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Pain.

He could only feel the pain as he felt his power ripping through his veins and out of his skin into the air above. He could heard screams, but he didn't know whose they were, he couldn't even see. Everything he knew had vanished in a wave of pain and cold.

There was a hole in his chest that burned with an icy grip. It was where the pain traveled from and where the cold grew and shot from without control. For a moment, he felt water slip from his eyes but that too was soon gone, the only thing left of his senses was the pain and cold.

The other's had nearly cried when Jack suddenly jerked in their hold letting out a piercing scream. Mother Nature attempted to calm her child just as she had done the day he became a Guardian, but was stopped by the explosion of ice that forced him out of her arms, pushing her and the others far from this form that was curled up in a pain ball in the snow that began to build. A cyclone of ice and snow swirled around him, blocking him from their view as it continued to press outward, pushing them further away, the sound of the blizzard and Jack's screams flooding the air.

With a grimace, Megan let branches shoot up around them to protect them from the raging storm, the autumn touched wood holding up against the weather. From there, Ian let a small flame float within his hand, providing light and warmth. The storm beat against the walls around them and the wind wailed, crying out for the pain its child was in.

"What just happened?!" Bunny cried out, shouting so his voice rises over the cries of the wind and the sound of the whipping snow.

"The staff was broken." Mother Nature spoke, her fingernails digging into her palms and her voice flowing through the air easily. "Without his conduct to control his powers, they run through his body without control. And I have no doubt being as separated from his true calling has a part in how painful this is."

"Can't you do what you did back during the Guardian ceremony!?" Bunny asked.

Mother Nature shook her head. "No, I suppose if I could get close I could calm him as I did but I don't know how much the storm will stop."

"His powers weren't like this back then!" Tooth called, pointing out the difference from the blizzard outside and what had exploded all those days ago.

"They were still weak then, coming back to the surface." She explained. "Now, his power has become a part of him now and they are no longer fighting the hold Death had over him."

"Do you have any idea if we can reach him?" Tooth asked.

"If we can fight against the blizzard and get to the center where he is, then yes." Mother Nature answered.

"What about his staff?" Cecilia spoke up. "Someone has to find it."

"What go would that do?" Bunny spoke up. "It's broken!"

"No! He can fix it!" Cecilia shouted back. Sandy formed a question mark over his head and Cecilia, after a glance towards her mother, continued. "We've all had conducts before, we've just grown out of them. One thing about conducts is that, as long as there is still something left of them, we can fix them. They are things made specifically to hold our power so, even if it's easy to break, which I doubt the staff is if it was in Jack's hands, it can be fixed."

"We just need to find it." Ian said, eye looking at the wood of the walls, but clearly looking past them. Megan glanced at them all before focusing her attention back on the wall, making sure it stayed strong.

Sandy raised his hand and everyone turned towards the glowing Guardian. He showed a picture of them in a group before they separated, each going in a different direction while Mother Nature moved towards a small form of Jack.

"That is true, we could split up." Mother Nature hummed, she had thought about such an idea but there was two things that made her hesitated. One being that not all of them could brave the cold as easily as others and the other-

"Wait! What about Death!?" Cecilia cried, her eyes shining with worry. "What if he goes after Jack or still has the staff in his hands?!"

"If I find him then I'll gut him." North answered, angered at the way the man had treated the winter spirit. Ian and Bunny nodded in agreement.

"I don't think we have to worry." Mother Nature said even though she was biting her lip. "I would think he would have fled at the explosion of Jack's powers and, despite his sly ways, I don't believe he would have been able to hold onto the staff. He would have to free himself first and have the energy to get away, but by foot. I have no doubt that Jack's abilities hindered any of his minions if what had happened in the caves was anything." She sighed. "But we should still be careful. Everyone should at least have a partner as we split up."

She looked at everyone there and started pairing people up. "Ian go with Aster and Cecilia you should go with North."

"Wait, why can't I go with Cecilia?" Bunny asked. "We're both spirits of spring."

"I know." Mother Nature replied. "If you too went together, you would both be at the threat of the cold equally. With Ian you can stay warm enough and North can help Cecilia."

"Then why can't I go with North?" He asked but a look from Mother Nature made him quiet and mumble back a. "Fine."

Finally she turned to the last three. "Megan, Sandy, and Tooth I believe you should go together."

"What about you?" Tooth asked, eyebrows furrowing.

"I shall try to calm the wind down and have her aid to reach Jack." Megan frowned and shook her head, glaring at her mother. Mother Nature sighed. "I would prefer if you went with them."

A glare.

"Megan."

No change.

"No, you shall-" A shift of her feet cut her off and Mother Nature sighed and gave a glare back. "Alright, you can aid me."

Megan gave a firm nod in reply.

Mother Nature sighed once more and turned to the others. "You shall look for the staff pieces. Hopefully, we can reach Jack quick enough to help lessen the blizzard."

"Come on, let's do this." Ian said, letting fire ignite across his entire body, warming the air within their space.

Mother Nature nodded before turning to Megan and giving another nod to her. Megan nodded back and let down the barrier. They were quickly forced to plant their feet from the force of the blizzard. They all stuck to their partners and started to head out.

As the group separated, Mother Nature called out. "Wind!"

The essence answered with a sharp cry, echoing that of those coming from within the storm.

"Wind!" She called out once more, reaching her hand up into the air. "You must calm down! We wish to help Jack, but you must help us! Please! Calm down and our child shall be safe!"

The wind continued to moan but it seemed to calm to an extent, swirling gently but still worriedly around the two seasonals. The lesser wind seemed to help but the snow and ice still moved without the aid of the wind, shooting out and falling quickly, blindly.

"Please, help us reach Jack." She spoke to the old friend. Megan had formed a barrier to hold back the sharp ice and Mother Nature helped keep the two of them safe as well while listening to the wind.

The wind guided them further into the blizzard the air stinging and the sound of Jack's cried growing. Their hearts ached at the anguished sounds, fighting to move faster through the storm.

After what felt like many feet and hours, they found themselves standing on the edge of the center of the storm, but they were unable to pass. Before them was a think wall of swirling snow and ice, the sharp edges unafraid to cut. Megan attempted to break it down but it proved useless as the ice shot back, breaking the branches.

Mother Nature reached out to touch the wall, uncaring of the cuts upon her hands. Focusing, she tapped into the connection she had with the earth and the ice groaned under her touch, trying to hold its ground to protect the being past it. Mother Nature growled and pushed, forcing the ice and snow to listen to her will and it broke, allowing and opening to form in the ice and snow, big enough to let the two pass through.

Stepping through, her breath was stolen by the calm in the middle, the quiet all save for the heart wrenching cries of her child. She glance at Megan, telling her to stay back and received a nod in reply. Quickly moving, she knelt beside her pained child, taking in the ice that spread from a touch to his skin and from his body. One of his hands clutched his chest while the other held his head as he screamed his throat raw.

"Shh." Mother Nature cooed, letting her hands drift to brush his hair away from his face, frowning at the stiff, icy feeling in the usually soft hair. His cries broke with a choked sound at her touch, another wave of magic shooting from him in response but Mother Nature held her ground, forcing her body to remain where it was as the magic tried to press her back.

She continued with the comforting gesture while her other hand drifted to his chest, right over where his hand was clutching his shirt. His skin was freezing and if she wasn't Mother Nature she would suspect she would have been harmed at the touch of his skin. Jack tensed at the feeling and let a sob pass his lips making tears form in Mother Nature's eyes. "You poor child." She wept, tears slipping down her cheeks. "Do not worry, your mother is here."

With that she focused on calling out to the winter storm raging within her child. Jack cried out at the feeling of her power seeping through him. Mother Nature bit her lip, trying to calm him down just as she did before, but the power was too raw and wild, ripping past his skin.

This would not be easy. For a moment, an idea came to her mind. Perhaps she could take winter under her control once more, but she hesitated. What if this took away Jack's abilities for good? What if it killed him, taking away that which helped make him Jack Frost?

Shaking her head, no she will not do that. Despite this all, she could not risk his life, not after everything that has happened.

Looking at her child, she stroked his cheek and began to call to him while using her powers to at least lesson the storm within him, hopefully enough for him to hear her call. "Jack, Snowflake come back to me. Please hear me, come back. Don't let winter control you like this." He let out a choked moan, pain lacing his voice. "Please, please Snowflake, come back to me."

It was all fuzzy and his throat felt raw. There was nothing but black and pain. Why? Why wouldn't the pain and the cold stop? Why did he feel so empty inside but also overwhelming pain as well? Where was his mother? His siblings?

Why was he all alone in this painful void?

Then there was a feeling. It was soft, warm against his numb skin. A warmth joined the pain and cold within his chest. It…didn't feel right. It was different, but familiar. He didn't know what to do, so the cold shot out at it…protecting him? He didn't know, he just wanted this to end. Then there was something in his head-or was it his heart?-calling out to him softly.

Wait.

No.

The song was trying to calm the cold, but it didn't want to calm. It fought against the feeling, growing fiercely, painfully. He cried out at the feeling, wanting the warmth to go away so this would stop, but yet he didn't want it to leave him.

Then, the warmth was pushing back against the cold, not trying to tame it, to calm it, but to instead keep it from shooting out forcefully. Then he heard a voice. He felt like he knew that voice, but he couldn't be sure. He wanted to follow it, but when he reached out to it, the pain grew and he jerked back. No! He didn't want any more pain.

But…

The voice sounded so sad and pleading. He didn't want them to be sad, so he listened to the voice, followed the voice. The darkness around him began to brighten as the pain and cold grew and soon his vision was nothing but white. For a moment he thought he saw color, beautiful earthy colors, in his vision in the form of a woman, but it was gone soon.

Mother Nature continued to plead and cry to her child until she saw his eyes struggling to open among his pained features.

"That's it, come on Snowflake." She called and nearly sobbed at the sight of his usually beautiful and unique blue eyes washed out by a sea of white, as though the blizzard that blew around them also took place beneath his skin, showing within his eyes. She actually did sob when her youngest spoke.

"M-Mom?" He croaked out, the word still coated with pain.

"Yes! Y-Yes, it's me Snowflake." She cried, running her thumb across his cheek.

He sobbed as he bit back a scream with his next words. "It hurts!" Tears fell from white eyes, which closed once more in pain.

"I know, sweetie, I know, but you need to be strong for me, ok?" She told him but Jack shook his head to the best of his abilities at the moment.

"I-I want it…to, to stop!" He sobbed, his hand on his head moving to stiffly cover his mouth like a child crying. But really, that's what he was.

"I know, but I-we, know you can do this." She looked back at Megan who was watching with sorrowful eyes, tears glistening in the corners. With a nod, she motioned for her to come forward, and Megan knelt beside her mother and reached out to place a hand upon Jack's shoulder, giving a light squeeze of comfort. Jack whimpered at the sudden touch and tried to both lean into the touch and pull away.

"We all believe in you Jack, please." These words that have had such an impact in the past, words spoken first by a young boy, only made Jack cry out once more.

He tried, tried so hard to reign in his powers, but they fought against his control even with the support from Mother Nature. It hurt so much!

As Mother Nature continued to attempt to aid her child, murmuring words of love and support to him, Megan watched with dark eyes. She could see her mother's worries and fear in her eyes, the tears slipping down her face as she tried and failed to calm her child. With grace, Megan lowered her head so that it was beside Jack's ear and, after taking a breath, let soft words pass her lips to fall within his ear.

Jack jolted at her words, white eyes growing wide and Mother Nature had grown quiet, watching her eldest speak to her youngest. The words could not be heard by the mother so she could only watch as Jack reacted to the whispers. As she spoke, the snow calmed around them and a few seconds since she leaned down, Megan pulled away, running her hands through Jack's hair as he pulled in the storm. When he seemed to have trouble, Mother Nature helped him by using her abilities to try and calm his season.

Now, the snow was just softly falling and Jack was trembling upon the ground, eyes clenched closed. Frost still continued to spread from his body but he was otherwise in control of his powers.

"Oh Snowflake." Mother Nature cooed at Jack, running her hands through his hair. She let her eyes fly up to look at Megan who met her questioning gaze. The autumn spirit only shook her head, she would not speak.

With a sigh Mother Nature glanced around the area and found that where Death had been was indeed broken and the spirit gone. She could only hope that he had not taken the staff with him.

"Oh thank goodness!" They looked over and found Cecilia and North approaching. Cecilia ran forward to hug her mother around her neck. She was trembling, Mother Nature found, no doubt effected by the cold. "You got to him!"

"Is he alright?" North asked coming to stand beside them, eyes watching the trembling body of Jack Frost on the ground.

"He will be once he had his staff." Mother Nature answered. "You did not find it?"

"No."

"We didn't find it either." Ian's voice came from their left and they found him and Bunny approaching, the season no longer surrounded by flames.

"The bloody storm most likely blew it around if Death didn't take it." Bunny spoke with a slight shiver.

"We can only hope he didn't." North replied with a sigh. "That, and Tooth and Sandy can find it."

For a while, they waited for the others, their worry growing with each second. Jack continued to twitch and moan on the ground, releasing shots of ice or snow occasionally. The Seasonals were quick to comfort their winter spirit, the wind even blowing softly through his hair to help.

They were about to send some of them out to find the two Guardians when a shout caught their attention.

"There!" They all, except Jack, looked to find Tooth and Sandy quickly flying towards them. As they were reached Tooth sighed. "When the storm slowed we had hoped that you had gotten to Jack."

"Did you find the staff?" Ian pressed, forest eyes blazed with worry. Everyone held their breath as they awaited the answer. Thankfully, it was positive.

Sandy nodded, and from his cloud he showed the two pieces of the staff. Everyone let out sighs of relief before Mother Nature reached forward, Jack moaning at the loss of her touch and jerking as he focused on keeping his season under control.

"Jack," Mother Nature said softly, urging Jack to open his eye. Once he did after a bit of coaxing, she spoke again. "We found your staff. You need to fix it, alright? You can do that."

Even as Jack shook his head, she placed the staff before him before taking his shaking hands from his chest carefully and placing one over each piece of the staff, one hand for each piece.

"You need to focus on letting your power flow through it, ok?" She spoke gently making sure the broken ends were touching correctly. "You can do this."

The Guardians watched while the seasonals waited. Jack trembled, feeling the comforting wood in his hands. It was nice. He wanted peace again and if this is what it took, then, just as he had followed the voice, he let his power travel to the wood.

He gave a soft gasp at the feeling and his hands tightened around the wood. That hole in his chest was getting filled as a bright blue light filled his vision and the biting cold lessoned to the normal comforting feeling.

A cry ripped out from his raw throat as he felt his powers start to regulate and when he opened his eyes he found his staff in one peace before blackness took him once more.

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