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"Where is the bloody Frostbite?" Bunny asked in annoyance as he paced back in forth in the globe room.
"Don't worry Bunny, he is winter spirit, no?" North replied.
"Ya and I'm the Easter Bunny and still have millions of eggs to paint, but that doesn't mean I have to be late." Bunny stated.
Tooth stopped chatting to her fairies and joined in on the conversation. "What if he's hurt and, and we don't know it and what if Pitch has him! I swear on the Moon I'll give him more than one quarter if he touches Jack!" Tooth beamed, her mini fairies chirping in agreement.
"Calm down sheila, Jack is fine, he's a strong little bugga' an-"
Bunny was cut short by Sandy shaking an elf wildly in his hand, a scowl etched on his face.
"Ah Sandy! Why didn't you say something?!" North bellowed.
Sandy huffed in annoyance as sand blew out of his ears. He then formed images above his head of Bunny and an arrow pointing to Jack.
"You want Bunny to find Jack?" Tooth piped. Sand smiled and gave Tooth a thumbs-up.
"That is brilliant idea! Bunny says tunnels are faster, so now he can prove that and bring Jack here!" North exclaimed.
"Woah, woah, woah I didn't sign up for this!"
"Oh we know Bunny, just you are better at tracking things, no?" North concluded.
"Fine, fine! I'll find the kid and bring him back, but next time one of you are dragging the dingo back." Bunny said as he tapped his foot on the ground twice and formed a rabbit hole. He glanced at the others before jumping into the hole and starting his search for the mischievous Jack Frost.
Jack zoomed through the chilly evening air as he gave Burgess its first snow day this year. He laughed as he performed aerial back flips and surfed the sky as he spread each individual snowflake through the air, the wind joining in on the fun too as it blasted the intracate designs onto trees and houses, frosting the windows as she and her winter friend flew by.
Jack landed on a tall building as he scanned his surroundings.
Perfect.
Every nook and cranny of the small town was covered in fine layers of his snow. Jamie sure was going to be happy when he finds out that school's going to be closed. Now that is kill joy, Jack thought. To him school was a boring place where parents send their kids to do pointless tests and stuff, but he knew it was important for them, so he never overdoses on the snow days.
Jack took one last glance at his hometown and was about to take off, but he spotted something large move out of the corner of his eye.
Jack turned around, his staff readied, only to be pinned down by a giant nightmare.
"Get off me!" Jack yelled as he kicked the shadow horse off of him and shot a blast of ice at it. The nightmare dodged it easily and rammed him down into an alley. Jack landed on his feet and shot another blast of ice at the nightmare creation, but it had little effect on it as it easily brushed it off. It reared up on its hind legs and let out sharp scream, more human than animal. Then Jack noticed something. Its eyes were a deep blood red instead of a golden yellow. The beast ran towards him, and before Jack could react, it grabbed him by his hood and flung him into a large shadow which teleported them into the dark moonless sky.
The hellish stallion shot a wave of nightmare sand at Jack, which successfully blinded him.
Jack finally regained his vision, only to be rammed by the nightmare again, causing his staff to fly out of his hands as he plummeted to the ground. The nightmare quickly dove after him and kicked the staff out off the way to leave Jack to free fall by himself.
As Jack made contact to the ground, he screamed in pain as he felt the air being knocked out of his lungs. The nightmare landed right next to him and neighed in delight. Jack tried his best to sit up, but with no avail. He tried to again, but the nightmare thought otherwise, and kicked Jack square in his badly bruised chest, causing him to screech in agony and fly onto an icy surface. Jack suddenly realized he was on his lake, and the nightmare slowly stalked towards him, eyeing him like a cat would to a mouse.
Bunny kept sniffing the air to try to track the winter spirit, but with no avail.
"I'm gonna' bloody murda' him." Bunny mumbled under his breath. Why couldn't he just be more responsible and just show up for the bloody meetings, he thought.
Bunny tapped his foot on the ground twice and a rabbit hole appeared. He was just about to search somewhere else. Maybe Antarctica since the kid likes cold places. He was about to jump in, but then it hit him.
Literally. Jack's staff came falling out of the sky and whacked Bunny right on his head, causing him to yelp in surprise and stumble backwards.
"What the bloody 'ell Frostbite! Is this some sorta' joke?!" He yelled, only to be answered by the sound of trees swaying in the increasingly powerful wind. He stood right up and looked around.
Then he heard it. The faintest sound. His ears twitched as they strained to hear it. Then he heard it again, clearer, more recognizable. Bunny froze, his mouth hung agape.
It was Jack's voice. Panic washed over him as he sprinted towards the sound. "Hold on Jack, I'm coming!"
The nightmare made its way towards the injured winter spirit as Jack tried his best to move away, but the burning pain in his chest made it almost impossible. The nightmare took another step forwards an-
CRACK
Jack's eyes widened at the familiar sound. The nightmare seemed to sense Jack's spark of fear, and stomped its midnight hooves on the frozen surface.
CRACK
Jack's whole body constricted and his muscles tensed even more. The nightmare walked forwards and cackled in delight, emitting a high pitched scream from its throat. It sensed Jack's fear, his fear of drowning. It reared up on its hind legs and slammed its hooves on the ice again, causing the web of cracks to spread even more.
CRACK
Jack stood there, frozen in fear as the nightmare brought its hooves down on the ice another time, causing water to seep through the cracks. It stopped to look at him, tilting its head from side to side. It seemed to smile at Jack, showing off its sharp, dagger like teeth. Its crimson red eyes glowed dangerously and it appeared to be growing bigger every step it took towards the spirit.
It reared up on its hind legs one more time and smashed the already weakened ice. Jack felt the ice beneath him disappear and was replaced by the dark, murky water of the depths below. He realized for the first time in his life that he was cold. Nonsense! Jack thought. He was the embodiment of winter. He couldn't be cold, it was impossible. But he was cold and he didn't like it. Jack kicked his legs and flailed his arms, but all that did was claw at the water which pulled him in deeper.
He never learned how to swim. Not that he really needed though, but ever since he regained his memories, he completely ditched that topic. Jack tried as hard as he could to swim up, but he just couldn't. The last thing he noticed before he lost consciousness was a familiar voice screaming his name, like déjà vu all over again.
Bunny was running faster than he ever had in his immortal life. Jack's life could be in danger, he could be severely hurt, he could be, he could...
"Grrrrr!" Bunny growled as he pushed those foolish thoughts out if his head. "You need to focus on finding Jack." He whispered to himself as he dashed through the forest.
Jacks smell grew even stronger as he saw his lake in sight, but what made him stop in his tracks and skid to a halt was what he saw on top of the cracking ice.
He saw Jack cowering in the middle of the lake, cracks forming by his feet. Bunny's world completely shattered when he saw a menacing nightmare rear up on its legs and crash them onto the lake.
Bunny broke into a mad dash as he grabbed his boomerangs out of their hostlers, but he was just a millisecond late, only just. But that's all it took for the ice to give away under Jack and swallow him into the murky depths below.
"Jack!" He hollered as he threw his twin boomerangs at the shadowy demon.
The nightmare leaped out of the way in surprise, its scarlet eyes narrowing on its new attacker. It charged strait towards Bunny, a haunting whine escaped its lips. Bunny jumped over the nightmare, causing it to slip on the ice and snow and tumble to the ground. It sprung up on shaky legs, only for a boomerang to fly from behind and whiz right threw it, evaporating it into nothing but a pile of nightmare sand.
Bunny caught his boomerangs and shoved them into his hostlers. He quickly turned around to the lake and expected to see Jack pop out, but he saw nothing. He should pop out soon. Bunny thought, but he didn't. Bunny waited a couple more seconds, waiting for the familiar mop of silvery white hair to burst out of the water.
Nothing.
Bunny quickly sped onto the ice and jumped into the frigid cold water. Where is he?! Bunny thought in frustration. Jacks life was on the line, and every second counted.
Suddenly, the Moon appeared out of the blackened clouds, causing them to retreat. The moonbeams shed light through the frozen surface, and Bunny saw a glimpse of snow white locks. He used his powerful legs to propel him downwards. He grabbed ahold of the seemingly lifeless body to his chest and he kicked his way up to the surface.
Bunny broke through the bone chilling water and climbed onto the ice, Jack clutched in his arms.
He hopped over to the side of the lake and placed Jack on a pile if snow and shook him lightly.
"Jack?" Bunny breathed.
No response.
"Jack?!" Bunny yelped a little louder. "C'mon mate open your eyes!" He still got no response.
"Jack open your bloody eyes!" He shook the teen harder, but still gently.
"C'mon ya' bloody show pony..."
Darkness. That's all Jack could see. Even when he opened his eyes it surrounded him, trying to claw at his body. Jack didn't know where he was, it was some sort of void, but the shadows kept pulling him down deeper into it. He tried to struggle free of its grip, but it was no use. Maybe I should just give up, Jack thought, but then he heard a voice.
"...a...c...":
That voice, I know that voice!
"...ak...u...p..."
Jack thought long and hard.
"J...ac...k...w...ak...e...u...p...!"
That voice its, its...Bunny's! But why is Bunny calling him? Why isn't he with me? Where am I? As Jack's thoughts turned into fear, the shadows pulled him into the void even quicker. Jack suddenly felt someone shaking him. "W...ak...e...u...p!" The voice who Jack thought was Bunny's kept telling him to wake up.
I am awake Cotontail! Jack mentally yelled in annoyance. Wait, am I awake? Maybe I'm not, Jack pondered. He still felt someone shaking him, and telling him to wake up. I guess I'm not awake, Jack concluded. Well if the voice who sounds like Bunny wants me to wake up, then I guess I will, his inward voice stated.
Jack focused on his mind, his thoughts, his center, and willed himself to wake up. Come on Jackson, you need to wake up, a different voice in his center sternly stated. Jack usually didn't take orders from anybody, but just this once, he would listen to the voice of Jackson Overland, he would listen to himself, and he would wake up, and when he really willed himself to,
Electric blue eyes shot open.
Bunny tried everything, but Jack wouldn't wake up. He's not dead, he's not dead, was all that went through his head. Bunny couldn't just loose hope, because if he did, then nothing would matter anymore, but slowly Bunny was loosening his grasp on his hope that Jack would wake up. He tried everything, even CPR, but nothing happened. He screamed at Jack to wake up countless times, but he didn't. He's not dead, he's not dead...
Bunny let a stray year fall from his great emerald eyes. Should he give up hope? No, you can't! You're the embodiment of Hope!
Suddenly, a pair of startled cerulean eyes that sprung open stopped his frantic inward ranting.
"Jack!" Bunny breathed as he ran a shaky paw through his snowy locks. Jack roughly coughed from his near death experience. "H-hey there C-cottontail, d-id I miss anything?" He stuttered.
"You bloody show pony don't you eva' do that again ya' hear?" Bunny stated, though his voice held no anger. Jack just nuzzled closer to the Pooka who held him closer to his body.
"Why didn't you swim up after ya' fell in Snowflake, ya' could of drowned!" Bunny asked. He let Jack sit up on the snowbank and handed him his staff.
"Ya, I know." Jack sighed as he looked back at his lake. He needed to ask Bunny something.
"Bunny, can I ask you something?"
"Sure Frostbite."
Jack cleared his throat. "How did you become immortal?"
Bunny was a little thrown off by the question, but answered it anyways."Well...there once was a proud race of rabbits called Pookas. They were noble creatures in the time of the Golden Age, but when Pitch attacked us, he wiped us out, well except me. When I woke up, everything was gone, an' for days I looked around aimlessly to try and find any signs of life, but when I didn't, I moved on." Bunny's nose twitched. "I went to Earth while the North and the other's were fightin' Pitch. They asked for me to help em', they hoped that I would, so I did. Manny saw this, and he made me a Guardian." he finished.
"Oh, I guess that makes sense." Jack whispered, his voice trailing off.
Bunny spoke next. "Do you care to tell me how you became immortal, if you want to I mean."
Jack thought about it for a moment. I guess I can tell Bunny, he thought, I can trust him.
"Ok then." Jack spoke. "Before I was a spirit, I was a human by the name of Jackson Overland," the winter bringer spoke.
"I lived in Burgess, and I had a sister." Jack paused. "She wanted to go ice skating. I didn't see why not. It was December and the ice was well frozen over, or at least I thought it was. She went onto the ice before I had my skates on, and it cracked under her. I tried to calm her, but she was too scared to listen to me. I told her we were going to play hopscotch have a little fun instead, and when she got close enough to me, I flung her to the thick ice with my staff," Jack stopped and looked at his staff, blue frost patterns swirled up the ancient wood.
"-but the momentum flung me to the weak ice she was standing on and I, I fell through the ice and d-drowned." He stuttered the last part, but kept going. "MiM saw what I did and made me into a spirit and then a Guardian." Jack finished, a far away look in his eyes.
Bunny looked down at the newest Guardian. He died to become immortal. Bunny and the others never experienced death before they were Guardians. North and Tooth were granted immortality by the Man in the Moon. Sandy and himself were just created that way, but Jack, he selflessly gave his life to save his sister's. He was a Guardian from the start.
Bunny put an arm around the winter sprite and hugged him closer, looking at the moon shine down on them.
"You did good Jack. I can see why Manny chose you to be a Guardian."
OMG finally finished this! It took so long to write since it got deleted two times :)
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