Evy Hallow chapter Four
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Evy Hallow
Chapter four
Jaimes Backyard:
Upon hearing this tale, everyone was laughing their guts out. It was totally hilarious!
"Losing a tooth can be a little bit dramatic and painful, especially at that age," Toothiana explained while still chuckling. "But when I saw how she really lost it, by biting Pitch's wrist to have her doll back, I couldn't imagine that could have hurt that much!"
Bunny sniggered back. "He-he, The Boogeyman defeated by a toddler, I wish I have been there to see the show!"
"S-s-sh-ouldn't you at least 'ww-arned' him about her?" Jaime laughed while trying to compose himself, which it wasn't easy.
"Well, it's too late now, isn't it?" Bunny answered practically and gave them a rather devious smile. "Besides, he needed a good shock."
"Pitch is smart and clever but the reason why even he didn't get that Evy was a part of him or had at least something doing with the destroyed sculpture, was because it has never happened before. " Toothiana explained.
"And when North told him," Bunny continued, "he almost had a heart attack!"
In Norths workshop:
Under Pitch Blacks poker face he was fuming.
Tilting his head back he took another long swig out of the sickly sweet eggnog one of the shaken Elf's had served him while having his badly injured hand placed in a bucket old ice to ease the swelling.
Pitch was sitting on a small sofa near the big fire in the Norths main hall and by the sweet scent surrounding him it confirmed that he'd had more than one shot.
Not being a person who likes to drink or ever needed a drink before, this particular revelation just a few minutes ago made him want to taste something very strong that would make him completely unconscious for at least a couple of hundred years.
Several Yetis were guarding him, holding their swords, spears and a lot of candlelight's over his head, without moving, he would neither escape from their sharp weapons or using any shadows to disappear. None of them moved or so much as said a word. They just glared at him while Pitch pretended they weren't there.
Pitch has seen many spirits come and goes through the millennia's. Some of them lived thousands of years, others just couple of hundred before suddenly disappearing or being titled as "Myths" or "Legends" by future generations of humans, until after these generations starts forgetting the spirits names and real purposes. Either by replacing their names with different ones or their soul agendas (Sometimes completely opposite from their former powers and character. Becoming from good to bad and the opposite!), or just completely forget about them. When it happens, when the last believing human dies with the last stories or memories of the spirit, the spirit would completely disappear from the earth and never come again.
Except for the Guardians, Pitch had never really cared for the other spirits or ever interfered in their jobs or even asked who they were before they became spirits of something…until now.
Sometimes, Pitch unintentionally dragged his gaze to Evy and snared. Surely they couldn't possibly mean that toddler, lying on the floor not so far from him, playing farm with Norths newly invented toy animals, made entirely by ice, and together with a couple of elves joining her little world, was… his!
He didn't believe when North told him and it passed several long minutes until the whole team was together and stared angrily, suspiciously and slightly uncomfortably at him another couple of longs seconds until Pitch made the first move to break the ice.
"Eggnog?" Pitch waved the almost empty cup towards them. "And do you have anything stronger North? This is definitely not my taste."
This caught them a slightly off of guard but Bunny controlled himself and glared angrily at Pitch.
"Who is damn interested in Eggnogs now?"
"You perhaps?" Pitch muttered teasingly. "You look like you need one yourself. Eggs are your favourite isn't?"
"Stop joking and tell us why you are here Pitch," Toothiana said and moved closer to Pitch.
Hearing her but ignoring Tooth's presence and Bunny angry look Pitch took another sip from the Eggnog and then replied with a slight polite voice towards the whole team.
"First of all to see what North and Snow-flake were doing, they have showed very openly that they were holding a secret, and when I found the secret over there I wanted to tease her a bit until she almost bit my hand off," Pitch moved his hand up from the bucket and showed them a nice deep bit mark together with long blue lines from very sharp baby nails. "Not quite the hospitality I usually receive."
"Suits you well Boogey-man," Bunny muttered.
"Tease her?! Jack moved and headed the tip of his staff near Pitch's nose. "What were you trying to do with her Pitch?!"
"I did NOTHING!" Pitch screamed, grabbing the staff and forcedly removed it away from him. Standing up from his seat Pitch tossed away his fake coldness and calmness and now presented them a very frustrated, shocked and very bewildered man who found out that he just heard that he has just become ...a father. His shoulders were trembling, his teeth gritted and Jack were still holding a steady grip his staff, pointing directly at him like a loaded gun.
"North was trying to convince me that little brat over there is my DAUGHTER! Is that true?"
It was Toothiana who answered his questions with a calm, slow and steady voice to lower his temperament. "Yes she is. By yours, Jack powers and by Man in the Moon's wish."
Pitch looked first at her and then back at Jack with doubt on his face. Eyed him closely to see any slight of pulling his mouth or small glittering of mischief in his eyes to relieve he was joking, but there wasn't. Jack looked completely 100% serious and so were the others.
"Unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable..." Pitch growled and with closed eyes he rubbed his forehead with the cold cup, soothing an upcoming nice headache. "You must be kidding with me, right? A very, very, very sick joke."
"No we are not, unfortunately, joking. She's yours as much she's Jack's," North said with a serious tone.
"Impossible, this has never happened before!" Pitch turned towards Sandy, who stood there with crossed arms and a slight sour face. "Sandy, you're the same age as me, have you ever heard something like this before!?
But the golden man tilted his head at the question but just shrugged; refuse to give him any satisfaction of Pitch's curiosity and frustration.
"Oh, no, no, no, no!" Pitch moved closer. "Don't give me that look! Who says that Blondes are Airheads! I know you have something inside that yellow curls you're not telling. Spit it out!" But Sandy just kept his mouth shut and just transformed his sand into a large fist if Pitch ever tried to take any drastic methods to persuade him.
Then Pitch turned towards the other and continued with a loud frustrated tone in his voice; "We can't become parents! Our life only exists because of our duties and missions and that the human believe in us. It's crazy! "
Hearing the turmoil and his loud rambling from her spot, Evy looked up at Pitch quizzically. She didn't quite understand what he was yelling or why her family looked at him with such a sour faces. He took her doll but she paid by biting him back, and he dropped her doll and helped to lose her teeth.
She has forgiven him and showed him a lesson. Fair and square. They didn't need to be angry at him any more.
"This is…unbelievable." Pitch collapsed onto the chair again, made a long deep breath to catch his breath and trying to resign this new revelation. "…unbelievable!"
"Unbelievable almost, but I'm afraid we're not kidding Pitch," North said calmly.
"…And none of you don't have any clues of her powers are or mission?" Pitch tiredly said as he poured another cup of Eggnog from a small Jug beside him.
"Well... we know that she has the ability to blow out thick fog from her lungs and by tonight's recent discovery, she`s having no problem using the shadows."
Pitch rolled his eyes slightly and moved the cup up to his lips; "What a power! But any clues why this crazy man above us came up this insane idea to make me and Frost-bite 'parents' without our permissions?"
"No."
"And would you be so kindly explain to me why I'm still here then?"
"We didn't… quite expect that you would be introduced to you daughter in this...manner." North said with a now embarrassed but slightly bemused tone and waved his hands between Evy and Pitch.
"How sweet!" Pitch muttered ended his questions by quickly sipping up the last drops of the eggnog from the cup and tossed it behind him. A small crash of porcelain could be heard from where it landed.
Jack lowered his staff a little. "And asking us how she came here, I'm guessing you don't know anything either."
First very confused, Pitch's turned to hastily surprise and suspicion as he turned towards Jack. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"I think you know definitely why Manny did what he did!"
Hearing that, Pitch's eye made a quick twitch at Jack's last sentence, reminding him about what he said to Jack down in Antarctica almost two years ago. Oh my god, he wouldn't. He wouldn't dare!
North's eyes flickered between him and Jack that stood beside him. "So you do know why Manny did it Jack."
Looking back at Pitch's face, telling Jack with no words, only by his glowing eyes and they way his fingers clawed at the arms of the chair like a angry cat, that if he ever makes a small pip about their conversation, Pitch would become Jack's personal devil for the rest of his immortal life.
"I think Pitch should tell, not me. He's the one with a better cause of Evys whole existence than me."
"Really?" North asked, everybody turning to look at Pitch.
"Which I would rather die than tell you," Pitch replied shortly back, "besides, I guess why didn't tell me about her is because I would be a bad influence, I'm right?"
Jack rolled his eyes. "That question doesn't need to be answered, you already know that you don't like children and definitely not a fan of babies."
"Well they scream all the time, can't care of themselves and need new diapers all the time, not to mention they pees in their beds. The smell is disgusting!"
Considering the diapers and screaming North and Jack glanced to each other, though inwardly they had to admit that Pitch had a point in that.
But hearing a small humming and looked back they all watched Evy playing with two ice-horses, singing something that sounded like "Ol don ha a little farm...eiia eiia hoo!" moving the horses up and down like they were jumping over a fence. Sucking another ice-animal like ice-lolly in her mouth; the diapers, the screaming for food or attention definitely was worth it.
Again, despite her powerful cuteness, Pitch twitched his nose; remembering only wet mattresses, stinky diapers and sharp teeth.
But then, seeing the guardians soft faces over the little toddler, an idea suddenly glimmered up in Pitch head. A idea he found very interesting and would certainly give the guardians something to think of deeply, or at least some tease.
"Perhaps Man in the Moon has gotten tired. He's finally realized that my powers are vastly more superior than yours and created her as a peace gift!" Pitch lowly murmured but not to low that the guardians wouldn't hear, not bothering to hide a smirk while he rested his face against his hand.
This caught all the guardians off guard but after a short moment their shock turned into anger.
"And what kind of 'responsibilities' may I ask you would take a charge on?"Bunny narrowed his eyes and moved his boomerang up, ready to hit straight on Pitch face. "You don't know anything about children except scaring them!"
"I refuse to let you lay a finger at her!" Tooth protested. "She's just a innocent baby!"
"Ha! To be raised here in this toy-land. Just wait when she grows up and see what the world really is!, Pitch chuckled dryly as he moved his hands up and touched Norths big Globe with his shadows.
"When the day comes, we will handle it!" North said and moved intentionally in front of him so he would stop his little shadow play.
Pitch grinned again, crossed his arms over his chest and assumed a bored air as the guards formed a circle around him.
"She made of Cold and Darkness isn't she? Who knows?"
Very mad and not just a little, Jack grabbed him by the front of his robes and pulled him up from the seat. Even he was shorter than Pitch their faces were mere inches from each other and Jack ice-blue eyes stared into Pitch's golden.
"Which doesn't guarantee that she's a threat and having the entirely planet in her hands," he spit.
As the master of manipulations and poker faces, Pitch still kept a small smile on his lips. "But you…Jack Frost, having the responsibility to handle a child while you're still just a kid with no boundaries of yourself or knowledge to make right decisions, I really doubt it!"
And to make everything ever better for Pitch benefits, Evy suddenly started to scream as loud as she could, making everyone in the room jump from their places.
Immediately, North rushed to her side and picked her up. "Sweetie, what happened? What`s wrong? Are you hungry again? New diapers? Are you tired?" Holding up a melting sculpture of a headless Rabbit, Evy eyes was dripping with tears and she shouted right into Norths left ear and almost made him deaf by its volume.
"I killed Bunny with my mouth!"
Pointing casually his long finger at the crying little toddler, Pitch's eyes was feasting over an beautiful sight when Evy grabbed Norths beard and tugged very hard that he made a slight grimace over the pain. "See, a potential killing machine!" Even Evy was a brat and completely unplanned, and even how he found about who she were was one of the most painful and humiliating moments of Pitch's very long life, might truly be a miracle in disguise. She could be something very useful in the future for his dark plans. But even this thought led Pitch to unconsciously rub his still bruised hand, on the mark where Evy had bit him with her small little milk teeth.
Back in Jaimes Backyard:
"We first believed that Evy was vulnerable to any of Pitch's attacks, but showing her teeth proved that she is very capable in defending herself. But you see, after what happened that night North decided to have a watch 7/24 hours a day in the nursery, in case Pitch ever showed up again. But after a while we didn't have to worry," Bunny said and ended his story.
"Why?" Jaime wondered.
"He isn't a guy who knows how to babysit!" Jack said casually.
"Considering he`s living under our beds, Pitch must have learned one thing or two." Pippa said.
"Like how make the scared little kids pee in their beds," Caleb snickered while licking his precious jawbreaker.
"Oh shut up Caleb, you did the same thing when we were five; remember how mom scolded you every morning," his brother Claude said and smirked.
"Traitor! You promised not to tell!" Claude shouted as two deep red spots appeared on his dark cheeks and looked like he was ready to attack and hit Claude on his spiky black head with his Jaw-breaker.
"Whoa, world peace brothers!" Jack hold his arms outstretched between the brothers to prevent World War III. "If Pitch Black has the ability, with no doubt, then cleaning Evy's bed would in the end be his responsibility and no one else. And raise Evy to his own expectations, to teach her to make fear, terrors and help him to defeat us, well...he decided to wait a couple of years, at least after her sharp milk teeth were gone."
Hearing this, the twin-brothers forgot their plan to fight and looked at Jack with curiosity. "Did it?" They both asked.
"Of course it did," Jack snickered, "but to his disappointment she gained a very nice set that puts a Shark to shame."
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