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Everyone was quiet, everyone in shock, with wide eyes, not even daring to blink.

"What in heck are you waiting you little punk?! Melt it!" The rabbit exclaimed to the white haired guy.

The boy got out of his stupor state, frowned, and touched the ice cage with the tip of his stick, with a face full of determination.

"I can't!" He said after a moment, frowning in confusion. Elsa narrowed her eyes at him, and with another motion of hands, a little snow flurry took away all the intruders weapons, sending them across the room. Including two swords from the old man, a boomerang from the rabbit and the stick of the white haired guy.

"Great, just great" the rabbit complained. "Nice plan North, by the way" he added sarcastically.

"Who are you and how did you get in?" Elsa's voice trembled a bit, but her arms were still up in defense and her eyes narrowed, attentive to every move.

"Your Majesty-" the bird started.

"I made you a question" Elsa interrupted her immediately. "How you managed to pass my guards? What do you want?" Her voice was increasing each time.

"Your Majesty, you're in great danger and-" the old man said.

"Great danger? Are you threatening me?" Elsa angered, stepping forward to the man's cage, making him instantly step back.

The small golden man waved at her, and right after a lot of golden images were displaying above her head. Elsa stared at him with wide eyes, shocked.

"I believe that's not helping, Sandy" the White haired boy said. Sliding a hand through his silvery white hair in obvious sing of frustration.

Elsa blinked a few times, but then shook her head growling quietly and narrowed her eyes again.

"Breaking into the restricted areas of the castle, armed, is a major crime, not to mention breaking into the Queen's sleeping quarters. It's paid by death." Elsa said coldly.

"Good luck with tha-" The bunny tried to say but was cut off when a snowball hit him squarely in the face.

"Shut up. I am talking" Elsa said frowning at him. "I was about to change that law but I guess I'm lucky I didn't change it yet." Elsa added. "Are you going to tell me what do you want or what?"

"If you just let us speak-" The bunny started again.

"Bunny shut up already" The fairy scolded.

"Yeah, I think you've angered her enough" The white haired guy said.

They all started bickering after that moment, screaming loudly at each other, ignoring completely the young queen that just stood there as she watched them blaming each other. Until she looked down, and visibly flinched.

Everyone stopped, and gazed at her.

Elsa stepped back, with wide and scared eyes.

All of them trailed her sight. Sandy was looking straight to her, with a serious expression on his face, as golden sand was over his head with the perfect shape of the man in her nightmare side face.

"You recognize him" The old man said, walking to her as far as he could, narrowing his eyes.

Suddenly, everyone was looking at her with pure worry and concern. She felt the need of covering herself. They looked at her like she had some sort of terminal disease.

"Wh- How do you-?" She stuttered, she was having a bit of trouble to look at the golden silhouette. She cleared her throat and stepped back again.

"Have you seen this man?" The old guy asked cautiously. Elsa shook her head at first, because she hasn't really see him, it was the truth. She pursed her lips and blinked a few times, to then finally look straight to the old man.

"J-Just in a dream" She said, and shook her head in confusion again. "How could you- How could you even know that?" She asked in disbelief.

"Was it a dream, really?" He asked, ignoring her question. Elsa's eyes were still looking straight to him.

"A nightmare" Elsa said, and all of them shared a look. "You didn't answer my question" Elsa spoke up.

The old man sighed and turned to her again.

"This" He said pointing at the gold sand. "Is Pitch Black" He said with a mixture of seriousness and anger. "Also known as the Boogey Man" Elsa instantly lost every bit of seriousness she had.

"You're really expecting me to believe that?" She asked, while hearing the bunny groan again.

"I'm pretty sure you believe in magic, don't you, your Majesty?" The bird said. Elsa gazed at her, as she analyzed her question.

Of course she believes in magic. She's the living proof of it. She can built an Ice Palace with her magic, she can make living snowmen. Plus, there was also Pabbie.

And there was a human sized bird and and a human sized bunny, a flying dude and a little man made of golden sand in her bedroom.

She believed in magic.

"He's also known as the Nightmare King" The white haired guy added.

"He can smell your fears, turn your dreams into nightmares" The old man said. Elsa stayed quiet for a few seconds.

"That's it?" She asked, startling them with her reaction. "If he's only in my dreams, or nightmares, I don't see a problem here"

"He's not just in your dreams, queenie" The bunny said.

"If you had nightmares about him, that means he was here at that time, he's just invisible for you" She felt a cold shiver run down her spine at his words. "And once you believe in him, you'll be able to see him." The old man continued. "And he'll be able to physically hurt you" he said. "Your fears must be big enough for him to already appear in your dreams"

Elsa instantly turned her back to them, feeling her heart beating louder and harsher on her chest. He was right about that, this 'Pitch' knew her fears perfectly. He knew how to hurt her, he proved that last night. What if she was able to see him now? She believed in him now after all. Could she really defend herself from someone that was referred as The King of Nightmares?

What if he hurt Anna too?

"We beat him before, we can do it again" A male voice said but she didn't turn.

"We're here to protect you, Queen Elsa, we won't leave you by yourself" The old man said again. "But it won't be easy"

Elsa finally turned to him, she wasn't sure if she was making the right choice or not, but she didn't know a single thing about this Pitch Black.

Even if this people were intruders, they didn't look evil, and they managed to get pass every single of her guards, maybe they could help her against this after all.

Still, she remembered how Hans didn't look evil either. Looks can be deceiving. Maybe she needed a little chat with them first.

But not alone, and definitely not unprotected.

"Fine, we'll discuss this" Elsa said, with her Queen face back on. "I'll let you out of your cages, but I'm still keeping your weapons, and a few of my guards will be with me as well since they will probably need to fight this person as well" She said sternly.

"We accept everything you said, your Majesty, except the guards" The old man tried to say calmly but Elsa could hear a bit of urgency in his voice.

"Why not?" Elsa said frowning.

"Because they can see us" The Bunny said like it was obvious. Elsa felt the urge to scoff.

"And how come I see you?" Elsa asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Because of this little rings, they make us visible" The bunny said showing her a gold ring in his middle 'finger'. Elsa looked at him like he was crazy.

"And you can't use that with my guards?" She asked sarcastically. Bunny looked at her challenging.

"Bunny-" The white haired guy tried to say.

"Oh, we can use them, blondie. But you really expect them not to cause a whole fuss about us? Most importantly, it will be freaking useless because if they don't believe in Pitch they can't even fight him" He said rather loudly.

"And you are expecting that us six will be able to fight? I have people to protect here in case no one of you knew. Plus, when this 'fight' comes, what? They'll see me fighting against air?" Elsa nearly screamed.

"Excuse Bunny, your Majesty" The old man said giving the big rabbit a stern gaze. "I understand your worry, and I understand that's going to be complicated for us to take care of this deal properly if your guards think that you're going crazy. Actually, if this gets out of hand they could even remove you from your position as Queen"

He was right, if enough staff of the castle believed she was crazy, they'll go straight to the Council.

"That's why I believe that's best for you to give some vacation or something else to the staff member, until we resolve this" He added.

Elsa sent him a cold glare.

"I can't leave the castle unprotected" She nearly snarled at such ridiculous idea.

"We are here to protect" the white haired guy said, looking straight to her. Elsa glared him as well.

She was about to say that this was a ridiculous idea until something popped on her mind.

That should be more than enough.

She straighten herself up again.

"Okay then, I figured a way of sending everyone out while leaving the castle protected." She said.

"How?" the white haired guy asked again.

"That's not for you to worry about" Elsa said curtly.

"Okay then, is there someone here that you can't send out?" The old man asked.

"My sister and her fiancé, also two of my most trusted staff" Elsa answered, watching as he nodded. "I'll go take care of the staff right now. On the mean time you'll stay here, and then we'll discuss this further" Elsa said, moving swiftly her hands to melt the cages.

Once she finished, she turned to the weapons and made a reinforced little ice cage for them, while eyeing all of them with a 'Don't even think about it' face. Once she was about to walk through the door, she froze all of her windows, and the door once she was out, leaving them trapped until she comes back.

X

"This queen is one annoying bi-" Bunny started to say, but Tooth gasped and elbowed him.

"Stop it! She's just worried about her kingdom!" She scolded.

Jack sighed as they kept on bickering. Many and strong emotions where inside him right now, he couldn't actually think straight. This past minutes were surely the most eventful of his whole 320 years of life, even more than when he was kidnaped by yetis to become a guardian. He couldn't even deal with all the feelings and questions he had.

First they arrived to this old fashioned country, then he realized that the queen was definitely not an old, grumpy, boring woman. On the contrary, she was probably the most beautiful girl he'd ever laid his eyes on, and he traveled around the world bazillion times for more than 300 years, so it was definitely something.

Then, not only she was gorgeous, elegant, fierce. She had freaking ice powers.

She freaking trapped them in ice cages. And when he, the freaking Winter Spirit, tried to melt them down, he couldn't.

How was that even possible?

It was actually pretty embarrassing.

Before he could think even more about her it struck him.

'Look at what we can do!'

'What goes together better than cold and dark?'

'We can make them believe'

Fuck.

For the first time he actually felt a cold shiver running down his spine.

Of course.

That's why she wanted her. Because of her powers.

The difference is that this time, it was worst than when Pitch tried to convince him to join him. Jack and Pitch were both invisible -they kind of still are- at that time, with their powers combined, they were going to force kids to believe in them, to fear them.

Now, Elsa was pretty damn visible. She was a queen, for the Moon's sake. She surely has a heavy name in the world. Kings and Queens are kind of famous aren't they?.

Then, she was human. She has no freaking idea with who she's dealing with, and she has her fears, strong fears. Humans are pretty easy to manipulate. You could just lie about some possible solution to their fears and they will be in the palm of your hands. Pitch definitely found a way to control their adult fears, maybe not fully but it was definitely something if he could get into Elsa's dream.

The final and most important point, was that she has powers. Pitch would manipulate her, and her powers will practically be his. Elsa, being human and visible, could easily make the whole world believe in him, just by threatening to freeze them to death.

That was what Pitch wanted.

Jack lifted up his gaze as he watched how Tooth and Bunny continued their little fight. Sandy was trying to calm them down and North was walking across the room observing it's various decorations.

Jack walked to him.

"North, I need to tell you something" Jack said, North looked down at him and instantly frowned once he saw Jack's worried look.

"What is it, Jack?" North said as he guided Jack even further from the others.

"I'm pretty sure I know what Pitch wants to do" Jack said. "He wants her for her powers. If he manages to get to her he could manipulate her into forcing the whole world to believe in him. Not just children, also adults"

North was quiet for a few second, analyzing Jack's theory.

"Jack" North said sighing. "I know that Pitch was feeding himself with adults fears, but that was just because kids don't believe in him anymore. Once he has Elsa's powers he can make them believe again, by scaring them with her powers. Why he would go after adults?" He asked frowning.

"Because he can now, North. It's pretty damn easy actually" Jack said with a frustrated sigh. "We're talking about a queen that froze his whole country for Manny knows why! She can just threaten a whole country to believe in Pitch!" Jack said. "Why settle down with kids when now you can have fears from every person in this world? With me it was only gonna be kids but-"

"Wait- With you? What do you mean with you?" North asked in confusion.

Shit.

"Uh- Well, once Pitch kind of asked me to…" Jack said nervously. "To join him…. To make the kids fear us" North frowned deeply.

"To join him?! And now you tell me this?!" North exclaimed angry. "Didn't it occur to you that it will probably be a good idea to tell us that?"

"I'm sorry! But since I said no I didn't really see a problem! We defeated him and I thought I was the only one on this planet that has ice powers!" Jack defended himself. North sighed loudly.

"At least we know what he wants now" North said as he started to walk towards the other guardians.

"And I still don't hear a thank you" Jack said with a teasing tone. North was about to retort him until the gates started to melt.

Elsa entered right after, but instead of her night gown, she was wearing a beautiful teal gown that shined every time she moved. It was gorgeous. Jack wondered from where she took it since they were in her room, until he finally realized it was made of ice.

"Oh gosh! What a gorgeous dress!" Tooth squealed, and Elsa gave her a small smile.

"Thank you" Elsa said, and then with her powers she brought closer different types of chairs that where in her room, accommodating them in a circle.

She gestured everyone of them to seat down, and she did the same.

"I think we should start by introducing by introducing ourselves" North said once he sat down. He was sitting in the chair that was in front of Elsa. Jack was to his right and Bunny to his left, and Sandy and Tooth were beside them respectively.

Elsa nodded.

"Before we start, your Majesty, I'm sure everything will sound crazy to you, but we're not lying" North said again. Elsa just eyed him. "Queen Elsa of Arendelle" North said with a serious voice. "Do you believe in Santa Claus?"

Elsa just blinked, and Jack face-palmed himself, literally.

"What?" Was the only thing that came from her mouth. North was about to open his mouth again, but Elsa quickly interrupted him. "Look, if this is a joke-"

"This is not a joke." North said. "It's real, it's all real. Just like the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy-"

"Okay, I'm done." Elsa said getting up. "This has clearly been a mistake. I've sent on vacation to all my staff, but now it's clear to me that you need to see a professional." Elsa said, stepping back towards the door. It was pretty obvious that now she was extremely uncomfortable by being there. "I'll send you to Arendelle's best doctor but this is over." She said and hurried to leave.

"When you were six, you asked for twin dolls for Christmas" North voice rang, making her stop abruptly. She didn't turn, she just stood still with one hand on the door knob. "They were for you, and for your sister, Anna" North continued. "And when you were seven, you asked for something I couldn't give to you"

Elsa felt her heart stop.

The room was in deep silence, and the rest of them could feel how the temperature was dropping.

"You asked me to take your powers away" North said a lot more quiet. Elsa's lip started to quiver, as her brows frowned, recalling her seven year old self writing that letter to Santa while crying non-stop, alone. "I gave you ice skates instead"

Jack was in his seat, wide eyed, gazing between North and Elsa.

Take her powers away? Why? Who on Earth would want that?

Jack loved his powers, they have kept him sane all this 300 years. They were his connection to the kids, the only connection he had when he was invisible, the only way to interact with people.

Why she would want to get rid of something he loved so much?

Elsa turned abruptly.

"Skates I didn't use because I couldn't even go outside" Elsa said with a calm voice. She shook her head in disbelief. "This doesn't make any sense" Elsa said. "You can't be real, because you stopped bringing me gifts after that"

"You stopped believing" North said with a sad smile. Elsa looked at him with something Jack could define as guilt for one second, but her gaze quickly turned cold again, as she scanned the rest of them.

"So, let me guess" Elsa said. "The Easter Bunny" Elsa said looking at him.

"No kidding, Sherlock" Bunny muttered.

"Bunny for short" North said, excitement evident in his voice. Elsa turned to Tooth.

"The Tooth Fairy" Elsa said.

"Toothiana, but you can call me Tooth" Tooth said with a small bow. Elsa delivered her a small smile as she turned to Sandy, she pursed her lips at first.

"Sandman" She said.

"Sandy for short, and he doesn't talk" North said again. Sandy did the same hat salute he did to Jamie and his friends once. Elsa nodded to North, and finally turned to Jack.

And even though his heart has probably not beat in more than 300 years, he felt it stop. Elsa frowned a bit and tilted her head, looking straight to his eyes. Jack felt like he was naked.

He felt his already dead heart broke, he knew that she wont recognize him, if the big majority of kids didn't, how could an adult? He couldn't held his gaze any longer, mostly because he didn't want to see how she'll ask him 'What the heck are you?'. Was he supposed to smile awkwardly to her after tell her his name or something? With the possibility of her still not recognizing him? Yeah, no thanks.

"Jokul Frosti" Her sweet voice rang in his ears. He snapped her head to her.

She was looking at him, without a single doubt in her face.

Obviously, his signature smirk grew on his face.

She recognized him….. by that ugly ass name, but still.

"I go by Jack Frost" He said with a charming smile. Elsa blinked, and turned to her seat without another word.

Ouch.

He frowned. How come she's not even a bit interested in him? They have the same powers don't they?

Jack just pouted and sank arm crossed further in his chair.

"We shall begin discussing this now, I have a lot of things to do" Elsa said, not even gazing at him even once.

x

They were here.

He didn't know why was he surprised, but obviously, they have the worst time in the fucking world.

He was just about to enter Elsa's room through the window, when he saw them. Luckily for him, they didn't see him. He was quick to react, so he disappeared in a small shadow in a heart beat.

He growled.

Still, this was very far of being over.

His trip to town have been interesting. Fear was growing fast after that suicidal man, he just needed a bit more of power to control Elsa's dream from a secure distance, away from the sight of The Guardians.

He was going to get her, it'll just take a bit longer than he expected.

And he'll start tonight.

A.N.: Hey guys! Sorry it's been long since an update! But, incase you didn't know, I was working on my other fanfic called 'Fix You' (thats now finished in case you want to check it out) and right now I'm on vacations! Luckily the crazy fanfictioner inside me can't stop writing, so at night when I find a little bit of time I write chunk and chunk each night! So, I finally finished this chap weeee!

So, the next update will probably be in a few days, I'll still be on vacations till January 30, so I'll write whenever I can, but I'll promise you to write, and it'll surely be ready next week.

Anyway, this is probably one of my favorite plots from all the fanfiction's I've ever wrote, and I really like this story. I love modern AU's or College AU's but this types of fan fiction that are sort-of canon are my weakness, and there're not a lot of them.

Anyway, I just wanted you to know that the song 'When It's All Over' by RAIGN inspired me to do this… its a pretty dark song and yeah it's not going to be all fluff just yet. You should totally check it out tho.

I really hope you're enjoying this so far!

Reviews and comments are deeply appreciated :)

We'll read each other soon!

Silvana.