Another day, another blizzard for the Guardian of fun, the one and only Jack Frost. It was winter time for North America and he was doing his normal route to make sure every window was frosted and every heart full of fun. He stood on the torch of the statue of liberty, letting the wind ruffle his pure white hair, blowing the strings on his frosted blue hoodie, he opened his closed eyes and let his sparkling blue eyes look over the now snowing New York City. He looked down toward the south and realized he missed a city. He raised his hooked wooden staff and flew into the air flying down to the south to give them another week of winter vacation. As he was flying he looked down at all of the smiling faces, the kids cuddling to their parents, and the lovers kissing in the new fallen snow. Jack scoffed and rolled his eyes at these adults, adults never believed in any of the guardians, they lost the magic and light in their hearts to believe. After 300 something years he finally had kids believing in him yet still, some just wouldn't believe. No matter how hard he could try some kid's hearts were just dark. He finally touched down somewhere in Kentucky. He looked around and saw the snow he left start to melt, he smirked to himself with a glint in his eyes. He wouldn't let these kids go back to school yet, for Pete's sake, they only had 2 weeks of break, that's not enough from the pressure of school. He jumped down from the top of a pine tree and flew through the mountains and into the city streets. He flew past every town window and frosted its panes. He slide on the power lines then jumped off and onto the top of a house, then once at the edge he jumped, letting the air lift him up and he blasted the clouds with an ice ball causing them to produce snow. He heard the children begin to cheer as the snow touched gently down onto the ground. He perched himself on some other power lines and watched the children play in the snow, making snowmen and having snow ball fights. He looked to a hill and saw children sledding down. He chuckled to himself as a smile spread across his face. He was about to jump back in the air when he heard a deeper laugh, his curiosity was peeked as he looked back at the small group. A new person had joined, an adult!? He flew in to get a closer look, and the hood of the red hoodie fell back and there was a woman with flowing brown hair and glowing blue eyes. She smiled as a snowball hit her in the back as she picked on up and threw it at the children. Then the children all ganged up on her and began to corner her. Even though she was about to get pelted a smile was plastered on her face.
"Oh, come on now this isn't fair. Even if she is an adult." Jack flew down and made a pile of snow balls form by her feet. Just then a snowballs starting hitting the kids and she wasn't throwing them. She was shocked and looked around from where the help was coming from. She looked beside of her and for a short moment she thought she saw someone standing there. But took this moment of weakness and picked up the balls from the pile and threw them at the kids knocking each one down on their butts. Each kid was down and the snow balls had stopped. She walked over to each kid with a smile on her face and helped each on up. Jack smiled as he prepared himself to fly off.
"Great game kids, next time don't mess with Jack Frost." Jack stopped in his tracks and his heart skipped a beat.
"Did she just say my name?" Jack thought to himself as he walked over closer to her.
"Who's Jack Frost?" One kid asked as she helped him up.
The woman put her hands on her hips and pretended to be shocked, "You mean you don't know who Jack Frost is? Have you not watched any Christmas special or Santa Clause 3?" She looked at the kids as they shook their heads. "Well you should all be ashamed. Jack Frost is the most wonderful being out there. He makes the snow fall, the blizzards come, he frosts every window pane, and he is the one who makes these snow days a reality. You should be thanking him for the snow today and all the fun you have had so far."
"Yeah, just like how we thank Santa for all of the presents, and how we thank the Easter Bunny for the eggs," a little girl spoke up.
"Do you still believe in those Kasey?" A young boy asked her.
"Of course I do!" She said with a smile with her two front teeth missing.
"Well, grow up! They aren't real, I don't get presents at Christmas!" the kid then walked over and pushed Kasey in the snow. The others laughed and pointed fingers at her as tears formed in her eyes.
Jack's hands gripped his staff tight, he hated seeing kids bullying others. He formed a snowball in his hand and was about to the throw it at the boy. When a snowball hit him anyway. He looked over at the woman who had the most angered expression on her face. "Leave her alone! Just because you get coal on Christmas for being such a rotten child doesn't mean you should push others around." The woman walked over to Kasey and picked her up in her arms. She dusted the snow off the girl and then sat her down behind her. "Now, I want all of you to go enjoy this snow day and don't let Jack Frost's beautiful work go to waste."
"She thinks my work is beautiful," Jack though as he smiled to himself.
The children walked away with a grumpy face but then smiled as they started to play again. The woman lowered herself to Kasey's level and smiled as she took of her glove and wiped away the tears from the small girl.
"You believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy too, don't you Angel?"
The woman with the flowing brown hair, smiled as her blue eyes glistened, "Of course I do Kasey. They are as real as the nose on your face." After that sentence she tapped Kasey on the nose and the little girl giggled. "Don't let Luke, get you down. They need our faith to keep doing what they do. So never lose faith and never let fear take you over. Remember Kasey, seeing isn't believing, believing is seeing." With that Angel stood back up and sent Kasey on her way. She pulled her hood back up and started walking away.
But Jack had to see who this woman was who believed in him and all the others. He flew down in front of her and she stopped in surprise. His heart skipped a beat, did she see him? She looked curiously where he stood but then her cell phone rang. She looked at it and frowned, the sparkle in her eyes disappeared as she answered it. When she looked back up she walked right through Jack. "What do you want Nathan?" She had a hiss in her voice as she spoke into the phone.
When she was out of sight Jack sighed, he thought he had another believer there for a minute. He flew back up into the trees on the mountain and sat on one of the branches and just relaxed, finally finished working for the day. He leaned against the trunk of the tree and rested.
Hours had passed and it was now night time. He looked up at the full moon and the stars glittering in the sky. Just then he heard the crunching of his snow beneath someone's feet. He looked toward the sound and saw a figure climbing the mountain. He saw the red hoodie and blue jeans and new it was Angel. He watched her curiously as she walked further up on the mountain. She climbed all the way to the each of a cliff. She stood at the edge and Jack's frozen heart stopped, was she about to jump!? He flew fast toward her but then she sighed and sat down at its edge, and just looked out over the forest. He stopped and then just stood behind her. He continued to watch her and then she started to sing to herself. Her voice, wow, no wonder people called her Angel. She was so nice, her voice was beautiful. There was just one thing wrong with her, or at least in mortal eyes. Her looks were what people would consider undesirable. She was chubby, but others would call her fat. Jack sat down beside her and listened to her song.
"~Snow glows white on the mountain tonight. Not a foot print to be seen. A kingdom of isolation and it looks like I'm the queen. The wind is howling like this lonely storm inside, couldn't keep it in, heaven knows I tried. Don't let them in, don't let me see, be the good girl you always have to be. Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know. Well now they know.~" Suddenly it's like she couldn't sing anymore but she mouthed the words, but her voice wouldn't let her sing. Jack saw what was going on, she was crying and she was choking on the words. Even though she was an adult, he couldn't help but feel bad. After all she did defend him. He slowly put one arm around her trying to comfort her. "~The cold never bothered me anyway.~" She whispered and then looked out over the city again. "Jack Frost, or any of you. If you can hear me for some reason I have believed in you my entire life. I stood up for you, and how do you all repay me. You let me be alone. No friends, no love, no family. You left me all alone….After 20 years, you think I would stop believing but for some reason…I can't. I can see you sometimes, but then you're gone again."
"We are still here," Jack said figuring she couldn't hear him.
But she jumped and said in fear, "Whose there?!"
Jack was shocked, could she hear him? "Can you hear me?"
"Of course I can hear you, now come out from wherever you are hiding."
"But I'm right here," Jack said in joy taking his arm off her.
"Where?" Angel looked around for him but saw no one.
"Here!" Jack said again.
Angel shook her head and sighed, "I must be going crazy."
"No you're not. It's me, Jack Frost."
"Sure you are."
"No I am!" Jack was now trying desperately to get her to see him.
"Ok sure." She was tired of fighting and decided to play along with this voice. "So "Jack Frost" why can't I see you then?"
"I don't know why you can't see me. But you can hear me isn't that good enough."
"I guess, a voice is better than nothing to talk to." She smiled at herself.
"Ok, so talk. I'll listen. Why are you out here in the cold anyway?"
"The cold never bothered me. But I'm out here because, well I always come out here when I feel lonely. Normally I talk to the moon, but it never responds."
"Yeah, he never responds to me either. He has a way of teasing people, making them figure out their own problems."
Angel giggled and then shook her head, "Well, today I feel extra lonely because today is my 20th birthday."
"Well happy birthday! I guess I dedicate my snow day to your birthday then."
"Thank you, you are the first person in 12 years to wish me happy birthday." Now for some reason she was opening up to this voice, telling him her life story. "I was raised by foster parents since I was a baby, but then they died and I didn't want to go anywhere else so I ran away. Since I was 8 I lived on my own. I slept in these mountains and each night the moon was my only friend. This town never got snow before, then one day, out of the blue it started snowing. And something told me it was Jack Frost, and when I opened my eyes, I saw a boy with white hair flying in the sky wearing a blue hoodie and brown pants, but not wearing shoes. Of course that was 6 years ago, when I was 14."
Jack couldn't say anything, the boy she saw was him. But it had only been 2 years since they defeated Pitch Black. So he had a believer before anyone else! He wanted to go stay and talk but he had to go to the North Pole and had to ask North a question. "Hey Angel, I have to go for a little bit."
"It's ok, I'm use to people leaving." She crossed her arms laid them on her bent knees.
"No, I'm not leaving for good. I will be back. Here," he said and then laid a snow globe down. "If you need me just break that and I will be here." She looked over and saw the snow globe. She gasped, maybe she wasn't crazy after all. "I'll be back when you need me." Jack jumped in the air and but then turned around to say one more thing. "Seeing isn't believing, believing is seeing." He smirked as he flew off and left Angel with a gasp.
