Jack Frost, the newest and youngest immortal guardian, was flying around and enjoying the feeling of the wind he loved brush against his face. He was looking around for any place that needed his help, like a child in need or a lake that could use a good freez, when he came across a little town that looked very familiar.
Instantly, Jack stopped flying and started falling toward the Earth. When he was about an inch from the ground, the wind suddenly grabbed him and he hovered above the snow.
A little girl noticed him and waved. Jack recognized her. He's been in this neighborhood too many times to not recognize the children here. He waved back but didn't stop to talk. He zoomed low over the snow-covered sidewalk, too fast to be seen.
When he found the right house, he stopped abruptly. He had reached his destination. Slowly, he hovered outside a window and peeked in. The room obviously belonged to a young boy. There were clothes and toys on the floor, a bed lay unmade and the drawers were left open. Jack opened the window, which was always kept unlocked, and crept in. He shut the window behind him. When the door to the bedroom opened, Jack noiselessly hid in the closet.
A little boy, Jamie, ran in and rushed toward the sleigh that leaned agents the wall. He was about to leave when he noticed the temperature had dropped a few degrees. With a confused expression on his face, Jamie turned around. When he saw Jack (who had sneaked out of the closet and was now casually leaning on his staff by the open window) Jamie laughed with delight.
"Jack!" he said and ran toward his friend, attacking him with a hug.
"Hi Jamie," Jack said, laughing along with the 10 year old.
"Jack I was just about to have a snowball fight with my friends. Wana come?" Jamie asked Jack with pleading eyes. Jack laughed and ruffled his hair.
"Wouldn't miss it for the world," he said with a big grin on his face. Jack and Jamie raced down the stairs and ran for the door.
"Bye Mom," Jamie called to his mother, but she didn't have time to reply before the door shut behind them.
All of Jamie's friends were waiting in the park. Even Cupcake showed up. Jack couldn't help but notice that she looked really happy to be with her friends. When everyone saw Jack walking alongside Jamie, there smiles widened.
"Hi Jack! Come to join us?" Billy asked.
"Yeah," Jack said as he reached down to make snow ammunition.
"Awesome!" Avery said, and threw the snowball she had hidden behind her back, starting the fight.
After a good hour and a half, the kids started getting tired and went home. Only Jamie, Jack, Billy, Avery and Cupcake remained. They were too busy to notice Billy's 14 year old sister, Aundraia, walking up to them. She cleared her throat and everyone looked at her.
The girl was wearing a black, thin jacket with faded blue-jeans and black furry snow boots. Her forehead was hidden under a knitted green hat that actually looked kind of classy with her straight brown hair that hung over her shoulders. Her bright green eyes looked bored and uninterested.
"Billy, Mom said she's mad at you for not coming when you said you would, so she sent me to come get you," she said, her voice matching her bored eyes.
"Really? What time is it?" Billy asked, surprised.
"Nearly seven," she said.
"Wow, I am late." Billy said. "Sorry, Aundraia. I lost track of time."
"Whatever," Aundraia said pulling out her phone.
"Sorry guys," Billy said. "I got to go. Bye Jack, bye Jamie, bye Cupcake." At that Aundraia looked up.
"Who's Jack?" she asked, looking around for an extra face.
"One of my friends," Billy said, gesturing to empty space. At least, that's what she saw. The older teen rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"I don't have time for any of your imaginary friends Billy. Let's go," she said, dragging her little brother by his arm. Soon they were out of sight.
"She's a joy to have around," Avery said, sarcasm dripping off her words.
"She doesn't believe in me," Jack said. "Do you know if she believes in the rest of us? Like Sandy, Tooth or North I mean."
"Sorry Jack but I don't think so. Apparently all she does is sit around on her phone and text. I am surprised her thumbs aren't bandaged yet. For the past four years now, she's been making Billy leave out the milk and cookies for Santa," Jamie said sadly.
"Thanks Jamie. Let's get you home before your mom comes after you too," Jack said with a playful smile on his face.
"Ok, bye guys," he said waving to his friends and they waved back as they walked home as well.
After a while of playing Go Fish with Jamie (and loosing) Jack looked out the window.
"Oh, no," he said. Jamie, who was surprised at his friend's sudden seriousness, followed his gaze to the window.
"Wow!" Jamie exclaimed in awe. In the night sky above, a collection of beautiful lights of all different colors danced so gracefully in the sky.
"Something's wrong," Jack said, getting up and walking toward the window.
"Wait, you're leaving? But you just got here!" Jamie complained.
"Actually, it's been about five hours since I got here. Jaime, the Guardians need me. Something's wrong," Jack said.
"You will come back right?" Jamie pleaded.
"Of course," Jack said with a smile, and then he dashed out the window.
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When Jack got to the North Pole, he found three of the other Guardians already there. Sandy (the Sand Man), Tooth (the Tooth Fairy), and North (Santa,) were discussing why they were all gathered when Jack entered.
"…I'll tell you when everybody gets here! I don't want to explain it twice," North said with a heavy Russian accent. In golden sand above his head, Sandy showed a picture of a sleeping child, then a clock.
"I know it's almost time for you to send the dreams but this is important!" North said.
Silently, Jack laughed. Nobody noticed he was there. Looking around, he noticed the ground start to sink in, forming a hole. A tall rabbit with gray and black fur hopped out of it newly formed hole. This caught the other guardians' attention.
"Nice of you to join us, Kangaroo," Jack said as he casually leaned on his staff. Bunnymund (the Easter Bunny) ignored the guardian of fun.
"What's this all about North?" he asked in an Australian accent.
"Ahh, now that you are all here, I will tell you," North said. "Man in Moon told me in a dream to call this meeting. He said he had something serious to tell us."
"Well, we are all gathered, and I don't see MiM." Bunny pointed out.
"Hey, I just did as he said," North defended. Tooth, getting tired of this, tried to break up the fight. The other two guardians just stood to the side, watching the others argue-Jack with a bemused look on his face and Sandy with a bored one.
Jack was enjoying the show when he felt a little hand pulling on his pants leg. Jacked looked down at Sandy, who pointed at the window where the moon was shining through.
"Um guys…" Jack tried to get the others' attention but they kept arguing.
"Guys!" Jack yelled again with no progress.
Figuring yelling wasn't going to help, Jack slammed his staff on the ground, hard. Frost covered every inch of the walls and the wind picked up. Some of the little elves got their feet frozen to the floor. The argument ceased and they looked at the winter spirit. With annoyance in his eyes, Jack pointed to the skylight.
"Finally!" Tooth said.
"What's going on old friend?" North asked just as the moon's light touched the design on the floor. Instantly a black shadow appeared, though it looked a bit different from before, darker, more evil.
"Pitch!?" Tooth asked and a whole bunch of shadows came out from behind Pitch's small shadow.
"What does that mean?" Jack asked.
"It means…" North paused. "The Nightmare King is more powerful than the last time he was defeated."
"How is that possible?" Bunny asked.
"I don't know but it's bad," North said. Slowly, a huge bluish-white diamond came out of the ground where the moonlight shown through.
"Um what's going on?" said Jack, who had never seen this event before.
"He's choosin' a new guardian," Bunny said. The moonlight surged through the crystal and formed a wall of blue light. Every one held their breath, wondering who the next guardian would be. Well, Bunny was just hoping it wasn't the groundhog. An image appeared inside the wall of light. The image was of a boy, with black hair and determined eyes. In his hands he held a shield and sword.
"Who the heck is that?" Jack asked.
North smiled. "That is Percy Jackson."
"Who?" Bunny asked and North sighed.
"He is a very powerful hero," North explained. "Either way, he will have to be brought here. Any volunteers?"
"I'll go get the sack," Bunny said and was about to turn when North grabbed his sash (which held his exploding eggs and boomerang.)
"Hold on there," he said. "If you shove him in a sack, he would be able to escape. He has a sword." The burly Russian gestured to the blade in the so called 'Percy's' hand.
"Ok then get a sack that cannot be ripped?" Tooth suggested.
"No. When we open it he may not trust us and we want him to trust us." North said. "And he's human so I doubt he'd be able to see us."
"How old is he?" Tooth asked.
"Eighteen," North said.
"Wait he's mortal and he's being chosen to be a guardian?" Bunny asked.
"Well, Pitch is getting more powerful so we need someone more powerful as well," North said.
"Just how powerful is he?" Bunny asked and North smiled.
"You soon shall see," he said.
"Back to the point. How are we going to get him here?" Tooth asked.
"First we just need to get him to believe," North said and all eyes were on Jack, who was quietly edging closer and closer to the skylight. When he realized everyone was watching him, he froze mid step.
"What?" he asked.
"You're the best with kids," Bunny said.
"Yeah, young kids about the age of eleven or younger. Not eighteen year olds," Jack said.
"Well Frostbite, what do you recommend we do?" Bunny asked.
"First of all, I don't think shoving him in a sack and tossing him in a magic portal is the best idea," Jack said. At that, all the guardians looked sad that they weren't going to use the sack.
"I think North is right," Jack continued. "Maybe we should get him to believe in us first, if he doesn't already."
"Good, then you go," North said.
"I don't even know where to go," Jack said and the image of soon-to-be guardian faded and in its place was a map. Jack walked over to it and saw a single green dot further northeast in the United States.
"New York?" Tooth asked.
"Wait, Long Island, isn't it?" Jack said.
"Yes," replied Tooth. "Why?"
"I can't go there."
"Oh come on Frostbite, what are ya…scared?" Jack glared at him.
"I am not scared. I'm just, not allowed to go in that area," Jack said. A question mark appeared over Sandy's head.
"Oh come on. How are you 'not allowed'?" Bunny asked.
"I don't know, but for some reason, there is like a force field around that place. I try every year to get in there, but I'm always pushed back. A little bit of my snow can get in, but when I try to make it snow harder, the extra snow would just fly over the force field," Jack was already weirded out by this place, and now he would probably have to go there. Great. North laughed.
"That is how you know we're in the right place," he said.
"Look Mate, if you're too weirded out, I'll go instead. I'd like to meet this powerful mortal," Bunny said with a grin. Jack looked at the Man in the Moon and he saw a picture of himself flying across the map towards the green dot.
"Thanks Bunny but I think I have to go," Jack said. The other guardians looked at the map.
"Oh," Bunny said
"Jack, you will do fine. Here, I want you to take this," North said and gave him his snow globe portal.
"Really?" Jack asked.
"Sure," North said. "If I'm right, he won't be able to fly. I think the portal will be the only possible way for him, other than walking, but I don't recommend that." Jack smirked at the thought of walking from New York to Santoff Claussen. That would be pretty hard.
"Thanks North," Jack said and he shook the snow globe. By the time all the snow had landed at the bottom, the Empire State Building was standing the middle. Jack threw it. When it landed on the ground, a bunch of colors appeared in mid-air, creating a portal, and Jack waved as he stepped through it.
A.N.
So this is chapter 1. Yay! Jack is going to New York. How come he can't get in this one place? ^.^ I love writing this story. Oh, this is actually the redone version of this chapter. I didn't change much, Just a bit more details here and there, and writing errors that bothered me a lot. I actually described Aundraia more than before, which, I don't know to be happy or upset with. Anyway, here ya go. I am most likely to be rewriting all or mostly all of the chapters so that should be good. Ya get better quality writing. If there are any requests, ideas, or anything, I would love to hear them.