Rise of the Winter

Chapter 8

"Why does Elsa keep passing out, North?" Bunny asked.

"I do not know. My suspicions are good as yours. Perhaps Pitch did this?" North responded.

The yetis stopped and after a glare from North, they went back to making the toys and cleaning up. However, Phil remained behind.

"What do you want?" North asked.

"Blah de blah blah blah," answered Phil in the language of the yetis that only North could understand.

"How on Earth do you understand the yetis, mate?" Bunny asked.

"Don't know!" North declared.

"What did Phil say?" Tooth asked.

"Something wrong with Jack," North said.

"What do you mean? Something wrong with Jack?" Bunny demanded.

More indistinguishable murmuring from the yeti and North nodded.

"What Phil means, Elsa and Jack have been tied together, somehow. If Jack passes out, Elsa does too and vice versa. We are going to have to be careful about this!" North translated.

"Wait, if something happens to Elsa, Jack feels it. Does that mean we can send messages to Jack using Elsa? Like cut into her arm or something?" Bunny suggested.

"Yes. Small messages like, where are you? You okay? Those sort of things!" North said.

"We would need to shorten it. Make it r u ok? Where r u?" Elsa stated.

"Why?" Tooth asked.

"Because it would be to long and won't leave room for other messages. We wouldn't be able to talk for long," Elsa answered.

Sandy piped up. A snowflake above a hand appeared. Then words, arm, blood, knife and a question mark.

"Yes, Sandy. It is only way. We will have to cut into her arm!" North confirmed.

"We should do it now. We don't what will happen to Jack if we wait any further!" Tooth said.

Jack was waiting for Pitch when he felt a pain is his lower arm. He rolled up his sleeve and looked at it.

Where r u?

Jack's eyes widened. He hoped it was Elsa. He found the sharpest thing he could and cut into his other arm.

Pitch's lair.

He waited and the pain came back.

R u ok?

Yes.

Has P done stuff 2 u?

Snapped staff.

Other?

No.

Bye.

Jack read the last one from Elsa saying bye. He now knew the guardians were aware of the situation he was in. He couldn't bandage his arm so he let it bleed before getting some of the dried blood off. Jack pulled his sleeves back down and continued to wait for Pitch. He didn't have to wait long before Pitch materialised in front of him. He was flanked by a sand horse, which Pitch sat on, a sand wolf and a sand person.