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Jack was thrilled. This was the first time he had been given complete free reign throughout the north pole, the warren and the tooth palace. His final destination was going to be Sandy's sand cloud.
North had set up a trick-or-treat route for Jack to follow, seeing as it was his first Halloween with the Guardians. He would be starting in North's workshop, where he had to go around to all the different rooms and find the ten groups of elves that had candy for him, and a clue to where Sandy was hiding. Then he would need to fly to the tooth palace, where Tooth had assigned five groups of fairies to do the same as the elves had. His next destination would be Bunny's warren. Jack had no idea what to expect there, as Bunny had given him no information.
Jack entered North's workshop silently, old habits die hard, and peered around the large building. The wrapping room that he had tried wrapping presents in the previous Christmas was as good a place as any to start. The yetis he passed waved politely at him, but made no move to stop him.
Opening the door to the wrapping room, Jack was greeted with a low-hanging chandelier. The odd thing about it, though, was that instead of lightbulbs or candles, there were elves in their place.
"What?" Jack whispered to himself. "Trick-or-treat? He asked warily. While the elves were not the brightest, one could never know what they had planned.
The elf at the top of the chandelier pointed at a bowl of candy on one of the tables.
"Thank you," Jack called behind him as he left the room.
It took him nearly an hour to clear the rest of the north pole. In some rooms elves hid behind the door and coated him in orange and purple glitter. In others they threw pumpkin guts at him, which he thought was really gross. As he was about to leave through the reindeer stable, a yeti stopped him.
"Ahhh, ughh!" Phil said, holding out a scrap of paper.
Taking it, Jack looked down at it. "Is this a clue to find Sandy?" he asked.
Phil nodded.
"Thank you," Jack called behind him as he shot forwards, letting the wind take him towards the tooth palace.
On his way there, he took the time to read the paper. 'The state in which the Groundhog lives.'
Upon his arrival at the tooth palace, Jack was greeted by a group of five little tooth fairies. They were all swooning over him, which was odd, because Tooth had said that she had told her fairies to quit doing that.
Making his way into the palace, Jack looked around. There was a group of fairies huddled together by the mural where Jack had found out he had been someone before becoming Jack Frost.
Bee lining to the group, Jack grinned when he saw that they had a small bag of candy with them. As a group heard him approach, they turned around to face him.
"Trick or treat!" He exclaimed gleefully.
They twittered to each other before they offered him the bag.
Jack immediately shoved the bag into his pocket after noting that the candy the fairies had given him was entirely sugar free. Waving at the group, Jack continued looking around the tooth palace.
It took him twenty minutes to find three more groups of fairies. Tooth, though, had told him that there were five groups hiding in the palace. That also wasn't even mentioning the fact that Jack had yet to get a clue to where Sandy was.
"Where did you tell them to hide?" Jack muttered to himself, to which he was surprised when he got an answer.
"I'm not sure where they're hiding, Jack," Tooth's voice came from directly behind him. "I told them to hide, but I never specified where exactly."
"Are you willing to help me look?"
"I won't help you, but I can give you a hint that there's a secret chamber behind the mural wall."
"Thank you!" Jack called behind him as he shot off, towards the mural. He was going so fast that he nearly rammed headfirst into it.
Taking a second look at the stone wall, he saw an outcropping of rock with leafy trailing vines falling down over it, blocking his view to what was underneath. Reaching towards it, Jack expected to be touching rock, but instead his hand went through it.
Following his arm under the rock, Jack found the final group of tooth fairies, asleep in a little nest, a bag of candy and a piece of paper next to it. Gently grabbing the candy and paper, Jack silently made his way out of the chamber and out of the tooth palace.
Once in the bright moonlight, Jack looked at the paper.
'Where we found you.'
When Jack arrived at the warren, he had to admit, he was exhausted. Flying all around the globe so fast like he had been doing really took a lot out of him. When he followed the tunnel into the warren, though, he was surprised that there was no movement or activity of any sort. No little eggs were dancing around, the giant stone eggs were nowhere to be seen, and Bunny was also similarly not there.
Upon further investigation, though, Jack found a pile of pumpkins with candy scattered around them. There was no sign or anything, so he grabbed a huge handful and shoved it into his hoodie pocket. Beneath the candy, he found a strip of paper. His final clue to where Sandy was!
'High in the sky'
Jack found Sandy exactly where the clues said he would be. The Groundhog lived in Pennsylvania, which was also where the Guardians found Jack. If one counted 'finding' as 'tossing a into a bag and kidnapping.' Then, as per the last clue, Jack spotted the sand cloud hovering high above his pond.
Sandy had made it into a bit of a palace, and there was a bowl of candy right outside the door. Over it was a sign that read 'take one, please.'
Jack looked left and right, then right and left. After determining that no one was watching, he grabbed the contents of the entire bowl and shoved it into his already overly full hoodie pocket.
"It said take one, Jack."
He turned around to see all four of the guardians standing behind him, laughing.
Jack could tell they weren't laughing at him in a mean way, and he joined in, laughing as well.
