Prologue
Every immortal knows the concept. If nobody beliefs in you, then you will never be seen or heard. You can't be touched and mortals go through you like you are air. And you get the feeling someone punched you in your gut.
When an immortal is created, or like they say 'reborn', they have no believers. They first had to get them. Be it through coincidences, legends, myths or something like that. The imagination of mortals knows no bounds. It can happen that an immortal has many names or legends.
Mother Nature for example. She has many names and stories about her. Mother Nature, Mother Earth, Gaya and many more. It doesn't make a difference. She is one and the same.
But one thing of the immortals stays the same. Even when they don't know the name or legend, every immortal can see and hear another. They know if they meet and feel the power of an immortal.
Mother Nature and the Mann in the Moon create immortals in balance and they give them a task, their destiny. When chosen mortals die, if by nature or an accident, they will be awoken and get a purpose from them. But there are exceptions, the legends and myths.
When the belief of humans is big enough and there is a hole in the spiritual balance, then it can happen that from this belief an immortal is created. But they are very rare.
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So there came a time where in a terrible and dark winter such a hole in the balance existed and two children on a frozen pond played. But the enjoyment for them was cut short when the ice beneath their feet began to break.
The older of the two, a 17 year old boy, tried with the risk of his own life to spare his little sister a lonely and cold death. He got his sister with the help of a Sheppard's hook to safety on the thicker ice, but unfortunately he switched places with her. He broke trough the thin ice into the darkness below. He drowned after a few agonizing minutes under the ice.
The man in the moon, or how others call him Manny or MiM, watched this happen with a heavy heart. He decided to give this brave and selfless young man a second chance at life. He sent his moonbeams to the man below, but also the spiritual balance tried to grab him. Both powers meet at the same time and Manny could only watch how his biggest mistake took place.
It was quite rare that the appearance of a mortal changed when he became an immortal. If it happens then they are only minor changes, like a different eye colour or clothing.
But in this case are once dark brown hair now snow white and chocolate brown eyes now ice blue. But that was the smallest evil. Manny watched with wonder and horror how the young man became smaller and smaller. The once 17 year old man was now a young child. A 10 year old child.
He sent another moonbeam to he child below. This one had the task to check if the balance gave the boy a purpose, a power, or if Manny should give him one.
The answer surprised him greatly. His essence, his purpose and meaning, that this newly immortal had was incomplete. There was a half of him missing.
Every immortal had two halves, two sides of a coin in a way. One of them has the purpose, the duty, and the other and the most important one was the identity of an immortal. The existence. Feelings, thoughts and wishes. All the senses which makes a person exist. All that he needs to really live.
Manny knew that the balance did his thing and was done with this newly immortal. But he can't let it end here. He can't let the child live like that, it was like a puppet without strings. So he has to do something about it. After a long pause, he decided to sent one last moonbeam. This one contained a piece of Manny himself. A little piece of his own essence. He hoped that this was enough to give the child a new identity.
He observed how the moonbeam lifted the boy gently out of the water and through the ice in the air above the pond. As soon as his upper body was out of the water did he open his ice blue eyes. Manny looked with wonder how the moonbeam did his magic. Slowly there came life back in the once dead eyes. A blink, a second one. Then a deep breath of air, and many after that. And then the once dead boy awoke to life.
Now he needs a new name for his second life. Once he was the 17 year old Jackson Overland. Now he was a child of winter, of frost.
Jack Frost.
Manny couldn't have known that from this moment on he would never see little Jack again.