Okay, first of all... I AM SO SORRY FOR THE DELAY! I was abducted by huge 8 ft rabbits from the planet veg, and had to help them stop their evil overlord, Carrotathon, from enslaving the entire galaxy with his army of mindless, long eared cabbage drones and... You aren't buying it, are you? *sighs* Darn it...
Seriously though, I am really sorry! I have had so much to do it has been unbelievable... Hope this chapter makes up for it!
Second of all, to those who are unsure, yes. I am planning for this fic to conclude with chapter 60... Which is why I might not be able to include every request I get, but I will try my best to get most in! Which might mean a couple more drabbley chapters, so I hope you all don't mind that *raised eyebrow with fingers tensed to write shizzle*
Third... Wow, I got more new faves and follows for this chapter than I have in quite a while! So, without further ado... Thanks to the hotpocket hunter, Magyk Knight, Star Anise, Flaming Eagle, The Earth Elemental, Bunnies are Vicious (Lol, I had an evil bunny army in one of my Merlin fics... Cute, yet evil at the same time :D), sandryofmindilan121, tsubasa91, AGmegan101, yaoi_fangirl_234, Kynater, Npanda, XxHopex, polkdots888, BeautifulHalfBlood, Valheru1988 and Artemisia Selene for the faves and/or follows, and to the hotpocket hunter, tsubasa91, and XxHopex for adding me to your author fave/follow alert list :D
Its really appreciated guys!
Anyways, this chapter is based off of a couple of requests, with a few smaller ones thrown in for good measure, and my own need to write something dramatic(I couldn't do angsty for some reason) for this fic, instead of it being just humour pretty much all the way through, so yep. Some of you will hate me... Some of you will... actually yeah, I think most of you will hate me at first...
Vader: Yep. You take so long updating, then you almost place two of the readers favourite characters in a comatose state? I mean-
Me: *throws hand across his mouth* OI! SPOILERS! And you have no right to talk, seeing as it was your fault I couldn't write. They don't have internet connections or laptops or electricity in Camelot, funnily enough... Oh, yeah. I got back and got my vengeance everyone. And I will be having a little flashback after this chapter, so you will all get to see why Vader can no longer show his face in public. Until then, enjoy the chapter!
Vader: *winces and legs it out, hiding from everyone*
Me: *grins evilly* Enjoy!
Number 1, The Fall of Fall
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Fall hmm'ed as he thought over what the Spring spirit had said. True, Jack Frost was uncontrollable. A force who only reveled in making hell for everyone else. But how to stop him?
It was the middle of Autumn, so he was at his peak.
Yes, it could work... Now he just needed to find him.
Fall smiled.
Or maybe, they could get him to come and find them...
He called for several of his personal spirits and gave them their instructions.
Yes, let's see Jack Frost get out of this one...
Shady blinked as he exited his cave, only to find several spirits waiting for him. Fall's personal spirits if their outfits were anything to go by.
One of them stepped forward, speaking up.
"Where is Jack Frost?"
Shady suddenly got a really bad feeling about how this was going to end...
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To say that Bunny was shocked, to find a panicked and desperate Flow dragging him towards where he knew Shady lived, was an understatement.
To say that he was shocked and worried as soon as he saw the bloody and pained shadow spirit would be even more of an understatement.
And to say that he was livid that it was, yet again, Fall's fault, would be the biggest understatement of them all.
There was no way on Moon he was going to let Fall get away with this.
He stayed for a while to make sure Shady was okay, before he made a tunnel to outside Fall's palace, leaving Shady and Flow to share a look, before Shady forced himself into a shadow jump to the Pole, with Flow along-side, to try and get a hold of Jack. He'd want to know what was going on.
North was still cursing ten minutes after Shady had told him what was going on, and they had figured that this was all to get to Jack.
Fall's hatred for the spirit was legendary. And it had only heightened when he became a guardian.
But Bunny going there in the middle of Autumn?
North was pacing worriedly when Jack finally arrived at the Pole, Shady having found him, -training apparently, if you went by the fact he was wearing his black 'Ninja' outfit- at the Monastery by checking everywhere with a few shadow jumps, and Jack joined in the muttered cursing when he heard.
But it was a wide spread rule that no seasonals turned up, uninvited, to another seasonals when it was their season. True, only the older spirits considered the rules as official law and worthy of ceremony, but the younger ones, such as Jack, obeyed the unspoken rule too.
Unless there was a very good reason, he couldn't go to Fall's.
And apparently, North did not think possible danger to Bunny was a good enough reason, much to Jack's frustration. And Shady had told him that he didn't want Jack going after them for his sake, so that left Jack feeling mutinous when North left to go to Fall's to find the Pooka.
Jack was left to glare at thin air.
He was pissed off enough that Fall's spirit's had left Shady-who had, only a few minutes ago, slipped into a semi-conscious state- almost in a Coma, in fact, if the head injuries had been any more severe, or he had done any more Shadow Jumps, he would likely have been comatose for days. But if Fall hurt Bunny or North...?
Jack left that threat open as a portal span into existence and North stepped through, half aiding, half carrying a barely conscious, bleeding and injured Bunnymund.
Jack froze, eyeing the portal, and North blinked.
Seeing the ice cold fury in the younger guardians eyes, which matched, if not exceeded, his own, North nodded.
No way was Fall getting away with attacking one of their own.
Jack bolted through the portal before it closed, leaving Flow, who was sat on one of the Sofa's, to wince.
Attacking Jack's family? Moon help anyone who got in his way...
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Jack rolled over, absorbing the impact form his leap and leapt to his feet, as the portal closed behind him, finding himself facing dozens of Fall spirits, uniforms indicating they were the guard for the Fall Palace.
Just doing their job...
Shame.
Jack's eyes were still ice as he left that room, leaving dozens of unconscious spirits behind him, himself having not so much as a scratch, and made his way towards the centre room.
Apparently, his stint as the Shadow was going to come in handy after all, seeing as he knew exactly where Fall would be.
Three more rooms and three more groups of guards knocked unconscious. But only lightly.
Jack was saving the bulk of his fury for the spirit who deserved it.
Speaking of which...
Fall was looking as though he regretted his decision as Jack entered the room, his gaze resting on the High Seasonal, who barely avoided a flinch.
Jack's eyes only flickered away for short amounts of time as he defended himself against the other spirit's attacks.
He had yet to start any fight... That way, the other Seasonals would have no right to judge him.
But with Fall?
That was another thing entirely.
Jack was rather impressed by the abilities of the spirits in the room. He even had several scratches and cuts by the time the fight had finished.
But he was pissed off.
So that wildly tipped the scales in his favour.
Even the wind itself seemed furious, and filled the room with a tornado of fallen leaves and bracken, which was turned to minute particles of frozen water as Jack started to release some of his pent up anger.
"You attacked my family."
"You had to be stopped! All you ever do is cause destruction Frost-!"
"Once maybe. But no more. You on the other hand, attacking a spirit and a guardian, unprovoked!? Let's just say I very much doubt you will remain a high seasonal beyond this Winter."
His tone was matter of fact, but the undercurrent of anger in his voice more than made up for it, and Fall was very adept at picking it up.
"Is that a threat, Frost?"
"You tell me."
Suddenly, and with a yell, Fall sent a wave of autumn leaves towards Jack, cocooning him, and smirked, which rapidly faded to panic as Jack broke free of it with nothing more than a flick of his wrist.
Fall sent several more waves of leaves at him, but Jack simply swept them aside with waves of freezing wind and snow, before letting all of his anger out.
A hurricane of frozen wind, hail, snow and ice span around the room, gaining in speed, and Jack's eyes almost glowed in the midst of the winter maelstrom. Still, Fall tried yet again to attack Jack, who snarled and made the speed of the tornado pick up further.
Then, everything froze and hovered in place for several seconds, before it all exploded in a wave of white and ice blue.
It took several minuets for everything to settle down, revealing a scene of utter destruction.
The entire room, the very heart of Autumn, had been reduced to frost encrusted rubble, and icicles, snow, shards of ice and ice crystals covered every surface in the room.
The heart of fall was now the embodiment of the harshest side of winter, and Fall was lying in a crumpled, gasping heap in the corner.
Jack twisted his staff around and snapped it into place on his back.
"Looks like winter came early..." he smirked, before making sure that none of the guards had been too hurt.
It was only abut half an hour later when a portal opened and North, Tooth and Sandy leapt through, clearly worried.
But the worry soon morphed to disbelief and awe as they took in the room.
Jack, still not feeling up to being his usual cheerful self, gave them a nod.
"Looks like it's going to be a long winter. Guards are fine but unconscious. Fall is still conscious, which is a shame in my opinion, and I didn't instigate any of the attacks so I'll have no official trouble from the other seasonals. Bunny and Shady okay?"
North blinked, before clearing this throat and nodding.
"Da. Will be several days before he is back to usual self, but he will be okay. Shady already awake, but will take some days before he is fully healed."
Sandy butt in with some sign language, and Jack nodded.
"I'm fine. Bit tired but it can wait. I expect we'll have some curious seasonals arriving soon to see why Fall was cut short so abruptly."
"We can handle that Sweet Tooth, you go get some rest. I'll get you if we need your memory evidence."
"Okay then."
With that, he hopped through the portal, leaving the three guardians to stare at each other and Tooth to sigh.
"No complaints about sleeping? He must be tired."
"Da, but though he may be embodiment of winter, must be tiring to bring season around so soon, Da?"
"Yeah..."
Sandy was grinning to himself as the other seasonals started arriving, and had to stifle a silent giggle when he saw their expressions to the carnage.
Looked like neither the guardians or Jacks friends would be bothered by any of the seasonals, or indeed, anyone at all- by the time this story spread through the spirit world- any time soon...
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The following week, Jack grinned as he read 'The Guardian'.
Fall had been replaced with a high seasonal of better temperament-the first forced High Seasonal retirement in the history of forever-, and no-one had dared to complain about the fact that Winter started weeks early and that there had been no real Autumn that year.
Shady was back to normal, Bunny was nearly fully healed and the other seasonals, after Jack had shared his memories, had pretty much legged it from the meeting.
All aside from Old Man Winter, the High Seasonal Position for the winter season, who had struggled to hide an admiring look and was now musing over having a certain young Guardian as his replacement in a couple of hundred years.
So, everything was good.
Actually, it was better than good.
I mean, it wasn't every year that you got to have a world-wide, snowy Halloween...
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(Okay, this was shorter than I thought it would be, so I'm going to throw a few more requests in, as mini-fics, to make up for it, and the next one is set right after this. Hope you enjoy!)
Number 2, Halloween, Guardian Style
(Yes, I know, this one was requested back when I started this fic, all those months ago, and so, though it may not be as long as I would like, I hope you all enjoy!)
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Jack had three things to do tonight.
One, Prank someone.
Two, Scare someone.
And three? Eat lots and lots of cookies.
But with his plans, one and two were the exact same thing, so really, he only had to things to do.
One, ruin Pitch's night and Two, Eat lots and lots of cookies.
He grinned as he head over to Burgess.
He knew that Pitch would not be able to resist trying to make nightmares in Burgess tonight. Heck, I had turned almost into a game between him and Sandy.
A dangerous and risky and serious game, but a game none-the-less.
But tonight? Sandy was taking the night off.
Jack grinned as he met with the kids, all of whom were in on his prank, and took in their outfits.
Every single one of them was dressed like Pitch Black.
The adults had thought it was some joke between the children and had gone along with it.
Now that the whole trick-or-treat evening was over, they were all in their rooms, awaiting their guest.
They didn't have to wait long.
Pitch flew down to Jamie's house first, and swept in through the window in a trickle of sand, only to scream like a little girl as the light was suddenly switched on and he was leapt at by four people all looking like him and all making unearthly hisses and screams.
He promptly fell back out of the window, landing in a snow pile which had somehow found it's way there, before fighting his way out of it with muttering and curses.
Bloody Frost. He had to have been behind this...
Jamie crept over and peered out of the window, grinning as he saw Pith skulking off.
"Its clear guys!"
Sophie, Mary-one of her friends- and Mark all threw off their outfits and high fived, before getting ready for bed.
They all loved sleepovers...
Pitch was still grumbling as he floated up to one of the other kids windows and swept inside, only to be leapt on by a Pitch Black wearing a neon Tutu and Neon Bunny ears.
It was, frankly, terrifying, and he swiftly found himself screaming and flying back out of the window, only to fly slap bang into the side of a house on the other side of the street.
Cupcake grinned as she finally got ready for bed.
Best Halloween ever.
Pitch very tentatively floated inside another window, and relaxed when nothing jumped out at him...
Only to yelp, turn around, run head first into the, now closed, window, slide to the floor, scream again at the sight, clamber out of the window, and huddle in a pile, muttering about Pink Pitch's wearing flowers and ribbons and giggling.
He finally pulled himself to his feet, and scanned the rest of the, seemingly innocent, windows.
Nope. No way on Moon. It just wasn't worth it.
With that thought, he flew off back to his lair, to moan about the unfairness of it all.
Jack grinned as he saw Pitch fly off dejectedly, and sent up several spurts of snow, signalling that they had succeeded and that everyone could get some sleep now.
He couldn't stop grinning as he said a quick goodnight to everyone and flew towards the Pole.
Now to show the Guardians the photo's...
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Jack was still munching on cookies ten minutes after he had given the others the Camera.
They were laughing their heads off, and it was only the first photo...
He was still eating cookies-though he had moved from Chocolate Chip to Chocolate Chip and Caramel- half an hour later, as the guardians finally moved on to the third photo.
All in all, it was a couple of hours before they had finally calmed down enough to stop laughing, and Jack was actually kinda glad. He was getting rather full on cookies.
He checked off the 'Eat lot's and lot's of cookies' from his list and sighed contentedly as he drifted into a light sleep on the sofa.
Night well spent.
Number 3, More Instruments?
(Yup, a request for him to be able to play another instrument, and who am I to say no? Hope you all enjoy! Even if it is ridiculously short... Though I do think the Song 'Here I Am', fits Jack perfectly...)
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Jack sighed as he picked up the guitar. Apparently, Tooth had wanted to learn to play, then decided she didn't have the time so had left it.
Now Jack had been coerced into promising to teach her, and she would be getting there in half an hour or so.
Meaning he had to not only tune the guitar North had given him-which he had yet to play- but he also had to tune Tooth's, as well as get back into the swing of it. He was finally satisfied with the tuning, and sifted through the songs in his head for one to practise with.
He settled on Pure Paradise, by Armik, a Spanish style song, to get his fingers back in tune with the instrument, before starting to work on making a guitar backing to 'Here I am', from the film Spirit.
Because he hadn't tried it before and wanted to give it a go.
Plus Sophie liked the film, so it would make her happy if he could play it.
Jack grinned as Tooth flew in, staring at him with a huge smile, and laughed.
"Sorry. I haven't finished learning that one."
"But it was really good!"
"Nah, I'm better on the Piano. So... Can you read sheet music?"
And so began a full three hours of Jack starting to teach Tooth to play the Guitar.
Which turned into a weekly thing.
Which morphed into Tooth being able to play the guitar at an intermediate level by the following Summer.
Which ended with him teaching Flow the guitar and Lily the Piano.
But, he figured, as Lily started her... well, Moon knows how many lesson, playing Strauss, he could have had worse students...
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(Okay, some time passes during this section, as in almost a year, so you can use your very vivid imaginations to imagine what Jack was up to during that time. After all, the last few chapters haven't really had any defining dates or events to help keep track of things. In fact, I think a lot of time would have skipped.
Aside from the fact that Halloween has just passed and Jack has been a guardian for 3 or 4 years now... I think... And yes, the kids are still childlike and shizzle, but I'm often told I have the mentality of a child, so that's my excuse there, Lol :D)
Number 4, Remodelling a Promise.
(A long while ago now, Tooth fell in love with the small fountain in Jack's place, and he promised to build one. Well, I haven't mentioned it since, s figured I might as well round this chapter off with it. Hope you all enjoy!)
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Jack crept out from behind one of the columns in the Tooth Palace.
Baby Tooth had finally managed to distract Tooth, but Jack knew he wouldn't have long. It was Tooth's birthday, and though the guardians never really bothered with birthdays, seeing as they would have had hundreds of the things, he figured this was as good an opportunity as any to keep a promise.
He opened a portal, and several yeti's leapt into the room.
The small garden Jack had at the Monastery had been his inspiration for this one-which was going to be in a small, open-roof courtyard- and he and the Yeti's had already made everything ready. So they would need a couple of hours to get it all put together and for Jack to add the finishing touches.
Which was about how long Baby Tooth could keep Tooth busy for.
As it was, they had everything dug out, assembled, sorted and basically finished within an hour and a half, and Jack grinned as he shook hands with, and high-fived, the departing, very proud and tired looking, yeti's.
He then started placing the small water lilies, Japanese styled decorations and the plants.
He was so into it that he didn't realise Tooth had returned until he heard a gasp behind him and found himself smothered into a hug.
"Oh Moon, Jack! This is beautiful! How did you ever get it done! It's perfect! I love it so much and Oh, Baby Tooth must have been in on it and oh Moon it's simply perfect and..."
This went on for a while as Tooth dragged him around the small space, ranting about all the tiny little details, before Jack finally managed to break her death-grip on his hoody and gasp in some air.
"So... You... Like it then?" He asked, around gasps, and immediately regretted saying anything as he was pulled into another rib-crushing hug.
"Like it!? I love it! It's incredible!"
"Well, I did promise. Sorry it took so long-"
But she wasn't listening. She was busy ranting to her little fairies about how much she loved it and Jack took the opportunity, as soon as Baby Tooth shooed him towards the door, to leg it.
That evening, Tooth decided to drop by the Pole, and Jack literally span in circles trying to find somewhere to hide.
"Bunny!?"
"I'm not getting in 'er way mate."
"North!"
"Sorry Jack, but-"
"Oh, come on guys!?"
The two shared grins, sitting back, and Jack gulped as he heard Tooth humming.
"Oh... Drat... "
Then he had an idea.
A ridiculous idea, but an idea none-the-less.
He leapt out of the window and let the wind carry him to where he wanted to go, though he was sure it thought he was insane.
Ah well, desperate times call for desperate measures...
Pitch blinked as Jack landed in his lair, after sliding down the tunnel, and tumbled over.
"I HAVE AN INSANE FAIRY QUEEN LOOKING FOR ME! HELP!"
Pitch blinked, then sighed as Jack leapt behind his throne, peering out as though he thought someone would follow him down the chute.
"Frost, you are aware that no-one will be following you? After all, in case you don't remember, we are enemies? Aside from the odd truce when there is an emergency-"
"TOOTH IS IN GRATEFUL MODE!"
"... Stay as long as you need."
So... What did you think? Which was your fave? Were there any you didn't like? Did you hate all of them? Have any fave lines or moments? Let me know! Oh, and I will definitely be updating quicker, than I have just done, with the next chapter.
Anyway, I promised you a flash-back about how I returned from Camelot and had my revenge? Well, let's just say I had some interesting requests for revenge... Seriously, some of you are really blood thirsty...
But I find humiliation is the best form of vengeance... So, enjoy... *evil grin*
** Beginning of Flashback...**
Me: Okay, so I will see you guys next time I visit?
Gwaine: Sure thing...
Merlin: Or can we visit you? I want to have a chat with Vader...
Me: Aww, I feel so loved guys. Honest... See ya! *vanishes into a portal I just built from some string, a tankard, some magic and Excalibur... Though Arthur doesn't know about that(don't worry, it's still in one piece... At least, I think it is... Maybe...)*
Me: ANAKIN SKYWALKER VADER!
Everyone else who decided to choose this day to randomly visit my authoress headquarters: *freezes, then runs over each other in a stampede to escape, locking the doors to their fandoms behind them with sofa's, wardrobes and various other pieces of furniture*
Vader: *gulps* O-Okay, now Raven... I didn't mean to- YEOW!
Me: *having hoisted him up with the spell Levicorpus* Like Moon. You planned the entire thing!
Vader: … Okay, yeah. But still-
Me: *cuts him off by dragging him through the door to the DC/Marvel inter-verse and depositing him in front of the Justice League building, focusing on the power I need that me and Merlin were working on*
Vader: Well, this is anti-climactic- WOAH!
*is suddenly spinning daintily in the air, his outfit now baby Pink, and wearing glittery fairy wings and a Neon Pink tutu, whilst dancing about and using his neon pink light-saber like a wand*
Me: *casually starts whistling and taking photos with one camera and getting Lois Lane to film it with another camera, whilst all of Vader's frenemies from the different universes come out and stare*
Batman: Nice one Raven... *gives me a thumbs up*
Me: Cheers Bats... Hey Robin! Mind popping over and getting some of the Star Wars universe over here to witness this? I'm going to post the pictures in my newspaper and.. a few other things, but nothing beats seeing it first hand...
Ten minutes later, when all of the people who wanted to come have come(which is enough to make people in this universe question why there is a fandom convention outside the justice league building)
Me: Okay guys, let's head back. We're causing some suspicion with the natives!
Everyone: *grumbles but heads back*
Me: Now then, Vader... For the grand finale... *lets him down, where he falls flat on his face, and uses a spell me and Merlin perfected which was inspired by the recent prank war amongst the guardians*
Vader: Meow...? *now a tiny cute black cat with neon pink patches of fur around his ickle paws*
Me: *lifts him up and waves goodbye to the DC/Marvel guys, before hoping back through the doorway* Okay Vader, you go off and play and scamper like little kittens do, whilst I go and broadcast this to everyone...
Vader: *tries to stop me by swiping his little paws and swishing his tail back and forth, but I throw a ball of yarn and he goes and chases it down the hall*
Me: *whistles cheerfully whilst broadcasting the video and the images onto every single system, in every single fandom, both futuristic, modern and old school magical I can hack... Which is pretty much all of them* There... Oh, Hey Doc!
Doctor: *hops out of Tardis with a bag of apples*
Me: Yay! APPLES! I am appeased... *Takes them and starts munching* Did you get the holo-vid?
Doctor: *raises eyebrow* No?
Me: Go check your console. I sent it direct...
Doctor: *vanishes inside*
A few seconds later...
*chocking, hysterical laughter is heard form inside the Tardis*
Me: Ah, The scent of vengeance in the evenings...
**End of Flashback**
Me: And the moral of this story? Never annoy me... It seems the various characters with plans and plots against me actually paid attention, and there have been no new attacks... Shame. I'm ridiculously bored...
Han: Hey! Raven! Me and the guys are having a celebration to mark the Week's anniversary of the Fairy-Vader incident! Wanna join?
Me: Will there be fighting?
Han: Most likely...
Me I'M IN! See ya guys!
Oh, and I didn't have time to respond to all of the guest reviews on this chapter, but I read them all through and I really do appreciate them! I will definitely get back into the swing of replying to all of you with the next chapter. As for the guest requests, I will consider them, but I only have a few chapters to go, so I may not get some of them in. Thanks so much to the newer guest reviewers, and Hello and *hugs* to all of my regular guest buddies!
Till next time!