Hey everyone. :) I finally get to update! :P Anyway I would like to give a small shout out to Dragon Spirit (Guest). Dragon thanks for understanding and you and me both, I only shop if I HAVE to. XD Anyway Enjoy Chapter 10: No Time to Spare!

(Time skip 1 month)

"1 MONTH! WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR JACK FOR A MONTH AND WE STILL HAVE NOTHING!?" Tooth's screeches could be heard from everywhere in the workshop.

Easter had pasted and Pitch had seemed to disappear as suddenly Jack had. They had all tried to find Jack, North with the globe in 'spirit-finder' mode, Bunny with his scent, Tooth with her fairies, and finally Sandy with his dream sand.

But ever try ended the same, with them still Jack-less.

More often then not Tooth was hanging around the workshop fluttering around giving orders to her fairies and trying to think of places where Jack could be hiding. Sandy was sometimes late to their weekly meets because he didn't get enough rest from staying up longer then normal looking for Jack. Bunny seemed to hide in his warren a lot more and when the others caught him painting an egg they were unusually dark and sad colors. North had even tried to use the snow globes to try to see if they could find him. All that would come up in the portals was darkness.

Right now they were altogether in the middle of a meeting with Tooth flying around like, well a hummingbird.

Bunny was about to say something to try to calm her but a bright moon beam in the corner of his eye made the word catch in his throat.

North looked at Bunny worriedly but turned and saw the moon beam to and started shouting in Russian, grabbing the blabbing Tooth's arm and making her look at it too.

Sandy had been awaken by North's booming shouts as they had sort-of gotten use to Tooth's random angry out bursts. Quickly the four moved over to the moon beam and looked up to Manny.

"Manny! Tell us where Jack is!" Tooth goes right to the point, she held her hands firmly over her heart. She hoped Jack was ok, even if all his teeth had cavities she would take that over where ever Jack must be right now.

Even though the moon beam was bright it still seemed dulled, showing Manny was sad about something and that worried them.

Greatly.

The moon beam moved over to the globe and shined over a small area in Pennsylvania. Moving over to a small computer North looked over where Manny was pointing them and found he was showing them to a forest just out side of a small town called Burgess, famous for some stupid stuff like cafes and others. What got North's attention was the very last thing on the list. It was known as Jackson's Cave, just a little ways from a small lake and just out side of town.

It may surprise you but North knew very much about the internet, he even used it for pattern designs for toys every once and a while. So with his fingers flying over the board he looked up 'Jackson's Cave' and looked at the page the town had on their web page.

Jackson's Cave:

There is a legend that 300 years ago a young boy, Jackson Overlander, and his sister, Lillian Overlander had got caught in the middle of the cave when a blizzard hit. When Lillian cried it made the caves entrance get overed in snow. Before it could trap both children, Jackson being 10 and Lillian 4, Jackson pushed her out and told her to get help. The young girl traveled the rest of the way to the village before the men came to look for Jackson. When they did they found the cave empty except for the boy's coat and a lantern, both covered in frost.

It is said that Jackson can sometimes still be seen around the cave, still waiting for his sister to come back for him.

The other Guardians where quiet after North finished reading, all thoughtful. They remembered Father Frost telling them how Jack had became his son.

"Yes I found Jack 300 years ago freezing to death in a cave. I asked Manny and Mother to save him, in return that made him a Winter Spirit to replace Manuel and he became my son."

So Johnston hadn't been exasperating like they had been hoping. They had been hoping that it wasn't true. After all they were The Guardians of Childhood they should have tried to help them.

North remembered Jack (Overlander)'s name fading from his naughty list, and a few weeks later Jack (Frost)'s appeared.

Tooth remembered a tooth box that was two teeth short, Jack (Overlander) lost almost two to three teeth every month, not because his teeth where bad but because he was always getting into trouble and losing one in some way. Tooth remembered when her tooth fairy come up to her with Jack (Overlander)'s first tooth, he had lost it by fall off a table in his home when he was two and a-half. It was one of the purest white teeth she had ever seen. It only had one drop of blood and little to no gum on it. She hadn't wanted to put it away, it was so beautiful, but she reined her self had put it in its box.

The face of a young boy with brown hair and eyes appearing on the edge of it, he looked to be around 10 in the picture. It had surprised her because normally it might show their teen appearance because that was when you lost your last tooth, or even adult because some don't lose their wisdom teeth till then. Even so she had shrugged it off then, but now understood what it meant now.

It had been showing the last age Jack (Overlander) would lose a tooth.

Bunny remembered the boy who use to collect all the eggs he laid out, more then once he had stayed back just a few minutes to see the boy. At first Bunny had thought he was being mean to all the other kids and taking them all for him self, but what had surprised him was he was re-hiding them in more easier to find places. Some would be in very low branches or brightly lit pink and blue ones could be seen without problem under thin small bushes. It surprised him even more when littler children would come and get them, squealing in delight while the boy hid high in the trees or in thick bushes smiling.

Sandy remembered a boy who dreamed of dolphins and snowflakes, always the same and it never changed. It surprised him that the dreams never took on another form, after all every other child he visited normally changed their dream every day, making his job a bit harder but he loved it, so to have one that didn't make sense. One time he actually stopped to check on the child when the dream he always send didn't go. When he got there and was surprised to see the boy holding a smaller girl, she was crying. She must have had a nightmare before he had gotten here, it would only make sense since it was around midnight. Sandy sent the girl a small wave of dream sand, making her slowly fall asleep.

He didn't know what the two were saying through the window but they must have made a promise because the boy took her pinky in his and held it tightly for a moment before he let go. After a few minutes Sandy could tell she was asleep but the boy still sat tall in bed, holding her on his lap. Sandy tried to send some dream sand to him, the boy was up for at least two hours by now, but he refused to sleep. The boy moved the girl to the other bed in the room and finally laid down. Sandy was shocked when the boy sent him a tired grateful smile and instantly fell asleep. That had been the most eventful night for Sandy in a long time, and from a few days the dreams stopped. He had started to get worried but pushed it away when they returned again, even if it was odd they went some where else.

North finally broke them all from there far past thoughts. "I zay we check out the forest and see if we can find Jazk!"

The others quickly agreed and took off to the sled.

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Jack didn't know what was reality and what was his nightmares anymore. Every time he 'woke up' all he saw was darkness from his cage.

Jack didn't remember much either. He remembered his name, but that was about it. Everything else just seemed like blurry images from a dream. Bright colored feathers, gray fur with dark blue/black tattoos, a red coat, gold spiky hair was all he could make out. Sometimes even a voice, but even then he could never place it to a name.

He would only be awake long enough to be verbally assaulted by his master, that was what the man with gold eyes and gray skin wanted Jack to call him, before being pulled back into a nightmare. This happened so long that he couldn't even tell day from night anymore. The place was always so dark that he couldn't tell what time it was since the sun didn't show there.

The Sun.

It sounded foreign to Jack, like many other things did that master laughed at him about. 'Don't worry Jack, the moon and his lap dogs won't get you here.' 'Oh Jack you're so pale, you should get in the sun more. Not that I would let you leave, though.' And many others like that where constantly thrown at him every waking moment. It didn't take long for even the sight of master to make him whimper, which always seemed to please him as he would breath in a deep breath. As if he was taking in the smell of something that, well, smelled good to him.

He didn't know who those: feathers, fur, coat, and hair that was, but he hoped they would come for him.

He knew he was 'awake' now, so he sat back to calm his heart as he waited for the pain it would feel when master came back.

R&R PLZ! :D Ta.

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