Here it is! The next chapter! Hope you like it.

"What the heck is that?" Tooth said looking at the staff that still lay on the floor. Sandy, North, Tooth and Bunnymund were standing in a room looking at the odd staff that sat on the floor. By this time they have all seen the memories of the boy who was known as Jack from a long distant memory.

"Well the North Winds, seems to like the stupid stick." Bunnymund looked down and saw how the Winds seemed to tumble it around. "So can any one tell me who this Jack is again?"

"Must have been someone that we knew, but I can't remember who." North put in.

It was when the room went silent, and the North Wind died down and stilled was when the four of them stayed quiet. A spine chilling mist started to creep in through the window. Then a stomping came closer and then the scarlet steed stood out of the window and then a barefooted girl in the white dress, with the odd hair. She stepped quickly into the room and spotted the stick on the ground.

"Damn it Karma, what do you want?" Bunnymund asked standing his ground as Karma flashed a quick grin. With a quick flick of her hands and holding them up like a magician, the mist rose so that no one could see anything blinding them.

Her voice was snaking it's way around the room from every angle, "It's good to see you too. I see you all remember me this time. I'm just here to borrow something, so if you don't mind I will be off now." Karma's voice left with a giggle and the stomping of hoofs rode away as the mist started to die and crawled out the window. When they could see again they all looked at each other with confusion. Then Sandy made a vision of the stick above his head and a question mark.

"You've got to be kidding me." Bunnymund was looking down were the staff was, or should be.

Tooth asked, "Why would she want it? What did she mean remember her this time?"

"Must have run into her before. Must be important if she wanted that staff." North suggested. Tooth fluttered to the window looking out and saw the mist trailing away still.

"I guess I will go find out what she wants with it, we haven't seen her in months, and now out of the blue she wants the stick North just found, it must be really important." Tooth started to flutter out the window and started to chase after the mist.

Karma couldn't wait like Death asked, she had to try something to make this go faster to ease her mind. She remembered this silly little staff that was so beautiful in her eyes. All that affection that Jack gave it, just made it all that more desirable for her. Karma heard rumors of a lake that Jack liked to hang around, so she thought that it would be her best bet to get him back if that is where he was at peace most and maybe it was that lake that she saw before.

As the night started to set in the chilling mist in the middle of May, started to weave through the trees and set in on the lake. Just as she saw it before, it was the lake from where she saw Jack, but the water wasn't frozen. The great horse rode down to the ground and now stood on the rim of the lake as Karma leapt off and put her feet into the water. She held the staff up as she started to walk deeper into the lake. The moon was high above and was lighting the lake up, looking down at what was going on. By the time Karma was up to her knees the torn edges of her dress were starting to drag in the water. She stopped holding the staff up point at the Man in the Moon, "You can bring him back!" She called up, "I know you can hear me! You heard him say it, he wants to come back; please."

Tooth was hiding behind edges of the lake on a ridge above it, looking down. She saw Karma leap into the water and yell at the Man in the Moon. 'What is she doing?' She thought. It was when the cold chills started drench the air that Tooth froze. It seemed as if out from the sky the Winds leapt, sucking up the mist from the grounds and taking them to the sky. The air swirled up with colors unimaginable, the Winds plucked the staff from Karma's hands and shot it to the sky, into the center of the great explosion of fog. "You bring him back! Bring him back!" Karma's voice echoed to the Star Shooters and the Man in the Moon. Then with a grand explosion, the mist and colors in the Winds dispersed and started to rain down slowly back to the earth, so did the staff. It hit the water lightly and floated. Tooth looked down and saw but had no clue what was happening, Karma didn't either, all she knew was that Jack wasn't there. The mist turned to flakes of snow and rained down over the lake, glittering as it floated down lightly.

"Patience is a virtue Karma." A voice from behind Karma spoke. She turned and saw it was Death standing with his arms crossed as he stood next to the red beast.

"It is a virtue that I am not." Karma cried.

Death shook his head, "Well it looks like the Man in the Moon didn't want to have mercy this time. Sorry Karma." His voice was solemn.

Karma had tears welling up in the brims of her eyes, "Mercy is a weakness that's why." The water started to get colder and then Karma looked back at the floating staff. Then she started to see as the snow fell it started to stick to something in the water.

Tooth was amazed at what se was seeing. She was amazed that Death came out of the cave he lives, because he never visits anyone and never leaves. But it wasn't Death that shocked her the most, it was what the lake was doing. In the lake she could see the staff floating and what looked like a figure being built up with the snow. Then as if the last piece to a puzzle fell onto the figure in the water a flash of blue light buzzed. When it faded Karma turned to see what it was, and in the water floating was the body of Jack Overland.

"He did it." Karma said amazed, "The Man in the Moon let him come back."

Death laughed slightly, "You might want to go get him and give him back his immortality, the boy can't swim. It would be bad if he died again, I don't think the Man in the Moon would waste his time with that weakness again" Karma then quickly shot off into the water and grabbed the body and the staff. She tugged him to the shore at the feet of Death.

"This is better work Death." Karma looked up at Death as he smirked.

"I never promised anything, but from the looks of it he is just a body." Death said.

Karma looked down at the brown haired boy who lay still, "Your lucky your pretty." She said down to Jack's body. Then she pressed her lips hard to his. Another flash of light hit then she pulled away looking down at him hopeful, but was let down when all she saw was the same brown haired boy unmoved and unchanged. "It didn't work." She was almost horrified at her failed attempt.

Death knelt down, "I never visit anyone, or leave that cave. I didn't come out here for nothing Karma, as much as I love our talks, I didn't come out for you." Death smiled and lightly tapped Jack's forehead. Then a deep gasp came from the body. "Congratulations Karma, Jack is back." Death said to her as she looked down at the living breathing body that lay limply in the water in front of her.

"You said you couldn't, only the Man in the Moon could, and your Death, how did you-"

"Now don't be so rude," Death said kindly, "I told you I am apart of life and I bring peace. If this is his place of peace it is my job to let him be here. I didn't do it alone, the Man in the Moon brought him back to this world, and I just gave him his peace. I didn't know if I even had to be here. No one has ever begged to the Man in the Moon and gotten him to listen. Besides, I thought he was alive already, in all honesty, I didn't think that would work just thought it would make you feel better."

Karma looked down at Jack's body with a silly smile, "But he doesn't look like he used to."

"He was just dead for goodness sake." Death laughed, "Give him time."

Karma stood, "I don't want to be the first face he sees. I can't do that to him."

Death looked up at the ridge above on the other side of the lake, "You don't have to be," He said kindly, "we've had an audience." He pointed at Tooth who was hiding, "Now don't be shy Toothiana, please come say hello." Tooth froze slightly unwilling to go down and see, but something inside of her told her to, so she did. She fluttered up and came down to where they were standing. She stood beside Death, "Hello Death." Her voice was soft.

"Dear Toothiana," Death said nicely, "Now you might not know this boy Jack here just yet, but you might want to take him back to the Guardians, because this might come as a shock to you now, but he is one of you. The protector of fun and joy."

Tooth looked down at Jack's body, it looked like the boy from those visions, just with brown hair. "What do we do with him?" She asked uneasily.

"Give him time." Death said, "He just needs to rest, and don't worry. You all will remember him soon." Then with a snap of his thin fingers Death faded with a smile into the fog that set in once more. Then quickly Karma leapt to the crimson horse, and started to ride off before Tooth could ask anything. She then just stood by the water with Jack who was sitting still with the staff close at his fingertips. The first thing she thought was how to explain that to the others.

Sorry this one was kinda long! I hope you liked it. Thank you for reading and please keep reading. Please tell us what you think should, could, would, might, and will happen, or just tell us what you think. Thank you

-Nik