Light blue eyes snapped open, wide, and in shock from what had happened. Jack looked around the room he was in, and it wasn't-
Wait..
Room?
The last place, Jack was, was the forest, and that place was completely burnt down. Now, he was in a dark room, with splotches of white snow everywhere. He tried to sit up, but, Jack felt even weaker than before the fire, and now, he barely felt any of his power left in his veins.
Everything around him was slightly blurry, and his senses were all blurred. Jack slowly sat up, fire in his joints, and rubbed his forehead, which was surprisingly warm.
"Hello?" he rasped out weakly, his vocal cords weak from screaming earlier.
"Ah, you're awake, Jack?" Koz's voice echoed out from the walls, and he came out of a corner, but when he took a step closer, he tripped, and fell on his face.
He swallowed a curse, before standing back up, embarrassed, "Sorry, still getting used to the shadows in this form.."
Jack just dumbly nodded, before slumping downwards, and closing his eyes, but not going to sleep, "What happened? Why.." his voice was still raspy.
"Well, I felt your fear, and came to it as my job is. And, well, I found you on the floor, in the middle of a burnt forest..But, what forest was it?" Koz looked unnerved when he asked the last question.
Jack looked downcast, his snowy bangs covering his eyes, before answering in a whisper, "It was the, Amazon.."
Koz's breath hitched, and he felt his heart skip a beat for his daughter, "What. Happened?" he muttered with clenched teeth, pain lacing his words, and worry obvious in his eyes.
Jack bit the inside of his lip before answering, his voice still weak, "I woke up after having a small battle with, Aiden-" at this, Koz looked nervous, "-while helping, North deliver presents..Then I woke up, being protected by, mom's plants, and then..the fire just..started I guess..And it was daytime, and, I guess..the plants were supposed to protect me, even though I tried to help them.." he looked down, thinking of something.
"Why were you so pale when, I saw you earlier? And you were extremely warm, as well."
Jack licked his lips to moisten them, "I'm thinking that whatever I did to, Aiden, took a lot of my power away, or something.."
Koz nodded in understanding, walking up to his grandson, and pushing him down into the pile of snow he lay in, his staff lay right next to him. He gathered more snow from all around the room, and poured it all over, Jack.
"You are going stay here, and rest, while I try and find, Seraphina. Or at least some way to help you."
Jack just nodded solemnly, and watched as his grandfather disappeared into the shadows, leaving the land of light.
He sighed deeply, wondering where his mother could have gone, and why she just left him in her jungle, and how the fire had even started.
Everything was just getting more and more confusing, and nothing was making sense.
A soft light flooded the area, and from it, Chander illuminated, walking forward.
"Yo." Jack murmured, trying to get his cold back.
"Jackson.."
"Why are you here?" Jack began weakly, "Doesn't it have to be something serious for you to come here or something?"
Chander smiled softly, before kneeling before, Jack. He no longer wore his pure white armor, but a plain light blue shirt, and white pants, with white boots.
"Is it bad I wanted to see my son?" he asked with a light tone, a chuckled hidden. He ran his fingers through, Jack's hair in a fatherly fashion, but his jovial tone died away quickly and a morbid look crossed his features.
"There is something not right going on here, Jackson..But the main reason, I'm here is to help you with your power situation.."
"What happened, then? Why am I feeling so weak?" Jack growled, unhappily.
A frown graced, Chander's hard features, his eyes turning slightly cold, but not at, Jack, "When you attacked, Aiden, you..In a word, 'transferred' your powers to him, but in the form of ice, but it wouldn't grant him power, it would counter his own..
..As, Aiden is a fire spirit, you putting your power within him, countered his own powers, and weakening him. Unfortunately, it also weakened your own power."
"How can I get it back?"
"You must reconnect with your center, Jackson. Become one with yourself once more, and connect with your power. You have never used this much power in an attack before-if you don't count the time with, Pitch-so your body cut your power off, so it didn't consume you.."
"What do you mean? Like, when you my ice was cut off, because it would..consume my body.."
"I mean, that if all your power was unleashed all at once, it would be too great of a power, and would consume your mortal..or immortal per say, body."
"Alright..Heh..I really have that much power..nice." Jack chuckled lightly, even in the sense of grave danger, and bodily consumption.
Chander smiled softly, his golden eyes softening only for his son, but they hardened once more, as he looked away, "You must take care of that, as I can only give you enough power to let you move freely. As of now, I must look for dear, Mother Nature.."
"Wait!" Jack stopped him, after hearing his mom mentioned, "What happened with my mom?"
Chander sighed deeply, and stared at, Jack, golden orbs drilling into, azul ones, "It seems dear, Mother Nature, has gone missing..And that is not good, as without her, the elements will go out of conjunction..but what, I'm really worried about is how, the others cannot find her.." he trailed off to himself, before continuing after a few moments.
"So, I'm worried that even I cannot find her.." Chander glanced upwards, before back to, Jack who was slightly leaning up, ignoring the fire in his limbs, "I must depart. Use this power to conjoin with your power, and embrace your center. I'm trusting you with this, Jackson. Good luck," and with that, Chander, placed his forefinger and thumb on, Jack's forehead, transferring only a tiny fraction of, Chander's power, to help his son.
Chander nodded before standing up, and walking to a corner, that now illuminated light, white light. He stepped one foot, in, but turned around to, Jack, who was shakily standing up.
"Beware," he uttered one last warning before departing, "There is a rat amongst us. Be careful who you trust, Jackson..and..
Good Luck.."
And he was gone.
Jack exhaled deeply, before gathering his bearings, and standing up straight, a new energizing strength coursing through his veins.
He had to 'embrace his center' and he had a faint idea on how to do it, but to do it, he would need some help.
To, Jack took off, through, Koz's underground tunnels, to the ravine of Despair, where he would find some old friends.
Unbeknownst to him, the Northern lights were shining at full, high in the sky, alerting of an emergency, that, Jack would never know of, until too late.
North Pole
"What is it, North!" Bunny asked, getting straight to the point, it had been hundreds, maybe even thousands of years since, North had summoned the full, Northern lights, and when he did, it meant big trouble.
Sandy was already there, having a silent conversation with, North. But, Tooth, and, Jack were no where to be seen.
"Ehm..guys, where's the, Sheila, and Frostbite?" Bunny butted in on the conversation, worried.
North had a strange serious expression on the normally jovial man's face, "Jack is fine, Manny explain that he is resting, but the problem is, Tooth.."
Sandy nodded solemnly, and showed a picture of a tooth above his head, then ropes around the tooth, then a question mark.
"Ya mean, Tooth's been taken?"
Sandy shrugged, and frowned, before reaching into his sandy clothes, and pulling something out.
Bunny clenched his paws, and narrowed his eyes, at the scorched, and burned iridescent green feather, that once belonged to the, Tooth Fairy. Once bright and gleaming, now dull and gray, burned at the tips with, what could only be fire.
North nodded in silent conversation, before gingerly taking the feather into his large but gentle hands, observing the feather, taking in everything that could be a clue.
"What could have happened..?.." North spoke solemnly to himself.
"Maybe we should check 'er, Palace? It's the most likely place to check first.."
Sandy nodded at the two in conversation, and motioned that they should go now, and hurry.
As time was against them.
Ravine of Despair
"Oi! Is anyone here?" Jack shouted, his voice reverberating across the cavern walls.
"Hello?"
Hello
Hello
Hello
Jack smirked deviously, and yelled, "Jack is awesome,"
Jack is awesome
Awesome
Awsome
"Jack is the coolest!"
Jack is the dumbest
Dumbest
Dumbest
"Hey!" he cried, and yelped when something flew over him, and snatched his hoodie, lifting him in the air.
"Oi! Whatchu want, Frost?" Fay asked, as she was the one holding him, by his hoodie.
"Where did you guys send of, the April Fools twins I sent here?"
"April Fools? Twins? Havn't seen any of them before," Dev popped out of no where.
"Really?" Jack asked, cocking his head to the side, "Cause I told them to come here, and ask you for help.."
"Well, we didn't see anyone come round here..But you should ask that tracker, girl. Deceit was it?" Fay advised, while tossing, Jack to the floor, "Now skat! We gotta take care of some stuff," Fay said, and beamed, while dragging, Dev away.
"See ya..I guess.." Jack murmured, and was about to fly off when he heard screams coming from further in the cavern.
He was about to go see what happened, when he noticed the screams weren't of, Fay or, Dev, and he was pretty sure there was some laughing that he thought belonged to, Fay.
"Annd, I should probably leave it alone.." He advised himself in thought.
So he flew off to the, Redwood forest, where, Deceit said to find her, if any of them ever needed her again.
He flew up to the secret entrance of her lair of sorts, put in the secret code, only, Deceit and her friends knew, and slipped in.
"Yo, Deceit! You there?" Jack yelled out, but surprisingly, his voice didn't echo. The black halls were still illuminated red, but spiders were crawling all along the walls.
Light footsteps were heard, and, Jack saw a very tired looking, Deceit. Her hair was down, with massive bedhead, her red eyes half lidded, and unfocused, with a pair of silken sweat pants, and a silken button down shirt.
"What do ya want, Frosty!?" she barked.
"What happen to the, 'dearie'?" Jack inquired, half afraid of the sleepy wrath of this woman.
"It's bloody 4 A.M in the morning, Frost! What the bloody hell do you want!?" Deceit actually growled.
"Oh...it's that early..Well, uh, I just wanted to know-"
THUD
"What was that?" Jack asked.
"Something," Deceit grumbled.
"That something just bumped into something and-uhhhh.." Jack trailed off, when he saw an equally, if not more, sleepy, Fear, trudging towards the two, literally bumping into every wall, and everything.
The spiders were literally using webs, to try and keep their master upright. His dark soulless eyes looked much less menacing when they were half lidded, and quite dim. Fear's hair was just one giant:
POOF..
"Yeees?" he groaned, still half asleep.
"Dangit, Frost! You woke 'im up! Do you know how hard it is to get the spirit of fear friggin FEAR to go to sleep! What do you want already!?" Deceit slammed her darkening fist into the wall, fingernails, now growing into sharp claws, like an animal's, a large dent in the wall now resided there.
"Do you know where, the April Fool's twins are right now?" he squeaked, trying to not get on the nerves of the literal half beast woman.
"Paris, now go away."
"But where in-"
"You'll know..now please leave, Frost before I kill you," Deceit muttered, being completely truthful.
"Okay!" Jack yelped and left the hideout.
"Okay, dear. Now, let's get you back to back, I'll get some milk," Deceit smiled with honey, leading a sleep drunk, Fear across the hall.
"And maybe add some sleeping powder..gosh.." she mumbled under her breath.
Jack flew high in the air, across the land, using, Wind, letting his thoughts wander.
After what seemed like only a few moments, an explosion sounded, snapping, Jack out of his thoughts.
He snapped down to the where the explosion sounded, and raced towards it, only to find the Eiffel tower, cover, and buildings all near in, including the people, all covered in pink paint, and glitter.
On the very tip of the, Eiffel tower, where two very familiar twins, laughing at the scene below.
Jack rubbed his temple, but laughed all the same, as he made his way up to the two, spirits of, April Fools.
Jinx, and Zephyr.
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Alright, two people are missing, there's a rat somewhere, and by request, the April Fools twins are BACK, and here to help, Jack get all his powers back! So yeah, till next time friends, enjoy the chapter! BECAUSE I AM SIMPLY ONE HELL OF AN AUTHOR~ ;)
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