I just went through something awful, so i need something positive to get my mind off it. Im sorry but right now, i wont tell you guys wat happened. Ill just say, i was freaking out. I kind of am still freaking out.

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Chapter 4: The Guardians

Casey landed face down on the floor with a loud thump. Her clothes, which tended to be wet near constantly, squelched loudly as she pushed herself up.
"There's little Casey." Casey looked up just in time to see a big man with white hair and a long white beard.

"No way. Santa Claus?" she questioned. The man nodded. Casey shook her head. "Where the heck am I?"

"The North Pole." North said. Casey stood up slowly, holding up her arms in surrender.

"No. No way. Uh no." she repeated, walking away. She turned back around, her right hand reaching behind her head and scratching it as she tried to rein in her confusion. She looked at Tooth. "Where's my staff?" she asked.

Tooth sighed and held Casey's staff out to her, which the water spirit snatched quickly.

"No one touches my staff." she muttered. Casey jumped when she suddenly felt a cool breeze behind her followed by a yell and a thump. She turned to see a large red bag laying on the floor. There was obviously something inside because the bag was moving. The loosely tied opening pulled open and out came a familiar face.

There, crawling out of the bag, icy blue eyes looking around in confusion, his snow white hair ruffled from the sack, was Jack Frost.

North laughed. "There he is! Jack Frost!"

Jack pulled himself from the sack and looked around in amazement. His eyes landed on North. "Santa?" At North's nod, a smile of amazement broke out on Jack's face. "Woah." He stood up and looked around.

North began speaking again. "I trust the yetis treated you well?"

Jack glared at North. "Yeah, I love being shoved in a sack and tossed through a magic portal." he said, sarcasm dripping from his voice.

North smiled, clearly not detecting the level of sarcasm in Jack's voice. "Oh? Good. That was my idea." Jack rolled his eyes. It was then that, in a swirling vortex of golden sand, the Sandman returned, a body slung over his shoulder. Casey, looking closer, gasped when she thought she recognized the body.

"Is that Narain?" Casey asked, pointing at the body. Sandy looked back at the body, then back at Casey and nodded. "You knocked her out!?" Sandy nodded again. He laid Narain on the floor and mimed out his meeting with the deer spirit. "She fought you?" Casey asked, surprised that she could interpret what Sandy was trying to say. He nodded and Casey sighed. "I guess I'm not surprised. Narain doesn't exactly carry anything you could take that would lure her here like Tooth did with me."

"At least you didn't get the psycho who stuck you in a big bag." Jack said, then he did a double take at Casey. "Casey?!" He exclaimed. Casey looked at him, and crossed her arms, her staff hanging over her right arm.

"Yeah. Where have you been for the last one hundred and ninety-two years?" she questioned, her voice colder then Jack's cold temperature. He backed away slightly.

"I'm sorry." he apologized. "I'm the winter spirit I got busy."

"You promised that after you finished your job, you'd come back to see me!" Casey snapped, stepping closer to the white haired boy, her dark blue eyes flaring with anger. She pointed the gem end of her staff at Jack, the gem itself beginning to glow a bright ocean blue. "My powers weren't need hardly at all!" Casey jabbed the staff in Jack's direction, but before she could do anything, she felt something grab the hood of her jacket and pull her away from Jack. Casey looked back and saw that North had picked her up and was pulling her away from Jack.

"Casey, please calm down." North begged, taking Casey's staff from her. Casey crossed her arms and looked away. "We have more important matters to discuss."

Meanwhile, Bunnymund was beginning to snap at Sandy for knocking out Narain. "I understand she's hard to handle sometimes but, really. knocking her out? How does that help anything!?" He turned away, his hands grabbing his ears and pulling them down in frustration. He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Tooth behind him.

"Bunny, like North just told Casey, we have more pressing matters to attend to then Sandy knocking out Narain or Jack not visiting Casey for over two hundred years." Bunnymund sighed and nodded.

Back with Casey and North, Casey had managed to put aside her anger at Jack long enough to discuss the important matters North had mentioned. However, Jack seemed intent on ticking everyone off at the moment. He was doing his own version of a head count.

"The Big Four all together." He said, walking around and freezing one of North's poor elves solid as he walked by it. "Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy, Sandman and the Easter Kangaroo." He looked directly at Bunnymund as he said those last words and Casey slapped a hand to her forehead in frustration.

"A what?" Bunnymund exclaimed. He walked close to Jack and glared down at the boy. "I'm a bunny." Jack just shrugged.

North sighed and turned his attention towards his enormous globe. "Trouble is coming." he said, which got the attention of the arguing winter spirit and bunny. "Fear itself has escaped."

"What are you talking about?" Casey asked.

"The Nightmare King, Pitch. All he wants is to bring fear to every corner of the world." North explained.

"But why get me, Casey and Narain here?" Jack asked.

"Each of you has something very special inside." North replied. Casey nodded slowly but Jack had other things to say.

"Something special?" he asked, his eyebrow raised in disbelief. "How can we have something special? You guys have ignored me for three hundred years and Casey for two hundred fifteen! Why should we listen to you guys?!"

Casey sighed and looked at North. "Listen, I'm sorry but Jack does have a point." She glared at Jack. "No matter how rudely he said it." She looked back at North. "How can we have something special?"

"You three care about the children more than anybody can fathom." North answered. "And you, Jack and Casey, you two make the children happy even though no one can see you." Casey nodded in agreement.

Jack still scowled. "What do you want from us?" he asked.

"We need you to become Guardians and help us defeat Pitch." Tooth explained.

"What makes you think we want to be Guardians?" Casey asked. "What use could we be to you guys?"

Jack sighed and tightened his grip on his staff. He started walking around again. "Okay, seriously, you don't want me." he said. "You're all hard work and deadlines." He jumped onto North's small table, grabbing his staff with both hands and sitting down, his right foot on his staff. "And I'm snowballs and fun times." He shook his head. "I'm not a guardian."

Casey nodded in agreement. "Neither am I. I'm water slides and pool time."

"Jack, Casey," Tooth said. "I don't think you two understand what we do here." She flew closer to North's enormous globe. "Each of those lights is a child."

"And good or bad," North said, walking closer. "Naughty or nice. We protect them."

Jack smirked a little. "Oh no!" He then looked at the Guardians. "No offense."

Bunnymund glared at Jack. "How is that not offensive?" Jack started walking away. "I mean what's this clown know about bringing joy to children anyway?" He started scratching his ear with his hind leg.

Jack rolled his eyes and turned back towards them. "Uh you ever hear of a snow day?" he asked. "I know it's no hard-boiled egg, but kids like what I do."

"But none of them believe in you, do they?" Bunnymund questioned. At those words, both Jack and Casey hung their heads. He was right.

Tooth gasped and glared at Bunnymund. "Bunny, enough."

"No." Casey said, looking up again. "Kangaroo's right." She couldn't believe she had called Bunnymund a kangaroo just as Jack had.

"The what?" Bunnymund exclaimed. "What did you call me? I'm not a kangaroo, mate." He walked close to Jack and Casey. Jack glared at the bunny.

"If you're not a kangaroo," he began. "What are you?!"

"I'm a bunny." Bunnymund answered. "The Easter Bunny."

As Jack and Bunnymund glared at each other, Casey heard a soft groan and turned to see Narain waking up. "Narain!" She exclaimed and rain to the deer spirit's side. "Are you alright?"

Narain nodded slowly. "Fine, but where am I?"

"The North Pole with Santa, Tooth Fairy, Sandman and the Easter Bunny." Casey answered. "They want us to be Guardians, apparently."

Narain just stared at Casey. "How long was I out?" She asked.

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