Snowblind

by Ivara

Twist on the movie. Pitch Black has returned, and a new guardian is chosen. Except that none of the Guardians have even heard of him, since he's spend the last 300 years avoiding them, fearing their anger over his mistakes. Like the titanic. But when the Man in the Moon forces them together.. you can lead a spirit to guardian hood, but you can't make him join.

1. Introduction

Snowblind - Introduction.

The guardians gathered around the crystal, watching as Manny's light caught it and an image of a teenager showed up, bare feet oblivious as snow swirled around him. He leaned on a crooked staff, looking completely at ease. A question mark appeared over the Sandman's head almost instantly, but the other guardians were too caught up in staring at the new guardian MiM had just picked to notice. In fact, all of them were thinking around the same thing, Just who was this guy?

It was finally Bunnymund who broke the silence, "Who is this bloke?" He looked around at the other guardians, but Tooth shook her head, not knowing either. Sandy was silent as always, the question mark remaining imprinted in the air with his golden sand, North just shrugged. None of them had ever seen the new guardian, or even so much as heard of him. They were about to.

….

Jack circled on the wind above North's workshop, looking down at it with bright blue eyes. He'd been in the Artic stirring up a snowstorm and enjoying the cold when he'd decided he might as well try and see if he couldn't get into the workshop while he was around. Hopefully this time Phil wasn't going to catch him before he saw anything, and Jack didn't think that Phil would fall for being frozen again. Being thrown out this time if he failed was probably going to be painful. The one thing he didn't want to do was run into North himself, Jack had been avoiding the guardians these last 300 years, and he didn't want them to start learning he was here now. He was sure they wouldn't like him, not after all he'd done the titanic, ruining Easter in that blizzard in '68. They'd been accidents, but the Easter Kangaroo had been hopping mad about that blizzard. And to think if that anger had been directed at him…

His eyes caught it, an opening in the roof. He could see the Man in the Moon's light shining down through it. After all these years, was MiM finally sending him a message? Three hundred years without anything but his name, was he finally going to get somewhere? Was this what he'd been waiting for all this time?

He swooped down towards the opening, a flurry of snow being carried along the breeze with him. He stopped over the opening and without a thought folded him arms into his sides and dropped, landing crouched on the ground, frost exploding in its beautiful pattern all around him when his staff touched the ground. Jack Frost stood up slowly, edging back. This, this was not good. What had the Man in the Moon gotten him into now?