A/N: Okay, you lot. So far, I've gotten a few requests for this. I wasn't expecting all the reviews for chapter four to had that they wanted to see more. Looks like I'm underestimating myself.

To any of you who have no idea what I'm babbling about, this is a One-Shot and Arc story based on my story, Butterfly Affect. Unless you want to be painfully confused, you should read that first. Otherwise nothing in here will make any sense.

Onward to my story! Wait...I'm forgetting something important...Oh! Right, um, if you ever want to know when the one-shot/arc is taking place, look for the italics in the author's note. It'll tell you if it takes place during Butterfly Affect, before, or after.

This one was painfully ordered to be written by a friend who shall remained unnamed if I want to live.

Disclaimer: I own Butterfly Affect! That's it! And the red lights, they are still mine! You can not have them! Jack Frost and RotG is not included in either of these things...sadly...

Post Butterfly Affect

Sandy was annoyed.

No, he was beyond annoyed. He was outright ready to murder someone in order to gain the attention of his fellow Guardians. They had been avoiding looking at him and answering his question ever since they had left Burgess! Even Tooth wouldn't look him in the eye.

Just what had happened after he had been taken out?!

It was North who cracked first.

"We were devastated," North's voice crackled as he spoke. He sighed, and put his head in his hands. "Jack was most upset. Would only stare out the window. Gaining his memories was no longer important, but he was going to help us fight Pitch."

Sandy formed a question mark above his head. He was already confused. Why had Jack not wanted to gain his memories anymore? And why still fight Pitch if they weren't important. Silently, he cursed his lack of ability to speak. It would have made so many different things easier.

"He adored you Sandy," Bunny sighed. "We never saw it, I never even figured it out until much later. The yeti's were the ones to clue us in. You were one of his only playmates. He absolutely adored you. And Pitch? Pitch had just killed you in front of him."

Sandy felt horror rise up through him. He had never considered that Jack would ever want to avenge him. He hadn't even known that he was one of his only playmates! Jack was a child, and while he didn't have the time to be his friend due to Guardians duties and working, he had made sure to check on him and play a little with his sand.

"We went to the Warren," Tooth continued. "North actually said that Easter was more important than Christmas! And Jack, well he was laughing at us. It was like he was forcing himself to forget that you weren't there. Maybe that was when he began trying to figure out a way to save you. I'm not sure. But once we got to the Warren, Bunny heard something."

Sandy cocked his head in confusion as North and Tooth began laughing and he could have sworn that under Bunny's fur, he was blushing.

"Remember the blond girl?" Sandy nodded. "She found one of North's snow globes and had gotten into the Warren!"

Sandy began laughing. He could just imagine all of them in a fighting position when suddenly faced with a little girl, probably already holding eggs in her arms. He congered up the image and laughed harder when they all looked away.

"Turns out," Tooth began. "That children don't like looking at the blood and gums on teeth. Well, boys do, but not little girls."

Sandy snickered. This tale was getting far too amusing. He wondered what was going to happen to make him want to murder them and then Pitch. Something obviously was, with the way they had been acting earlier.

"We spent time with the girl, helped Bunny with Easter. The little girl fell asleep and Jack took her home. Apparently, even if not believed in, we can touch unconscious people." Sandy nodded, being the Sandman, he'd already known that. That didn't explain what was going to happen.

Tooth bit her lip. "The emergency setting on the teeth activated, Sandy. You know what that means. Pitch took full advantage of it! The teeth were in the middle of his lair, and he knew about the setting. He managed to grab Baby Tooth and distract Jack."

Sandy didn't like were this was going. It had better not be going were he thought it was! Because he would likely murder them if it did. It was then that he realized that was why they couldn't look him in the eye.

"Easter was ruined, the kid's stopped believing. And we sent Jack away." Tooth was crying openly now. "We sent him away, Sandy! How could we do that?"

Sandy sighed and patted her on the shoulder. He was upset with them, he wanted to hurt them, but he felt that something bigger had happened that had punished him enough.

Bunny sighed, "I should tell it from here."

North and Tooth nodded in agreement.

"It took a few hours for Tooth to remember the emergency setting the teeth had. When she did, we realized what happened and went out searching for Jack. We searched everywhere, and we couldn't find him. He was just no where, Sandy!" Bunny's ears dropped. His face spoke of fear, fear for what had happened next. "We went to Burgess. Kid's were gathered by the Lake, where Jack came from. It had unfrozen. I heard the story, and I immediately knew it was Jack that had been keeping it frozen. I was so worried, why had it thawed now? It was then that Pitch had appeared."

Bunny looked at Sandy, looked him in the eye. "He taunted us, about the previous incident he'd had with Jack, about me accidently repeating things that Jack had said. He threw Jacks staff at our feet." Bunny cut off, tears in his eyes. Sandy grew very worried now.

"It vas Broken." North slipped more into his Russian accent in his grief. "Ve vere zo vorried, Zandy. Zo very vorried."

"We found him in the South Pole." Bunny continued. "He was with Baby Tooth. It was how Pitch had gotten his staff. Her safety for the staff. They were both trapped in a pit. But Pitch hadn't just broken Jack's staff." Bunny was bitter at this point. "That arrow he hit you with? He stabbed Jack through with it, three time! All the way through!"

Sandy felt ill. The arrows were agony, shear agony coursing throughout your body that sent every nerve ending on fire, and made you want to just die, to give up. Three stab wounds from that, and the already agony of his broken staff? He wouldn't have blamed Jack if he had given up and died.

"There was so much blood. He wasn't covered in frost, and he was so warm! At least a hundred degrees, and that's not safe for a human! A Winter Spirit is always, always bellow freezing point." Bunny was crying now. "He wasn't breathing. He wasn't moving. God, Sandy, if the yeti's hadn't known what to do, we would have lost him!"

Sandy had sand tears trailing down his face. He knew he should have hurt Pitch more than he had. He should have made Pitch feel the same agony that Jack had felt.

Bunny chuckled here. "He was delirious when he woke up the first time. Was rambling on about Kangaroos, baby rabbits, hallucinations, and mind reading bunny's. I don't think he even remembers most of it. I was shrunken, due to the fact almost no one believed anymore. Not enough magic to stay this size. I don't even want to know what happened to all my stuff. I managed to comfort him, and get him back to sleep."

Bunny choked up here. "He thought I hated him. We were in the wrong, Easter wasn't his fault! And he was still blaming himself. God, I wanted to kill myself right then. He'd never looked so young and vulnerable before! I hated myself. I really did. I told him it wasn't his fault, that we were idiots."

Sandy nodded, frowning at them. North and Tooth didn't seem to know about that part, and were both silently sobbing. Hating themselves. It was then that he realized that they had never made the connection until then, until now, with this incident, that Jack was a child. He closed his eyes. He should have introduced them to Jack a long time ago. This was just as much his fault as there's.

"We lost all but one believer. Tooth and the yeti's were going on and collecting teeth and leaving money, but it just wasn't enough." Bunny sighed. "Jamie was already taken by Pitch when we got there. We found Pitch's lair and protected Jamie as best we could."

"It was not fair fight," North agreed. "We were at the disadvantage."

"The mini-fairies were locked into giant cages above us. We couldn't fly anymore," Tooth added, downcast.

"And all of a sudden," Bunny continued, grinning. "I was me again. I was normal sized. North was at full strength and the fairies all regained their flight. We looked at the globe, and right there at the North Pole, here and Santoff Clausen, was a blue light."

Sandy whipped his head to look at the globe. There the light was, shining brightly. The red lights were still glowing strongly as well. Sandy fought a chuckle, they must be seeing a lot of things they never noticed before. Legends that had been unseen for a very long time. He wondered how they would react to the dragons?

"It was then I learned that the reason Jamie still believed was because of the snow bunny that had appeared in his room," Bunny continued. "Jack had been desperate to keep the kid believing and had Projected to him."

Sandy gaped. In Jack's injured state, that should have been impossible.

"The kid had managed to mend his staff, probably tapped into what power he could to do it. Once he did that, his body re-frosted and the wounds iced over. They'll never reopen and the won't scar. They'll just vanish one day." Bunny clutched his paws together. "But they will hurt."

"He made an army." Tooth giggled. "Jack remembered what he did with Jamie and made Snow Figures, made all the snow in Burgess come alive. Not even the adults could ignore that, and soon, it was on the World Wide News. Every country, every city! Everyone could see Jack's magic!"

Sandy clapped and danced. So that was how the globe became so full, so bright. He had wondered why the town could see him!

"The Snow Figures took out so many Nightmares, we barely had time to do anything!" North laughed. "Jamie had been cornered and when he touched the Nightmare, it turned into golden sand."

Sandy grinned, he wondered how long it took for Jack to catch on.

As if reading his mind, North laughed. "It was not long. Jack touched one, and it too turned gold. Soon, all the children were running at the Nightmares! And you appeared."

"The rest you were there for." Bunny shrugged.

Sandy frowned, and formed the figures of the people, Jack, and eye, and then a question mark.

Bunny smirked. "I owed the kid. Told Jamie he was real, and Jamie pointed him out to the rest of the world, and bam! They could see him."

Sandy laughed, and clapped. His friends were safe from him, as they had already paid Jack back in full. Pitch however...

Sandy gained an evil grin, and the Guardians backed away from him quickly. Sandy formed the image of Pitch and then a skull and crossbones.

Bunny grinned, "I'm with you on that one, mate."

North brandished his sword. "I am as well, Sandy."

Tooth smirked, "I still need to pay him back for Jack and my fairies!"

Pitch had better hide for the immediate future, because they were all out for blood.

In a dark cavern, hidden under a bed frame in the forest, Pitch groaned. He felt like he hadn't seen the last of the Guardians anytime soon.

Sure enough, he looked up to see Sandy glaring down evilly at him.

Pitch vowed never to do anything to Jack Frost again...well, at least not before making sure it was either never traced back to him or the other Guardians had already been taken care of.

Because really, they shouldn't be able to be that frightening!

Poor Pitch. Lol, let me know of what you all think!

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