Forever and always with you
Chapter 8 : shocked and astonished
The guardians were panicking!
Jack's bed was empty and his staff was nowhere to be seen. Tooth was biting her finger nails and fluttering nervously in the air asking questions like Where could he be?! He is in no condition to move! what if was attacked again?!.
North was trying to calm the fairy down while mumbling something in Russian, Bunny was speechless and kept staring and the bed while occasionally switching his gaze to the window, then he looked at his friend.
"we gotta follow him" he yelled "He is in no shape to fly!"
"Da, I know bunny, but vee do not know vhere he iz" replied North.
"w-what if he got himself hurt again?!" yelled Tooth "o-or he could have fallen unconscious somewhere!"
"calm down toothy" said North attempting to calm Tooth and himself.
Suddenly the guardians heard bell ringing and they snapped their heads toward the sound. It was sandy shaking an elf trying to get the attention of his friends since the beginning.
After successfully getting their attention, Sandy preceded to form images above his head. An image of a snowflake appeared followed by a small cottage.
"are saying that Jack went home Sandy?" asked tooth
Sandy nodded at tooth
"But vhy go home?" asked north " vhy not stay here?"
Sandy started to form images. A snowflake, a cottage, a plus sign, and an arrow pointing upwards. After repeating it several time, the guardians finally understood what the oldest is saying
"Jack will heal faster if he went home?" asked tooth, apparently the plus sign met heal
Sandy nodded again
"Well even if that was the case" said Bunny angrily "That bloody show pony shouldn't have left like this"
"bunny iz right Sany" said north "do you know where Jack's home iz old friend?"
Sandy nodded again
"good then you vill take us to him no?" asked North
"yes, please Sandy we are worried about him" Said tooth almost begging.
Sandy didn't look sure at first, but after thinking for awhile he nodded in agreement.
"good, everyone to the sleigh" said North
"Oh no mate, I am not riding that death trap" said bunny
"Do you want to find Jack or not?"asked North
"I can find him with my tunnels mate" said Bunny confidently
Images appeared above Sandy that translated into 'you cannot enter his home without my help'
"It is settled my friend" said North "you are coming with us".
Bunny mumbled something incoherent before reculantlly agreeing.
They all went to the sleigh, North drove according to Sandy's directions. A few minutes later, they arrived at Burgess and landed next to Jack's lake.
"This is where his home is?" asked tooth
They know that Jack liked to spend his time here, but they never found a place that looked like a home. Bunny caught Jack's scent and followed it to the center of the lake where it ended.
" I don't understand" said Bunny " his scent end's right hear"
All of the guardians shifted their gaze to Sandy who smiled at them knowingly. He floated to the center of the like, made a staff out of dream sand and slammed it's base at the lake.
A portal opened and the guardians looked with wide eyes, Sandy gestured to the portal asking them to walk through it before he disappeared into it.
The rest of the guardian looked at each other then at the portal, unsure if they should go in. after much hesitation they decided to walk through it. They were temporally blinded by light, after it was go their eyes were readjusting and looked at the new place in front of. Their jaws dropped, and their eyes was filled with awe.
The place was beautiful, a beautiful winter wonderland, even bunny could not deny that.
There were trees that they never saw before covered in blue and white leaves, some had leaves made out of ice. Others didn't have leaves but were decorated with snow, ice, and frost.
Winter flowers were everywhere , some of them Bunny was sure did not exist in Earth. They also spotted some creatures, normal like owls and wolves, and mythical like fairies and others they only heard of but never saw.
They awakened from their trance by Sandy knocking on the bark of the tree to get their attention again. With a smirk, Sandy mentioned to them to follow him.
After minutes of walking, they arrived at the base of a large staircase made out of pure ice with a purple and pink hue to it, it made it look more like crystal than ice, North admired it more than the others, since he has a hobby of carving ice, the design the quality of the ice, North couldn't just ignore it, he had to ask Jack about it. They climbed the stairs, what they saw made them speechless and more astonished than ever.
In front of them stood an ice palace and it was breath-taking. Sandy couldn't help but smirk at his friends reaction, he should have brought a video camera with him, Jack would love to see their reaction.
They walked toward the double doors made out of ice, at the edge of each door stood a statue made of ice holding weapons. When the guardians came closer the statues moved and proceeded to attack the intruders
"Bloody hell" said bunny while holding his boomerangs in each hand- um paw
"Bunny language" scolded Tooth while getting ready to fight as well.
North unsheathed both his swords, and Sandy was trying to get the others attention 'this is getting really annoying' thought Sandy.
The golden guardian floated up to the ice guards and waved to them. The ice guards looked at the little man and recognized him and lowered their weapons, it's was not the first time Sandy came here, and he is welcomed to visit and stay at any time.
The golden guardians looked over his shoulders to his friends confused, astonished faces and smirked.
"….S-Sandy mate, ….h-how did you do that"
Just then the doors was opened and a beautiful blonde woman emerged. She looked warily at all of the before they softened at the site of Sandy
"Lord Sanderson, it's good to see you" said the woman happily
The three guardians looked and each other before yelling "Lord Sanderson?!" in a confused tone
Sandy rolled his eyes and silently laughed, he made a top hat from his dream sand and bowing to the lady in front of him before taking her hand and kissed it's back.
Sandy and the woman looked back at the guardians who looked at them with shocked eyes and dropped jaws.
"You must be the guardians" said the woman sweetly " it's an honor to finally meet you" and bowed
The guardians bowed as well "The honor is ours my lady" replied North "but who are you"
"oh that is right where are my manners" the woman smiled "My name is Arianna, but I am most commonly known as the snow queen"
North's went wide and bowed again "please forgive our rudeness your majesty"
Arianna laughed "Nicolas St. North, you and your friends have done nothing wrong, but please don't call me your majesty again, I am not an actual queen" replied the woman
"not to be rude or anything Sheila" said Bunny "but we are looking for Jack frost"
"yes, is he alright?" asked tooth worriedly "He was hurt"
"do not worry" replied Arianna "he is healing, would you like to meet him?"
"Yes, if it's not too much trouble" said North
The snow queen went inside and the guardians followed her, Bunny look wearily at the ice guards who returned to their post.
Once inside, the guardians was awed again. The palace was as beautiful from the inside as it is from the outside, but unlike the outside, the interior wasn't made of pure ice only, it was mixed with other materials and the halls and rooms were decorated with furniture.
The snow queen guided them to a guest room. The room was big and cozy, but what was weird that it is warm not cold, as if it was build for beings that live outside the cold. Again the guardians were amazed.
"Please wait here while I inform him of your arrival"
The guardians looked at the door as it closed before speaking
" 'right I admit it mate, frostbite has one heck of a home"
"yes it is wonderful" said tooth while looking at the room
" you came here before Sandy?" asked North
Sandy nodded
"I wander what more secret's the ankle biter has?" asked bunny
Sandy smiled at Bunny's question, but at the same time made him worry
The doors opened and Arianna came in. "He is waiting for you please follow me"
I written this chapter faster than the last my muse must be happy to day. but I am not that pleased with the chapter
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