As promised a new chapter :3 I do not own Rise of the Guardians.
North sighed as they now had to think of a way to get Jack Frost to come to them. He looked between the Guardians, he didn't think anyone of them could just capture Jack and he doubted that he would just come willingly. Did he really need to be captured?… well Bunny says he does… North wondered to himself if that was really a reliable source to choose from… however Bunny was the only one who had actually met Jack Frost face to face. And he did put up quite a fight, damaged Bunny up really good that year. Perhaps a surprise capture would be the best way. He snapped his fingers.
"I will need the sack and two yetis, who wants to volunteer to capture Jack Frost?" He smiled putting his large hands on his hips.
Two yetis were shoved forward by their kin. A moment of grumbling and they walked up to North. He pulled them close explaining the plan to capture Jack. "Make it quick and try not to hurt the boy, he might be fragile." He patted the yeti's on the shoulder.
"Bunny, since you know where Jack Frost lives you will have to be the one to take the yeti's to him. Maybe even be distraction so they can catch him." He gave Bunny a reassuring pat on the back that almost knocked Bunny off his feet.
"Woah now mate. Why does it have to be me?" He stammered.
"You know Jack Frost, he won't just run and hide from you." He gave the two yeti's two snow globes to get there and back. "Now lead them Bunny, we don't have much time. When dealing with Pitch it is no laughing matter."
The yetis exchanged looks and waited as Bunny gave them the town's name. He chose not to go through the portal as he preferred to use his own method of transportation to get to Jack.
Another long night of silence in town, there was rarely even any crime in this area. Sure there was plenty more people and kids for him to play with but it was nothing compared to the big cities he's seen around the world. He was just about to head back to his lake when something whizzed past him. He jumped back avoiding the black shape. What on earth? He quickly began following it, it certainly couldn't be anything good and he usually dealt with the supernatural. The figure lead him to an ally way. He couldn't hear anything but a dog barking in the distance. Then the silence was broken by a familiar voice.
"Hello mate, Been a long time. Blizzard of '68 I believe, Easter Sunday wasn't it?" He nearly growled.
"Bunny!" Jack relaxed; he was so relieved it wasn't something he really had to worry about. "You're not still mad about that, are ya?" He made a cocky face. He knew one day when he had time Bunny would come back for round 2. Though why this close to Easter? Shouldn't he be losing fur from being so busy? He stopped teasing for a moment and really listened to what Bunny had to say.
"Yes." Bunny growled. But he had to maintain his temper. He was sent to retrieve Jack on official guardian business. He would have to settle the score another time. "But this is about something else… Fellas." He stroked his boomerang.
Jack was suddenly picked up by two hulking yetis. Who tossed him into a sack. Well great. Jack kicked around in the sack trying to break free. What could he have possibly done this time to get the yetis after him it had been a long time since he tried to break into Santa's work shop. Maybe this was them finally finding time to deal with him. He wondered if his death would be quick. He heard them break something, oh great broken glass. Sounds like a fun way to go he growled internally then felt something much stranger. Something like his body was being smashed and twisted, but not hard enough to cause more than discomfort. Did they just throw him through a portal? It wasn't like he had much experience with the portals of the north pole just a few times when the yetis didn't feel like taking him back outside.
Then he opened the end of the sack to find elves staring back at him. Crap. He crawled out of the sack and found himself in the center of the workshop. It was oddly loud and busy as usual. He had tried to get in many times before but was unsuccessful. He had seen the globe before but never this close, there was so much to look at. And wow. There was the big 4, Tooth fairy, Bunny, Sandman, and Santa. Wow… what did he just get himself caught up in? He was reintroduced to all of them, not like he hadn't seen them all before, though he was pretty sure they had never seen him. They were always too busy to notice him. He held a bit of a grudge against them for it.
"Hey, woah, anyone want to tell me why I am here?" Jack stopped the introductions, he didn't really need them anyway. He would rather play to his cocky, bad boy side rather than a confused immortal. Sandman tried to explain with his little dancing figures of sand but they moved far too quickly to really catch any meaning behind them. "That really doesn't help but thanks little man. hmmm" he paced in a bored manner hiding his overall excitement to be here in the north pole. "I must have done something really bad to get you all together. Oh? Am I on the naughty list?" he joked.
"HA" North boomed. "ON Naughty list?! You hold record." He laughed again. "But no matter we over look. Now we are wiping clean the slate." He brushed off his arm with the elegantly tattooed word naughty.
Now that sounded fishy. Why would he wipe the slate clean? Something was seriously up and Jack did not like the sound of that at all. I mean who just gets a clean slate. It's not like he did anything good in a really long time. "How come?"
"How come? I will tell you how come, because now you are guardian!" North's voice echoed through the whole pole. Suddenly music, torches and little fairies carrying flowers, it was way, way over the top and kind of starting to piss Jack off. He glared at the little elves. Nope. He was not going to play along with this crap. He had many better things to do, mostly playing with the kids in his home town. He slammed down his staff unleashing a powerful gust of wind and a nice layer of ice on the ground. It seemed to have gotten their attention.
"What makes you think I want to be a Guardian?!" He growled.
North boomed again. "Of course you do..MUSIC!"
"No music!" He glared at north. "You guys don't want me. You're all hard work and deadlines and I'm… snowballs and fun times." He sat down on the bench and looked to their confused faces. Seriously? They want him. Why?
"Jack," Tooth fairy piped up. "I don't think you understand what it is we do. Do you see these lights? Each one of them is a child who believes, who believes in us and we protect them." She sighed touching the globe slightly.
"And good or bad, naughty or nice, we protect them." North went into his noble cause but was pulled back to reality when Jack made a noise because Tooth was looking in his mouth again.
She would be lying if she said she didn't love teeth and the whiter the better. She felt a chill run through her wings as she looked at Jack. He was just so captivating his white hair, so soft, his skin like living marble. He was so beautiful and his teeth, oh his teeth. It made her knees weak. She was glad she rarely walked. Otherwise she might have fainted from just how stunning he really was. She couldn't stop herself from looking at his teeth again. They were just so beautiful. North snapped her back to reality and she smiled with a little chuckle. "Op sorry… they're beautiful." She sighed and fluttered back to North's side.
"Ok no more wishy washy, Pitch is out there doing who knows what." North paced.
A chill ran down Jack's spine. Pitch? He hadn't heard than name in so long. He knew better than to let on his previous relationship with Pitch around these guys. They were in fact his enemies. By definition of having had a relationship with Pitch in the past they may not trust him now. Not that they really should trust him now. Jack had promised a long time ago never to pick a side, and how could he fight against someone who had been his friend all those years. Sure it was underhanded and he was probably lied to repeatedly but it's not like these people in front of him have been much better. Where were they when he was screaming his lungs out every night begging for answers? He didn't want to get involved in this whole mess. But what had Pitch been doing all these years to suddenly be bothering the Guardians now? He sucked it up and played dumb. "Wait, you mean, heh, the boogeyman?"
"Yes and when he threatens us he threatens them." Jack was still skeptical, he had never seen Pitch directly affect children, sure he scared them but he never hurt them. "That's all the more reason to pick someone more qualified." He really couldn't face Pitch, Jack still had some feelings for him, and if these people intended to hurt him, Jack couldn't bring himself to join them in their little witch hunt. He couldn't kill Pitch when had sent him away, and he certainly couldn't do it now.
"You think we pick?" North stammered. "You were chosen, like we were all chosen, by man in moon."
"What?" Jack almost couldn't breathe. "He speaks to you?" He choked out that last part. The man in the moon did speak to someone else, he was there. Had he been ignoring Jack all this time?… and for what? For these clowns. They had children who could see them, children who believed in them, what did they need the man in the moon for? It wasn't like Manny had even sent anyone to him to help. A bitter anger rose in Jack's heart. "Why wouldn't he tell me that himself?" The pain of countless nights screaming as long and as loud as he could for any answers and this was all he had to offer. His eyes darkened with anger. "After 300 years this is his answer?" The despair and anger welled up in his voice as it cracked. He was holding back the tears. No. No more crying. Not here. Not now, not ever. He growled. "He wants me to spend the rest of eternity like you guys? Cooped up in some hide out thinking of new ways to bribe kids?! No! That's not for me!" He hissed and then realized it wasn't like they did this. They didn't deserve this anger, they had done nothing wrong however, it wasn't that they earned his friendship either. "No offense."
Bunny had enough of this blighter wasting their time. "How, how, how is that not offensive?" He glared and then he began to get a little cocky. "You know what guys I think we dodged a bullet, I mean, what does this clown know about bringing joy to children?" He scratched his ears. What Bunny didn't expect was Jack to respond. He expected him to walk out of the north pole and never return, but Jack had been pushed too far today.
"Ever hear of a snow day? I know it's no boiled egg but kids like what I do." He smiled.
"But none of them believe in you do they?" Bunny had him now. "Ya see you're invisible mate. It's like you don't even exist."
Jack put on a brave face but, Bunny's words cut much deeper than he would ever let on. He felt like Bunny had kicked him in the chest. He had to think really hard about what he was going to say next. He didn't want to completely ruin his chances to at least stay under the radar of the Guardians.
Tooth stepped in. "Bunny! That's enough." She looked at Jack with pity. Oh how he hated that look. He didn't need to lash out at her though, she didn't know. How could she? Jack waved her off. "No the kangaroo's right."
Bunny nearly jumped. What did he just call me? "Woah I am no Kangaroo mate."
"Oh and all this time I thought you were." Jack had cut him deep. Good. He smiled and wanted to rub a bit more salt in the wound. "If you're not a kangaroo then what are you?" He growled.
Bunny met his ferocity head on. "I'm a Bunny… The Easter Bunny… People believe in me."
Jack really hated how much that phrase got under his skin. He felt the tears welling up in his eyes as the silence stretched for what felt like hours. He was staring into the eyes of Bunny they burned with rage as Jack's brimmed with anguish. North finally broke the silence when he told Jack to walk with him. They need to have a little chat about what makes a real guardian.
He was told about North's center. It was what made him so spectacular as a guardian. Jack didn't really have anything like that. He sighed it wasn't like he didn't want to help the children of the world. He did really like them, but he didn't really like this. He felt like it was just too much. Then Bunny burst in there was trouble at the tooth palace.
They were to take North's sleigh, how could this thing be anything less than horrifying. 8 tiny reindeer pulling some rickety old sleigh, no way the wind would be much faster for Jack. He walked with them to where the Sleigh was to take off and he saw the biggest 6 reindeer he's ever seen. He wasn't even as tall as their backs. Their fur was thick for blazing through the North's icy winds. They had huge nostrils to keep those strong hearts beating and bad tempers they reared and kicked at each other making loud brays. Their legs were strong and their hooves beat the ground with such ferocity it made the ground shake beneath his feet. They were already hooked up to the sleigh. A it came out of the darkness Jack got his first real look at it. It was a magnificent red polished sleigh with all the fixings. He stared at it taking it all in. "One ride but that's it." He tried to hide his excitement.
"Everyone loves the Sleigh." North chuckled.
I know that this is mostly a movie chapter. Sorry guys. I want to do more but right now I have no internet connection and moving has really taken a toll on my life for a while. I hope that I can get you another chapter up soon, for all my pitch jack shippers the next chapter will have a little bit of something for you guys I am still writing it just might take a while to figure out when I can get to a internet connection. Again sorry guys about these delays.