[DROPPED] Tale Before Time [Rise Of The Guardians]

Chapter 10: Pitch Black

Chapter 10: Pitch Black

Jack Frost

  After the wild drop from the sky to the top of the trees, came a calm and quiet atmosphere surrounding our vehicle. It's been a while since I felt this kind of feeling before, and I never got sick of it.

   When I heard Befanny's story earlier, I couldn't help but to feel sorry for her. I'm sure she'd worked hard to become a Guardian, but to no avail. While I was declining it in the past. I never thought that there will be so many spirits that would want to be in my place.

  I was such a stubborn at that time. I was being burried on the grief of not knowing about my true self.

    As I was lost in my thoughts, a sudden heavy feeling of tension can be sensed around us, and the sky above us was slowly becoming dark. My heart started to beat fast at the unexpected encounter.

   A trail of black sand started to wrapped around our vehicle, slowly approaching everyone of us. We started walking backwards, away from the sand, until we all met our backs.

   There's no doubt... this black sand...

  Then, suddenly, the sand grabbed the whole vehicle with great force, almost as it was a lasso.

   "Ahh!"

  Screams of panic can be heard from both sides of my ears, as we were all unsure what was happening. Then, the sand threw us all the way to the ground.

 I stood up from lying down, and looked around. The whole forest was never-ending, and the mist hiding in the depths of the trees kept us from looking further. The trees bare snow and nice, and the cold reached the ground, now became a sea of white.

   And there it is, in front of us, the man in black. My eyes widened out of shock as I saw his body still the same as we left him. I don't know how he was here but I knew that he shouldn't be here.

   "What..."

  We already took care of him before. He was already been defeated by his nightmares... but still, there he is, giving us a smirk that reached his ears.

   Realizing that our efforts years ago wasn't enough to get rid off him, I stared at him with slight despair.

  I could still remember his name... the nightmare king...

  Pitch Black, the Boogeyman.

  Behind him was his nightmare horses and additionally, fearlings that had been floating everywhere.

  Along with them were familiar mythical creatures that had been glaring at us. And one of them was the Medusa, who was wearing sunglasses for now, but one can see the desperation to remove it through her creepy smile.

  "Long time no see, all of you..." Pitch spoke with his spine-chilling voice, but I didn't show fear at all. "How about we can have a little fun?"

  I was about to march in front of my comrades, protecting them from him, but then, Bunny beat me into it. Didn't argue, I backed up.

"Take a look at it. Three of the Five Guardians are so helpless, so weak... so scared." He added as the other subordinates walked nearer to our position. We all stepped backwards.

   "Says who, you piece of trash?" Bunny yelled at the threatening enemy as he pointed his fingers. His eyes were fierce and no fear can be seen through them.

   "Oh, Bunny, it's been a while since I've seen you, I mean, you became invisible a long time ago. No children can see you." The opponent fought back through words, in which I lowered my head. I can still remember that time when I became so selfish of myself that it put Bunny into danger, causing for the children to not see him.

  "That won't ever happen again!" My companion yelled as he did before, never gonna be played with his strings.

  "Hmmm... I think it will." He replied and disappeared in front of us, leaving us with the dangerous creatures. He started walking through the dark shadows as we failed to see him, no matter how we turned our head in every direction.

  "Sandman, my old friend!" He yelled, followed by his echo, coming from behind. We turned around to see him in front of Sandy, smiling even wider. "It seems like you're enjoying getting revived. Well, enjoy it while it lasts."

After seeing those words, he immediately disappeared once more into the darkness and just like earlier, we moved our heads left and right to search for him.

   Then, all of a sudden, I felt a cold, shivering wind coming from my back. I saw a glimpse of black mist in my peripheral vision and I couldn't help but my heart to beat faster.

"And there's Jack Frost." I heard him spoke at the back of my ears, much like he's holding a mic on his hands. "Having fun, are we? After you made my nightmares pull me down on the depths of the Earth."

  His smile disappeared and his eyes were full of hatred and anger. I couldn't be able to forget that time when he was pulled to the hole towards underground, saving all of the children. It seems like his grudge right now was focused to me.

  I didn't let him see any cowardice in my face and glared at him.

"Because that's where you belong, Pitch, and you can't deny it." I fought back, marching forward towards him. His black dead eyes are still like that of a corpse.

   "Don't say that to me." He said. "I belong to the highest ground, looking down to all of you, if you just didn't show up."

  Then, he started walking around my position with a slow steady pace, trying to keep my heart beat faster. It's been years since we last fought, but even right now, even I defeated him before, he's still initimidating.

  "You're looking for him, right? The glowing man?"

  As soon as he spoke his name, I widened my eyes. The image of the man that glowed like the moon above was stuck in my mind.

  How did he knew about it?

 A/N:

  Hi, everyone! I'm very sorry that I couldn't be able to post last week. I was editing my novel on the other site, so I don't have time to right. I'm not really at my home right now, and this place is really uncomfortable, not to mention to write.

  And as you can see, I dedicated this chapter to WinterCrystal1009 since she really helped me with her headcanons at Amino. If I didn't know about it, then this fanfic would have more plotholes than it should be. If you want to write an ROTG fanfic or just an ROTG OC, then check her out at Amino and Wattpad.

    This chapter is shorter than the other since I couldn't write that well in my environment. It's hot and noisy and not to mention, my health.

  My writing style also changed since I changed back from writing on laptop to writing on phone. When I'm writing here, I couldn't be able to check my writing style, but it really helped me flow put some ideas and easy to type the other paragraphs.

  So what do you think? Let me know in the comments. :)