(The people of Burgess)
A woman on her way to the grocery store stopped to rummage through her bag, hoping that she had remembered to place her debit card in her wallet this time. She wouldn't want to have an embarrassing repeat of what happened last Sunday.
She sighed in content when she pulled out the yellow piece of plastic and put it in the back pocket of her black capris. The blond woman then scrolled through her phone quickly for any missed calls. Karen was her name, and she was about to head into the store when she glimpsed at the reflection her phone screen held.
Karen looked towards the fluffy white clouds. "Looks like its gonna get cloudy today." She muttered to herself, before pushing the cart past the sliding doors.
On the other side of the city, a family of five had settled their large picnic baskets atop of a small red blanket. The father looked around the area making sure no danger was around to harm him and his family, and when he made sure nothing was going to spring out of the bushes he held his wife's shoulders.
"Dad! Dad! Look, it's gonna rain!" His youngest, whose name was Hope, pointed towards the sky while her Dad turned onto his stomach for a quick nap.
"That's nice honey, play nice with Nina okay? Daddy's going to take a nap."
She pouted but did as her dad said; she played tag with her older sister while her older brother climbed a tree.
At the coffee shop to the left of the park, an old couple sat behind a window, watching the steam from their coffee cups rise into the air before them. With a quick blow from their trembling lips, they both took a sip.
"You think it's going to rain? The cloud from before doesn't look so nice anymore...Marty?" The old woman looked at her husband who seemed to be contemplating an answer. She smiled sweetly at the far away look on his eyes.
"It snowed all last month, it's getting a bit warmer now ... So why not? Let it rain, let it rain..." He sung briefly, and turned to the waitress with an intent on tasting the new blueberry Belgian waffles.
The meteorologists sung one last final "Happy Birthday" to the three employees that coincidentally had the same birthday on the same month, albeit different years.
One cake, large and round, had centered itself on the brown table behind the cameras. It was blue and white; the white represented the clouds and the blue the sky.
Not too long after the cake was divided, everyone prepared themselves for the 7 PM news. One fellow, named Jonathan was to do the forecasting outside Town Hall . A woman in blue handed him an umbrella, but he gave it back saying, "It's not going to rain, just a few clouds passing by Denise." Denise rolled her eyes and let the man go.
(Back to Sarah)
An overwhelming shake woke me up, causing me to wrap my arms around a sleeping Nicky instinctively. I peered over the cloud and saw that we had arrived to the center of the foreign city. I smiled.
I rocked Nicky in my arms, first testing my rain on a small area; a small market.
It drizzled a bit, calming the whispers of the plants that been dying for some water. I noticed that they were in pots on display so their pleas weren't very desperate.
Another cloud sprouted from my hand and I waited as it grew to the size of a school bus before letting it turn a dark shade of gray. My little baby girl squirmed in my arms, "I'm awake, I'm awake. Let me go, let me go."
Her bouncing figure could barely be seen from the cloud so when her pinky sprouted from among the fog the small rainbow she had been hoping for floated along the coffee joint instead of the market.
"Hey kiddo, need a lift?" I hoisted her up into my arms. "Haven't even made it to that side yet, that's going to be weird... A rainbow before rain..."
I could already hear the whispers turn into soft giggles, I mentally face palmed.
We were about a good distance from an extravagant but modest looking building that had a giant fountain. The streams of water were ejected from stone koi fish that practically jumped out of the water and onto the concrete.
A silent breeze of cold air ruffled the hem of my dress, but I ignored it and went to spread my clouds over the weatherman who had suddenly appeared near the fountain. His crew positioned him at an angle before counting down and issuing an "all clear" which in return provided Nicky and I with a view of his pearl-white smile. Too bad I was going to make it rain.
And with one quick, "Now!" the cloud clapped, and thunder sounded all around.
I smiled happily as the weatherman looked up at my cloud. It was like he knew I was there, but I brushed it off because I'm guessing the Moon didn't say anything about apologizing for a ruined forecast.
I spun Nicky around laughing at the peoples hastily return to their cars until we fell against the clouds middle.
"Hello?"
My eyes went wide and I looked over to Nicky who looked equally surprised. The fog made it hard to see the person hovering over us, I think it made it harder for the shadow to see us also. I put my finger to my lips then whispered, "Crawl over..."
The shadows raised its voice higher, "I saw you earlier, making it rain on that guy...And your little helper throwing the rainbows was cool too... I just want to know who you are... I haven't seen you around so...You're probably new and have loads of questions about being a spirit and everything."
While he was on blabbering about who knows what, I told the cloud to let me fall out from under it with Nicky, assuring him that I could make myself a cloud fast enough before I hit the cement.
I had no intentions of speaking to this shadow figure, and my maternal instincts were telling me to get Nicky the hell out of there. As soon as we had dissolved through the cloud, I summoned up another one. I hoped for a five footer. If it was long enough I would be able ride it like a rocket propelled skateboard and hightail it out of there.
And that's exactly what I did.
Except, that the shadowy figure saw me, and decided to follow me.
"HEY!" It sped up yelling at the wind to take him faster.
I glanced back and gasped. "C'mon cloud, just a little fast-"
"-FROSTS GOTCHA!"
A slender pair of arms tried to wrap around my chest but since Nicky was in my arms, the arms had to grip onto something else and fast. It took the last option possible, the hem of my dress.
Surprised I let go of Nicky and told the cloud to catch her and make itself bigger so she wouldn't fall out. I told it to hide her in the trees below, and not come out unless I said so.
I pulled the top of my navy blue dress up as we plummeted to the ground. My head titled to see how far we were from the ground, and I closed by eyes waiting for impact.
And when it did, it was a lot softer than what I had anticipated.
"Hey are you okay?"
I had my eyes closed shut, and my chin tucked into my neck with my hands covering whatever I could of my head. I didn't want to answer it, nor did I want to look it in the eyes, but a cool finger brushed my silvers locks away from my face.
My silver orbs met his icy blue, and I gasped. "Oh my god, you're albino..."
He didn't answer me though, he had a strange blue freckles around his cheeks and I was starting to think I was hallucinating.
(Jack Frost)
I watched her lips move, and form the word albino... She thinks I'm albino?
"I'm not albino, I have brown eyebrows see?" I wiggled them, and winked at her.
She looked away annoyed, "Can you get off."
I huffed and reluctantly removed myself from her, what a killjoy. "Soo, what's your name?"
"Nonya."
Smart ass.
"My names Jack Frost, the Guardian of Fun. " I crossed my arms, and casually flew circles around her. "You know you're taller than I expected... "
I got in close, and that totally pissed her off. "And a lot prettier too. "
She raised her eyebrows but I could see the red tinted on her cheeks and I smirked, "What?"
The silver haired woman mumbled a few words, talking to herself like a crazy old bat before a white cloud started to appear in her hands. I landed and leaned on the tree next to her; I watched her in awe, my mouth agape.
It got bigger and bigger, turning from a soft white to a dark gray. So this is what she could do. That's cool. Not as cool as snow but whatever, still amazing. Her face was scrunched up in anger, was she still mad about the landing? I managed to soften it a bit, think she'd be a little more grateful...
"You leave my mommy alone!"
A kick to my shins brought me to reality and I flinched and rubbed my left leg, "What the!"
"You're just a big bully, and you're mean. And stupid. And your ugly!" The little girl ran into the woman's arms feeling that she had accomplished her stand off, and I felt the heat rush to my cheeks again.
So Cloud girl is a mom...? Two spirits... Together?
The little girl lifted her index finger, and her thumb. I looked at her inquisitively forgetting my blush, and watched her slowly make a few rainbows. I looked at them while they spun around, totally engulfed in the coolness of it all before she closed her fingers and trapped me in rainbow rope.
They flew off before I could even open my mouth.
(Still Jack)
"- isn't as strong as two years ago. And that's why we have to make sure we guide them just like all the other spirits that come every now and then..."
"But you should not worry, it took longer for him to gain that much power, two years has granted him scarcely anything, but you have solid point Jack. Now where is she?"
"I have no idea, her little girl trapped me remember?"
"So what your big mouth is saying is that two spirits were on a cloud, acting all willy nilly, and they fly off because you wanted to say hello?"
"Are you sure there were two?" The ToothFairy asked me, but I could not give her an answer because the Easter Kangaroo thought he had something more important to say.
"Two newbies on the loose, this is just dandy. And Mr. Social over here overpowered by an ankle-biter."
"Hey!"
"North, what do you think we should do?"
"We find mystery spirits of course. What do you think of this Sandy?"
Sandy created a detectives outfit out of his magical sand, and held a magnifying glass to his eye, and flashed an image of a sandy me in the same outfit.
"Right. Jack looks for her. She can't be far. Be too scared to go anywhere else." North concluded.
Thanks a lot guys...
(Sarah)
"Nicky don't. We can't let the people see us."
I fixated my gaze onto Nicky who hopped over to a pair of swing sets, sitting down, "Push me!"
I grumbled, blaming Nicky if something happened and people were to start asking us weird questions."Hold on tight, don't want you falling okay?"
A soft push was enough to start the swing off and soon enough, with a few extra pushes, she was able to swing back and forth on her own. The blue seat felt wet against my dress but I assumed it was just from the rain I had provided earlier so it made no difference to me. We talked, we sang, and we laughed. We then sat in comfortable silence as we watched the sun set behind the trees. It was a good day so far.
We were about to climb off when a couple of kids came running our way. I hoped they were just passing the swing sets to go onto the slide but they didn't and I looked over at Nicky whose face lit up at the sight of them. Great, now how am I going to get her to leave. She's going to want to play with them...
And just like that, they sat on her. Yeah, they sat on her. And they just phased right through her body. And I was no different, another kid sat on me too.
I got up off of the swing and turned to scold them but they didn't even pay attention to me.
I reached towards the black haired boy that sat in the swing and did the same to the other kids, but neither him nor his friends noticed me, I frowned deeply. I pulled my hand away, the tears brimming my eyes.
They ran into me, as if I was a ghost, somebody who didn't exist...
Nicky on the other hand was yelling her little heart out, "Hey! I was on that swing, you can't just take it! Hello! " She stood in front of them trying to prevent them from swinging but they just swing through her. Every. Single. Time. "I'm talking to you, can't you hear me, get off my swing... G-get off, please ... Get off..." She fell to onto her knees and started to bawl.
The kids ran off unaware of the heart that they had broken and the tears they had left behind.
"Nicky, no. Honey. Come here." She didn't budge, which I made me sigh when I bent down to sit with her. I pulled her into me, "Want to know a secret?"
She nodded her head against my arm, sniffling. God, it was breaking my heart.
"When I woke up on the grass yesterday, and the moon said I was your mommy, I felt like the luckiest person in the world. I felt so lucky because the moon had given me the most beautiful, talented, and wondrous daughter I could ever ask for. I swear when I saw you I knew I would never ever want to see that beautiful smile disappear, I would never let you fall, and I would never let you cry if they weren't tears of joy. I felt lucky because I would be here to hold you when you had your good times and your bad, and I felt lucky because I would be able to brag how great of a daughter you would be. And because I could finally be able to have a daughter that was able to shoot rainbows at bad guys." I pushed her nose softly, and that made her giggle.
"Hey don't you think it's bad being invisible okay? We stick together on this okay?" I picked her up and stepped onto another small cloud. "Let's pay the ice cream man a visit huh?"
She looked at me confused before her little head starting whirring and made sense of what I had told her. She grinned and said, "I want strawberry!"