know, for neutral parties, you spend an awful lot of time with those weirdoes. This isn't your fight."

"You made it my fight when you stole those teeth," Jack said as we turned around to see Pitch standing on a roof higher than us.

"Teeth, why do you care about the teeth?" Pitch questioned, gasping and jumping to the side when he saw Sandy next to him, "Now this is who I'm looking for."

Sandy made whips out of his dream sand and attempted to hit Pitch. He dodged them all and swung at Sandy with a scythe made of nightmare sand. I shot clover daggers at him from my staff, but his scythe swung toward Jack and I and took them out. Jack had to pull me down with him to avoid the two of us becoming shish kabobs as well.

Eventually Sandy locked onto his target with one of his whips and made Pitch airborne. He then pulled him down to hit the ground and a wall quickly before tossing him into an alley. A car alarm went off and Sandy wiped his hands together in the universal sign of the end of a hard day's work.

"Remind me not to get on your bad side," Jack spoke to Sandy and the three of us flew down to meet Pitch again.

"Okay, easy, you can't blame me for trying Sandy, you don't know what it's like to be weak and hated, it was stupid of me to mess with your dreams. So, I'll tell you what," Pitch got an evil smirk on his face as he said, "You can have 'em back."

Nightmare horses came up out of manholes, alleys, and rooftops, surrounding us completely.

"You take the one's on the left, I'll take the one's on the right?" Jack questioned Sandy.

"I'll cover whoever's lagging behind," I stated, holding my staff in a fighting position.

Pitch came out of nowhere riding one of his nightmare horses and Sandy faced him, making his dream sand whips once more.

"Boo," Pitch broke the silence and his horse minions charged at us.

North's sleigh flew overhead, the guardians and Affiah all asleep inside. Tooth was hunched over North and Affiah had her head on Bunny's shoulder. The sleigh ran into the top of a building and everyone was startled into waking up.

Sandy, Jack and I were fighting with everything we had, but the nightmares still encircled us, so Sandy flew us into the sky where our battle continued. Sandy's whips were flying like crazy and Jack's ice hit horses by the dozens, yet still more came. My clover daggers took out a few, but weren't as effective as the beams of rainbow I could shoot from my staff, so I stuck to that.

Tooth flew into the fray and beat up a few horses quickly. Bunny jumped off the sleigh and took out a few that were close to the rooftops before grabbing onto the runners and swinging himself back up to stand with North, who slashed at nightmares left and right.

I saw Jack fly down out of the way of two horses, their speed making them collide head on, but he was hit by another and lost his grip on his staff. I flew down and took his hand just as his other grabbed his staff, and set him down softly on the sleigh's runners.

"You might wanna duck," Bunny looked at us and said calmly.

I moved out of the way and Jack did as Bunny suggested, the two of us narrowly missing his boomerang as it came back to him. He smirked at us victoriously when it took out a nightmare that was headed our way.

Meanwhile, Sandy was fending for himself on a cloud of his dream sand, nightmare sand surrounding him and nightmare horses coming at him from every angle. He was severely outnumbered, but he still put up a good fight.

"We gotta help Sandy," Jack spoke up, noticing the same thing I did.

North changed the direction of his sleigh, but he wasn't fast enough, so Jack and I took off toward our golden friend. I saw Pitch pull back a weird looking arrow of nightmare sand and fire it at Sandy's back. I was too stunned to warn him and he was hit.

"No!" Jack exclaimed and pushed himself faster.

"Don't fight the fear little man," Pitch laughed as the nightmare sand slowly spread throughout Sandy.

The nightmare sand that circled him got closer. North and Tooth tried to fly to him, but some nightmare horses got in their way.

"I'd say sweet dreams, but there aren't any left," Pitch looked too happy for his own good.

Sandy's golden sand was gone before Jack and I could get there. We stopped flying in shock, I knew he was outnumbered, but for him to actually be gone...

"No," Jack said in disbelief, "Nooo!"

"Sandy!" I felt sadness encompass me before anger took over.

Jack and I flew swiftly toward Pitch, just itching for revenge. He sent a wave of nightmare sand at us, but we kept flying. The first of it battered me and I lost sight of Jack, panic hit me because I couldn't see him, and it mixed with my pain and anger over losing Sandy. Something unlocked in me that I never knew was there and tons of green four-leaf clovers exploded from my staff, hitting everything and anything in their way. The nightmare sand around me disappeared and in front of me I could see green mixing with blue. And then it exploded, creating an arc of shattering blue, green, and black colors.

I began falling, not having the strength to fly to safety and just about ready to give up. Until I felt arms encompass me that is, cold arms. We were still falling, but I felt completely safe in the chilly embrace. I found the energy to turn around and wrap my own arms around him, connecting them around his back by holding onto my staff with both hands.

I buried my head in his neck just as we stopped falling, but we weren't dead. Tooth had caught us, and she carried us to North's sleigh and set us down. Jack let go of me with one arm and sat his staff against the seat before sitting up, I did the same, the two of us wincing the whole time.

"Clover, Jack, how did you do that?" Tooth asked.

"I, I, I didn't know I could," Jack answered, but I couldn't find the strength to.

We flew through one of North's portals and back to the Pole. Jack and I were forced to separate once we landed, and even though it was hard to let him go after having him so close, sleep drove my mind and moved me to a place where I could pass out until morning.

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