Things are starting to turn...Let's see what happens on this next installment. Oh, and to answer TeddyBear98 question...I dun goof'd, I sorta lost track from one name to another aha, my bad but don't worry, I fixed it. To feathered moon wings, Spanish is my second language actually so I understood your "selective" words but don't worry, it made me giggle, seriously, I lol'd. Anyways...Enjoy!

Dear Jack;

Sorry I haven't been answering your letters lately, I've been to busy playing with Marsh. I promise to be more active in the letters, anyways, when do you get out of school?

Your friend,

Siria

Dear Siria;

It's okay, I've been busy with stuff so it's not a big deal. So, you've been having fun with Marsh huh? Sounds like you guys are getting along real well. Oh, and I get out around June, why you ask?

Your friend,

Jack

Yeah, Marsh and I are the best of friends and I wanted to know when you get out of school because I want to go visit you sometime.

Really? You want to visit me? Are you sure, because I live in a city and I know you don't really feel comfortable about that.

It's okay, I've gotten so much better at being near things that I don't feel so uncomfortable about it besides, I really want to see you and thank you in person for everything you've done.

I haven't done anything special.

Yes you have, you've done more than you can ever imagine and I can't wait to see you.

Wow, I really don't know what to say other than, where you you want to meet?

Just tell me the place and I'll be there.

Okay then, I live in Burgess so how about at the pond near the woods?

Sure, I can't wait to finally meet you.

You're telling me! I'm going to meet the summer spirit, that's way too cool. Can't wait to hang out with you.

Your friend,

Jack

The winter spirit took in the cold air as he sat in the railings of his balcony, even though he had sounded eager to meet Siria at Burgess he felt a huge pit in his stomach; he knew that at that moment, all the lies, all the charades would be off. Jack looked at his injured hand, the pinky had healed itself and it looked new but it was still tender, the time was nearing and as much as he didn't want it to come he had to tell her. Since their time on May Day, he didn't feel right anymore to play all these different people; he had gotten her trust, they promised each other to be friends till the end, right? So, why keep it up? He felt confident that their friendship would help them both get through this rather unfortunate and confusing event.

Now, as would be expected one would think, Jack, didn't you say you would do anything to keep this a secret? So why now, when you seem to be out of the clear? To answer this one has to go a few days back, after their time on May day; Jack learned that Siria hadn't told him everything.

Jack gently wrapped the gauze around his little finger, the wounds had already begun to heal but it still stung with the intensity from the first winter spirit had never felt such a pain in his life and he didn't want to feel such a thing ever again. He had to be more cautious, he had to make sure he was protected before he did something as dumb as that again. Jack let out a sigh of relief when he finished dressing his wounds, the winter spirit observed his handy work, not bad, it barely looked noticeable against his porcelain skin.

"Great" Jack said to himself "Just got to watch over it and make sure it's good and I'll be alright." the young winter spirit then headed out of the bathroom, he made sure he acted as casual as possible as to not draw attention to himself.

"Are you sure you can't lend me any of your yetis?"

"I am sorry Tooth but now ve are in middle of production."

"Then what about...um, maybe not the elves. Oh, but I really need help."

"You need help in what?" The two experienced guardians looked towards the sound of the voice, the winter spirit was standing at the entrance of the hallway.

"Ah Jack" North said "Maybe you can help vith Tooth's problem."

Jack looked to the colorful guardian "What's wrong Tooth?"

"It's my helpers" Tooth started "A good bunch of them have gotten sick and I need to take care of them and make sure they get better but I can't go retrieving teeth and taking care of my ladies at the same time. My other divisions are already spread thin among the work and I came to North asking for help."

"But I need yetis here at pole." North said as he ended her sentence.

"It's that bad huh?" Jack said to Tooth, the guardian sighed in defeat.

"Okay, I'll help you Tooth."

"Really!?" Tooth said, Jack nodded his head "Oh, thank you so much Jack."

"No problem." Jack said, with a big smile Tooth called for Baby Tooth "Okay Baby Tooth, you ready for this?"

The helper nodded enthusiastically.

"I need you to help guide Jack to the houses and retrieve the teeth, can you do that?"

Baby Tooth nodded again.

"You ready?"

"I said are you ready!"

This went on for a bit longer, Tooth loved to prep up her ladies every so often before they go off to a mission. Once Tooth had her helper pumped she flew to North how gave her a bag and then flew to over to Jack.

"Here you go Jack" She said as she handed over the bag "Just try not to wake up the kids and please remember to leave money under their pillow. We don't want another fiasco like last time."

"Don't worry about it Tooth." Jack assured the guardian "We'll be in and out and done before you know it." The teenager then looked at Tooth's helper "Ready Baby Tooth?" Baby Tooth nodded happily and with the blessing of the wind the pair flew off to help the guardian of memories collect her precious teeth.

"Okay okay, I won't wake him..."

"Yeah I know"

"Yeah, I know...Baby Tooth, it'll be fine this time, I promise." Jack put his hands up in defense as he tried to explain to the mini fairy his good intentions. the duo had almost been caught more than five times during their teeth round up and it was mostly because of Jack's doing. In Montana they almost got caught because Jack accidentally stepped on a tack and the pain caused him to hit the wall, almost waking the child that slept. Another one of these incidents happened in China where Jack let out a small "snow day," as one would suspect Baby Tooth was not amused with the so called accidents and she became ever so cautious of Jack's movements.

"Okay, I'm going in." Jack whispered as he propped open the window and climbed in the room. The child in question was fast asleep in his bead, his thoughts far beyond the clouds and awaiting for the tooth fairy to bring him a quarter for his tooth but in this case, the winter spirit. Jack cautiously made his way towards the bed, once he was sure the kid was fast asleep ever so gently slipped his hand under the pillow and retrieved the tooth. Once in his hand Baby Tooth flew over and placed the now missing tooth with a quarter. With that the retrieval on this house was a success and the pair zoomed out of the house before the boy woke up.

After a long journey of mishaps and success, the tooth grabbing duo made their way back to Tooth's palace. The intricate structure was at the epicenter of a thriving ravine. There were scores of mini fairies zooming in and out of the area, each group off to do their duties and help in the effort of keeping the children of the world believing in the Tooth Fairy. With a heavy sack filled with teeth in tow the friends landed at the entrance of the main palace; Tooth zoomed in and out through the corridors, her mind in different places.

"Okay, I got to categorize the teeth a the west wing...and Oh, I forgot the soup!"

"Looks like your walking on pins and needles Tooth." Jack yelled out from where he and Baby Tooth waited.

"Oh!" Tooth said as she flew over to them "You're back! So, how did it go? You guys didn't cause to much trouble did you?"

"Everything went perfect." Jack said, Baby Tooth tapped him on his head "Okay, we sorta hit a few bumps on the road but nothing too serious."

"Well, as long as you both were careful." Tooth said as she took the bag of teeth off of Jack's hands.

"Jack" Tooth began "what happened to your pinky?" The winter spirit froze when he heard the question, oh great, she saw.

"Oh this?" Jack said as he showed her his injury "I accidentally smashed my pinky on a door but don't worry about it, it's okay."

"Are you sure?" Tooth said with concern "It looks pretty bad."

"I'm sure." Jack assured the queen of the fairies "By the way, how are your girls doing Tooth?" Jack asked, Baby Tooth returned back to her mother's side.

"Oh, their doing much better." Tooth explained "It's weird though, my ladies have never gotten sick during summer."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, they said that some of the places they've gone are colder than what they usually are." Tooth said, Jack could tell she was really puzzled by it. "I should really ask Bunnymund to contact the summer spirit and get that fixed right away, I can't have another section fall ill."

"I'm sure everything will be alright." Jack replied "It must be some sort of off season or something."

"Maybe" Tooth said with a sigh "Anyways, thank you so much for helping out today, you really took a load off my wings."

"I don't want to take all the credit." Jack said with a smile "Thank Baby Tooth more, she made sure I was on track."

"Thank you for keeping him in line Baby Tooth." Tothiana said, the little helper was brought in for a well deserved hug. "Oh Jack, I almost forgot." Tooth then said as she broke her hug "I have a little treat for you as a reward for helping me out today."

"Really?" Jack said in surprise "What is it?"

"Wait right here." Tooth instructed, she then zoomed into the kitchen.

"What do you think it is?" Jack asked Baby Tooth who in turn shrugged her elbows "Got no clue either huh."

"Here it is!" Tooth cried out cheerfully as she came back into view "Ta Da!" She exclaimed as she produced a fairly sized lollipop. "The best part is that it's sugar-free so you won't get any cavities on your pearly-whites."

"Wow Thank Tooth." Jack said as he took the gift and popped it into his mouth. "Tastes pretty good for sugar-free."

"Oh, well you know I try." Tooth replied with a blush.

"I should really get back." The winter spirit said as he looked towards the outside "It's getting dark."

"Oh right!" The Tooth Fairy replied as she snapped from her blush, she then led Jack to the door. "Thanks again for helping me out Jack."

"No problem!" Jack said with a smile "See you later B.T." he then said to the mini fairy who in turn waved him goodbye. With that the teenager was airborne again, zipping past the swarms of fairies and high into the air. He flew pasts mountains and other terrain as the sky turned into the many shades of orange, purple and pink. The sundown was a good way to end the day from helping his fellow guardians.

"I wonder what Siria is doing." Jack said to himself as he enjoyed his lollipop "Maybe collecting the sun's rays again."

Jack kept flying among the clouds until a streak of orange caught his attention. Without any thought Jack broke away from his course to the north and shot straight towards the streak; in his curiosity in wanting to know what it was, Jack didn't pay attention to where he was going or rather who he was running into.

Smack!

"Ah!" Jack cried out "What did I hit!?" The collision caused Jack spit out his lollipop "Damn..." the teenager mumbled as he watched his treat fall down; his vision was soon blocked by brown. It was a bird that he had crashed into and it was certainly not happy. The creature furiously chirped at the winter spirit and without another thought swooped down to where the streak disappeared.

"Sorry about that." Jack cried out to the bird "Jeez, that brown bird really was at a rush from that orange streak." Jack then mentally slapped himself as his words echoed in his head. Brown bird, orange streak...realization swept through Jack "Siria!" he cried as he resumed his quick decent through the clouds. Exactly what was going on? Once Jack broke out of the clouds and into clear sky he could see the trail that Siria left as she crashed onto the hard earth. The bird frantically flapped near the resting place of the one who created such a mess. The winter spirit hid himself near vegetation to see what had caused his friend to fall from the sky.

"Come on Siria" Jack whispered "Get up." As if by command the sun girl began to prop herself up; her hat was gone and her hair undone. Just as she brought herself up she fell again and broke into a coughing fit. Jack was horrified at what he saw, puffs of grey smoke spewed with every cough and the glow she always had around flickered and at times dangerously came close to going out. Flint chirped hysterically in trying to get the girl to snap out of the fit; thankfully with a cough ending with fire she was able to.

"Flint..." Siria breathed out "I'm growing...cold..." The tired girl then began to slowly crawl out of the ditch she made; she then almost robotically reached out for her hat and placed it on her hat she didn't even fix her hair.

"I'll be better with another trip to the desert." Siria deadpanned "This is just temporary." Without another word the girl launched herself to the sky and disappeared into the clouds; Flint reluctantly followed behind. Jack looked up to the sky where the two disappeared, he tried processing the scene that transpired in front of him and then, it all clicked. Tooth's fairies became sick because of the season, the season they are in now is summer and the spirit who controlled summer was sick! How didn't Jack see this before? what if there were signs but he just ignored them? He had to confront her about this, he had to. Then, another thought came to him, he is cold. What if he put her at risk with every meeting, what if his presence sped up this illness that inflicted his friend.

"I guess the jigs up." Jack said in defeat "I gotta tell her who I am before this gets worse." With disappointment in his voice the winter spirit resumed his route in the sky. What a horrible way to end a good day such as this.

Jack sighed again as he looked on into the horizon; he knew this day would come but he didn't think it would come so soon, it felt way too soon but what other choice did he have? He couldn't just watch his good friend struggle with her illness if he could be contributing to it. He had doubts of what she would say but he was certain that their time together had changed her views about him; he could only hope it had.

A man looked on in horror as he walked around and observed the sight of what looked to be a meteor crash. A woman dressed in clothes befitting a queen watched silently as the man inspected the scene; his face turned in disgust of what he saw.

"What disrespect for the forest." He proclaimed, he then looked to the woman "Why have you summoned me to such a site Great Mother?" the man asked as he bowed his head in respect to the great entity in front of him; her essence carried the wind of one so regal.

"I have a task for you Cernunnos, Spirit of the Forest." The great lady said. "It revolves with this such incident."

"Tell me your wish and it shall be so."

"I want you to wake the spirit of autumn and I want you both to act as my representatives in the presence of the guardians."

"Why do you seek council with the guardians Great Mother?" Cernunnos asked the woman before them.

"I seek punishment." The woman answered sternly.

"Punishment? Is it this? Have the good protectors done this to anger you?"

"No, it is not them that has done such a thing but a one that has committed such act. I seek to bring punishment the winter spirit."

Cernunnos looked up to the woman, her face clearly depicted her disapproval of the winter spirit for what ever he had so done. "To punish the winter would be fruitless Great Mother, he is an entity of free will and a newly indicted guardian. The others will not be pleased"

"The winter spirit is first and foremost under my jurisdiction." The woman snapped "His loyalty is first to me and if he so much crosses me he would promptly receive punishment!"

"Has he crossed you?"

"No" The woman said "He has done more than cross me, the winter spirit has broken one of my laws." The spirit of the forest's ears pricked up when he heard those words. Had the winter spirit really broken Mother Nature's command? He knew the youth was thick-headed and mischievious but would he really go as far as to do such a thing?"

"When did you receive word of this?" the entity asked.

"Months ago, that is when he first broke my word." The woman answered plainly.

"If you had word of this beforehand then why now?" Cernunnos asked "Why act now instead of when he first committed the act?"

"I hoped he would learn his lesson with situations I have personally put him in but it seems reason does not set in his head and it seems he will not cease his activities. Now, with your assistance I must reduce to more public actions and bring him before his comrades."

"Will he be able to prove himself innocent Great Mother?"

"No," Mother Nature said harshly "Jack Frost is guilty as charged."

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