(Author's note: Another chapter, DING. Psh, this story is already finished in my documents. I'm just slowly putting them up.)
Chapter II: This is Canada ay!
It was the next day and Hallo was freezing and had asked multiple elves to bring her jackets and not one of them had a one that fit her.
"Oh, for the love of all things scary and gruesome, if you want anything done you got to do it yourself!" Hallo muttered over-exaggeratedly while groaning and then kicked snow that had lied once peacefully on the ground. She stormed over into the main mid plaza that was in front of the work shop and grumbled the whole way there. Her darkened eyes gazed over to the blissful tiny shops that stretched across the plaza.
She noticed that many of the elves were on ladders or working on different signs which confused her. Hallo looked at one of the signs they were putting up and it said,
"Welcome to Canada."
Hallo's eyes lightened back up to a normal brownish orange and then she turned to one of the random elves that were walking around busily.
"Excuse me but last time I remember, I'm in the North Pole not Canada." The small little male elf giggled and shook his head.
"No, no Miss. Halloween, haven't you heard?" he questioned as he smiled, making his small little dimples in his cheek's get bigger.
"No quite frankly I had not." She said, while holding on to her arms and rubbing them from the strong chilliness of the air.
"Santa's in-laws are arriving to see, Miss. Clause and they don't know about the Santa Clause thing. We don't want them to know so we're all going to make it seem like they're in Canada instead!"
Hallo nodded slowly with an odd expression, "Right that sounds very slick, never would have thought to do that… Literally," Hallo spoke rather sarcastically. The small brunette elf nodded and saluted to her then began going back to his work. Hallo rolled her eyes and attempted to look for a shop that might have a warm jacket that would fit her. She just prayed if she did find one that they all weren't just bright cherry red or Christmas green.
Hallo walked down the bustling plaza and noticed a familiar frosty man on a ladder. This reminded her she had to keep an eye on him. She began walking over to Jack but paused when she noticed he was done with nailing a large sign that read, "Hockey Puck". She watched Jack step down from the ladder and admire his work as Curtis the top elf drove up on his yellow scooter slay.
"Guys, I've done it!" Jack praised the sign and a couple elves stared blankly over at it just to see it break from the building and crash to the ground.
Hallo stared for a moment and her eyes changed to a bright orange and she began laughing her head off at Jack's mishap. Jack turned to one of the elves and sneered at him, "What have you done…!?"
Hallo laughed louder and held her sides and began getting closer to Jack and the shocked elves. "Is it going to clean itself up…? I don't think so! Quickly, quickly!" he turned his head to see Curtis looking up at him irritably.
"Curtis… I haven't seen the bearded wonder around. Where'd he go?"
Hallo took a seat next to Jack as he sat down and Jack noticed her and gave her a small smile but was interrupted by Curtis who began talking.
"None of your business..."
"No need to be nippy. With all the stress here, I wouldn't blame the guy for doing that Escape hatch thing," Jack said to Curtis with that cunningness that Jack always seemed to have.
"Escape Clause-"
Jack ignored Curtis for a moment and glanced at Hallo and said out loud to an elf nearby.
"Right…little elf woman, two Coco puffs…!"
Hallo looked at Jack with a slight daze and Jack then began talking to Curtis more about that Escape Clause business that Hallo was soon zoning out of.
Hallo was snapped out of her world and brought back in as the elf with two hot chocolates came up and placed it in front of Jack. Jack seemingly ignored the elf and pushed one of the hot chocolates towards Hallo as Curtis was talking defensively towards Jack.
"You looked cold." Jack commented towards her with a small wink and turned back to Curtis while taking a sip from his own drink. Hallo's cheeks flushed red and she took her drink in her hands and stared down at the warm light brown liquid that was in her cup.
"That was very sweet of him" Hallo thought to herself with a small smile. Soon Hallo was brought out of her thoughts as the conversation between Curtis and Jack had gotten slightly louder, at least on Curtis's side it had. Jack stood up and watched as Curtis was turning in circles talking still about something with the Escape Clause. Hallo didn't understand why Jack was so intrigued by this Escape Clause thing but it didn't concern her and it was rude to barge into the conversation.
After Jack and Curtis were done talking, Curtis smiled at Jack and rode off on his scooter. Jack turned back towards Hallo and her eyes quickly jumped off of him to her coco that Hallo had been so interested in, she hadn't taken one sip from it.
"I know your unaccustomed to these parts but usually your suppose to drink it." Jack said as he noticed the drink had been untouched.
Hallo rolled her eyes and she turned her head back up to Jack.
"Obviously… I was just thinking."
"Thinking, were you? About what…? How devilishly delightful I am?" he teased and sat back down but this time focusing just on Hallo.
"You're funny. But no, I was just thinking why Mr. Jack Frost would bother to buy his babysitter a coco."
Jack grinned widely and snickered, "So you still were thinking about me in the end right?" Hallo sneered in disgust and rolled her eyes once more.
"You're quite the jokester, Frost."
Jack still continued his grin and nodded not once taking his icy eyes off of Hallo. She shook her head and finally placed her cold lips on to the warm cup and began sipping the hot sweet coco. Hallo's lips turned up as she drank the delightful drink.
"So since we do have a LOT of time to spend together we might as well get to know each other more too." Jack spoke once she swallowed her first sip of the coco. Her orange brown eyes beamed over to Frost and she titled her head slightly.
"What do you want to know…? By the way thank you for the coco…"
Jack waved his hand airily and smiled lightly, "I want to know what you think about Mr. Clause?" Hallo put the mug down and sighed somewhat annoyed.
"Oh, did I hit a nerve?" Jack spoke with a slight spark in his Safire eyes. She stared down at the table and looked up at Jack with just her eyes, "It's not that I hate Santa in any way but he and I have had some… complications."
"And just what complications could those possibly be?" Jack pressed onwards.
"He always pushes his stupid holiday into my season… MY holiday," Hallo hinted the animosity somewhat more than intended.
"Does he…!? Well that's just not fair…!"
Hallo nodded and then looked at Jack dead on, "Every year once it is October… My month… People always throw Christmas into the picture right away and just love to forget all about Halloween and even Thanksgiving! You don't know how many times, I've complained to Santa about this problem and all he ever does is shrug and tell me the same horrid thing. 'Sorry Hallo people just prefer Christmas!'" Hallo's eyes darkened to a deep brown that almost looked black.
Jack seemed to take hint of her eye color but ignored it and he then nodded in her direction. "As I said that's just not fair. If I were big red I would do something about that." Jack said with something hidden in the tone of his voice. It almost sounded mischievous or like he had something more to say. Hallo's eyes lighten back up and she looked at him somewhat surprised
"You would, would you? Then you would make a better Santa in my opinion." Hallo spoke with admiration. Jack's light smile formed into a smirk, his eyes even seemed to sparkle at that.
"I think I would too." Jack said lowly and watched her reaction.
Hallo just nodded slowly and sat back slightly more in her chair from pinning herself more towards the table from the passion in her small rant about Christmas and Santa. Hallo took her mug and took another sip as she calmed herself. Jack never once took his eyes off of her though he seemed to have something in his mind that was distracting him from speaking.
"Why do your eyes seem to change color?" Jack then inquired changing the subject after a brief silent moment. Her almost black eyes changed back to their normal color.
"My mood affects my eye color… I don't really know why." Hallo said sternly.
"Ah, I see." Jack said with understanding.
"Halloween, May I ask you a couple questions?" a small elf girl with pigtails ran up to Hallo with a huge grin. Hallo smiled falsely and nodded hesitantly. Jack looked down at the girl somewhat in annoyance and stood up.
"Well you seem busy now. I'll see you around, dear Hallo." Jack spoke smoothly and waved her a goodbye and began walking off down the plaza. Hallo watched him disappear as the little elf girl was walking her in the opposite direction.
The little elf girl took her into one of the stores that had really bright lights decked out around the store.
"My sister and I want to know what it's like being the saint of Halloween!" she gushed sweetly while batting her bright blue eyes at Hallo. Her sister that looked a lot like her grinned and nodded intensely. Hallo sighed heavily and reluctantly began telling them the wonders of being the creepy-candy-giving holiday's saint.
Hallo was in the middle of her conversation with the two elves. They seemed to quickly lose interest in her once they heard bells ringing in the distance. Hallo stood there and sighed bitterly as the girls ran off in the middle of her sentence. She soon stormed out of the bright colorful shop heading to see what all the commotion was that was stirring now outside.
"Welcome to Canada…AY!" a big bunch of elves said in sync to, two new comers that she hadn't seen till now. Hallo guessed that the two new people were the in-laws the elf kid had mentioned earlier. Hallo thought it was ridiculous that a large group of them had to walk up and reassure them that they were in fact in Canada. Then on top of that they had to be extremely stereotypical. Hallo really doesn't think these people could possibly stupid enough to believe this.
And Hallo was soon to be proven wrong.
Hallo watched as Mrs. Clause ran up and jumped into the arms of her parents, with too much screaming and giggling for Hallo's liking. She rolled her eyes and turned away to look at anything but the happy family reunion. Hallo sighed bored and decided to go take a look at the work shop that she had not really taken a good look at. Hallo turned away from the giggling in-laws and made her way into the large building.
Hallo was surprised when she entered from how much was going on. Many elves were busy walking around carrying different things that related to toys or Christmas. Other elves were simply doing what they should have been doing and that was making toys of every shape, size, and color. Hallo was stunned from how different Christmas was to Halloween even if she already knew they were pretty differential.
Hallo walked down the stairs to the main floor and began walking down an aisle to hover over the elves as they worked. It seemed like a really busy job, she wished she had little minions to help her when it came to preparing for her holiday. Unfortunately, Hallo didn't get that much luxury for her spooky holiday.
Curtis saw Hallo and quickly walked over to her and crossed his arms. Hallo turned to him and looked at him blankly.
"What do you want, Shorty?" she asked not really caring for what he had to say.
"Shouldn't you be watching Jack rather than snooping around on the main floor?" Hallo rolled her eyes that had darkened slightly.
"I don't have to stalk him every waking moment, Curtis. Mother N was just being how she usually is, making things more than they actually are." Hallo exclaimed bitterly towards the strict main elf.
"Well you should go find him. I think he needs to be watched a little more then what you're doing now." Hallo scowled loudly and pushed past Curtis rudely and looked for Jack.
Christmas was beginning to become one of Hallo's LEAST favorite holidays…