Tenth Chapter

"Maybe we should've asked where in Burgess she was…" Jack said and looked around. It was windy and cold; making it feel hail almost buried itself into Jacks cheeks. He looked around and couldn't see Tempora anywhere.

"Maybe we should split up?" Bunny asked and looked at Jack "you know your way around 'ere, so you just go alone, I'll look around with Sandy, deal?"

"Sounds good enough" Jack said and nodded "how do we signal it if we find her?" he asked and Bunny thought about for a bit.

"Sandy can watch from the sky, if you see her, send something up into the air, if we find, Sandy will come and get you"

"Sounds okay. Let's get going" Jack said and flew away. He had a good feeling what Tempora would check out first; even if she was evil "Rose" he said to himself and looked around. He wasn't sure where she lived though.

"Maybe I should ask Jamie" he said and flew a little faster. He heard something and stopped up. He looked around and it sounded again. A slow melody. He looked around a little more, and his eyes caught the sight of a little girl walking on the street. She was skipping happily, quite in contrast to the melody she was humming, which sounded ominous. He looked at her for a little while and then she stopped.

"Is anyone there?" she asked and looked around. Jack looked at her more, then she looked his way "UWAH!" she screamed and took half a step back.

"Wow!" Jack said and flew a little away from her "hold on… can you see me?" he asked and she nodded.

"Who are you?!" she asked and Jack became more confused than he could ever remember being.

"Hold on… you can see me… but you don't know who I am?" he asked and landed on the ground in front of her.

"Uh-huh" she said and nodded "you're a spirit, right?" she asked and seemed to have calmed down completely.

"I am"

"Then that's why. My sister taught me to believe in spirits… and all supernatural beings, so I see them, even if I don't believe in them… I have no idea how it works though" she said and started walking "so, who are you?"

"My name's Jack Frost, yours?" he asked and walked next to her.

"You're Jack Frost?" she asked and looked him over "you are cute…" she said and he stopped up for a second.

"I don't think a girl your age should find guys 'cute'… don't you think they're gross?"

"No… and the answer to your previous question would be Rose Jones"

"Oh right, Tempe's little sister" he said and she looked at him in question.

"You know my sister? How? She died three years ago…" she said and looked sad suddenly"

"Well… that's a longer story… but the important thing is that you're in danger"

"How? I've always been a good girl, so I don't see who would want to hurt"

"Like I said, it's a longer story… it's pretty complicated too" Jack said and she sighed.

"But I have to go home tonight, or I'll be in trouble with my babysitter, so I'll see you later!" she said and began running.

"Hey wait!" Jack said but she turned and ran into a house and slammed the door behind her "well… that was pointless" he said and sighed. Then a big thunder sounded and he looked at the sky "that's interesting… and rather foreboding…" he looked at the egg "I have a feeling she's going to be here soon… go get Bunny" he said and it looked like it nodded. Then it made a hole and disappeared into it. Jack looked around after Tempora, and just as he thought, she showed up a little while after. Freezing everything behind her. She looked into the ground the whole time, humming something he could only catch a few tunes of.

"Tempe!" He yelled and she stopped up and looked at him.

"Jack! What are you doing here?" she asked and her mouth twitched. He looked her over and saw how awful she looked. Her hair looked thin and she had bags under her eyes.

"Wow, you've only been under Pitch's control for under a day, and you look like something the cat dragged in, after choking it up… no offense" he said and she snorted.

"How is that not offensive?" she asked and he chuckled.

"You know, Bunny said the exact same thing last time I said that. So, what're you here?" he asked and she looked at him and gave a breathy giggle.

"What I'm doing here? You know that Jack!" she said and walked closer to him, the lightning sounding again "I'm here to make the pity little human race pay!" she said and wiggled some of hair around her finger "you here to stop me?" she asked and he shook his hand.

"No, I'm just here to talk to you. You're still very interesting you know" he said and she laughed at him.

"I am? Please, I bet you have a plan with all the other guardians to contain me! I'm a big threat after all!"

"No, I just want to talk" he said and she looked at him "I just want to talk"

"Fine… start talking" she said and crossed her arms. Jack became a little nervous, not knowing when Bunny and Sandy would come.

"First of all, why are you even doing this?"

"I thought it was obvious! I'm sick and tired of humans making my mother sick! And she's always so damn passive! So, I'll let nature strike back!" she roared and lightning sounded again. Jack looked around and lights were turned on all around, scared children crying for their parents.

"There must be something else… you don't just do something like this"

"I do! If it's so hard to understand, then stay out of it!" she looked at him with an angry look.

"What about those teeth? You said you wanted to destroy them… is that really true?" Jack took a step closer to her and she looked at him cautiously.

"It is, if I destroy them… I'll have left my last ounce of humanity behind"

"But is that what you really want? You want to leave behind, what you took two times? You accepted to be given new life two times Tempe… now that doesn't look like you despise humans as much as you think you do"

"I was confused… blinded by that idiotic thing called love"

"So you say you were in love with a human?" he said and took yet another step towards her. She stood still, not even noticing him stepping closer.

"I… I… no! I mean… I was… but that was 300 years ago!" she yelled and lightning sounded. Jack heard someone scream and looked to his right. The scream had been Sophie.

#maybe I should her from yelling…# he thought and looked at her.

"But still, you want to know who he is… right?" he asked and she looked at him, a flash in her eyes he didn't catch in time.

"I… no… no I don't" she said determined and looked at him "I can hardly even remember his face anyway, and it would fade away in a few hundred years!" she said loudly and Jack took a step closer. She didn't notice he was getting closer. Their distance was now about the length of his staff.

"But still, your teeth can show you all you want! You have like, three sets of them, so you can see three periods of time, how many people can brag about doing that?" he said and chuckled "come on… this isn't you Tempe, it really isn't" he said and she looked at him. Then he noticed Bunny and Sandy behind her. Now he really became nervous.

"This is me! I hate humans! I hate adults! They… they… they pollute and… and… they're the ones who tell the children that Santa and all the others aren't real!" she panted a bit and it looked like she was starting to doubt whatever Pitch had told her. Jack saw that Sandy was preparing a ball of dream sand to knock her out. She looked at Jack and he looked into her eyes.

"Tempe… this isn't you. You're better than this. Listen to me" he took a step forward and put a hand on her shoulder. She twitched a bit and looked into the ground. Then she looked up and squinted her eyes.

"You lied to me…" she said and Sandy threw his ball. A black shadow came up and dispersed the dust "you. Lied. To. ME!" she yelled and a strong gust of wind blew him back. "How DARE you!" she yelled and the shadow that had been but a veil over her before began looking more like a thick cloak "and to think I believed in you!" she shouted and the lightning struck again.

"Sandy, hit 'er again!" Bunny yelled and Sandy prepared another ball.

"Won't help!" she yelled and turned around "try as you might, but you won't HIT ME!" she shouted and another lightning hit, the biggest one yet.

"Tempe! Tempe, please just follow us!" Jack yelled and she whipped around to look at him.

"You just shut your mouth! You lied! I trusted you!" the lightning became more intense and came closer.

"Sandy hurry!" Bunny yelled and he aimed at her.

"No don't!" someone screamed and they all turned around, except Tempora who just stood like frozen "don't hurt her!" the voice sounded again. Tempora slowly turned her head and looked at the voice.

"Rose?" Jack asked and got up on his feet. Tempora just stood silently and watched Rose as she walked closer.

"Don't hurt her… she's the only way I can see my sister again…" Rose said with a sad voice and Tempora opened her mouth silently. Then she turned her head and looked at Jack.

"Jack…" she said with a scared face and Jack swore he saw another face that tickled something in the back of his mind. Suddenly a lightning struck into her, transporting her away.

"Tempe?" Jack said and Rose dropped to her knees.

End of Chapter

Don't think i'll be able to write the next chapter until monday earliest...