Chapter 5

"Wait!" Nicholas St. North held up his hand to stop Jack from touching the teardrop as Jack knelt on the ice, a hand-width away. "I thought that only Jack could completely access his memories. How did you see them?" Nick asked the mini-fairies glancing at Tooth as they told Tooth what they really saw.

"We can't see see the memories, but if it's important then the brightness of the memory glows more then usual." Tooth explained, "It has happened before." Baby Tooth nodded as she remembered Jacks' glow of his memories.

"Well, Jack it's time. Everyone ready? We get sleigh from Mrs. Claus. We go to Arendelle! To the Enchanted Forest!" Nick threw a snow globe that started to suck everyone in. Well, anyone close to the portal anyway. Bunny's quick retreated to go through his tunnels to Santa's Workshop, he grabbed Tooth as she waved goodbye to her sister and her mini-fairies who stayed to hold down the never ending job of teeth gathering. One portal a trip was enough for her and she knew that there would be more in her future.

Jack as he grabbed his tooth boxes wasn't as luckily. Sandy just whipped by him with a smile as he made a impressive sand plane. Nick was holding on to Twiner as he jumped into the portal that lead right onto the sleigh, Jack landing right on top of Holly Claus who was waiting with a huge smile on her face. She gently moved him aside and handed Nick the reins.

Before anyone could recover from the quick trip, Santa started off again, his wife grinning like a loon as her husband drove like Christmas Eve was ending. Which it was, completely gone. Almost. Arendelle was always the last part of his trip. Then it was a vacation until the New Year. Then work began again. The Yetis could keep the elves in line for that long.

Bunny was wide-eyed, clinging his staff with one hand and the sleigh with another. "Why can't I?" His next words were a scream as they landed next to a very impressive ice palace. A huge snowman and little snow babies greeted them with a snow pile hug. The only ones who seemed to enjoy it was Jack and Nick. The others sputtered out of the pile to go back into the sleigh. Bunny and Tooth were hugging each other so tight that you couldn't tell one from the other. It was really cold.

Nick tossed the reins to Sandy who wiggled out of the pile first, caught them. Holly was swiftly passing out the Christmas gifts to the snow creatures, leaping into the sleigh as it took off towards Arendelle and from there, the Enchanted Forest, Holly throwing a snow portal for the snow creatures to follow them.

"Go and say hello to my family first. Jack and I will catch up. We have business here."

Jack frowned puzzled at the turn of events as everyone left.

"Why?" Jack asked as Nick turned him around. Nick pointed to the ice palace glistering in the night sky.

"Now tell me about that. Elsa never said. She would always say it was gift from an old friend. She didn't want it to disappear." Nick's tender smile softened his eyes as he remembered asking Elsa about it who blushed deeply and didn't really respond. Even after they were married.

Jack didn't notice as he ran a hand down the long crack that was repaired with his frost making it seem as a long pillar of frost suddenly appeared there over night. Which in a way it did.

"She kept it. But why? I mean why? Wait how is everything still here if Elsa is gone? Is Olaf alive too?" Jack asked as they walked into the ice palace.

"Elsa's magic is alive and well because well um." Nick suddenly feel old and awkward. He would not have this conversation with Jack Frost. "In a way she's still alive, her ice magic got passed on. The bridge between the Enchanted Forest and the Arendelle lives on through her descendants spirits. Elsa's and mine, Kristoff's and Anna's." Nick was begging in his mind that Jack would not ask how that happened. At all.

"I know that you and Elsa had kids you told me before. I still think it's weird."

Ok, so Jack was jealous, super jealous that Nick got to see that side of Elsa and he didn't. But at the same time, he was glad that she had a life and honestly if she had to have kids with anyone he'll pick Nick if not himself.

"Biology is weird." Nick agreed.

Jack Frost glanced slyly at Nick as he was walking up the steps to the upper room. "So how do you make children anyway?" Jack knew, he's been around for 300 yeas but he wanted to see if he could trip up Nick, literally.

Nick stumbled on the ice steps but recovered to Jack's disappointment. He glanced at the grinning Fun guardian. "I'll tell you if you tell me how in the world this" Nick waved his hands towards the huge frosted over crack in the wall. "happened, and I'll tell you all about Elsa, I met, married and had a child."

Jack jumped up and settled himself on the railing, leaning Twiner against the wall. He grinned as Nick made a comfortable looking armchair that looked out into the night that had the touch of the rising sun.

"Deal. I'll tell you about got distracted by a beautiful, once of a kind ice palace and um well met Elsa. I was surprised that she could see me. I mean no one could ever see me. But she explained about the spirits and how she was the fifth one. But that was a few days after I completely shattered her ice palace into pieces. This crack was the first indent I accidentally made. I can't believe Elsa kept it."

He laid a hand on the healed crack. If Jack concentrated enough he could even feel Elsa's magic there entwined with his forever. It wasn't a perfect fit, he expected that Nick's magic didn't entwined with Elsa's completely either. Even after her death, Elsa warmed his heart so very much. He wondered if he would ever feel that way again.

Nick snorted. "You ran into her wall, I fell from the sky into the Enchanted Forest with my torn air balloon and broke my leg in two pieces. I was not a happy man. I had work to do. I was there on business only and got off course a bit."

"Did Elsa come and fix you up?" Jack made kissy sounds. After all a kiss helps make a wound heal.

"No, I was knocked unconscious from the fall. Funnily enough my magic wasn't working at that point. It was very strange. I came to while some old busybodies healers discussed that maybe they could break Elsa's leg, and from then they could match me up with Elsa. Thankfully the Rock Trolls were visiting Elsa at the time nipped that idea in the bud." Nick shivered. Those healers were scary. But not as scary as the Rock Trolls when they got an idea in their heads.

"Then the Rock Trolls intervened."

Jack grimaced. "I've meet them once after Elsa died. They said that I was missing a part of my heart. Not literally, of course, but I lost something precious. Not from Elsa's death. They said that I would find it again. Whatever was missing."

North kept silent on what he thought Jack was missing. He had an inkling but he let Jack take his own course. The two old spirits laughed and cried as they remembered the woman that they loved when they were much younger.

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As Nick and Jack were swapping Elsa stories, Pitch Black landed in the land of Transylvania.

"King of the Werewolves. Come out. I have questions." Pitch Black glared at the crumpling castle that was the scene of his final forgotten defeat that only he remembered.

"Pitch Black." A huge werewolf came out of the shadows. "My great-grandfather, Skreevlick Shadowbent had stories about you. How he help defeat you."

Before the young werewolf lord could step forward, Pitch had him bundled up in his shadows tight. "Now tell me, where is that bookworm Mr. Qwerty? It's time to get the rest of my shadows back. After all, I can't conquer the universe with just my night mares. I need my dream pirates, my fearlings and my nightmare men back." The darkness squeezed the breathe out of the young werewolf king.

The small shiver of fear that Pitch felt from the werewolf was just the beginning of the werewolf's panic. Pitch's sinister glimmer in his eyes made him shiver even more in fright as it traveled into a evil grin. The guards couldn't move to get rid of Pitch to save their young lord. They were all caught in their own night mares since Pitch's attack was sudden and many.

"I know that you had a hand in protecting Mother Goose, Katherine. Now I thought I could start with the youngest of your clan and use them to attack her tree estate. After all she's probably there. Now where is it? I need the world's darkest deepest horrifying stories ever. Mr. Qwerty has recorded them all and been gathering more. After all I did write it to be. The mystersphere is broken and the time has come. Where is the Isle of Ganderly? It moved with her guards, the Raconturks. The country they resigned in is deserted. The people are scattered to the four winds. Where did they hid Katherine's tree house? " The ice cold hiss made the fear grow deeper.

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Kozmotis Pitchiner's right palm was burning enough to wake him up. He put a band aid on the black scab like scar. He texted his daughter Emily Jane to schedule a meeting and then he went to the library. He had a lovely librarian to see.