"JACK!" The guardians called out into the snow storm that now covered much of Burgess. Bunny was panicked, thinking about how much damage a blast like that had caused Jack last time. He didn't think the frost spirit could survive another. Looking around, he spotted a bit of black poking out of the snow and he ran over. "Over here!" he called to the others as he started to dig, ignoring that his paws were going numb from the cold. Tooth was soon by his side as he got hold of enough of the black fabric to pull him up. To their shock, it wasn't Jack, but instead the Nightmare King.

"Pitch?!" Bunny snapped, releasing him instantly. The other man stirred at the rough movement and he sat up, still half buried in the snow.

"Where's Jack?" Tooth asked behind Bunny and Pitch glared at her, rubbing his head.

"Why would I know that?" he hissed, trying to get out of the snow. Bunny ignored him and looked around quickly.

"JACK!" He shouted again as Sandy floated over and actually helped pull Pitch out of the snow and ice. Bunny glared at him as he got up. "Why are you helping him?" he growled at Sandy. Above his head he formed symbols saying he wasn't at all scared of the Nightmare King, seeing that he was fairly injured from what Jack had done. He scoffed at the idea of helping their enemy but didn't stop them. Turning back out to the snow the Pooka hardly got a few steps into the snow before he was knocked back by a blur of darkness that went straight towards Pitch.

"What is-?!" Tooth yelped before it attacked the Nightmare King with a full snarl. She shot back, trying to distinguish between the darkness of Pitch Black and the thing now trying to rip out his throat.

"JACK!" Bunny shouted next to her and that's when it stopped and looked up at them. The fairy let out a gasp as she saw him look up, fangs dripping with black sand and blood. His eyes were narrow and glowing golden as his black claws dug into Pitch's arms. The boy's skin was almost as black as his hair now and the nightmare sand was swirling around him.

"Jack, come on, let him go…" Bunny said, taking a few steps closer. He crouched down on all fours and lowered his ears, trying to seem small and unthreatening. The boy watched him closely, still holding onto Pitch, who started to laugh.

"Couldn't fight the fearling after all could you Jackie?" he mocked, getting the boy's attention again and he snarled loudly in Pitch's face.

"Jack! No! Look at me!" Bunny shouted at him, walking up closer to him nervously. "Look at me and focus mate" he said. Jack looked back up at him, pausing again. He slowly released Pitch and backed off, looking down at his clawed hands as he got off him. Backing away more, he started shaking and clawing at his arms. He started scratching at wherever the sand was, trying to get it off.

"Hey, hey calm down! You're just hurting yourself more!" the rabbit said quickly when Jack didn't stop clawing at himself, the guardian grabbed his arm. He pulled Jack down, forcing him to stop. The smaller spirit instantly froze up, looking at Bunny with fear. The sudden change shocked the Pooka into letting him go. "I'm not going to hurt you Jack, come on…" he said softly.

"Liar…" Jack hissed at him, his voice shaky and sounded like an animalistic hiss.

"None of us are going to hurt you Jack" Bunny pleaded with him, trying to calm him down.

"You're LYING! Stop lying to me!" the frostling snarled, firing a mixed blast of frost lightening and black sand at the guardians. "All you do is hurt me!" Jack hissed as he stood up. He started to look less animal-like as he did, the sand now swirling around his arms as he gained more control over it. "And now I think I should hurt you." He said coldly, his golden eyes glinting before he jumped into the air and the wind swept him away towards Burgess.

Bunny growled in frustration. They had been so close to getting him back… Jack had almost snapped out of it, and then he had messed it all up again. Now the young spirit was acting more like the episode in the Warren. He turned to the other Guardians when Pitch started laughing again.

"Will you shut up?!" Bunny snapped at him before he could stop himself. The Nightmare King just smirked at him, looking like he had just one won the fight. "Why are you so happy?"

"It looks like Jack will make a lovely fearling after all." Pitch laughed. "Good luck Guardians, the Nightmare Prince has risen."