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Chapter 3: Into the Ice

They had searched for Jack EVERYWHERE. Or, at least North, Phil the yeti, Sera and Tooth had. Sandy was able help turn Bunny back to his normal size by sending dreams of the Easter Bunny to believers. Then those two had one off to the Warren to see for themselves what had happened. Tooth and North let them go, knowing full well that it was going to crush Bunny to his very soul.

Of course, Jack Frost knew exactly where he was. Stuck at the bottom of an ice crevasse where Pitch had thrown him, along with Baby Tooth and his staff. His broken staff; remember that one? Apparently Pitch wanted to poke fun at himself because he broke Jack's staff into four parts and tossed him into that same stupid ice crevasse that Jack had ended up in the last time he and Pitch had been in the Antarctic.

Jack leaned against the icy wall, shivering in the cold- wait a minute. "Cold? I can't get cold! I can't!" He looked at the pieces of his staff lying a foot away, and then he looked down at Baby Tooth, in the pocket of his hoodie. His hands had long since turned red from the blood flowing out of the stab wound in the side of his abdomen. Suddenly a wave of horribly enchanting cold washed through him, eventually rendering Jack unconscious.

With her feathers half frozen from the harsh frozen environment, the brave mini fairy sent a desperate distress message to Tooth, focusing hard on visualizing where she and Jack were. She couldn't concentrate very well, so it was 10 minutes after she started to try that the message finally got to Tooth.

Baby Tooth was sitting, shivering, on a brown haired boy who looked as pale as death. There was ice all around them, lots and lots of ice.

"Antarctica! In Wakemans Crevasse! Baby Tooth, we need to get her! A…there is a child with her…Baby probably knows where Jack is!" Tooth shouted at the North Pole, causing North and an unfortunate yeti to have a collision and both got covered in packing peanuts. That was when the Sandman and the Easter Bunny decided to return to the Workshop. Bunny and Sandy popped out of a hole in the ground and, to say the least, Bunny looked ten times worse after the trip than Tooth and North had expected.

Still, when he and Sandy were caught up, on Jack's situation Bunny didn't feel like helping anyone. But he didn't dare go against the Guardian law that stated "No Guardian should ever refuse to help a child. By doing so, that Guardian would be breaking the Guardian Oath and by order of the Moon, will have their Guardianship and possibly their powers stripped until they prove themselves worthy once more."

If there ever was one to break that rule, it definitely would not be Bunny. It would be Jack. But if he did, it would most likely be on accident and then there would be a huge, drama thing that would never die down. Yea, so it had never happened.

Feeling that he should be more than kind to his friend at the moment, North even said that perhaps a tunnel would get them there faster. So Bunny mustered up enough power to send them all down a rabbit hole to the South Pole.

"Oh my gosh! It is so cold here!" Jack vaguelyheared voices above him. Baby Tooth felt Jack's hands slip from around her and as fast as she could fly, Baby zoomed up to meet Tooth. "Oh thank heavens you're alright! The two fairies hugged each other close. (Sera had opted to stay at North's workshop.)

"Where's the kid?" Bunny asked. Baby Tooth flew to hover over the crevasse and pointed straight down. "OK, I'll get the kid. Only takes one of us." Bunny then proceeded to jump down into the crevasse and Baby followed.

Quickly gathering the boy up in his arms, Bunnymund was about to open up a tunnel to the surface when the mini fairy, hands on her hips, stopped him. She gestured from the teen boy to the small pile of sticks Bunny had overlooked as possible firewood. The boy shifted in his arms, moonlight showing more of his face. "Strange. His face…almost looks like…" Bunny thought aloud, when suddenly he looked sharply at the 'sticks' again. Then he stared hard at the boy's facial features, and at the familiar blue hoodie which the boy wore. Bunny stared for such a long time that he heard North call down, "Bunny! Are you alright?" The Guardian of Hope gave a half-hearted "Yes!" in response. He was too busy lifting the boy's hand from his side, where blood had stained the blue hoodie a deep purple. "Oh no."

Baby Tooth lay the remains of what Bunny guessed (correctly) was the infamous staff of Jack Frost (the one almost every immortal ever created had wanted to snap at one point or another) on top of it's owner, to make it easy for Bunny to carry.

Rushing back up a tunnel through the ice to his fellow Guardians, the Easter spirit lay the boy down on the ice. "It's Jack," He whispered as Sandy, North and Tooth looked at the teen with puzzled looks on their faces. Bunny knew that they would figure it all out eventually, but as he lay Jack's staff out beside the boy, he helped them along by saying, "He's a mortal teenager. Looks like he's around 17 years of age or a little younger. That is probably why Tooth could sense B.T.'s message; Jack is technically still a child because it is only at 18 that a person is a full adult, according to the law in the US, where he is from. The point is," He let out a breath, then continued, "The Guardian laws also say that the protection for any child lasts only until they are of age, which I think may depend on their country, but I'm not sure. When that person qualifies as an adult, they can no longer receive direct assistance from the Guardians of Childhood. Of course, rare exceptions have been made, as you all probably remember."

There was an almost audible click in the minds of North, Tooth and Sandy as they began to understand. "So this would have been what he looked like before he was, um, the Spirit of Winter." Tooth said slowly, gazing at the mortalized Jack Frost before her.

With the help of another snowglobe portal (useful things) the Guardians traveled from one polar ice cap to another in a matter of seconds. Bursting heavily though the Workshop's infirmary door, Bunny put Jack on a cot and put the four pieces of the staff on the bedside table and North went to find the closest healer yetis. Sandy eased the blue hoodie off of Jack, Bunny anxious to help cut away parts that were stuck with dried blood to Jack's skin.

Tooth talked with her miniature counterpart about why Jack was at the South Pole (Pitch was having "fun" with him) and why she was with Jack (again, Pitch was having his "fun" when he kidnapped her over France.) While the team of yeti healers stitched up Jack Frost's wound, and Sandy made sure that there were traces of evil waiting to infect it, the other Guardians (who had been shoved out of the room by Phil the yeti) waited ever so patiently in the Globe Room. North pointed out that of course Pitch would target Jack and Bunny before the other Guardians. Hope and Fear never have and never will go together, and, Jack…was Jack. He kind of had had a major part in defeating Pitch at Easter eleven months ago. "But then why not Sandy? He and Pitch are polar opposites too!" Bunny asked. Tooth guessed aloud, saying that that maybe it was because Pitch had already tried Sandy.

"Tried?"

"Say what?"

Both present male Guardians looked at the Tooth Fairy in confusion. "I mean as in Sandy was supposed to be defeated when Pitch's arrow hit him, but obviously he came back. Pitch tried to kill him, but failed. I bet you a snowglobe that he'll try each of us next." Tooth spelled out her thinking in greater detail. Just then,a yeti named Ron raced up to them, yabbering away in yetish.

"They are done but he is still not awake." North translated for Tooth and Bunny. The three were at the infirmary in seconds. Then Tooth quietly pushed opened the door and breathed in relief.

I got caught up with the Guardian Laws didn't I? Well, it just seems like Bunny of course would know ALL of the rules by heart or at least have them memorized. And Jack, though he may not mean to, or to him a few may be rules MEANT to be broken, might break them.

Snowflake: I will update soon! You will receive the answer to what happened!

PookaSchoolgirl: Don't worry, I am almost done, OK?

snowflake: Jack became human because of the combination of his staff being broken and Pitch stabbing him with his scyth.