Hi everybody! You all are so helpful coming up with hilarious pranks! Thanks and I am so glad you like this story! Review if you have time (I understand if you don't or can't) and raise your hand if you can spot the slight other movie(s) references! I hope that this longer chapter is satisfactory!
WARNING: Fakes and a few curses ahead! You have been warned!
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**Oh, just so everybody is clear and gets unconfused, Snowball (the lion) is a GIRL! I'm not entirely sure what I said in any earlier chapters, but I'm going to make it official now!
Chapter 7-DAMMIT JACK!
Jack seriously hoped Snowball was...er...intelligent enough to stay out of sight. He'd flown down to the storage room without the little lion! He smiled to himself, concentrating on not walking into solid things (like walls) this time. the next prank was one of his personal favorites, the saran wrap/ invisible barrier trick. Worked EVERY time! "I just need to find a place that everyone is obviously going to...run through." He whispered inside the storage room. And then, after five long minutes, he had it.
"Oh, main levels? AND the main and hidden doorways! DUH! Why was I so slow on the up-take?"
Unfortunately, it became increasingly hard to hid while putting up plastic wrap and hope nobody saw him while he did because now the whole place know he was freed and flying. ("Snow" the lion had smartly taken to hiding under the globe controls.) Jack was surprised to find that it had taken a mere 37 minutes to put Saran wrap over most of the major doors on floors (including the basement) 6,7, 4, the base floor, 2, 3, and North's workshop got personal attention. He saw the other Guardians and the three kids a full 14 more times as they were chased past the doors Jack hid behind or underneath the rafters he'd perched on. Jack actually started to wonder HOW the kids kept running and the Guardians, Yetis and Elves kept chasing after them.
While Jack was in North's office, he took a few coins meant for stockings ("I will get some from Tooth; pay ya back North" Jack said in his head) and from the higher rafters, dropped them one buy one in a trail towards the doors to the kitchen, where a few mini fairies were bound to be. The coins were far enough apart that it wouldn't be too weird, but hey, it's the freaking NORTH POLE! Weird things happen. Given who they were meant for, Jack guessed that they would be EASY to find.
By their 15th passing, Jack was under the controls with Snowball and he then noticed that North was not among the chasers. He also realized that the group chasing the kids were fewer in numbers, and that he could now hear the full extent of his chaos.
"AAAAKKKKKHHHHH!" A few yells warned others not to come the way that the unfortunate ones had gone. But there were a lot of arches and doorways in the workshop. And a lot of plastic wrap. The yells of frustration at seemingly harmless-but-invisibly-rigged doors and archways continued.
Then, after making sure that the coast was clear, Jack decided to make his big reappearance after telling his (new) pet to stay still, stay quiet and stay alert. Jack Frost was going to dive-bomb the chasers, yelling as loud as he could, fake getting hurt so he could be in a position to get stuff from the infirmary (and probably get knocked out out in the process) but he didn't bloody care. He was having way to much fun, and with lots of fun, came more energy and power for the Guardian of Fun! Oh, and he was going to make it snow on top of it all. Snowball shook her head in dismay. Her "blue boy" owner was impulsive at the worst of times.
Just as Jack gripped his staff and got ready to fly, fall and create snow, the biggest yell yet sounded out a floor below him. "North. Ah no! Now?" He heard the Guardian of Wonder yell, "JACKSON OVERLAND FROST!"
"Yea North. I think I know my own name. Thanks for broadcasting it to the entire workshop!" Jack muttered. He was getting sick of everyone using his full name. But, it did teach him a lesson on which Guardians you can trust and not...? He would not be telling North anything related to a secret, though his name certainly wasn't. (Jack still isn't sure about secrets and the other Guardians.)
At the exact same moment on the 7th, uppermost floor of the workshop, three high pitched squeals rang out, as well as a heavily Australian accented voiced yelled (almost screamed) in anger "DAMMIT...JACK!" Well, he could obviously tell it was a 'Mission Accomplished'. Then a small shower of gold sand flew (presumably off Sandy) down onto the globe and Jack saw the perfect opportunity to feign injury. The most wanted immortal at the moment had been crouching on top of the railing, so as his eyes fluttered shut and he pretended to fall asleep fell asleep...Jack made himself to fall off the railing, (though the wind kept him from technically, truly falling.)
As the air whistled past his ears and he prepared for the "hard" impact with the ground, he heard a voice scream his name, but this time not in anger or annoyance. "Jack! Jack!" Then suddenly the ground was there and Jack basically stabbed the ground (another inanimate object,)with his staff, creating a huge crashing sound with the ice. He hit the ground softly (courtesy of the wind) and lay very still. Haha. This would get them for sure, even though he knew they would have a worry attack in the process. Oh well.
"CRASH!"
The resounding crash and thud echoed in the chaotic workshop. Jamie, by now only sort of hyper, sat up from where the Saran wrap had made him fall. Everyone heard him fall, and Tooth was the one who screamed Jack's name. It seemed that all the other Guardians dropped what ever occupied them at the moment and immediately fled to the base floor, Jamie, Sophie, Pippa and a few yetis, such as Phil, included.
"No! No, please Jack!"
"For the love of CUPID! Frostbite! Why did you-"
"Jack! You okay!?"
Jack breathed very little, and really slowly, silently flopping around when Bunny and North tried to wake him. When Bunny slapped him in the face, Jack almost slipped up and slapped him back. But then his cover would be blown and he would be caught up in a "sissy fight" with the Easter Bunny. Oh the horror; he'd never live that down.
"No...NO! Stay here, it will be okay! Stay with us...JACK!"
The fun was still there.
Jack was sorry they worried, but oh it was SO worth it!
They'd understand later.
"Meow! Mew mew mew!"
"Sn...Sn-Snow...Snowball." Jack didn't care how Snow got to him a second before the others did, but he was glad his little buddy was in on it. It didn't matter what she was. He had been dyed blue, frozen, made fun of, walked into a wall twice and had a fight with the same wall a few minutes later. Jack lifted a hand blindly,shakily faking weakness and the little cub rubbed her cheek against it. Then his hand dropped lifelessly to the hard, freezing ground.
Don't laugh Jack. DON"T LAUGH JACK! DON'T LAUGH! You're HURT remember? REALLY BADLY?!
Voice of Jack Frost
(Meanwhile, in Jack's head...)
How well did you live?
Um...I'm still alive.
How well did you love?
I only loved one, once in my life, but I, um, what's it matter?
And how well did you learn to let go?
That's all I've ever done, but at the moment, I don't really have to. Wait, who...are you?
The white toy lion that you made real.
So it wasn't just me, you are turning real!
Yes.
It's bright out. Is this...is this heaven?
No, it's Iowa.
Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.
Just kidding. Are you gonna wake up soon? You do look kinda...scary. Unnerving, I think is the word.
Snowball? I think I have to-
-go to the bathroom?
What?! Really SNOW?
-Itch a bug bite?
NO! I was going to say I am in danger of-
-laughing?
Yep.
That, my little boy blue, is your problem. I may be a magical lion, but this was your idea.
"Little boy blue" is NOT my name!
No shit, Sherlock. But it really fits.
Oh great. Now she has attitude!
Voice of Snowball
In the infirmary, Tooth, Bunny, North, Sandy, Pippa, Sophie and Jamie could only watch as the Guardian of Fun started to fade. In reality, Jack was just pulling a trick he'd seen many actors use when their character 'died,' meaning taking take breaths slightly smaller each time, then take the smallest breath you possibly could, then holding it when a lot of people looked at you (or the camera.) He'd had many years of practice, so it was almost like regular breathing to the winter spirit.
"I believe in you." Jamie whispered, now heading towards the biggest sugar crash of his young life.
"I believe, I believe, I believe." Tooth whispered, remembering suddenly the most powerful saying that had ever been taught to her. She and Baby Tooth looked at the other Guardians. 'Remember this?' She wondered, 'So many years have pasted.'
"I believe, I believe, I believe!" Bunny's voice joined hers, then North's and even Jamie and Pippa, though they did not know the full meaning of the saying; what it meant to the Guardians.
All it took were those magic words. Jack took that as his queue and finally broke his injured, nearly dying act and burst into a monstrous laughter that could rival even North's and scaring the tiny white lion that had somehow snuck into the room via the rafters out of it's tiny wits.
And Jack sat up, frightening everyone around him "H-he-hey guys, whats up?" He gasped, getting a hug from Jamie, Baby Tooth and Tooth at the same time. "So good to see you laughing Jack! You are ALIVE; we thought we'd lost you!:" North said, somehow still believing Jack had really been hurt dying. When they broke apart, Sandy hugged Jack along with Sophie, and Bunny had only one thing to say.
"Um, Jack,"
"What?"
"You kind of look like a Smurf."
Jack glared at the Easter Bunny (Kangaroo) for a full minute, then eyed his staff next to his bed and turned back to Bunny. His face was completely emotionless as he jumped out of the bed and stood face-to-face with Bunny, looking him dead in the eyes.
"Bunny,"
The staff flew into his hand, crackling with power.
"Run."
Bunnymund and Jack Frost chased each other all over the workshop, throwing boomerangs, snowballs, egg bombs and icicles for such a long time, Tooth had time to do this cool treasure hunt with coins and Sandy took Sophie, Pippa and Jamie back to Burgess. Jack, about to freeze Bunny's ears together again, was suddenly called to a slightly burned kitchen doorway by the Tooth Fairy.
"Whoops." Jack forgot about who he'd rigged this trap to not only cloths-line a person, but wrap them up like a sandwich as well. Bunny burst out laughing and Jack of course, joined in.
"Jack...get me out. Right. About. Now."
So Jack had to untangle the Guardian of Memories from plastic wrap as Bunny, North and Sandy laughed at him. Jack could have sworn that he had heard North say "Definitely good together, no?", when Tooth hugged him in thanks. "You know, just because I almost die form SOME pranks, I will still get you guys." Jack thought happily, picking up Snowball. He looked at her for a moment and gazed into her eyes, silently asking, "What happened back there? Was that actually you?"
He got no reply, but the feeling that the cub just didn't WANT to talk at the time bounced carelessly around his mind. The five Guardians then left the mess in the workshop and went to get some hot chocolate/egg nog. By the time those were done heating up, in the temporary microwave, Jack Frost already had a plan.
"Snowball, ya ready?"
Next Three Chapters (Hint): Bunny had better watch out. Jack has a lot of hidden talents that the Guardians don't know about...And someone in search of a little fun won't be denied by the winter spirit, will they? So...catlover2976, your hilarious idea is coming up in the next chapters!
*PM me if you have a prank for one of the Guardians or that one of the Burgess kids should do!*
