Finally! The next chapter is done! I am SO SO sorry I made you wait but being nineteen (almost twenty) isn't easy right now. Computer crashed, I've been working at my job a lot and I just haven't had time to get this chapter done. But I got it now, so I hope it's long enough.

Chapter 8: Getting the Gang Together

While Jamie was talking to Monty, I watched as Maddy used her own cell to call Mica.

"Mica?" she began once it seemed Mica had picked up the phone. "Yeah it's Maddy. Listen, could you please come over to mine and Jamie's house for a little bit?" There was a pause. "Remember the Guardians? Yes I figured Casey would've been visiting you. Well, her daughter and the other Guardians' children came to our house. They told us a new threat is coming. She's already struck and the Guardians are weak. Snow and her friends were chosen as new Guardians. Could you try to convince Sarah to come along with you? We need all the help we can get. Jamie's calling his friends, but we need to hurry." Another pause and I saw a smile cross Maddy's face. "Thank you so much, Mica!" And she hung up.
Once she had, we saw that Jamie had finished his conversations. "Monty and Cupcake are in." he said. The phone rang again, but this time Maddy answered it.
"Monty?" she started. "Didn't Jamie just call you?" Our ears perked up when we heard her say, "Claude and Caleb, are you sure? They're at the park? Now? Well, I'm sure I can be there in a second, but aren't you already on your way?" Maddy paused as she looked into Jamie's eyes.

The next thing I knew, we were on our way to the park in Maddy's car. Aurora, Cloud and Dusty were in the back and I sat up front right in front of the air conditioner. I know what you're thinking. A ten year old (even if its me) shouldn't be sitting in the seat of a car. You're probably right, but Maddy and my friends wanted to make sure I wouldn't overheat again.

I should probably mention the fact that I'm a little claustrophobic. Can you blame me? I mean, I grew up at Burgess Lake and my parents aren't exactly known for they're ability to stay in a small place for very long. So the moment we arrived at the park, I threw open my door and darted out yelling, "FREEDOM!".

"Snow," I heard Aurora, Cloud and Dusty call after me. "The heat!" I honestly didn't care. I was just glad to be out of that moving death trap. My escape was cut short when I was grabbed from behind by the collar of my t-shirt and yanked under a tree. I looked up to see Aurora, Cloud and Dusty staring at me. I swear, just because I'm the youngest, sometimes everyone tries to tell me what to do. Do they forget who's daughter I am?

"You better stay out of the sun, Slushy." Aurora whispered in my ear. "Can't have you overheating again."

I smiled sheepishly.

"Girls," I looked up as Maddy called us. She was standing next to a tall man with short blond hair and round glasses that seemed a bit too large. "Come meet Monty." Oh, that was Jamie's friend Monty.

So what ended up happening was Dusty showed off her power to grant wishes and we found that the twins, Claude and Caleb, were at my home of Burgess Lake.

I led my friends and the adults who were with us through a short cut to the lake my dad had shown me when I was younger. We easily found the twins, who, surprise surprise, were arguing over the existence of the Guardians.

"Caleb, come on, the Guardians aren't here." Claude said. "So let's go already/"

"Just wait Claude!" Caleb exclaimed. "Don't you remember seeing the Guardians when we were kids?"

The arguing continued like this for a while, with the twins arguing back and forth on the existence of my parents and the Guardians. No wonder the lack of belief hurt so much. The arguing only made me madder and madder. My anger though was mostly directed at Claude because the dork refused to believe that my parents were as real as he was. As the arguing continued, my grip on my staff tightened as my mismatched eyes began to glow in response to the anger I felt. The air grew colder while at the same time it was moist. I saw my friends begin to shiver, but I was too angry right now.

"Caleb wants to believe." I heard Cloud say. "But it doesn't seem like Angel has anything on him."

"It's Claude that's deafening Caleb's believe. His light had already gone out on the globe. You can tell he doesn't believe anymore." Aurora said and she turned to me. "What are you going to do?"

I sighed and stepped out of the bush cover. "It's not Claude I want to assure." I said. "It's Caleb. He's where we should start. Follow my lead." I started striding into the clearing near the lake. Raising my staff, I threw it dow and hit the ground as I dove headfirst into Burgess Lake. I looked up as a few minutes later the top of the water froze into a thin sheet of ice. As I heard the twins' arguing continue, I growled, though the growl was gurgled by the water.

Suddenly I shot out of the water, built up a sloshy snowball and threw it directly at Claude's head where it made a SPLAT sound. "You got that right." I smirked, juggling another ready snowball in my other hand as I pulled my staff out of the water. I saw Caleb squinting in my direction.

"Jack Frost?" he called out with a smile as he watched my snowflakes dance around his head as one of the flakes turned to water on his nose.

"Not quite Caleb." Maddy said as she and Monty walked over to meet him. "That would be Snow."

"Maddy." Caleb said looking up at them and then back at the snow. "It's good to see you, but I know that this is Snow."

Maddy laughed as I joined my friends at the side of the lake. "No Caleb, it's really Snow Mist's work. She's right behind you."

Caleb turned his head in a gasp as soon as his eyes landed on me. I just smiled at his reaction as he took my appearance (no doubt noticing the similarities between me and the famed ice spirit and water spirit of Burgess). I formed a snowflake in my hand then changed it into a dew drop as I asked, "Do you see me now?"

Caleb just nodded with a laugh as Claude brushed my handiwork off the back of his head. "Wait a minute, Maddy what are you doing here?"

"Well, we were just hoping you and Caleb could help us with a little problem." Maddy replied as she looked over at us, then back at the twins.

"What problem?" Caleb asked. "What's going on?"

"Come with us and we'll explain everything." Monty said, giving the twins a very convincing smile.

"Explain what? You haven't exactly told us what we need to know." Claude said leaning against a tree.

"In a single phrase: The Guardians are in danger." Maddy said. "and they need our help."

Caleb just smiled, but Claude scoffed as he said. "The Guardians? They actually need our help?"

"Yes they do." Maddy said desperately, irritation becoming apparent in her tone. She sounded about as angry as I had been and that was saying something considering how angry I was capable of getting, especially with the command of both winter and water in my grasp.

They argued back and forth like that for a few minutes. I heard Cloud say, "Last I remembered, Claude was one of the most faithful of Jamie's friends when they stood up to Pitch."

"He's not going to be so easy to convince by the way he's acting." Dusty said.

"All that Guardian stuff was only a dream." Claude said, crossing his arms.

"Dreams can be real." Dusty said softly. "Something tells me he wants to remember, but because my dad put everyone to sleep the night the Guardians left, I think that's one of the main reasons he doesn't believe."

"You may be right Dusty," Aurora said, "but his non-cooperative nature tells me something differently."

Meanwhile I was boiling (almost literally) with anger watching them by this time as I whispered. "If he tells off our parents one more time…"

"Nothing you say, Maddy, will convince me differently. We're leaving." Claude said, turning to his twin.

"No, I'm going." Caleb said as he picked up his beanie off the ground and set it back on his head. "The Guardians need us to be there for them like they were for us."

"You're seriously believing this?"

"Yes, and if you don't want to make a fool of yourself, you'll come with us, because if you don't, I'm afraid you may be buried in a snow ditch." He glanced at me.

"He's tempting me." I said shooting my friends a wry grin. "Should I do it?" I held up the snowball I'd been juggling the whole time and aimed it at Claude. Aurora and Dusty looked at each other with a shared grin.

"Caleb, enough of this kid's stuff." Claude said.

"Do it." Aurora and Dusty said at the same time as I smirked and hurled the snowball at Claude.

Like before, it collided with his head. Claude lost his footing and fell face first into the snow. Looking up, he brushed the wet snow and dirt off his face as he looked at his brother. Caleb smiled. "Now are you ready to come with us?"

As we watched Maddy file everyone into her car, I wrapped my arms around myself shivering slightly as I thought of the crowded ride back.

"Hey Snow?" I looked up as Dusty called my name. She apparently also caught both Aurora and her sister's attention as well. "How about we catch a ride back to Jamie's in my sand copter?"

"Is it outside?" I asked with a smile.

"Yes but I'll make it so you can't feel the heat." Dusty said as she conjured up the copter.

How was this? Long enough? I hope so. I know I don't deserve it, but could you guys leave a review? It may help the next chapter come quicker since next chapter will introduce Mother Nature and the last two seasonal spirits. (Hey we've got Jack winter spirit and Blaze summer spirit, we need the other two)