Not wanting to Join:
Sandy displayed fast quick showing images above his head to explain but it just made no sense to the Frost Twins.
"Okay, that's not helping," Janet said. "But thanks little man,"
"We must have done something really bad to get you five together," Jack attempted to analyse as he swung his staff round with one of his swings freezing an elf who was carrying eggnog on a small serving plate. "Are we on the Naughty List?"
North chucked. "On Naughty List? You two hold record. But! No matter, we overlook. Now we are wiping clean the slate,"
"Okay, so how come?" Janet asked.
"Hah, good question," Bunny cut.
"How come? I tell you both how come! Because now, you two are Guardians!" North answered raising up his arms with joy. Another one handed North, a large book with the large G symbol imprinted in gold on the front cover.
Two Yeti's behind up raised up lit poi sticks and elves began a jubilant song on trumpets and drums.
North was chuckling like mad.
The Frost twins were sort of freaking out a little as two Tooth Fairies brought them a snowflake-necklace, possibly cut out of paper.
The elves poke their feet and motion them to two pairs of shoes.
Arya, Tooth and Sandy held up cups of eggnog to toast in their honour. Bunny meanwhile rolled his eyes.
Jack however slammed his staff and creates a slippery ice surface that makes the music die away and the torches blow out.
"What makes you all think we want to be guardians?" he asked not convinced just like his twin who crossed her arms.
North started laughing loudly and erratically. Bunny however laughs nervously along but turns back to his serious mood after that.
"Of course, you two want to be Guardians," North referred back to the subject not caring about their opinion. "Music!"
The elves started playing on their trumpets again.
"No music!" Janet shouted covering her ears. "That tune is horrible!"
The trumpeter threw his trumpet to the floor and stalked off pushing another to the side.
"Look guys, you all are hard word and deadlines. And well my brother and I are…snowballs and fun times," Janet stated as she and her brother hopped onto the nearby table to sit down.
"You see, we're not Guardians," Jack said
Bunny was delighted. "You see guys, I told you they weren't Guardians,"
Tooth fluttered to the twins. "Jack, Janet…" he began reasoning with them. "I don't think you two understand what we do," he started indicated the large Globe spinning around in the sight of the workshop's levels shining with loads of believers. "Each of those lights is a child…"
"A child who believes," North added. "And good or bad – Naughty or Nice, we protect them,"
Tooth started digging his fingers into Janet's lips again to see her teeth much to her annoyance.
"Tooth, please?" she muttered with her tongue.
"Tooth, fingers out of my sister's mouth," Jack ordered poking his finger at Tooth's face.
"Sorry!" Tooth backed away awkwardly "It's just they're beautiful,"
"Okay no more wishy washy, Pitch is out there doing who knows what!" North stated not wanting everyone to draw their focus away from the real reason they had all gathered.
"You mean th-the Boogey Man?" Jack asked.
"Yes! When Pitch threatens us, he threatens them as well!" North replied gesturing to all the children being represented on the globe.
"All the reason to pick people are who more into this sort of stuff," Janet argued as she led Jack away.
"Pick? You think we pick?!" North asked surprised. "No! You guys were chosen! Like we were all chosen! By Man in Moon,"
"What?" both the twins asked as they turned back round.
"Last night, Jack and Janet, he chose you two," Tooth softly answered.
"Maybe," Bunny said but Arya elbowed him in anger. "What?"
"Enough with your disbeliefs," she berated.
Jack and Janet looked clearly into the sky and saw the moon. "The man in the moon, he talks to you?" Janet asked surprised.
"You see you two cannot say no. it is Destiny," North reasoned.
The Frost Twins still weren't convinced.
"Wh-why-why would he tell us that himself?" Jack asked.
Janet groaned and smacked her head on her forehead. "After 300 agonising years, this is his answer to spend eternity like all of you cooped up in some- some hideout, thinking of new ways to bribe kids?"
"Oh, no, no, no," Jack refused. "That is not for the two us!" he shouted up at the moon. "No offense,"
"How is that not offensive?" Bunny asked angered. "Well you know what I think…" he began again as Jack and Janet were walking away again "I- I think we just dodged a bullet. I mean what do those Frost Twins know about bringing joy to children anyway?" he asked the others as he bent down on his back blacks and used his left back paw to scratched behind his ear.
"Uh, you ever hear of a snow day?" Jack asked with a smile.
"We know it's no... Hardboiled egg, but kids like what we do," Janet answered.
"But none of 'em believe in you two. Do they?" Bunny mocked as he stepped towards them. "Y'see, you both are invisible. It's like you two don't even exist,"
"Bunny! Enough!" Tooth ordered standing up for them.
"No, the kangaroo's right," Jack agreed with Janet nodding in accordance.
"Listen to what Mr. Kangaroo says," she advised.
Bunny's eyes widened "The- the what? What'd you two call me? I'm not a kangaroo!"
"And this whole time, we thought you were….," Janet began.
"If you're not a hopping kangaroo…" Jack started asking before he and his sister looked hard into Bunny's eyes. "What are you exactly?"
"I'm a bunny," Bunny dare fully answered staring back in his eyes. "The Easter Bunny. People believe in me,"
There was silence between everyone for a sec.
Sandy blows his checks then gestures to North to do something.
North decided a better way to get them to join. "Jack, Janet, walk with me,"
"No thanks, North," Jack refused hooking his arm around his sister's back to lead her away. "My sister and I are good,"
"Guys, come on! This is serious!" Arya running in front of them.
"Arya, get out of our way," Jack ordered.
"No, I'm not letting you two leave," Arya answered back crossing her arms.
The twins however just frowned at her.
"Look, either we do this the easy way or the hard way," Arya challenged.
"I'm not afraid to hit you," Janet went back.
"Well let's see,"
"Girls, come on! Is this necessary?" Jack asked getting annoyed by their behavior.
"You're taking her side?!" Janet asked betrayed.
"No," Jack answered. "I'm just saying, why can't we just go our own ways peacfully?"
"You guys can't leave. Not when you two have a destiny," Arya attempted to explained.
"Yeah, well the Man in the Moon should have told us sooner," Janet spoke back insulting the Chooser of the Guardians.
"Alright, before there's a fight for no reason," Tooth walked to them. "Jack, Janet, we all get that you two have spent so long in isolation. Believe me, we get it but you two can't walk away from what he chose you both for,"
"Tooth is right," North supported. "Just please follow me and I will show you two something,"
Jack and Janet started following him after a little discussion. During the walk away from the others, Janet turned and saw the others having a discussion. She looked back forward but aimed her hand towards Bunny magically and quietly forming a few snowflakes that twinkled around her fingers.
She unleashed her fingers and the magic flew into Bunny. Her fur became winter blue. Bunny didn't feel it.
He was busy discussing about the idea of Jack and Janet being Guardians when he noticed Tooth, Arya and Sandy sniggering.
"What's so funny?" he demanded placing his paws on his hips.
"Bunny….your…your…your fur…." Tooth struggled to answer due to his giggling.
"My fur….my fur is what?"
Arya formed a mirror from her magic and held it in front of his face.
He screamed as he saw he was winter blue.
The Frost Twins and North leading them heard his scream.
"Aww that rabbit always gets his tail caught on fire," North ranted when he didn't know what the rabbit was actually screaming about.
Jack noticed his sister giggling a bit.
Without North hearing or noticing, he asked: "Okay, sis what did you do?"
"I turned Bunny's fur blue," Janet answered between giggles.
Jack started giggling but North noticed. "What's so funny?"
"Nothing," he answered nervously.
The Frost Twins followed North into the heart of the workshop. "
"Nothing personal, north, what you all do, it's just- it's not our thing," Jack reasoned.
"Well Man in Moon says it is your thing," North argued "You will see,"
"Slow down would you?" Jack asked as North was stalking too fast ahead of them. "We've tried to bush in here for years,"
"What do you mean bust in?!" North immediately asked angry.
"Relax, we never get past the Yetis," Janet answered back.
She accidently bumped into a Yeti who turned at her and right after recognized her, frowned at her and punched his palms together.
"Hey, Phil," she greeted.
Phil just ranted at her with Yeti language before staring at her right in the eyes.
"Okay, I'm just goanna go on," she tried to walk off but Phil grabbed her arm.
"Hey, you lay another hand on my sister and I'll freeze you," Jack threatened pointing the top of his staff at the Yeti. "Got it?"
The Yeti let go and backed away.
"Come on you two," North pulled them away.
Yetis were everywhere making cool toys such as robots, rock instruments, flying models etc. "We always thought the elves made the toys," Jack told North.
"Just let them believe that," North whispered to him and Janet.
The elves were experimenting with Christmas lights and made a spinning elf on a music box with decorations
"Very nice. Keep up good work!" North ordered impressed. They passed by a yeti working on blue toy robots. "I don't like it, paint it red!" North ordered because he didn't like the color blue due to it not really being a Christmas color.
The Yeti gasped in frustration. He turned to a whole shelf full of the blue robots, and slammed his head on the table. As Jack passed by he tapped the Yeti on the head with his staff tip making him jump up in fright.
Jack and Janet silently fist bumped.
"Step it up everybody!" North commanded to all the Yetis as they made more cool toys and loaded up more presents. The three came to the entrance of North's personal workshop room. He opened the door and led them inside.
Jack and Janet were impressed by how much he had already done with tools and ice blocks.
"Fruitcake?" North offered take a plate of his favorite cake from an elf who fell to the floor after losing his balance.
Jack answered. "Uh, no... Thanks,"
"I don't like fruitcake," Janet answered.
North tossed the plate away before crack his knuckles "Now we get down to tacks of brass," he began as his eye brows were bent and he cracked his fists.
"Tacks of-"Jack started to ask but the door suddenly closed and locked behind them. They turned round and saw North in a frowning mode.
North marched up to them making them back away into the door "Who are you, Frost Twins? What is your center?" he poked their chests with both his hands.
"Our centers?" Jack asked confused.
"What are you talking about?" Janet questioned as well.
"If Man in Moon chose you two to be Guardians, you both must have something very special inside,"
"To clarify, North, we have no idea, what you're talking about," Janet admitted again showing her confusion.
North picked up a Russian Nesting doll that resembled himself. "Here, this is how you see me, no? Very big, intimidating...
"And fat," Janet whispering to her brother.
"What did you say?" North asked furious.
"Nothing," Janet nervously answered.
North held a warning face at her before continuing with his explanation about what he meant by 'center'.
"But if two you get to know me a little... Well, go on,"
He handed it to the twins to look at it. Jack made his staff lean against the table before he and Janet started looking at it.
Jack took off the first doll layer. "You are... downright jolly?"
"Ah! But not just jolly. I am also mysterious…" North continued as the two kept take off the dolls layers one by one as they were becoming smaller "And fearless, and caring, and at my center...,"
The two came to the final layer and dropped it into his palm. There was a tiny wooden baby. She said: "There's a tiny wooden baby," Janet looked at him going 'seriously' with an unamused, unimpressed face.
"How's this your center?" Jack asked not convinced.
North instructed "Look closer. What do you both see?"
"A-ah... Ya have big eyes," they both analyzed seeing large blue eyes on the tiny wooden baby.
"Yes! Big eyes, very big, because they are full of wonder," North answered. That is my center. It is what I was born with: eyes that have always seen the wonder in everything! Eyes that see lights in the trees, and magic in the air - this wonder is what I put into the world!" they walked out of his workshop and saw loads of cool things like flying jellyfish and bird devices. "And what I protect in children. It is what makes me a Guardian. It is my center," North explained "What is yours?"
They both sighed looking down.
"We don't know,"
North held a sympathizing face with her and rolled her fingers over the baby doll figure. "Keep it,"
"Look North, even we wanted to help you, how can we help when we all might get in return is still being unable to be visible?" Janet asked.
"Janet, you don't know if that will happen," North sympathized placing a hand on her shoulder. "I agree that the Man in the Moon should have told you two a lot sooner but when we find a way to stop Pitch, you two will more than likely see what your centers are and what your purposes are,"
He allowed silence to let Jack and Janet think. They turned to him and facially expressed that they would help the Guardians and then eventually they would be able to find out who they're meant to be.
The moment of silence was cut off by the sound of hummingbird wings outside the window. They looked out and saw Tooth and his three Mini-Fairies zooming out of sight.
Arya, Bunny and Sandy came running towards them.
"We have a problem, mate. Trouble at the Tooth Palace," Bunny alerted.
"We have to go now. Tooth needs our help," Arya spoke.
"Let's go," North started but Bunny cut him off in his tracks.
"First, make Janet here turn my fur to normal," he demanded.
North looked softly but a bit sternly at Janet. "Janet, turn his fur back to normal,"
"No!" Janet refused. "It looks good on him,"
"Janet, come on!" Arya pleaded. "We don't have time for this,"
"Uh, fine!" Janet muttered. She clicked her fingers and Bunny's fur was grey again.
"That is so much better!" he complimented.
"Okay, no time for enjoyments. Time to go!" Arya reminded. They started walking away.
The four Guardians walked ahead of the twins.
"How could you do that?" Jack whispered to his sister. "He looked good in that colour,"
"I didn't turn him completely normal," Janet whispered. She gestured to Bunny's tail and it was still blue but it also hade snowflakes coming out of the sides.
Jack sniggered a bit.
Bunny heard him and turned round. "What's so funny?"
"Uh, nothing," Jack fibbed.
"Come on you guys," North rushed. "Tooth needs help,"
"Woah, wait just a minute…" Janet attempted.