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Once again, the guardians found themselves with Jack and Baby Tooth in the deep, cold ravine.
Baby Tooth was sitting on one of Jack's outstretched legs, crossing her arms over her chest and waiting for Jack to snap out of his trance. Said Spirit was still staring into nothingness, his eyes unblinking. At some points, his breathing would quicken in fear, some other times it he would breath sighs of relief and a smile would stretch on his face, only to be replaced moments after by the emotionless stare.
"Oh, he's still watching his memories!" North pointed out.
After a few more minutes of silence, in the exception of Jack's small gasp at random moments, he closed his eyes and they snapped back open. Jack breathed heavily and stared at his memory box. "Did you- Did you see that!" He spluttered and looked over to Baby Tooth with wide eyes.
Baby Tooth shook her head and Jack's face split into a wide grin as he picked Baby Tooth up hastily in his cupped hands, ignoring the small fairy's protests. "I had a family! I had a sister, I saved her!" He said then laughed slightly in delight.
"He looks so happy when he realized that, I wonder why he never bothered to tell us he had a family?" Tooth said with a frown.
"I think that he only saw a few memories though, not the ones that we saw about his life as a Spirit." North said and Bunny rubbed his neck uncomfortably when he was remembered of the latest memory they saw.
Jack's laughter faltered and he looked up at the moon, whose beams of light sparkled weakly against the icy walls and floor of the ravine.
The young Spirit's eyes widen slightly in realization. "That's why you chose me…" He breathed. "I'm… I'm a Guardian!"
"Now I understand too. Manny didn't take Jack away, he saved him!" North remarked. "I'm sorry to have doubted you, old friend."
Jack smiled with newfound courage and put Baby Tooth gently on his shoulder, looking around for an escape. "We have to get out of here!" He said and his gaze fell on his broken staff lying uselessly on the snow.
Jack hurried over to it and dropped to his knees, picking up the two halves and putting them both together. He closed his eyes in concentration and the Guardians held their breaths.
The two halved simply snapped away again and Jack moaned in exasperation, getting up and slamming the two pieces together, grunting with the effort.
The Guardians gasped when they saw frost swirling around the place where the staff had been severed and Jack gave a yell of triumph as the wind picked him up suddenly and the young Spirit shot up in the sky.
"That's my boy! Well done!" North exclaimed happily as they all watched Jack laughing in delight and yelling. "Thanks baby Tooth, I owe you one!" And with that, they were gone in another flash.
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"Here again!" Bunny groaned when he saw where they were. "Pitch's lair."
"And there's Jack." Tooth said, pointing to the Winter Spirit who was flying quickly from cage to cage filled with Tooth's mini fairies, opening every door in his wake.
"Come on!" Jack encouraged the mini fairies, obviously confused by the fact that they weren't flying out of their rusty cage and outside. The fairies chirped loudly and jack frowned. "What-what's wrong? None of you can fly?" He asked but then something else caught his attention on the bottom of the cave.
Jack dropped down to Pitch's globe and circled it quickly. His eyes widen in alarm when he saw just how many lights were left, one especially caught his attention.
"Jamie!" Jack exclaimed with a hopeful smile then hastily flew out of the dark lair and the Guardians knew exactly what his next destination was: Burgess.
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In just a matter of minutes, they were already at the small house and Jack flew to the window showing Jamie's bedroom. He crouched down and peered down at the small boy who was sitting cross-legged on his bed with a small plush rabbit in his hand.
"Is that how he made Jamie believe in Bunny again?" Tooth said in a low tone, even though she knew that Jamie or Jack couldn't hear her.
"Yes, I think it is. You know, I always wondered how he did it." North said.
"Well let's find out then, but only if you guys stop talking!" Bunny whispered harshly and their attention was turned back to the two boys.
Jack quietly opened the window in order not to alert the boy in the room and he listened to Jamie whispering to his bunny.
"Okay look, you and I are obviously at what they call a crossroad." The young boy said and the Guardians had to strain their ears to hear him.
"So if this isn't a dream, and if you are real, then you're gonna have to prove it. Like, right now." Jamie said, leaning forward, but the bunny remained motionless.
"I've believed in you for a long time, okay? Like, my whole life in fact!" Jamie took the plush bunny in his hands. "So, you kind of owe me now. You don't have to do much! Just a little sign so I know." He said in a hopeful voice.
"Anything, anything at all." He whispered the last part and stared at the bunny, looking for any sign of movement or noise from it.
"This is kind of sad to see…" Tooth admitted.
Jamie looked and listened for a few more seconds, finding no sign of life from the bunny, then his face fell and he sighed heavily. "I knew it." He said sadly and let the plush bunny fall to the ground in disappointment.
Jack seemed to think hard for a few seconds and his face lit up with an idea. He slipped into Jamie's room and the Guardians followed him in, watching as he leaned his staff on the wall and taped his finger lightly on Jamie's window, frost webbing around on it.
"What is he doing?" North asked quietly.
Jamie seemed to hear the cackling of the frost because he looked over to his window and gasped softly when he saw that, magically, a simple drawing of an Easter egg appeared on it, being traced out of nowhere. He stood up on his bed to have a better look. "He's real!" He said softly, his voice cracking a little.
Jack smiled when he saw that his idea was working, he taped again on the next window tile and this time, he carefully drew a rabbit. The Guardians leaned closer to see what their youngest Guardian was doing as he closed his eyes in concentration and cupped his hands under the drawing.
The Guardians and Jamie gasped when they saw the drawing come to life then jumping out of Jack's hand, hopping around the room on an invisible track. Everywhere it went, a light trail of misty snow was left in its wake.
"How does he do that?" Tooth asked in wonder and smiled as she heard Jamie laughing happily as he tried to catch the snow rabbit.
Jack laughed to as he watched the younger boy jumping around in his room. The rabbit hopped a few more times before bursting in a cloud of snow that scattered everywhere around Jamie's room.
"So that's how he did it…" Bunny breathed to himself, he knew that Jack must've done something big to get Jamie to believe again, but he never imagined that it would be something this wonderful.
"Wow!" Jamie exclaimed and looked around in confusion. "Snow?" He said in a curious voice.
A small snowflake drifted lazily over to him and placed itself delicately on the young boy's nose, melting almost instantly. Jamie frowned, then remembered what his mother to him the day before: You don't want Jack Frost nippin' at your nose! Then he gasped in recognition. "Jack Frost." He said softly, having pieced the puzzle together.
Sandy made a few images out of dream sand and North nodded in agreement. "Yes, you're right Sandy, he's a smart kid."
Jack, who was looking at his work proudly, frowned and walked closer to Jamie. "Did you just say…"
Jamie stood up from his sitting position and looked around for the source of the voice he just heard. "Jack Frost?" He asked a bit louder.
Jack gasped. "He said it again! He said… you said…"
Jamie turned around and his eyes landed on the older teenager standing in his room and his jaw dropped open. "Jack Frost!" He said for the third time.
"That's right! Bu-but that's me, Jack Frost, that's my name! You said my name!" Jack stammered, a wide smile on his face.
"He's not used to talking to kids." North said in sympathy.
Seeing Jamie staring at his direction, Jack frowned. "Wait, can… can you hear me?" He asked softly.
Jamie nodded slowly, his eyes wide.
Jack leaned forward. "Can… can you… can you see me?"
Jamie nodded again, a smile stretching on his face and Jack breathed a laugh. "He sees me… He sees me!" He said in disbelief and backflipped on Jamie's table in joy.
"You just made it snow." Jamie said.
"I know." Jack said softly.
"In my room!" Jamie said excitedly.
"I know!" Jack said again, his smile getting wider by the second and he jumped off Jamie's table.
"You're real?" Jamie asked, still progressing what he was seeing.
"Yeah! Who do you think that bring you all the blizzards and the snow days? Oh, and remember when you went sliding on that sled the other day?" Jack said in a rush, still excited by the fact that someone could see him and actually didn't tell him to go away.
"That was you?" Jamie asked.
"That was me!" Jack replied.
"Cool!" Jamie exclaimed.
"Right?"
Jamie's smile turned into a frown. "But what about the Easter Bunny? And the Tooth Fairy? I mean are they-"
"Real! Real! Everyone of us is real!" Jack said, picking up Jamie's plush bunny and handing it back to him.
"I knew it!" Jamie yelled, jumping around in excitement.
"So he didn't only make Jamie believe in Bunny, he made him believe in all of us?" Tooth said and felt a new wave of affection for the Winter Spirit.
Jack and Jamie froze when they heard Jamie's mother. "Jamie, who are you talking to?"
"Erm…" Jamie said, looking at Jack for a suggestion but the older boy only smirked and nodded towards the door as if saying, "Go ahead, it won't matter."
"Jack Frost?" Jamie said hesitantly and they heard his mother chuckle. "Okay!"
Jack and Jamie laughed together but they stopped as soon as they saw the window bursting open because of a violent gust of wind and both of them (and the Guardians) rushed to the window and stepped back almost at once when they saw North's sleigh zooming pass the window and crashing into the streets.
Jack told Jamie to follow him and he jumped out of the window to go see the other Guardians.
Then the familiar voice of Man in Moon was heard again: And you all know what happens next, my friends. I hope that you learned a few more things about your newest Guardian. He may be a trickster, but if you learn to know him, you will find that he has a very big heart. He cares deeply for all of you, and I'm sure that you do too. I can tell that you are very close now, not only teammates. All you need to become even closer together is trust. This was the point of this memory trip, and I hope that it did the job. I will now take you back to Nicholas's workshop.
And they were gone, for the last time, in a flash of white.
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What was that? Another pitiful excuse for a chapter? Why, it would seem so. The next chapter is the last one *runs in a corner and cries* Yes, I am quite said of that :( I really like writing this. I'm still sorry for the wait! It's hard to find some time to go on the computer these days because school is almost done… Two months left! We will survive! Sorry if I missed a few scenes maybe, I don't have the movie on my computer and the Rise of the Guardians CD that I have isn't very useful to watch, then pause, then rewind because I missed something, then writing it down, then watching the whole scene again because I'm not sure that I did it well... It's too much trouble. I did manage to find the Jamie believes scene on Youtube though... I hope you still liked it nonetheless! Well, later alligators!
Loks