Hi guys :D so I really wanted to try a fiction for this, I really enjoyed the film the other day :P I have a couple of other fictions underway as well, if you want to check any of them out, so ill be updating whenever I can :) I don't own rise of the guardians or anything, just the characters i create :P I hope you enjoy this, pleasee review if you like it and would like me to continue :D thanks guys!

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'Oh Jack Frost, you poor winter boy

Who would you be if you lost all your joy?'

Pitch

The first breath of chilly air. It evaporates into the breeze around me as I casually stroll into the little area of the woods where his lake lies. It's the first true breath of winter. A drop of water streaks down my cheek. It's from the last remaining leaves of the trees above me as the frost begins to settle. I move slowly towards the lake until I am at it's very edge. I reach out my toe and touch it lightly to the glassy surface. I'm rewarded with a faint cracking sound. The lake is slowly freezing but it's not yet safe to stand on. Not unless you're him. It will be though. He'll make sure of it. He always does what he can to make the children smile. And as long as he's there to watch over them, no child will ever meet with the same fate as he did. But he can't be everywhere at once. He can't protect every child every minute of the day, no matter how hard he tries. None of them can.

I allow myself a smile as I contemplate the knowledge that soon he won't be there for them at all. I have a new plan and I'm determined to see it through. To put them all in their place. To ensure that once again I am seen and believed by all and never forgotten again. Not even Man in Moon can stop me now because I've stolen some of his secrets. And this time I know who to deal with first.

Jack Frost.

I dismissed him the first time I saw him because he was no threat, he was no guardian. He didn't know his strength, his core. He was just a mischievous spirit that liked to have fun, small, harmless, pathetic. Or so I thought. I should have seen deeper than that, perhaps then I would have seen his defiance, his bravery, the strength he himself did not know of then. I was not prepared for this newcomer and my focus was solely on the four guardians that I have known for years, the guardians that have stood in my way for so long. I admit to my loss of victory against them but I do not accept defeat. Our battle is not yet over.

I make to leave this home of his but I pause before I do to pick up a few stones in my hand. I squeeze them for a moment, a cruel smile on my lips. With an easy flick of my wrist I send them scattering across the lake, shattering the ice and letting the lake shimmer through. It won't take long to freeze over again but I feel a small sense of satisfaction anyway.

Shortly I will have regained my strength and I will strike again. I know now who my first target will be. Jack Frost will not defeat me twice. I wasn't ready for him the first time but this time will different. He will break as easily as the ice on his lake did but no one will be able to fix him.

I will destroy Jack Frost and I will enjoy every moment of it. I've failed to take over twice. Not this time. This time it's my turn to win...

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Jack

'Jack! So good to see you again! How are the teeth? Let me see, let me see!'

In the few seconds that I have before Tooth swoops down on me I cast a dark glance at Bunny who's snickering away as Tooth descends and grabs my chin so she can see my teeth. She does it every time she sees me. I've long since given up trying to defend myself and allow her to look as long as she doesn't take ages to examine them. I know she wants to. My teeth haven't changed one bit in over 300 years but she still insists on checking them. I can't help the flicker of a smile slipping onto my lips when she finally lets me go with a nod of satisfaction.

'Alright mate?' Bunny asks when he's finally stopped giggling.

'Better than you look thanks,' I say with a wink. In the few months since we defeated Pitch Black. Bunny and I have developed a good friendship complete with the friendly banter and teasing, able to make jokes without taking the other too seriously. I think he's finally forgiven me for the blizzard of '68 even though I still like to bring it up just to watch his annoyance.

'Here's Sandy,' Tooth reports suddenly glancing out of a nearby window. A moment later Sandy comes floating in dreamily with a smile on his face. It's so good to see him here with us after thinking that we had lost him to Pitch.

'Good, everyvone's here,' says North cheerfully. He kicks several of his helpers into scuttling round with drinks and cookies which most of us decline because we can see the bites that they've already taken while they thought no one was looking.

'So vat has everyvone been up to?'

Tooth immediately launches into a happy little speech about how her home is looking now since we all pitched in to help rebuild it. I never knew the guardians all met up every so often just to catch up with other. I thought they all left each other to their own tasks and met up only when there was an emergency. Now that I'm a guardian myself I'm finding out a lot more about the big four. It's still weird to think that people will now be saying the big five. It's still weird to think of myself as a guardian. I have a sneaking suspicion however that these gatherings may be a recent thing. We never stay long anyway. North doesn't like his home to be any more crowded than it already is, the helpers and the yetis are enough. For a month or so he was stuck with Tooth and all her little helpers. He worked the hardest out of us all to rebuild her home.

'So anyone else got any news?' Bunny breaks in when Tooth pauses to take a breath. We've heard too much about how much she loves her place now and how glad she is to have all the teeth back that they've collected so far.

'Jack, how are you finding being a guardian?' North asks me cheerfully, breaking me from my thoughts.

'Oh, it's cool. I don't really think about it anymore,' I shrug.

It's true. Since beating Pitch we've all gone back to our normal jobs. I create winter and give kids snow days and inspire fun and joy wherever I can. The only times I truly feel like I'm a guardian are during these little gatherings.

'How do you feel now that children can see you?' North persists.

It's a tough one. To be fair there still aren't that many kids that can see me although word is spreading thanks to little Jamie and his friends back home. It's an amazing feeling knowing they can see me though and even more amazing that they are now aware of me when we have a snowball fight.

'I like that some can see me. I've spent years not being seen but wanting to be. Now I have a few friends and I'm grateful for that but I can't imagine what it would be like to have millions of kids be able to see me. The idea kind of scares me now. Now that I'm a guardian and they're relying on me. without even realising it.'

North chuckles.

'Don't be afraid Jack. They rely on us all and ve vill not let them down. If they all knew how you stood up to Pitch, you vould be hero to them all, no matter vat.'

The others are nodding their agreement.

It makes me feel better inside. I've never really had responsibility before. Suddenly becoming a guardian is a pretty big leap. But I'm ready. I think.

The rest of the gathering passes uneventfully, Tooth soon manages to begin boring us all again and after politely refusing another round of cookies we all stand to leave.

'See you soon mate, try not to get into too much trouble,' Bunny grins.

'Where is the fun in not getting into trouble?' I ask cheerfully. Bunny gives me a salute before summoning up a tunnel and disappearing through it. North waves Tooth, Sandy and I off as we take off into the skies and a little further on we all part ways.

The journey back to my lake doesn't take too long and before I know it I'm walking the familiar route I've walked so many times back to my home. But when I reach it, I freeze. The lake is not how I left it. The ice is broken and although it's slowly healing over it's a sign that something is wrong. I left my lake with a thin surface of ice across it. It's nearly always like that. I tend to leave it alone in the summer here while I create winter elsewhere but during my winter time here it's always frozen in some way.

I step out onto the surface, speeding up the freezing process as I walk across it. I walk all around the edge until I pause to pick up some stones that don't look right. They seem to have been scorched, there's black marking all over them and as I hold them in my hand I sense the evil that has affected them. Suddenly I drop them and stumble away, not wanting to believe the sudden feeling of fear within me.

Please don't let him be back, I murmur to the sky, please.

A faint breeze suddenly picks up around me, one I didn't create. It's a little warmer than mine and it feels heavy and wrong. It's the same kind of evil I sensed in the stones, the same kind of evil I've sensed and felt before.

'No..' I whisper, because I don't know what else to say.

Suddenly I think I hear a voice on the breeze, so faint, so quiet I barely hear what it says.

'Oh Jack Frost, you poor winter boy

Who would you be if you lost all your joy?'