Chapter 10
After Mother Nature and Jack left, the remaining Guardians set in silence to continue with their duties. Over the course of five months the Guardians, when wanting to, were only allowed to see Jack twice. Both of which Jack was asleep, curled up in a bed of leaves, flowers and grass. The other times that they wanted to visit Mother Nature refused to let them. Jamie came to the Pole numerous times to see whether Jack was there but left disappointed when told by North that he was not. Even the Guardians missed him but Bunny seemed to miss him the most despite their frequent verbal fights. There was no sign of Pitch, since Jack left with Mother Nature, not even a single grain of his black sand. Another five months past and there was still nothing about Jack until one day.
x North Pole x
North sat in his office in silence, after a while he pushed himself up and away from his chair and began to pace around his office with his head bowed. He did this for a while before stopping by a set of shelves and glanced at the items on it his gaze eventually fell upon his Matryoshka doll. Sighing he picked up the doll, remembering about the first time he showed it to jack, and stared at it in his hands until the silence was broken by a yeti. The yeti burst through the door and began to blabber on in gibberish. North listened to the yeti trying to figure out what he was trying to say.
"Vat do you mean?" North said trying to get the yeti to slow down.
The yeti started again going slower this time and pointed to outside the room. The yeti left and North followed it to the control panel.
"Vat is it now? Dis better be important." North said impatiently.
The yeti who called for him pointed in the direction of a window by which the moon was in clear view.
"Ah Manny, vat is de news." North said, a smile forming on his face at his old friend.
"Good morning Nicholas, there is no news. I only need you to summon the Guardians for a meeting. It's urgent."
"Vat! Is it Pitch?" North said quickly.
"No, I just need you to summon the other Guardians." He said before the glow from the moon disappeared as did the moon.
North took a while to process what was to be done before turning to the control panel and activated the lights for the Guardians. North waited leaning forward, his hands resting on the panel, and looking up at the slowly rotating globe.
North waited in the same position for about ten minutes before greeting Bunny as he came in complaining about the cold, followed by Tooth talking quickly with her entourage of mini fairies and finally Sandy floating in lazily. North offered his friends eggnog and cookies before starting.
"My friends, you are probably wondering why I have called you to come." North said getting the attention of the Guardians.
"Yeah mate, why did you call us? The last meeting was only a week ago." Bunny said with his back to the fireplace trying to warm himself up.
Sandy nodded his head also wondering what the reason was for them being there.
"Man in Moon asked me to call dis meeting. However I don't know what for though."
"So you summoned us here because Man in Moon told you to?" Bunny said rubbing his arms.
"Come on Bunny, I'm sure that Man in Moon has a reason?" Tooth said.
"Yes I indeed have a reason." They heard Man in Moon say as they turned to the window where moon light shone brightly through.
"So what is it then?" Bunny said moving away from the fireplace.
"The reason is that Jack will be returning to you soon."
"When?" Tooth said excitedly
"Soon."
"Thank you Manny." North said as the pale blue light that shone through the window dimmed and disappeared.
"Finally Jack will be coming back to us after ten months with Mother Nature." Bunny said smiling.
"But when though? Soon can mean any time." Tooth said and Sandy shrugged his shoulders at the question.
They stood in silence with smiles on their faces, at the thought of Jack returning to them, the only sounds to be heard was the bustling of the yetis at work, the faint jingles of the elves and the sound of Tooth's wings flapping. It was not long bore the temperature in the room began to drop gently and the windows in the area started to rattle and shake. They heard the yetis bustling hush and two figures appeared on the other side of the room. One stood in front of the other hiding them, the two began to walk towards them. The one in front was Mother Nature, her hair the same as last time and she wore an earthy brown dress and green dress with her hand together in front of her while the other, although had their head was down and face covered, they knew who it was. It took a while before Tooth said it.
"Jack."
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