Life has been generous to me as of late. Here is a new chapter for you all!
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"How can you guys NOT know what the Internet is?!" Jack certainly hadn't expected this. Bunny, he could understand. He probably never came out of his hole until Easter. Unless there was a Guardian meeting, which was what was going on now. Tooth... Well he didn't really know what to expect from her. She might have seen computers or some other form of technology in the kid's rooms when she went out. He didn't really count on Sandy noticing; he usually just spread dreams from his cloud of dream sand. But North? How could North not know?! Most kids over the age of 6 wanted something digital. These were the most isolated group of immortals in existence!
"Are we supposed to know?" Tooth said, looking confused.
"YES! That's all the kids talk about these days! Minecraft or Instagram or some other game they play. They aren't bad actually... Jamie let me borrow his Play Station before I froze the wiring." He snickered at that particular memory. His face became emotionless at a thought hit him. Then, it grew innocent. A scary innocent; the kind he got when he was about to do something or had done something bad. "Be right back," he said while flying over to the window. "Stay here!" With that he was off.
The remaining Guardians exchanged glances. Glances full of curiosity and maybe a hint of fear and apprehension.
Roughly around 30 minutes later, Jack returned. By the triumphant look on his face, he had achieved his goal. He pulled a thin, white box out of his hoodie pocket and set it on a nearby table. Then he pulled out a larger black one. "This right here," he said, pointing to the black box. "Makes internet. I don't know all the details; I'm going off of what Jamie told me here. This one," he pointed to the white one. "Is a phone." Sandy gave a silent 'Oooohhhhh' and the rest still looked confused. Jack sighed in exasperation. Bunny rolled his eyes.
"What's tha point ta this Jack?" Bunny asked.
"Shhhhhh Kangaroo," he said, putting a finger on his mouth- if one could even call it that. Frost spread onto Bunny's fur. He then slapped his hand away looking like someone had stuck a rotting fish under his nose. "I'm educating you all on the 21st century. Now, you can download apps and stuff on the phone, but once again I don't know how... Every time I hold it, it starts to freeze. Pretty cool huh?" The others groaned at the over-used pun. Surprisingly enough, it was Bunny who picked it up first. He tried to turn it on. Tried. He repeated this action for several minutes. Just when he was about to throw it on the floor and smash it to dust with his boomerangs, North stole it from him.
"Where did you get these, Jack?" He said, looking disapprovingly at said spirit.
Jack averted his eyes (Was the floor always this color?) and grinned sheepishly. "Does that really matter?"
"You stole them."
"I prefer the term 'borrowed forever without consent'."
"Jack! You need to be off Naughty List! Not on!"
"I paid for the stuff!"
"With what?!"
"..." Jack's face became unreadable. "Money," The other gestured for him to go on. "Fine. Monopoly money. But that's beside the point. I'm doing a terrible job at explaining this, aren't I?" Sandy pinched his fingers, leaving a little room between them. Just a little bit. Jack jumped on the crook of his staff and thought (This was a remarkable feat to the others; they didn't know if it was magic or just his own balance). "I've got it!" He picked up a snow globe, whispered "Burgess", then smashed it on the ground. " I have the perfect teacher for you!" He then proceeded to shove them all in before jumping after them.
"You want to what now?" Jamie said. He was still getting over the shock of having all of his childhood heroes fall out of nowhere into his room.
"Teach these losers about the Internet. Heads up, they don't know anything!" Jack said, perched on Jamie's desk. The others were still in a heap on the floor, mostly because North couldn't get up. He had fallen asleep, thanks to Sandy panicking. The others were asleep as well. The whole scene reminded him of when the other Guardians had first met Jamie... Only the need for a camera was stronger this time around. Jack vowed to find one as soon as this was over.
Jamie's reaction was much like Jack's, only much more dramatic. He gasped in shock and horror, clutching his hands to his chest. He proceeded to fall back onto his bed with his tongue sticking out. He stayed like the until Jack took his staff and spread frost down his shirt. He snickered as Jamie yelped, then did the same to wake up the other Guardians (besides Bunny: He got his entire body covered in frost). North kept to his feet, swords drawn.
"Rimsky Korsakov!" He shouted, glancing around the room for hidden enemies. Jack laughed. He would have to ask North why he swore in the name of Russian composers. Bunny did much the same, almost hitting Sandy, only the words spilling out of his mouth were so thick with his Australian accent nobody could understand him. When he had calmed down, he shook the frost out of his fur and glared at Jack.
"Bloody- What was that for?!" If looks could kill, Jack would have been incinerated in exactly .7 seconds.
"Since when do I need a reason to annoy you, Cottontail?" He replied back innocently. Bunny growled at him. His eyes held the message of This is not over. Jack accepted the challenge eagerly while North shook his head. Sandy, who had finally recovered from being squished by North, was helping Tooth up. She had waken up much calmer than the others. Jamie was trying to hold back snorts of laughter behind his hand and failing miserably. Jack nudged him, gesturing at the computer. An excited grin overcame his face.
"Alright! I don't know what Jack told you, but this here..."
Two hours later the Guardians were back at the Pole. Bunny was stumbling around in circles, Tooth was bumping into walls in a daze, Sandy's dreamsand messages were a jumble of meaningless jibber, and North had collapsed to the floor, muttering "My brain... Et hurts... So much information..." all the while. Jack snickered at their reactions to learning about the modern world.
"You're all acting like wimps," He managed to get out between chuckles. This day certainly was amusing. He suddenly remembered his earlier vow. He needed to preserve this moment forever! He didn't really want to leave his friends, especially when there were thousands of elves at his beck and call. He didn't even know where to find one anyway. "Alright, first one to bring me a camera is prank-free for a year!" He said in a normal tone, letting the wind carry his voice throughout the building. The sound of elves scrambling about filled his ears. About three seconds later, an elf who went by the name of Jingle presented him with a cheap disposable camera. He smiled, only looking slightly like a deranged person, and took a picture of the Guardians just before they recovered from their predicament.
"What. Is. That." Tooth said in a dangerous tone. Women were scary creatures when they were mad, that's for sure. Nevertheless, Jack smiled cheekily.
"My way of preserving memories." And with that he fled from the North Pole, the outraged cries of the other (except Sandy, but Jack was willing to bet he was either laughing or shaking a fist in the direction he went) being the last thing he heard from them.
Hope you liked it! REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW! I'm editing the first chapter... A lot of people judge by the first chapter and that one SUCKED! And it is too short. The rest are over 1K long at the least. So if it seems different, that's why! I've decided to just PM review responses now...
