Hello! Okay, now the story really begins. I hope you all enjoy!

I DO NOT own Rise of the Guardians.

Chapter One – Crying in the Hallways?

Jack woke up to a beautiful day. The sun shone through his windows and the snow outside glistened.

Jack had just recently accepted North's offer of staying with him in the North Pole. North said something about "not being alone anymore" and "so we can all be together", but Jack was just happy that he finally had a place to call home with someone actually waiting for him, not just a pond with only the frozen ice to greet him.

The winter spirit grinned as he thought about how someone, some people, actually care for him now, and how he has believers now as well, not just the Guardians. But then the sound of crying disturbed his thoughts.

That was strange at the North Pole. You wouldn't normally hear crying, unless something really bad just happened. Jack wondered a bit more. Plus, it wasn't just any sort of crying, it was a child crying. Jack immediately stood up and marched over to his door. He opened it up and he saw something quite unusual.

There, in the hallway, with a bunch of yetis surrounding it was a toddler boy. He had soft tufts of dark coloured hair, and had cute little overalls on, with a red and white shirt underneath. He was also covered with big clothing… clothing that belonged to North. Jack raised an eyebrow. What kind of a toddler would come all the way to the North Pole, and then get a bunch of North's coats and overalls tossed over him? Then Jack noticed something… something about the eyes.

The boy's eyes were blue and very big; big blue eyes, filled with wonder, just like North's… "Oh… what?" Jack just felt the need to say something, and that was what came out. Everything finally clicked in his head. That kid, standing in the hallways of the North Pole, was North… as a toddler.

The white haired teenager went up to Phil, the yeti, who was currently trying to calm the crying toddler down. Apparently, soft patting with loud grunts of comfort wasn't going to calm this toddler down at all. "Uh… Phil?" Phil looked up, looking partially annoyed, as if to say, Can't you see I'm busy here? "Sorry, but… um… I just… What's North doing as a five year old?"

The yeti had no idea how to answer that, as he had no answer, so he just shrugged. After that, he suddenly scooped the young version of North up, and dumped the kid into Jack's arms. "Wait, what!?" Phil pointed to his little work desk and all the other yetis going back to their stations. Jack nearly smacked his forehead of realization; actually he would have, if a five year old wasn't in his arms right now. That's right, it's almost Christmas. "Okay, thanks a lot, Phil." Phil nodded, as if to say, You're welcome. He clearly didn't notice the sarcasm coming off of Jack's words.

Now alone with a bawling North, Jack had no idea how to stop him. His face scrunched up as he strained to remember what he had done when he was human and when his sister cried.

All he could remember was his mother taking care of all of that. What did his mom do? Jack's face scrunched up even more as he went more deep in thought. Patting… and soft whispers. Jack decided to do just that.

"Hey, North, how…?" Jack never got to finish his sentence. North, instead of crying, was actually laughing! Jack's eyes widened in shock. Laughing? "I thought you were crying earlier and now you're laughing?" The teenager let out a slew of air of total relief. "At least you stopped crying."

Jack began to wonder who to go to now. I can't take care of baby North on my own. Maybe Tooth could help, since she has all those mini fairies too. "Okay, North," He began. "We are going to fly…" He called for the wind under his breath and began to float a little, as if he were demonstrating that they were literally going to be off the ground for a while. "… to Tooth Palace. Wouldn't that be fun?" Jack smiled, trying to encourage North of flying with him. He didn't want to force the little tike into doing something he didn't want to do. Fortunately, North nodded.

"Okay, here we go!" The wind started to blow harder, and the two started their way to Tooth Palace.

As Jack drifted along, he made sure he had a firm grip on North, who was in the same position as Sophie was when Jack was taking her home. North was actually enjoying the ride, to Jack's surprise. Too bad he wasn't asleep.

"Hey! North, get your hand out of my face! I can't see!" Jack yelped as he peeked through North's little fingers and saw that he nearly crashed into a nearby plane. How much pain and crying would that had made if they had collided. The winter spirit attempted to claw away North's little hands from his face with the hand that was holding the staff. In his little fight, he accidentally dropped it. He watched on in horror as it got smaller and smaller. Realization kicked in and he started to dive for his staff.

North was still pretty happy playing around with Jack's vision and sight. What kind of toddler wouldn't? But when the sudden plummet down to the ground came in, North began to scream in sheer terror. Jack winced at the volume. North's head was practically touching his head, which made the screams, now cries, much… MUCH louder.

"Can you please be quiet for just a minute?" Jack asked, as politely and as clearly as he could into North's tiny ear. "I'm trying to not make us fall to our doom and get my staff back!"

North was scared out of his mind. He was sure that they were going to actually fall to their doom. His arms began to flail around, hitting Jack directly in the face. "Ow!" The winter spirit started to rub the spot that got hit. He felt the bruising starting to come along. Who knew one toddler could make so much damage?

One of the five year old's arms covered Jack's eyes again, making it impossible to see. "North! Move your arms! Move your arms!" Jack shouted frantically. When the arm got removed, it just cleared the way so Jack could get hit in the nose by his staff.

Jack's hand automatically went up to his nose, as he tried to stop the pain. While he attempted to forget that North was there, he searched for his staff once more, and found it spinning around in the air, slowly falling to the ground. The good side was that it was just arms length away from Jack.

The teenager snatched up his staff, then mumbled to himself, "How could I forget about the portals!? Why couldn't I have just used the portals!?"

Just then he noticed that Tooth Palace was coming into view… and that North was still crying. In desperation, he started to sing a lullaby, which he heard in so many television shows. "Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep little No-orth…" With the hand he used for holding North up, he began to pat North on the back. This whole time, Jack kept his gaze on Tooth Palace as he approached it.

North was finally asleep when Jack stepped foot onto the palace. "Tooth? Tooth!" He cried out. "I need your help! North's a freaking five year old and…" Jack's sentence trailed off as he heard all the frantic squeaks of the mini Tooth Fairies. They all flew up to his face with faces of panic, desperation, shock and confusion. "What… What's going on?" Jack asked warily.

The Tooth Fairies all went in one direction with Baby Tooth lagging behind. She motioned Jack to follow them. When she saw the little kid snoozing on Jack's shoulder, she gave him her "Who is that?" face. "North, believe it or not."

This made Baby Tooth's eyes go wide. Then she started pecking at the back of his head, in an attempt to make him move faster. "Ow, ow! Okay, okay! I'll come! Just stop pecking me!"

Jack suddenly bumped into a whole flock of Tooth Fairies. Then, the fairies separated, to reveal something that Jack didn't at all want.

Okay, that is a long chapter. This isn't exactly one of the best chapters out of this story, considering I got stumped at some parts of it of what to make them do next.

I know I made a really tiny cliffhanger there, but you all should be able to guess what the fairies revealed. It's pretty straightforward.

I know that right now, I've made Jack sound like he is going insane. Do you want to keep it like that (him slowly going crazy), or do you want him to still have some of his sanity left? I don't have a poll up, so just leave your suggestions in the reviews.

Oh, and please tell me the writing and grammar mistakes I have made! I want to be better! (Thank you!)

So… Yeah. I hope you all enjoyed it. I will try to update every day, if not, then maybe once every two days.

Thank you for reading and have a nice day!

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