"Come on! You can't skate on the snow!" Jack shouted grinning as he attempted to drag Bunny onto the frozen lake near Burgess to skate.
"Bunny's don't skate, not on snow and most certainly not on ice!" Bunny protested, growling.
North chuckled "come on Bunny, is much better then you think!" North called out, he was not very good at ice skating at all, but he enjoyed it all the same.
Sandy nodded and slid from one end of the lake to the other on his belly crashing into a pile of snow. Jack laughed as he skated around the lake staying where the ice was hardest remembering the events of his past.
Bunny just shook his head and leaped into a tree sitting on the branch "I'm staying up here far away from the cold ground" he announced. Pulling out his boomerang to mess around with.
"Coward!" Jack shouted up laughing so much as he twirled, he had forgotten how much fun ice skating was.
"Hey, I ain't no coward just for having some common sense, you said it y'self earlier that the ice cracked before."
"So we're afraid to get a little wet are we?" he said laughing, Bunny mumbled something and ignored him.
"Leave him alone, Jack, he will miss out" North said skating over to Jack best he could grabbing onto Jack's shoulder so not to fall, nearly pushing Jack over.
Jack grinned up at North seeing how clumsy the big man was on the skates. Then over to Sandy who was building a snow man next to the lake.
Jack skated over to the border, grabbing some snow.
"What you up to, Jack?" North asked suspiciously.
Jack put a finger on his mouth over his wide grin as he prepared a snowball looking up at Bunnymund who was distracted by his boomerang. With perfect aim Jack threw it not just hitting bunny in the face but knocking him out of the tree and into a pile of snow.
Jack burst into the laughter doing a quick air punch before retreating to the far end of the lake so Bunny couldn't reach him.
"Why you little-" Bunny was hit with another snowball from Jack, who laughed even harder as Bunny jumped to hid feet and ran up to Jack slipping on the ice but sliding into Jack knocking him to the side.
"Oops" Jack said quickly getting up and skating away from Bunnymund. The bunny quickly got out his boomerang throwing it hard as he could, it missed Jack by a few inches.
"Bunny! Careful!" North shouted at the easter bunny as he saw how hard the boomerang hit the tree.
"Why must you always take his side?!"
"Because he isn't throwing heavy buts of wood at people" North said calmly.
Bunny leapt at Jack who quickly moved out the way and into the centre of the lake, he was about to tell Bunny to come get him when he noticed where he was standing. Right where he had fallen all does year ago.
"Hey you come back here!" Bunny shouted, but Jack didn't react.
He stared down at the thick ice, it was much thicker then the day he had fallen in, he made sure of that every single day just in case kids came to play. And all do the ice showed no signs of cracking the memory of the cold water on his skin made him stand still.
"You ok?" North asked, Jack looked up, the three other guardians where now staring at him worried expressions on there faces.
Jack nodded "I'm fine... I-I... just..." he looked for the words "I don't want to ice skate any more" he announced.
"Oh" North looked at the winter spirit "then we will return to the pole!" he said.
Jack nodded kneeling down in the middle of the lake, he took of the skates not moving from his spot.
"Aren't you gonna get of the lake first?" Bunny asked, his anger at Jack seemingly forgotten for the moment.
Jack ignored him and threw the skates over to the snow before crawling of the river, taking a deep breath he stood up throwing the skates over his back like he would his staff then grinning again "well, that was fun!" he said.
Three remaining guardians looked at each other before North shrugged and led the way to the sleigh. Bunny wouldn't let it go quite as easily do.