His Evil Half
Chapter 3: The North Pole Horror
It was a shocking sight. Elves were scrambling everywhere, toys knocked over in the process on different levels. "Santa!" Jack ran over to North, who had been stuck the wall. "Jack! Tooth! You're back!" North struggled to get himself out of his predicament. A strangely familiar substance was freezing him to the wall. "Is that…frost?" Jack said in surprise. North looked down. "You're right, it is frost." He said. Tooth was helping up Bunnymund, who had fallen to the ground next to Sandy, who had sand stars dancing around his head. "How could it be frost?" Bunnymund questioned. "Only Jack has that power." "But it wasn't me!" Jack protested. "We know." North said, finally taking his sword and using it to smash the frost. "Uh, guys?" Tooth interrupted, pointing to the sack the yeti was holding, the shape once again struggling inside. "Oi, get me out!" The girl screamed. Bunnymund stood up. "Well, what are you waiting for?" He snapped to the yeti. "Give her some fresh air, mate!" The yeti shrugged and placed the sack on the floor. Immediately, the young girl shot out. She placed an arrow in her bow, poised to shoot. She looked round apprehensively. "Who are you?" She questioned. "Sandy!" north called. He and Bunnymund parted to let Sandman through. Sandman looked up and gave Vanessa a feeble wave. Her eyes got wide. "Wait a second…Sandy?" she said in shock. "I haven't seen you since last November!" Sandy nodded awkwardly. Jack and Tooth's mouth's both fell open. "You guys are friends?" Jack yelled. Vanessa rolled her eyes. "What do you think?" She snorted. Sandman gave a quick nod as Vanessa patted him on the back with a smile. "How've you been lately?" Sandman gave her the okay sign with his fingers. "So have I." Vanessa said.
"Um…Excuse me, Sandman!" Tooth said. Sandman turned round. The rest of the guardians were watching him. Sandman was embarrassed. North stepped forward. "We would like to introduce ourselves." He said. "I am North, also known as-""Santa Claus?" Vanessa interrupted. "You love red, and plus you look big and fat." North tried not to look offended. "Yes. I am the guardian of Wonder." "I am Bunnymund." Bunnymund spoke, throwing a boomerang in midair. "I'm the Easter Bunny, and the guardian of Hope." Tooth flittered forwards next. "My name is Toothiana, the Tooth Fairy, but my friends call me Tooth." She explained. "I am the guardian of Memories." Lastly, Jack held up his staff. "My name's Jack Frost. I'm the guardian of Fun." Vanessa looked surprised. "Guardian of Fun, huh?" She commented, grinning. "Cool." "Thanks." Jack smiled back, totally unaware that Tooth was looking away, trying not to be bothered by this, even though she was. Is Vanessa trying to get along well with Jack so that she can- But Tooth perished the thought. Vanessa is a new guardian, she decided. We'll need her. It was not the time to think about this. "And you are?" North asked. "Vanessa Rose." Vanessa said. North took a deep breath, and then burst into an ecstatic grin. "You have been chosen to be GUARDIAN!" Suddenly, a trumpet tune filled the room. Vanessa stepped back in shock to see a small elf blowing a trumpet at her feet. Somebody threw confetti all over the place as the guardians stepped back to form a line: Jack and Tooth at one side, Sandy and Bunnymund at the other side. North was in the middle, holding a giant book. "W-wait!" It was Vanessa again. Everyone paused. "Me, a guardian? I don't understand…" She protested. Over time, she had heard of the Guardians before, but she didn't know if she had what it took to be one.
North sighed. He thrust the big book into Jack's hands before walking over. "Man in the moon thinks you are right for the job, then you are." Vanessa's eyes widened. "He really thinks so?" He never told me anything. Except my name. North and the other guardians nodded. "You're the right person." Tooth said. "Yep. I feel it…" North added, then pausing and grinning sheepishly. "…In my belly." Vanessa snickered slightly at that statement. "Well, okay…" North smiled, then he stepped back. He took the book back from Jack Frost. "Will you, Vanessa Rose, vow to watch over the children of the world? To guard with your life their hopes, their wishes, and their dreams? For they are all that we have, all that we are, and all that we will ever be." Vanessa gulped. "I will." She answered. "Then congratulations, Vanessa Rose, for you are now, and forever more, a guardian." The room erupted into cheers. Jack rushed over and hugged Vanessa. "Welcome, V!" He said. Vanessa smiled. "Thanks." Tooth, the only one who had stopped cheering, stood a distance away. Seeing Jack Frost, the boy she liked, hugging the new girl was making a strange feeling stir from deep within her soul. Jealousy? No, I'm not jealous… Tooth was starting to be very disturbed by Vanessa. She was getting along really well with Jack Frost, which was starting to seem quite threatening…
"Excuse me." Tooth said impatiently. The elves and Yetis walked off as the rest of her fellow guardians looked at her. "Don't mean to interrupt, but what happened just now?" Tooth asked. North gulped. "We saw something." "Saw what?" Jack asked, moving from Vanessa's to Tooth's side. "Some kind of dark mist." Bunnymund explained. "Dark mist swirling around the room through the window. It reminded me of-""Pitch?" Jack asked. "King of Nightmares?" Vanessa scoffed. "I thought I heard that you guys defeated him a year ago!" Sandy gave a shake of his head. "It wasn't Pitch." Tooth said. "Pitch would be dark sand, not mist." "Tooth has a point." Jack agreed. Tooth looked down, blushing slightly. "And the frost?" Jack asked. Sandy shrugged. "We don't know." North mumbled. "One minute I was standing up, then the next I was stuck to the wall." Jack stared at his staff. "But I'm the only one that makes staff around here!"
"Not anymore." A raspy voice said. "Who was that?" Vanessa said. A figure emerged from the darkness. He was clothed in black, with grey skin, messy black hair and red evil eyes. "W-who are you?" Jack questioned, raising his staff. The man gave a sinister laugh. "Oh, so he didn't tell you, did he? My name is Eerie Black." Tooth's eyes opened wide. The rest were poised to attack. "Eerie Black?" Tooth asked. "You're related to P-""Let's not talk about him now." The guy interrupted angrily. "He's none of my concern." Then, his face broke into an evil grin. "But first, I would like to introduce you to my assistant." The guardians watched nervously as another figure approached from the darkness. Jack gripped his staff as the mystery person got closer. Weird… he's the same height as me! Then, as the person became visible, Jack's jaw dropped. It was not a he, but a she! But that wasn't it. She had the same snow white hair, the same blue eyes, and the same pale skin. The features that Jack had were all echoed in the teenager, except they were more feminine. She had a staff too. Jack was horrified. Tooth stared in astonishment. North's eyeballs looked as though they had inflated. Vanessa pinched herself to see if she was dreaming, and Bunnymund fainted of total shock on top of Sandman. The teenager looked almost like Jack, except that there was a sinister gleam in her eyes.
Eerie's red eyes had an evil glint. "Jackson Overland Frost, meet Janelle Evelyn Frost, your twin sister."
