~A Day Without Wander: Jack Frost~
It had been five days since Jack had seen Wander. Whenever Jack had asked the other guardians about the missing child, none of them knew exactly where she disappeared to. Tooth took a guess that Wander went to work with Father Time, but turned out not to be true by both Bunnymund and North; explaining that even with their own trackers they could not find where Childhood had wondered off. When Jack had asked Sandy, the Sandman only gave him one thing: an image of a forest with sparkling stars. The young guardian knew what the image is, but had no idea what it meant.
What did a forest have to do with the spirit of childhood?
Even as a month went by, things appeared to run normal without Wander's presence and it bothered Jack quite a bit. If any of them were to disappear would things still be the same? Perhaps, perhaps not.
On one cool night, Jack found himself in an unusual place. It was a forest of sorts where he saw many children living there in content as they talked about many wonderful dreams and adventure-it was very different than the places he usually went to bring winter snow. It was actually nice, he had to admit...
Was this the place that Sandy was talking about?
A sudden shove brought the young guardian out of his thoughts as he stared back at something he had least expected to see on his journey...A large black bear was sitting next to him with a look that resembled a kind smile. Jack returned the forced smile in return as common courtesy. "You...must live here don't you? It must be great to protect them just as much as I do huh?"
The bear nodded, pleased to hear that the boy was actually very kind. The bear then rubbed his head on him affectionately in thanks. Jack of course laughed it up as he lightly pushed the bear away. "Is there something you need from me?"
The bear handed Jack an item that he was holding in his mouth. Once the boy had it in his hands the dark bear leaned away with mild curiosity to see what the young spirit would do with it.
It was...a shard? Jack scrunched his face in confusion. It was almost as big as a child's hand, but why was he given this anyway? However, once he held it tightly the winter spirit suddenly saw a flash of a random memory-a boy who looked similar to him trying to run as fast as he could with childish glee, despite the fatigue he was quickly feeling in the process. But once the boy looked in Jack's direction, the boy smiled brightly at the person he was staring at-not at Jack, but the one he was happy to see. Form what the boy had uttered out was the name 'Sherri' and hugged the girl in his arms as he told her about the beauty of the cold seasons...
For some reason, the girl looked awfully familiar. Just who in the world is Sherri?
When Jack came back to his senses, he stared back at the bear with uncertainty. "...Are you sure you're okay with giving me this?"
When the bear nodded again, Jack said his thanks before flying off from the village of trees; taking one more glance at the shard before putting it into his pocket.
The days just keep getting weirder, and weirder...
AN: I'm back once again with another update! Yay! Sadly Wander is not in this, but Jack is in it at least. :)