The moonlight fell like waves down on me. It was comforting, that much I could tell you. I stood in the frozen wasteland, watching the moon send it's light to me. I was tired. I was sleepy. I wanted to go back to sleep in the dark mass beneath me. The cold air around tried to pull me back into oblivion that I had been in for some time.
And yet, somehow, the moonlight was pulling me away from the black abyss. It was like a continual slap to the face, making me more aware of where I was. The last thing that I had remembered... Pitch? Yes. He had been here. And... Jack. Yes, he was important. They were talking... about? Um...
My face scrunched up as I began to think. Phrases of things and places flashed in my head. I know that I hadn't been for them, that they had come from the bond. The bond that I had with Jack...
Pitch was talking to Jack about... families? The thought of Jack and Pitch talking about how 'annoying' their families like 12 year olds popped into my head. I snorted, and a smile appeared on my face. I was amusing myself, because I'm that awesome.
No... Pitch had been asking Jack to be his family, and this was right after... he tricked Jack into making the Guardians yell at him and reject him. Wait. When were the Guardians in the picture? Um... oh yeah. They wanted Jack to become a Guardian. They... no. North talked to Jack, and then we went to Tooth Palace, where sand horses were attacking and taking the teeth. Pitch came and made a stupid speech, which was really boring, and then they were collecting teeth. Then... oh. This was fuzzy. Ummmmm... Sandy? Died? Something like that. And then it was Easter. The Warren was amazing, and the eggs... had arms? No... legs. Yeah. Legs. It was creepy, until Bunny did a weird bunny thing and said they were cute.
Damn it. That bunny pose was adorable. There were a few butterflies in the picture I got. Why would I remember that?!
And Jack took Sophie home! Yes, that was right. Wait... when did Sophie get in the picture? My head was hurting at this point, and I was rubbing my forehead with my hand. Groaning, I tried to remember how the cute little girl got into the Warren in the first place. Did Bunny take her there? Yeah, the attention loving critter probably did.
Giving up on that, I turned to continue through my memories. Lets see.. Sophie fell on the ground, and I gave her a soft landing. Jack threw a... ladybug plushie (?) on her. The next thing I knew was that Jack was in a dark place. There were cages on the ceiling, and hummingbirds were in them. At least that's what I think were in them. And... Pitch started to say something. Something that made me angry. I could remember that I was pissed off at the demonic idiot. Then, Jack was pushed into the tunnels. There were tons of eggshells on the ground.
And then the next thing I remembered was that Pitch was breaking my staff over his knee. I fell to the ground while Jack was hurt.
Jack... I needed to see him! I needed to see if he was still alive!
My eyes looked back up at the moon, and to my shock, I found a cloud covering over the still form of the moon. What? There was a physical impossibility of clouds moving in my territory without my usage of power.
Then it hit me.
Wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
WRONG.
The sense of wrongness hit me like a tree. Before, the moonlight had comforted me from making rash decisions, but it had also taken my mind off of the sense of wrong. This was something that had made the balance of life and twisted it. It felt like... darkness won. It felt like goodness hadn't prevailed. Like, if this was some crazy metaphor, Pitch had won and the Guardians had lost.
Like I said, some crazy metaphor. There was in no way that could have ever happened. Because there was no possible way that the Guardians could have ever lost. Unless they had been divided. But knowing the Big Four would never would-
A flash of memory clashed into me. I physically stumbled backwards as I felt the sense of betrayal and-
'Fire was all around me, burning me from a distance. I wasn't suppose to be this close to heat. I was burning up, not from the outside, but from the inside. The building crashed the the ground next to me, one of the many around me that were on fire.
"Frost!" A yell came over the flames, and I instantly looked over to see Bunny in the alley way. A smile of relief lit up my face as I stumbled over to the giant rabbit.
"Bunny." My voice cracked from all the smoke. "Bunny, please."
Bunny seemed to looked conflicted, and he hesitated. For a second, it looked like he was coming in to save me. He was the one who believed that I hadn't done it- the thing that Pitch blamed me for.
Then, with a heart sickening thud in my stomach, I watch as Bunny turned from the alleyway and walked away.
"BUNNY!" I screamed, as the flamed came too close to me. "BUNNY PLEASE. I DIDN'T DO IT." I fell to the hot street below, as all of my energy finally fell away. "Bunny." I whimpered. I wished I had my staff. I would ride on the wind, I would escape from all the pain that was being thrust onto me.
"Please Wind, take me home." I whispered, as finally my hope gave away. I was filled with betrayal and tears as I felt the last piece of Jack Frost ripped into pieces. "Please just kill me."'
I blinked back tears as I felt the heat fall away from my skin. What was that?! A sick feeling fell over me, as I started to hyperventilate. Jack... that was a memory.
Oh God. Oh Moon. Oh Nature. Please. Please tell me that was just a memory of the nightmare. Please.
I looked back up, and again, I was annoyed and shocked to see that the clouds above me had changed and turned a darker shade. Why? Who was messing with my element?
Using my frustration and hopeless feelings as energy, I picked myself up into the air and sped towards the moon. This was my time of questions and feeling bad about myself! I shouldn't do everything around here. Seriously. If I wanted to stare at the moon, that I shall bloody do that!
I was met with face full of cloud. That is when I should have stopped and wondered why there black particles in the 'cloud' and why I felt my energy being sapped.
I should have listened to myself. But noooo. I am an idiot. Geez, when will I finally listen to myself?
I burst through the cloud layer and into the higher atmosphere above. There, I found warm drafts of wind. This wasn't right either! It was suppose to have my cold air in the high areas of the sky! I know warm air rises, but this was getting ridiculous.
Feeling slightly pissed off, my eyes landed on a figure gently bobbing in the air a few miles west. IT WAS A SPIRIT. They were messing with my cold air ways, in my territory in Antarctica, and they were creating unnecessary clouds! Wait until I got my winds on them! They wouldn't know what hit them. Literally.
With that set in my mind, I set off stomping towards the figure. Stomping being a figure of speech because I was in the air, and I really couldn't stomp. So... you can pretend that I stomped a bit before I flew after the spirit who was making me angry. Actually, that probably would look really stupid, so pretend I was being ridiculously awesome and blew flames out of my mouth and I had demon horns popping from out of my head. And... a spear would make an awesome effect. Like, make it one of those large, whale harpoon spears. Yeah, yeah... and maybe make it red and black and extra spikey.
That's awesome.
Anyways.
Once I was close enough, I took a little bit of time to observe the spirit who had their back to me. They had black hair, and ashen gray skin. They kinda reminded me of Pitch like that. They had a black uniform on, like the kind you would expect to see on Navy Captains, and there was a shockingly white spot on the dark clothing. It was the sign of a smiley face, but for instead of white round eyes, they had golden sharp eyes. It was the look of somebody about to give somebody else a really hard time, or the look of a serial killer.
That was not awesome. That was kinda cool, but insanely freaky. (Note to self, must get hands on one of those and dye it colors. That would be a fun prank.)
With a deep breath of practice, I shouted, "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!"
The man jumped, like he had actually heard me. Funny, because I was pretty sure fate loved giving false hope. He probably felt the wind on his back or something. He turned around, and I finally got a good look at his face. His eyes were yellow, and his cheekbones were so pronounced that I could probably cut myself on them.
I didn't really notice that he was staring right at me. I was just about to start on my rant.
"Do you know how hard it is to get on my bad side? Not very easy! But look at you, putting stupid clouds in my territory, putting warm air in my cold drafts, and then some more with the clouds. Have you ever heard of the phrase, 'don't mess with another spirits element?' I mean, sure you can once in a while. But on a scale like this? Dude! Not cool! You can get seriously hurt, and when I mean that, I mean I will hurt you like none other! I once destroyed a fall spirit by making him stay through winter and during spring! He was begging to die, but I gave pity on him and threw him into a volcano! It exploded, yeah, but nobody had seen him since. Do you understand me, mister! I will kill you, and then some! GET OUT OF MY AREA!" I lectured him, and there was a string of foul cusses afterwards, and when I finally ran out of breath I stopped. Now it was time to chase him away. It was always felt so good to yell at people when they don't know you are there.
"Are you done?" The cool voice asked me, and I nodded.
"Yeah, I think I cooled off a bi- wait what." I looked over to see the man staring right at me with a 'are you kidding me' look on his face. "Wait... You can see me?"
"Of course I can, idiot. I'm not a human."
"You can see me. You can see me. Oh... umm..." Panic attack starting now. Wait! What if he was like something like me? "Can people see you?" My mind suddenly stalled, stuck on one thought. He can see me. He can see me. People, not even spirits can see me. Yet he can. Is he Gandhi reincarnated or something?
"Of course people can see me. Morons these days..." The man shook his head and then looked up at me. "What is your name and regiment?" He barked out, and I was startled out of my whole brain stall.
"I am... um... Norbert Snow from... the twenty first regiment." I quickly thought of a random name and number. Norbert. What a stupid name!
"Well Norbert Snow, you shall be expected to report to me, Captain May, and beg for your forgiveness at a later time. For now, I command you to leave this area at once and rejoined your regiment. You have broken several laws, Norbert." Captain May told me, and I failed to see exactly he should order me around.
"Um excuse me? Captain May? Isn't that a girls name?" I said sassily. I couldn't help myself, I was having a conversation outside of my family. This was probably some dream or something.
May looked at me, and then a frown appeared on his face. "Nevermind, Snow. I shall punish you right here and now." He pulled out a pouch from his waist and then pulled out what looked like a black snow globe.
Didn't North have those?
Suddenly, May squeezed the ball and it broke. The inky substance in it floated out until it became a large serpent. Whoa. That was cool. It looked like it was made of a black fog-like substance. It also looked like it had some type of oil in it as well. It had that shiney glimmer in the faint light of the stars.
With a hiss, the snake opened it's hood, and became a king cobra. It swayed as May looked me over, as if I should be begging him to spare me.
Welll... nope! I ain't doing that! Begging's for squares.
With a nod, the snake lunged towards me. I leaned left, and the wind carried me over a few feet as the serpent tried to follow me. It was unearthly slow. No longer cool in my eyes, I simply waved a hand and a light breeze simply blew the snake apart. That was realllly lame.
Wow. What a disappointment. I looked at May with a 'wow, that really sucked' look. May looked me over warily, and then his eyes widened.
"You must be North."
I must admit I had a small heart attack at those words. Like, super small. Like Siberia small.
"Excuse moi?" I said, as I floated closer to the dark general. "Did you just say, what I think you said?"
"You must be Northern Wind."
"Wow. That's a first. I must admit, I hadn't had anybody say my name before. That's nice mister." I said, finally giving him a small smile. It felt nice. He knew my name! Oh the wonders of having somebody believe in you!
"We've been looking for you, for a long time." May gave me a smile back, and I found myself not really enjoying being this close to him. He had black teeth. Weerrrriiiddd.
"Oh? Who's we?"
"My Master, and all of his executive officers. Including me." May said, and then held out his hand. "Come, you will want to meet them."
"Ummm. No. I am perfectly fine as to where I am. If they want to find me, then tough luck." I said, crossing my arms in a defiant look.
"You are stubborn just like he says." May bowed, then then like a moving train, bolted away from me on the warm wind.
What just happened? I looked that the slowly disappearing man, and then up at the moon. Manny seemed to be telling me that I should go after him and stop him.
Sure, why not? I could make him get rid of his stupid clouds. With a yawn, I took after May. It wasn't even a race. I turned so that my back was facing towards the direction where I was speeding of, and I soon matched up with May's flight.
"This is so slow. Where are you going?" I asked him, and he looked at me with some sort of alarm. "Hey, do you think you can get rid of these clouds?"
May grunted as he tried to speed up faster. I rolled my eyes, as I flipped over the top of him and kicked down on him. The horribly warm wind dropped him like a stone, and I watched as he fell through the cloud layer and I sighed.
I was going to have to catch him, wasn't I?
With another sigh, I simply let the air let go of me. I dropped like a stone, letting the warm air pass me until I broke into the cloud layer. Thrusting my hand out, I dragged the diluted air and pulled it away from my area. Let South deal with this, I certainly wasn't. I felt more power come out of that than usual, but I didn't really think about it.
The clouds moved across the sky, as I burst from the cloud layer. To be more honest, they didn't even feel like clouds. Usually clouds had water in them, and I would be soaking wet by the time I would have gone through the layer of white puffiness. This, it felt like fog. But without water, it had something much darker inside of it. It felt like dark magic.
With another long sigh, I flipped upside down and forced the wind to pull me towards the Earth. The small dot of May grew closer until I was right beside him.
"Stop!" He yelled over the sound of the air whistling beside us. "Please stop this!"
I hummed. Usually, South would have taken pity on the human/spirit. He had the power of Summer. I had the power of Winter. I am harsh. I am death, in a sense. I really had no pity for May, to be quite honest. Even though he may know my name, and he could see me, he messed with my element. My territory.
"Why should I?" I said, as May floundered in the air.
"Please! Please don't!" May yelled, as the ground was coming in closer and closer.
Rolling my eyes, I stopped the freefall of May, just before the icy ground. I floated above him, enjoying his shuddering breath.
Then, I let him fall three feet down onto the ground. He landed harshly on the snow, and I landed gracefully next to him.
"Well, May. I must say, this has been quite an experience. I just have a question, before I let you go." I leaned over the form of the spirit. "Who exactly is your master?"
May looked up at me, and in a quiet voice said, "Pitch Black."
Woah. Was not expecting that. Sure, I was thinking it could have been some weird villain, but if I remembered correctly, I could have sworn that Pitch Black had been sent back into his grave. I'm not saying that I was there, but I remembered feeling Pitch pulling back on the world and then his magic signature disappeared. I could feel that when I was a bit more aware in the ice, before I was pulled deeper into sleep.
"Goodbye May." I said, before leaning down and tapping his nose with my finger. "I hope I shall be able to see you before the next decade."
Frost snaked onto his skin, making him look even paler. He looked up at me with large yellow eyes, confusion on his face. The frost thickened, and ice formed onto his skin. Alarm spread across his face, before the ice spread across his body and he stopped breathing. The ice thickened, making May look like he was asleep through the almost invisible layer of frozen water. Ever so slowly, I watched May encased in a layer of ever growing ice.
Then I thought back. To the memory that had me so angry and lost. Where was Jack? I needed to be with him, so he wasn't alone. Pulling at my bond, I looked southeast. Jack was there. With flourish of wind, I sped away.
I'm coming home, Jack.
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