Down outside Emily's living quarters of her Cove, Jack was trying to build up the courage to go in and see Hiccup.
After slapping himself for the fifth time for backing out, Jack took a deep breath, parted the curtain and stepped in.
Only to have to duck a few plasma blasts from a very angry at him Night Fury.
Quickly Jack discarded his staff and looked the dragon in the eye blinking frequently remembering that dragon eyes were hypnotic.
"Easy there Toothless," Jack said quietly and slowly "It's me, I'm the good Jack. Em sent me to see if Hiccup was alright and say 'Hi'. You can trust me right?"
Keeping his gaze on the Frost Boy, Toothless stepped forward and began sniffing never seeing him in what he was wearing before.
After a bit Toothless backed up a bit, a bit happier, but still not fully convinced that this was Jack.
Slowly Jack reached out his hand and looked away, just like he always saw Hiccup do when the Viking was getting close to the dragon.
Slowly Toothless moved forward and sniffed the hand and pressed his nose up to it feeling the cold coming off it. Taking a second look, Toothless saw that the intruder was Jack Frost and a look of happiness came to his face.
Then a look of anger/annoyance came as he swung his tail and hit Jack right in the stomach sending him to the floor.
"Ok... I guess I deserve that from somewhere," Jack said slowly getting up and going for his staff. "So how his he?" he asked coming over to Hiccup's bedside.
Feeling the presence of someone else behind him, Jack looked over his shoulder to see Merida chest rising and falling as fast as it could eyes wet and wide directed at Hiccup.
Jumping out of the way to let Merida see to the Viking, Jack left the room to be welcomed by everyone outside again.
"Ok before I get hit by anyone else," Jack said first of "Please remember that whatever happened to you from the day before the quest for the Things till the fight in the Warren.." he began "I was not the one in charge of what I did. But either way, I am sorry for what happened."
"It's alright Jack..." North began only to be cut off by the boy.
"NO! It's not alright North!" he cried out "Any of you could of been hurt during that time. Rapunzel, You could of ended up like me, frozen at the bottom of a frozen pond.
Fugues, Elenore, You could of lost your sons if Merida hadn't stepped forward and took Pitch's deal - and even then it was a long shot she'd get me back.
Stoick, Hiccup could of gotten more than just a bad cold from when Jokul faced him in the eye of the storm he made at the Pole.
North, The Pole itself could of become a block of ice when Jokul was attacking it from the inside if it lasted any longer than it did.
And this whole world wide storm thing, and Hiccup being like this...
I... I don't deserve being called a Guardian, or a Season."
Everyone was silent, not sure what to say, or how to react to what was said.
"Sometimes when stuff like this happens..." Jack continued looking at his staff as it laid across his hands, "I have this wish that I was never brought back after saving my sister."
"Jack..." Emily said walking up to him slowly and quietly, getting him to look to her, giving him a small smile before raising her hand and thwacking him around the head. "DON'T EVER LET ME HEAR YOU SAY THAT AGAIN! YOU HEAR ME!"
"Yes you being here means Jokul is also here. But you not being here means you're not here either," she said eyes wide Jack looking over her shoulder to see everyone nodding to her words.
"If you didn't exist then Old Man Winter would still be in charge of the winter season and you were from that time Jack, you know how it used to be...
Everyone always getting sick, sometimes there was not enough food to last through it, and the storms he made were so strong, people had to barricade their doors up at night just to stop them opening up in the middle of the night.
Sometimes that didn't even work. Especially if he made the entire roof, or even the whole house be blown away." she paused seeing if this was getting into the boys fat head the audience not believing that that was what winter used to be like and how much Jack changed it.
"When you became the Season, Jack, you made sure winter was kind, and gentle, making sure that the kids instead of hiding from the snow, could now play in it, their eyes growing wide at the beauty the season brought, the season you brought, and the snowflakes you made with their marvelous patterns.
Jack you are worth ten times what Winter used to be, to me, to the kids, to the world. And if Emma was still around I'd think she'd tell you the same thing."
Everyone was silent, waiting to see what Jack would say to what was just said, everyone smiling at the smile Jack was giving off.
"Thanks Em... I really needed that," he said quietly. "But that still doesn't change what happened."
"Right so with that sorted," Stoick said getting Jack's attention "Any ideas on how to wake Hiccup up, boy?"
"A few," Jack said rubbing his chin smirking a bit "Just to be sure he's been asleep since the Warren, but we're sure he's all better right?" he asked getting nods and looks of confusion that intensifying as he reached behind him and made a bucket appear out of nowhere and zoomed off to the waterfall.
Coming back he gave his staff to Jamie - one of the only people he trusted with the thing, and went in.
There was a SPLASH and a scream too high to be Merida's and a banshee like squeal followed by Jack running back out as fast as he could and a very upset Night Fury shooting plasma blasts at him finally charging and pinning him to the ground.
"TOOTHLESS STOP!" Astrid cried getting the black dragon to turn to her confused. Seeing that she wanted him over there, he turned back to Jack and 'Humphed' in his face before going.
"Jack..." Hiccup's voice sounded getting everyone to see a cold and wet Hiccup in the door frame Merida behind him. "Why'd you have to do that?"
"Oh quit complaining," Jack said waving him off as he went to get his staff back "It could of been worse."
"HOW EXACTLY COULD IT BE ANY WORSE THAN THIS!" Hiccup asked his chieftain bloodline loud voice coming out as he nodded his thanks to Emily for the towel and Stoick used one of North snowglobes to go back home to get him a change of clothes.
"You could of woken up to Bunny's singing," Jack answered as he pulled out a cachet player and hit play.
'Plant a seed inside the earth
Just one way to show it's worth
When you celebrate the world
Celebrate the world
Come on and celebrate the world
Celebrate the world
All you gotta do
All you gotta do
Is let your life be true
Let your life be true
And never be afraid
Never be afraid
To gro-o-o-w
Gro-o-o-w'
"Oh of the love of Thor! Please shut that off!" Snotlout cried as he clamped his hands over his ears like everyone else - minus Bunny who was too shocked with embarrassment to do anything.
Doing as asked Jack shut off the cachet player and quickly dodged the two boomerangs a wide smile on his face being thrown at him by Bunny.
"How the blue-blazings can ya call that music Bunny?" Merida asked testing to see is her ears still worked, getting nods from the others.
"I've got some stuff to finish back at the Warren," Bunny said before tapping his foot and leaving, just as Stoick came back and gave Hiccup some dry clothes.
"And he calls me and you bad singers, Jack," Jamie said bursting out laughing once Bunny was gone.
"Well there's this theory, Squirt," Jack said standing up tall, sophisticated and smart, mocking the voice of a collage professor "That the terrible singer, doesn't know their terrible singers, because the singer hears only what they want to hear, and what the terrible singers want to hear is for them to sound better than what they really sound like."
"And where'd that theory come from Jack?" North said never hearing it before.
"From the people who invented Karaoke of course..." Jack said getting half the audience to face-palm and the other half to look confused.
"Er... What's Karaoke exactly?" Richard asked never hearing of it before in his kingdom.
"It's where you pick songs and music and sound terrible as you sing them out to everyone over loud speakers," Pippa answered giving the short answer.
"Yeah well with that sorted," Astrid said just going with things as Hiccup came back out "Your 'Thing', Jack..." she said looking to him "Punzie says it's the right one, but she can't get it to work so we've all been waiting for you to come to see if you can get it to work."
"What you mean Punzie can't get it to work?" Jack asked confused "All the others work for everyone else, what makes mine so different?"
"We don't know, Jack," Tooth said gently coming over "That's the point."
"Er... Anyone mind updating me on this?" Hiccup asked due to being out cold during the revealing.
"We don't know why," Rapunzel began "Or what they're for. But, apart from Jack's doll, when one of us four holds another's Thing, your dagger turns into a sword, my mirror shard turns into a 'see what you say window', and Merida's tapestry turns into an invisibility cloak."
"Where are they then?" Jack asked set out to see what wrong with his.
With that Emily led everyone into her home and handed Jack his Thing.
Taking the Center Doll, Jack looked to it and thought deeply.
Thought of what might he have that the others did not which is why Rapunzel couldn't get it to work.
'Well one thing,' he said inside his head to himself 'I'm a spirit. Which can either mean something very good or very bad... Next, now Punzie's lost her locks of hair, I'm the only one with magic - that comes from the elements and the moon...'
"So..." someone said after a bit "Any ideas?"
"A few..." Jack said answering not caring who it was as he gripped onto the doll as if it was his lifeline and closed his eyes feeling all warm and tingly getting slightly worried when an all together gasp came from everyone.
Biting his lip Jack slowly opened his eyes and looked down at himself seeing himself still in his Seasons outfit, but that his skin was far less pale and if he looked up he could see the tips of his hair were brown again.
"You look just like Jamie," Monty spoke up getting everyone to snap out of what ever they were in.
"So you can make it turn you into who ever you want to look like?" Fishlegs asked to make sure he under stood.
"Still don't get why Rapunzel couldn't get it to work if it is," Snotlout said, Ruff and Tuff nodding along with him.
"Yeah..." Ruff said speaking out now "And how do we know Hiccup or Merida can't do that?"
"This..." Jack said a small smile on his face "Is what I looked like before I became a spirit." he explained "But how this or any of the other Things are supposed to help us, that's another question." Jack said testing if he still had his powers - which he did, which made him glad.
"Well the mirror shard lets us see who or whatever any of you four ask of it..." Jamie said in his thinking voice getting others to agree.
"Which we can use to spy on Pitch an' the others an' know of their plans before they show em off to us so we get the upper hand..." Merida said liking the kid a bit more.
"The tapestry makes the one out of four using it invisible," Astrid said reminding them of that.
"That could me used to sneak into the enemies territory if need be..." Hiccup said nodding his head in agreement.
"The dagger turns into a sword worthy to fight with," Fergus said remembering what it looked like when Rapunzel used it.
"Which could come in useful if we run into anything," Jack spoke out choosing to lean against the wall "After all there's still Mordu, Gothel and Pitch left."
"And yours Jack," Eugene said nodding to the doll that now hung as a charm around Jack's neck "Gives you a second identity. One I doubt the bad-guys even know about and there fore won't recognize you."
"That will be a good way to get past them and..." Rapunzel started but was cut off.
"That wont help," Jack said looking away from everyone and turning back to himself. "It might work on Mordu and Gothel... But I'm sure Pitch knows what I used to look like. He did look in my memories after all... How else could he of know they were mine?" he asked the mood and temperature of the room dropping "And I'm sure they'd recognize me anyway cause of my outfit and staff."
After a bit of silence Jack headed for the door no one asking where he was going but trusting him enough that it wouldn't be far.