Chapter 1: Spirits

Jack Frost has been a guardian for three years now and he was happy with how things were going. More and more children could see him, even though a lot of them still didn't believe that he existed. Jamie and his friends helped him a lot with making children believe and that's why Jack decided to visit them. He was flying above the town when he saw them playing football on the streets, Jack grinned, this was his chance to have a little fun. He hid himself behind one of the trees at the end of the street and made a snowball with his magic. Jamie would never see this coming! He thought. He threw the snowball at Jamie, who stood in front of the goal. The snowball hit him at the back of his head and he turned around fast.

"Jack? Did you do that?" He asked, but Jack was already hidden behind his tree and was trying to suppress his laughter.

"Is something wrong Jamie?" one of his friends asked.

"No, I just thought that somebody hit me with a snowball." Jamie answered, while he rubbed the back of his head.

"A snowball? But it's spring and there is no snow." the friend said and he looked at Jamie as if he was crazy. Then Jack decided to throw another snowball at Jamie, but this time he couldn't hide fast enough. Jamie saw him and a huge smile appeared across his face.

"Jack you're back!" he ran towards the guardian and hugged him. Jack lifted him up.

"Of course I'm back, how could I forget about this town and all the awesome children that live here?" He said with a smile.

"Are you going to play with us Jack? Then you're on the other team!" Jamie suggested.

"Alright, but I'm warning you, you're going down!" Jack shouted while he stole the ball from one of Jamie's friends and scored a goal.

"Hey, that's not fair, I wasn't in front of the goal yet!" Jamie said, laughing and running after Jack.

Jack stayed with them until it was time for them to get back home. It was already late when jack strolled through the streets with all the small stone houses, where people were watching TV with their families. Jack had a lot of good memories of this town. It was the town where his first believer lived (which was Jamie) and the town where he'd beeten the worst enemy of the guardians: Pitch Black, better known as the boogeyman. Pitch Black causes nightmares and hides under the beds of innocent children. Three years ago he tried to take over the world and let everybody live in fear. All the children stopped believing in the guardians which were: Tooth, North, Bunny and Sandy, better known as the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, the Easter bunny and the Sandman, but one child kept believing and that child was Jamie.

Jack didn't knew for how long he had been walking until he saw the golden sand from Sandy and realised that it must be somewhere around midnight. Jack followed the sand searching for Sandy. Sandy himself was also made of his sleep sand and he couldn't talk, so if he wanted to communicate with someone, he made pictures of what he wanted to tell with his sand. After jack had been flying for a while he found Sandy on his cloud of sand, making the children have sweet dreams. "Hé Sandy how's it going?" Jack asked him, Sandy smiled and put his thumb up. Jack smiled too and looked at the night sky, it was a clear sky, you could see the stars and in the light of Sandy's dream sand it looked even more beautiful and then something happened made it look incredible, but was very alarming too. The northern light. The northern light was a sign for the guardians that there was trouble and that they immediately had to come to North's workshop at the north pole. Jack and Sandy looked at each other worried, they should better go because North never called them if it wasn't really important. There must be something incredibly wrong.

They flew as fast as they could and in fifteen minutes they arrived at the workshop. North's workshop was already impressive from the outside, but from the inside it was just gorgeous. Everywhere you looked you could see yetis who were busy with the toys and the toys there were just great, they had robots and dolls, trains and airplanes, every toy you could imagine was there and in the middle of the workshop was a giant globe with small lights on it, those lights were all the children that believed in the guardians and also the children we had to protect.

North, a fat man with a Russian accent, a white beard and tattoos on his arms stood next to the globe and he didn't look quite happy. Next to him stood bunny, a rabbit who, in my opinion, looked more like a kangaroo and had an Australian accent. As soon as he saw me, he gave me a grumpy look. I grinned, he was probably still mad at me for what I had done with his Easter eggs this year. I gave every single egg a moustache, it took me awhile to do that, but it was so worth it! I had so much fun and the children thought so too, But he went completely mad! I don't think that I ever laughed that hard. Tooth was there too, she is some sort of giant hummingbird, with all sorts of feathers in every colour that exists, she has purple eyes and some weird obsession with teeth, especially mine.

North started talking. "Sorry, that I had to send you here this abruptly, but I've got important news. Man in Moon turned five regular people in spirits today and that isn't that bad, but I'm worried, because these people didn't die first, but they've just been made to spirits. They don't even know that they have their powers and because of that they're a danger for themselves and for the world."

Spirits are about the same as guardians, they help children and bring them joy, the only difference is that we're a little more important and they don't have to protect the children. Yet it still hurts, because I never knew that you could become a spirit that way. I had had to drown in a ditch to save my sister and after that I became a spirit and then I brought 300 years of winter joy without anybody who thanked me for it, because nobody believed in me. Yes, was a little bit jealous, a bit much.

"So, what do we have to do? Bring them here and train them?" I said sarcastically, but North had never been that good at noticing my sarcasm.

"Yes, Jack, good idea!" He said with a giant smile. "and you are going to search for them." My mouth dropped from astonishment, everybody who would have thought about it would have known that I was jealous and then I had to search for these people?

"Why me?"

"Because you don't have to do anything, since it's spring" He answered stubbornly.

"But it's not even close to Christmas and it has just been Easter so why can't you go?" I asked them, but this time bunny answered.

"our days are very important to the children so we have to start preparing early, mate."

I sighed annoyed "but I don't even know where they live or who they are!"

"That doesn't matter, Man in Moon will help you find them." Tooth said and Sandy put his thumb up.

Then something broke inside of me. "Man in Moon?! Man in Moon?!" I said ferociously. " he has never talked to me! And now he's going to help me save his favourites, who didn't even die first, unlike me!" shocked everybody looked at me and I realised that I've been really harsh, they've been trying to help me and I'm shouting at them. "Fine, I'll go, but if it doesn't work out somebody else has to do it." That seemed to calm them down, because North started to laugh.

"Hahaha! That's how I know you jack. Now, go and search for the other spirits before something happens.

I flew out of the workshop to search for the five spirits. I was determined to find them, but I had the feeling that I wasn't going to like them.

So, what do you think? this is my first English fanfic so go easy on me ;)