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I've decided to upload chapter 3 early, cause I'm such a nice author ;)
Nah, kidding. But I do hope you enjoy it.
Disclaimer For the...4th time now, I do not own Rise of the Guardians. (Dreamworks is one lucky company...) I onlu own what you don't recognize in the movie.
Chapter 3 – Kidnapped:
(Atheia's POV)
I could feel my head spin as my mind repeated the name I hadn't heard for 291 years. The headache from before didn't help either. I clutched my aching head and fell to my knees, immediately feeling Jack at my side. I couldn't hear anything, and I had my eyes squeezed shut as I tried to block out the moon's repeating phrase from my head;
You must find Jack Frost. He is your answer to everything…
I screamed for the pain to go away. I collapsed fully onto the floor shivering as my head pounded agonizingly from the winter spirit's name. I tried to block my ears, but the voices kept penetrating into my skull. All of a sudden, the voices just…stopped.
I opened my eyes, breathing heavily as I noticed Jack was holding my shoulders. I looked up towards his worried, ice blue orbs as he looked down at me. I was still shivering, but partly from the winter spirit's cold touch.
"Are you okay?" Jack asked, looking down at me, only letting go of my shoulders when I nodded. He helped me sit up, his hand pressed to my back as I sat hunched over my legs, my arms wrapped around them. "What happened?"
I was torn between telling him the truth, or blaming my headache. "…I don't know." I finally answered, mentally shaking my head at the unconvincing reply.
If Jack noticed, he didn't press on. "Can you stand?" He asked, pulling himself up and extending his hand out towards me.
"I think…" I replied, taking it and letting him pull me up, only to collapse into his chest with his arms underneath mine as a wave of nausea overcame me.
"Or not…" He mumbled as he took on my weight. He looked around, his face brightening as he thought of an idea. "I'll fly you to the lake, just hold on…" He said as he tried to properly pick me up.
My eyes widened as he said that and I pushed off him, facing him. "Nuh uh Frosty, there's no way…" I never got to finish as another wave of queasiness rushed over me and I fell back into Jack's arms.
"Yes there is…" I could practically feel Jack's smirk on me as he lifted me up bridal style. "Now, just hold on."
The winter spirit launched into the air with me in his arms and we flew across the small town of Burgess. Soon enough, we came across the familiar clearing, with the still-frozen lake in the middle. Laying me on a bare patch of grass, I saw Jack groan as he saw the frozen lake.
"Damn, I shouldn't have frozen it earlier…" I heard him mumbled.
"You froze that lake?" I shouted accusingly, dazedly pointing in what I hoped was his direction. "Do you know how draining it is to unfreeze that all the time?" I heard him give a small chuckle, as I groaned in defeat and laid back onto the grass.
"Do you think you could do it again?" I sat up and glared at him. He held his hands up it the air, innocently glancing back at me. "Hey, I just want to give you something to drink."
I rolled my eyes and concentrated onto a small part of the lake. I was able to make a hole. I leaned back breathing heavily from the work. Soon, Jack came up to me, his hands cupped with the water.
"Thanks. Wait, you're a winter spirit, wouldn't have the water just…froze at your touch? How were you able to keep the water in its liquid state?" I asked as he tilted the water into my mouth.
He chuckled, brushing his hands dry over his jumper. "Harder that it looks."
After a while, the nausea feeling went away, and Jack and I just sat their in silence watching the glow of the sunset.
"What happened back there?" Jack asked, breaking the uncomfortable silence and turning to face me. "I know you know."
I pursed my lips together in thought, trying to word out what I should say in my head. Finally, I let out a sigh. I sat up whist locking eye-contact with him. "You wouldn't believe me even if I told you."
"Try me," He replied, the smirk appearing on his face again.
I bit my bottom lip in worry. He's gonna think your crazy…That little voice ran through my mind. I started to twirl my cloak around my fingers, avoiding his eyes and looking at the ground. Jack seemed to notice my uncomfortable state, and he waved his hand, as if to brush it away.
"Don't worry about it," He said with a smile, and my face broke out into a smile of relief that he wasn't going to press on the subject. Jack stood up, and after brushing his hands from the dirt, he stuck his hand out to pull me up. "Besides, you can always tell me later."
He must have noticed my face fall because he broke into a fit of laughter. I just sat on the grass glaring at him as he clutched his sides, still laughing. I scolded and crossed my arms, turning my head away as my face started to warm from embarrassment. Luckily, the winter spirit was too busy laughing to notice my reddened cheeks. After a while, the winter spirit's laughter died down, resulting into a mild chuckle as he wiped a tear from his eye.
He stuck his hand back out for me to take. "Sorry, but your face was priceless," He said during chuckles. I turned my head to face him with my arms still crossed and a scowl on my face. He raised an eyebrow and motioned towards his hand for me to take. "I'm not gonna wait here forever you know."
He still had that stupid smirk on his face. Sighing with defeat, I turned around fully and took his hand, letting him pull me up. Dusting off my clothes, I searched around for my staff, which I found abandoned in the snow. As I picked it up, the staff glowed a soft green and melted the snow clinging to it, making it run down the wooden staff in droplets.
Coping Jack's smirk, I turned to him. "That's what'll happen to you Frostbite, if you ever mention this again," I pointed my glowing staff at him on the emphasis of ever.
Holding his hands up in defeat Jack mumbled "Okay, okay, just stop with the death threats."
I rolled my eyes, before my eye caught Jack's stick. I now realized it was in fact a staff, identical to my own, but instead of glowing a soft green, it glowed an icy blue at his touch. I noticed that Jack was eying my own staff, probably thinking similar thoughts. "Nice staff," I muttered.
"Likewise."
I walked around, melting puddles of slush around the clearing, much to Jack's annoyance. My thoughts drifted towards the events of today, and they replayed in my mind as I melted the snow around the area. My eyes widened as I recalled the small brown-haired boy from that afternoon.
"Jamie!" I gasped, jumping into the air and leaving Jack behind. I started heading towards the boy's house, which, thankfully was next door to the lake.
By then, the sky had fully darkened, and the street lights were turning on. Outside the boy's two storey house, I peered into a window on the second-floor. Inside, the small boy was on his bed, jumping around a small blonde-haired girl, holding an action figurine. I noticed a recently-drawn picture of Jamie flying on his sled with his friends watching hanging up on the wall. I smiled at Jamie as he explained the sled ride he had that afternoon to the little girl, who started back at him in awe.
"You didn't really think I'd kill the kid, did ya?" Jack whispered in my ear, making me jump. I turned to him, giving a small smile. He had his hood up, which covered his snow-white hair and part of his face.
"I really didn't know what to expect Frosty," I smirked, pulling the hood of my cloak over my head. I turned back to Jamie and the little girl, noticing that Jamie was gesturing towards the gap in the front of his mouth, where his tooth was missing. I raised my eyebrow up at Jack, who sheepishly rubbed the back of his hood. I shook my head with a small chuckle, before turning back to the window.
"…you wanna help me Sophie?" I heard as Jamie turned to the blonde-hair girl. "We can hide and see the Tooth Fairy!" I smiled as Sophie as she kept repeating 'Hide! Hide!' as she jumped around in excitement on the young boy's bed.
I turned towards Jack, only to find that the winter spirit wasn't there. Titling my head in confusion, I floated up towards Jamie's roof. I found Jack walking around on the rooftop, glancing up at the moon every once and awhile. As I walked closer I noticed he was talking to the moon. Glancing at the white orb for a moment, I turned my attention to Jack's words.
"I've tried everything, and no one ever sees me," The winter spirit cried in frustration, glancing up at the moon. Not seeming to get an answer, Jack gripped his staff tighter. "You put me here," He accused, his eyes seeming to glimmer with tears as they refected the light of the silent moon. "The least you can do is tell me…tell me why,"
The moon didn't seem to say anything because Jack's shoulders slumped forward in defeat. I glanced up at the moon, feeling part angry and part betrayed. The moon never seemed to answer any of my own repeating questions either, instead it just replied with its un-ending white glow.
Turning back towards Jack, I padded quietly over to him. Noticing his depressed state, I laid a comforting hand on his shoulder. He turned to me, and I saw unfallen tears in his eyes as he forced a small smile. Feeling tears brim to my own emerald orbs, I pulled Jack in to hug. He seemed taken back at first but nonetheless, he wrapped his own arms around me in a tight embrace, which, surprisingly wasn't cold or uncomfortable.
After a while, I pulled back, glancing into the winter spirit's eyes and giving him a small smile. "Better?" I asked, tilting my head to the side whilst placing my hand back on Jack's shoulder.
He gave a small chuckle, meeting my eyes again. "Thanks."
I gave him a bigger smile, patting his shoulder before removing my hand. "Your welcome."
Before Jack could reply, a stream of golden sand flew past, emitting us in a golden glow. I looked to Jack who pushed his jacket hood back. Both of our faces were smiling in excitement. Giggling, I jumped down to the street, where the golden sand danced across the roads. Pushing my own hood back, I stared at the glowing sand in awe as Jack jumped down to join me in the streets. Grinning, he reached his hand up to the sand, his hand swimming in it as a dolphin morphed from the disrupted sand. Gingerly, I reached up to do the same, laughing with joy as a beautiful stallion manifested from the floating sand. My horse galloped around Jack's dolphin, which flipped around and over the golden stallion.
I gave a soft smile as the two animals disappeared back into the stream of golden sand. I watched as the stream separated into many, dancing into the windows of children.
I started walking along the streets, with Jack following at my heels.
"Oh, by the way," I turned towards Jack, who held his staff out, pointing it towards a tree. He lightly tapped the staff against the truck, which resulted in patterned frost to dance across the surface of the bark. "That's what'll happen to you Sunshine, if you ever mention what happened earlier again," He said with a smirk, mocking what I said that afternoon.
I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms. "Really? Sunshine?"
He walked up to me. "Yeah, what are ya gonna do about it?" He asked; the smirk still plastered on his face.
I looked down and shook my head with amusement. "Look, Frosty, if I was gonna –" I looked up, only to be interrupted by a face-full of snow. I heard Jack laugh as I wiped the cold substance from my face. He was rolling on the ground, clutching his sides in laughter. Smirking, I shot a green ball of light from my staff at him. In seconds, he was wrapped up like a Christmas present in thick, green vines, each one sprouting a couple of multi-coloured flowers.
The act caught Jack off guard, and he just stared at the thick, rope-like vines in confusion. This time, I burst into laughter, using my staff to keep me from falling to the ground. Jack just grumbled and squirmed, trying to wriggle out of the vines as I laughed.
Still giggling, I said, "You know, the more you struggle the tighter they get." Jack then sighed with defeat, making his head fall back into the snow.
"Are you gonna help me then?" He asked.
"Awww, but you look so cute when you're wrapped up like a Christmas present," I said, realizing my mistake too late as Jack smirked at me.
"So you do think I'm cute?"
My face twisted into a menacing glace, which I shot at him. "I will leave you here." I growled.
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry, now, can you please get me out of here?"
Glancing him over, I sighed and motioned the vines to go away. They sunk into the ground, and Jack stood up, watching in awe as the vines submerged into the earth.
"Okay, that's cool," Jack muttered, and we both burst into laughter. Suddenly, I heard something move behind us. Jack seemed to notice to, and we both jumped into the air, guiding the wind towards the moving shadow. We both jumped down into an alleyway, glancing around for any sign of movement, while we had our staves poking out defensively.
"Ello mate," Jack and I turned towards the large figure standing in the shadows. He seemed to be twirling something between his fingers as he leaned against the wall. "Been a long time, blizzard of '68 I believe," He figure stepped out of the shadows pointing a boomerang towards Jack. "Easter Sunday, wasn't it?"
I tilted my staff down in awe as I started at the figure, which happened to be a gigantic bunny. He seemed to be about 6 ft 1, and he was covered with patterned greyish-blue fur, except for his face and stomach, as that was covered in white fur.
"Bunny!" Jack cried, leaning on his staff. "You're not still mad about that, are ya?"
"Yes…" The pooka paused as he flipped his boomerang menacingly, before breaking out into a grin. "But this is about something else," The large bunny glanced down at the boomerang. Still smiling, he muttered; "Fellas…"
I whipped around to see two yetis come out of the shadows. They grabbed Jack by his arms and shoved him into a red sack. I could hear his mumbled protests from inside the bag. One of the yetis glanced at me, before motioning me to the bunny.
"Yeah, you heard North's orders, bring the girl too," The large bunny tapped his foot on the ground, opening a hole up. "See ya back at the pole," He said, before jumping through. The yeti grabbed me by the arms, while the other opened the sack.
"Hey, put me down!" I shouted, though it was pointless as he ignored me. He shoved me in the red sack, causing my body to twist to an uncomfortable angle and my forehead to smack into Jack's chest.
"Well, this is awkward," He mumbled, causing me to scowl and attempt to slap his arm, which was kinda hard considering my hand was squashed underneath his back. The sack seemed to spin, and all I could hope is that I wasn't going to die. I clenched my eyes shut as Jack and I plunged through the air.
Well, there ya go!
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