We're Already Legends (Jack FrostxReader)

~chapter twenty eight~

Outside of Sofie's room, Jack holds Y/N close to him with one arm as he closes Sofie's window, Y/N holding his staff for him. Her eyes are slightly red and puffy from previously crying during her and Jacks long, sensual embrace. She sniffles then suddenly lets out a light hearted giggle. Baby Tooth turns to look at her with curiosity. She twirls his staff once then turns to him. "How surprised w-would you be if I was able to wield your staff?" "Uh.." He looks at you with a soft gaze and chuckles. "Very surprised, snowflake, considering you'd have to be me for it to actually work. Though, just like any inanimate object you don't have to have magical powers to use it as a weapon. I mean, some years ago I just used it without my powers, hitting Bunny in the head with it." Y/N couldn't help but laugh at imagining how that went down. "Le-Let me guess. Was it on or near Easter?" Jack grinned and shrugged. "Maybe." Baby Tooth shook her head in a disapproving manner. "Also, Y/N. If you would like me to I could teach you some moves to defend yourself. Not that you really need it. You're the equivalent to Sandy." Y/N noticed the hint of sadness in his tone, even though he intended it to be a compliment to you he still felt a pang of guilt as he said the little golden man's name. Baby Tooth looks at him sympathetically as Y/N softly placed her hand on his cold cheek, gently making him face her. They lock eyes and she stares up at him with determination in her multi-colored eyes. "We will bring him back, Jack. We will not rest until the Guardian of Dreams has risen. You hear me, Jack? We are the Guardians of childhood...and we will rise against Pitch and his fucked up nightmares..and win. If this was a freaking movie they'd call it 'Rise of the Guardians' and just like Rudolph we're gonna go down in history for this victory!" Jack chuckled at her and tilted his head to the side slightly. "I'm pretty sure North doesn't actually have a "Rudolph" amidst his reindeer, snowflake. Aside from that? You're excellent in the encouraging speech department." Y/N blushed and smiled bashfully. "Thank you.." He gazed down at her lovingly, tucking a loose strand of hair behind her ear, causing her to blush more. "And I know we'll get Sandy back. You wanna know how I know?" She looks up at him and tilts her head curiously. "How do you know?" He pokes her nose and smiles. "Because I have faith." She just stared at him with a very visible blush, speechless. Before the multi-colored Guardian could react, Jack quickly leaned towards her and pecks her lips, swiftly pulling back to face her flushed face with a grin. Y/N stared at him, stunned. Jack smirks, tightening his hold around her waist. "I've been wanting to do that for a while now. Hope you don't mind, snowflake." She opened her mouth to speak, but no words came out. "Ah..." She blinks a couple times, processing what just happened as he just watched her with an amused smirk. Baby Tooth looks at them with a "Seriously?" look and then twitters franticly, intercepting the pair. As Jack turned his attention to the frantic Baby Tooth, Y/N found her voice and spoke up, her voice wavering a bit due to Jack's previous show of affection. "Ah..we should get back." Baby Tooth turns to her and nods, smiling, when a voice from the distance laughs, echoing.. "Jack..." Jack freezes, confused. Y/N looks around, just as confused as the one the voice called out to. "That's...not ominous at all. Where is that voice coming from?" Jack responds to her in a soft tone. "I don't know.." He looks out across the town, toward the woods, and the sound of the echoed voice. "That voice, I know that voice..." Both Baby Tooth and Y/N look to him, worried. "Jack..." With that second call of his name, he leaps off the window ledge with a concerned looking Y/N clinging to him. "Jack..I, I, I really don't think we should be following the creepy, ominous voice. And I am one hundred percent sure that Baby Tooth agrees." Y/N notices that they were close to exiting Burgess, a moment later the wind carried Jack and Y/N as he flies across town toward the sound of the eerie voice. Baby Tooth follows, trying to keep up. Jack takes a moment to orient himself and lands, settling on a rotating vent; as the momentum slowly spins him around, the voice calls out to him again. "Jack..." Jack turns and looks to the woods, Y/N looking up at him then following his gaze. "Jack? Please, tell me you're not planning on doing what I think you're planning on doing." He glances down at her and in that split second of eye contact, she could see the desperation for answers in his eyes and face. He takes off, holding Y/N securely close to him as they approach the woods. They land in the middle of a thickly wooded area. Y/N shivers a bit as a nervous giggle leaves her parted lips. "Spooky, to uh..s-say the least." Jack scans the forest, tightening his hold on Y/N, when again they hear... "Jack..." Jack removes his arm from Y/N's waist and crouched down in front of her. "Uh..Jack?" He side glanced at her and smiled, but he still had a serious aura around him. "Jump on." She slowly obliged and he stood as soon as her arms were wrapped around his neck. He pushes her up a bit by underneath her thighs then gives chase. He knew she was flustered by his action and at any other time he would defiantly have playfully teased her about it. He sprints through the thickets and enters a clearing only to find the decrepit remains of a rotting frame from a child's bed. Y/N slightly widens her eyes as she let out yet another nervous giggle, pointing his staff she carried for him at the odd rotting bed frame. "Okay, okay. Very creepy. What, what, what would that be doing in the woods, Jack? A-And, how long has it been here? Who knows? Probably, because the ones who did know, never lived to tell the tale!" The neon Guardian whisper-yelled at him as he inched closer to the eerie bed frame. Baby Tooth tweets at him disapprovingly. "Don't worry, there's still time." Baby Tooth desperately tries to get Jack's attention, tweeting to Y/N desperately, begging for her to help. Y/N tugs on Jack's tunic repeatedly. "Frosty, Baby Tooth's right. We should go back. The others are probably worried and wondering where we are." Jack ignores the girls' pleads, blinded by desperation for answers, and grabs his staff from Y/N's hands swiftly. Y/N looks at him concerned and felt a little hurt by his actions. "Jack..please.." He just stared at the dark hole in the ground for a second, then takes his staff and breaks through the damaged frame, revealing the hole leading deep underground. The voice echoes through the eerie, dark hole; calling out to Jack once more. Both Baby Tooth and Y/N give him a wide eyed look, nervousness in both their eyes. Jack jumps down the hole, Y/N gasping and tightening her arms around his neck. Baby Tooth follows, reluctantly. Y/N just knows this has Pitch's name written all over it. All that they come to is darkness. "Y-Yeah, great idea, Frosty. What now?" He doesn't answer her, only because he was really wanting answers and he felt this was the quickest way to reach them. Jack continues along a long dark tunnel with Baby Tooth close behind and a nervous Y/N clinging to his back, her legs wrapped around him to help her balance. Despite the eerie setting and situation, Jack was really enjoying Y/N's closeness. Eventually, the labyrinth opens up to reveal a huge underground cavern. Baby Tooth tugs on Jack's tunic as Y/N adjusts her eyes from coming out of the darkened tunnel to a faded light, widening her eyes at the sight of the spacious cavern. "Whoa, I, I feel like I'm in an alternate reality right now." Y/N mumbles softly. Jack waves Baby Tooth off. "Baby Tooth, Baby...come on!" He steps forward, into the light. "I have to find out what that is." Y/N takes a guess regarding the place they just entered. "Pitch's inner sanctum...holy shiz." Jack can't believe his eyes as he mumbles to Y/N. "Yeah..holy shiz." Dozens of huge bird cages hang from the ceiling, and in them are the mini tooth fairies. They take notice of Jack, Y/N and their fellow fairy, Baby Tooth. Immediately perking up, the many fairies begin tweeting and flitting like crazy. "Snowflake, can you unlatch yourself from me, please?" Jack asked Y/N with a playful tone laced in his voice. "Oh, uh..su-sure." She swung her legs off of his torso then unwrapped her arms from around his neck, landing on the cracked concrete. Baby Tooth hovers next to Y/N's head as Jack jumps up onto one of the cages, then quickly leaps and holds onto the side of another one. Jack whispers to the caged mini Teeth. "Ssshhh! Keep it down." Y/N watches from below anxiously as he leaps to another cage. She whisper-yelled up to him. "Frosty, hurry!" He glances down to her then turns back to face the jittery fairies. "I'm gonna get you out of here, just as soon as I-" "Jack..." He knits his eyebrows together, knowing it wasn't Y/N who called out to him. Jack turns away from the fairies, distracted. "Jack..." Y/N looks up at him, confused. "Wha-What is he doing?" Baby Tooth shrugs then zips up to him, examining his facial features for a second then follows his gaze. Jack trails his sentence off, mumbling the rest of the words under his breath. "As I can.." He looks down and sees the tooth containers from Tooth's Palace. Mounds of them in heaps of piles. All the missing baby teeth. He drops down to a random mound and begins rummaging through the containers. In an instant he forgets his duties, and the fairies, and the Guardians, and everything except those teeth, and the chance to finally get his memory back. Y/N widens her eyes, fear striking her entire being. "Are you..serious right now? Jack, no, you dope!" The cavern suddenly goes darker than it already was. "Cut it out before-" Jack finally looks up, as a shadow of Pitch crawls up a near by column. "Pitch..finds us here.." Y/N trails off as Pitch speaks to Jack, seemingly amused by Jack being here in his "home". "Looking for something?" Jack swings around with his staff, shooting off a blast of ice, but Pitch isn't in eyesight. Jack takes off, absentmindedly forgetting about Y/N and Baby Tooth as well as the rest of the mini fairies, all that was on his mind was getting to Pitch, and possibly ending this. He follows the sound of Pitch's cackle as it echoes throughout the chamber. Jack rounds a corner as he sees Pitch's shadow glide across the walls into a shadowed corridor. "Don't be afraid, Jack. I'm not going to hurt you." Jack continues along a shadowed corridor. "Afraid?" The winter spirit sees Pitch on a bridge across the cavern and heads after him. "I'm not afraid of you." "Maybe not. But you are afraid of something." Jack steadily approaches, cautious and alert. "You think so, huh?" "I know so. It's the one thing I always know." Pitch finally turns to face Jack, continuing. "People's greatest fears. Yours is that no one will ever believe in you." Panic flashes in Jack's eyes. As he backs away, the chamber fills with shadows, and Jack is spun around. He's disoriented as he thuds into a wall, which flips to reveal it's actually the ground. Pitch, unseen now, chuckles tauntingly. Jack's unsure of where he is. He looks back to see the cavern entrance - he's right back where he started. "And worst of all, you're afraid you'll never know why. Why you? Why were you chosen...to be like this?" Jack discovers that the entrance has been blocked with bricks as Pitch's shadow encroaches on him. "Well fear not, for the answer to that..." Pitch is now right in front of Jack, holding out a tooth container. "...is right here." Jack's eyes widen at the sight - the face of a young boy etched into the container, and under it is his own name. "Do you want them, Jack? Your memories?" He holds them out to Jack. Jack just stares, fighting the impulse to grab them. He closes his eyes, struggling to make a decision, but when he opens them again. Pitch has disappeared. Pitch's shadow moves across the pillars of the cavern. Jack then heads down a corridor, cast shadows from the mini tooth cages everywhere. "Everything you wanted to know..." Pitch's face moves in and out of the shadows over the following. "...in this little box." Every time Jack turns, Pitch disappears. It's like Jack's trapped in a fun house. Multiple Pitch shadows have appeared on the wall around Jack. They're closing in on him. "Why did you end up like this? Unseen. Unable to reach out to anyone. You want the answers so badly. You want to grab them, and fly off with them. But you're afraid of what the Guardians will think." Jack's breath quickens. He's been pushed into a corner. "You're afraid of disappointing them." Pitch smiles, knowing he's getting to Jack. "Well let me ease your mind about one thing. They'll never accept you. Not really." The shadows have overcome Jack, while he tries to scramble away. "Stop it! Stop it!" Almost reluctantly, the shadows back away and Pitch appears before Jack. "After all, you're not one of them." Jack aims his staff at Pitch. "You don't know what I am!" Pitch regards Jacks staff aimed at him then ignores it. "Of course I do. You're Jack Frost! You make a mess wherever you go. Why, you're doing it right now." Pitch tosses the container to Jack, who instinctively catches the object that holds the answer to all his questions. Jack looks up. Terror comes into Jack's eyes, as he realizes. "What did you do?" "More to the point Jack, what did you do?" Pitch begins to back away, becoming one with the darkness, laughing as he disappears. Jack charges towards him only to be swallowed whole by one of Pitch's black holes. Jack flies out of Pitch's shadow, ready to strike. Suddenly, only then does it hit him hard that he realizes he's forgotten something. Or rather, two someones. "Y/N! Baby Tooth!" He turns to re-enter the hole in the wall only to find himself face to face with one of Bunny's stone emblems. "Happy Easter, Jack." Jack turns around from glaring daggers at the wall. His eyes immediately fill with dread as he realizes where he is. Thousands of broken egg shells lay strewn about, forming a path toward the light at the end of the tunnel. "No." He takes off, fast and furious, following the damaged Easter egg's path.