The Secret Guardian

part 4

After arriving to the pole, Tooth got settled down in a comfy chair, while the elves brought them all hot coco. Everyone got a cup except for EB he got eggnog instead. Tooth finally relaxed and calmed down, but she still couldn't get the image of that horrifying creature out of her head.
"Alright tooth, for us to understand what is going on you're going to have to tell us what happened." North said sitting down. Tooth looked at them she then looked at her drink.
"It happen when one of my fairies and I sow a fearling..." She said cautiously. All but jack stiffened eyes getting wide.
"A fearling! Are ya sure tooth!? Cause I thought we got rid of those bloody night terrors after the dark age!" EB barked getting tense.
"That's what I thought too, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Before that I was minding my own business instructing my other fairies like I usually do. Everything was going well, until one came back looking terrified with no tooth or coin. It quickly hid against me chirping random words. You should have seen it, it looked so scared like-"
"Like you a few moments ago?" jack asked sitting on his staff. She looked and gave a slightly sad nod. EB gently hit jack's leg.
"Don't interrupt." he glared, jack put his hands up. EB gesture to tooth still glaring. Jack looked and frowned, he rubbed the back of his neck.
"Sorry I didn't mean to-" he started.
"It's okay jack." she slightly smiled at him, he just stared. North gave a sigh, he look at her.
"Go on." he said gesturing. Tooth gave a nod.
"Well, this was odd actions for her because my fairies never get scared, not for anything. So I asked her and She told me what happened. What she told me caused me to worry, so I went to investigate.
Supposedly a child was having a night terror, and she couldn't get them to wake. She was to busy with the struggling child to notice that a beast suddenly appeared behind her. She could sense when it was over the child as this sudden rush of fear and terror washed over her. She looked to see this horrifying monster standing there. It didn't see her yet as it growled before it roared at the child scaring the child awake. It also terrified her in the process. She took off as the child screamed awake, dropping the tooth she was getting. She was still scared as we investigated. Nothing was wrong when we arrived. The child seem to be fine, sound asleep in bed. There was also no monster or a fearling.
Both confused we decided to fly around to hopefully find anything of a monster roaming around. We found nothing so we started to head back to the tooth palace. That was when we spotted a fearling floating around more like a wisp. It looked at the houses before drifting into one. I flew in after it to stop it from harming a child , but once inside it was nowhere to be seen. I look at the child noticing they were having a night terror. They were suffering, and as a guardian I wanted to protect them, help them. I tried everything to wake them, but none of it worked. That's when I heard a low voice behind me telling me to stop. When I looked the monster she spoke of was there. Fear took control of me and I wanted to scream. It told me that I should leave or be seen by the child. I try to stand up to it protect the child...but my fear made me I left hearing the child get scared awake and scream. I then rushed back home." she started crying "I failed to protect a child. They all comfort her.
"No tooth it sounds like it was controlling you some how. The one to blame is that beast. We need to find it." jack said with a concern gaze at tooth.
"Frostbite is right, don't beat ya self up." EB said. tooth smile at the both of them.
"How are we going to find it though." North said stroking his beard. "I'm to busy to help, and it sounds like it only appears when a fearling is near by." jack looked at him.
"Then I guess we could go fearling hunting." he grinned. North shook a finger at him.
"Clever, I guess all the Christmas preparing is throwing me off my game" he laughed out. "You think you'll need me?"
"No you continue your work, but maybe you can also think of what it could possible be?"
"I can do that, I'll help tooth to get to feeling better. You three be careful and report back with any news once you find it. Hopefully we can stop it from harming any more children before Christmas." he said with his jolly nature. Sandy, EB, and jack took off instantly for their search.