All rights to the movie Rise of the Guardians and it's characters belong to DreamWorks studio. I only own the OC's in this story. Crystal is my creation and I would be glad if no one would take her without asking.
I wanted to try writing a Jack Frost story after I watched Rise of the Guardians, and am glad that I'm finally working on it.
Deal with me, it may be a bit bad and slow at times, but I'll try my best to make it enjoyable.
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Crystal could hardly hold back her excitement as she woke up that morning and hopped out of bed. She could feel the cold floor boards underneath her feet, and she knew he would be visiting soon. She changed as fast as she could with her seven year old body, but she knew she had to be quick and beat him before he came.
Crystal heard a cracking sound, making her smile from ear to ear and run over to the window. The panes were beginning to frost quickly and slowly a rose was drawn into the frost.
"Jack!" Crystal yelled happily as she opened her window and leaned out.
"You'll fall out if you aren't careful." Jack said chuckling as he flew down and landed on the window ledge.
You see, Crystal has known Jack Frost for a year now. Her family died in a horrible accident a couple months before he came, and it was a relief to finally have someone around. No one would talk to her, and no one wanted to be around her. At first she didn't know if he was real; she thought he was a figment of her imagination that she had created. Her home was a small town called Burgess, and she was sent to live with her aunt and uncle, but they tended to be gone for weeks on end. The only time she saw them was when they paid the bills or gave her the money to buy her own needs.
Crystal looked up at Jack with her big light blue eyes; her blonde hair bounced and moved with every step she took. She smiled as Jack held out his hand to her and she grabbed it instantly. He flew them up into the sky, making her laugh in excitement and joy. He let them down in the woods where they normally hung out and smiled at her warmly.
She loved looking at Jack; his hair as white as freshly fallen snow, his electric blue eyes, his pale skin, his smile that gleamed so white it was like a snow flake, and his body that never seemed to change from anything but lean and toned. Crystal quickly looked away as Jack looked down at her with a smirk. He knew exactly what she was doing, but he acted as if he didn't to make her happy.
Jack felt bad for her; after learning about what happened to her family, he couldn't just leave her alone. He knew how she felt for him, with admiration and a crush, but he couldn't return her feelings as she was a little child and he was forever stuck as a teenager. Jack watched as Crystal turned back to him with a smile and ran away, before throwing a snowball at him that he easily dodged.
Jack smirked as he balled up a snowball and started throwing it at her. They had a snowball fight for about an hour before Crystal began to drag him to a small pond that wasn't frozen yet.
"Can we?" Crystal asked as she walked to the edge of the pond.
"Hold on," Jack said with a chuckle.
Crystal watched in fascination as Jack walked across the water, and every place he stepped, it froze beneath him and soon spread around the pond. Jack tapped and slid his staff along the water, helping it freeze faster and soon become a giant ice pond.
"Come on," Jack said smirking. "Scared?"
Crystal pouted at the teasing, before reverting back to her smile, taking off her shoes, and running onto the ice towards Jack. Crystal easily caught her balance as she glided to Jack and grabbed his hands for support.
"Why do you always take your shoes off?" Jack asked her with a raised eyebrow.
"Because you don't wear shoes." Crystal told him as if it was simple.
"I don't need shoes," Jack told her simply. "I don't get cold."
"I don't either," Crystal argued.
Jack looked down and saw her feet shivering with her legs as the cold seeped into her skin. Then he remembered he was hanging onto her and let her go quickly before he froze her completely. Jack looked down at her and saw the frost that had climbed up her sleeves and made it up to her shoulders, waiting to touch her face with its icy tendrils. Jack always forgot that he could freeze anything with just a touch, and one time he nearly froze her to death because he hung on too long.
"Cool," Crystal said looking at the designs the frost left on her clothes.
Crystal reached out again and grabbed Jack's hand, making him flinch slightly.
"You shouldn't hang onto me for so long," Jack told her trying to get his hand out of hers. "You'll freeze to death. Remember? I freeze everything I touch."
Crystal pouted again as she pulled her sleeve up to her elbow and showed Jack. "Jack's touch doesn't freeze me."
Jack looked at her arm, and his eyes widened in shock as her arm showed no sign of the cold. He turned it over to look all around it and saw not one trace of frost, or even cold.
"Jack doesn't want to freeze me," Crystal said looking up at him. "So the cold knows not to touch me."
Crystal looked up with a wide smile and a small laugh as Jack stood there in surprise by the event. Jack composed himself again as he shook his head and pulled her sleeve down to cover her arm from the biting wind. Jack let Crystal tug him around the pond as he showed her how to effectively glide across the ice; he showed her a few simple tricks like skating backwards and spinning, before he decided it was time to be going.
"Ah!" Crystal complained as Jack pulled her off the ice. "I don't want you to go!"
"I have to bring in the cold front to other places." Jack said smiling sadly as he looked down at her face. "Don't you want other people to have fun too?"
Crystal let out a sigh as she nodded her head. She slowly put on her shoes and let Jack fly her back home. Crystal stepped through her window and onto her floor that had grown especially cold from leaving the window open. Crystal turned back quickly as she heard the window moving.
"You'll come back right?" Crystal asked hopeful towards Jack.
"Of course," Jack said with a smile. "I have to make sure your town has snow."
Crystal smiled hugely. "Mmm." She said nodding her head.
Crystal would wait next to the window everyday for Jack, and everyday he would come to visit her. She knew he would never let her be alone. Even during the spring, summer, and fall, Jack Frost would come and visit her.
Jack watched carefully every day as Crystal grew, but her attitude and personality never changed from how she was. She always saw the positive side of things, was always smiling and laughing, and she never judged others; she always saw the good in them. Jack wished he could be like that, but even he had his limits to how positive he could be; especially since no one but Crystal believed in him. He hated how the Guardians had all the children around the world believing in them, yet only Crystal believed in him.
"Where are you going?" Jack asked as he landed on Crystal's window and watched as she slid on a jacket and shoes.
It was four years later now, and Crystal had grown tall since then. She was now up to Jack's chest and her hair had grown down to her shoulder blades; but her eyes were still the light blue with the light reflected in them, and her smile still shone with every smile and laugh she made.
"I have to go back to school." Crystal told him with her signature smile.
Jack sighed as he sat down and leaned against the window pane watching her scramble around to get ready. He always forgot about her needing to go back to school; he didn't have it as much as she did when he was a human. He would follow her to school secretly then sit in a tree outside her classroom and watch as she did work, read a book, wrote notes, and watched the teacher intently.
"Why does she stay in there for so long?" Jack grumbled to himself. He crossed his arms over his chest as the staff lay inside his arms and next to his head. He leaned back against the tree and looked around him at the dead trees, the frost covered ground, and the bare school holding children.
Jack nodded off as he waited for school to end; he listened to the wind around him and darkness filled his mind as sleep overtook him. He dreamed of Crystal when he first met her, crying alone in her room, curled up under the covers, in a house with no one else in it. Jack had stumbled upon her when he found the house, and saw no one lived in it, yet when he went up to the rooms, he heard crying. His curiousity got the better of him and he followed the crying to a room with the door slightly ajar. He expected to see a ghost, or maybe a lost child, but what he didn't expect was to see the room fully furnished with kid's things and a little girl with golden hair, and light blue eyes lying on her bed crying.
Jack felt bad for the kid and made a rose made out of snow and ice float over to her. She noticed it and her crying stopped as she reached out and touched it with her finger. The rose spun and burst into tiny snowflakes, sticking to her wet eyelashes, and her cheeks. Jack couldn't help but marvel at the girl's looks, of the innocence stuck there on her face and eyes. His intentions succeeded as the girl smiled and climbed out of her bed to walk around on the snow.
"Good, you're smiling." Jack said, more to himself.
He regretted it as the girl jumped from his voice and stumbled backwards till she sat on the window pane. She stared straight at him and watched as he looked around himself thinking someone else was there. Jack looked back towards her in shock as she watched him; he moved around and saw her eyes follow everywhere he went. He jumped in place, he spun around, he even flew and did back-flips, to see if it was actually him she was seeing. The girl laughed as she watched all his weird antics to disprove her sight.
"You can see me?" Jack asked happily as she nodded. "You can hear me?"
She nodded once again making his smile spread from ear to ear and his eyes to shine with joy. His joy was so big that he didn't realize what he was doing till he had flown over to her and wrapped her into a hug while picking her up and spinning her around in the air.
"You can see me!" Jack yelled loudly.
"Um," She said catching his attention. "You're Jack Frost, right?"
Jack set her down quickly as he looks at her curiously. "Yeah,"
She smiled warmly at him as she held out her hand. "I'm Crystal."
Jack stood there for a moment, surprised by how much her smile affected the light around them, but soon snapped out of it as he grabbed her hand and shook it. "Hey,"
His dream flashed forward to when they first found the spot in the woods with a clearing and a pond for them to have fun.
He watched as Crystal rolled around on the snow and watched him with fascination as he created said snow for them to play in. He loved how she marveled at his every trick for ice, snow, wind, etc. Every time he did it, she acted as if it was the first time he was doing it. Crystal took off her shoes and ran onto the pond that was now frozen, and he watched her as she slipped every time she stood up, making him laugh. Crystal stood up and smiled as she finally stood on her feet and looked at him; she held out her hand towards him.
"Jack!" Crystal yelled with a smile.
He walked over with a smile as he grabbed her hand and helped her get her balance.
"Jack!"
He looked down at her confused as to why she was yelling for him when he was right in front of her.
"Jack!"
He watched as her mouth didn't move with the yell and the dream soon disappeared from around him.
"Jack!"
Jack looked down and saw Crystal standing underneath the tree he was sleeping in with a smile on her face and her nose and cheeks slightly pink.
"Come on Jack!" She said waving her hand down to her. "School's over!"
Jack jumped from the tree as he floated down to her, landing gently in front of her. He stretched his arms over his head and looked at her with sleep still fogging his mind.
"You don't have to wait for me every day." Crystal told him with a small smile. She reached up and brushed the hair out of his face.
Jack could feel the warmth off her hand and pink tinged his cheeks at how close she got. Jack shook his head to get his feelings back to normal before looking at her with a smirk.
"Let's go," Jack said grabbing her hand.
Crystal looked around quickly to make sure no one was looking before grabbing his hand with a smile and they shot into the air by the wind. They landed once again in their normal spot, but something was different as a giant grey kangaroo stood there with a boomerang, watching them as they stopped.
"Jack," The kangaroo said with a think Australian accent. "We need to talk."
"Go away, Kangaroo." Jack said as he nudged Crystal behind him.
"Ah!" Crystal said surprising them both. Crystal jogged forward as she stood directly in front of him. "You're the Easter Bunny!"
Bunny smiled as he looked down at her proudly. "Yep, I am, mate."
"What do you want," Jack said stepping beside Crystal.
"We need you to help us on a matter." Bunny answered.
"Why would I help you? You're part of the famous 'Gaurdians'." Jack grumbled.
"You can voluntarily help, or we can forcefully make you help." Bunny said glaring at Jack.
"Neither." Jack said crossing his arms. "I watch over Crystal every day."
Crystal looked at him with her mouth open. "It's okay."
Jack and Bunny looked down at her from their glaring competition, both surprised from her answer.
"I have school anyway." Crystal told Jack. "And you always get bored waiting for me."
"But," Jack said to her.
"We'll meet here after school ends." Crystal told him with a small smile. "We'll meet every day. So then you'll know I'm fine."
"You heard her mate." Bunny said with a satisfied smirk.
Jack stared at Crystal with worry as she smiled at him easily.
"I'll be fine!" Crystal told him. "As long as you meet me here every day! I won't feel alone!"
Bunny froze as he heard the statement; his ears went back slightly in guilt from hearing Jack was the only one she had around her. But he knew it was the only way they could solve their problems.
"Come on," Bunny said grabbing Jack by his hoodie.
Crystal waved goodbye as Bunny thumped his foot on the ground and a giant hole appeared before them. She watched until the hole closed up, then she walked back to her house to do her homework and wonder what the Guardians had to do with Jack.
Crystal tried to do anything she could to keep her mind off of Jack and what they were doing, but everything she did it reminded her of Jack and what he would do at the moment. Finally she gave up with her homework and went downstairs to make a cup of hot cocoa. She plopped next to her window as she sat on the pane looking out into the frost and snow covering the ground and trees.
Crystal began to wonder if things would ever change between her and Jack; she knew kids her age were started to fall out of the believing in stuff like Jack Frost, Easter Bunny, Toothfairy, Santa Clause, Sandman, and the Boogeyman, but Crystal knows she'll probably keep believing in them till she dies. She looked back out into the window and looked up at the moon shining down on her.
"Please stay safe." Crystal whispered to the moon, hoping Jack could hear.
"What do you guys want?" Jack said stepping away from the window and looking at the moon.
"Pitch is becoming a problem." North told him.
"And this has what to do with me?" Jack asked annoyed.
"Don't mind him," Bunny said. "Mate is just annoy'd he can't be with his lasse."
Jack turned a glare on him as he stepped up close to the Bunny. They got face to face as Tooth became anxious of what would happened between them. "Don't talk about her."
"Why? Because you 'ave a lil crush on her?" Bunny teased roughly.
Jack's cheeks pinked slightly as he leaned back a bit. "She's eleven! I don't have a crush on her!"
"Whatever you say." Bunny said proudly from making Jack back up first.
"Anyways," Tooth said flying around Jack happily. "Pitch is giving kids nightmares. More than he used to."
"We hear rumors that he's trying to become stronger than Sandy by going to any kid most affected by his sand." North pitched in gruffly.
Sandy rang his bells to catch their attention. Jack watched as Sandy brought a cloud of sand above his head, then pitch, then a horse galloping towards a child.
"He's watching Sandy to see who is most affected." Bunny said walking over.
"Then he gets the kid by giving them the nightmares he made." Jack finished understanding what was going on. "Why do you need me?"
"Because," North said becoming irritated. "Pitch is taking children to feed off their fear."
Jack looked at them with a raised eyebrow, still wondering how he had anything to do with this. "I still don't see what I have to do with this."
"That lass," Bunny said pointedly. "At her age, most are falling out of the believing stage. Pitch may see her as a key to us. She has to power to believe in us no matter what."
"He won't touch her while I'm alive." Jack said, before realizing it sounded protective; a little too much.
"I don't think he would care. If he sees her and finds out that she still believes, he'll take her." Tooth said. "Especially since she would be able to see him."
"We'll help watch," Bunny said. "But we can only help so much."
"I don't need your help." Jack growled.
Jack turned and walked to the window before he turned back with one last look and let the wind carry him back to Crystal. He found her sitting on the window pane fast asleep, with her head leaning against the window and an empty cup of cocoa on the night stand beside her.
