Hello, all! I am so happy that I'm able to have time to update once again! Updates from here on out should start to become more frequent and regular. I've been having some trouble with getting time to write, but that seems to be changing! Wooohooo~! Hope you enjoy!

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"A Spirit Mage? What's that?" Jamie asked, his unwavering curiosity taking hold. The elves congregated around the globe, pushing and shoving each other to try to get a look. Upon seeing the small blue dot, the elves began chatting excitedly among themselves.

Jack propped himself up against his shepherd's crook. Raising a brow, he added, "Never heard of that before..." Jack had thought he had seen everything by the time he had rounded his 200th birthday. Apparently, he was wrong.

North laughed joyfully. "To think, a Spirit Mage, here on earth!" The large man's eyes sparkled with excitement.

"An explanation, maybe?" Jack prompted while glancing back at Jamie who was concentrating on the globe. North ignored Jack's request. Instead, North continued to smile, laugh, and talk to himself about how marvelous this occurrence was. The yetis seemed to be acting in a similar manner.

"The light's moving! It's moving, Jack! Look!" Jamie shouted happily and pointed to the very slowly moving blue dot. Jack walked over to the globe and looked where Jamie was gesturing towards.

"Woah! It is moving!" Jack exclaimed. "It looks like it's coming to us." Jack said, noticing that the blue light was headed towards the only yellow light in the North Pole, Jamie. Jack squinted his eyes. A pink hue outlined the blue dot. This hadn't been there before.

Jack pealed his eyes away from the moving blue and pink dot and turned to North for help. "Uh, North? The blue dot's surrounded by pink now..."

"Wonderful! Simply amazing! A celestial spirit too!" North exclaimed with bubbling laughter after seeing the pink hue for himself. The man was practically pressing his face up against the globe in order to get a better look. The winter spirit found great joy in the fact that North's efforts were in vain. Jack compared North to a kid in a toy store, and chuckled to himself after realizing the irony in that statement.

"What does it mean, Santa?" Jamie asked excitedly. North gently picked the boy up.

"It means that a Spirit Mage is here!" Santa announced as he spun Jamie around. Jamie couldn't help but let his laughter ring free.

Jack leaned against his staff. "We already figured that out, big guy." Jack blew a strand of hair out of his eyes. "So what's a Spirit Mage?"

North set Jamie down. "A Spirit Mage is someone who utilizes a special kind of magic that allows he or she to summon spirits to help him or her. Because Spirit Mages are in constant contact with spirits, these Mages can see any spirit, including us, whatever the Mage's age may be. To them, legends like ours are fact, not fiction." North explained with a smile plastered on his face. Now, Jack couldn't help but reciprocate the bearded man's smile.

"So you mean that one of these Mages is headed here right now?" Jamie asked. North nodded vigorously.

"AH! I must inform the other Guardians!" North scrambled over to the control for the signal, knocking over several elves in the process, and activated it.

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Safe and warm inside of Horologium, Lucy watched as the sky exploded in color.

"The Aurora Borealis! Wow, it's so pretty!" Lucy mumbled happily. She may be opposed to the cold weather, but this was worth enduring it in her books. As Lucy continued to marvel at the sky, Horologium's time expired.

Lucy screamed and jumped up from the sudden contact with the snow. Shivering, Lucy noticed that she was right near the light that she had seen. Sighing in relief, Lucy finished her trek to the door. She knocked.

"Hello?" Lucy called from outside the door, hoping that someone would be able to hear her and save her from freezing to death! There was silence for a good while before she heard loud thumping noises reminiscent of footsteps, followed by strange grunting and groaning noises. There were two voices, Lucy realized, one slightly deeper than the other. Apparently, they seemed to be having a conversation of sorts… she thought? Maybe? Lucy had no idea how they could even be understanding each other if all they did was grunt! Honestly, at this point she was willing to believe that Happy was actually Aquarius's most feared predator if it meant getting out of this cold!

"THE DOOR! AH-HA~~!" Lucy recoiled in shock at the abrupt shout that came from inside. It sounded like an older man, not like the two voices who had been arguing at the door. The two had seemingly reached a decision because the door swung open not a second later.

Lucy ran inside faster than she had ever run before, and she basked in the warmth of the… cottage? Er, she had no idea where she was or who in their right mind would actually choose to live out in the middle of no where when this was the normal weather!

Lucy was snapped out of her musings when she felt the weight of a blanket being placed on her shoulders. She snuggled into the soft blanket and sighed happily.

"Thank you!" she exclaimed appreciatively. She turned to face her savior from the evil known to many as the cold.

"AHHHHHHHHH!" Lucy screamed, her eyes widening comically, as soon as she saw the large and furry figures. She was panicking! What kind of creature nest did she stumble into?! Great, now she was a goner. If it was facing her doom at the hands of these overgrown, hairy lemurs or freezing outside, she was starting to think that frost bite wasn't such a bad option anymore.

The thing just seemed to scream right back at her, startled by her sudden shrieks.

And then Lucy felt a tiny hand touch her leg. HAND?! Still screaming, she looked down and saw a hoard of living garden gnomes. Becoming increasingly scared for her life due to the fact that she did not want to have "eaten by garden gnomes" on her tombstone, Lucy screamed with even more ferocity at the gnomes. Being of a simple state of mind, the elves smiled and yelled right back at her. Some even started to make scary faces, stuck their tongues out, and started yelling at other elves.

Somehow, Lucy had found herself in a screaming match with a bearded Totoro and at least twenty five garden gnomes; each member's eyes darted from one to another as if they were all confused as to who was really supposed to be the scared one here.

It was at this moment that an overexcited North, Jack, and Jamie walked in.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! OH MY MANNY!" Jack was the first to break down laughing, clutching his stomach. North and Jamie soon joined in.

The laughter was loud enough to draw Lucy's attention away from her opponents and cause her to stop screaming. The living bathmat stopped shortly after. The elves, however, had yet to stop and were sill having smaller screaming matches between themselves.

Once the laughter had died down, North wiped a tear from his eye and persuaded the elves to stop screaming.

"HUMANS! Oh thank the spirits, I'm saved!" Lucy let out a relieved sigh as the her impending doom had been prevented. She glanced down at her gate keys and proceeded to mentally slap herself. She should have summoned someone to help instead of screaming at them!

"You're welcome~!" Jack said cheekily, grinning from ear to ear.

"Huh?"

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That's all I have for now. I will be writing more soon :). If anyone has any suggestions or things they would love to see happen in this story, drop it in a review or PM me! I'm always happy to get ideas!

~Slayerofthewind