AN: Thanks for reading the next chapter! I feel I must explain myself again. I wanted this story to switch between past and present to get a back story with your story. So these chapters are going to short and sweet. *shrugs* I like it and that's why I'm posting this tale.

(Present)

Jack landed on a snowy ledge on a Himalayan mountain. His hand gripped his staff as he stared at the cave before him. The wind was uneasy at the entrance. It seemed uncertain as to which way to blow and that put Jack on edge. The wind was always certain.

Slowly, the winter spirit walked into the cave till he crossed an invisible wall of cold. The plain stone cave shifted into a room of glimmering ice forms. The light that reflected off the ice chandeliers played across the intricate shapes of ice that consumed the room.

"Crystal?" Jack's voice seemed uncertain in the room just as the wind had been outside. He moved carefully through the maze of ice, his staff half raised. His knuckles grew white around the wood as sound seemed to be swallowed within the room. He could not even hear the wind that had been howling outside.

"Jack?" Her voice whispered from a distance. The boy stiffened at the sound. The fear lining his name had been obvious.

Swiftly, Jack glided further into the cave until he met a wall of shadows. His breath caught in his throat. That would never be in a room full of shimmering, bright crystals.

"No!" The cry was so sudden Jack jumped, just before the shadows pulled him down.

(200 years ago)

"Come on Jack!" The girl teased with a giggle as she twirled through the wind. She moved as a ballet dancer. Leaping with pointed toes and letting her hands float in air. Every time she would turn a hand, a new collection of snowflakes would fly away.

Jack grinned at the snowflake maker. He was always impressed with the creativity she put into every single crystal. He was glad she was his co-worker. Jack couldn't imagine himself sitting for months designing little crystals. That was definatly business that was not Jack Frost.

Adding a little burst of speed, Jack blew past Crystal, setting her off balance as well as laughing. She turned her stumble into an elegant flip and landed on a tall Oak in a forest. Jack hooked his staff around a trunk and boomeranged himself back towards the girl. She side-stepped and he smacked into the trunk. Arms and legs out perpendicular like a cartoon character.

This set Crystal into a laughing fit as Jack slowly peeled himself from the tree. He grumpily sat on a branch and nursed his aching, red nose with an ice cube while watching Crystal laugh with tears in her eyes.

"You could try out for North's sled team now!" The girl said between giggles, "I heard they were looking for someone with a glowing red nose."

Jack grumbled and crossed his arms in a pout as he turned the other way. The giggling died down and a snow crystal floated in front of Jack's face. He blinked and it landed on his sore nose, bursting into light. Immediately, his nose felt better and he turned to look at Crystal.

"What did you-?"

"There's nothing a bit of snow can't help." She said with a broad smile.

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