Update Time! :D Jack is a bit OCC in this but its an AU and he is 10, so I figured he might act this way. Enjoy Chapter 2: The Winter Family!
Darkness. That was the first think he remembered. It was dark and cold, and he was scared. But then, then he saw the moon through a window above him. It was so big and bright it seemed to chase the darkness to the furthest corners of the mirror-like room. And when it did, he wasn't scared anymore.
The coldness faded till he didn't feel it anymore and he took a deep breath of air.
He looked down to see what he was on and found a large bed. There was a big, but thin, pale blue blanket on him and the bed under him was the softest thing he could remember ever sleeping on.
That thought make him stiffen.
He couldn't remember sleeping on anything else, or sleeping at all. He couldn't remember where he was…
And he couldn't remember who he was!
He bolted up from the comfortable bed and looked around the room again. It really looked like the whole room was made of mirrors. He looked back up to the moon, but it did nothing but glow brightly.
When a door, he just noticed across the room, began to open he jumped and tried to hide him self in the corner nearest to him. The man that walked into the room and looked at the empty bed fearfully, but when he saw him in the corner he sighed a breath of relief.
He took this time to take in the man's looks. The man looked to on the younger side of adulthood, maybe in his late 20s early 30s? He was wearing a robe type of thing that was light blue, the hood was down and his slightly thin face showed. He had sky blue eyes, and silver colored hair that was short in the back and with slightly long shaggy bangs. His lips went from a worried frown to a happy and caring smile so quickly he thought the first might have been his head acting up.
"Hello. I'm glad your awake, you have been asleep all day and I was a bit worried Manny and Mother might have done something wrong." The man chuckles.
Seeing that the man wasn't going to hurt him, and something just made him want to trust the man, he slowly came from the corner. Still keeping as far away from the man as he could he watched him closely. "Who are you, and where am I?"
The man smile turns gentle. "I am your guardian, everyone calls me Father Frost but my name is Johnston. Where you are is our home in Antarctica."
He felt hope fill him, if this person is or at least like a father to him he must know who he is, right?
He took a step closer. "A guardian is like a father right? Are you my father?"
Johnston looked surprised by the question but his smile widened. "In a way yes, a guardian can and sometimes is a father."
A hopeful smile came to his face. "When you must know who I am, right?"
Johnston nodded. "Indeed I do, you are Jack Frost."
Jack Frost? It seemed right, but something like a very faint voice told him it wasn't completely true. He ignored the little voice, after all Johnston hasn't shown any reason for wanting to lie to him so why doubt him?
"Jack Frost.' He played it over his tongue and he liked the ring to it.
"Come. You must meet the rest of the family. Schnee has been driving us all nuts to meet you every since I brought you home." Johnston chuckles.
"Who is schra-scher-schru-' Jack tried to pronounce the name but he just couldn't.
"Who is Schnee?' Johnston laughs. 'He is the youngest of the three polar bear cubs we have in the family, there mother had died when she was caught by hunters. Manuel and I saved him and his two sisters before they could be killed as well. He has been dieing to have a new play-mate and you were just what he was asking for."
"Who are Manuel and his sisters?" Jack asks.
"Manuel is sort of like your grandfather, though if he acts cold don't think it is just to you. It's his personality. As for Schnee's sisters, the eldest is Glace and the middle is Moroz. They are very sweet but can be a bit mean at times, they both love their brother dearly so don't take anything Glace says or does to harshly because she is just trying to protect him." Johnston says as they made it to a door, he pushed it open and inside on a throne like chair sat an old man.
The old man had silver hair like Johnston, the same thinned face too. What was different was the old made had dark midnight blue eyes, and a harsher aura seemed to flow around him. Jack instantly shied away slightly. The old man wore a dark gray, almost black, hooded cassock and in his thin bony hand stood a staff that looked like it was made of the same stuff as the walls, ceilings, and floors.
Jack realized that the place wasn't made of mirrors, but ice! Jack looked at the staff to see the top curled slightly and had a very faint glow.
"This is the one to replace me? He doesn't look like much." The old man's slightly deep and scratchy voice made Jack jump slightly.
"Manuel.' Johnston says sternly, like he was talking to a child. 'Be nice, the boy has barely awoken up."
The old man, Manuel, huffs. "You know I am just playing with the boy. I may not be a trickster like you, but I must get my humor somewhere."
Johnston rolled his eyes. "Jack meet Manuel, also known as Old Man Winter. Manuel say a nice hello to Jack."
"Hello." Jack says giving Manuel a timid smile.
"Hello, boy." Manuel says bluntly.
"IS JACKIE AWAKE?!" A small voice cries out as a thumping sound comes from the open door.
"I would brace your self." Johnston says with amusement gleaming in his eyes.
"Why?" Jack asks confused. "Why would I-"
Before he could finish his sentence he was tackled by a white blur.
"Yay, he's awake! He's awake! He's awake. Oh we will have so much fun playing in the snow! It's going to be great!" The blur exclaims as Jack gasps for breath under it, it felt like a bag of stones had been thrown on him!
"Easy Schnee, you might crush him before you can even drag him out side." Johnston laughs.
"I'm sorry, but I'm just so excited!" Jack now realized that the blur was the polar bear cub Johnston had been talking about and he was about as big as him!
Schnee was snow white except for the two oddly miss placed black spots around his even odder gray eyes, a big smile was on his muzzle. Which looked a bit frightening on a bear as big as your self and it being right in his face.
"Hi." Jack said rather bluntly, still in shocked surprise.
"Hey, I'm Schnee and over there are my sisters Moroz and Glace!" Schnee says.
A polar bear that looked to be about the same size as Schnee moved forward and gave a soft smile. She had brownish/blue eyes and a black muzzle. "Hi, I'm Moroz."
"I'm Jack." Jack says a bit more warmly, he was starting to like the siblings.
"Sorry If Glace is a big grump and won't come over to meet you. I think she just ate some bad fish before we got here." Moroz tries to whisper, but fails, making everyone but Glace laugh.
Glace had ice blue eyes and her back left paw was black, she was also watching Jack closely.
He didn't mind as much now, he would get her and Manuel to like him. He would make sure of it.
R&R plz! :D Ta.
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