Part 1: Guardian Day's Gift
Jack Frost was floating around near the lake that he became a guardian in when a rabbit hole popped up under him. As far as Jack knew, there was no guardian meeting today. Pitch had been quiet for the past year and nothing else ever threatened the children of the world, or the Guardians. In fact, nothing interesting had happened since Jack became the Guardian of Fun last year.
Maybe Bunny needs help for Easter tomorrow. Jack Thought to himself as he fell into the dark pit.
It felt like forever that Jack was falling through the hole, which only meant that Jack was not going to Easter Island to help Bunnymound. He wondered what was so important that Jack had to stop bringing winter to the Western Hemisphere, where fall was just started. Jack had just begun working for the fall season and was thinking of bringing one last snow to the other side of the world, and say goodbye to Jamie who continued to get older. Soon Jamie wouldn't believe in the Guardians anymore, and wouldn't be able to see Jack. Jack was running out of time.
After what felt like forever, Jack fell from the Rabbit Hole and into North's Toy Shop where the elves were trying to play their music again.
"Surprise!" was yelled from North and Tooth, and mimed by Sandy if anyone was paying attention. Bunny, who seemed to be annoyed that he was there so close to Easter Day, just glared at Jack. As if Jack was the reason that Bunny was there, which he was even if he didnt know it.
"What're you guys talking about?" Asked Jack after his heart stopped trying to escape from his chest.
"It's your Guardian Day, Jack!" Tooth yelled again, while Baby Tooth was perching herself on Jack's Shoulder.
"What's a 'Guardian Day'?"
"You became a Guardian exactly one year ago! We usually only celebrate the first Guardian Day for each of us. Sandy's Guardian Day is New Years, Tooth's is Thanksgiving, Bunny's is Easter and mine is Christmas! It's the day that Manny announces that we are Guardians" North explained, while patting Jack's back hardly and sending Baby Tooth across the room.
"But I didn't become a Guardian when he announced that I was one."
"Does not matter!" North said happily. "We will Celebrate."
"I say we start with Presents! Jack is going to love mine!"
"'Long as I cane get back to 'y 'ggs, Mate" Bunny Grumbled. (A/N I can't really write accents, so just pretend that he's speaking with one. Same with the Russian)
Sandy made a little sand version of Jack opening gifts with a goofy smile on his face, while North sent the Yettis to get them.
"Mine is last, because we have to save the best for last!" Tooth Declared.
"Then mine will be first, so I can get back." Bunny said, giving Jack an egg shaped box. In the egg shaped box was an egg shaped globe, like North's traveling globes, but filled with multi colored glitter. "It's a one time use traveling egg to my Island, so you can come help with the eggs!"
"Oh." Jack said with a nervous smile. "Thanks so much."
Sandy's gift was a chain made out of golden sand, while North gave Jack a red toy nutcracker. The whole time that Jack was opening the other Guardian's gifts, Tooth was sitting on a table grinning like crazy.
"Okay, my turn!" She yelled as soon as Jack finished opening the nutcracker. "Here!"
In the little feathered bow was a tooth box with memories of a girl that had died over three hundred years ago. 'Rose Underland'
Jack's little sister.
"Tooth? Why are you giving this to me?" Jack asked after a minute of looking at the box, with a tremble in his voice.
"You've been thinking about her a lot since you saw your own memories and I thought that if you knew what happened to her, you'd be happier. So you can see what your sacrifice allowed to happen." Tooth replied. "I have a screen set up in the other room, so we can watch it with you, if you want."
"Y-yes please."
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The memories started where Jack's ended, at the lake when he died.
"Jack!" the little girl yelled after her brother fell in. "Jack, stop playing! Come out of the water! Jack!"
The young girl sat at the edge of the half frozen lake until dark, crying for her older brother to come back, and how she was sorry. He never did, and after dark the girl heard her mother calling for her.
"Rose! Jack!" The women screamed. "It's past dark! Where are you?"
"Mama? Mama!" The girl, Rose, yelled back getting up and running to her mother, still crying.
"Rose! Where's Jack?" asked the women, seeing the tears on her daughter's face. "What happened?"
"J-Jack f-fell in!" The little girl screamed.
"Fell in where?"
"The water! The ice broke under him after he saved me! He didn't come back up!"
"Oh sweetie! I'm sorry baby girl." the mother cried, patting her daughter on the back as the memory faded out.
"I had no idea it would start there, Jack. We can stop if you want."
"No. I wanna see it."
The next memory started with the girl, Rose, being older than she was before. She looked to be around sixteen, with long brown hair tyed into a braid and wearing a light blue dress.
She was standing with her father at a wedding alter holding a bundle of flowers as a pretty blonde woman walked to meet her father. It was obvious that her father was getting married, which could only mean that her mother had passed away since the day that her brother died. She was smiling, but the smile didn't reach her brown eyes. She looked haunted, most likely since her brother and mother had died. The memory faded out as her now step mother said "I do."
The memory faded back in with Rose's father saying good bye too his wife, step-daughters, and daughter. His wife gave a fake smile as she promised to take care of his daughter, the last member of his first family. The memory fast forwarded to show Rose being told to clean the house and moved her room up in the attic. She wasn't treated like family in the house with her step-mother and sisters. She was little more than a servant, but she still visited the lake where her brother had died as often as she could.
In the memories that followed, Rose escaped the house with her step-mother by getting a job at the bakery during the day. She grew more beautiful, even when she cut her hair and her dresses became dusty in the summer months. During the fall festival, the whole village was cheering as the King, Queen and Prince announced that they were building their summer palace close by. The men in the village helped build the new palace and the royal family moved in. The King and Queen made sure to come down to the village often during the summer months, and Rose was often by the lake telling her brother stories that he would never really hear.
One day, while Rose was working in the bakery, a tall stranger came in to buy a pastry. He couldn't take his eyes off Rose, and continued to go to the bakery almost every day. Rose found herself falling in love with the stranger, who she later found was named Phillip.
When Rose was nineteen her family was invited to go to the royal ball, where the King and Queen hoped to find their son a wife. The step-monsters, for that is what Rose nicknamed them, made Rose help them with their dresses and told Rose that she could not go to the ball, despite the invitation inviting all young women. Aganist their wishes, Rose baught herself a beautiful white-blue gown with her saved money from the bakery, and crystal white shoes to match. She told her step-mother that she was working late at the bakery, and would not be coming home that night to finish, and managed to get herself to the royal ball. Not for a husband, but because she wanted to have fun like she used to with her brother.
When she had arrived at the ball, men immediately asked her to dance, and she had fun, despite her step-sisters glaring at her from across the room. They didn't know who she was, but knew that she was prittier than them, which made them upset. As the night grew later, Rose noticed a person watching her from above. It was Phillip, but a more fancier version of him. He wore a crown on his head and was dressed in his court suit. Phillip was the Prince. The Prince of the Kingdom of Arendale.
When Phillip saw Rose, he knew who she was right away and whisked her into a dance. "Phillip? Y-You are the Prince?"
"I hope you don't mind, Pip. I didn't want to be treated differently by you. Actually this whole ball is for you."
"What do you mean?"
"My mother threw this ball to find out who the girl I was obsessing over was." He replied with a smirk. "You."
"I thought this ball was to find the prince's- Your- wife?"
"It will be, if you say yes."
"Me? Marry a Prince?" Rose said, slowely. "I am not a Princess, Phillip. Surely a Prince must marry a Princess?"
"You are a Princess, to me anyways. Please Marry me, my Rose."
"Okay, I'll marry you." She replied shyly as the memory faded again.
