Sooo sorry I haven't updated in a few days! Had mock exams friday and got into a bit of a hole when I couldn't exactly figure out how it was gonna go... buuuut I've watched Frozen like 3 times this weekend so I'm all inspired yeyyy! Enjoy :D
PS don't own any recognisable characters/scenery etc.
Chapter 4
Ellie looked at Jack, arms still folded, looking at him with an expression that said 'I'm waiting.' Jack sighed and shuffled on his feet. 'Fine, you want the truth?' Ellie's stern look faltered into a slight nervousness, nodding slowly. 'I don't know.'
'What?' she said, confusion now taken over her face and body.
'I don't know why you fainted' Jack shrugged casually, 'well maybe I hit you a bit too hard with the snowball, but I don't know why your eye is blue and your hairs turning white.'
'Wait what? My hair's not turning whi- oh my god!' Ellie screeched as she grabbed the ends of her brown locks and holding them in front of her, and watching as the brown slowly began to fade and turn white-blonde.
'Why… why is this happening?!' she panicked, looking to Jack for an answer. Only a few streaks of her hair were turning blonde, but enough to notice it wasn't normal – or highlights.
'I don't know!' Jack basically yelled back to her, not because he was angry or mad, mainly just for emphasis.
'Jack thank goodness we found you!' Tooth's voice suddenly exclaimed from behind Ellie, making her jump round to face her; her eyes wide. What the hell she thought.
'Tooth, why are you here?' Jack asked confused.
'We came looking for you, me and Bunny, we wanted to know if you we Ok' she said, flying past Ellie like she wasn't there and straight to Jack, sounding concerned.
'Yeah mate, you rushed off as quick as a hare' the Bunny said, jumping out of a hole in the ground – which was quickly followed by a scream. 'Ow would you be quie- oh.' Bunny complained, turning around but stopping in his tracks. 'Wow, you do look like her – ow!' he said, getting his on the arm by Tooth as he said it.
'Sweetie…' Tooth said, flying slowly towards Ellie, 'can you see us?' she just nodded.
'Yeah she can, me too… but I still don't think she believes, so yeah; I'm confused.' Jack said, walking so he was standing in Ellie's and Tooth's views.
'How strange' Bunny said, walking forward, making Ellie take a small step back. 'woah calm down their mate, I don't bite.' He laughed.
'Who are you guys?' she asked, finally finding her voice.
'Why Hun, I'm the tooth fairy!' Tooth squealed, 'and that's the Easter Bunny' she pointed to Bunny, who waved.
'What? But you're not-'
'Yeah we are.' Bunny interrupted.
'But…' Ellie said, looking to Jack who just gave a lopsided smile and shrugged..
'Well, now we know you're alright Jack, we're gonna head back up to North.' Tooth said, giving the Guardian a hug 'take care of her' she whispered before flying into Bunny's hole.
'See ya topside mate' he gave his goodbye to Jack, who gave a salute to him, and waved once to Ellie before jumping into the hole himself.
'Well that was…' Jack began. 'Weird.' Ellie finished with a sigh.
'So they're actually real, along with good ol' St Nick and the Sand Man' Jack explained, amused at Ellie's confused expression.
'Right… So can you please tell me what's going on now?' Ellie looked at him, a mixture of emotions in her different coloured eyes.
'I don't know what's going on!' Jack exaggerated.
'Well you must know something!' Ellie argued, getting angry. She's not really the best person when it came to controlling her anger and fear.
'Well I don't ok?!' He yelled, 'I don't know!'
'Why do you keep saying I don't know!'
'Because I don't know!' They were yelling to each other, both getting equally frustrated. The few people who were around began to stare at them - well at Ellie, considering they couldn't see Jack it looked like she was yelling at nothing, which isn't good for a town this small - people talk.
Ellie let out a frustrated, angry sigh and looked around, finally noticing the people staring at her strangely. 'Great, they always thought I was a bit odd.' She mumbled under her breath, making Jack raise an eyebrow. 'Come on, we gotta get out of here - to somewhere more private.' She whispered, walking past Jack and smiling at the people who we're staring innocently, praying they wouldn't ask her mother what's wrong.
'Woah, that's a bit soon isn't it? I mean we only just met' jack joked, jogging slightly so he was next to her. Ellie rolled her eyes. 'So where are we going?'
'To the place where you knocked me off my feet.' She smirked, hearing him chuckle.
'Well, nobody should interrupt our conversation here.' Ellie said after the half an hour walk to the clearing, 'nobody really comes out this far except for me, well apart from yesterday.' She said, darting a glare to jack who was making a ring of ice around him clearly bored. They hadn't spoken much on the way, Jack only asking whether she felt the cold since the weather was naturally getting worse with snow lightly beginning to fall - to which she shook her head and said 'not really'.
'So I've been thinking...' Ellie said, dropping her back into the floor, and walking towards Jack.
'Well that could be dangerous' he muttered, a slight smirk appearing as she sent him another glare - which he had to admit was kinda cute.
'Stop it. I meant that what if when you hit me with that snowball, a bit of magic made it's way into my eye and turned it blue?' She theorised, trying to be as logical as possible - even the possibility of magic being real freaked her out.
Jack shrugged, only half paying attention 'well I guess it's possible, but I don't think that's how it happened' he explained, making some snow fly around him, Ellie tried not to get distracted by its beauty but found it hard, really hard - she's always been fascinated by the snow.
'Well do you have a better theory?' She challenged him.
'Well' he mimicked, 'you could be the reincarnation of an Ice Queen I knew called Elsa who lived about 200 years ago' Jack said really quickly.
'Wait what?' Ellie said shocked, stepping onto the ice circle Jack made, it cracking under her feet, 'what did you say her name was?' Jack looked up at her from focusing on his staff.
'Wait...out of what I just said, you want me to repeat her name?' He asked shocked.
'Did you say Elsa?' She ignored his question, Jack just nodded confused with where she was going with this, 'huh... That's... Weird.'
'Weird? That's all you gotta say?' Ellie shrugged, trying to ignore the fact that he said her full name.
'Well I know what you're saying is probably a load of crap so...' She turned around.
'Actually...' He said, jumping threw the air landing a few feet in front of Ellie, making her look back to where he once stood and back to him with an eyebrow raised. 'I fly through the wind' he said passingly.
'What do you mean 'actually'?' Ellie asked, more like demanded.
'Ok' Jack ran his diggers through his hair, 'hypothetically, would you believe me if I told you that in North's - umm Santa's - castle, the moon-'
'The moon?'
'Yeah the moon, showed an image of you - with all your brown hair and both your brown eyes - as the next Guardian bu-'
'Wait, what's a Guardian?'
'Somebody who protects the children of the world, but can your questions wait 'til I've finished please?' Ellie held her hands up and signalled for him to continue. 'Thank you.' He took a minute to remember where he was. 'So this image of you was... Like slowly transformed into somebody with ice blue eyes and white-blonde hair and with a gorgeous ice dress and had ice powers... It still looks like you but you're not you. So would you believe that?' He said finally looking at her, noticing her eyes were wide - and also noticing her hair was even more blonde - 'hypothetically of course' he added, hoping that would calm her a bit.
'Wha-what? No, no, no... No.' She stumbled out. 'That's- that's not possible! I mean, don't you have to be dead to become whatever... You are!' She said, clearly panicking, and waving her arms out at him for emphasis, 'an-and there's no way I can be that Ice Queen chick!' She yelled out, running both her hands threw her hair distressed and turned around, walking away from him.
'I said hypothetically!' Jack rushed out, realising he made a mistake in telling her.
'But it is the truth thought!' She spun round to look at him, 'isn't it?' She said. He couldn't answer her, he was speechless - the look on her face and the glisten in her eyes all too familiar to him, although he hasn't seen it for about 200 years. 'Urgh just go away Jack.' She said when she realised she wasn't going to get an answer, storming past him, heading to her back.
'No Ellie wait! Let me explain-' he called.
'I said go away!' She yelled, spinning round with her hand in front of her - ice shot out of her palm, forming a semi-circle of sharp tall icicles in front of her and sending Jack backwards, hitting a tree. She let out a small scream in shock and covered her mouth with her hand, staring at the other one in complete shock and wonder. She looked up at Jack as he pulled himself to his feet with help from his staff. 'Oh my god I'm so sorry! I didn't know I could do that!' The cried, scared. She kept mumbling apologies to him but he wasn't listening.
'She really is turning into her.' He muttered, eyes wide and staring at her - because of her accident another large streak of her hair had turned white-blonde, and her brown eye getting specks of blue in them. Without another word, Jack forced he wind to pick up and took off, riding it away from here - anywhere.
'Jack! Jack wait come back! I don't understand! Please!' She yelled out after him, her eyes damp with tears and the snow falling heavier, 'I'm sorry' she whispered, knowing he was gone but still needing to get that out. Without knowing what to do, and deciding not to stay in the ruined clearing any longer, she took off in a run back towards her home - completely forgetting about her bag.
Half an hour later she was pacing around in her bedroom, trying to ignore the fact that it was getting colder by the second (not that it bothered her) and with every step she left a small footprint of snow that disappeared a second later. Her mum was at work now, so nobody knew she was home and she was home alone. She re-ran the scene and conversation over and over in her head for about an hour. It was around 11:30 by the time she finally figured something out and rushed to the computer to begin her search.
So that was the fourth chapter! Hope you enjoyed it :D I know a lot of things happened in this chapter but I needed to push it to get the story moving along a bit - please tell me what you thought! Xx
