Here's to Never Growing Up
Kura: Overland Haddock, it was inspirational, and I will use it at some point in the story. FadingEcho12193...*giggles* Those are fun. I'll see how I can make them work. unknow, not exactly. They know the King of Winter is about to be born, they just don't know it'll be Jack. And yeah, I was planning on incorporating Jack having a fear of water. But he won't know why because I kinda wanna keep some aspects of each movie, for example Merida and the Wisps, Rapunzel having her long golden hair, Hiccup, not sure if I mentioned this, if not, now you ALL know, he has his prosthetic and Jack not having his memories. I may have Jack be the one to ask about that this chapter...anyways, I was also planning on them all having a little sibling rivalry from time to time. Kinda the opposite of what I have with my own brother. The only time we ever fought, was when we played video games. I lost interest and he gained interest, blah blah blah. The point is, I'm doing a lot with this story to make the aspects of family greater. As for chapter lenghts, if it's long, say over 1000 words, give or take, then it means I wrote the chapter at school, where I have access to computers. If it's 400+, give or take, it means I wrote it at home via cellphone. It's rare for me to write long chapters at home becuase I like spacing things, getting paragraphs right, and on a phone, I end up deleting a lot of what I originally have written, so it's easier to keep things short.
Sakura: Thanks to Rychan6 for reviewing as well. Enjoy the chapter everyone.
"This was the day..." Mrs. Overland gasped as the memory began, her voice breaking as she spoke, "Oh... I should have gone with you..."
Gaia patted her shoulder, "You didn't know. No one did."
Jackson can be seen, Emma is tugging on his sleeve.
"Be careful!" Mrs. Overland says.
Jackson chuckles, "We will!"
"AAH!" Just about everyone jumps when a giant brown eye with Emma reflected on it fills the screen of the memory.
"It's okay. It's okay," Jackson says as we zoom back to see him crouching on the ice. He has a hand out, "Just look at me. You're not gonna fall in."
"Jack," Emma says, fear in her voice, "I'm scared..."
We turn to the ice under her, which is slowly starting to crack.
"I know, but you're gonna be alright," Jackson said, trying to calm her down, "we're gonna have a little fun instead!"
Emma got hysterical, "NO! WE'RE NOT!"
Jackson let out a chuckle, "Would I trick you?"
"YES!" Emma yelled, "YOU ALWAYS PLAY TRICKS!"
Jackson chuckled nervously. "W-well, a-alright...but not-not this time. I promise. You're gonna...you're gonna be okay. You have to believe in me."
Those last six words seemed to break the Guardians hearts. How many times have they never believed in Jack in the past? Yet he never stopped caring for children, despite not having his memories. Despite not being a Guardian before.
"You wanna play a game?!" Jackson asked smiling, "We're gonna play hopscotch! Like we do everyday."
Emma smiled slightly.
"It's as easy as one..." The ice under Jackson's foot.
He chose to make a risky move.
He prentented to lose his balance and smiled when Emma giggled.
"Two...three!" Jackson landed on solid ice. A staff sat by his ankles. He slowly reached over to grab it, "Now you."
Emma's eyes widened.
"One.."
She took a step.
A crack.
"That's it! That's it!" Jackson encouraged her.
"Two..."
Another step.
Another crack.
"THREE!" Jackson hooked the end of the staff around Emma's waist and pulled her over to the solid ice...
but as he did, he fell onto the cracking ice.
Both siblings smiled in relief...
until Jackson tried to stand...
and fell under the ice.
"JACK!" Emma cried as she saw her brother fall.
Emma sobbed into Jack's chest.
It hurt to see once, so it hurt more to see it again.
We see Jack's body silhouetted in the lake.
Darkness...
"AAH!" Almost everyone jumped again when they heard Jack's voice.
that's the first thing I remember.
He slowly rises to the top off the lake...
It was dark,
and it was cold,
and I was scared.
...and breaks free of his icy confinement. He takes a deep breath of air.
But then,
then I saw the moon.
And it seemed to chase the darkness away.
And when it did, I wasn't scared anymore.
Jack saw the staff he had used to save Emma laying a few feet away from him. Reaching over with his foot, he taps the staff, and watches as it frosts over. He picks it up, and out of shock, drops it when it gets covered in more frost. Smiling, he picks it up and taps a few trees. More frost. Laughter. He laughs as he spins around and around, taping the lake, frosting it over and then..
WHOOSH!
He's airborn.
But not for long. Eventually, the wind that held him up, dropped him like a rock.
Not that it fazed Jack, who had fallen onto a branch.
But who I was and what I was meant to do I didn't know.
And a part me believes I never will.
Jack wanders over to Burgess, greeting everyone and anyone he sees. Though they all ignore him. He turns to a young boy and asks where he is, only to have the boy run through him. Jack gasps and holds his hand to his chest. One by one, more people walk through him, not one hearing his calls.
My name...
is Jack Frost...
How do I know that?
The moon, told me so.
And that's all he ever told me.
And that was a long, long time ago...
"He should be around here..." Rapunzel muttered, her golden hair braided with roses and lilies.
Merida huffed as she saw a figure slowly walking out of the forest, "Is that Jackson?"
"He said his friends called him Jack," Eugene said, "and am I the only one who sees the hair?"
Rapunzel, Hiccup, Merida, and their animal/wisp companions look at Jack.
His hair is snow white.
His skin icy pale.
And his eyes...
look like a frozen lake.
"JACK!" Rapunzel yelled, causing the boy to jump and point his staff at them.
"Hey," Hiccup held his hands out, "it's okay Jack. We're no-"
"How do you know my name?" Jack asked wearily.
"We met before," Merida said, "remember?"
Jack shook his head, "'Darkness. That's the first thing I remember.' I didn't even know my name until he," he pointed to the moon, "told me. I mean, I think I'd remember goldy-locks, a lizard, a gecko, two horses, a blue flame, a man with a goatee, a girl with firey hair and a pirate."
Hiccup looked unamused, "If that's a joke about my leg-"
"Nope. I heard someone say that people missing a leg were pirates, so..."
"I lost it when I died. You. Are. Dead."
Jack bit his lips as Hiccup's words sunk in.
He felt alive.
He looked alive.
But...
was that the reason so many people walked through him?
Did he known anyone?
Did they forget him?
"Hey," Rapunzel said softly, "it's okay. We'll help you. I'm Rapunzel, Queen of Spring."
"Merida, Queen of Summer."
"Eugene, Protector of the Queen of Spring."
"Hiccup, King of Autumn."
"Jack Frost-"
"King of Winter," the woman from before smiled as she approached them. "Now that you are all here, it's time for this..."
She took out some powder and flung it at the five, and watched as they and the animals, the wisp didn't change, she was a ball of fire after all, all shrunk.
"I am Seraphine Pitchner.* I am known by all as Gaia. I am your new mother, my children."
She picked up Jack, who had become an infant. Rapunzel was one, Merida and Eugene were two and Hiccup was 3. She smiled as her chariot arrived, the spirits of the winds, Iviemu, Kaze, Windy, Aura and Njord. Iviemu, the only animal spirit of the wind, licked Jack's face, the infant squirming in Gaia's arms as she handed him to Windy. Kaze took Merida, Aura took Rapunzel and Flynn, and Njord took Hiccup. Pascal, Angus, Willow (the wisp), and Max all scrambled on after them.
"It's time for us to go home."
The memory faded. It was time to see the Big Four's new childhood.
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