Jack P.O.V
"Well, that was a surprise," he thought as he brought his hand to rub his red cheek, still stinging from the slap she had given him.
"What was that for?!" he yelled in anger to her.
"For destroying my flowers! I mean, look behind you! Do you know how long I took into making them?!" she pointed to the flowers, which were now dying because of Jack's ever increasing snowstorm. "C-can you stop that s-storm?!" she yelled again, just not as loud as the first time since she was shivering too much to be angry.
Realizing that the storm was now large enough that it was almost by the pond, he stopped it. The temperature increased quickly, but not to the same amount as it did in the place they landed. This temperature was milder. Maybe 70 degrees Fahrenheit? After he stopped the storm, he focused his attention to the girl.
"You must be Zel, right?" he asked to the girl.
"Yes. But only Bunny calls me that. You can call me Rapunzel." she answered with an air of haughtiness. Looking back from the snowstorm to him, realization dawned on her face. "Jack Frost," she gasped.
"The one and only," he answered while taking a bow and tipping his imaginary hat.
"Bunny's told me about you," she started.
"Good things I hope," he interrupted, kissing her hand. Smirking at her, he wondered why his heart was fluttering so wildly.
"Other than being an irresponsible, over conceited, brat? No. But he never mentioned that you were a flirt." Rapunzel continued taking her hand away from him. Jack could see a faint tinge of pink spread across her cheeks.
Smirking even wider now, he grabbed her waist and went in for a kiss on the cheek. He would be lying if he said that he didn't like the way she was trying not to blush and wanted to test it out some more. That was the last thing he remembered before the world went black.
Rapunzel P.O.V
Rapunzel looked up in surprise to find Pascal swinging from a tree holding a frying pan.
"Pascal!" she teasingly scolded. But in reality, she was scared for Jack.
Even though he had messed up her flowers that took her 5 months to create. (New species are hard to think up of). And pretty much destroyed everything but the pond, she still didn't want him to be hurt.
Maybe it was how he looked. She'd seen some humans with white hair but they never looked good in it. For Jack on the other hand, he somehow worked it. He had skin so pale, it was almost white. She had never seen a chiseled jaw like his on such a slender frame. But what intrigued her the most was his eyes. Ice blue with a hint of a snowflake in them. As Jack started to groan he pulled Rapunzel out of her thoughts. His eyes fluttered open.
"What hit me?" he muttered. Deciding to answer him truthfully, she replied,
"A frying pan."
"What now?"
"A frying pan!"
"But who hit me. There's only me and you..."
"And Pascal."
"Who's he? Your ex-boyfriend? I thought I had a chance with you." saying this, Jack pouted, sticking his lower lip out. This probably got him what he wanted, but Rapunzel wasn't going to budge.
"First off, you have NO chance with me. Second off, Pascal is my pet chameleon. He's been with me since...the day…" she started to think about the memories from before she was a spirit.
"The day you got turned into a spirit." Jack finished for her. He had that same look of understanding on his face.
A silence came between the two of them as each one struggled to find a way to break it. Rapunzel decided to break it.
"How did you die?" she asked. Jack looked at her suspiciously. "Uh..I..Unless it's too much for you...or," she started to mumble.
"Uh…" he started
"No, no it's just that, you just," she sighed in frustration. Why did she ask him that?! You just don't ask someone you just barely met how they died?! "Bunny told me that you had no memories and I was wondering….since you became a Guardian...if you know, got your memories back?" she explained.
Chuckling slightly, he smirked. "It's alright Punz, I got my memories back if that's what you're wondering,"
Relief washed through her like a river. Thank god he hadn't been offended. She was never good at talking to people. At least that's what Mother….
Stop that! Don't think about her! That witch was evil! She thought as she pulled herself together.
"I drowned," Jack stated. "I was trying to save my sister from the fate and I took her place."
Her face turned into one of concern. He saved his sister from dying and took her place instead! He never even remembered her until a couple of centuries later. She put a hand on his shoulder, and looked at him with concern. He had some tears in his snowflake eyes, blinking them off, he stood up.
"Sorry about the mess, I guess I should…." he never got to finish that sentence. At that moment, an enormous amount of water gushed out of the pond in a spiral. At the top, a mermaid sat with her fangs bared open. Rapunzel gasped. She had heard of these mermaids. Other mermaids were half-human and half-fish, they were polite so long as you respected them and their personal space. She had only met 3 and out of them only a red-haired one seemed the friendliest.
Then there were the other mermaids. These were half-fish and half-who-knows-what. Peter Pan had told her of these. Her and Peter were pretty good friends and so it shocked her when he came to where she lived looking like death itself. They were a hybrid and were designed only to kill. Apparently, Peter had seen one and it had tried to kill him. He flew away to a pond where the mermaid had come back. This time, Peter didn't have enough pixie dust with him to fly away and he was forced to fight the creature until it had died. He had come to Rapunzel with bright red blood flowing everywhere. Rapunzel had healed him with her hair as he painfully told her his story. These mermaids could do a lot of damage. But she had never expected to meet one. As she stared dumbfounded, the mermaid attacked her with a sharp pointy trident. Suddenly, she felt a hand grab her and muscular body crash around her thin one as she was whisked into the air.
"Hello?! Earth to Rapunzel! What was that?!" she heard from right above her. Shaking her head quickly, she looked up to see Jack holding her.
"He just saved my life." she thought.
"A mermaid. Just not one that's half-human. It won't stop at anything to kill unless it's killed itself. It can control water and," she was interrupted as Jack raised his staff to the surge of water that was about to hit her. By doing this, he shrouded her more with his arm. A surge of heat ran through her face as she hit Jack's hard chest.
Stop it! Now it no time to be falling for him! Some...THING is trying to kill you!
She tried to push herself off of him but he only held her tighter. "What are you doing?" he hissed through his teeth as he swerved another attack.
"I can fly too, you know! I also have powers!" she indignantly responded. A frown crossed his slightly red face, clearly he wasn't believing her. As she stared at him with the same amount of stubbornness etched in her face, she suddenly felt herself being dropped. As the wind whistled through her ears she knew she had only 5-6 seconds to get ahold of herself. She struggled a bit as she tried to make the winds obey her. They refused. As she tried to find out why, she felt herself being scooped up into a body and whisked away from the now only 2 inches away ground.
"Well flying isn't one of them," she could practically hear the devilish-grin he was wearing as they flew by a ledge. She tried to control the winds again to push herself away from him but they refused.
"Ah, ah, ah! When you're by me, the winds are mine Blondie." Jack mockingly scolded. She cringed at that name.
"Don't call me that. Ever." she hissed angrily. Where was a distraction when you needed one? Suddenly, she felt water around her leg like a noose and looked behind her to see the mermaid with its fangs bared out. She tried pulling her leg to no avail as she was dragged closer and closer towards the mermaid. Jack was trying to pull her closer towards him but was failing miserably.
"Let go of me Jack!" She yelled as she kept on going closer towards the mermaid.
"What? NO! You're not going towards it!" He gasped out, his strength was waning.
"I've got a plan!" she whispered. Jack shook his head. Sighing, she realized she would have to do this the hard way. Taking a small concealed knife from her chest, she stabbed him in the stomach.
Even though he was howling in pain with a look of hurt flashed across his features, he still refused to let go.
"Sorry Jack," she whispered. Taking a deep breath, she plunged the knife in his left shoulder. As he did that, he fell away from her and she felt herself get closer towards the mermaid. The dragging stopped all of a sudden and the painful pressure around her leg was released as the mermaid lifter her trident. "Closer, closer towards me," she thought as she waited for the trident to plunge down. As the weapon touched her body, it suddenly turned into a long gold sunflower. Shrieking, the mermaid skittered away from her and dropped the funnel of water she was on. Unfortunately, she didn't take Rapunzel.
"Come on please work!" She thought as she tried to get ahold of the winds. Just as she was about to reach the ground, the winds obeyed her. Her neck whipped up at the sudden stop and started to pain. "Damn, must have broken a bone," she thought as she started to wrap her hair around her neck. She started to speed up the process of healing. Most spirits like her healed fast, but she could heal even faster. A broken bone though, was another story. She remembered about Jack and flew down towards him. He was starting to get healed but there was still blood loss. She unwrapped her hair from around her neck to put it around his wounds. His breathing was steady. As she concentrated her magic into him, the wounds she made on him lessened until they were gone completely. With a gasp, he opened his eyes.
"What? Mermaid, Rapunzel!" he shouted quickly, about to fly but Rapunzel had gotten ahold of the winds.
"No flying. You need rest," she said firmly. Turning his head he looked at her with a relieved expression that slowly turned to one of anger. Getting up he grabbed his staff with his feet and glared at her. Feeling a bit inferior, she got up so that her eyes, when gazed directly ahead, were at his nose. She could feel a rush of heat come to her cheeks at how close they were standing. She directed her gaze at his eyes and could feel the cold waves of anger coming from him.
"Why the hell did you stab me?" he asked. Anger was etched in every single word but he somehow remained calm. "It's the calm before the storm," she thought as she was answering him.
"I can turn weapons into flowers, but only at a close distance. I did tell you I had a plan," she replied hoping it had the same level of scariness that Jack was currently using. She really doubted it was though.
"Yea well, normal people don't STAB other people Punz! They tell them what they're going to do! They definitely don't stab them twice!" He yelled in frustration. Rapunzel just stood there, poker-faced as he moved away and started to throw random pieces of ice everywhere. One landed in the pool as he turned around to face her. Jack took a breath and was raising his staff at her when the skies darkened. Confused, Rapunzel looked around. One of her powers as a spirit of spring was the ability to make it rain. She didn't have complete control over that ability yet but she only knew that it came whenever it came, something bad was about to happen.
Suddenly, a gurgling sound came from the pond. Turning towards it, they both stared at it for a few seconds before the water lashed out and dragged Rapunzel away. Screaming, she tried to grab hold of any plant, but there was only snow as she hadn't had the time to grow everything back. "Damn you Frost," was the last thing she remembered before she was dragged underwater. Holding her breath, she looked up and saw Jack flying right above. He, unfortunately didn't have any power in the water. Suddenly, a brown stick was right next to her. Realizing it was Jack's she grabbed it and Jack pulled her up. She helped him by forcing all of the winds she was controlling to lift him up.
As soon as she was out of the water, she took a deep breath of air. "Eat that!" Jack yelled at the pool. Then the mermaid came up and grabbed Rapunzel's leg.
"Speak of the devil," Rapunzel thought. A searing pain shouted from her left leg. Looking down, she saw the mermaid with its fangs chewing down on her lower leg. Rapunzel screamed in agony as the pain clicked in. She'd never experienced something like this before. Jack lifted his staff up and tried to take Rapunzel's hand but she felt too weak to do anything. As the mermaid chomped on her leg again, bringing a fresh round of pain through her, ice hit the mermaid. Shocked from the cold, the mermaid let go. But not before another wave of blue was being shot past her head again.
That was the last thing she remembered before it all went black.
Back to Jack's P.O.V
"Oh damn it, dam it, damn it!" Was his first thought as Rapunzel was being dragged into the pool. She was trying to grab at something but there was only snow and the dead plants that pulled out when she tried to grab it. He tried to catch up with her but she was being pulled down into the water already. He was thinking about diving in but then his mind rationalized,
Hello?! Earth to Frost?! The mermaid controls water?!
Thinking quickly he put his staff into the water by Rapunzel, hoping she would grab onto it.
She did but the mermaid had as well. Jack didn't realize this until he heard her scream. He thought he had felt pain but this was worse. Every second of Rapunzel screaming tore his heart until he couldn't take it anymore. He tried to reach her hand but he could see that it was all she could do to stay on. Just then another round of screams erupted from her and she grimaced in pain as a chunk of her muscle was being torn off. All he could see was blue and raising his left hand, he shot ice at the mermaid.
As it fell, he shot more ice at it, completely encasing it in blue. He changed the winds so that when the mermaid landed, it would be far away from the pond. He didn't stay to watch it die, Rapunzel had fainted and her grip on his staff was lessening. Quickly landing on the ground, he placed her head on a snow mound he created and made sure that the injured leg was put in a way so that it wouldn't hurt her. Even though it had only been a minute since her leg was being ripped to pieces, the lost skin was being replaced.
As Jack watched, within a minute, her leg had been healed completely. Sighing in her sleep, a smile appeared on her face as she turned to face Jack. Her eyes opened slowly as she looked at him.
"Thank you," she said. nodding his head, he lied down and stared at the sky. Rapunzel followed suit as he looked at her and then back to the sky. Not a word was passed between them. They were just looking at the sunset's colors. Wondering how he had shot the ice from his hand.
Wha-BAM!
Whaddup Percy Jackson reference! (It's in the story ;))
Sorry if it's not living up to your expectations of romance and fluff.
I just wanted this part to be more hate/love, badass, and more to the point of the plot.
Updates are going to be slower now that school has started.
Like it started 4 days ago and I already have homework!
WHY YOU DO DIS 8TH GRADE!
Anywho.
You likey? You should reviewy! :)
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Thanks to all of ya'll that reviewed too.
Anything else?
Yes one more thing.
Can you guess who's coming into the next chapter?
Is it
a) Hiccup
b) Merida
c) Elsa
Or
d) Captain America
