Jack Frost
Chapter One: Me And My Shadow
"Alright you little googies sit on down and I'll tell you all about that troublesome spirit Jack Frost. Once up on a tim….What Sandy?" "Tinkle tinkle" "What does it matter how I start the story?" "Tinkle tinkle" "Fine! Fine I'll start it out differently!" "Tinkle" "Okay in a time not so long ago there was a winter storm. This storm travled all the world bringing snow and other things like that that ruin my holiday….What now Sandy!?" "Tinkle tinkle" "If you don't like my version you tell it!" "Tinkle tinkle." "Alright alright keep your sand on I'll tell it right. Okay so Father Winter was a storm of awesome proportion that brought all the winter snows. One the residence on this storm cloud was Jack Frost. Jack Frost was the one who let everyone know winter was on its way. He froze everything, but not in a bad way. And no town loved Winter more than the down of the Cosacks.
"Come on dear we must get these pumpkins harvested before the frost sets in." Said papa Arindell as he pulled on a big pumpkin, trying to separate it from the vine. "But darling, Sven can't even pull the cart as it is!" Mama Arindell said as she stroked the poor dogs head. "If only I had a horse to pull the cart! Then we could take the harvest and get money for it." Papa said pulling the pumpkin free and then placing it in the cart.
"But Han's has the only horse in all the land, and all the Kaputniks to buy a horse." Said mama inspectin several smaller pumpkins. "He does not have them all! Look here I have one Kaputnik left!" Said papa pulling a gold coin from his sock. "Papa! If Han's finds out then…..oh dear here he comes now!"
Over the dirt hills came the thundering of hooves as Hans the leader of the land came near. "Stop Clnagstomper! I smell a Kaputnik!" He said pulling up beside papa. "You there you have a Kaputnik!" With that Clangstomper turned and lifted papa up by his foot and shook him. The katputnik fell out of papa's sock and Han's picked it up.
"I'll just keep this safe, I wouldn't want you to go losing it somewhere along the way." With that Han's left and papa was dropped to the ground on his butt. "No that was my last kaputnik! I had wanted to get our Anna a real Christmas gift with that!" he said pounding the ground once angrily.
"Don't worry papa winter will be here soon, and once Jack Frost comes there will be plenty of money for everyone!" Said mama helping him up. Just as she said that a frosty trail began to appear.
"You see the people of the Cosaks loved winter because it meant there would be plenty of money. See once old Jacky came blowing through they turned his ice sickles into money, so everyone could pay for everything they needed; so long as winter lasted that was. Now Jack Frost wasn't seen by anyone, and that never really bothered him; he had to much fun being invisible. Until one fateful day….
"Mom, dad I'm going off to build a snowman!" Anna called as she rushed out the house in the cool snowy morning. "Come now Anna don't you want to go into town and talk to the young men? You could be the New Year Bride!" Anna rolled her eyes as she skipped away. "Nope not for me! Only one man has my heart and his name is Jack Frost!" With that she ran off to skate and have a wonderful snow day.
"But little did she know that Jack Frost himself had heard."