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Jack Frost saw the Dreamsand finally finding their destinations and he smiled. He noticed that the man with his gold cloud fly off into the sky and out of sight and the boy started to settle down for the rest of the night, when he suddenly saw something quickly run below him.

Jack, out of a childlike curiosity, followed the gray blurr of color. He jumped over cars, causing them to go off as proof that he existed and causing the dogs to bark and howl. Nyfe commented on the boy's actions, scoring him on a scale in how much ruckus he had caused.

Jack landed in an alleyway, after he had lost his quarry. He didn't know what it was, and the pixie didn't help with a mischievous comment about soul suckers. The boy pointed his staff out threateningly, as he heard Nyfe snickering, and looked around the area.

"Hello mate," Jack heard.

The Winter Spirit whirled around to see the Easter Bunny. The original scare now turning into a wariness, Jack relaxed a bit. He grinned, a mask hiding his true emotions, and leaned on his staff.

"Bunny," Jack said mischievously.

"Been a long time," Bunnymund said, seriously. "Blizzard of '68, I believe."

"Aw," Jack said with a slight frown. "You're still not mad about that are you?"

"Yes," Bunny said glancing at his boomerang. Jack prepared himself for an attack and he felt the Pixie shift under the hood.

"But that's not why I'm here," Bunny told him. "Boys!"

Jack suddenly realized that he was trapped as he felt a huge hand grab him by the scruff of his hoodie and stuffed into a burlap bag.

"Hey!"Jack shouted out. "You let me out now!"

"Oh shut up!" Nyfe shouted back. "Stop mov-OW!"

"OW!" Jack cried out in pain as he felt a sharp pinprick poke his neck. "Hey! Don't do that, Nyfe!"

"Well quit bugging out," The Pixie yelled back. "You can squish me!"

Abruptly, both felt a sudden lurching movement, before Jack felt himself landing on something hard.

The boy saw the top of the bag open and he noticed two strange faces looking at him. Nyfe shot out, causing the elves to flee and Jack would have been smiling as he saw the Pixie chasing after the two, but a much bigger thing caught his attention.

He was at the North Pole!

"It's Jack Frost!"

"You gotta be kidding me," Jack commented as Nyfe quickly buzzed up to hover beside Jack.

"I hope the Yetis treated you well," Jack heard the man who was known as Santa Claus.

"Oh yeah," Jack remarked a bit cynically. He noticed that the Pixie then went over to the Sandman and started talking to him. "I loved being stuffed into a bag and tossed through a magic portal."

"Oh good, that was my idea."

Jack looked at the big man as he crawled out of the bag, snatching up his staff. His eyebrow raised slightly as he realized that the Guardian apparently didn't know about sarcasm.

"I see that you met Bunny," Jack heard the man say.

"Obviously," Jack remarked cynically.

"And this is the Tooth Fairy-" North started to say. But it was like a wall had burst as she suddenly flew into his face.

"Hello Jack!" She said, overjoyed in actually meeting him for the first time. "I've heard so much about you-and your teeth! Open up!"

Jack abruptly found himself shocked as she stuck her tiny fingers in his mouth and started looking at his teeth. Then just as fast, he found himself looking at her.

"Oh!" She said excitedly. "They DO sparkle like freshly fallen snow!"

Jack Frost smirked mischievously as the fairies swooned and one actually screamed in a joyous rapture. He really was going to get Story back for this, Jack decided.

"And this is Sandman," North said, motioning towards a small golden man. He realized that the Guardian was busy talking with a Pixie and North tried tapping on his shoulder. "Sandy. Sandy."

"Nyfe!" North shouted.

The Pixie reacted like he had been shot. He buzzed away from the Guardians and quickly went to hover beside Jack. And the Sandman smiled at the boy.

"Uh," Jack said mischievously. "Could someone tell me why I'm here?"

Jack saw Sandy raise his hand, and waited as sand symbols appeared over the Guardian's head. Too quickly, it started to become a jumbled mess and Jack smiled as he found that he couldn't understand what was being said.

"Uh, thanks lil man," Jack said, getting up and remembering what Story had told him. That he had to be polite to the Guardians. "But that's not really helping."

Nyfe pointed to an Elf and Jack tapped it with his staff, promptly freezing it.

"I must have done something really bad to get the Big Four together," Jack commented with a grin. He thought back to something that Story had told him once and he turned to look at them. "I'm not on the Naughty list, am I?"

"You are number two person to hold record," North said, his hand appearing to wipe something of of his arm. Jack noticed that it was over a tattoo design that said Naughty. "We are wiping clean the slate."

"How come?" Jack questioned, smirking cynically.

"Why?"North said grinning."Because you are Guardian!"

Suddenly Jack Frost found himself surrounded by fire, loud music and Yetis getting way too close. But everything came to a final point when Jack saw the shoes.

They were the same ones that Story had offered him. Only this time, they had a big G embroidered into them. Jack's mood darkened as he saw those shoes, then saw Bunny rolling his eyes.

Jack Frost had enough.

The boy slammed his staff down, freezing the floor with ice and sending a cold wind through the area.

"What makes you think I want to be a Guardian?!" Jack demanded, as Nyfe took refuge in his hood.

"Of course you do," North said, as his eye twitched. He remembered the last Guardian chosen by Manny. "Music!"

"No!" Jack shouted, as a blast of cold air followed his words. The boy sighed, running his fingers through his hair. He knew that he had to get control over his feelings. He realized that an age old anger was rising, that he had thought he had gotten rid of. He looked at the Guardians, putting on an act.

"You don't want me," Jack said. "You're all hard work and deadlines, and I'm snowballs and funtimes. You don't need me."

"That's what I said," Bunny remarked.

Nyfe poked his head out and Jack heard him hiss.

"Jack," Tooth said, motioning towards a giant globe. "All of those lights is a child-"

"A child who believes," North interrupted. "And Good or Bad, Naughty or Nice, they still believe."

Jack was listening, but once again, Tooth stuck her fingers in his mouth again.

"Tooth," Jack heard. "Fingers out of mouth."

"Sorry," Tooth told Jack before she fluttered off.

"Now to big issue," North said looking up at the globe. "We have problem with Pitch."

"You mean the Boogeyman?" Jack asked.

"Yes," North answered, looking at the boy. "Pitch is threatening the kids."

"All the better to pick someone more qualified," Jack told them, as he decided to leave.

"You think we picked you?" North asked. "No, Man in Moon chose you."

"Like he chose us," Tooth added.

"Maybe," Bunny quickly commented.

"Wait," Jack said, as Nyfe whispered into his ear. The boy ran his fingers through his hair again and then put a hand on the Pixie to get him to hush.

"After three hundred years," Jack said. "This is his answer! To spend the rest of my days, like you guys, bribing kids to be good?!"

"No," Jack said, as he looked up at the Moon angrily. "That's not for me!"

"No offense to you guys," Jack said quickly towards the Guardians.

"How is that not offensive?" Bunny demanded, stepping forward as Jack was turning around to leave. "You know guys, I think that we just dodged a bullet."

Nyfe growled and Jack could feel the Pixie start to get ready to attack. He quickly placed a hand over the Pixie, in a clear message to stay. Jack stopped at that same time and smirked. The words stung, but Jack Frost put on his mask of appearing to not be bothered by it.

"You probably haven't heard of a Snowday," Jack said. "Kids enjoy those."

"They might," Bunny said, walking towards the boy. "But they can't see you, can they?"

"They certainly don't see the Easter Kangaroo," Jack said, as his anger started to rise again.

"What?!" Bunny stuttered, before getting into the boy's face. "What'd you call me? I'm no Kangaroo, mate."

"If you're not a Kangaroo," Jack shot back angrily and not backing away. "Then what are you?"

"I'm a Bunny," The Pooka answered. "The Easter Bunny. People believe in me."

Nyfe pointed his dagger at Bunny, but waited and looked at Jack for assistance. Instead he saw a hurt in the boy's eyes.

"Jack," North said, breaking the tense moment. "Walk with me."

Sorry for the long wait you guys. I had to get this just right, and to make time for this. So here it is!

And Thanks, Ravenclaw!

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