"Hey, Hic! Head's up!"

"What? What do you—"

The Viking didn't even had time to ask his friend what he was talking about because once he turned his head he was immediately hit on the face with a snowball which brought him to the ground. Jack laughed happily and in success, balancing and crouching on top of his staff. The two females who were way up ahead stopped to see what the commotion was all about.

"Hiccup!" the brunette exclaimed in concern, yet with a smile on. The redhead beside her huffed her cheeks.

"Oi! Frost! What do you think you're do—" and just like the scrawny boy, the same cut off was delivered to her by the winter man. Rapunzel couldn't help an involuntary giggle at it, which made Jack grin.

Merida sat up. Giving her friend a smirk. "Oh, now it's on." she gathered snow from both her hands, forming them into a ball and launched it at him. Jack merely tilted his head to dodge.

"Wow, so much for a perfect aim, Princess." he teased and jumped to dodge two snowballs, again from the redhead. Rapunzel ducked from the heated fight and hurried over to Hiccup, crouching down to see if he was okay.

"You alright?"

"Fine... I'm fine. Just... trying to think of a strategy." he mumbled, thick brown eyebrows furrowed to further prove that he was, in fact, thinking.

"Strategy? For what?" she asked, even though she knew the answer. Hiccup blinked a couple times and bit his lower lip, nodding to himself. He took Rapunzel's wrist and led her to a nearby tree, telling her to stay here while he executed his idea. Bringing his forefinger and thumb in his mouth, opening a small gap, he blew hard. It let out a whistling sound, as if calling upon someone.

A certain someone.

An ear-piercing high-pitched roar was heard and everyone but Hiccup ducked by instinct. The trees just behind Jack began to rustle unnervingly, and a giant black dragon leaps out, ready to tackle the spirit to the ground. Jack dodged by a hair, and rolled though the snow with his staff, leaving off a trail. The dragon landed perfectly on the ground, a playful look directed at Jack's direction.

Hiccup neared him and patted his head. "That was good, bud."

"Uhm, EXCUSE ME?" the male brunette looked over to the white haired boy. "Toothless could've KILLED me."

"Oh please, you're exaggerating. For one thing, you told us you were immortal, and you can't die. And another thing, you started it." tossing the readymade snowball in the air and dropping it back to his hand, Hiccup flung it as hard as he can back to Jack, who braced for it. But the snowball didn't make it through, stopping half way, and simply falling to the ground. "Aw c'mon."

"Sorry Hic. Only gave you one chance." holding his weapon in a baseball bat like position, he swung it from the snowy ground towards the Viking and dragon, sending off a set of balled snow. Hiccup raised his arms to block his face but was protected by Toothless' wing. Jack was about to hit again when he was bombarded in the side by a dozen snowballs. He wasn't blown back so he turned his head to see which of them had been the culprit. Merida stood with her lips pursed, an arm outstretched and in a pose to show she was the one who threw it. Rapunzel was behind her, surrounded by a dozen snowballs and a large one she was swiftly trying to form.

"Hah! Gotcha! 500 points for the girls!"

"Wait, since when was this boys vs. girls? I thought it was three on one!" Hiccup complained, lowering the wing of his dragon. Merida shrugged.

"Beats me, dragon boy!" she grinned and was later thrown a snowball from the one she had been talking to. The two had at it, leaving Rapunzel in a fit of giggles. She was later disrupted when Jack interfered with her giant snowball making by grabbing her around the waist and lifting her up.

"Jack! Put me down!" she tried being mad but obviously failed because of how happy she looked. Jack called the wind and the two of them were hovering above the ground. He floated over to her unfinished snowball and waved his staff over it. Suddenly it became perfectly round and ready for attack. He nudged her shoulder, telling her to pick it up, which she did. They both flew over Merida.

"Ready... launch!"

Rapunzel let the thing go, dropping it right on Merida's head. Snow splattered everywhere on the curly red mess that was her hair. The pair dropped to the ground with a successful look on their faces. Hiccup stared at his female friend. Then he snorted.

Merida turned her head with a menacing glint in her eyes directed at the Viking boy. "Did you just laugh at me?"

Hiccup quickly placed a hand over his mouth. "No I didn't." he tried saying seriously, failing. The Princess was about to stomp over and tackle him to the snow when she heard muffled laughter from her assaulters. She smirked and gathered more snow into her hands. Rapunzel shrieked when she'd been struck in the face, but she was still in uncontrollable laughter.

"Hey! No one hurts my partner!" Jack readied his staff to swing like he had done only moments ago. "Go Team Jackunzel!"

"Okay what kind of teaming system are we even going for here?!" Hiccup yelled in exasperation. Toothless had already joined the fight with his smaller reptilian friend Pascal riding on top of his head as he did, making their own separate team. Rolling his eyes and just throwing away all precautions, he joined in, teaming up with Merida as Team Merricup.

By then it had started snowing, and Jack's found it that it only snows out of nowhere whenever he was in a good or gloomy mood. And boy he was in a good mood. The snowball fight went on until dusk and there were no clear winners. Everyone, due to so much laughter, could not take it anymore and were just a rolling mess on the ground; holding on to their stomachs while some laughed so much it was so hard to breathe.

They made a fire to keep themselves warm in the night. Merida and Hiccup were leaning against Toothless, who was already napping his way into dreamland. Jack and Rapunzel sat together, leaning on a log. The spirit had an arm around the girl to try and keep her warm in some way he can. Rapunzel had already fallen asleep like the large creature. Her head was leaning against Jack's shoulder. It was still snowing.

"Hey Jack, do ya mind? I know ya're making it snow. Could you please stop that?" Merida asked, a hand over her face to try and block away the snow from her eyes. Toothless sensed her trouble and turned into a half asleep state to open up his wing and block the snow from both the boy and girl's heads. Jack shrugged.

"Don't look at me, I can't help it. Happens only when I'm happy."

"Well, I understand that emotions would be responsible for some of your powers. You must still be really happy if it's still snowing like this." Hiccup commented, leaning his head back. Jack smiled again and tilted his head to rest it against Rapunzel's. He watched as the other two began to drift to sleep while he stayed awake, unable to rest because of his immortality. He sat awake, occasionally moving to change his position so Rapunzel would feel more comfortable. At one point she mumbled something about wanting to lay down so Jack prepared a blanket for her while she fell back to sleep on his lap.

All the sincere and calm expressions on their faces made him feel assured. And after a while, he closed his eyes and tried to sleep just like all of them.

~!~

"Jack!"

Hearing his name being called out, Jack shot his eyes wide open. He looks around to assess his surroundings. He was sitting on a table, hands tightly gripping his staff with the side of his head leaning on it too. He looked over to the source of the voice. He was met with a pair of concerned purple eyes.

"Jack! Are you alright? You spaced out a little bit." Toothiana asked, placing a hand on his shoulder. Jack stared at her blankly before sighing and running a hand through his white hair.

"A-ah... it's nothing." he tried dismissing it, standing up now. The Sandman pursed his lips with doubt, and a form of sand spelling the words 'DAYDREAM' appeared atop his head.

"Sandy says you've been daydreaming." Bunnymund commented, arms crossed and standing beside the little man. Jack looked at every one, his eyes heavy and looking dreary. He finally decided to simply turn to North, who was every bit concerned as Tooth. He mentally asked the big man to change the subject.

North nodded just a bit and clapped his large hands together. "Alright! Let's not pay attention to Jack's problems. We must discuss about why I have called you all here."

"It must be important. Seeing as though the last time we gathered like this was because Jack was going to be a Guardian." Tooth said, floating upwards together with her tooth fairies. She looked over to the large open window to check on something and everyone followed suit. Their guesses were correct and the large moon came out of the clouds. "And I guess we're here for the exact same reason."

"Whoa, wait a minute." Jack raised his hand and rose from the ground to hover beside Tooth. He stared at the moon. "Are you saying... we're going to have another Guardian?"

"Apparently so."