Hi! This is waaaaaaay late, but here is my Christmas story! It is a crossover between Rise of the Guardians and Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn (more specifically my first story Radiant Dawn Gaiden). There are OCs, and a bit of humour. May be turned into a larger story later. The premise is that Jack gets into more trouble than he thought he'd signed up for while delivering gifts as a favour to North.
Jack Frost had decided to do two things at once this Christmas Eve. One, provide a White Christmas and potential for a ton of play on the 25th of December. And two, help North deliver gifts. So there he was, in Burgess, floating above Jamie's house with an almost empty bag of gifts after dropping off the gifts of the kids of Burgess. He looked at the portable tracker North had given him, and saw that it identified his next destination as "Nox, Daein". Jack shrugged, assuming that it was some tiny, little known town, possibly close to the Arctic. He wondered a bit why there was a note saying, "use the snow globe portal" on top of the remaining gifts, alongside a snow globe portal, but he decided that North had experience with this kind of thing. Maybe there was something about the last stop that made it impossible to reach by flight. So he threw the snow globe in front of him.
"Take me to Nox!" Jack requested. The snow globe turned into a swirling portal, with an image of a fort in a very snowy landscape.
"My kind of place," the winter spirit muttered, "but why haven't I been there before if it's so snowy?" With that, Jack went thought the portal.
To his extreme surprise, he found himself plummeting down vaguely towards a fort in the snow, he landed in a tree.
"Okay, maybe not a tiny town." Jack commented. He climbed out of the tree and floated over to the fort. On the way to it he encountered several huge piles of snow, and heard someone yelling from the opposite side of the fort, but he paid it no mind. In the yard in the middle of the fort, there stood a sparsely decorated fir tree. Jack took out his tracker, which said that all the presents he was supposed to drop off were to go there. He checked the time. It was half past midnight. He started to fly off, but he realized he didn't know which way home was.
"Hey!" Someone yelled jovially.
"See Rolf, told you we'd see someone!" A girl's voice exclaimed. An equally feminine voice replied.
"I never said I didn't think so!" The other voice protested.
"Oh, right. That was Soren." The first one said. Jack turned around to see two young-looking children. The first, who had just spoken, was a girl, who Jack could see had light brown hair, and blue eyes like his own. The second was a boy, who had green hair and slightly bluish green eyes. Wait, wait, wait. Green hair? Ok, now Jack was more than a little confused. To add to that confusion, the green-haired boy was carrying a bow. The girl was carrying a thin pink-orange sword and a white and pink staff.
"Uh Mist, I don't think that's Santa Claus." The boy pointed at Jack.
"Well, while everyone else is doing who-knows-what, Soren and the River Knights probably aren't that busy. You go get him, 'kay?" Mist suggested. The boy ran off.
"Who are you?" Mist asked.
"Jack Frost. And you?" Jack replied.
"Mist. Shouldn't Santa be here?" She queried.
"Well, I'm helping him this year and he gave me the presents to deliver here."Jack answered, adding,"And out of curiosity, why do you have a sword?"
"Long story," Mist said, "but in short I'm a mercenary." Jack was shocked.
"But you look so young! How old are you?" He asked.
"Fifteen, give or take a month." Mist said it like it was perfectly normal, and, seeing Jack's horrified expression, added, "I'm not unreasonably young; there's an ally of mine who turned thirteen just a few days ago. And Rolf, that boy who was just here, is my age too. Besides, you look to young to be delivering presents."
"I'm 316 years old. I never fought anything, except maybe a slight fever or the flu, until just last year." Jack muttered. Mist looked slightly shocked. Just then, Rolf returned. With him were four other people. One was a very small child with very dark (almost black) blue-green hair and big, energetic red eyes that flitted all over the place, and she was carrying an arguably too large sword. Next to her stood a boy wearing greenish off-white robes, who had almost black green hair and bored crimson eyes, like he'd seen it all and was quite frankly tired of seeing it. Behind him was a blond haired girl with green eyes, carrying a blue and brown staff. Then there was a girl, who looked to be in her early teens, with silver hair and red eyes. Jack began to wonder whether red was the most common eye colour here as the silver haired girl spoke.
"You're too young to have made it here by yourself." The statement was obviously directed at Jack.
"But Yune, he said that he's... he's over three hundred years old!" Mist piped up. Jack's response came around the same time.
"Really, 'cause you look younger than me." Jack smirked, assuming he'd won a few points.
"You're much younger than I. I've been around for about ... Two thousand and forty-seven years now." When Yune said this, everyone present gaped. The teenaged-looking figure, who was now revealed to be by far the oldest person there, smiled amusedly.
"Now, what's your name? I'm Yune, immortal spirit of chaos, by the way." Yune introduced herself cheerfully.
"I'm Jack Frost." Jack replied.
"Oh, my friend MiM told me about you." Yune mused. Jack wondered why MiM seemed to frequently talk with every spirit but him.
"So, what brings you to Nox?" The little kid with the sword asked. Jack shrugged.
"Volunteering. Now, I'm just going to head back to Burgess. Could you tell me which way it is from here?" Jack requested, making a mental note of all the things he had to ask or tell North.
"Burgess? Where's that?" Mist asked.
"North America, the US of A to be specific." Jack explained. Mist still looked mystified.
"I've never heard of that region. Is it small?" Mist asked.
"Definitely not, it's a really big country." Jack was getting a bit worried.
"You don't know what's going on, do you?" Yune realized. Jack nodded.
"Could you all go away for a bit?" Yune requested. All the children left, a few of them hiding behind columns and watching.
"Ok, so first off, this is a different world than the one you're used to. The only continent here is Tellius." Yune looked sheepish.
"I kind of accidentally drowned all of the other ones about 800 years ago." The goddess blushed.
"Really?" Jack asked. Yune nodded slowly before continuing.
"Only really ancient spirits such as MiM, Sandman, Pitch Black, my sister Ashera, and myself can travel between the worlds. Scratch that, Sandman's sand can get here but he can't. And Pitch I'm not sure, since he never seems to have found any reason too. In principle he can, but he never has. The other three I mentioned can." Yune continued in like that for a bit, but was reminded that she was rambling by Jack.
"Oh, right. Now where was I? Right, I was telling you about inter-universe travel. Portals can be opened between the worlds, so if any spirits need to bring something here, they usually use a portal. The Tooth Fairy occasionally comes for tooth collection, but people don't seems to lose teeth very often here." Yune was about to continue, but she was interrupted by Jack's whoop of joy.
"Yes! I'll just wait for Tooth to get here then go back with her!" Jack yelled.
"Actually, it's not that easy. Ashera has turned almost everyone on this continent to stone, and in addition to that making it incredibly difficult for any child here to lose a tooth, she's disrupted the portal connection between here and anywhere else. How you even got here unharmed is beyond me." Yune explained.
"What was supposed to happen?" Jack asked.
"At best, you'd be more than a little scratched up, with a few sprained joints and broken bones and the like. At worst, you'd be in a coma with a bunch of terrible injuries." Yune told him. Jack shuddered.
"We'd better hope no one loses a tooth then, for Tooth's sake." Jack noted. Just then, a tall young man with green hair ran into the yard.
"Micaiah! I was worried about you since you were missing." Jack noted that the boy looked about his physical age, and was wearing a very, um, minimal shirt. Despite the weather, he was wearing shorts. Jack was pretty sure no human was supposed to be doing that, nor any non-immortal for that matter.
"Sothe, how many times do I have to tell you that I'm not Micaiah? She's sleeping right now, like I said." Yune patted his head, though she had to stand on tiptoes to do so.
"I'm kind of trying to talk to another spirit, so could you go away for a minute?" Yune requested.
"No." Sothe said simply, "besides, there's no one else here!" Yune was about to retort, but Jack interjected.
"I'm used to that by now from anyone above the age of ten." Jack stated calmly, trying to hide the dejection he felt from being reminded of how a lot of people couldn't see him.
"Okay then. Well, what do you plan to do now, Jack?" Yune asked.
"How would we get this Ashera person to shut down this whole disruption thing?" Jack asked.
"Well, we were going to defeat her now and stop her from destroying this world, so that'd probably do it." Yune answered, "So will you join us?"
"Well... It seems like not all of your friends can see me. Just how many of them are kids?" Jack asked.
"Most. If you mean people who're likely to see you? Then almost all. Sothe is one of the few because he hardly believes in anyone except Micaiah and Ike, because they were there for him, and they were the first." Yune explained. Jack nodded. He knew the feeling, because he had felt like that about Sandy too.
"I understand. So, anyway, I guess I'll tag along with you." Jack replied.
"Ok. No snowstorms though, we get enough accidental blizzards now that Ilyana is trying to master the blizzard spell." Yune told him, and Sothe muttered something about Ilyana being unfortunately rushed in her quest to learn the other two anima magic disciplines as a sage.
"So I guess we're going to be together for a while then, Yune." Jack smiled. Yune nodded.
"I'm getting a little creeped out here... When'll Micaiah get back?" Sothe asked. Yune whispered something to herself, and her eyes turned gold. She seemed a little dizzy, so Sothe carried her back to her room. Jack went to try and see if he could find the kids, questions swirling in his head. Yune had done a pretty good job explaining, but Jack was still unaccustomed to the idea of parallel universes. Oh, well. Seeing as he was there and stuck for the moment, he decided he'd make some fun of it.
So, what'd you think? I know I have got a ton of updates to do, but I just had to write this before I forgot! Please review, I'd really appreciate getting at least maybe three. I want to know what you thought of this.