Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry i never meant to take this long to update but recently i have been finding it really hard to write anything :( which is kinda starting to depress me :(
Please review! it cheers me up and encourages me to keep writing :D
The Guardians and Aurelia attempted to approach Alex but as soon as they took one step the wind pushed them back almost pushing Tooth and Sandy to the ground such was it strength.
"Your friends can't help you now." Alex stated and Jack froze as he realised that he was right. He was alone to fight his nemesis.
The two spirits rose into the air with their respective winds howling at each other, snow swirling around the head of one while a thick curtain of leaves shielded the other
Jack shot several dozen ice shards at Alex, which ripped through the leaf shield but came nowhere near Alex.
Jack's attention was diverted for Alex however when he heard panicked shrieks from below him. Peering through the mass of leaves and snow/ice Jack could just about make out the forms of his friends and was that a skeleton?!
Alex's creepy, if slightly insane laughter turned Jack's head from the strange scene below.
"I am autumn and autumn is famous for the celebration of the paranormal as the spirit of autumn I have control over certain thing..." Another panicked shriek from the ground turned Jack's head yet again and this time the single skeleton had been joined by ghost and several large, angry pumpkins.
"How… How are you doing that?" Jack had to admit whatever Alex was doing it was working, both Jack and the Guardians were terrified.
"What the…!" Jack almost fainted when he turned back around only to come face to face with a vampire!
The vampire bared its pearly whites then lunged at Jack!
When Jack retold this story to the others later he would edit out the slight scream that escaped him when the vampire passed through him.
"Oh wow that was better than I had hoped; your face was just… brilliant." Alex's hysterical laughter forced open Jack's eyes, which had shut, against his wishes when the vampire had leapt at him.
"Oh Frost, there not real, just images created by the imagination of children and my powers, but oh your face, priceless."
Jack frowned, he was the Guardian of fun; he shouldn't have been fooled by some simple projections. Jack looked down again, the Guardians had realised that their enemies were just projections and were ignoring them, instead focussing their efforts on getting too Alex and Jack.
A rush of wind about him pulled Jack's attention back to Alex. The autumn spirit was forming a new illusion; this one was in the shape of a small dragon, with wickedly sharp fangs and claws like razor blades.
"Amazing what children think up isn't it, this beauty was thought up by your friends Jamie who had no idea what I'm going to inflict on his precious Guardians using his imagination, brilliant isn't it!" Alex grinned at Jack and then the dragon lunged forward. Jack smiled, expecting the illusion to pass harmlessly through him as the vampire had done but apparently the dragon hadn't read up on the laws of being an illusion as its claws tore into his leg.
Jack yelled as he felt his skin tear and his blood spill out of the open wound. For a second he was aware of nothing except the pulsing of blood in his ears and the warm feeling as the blood flowed down his leg.
The dragon started to fade, its smile, in a style like the Cheshire cat's, being the last thing to go.
"Oh dear little Jack Frost is wounded and there is no-one to help him, how sad." Alex came closer and as he did Jack felt the familiar fear almost overwhelm him.
"I kept this you know." Alex pulled his old dagger from his belt and held it in front of him, the metal blade catching the light and reflecting it into Jack's eyes, momentarily blinding him.
"After I heard that Aurelia had saved you, I started to improve it." Alex held his knife out for inspection and Jack shuddered at the jagged edges, designed to inflict agony and quite probably fatal. If Alex stabbed him with the dagger now then he would die and this time MIM wouldn't bring him back.
This sobering thought had Jack back onto his feet and holding out his staff. For several minutes the two of them returned fire with nether of them scoring a hit on the other.
Jack was so absorbed by staying alive that he didn't hear the whistling of the wind nor did he hear Aurelia's yell as she soared up to join the fight, it was only when Alex screamed and clapped an hand to his shoulder which was smoking slightly did Jack turn his attention from the fight.
Aurelia was behind him and beside her was Sandy, Tooth and baby Tooth, all armed with their respective weapons.
"North and Bunny will be up soon, North is just convincing Bunny that the sleigh is safe." Aurelia grinned at Jack who smiled back, hope igniting inside him at the appearance of his friends.
"Jack your leg! What did he do?" Tooth noticed the large bleeding wound on Jack's leg and the look that she shot at Alex could have killed him.
"Oh look your backup is here, brilliant." Baby Tooth squeaked and together her and her mother rushed at Alex who looked panicked for a second before shielding himself with an impenetrable leaf wall.
"You'll have to try harder than that, Guardians." Alex sneered and the amusement in his tone made Jack want to bury him under the ice for a few centuries. But as he prepared to rush at Alex and freeze him solid he noticed something that Alex hadn't. Fast approaching in his awesome sleigh was North and beside him, clinging desperately to the side was Bunny.
Jack stopped his mental victory dance when he narrowly avoided the blade of Alex's dagger.
Jack summoned his wind and he and Alex started their deadly dance again. Jack concentrated, he only had to distract Alex for a few more seconds until North and Bunny joined the fight.
Jack dodged yet another attack from Alex and almost fell from the air as his exhaustion caught up with him, luckily before the fight took a turn for the worst, the jiggle of North's sleigh became audible and Alex turned seconds too late as the reindeers charged into him, hiding him from view as he fell beneath their iron hooves. There was a single scream then silence.
"Where is he? We are ready to take him!" North drew his swords and leapt to his feet, balancing very gracefully on his sleigh, completely oblivious to Alex's fate.
Jack stared at the reindeers, who had halted, leaving the sleigh hovering in the air.
"Jack, Tooth Sandy, where is Alex?" North's question went unanswered as they stared at where Alex had gone under the sleigh.
"Hey, dingo got ya tongue, where is the bloody menace?" Bunny was also met by silence and he followed their gaze to the front of the sleigh and suddenly their stunned (and slightly gormless) expressions made sense.
"North mate, move the sleigh now!"
Finally the huge Russian caught on and he cracked the whips and the reindeers moved away but there was no sign of Alex.
For a few heartbeats there was silence then Jack spoke.
"Alex was seventeen when he died and in many cultures still considered a child, does that mean…?" Jack trailed off as the Guardians looks at him, realisation dawning on their faces. Technically they had just killed a child.
"Oh bloody hell." Bunny's sentence seemed to sum up the entire situation.
There was an awkward silence for a few more seconds until Aurelia suddenly shouted, causing everyone (even the reindeer) to jump at the sudden noise.
"Alex was…is immortal so that means that he can't be killed unless MIM or Mother Nature decide that his injuries are too much, which means that he could still be alive, perhaps he fell back to Earth or used the wind to escape." At the Guardians' blank looks she sighed heavily.
"Split up, some look on the ground for him, others look in the skies, might be alive!" Aurelia groaned in frustration as the Guardians remained where they were. With a small smile Aurelia clicked her fingers and a flash of fire hit each of the Guardians and startled them and got them moving again.
"Uncalled for Aurelia, I'm the winter spirit your summer, we don't mix well…" Jack found time for a last comment before he sped off in search of the fall spirit.
Alex twisted in the air only to be rewarded by a stabbing pain in his side, legs and right arm.
"Damn sleigh." Alex cursed as he called to the wind to slow its pace, which it did willingly.
As soon as he had seen the sleigh he had called to the wind hoping that it could move him from the path of the sleigh before it hit him. He had no such luck however. When it had hit him he had been trampled by several muscular Russian reindeer then been dragged under the sleigh, hitting the underside of the sleigh before finally rolling out at the far side of the sleigh, with several broken ribs, a broken leg, a broken arm and dozens of cuts and bruises littering his body and face.
Alex continued to fall but no longer at his deadly speed, instead he was being cradled by the wind as they slowly floated earthwards.
Sleep however escaped him as he heard the shouts of Aurelia and Jack distantly above him.
Soon he could feel the cold breeze that always accompanied Jack's arrival as well as the warm wind that accompanied Aurelia, great they were going to double-team him while he was wounded. Alex grasped his knife hilt, feeling faint for just that small action; if it came to a fight he would be defeated in seconds.
"Jack I've found him he's alive, I think..." Aurelia's worried voice forced Alex's eyes opened, and he took in her big anxious eyes and lack of a weapon, the latter allowing him to relax slightly.
"Good he's alive, can you call the others, he needs medical help and soon."
After Jack spoke the warm winds that constantly surrounded Aurelia were replaced with a freezing wind.
"Disappointed that your little stunt with the Russian's sleigh failed to kill me, are you Frost?"
Talking only made the pain in his ribs worse but he couldn't let Jack kill him without getting in a few last remarks.
"That wasn't our intention, we just wanted to teach you a lesson, not kill you."
Alex couldn't hold back a hiss of pain as Jack placed his ice-cold hands on the cuts littering his face, the cold felt good but the contact with the fresh wounds hurt.
"Don't go to sleep just yet, I have a few questions to ask." Alex hadn't realised that he his eyes were slipping closed until Jack spoke; jerking him out of the semi-conscious state he had been in.
"Why did you always hate me?" Jack's voice was quiet and he sounded just like an innocent child who wonders why their mother has just struck them for no reason.
For a moment Alex remained silent, he wasn't completely sure why he had hated the winter spirit from the second he saw him. Realising Jack was waiting for an answer Alex tried his best to explain.
"First of all I am over two thousand years old and up until you were created I controlled autumn and had some control over winter, no where near as much as you but still I could control the winter weather ok." Alex laughed at Jack's curious expression now he looked like a curious puppy that has just discovered a new object.
"So you came along and not only did I lose what little control I had over winter but my season had to finish much sooner than it had when I was in control of winter, which meant that I had too leave countries earlier than I had before, it sounds petty I know but to me it meant a lot and it infuriated me that a 'baby' spirit wielded such power." Alex spread his arms and legs out the best he could without further damaging his broken limbs.
"So if you are over two thousand how old is Aurelia and how old is the spring spirit?" Alex cracked open an eye and regarded the curiosity spirit.
"Aurelia is about the same as me, give or take a century and the spring spirit, who prefers to be called Azalea is nearing five thousand, just don't tell her I told you." There was an awkward silence as the two of them attempted to come to grips with the idea of not hating and fearing the other. The two spirits lay on the ground (by now the wind had lowered them both gently to the leafy earth) both hoping the other would speak first, luckily though before it got too awkward there was the cheerful jingle of bells and North's sleigh appeared in the sky above them and within seconds was landed neatly beside them and Alex was being gently lifted into it by Jack and Aurelia.
The next few hours passed in a heartbeat for Alex, who greeted unconsciousness as soon as he came into contact with the floor of the sleigh.
Pretty soon he was waking up in what he guessed was a medical room with Aurelia on his right and Jack on his left.
"Jack he's awake, talk to him." Aurelia glared at Jack who seems to shrink under her intimidating glare.
"Hey Alex… your awake." Jack stated limply. Aurelia simply sighed and took over for the winter spirit.
"North says that the yetis think you should be out within a month, your cuts and bruises are healing well and your broken bones have been cast now you just need to wait until you're fully healed." Alex frowned. A whole moth staying in the same building as Jack Frost! How would he survive?!
I'm not sure if this story has finished or not :/ I'm kinda still hoping that inspiration will hit me and i can continue to write this but...
So please review if you have any ideas :) also not sure if anyone here reads my other fanfics but if so then you know about my First Christmas and other random drabbles one. I am currently really stuck for ideas at the mo and so any ideas/request would be hugely appreciated! If you do have a request then please just drop me a PM or review :D Thanx
Also i have changed the other seasonal spirits ages for five thousand and eight thousand to two thousand (Alex and Aurelia) and five thousand (Azelea)