Chapter 1: I can see you, can you see me?
Click clack click clack click clack click clack against black and white tiles with no owner. Faceless mannequins frozen in place arose from the tiles. Jack wandered up to one taking a large bite out of the shoulders "chocolate?" A large stick smashed against all the mannequins forming a large splat. Jack looked up, a giant foot smashed against him. The larger jack clacked his staff every 2 seconds apart cracking the floor beneath him.
The moon had spoken to him again. The messages that it sent seemed like the embodiment of the word lunatic. Snapping fingers flew in front of his face. "Oh, North it's you!"
"How many times have I told you. You don't have to call me that. I let you live with me and the elves, right!" He pushed out his seat and left the table "I'm just a little tired. It wasn't a sight or anything. Just a daydream" he said as he took his staff from the edge of the large wooden table.
"You'll have time to rest once the winter season comes to an end. Right now though you have a job to do, right?" Jack looked back with a smirk "I'd usually say I'd be back for dinner but I'll be away for a week or two. Try not to miss me too much"
North beamed a toothy smile and waved his hand dismissing Jack "Get outta here ya bugger!" And with that the winter sprite was gone
After Jack had become a guardian, his loner attitude changed significantly. Although his personality and views towards most things stayed the same. He was the symbol of fun, wasn't he?
He landed firmly on the Earth's grass surface. He scanned the forest area around him. "That's funny. The normal weather would've been able to take care of this place by now." He swung his staff across the landscape creating a fresh layer of snow. He crouched to the floor "Its a shame so many plants have to die though." He tapped the flower lightly with his finger and frowned as it almost immediately shriveled and blackened. He gave a frustrated sigh as the flower crumbled over it's own weight. "Well at least I don't have the same effect on people as I do on plants...for the most part anyway" he scratched the back of his head and stood up. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Being a guardian has it's perks. One being that you can map out locations in your head with little difficulty.
With eyes still held shut he lifted himself off the ground and headed to his next location. He opened his eyes and watched the people below him as he flew closer and closer to modern civilization. He took a deep breath "Okay, you've done this over a million times!" He assured himself "Just keep it slow and subtle. I'll draw attention if I make instant frost." In a burst of speed and a mix of sporadic movements and spins he threw himself up into the clouds above. Frankly, he enjoyed this part of his job. Making a soft landing on a red van below, it slowly developed frost from top to bottom. "That's strange...when I close my eyes I don't see my map anymore" He looked up and smiled as he noticed it would be dark in a matter of minutes. "Once the sun goes down then I can really have some fun"
But then, he heard a ringing in his ears. Confused, he picked his ears "I swear if it's another sight I'll be done for the week" he stumbled over his feet, eyes rolled in the back of his head, down he went, face first on the icy road. He came to with what sounded like several car alarms in the distance. He clenched his head as he stood up. "well that sure is new. Man, those car alarms sure are annoying..." He shrugged and followed the trail. Not just car alarms but trash and pot holes that looked a lot like large footprints. As he went past each car he snapped his fingers, shutting down the car's engines with frost. The trail trailed off into what looked like the city's park. "W-what is that?"
A large group of teenagers who were clearly past their curfews crowded the park. Jack, simply walking through the crowd looked at the object, then looked back at the group and didn't know which mystified him more. Dead in the centre was a teenager close to about his age with a stick in his hand carving out words in the dirt which were virtually illegible to Jack. The teen was quite scrawny. He wore a long-sleeve, light green tunic, a dark brown fur vest, and dark brown fur boots to match.
'Must not be cold enough out here' he thought to himself. He swirled his finger in the air "Let's make it...hmm; about 13 degrees colder." Within 5 minutes everyone besides the kid in the middle who looked oddly distraught as each person walked away. He shouted in frustration as nobody paid attention to him anymore.
Jack raised an eyebrow. The kid didn't seem effected by the cold and even if he was he seemed more focused on grabbing the attention of others. He sneered a bit "Shouldn't you be getting home now? Your parents might be worried, kiddo" he said in an insulting manner.
The boy immediately turned towards him wide eyed. "Y-you can see me?!" The boy said, stumbling over his words. As far as Jack could tell, he wasn't sure if he was stuttering because of the decrease in temperature or the surprise in his eyes.
His eyes widened in disbelief for a moment but narrowed "I could ask you the same question. Who are you and how can you see me?"
Well there's chapter 1 for you! I wanted to get chapter one out soon after the prologue came out because I have so many ideas to where this could go. Anyway, review if you want and try to guess what could possibly happen in the next chapter.
Next, Chapter 2 coming soon