Chapter 1:

Jack Frost sat crouched on a power line outside of his friend and first believer's, Jamie, window. It was mid October and Jack had just finished the final touches of the town's first snowfall for the season. Jack couldn't wait to see Jamie's excitement when he finally noticed all that Jack had done. Jamie finally showed signs of waking when Jack saw something out of the corner of his eye. Looking up at the sky, Jack was both annoyed and worried to see the northern lights spreading across the horizon. Jack glanced at the stirring Jamie and with a sigh, turned away and leaps into the air.

"This had better be important," Jack grumbled to himself as he directed the wind to take him to the north pole. While Jack doubted anything serious was going on, it was still his duty as a guardian to respond to North's summons. Landing softly in the snow, Jack knocked on the door. He couldn't help but grin as the yetis let him in and lead him through the workshop. After so many years of trying to sneak in, it felt great to just be able to walk through whenever he wanted. The others were already there and waiting by the time he arrived.

"What is it North?" Tooth asked, fluttering around. "Is there something wrong."

"This isn't about that weird feeling you've had for the past few months again is it?" Bunny asked, slightly annoyed. Sandy shrugged and had a question mark appear over his head.

"No nothing like that this time?" North assured with a grin.

"If it's not an emergency, why are we here?" Jack asked.

"We are here to welcome a new guardian!" North announced happily. The other guardians were stunned, that had not been what they were expecting.

"WHAT?" They shouted, before they all began asking questions at once.

"Who is it? Are they friendly? How shiny are their teeth?" Tooth wondered excitedly.

"Why was another guardian chosen?" Bunny demanded. "We don't need any more help. I don't want to deal with another Jack."

"Hey!" Jack protested slightly, before turning back to North. "Why would another guardian be called if there isn't an emergency? I thought it was a rare thing for a guardian to be called."

The questions continued at a rapid fire rate, overlapping each other so none of them made sense. Sandy tried to ask about this turn of events as well, but no one was paying attention to his sand pictures. North eventually let out a high pitched whistle, which effectively silenced everyone.

"It's not a new guardian for us," North explained. "It's one of the other guardians."

Jack was still confused, but the others seemed to understand what North meant and they all relaxed.

"That is exciting," Tooth cheered. "It's been a while since we had one of those. Who is it? Where are they from?"

"I bet it's another time keeper," Bunny commented while Sandy nodded in agreement. "There is always a need for them."

"Not a time keeper," North replied. "Purity finally has her defender."

"That's huge," Bunny said in surprise.

"I'm happy for her," Tooth cooed. "After waiting so long too..."

"Um..." Jack finally spoke up. "Can someone explain what's going on? What other guardians? Who's Purity?"

They paused at Jack's statement, eyes widening slightly.

"Sorry Jack," North replied apologetic. "I forgot that you still have a lot to learn about what it means to be a guardian. You see we are the guardians of this world, but there other worlds with their own guardians. Purity watches over all the worlds and she was just recently joined by a new guardian that we'll be meeting today. And we can introduce you to her as well."

"Okay cool," Jack said, deciding to just accept it for now.

"They should be arriving any moment now..." Just as North spoke, a doorway appeared. A bright flash occurred as two short figures stepped through, the doorway disappearing behind them. Once Jack's eyes adjusted, he could tell that the figures were human like animals, porcupines was his first guess based on the spikes. The first one was an elegant white furred female, whom he guessed was Purity. The second one was light blue with rainbow colored gems in his head, chest, back, the backs of his hands and in the buckles of his shoes. Though Jack guessed this was the new guardian, he could tell that those rainbow colored eyes had seen many battles. Jack wondered what his previous life must have been like.

"Purity!" North greeted happily. "It's great to see you. And you must be the new guardian."

"Yes sir," the light blue figure replied with a nod.

"Wonderful to have you here my boy. I'm North, Spirit of Christmas and Guardian of Wonder," North introduced. "And these are my fellow guardians. Sandy, the Spirit and Guardian of Dreams; Bunny, Spirit of Easter and Guardian of Hope; Tooth, the Tooth Fairy and Guardian of Memories; and finally our newest member, Jack Frost, Spirit of Winter and Guardian of Fun!"

"Nice to meet you all! I'm Chaos Sonic, but you can call me Sonic," Sonic introduced with a grin."I'm the Chosen of the Chaos Emeralds and Guardian of the Multiverse... I guess."

"It's nice to meet you!" Tooth greeted enthusiastically, flying up to Sonic. "It's been a while since Purity has introduced us to a new guardian and you're her champion! It's great that you're finally here and you're teeth are beautiful! It's a shame I didn't get to collect your baby teeth, but I bet they were amazing!"

"Um... right..." Sonic said, unsure of how to respond while Jack snickered at his discomfort.

"That's enough tooth," Bunny interrupted, though he was smiling as well. "Leave the poor runt alone."

"Hey!" Sonic protested while Tooth blushed and backed off. Purity laughed at Sonic's misfortune before looking to Jack.

"It's wonderful to meet you Jack," Purity greeted. "I'm sorry I wasn't there to greet you when you first became a guardian, but I'm glad to meet you now."

"It's no problem," Jack assured. "It was kind of a crazy time anyway."

"True," Purity agreed, before turning back to North. "We have a lot to catch up on. How have you been this past century?"

Jack tuned out her and North and focused his attention on Sonic. He was eager to get to know this strange new guardian. He had the feeling that they were going to become great friends.