Chapter 6: A Good Scare
Jack hopped through the open window of North's Shop, this time without a snowball for Bunny in his hand. North broke away from his argument with Bunny as Jack landed. "Jack! Did you bring the girl?" "Yeah, where's your girlfriend?" Jack glared at Bunny. "She is not my girlfriend, Cottontail!" "Bunny, enough with teasing!" North barked at the rabbit.
Jack searched the room. "Where's Tooth and Sandy?" "They had to work," North explained, "Ceremony won't be 'till tomorrow." "If there's a ceremony." Bunny muttered. "What? Are you jealous that I saw her and not you?" Jack couldn't help teasing the angry animal. "No! I just…" Bunny quit talking, staring around the room. There was a low mist on the ground. "What?" North asked, "What is fog doing here?" "Oh, you shouldn't have said that." Jack said, flying to the top of the globe.
"Said what?" Both the other Guardians replied, looking up at him. Then North looked over to his left. "Bunny, do you see that?" he asked, pointed to a little blue flame. "Yeah, and I don't like it." "Oh, this is gonna be good." Jack said, sitting on his high perch from above.
The mist got thicker and closed in on the pair, forcing them to be back to back. Another wisp appeared in front of Bunny. "Crikey, there's another one!" he said, before throwing a boomerang at it. It hit its target, but the wisp appeared just as soon as it had disappeared. "What? Uh, North? These things aren't going to be easy to get rid of." "What makes you say so?" North said, turning to Bunnymund, "Uh oh." He squeaked, seeing that more wisps had appeared, and they were surrounding them.
Thunder boomed, making North and Bunny jump and gasp in surprise. The mist rose higher, along with the wisps, which were now spinning around them. Everything got closer. Bunny began to look left to right wildly, utterly terrified of the scene, while North watched what was going on in silence. That's when lighting cracked, and a large wolf appears in the flash of light, snarling. "AH!" Bunny screamed, hiding behind North.
North hadn't seen the wolf, but he did see something else. Just below the ring of wisps that were getting ever so closer were two glowing, blue eyes. Both North and Bunny stared as the circle of wisps broke, letting the eyes get closer. The ring closed again after the eyes went through, and kept getting closer, spinning around as they did so.
Bunny was now shaking like a leaf, hiding behind the big Russian man. "Bunny, man up!" North yelled, looking at him. He turned, finishing, "It's nothing to be-" He stopped midsentence, a growling wolf with two glowing blue eyes was in his face. "OK, be afraid." He said, before screaming while turning around. He pushed his friend ahead, yelling, "Run rabbit, run!"
The pair screamed as they ran through the wisps, not caring about anything other than getting away. Pretty soon they got to a nearby closet, opened the door, and shut themselves inside. They immediately heard laughter, and it wasn't just Jack's. Cautiously, North opened the door, he and Bunny peeking out. Jack was lying on the floor, laughing.
"Oh get over here you overgrown snowflake!" Bunny ran at Jack, looking about ready to claw his eyes out. Just as he reached Jack, though, a wisp appeared in his face again. "AH!" Bunny jumped away from the spirit, terrified. North laughed, and Jack, who had been sitting up, fell back again in laughter.
"Cottontail, meet a wisp." Jack said between laughs, wiping his eyes. North held his belly, himself about to fall over. "Jack, that was very funny." Jack sighed, finished with his laughing. "Oh, that wasn't me." Bunny glared at him. "Well if it wasn't you who was it?"
Jack stood up, grinning. He looked to his left. "Gemma, you've met Bunny and North. North, Bunny, meet Gemma Fogg, mistress of mist, fog, and other kinds of rainy weather." "Nice to finally meet ya in person." Gemma grinned at them.
North and Bunny stared at her, shocked. They weren't expecting this intro, obviously. She had been there the entire time. She returned the stare, smiling sweetly. "So, you're new Guardian. Welcome to the Pole!" North smiled at her. "I see you know Jack." "And you are Santa Claus." "Why, yes. And Bunny here is Easter Bunny." "Yes, I see him quite often."
"So, bloody hoon, you're the one who makes me lost, aren't ya?" Gemma stepped back, then glared at Jack. Irritated, she said "I thought I told you to not mention that!" "Uh, that slipped." He smiled sweetly at her. "Whoops." "Jack Frost you bampot!" She yelled at him, poking him in the chest. "You liar! I asked you specifically to not mention that! I-"
"Alright, alright, don't get off your bike, Scotty." Bunny said, grabbing Gemma's arm. "You can yell at your boyfriend later." She glared at him. "He is not my boyfriend!" Bunny scoffed. "Yeah, and Easter isn't a holiday." "Alright, that is enough, Bunny. Now, Gemma in your position as Guardian-"
"I thought I told Jack this," Gemma said, turning to North, "I am NOT a Guardian. Jack said that I could get my memories back from the Tooth Fairy if I came with him to the Pole." She turned to Jack. "And now we're going there."
Suddenly the room went dark. Looking up, Jack said, "Uh, Gemma, you can stop it now. We get the joke." "I, I'm not doing that." She stared around, looking just as confused as the others. Black clouds covered the ceiling, giving the room an ominous appearance. "Well, if it isn't you, then who is doing this?" Bunny gave them all a look.
Laughter filled the room. "Who is doing this?" A woman's British voice echoed throughout the room. "Who is there?!" North yelled. "It is high treason to yell at her Majesty the Queen. I can and will put you in the Tower!"
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