Miracle Winter Wish

Dreams

Chapter Four: Where'd You Go?

Tooth was looking out the window that was specially made for a special young guardian, Jack Frost. Without him there the frost that made his room unique was gone. Although everyone missed him, Tooth was the one most affected by his absence. Her once bright colorful feathers were now dull and faded. Her once cheerful personality was now replaced by one full of sadness and regret. Regret for not trying harder to find him. Regret for not trying to stop him from leaving but most of all regret for not talking to him sooner. That night when she saw him sitting alone wasn't the first time. She had seen him like that for at least a month before he decided to leave.

Tooth sighed deeply and gazed up at the moon.

He must have felt so neglected...No one took the time to talk to him...not even her.

Tooth's all ready red eyes filled up with tears again. Why did she let this happen? Even if they found him why would he want to return to the North Pole? Would he even forgive them?

You and Jack have been watching the beautiful stars twinkle in the night sky.

"Hey Jack?" You say breaking the silence.

"Yeah?" He responds but continues to look up at the sky.

"You seem to be able to travel now so, why don't you head to the North Pole?"

Jack looks at you. "Why are you trying to get rid of me?" He grins and playfully asks.

You smile. "Trust me, I'd rather have you here with me but you did say you should talk to North about me and your staff, remember?"

A small frown replaces the grin. "Oh, right. That..."

You rest a hand on his shoulder. "What's wrong?"

The winter spirit shrugs your hand off his shoulder and starts to walk. He pulls the hood over his head and stuffs his hands in the pockets. You go after the winter spirit, matching your pace with his.

"What's wrong?" You ask him again.

Jack's ice blue eyes held a mixture of frustration and sadness in them. Although, the hood kept his expression out of view from you. Jack shakes his head and just continues walking.

You walk backwards in front of him. "Jack please...please say something."

"...I don't want to go back..." His response was barely audible and you almost didn't hear it.

"Why's that?"

He doesn't respond and picks up his pace, causing you to do so as well.

"Please Jack, I just want to help."

"I don't need your help." Jack takes his hand out of the pocket and grabs his staff, which he had wedged in between his arm and armpit.

As if you read his mind you grab his staff before he could will the wind to take him elsewhere. "You're not going anywhere until you tell me what's wrong."

Jack turns towards you, "I want you to come with me."

You look at him confused, "You mean you want me to go to the North pole?"

Jack simply nods at you and then he holds his hand out. You look at his hand too hesitant to grab it at first. Was he really taking you to the North pole? You think to yourself.

"You trust me don't you?"

"Of course I do." And with that, you grab his hand.

It is 10 o'clock at the North pole in nor was making his final preparations for his sleigh all of the other Guardians were running around helping out North except for one particular Guardian, Tooth, she had refused to come out of Jack's room.

All of the chaos halted to a stop when a portal started to open up in the fireplace room. You and Jack stepped through the opened portal. The Sandman was the first to notice your presence and rushed to tell the others.

You're awestruck, unable to form words so you just stand there and watch each guardian as they walk into the room. You didn't even notice that Jack had went straight to his room.

"Hey Sandy, I only see the sheila. Where's frostbite?" A very abnormally tall bunny said to a short, plump man who seemed to be made of golden sand.

The sandy man doesn't respond instead, he has sand images above his head.

Frostbite? It takes you a few seconds before you realize Frostbite must be a nickname for Jack.

You chuckle a bit. Frostbite is a cute nickname for a winter spirit. You think to yourself and look over to your right expecting to see Jack.

"Where is he?" You ask out loud.

"Tooth? What are you doing in my room?"

The guardian of memories snaps her head towards the familiar teen's voice.

"Jack...?" Is all she manages to get out, too shocked to say anything else.

Her purple-pink eyes are locked with his ice-blue eyes. She didn't want to remove her gaze from his eyes, fearing if she did then he would be gone.

Jack leans on his staff and smirks at her. "You look like you saw a ghost."

Without warning she flies over and hugs the young guardian. "I thought something happened to you, Jack! I looked for you everywhere. Where were you all this time?"

"I was with this amazing teenage girl."

"Wait, did you say a teenager? A teenager saw and heard you?"

"I know right? I didn't believe it myself at first but it's great to know older kids can see us."

"Us?"

"Yeah, I brought her with me."

Tooth lets go of Jack. "She shouldn't be here, Jack."

Jack's expression becomes serious. "What do you mean?"

"She's a teenager Jack. All teenagers at some point let go of some childhood memories, thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. That includes us, Jack. You're the one out of all of us should know this process is a part of growing up."

"I know all of that, Tooth. But I also know that teenagers are still kids even if they insist they're not. (Your name) is a lot like me, Tooth and I really like her. She's the only reason why I'm here, actually. She needs to see her childhood memories because she had a nightmare about Pitch but claims she never heard of him."

The tooth fairy sighs, "I'm sorry Jack but I can't do that."

The winter spirit cocks his head in confusion, "Why not?"

"Her childhood memories are too painful for her. If she were to relive them it would traumatize her to madness or even insanity."

Jack slumps down to the floor, overwhelmed by shock. "W-What happened t-to her?" He whimpers.

"I don't think yo-"

"Don't tell me what I want, Tooth. Just please tell me."

Everything comes to a halt once again when it starts to snow inside. You knew Jack was behind the strange event but unlike the other times, there was nothing cheerful or peaceful about the storm.

Jack was upset about something.