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Balance Of The Seasons
Meeting The Other Seasons
Jack was nervous.
More nervous than he had ever been.
He was taking the Guardians out to meet some special people.
Those people weren't kids but the other seasons.
As in the spirits of spring, summer and autumn!
Jack and the other three seasons knew each other pretty good, were around the same age in heart, shared a love for fun but in the ways their own seasons allowed and still highly respected each other (it turned out they had all died while doing something heroic that turned them into who they now were) but they rarely met.
There were those few times where they crossed paths and talked and goofed a bit but they had their jobs to do and once every few years they met up to discuss how the earth was copying with the way they handled everything.
Now was one of those times again where he was supposed to meet them and he was bringing the guardians along!
A week ago he had told them about his meet ups with the other seasons and they had insisted on coming along, wanting to meet some of his friends.
Jack had tried to talk them out of it but they were just too stubborn!
Using the wind he had at least been able to alert the other seasons who had given their permission.
Autumn would have liked to meet them, Summer found it fine and Spring didn't really care.
Now Jack was flying through the air with the sleigh with other others in it following behind him.
"Are we there yet?!" he could hear an airsick Bunny whine and he rolled his blue eyes at him.
"Almost! Start lowering!" he shouted over his shoulder as he flew towards the ground where he landed gracefully but then ended up getting almost crushed by the sleigh that North sloppily landed.
"Sorry!" the jolly man apologized but Jack suspected that by his happy smile he didn't truly understand how dangerous it was what he did.
"Jack! Are you alright?" Tooth asked worriedly as she shot over to him while Sandy gave a worried look over his shoulder before going back to his task of helping a dizzy Bunny out of the sleigh.
"I'm fine, Tooth!" Jack said as he pushed the fairy away from him.
"Were are we?" Bunny asked as he looked around to see they had landed in some forest and were standing in front of a waterfall.
"This is my portal." Jack answered as he walked over to the waterfall, the water in the river frosting over under his feet.
A golden question-mark appeared above Sandy's head.
Jack sighed at that.
This was one of the reasons why he didn't want to bring them along.
Because they didn't understand anything about this business and he had a feeling that was going to cause trouble later on.
But for now he just went along a gave an explanation "There are four season as you know. But we are different and can only stay in the same place for so long. That's why we have a special place where we can all survive for as long as we want. Each of us has a portal in the form of a waterfall to enter our place."
When he was done the other guardians were staring at him in awe except Bunny who frowned.
"Yeah, right! Ya really expect us to believe something like that?" he asked.
"I believe him! Let's go so we can meet his friends!" North bellowed and started marching to the waterfall and thinking there was an opening on the other side he tried to walk through it only to slam into the wall behind the water.
"See?! Frostbite is just messing with us again!" Bunny exclaimed as he dragged North out of the water.
Jack sighed and with a gentle touch to the waterfall with his staff the waterfall split open.
All jaws dropped at that.
The boy slowly walked through the opening and the others quickly followed him.
They ended up in some sort of tunnel that lead a long while into the distance so they couldn't even see the other side.
It was also really dark and gave a kinda creepy feeling to the guardians as they walked through it, the only light coming from Jack's staff as he made it glow gently.
After about fifteen minutes of walking they finally reached the other side of the tunnel, much to the relieve of the guardians.
On the opening of the tunnel was another waterfall which Jack also touched with his staff and just like the one before it split open and showed their destination.
He could hear them gasp when they were on the other side.
On the other side of the portal was also a waterfall but this one was in a valley.
From the waterfall went a creak that led to a small round lake with a tiny island in the middle of it.
On the island stood an round wooden table with four wooden chairs around it, obviously meant for the seasons to have their meeting at.
On the front, left and right were also waterfalls that had creeks connected to the lake.
Each waterfall went up into the sky where the disappeared into the clouds and down there were rocks lined up along the edges of the creeks that were all different due to the seasons they belonged to.
The rocks of winter were covered in snow, spring and autumn had moss and dirt and summer had them bold.
Around the lake they were of all seasons on both edges.
The valley was also a mix of the seasons.
The grass had flowers from every season, the trees had snow covering their tops from winter but were still bright green with still some blossoms from spring and already fruits from summer mixed in them and they kept loosing leaves that fell to the ground for autumn but they didn't become bald.
There were also animals of all kinds, butterflies and other insects, forest animals, all kinds of birds and different kinds of fishes swam in the creeks and lake.
"Jack! It beautiful!" Tooth squealed as she spun around, trying to take everything in at once.
Sandy bobbed his head up and down in agreement.
Bunny just grunted and shrugged while North kept quiet for once and simply looked around with a smile.
Then the other three waterfalls split open.
"Eep! Jack, what's happening?!" Tooth yelped in surprise.
"Relax! The other seasons have arrived!" Jack tried to calm her down and sure enough three figures entered the valley.
Grinning Jack flew up to get everyone's attention and shouted "Lady and gentlemen! Let me introduce you to the spirits of the seasons of the world!"
"Eren Fall! The one who used his scarf to glide through the branches of the trees from the forest he lived in as he lured a huge-ass bear away from his friends and became he spirit of authumn!" he motioned towards a boy with short brown hair and golden-yellow eyes that were even more beautiful than Sandy's, wearing a dirty brown shirt with sleeves that reached his elbows, long pants that was a darker shade of brown and a maroon scarf that wasn't tied and simply hung over his neck.
Eren smiled and waved politely at the guardians, an act that they except Bunny happily returned.
"Will Heat! One of the best surfers ever who during a storm went into the sea to save a child that fell from a cliff and became the spirit of summer!" Jack motioned over to the other boy who had a nice tanned skin, messy black hair, bright red eyes and was wearing a red T-shirt and black swimming-trunks and was holding an orange surfboard by his side.
"Will Heat is indeed the name! Don't wear it out!" Will winked at them with a grin.
"And finally! The moment your have all been waiting for! The one and only Maya Bloom! The woman who used nothing but her bow and arrows to fend off a pack of hungry wolves that were making their way to attack her village and later on became the spirit of spring!" Jack shouted as he motioned over towards the only female season, a girl with long and wavy blond hair that reached her waist and bright green eyes, wearing a white shoulder-less dress that reached her knees and sleeves to her elbows and a beautiful flower-crown in her hair with mostly white and purple flowers and on her back she was carrying a bow and a holster filled with arrows.
Maya simply grunted and nodded in greeting, reminding the most of the Guardians of Bunny.
The other three seasons were also barefoot just like Jack.
Clearing his throat North stepped forward.
"Ah! So you three are the other seasonal spirits Jack has told you so much about!" the jolly man said loudly, spreading his arms wide open.
"He told you about us?" Eren asked with a smile directed towards Jack.
"You better have only told them good things, Jackie-Boy!" Will teased his counterpart with a smirk.
Jack cheekily stuck his tongue out.
"Jackie-Boy? Crikey, I'm gonna enjoy that one!" Bunny laughed, planning to call Jack that whenever he got the chance.
"Watch it! Only the seasons are allowed to call him that!" Maya suddenly snapped, making the six foot tall rabbit jump.
Obviously Maya wasn't one for letting outsiders make fun of her friends.
"Easy there, Maya! You really need to quite being so protective of me!" Jack quickly threw himself in-between the guardians and the female season.
"Make that all of us!" Will agreed as he went to stand next to Jack.
"Protective?" Tooth asked carefully.
Smiling gently Eren walked up to her and started talking.
"You see, unlike what most spirits think we seasons are quite close and for multiple reasons that is. We died in the same year and started working as the seasons at around the same time. We also were all about the same age when we died with Will being sixteen, me and Jack being seventeen and Maya being eighteen. Due to technically being the oldest if you'd count her years as a human along Maya has become pretty protective of me and the others. Like an older sister. And she isn't the only one as we see a sister but also each other. The four of us are like siblings and we protect each other no matter what, be the danger big like some other spirit attacking one of us or something small like nicknames." Eren explained and when he was done the guardians seemed in awe.
And they thought they were close!
As how Eren put it made it seem like they themselves were just toddlers that thought sharing a cookie meant everlasting friendship.
Well, North probably really thought that but that's beside the point…
But seriously, before their first battle together they hardly even looked at each other and after it they only met up once in a few hundred years and only started seeing each other more often after Jack joined them so when they thought about it it probably wasn't too hard to be closer than them but they had most likely thought of themselves as extremely close as they were some of the only spirits that worked together while most spirits kept their work to themselves.
The other seasons also seemed pleased at Eren's words as they smiled, smirked and grinned at each other.
"Nice said, Eren! But can we begin the usual routine now?" Will asked impatiently.
"Sure thing!" Jack called over at him before turning towards the guardians.
"I'd take some steps back if I were you." he advised become walking back to his waterfall, the other seasons doing the same.
"Why the hell do we need to back up?" Bunny asked the other guardians thought he still obeyed along with them and walked a bit away.
Sandy just shrugged and looked up at Tooth to see if she knew.
"Maybe they're going to summon some roads to get to that island over there." the fairy guessed, motioning over to the island with the table on it.
While it sounded like something right, she was far from it.
The seasons had all reached their respective waterfalls and turned to face each other, standing perfectly still for about fifteen seconds before suddenly jumping high in the air and clashing with each other right above the island after which they bounced off and started attacking each other.
"W-What the bloody heck is happening here!?" Bunny screamed as he watched Jack block a kick from Maya with his staff.
"This can't be right!" Tooth yelped as she saw how Will managed to punch Eren in the face and send him flying.
"We must stop them!" North yelled.
Sandy rapidly shook his head to try to stop them from doing something stupid but he was once again ignored and his three friends stormed the other seasons and grabbed onto them, stopping the fight.
"What the hell?!" Maya roared as she elbowed North in the gut, causing him to gasp and drop to his knees.
"Maya! Stop this at once! Friends shouldn't fight!" Tooth worriedly as she flew up into the air to dodge Will's surfboard that was almost rammed into her.
"We aren't fighting, you idiots!" Maya growled as she placed her fists on her hips.
"Huh? Guess that means I'm going crazy cause that sure looks like fighting!" Bunny protested, mimicking her stance and letting go of Eren in the process who quickly jumped away.
"We were only sparing!" he clarified on an attempt to stop the commotion.
Sandy hadn't tried to stop whatever was going on to be respectful towards the seasons but still made a question-mark appear above his head.
"Sparing. As in a friendly fight to test each other's strength again after being apart for a while." Jack explained calmly but there was still a bit of annoyance showing of his face.
"We do it every time we meet up together." he added.
At hearing that North, Tooth and Bunny grinned sheepishly and slowly backed away, trying to ignore the death-glares Maya and Will were sending them.
"Well, now that our sparing match has been cut short I believe it would be wise to simply get to our meeting." Eren suggested as he tried to calm everyone down.
It seemed to work as everyone nodded and jumped into the island with the table and sat on the chairs, the guardians awkwardly following.
Tooth and Sandy had to carry North and Bunny but they made it.
'Please, Manny! Don't let the other Guardians do anything else that will piss the other seasons off!' Jack thought to himself and the moon as he looked around at everyone else, flinching when he saw Maya shove Bunny away from her after he asked if there were more chairs so he could also sit down.
'Please!' he once again thought right before Eren started their meeting.
End Chapter 1
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