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Chapter 19: The Party

Sandy always enjoyed hosting the yearly spirit and guardian party, it was a chance to meet with old friends and allies, though several of them, hadn't shown up in recent years, even some of the guardians had been missing, namely, Jack and Jamie.

Sandy didn't take it personally, he knew both Jack and Jamie had other duties to attend to. So as he was looking through the RSVP's he was almost shocked to see that both Jack and Jamie would be attending, he smiled to himself, he decided to keep this from the guests as to surprise them, no doubt Reece, Holly, Dawn and Manny all knew that they would be coming, but the other Guardians had not seen them since the final battle of the Great Nature Civil War.

He almost hummed as he continued the planning, imagining the warm faces of his friends as they laid eyes on Jack and Jamie. He turned to look at the world, wondering if the rumours were true...+

(At the party)

North's booming laughter echo'd around the hall as the party was in full swing, all the important spirits were there, Manny was speaking with Galactica, Tooth and Natura while North, Reece, Bunny, and Cupid were all arguing about whose holiday was best.

Aquaticus, Austin Showers, Grim and Father Time were all enjoying the party. Yuki-Onna, Nostri, Mystica (Otherwise known as Wise Sophia) and Spera (The spirit of Trust) were all watching the entertainment that was being put on for them, Rose and Dawn were both in deep conversations about royal battle tactics.

Pitch smirked as he watched the scene, junior spirits irritating elder ones even he seemed to be popular, Sandy floated over to watch alongside the dark spirit,

"I must say Sanderson, this party seems to get larger and larger every decade" Pitch smirked,

Sandy nodded and looked at the main doors, over an hour late, those two were taking fashionably late to the extreme, but Sandy alone seemed to know they would be here, then he heard it, the roar of horns.

Every head turned to face the door, confused as far as they were aware, all the royals were currently present, summer, autumn, spring, Time, Dreams, and Nightmares, Space, oceans and Nature.

A tall women wearing golden robes walked in and Manny began to smirk, "Presenting their royal highness' the King of Spirits and King of Winter!" she called as the two kings walked into the room, Jamie was wearing long golden robes that had small stones woven into it, Jack wore his royal robes, the two descended the stairs, neither missing a step, each matching the other.

After the initial shock broke a mass of spirits charged forward, the first to reach the two were Tooth and Sandy, who both pulled the two in a hug before Tooth pulled back and slapped them both.

The two kings stood still for a minute while silence broke around the hall,

"Not everyone can slap two Kings and get away with it Tooth" Jamie looked over at her smirking,

"Well sometimes I have to get you back into line" Tooth smiled warmly, "it is good to see you though, and I can't believe it's been over 150 years!"

"Time seems to fly by when your fighting Dark spirits" Jamie replied,

"Or signing peace treaties" Jack shrugged,

"You've signed another treaty?" Reece asked,

"As of next week, Winter and My own court are allies, united against the threat of the Dark spirit" Jamie replied, looking over at the shocked Summer High King.

Reece's Bonded Spirit, a young summer spirit walked over, "As Queen of Summer I must protest, Winter cannot be aligned to two parties, who in the past have declared war upon one another"

"Yet with this treaty, we can prevent future conflicts and loss of spirits" Jack replied,

"That is true" Reece nodded, "I guess that you had this all planned out eh Jack?"

Jack smirked before nodding, "Indeed, all kingdoms need…."

Jack was unable to finish his sentence as a dozen armed spirits ran inside, "Death to the Tyrants!"

Jamie sent a look of look to Jack showing his distaste for this situation, he flicked his wrist around as the Party goers rushed backwards, Jamie, Jack, Reece, Holly and Rose walked forward, everyone of them pulling a blade out of thin air, the five spirits rushed forward, duelling with the 12 spirits.

The Party Goers all watched in awe as Jack and Jamie duelled three each while the other three duelled two each, Jack and Jamie both dispatched their three before watching as the three rulers each bested their two.

"That went well!" Reece smiled, "Now where's the wine?"

"Reece, with an advanced force like that, there has to be an Army waiting for us, luckily, we have two more waiting for them" Jack told him, walking out of the hall, as Jamie followed. The massive doors closed and the two walked into a darkened room,

The two Kings looked at one another and sighed, "Jamie…. I still love you, y'know"

Jamie smiled widely, kissing Jack, "We still have armies to command"

"Yuki-Onna can command them, if we don't show up" Jack replied, continuing the kiss,

"Mhm… tempting, we should go though, people will come looking and how can we explain this?" Jamie asked,

Jack sighed, "I guess you're right"

The two separated, walking out of the room onto the battlefield, seeing how the winter and royal armies were already clashing with the dark army, Jack frowned,

"I think there has been too many dark spirits for the time, one or two is fair, but a dozen, or two dozen. I think there is a puppet master here, and we're all their puppets" Jamie told Jack,

"I have been thinking that too… but it can't be… ANNY, We know you're here, show yourself!" Jack called,

Jamie turned to look at Jack as from a shadow, a women appeared, Black armour adorning her, he hair tied back,

"Anny, your survived then?" Jack asked, pushing Jamie behind him, gripping his sword

"Manny destroyed but a clone of me…. I am the true Anny, Lady of darkness" Anny smirked,

"And it has been you waging war against Jamie?" Jack asked

"Very good Frost, I see Natura has trained you well, but not well enough, I call my three most powerful spirits, The spirit of the air, Artous, the spirit of the earth, Lastros and the Spirit of the Ocean, Watros! Ancient spirits once more rise, obey your queen!" Anny called as three spirits rose from the ground, "You managed to best the Sheppard's, how about facing those who came before?"

The three ancient spirit raised their blades, ready to strike at the two Kings…..

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But honesty time, how many of you knew Artous, Lastros and Watros would appear?

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