As Jack and North walked away, Claire took a deep breath and released it.

"What has gotten to Jack, this is not like him." Claire said to the three guardians, who were still with her. "That Jack, that was here was not my Jack". She then turned to Bunny who still looked ticked off, and she walked to him. "I'm sorry Bunny, I tried to stop him, but I can't control him." She said to him, looking at the floor as if ashamed. She then felt a hand on her cheek and looked up to Bunny.

"It's not your fault, Sheila. Just stuff between me and him, you are not to blame." he said staring straight into her eyes, while speaking to her softly and rubbing his thumb across her cheek, making her blush. "So, why don't you tell us about yourself, and how you met Jack." He said to her while walking with her to a small couch in the corner.

Claire started telling about her life, about the stories her parents would tell her, their death which earned her a hug from Bunny, which she loved, and when she explained the bullying, the three guardians got mad.

As she was done talking about how she met Jack, a little fairy burst in the place and straight in Claire, who cupped the little fairy up to her face.

"What's wrong little one?" she asked with a worried face, while standing up and walking a few steps away from the Guardians as the little one was talking. Claire gasped and snapped her head to Tooth. "Tooth!, there is trouble at your home!." She told her with a panicked face.

"The Teeth!." and like that Tooth flew out the window

"I'll go warn North, Sheila" Bunny said to her before running to get North.

She only waited a few minutes, before they came speed walking past her, while she was catching up.

"Boys, shipshape," North told the yetis. "As soon as possible."

Jack stepped out of the way as a yeti hurried by. "North! North!" he called for his attention. "I told you, I am not with you guys. There's no way, I climbing into some rickety old-". The sound of pounding hooves and snatching reindeer cut him off. The reindeer were bigger than Claire thought the be. One snorted and made a move towards Claire and nuzzled her in the chest, she giggled and petted the reindeer, unaware Bunny was watching her with a soft smile. The sleigh it self was incredible. It was enormous and shining wings unfolded out to the sides.

"Beautiful." Claire whispered

"Whoa." was all Jack could say.

North called the massive reindeer to a halt. The sleigh stopped, and the yetis finished preparations for a take off.

Claire and Jack looked at each other and nodded.

"Okay!" Jack said. He was excited as Claire to get inside and check it out. "One ride. But that's it."

At Bunny's astounded look, North said, "Everybody loves the sleigh." He gave a smile and nod to Sandy, who climbed into his own seat in the back. Taking the reins, North wrapped them around his powerful arms, then turned to Bunny, who was still standing outside the sleigh. "Bunny, what are you doing waiting for?" North inquired.

"I think my tunnels might be faster, mate." He used one of his big feet and pushed it against the side of the sleigh. That part of it moved in response. "and, um safer."

North reached out and hauled Bunny aboard with one hand. He plopped him right next to Claire. "Ah, get in. Buckle up."

Bunnymund looked around frantically in his seat. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Where are the bloody seat belts?"

North laughed. "That was just an expression." He asked the yetis, "Are we ready?"

"Bunny?" Claire asked. He turned to look over to her. "I wished for those tunnels right now!." She said with a big panicked face.

A yeti shake his head, but North ignored him and cracked the reigns. "Good!" He shouted. "Let's go!, Clear!" Elves and yetis scattered to get out of the way as the sleigh headed down a long sledding track. All of them enjoyed the speed, except for Claire and Bunny. Claire was holding on to Bunny's arm for dear life.

"Out of the way!" North shouted to a few elves as they passed. "Hyah!" He shook the reigns and the reindeer picked up the pace. The sleigh went straight up for a few seconds, then zoomed straight down a long sledding track. Sandy grinned and Jack shouted in delight. North pulled a lever, sending the sleigh into a corkscrew. "I hope you like the loopty-loops!"

"I hope you like Carrots" Bunny threatened to throw up his lunch.

"Here we go!" North called out. The sleigh reached the bottom of the track and shot off the ramp at the end. They went up and out into the bright blue sky.

"Wooo-hooo!" Jack raised his arms in the air.

"Klassno!" North told the reindeer.

Jack leaped on the rear of the sleigh to see the North Pole disappear as we sped through the sky.

"Hey, Bunny, Claire," Jack stood dangerously on the back edge of the sleigh. "Check out this view." Suddenly, Jack flipped off the side. "EEYAAAAGGGGHHH!" His voice rang out. Claire screamed.

"North!, He uh," was all the panicked and worried Bunny managed to get out. He and Claire peered over the sleigh. Of course, instead of seeing Jack plummeting, Jack lounged on the sleigh's skid. "Aw. You do care." He told them with a knowing smile.

"Oh rack off ya bloody show pony," Bunny scowled at him. Jack climbed back into his seat like nothing happened. He saw Claire holding on to Bunny's arm as he was holding her hand.

Claire noticed Jack grinning and it was his turn to elbow me in the shoulder. "The Kangaroo, huh?"

Claire rolled her eyes and shoved him off of her.

"North rattled the reins. "Hold on, everyone!, I know a shortcut!"

Bunnymund groaned. "I knew we should have taken the tunnels."

North held up a snow globe. "I say Tooth Palace," He told it, an image of Tooth's castle filled the globe. As soon it did, North tossed it in front of the sleigh, and a giant portal opened in the sky. "Hyah!" North shouted. The sleigh, along with the others, was sucked through the vortex.

The sleigh emerged outside the Tooth Palace. Streaks of black filled the sky around the beautiful, delicate castle.

"What" North squinted.

On a closer look, Claire could see the streaks were some black creatures. Some held golden containers filled teeth while others held mini fairies. The last uncaptured fairies flew past the sleigh, screaming in terror. We forced to duck as Nightmares flew past them. Sandy made an umbrella out of dream sand as one nightmare rammed into it. It disintegrated upon impact and the only traces left were a few handfuls of black sand.

"Whoa!" Bunny shouted.

"They're taking the mini fairies!" Jack pointed to a stream of nightmares chasing a pack of fairies and gulping them down into their blackness. A lone fairy was flying nearby with a big ugly nightmare at her back. Jack flew up and grabbed her before the nightmare could snatched her. He floated down and sat on the back of the sleigh. "Hey, little Baby Tooth," Jack said. "You okay?" He held her safely, but she was shaking and curling in a ball. She was only able to nod. Claire gently rubbed her back mindful of her wings.

North continued on and drove the sleigh through the Tooth Palace. There were pillars as far as the eye could see. Each was supposed to contain the millions of boxes which held baby teeth. They were empty. Inside the chamber, North handed the sleigh reigns to jack.

"Here," he ordered. "Take over."

"Huh?" Bunny asked.

"He's letting Jack take control of the sleigh!" Claire told him while panicking

"He's what!" Bunny is now panicking.

"Hyah!" Jack yelled, gladly taking control.

North unsheathed his swords and slashed a nightmare in half. "Yah!" he shouted as the nightmare split open, and three tooth boxes spilled down into the sleigh. The Nightmare broke apart.

"They're stealing the teeth!" Bunny cried. Sandy looked at where the nightmare had disappeared. The Nightmare had become grains of black sand that were now attaching to one another. Within seconds, a new one was created. Claire and the Guardians looked up, before Jack was about to plow the sleigh into the pillars.

"Jack!, Look out!" Claire shouted.

Jack pulled back the reigns. "Ahhhh!" The sleigh sideswiped a pillar and then landed hard on a platform. Tooth flew back and forth frantically, directly above the others.

"Tooth!" Claire called out. "Are you alright?"

She continued flying in circles, frustrated and angry. "They took my fairies!" She shrieked. Everyone either jumped or floated up to the platform while Claire had to be carried by Bunny as Tooth landed. "And the teeth!, All of them!, Everything is gone. Everything." Defeated, she fell to her knees and wings drooped.

Claire walked up to Tooth while holding Baby Tooth in her hands. "Not every fairy." She held her hands out and Baby Tooth flew out of them, and went to Tooth.

"Oh, thank goodness!, One of you is all right!" Tooth held her hands for Baby Tooth to land on and she turned damp eyes to her.

"What a touching reunion." Pitch's voice boomed through the cavernous room. "I have to say, this is very, very exciting." He was standing above the group with a smug smile. "The big four. All in one place. I'm a little star struck." His chuckle echoed. "Did you like my show on the globe, North?" But before North could reply, he said, "Got you all together, didn't it?"

Realizing he's been played, North stomped his boot down while letting a disgusted huff.

"Pitch!" Tooth demanded as she flew over to him. But he disappeared into the shadows, before she could reach him. "You have got thirty seconds to return my fairies!"

"or what?" Pitch's voice taunted from nowhere and everywhere. Tooth followed the echo and found him near one of her tooth columns. "You'll stick a quarter under my pillow?" he mocked before vanishing again.

"Why are you doing?" North asked. With the speed of a shadow, Pitch had moved to the other side of the palace. He slowly traveled to the center of the chamber.

"Maybe I want what you have." He said. "To be believed in. Maybe I'm tired of hiding under beds."

"Maybe, that's where you belong." Bunny suggested.

"Ah, go suck an egg rabbit." Pitch replied. Bunny looked over the side of the platform, where he was standing, to see Pitch there, hanging upside down. As Bunny went to get him, Pitch winked and moved away.

"Hang on, is that Jack Frost?" Pitch asking laughing a little. "Since when are you all so chummy?"

"We're not." Jack replied as he and Claire looked around.

Claire suddenly found herself being held in the air by Pitch. Making her scream which got the other's attention.

"And who is this lovely girl, I can tell she is not a spirit, and she is a believer, that is most interesting"

Bunny gasped. "Claire!" he yelled with a worried face.

"Bunny!, Help!" Claire Pleading to him.

"Now, now, my dear. What's say you and me have some fun ruining people's lives." Pitch said to Claire while petting the side of her face with his hand. Claire was shaking and tears were spilling down her face. Which made Bunny angry.

"Pitch!, You shadow-sneaking ratbag!, give her back!" He leaped after Pitch, but once more he disappeared and reappeared elsewhere. Tooth spotted him first. She flew by, grabbed on of Bunny's boomerangs, and charged at the Boogeyman in a rage. "Ahhhhh!"

Before she could reach him, a huge nightmare appeared in front of him. Tooth shrank back, and Baby Tooth went to hide in Jack's pocket.

"Whoa!" Pitch said to the Nightmare. "Easy girl. Easy." He twirled his fingers through the nightmare's mane. He held some black sand in his hand as he turned to Sandy. "Look familiar, Sandman?" Pitch asked "Took me a while to perfect this little trick. Turning dreams into Nightmares." He rubbed the side of the Nightmare's head.

Everyone gasped. Pitch chuckled. "Don't be nervous. It only riles them up. They smell fear, you know." he glanced at Claire and lifted her up more, causing her to whimper. "Like her"

"What fear?" Bunny questioned. "Of you, No one's been afraid of you, since the Dark ages." he took his boomerang back from Tooth.

"The Dark Ages." Pitch reminisced. "Everyone frightened. Miserable. Such happy times for me. Oh, the power I wielded. But then, the Man in Moon chose you to replace my fear." he continued. With your wonder and light!, Lifting their hearts and giving them hope. "He explained the them. "Meanwhile, everyone wrote me off as just a bad dream. 'Oh, there is nothing to be afraid of. There is no such thing as the Boogeyman.' Well, that's all about to change."

A cracking sound filled the room. We all turned to see beautiful columns crumbling and decomposing. "Oh, look." Pitch clapped his hands. "It's happening."

"What is?" Claire asked while trying to get out of his grip.

"Children are waking up and realizing the Tooth Fairy never came," Pitch answered. "Such a little, but to a child..."

"What's going on?" Claire asked cringing as more columns fell and the palace broke apart right, before her eyes.

"They... They don't believe in me anymore." Tooth sadly admitted.

"Didn't they tell you?" Pitch inquired. "It's great being a Guardian, but there's a catch. If enough kids stop believing in you, everything your friends protect: wonder, hopes, and dreams, it all goes away, and little by little, so do they." Claire realized what this meant. Pitch nodded and let out a small laugh. "No Christmas, or Easter, or little fairies that come in the night. There will be nothing, but fear and darkness and me!. It's your turn not to be believed in!"

Bunny was the first to make his moves as he threw his boomerangs at Pitch. But Pitch dodged, and started making his escape, flying the palace on the back of his Nightmare with Claire who trying to break free.

"Let me go!, Right now!" Claire yelled as she punched him in the face, causing Pitch to drop her, and grab his face in pain.

As she was falling, Claire was screaming as she was plummeting towards the ground, as the ground was coming up, Claire closed her eyes and braced herself. But, before she could hit the ground, something slammed into her, causing her and her savior to roll on the ground until they came to a stop.

"Are you ok, Shelia?" A familiar voice said to her. Claire opened her eyes to Bunny on his back while holding her to his chest. Bunny stood up while still holding Claire in his arms.

"Yeah" Claire nodded at him. "I'm fine" she said closing her eyes while resting her head in Bunny's warm fur. While Bunny closed his eyes, and rested his head on top of hers. Taking a deep breath and letting it out. He was relieved that he was able to save her.

North and the others joined them, while Jack went straight to Claire, hugging her with relief.

"He's gone," North stated. His one sentence the only noise breaking the eerie silence of the empty and decaying Tooth Palace.