They noticed the scene was about to change again, but Jack wanted to stop it before it switched. "Well that was strange..." He said as he waited for the other guardians to adjust.

"Yer tellin' me, mate!" Bunny stated as his breathing calmed. He was getting used to his feelings being amplified, but his own emotions mixing with Jacks was still disorienting like he told Jack it would be. "You knew Pitch?"

"Apparently...I'm only just now remembering."

"Well I can say for certain that I never seen Pitch like that. You surprised Pitch, Jack. You made him protective. You made it look like he had heart." North explained.

"I guess so..."

Sandy made symbols above his head, basically asking just how many memories were they going to see before Jack's transformation.

"I don't know Sandy." Jack answered honestly. "Let's continue."

The memories that continued after were mild in comparison and brief. They were of Little Jack growing up and holding to his promise to keep Sarah's heart pure and full of laughter, wonder, hope, and fun as he told her many different stories. Some true, some exaggerated, and others were completely made up. Other memories consisted of him playing with the other children, and they noticed that after the Pitch incident he was no longer bullied, but he wasn't feared either...so they knew that the boys didn't say anything. They must've watched thirty or more mild yet good memories practically flash by, which did include a lot of hopscotch with his sister, but then they were engulfed in a white light once more...and this memory seemed slower than usual, and they instantly noticed how much this Jack looked like their Jack but without the wintery look.

"Alright, Jackson...these last two gifts are from your father and I and they are for both you and Sarah."

"Oh...open it Jack! Open it Jack!" Sarah pleaded with enthusiasm as she jumped up and down.

The guardian's felt his joy, amusement, and excitement as if it were their own, and Bunny was hopping a little too at how excited he was. "Alright...are you sure I should open it?"

"Yes! I'ts Christmas and it's your birthday and they said one of them is for me."

"Ah...so that's the real reason." Jack laughed out. "Well...I guess I have no choice." He opened the box and gave Sarah hers so she could open hers as well. Once both boxes were open they were both smiling widely. "Skates!" Jack shouted enthusiastically. "I've been practicing without shoes...but I didn't think...Thank you!"

"No..." Jack said sadly to the vision and it stopped.

Bunny immediately tore his gaze to the seemingly broken Jack. "Jack...are ya okay?"

"No...This is...You're going to find out how I became the Jack Frost you know..."

"How old are ya in this? And how is that a bad thing, mate?"

"I'm fourteen here. Just...Let's continue." Jack deflated and allowed the scene to play itself out.

"Mother, Mother, Mother!" Sarah started as she excitedly bounced some more.

Knowing what her daughter wanted she chuckled light as she nodded her head. "Only if you let Jackson take you."

"Jack, let's go!"

"Alright!" He said happily with pure joy in his eyes. "But we have to get our winter clothes on."

"Okay!"

They got dressed and had their shawls on, ready to leave. "Oh, Jack...here..." Jack's father stepped forward and gave him the staff that the guardians know and recognize.

"You're staff, Father?"

"I think it's time you began helping me with the farm. You've always wanted to, anyway, and you deserve a proper staff. This thing will be like a good friend to you...It will be a part of you. An extension of yourself, you understand?" Jack nodded with pride and understanding radiating in his eyes. "Now, I won't ask you to work on your birthday, but tomorrow I will show you everything. For now, go have fun with your sister."

"Yes, Father!"

Jack and Sarah made to leave when they were suddenly stopped by their mother. "The two of you have fun...and be careful!"

Jack laughed out as his sister pulled on him to keep going. He looked at her briefly and laughed a little more. "We will."

Once they made it to the pond they found a patch of land with no snow and put on their skates. Sarah was the first to go out onto the ice, and she was quickly followed by Jack who laughed as he tried to get used to his new skates. His sister appeared to be a natural, but he had his bare feet to skate with usually. Just when he was getting used to the contraptions on his feet he heard a sickening sound that made his heart drop. The ice cracked, and it wasn't underneath his feet. He quickly turned around to see his sister trembling above the cracked ice. He frantically took of his ice skates, and in doing so, dropped the staff. Once he was barefoot he set his shoes off to the side as he crouched down. He felt his breath still as he tried to calm himself. "It's okay It's okay...Don't look down...just look at me." He put his hand over his racing heart.

"Jack...I'm scared..." Her feet shifted slightly and the ice continued to crack.

"I...I know...I know..." He looked down as the ice beneath him began to crack as well. "...But you're going to be alright. you're not gonna fall in. Uh...We're gonna have a little fun instead!" He stated, trying to sound reassuring.

"No we're not!"

"Would I trick you?" He asked as he tried to inch forward as gently as he could.

"Yes! You always play tricks!"

"Well..." Memory Jack laughed out nervously. "Alright...well...Well not this time. I promise...I promise you're gonna be...you're gonna be fine. You have to believe in me..." The guardians let out an audible gasp in shock, but their Jack didn't say anything...he just watched what happened in front of him. "You wanna play a game?" Memory Jack asked as he tried to stand up straighter. "We're gonna play hopscotch. Like we play everyday. I-It's as easy as uh...one..." He winced as the ice cracked some more but he smiled at his sister before her hopes of being okay could be dashed, but then he felt himself lose his balance. "Whoa...Two..." He said as he gently gained his gracefulness once more. "THREE!" He shouted happily as he took a big side step to his staff that his father gave him. "Alright...now it's your turn. One..." He heard his sister gasp as she slid her foot forward. "That's it that's it...Two..." The ice began to crack more, and he knew she was about to fall in, so he quickly whispered, "Three." Then, yanked her with the crook of his staff as he knowingly took her place. When he saw how far away she was and that she was safe, he couldn't help the relieved laugh that escaped him. Then, he realized he hadn't fallen through, and started to stand carefully thinking that it was okay. As he tried to reach out to her and move towards her, his body fell through the icy pond water, and began to sink like a stone.

"JACK!" He couldn't hear anything after that. His throat felt tight, his lungs were crying out to him, his limbs were growing increasingly cold, his sight soon left him, and with it...his last breath as bubbles escaped his lips. The pond, However, was deeper than it let on, and he slowly kept sinking. It soon became dark, but the moon was out and it was full. Soon, Jack's lifeless body had finally made it to the bottom of the pond. Then, through the darkness of the deep pond, the moon shined it's light onto jack. The guardians watched with baited breath as Jacks wonderful brown hair shifted to a snowy white, and his body was finally being lifted out of the lake by MiM, and because of how fierce the winter was that year, Jack's lifeless body had to be pulled through the cracks once more. As he was finally out of the water, his once golden brown eyes were a piercing icy blue, and breaths of air obviously left his lips as he awoke.

"I am known as the man in the moon...I created you while you in the pond and now I have pulled you out. Your name...is Jack Frost."

Jack was gently set down back onto the ice which, thanks to MiM, was fixing itself, and he felt confused and slightly scared. "Guys?" Jack questioned as he stopped the vision. Once they gathered their own emotions the all lowered their heads except Sandy who just continued to stare at the scene before him. Jack was taken back in disbelief as he got a closer look at everyone's faces. The man who represented wonder looked distraught, the fairy who represented memories seemed to wish with all her heart that she could forget, the small man that represented dreams seemed to want to wake up from whatever nightmare he was in, and the bunny who represented hope...seemed completely and utterly hopeless. "Guys...it's fine...it's...come to think of it...it's not that big a deal. I'm here aren't..."

Bunny snapped his head up and with tears running freely down his fur from his stunning green eyes he shook his head at Jack. "Not a big deal? You died!" His voice broke with a slightly choked cry at the end, and that nearly shook Jack to the core. "Jack...you...you died. You were just fourteen...and ya still believed in all of us...you...Oh Dear Moon...You were just a child..." Bunny's face twisted from hopeless to horrified. "We all felt your heart stop, mate."

Jack's jaw dropped as he noticed that the other guardians had started looking at him with their tears running down their cheeks as well, but none were running down as freely as Bunny's, and with how broken Bunny sounded, he couldn't help but want to talk to him in his human form to see what he looked like in this state, for someone like him. The spirit that until recently, had caused him so much trouble. "Ell...Elliston Aster Bunnymund." He watched and waited as Bunny changed into his human form and was continuously shocked by just how broken the, now man, looked in front of him. Tears still ran down his face, but he closed his eyes and bit his lip as he turned his head away from Jack. "Aster?" He cautiously asked.

"M..." Aster tried to start as he finally breathed out a breathy sob he didn't known he was holding. He couldn't bring himself to look at Jack just yet. "M...My first true believer...Jack, You were...my first true believer and you...you..."

Jack couldn't stand seeing Aster like this. Whether he was in rabbit form or human form. He just looked so broken...and hopeless. He walked closer to Aster and grabbed his hand and placed it over his blue hoodie and pressed it hard against his heart. "Do you feel that, Aster?"

Aster felt a fast paced pounding against his hand that Jack's forever wintery hands held, and he fell to his knees as the dam he tried to construct behind his eyes broke as the heartbeat continued. He cried into his free arm as he held his hand against Jack's chest. He had seen children come and go, believers here and there, but the last time he actually saw a child die, it was many centuries ago and it was before MiM chose him to be the Easter Bunny. Even that tragic child's death, the one he was supposed to heal and save, was nothing to him compared to the one he had just witnessed and felt. Jack was so scared and alone. He was relieved that he saved his sister, but that was the last happy thought the human version of Jack had. They all had felt Jack's loss of memory as if everything that happened to him...had never happened at all, and Bunny had to watch as his first true believer died right before his eyes. Once he slowed his crying he sniffed a few times as he tried to stand back up. "Jack...You're...I..."

"I'm alive Aster. You can feel it under you're hand. I only look dead now, and even that's a stretch. MiM started my heart back up. Really, I'm okay as far as that is concerned. I'm happy I did it, and I would do it again if I could." Jack allowed Aster to take his hand back as he once again stood to wipe away his tears.

"I hate for ya to see me in such a sorry state, mate. I must seem like a damn pansy to ya."

Jack could tell that Aster was trying to throw it off with banter, but even he knew that now was not the time for banter. He moved forward and gave Aster as tight a hug that his cold arms could muster, and he smiled lightly. "Aster, that was a long time ago."

Aster choked down another sob as he returned the hug just as tightly. "That's the problem, mate. That was a little over three centuries ago, and I thought I officially met ya not long before the blizzard of '68. I should've..."

Jack ended the hug to look up at the six foot-one tall man in front of him, and he smiled once more. "You had no way of knowing...besides...I'm sure the others need to hear me speak to them too."

"Right you are, mate."

Jack waited until Aster's tears were dried and he let out a content chuckle. "Elliston Aster Bunnymund."

Once Aster was Bunny again. Jack turned to the other guardians who's expressions hadn't changed. "Jack..." Tooth started with a broken voice. "You..."

"Yes, I died...and that was the memory I discovered when I opened my tooth box. There were a bunch of other jumbled memories, but the clearest one was how I died."

"You were just child." North whispered out.

"Yes, and I'm here now...I'm alive, okay?"

Sandy rushed forward as he flew up to Jack's height and enveloped him in a surprisingly tight hug around his neck, that shocked even the other guardians. They had never seen Sandy react like that to anything. He stayed like that for a while as his body shook with silent sobs. Once Sandy pulled away he floated back down and gave a sad smile as an image of Sandy himself appeared above his head, followed by a heart, which was then followed by an image of Jack.

Jack chuckled lightly and nodded his head. "I love you too, Sandy."

"We all love you Jack." Tooth stated fondly as she wiped away her tears.

"Thanks guys." Jack gave a grateful smiled and turned his eyes back to the past version of him still standing on the pond. "Let's continue."

They all continued to watch eagerly as Jack's brand new emotions seeped into them, and they finally heard a thought from Jack as he looked back up at the moon after inspecting his clothes. 'Jack Frost? That's my name? Well alright then...I guess you can't argue with a moon who seemingly brought you to life...although...where and what am I?' Just as Jack's thoughts were about to continue rambling his toe touched up against something. He looked down and noticed it was a some kind of staff. 'Did the Man in the Moon put you here too?' Right when he thought it and started picking up the staff a soft beam of ice shot out onto the lake making a frosting feathery pattern. 'What the?' He stood up and walked over to the nearest set of trees and gently tapped on the one to his left. 'It's...It's frost...It's cold. I did that...can I do it again?' He tapped the tree on his right and it made an equally wonderful feathery frosted pattern on the tree. 'I did that! I used the staff! That stuff is coming from both me and the staff!'

Jack let out a joyous laugh and began running across the pond, dragging the staff behind him. He almost slipped a few times, but his heart was so full of wonder and joy that he kept laughing. His whole body felt his joy as he had fun with the staff. He continued to laugh out in childish joy as he twirled around with his staff and danced on the pond. Then, he was lifted up into the air by the wind. Then, he heard a soft and joyous voice speak into his ear as he ascended into the sky. "Jack, I am the many winds that go from North to South and East to West. Let me take you somewhere...and you may call me Wind or Windy if you like. I will take you where you are need and where ever you wish to go I will hear your thoughts as my own and we will move together."

"Wait...was that the wind? I knew we heard her before, but she sounds like an actual person rather than a whisper now." Bunny asked as he stood there, amazed that Jack really did have the wind with him.

"Yeah, I remember her telling me that. Although, I didn't know how to respond so I let her take me where she wanted me to go. However, she seemed a bit upset that I didn't respond."

"How do you mean?" Bunny's brow furrowed.

"Let's continue." Jack said with an amused smile. He found it highly amusing now, that his wind had a small temper tantrum.

Jack was lifted up into the hair until he finally stopped and looked at his creation on the pond. 'Wow...it's so beautiful...'

"And...I feel ignored..." The wind spoke, and if the wind had a physical form, they would all say that she pouted. All of a sudden the wind stopped carrying Jack and dropped him into a tree. "Don't ignore me, Jack. We will know each other for a very long time."

As Jack hugged the tree he chuckled slightly to the Wind's words. 'Alright, Alright.' He laughed a couple more times before he stood up and noticed a village not to far off. "Hey wind...can you take me there?"

"I can carry you, but you will have to learn how to move with me. I am known to be free spirited and carefree." The wind picked Jack up like sue said she would and carried him down to the village that Jack had forgotten. He landed ungracefully but landed none the less. "You'll get the hang of it, don't worry."

He lifted himself up and acknowledged what the wind said, which meant there would be more flying, and for that, Jack was even more overjoyed. He began laughing as he tried to greet the people he passed by. "Hello." He said to one person. "Hello." He tried to say to another, but he supposed they were focused on their conversation to notice him. "Good Evening Ma'am..." He tried to greet a young woman but she gave him no acknowledgment. "Ma'am?" He tried again, but to no avail, so he moved on, when he suddenly saw a little boy. "Oh, excuse me...can you tell me where I am?" Suddenly the boy walked right through him, and he felt his heart nearly stop, and his breath quickened in shock. Then, it happened again and again. "Hello? Hello!?" He tried desperately for anyone to hear him, but no one even knew he was there.

Current Jack knew that the other guardians finally felt what he and Bunny knew now. They understood what it was like to be walked through...unseen. He knew neither of them wanted to talk about it, so he allowed the scene to change without a single word, and wondered where, in all his three hundred years of life as a spirit, would it take him.