Umm hey *hides* it's been a while, I had school stuff and such and I promise I'll update often!

So here is a new arc, it could be long or it could be short

I don't have time to beta at the mo so it's probably very rushed and has awful mistakes, I'm sorry

Jack had been flying around the world for three days none stop when he finally allowed himself to rest at his lake in Burgess, the first frosts of winter and occasional snow flurries were a big deal and always had been; they signified the start of Jack's primary job as spirit of winter.

The gnarled branch he had landed on that overlooked the side of his lake became irrationally comfortable to the tired spirit and he felt his body start to fold back against the trunk as exhausted sleep began to creep up on him. He couldn't deny that this had been his favourite out of all the first hints of winter that he brought because children had actually noticed him, albeit it wasn't many but it was a big improvement from not being seen for three hundred years.

Yawning against his hand, Jack let his staff fall from his furled up fist and clunk down next to him before bringing both arms up around his head and resting it on his knees. He smiled as the wind bustled past ruffling his hair like a doting mother and leaving little soft kisses on his skin. He felt his eyes slide shut and he allowed himself to fall into comforting darkness.

Jack wasn't sure how long he was asleep for, but it seemed in no time at all he was rudely awoken by the wind blowing fiercely against him; so much that it knocked him off the branch and onto the floor. Hissing as he landed with a thump on the chilled ground, Jack looked down at his stomach where a stinging sensation was emanating, to find his blue hoodie had risen up leaving his pale skin bare and a long deep cut was now drawn on to it, probably from the sharp little branches that stuck from the thick tree.

Cold wind enveloped him, lifting him back up to branch and apologising as it hugged him. Jack laughed quietly before icing over the cut on his stomach to stop it bleeding, he'd had many cuts and scrapes in his time and they normally healed up in a couple of days.

He was about to ask what the whole rough awakening thing had been about when he caught sight of the lights in the sky, North was calling the guardians in for a meeting or possibly for help.

"C'mon wind, take me to the pole" He muttered still a little sleepily as he picked up his staff and jumped into the cool air.

Jack wasn't aware that he had fallen asleep as he flew through the sky, but he jolted himself into consciousness as his elbow hit the side of the window frame as he crashed into the globe room.

"Finally decided to show did ya frostbite?" Bunny asked with a smirk as the winter spirit pulled himself off the ground.

"Shut it Kangaroo" Jack shot back at him before looking at North who was pulling his coat on hurriedly and shouting instructions to the yetis around him. Sandy was standing at his side having a conversation with Tooth who was hovering a few feet off the ground, her baby teeth flittering around her.

"Ahh Jack! Come, everyone to Sleigh!" North shouted as his attention was caught by Bunny's threats to the guardian of fun.

"The sleigh?" Jack asked Bunny as they rushed after North as he led the way down towards where his legendary sleigh was housed.

"Yeah, Sandy spotted a bunch of Nightmares milling about in the Sahara desert, Best we get 'em dealt with now instead of later" Bunny stopped short of the Sleigh and stared at it in distain.

"What's up cottontail? Scared of a little height?" Jack goaded from inside the sleigh causing Bunny to mutter angrily before climbing up next to him threatening to throw him out without his staff if he carried on. Jack's laughter bubbled up but he stopped after a few spurts left him as it pulled at his stomach, luckily no one called him out on it, they were travelling too fast.

The blast of warm air that met the guardians as they popped out of the portal and into the dry heat of the desert made Jack highly uncomfortable, his skin felt almost prickly and his eyes stung every time he blinked. They continued to bounce through the sky till they found the rabble of nightmares clustered about by a sand dune.

"Bunny, Jack, go down, we meet you in a second!" North called as he rounded the course of their dissent. Grabbing his staff from the seat, Jack ran to the edge of the sleigh and jumped down after Bunny who was already on the ground sending his boomerangs spinning through the creatures. The heat affected Jack's ability to make too much ice but there weren't many nightmares to deal with so he didn't give it much thought.

After fighting for what seemed hours, Bunny's voice caught his attention as he finished freezing one of the beasts, and a small curse slipped from his mouth as he saw more Nightmares appear along the top of the dune. Jumping back to join the rest of the Guardians, one of the Nightmares that had escaped his ice barrelled into him knocking him onto the floor with a yelp. Jack went grab his staff that had fallen along with him but before it could touch him Tooth had shot over head effectively returning it back to sand.

Blinking some of the sand out of his eyes, Jack stumbled up and ran towards the advancing black horses before taking off, luring a dozen up with him. It was cooler in the air, he could get the wind to blow past him and create some sort of coldness against his skin. Spinning to freeze another Nightmare, Jack winced as the cut he had received earlier flared up, looking down he saw the blood had spread; his ice barrier must have melted. The pain mixed with his anger and gave him more fuel for his ice; the sooner they were destroyed the sooner he could go back to his lake and fix himself up.

When the air around him was clear, Jack began to fly downwards to see if the fight had finished on the ground. Circling his hand around his stomach to hide the blood, Jack touched his bare feet onto the hot sand next to Sandy who was finishing with the last black horse.

"Hey Mate, you don't look that good, you okay Snowflake?" Bunny asked as Jack stumbled slightly to the left, his stomach really did hurt and he was hot and it hurt a little to make his frost in this climate.

"Yeah…Yeah of course I am, it's just hot, I am the spirit of winter" Jack laughed awkwardly as all eyes were turned to him, his arm pressed against his stomach more firmly to stop them spotting any blood, if they did he'd be babied till it healed.

"You sure you're okay Jack? Tooth asked worriedly as she flew towards him, her eyes searching his face.

"Ah ha, yeah of course…um I'll just be going now, the heat and all" Jack said nervously as he bounced from foot to foot before shooting up into the warm air and ignoring the shouts of the others below. He gritted his teeth and flew faster than normal towards his lake, He knew he'd have to hide from the Guardians for a while or they'd start to ask questions or punish him for being so stupid.

If you enjoyed it then please feel free to review or what ever you please, I can actually respond to reviews at last!

It will be continued 'cause I have a lot more stuff I'm gonna do to Jack before this arc is ended so yeah stay put for angst and pain