"What the..." He shivered, he didn't like the look of the scythe, but as if by his will it turned into his normal hooked staff... only made of ice.
"Well, that's different." Jamie said, looking at the ice staff. Jack looked at it strangely and willed it a scythe again.
"Woah... it becomes a new weapon when I want it to?" He willed it back to staff form, but it would never turn be wood again.
"Oh, I guess it's pure ice now." Jack slowly floated out gently on the wind, only it was north and east wind together holding him up.
"What's going on?"
"Huh... well I guess with age comes a few new abilities. At least in your case." Jack didn't like his new abilities; he wanted to be himself again, which made the east wind become shy and only blow half mast.
"Hey now, it's not you. I'm just not used to using east and north wind before." Jamie chuckled a little.
"Well, I'm sure you'll get used to it in time. Geez... this means I probably can't keep up with you anymore... lucky you."
"Nah, I'll be just going as fast as you Jamie; no flying fast for me. I'm still new to all this power, so will be doing tiny bits." He slowly herded the snow clouds in one area while the others needed to be herded to another town.
"Jamie herd those to south west." Jack tapped each of his group and they started to make snow instantly. Jamie nodded, nudging the clouds in the direction they needed to go; he always thought of herding clouds was - for him - like herding a bunch of cold pillows. Not that they really felt cold to him.
"Knowing you that will be true once you get used to things though... you're too onry not to." Jamie says with a slight grin over one shoulder even as he herded the clouds.
"Yeah, but it's better than nothing right?" He swiftly herded the clouds, spreading them where they were supposed to go. Jamie just chuckled in response as he moved clouds about, tapping some gently to shake the snow out of them after positioning them where they needed to go. Jack smiled and iced most every house's roof with icicles, dull on the end and light so not dangerous when they fell, wouldn't hurt anyone. He peppered the ground with extra snow that sparkled like diamonds. Jamie darted around the city, frosting every pane of glass he came across while Jack worked above with the snow. Jack added swirls of frost across window panes and special pictures to special believers and new ones; he laughed a little, but suddenly felt his power spike a whole 'nother level.
"WOAH!" He burst forward like a speeding bronco.
"WOAH EAST, NORTH CALM DOWN! CHILL!" Jamie can't help but grin at Jack's choice of words.
"Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black... or however that saying goes..." Jamie says when Jack shoots past him suddenly.
"WOAH! DON'T RILE THEM UP JAMIE" Jack yelled back trying to slow down only to be shot way past Jamie by east, west and north wind now.
"WHAT THE! AHH!" Jamie giggles a little, watching.
"Rile them up? Hardly... just your use of words... I mean... aren't you already cold enough and you're telling THEM to chill?" Jack glared at Jamie and riled up his own wind, making it go completely out of control.
"Now how about that your wind's all wound up now." Jamie chuckles and works to calm down the north, which wasn't too hard if only because he only had to deal with ONE. Jack worked on his own, slowing down and just floating about; lolling into his work, creating what was needed, throwing snowballs purposely at people and Jamie mostly. Jamie caught a few and tossed them back at Jack while dodging others. Jack giggled.
"Jamie you know what this means? It's basically our anniversary, when we first met." Jamie smiled.
"Yeah... I remember that. How could I forget? That was the night I met my best friend." His eyes gleam happily. Jack smiled.
"Which means anniversary hugs!" Jamie laughed.
"I think I can deal with that." Jack tackled Jamie in the clouds, unaware that they were being watched by summer spirits. Jamie just laughed, unaware as well as he hugged Jack back.
"Come on, let's go back to North's for lunch." He smiled.
"RACE YOU THERE!" He took off, unsuspecting of the angry summer spirits following them.
"No fair! You have two to back you up!" Jamie called even as he shot after Jack. Jack smiled.
"No, I let east go back home, I'm using north silly." He flew past him, half way to North's.
"Oh ... well MAYBE I have a shot then!" Jamie calls back, trying to beat Jack back to the pole. Jack smiled and swiftly made a right by the reindeer pens. Jamie soared just a couple feet behind Jack, banking around the pens as he tried to catch up. Jack smiled, but slowed down for Jamie only to slam straight into a spirit.
"Ouch" He was worried he had hurt the other only to feel a burning sensation when he touched him in the hit.
"WATCH WHERE YOU GOING YOU STUPID WINTER!" Jamie halts when he catches up only to scowl.
"You're one to talk. What are YOU doing up HERE of all places?" The summer spirit was helped up by another.
"Yeah, well tell your buddy there to slow down." Jamie frowns at the fire spirit.
"Considering it's rare for anyone like you to be around HERE... I'd say you're the one who should be more wary. Besides, we were just having a race. Slowing down isn't an option there." They snort.
"Yeah, annoying how you bastards are, we have a talk with the Guardians today." Jamie narrows his eyes slightly.
"You're already are talking to one. In fact, you made yourself an obstacle for him." He replies coolly; he was liking this spirit less and less. He considered himself even tempered, but this spirit was being just downright RUDE... They snickered.
"Whatever like they'd ever make Jack Frost a Guardian, that was a fluke that last year." They laughed, making Jack look down in shame, remembering how bad things were then and still sort of were. That did it.
Jamie formed a snowball with a bit of ice in it and threw it hard at the spirit who'd dared say it. He didn't care what the others would think, NO ONE said that about Jack around him and got away with it. Before the spirit could recover he had flitted towards the other and slammed the two face first into the snow, snarling viciously.
"IF you EVER say that again in my presence I will see you frozen where you stand in ice you cannot melt! YOU aren't even worthy to speak to HIM let alone the other Guardians! The fact that you can't even handle your own problems proves that!" He hissed even as he let go of them before they retaliated. His eyes glittering dangerously as he stood between Jack and the two fire spirits. If they so much as twitched wrong he was going to nail them with the power of winter. He wasn't a Guardian... He didn't have to play nice... Jack was in awe at that, but at the same time begged Jamie to back off as the other two glared menacingly at Jamie and Jack mostly.
"Don't mess with fire winter rat or you'll be a puddle." Their arms engulfed in flames, Jack whimpered, feeling more ashamed. He held Jamie back.
"Please just go away, do what you need to do and go." They snickered.
"Oh how mighty you were Jack and now look at you, a sniveling baby, can't even follow orders from the Guardians; sick." Jack winced at each word holding tightly onto Jamie. Jamie's eyes burned with anger. Ice daggers formed in his hands. He pointed one at the speaker.
"You'll learn some manners if I have to carve them into your flesh you despicable fire worm!" The other created a fire blade.
"Jamie." He held him back but the twin stabbed him in the leg. Jack yelled in pain letting go of Jamie as the fire burned into his leg.
"Ow." Tears fell from the pain. Jamie shook Jack off as the North wind howled at his command and slammed the two into a snowbank with Jamie right behind them pelting them with hail in his fury. Several yards away, arms crossed and watching the fight, was Tooth. She had stayed silent though Baby Tooth settled on Jack's should, chirping quietly and trying to cheer him up. Jack held his leg in pain while the fire spirits were nearly burned out to death.
"WAIT PLEASE! HAVE MERCY!" Jack hated cries of pain, it hurt him more that Jamie was doing that than good. It hurt him, Jamie didn't know that though that pained cries harmed him no matter what. Jamie was furious and the wind that much more so that the spirits would DARE to use fire against Jack when he hadn't shown the slightest bit of hostility; it pinned them to the ground while Jamie thrust the tips of the nevermeltice daggers at their throats.
"I suggest you apologize or do you want me to cut you to ribbons..." Jamie's eyes darkened as he glared at the two. They should have known better... should have known that he wasn't a Guardian and thus wasn't subject to the rules that the Guardians held themselves to... Tooth decided this was a good time to intervene.
"I suggest you listen to him." Her voice was as cold as the wind that held the two spirits down in the snow. The spirits shuttered, Jack groaned, not wanting Jamie to do this.
He called the winds back and tried to send them on their merry way to the sun; he sighed tiredly, having used the last of his energy then. The wind was reluctant to obey, just as furious at the two as Jamie is; though it does release them it swirls angrily around the three, not about to let them just leave though... Jack went unconscious, his body going to shut down since the stab was too close to his vital organs; the spirits winced and knew they were dead now but they did apologize before Jack went under the black of unconsciousness. Sensing the danger to Jack, Jamie scowls at the two before rushing to his side to ice the wounds and keep him from bleeding out before picking him up and seeing him to the infirmary room.
Tooth flies over to the two spirits who look like they're petrified.
"I'll let the others decide if we should bother even considering your request after they have learned what you have done. Get a move on. Now." Tooth's tone doesn't leave any room for argument. They leave faster than you can say 'merry christmas.' Jack groaned, his head lolled into Jamie's neck as the pain was unbearable, even in unconsciousness. Tooth watched them leave with a raised eyebrow before going to join the others for the meeting once there she explained why Jack wasn't joining them and that they should speak with him only about what he would need to know for certain. None of the others were happy to hear about the incident.
Jamie cooled the burns as best he could as he laid Jack on a bed and got a yeti to tend to the wounds, sending a painkiller into Jack's system once the wounds had been seen to. Jack groaned groggily waking up during stitching.
"Oww." Jamie winced at that and the yetis attempted a sedative then. Jack groaned, hating the feel of cold metal in his skin before falling asleep again. Jamie didn't leave Jack's side for a moment. One yeti came in with a pitcher and a glass of ice water for Jack, Jamie smiled at this as the yeti set it nearby; the Guardians, meanwhile, discuss what they can do to make it known to all spirits for certain that Jack was a Guardian and was to be treated with respect... For the summer spirits... Bunny decided to make a little visit to Mother Nature... leaving the other three to discuss matters. Jack awoke tired and in pain.
"Ow." He held his neck where the needle was put in for the sedative.
"Ow." Jamie gently put one hand on Jack's.
"Hey..."
"Jamie?" He looked at him, confused at why everything hurts so much again. Jamie smiled gently at Jack, no trace of his anger from before evident and his eyes are the mix of brown and blue they have always been since he'd become a winter spirit.
"How do you feel?"
"I don't know n-numb." Jack didn't like this feeling, he'd just got healed and for what? To get hurt again... Why did everyone around the world want to hurt him? He was just a winter spirit basically...
"Well, at least the painkiller is working then." This scared Jack, that this many spirits wanted to hurt him. I don't even know what I did to upset them... He thought. Jack grunted in pain a little, but not much; he coughed, having a really dry throat.
"Thirsty?" Jamie asked after a moment. Jack nodded his head really fast.
"Dry, yes please." Jamie handed Jack the glass of ice water that the yetis had brought for him. He drank it in one gulp.
"Thank you." He sighed.
"What happened this time that made me end up here?"
"That fire spirit... apparently the coward had the gull to attack you but didn't have the guts to face up to the Guardians." Jack winced.
"Why does my insides feel like they're missing?" A yeti warbled to Jamie not to tell Jack that they had to remove some organs that he could live without but might have needed if he were alive. Jamie wisely listened.
"Um... well... the burn was kind of deep... the yeti says you'll probably feel that way for a little while but that you'll eventually heal and won't feel it anymore." Jack sighed.
"But I feel so empty and a normal knife stitch shouldn't even be half as big as it is... WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME THAT THEY HAD TO CUT A HUGE HOLE IN MY BODY!" Jack screamed at the end, he was scared about what had happened. Jamie hugged Jack.
"Nothing. Nothing is wrong with you... it was them. They were rotten, dirty cowards who couldn't even take responsibility for harming you when Tooth talked to them. They didn't stick around for whatever reason it was they'd even come for originally. I heard Bunny paid Mother Nature a visit too... none of the others are happy about what happened." Jack was tired of this.
"Why do spirits hate me? I'm just one little winter spirit... I had done nothing, even some of my own kind attacked me in my younger years."
"Jealousy I imagine. They can't stand that they don't have what you do. You're a Guardian, a wonderful friend, a generous and thoughtful lover... You're everything anyone could ever want... and they can't stand that I got you first... That you have believers and they don't." Jamie says, gently brushing his fingers against Jack's cheek as he speaks. Jack sniffed, tears falling as his body throbbed in pain from the missing organs and the change of space. Jamie settled next to Jack, careful not to bump any of the wrapped wounds as he snuggled as close as he can. Jack hissed in pain but was slowly lulled into a slumber that he wouldn't wake from for 30 days. Jamie stayed by Jack's side the entire time. Jack snored quite loudly, North said he could hear it from his office, at one point, and that's on the other side of the workshop. Jamie told North he didn't know what the Guardian was talking about when North tried bringing it up one morning when he'd been given breakfast and the Guardian had come to visit him. Jack started to stir on October 31st, Halloween. He groaned groggily.
"Hey." Jamie murmurs softly. Jack didn't want to wake from this wonderful slumber, it was quiet, warm and safe. Jamie chuckled a little, gently trailing kisses along Jack's face; he groaned and opened those electric iced orbs.
"What mmm?" Jack moaned in protest but woke up in fluffy blankets.
"What happened..." He said, tired still. Jamie shifted to give Jack a proper, loving kiss then. He 'mmed' into the kiss; a yeti knocks politely first before entering, knowing their status, they brought in a buffet tray of food a whole turkey, sweet potatoes, corn, biscuits, more pies than the eye could see, some various kinds cookies and candies along with fruits and veggies. Jamie pulled back from the kiss at the knock, calling out that they should come in; he chuckled when he saw the feast.
"Guess North wanted to make sure you had enough to eat... Donno how he'd know you'd be awake today." Jack rubbed his throat, suddenly he just couldn't talk except for what he'd said before. He rubbed it more to hear his voice, it's as if someone took his voice box and turned it off. He said Jamie's name in worry, but nothing came out. Jamie frowned a little at that.
"Lost your voice huh? Well... you haven't used it in like a month... not a surprise. It will come back again soon, just worry about eating for now. Although some how I doubt we can eat ALL of this even between the two of us!" Jack nodded but shook his head at North's will to feed them this much; he took a helping of turkey leg, some potatoes and steamed beans along with a biscuit and honey, gravy sauce with cranberries, grapes and a large helping of cheeses. It looked like a mountain of food compared to Jamie's plate. Like he'd said, Jack had not eaten or talked or anything in a month. Jamie just chuckled as he got his own helpings of the food and set into it. He isn't the least bit surprised how hungry Jack was. Jack attacked that food with eyes of a hungry wolf; he made no sound, but closed his eyes in bliss and boy did he need a shower... He sniffed himself and swore he nearly died. Jamie snorted a little around a mouthful, fully aware of it, but he wasn't one to complain. He'd attempted to give Jack a sponge bath once... ONCE... that had gone SO wrong... he hadn't tried a second time. Jack winced, trying to ask why nobody at least tried to sponge his face or something while he was out. Realizing Jack was trying to speak, Jamie handed him a pen and paper on a clipboard. Jack wrote: why didn't anyone try to at least sponge me while I slept?
Jamie gave Jack a sheepish look.
"Um... well... I DID try once... it ... didn't go well..." Jack wrote down eyes arched curiously: elaborate
"Well, I got you out of the hoodie easily enough, but that's about it... You rolled over away from the sponge every time I tried just washing a spot and when I tried to get a yeti to help you just froze 'em until they gave up trying to help... then you tried freezing me... and ended up freezing the water... and the sponge..." Jack rubbed his temples before writing: had you even tried putting warm water on me? I don't freeze things as easily when I'm weakened and next time just tie my hands.
"I'll try the warm water next time... did try tying the hands though... that did not work out because you didn't exactly freeze the tub of water with your hands... you used your foot..." Jamie gives him a look that's a cross between laughter and an 'I can't believe that you managed that...' Jack shook his head and wrote down: well let's try it now.
After having finished his entire plate of food, that was quite a lot. Jack shivered, unaware that he was missing anything, but now they'd been replaced with false organs.
"Alright." Jamie helps clear the food away and moves the clipboard away as well, but within reach before retrieving the small bowl of water and a sponge. He sets the water and sponge on a nearby bed and slips Jack from the hoodie first before retrieving the damp sponge to start washing. The stitch was now a great white scar that molded his side, large but slightly invisible against his pale skin. Jamie makes sure to be gentle with the washing, even though the stitches had long since been replaced by healed skin; he didn't want to accidentally rub some sensitive nerves the wrong way. Jack giggled as his side was so very much ticklish; he laughed... if he could laugh, but it was a dry laugh; like air being forced out of a bag.