A Dream turned Nightmare

Kōri?" Bad Dream asked the Nightmare. She slowly started to rise and walk towards them. Jack jumped at the size of her, did he really fight a battle against something her size? In that moment she shrunk and fell into his arms like a small kitten, her sand wisps of its former self. "Jack, I need you to head-butt her, gently," Bad Dream said softly. He needed Jack to feed her with his fear and the fastest way to do that was through the nightmares.

Jack pressed his forehead to Kōri's and let himself be transported to the lake he called home.

He lay there, too scared to move. He watched himself fall through the ice but instead of the power it made him feel when he watched from his tooth box he felt weak and scared. He had never felt so terrified in his life. He started to cry out and scream his own name. Though he wanted to he couldn't pull himself away and the nightmare continued. The night got colder and darker, he then felt arms around him and he thought they would provide comfort but they didn't. A sound came from in the woods around him but he couldn't move. He felt a presence over him, it picked him up and asked him something but his ears were numb. It sat on the side of the lake and pulled him tightly into its arms.The hole was completely frozen over and the moon was full shining brightly on the spot where the hole had once been. The arms made him even more afraid and they made him sit quietly as he watched himself rise from the ice. He played and he was being held by Pitch Black. Fear was coursing through him. He watched as people walked through his other self and cried as he couldn't call out to himself. Pitch then made a deal with him to die when he turned eighteen and Jack felt like he would explode from all the fear he felt. His mother came to his side and pulled him into her arms. Tears rolled down both of their faces. His mother held him and what should have been comforting caused even more terror. Then he looked under his bed and saw two red eyes watching him.

Finally he pulled away and the Nightmare neighed as she fell asleep in his arms. "What was that?" Jack yelled.

"That was the nightmare that made the army. That was Tragedy's most powerful nightmare. Even more powerful than her own death," Bad Dream took the sleeping Kōri from Jack and placed her in the stomach of the other Nightmare. Much like the Nightmares had when they kidnapped the tooth fairies.

"What was Tragedy's real name?" Jack asked shaking Bad Dream's shoulders.

"Why Jack Frost, you are the Guardian of Fun, this is no way to act," Bad Dream was offended by Jack's behavior. "I work for Jeannie James, your little sister. Well, actually now she is older than you, seeing as you are like sixteen and she is eighteen," Bad Dream hoped he did the right thing. He wanted to reunite Tragedy and Jack but he didn't know if Jack's first image of his sister should have been her pretty much making a deal with the devil.

Jack fell to his knees and the other Guardians crowded around him, "I am sure your sister is alright," Tooth said hugging him.

"I know she didn't keep a deal with Pitch," Bunny said.

"How did you know she made a deal with Pitch?" Bad Dream asked confused.

"You said Tragedy worked for Pitch, if Jeannie is Tragedy then it is right to assume that the vision he had was of his sister making a deal with Pitch," Bunny said looking at Bad Dream like it was obvious.

"You didn't see what I saw, she made a deal with him. My sister turned evil because I died in front of her. I looked at the whole event as the start of my new life, my new family, my new world of magic. I never realized her life was destroyed by my death," Jack sat on the ground and cried out. "I have to destroy what I created. I have to remove the Tragedy from the world."

"Well, I should go now that I have screwed up and Tragedy is going to kill me," Bad Dream jumped on the back of the Nightmare who happily bit at him eating the fear rolling off of his chest.

"Jack, are you sure you want to destroy the only living relative you have?" Tooth asked, slightly afraid.

"I agree with Tooth, you don't need to get in too deep," Bunny sighed patting Jack's back.

Sandy annoyed at the lack of attention he was receiving flashed pictures of flames and Nightmares. He remembered Tragedy or really Jeannie, her nights were never found by his dream sand because she was haunted and when she died, she was one of the few spirits who actually dreamed. Daydream or Kathrine Elizabeth also dreamed. They were not evil though, they had greatness of their own. Moon had created both of them and Jack was refusing to listen to him, although, most of them ignored him. Why have a Guardian who couldn't speak?

"You don't know what I have done. I have to right my wrong. I need to figure out how to solve this without destroying myself," Jack sighed and flew away from the group to figure out how you kill something that is already dead.