Jack Frost looked around as he felt his feet hit solid ground. He was that they were near some sort of pond. The sky was bluer that he had ever seen and the water just reflected it. The grass around them was as green as emeralds and the flowers al resembled similar gems. It was like nothing he had ever seen before. But somehow it was.
"Tooth where are we?" he whispered almost afraid to disturb the beautiful silence.
"Do you not recognize it?" she asked.
"Umm-"
Sandy stood behind her and formed an image of the Tooth Palace behind her. Jacks eyes widened in realization.
"Tooth Palace? Sort of?" Jack asked unsure. He was pretty confident that he did not see any tooth palace in sight.
"Yes! Before it was built." She confirmed.
"Oh…"
"Shhh, look," Bunny said pointing to something in the distance.
A man dressed in a roman toga was walking next to a little girl covered in a tunic stained in many vibrant colors. They were talking to each other in roman so Jack had to rack his brain for the little he had picked up from his years of traveling.
"Tiana how many times have I told you not to play in the flower patches," the man scolded with a smile on his face.
"Sorry pa," the small girl said giggling.
"Well we are going to have to wash up somehow before I take you home. We can't have Caesar seeing you like this." The man teased as he picked her up and threw her into the lake.
"PA!" she squealed before she hit the water. The guardians laughed as they watched a young tooth fairy play with her father in the lake.
"You didn't change much," Jack laughed at his friend.
"Oh hush," Tooth said blushing as the memory changed.
Most were like this. Her and her father would come and play in the pond or look at what shapes the clouds made. Once they chased butterflies until the sun sank behind the horizon. After this memory Tooth who had been happy and hovering above Jack laughing at her young self sank down very melancholy.
"You alright Tooth?" Jack asked concerned for his normally giddy friend.
When she didn't answer he looked to the other Guardians but they were just as sad as they looked at the hill. As Tooth and her father made it over the hill this time there was something different about them. Instead of the man leading her she was leading him by the hand.
"Father," Tiana said, "do you remember this?" she gestured to their place.
The man did not respond.
"Come father, you must remember our pond, we used to play in the water and watch the clouds. Then we would chase all the beautiful flying creatures." She said to her father hopefully.
Jack was starting to get that something was terribly wrong with the man. He stood there staring straight ahead without acknowledging his daughter.
"What is wrong with him?" Jack asked as they watched the girls useless attempts to draw her father's attention to her.
"The war, he got hurt." Tooth said quietly. "He couldn't remember me."
Jack did not understand this. How could anyone forget so much of their life? 'Oh right,' he thought 'I did too.'
Jack watched with a new respect for the little Tooth as she walked into the pond and splashed the man forcing herself to laugh.
That got the man's attention.
He looked down at Tiana and smiled.
Tiana laughed for real this time, but her joy was short lived.
"This was much fun little one," he said from the top of the hill, "but I am afraid that I must return to my wife. She is expecting a child soon you know. I hope she is as wonderful as you." And with that he left.
"But wait father!" Tiana tried to rush back to her father but it was to no avail, "Mother is dead." She said as she sat down in the bed of the pond and sobbed.
"Oh Tooth I am so sorry," Jack said in shock.
Suddenly Tiana stopped crying and looked up at the now risen moon.
"What?" she asked. "What is that? ... I could!?... I would." She said to it.
"What-" but before Jack could ask what she had been talking about Tiana was lifted into the air. There was a blinding light that came from the moon and when Jack's eyes finally adjusted Tiana was staring at her reflection in shock. She was a fairy.
"Tooth fairy…" she said testing the name. "I like it."
And with that they ran out of teeth.
