Disclaimer: I do not, by any means, and to my great sadness, own anything to to with this movie or its characters. I just like to play with them and add in my own characters to join the fun.
The great star pulsated around her body with each sigh, with each breath she steadily took. Silent, as always, she watched on as the affairs of mortals played out below her.
The flames of the star licked her skin but from it she felt no heat, only the soft caress of silk played across her flesh. Like the fire she grew restless, tired of watching.
Fire is not an element to be tamed, to be kept, and although the man in the moon kept her at bay, he could not hold her still forever. Her time of waiting was coming to an end and soon her wild fires would unleash.
She was impatient and angry with the affairs on earth. The guardians had done a fine job protecting the children from evil until this point, with only the addition of one new guardian becoming necessary, but still the guardians lacked the sight to see what lurked just beyond the nightmares Pitch had conjured. The terrible darkness that had been rising for years in silence, waiting, much like herself, was almost upon them.
She was angry; angry that none of the guardians had ever asked her help or sought her advice. Each night Tooth would acknowledge the moon with a beautiful fluttering of her wings, North would grin at the man in the moon, Sandy paid his respects to the hold the moon held over the children that gave way to his power, and even Bunnymund showed honour to the moon in his own way.
Of all the guardians the newest member angered her greatest. Every night of his three hundred year old existence he pleaded with the man on the moon to reveal his purpose, the reason why he was reborn a guardian. She knew the infuriating Jack Frost would discover the answer on his own in time, but a simple plea to her would have answered the question centuries earlier for the young winter spirit.
No, to her not one guardian had ever shown respect or acknowledgement. It truly seemed the man in the moon was doing an incredible job at keeping the woman in the sun contained.
But those who play with fire are bound to be burned.
JACK'S POV
As a winter spirit, I should not be sweating. But here I am wiping my brow for what must have been the hundredth time today.
Though winter is still prevalent in parts, the majority of the world is experiencing summer. What a terrible season.
'Had summer's sun ever felt so hot?' I wondered vehemently.
I stared into the sun, wishing it would cool and fade so winter could begin again. I wanted to play with the children, Jamie and Sophie in particular. I wanted to cause great snow wars. I did NOT want to be sitting, melting like a Popsicle, in tooth palace.
The sun caught my eye and I was drawn into it, an uncanny pull did not allow my gaze to be removed from its form. I was unable to tear my eyes away. The sun looked alive, tentacles of fire lashed out as if to strike the earth... the sun filled my entire vision and suddenly I heard a voice, a whisper.
"Jack Frost…."
The voice was no more than a sigh, a warm breeze. For a second I thought, crazily thought, I saw soft movement within the sun. Attempting to refocus my eyes to see if they were playing tricks on me. Instead of focusing on the sun I was abruptly attacked and my vision became consumed with two startlingly purple irises.
Tooth.
She frowned and disappointment shone in her eyes. Shit! Had she had been talking to me the whole time? I hadn't heard a single word she had said.
"Tooth, look, I'm sorry. It's just so hot out here even the frost on my sweater has vaporized. I'M going to get heat stroke and I didn't even know that was possible."I tried to reason with her.
The disappointment didn't leave her eyes but she fluttered away none the less, chatting once again with the fairies.
I was sitting with my legs swinging over the edge of one of the temples, impatiently waiting for her to finish directing the tooth fairies so we could begin the trip to North's workshop.
It would be the first time I would be at North's workshop without some guardian duty to preform; today North was hosting a feast in celebration of the guardian's accomplishments and victories.
'Come on tooth we're going to be the last ones there… late even! Imagine the jabs Bunny will have when we show up late together… I'll never live it down' I was really done waiting for her to finish with the teeth; we were going to be unfashionably late if we didn't leave now.
"Tooth! I'm leaving with or without you!" I yelled up to her.
"San Diego, sector two, Ohhh! It's her first tooth!" She announced grinning at me with a dreamy expression in her violet eyes.
Unfortunately this was the only acknowledgement the fairy gave me that she had even heard me. Collecting my staff off the ground beside me I stood and stretched as I called the winds to me.
"Tooth?! Now or never!" I called, feeling the wind ruffling my hair and lifting my feet.
Tooth ruffled her feathers in protest of the new cold north wind whipping through the tooth palace. She hesitated, undecided if she should join me or finish with the fairies.
"Uhm..!" She began, biting her lip. "You go ahead Jack, I'm just going to finish up with th- BEAUTIFUL CENTRAL INCISOR! Baby Tooth you were right, this IS gorgeous oh, what a good child. She must have…"
Tooth's voice faded into the wind as I slammed my staff onto the tile. Freezing everything around me, I launching myself into the winds control, heading for North's workshop.
I was at peace, drifting in the wind, allowing it to carry my body north. Even though the wind was rough and cold I felt no chill as it spun my body in loops and twists. I was enjoying the trip north so much I almost didn't notice the changing light around me.
The sun began to pulse, radiating heat and light intensely. The already warm temperature suddenly increased by twenty degrees, and I stopped my flight at once, noticing the north wind was no longer cool and pleasant. The sun pulsed once more, blindingly and infuriatingly hot – before all at once the temperature dropped back to a seasonal degree. The sun unexpectedly shuddered, a supernova of light pulsing outward from it.
I was blinded, seeing nothing but spots in my vision for well over a minute.
'What the hell happened?' I wondered, pushing my fingers into my ice blue eyes, trying to rub the spots away.
The moment my vision cleared I saw it. What 'it' was I could not say, but something was falling from the sky, far above me, hurtling towards the ground at an alarming speed. I raced on the wind towards it and let out a gasp as I drew near. It was a girl – a woman.
I looked for where she would land… uhm...more accurately, where she would crash, and raced to beat her to the spot. I landed on the ground only seconds before I expected her to crash; I quickly looked up, ready to catch the woman, only to notice her speed had slowed dramatically. She was now no more than five feet above me, gently floating down towards the earth.
I was so immensely confused at how and why the girl was falling from such a height. I reached out my arms to catch her as she slowly descended. Her long, intense, unnatural fiery red hair fell into my open arms first, before her body and her form gently floated into my awaiting arms.
As I caught her I scanned her body for injury or harm and thankfully found none. I wouldn't know what to do if she was seriously injured. My eyes traced over her thin dress, lithe form and beautiful face which was blissfully relaxed, eyes closed and full red lips turned up into a smile.
Gravity returned to her body as I drew her close and carefully laid her in the grass. I sat next to her, placing my staff on the ground and leaned over her. I was unsure of what to do or expect.
'She is so lovely...' I thought as I drew my hand to here, carefully and gently brushing a strand of her red hair off of her face.
The moment my cold, frostbitten hand touched her skin her gold eyes opened widely, a look of shock and terror crossing her beautiful face.
The moment my cold hand touched her skin the world burst into flames.
Okay, so that's it. Chapter one. I am a tad bit nervous because this is really my first time writing anything. I would appreciate reviews, just to let me know if you like it, so I feel better and happier about writing it, to make suggestions, criticisms, etc, but I won't make reviewing mandatory. Regardless if you review or not, Chapter Two will be up soon. Thanks and hope you liked it!