Hey guys! Sorry I haven't updated in so long, things have been crazy, my family was sick, I was sick (a few days after they got better) but, since you were all so patient (I didn't get a single UPDATE ALREADY review) I have an extra long chapter for you!
(I also forgot this in previous chapters The Rise of the Guardians its characters and its script do not belong to me, they belong to Dreamworks animations!)
SEQ. 600 - SNOWBALL FIGHT
EXT. ST. PETERSBURG - NIGHT A hooded figure with a familiar looking staff rests atop a Post Office box on the opposite end of the street. The man touches the staff to the ground, sending a streak of frost across the street.
A RUSSIAN BOY approaches a water fountain, turns the handle and moves in for a sip. But as he does, the water freezes magically, and the boy's tongue is stuck to the frozen water. His friends can't help but laugh.
RUSSIAN BOY (tongue stuck to frozen ICE) Aahhhhh...!
Tooth's wings fluttered angrily and she called out "Jack Frost!" she flew over to him, and hovered right in his face "What do you have to say for yourself?"
Jack threw his hands up, his staff resting between his legs and said defensively "It'll thaw!"
Tooth rubbed the bridge of her nose before slowly flying back to her seat so the movie could continue.
A mail man walks across the street and a PATCH OF ICE magically appears under his feet. He scrambles, and BOOM! - lands on his butt.
Several children (Sky included) laughed at this
Just behind the man, we see the TRAIL OF FROST climb up the side of a building. We stay on the frost as it moves up along a rain pipe, and through the windows we see...
"That's so pretty!" Emma said quietly, and her mother looked at her surprised. Emma had hardly spoken since the incedent, but it seemed like she was opening up to this 'Jack Frost' person.
A boy try to feed his gold fish, but a layer of ice suddenly forms along the water surface and prevents the fish from reaching its food. We move along the side of the building... A writer in his study sits next to stacks of papers. The window suddenly swings open and a gust of wind sends the pages flying out the window. We move along the building, across clothes lines and power lines as they freeze. We continue to move up, and finally discover the culprit. Jack Frost makes his way atop a cathedral spire and takes in the view; the full moon bathes the city in moonlight.
JACK (AMUSED) Ah, now that, that was fun. (BEAT) Hey wind...
"Why are you talking to the wind?" Jaime asked
Jack grinned, and threw a snowflake, using the wind to make it dance before Jaime's eyes
Jack chuckles as he calls the wind. The trees begin to sway and leaves fly into the air. Jack grabs hold of the spire, smiling as the wind blows past.
JACK Take me home!
Jack lets go and the wind carries him into the air and through the clouds. Night turns to day as Jack flies from one horizon to the other.
JACK Woooooohoooooooooo!
"You can fly!" Jaime said excitedly, turning towards where Jack was...no longer sitting?
"I sure can!" Jack said from behind Jaime, who jumped out of his seat, but began laughing when he realized that the white-haired spirit was floating behind and above him!
"How come I've never heard of you before?" Jaime asked
Jack floated back down, suddenly looking very sad. he muttered "No one has ever seen me" before he walked back to his seat. a few snowflakes drifting around him, and frost coming out of his trailing staff.
EXT. BURGESS - DAY
Jack falls through the clouds, smiling, toward the town of Burgess.
JACK SNOOOOOWWWW DAAAAYYYYYY!
Jack continues on down and zooms through the streets. Pedestrians clench their jackets and reach for their hats as gusts of wind, snow, and streaks of frost are left in Jack's wake.
EXT. FROZEN POND Jack flies in, and with the wind behind him skates across an all too familiar pond. As the wind zips across the pond it knocks a BOOK out of the hands of a little boy walking alone, this is JAMIE.
"I'm sorry I didn't see you" Jaime said quietly "But, I totally believe in you now!" he added perking up and smiling
Jack grinned and said "Just wait kid, It's gonna be a snow week when we get back!"
JAMIE Whoa, whoa.
Jamie goes to pick up the book and we get a glimpse of the cover - "THEY'RE OUT THERE! - MYSTERIES, MYTHICAL CREATURES AND THE UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA."
Mrs. Bennet sighed. her son's obsession with the mythical world was suddenly making sense now that she was here, but that didn't mean she had to like it all too well.
Jack flies into frame and lands beside Jamie.
JACK Huh, that looks interesting. Good book?
Suddenly twins CLAUDE and CALEB, come barreling past them, rough-housing and laughing as they slam each other into drifts (all the boys are 8).
CLAUDE AND CALEB Alright! Yeah! Waahoo! Snooow daaaay!
Jack calls after the boys...
JACK You're welcome!
All the modern-day children suddenly developed a very high interest in their feet, and were about to say something, when a loud THUMP shook the building, and a black blur flew in from the roof.
It was Shadow-Wing. she had finally returned
Sky ran over, and hovered so that she was directly in front of the sitting dragon "Well?" she asked.
The beast made a warbling sound, and tossed a bag at Sky, who caught it peeked inside, and grinned "Thanks!"
She landed and went back to her seat, but not before she said "Your punishment is almost over, go do the last half, and I'll see you in a bit"
the dragon nodded, and flew back up towards the roof, and was lost in the shadows
JAMIE (goes running after them) Hey guys, wait up! Are you guys coming to the egg hunt Sunday?
CALEB Yeah, free candy!
CLAUDE I hope we can find the eggs with all this snow!
Caleb stuffs a handful of snow down his brother's Jacket
EXT. JAMIE'S BACKYARD - DAY
The kids arrive at the fence of Jamie's house. Jamie opens up a secret plank, and heads into his yard. Claude and Caleb are still messing with each other. Meanwhile, Jack walks unseen along the top of the fence.
Mrs. Bennet stiffened, remembering this event all too well.
CALEB (WALLA) Stop!
CLAUDE (WALLA) No, you stop!
JAMIE Whoa, it says here that they found Big Foot hair samples and DNA, in Michigan. That's like, super close!
CLAUDE Here we go again.
Jamie arrives at his front gate, sled in hand while SOPHIE (Jamie's 2-year-old sister in fairy wings) sits down on their Greyhound as it lies in the yard.
JAMIE You saw the video too Claude, he's out there!
CALEB That's what you said about aliens.
CLAUDE And the Easter Bunny.
JAMIE (grabs his sled) Wow, the Easter Bunny is real!
Jack tossed a grin over his shoulder to the Easter Kangaroo, and said "Oh, he's real alright. Real annoying, real grumpy, and REALLY full of himself"
JACK Oh he's real alright. Real annoying, real grumpy, and really full of himself.
Jack grinned at the screen, while almost everyone else stared at him with either a smile, a frown, or, in Bunny's case, a scowl
Jack hops off the fence and walks amongst the kids, peering over their shoulders as they play in the yard.
CLAUDE (LAUGHING) Come on, you guys believe anything
SOPHIE (GIGGLES) EASTER BUNNY! HOP-HOP-HOP! (FALLS OVER)Ow!
Sophie begins to cry.
JAMIE Mom! Sophie fell again!
JAMIE'S MOM comes outside.
Caleb, alongside his brother, stands at the front gate and calls out to Jamie.
JAMIE'S MOM You okay, Soph?
CLAUDE Are we sledding or what?
JAMIE'S MOM Jamie, hat? We don't want Jack Frost nipping at your nose.
Jack's smiled dropped, and he scowled, lifting his hood over his head, and blocking most of his face. he HATED that expression. why did people think all he could do was bite their noses?
Jamie's mom plunks the hat on his head, tweaks his nose.
JAMIE Who's Jack Frost?
JAMIE'S MOM No one, honey. It's just an expression.
JACK (smile drops - offended) Hey.
Jack jumps down from the fence as the boys head off.
JACK (MIFFED) Who's Jack Frost?
Jack reaches down and grabs a hand full of snow from off the ground. With his palm open, Jack uses his magic to form the perfect snowball. He then puckers his lips, and blows onto it with his icy breath. The snowball turns a light shade of blue. There's something going on here.
"Vhat are you doing Jack?" North asked, truly curious. he had never seen anything like this, and wanted to know what was going on
EXT. SNOWY HILL WHOOSH! -
the snowball goes flying through the air and - BOOF! - the snowball hits Jamie smack in the back of the head. Jamie looks up, peeved, and turns. Then we watch as his face changes...a mischievous sparkle comes into his eyes. A big smile. Make no mistake, something magical has just happened.
"Good aim" Sky commented, still clutching the bag that Shadow-Wing had given her.
JAMIE (LAUGHING) Okay, who threw that?
Jack flies in and lands amongst the group of kids.
JACK Well, wasn't bigfoot kiddo.
Jamie scans the horizon for the culprit. His eyes land on a couple kids making snow barricades. MONTY (oddball with big glasses) with his back turned suddenly gets a snowball to the back of the head, knocking him face first into the ground.
"HEY!" Bonnie suddenly shouted (which was the only language she knew) "He looks like Clemont!" it was true. brush Clemont's wild hair down, add some huge glasses, and shove him in a snow-coat, and you had Monty!
MONTY Ow!
PIPPA (brainy, pigtails, pink hat) steps forward and - BOOF! A magical snowball from Jack hits her, knocking her back. Pippa's face changes - a mischievous sparkle.
PIPPA Jamie Bennett! No fair!
JAMIE (LAUGHS) You struck first!
"No way" Jack said, his hood down once again, and a sparkle in his eyes "I totally hit you first, from across the street!" he emphasized the 'across the street' part, so it sounded more like 'I totally hit you first, from across the street!'
CLAUDE Oh! Suddenly we see Caleb struck in the side of the head with one of Jack's snowballs; Claude can't help but laugh.
JACK Free for all!
Suddenly, many people in the room found snow all over them, and they began to toss snow at each-other, but after a loud "EMO!" the sun suddenly glowed in the room, and the snow melted away
"Good job Sun!" Sky congratulated her Emolga "Nice Sunny Day" then, she snapped her fingers, and the darkness returned, as did the movie
And just like that we find ourselves in a take-no-prisoners snowball fight, the kids pummeling each other mercilessly.
JACK Alright, who needs ammo?
Jack supplies the kids with more snowballs. The kids are loving this.
JACK (WALLA) Look at that.
The mayhem continues as Jamie, using his sled as a shield, is knocked backward into a snowman, crushing it underneath him. A snowball flies overhead and hits CUPCAKE, a tough third grader as wide as she is tall, in the back of the head. Dread sets in amongst the other kids, Cupcake squints - gunslinger eyes.
some of the kids were so startled, they began to back away, before they remembered this was only on the screen
CUPCAKE Grrrrrrrrrrrr...
PIPPA Crud, I hit Cupcake.
MONTY She hit Cupcake.
CLAUDE You hit Cupcake?
Jamie is flat on his back, terrified. He looks up to see Cupcake standing over him. Then, BOOF! Jack hits Cupcake with a magical snowball. The kids gasp in horror.
"OH" almost everyone winced. that snowball had been right in the face!
CLAUDE Oh!
CALEB Did you throw that?
MONTY No.
PIPPA Wasn't me.
A moment, and then Cupcake starts laughing as Jack's magic takes hold. Cupcake chases the kids down the hill, holding the head of her snowman in her hands. Jack, all the while, runs along side taking pleasure in the excitement.
"Don't get hit by that one!" Jack laughed, then he remembered what was coming next, and he got even more excited
JAMIE (WALLA) Hey, come on. Stop!
CLAUDE (WALLA) You can't catch me.
JACK Ooh, little slippery!
Jack jumps ahead, blasting a sheet of ice behind him. The kids fall to the ground, except for Jamie, who lands on his sled, and slides head first down the sheet of ice into town.
"you did that?" Jaime asked
Jack nodded "I did!"
JAMIE Whooaaooah!
KIDS (WALLA) Whoaaa. Jamie, watch out! Stop!
JAMIE (WALLA) Aha, whoa!
KIDS (WALLA) Jamie! Turn, turn! That's the street! What are you doing? Stop! There's traffic!
Jamie suddenly shoots out between the trees and careens past a set of parked cars. Jack's path of ice covers the street. As Jamie turns, his speed only escalates, sending him directly into traffic. Jamie barely misses a moving truck, spinning it out of control, sending furniture out the back, and causing a four car pile up.
Tooth gasped, and hid her face behind her hands.
JAMIE Whoa!
JACK Whoa, don't worry kid, I gotcha.
Jamie looks back, then quickly ahead as terror comes into his eyes. Jack can't help but smile.
JACK Hold on. It's gonna be alright.
JAMIE Ahhhh. No, no, no, no...
JACK Keep up with me kid! Take a left.
Jamie rockets through a pedestrian intersection, narrowly missing those in the crosswalk.
"Hey Jack" Sky said "Any chance you could take me on a ride like that? I think it would be so noble!"
Jack grinned and said "sure!" then he frowned "What does 'noble' mean?"
Sky just laughed in response
DOG WALKER (O.S.) Hey, slow down!
JAMIE Whoa, no, no, no, no...
Jack flies over to the far side of the street, sending the streak of ice and Jamie up onto the sidewalk.
JACK Yeah!
PEDESTRIAN #1 (O.S.) Is that Jamie Bennett?
"No" Sky said sarcasticly "It's Danny Phantom" she rolled her eyes "Of course it's Jaime Bennet!" she went into a mumbling rant, so it was hard to hear what she was saying, but you could tell she was ranting.
JAMIE Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...
PEDESTRIAN #2 (O.S.) Hey! Watch it!
JACK There you go!
JAMIE No! No!
PEDESTRIAN #3 (O.S.) Look at that dude!
Jamie flies off the sidewalk and back into the middle of the street, almost knocking over a postman. As Jack flies by Jamie's side he sees the look of excitement come into Jamie's face. Jack smiles, knowing he's responsible. Jack sees an oncoming snowplow and quickly jumps ahead, carried by the wind, to divert the ice trail.
JACK Whoa.
Jamie's sled suddenly turns, narrowly missing the oncoming truck and barrels toward Jack's newly formed ice ramp...
JAMIE AAAAHHHHHHHH!
Jamie closes his eyes as the ramp launches Jamie over the street, high into the air, and toward the statue of Thaddeus Burgess, colonial settler - 1680. Jamie's friends stand in awe, mouths wide open, as he sails through the air. Jamie opens his eyes and the look of fear suddenly turns to joy. Jack looks on smiling. Jamie lands safely in a large mound of snow. Jack jumps onto the Statue of Thaddeus Burgess.
"OH" everyone but Jack winced this time, even the creatures at Sky's side seemed to wince, and Tooth flew over and began hovering over Jaime "Are you alright? Any broken bones?"
"I'm fine!" Jaime laughed, revealing his missing tooth to the fairy, who gasped, fluttered her tail feathers, and began forcing his mouth open
"Tooth" North said, rolling his eyes like this was common for her "Fingers out of mouth"
Tooth froze "Sorry" she whispered to Jaime and she flew back to her seat, blushing
PIPPA (O.S.) Oh my gosh!
JACK Yeah!
Jamie's friends all come running to Jamie's aide, scared. But Jamie gets up.
KIDS (WALLA) Wow, that looks serious! Jamie! Jamie, are you alright? Is he okay? J
AMIE Whoaaa! Did you guys see that? It was amazing! I slid - I did a jump and I slid under a car -ERF!
A sofa from the moving van suddenly knocks Jamie down...
JACK Whoops.
KIDS (CRINGING) Ooooh!
Everyone, including Jack this time winced along with the kids, and Jack muttered "Oops?"
There's a moment of silence as the kids wait to see if Jamie is okay. Then, Jamie rises up from behind the sofa grinning, a new gap in his smile. He holds up a tooth.
JAMIE Cool! A Tooth!
KIDS (WALLA) Dude, that means cash! Tooth Fairy cash! I love the Tooth Fairy!
JACK (his fun cut short) Oh, no...
"wait, why isn't he excited?" Emma asked, turning towards Sky, who just shook her head, small tears forming in her eyes
KIDS (WALLA) That's totally awesome. You lucky bug! Lucky!
JACK No!
JAMIE I gotta put this under my pillow!
KIDS (WALLA) I wish I lost my tooth.
JACK Ah, wait a minute! Come on, hold on, hold on! What about all that fun we just had? That wasn't the Tooth Fairy, that was me!
"He's trying to be seen" Tooth said sadly, to answer Emma's question
KIDS (WALLA) I lost two teeth in one day once - remember that?! What are you gonna spend your money on? What are you gonna buy? How much do you think she's going to leave?
As Jack looks down from the statue his frustration grows. Storm clouds overhead rumble and darken. Flurries of snow begin to intensify.
Bunny's ears twitched as he remembered the blizzard of '68 on Easter Sunday. had that been caused because of Jack's feelings? he glanced over at the snow-spirit, a small feeling of respect beginning to form.
KIDS (WALLA) Let's go...I'm cooold! My ears are freezing. I can't feel my toes. Ah, it's hot cocoa time.
Jack jumps down from the statue, trying to engage the kids. But it's too late, the kids take off. Jack blocks Jamie's way as the boy comes running at him.
JACK What's a guy gotta do to get a little attention around here! WHOOOSH!
Jamie runs through Jack, as if he where a ghost. Jack is left momentarily shaken, then...
Jaime looked down "I'm really sorry Jack, I didn't know"
"It's alright kid" Jack said sadly "I'm kinda used to it...300 years of being invisible does that to ya" Mrs. Overland blinked away tears. she was beginning to see this boy as her own son, and it was heartbreaking that he had been on his own for 300 years.
CUPCAKE (walla; mocking her FRIENDS) "Oh, I'm cold, I'm cold, I'm co- old."
KIDS (O.S.) (WALLA) Somebody take a picture. Hey, stop! That was really awesome.
They're gone. Jack is alone again. His temper subsides. He whips up a little wind and disappears.
SEQ. 700 - NIGHT FALLS IN TOWN INT. JAMIE'S BEDROOM - NIGHT
Jamie plays with a TOY ROBOT as DRAWINGS AND CHARTS of mystery creatures hang on the wall behind him: UFO's, aliens, Bigfoot, you name it. There's even a drawing of Jamie flying in midair on his sled.
"Impressive collection" Asher commented, and several other kids nodded in agreement
JAMIE (O.S.) ...I did this jump and it was amazing and I slide under a car and it was awesome! Then I was flying down this hill and I was like whoosh, whoosh, whoosh through all these cars, and then the sled hit this, this thing, and I was like way up in the air.
He mimes flying in the air with his robot, then CRASHING to the bed as Sophie and their dog sit listening-
"Man that's a big dog" Sky said, then glancing at Bunny from the corner of her eye "And it's a grey-hound too"
JAMIE - and then BAM! The sofa hit me, and, and see? (opens mouth, tries to say `my tooth came out!) Ah hoo hay ow!
We reveal JAMIE'S MOM in the room. Sophie LAUGHS and tries to stick a finger in the gap in his gums.
JAMIE'S MOM Alright you, tooth under your pillow?
Jamie sets the TOY ROBOT on his nightstand, then grabs a stuffed rabbit next to his pillow to reveal a CAMERA AND FLASHLIGHT.
Sky suddenly hit pause, and began to study the robot intesly
"Um...Is there something wrong?" Jaime asked
Sky shrugged "Just making sure you aren't sleeping next to a Decepticon or an evil Mini-Con"
Jaime stared blankly, but Sky made no move to answer, then, after a few more moments, she sat back down and hit play
JAMIE Yeah. I'm ready.
JAMIE'S MOM Now don't stay up trying to see her, Jamie, or she won't come.
JAMIE But I can do it this time! You wanna help me, Soph? We can hide and see the Tooth Fairy!
SOPHIE (CRAZED) Hide, hide, hide, hide!
"Don't give her too much sugar" Jack advised "I watched one time when she ate so much, she was awake for almost three days straight" those involved shuddered, remembering the days of Sophie's Sugar Rush.
Jamie's Mom picks Sophie up off the bed and lifts her over her shoulder. Their dog gets up and begins licking Jamie's face.
JAMIE'S MOM Uh uh, straight to bed now, mister.
JAMIE Mom... ...
We see Jack Frost, outside, hanging upsidedown watching them through the window. A pang. The glass frosts over.
Small tears were falling from several eyes. Mrs. Bennet, Mrs. Overland, and Emma. all were sad because this poor boy just wanted a family, but could never have one.
EXT. ROOF OF JAMIE'S HOUSE - CONTINUOUS
JACK If there's something I'm doing wrong, can you, can you just tell me what it is? (NO RESPONSE) Because I've tried everything, and no one ever sees me. (NO RESPONSE) You put me here, the least you can do is tell me, tell me why.
"Jack" North said softly "Manny has his reasons, he does not tell, because he does not know how" he told the white-haired teen who just turned away from the man.
A beat.
The Moon shines silently down. Jack turns away in frustration. Jack leaps off the roof, onto a telephone pole, and begins walking across some telephone wires. A stream of Dreamsand suddenly zips by behind him, then another, which swoops around in front of him. Jack turns and looks up, a smile now on his lips.
"Pretty!" Sophie said, clapping, and the Sandman made a little hat, and tipped at her, causing her to giggle.
JACK Right on time, Sandman.
The Dreamsand descends from the sky, and drifts into windows around the town. Jack runs along the telephone wire until he can reach out and intercept one of the passing streams. An adjacent stream takes the shape of a dolphin which turns toward Jack, before continuing on its way to a waiting child. Then, we follow one of the streams into a window...
Jack realized suddenly that this was right around when he had been taken to this place, so everything else was in the future, he leaned forward, unable to wait to see what would happen next.
THIS TOOK FOREVER TO WRITE!
But this chapter is finally done, so it was worth it. I hope it was worth the wait guys.
The next one will most likely not be as long, because this one chapter, is longer than the previous one I did, and that one was longer than all of my 'When Darkness Rules' chapters.
Speaking of that, I will be updating that one soon as well as the next chapter of Story of Sky. please check them both out!
Skystar901 out.
