The way we believe (chapter 4)

The way we believe (chapter 4)


"What?" Pitch gazed at Atima for a few seconds before he vanished into the shadows.
“YOU are supposed to stop me?” His voice came now directly from Atima left. She turned to him while he circled her, his eyes on her trying to find out what could possibly be so special about her that she could stop him.

“Well…not me exactly…”, Atima mumbled. She looked at the guardians to her right. “I’m just here to make sure everything goes… as it should be.” She looked back to Pitch. “I believe the guardians will be the ones who will stop you in the end, not me.” After that Pitch stopped circling her and disappeared back into the shadows and appearing in the place he was at first. One of the nightmares joined him.
“Then I have nothing to be afraid of.” He replied, petting his nightmare. “ The guardians will not stop me this time.”

“Oh yeah?”, the Bunny jumped 2 feet from where he was standing and glared at Pitch. “We’ll just see about that.” He threw something at Pitch that exploded just before it hit its target. Pitch quickly jumped on his nightmares back and jumped off the platform he was on. The other guardians followed him. Atima on the other hand just rushed to the edge of her platform and watched them dive down to the ground, which was at least 200 meters away. She wanted to help them but in her condition she would not be able to jump that far.

Pitch escaped into the shadows just before the guardians caught up to him. As they reached the ground they looked around, waiting if Pitch would attack them from out of the shadows. After some time they all lowered their weapons and looked at each other. Atima saw that the man with the white beard say something to her white haired friend but could not make it out what exactly. The boy looked up to her and started to fly back up to her. Atima stood up and stepped a few step back so he could land in front of her. He held out his right hand.

“Come on. The others want you down there. I’ll get you down safely.” Atima gave him her hand and he quickly put his arm around her waist.
“Hey!” Atima gasped and wanted to get out of his grip. But the boy just chuckled.
“It’s better this way, Atima, right?” he leaped off the platform and glided down with Atima. “this way you won’t fall.” Atima had to admit that he was right and wrapped her arm around his neck.  “Oh and by the way my name is Jack, Jack Frost.” Jack smiled at Atima. “We never got any real opportunity to introduce us to each other.” As a respond that she understood Atima noded and smiled at Jack. Slowly they reached the ground.

Arriving they both let go of each other. Now Atima could fully see the guardians. All of them were looking at her.  One of them, a fairy-like woman flew over to her.
“Why did Pitch have you captured? Did you do anything to him?” the woman was now flying right in front of Atima, her face only a few inches away from hers.
“I…didn’t actually do anything to him… I believe he thought I know you guys.” Atima looked at Jack. “He saw me talking to Jack earlier… and then he saw that bunny guy appear and kidnap jack.”
“Ahh it wasn’t quite a ‘kidnap’ but let’s forget about that.” The bunny replied.  “I think first of all we need to introduce ourselves to her.”
“Good idea, bunny. “ The fairy smiled and started to introduce everyone. “ I am tooth, and these here are North, Sandy, Bunny and Jack.” Then she suddenly stopped and looked at Atima. “ how familiar are you with legends and myths? Do you believe in stuff like that?” Atima thaught for a while.
‘It’s a rather strange question…’ she said to herself. ‘but I suppose I should just say the trouth.’
“My parents always told me stories of legends and myths. Maybe I don’t fully believe in them but I do believe that every legend has once been true.” She looked at Jack. “When I see that Jack Frost is standing in front of me I almost think you all could be some figure of a fairy tale or some sort.”
“Oi, she’s a smart one!” Bunny laughed.  Jack stepped next to Atima.
“You are right. Here, right in front of you, you have the tooth fairy, the Sandman, Santa clause and the Easter Kagaroo.” He pointed at each one of the guardians. Only the bunny was called a Kangaroo and he didn’t like that.
“Did you just call me a Kangaroo… again??!!” Bunny glared at Jack.
“Yeah I did. So what now?” Jack replied glaring back at Bunny.  Atima frowned. She just did not want to see such childish behavior.
“Hey no fighting right now!” she yelled and got between the two arguing guys. “Could someone please tell me exactly what is going on!”

At this point, tooths expressions went sad and she flew slowly away, over the little pond next to the group.
“What is wrong with her?” Atima asked looking at North.
“Her tooth fairies were kidnaped by Pitch and he also took the teeth they had all collected.”
“All of the fairies except for one.”
Atima turned around to Jack and saw a little tooth fairy fly out of his hoodie. The fairy flew to Atima and looked at her. Atima held out one of her hand and the fairy flew into it. The fairy seemed tired and cuddled up in her hand.  Aitma carefully held the fairy. She wanted to let her sleep in one of her coatpockets but she only noticed now that her coat, scarf and her backpack were missing.

“But why…?” She looked over to tooth who was kneeling on the ground on the other side of the pond and walked towards the shoreline. Jack walked up to her.
“Come I’ll get you over to her.” He put his foot on the water and a layer of ice appeared. It was just strong enough to carry both of them over to tooth.