14Ok. This is probably gonna be press long. There will be time skips and jumps between the past and the present on occasion. It will be made obvious in just a moment. Please my dear readers, review! Put your ideas, it might end up in the story or it might spark a whole new one. I will be eternally grateful.
The present
The past
Jack leaned back and sighed, scrubbing on his face.
"I guess I should start at the beginning. When you guys first disappeared, I freaked out. Though first I made sure everything was in place to keep your holidays running. I went to Tooth Palace and made sure BabyTooth knew to keep things going until I could find you, I thought you had been knocked out and sent to one of his lairs" Jack shook his head at his past selfs innocence as he began to tell what happened in those dark days.
Jack fell through the skylight of Norths home. He had been searching for almost two years. Everyone in the spirit realm had been searching for the past two years. All of Pitches strong holds hand been broken into and searched, in vain. Neither the Guardians nor Pitch could be found.
BabyTooth had stepped up to take care of Tooth's job, and she had been doing spectacularly. The sleep machine that was at the Sandman's Palace was chugging away, though it was starting to show some signs of wear because as it was never meant to have run for this long. The egg guardians had proved to be spectacular gardeners, just needing Jack to lead the eggs to the surface. It had been fun helping Bunny lead the eggs but now it was just depressing having to do it alone. Jack sat down in the moon light, looking up at the moon with tears in his eyes. Christmas was the hardest, Phil was instrumental in carrying it out both years with Jack and the kids help in making new toys each year.
"I… I can't find them. Please Manny… Help me." He begged the moon, no longer looking at all like the fun loving snow spirit that used to be. He was worn down, his youthful appearance looking older and more world weary.
"Jack..." The voice was quiet and a soothing balm to the young spirit who had only hear it twice before.
"I have a solution, but it will be very difficult on you. We know that the measures the Guardians took to keep their holidays going are wearing down. I need you, BabyTooth and Phil to come back here tomorrow night. One you've had some rest, I will explain my plan."
The next night the aforementioned spirits met under the full moon in Santof Clausen. BabyTooth was sitting on Jacks shoulder, not able to fly due to exhaustion. Phi and Jack were not much better.
"We are all that is left of the Guardians, Pitch has sent the others into the future, how far even I don't know. I have been saving my strength for the past Millennia because I knew something was coming that would require more magic than I had ever used before. You three are going to have to take up the title of Guardians…" At this point Jack shouted a noise of disagreement, followed closely by BabyTooth and Phil.
"We will never measure up to the Guardians and we wont take their place… but maybe we can scrounge together something new and Protect their memories." The two spirits with him nodded in agreement.
"This started it all. That night we changed. BabyTooth was given a larger body, though she couldn't multiply like you… well… she was given the ability to have children because Manny new of our budding feelings we had been ignoring." At this point Jack and BabyTooth were blushing like mad.
"He also gave me the ability to speak human." Phil spoke up, "Though Jack is the one he changed the most. He changed Jacks center. Not only is he the Guardian of Fun but he's the Guardian of Hope now as well and because of this he needed another form for the children to believe in."
The Guardians looked at Jack questioningly. With a sigh he stood up and with a swirl of snow turned into a large arctic hare with black makings on its fur. All in all, he looked like a white copy of Bunnymud.
"I'm not your kin Bunny, its just an illusion so the children would still believe in the Easter Bunny. It also allows me to see where you keep the treasure of your people and let me just say… your the strongest person I know to carry this weight with you for so long. The hope of the world rests on your shoulders and I don't know how you carried it alone, Ive split the burden with Sofie. She's the gardener while I'm the deliverer. It's very tiring and you have my respect as well as gratitude for doing it so long on your own." Jack put his fist over his heart, his ears curling behind his head as he bowed in a show of respect from Bunny's home world.
"What would you like to hear next? The first holidays we had after our transformations or my and Lila's courtship?" Jack asked abruptly, turning human again as he sat down with his wife back on his lap.
"Lila?" Tooth asked.
"Yes mother, it's the name I chose for myself once the children started believing in me." BabyTooth, Lila, said as she sat up a little straighter in Jacks lap.
"Well…."
ˆthat is my question for you my readers. Which direction would you like for me to go first? I have general ideas for both hashed out as it is and both will end up getting written, but I'd like your opinion. Also, if you have any ideas please feel free to share. I have a general idea how this story is gonna go, and for now its gonna be story sharing time but we will move past it to get back to the main plot soon. You do kinda need some of this information to understand what might happen in this time period though.
I look forward to your comments. Please review so I can get to writing soon.
Also, check out my other stories, I will be updating Jakul Frosti soon, after many reviews asking for more I finally got some inspiration. Also, I'll have a few new stories coming up soon.
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