Chapter two! Here ya go! I've been trying to plan out what to do in this chapter. North's reaction was the biggest game changer. It took forever to figure out how to describe his reaction, especially when I try to apply his Russian accent.
_! At The Pole: 3 Days Before Christmas !_
North stood in his workshop, humming a tune. It was so close to Christmas, the Workshop was bustling. He sat in his chair and looked at his matryoshka doll, more commonly known as a Russian Nesting Doll. He took it apart and put it back together. He didn't understand why he'd been so restless the last few days.
There was a loud banging on the door.
"At least they've learned to knock." He muttered, then yelled out for the Yeti to come in. But who entered was not one of his Yeti's.
Bunny stood in the doorway. Tooth stood close behind him and Sandy stood in the background.
"We came as soon as we could, mate." Bunny said walking into the room, North turned and looked out the window. The northern lights had spread quickly, he became confused.
"I didn't do that." He said, his strong Russian accent showing through. His brows furrowed.
"Maybe there is trouble at the globe. Let's go." Tooth said, cutting herself off from talking to her fairies. The large man began walking past them, stopping to wake up Sandy. Then he continued to walk. He maneuvered and pushed around the Yeti's.
He walked through a doorway, he began examining the globe. The other three joined in.
Sandy had found something, he tried to get the others attention but they just continued to look around the globe. He let out a soundless sigh. He formed a bell in his hand using his dust, then ringed it loudly.
Everyone turned to him, finding his annoyed expression.
He pointed at a dot on the globe, it was blue.
"Doesn't that mean...?" Tooth said, flying to the part of the globe, staring at the dot.
"There is new figure." North said, watching the dot. It was moving around quickly. North seen a bright light out of the corner of his eye, then turned to see the large Moon.
"Ah! Man in Moon! It's been a while, old friend!" North said with a small smile.
There is someone you should meet. Her name is Winter. Winter North.
Everyone could hear the voice as it rang out, everyone was quiet for a moment, waiting for Manny to speak again.
She is the Spirit of Christmas Eve.
The moon shrank down and went back to his normal size, the light dimming.
"We have to find her." Bunny said, then looked at North who still had his eyes glued to the moon. "North?" Bunny asked, waking the large man from his trance.
Jack entered the room.
"What'd I miss?" He asked nonchalantly, sitting on the top of the globe.
"Jack, I need you to find someone." North said confidently.
Jack gave him a blank look, then looked at Sandy who had pointed to something on the globe. It was a small blue dot.
"Okay...? How do I find them?"
"You'll know." Tooth told him, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Do we bring her like you brought me?" He asked, genuinely curious. North shook his head. "Not this one, find her and bring her here. Her name is Winter North. She is the Spirit of Christmas Eve. You must bring her here."
"North? As in you North?" Jack asked, holding his staff tightly.
"We not sure yet mate, we just know we've got ta meet the girl." Bunny said, looking at the globe.
"Alright, if you say so. Where is she?" Jack asked more to himself than anyone else, jumping down from the globe, he stared at it intently.
"She's in Burgess. Where Jamie lives." He said, then looked to North.
"Take this, just in case you need to get here quickly." North told him as he tossed a snow globe to Jack, who caught it and only nodded, without another word Jack flew into the air and out a window. He was pretty sure he wouldn't need it so he decided to fly there.
She must still be less than 72 hours old... If that is the case, she can be influenced by evil... She could become the next Pitch...
_! Elsewhere !_
Winter stood the center of a town, watching children play, well, not children. They seemed to all be about fifteen, maybe younger.
They where throwing snow balls, she smiled. They hadn't seen her, just like everyone else.
"Jamie!" One of the children shouted, a boy with brown hair and dark brown eyes turned to look at a boy with dark skin.
"Think fast!"
A snowball was shot through the air hitting Jamie in the face. "Caleb!" Jamie shouted, shaking the snow away from his face, picking up snow and forming it into a ball and thrust it through the air, Caleb ducked, it kept going and hit a girl on the head.
"Jamie Bennett! No fair! I was on your side!" She screeched at him, he laughed a little.
"Sorry Pippa!" He yelled, the girl shook the snow from her reddish-brown hair and shot him a death glare from her brown eyes. She grabbed a handful of snow and tossed it at Jamie.
"FREE FOR ALL!" Shouted Caleb's twin brother, Claude.
Winter smiled and looked at the wood wrapped around her wrist. It was the branch she had acquired a few hours ago.
She balled a snowball up in her hand and chucked it at a boy with blonde hair and red glasses. The boy stood there blankly for a second, then got a burst of courage and chucked a snowball blindly at someone. It landed on Jamie's knee and caused him to tumble over.
After a few minutes everyone was covered in snow and on the ground laughing. Including a girl they called Cupcake who had joined in later.
Winter smiled and turned away, leaving them together. The sky had begun to darken. There was a sudden cold wind and something dark brushed past her, she immediately jumped away and followed it. She caught sight of its glowing yellow eyes and it was a figure of a horse. Winter followed it, but it disappeared when she found herself over a frozen pond.
Winter shivered at another cold gust of wind.
"So, you must be new?" A voice came, it was cold and unforgiving. Her eyes darted around and finally landed on a tall man with grey skin, golden eyes, and black hair that was pushed back slickly.
The blonde stepped back a little.
"Don't be afraid, I'm not here to hurt you. I'm here to offer you a proposition." He told her, as two fearlings came up beside him.
"Proposition?" Winter asked, calming down a little. She watched a horse that looked as if it was made of black sand come closer to her.
"I'm Pitch Black, let's see what you're made of." Pitch flicked his wrist and a sudden stamped of the fearlings bursted from the shadows, heading right toward Winter.
Winter held up her arms, a bright light shot out, causing the fearlings to be reduced to black sand, the light was followed by ice that froze the sand to the pond. She looked up to see that Pitch had a smirk on his face, then she looked down to see what she'd done. The sand being frozen over was beautiful.
"I want what you want, you know." He said simply, catching her attention. She cocked her head to the left. "And what would that be exactly?" Winter asked.
"To be believed in."
Her eyes widened.
"You can make that happen?" Winter asked him, hoping that someone could one day see her.
"I can, but I will need your help. I want you to become my apprentice. Then, after my- I mean our, plans are complete, we will be seen by everyone." He said, this sparked her interest.
"I acce-" She began, but there was a large gust of freezing wind. A boy with white hair and ice blue eyes stared at Pitch, he was surprised. But with the same speed he came with, he picked Winter up and left the spot, leaving Pitch on the pond alone.
"What are you doing?!" Winter shrieked, pushing away from him, but he held her tight. She began to punch him, he held her with one arm for a moment and pulled a snow globe from his pocket.
"North Pole" He said, throwing it into the air. Winter continued to struggle, but then felt the air removed from her body as they where sucked through the portal, it had knocked the wind from her.
Winter found herself tumbling across a carpeted floor. She was woozy but quickly took her footing. She found people staring at her.
Winter blinked at the 'people' she was looking at.
There was a giant rabbit with two boomerangs strapped to his back and had a hold of an egg he was painting.
A woman covered in feathers flying around the room talking to what looked to be hummingbirds.
Then there was a small man that was covered in golden sand, sand similar to the type that Pitch had used.
Then there was a large man in red, he had tattoo's 'Naughty' and 'Nice' and had a long white beard and heavy boots.
They all averted their attention to her.
"Where the hell am I?!" Winter shouted, she was angry and the blood had rushed to her face.
"You're at the North Pole, mate." The Bunny spoke. She looked at all of them bluntly.
"We should probably start with introductions first!" The woman covered with feathers spoke.
"I am E. Aster Bunnymund, the Guardian of Hope. But you can just call me Bunny." The rabbit spoke. "Or Kangaroo." Jack snickered. "Oi! Shove off Frostboy!" Bunny yelled, they began bickering but Winter ignored it.
She looked at the man covered in Sand who had begun to make images above his head, Winter squinted her eyes, not quite understanding what he was doing. Bunny stopped for a moment and began to translate.
"He is saying that his name is Sandman and he is the Guardian of Dreams. But you can call him Sandy for short." Bunny stated, simply.
"My name-" Jack started, Winter gave him a dirty look. He was the one who had kept her from making a deal with Pitch. "-is Jack Frost, the Guardian of Fun. But just call me Jack." Winter rolled her eyes and looked away.
"I am Toothiana. I am the Guardian of Memories. Better known as the Tooth Fairy." Then she flew at Winter and shoved her hands into her mouth. "Wow! They sparkle like magic!"
"Tooth, fingers out of mouth." The large man told her, the Tooth Fairy obliged.
"My name is Nicholas Saint North. I am the Guardian of Wonder. You may call me North."
Winter cocked her head to the right. "The Moon told me about you. He told me I was you Granddaughter." She told him, everyone switched glances and looked back to Winter and North. Without another word he picked her up by her arms and kissed both of her cheeks.
"Vnuchka!" He shouted out, clearly happy. He placed her back on the ground. She clearly didn't have a Russian accent but knew what he said, so she replied.
"Ded!" A small smile tugged on the edges of her lips. No one knew what they where saying.
Winter turned to everyone, staring at them.
"Why did you bring me here? I met-" She started, only to be interrupted by Jack, much to her displeasure. "Pitch, he's back." Everyone looked at each other, but looked at her, encouraging her to finish the story of her encounter. "Well, anyway, Pitch asked me to join him. To help him with a plan, so that we could both be seen. So I wanted to accept, I was in the middle of accepting when Frozone here-" She thrusted a thumb toward Jack. "-interrupted and brought me here." Her voice had become more annoyed through the story.
"So you caught her in time." Bunny said, turning his head to Jack who had a proud smirk on his face.
"Vnuchka, would you rather be believed in for the good things you do, or would you rather be believed in for all the bad things he makes you do? He wants to bring back the Dark Ages." North spoke, looking at her clearly concerned.
Winter directed her gaze to the floor and heaved out a long sigh. "You know what? It honestly doesn't matter to me. I want to believed in, period. I want to be seen, I don't want to be walked through and feel invisible every day of my life. You wouldn't understand." She stated looked back up at them.
"Jack would." North told her. Winter turned her head to see the boy who had brought her here. "It's true. No one believed in me over three hundred years. Even though I did everything I could. That was, until I met Jamie. The moment he almost stopped believing, I showed him that we do exist. When the snow in his room appeared, he started to believe in me."
Winter looked at him curiously.
"Jamie Bennett?" She asked, Jack stared at her for a moment. "Yes, how do you know him?" Jack asked. "I've seen him around town before, he likes to play in the snow with his friends." She told him, a small smile appearing on her face, remembering how happy they where during the snowball fight.
North put a hand on her shoulder, about to say something but there was a loud ringing sound. Everyone turned to where it originated from, seeing Sandy holding an elf in his hand. He dropped the elf and pointed at the sky light, the Moon was at the center and began to glow brightly. Winter looked around, everyone was staring at it, they'd nod their heads sometimes then the Moon became very bright, centering on Winter.
"What the hell is he doing?!" She shouted, shielding her eyes from the light. After a moment, the Moon's light died down. After a moment she moved her hands away from her eyes and found everyone staring at her with wide eyes. She looked down to find herself in a dark purple dress, a long black cape with a hood strapped around her shoulders. She wore black gloves and had a pair of heeled boots on, her hair had turned black and formed a braid over her shoulder and dark makeup covered her face.
All the Guardians averted their attention back to the Moon, after a moment North began to shake his head.
"No. I will not let you use my Vnuchka as a double agent." He stated, his tone quite fierce. Winter watched as more messages where given. North let out a deep sigh.
"What if she gives in?" Jack asked, staring intently at the Moon.
"Okay, lets do it." Bunny said, looking at everyone. "She'll do great I know it." Everyone besides North nodded, but after a moment he crossed his arms and nodded.
Anger had built up inside her.
"WHAT IS THIS I'M SUPPOSED TO DO?!" She screeched, making Bunny flinch at the loud noise.
"We need you to infiltrate Pitch's lair and gain his trust. Find out his plans." Jack told her, he watched Winter's expression go from angry to confused. "Why?" She asked, her brows furrowed, similar to how her Ded does it.
"Because he's stronger, Manny doesn't think we can beat him this time. Do it for us. Do it for the children." He asked, approaching her.
"Please... If you don't, he'll win and the children will stop believing in us. If they stop believing... We will die." Tooth said, flying over, followed by her small fairies.
"I... I accept."
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Translations:
Vnuchka- Granddaughter
Ded- Grandfather
So... Yeah. I got kind of confused while writing this chapter. So it's probably not the best in the world. My apology's. But I still hope you'll enjoy it! By the way, if any of you reading this are following my Bulma x Vegeta fanfiction, I'm putting that on hold for the time being. I wish everyone the best of luck while I write the next chapter! Oh, and if you got the Frozone joke I added, here is a cookie *hands cookie*.
Bonjour my petite crossaints~!
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