I hope you guys like this one! Again, I'm so sorry I'm so behind. Please bear with me. I just realized today that I posted day five with the wrong doc on FFN, so that is fixed now.
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At this point, North didn't care that he was the Guardian of Wonder, Santa Clause, St. Nick. He didn't care that he was supposed to be a role model of sorts for the children of the world. Nor did he care what the Man in the Moon would say about his plans.
For too long, Jack Frost had been a chaotic spirit, getting in his way, trying to sneak into the workshop, distracting the yetis and so on. After Jack had joined the Guardians, North had thought that he would calm down with the chaos once he had a place to belong. It hadn't
Jack had been hiding all four Guardians' stuff. North didn't think it was malicious, but it was definitely annoying. Every once in a while, Jack would convince a few of Tooth's fairies to play games with him, namely hide and seek. It annoyed Tooth to no end because Jack always seemed to pick the busiest times to play with the fairies.
Sandy said that Jack mostly left him alone when working, but when they were at a meeting, Sandy would often find that his plates or cups often went missing. Bunny had been complaining the most, though. He had cited quite a number of things Jack had apparently hidden. The list included but was not limited to; three paint brushes, one hundred unpainted eggs, ten gallons of paint, twenty-five pounds of glitter, and both his boomerangs.
Even North's own infinite toy bag he used on Christmas Eve had been hidden once, among things such as reindeer treats and his personal whittling tools.
Jack had also taken to pranking their homes too. One of the times Tooth had been out in the field, Jack had gotten into the tooth palace and used the tooth canisters as building blocks, making a medieval style castle in the middle of her palace. None of the tooth canisters were harmed, Jack had made sure of that, though.
Sandy had reported Jack had yet to do anything to his home yet. Which, as much as North was happy to hear it, he was also a little peeved that Sandy didn't know the same annoyance as the rest of the guardians.
Bunny had said that Jack had caused a complete chaos in the Warren. Things such as switching paint colors, switching the glitter, and stickers, and also somehow managing to hide the stone egg golems in the river of shiny paint.
North had, on more occasions than he wanted to count, entered the main area of his workshop to see it flooded with snow, and the elves using box lids to slide down the mountains of snow. He had also found the elves wrapped up in shiny wrapping paper.
The other thing that Jack had taken to doing often was following North around his workshop and repeating his orders to the yetis and 'giving him bunny ears.' He had also been following Bunny too. Bunny could never catch Jack, though. He had been leaving Tooth and Sandy alone in this instance, and neither North or Bunny could figure out why.
The only thing North could say was 'good' about Jack's pranks and chaos was that it never got directly in the way of the Guardians doing their jobs.
North also didn't care that Jack saved the world when Pitch and his nightmares made their stand. Also, he had only been a guardian for not quite a year yet and if the children had lasted this long without a Guardian of Fun, did they really need to keep Jack?
Now he was hiding somewhere in a little town, at least, that's what Sandy had said when asked if he had seen Jack recently. He had first asked Bunny, then Tooth, and finally Sandy. It wasn't because he didn't like Sandy as much, but because he was the hardest to find at any given time.
As North was walking along the street, looking around for Jack, there were an oddly large amount of costumed children running around on the streets. When he heard a few of the parents waving to each other and saying 'Happy Halloween!' he mentally slapped himself. He should've known it was Halloween, why else would there be so many kids out and about?
He turned down a road, feeling a cool breeze and figuring that Jack could be the cause of it. This road had less parents, rather groups of five or six kids maybe eight years old. The first group he passed didn't notice him in their rush to get candy. The second was checking their bags and trading some of their pieces. The third group he passed, though, stopped him.
Their tight cluster separated a little bit and the one in the middle of the group spoke up. "Your costume is amazing, mister!"
Then the shortest, a little girl who couldn't be more than six added, "You look like Santa Clause!"
North was taken aback for a moment, he hadn't even thought of the kids trick-or-treating being able to see him. But, of course they would, they most certainly believed in Santa. Though, they didn't realize it was actually him. All the better, though. "Thank you, children. But I must say, your costumes are even more amazing."
They all beamed from the praise. The young girl twirled and her princess skirt spun out as she laughed happily. The first one to speak lifted his fake knight's sword and grinned. The girl dressed as a witch cackled and pretended to fly on her broom. The other two raised their wands, being, of course, Fred and George Weasley from Harry Potter.
Then another gust of cold wind swept past, reminding North of his mission. "It was lovely to meet you, But I need to be going."
The kids waved as North walked off, still giddy from his complement.
North, meanwhile, followed the cool wind until he found Jack, sitting in the topmost branches of a tree, watching the children trick-or-treating.
"Jack!" North called up the tree.
Jack looked down at him and waved with a cheeky smile on his face before launching himself out of the tree and into the sky. "Catch me if you can, North!" he called behind him gleefully.
