I had mentally asked Emily to make me invisible to Bunny while I view the memory with him, and I watched as he was flying alongside my memory form. 'Where is she!? Where is she!?'
"Jack Frost!" I heard Klaina shout desperately as she appeared before me.
"Klaina! Have you found her?"
"No!"
"But you're sure those were wolf tracks?"
"Yes! I'm absolutely sure! The only thing is, they were bigger than normal wolves."
My face grew dark and immediately my eyes held pure fury. "Then I know who took her! Do you know where the tracks ended?"
"In Burgess!"
"Lead me!"
"Of course, Jack!" Bunny followed us at the same pace, and I was ready to fight Wolfina more than ever on this day.
"Wolfina! Get your ass out here now! Where's the Snow Queen!"
"Oh..." Wolfina cooed wickedly. "...you mean her?"
I spun around and saw Wolfina on top of a giant black wolf and in the wolf's teeth was my daughter, Eira. "What do you want with the Snow Queen?"
"Simple! I want her to freeze everything Mother Nature loves. I want her to make it snow where it isn't meant to snow. I want to take Mother Nature's favorite and turn it against her! She'll become quite compliant once I give her some of my blood."
"You're going to turn her into a werewolf!?" I growled out, clutching to my staff even tighter.
"Oh yes. It shouldn't be too difficult. You see..." She immediately stopped as I set my staff to the side of a tree, and current me watched as Bunny's eyes widened at the memory. "What...are you...are you going to fight me without your staff? Or are you possibly surrendering?"
My gaze snapped up at her, and current me noticed the dropped jaw look Bunny was giving memory me at the look of my fierce gaze. "Surrender to a mangy mutt like you? Not likely!" I growled out before slamming both of my hands onto the ground and I summoned a blizzard.
'So he really did cause a blizzard...but why?' I heard Bunny whisper out as he continued to view the memory.
Once there was about three feet of snow on the ground I stepped out of the snow to stand onto the firmer blanket of snow, and I repeated the action, but instead of causing another blizzard or making the current one worse, I raised my hands and two large wolves made of snow appeared. Then, I snapped my fingers and the snow flew off of them to reveal life like ice wolves. The wolves started growling with their teeth bared. "Have your beast drop her, or mine will find out what a wolf spirit tastes like."
'J-JACK!?' I heard Bunny shout in pure astonishment and shock.
"Oh, I'll put her down, but that doesn't mean I'll give her back to Mother Nature. Say..." She trailed off as she patted the wolf on the side. "...why do you care about her so much? Isn't she your rival? She's a winter spirit too, and you're obviously powerful, but so is she. Come, we can use her against Mother Nature together! We can use the Winter General to get back at Mother Nature! Don't you think it's cruel that there are two winter spirits!?"
"Oh..." I stood straight up with my own wolfish grin. "...that's cute. You think SHE'S the Winter General."
"Of course she is! She's called the Snow QUEEN! You're just a boy!"
"I am much more than that! Girls! Lunch!" The wolves barked and immediately went after her and the two wolves that accompanied her. Meanwhile, I picked up my staff as calmly as I could while I made my way to Eira in the snow and I quickly noticed the streams of blood coming out of her. "Klaina!" Jack commanded.
The sprite came back, but this time she changed size and became as tall as me. "Yes, Jack?"
"Take her home."
"Of course." The sprite leaned down and carried Eira in her arms bridal style. Suddenly a blue portal opened up behind the sprite and they were gone.
I turned around and glared at the wolves I made and whistled loudly instantly turning them back into snow. "Wha-? How!?" Wolfina screeched as she jumped off of her bloodied wolf. At this point, there was more blood than fur.
"I'll give you a hint. SHE. Is. Not. The. Winter. General!" I growled out with every step towards her. My blood was boiling, and I knew my children were also searching the world over for Eira at the moment with the same feeling when we saw Wolfina grab Eira.
"Y-You!?"
"Yeah! Me!" I stated and then proceeded to shoot electric lightning at her. "Mother Nature spared you a hundred and two years ago!"
"A foolish mistake! I had been plotting since then!"
"Yes...a foolish mistake...on MY PART!" I screamed and miniature spears of ice shot out with the electric ice blast. When the blast hit her, it cut her up everywhere.
"You!? Last I...checked...you're not...Mother Nature!" She breathed out in gasps of breath as she bled from her arms and legs, trying to stand.
"I was the one that told her to spare you. To give you a chance, and now I see I was severely wrong!"
"Y-You...but...just how are you so powerful!? Why don't you use that power all the time!? Why do you use a staff!?"
"DID YOU NOT SEE WHAT I HAD TO DO TO CREATE THEM!? IT'S EASTER! THE EASTER BUNNY IS GOING TO BE OUT HERE TO GIVE EGGS TO CHILDREN AND HE WON'T BE ABLE TO HIDE THEM! THE CHILDREN IN THIS AREA WILL BE WITHOUT EASTER! HE IS THE GUARDIAN OF HOPE AND THE CHILDREN WILL NOT SEE ANY EGGS! THEY CANNOT COME OUT OF THEIR HOMES!" Once I was done screaming I let out a heavy sigh, trying to control my anger. "I don't like to use my powers like this, but you forced my hand."
"I still don't understand it!" She screeched in one heaved out breath, collapsing to her knees, her wolves not far behind her.
"And someone like you could never hope to." I sighed.
A portal sounded and Emily stepped out with a burning fury surrounding her like a thick aura. "You harmed the Snow Queen!"
"I thought she was your general!"
"JACK is my general! Either way, it doesn't give you any right! You're a corrupted spirit. Greed has consumed you! and you're a Glutton for power! Your Envy for others will be your downfall just as it is everyone's downfall!"
"You stripped me of rank! You stripped me of power!"
"You grew mad with it all! You were not a seasonal, and you were not an elemental, but you pretended like you had the power of one! You turned yourself into a werewolf one hundred and two years ago, and I didn't find that out until AFTER I banished you to the rain forest! You did that to yourself IN the Rain Forest! I thought you had control of it then, but you didn't and it was JACK'S request to spare you. To give you a chance to further grow into your powers, and grow you did! You grew even more mad with it. Now, tell me why you've taken the Snow Queen!?"
I stood proudly and fierce by Emily's side as I growled out my answer. "She was going to turn her into a werewolf and use her against you. She was going to make the Snow Queen obedient to her and have her use her winter powers to cause mayhem."
"Thank you, Jack!" She replied with an agitated tone and summoned another portal, but this one was a deep and ugly green mixed in with black. The portal moved and enveloped Wolfina and her wolves.
"What did you do?" I asked with widened eyes, but my blood was still boiling in the memory.
"I put her back in the rain forest, but I also put her in a cell deep within a mountain. She's not getting out anytime soon, and her wolves will become mere carvings against a cave wall."
"Not anytime soon...which means she can eventually escape."
"Unfortunately, yes. Until she is long past dead...she will always be a threat."
"Are you going to kill her, because I..."
"I know...I know you won't kill. Not on purpose. Truthfully, I haven't decided. I still believe you're right. She just needs to grow into her new powers and find her place." She looked at me and gave me a chaste kiss on the lips. "How was the Snow Queen?"
"She's hurt. Badly. She'll need you." I gave her a chaste kiss in return. "You go, I'll take care of this."
"Alright...but where are you going to send it?"
"Antarctica like I always do, and I'll keep it under the radar so weathermen don't notice it."
"Good idea. I will leave you to it then. You know where I'll be if you need me."
"I'll be home soon."
"You better be." She chuckled out before stepping back into the portal.
"What a mess..." I sighed out as I shook my head, looking at the blanket of snow. I lifted into the air and summoned the snow to follow but to anyone else, they would say I was making it snow even more, rather than taking it away.
"Wha-!? NO!" I heard memory Bunny shout, and current Bunny flinched as we watched him hop out onto the snow. Memory Bunny looked up at memory me and instantly grew furious. "GET DOWN HERE YA DAMN MONSTER!"
'I-I said that...I c-called Jack a...a...' I heard current Bunny squeak out, and as I turned to see him viewing the memory, I noticed that tears fell from his eyes as he watched memory me let out a sigh and put on a fake smile.
'He's not going to listen to me.' I thought as I floated slowly down. 'Why would he? I DID ruin his holiday. He has every right to be angry with me, and it's not like anyone would believe that Jack Frost caused a blizzard to protect a spirit let alone his own daughter.' Once I was on the ground in front of him I leaned against my staff and gave another fake grin. "Bunny, funny seeing you here."
"Yeah right! Don't give me that! Do ya have any idea what day it is!?"
"I believe it's Easter Sunday." I sighed out, my grin faltering slightly.
"YA DAMN RIGHT! Do ya have any idea what you've done!? These children won't have Easter! Their parents will keep them indoors! It's spring ya Galah! Ya know what!? I'm waistin' my time! Ya don't care about children! Ya don't care about the lives that could've been lost in your damn blizzard ya were makin'! Ya only care about YOURSELF!' At his last word he swiped at me and clawed my cheek. I looked over at current Bunny and saw that he was horrified with himself, which wasn't what I had intended when I decided to let him see the memory.
Memory me hissed in pain but only for a moment. I touched a finger to my cheek and froze the blood. As it healed I stood straighter with my staff and let out a light chuckle. "Are you done?"
I breathed in deeply before letting out a sigh through my nose. 'With how he's reacting...Easter is to him what Eira is to me. Something precious to be protected and looked after. Something that he loves more than himself. I can understand his anger. I just hope he doesn't stay mad for long...even though he has every right to stay mad. From where he was it looked like I was continuing it on purpose rather than trying to collect it and move it. Not only that, but I did cause it...'
"Yeah, I'm done! Oh, and you can keep that hope to yourself! I'm likely to be mad at ya for the rest of eternity! What kind of Monster goes and purposely ruins Easter!? You're lucky there's googies everywhere else in the world! Now, if you don't mind...those of us that actually give a damn about others...have work to do!"
Soon, the memory faded to white.
oOoOoOoOoOo
"Bunny?" I asked with pure worry and concern in my voice. He had just woken up from the memory, and it was almost as if he was gasping for air as if his life depended on it. He was crying as well.
"J-Jack...I..."
"I'm sorry, Bunny."
"N-No...I...please...d-don't apologize..." He blinked away the tears and let out a shaky breath. "I'm still sorry for everythin'. I just..."
"You have nothing to be sorry for! That's why I wanted to show you...the blizzard of '68 WAS my fault...you had every right to be mad at me, and had every right to think what you thought of me. I never denied it. Not to you, and not to anyone else."
"I-I told ya not to hope! Jack...I'm the GUARDIAN of hope."
"Bunny..." I sighed out in mild irritation as I tilted my head.
"I should've...I hurt you, Jack...I..."
"Bunny..." I tried again, louder, but he wasn't paying attention.
"I didn't even...and then at Easter in 2012 I..."
"ASTER!" I shouted, and my jaw instantly snapped shut, and I waited for him to look at me. Once he did I took in a deep breath before breathing out, "I forgive you."
He closed his eyes and let out a shaky breath. "Th-Thanks, Jack, but...what did I...do to...deserve that? What did I do to deserve your concern, because...as I see it...I never deserved it."
"You became my friend...and not only that, but I honestly don't think you did anything wrong. In '68...I DID cause a blizzard, and I unfortunately knew what I was doing and what the consequences would be."
"And Easter of...2012? What...happened before...and after?"
"I..."
"Mother Nature...will you...show me...what happened...between Pitch...and Jack?"
"Only if he's okay with it."
"I suppose I was going to have to tell the others sooner or later." I let out a sigh and nodded his head. "Go ahead." Emily tapped the right side of my head lightly and then took her hand away to bring it Bunny's head along with her other hand.
oOoOoOoOo
"Don't tell me...you're sorry for...that?" He asked me as he once again woke up from seeing the memory of what happened before Easter.
"If I hadn't have been stupid enough to chase after the voice I..."
"YOU wouldn't have...seen your memories. YOU...wouldn't have been...chased off by us...and put yourself...stars know where. YOU wouldn't...have found out...who ya were. YOU wouldn't...have...realized your center. Ya may...have not told us...everythin' that happened...but ya did tell us...that seein' your memories...helped a great...deal. It's nothin' to be...sorry for. If anythin'...we should all be...sorry that we assumed ya...traded Baby Tooth for...your memories. After all...you did save her...from...nightmare horses in mid-air."
"Bunny?" I asked him cautiously as I stepped closer to his bed, then I noticed that he had opened his stitches with his stupid stunt of moving earlier. "You stupid fluff butt! You opened your stitches!" I quickly left and gathered as many cleaning and stitching supplies that I could, just in case he tore them even more, and I made my way to the door, but once I was there, I heard them talking about me.
"How did he do it?"
"He focused on everything that the Guardians represented. Wonder, Dreams, Memories, but the one he focused the most on due to how his memories made him feel was..." I heard Emily answer.
"Hope. He felt hope and used it..." Bunny let out short, but dry laugh. "That kid is somethin' else."
"He is NOT a kid." Emily argued, and I could hear the mirth in her voice.
"Physically he is...and to me...and Sandy...at OUR age? Oh yeah...he's a kid."
"None the less...he's a lot more grown up than he seems. He's right, he clings to his childish side, but also there are times when he can't help it. It's never a bad thing in my opinion, but more often than not...the other spirits have seen his childish side."
I couldn't help the smile that was on my face as I walked in. "Are we done talking about me?" I laughed out as I walked the rest of the way into the burrow. "Good..." I set the tray down on my nightstand and started unwrapping the bandages around his right arm.
Once he got the last bit of bandages off I heard Bunny let out a sigh of relief for a moment. "Ya know...ya don't have to do this."
"Sure I do." I replied as if it was the easiest thing in the world. "We're like brothers you and I, Cottontail."
Bunny quickly hissed in pain at the feeling of my finger numbing the areas on his body that needed to be restitched and I immediately started cleaning and getting to work. "Say, where did you learn how to mend wounds anyway?" He asked as the pain dulled quicker than expected.
A fond smile appeared on my face as I started to slowly stitch his arm back up. "You wouldn't believe how much of a mischievous wild child Eira was...and IS. When she was three she decided to try and make an ice slide, but there were rough shards in some places, because of course, she's three and it's not going to be perfect...but she scratched her legs up pretty good. One of Emily's fire spirits talked me through sewing the wound together after one of the thunder spirits told me how to clean it. After that...I can't tell you how many times I've had to tend to her wounds." I told him, and it was a much better explanation than telling him I had to learn it for my other children when they would come back injured.
"Where was Mother Nature?" Bunny questioned with a slight hint of concern in his voice.
"Aster...at this point you and Sandy can just call me Emily."
"Fine..." He told her with an appreciative smile. "Where was Emily?"
"She was helping another spirit. I believe it was the summer spirit..."
"Huh...wait...do Emily's spirits listen to ya? I mean...they seem to help ya, but..."
"They listen to him about some things." Emily answered as she rubbed the back of her neck. "You see..."
"When we're all in the domain they call me Father..." I grinned with an embarrassed tint of pink on my face as I pulled the whole stitch closed and cut it.
"Wait...Father? Ya mean ya have more kids?"
"Not biologically no. The only one I'm a Father to biologically is Eira..." I chuckled out. "...but they've all honestly treated me like I'm their father for a very long time, long before Eira was born, but because I DO have a kid, and she's mine and Emily's...when we got married it was as if I really..."
"Almost as if you really adopted the rest of Emily's spirits."
"Honestly...I wasn't thinking of it like that when I married her..." I smiled as I thought to only myself, 'Mainly because I've seen myself as their Father too...' I rolled my eyes slightly as I continued. "...but right when we said our vows and kissed...even the physically older ones started rushing at me and calling me Father Nature or just Father. However, they only ever call me that in the domain. We got married two months after we confessed and then..."
"Oh...so...Eira was conceived on the weddin' night." Bunny chuckled out mischievously.
"Yes, she was." Emily stated with a proud and smug grin. "The things the other spirits listen to him on is anything and everything concerning me or Eira, how the children of the world are doing...considering a lot of them can't go near children, and they love to hear about what he's done with his winter magic, even if it's just snow here and there. I swear they practically hang on his every word. The one thing they never listened to him about is when he was having self doubt, when he was depressed, when he continuously said he was fine, and basically...whenever he was feeling down. He has their help any time he wishes it, but they also know that unless it's an emergency he would never ask it...like his sprites. He was the one to ask the spirits for help during my pregnancy and they were overjoyed that he asked for their help...it was kind of like children being allowed to work with their Father or spend more time with their Father, and be given the chance to make their Father proud. It was rather amusing, especially from the much older spirits. It's like they all took to Jack instantly when we got married. They already like him after three decades of me training him, but it was almost as if when we got Married...they linked themselves to Jack."
"Perhaps they did." Sandy suggested. "They recognize themselves as your children, I know they do. So, Bunny may not be too far off. Once he married you, he became their Father. Were there any objections?"
"No, in fact..." Emily's eyes widened and a smile grew on her face. "...they were quite insistent that we get married as soon as possible."
"Perhaps they saw something the two of you didn't see until you confessed."
"Perhaps indeed." Emily agreed.
"Alright alright..." I laughed out. "Now, I believe I've earned at least five stories on Aster's past. Sandy, you said you would tell me something no one else knew about the Easter Bunny."
"Oh no..." Bunny groaned out and his ears went back in what I recognized to be embarrassment.
"Oh yes!" Sandy and I shouted with excitement.
"Okay..." Sandy started as he practically jumped in excitement. "...now, as you know...in order to be an expert at anything...someone has to teach you first, and ASTER is an EXPERT painter, yes?"
"WHOA! Are you kidding me? Bunny was taught? I thought it was a natural born gift or something!" I shouted, trying my best to pretend this was the first time I've heard about it.
"Thank ya for the flattery, mate, but no." Bunny rolled his eyes and fixed his gaze to the ceiling.
"Well...do you know who taught Bunny to paint?" I asked, and I turned to face Sandy who was giving a wicked mischievous grin.
"You're looking at him." He replied confidently.
"Y-You!? You taught Bunny how to paint!?" I asked in pleasant surprise. Not because he confirmed Bunny's story from long ago, but because hearing it from Sandy was FAR different than hearing it from Bunny.
"Yes, I did. He didn't know how, and for some reason I couldn't let it go. So, I taught him what plants could be turned into different types of paints and colors. I also taught him how to make his own brushes. Within a year, he was painting anything he could get his hands on. Eventually he settled on painting Googies."
"Wait...the eggs? You mean that's not just a word he uses for eggs?"
"Nope!" Bunny answered with a soft chuckle. "Googies on my world were like weeds or dandelions on your world. They. Were. Everywhere! However, they were filled with chocolate, and if you wanted to ya could add flavors inside of them. Dependin' on the color of flower that it bloomed out of depended on the type of chocolate was inside. Pink was dark chocolate, Orange was milk chocolate, Blue was bitter chocolate, and Purple was salted chocolate. No one knows why...but that's the way it was."
"Wow! That must've been so awesome eating all of that chocolate!"
"Ah...no...chocolate was bad for us...or well...not exactly bad but...it..."
"It would change them." Sandy offered simply. "There was once where Aster willingly ate chocolate and gave himself extra arms...but it also affected the way he thought and acted. Aster is a Pooka, and although they were already similar to humans as far as being intelligent and having emotions...they were a very rational race. They didn't do anything without a reason. They didn't follow a gut instinct or jump into action if the need arose...everything was planned and methodical. Aster and his little brother...they were a bit different...but when Aster came to earth and we fought Pitch the first time...he willingly ate chocolate and later gained the capability to understand and feel more human like emotions even further than he could previously, and started following his instincts more than a strategy."
"Oh...I see. Well, I'm glad you ate chocolate then, and I'll remember not to give you any. Wait...do North and Tooth know?"
"Oh yeah...they know." Bunny laughed lightly.
"Okay...what else?"
"I also trained him in combat when we were older."
"YOU trained HIM? I thought the two of you were the same age."
"We are, but I had more training in combat than he did, and I was the highest rank next to the Lord High General of the Galaxies. All I had to do was ask him, I did, and I started training Aster. He had training from his father, but only enough to where he could hold his own. Not enough to ensure a victory."
"Wow! That's amazing!"
"Hey...I just had a thought..." Bunny started with a thoughtful expression. "...if you already...had a family...you know...with Emily bein' your wife and Eira bein' your daughter...why were you so happy that you might've...had a family...in your old life?"
"Because, it meant that somewhere I may have had living relatives...descendants of whoever I may have been related to, but even if I was an only child...it meant that I had a life before this one, and that maybe...just maybe it held the secret to who I was. There was that, and if I had living descendants...then Eira would have relatives to."
"Did ya find out if ya had livin' descendants?"
"Yeah, I did. My sister had a bunch of children apparently, and you're not gonna believe this...but Jamie is one of them!"
"JAMIE!? Your first believer?"
"Yeah!" I shouted in his childish tone. "I haven't told him yet..."
"Wait...so he was what...nine when he first saw ya?"
"Yeah...he's thirteen now!"
"And he still believes?"
"I believed in all of you all the way to age fourteen." I shrugged. "I've told Eira, and she's gone to see him, but I don't know if the belief thing is the same for her..."
"Should be. She's a spirit." Sandy answered. "I've heard mentions of a Snow Queen sometime in the mid 1600's so I don't see why not."
"Huh...I'll talk to her about it."
"Hey..." Bunny started. "...if you got Jamie to believe in you, maybe...you can get him to believe...in her too. Mention that you're related...that should really get him to believe."
"I think it would be a great idea." Emily chimed with a delighted expression. I smiled at her and then looked to Bunny who was also smiling and looking at me.
"Alright...after you're all better...we can ALL visit Jamie. You're coming too, Emily."
"Very well...I would like to meet your first believer as well. Now...I think we've bothered Aster enough, and I'm sure Eira will want to know that you're alright."
"Oh! Right! I almost forgot! We planned for a snowball fight in Antarctica!"
"I'll see ya later then, Frostbite."
"Later, Aster!"
oOoOoOoOo
Three days went by and Aster was still asleep. Considering he ripped open his stitches, and all of the startling revelations that were made, I suggested to both Emily and Sandy that his body needed some rest to recover from it all, and they agreed, but this time, Sandy was with me, and we both noticed the tears falling from his eyes. I walked over towards him and placed my hand on his shoulder. "Aster?" I questioned carefully, but even more tears started falling. They were like waterfalls, and the only thought I had was that perhaps he was having a nightmare. "Aster! Aster Wake up!" Once I saw his eyes shoot open wide, I noticed his Emerald green eyes were somehow even greener than usual. "Are...are you okay? You were crying. I thought you were having a bad dream." I told him as I tried checking him over quickly to make sure there was nothing that would cause him pain, and then I suddenly found myself wrapped tightly in his embrace.
"No...I had a very very good dream. The best one ever in fact."
"I...that's good..." I stuttered not sure what to say. When he left the hug, I noticed a happy expression on his face, but there was still something hidden there. "Are you sure you're alright?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine. It was...It was a good dream about my brother."
'A dream about me!?' I thought to only myself as my eyes widened. "Huh, you should tell me about him sometime. Must've been a good dream too, because you were out for another three days. We thought you weren't going to wake up for a moment, but I thought perhaps your body need a rest."
"It...it did. Thank you."
"You're welcome. Well...I'm off to help Emily with Wolfina. She still hasn't found her, and there's no telling what she's up to. Sandy said he'll keep you company for the moment...is that okay?"
"Y-Yes. I should tell him about the dream anyway."
"Alright. I'll see you tomorrow, Aster. That is...if you don't conk out for another day or two."
"See ya tomorrow, Frostbite."
I walked out into the kitchen, and I was about to prepare a meal for Aster, but then Emily quickly appeared through one of her emergency leaf portals. "Jack, go get Sandy and Aster! Wolfina has been spotted, and she's creating more wolves!"
"On my way!"
I rushed down towards Aster's burrow, and once I was in, I noticed that he was thankfully healed and pulling off the last bandage. 'Huh...must've been the dream I guess.' I thought, but quickly pushed it away. "Oh! Good! You're healed! I don't know how you did it, but I'm not gonna complain! Emily found Wolfina, and she's creating more wolves."
"How does she create the wolves?" Bunny asked as he hopped out of bed and put on the holster for his egg bombs and boomerangs.
"She gives normal wolves her blood to drink. It's...weird. Anyway, She's going to start going after children! We found out why too! She's trying to create an ARMY of WEREWOLVES!"
"Well, we can't let that happen..." Aster chuckled low. "...won't the others be surprised to see Sandy like this."
"You mean...he can't change back?"
"Nope!" Sandy stated with an all too large and mischievous grin. "It'll be so good to see North's reaction, and I believe this is one of those times when the lights need to be activated."
"I agree. We may also need Eira and Emily's help." Bunny told me with a slight tilt of his head and a sympathetic expression.
"Ah...so I guess...this is the time when I tell North and Tooth that I have a daughter and that I'm married to Mother Nature."
"Yeah, seems so, Jacky. Can't have any secrets in this battle."
"Fine..." I groaned out and held out a hand. "Keelo?" I questioned and she came forth with a worried expression of her own.
"Yes, Jack?"
"Tell Mother Nature and Eira to meet us at the North Pole. Just outside of it. Tell them not to go in until Bunny and I are there. Understand?"
"Yes, of course!" The sprite giggled before disappearing into my hand.
"Um..." I heard Aster trail off with a slightly amused and slightly bewildered expression.
"They can teleport." I told him in a matter-of-fact tone. "C'mon we should go."
"Right behind ya, Frostbite."