Spring

By: Wilona Riva

Disclaimer: Don't own ROTG or DP.

Cyber cookies and lemonade if you can identify what Danny's new gift is.

Dream

"Why do you not talk to your precious Sandman about the dream?" the Spirit of Halloween asked, sitting down in a wing back checkered print chair with a cup of hot cocoa in his hands. "Even the Spirit of Fear could help explain it better than I ever could."

"It doesn't concern them," Daniel snapped, snagging a cookie from the plate an elf offered. He bit into it and made a face. "Ugh! Does everything have to taste like peppermint around here?"

"You are in North's workshop," Jack reminded him from the rafters above.

"Yeah, yeah," Daniel said dismissively, waving him off.

"Alright, Phantom, tell me of this dream of yours," Fright Knight, said, taking a sip from the mug in his hands.

"In the dream, my mom-not Mother Nature, Jack-gave me this beautiful rose flower, bright as a drop of blood freshly oxygenated, and it burned me. Also I was forced to leave my home and my family. There were some stuff from Greek myths, my mom crying and Jazz pleading, an island full of apple trees and the dream ended with Sidney saying something about 'the Avalonia helping to create some sort of barrier' and my dad confronting my mom about what she did."

The Spirit of Halloween leaned back and took another sip of hot cocoa. Jack leaned down from the rafters to see what the ghostly paladin would say.

"You're going to fall," the Fright Knight said, without looking up.

"Will not," Jack retorted, but moved backwards into a safer position.

The Fright Knight turned bright yellow eyes onto the green-clad boy in front of him. "Phantom, the dream you had was of an alternate world. The Avalonia, to that world, is yourself; cursed to never find happiness among the mortals, no matter how many times you are reincarnated among them. The blood blossom well sees to that."

"Can I send aid to myself on that world?" Daniel asked curiously.

"No," the Fright Knight replied. "Those events will work themselves out. You have no need to fear."

"Am I missing something?" Pitch asked, joining them by the fire.

"No," Daniel answered, taking another bite of his peppermint cookie. "Really, North needs to lay off the peppermint."

"Agreed," Pitch said, stretching out his feet to take in the warmth of the fire.

"So what's new?" Daniel asked him.

"The nutjob up in the moon is being mysterious again," Pitch muttered. "He's up to something and I don't like it."

"So what else is new?" the Fright Knight retorted, taking another sip of his cocoa.

Dear Diary,

I'm currently learning the role of the folklorist from travelling the globe with Katharine. Danny's going to move into the Warren as soon as Bunnymund can finish setting up a place for him. Mother Nature is also soon to arrive to properly send him into hibernation.

I have no idea if Mom and Dad received our letter. It's been a few weeks since we were able to slip it across the Void. Perhaps they are still discussing it.

Ember, Sidney, and the Fright Knight have shown no desire to leave Santoff Clausen, though the Fright Knight has his two siblings to run and plan things for him. Bunnymund is still avoiding him like the plague and North just sighs.

AND DANNY SERIOUSLY LOOKS LIKE A FREAKING HUMMINGBIRD! I, seriously, have to talk to North about getting my little brother a new wardrobe.

Sincerely,

Jazz Fenton