It had almost been three years since it all happened. Since Jack was chosen to be a guardian, since Pitch Black appeared from the shadows and threatened to destroy everything they had sought to protect, since Sandy had been lost to Pitch's power (but was restored), since they finally defeated him, since Jack felt he belonged for the first time. He finally had a family. Not in blood but in friendship, they had each other's backs 24/7 no matter what danger they put themselves in. To Jack, that was family. However, what he did not expect was that it was all about to change, that there was to be a new edition to the guardians…
After a long hard day bringing joy and fun to children with a snow day Jack ran into Tooth who was on her way to collect teeth from a child in North America.
"Tooth? Where are the other fairies? Why are you alone?" Jack stammered floating gently to the ground on the cold breeze surrounding them.
"I wanted to um…see the children again. I miss it Jack, seeing their little peaceful faces while they sleep, it's been so long."
"Well, can I at least come with you?"
Tooth sighed. "I guess so, I like having you around." She blushed ever so slightly. Jack didn't seem to notice as the wind carried him through the bitter cold sky after Tooth.
They reached the child's bedroom and quietly climbed inside, careful not to wake the sleepy boy who was so eagerly awaiting a visit from the Tooth Fairy. As quietly as possible Tooth removed the two teeth from under the pillow and left two quarters under there instead. Jack watched silently as a look of painful longing crossed over Tooth's face. She leaned in closer and stroked the little boy's soft hair.
"Sweet dreams," She whispered. "Never stop believing." It was at that moment Jack looked out of the frosted window, to see the Northern Lights flitting across the sky, he knew what this meant. A signal for the guardians. He opened the window and signalled for Tooth that they needed to leave, she looked up wide-eyed. Immediately she flew out of the window and sped towards the North Pole, Jack followed her.
As they reached the North Pole they knew something strange was happening, not necessarily bad, but not good either. They entered wary of what was going on. Straightaway North greeted them with a smile and a big warm hug. This eased some of the pressure pushing down on Jack's chest; at least he knew it couldn't be that bad if North was smiling.
"Ah, Jack! Tooth! Welcome back!" He said with a jolly smile, "Man in moon has something to tell us!" This made Jack's head prick upwards to look at the moon, he had always longed for the moon to talk to him alone, to give him answers he wanted so desperately. But, now he had them.
They joined up with Sandy and Bunny and walked in silence towards where the man in the moon talked to them. Jack waited patiently as shadows appeared on the floor before him, first a snowflake. Which puzzled him, then the Boogeyman's face. Oh no Jack thought, this means trouble. More than trouble in fact, war. Unexpectedly the floor below Jack shuddered and he quickly sidestepped out of the way. A large clear-blue appeared from under the floor. The other guardians gasped, but Jack, who hadn't witnessed this happening before backed away confused. North suddenly shouted with excitement "ANOTHER GUARDIAN? ANOTHER! JACK WAS ONLY CHOSEN 3 YEARS AGO! THIS IS BIZARRE!" Tooth flitted around the room muttering to herself about who it could possibly be. The Easter Bunny looked angry. "What are we five not good enough for you or something?" The Sandman just stopped and stared, jaw open, no sound escaping from his mouth. Jack kept his eyes fixed on the crystal as an image appeared above it. A figure of slim, beautiful woman appeared. She wore a long tightly fitted dress and her hair was braided into a thick plait at the side, even though she was merely a shadow, a protection, she took Jack's breath away.
He looked over at everyone. North's mouth was pressed into a thin line, his brow creased into a frown. "The Ice Queen of Arendelle." He said bitterly.
"The Ice Queen?" Jack asked of pure curiosity, he had not heard of anyone with such a title.
"Yes," North replied. "She possesses almost the same power you do Jack, her power is controlled by fear. Which I don't understand how that works, anyway, why would the man in moon chose her? What can she do to protect children?" Tooth looked around the projection of the beautiful woman. "Her name is Elsa, she is one of the only people who we have never been able to collect all the teeth of. Her parents shut her away. They closed the gates to their castle; they never opened the doors or windows to the castle ever again, which is why we couldn't get all her teeth. It was because she almost accidentally killed her sister with her ice powers when she was little. Her parents were killed in a storm on a ship, I do believe that's what lead to her revealing her powers to her subjects on her coronation day. Everyone was scared, they thought she was a witch! She ran away to be free and use her powers but then her sister went to find her, once again fear ran cold through the Queen when her sister asked her to return, she froze her heart unintentionally. But everything is okay now; they live in peace in Arendelle. She's super pretty! Her teeth are too!" Tooth giggled.
Jack was immediately intrigued about her. She seemed quite a lot like him. Similar powers, she didn't have a family, didn't belong. But she found her sister, like Jack found the guardians, or rather, the other way around. Jack forced North to let him go and bring Queen Elsa to the North Pole, he needed to find out more about her. Surprisingly North let him.
