Here's chapter two and like everything, I do not own Rise of the Guardians. Enjoy this newest installment.
"Hey, No fair!" Jamie cried out as he picked himself up from the snow. "You can fly and I can't."
"Yeah, but what's the fun in snowball fights without some advantages." Jack said coolly as he floated above his most favorite believer.
"Can't believe you got the one more day of winter." Jamie said, shaking the snow off his clothes "How'd ya do it?"
"Oh, it was nothing," Jack said "Just had to put on the old charm for Flora."
"Flora? Is she the one that brings spring?"
"Well yeah,"Jack answered "She is the Spirit of Spring after all."
"So, that means..." Jamie said in a thinking tone "There's a spirit for all the seasons, like fall right?"
"Well, actually, it's Spirit of Autumn." Jack pointed out "Rusty hates it when people call his season "fall," he says that it's "Not dignified" or somethin' or other." Jack then stood up and poked fun at the Spirit of Autumn: cool, dignified, important with his chest puffed out.
"He walks around like this," Jack said as he strode across the sky "and he has a long walking cane that he claims is a "staff," he's such an old geezer." Jack then hunched over and walked as he were an old man.
"Hahaha, that's funny!" Jamie laughed "Is he really that old?"
"Pretty much" Jack said "Though he does wear a hood so it's a little hard to tell but yeah, he's that old."
"Okay, okay" Jamie said excitedly, "What about summer?"
"Summer?" Jack said, his eyebrows knitted together at the thought, "Hm, I don't even know if there is one and there is I haven't met them."
"So, you've never met summer?"
" 'fraid not"
Jamie stood there thinking for a moment, then it came to him "Well it makes sense you know, you're the Spirit of Winter after all."
"Yeah and?" Jack said
Jamie laughed "It wouldn't work duh, you would turn into a puddle."
"Yeah I gue...Hey, no I wouldn't!" Jack protested, Jamie laughed again.
"Yeah you would but it's okay, maybe it's for the best right." Jamie then looked down at his watch, it was nearing 7, way past his curfew. "Uh oh"
"Uh oh?" Jack said as he landed "What uh oh?"
"I gotta get back home," Jamie said hurriedly, "My mom will kill me if I'm late again."
"Hey, don't worry kiddo," Jack said "We'll just take the frost express."
Jamie looked up to his magical friend.
"Awesome!"
Jamie braced himself for the ultimate ride, sure he had gotten a ride from the legendary Jack Frost many times before but this ride was special; this ride would be the last ride till next winter and for a kid of eleven that would be like waiting for the ice-cream truck at the end of the block. Jamie nodded to his friend and like lightning they were off: zipping past cars, bouncing of awnings and covering the people they passed by with a healthy layer of slush. The ride was like a dream to Jamie, to have this sudden rush of fun given to you by someone who grown-ups always say and believe does not exist is a thing within itself a happy, incredible dream but like all dreams it had to come to an end and Jamie's dream ended when the sled stopped at the gate to his house.
"Well, here we are kiddo." Jack said as he landed on the ground. "Too bad we couldn't play any longer right?"
"Yeah" Jamie was a bit disappointed, it seemed winter went by too fast and he sure hoped it would come back again in the same speed.
"Hey Jack, you'll come back next winter right?"
"Of course!" Jack said enthusiastically "Don't I always?"
Jamie looked up to his friend "Yeah!" He then picked up his sled and reached for the handle of the gate.
"So, I'll see you later?"
Jack began to float "Yeah, you'll see me later."
With that Jamie opened the gate and ran back into his house, excited to tell his little sister the adventure he had with Jack Frost and the fun he would have next time.
Jack chuckled to himself "We'll play again soon kiddo, we'll play again soon."
"Whoah!" Jack cried out as he dodged a mud ball. A mud ball?
Jack chuckled "Hey Flora, was that you?"
"Oh, I was so close." Flora cried out in defeat as she walked toward the winter spirit, "I really thought I would be able to return the favor from this morning."
"It was a good try Flora" Jack replied
"You think so?"
"Sure I do! Besides, I'm the champion of snowball fights, you won't get me in one shot." Jack declared proudly.
"Well then," Flora said calmly "Alder and I will do our best next time, right Alder?"
"Grunt"
"Great!" Jack said, he then remembered his earlier conversation with Jamie "Um, Flora?"
"Yes?" Flora said as she played with a few leaves she picked out of her hair.
"Is there a summer spirit?"
Flora looked up to Jack "Of course there's a summer spirit silly, why, we saw her on our way to Burgess didn't we Alder?"
"Grunt" was the stag's response.
"Really!?" Jack said in disbelief, he landed back on to the ground, eager to hear more "What are they like?"
"Well," Flora said in a thinking manner "Siria has this hat and..." she stopped "Wait,why are you suddenly so interested in the summer spirit?"
"I was talking to Jamie earlier and..."
"Oh, you were talking to Jamie?" Flora said enthusiastically "You know, his little sister is so nice to the flowers, why, last summer she..."
"Flora."
"Oh, and the nice little pictures she draws about the flowers are too cute and..."
"Uh, Flora."
"OH! and she once left a..."
"Flora!"
"Huh?" The spirit snapped out of her memories and looked back at Jack, "Oh i'm sorry, was I rambling again?"
Both Jack and Alder nodded, "Oh wow, this is embarrassing" Flora said as she laughed nervously, "What were we talking about?"
"The summer spirit?" Jack said "I was telling you that Jamie asked me why I haven't seen him...her..whatever they are."
"Well, to be fair, she hasn't seen you either" Flora responded "But it is for the best I guess."
"She huh?" Jack said to himself "So, do you know where I can.."
"Oh no you can't" Flora said, stopping Jack in mid-sentence "You both cannot meet."
"Um okay, why?" Jack asked.
"Why else do you think?" Flora said, exasperated by the question "You both are seasonal opposites, winter and summer just don't mix just like how spring and fall don't mix."
"I'm guessing you haven't met Rusty then right?"
Flora nodded her head.
"You're not missing much." Jack said in a low voice.
"What was that?"
"Nothing." Jack huffed "So, no getting around that huh?"
"I'm afraid not." Flora said "But don't let that get your person down, it's not that important."
"Yeah, I guess." Jack then looked to the spirit in front of him, "Well, this was fun but I should be leaving now." He then jumped towards the sky. "See you next year Flora."
"See you next year Jack." Flora yelled after him as the winter spirit flew and disappeared from sight.
Now Jack could have easily taken Flora's advice and had just let the notion of meeting the summer spirit making it be the end of it but then again, there wouldn't be much of a story now wouldn't there? No, Jack was determined to know the summer spirit or at least have some exchange of sorts, it was just one thing that he couldn't quite figure out; just how would he do it? He could just find the spirit and talk to her but it would be too much work. He could ask one of his fellow guardians to help him make contact but then they might give him the same speech Flora gave him. Jack stop mid-flight, what was he to do? If he couldn't communicate directly then what is there to do? He pondered on this, then it came to him, if he couldn't talk to her directly then he could talk to her indirectly.
"That's what I'll do" Jack said proudly "I just need a pencil and paper and I know just where to find it."
With that Jack flew across the night sky, past the roofs of houses and mountain tops, to a place where wonder grows and all children believe in; the North Pole.
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