Prologue

Everyone knows the story of how Jackson Overland became Jack Frost, Winter Spirit and Guardian of Fun, however in one alternate Jackson was not the only one to die on that fateful day. Jackson died saving his little sister while Serena Glacé, his Ice Princess, the half French blonde girl felt the loss of her other half and gave in to Death's hallowed embrace on that same winter day, dead at the hands of her own father. Serena had only kept living because Jack had given her a reason to, without him there was no reason for her to fight and hang on any longer. Man in Moon changed her into a Winter Spirit as well, the personification of Winter's Darkness where Jack was the light. MiM also knew the truth of her soul as did she but, the girl had elected to accept becoming a spirit instead of returning to the reincarnation cycle.

Selene Koori now had pale blue skin, ice blue hair and eyes the color of snow. She wore light blue leggings, a white long sleeved shirt lined with blue fur, and in her hands was the sickle she had been sharpening for the spring to come. She rides the wind straight to the lake where Jack had drowned after sacrificing himself for his sister and is there when he wakes up, helping him to regain part of his lost memories. Mostly his name and whom she had been and how he'd died, saving his little sister. Jack looks at his girlfriend, "You could have lived, Princesse de Glacé? "

Selene snorts at this, " You were my only reason for living through all those injuries, Jack, if not for the fact that you gave me hope where no one else could I would not have lasted as long as I did. Could you really see me surviving my father for much longer without you? "

Jack blinks at this, " Was I really all that kept you going? "

"Jack, Death had always been one step behind me but, you gave me a reason to live and Death had promised to take me swiftly once that reason was gone. " Selene says softly.

Jack could see why that would be a good thing, " Can we be seen? "

"We're Winter Spirits now and need belief to be seen though your little sister does believe in her Big Brother. Say your goodbyes and tell her to get our names out there, Burgess need never fear me unless they are like my father. Speaking of him, Death promised me I could kill the bastard myself. Zephyr, give me a lift, would you. "

The West Wind comes and picks her up, carrying her straight to her old home while Boreas carries Jack to his home so he could gain closure with his little sister and get his and Selene's names out there. Boreas and Zephyr would always carry the Winter Spirits, Jack was Winter's Light while his other half was the darkness. In this case Jack was her better half and had been even in life because Serena Glacé took no one's shit. She dressed like a guy because she worked the fields and as she pointed out to the other women all men were perverts, some just hid it better than others. Jack was one of the few males in Burgess that had never gotten caught peeping, mostly because he was terrified of his mother and Serena.

100 Years Later:

Jack sighs as he is forced to give up his cape and shirt for something new which his girlfriend picks out or rather has a certain goddess get for him and enchant up the wazoo. Jack finds himself with a blue hoody that was well before its time but, he knew better than to question Selene by now. Selene's clothes were holding up well but, then again hers had been blessed by Aphrodite when she had still been alive. The pair were trying to break into North's Workshop again just to see if they could get past Phil. Selene always made sure her nasty storms started up when the children were safe and that several abusers were taken out at the same time. She also was making Jack practice his powers because she knew they needed to be ready for anything, especially those damned Summer Sprites.

Selene also hated Mother Nature because she never did anything to reign in the other damned seasonal representatives from attacking her and Jack. Selene had become darker because of this, protecting Jack's innocence as best as she could. Jack on the other hand did all he could to help her remember hers, to keep some light in her, to keep her from falling too deeply into the darkness. Jack himself wasn't that fond of Mother Nature either and the winter spirits had recently been seeing black sand that resembled Sandman's Dream Sand. When they saw it change dreams into nightmares they had to act. Selene would slash though the black sand with her sickle while Jack would use his staff to freeze over the corrupted sand and then destroy it.

They had no way of knowing that they were interfering with Pitch Black's plans to return more powerful than ever. They inform the frozen spirits of what they had seen and Winter's Denizens, the Yuki-onnas, Frost Giants, Qiqirns which happened to be large, bald dog spirits that caused Inuit people to have fits whenever they were approached by them, the Tizheruks happened to be from Inuit mythos as well and is a large snake like creature near the waters of what will be Key Island, Alaska, Loki because he happened to be a Frost Giant and was cool with them plus not even he would mess with children, and they also were on good enough terms with the Dire Wolves to warn them as well.

1925:

Jack and Selene do their best to keep the snow to a minimum during the Diphtheria epidemic in Alaska, due to the fact that Balto was in fact half spirit he could see them though he didn't know he was half spirit right then, they guide Balto and do what they can to keep the temperatures from dropping too far, neither one of them would let more children die if they could help it. Being Aniu son made it so they could and did interact with him. Other than Boris, Muk, and Luk they were the only ones to truly accept him until Jenna.

Nome, Alaska, 1927:

"Jack, Selene, I know you're there. "Balto calls out, he finally understood why he could see the Winter Spirits when others couldn't.

"Hey, Balto, finally know whom your dam is, huh. Took Aniu long enough to tell you. Oh, don't worry about Aleu, she's fine. " Jack says.

"Thank you for keeping an eye on her. " Balto says.

" Why wouldn't we, we try to keep the really nasty storms well away from civilization though two years ago was meant to be though we did do all we could to help you out. We hate seeing children suffer. " Selene says, " Your kids have all turned out rather well though Kodi does need a kick in the head every now and again. "

Balto rolls his eyes at this, oh how well he knew that. Saba and Dingo weren't that bad. Aleu was with her new pack though hopefully he would see his pup again one day. The other two well, " How would you two like to have my other two pups, they are one quarter spirit and this way you won't be as alone. "

Aniu appears just then, " I can help with the conversion process for them, you've treated my legacy well you two and more importantly you've been keeping the Nightmare King Pitch Black in check for many years now. "

The winter spirits smile at this and Balto calls for his pups. The unnamed pair arrive first followed by Saba, Dingo, and Kodiak, Jenna was the last to arrive, " What's up, Dad? " Kodi asks him.

Jack and Selene approach their new companions and the red furred pups turn icy blue with gray furred bellies with Aniu's help, " Balto, what just happened? " Jenna asks.

Aniu grants the others spirit sight, " These two winter spirits have protected my legacy well, these grand pups of mine will be their new companions. "

" Well boy, I think you should be named Glacier. "Selene says to her companion and Jack rolls his eyes at this.

" Well, we can't have Selene outdo us in the name department, can we, boy, your name is now Blizzard. " Jack says

" Jenna, your pups will be safe with us, it'll be nice to have help for once. " Jack tells the husky female, "Heck, if they get around to having pups of their own we'll bring them back to visit you and we'll also bring you messages about Aleu as well. "

Chapter 1

Selene rolls her eyes as Jack plays with the kids, he never gave up hope in trying to have the kids see him, to be believed in. Their winter wolfdog helpers were currently at a reunion with their extended family. Blizzard and Glacier had sired many pups with wolves and huskies over the years, and their pups had also sired or whelped pups as well. Burgess was one place to never receive her Darkness of Winter, some of the inhabitants, yes, Selene hated child and spousal abusers and so they felt her frigid fury. Jack understood that she was protecting their victims by killing them with winter's chill. She was there when the misery sets in again, " Jack, you still have me, and we both have Rudolph. "

Jack chuckles, " It was fun creating that Blizzard to help everyone realize what his purpose was. "

" He's an outcast like us, you know how much us being willing to help him meant to him. Plus, he always comes to see us after Christmas. " Selene says.

" Yeah, I know, I just wish we could be seen. Is that too much to be asked for? "

Selene sighs at this, she knew Jack wanted to truly be able to play with the kids but, they had each other, " Jackson Overland, I chose to become a spirit, to not go back into the reincarnation cycle, you know the senshi in Japan and why I dragged us to the North Pole back in '92, it was because I was literally the only one whom could beat Beryl, why do you think I grabbed the Crystal anyhow? "

Jack blinks, " You're the Moon Princess, you're above MiM, aren't you? "

" I am, I remembered after mom died, the good parent this time around. When you saved your sister I surrendered to Death because without you around I literally had nothing to live for. My father just helped me to die quicker. I did so enjoy freezing the bastard to death and then delivering his soul straight to Thantos himself. "

" You know the Greco/Roman Pantheon really well, don't you? "

" Of course I do, my father was Hades in my last life, my mother Serenity the IV or Bitchenity as Sailor Dike dubbed her. Tomoe Hotaru is able to see me because she is the Senshi of Death, Rebirth, and Destruction. She knows that Pluto's hope for the future will never come to be because I am an unending immortal spirit now and I don't regret a single second because I got to choose for myself. "

The way she emphasized myself told Jack something very important, that she had been forced into situations that were not of her own choosing. She was still pissed about Snow Queen Kaguya showing up in '93 as well. Selene lets the wind take her and Jack isn't far behind, neither of them suspecting that hours from then they would be kidnapped by E. Aster Bunnymund and two yetis. Selene comes up out of the sack cursing in French, glaring at Bunny and the two yetis that had manhandled her, they and North were included in her rant of creative curses. Jack just lets her get it out of her system while talking in sign language with Sandy and finding out why they had been dragged to the Pole or rather Santus Clausen.

Jack winces, Selene would read MiM the riot act next which is what she does in Ancient Lunarian after she finds out. MiM was actually cowering away from her towering rage. He knew he should have told her. Jack sighs, " Princesse de Glacé, you know you'll end up helping anyhow. "

"That is not the point, Jackson Overland Frost! I chose to become a Winter Spirit, the least MiM could do is fucking warn me about this! "Selene snaps, "I'm his freaking boss, sacré bleu. What did I ever do to deserve being blindsided like this, huh, MiM! "

The rest of the Guardians wisely keep their mouths shut, if Selene Koori was actually the Moon Princess then she had every right to demand answers from MiM. Selene snarls at the answer she gets, "You expect me to help deal with Pitch again! I cast him off of the Moon and made it so he could never go back and now you expect me to help out with him again! "

MiM replies and Selene's snow white eyes narrow, " Fine, I'll help but I reserve the right to choose whether or not I'll be an official guardian, MiM, I deserve that much. "

The rest of the guardians wisely keep their mouths shut and Jack snickers, "Selene, don't you have some abusers to freeze? "

Selene smirks and raises her sickle before her eyes start to glow, " What you mean by that, Jack? " Nicholas St. North also known as Santa Claus asks him.

" Selene hates child and spousal abusers and will freeze them to death as she is Winter's Darkness personified. Doesn't help that she was abused growing up herself. That's one thing she does that I don't mind, no child should fear their parents or caregivers. At least she actually does more than give them hope that things will get better. " Jack says.

Bunnymund winces at this, " I hate to admit that Frostbite has a point but, he does. We're supposed to protect that children and that means from their families as well. That Koori takes the direct route isn't surprising, the only one that ever kept Hope alive in Serena Glacé was Jackson Overland. No surprise she welcomed Death when Jack sacrificed himself to save his sister. "

Selene rolls her eyes, "I sensed his time was coming and there was no way I would be able to survive the hell my life was, I'm lucky I lasted until the fall of the Silver Millennium though some of the Pooka children might have been evacuated to Mau. "

Bunnymund blinks, "Crikey, I never thought of that, Koori. "

" Of course not, now, can we get this over with, just because Spring is coming up north doesn't mean it is in the south. Jack and I have a lot of work to do and we don't have helpers for it unlike the rest of you, Sandy is the only one whom understands how hard it is for us. " Selene states.

"Especially when you have all the other spirits coming down on you for doing your job. " Jack says as he glares at Bunny.

Bunny winces having never thought of things from Jack's side, he was just doing his job and Bunny would tear into him. "Not to mention all the other seasonal spirits and sprites that seem to think they can try and kill us. They learn differently very quickly once they meet up with my sickle. " Selene snaps.

That has all of the guardians freeze in horror, "You're children. "Tooth murmurs and they were, Jack and Serena had died still believing in the Guardians. They should have been helping them instead of ignoring and berating them. Well, Sandy actually would help them when he could. That was mostly the reason why they actually looked forward to seeing his sand. He understood how hard their job was. Tooth had her little fairies Santa had his elves and yetis, Bunny had his stone warriors and his eggs could actually walk, Selene had gotten in to the Warren after all. Jack does whistle for Glacier and Blizzard though, with Pitch becoming more of an irritant they would need their most powerful Winter Wolfdogs.

The pair arrive in a snow flurry before their owners and Bunny groans, " Did ya have ta summon the hounds? "

" We'll need all the help we can get when it comes to Pitch, if necessary we can call for all of our wolves. We've been fighting Pitch off for years we noticed him corrupting Sandy's Dream Sand two hundred years ago. "Jack ripostes.

Sandman looks at them and they both nod to confirm it, Pitch had created Nightmare Sand to try and tip the scales in his favor. Thanks to Jack and Selene's winter helpers they'd been able to hold him back until now it seemed. " We spread the word to our fellow wintery denizens and we've been doing all we could to hold Pitch back. "Selene states, " If necessary I can call on Sailor Saturn as well. "

Disclaimer: I do not own Rise of the Guardians, the Balto Movies, or Sailor Moon.