Sit Back and Relax
"AMBER!"
Jack was woken up by that loud, irritating, surprising voice of North and the most atrocious sound he had ever heard in his life, but that's not the reason that he stood up quickly while grabbing his staff and flew downstairs as fast as he could. The young guardian saw North chasing after the summer spirit while she's holding the big man in a red suit's basket of cookies.
"Take that back young lady!" North shouted at Amber but she didn't listen. The summer spirit keeps skipping joyfully as she's taking away North's scrumptious, crunchy, chocolaty, delicious cookies.
"Ohh... gran gran will not be very happy when she finds out you're not eating her baked cookies…" Amber said as she flew up above North, "She won't hurt you…." She added.
"I was going to eat it!" He exclaimed but Amber looked at the basket and saw a date written on it,
"This was twenty decades ago!" the summer spirit shouted back.
North tried to jump and catch the witty summer spirit while she's flying up and down, mocking the leader. "She won't hurt me alright…." North said when he stopped jumping. He looked down and shrugged with fear and horror, "She'll kill me!" he added. Amber laughed aloud and looked at him and gave a weird smile.
"But… I noticed you kept the greeting cards she's attaching in each and every one of cookie baskets she's sending to you…" She added and North's cheeks became as red as his suit and continued catching the gossiper summer spirit.
North noticed Jack's standing there, not far from them, angry with Amber knowing that he's been woken up by this absurd quarrel. The winter spirit slammed his staff on the ground and bursts a cold strong wind, which made the summer spirit to stop laughing.
"You didn't close the windows again uncle North?" Amber said ignoring the cold breeze that Jack made earlier. North doesn't know what Amber's saying as well as the young guardian. Suddenly Amber lit up the basket of cookies turning it into ashes.
"I'll make you some cookies and hot cocoa uncle, North," She said breaking the silence, "oh, and believe me… It's WAY better than gran gran's." Amber landed on her feet and Jack went back to his room to tidy himself up and went back after.
After a few moments later, Tooth arrived and saw the other guardians relaxing and having a great time after confronting the dark twins these past few days. The sandman is the first one to notice that the Tooth fairy arrived and he started to draw images on his head.
"How are you, mate? You feeling well?' The Easter Bunny asked thoughtfully and Tooth nodded. She keeps looking around searching for her best friend, Amber but didn't see her anywhere.
"Is Amber home?" She asked curiously and the Sandman ushered her to where the summer spirit is and saw her making cookies and cocoas with the yetis. Tooth ducked when dough is coming in her way thrown by one of the not-so-helping wee elves, "Oh!" Tooth screamed and got Amber's attention.
"Oh hey!" Amber said joyfully and waved at the Tooth fairy. Tooth smiled back and went closer to Amber to watch her baking cookies.
"I remember the first time I ate one of your gran gran's cookies," Tooth said with a grin and looked at the summer spirit, "and… I think… I'm still taste it…" she added. Both of the girls laughed and the Sandman left, giving them some space.
"I know right! When gran gran's baking cookies I have to PRETEND I'm sick or I have things to do just to avoid eating one of those." Amber felt joy inside of her thinking that her best friend talked to her after decades have passed and there was a long silence between them.
"Thanks… for what you did… for my realm." Tooth said bashfully and the summer spirit looked at her.
"That's still not enough…" Amber said and frowned. Tooth hugged the summer spirit in surprise and she hugged her back.
"I forgive you… Amber…" Tooth whispered and Amber smiled but quickly disappeared, "You would sacrifice your life whenever I need you and that's enough…" she added. The summer spirit looked at her and gave her a bright smile.
"You know I hate scenes like this…" Amber said breaking the silence, "Wanna help me bake some cookies?" she asked warmly and the Tooth fairy nodded.
The two best friends are having a great time baking especially laughing at the yetis while they're dissuading the naughty elves from eating the fresh baked cookies. After half an hour, they brought the pastries in the dining room while the other guardians are waiting.
"After half a millennium the cookies are finally here. What took you so long Amber?" North asked with his serious face. He's been waiting for it and he's pretty eager to eat the cookies just like he said when Jack and he are facing a deadly spider yesterday.
"You want to eat or not?" Amber said furiously and looked at North.
"Of course, of course…" North said giving Amber a shaky smile, "can I have cookies now?" he asked sounding like a little kid trying to be good.
Amber put the cookies and the cocoas on the table and gave each and every one of the guardians and she sat beside Tooth after.
"Oh… I think we have an excess cookies and cocoa…" she said staring where the winter spirit is and they all don't know what she means, "Oh well…"
Amber noticed that none of them are trying her baked cookies and she looked at North furiously and giving him a 'eat my cookies' look. North shrugged and he took a bite while all of the guardians are looking at him.
When North swallowed, the guardian gulped and suddenly North smiled and took another bite of his cookies and the rest followed. A few seconds later, Sandy flew to Amber and asking for more cookies and she gave him a sad face.
"Sorry Sandy…." She said and the Sandman looked down and suddenly she whistled. Yetis came out bringing more cookies which made Sandy jump with joy and he started to grab some more. Amber noticed that Jack is slowly eating his cookies but he obviously likes them. Jack looked at her but she looked away quickly and turned to Sandy whose mouth's full of her delicious pastry.
"So… how is it Uncle North?" she asked and North couldn't speak for his mouth was full. Amber waited until the leader gulped.
"Extraordinary child." He said cordially, "Better than your gran gran's" he whispered and blinked at the summer spirit.
Sandy noticed that the young guardian's not drinking his hot and refreshing cocoa. The Sandman started to draw images on his head and got the others' attention. First he drew a letter Y and the guardians easily guessed it.
"Why…" they said and Sandy nodded. Next he drew a frost
.
"Snow? Ice? Winter? Frozen?" Bunny said candidly and the Sandman gave him thumbs up, "Frozen?" the Easter bunny repeated and Sandy signed him to guess further,
"Froze?" Tooth suggested but Sandy shook his head.
"Freeze?" Bunnymund said. The Sandman got irritated and shook his head angrily.
Frog?" All of the guardians looked at North and gave him a weird stare.
"Seriously?" Amber said, "Frost" she suggested and Sandy nodded.
"Why Frost…." They all though and looked at Jack who looked back at them and raised his eyebrow.
"Why Frost what?" Bunnymund asked and Sandy banged his forehead and pointed at the winter spirit and his cup of cocoa.
"Oh…." they all said and Amber looked at them, "Who's frost?" Jack got a little irritated about Amber's attitude lately and the guardians got a feeling that they had or have an argument.
"Why are you not drinking Amber's cocoa, Jack?" North asked thoughtfully and Jack looked around him and across the table.
"What cocoa? I can't see it and who's this Amber you're talking about?" he said trying to faze the summer spirit but obviously she ignored his mocking. North looked at Jack then to Amber and noticed that they're not looking or even talking to each other lately.
"Just drink it." North said heartily and Jack looked away and didn't listen to North.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Jack said and gave North a 'I don't want to' look.
"Frostbite's obviously scared of the cocoa." Bunnymund mocks the young guardian, breaking the silence.
The winter spirit looked at the Easter Bunny furiously and Bunnymund didn't looked back to him, "Cocoas are hot and he's a winter spirit, what do you expect?" he added. Amber covered her mouth to hide her smile and Jack got fazed by what Bunny said.
"What makes you think I'm afraid of this puny, ugly mug with hot cocoa on it, Easter Kangaroo?!" Jack exclaimed and he grabbed it and put it closer to his lips but didn't sip it yet.
"Come on, frost bite… Prove it!" Bunnymund said evilly with a grin. Jack looked each of them including Amber whom he noticed is not looking back at him. He took a little sip and Amber peeked slightly at the winter spirit. Jack put the mug down and covered his mouth but he forcefully gulped it. All of the guardians looked at him while he's smacking his lips, tasting the chocolate cocoa.
Jack sat back staring at the mug and the other guardians waited for him to say something. "That's it? Nothing?" Bunnymund groaned and he feels disappointment knowing nothing BAD happens to the young guardian.
Suddenly he shook his head and stood up quickly and looked each and every one of them. The guardians and Amber felt weird about the winter spirit then a few minutes later, he flew around the house and is speaking to himself candidly and continually.
"This is the first time I had a chocolate cocoa and I feel great. Wait… It's warm but I don't care, I love it! Haha," the young guardian said continually and quickly while he's wind surfing around North's place and throwing snowballs everywhere. "Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!"
He stopped and looked at the guardians, "Who are you ugly people and what are you doing to my house?" He said and the other guardians looked at each other, "Is that a Kangaroo?" the young guardian said while pointing at the Easter Bunny, "You are uglier than my grandmother! But I don't have one!" he said and laughed at his own absurd joke.
"What happened?" North asked Amber curiously but the summer spirit is just there sitting and didn't care about what Jack's doing above. "Amber, what happened?" North walked closer to Amber and shook her. The summer spirit looked at North and gave him a curious look, "What did you do to Jack?" he asked.
"Who's Jack?" she said coldly.
"Tell me now young lady or I'll call your gran gran and…" he said furiously but got cut off by Amber.
"And I'm going to tell her that you're not eating her baked cookies for the past hundred decades!" she warned North and he suddenly shrugged and asked Amber nicely.
"What happened to Jack?" he asked again. Amber looked at the young guardian while he's making frost inside.
"Oh! Cool! I didn't know I can make frosts and snow! Maybe I'll call myself… the BLIZZARD or, or, the snow guy… wait… that's lame. Oh, well… SNOW DAY!" the young guardian shouted and continued to spread snow around the house.
"You know this behaviour called 'sugar rush?" Amber said and made North thinking.
"Is that when you ate too much sugar and you became hyper-active." Amber nodded and they both looked at the young guardian.
"Yup… " she said and breathed deeply, "and that's called warm rush."