HOPE YOU LIKE IT! Excitement! Excitement for this chapter! I had fun thinking of how I was going to incorporate the new character! :D

I saw that someone asked for lemon. Uh… I could do lemon but I can't do lemon you know? It's not right for this story. But thank you for asking! I could do a separate chapter in the future... IDK MAYBE.

Okay? Okay :)


Jack frowned at the image as it swirled out of sight.

"Mother Earth?" He asked.

"Mother Earth. Different from Mother Nature, but yes."

"And she can do that? Turn me into a human?"

"Mother Earth works in strange ways. She might have something that she can do for you, but there are no guarantees. She might like you though… You are a winter spirit."

Tooth looked at him sadly. "We'll all miss you."

"I'll come back before anything is finished."

Tooth sighed.

"Okay. And maybe someday I can meet this girl of yours. She sounds amazing."

"The best." Jack replied with a blush.

Tooth flitted to the side and looked at her mural.

"Bunny knows exactly where the palace is."

Jack looked up at Tooth as saw her smile sadly.

"You really want to do this Jack? It's one person."

"One of the people I can't live without."

Bunnymund's portal opened up and threw Jack out and onto the sunlit ground with a thud.

Jack hadn't told Bunny why he was here, so Bunny left quickly, slightly irked because he still needed to do work. Jack rubbed his head and got up, annoyed at the gigantic rabbit for chucking him out. He grumbled a little but got up, then started walking. Where was he supposed to go again?

"Go in the right direction Frost."

"Sure."Jack smirked.

Bunny rolled his eyes.

"There will be a little tulip flower patch growing up the side of a tree. A very tall one at that. Over there in that direction you gumby."

He shifted Jack's head to the left and kept his paw there so Jack couldn't turn around his head again.

" They are hidden by leaves so no people can spot them, but they point in the direction of Mother Earth's palace. You think you can make it Frost?"

"Duh." Jack smiled.

Wow, those really are tulips.

They were clustered in one direction going east from where Jack was floating.

After flying in that direction for a while with a little map that Tooth had drawn for him, Jack started to hear singing in the forest. It was light and airy and drifted through the woods, giving the breeze a little more vitality. He looked around for the owner of the sound, but saw no one. He stopped floating and turned, giving himself a little waft of winter wind to keep himself afloat. He saw the grass stop moving so much and huffed to himself. Although being human for the girl you love is great, being human also meant many more things for Jack. Even before he knew about being in love with someone, he thought about being human. It would be SO nice if people could see him. And Jamie was in this era as well. And… It would be wonderful to be warm again, and to actually feel the cold. Not just the numbness he felt, but one that nipped at the warmth instead of eating it whole.

Jack tried not to touch anything and get frost on it, but after a while he had to start walking on foot to avoid getting hit by the entangling branches. He followed his ears, although he heard the music fade a little when the freezing cold from his fingertips and toes moved up the tree roots and flit softly over the grass. Jack felt like he was being lead in all directions by the enchanting music, that didn't lend itself to words but was comforting all the same. A little louder over here, a little softer over there. But then, it shifted. The sounds meddled in with the sounds of the forest and Jack looked at the map in frustration.

Then.

He swore he heard something.

And then a gigantic hole opened up out of nowhere and he was swallowed in the darkness.

Jack looked up at the woman, three times his size, wispy like, but solid, an entity with the trees around her. Her black hair was entangled with the many flowers of the world, her hair looking as if it was made from silkworms. Her arms, the softest bark, and her eyes made of shifting and everlasting colors. The irises swooped down to look at Jack, who had his staff curled in his hand in a defensive position, getting up from his long fall.

"Oh my. Look at the winter season coming to say hello."

Her voice was slow, controlled, but gave way to little peaks of voice which remembered Jack of birds. She laughed and butterflies flitted around the warm breeze that came along with it. One of the butterflies flitted on her finger and her dress, made of the softest leaves and sapling branches, swished as she moved down to sit.

"Not often I get to see another one so close with myself."

Jack blinked and looked around, still standing. Tooth told him to be courteous.

"You may sit young Frost spirit."

Jack sat down promptly, continuing to look around. His curiosity started to grow as he picked out new things in the grotto of trees. It was a nest of life and activity but only little peaks of sunlight came through the entwining branches, causing convenient shade in unusual places. Jack wouldn't have called this place a palace, but then again he wasn't seeing everything. Right above his head there was a large tree which had almost moved to bring him out of the sunlight. As far as he knew, maybe it did. He looked at the woman's face for a while, the flowers adorned in her hair creating a crown of sorts.

He took a deep breath, waiting for an invitation to speak. But the woman smiled as she saw winter's impatient nature get the better of him. He spoke.

"Queen Toothiana told me everything about your powers."

"Hmm? And what of them?" She didn't look up from petting a deer that had wandered near her.

"I need you to do something for me."

"Oh? And what is that?" She smiled, her rosy lips catching the sunlight.

"I want you to make me human… So I can be with the person I love forever."

She paused and frowned.

"Humans don't live forever Jack Frost, winter spirit. Everything must come at a price."

"I've heard."

She laughed and got up, shifting over to him. Feeling that it was okay, Jack got up as well and then looked down and apologized at the frost that had cocooned the soft grass.

"No matter."

He looked down at the grass again and saw little drops of dew.

"Frost is needed you know. Things cannot live without balance…"

Jack smiled a bit and followed her, wherever she was going. She stopped a few times to talk to some woodland creatures that passed by but continued talking to Jack as well. What felt like a long time passed, and Jack felt a little tired with the sluggish movement of walking. Finally she came to some trees and gently pressed them to the side. They moved, to Jack's surprise and she slipped into the opening they made. Her form had become a bit smaller to fit, but then filled out the space once she was inside.

"I guess there is something I can do for you… but at a heavy sum. I don't usually do favors for everybody."

Jack narrowed his eyes as she started to walk into a passageway that went downwards, then upwards. Jack followed.

"What is it?"

She had come to a place which was blocked off by the light

"To make you human, you and your significant other must make a forfeit. After you both die, where or when it happens all depends, but you must return to being Guardians… But, the both of you."

Jack stared at her.

"You… I… what?! I have to become a Guardian again?"

"And this girl of yours."

Jack thought for a moment.

"I would need to get permission from her."

She smiled.

"I'm glad to hear that, request granted but after you turn human… But that's only the first part of the deal."

"What?"

"Also, once you become Guardians… you must help me get my husband back, Kozmotis."

Jack thought it was an odd request. "And who's Kozmotis?"

She smiled, but this time the light did not catch her face.

"You may know him better as Pitch Black."

Three minutes later and Jack's mouth was still hanging open. He finally coughed and closed his mouth, dry air coming up from his frozen lungs.

We were all someone before we were chosen, just because we are doesn't make us any less different.

North's words came back to Jack.

"Uh, sorry but… Why did you marry him?"

Her eyes regarded Jack a little coldly and Jack felt like that was a question he shouldn't have asked.

"I mean, you're so nice and everything." He covered.

Her eyes shifted colors and she shook her head with a smile.

"Same reason as you. True love is a funny thing. And Kozmotis was once a much different man… before fearlings came and entrapped his heart in darkness. Believe it or not little Frost spirit, Kozmotis was once a great general and fought for Tsar Lunar, the Man in Moon's father."

Jack nodded and shifted his staff so he could lean on it. He was slowly grasping the concept but still didn't get what she was saying about Kozmotis.

"How are we supposed to get him back? A riddle or something?"

"I have no idea, otherwise I would have tried it already. But… do we have a deal? I will change you into a human first by absorbing the powers that Manny borrowed from me to give to you."

"You? You gave me my powers?"

"It was winter the day before you became Jack Frost. And it will be winter afterwards. Do we have a deal?"

"Wait."

"Yes?"

"What will happen if the girl I love… doesn't love me the way I thought she did."

"It can happen… If she does not agree then I will not strap her into the bargain. But then you are taking the risk anyways. You would live a mortal life anyways. Grow old anyways. Isn't that what you would like as well?"

Jack nodded, trying to ignore how precise she was… and how eager she sounded. After all, getting Pitch to be his "old self" might be a battle that would never be won but it was a chance for her to get her true love back.

Was it worth it? But then he pictured the face he had kissed so many times behind his closed eyelids, and he almost felt her warm hand take his without any fear. He felt his heart slowly close off as she closed her window in the winter nights and even so heard her crying in her sleep. She even said to the winter air one month his name and he felt like she, in all circumstances…was worth it.

"Deal."

"Deal. Bring him back. Bring my husband back… And don't worry. Once you awake as human I will escort you to the Guardians and then they can take you where you need to go. Don't ever stop believing in them. They are your connection with this world."

"Never."

And the last thing that Jack saw was her slow hand touching his forehead, a certain soothing feeling in the pine and cedar smell her skin gave off. And…although Jack was asleep…he felt the coldness he had felt for 301 years edge off, fleeting into a sea of lukewarm skin and thawing lungs.


DEAL XD Hope you enjoyed it!