A/N: this fic is already at 37 chapters and it was only supposed to have 31 but oh well. but seriously, i read the reviews and part of me is laughing and the other half is screaming because wow. so i have one RotG fanfic in the planning phase, one being written, and a guardians of childhood fanfic being planned and those should be up once im done with this fanfic. oh and i would love anyone forever if they drew this fic as long as i can see it because nobody has ever drawn me something before .A.

Chapter Thirty Seven

"WHAT? What do you mean I'm dead I can't be!"

He was Jack Frost, the embodiment of winter. There was no way he could die he was immortal. Besides, he already died when he drowned in that lake he can't die a second time right? Jack had no idea what to think. What if he really was dead? What would happen to the guardians? What would Jamie say? Who would bring snow days to Burgess? Jack sat down in the cold snow and buried his face in his hands. He wanted to scream, to cry out that he wasn't dead and that he was still alive.

What if Pippa was right? What if he really was dead? Wait, Pippa is dead so her eyes are blank. Jack suddenly got up. He needed to see his reflection. He had to see if his eyes were blank and pure white.

"If I'm actually dead, then can I see my reflection just to check?"

"Sure Jack! You can see your reflection in the lake follow me!"

Jack noticed that Pippa seemed bit too happy that he was dead. Then again, maybe she was just glad to see him again? The last time she was with her brother was over three hundred years ago when he had died while saving her. Jack followed Pippa to the frozen lake. Not once was she hesitant and there wasn't a single moment in which she would flinch at all.

They reached the frozen lake within a few minutes but to Jack it only seemed like seconds. Pippa turned around to face him.

"Go ahead Jack, take a look."

Jack obeyed her and leaned over the edge of the land to get a look at himself. He peered down at his reflection in the ice and his heart sank. Staring back at him, was a copy of himself with blank white eyes and paler than usual skin. The dark spots under his eyes stood out along with the ice blue veins in his dead face. He looked like a corpse. Then again, when he was alive he was preserved in the frozen dead body of what he used to be before becoming Jack Frost. Maybe that was why his teeth were so white all the time.

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All four guardians were in the library at Santoff Clausen. They were all flipping through the pages of every book North owned. There just had to be a solution to all of this. Surely they would be able to find an answer on how to bring back Jack if he was even still alive. Tooth had called upon some of her mini fairies to help with the research. They were all as upset as she was and why wouldn't they? All of the mini fairies adored Jack and they all swooned over him. Especially his teeth.

Baby Tooth frantically scanned page after page of a book about nightmares. She was very close to Jack, and she was devastated when she found out what had happened. She was also angry. Baby Tooth had never wished so hard to just shove her pointy needle like nose in Pitch's eyes for doing that to Jack. There were ten other fairies skimming through the books and pulling them off shelves.

"Ugh! We'll never find anything at this rate!" Tooth exclaimed. She tossed another book into a pile. They had all been searching for quite a while and they had gotten nowhere. "Calm down Tooth. We'll find a way." Bunnymund answered her. As the guardian of hope he had to keep everyone's spirits up no matter how much he doubted that Jack was still alive.

Sandy picked up an old book that was as tall as he was and handed it to North. "What is it Sandy? Is there something in here?" North asked hoping that this book held the answer. Sandy only shook his head and indicated that the book was written in Russian. Disappointed, North only answered 'Oh.' before opening it up. They were all jittery trying to find a hint in the vast amount of books in North's library. None of them have even gotten close to finding out what Pitch had done to Jack. Baby Tooth suddenly began to squeak and at once Tooth was at her side.

"What is it Baby did you fine something?"

They were all desperate for an answer and everyone in the room lit up when Baby Tooth nodded her tiny head and directed Tooth to a small black book. Grasping the hard leather cover, Tooth's bright eyes moved left and right depicting what the symbols in the pages meant. It was written in a dead language but Tooth has been around long enough to learn them all. She traveled the world so many times in her long life that she had picked up multiple languages.

"Everyone I got something!" she yelled out. The other guardians turned to Tooth who was hovering in the middle of the room with a black book in her hands that looked like it would fall apart any minute. "Well don't just flutter there tell us!" Bunnymund responded. Sandy nodded. It was urgent for them to attain any kind of lead they could get as to finding out what they should do. "Bunny is right, Tooth." North added.

"Corpus latrunculus,"

"What?"

"Corpus latrunculus, its in Latin but its translates to body snatchers."

"Well we know that Pitch took Jack's body but what about his mind?"

"Hold on let me look,"

Tooth read the words written in Latin and then reread them in regular English.

"Corpus latrunculus is a taboo form of magic that is no longer tolerated to use. It involves one transferring them self into the body of another giving them total control of that body. However, the victim's mind becomes locked away however their captor wishes it to be. The victim's consciousnesses is constricted in their own body until death falls upon them and whoever took over their body has complete control both physically and mentally. To reverse the effects, the victim or a helper must force the invader out of their body before it is too late."

Tooth closed the book after finishing reading. Everyone was stunned but hopeful. The good news was that Jack was still alive, the bad news was that he was slowly suffocating in his own body and he probably didn't even know it. His mind may have been locked away in a nightmare by Pitch. "New plan!." North bellowed out. "We just get Pitch out of Jack in time."

"And how do ya suppose we do that?" Bunnymund asked. North turned to Sandy. "Sandy! Do you think you can use your dream sand to draw out Pitch?"

Sandy nodded his head.

"Great! We have chance then!"

Within seconds everyone was gathered a the globe. "Do you really think this would work North?" Tooth asked. She wasn't entirely sure about this plan of theirs. The last plan they had failed miserably when they all went into Jack's dream. Was this one going to end up like the last one? "What else can we do?" North responded. "Now, Jack is still child, so he has special light on globe."

North pointed to a bright blue light on the globe as it flew over Burgess. "There! Pitch is over Burgess." he pointed out. Tooth flew up to the globe and noticed how bright it was but is was slowly dimming down.

"We have to hurry his light is starting to die down!"

"Right! Everyone to sleigh!"

North lead them all to the sleigh. He was too stoic at the moment to joke at Bunnymund for not objecting to riding in the sleigh instead of taking his rabbit holes.

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"So if I'm actually dead because of Pitch, then how did you die?'

Jack was facing his sister as she looked at the ground and avoided his gaze. She seemed upset and sheepish about telling Jack how she had died.

"O-Oh I'm sorry Pippa if you want you don't-"

"You mean you don't remember?"

"Remember what?"

"How I died."

"I, no."

"Here, since we're both dead I can show you how I died."

The surroundings around the two siblings had suddenly switched to night time. Jack looked around in astonishment but Pippa shushed him.

"Shhh. I''m going to show you it."

"Show me what?"

"How I froze to death."