Author's Note: This is my first attempt at a Rise of the Guardians fic, so I hope everyone enjoys it! Here is the first chapter! Please review!
"Jack, ya bloody snowflake! Where'd you go!?" an angered Bunnymund yells, dashing around Santoff Clausen trying to find the mischievous Winter Spirit who had apparently decided it would be funny to freeze an elf to the Easter Bunny's back. Unknown to Bunny, Jack was currently floating in a corner of the ceiling high above him, laughing silently as Bunny desperately tried to get the elf unstuck from him while looking for Jack at the same time.
After Bunny disappeared from Jack's view, Tooth silently fluttered up to the still laughing Guardian, surprising him with a tap on the shoulder. Wielding his staff, ready to face the enemy, Jack relaxes after seeing it was only the Tooth Fairy. Smiling slightly herself, she says, "I suggest you get out of here until he cools down a little; I've known Bunny longer than you have, and trust me, if he finds you, it won't be a good thing. We wouldn't want him to destroy the place chasing you, now would we?"
Laughing, Jack responds, "Yeah, you're probably right; I'll be in Burgess if anyone needs me," Jack says, still snickering slightly to himself. With that said, he opens the nearest window and flies through it, quickly making his way to the little town of Burgess.
Jack made it to Burgess in pretty good timing, an hour to be exact which is great considering he had been at the North Pole and it would have taken forever had he not been immortal and able to fly. He made a point to stop by Jamie's school and quickly peek into the window, spotting the boy focused on writing something on a sheet of paper. Smiling, he turned and flew away from the window and over to his lake, deciding to wait there until Jamie and his sister were out of school and he could have some fun in the snow with them. Upon landing in the middle of his lake, he skated around for a bit, generally having fun, but something felt off to him, and he finally realized what it was; he felt like he was being watched.
Tightening his grip on the staff that he's had ever since he had become Jack Frost, he slowly turns around in circles, looking for anything out of the ordinary.
"I know someone's there! Come out and face me!" Jack yells, still scanning the area carefully when no one materializes. He swears he sees something move very slightly behind a snow bank off to his right, and without much thought, he sends a blast of frost over there, making contact with something. There is a thump and girly squeal as the person or thing falls backwards from it's original standing position.
Shocked, Jack rushes over, since the thing he had hit sounded like a child. Cautiously peering over the snow bank, his eyes widen a little bit when he sees a small girl who can't be more than 5 or 6 years old lying on her back in the snow looking up at him. There was something different about her, though: this girl had the same color white hair and blue eyes as Jack. She wore a strapless pale blue dress that went up to her knees, dark blue leggings a little darker than the color of Jack's hoodie, wearing a crystal around her neck on a chain of ice, and she was barefoot.
At a loss for what to do for the moment, Jack stares down at the child, and she stares back at him. All of a sudden, the little girl starts to cry, and that is what snaps Jack into action. He leaps over the snow bank and kneels down next to the child and sits her up. "Hey, little girl, don't cry; I'm sorry!" he says, desperately trying to make things right. "Are you hurt?"
Her tears slow just a little, enough for her to answer, and she sniffles out, "No, b-but why did you d-do that?"
"Hey, I thought you might be, um –" he pauses for a second; would this she know who Pitch Black was and understand that he had shot frost at her to be precautious? He sighed; no, she probably wouldn't.
"I didn't know what you were; you startled me," he settles on saying, still observing the crying kid with curiosity and confusion. She wasn't immortal, was she? She couldn't be, right? She was so young, but yet she looked so much like . . . well, like himself: like a Winter Spirit. He so badly just wanted to come out and ask her what she was, but he knew that just asking a little girl "What are you?" probably wasn't the best idea if he wanted to make her stop crying and make her trust him.
"Hey, come on, don't cry. I'm really a nice guy," Jack says with a smile, tickling the little girl gently on her stomach; she laughed, and he also noticed in the process that this child was cold, around the same temperature as him, and she didn't seem to mind in the least. Despite the oddity of the entire situation, Jack found himself smiling and laughing along with her as he continued to tickle her.
Finally stopping when all of her tears were dried up, Jack gave the child his hand and helped her up off of the ground. "So, how old are you, sweetie? What's your name?" he asks her, his curiosity toward her coming back.
She looks down at the ground, appearing shy for the first time, and says very quietly, "I'm five, and my name is Kaylee."
"Well, Kaylee, I think that's a very pretty name. I'm Jack; Jack Frost, to be exact," Jack says proudly. Kaylee looks back up at Jack, her eyes lighting up with wonder and excitement, and the smile appears right back on her face.
"Really!?" she asks happily. "You're who I came to find, Jack!"
She happily hugs Jack's leg, and he pats her back in a loving, comforting way, but he felt so confused. What was up with this girl, where had she come from, and could she really be an immortal Winter Spirit if she was only 5 years old? Jack had never considered the possibility of such a young child being a spirit, since he had never heard of such a thing ever happening. Yet, at the same time, he felt like he was already bonded to the adorable little girl. Had she really been meant to find him like she said?
Author's Note: Who is this little girl? Why was she looking for Jack? Can someone so young really be immortal? Anyways, how was that for the first chapter? Did you guys love it or hate it? Please review and let me know! Constructive criticism will be okay, but please no flames! After all, Jack is a Winter Spirit and we wouldn't want our favorite Guardian to die now would we!?