New Guardians Chosen:
"The Bogey Man was here!" Marcus alerted.
"At the Pole!" North alerted finishing.
"Pitch? Pitch Black? Here?" Tooth asked in terror.
"He was here," Marcus explained. "North and I actually saw him,"
"There was black sand covering the globe!" North explained using his hands to gesture the globe still orbiting in from to them.
"Wait, what do you mean black sand?" Bunny asked taking out a paintbrush and a plain, white egg to paint.
"And then a shadow!" North finished with revelation.
"Woah, hold on. I thought Marcus said that you two saw Pitch," Bunny stated confused.
"Well, not exactly," Marcus corrected himself covering for North.
"Not exactly? Can you believe these two?" Bunny asked Sandy.
Dreamsand formed the shape of a question mark above Sandy's head as he just shrugged his shoulders.
"Yeah, you said it, Sandy," Bunny said delighted.
"Look, Bunny, guys…North and I know what we saw here. Pitch has returned," Marcus reasoned getting a bit impatient with their lack of understanding.
"He is up to something very big," North stated. "I feel it...in my belly," he whispering the last part out loudly as he touched it and rumbled it. The three Mini Fairies that had come with Tooth squeaked at him as they hovered near him.
"I feel it in my gut," Marcus stated as well.
What he said didn't seem to make Bunny listen to reason. "Are you two telling me here that you two summon me here three days before Easter because of your belly?" he pointed to North's belly. "And your gut?" he poked Marcus's throat.
"Bunny, don't do that," Marcus said with exasperation brushing away Bunny's paint brush.
"Guys, if I did this to you two three days before Christmas…" Bunny began poking North's cheek bone.
"Bunny, Easter is not Christmas," North petted Bunny's cheek and took his egg away intentionally started an old-time argument.
"Here we go," Bunny sarcastically laughed. "Look, I don't have time for this. I've still got 2 million eggs to finish up,"
"Now don't you two start another argument," Marcus warned but they both ignored him.
Sandy was drinking an offered drink when an elf tried to drink from it. Sandy pulled it out of the tiny, ear-pointed creature's reach making it fall. Right after that he noticed that through an enormous square opening, the moon was moving towards the opening to allow its light in.
"No matter how much you paint, you still have time for your holiday," North exclaimed dismissively. "Why are rabbits so impatient?"
"Why are you always such a blowhard?" Bunny asked angrily.
"Will you two quit it?" Marcus ranted trying to get between them.
Sandy tried to get their attention but because he couldn't speak, he had no single luck at all. He tried whistling but no luck came out. He even tried making a sand flag noise above his head but no luck either.
"I'm dealing with perishables, mate!" Bunny continued on at North despite Marcus trying to stop them by spacing himself between them and using his arms to keep them apart. "You've got all year to prepare!"
Tooth was busy giving orders to her Mini Fairies about their schedules for teeth collecting when she accidently interrupted the argument.
"Tooth, can't you see we're trying to argue?" North asked her.
Marcus slapped his hand against his face not enjoying his friends quarrelling and inability to not take what was going on seriously.
"Sorry," Tooth answered awkwardly. "Not all of us get to work one night a year. Am I right, Sandy?" she looked at Sandy since they both worked every night of every day of every year.
Sandy formed an arrow above his head and pointed it towards the moon appearing into fully view.
But Tooth didn't get what was saying.
She started sending her Mini Fairies off to other cities to collect teeth much to Sandy's irritation.
"Look, Pitch went out in the Dark Ages. We made sure it happened," Bunny reasoned still not believing North and Marcus's claims.
"Bunny, Pitch has returned. And if we don't act now, there will be nothing but fear and darkness," Marcus argued.
The argument still went on much to Sandy's irritation and aggravation. He saw the elf (who tried to take a sip out of his drink earlier) lick his cup. He got an idea.
He scooped the elf up in his hand and jingled it around made the bell on his hat make loads of noise that made the others turn towards him with a questioning look.
Sandy dropped the elf, made a crest moon symbol above his head and pointed towards the moon. North looked and saw the full moon appearing into view. "Ahh, the Man in the Moon. Marcus, your father is here!"
"He is?" Marcus asked in surprised looking up. "I can't believe it,"
North turned to Sandy, "Sandy, why didn't you say something?"
Sandy huffed making Dreamsand flush out of his ears.
Marcus heard his huff and realised. "Uh, North? I think he did try to say something,"
"Oh, right. Many apologises, Sandy," North apologised.
Marcus turned his attention back towards his father in the sky, "It's been so long, father. What news do you bring?"
The moon's beam shifted towards a giant G symbol in the centre of the room. Surrounding the G symbol were five pictures of North, Sandy, Bunny, Tooth and Marcus. This was the emblem of the Guardians and the Son of the Man in the Moon.
Over that emblem appeared a deep and dark shadow with an evil facial costume and spiky hair.
"It is Pitch," Bunny realised knowing that North and Marcus were right.
North eyed him patting his belly whilst Marcus stared at him with straight-forward eyes.
Marcus looked towards his father again. "Father, what must we do? How can we stop Pitch?"
The moon beam was right over the G symbol and the two slots that formed it split apart and out of it rose a giant crystal of white.
"Uh, guys do you know what this means?" Tooth asked in a tone that was half excited and half surprised.
"He's choosing a new Guardian," North realised.
"What? Why?" Bunny asked not liking the idea. "For centuries, we have done our job of protecting the Guardians perfectly,"
"Bunny, my father is wise. He believes we need help to defeat Pitch,"
"Since when do we need help?" Bunny asked still not convinced.
"I wonder who it's goanna be," Tooth couldn't wait for the surprise.
Sandy couldn't wait either. He showed a maple leaf symbol above his head.
"Maybe the Leprechaun," she suggested.
"Oh, about Cupid?" North suggested.
"Please not the groundhog. Please not the groundhog," Bunny begged with pleading eyes.
The image started appearing above the crystal.
It buffered a bit until it showed…."Jenna Frost," North said in surprise.
Baby Tooth fainted upon seeing her idol, she had heard so much about her.
"Uh, I take it back. The ground hog's fine," Bunny suddenly said not pleased at all with the decision.
"Bunny, what's gotten into you?" Marcus asked not pleased with Bunny's reaction to his father's decision. "Are you saying that my father's decision is bad?"
"Yeah, bunny it doesn't matter what Marcus's father chooses. As long as she helps to protect the children, then she's a Guardian,"
"Jenna Frost?!" Bunny demanded so angrily. "She doesn't care about children. All that trouble-making girl does is freeze water pipes and mess with my egg hunts! That pipsqueak is an irresponsible, selfish…"
"Guardian," North finished.
"Okay, Jenna Frost is many things but she is not a guardian," Bunny argued.
"Bunny, enough," Marcus ordered. "Whether you like it or not, Jenna Frost is a guardian. My father wouldn't have chosen her unless there wasn something special inside of her,"
"Marcus is right, Bunny. The children of the world could do with a new Guardian after all these centuries. Besides we could do with a new friend," North reasoned.
"Look I don't like it," Bunny kept saying. "Okay?"
"Guys, look. The crystal it's showing something else!" Tooth alerted. Sandy stared at it in wonder as well. The other three boys turned and saw that above Jenna Frost's image appeared the image of a…a dragon.
"It's a…dragon?" Tooth asked confused.
"That's impossible," North said, "There hasn't been one for centuries,"
"Well apparently, one is here right now in that world. And it must be bonded to Jenna Frost," Marcus stated analysing everything in his head.
"Wait a minute, throughout all my encounters with Jenna Frost, I have never seen that dragon near her," Bunny said.
"Yeah, neither have I," Tooth said as well.
"Me neither," North added in.
Sandy shook his head as well.
"That's because Guardian Dragons can only be seen by the person that they're bonded to," Marcus explained. "But now that my father has chosen that creature as well as Jenna to help us protect the children, it shall now be visible to the rest of us,"
"Look even if we wanted them to join us, except me, we don't even know where they are or where to find them," Bunny reasoned.
"Come on, surely since you've encountered Jenna, the most you must know the most common place where she's found," Marcus stated.
"Well there is one place," Bunny reluctantly said.
"Great, now we must find that girl and her Guardian Dragon. We are going to need their assistance if we are to defeat Pitch," North declared.