I have been so lazy! So here's the next chapter of Cracks in the Ice. Enjoy! I don't own RotG!

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Have you ever been stuck inside a can with so much pressure on it that it's about to explode? No? Well, that's what riding on a portal feels like. More specifically, that's what North's magical portals feel like.

So when the Guardians (minus Jack) came through the portal that North had just opened, they were reeling. North, being the creator and sole rider of them, wasn't affected as badly; he only had a slight vertigo. Tooth seemed to be okay enough that she could still fly when they arrived even though she was obviously dizzy. Sandy was acting as if he would be mutely shouting in joy if not for the situation that had brought them there. And Bunny was hunched over as if he was going to throw up (probably carrots, you know) at any second.

"Ve must help Jack!" North began in a very loud outside voice, "Let's go!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Bunny jumped (or is it hopped?) up and run over to the front of the group, "As much as we all want tah get this over with so we can figure out what's wrong, what are we going tah use."

"Vhat do you mean?" North questioned while sharing a glance with the others.

"Ah mean," the oversized bunny began waving his paw around, "ah am sure that the show pony still has his tooth canister. Remember? Tooth gave it back tah him tah keep."

"Oh." They all replied before staring at the ground of the beautiful Tooth Palace. After a few minutes, Tooth suddenly bolted upwards so quickly that the rest of them had their attention on her.

"I can't believe it!" She gasped in surprise before almost rolling her eyes, "I almost forgot about the memory mirrors."

"The what now?" Bunny questioned confused.

"Memory mirrors," she began to float to the inside when she saw the others weren't following, "come on! We should go to the room before we talk about them?"

So they all began following her after giving each other unsure glances at each other. They soon passed by the tooth canister area were all of the teeth were kept (that Pitch had stolen a little while before) and the baby tooths were zooming around putting teeth in and taking currency out to children. They didn't stop there. Soon they arrived at a blank section of what was looking like a regular wall.

Sandy signed with his sand while tilting his head to the side in curiosity.

"Yeah," Bunny nodded his head while crossing his arms in front of him, "ah agree with Sandy. In case ya haven't noticed, that's a wall."

"I know," she replied before pushing on one spot of the rainbow-golden wall. A doorway slowly appeared and they all walked through. On the other side, the group (exclude Tooth and Sandy, obviously) gasped in surprise. The room seemed much bigger compared to the outside. Tree-like structures were everywhere and each leave seemed to sparkle slightly like glass. As soon as anyone drew close enough, the leaves began glowing even more and they enlarged themselves.

The Guardians saw a clover, a maple leaf, a heart, a sun, and many more mirrors and each tree seemed to hold a group of common spirits.

"Each tree holds a different set of mirrors," Tooth's voice rang through the air, "There are the elementals, which is what group Jack should be in, the holidays, and others that I really don't have time to mention at this moment."

At the center of the room was a tree with only seven leaves. Its branches were coloured in completely different colors. One was crimson with lines of forest green running through it, another was golden with a sandy quality, another bright green that faded into a multitude of colors, and the fourth branch was plain with a green tint to it and tiny flowers on it. At the trunk, bright, white, pearly wood contrasted with the withering, black bark that split the tree in half until the branches appeared. In the middle of the trunk, (and right between the white and raven bark) there was a snowflake that sent sparkling, crystal, blue lines up the trunk and to the tip of each branch.

"Vhat is zat?" North's loud voice echoed into the room as the others just stared in wonder.

"It's our tree," Tooth answered honestly before floating towards the trunk, "each color represents one of us. Red is North, gold is Sandy, bright green is mine, brown with flowers is Bunny, white is Manny, and black is-"

'Pitchner.' Sandy signed with a shadow over his head.

"What 'bout the snowflake?" Bunny asked stiffly while trying to divert attention from the mentioning of the Boogeyman. He never did like the Shadow King; especially after he had ruined Easter and set Jack up to take the blame.

"That snowflake is for Jack," Tooth sighed before looking away to a tree nearby. "The good news is that he has a place at our tree. He entered all of our lives (even Pitch's) and that's why the blue lines run through the whole tree."

'The bad news?' Sandy reluctantly signed.

"The bad news is that Jack SHOULD be in the elemental or Guardian tree. Not both."

To prove her point, Tooth flew to the very top of the tree and a leaf hung onto a bare branch grew large. It turned into a icy snowflake-like mirror. They could see Jack shouting something excitedly while being launched into the air. Suddenly, his staff was ripped out of his grasp and he went hurling to the ground. He quickly grabbed his staff and the wind caught him before he could've slammed into the floor. They looked back at their tree. All seven mirrors enlarged themselves to show a christmas tree, a sting ray, a tooth, an egg, a horse, a full moon. The most noticeable was the shepherd staff with a snowflake in the middle of the G-shaped hook.

"Vhich do ve use?"

"This one," Tooth shot to the mirror with the staff, "we have to all touch the mirror at the same time."

'On three?' Sandy questioned with a clock and number three.

"One..." everyone got into position.

"Two..." their hands were only inches away as the mirror floated to them.

"Three..." their hands reached for the mirror and snowflakes enveloped their vision before everything faded away.