Two chapters in one day, I'm on a role!
Since Christmas was just over three weeks ago, I figure I'll throw a little late present out there.
Toronto is a city in Canada.
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Jack had spread winter throughout the northern hemisphere. It was a rather calm day and he had come too late to Toronto to make a snow day. So he had instead flown around until he came to a less populated area. The children's recess wouldn't start for another hour or so anyways.
Jack walked around this deserted part of the city for quite some time. Christmas had been weeks ago and all of the stores now had large 'Sale!' signs in on their Christmas decorations. Jack had found a large 'Frosty the Snowman' costume in a two dollar pile outside one of these stores.
He picked up the packaging in which held the costume and opened it. The costume was a large white fluffy jumpsuit with three black dots down the front; it also had a stick on carrot nose with white and black face paint. But none of that interested Jack. He reached down to the bottom of the packaging to retrieve the crushed top had and plastic pipe.
Leaning his staff in the crook of his arm, he fluffed out the hat. Reviving it to a shape that almost looked like the ones he had seen men wearing a very long time ago. It was still a little crushed on one side but that didn't bother Jack, he felt like a proper gentlemen wearing it, or at least, he pretended to.
Jack picked up the plastic pipe next; he placed it into his mouth and smiled at his reflection in the store window. He looked good.
He bowed to himself, pretending his shepherds hook was a fancy walking stick. He used his free hand to make a fake monocle around his left eye. He shook his head; he'd never liked monocles, too easily broken in his opinion. He instead chose to draw a fancy mustache on his finger with the green and red markers he found at the bottom of the bin.
Placing his finger across his upper lip, he smiled. He looked better with a mustache than he could have imagined.
He still held the pipe between his teeth as his smile broadened. He could make his mustache wiggle if he bent his finger back and forth. He laughed at himself.
He put the markers back into the bin when he noticed something written on the back of the package that his top hat and plastic pipe had been in. There was a picture of his pipe there but it was different. There were bubbles coming out of it!
Excited as anyone is by bubbles, Jack tore through the packaging to find the small container of soap and water.
He immediately opened the tiny jar and poured the content into his pipe then, sticking it in his mouth; he blew through the small hole.
Instantly, the liquid froze as his breath brushed it. Jack Frowned. He had been looking forward to the bubbles.
But he didn't want to daunt on that, instead, he compromised. Smacking the bottom of the pipe, he popped the ice block out. He filled the plastic piped up with snow instead.
He blew again. No bubbles came out.
Instead, dozens of tiny snowflakes flew out of the pipe.
Jack looked at the window again, blowing his snowflake pipe, lopsided top hat, and red and green mustache; he looked like a very fancy winter spirit.
He wiggled his finger again, making himself laugh. The children in Toronto would have to wait till next time, he definitely needed to show Jamie his new look.
Right before he left he picked up the little block of frozen soap. He'd give Jamie's dog a little late Christmas present.
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There we go! I think Jack would very much like bubbles. Though he'd have to have someone else make them. Maybe he saw Jamie and Sophie making them or the yetis.
Either way, I really liked this one. It was originally going to be completely different, but I think the plot I had planned for this one will go into the next one.
The mustache came because my friends and I always drew mustaches on our fingers last year, and I think that they just make everything so much cheesier and fake fancy.
I don't own ROTG.