"The blasted bugger is late AGAIN!" Bunny shouted as he paced the meeting room. Tooth, worried for Jack, buzzed around the room mumbling to herself on what could be taking Jack so long, Sandy sat in a chair by the fire fast asleep. And north sat in his big red chair perfectly content drinking his coco.
Bunny turned back to the others and locked eyes on North. "How can you be so bloody relaxed? This is the tenth time he is late in a row! Now I know he is busy and what not but to be four hours late! We could 'ave been done by now!
"Bunny calm down I know Jack has really good reason for being late, winter fey would not keep him this long on purpose, there has to be reason. We will not know until he gets here though."
"Well why don't we just start the meetin' without 'im?" Bunny said annoyed.
Tooth halted in the air and zoomed down into Bunny's face. "Star the meeting without Jack! He is a Guardian and we cannot start the meetings without all the Guardians-!" she started to shout but was cut off as the heat from the room disappeared and the fire went out in a snap. Sandy was jostled awake from the cold and looked around worriedly. The four guardians looked at each other with fear. There was an immense magical power coming and would come right in this very room. Bunny began shaking, his ears plastered to his head and his boomerangs ready. Sandy stood at the ready with his whip, North drew his duel swords and Tooth had out her daggers. All of them stood ready to fight whatever evil being was about to appear before them with its dark and cold presence. Just then in a whirlwind of snow that whipped around anything that was lighter than the furniture, papers scattered into the air, knick knacks toppled on the ground and some lighter furniture was knocked over and even smashed. The snow started to clear and reveal a humanoid shape. North lunged and the being jumped into the ceiling.
"I know I'm late but is attacking me with swords really necessary North?" Jack said from up in the rafters. The four looked shocked as they lowered their weapons and stared up at Jack. Not only was the young man not in his normal cloths but he also had a crystal blue circlet around his forehead. The circlet flattened some of his messy hair and also accented the crystal blue suit he wore with a deep blue tie and white undershirt. What amazed the four the most was that he also wore bright white dress shoes. The only normal thing he had was his staff, which seemed out of place with his current attire.
The four stare wide eyed at the young man. "JACK!" all of them scream.
"Yeah?" he asks hesitantly. "Look I know I am ridiculously late, the season meeting went way over and I couldn't leave until Mother closed it. But I poofed right over as soon as I could."
"That was you, that dark and cold magic?" Tooth asked. Jack looked a little confused and hopped down from the rafters.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Just before you appeared in snowy whirlwind we all felt a very strong, very dark magic that was far greater than Pitch's." North told Jack.
"Oh sorry about that. I tend to forget that comes with me "poofing" in anywere.
"What are ya talking about?" Bunny asks confused.
"Come on Bunny keep up." Jack said teasingly, " 'poofing' in is what I call what I just did. Spontaneously appearing in a room. It takes a lot of magic and can be really annoying to the being in the room when I do it so I prefer to fly, but it is much fast when I need to be somewhere really fast."
"But what about all that power we felt earlier?" Tooth asked concerned.
"Oh that was mine. The seasons and I all have guards on when we don't want our power to seep out because we tend to have an abundance of it, myself especially. Guards are a sort of blocker that keep it from seeping out and keep it hidden so no one can sense it, but when I have to poof in, I have to release the guard and all of my magic is then felt when I come into the room."
"So all that scary power we had felt…." Tooth trailed off.
"Was all me." Jack confirmed.
"That's bloody scary." Bunny blurted out.
Sandy nodded his head in agreement.
"But don't get me wrong guys, I am still me, no matter how much power I possess. I have just enough power now as I did when I first became a Guardian!" Jack said to try and cheer them up.
"Then why didn't ya use all that power on Pitch back then." Bunny asked harshly.
"Because power like that can't be easily controlled. If I had used it then, yes I would have most likely gotten rid of Pitch but I would have also probably caused at least some serious blizzards across the globe, if not caused another ice age." Jack said matter of facktly.
The four of them stared at Jack in silence when suddenly a yeti bursted in grumbling. He took one look at Jack and started grumbling some more as if an understanding and complaint. The yeti went to the fire place and quickly re lit the wood, and added to the fire to quickly reheat the room as fast as it can.
Jack took notice of this. "Oh, did I do that to every fire. That was not my intent at all. I hope you understand." The yeti sighed and looked at him. He eyed Jack's close and the circlet around his head. The yeti's eyes went wide and to a very deep bow and then exited.
"Okay, now that Jack is here how about we start meeting now!" North exclaimed as he took his seat everyone else soon followed; Bunny took the spot closest to the fire and toothy a couch close to it, while Jack took the farthest spot from it but was closest to North and Sandy, both didn't really mind the cold all that much.
"Before we do, I have a question." Tooth said.
"What is question toothy?" North asked.
"Jack, what's with the clothes? Not that there are not nice or anything, they are very nice and look very good on you, but they are not normal for you. And then there is the whole circlet thing and the shoes. Don't you normally were a crown if you have to wear anything at all? And why are you wearing shoes anyway? I thought you hated shoes. I mean isn't that why you never were them?"
"I don't think that was one question Tooth, but anyways. The cloth are because I have to dress a certain way for each seasonal meeting, and sadly shoes are included in this ensemble. Oh and the circlet, " he said as he took the thine crystal blue band from his head, "this is what the non-ruling or just finished ruling seasons were, right now is Summer and Fall is up next to I still have this band for a few more months. Oh and thanks for the compliment." Jack told her flashing a rare, for her and the fairies that is, toothy grin at her and the few buzzy miny teeth as the miny teeth strait out fainted and Tooth fainted a bit.
"On more thing," Bunny said, "What was with that yeti's reaction?"
"Oh um…. With the circlet I am technically still in my Winter King cloths and the yeti bowed showing his respect, since they are winter creatures after all." Jack sort of rushed out. "But that doesn't mean you guys have to or anything!" Jack hastily told them.
They all nodded and quickly moved on to the meeting.
The meeting went on without a hitch and by the end of it, Jack had removed his shoes, tie and circlet. Before the dinner bell had sounded Jack rushed up to his room to change. Dinner was as normal as they had come to expect Jack randomly freezing foods that Bunny was munching on and cracking jokes with Sandy, sometimes the little gold man was the one that started them. And North and Tooth just smiling over there antics.
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Well I hoped you liked this impromptu one shot!
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