Jack POV

I had figured that I should pay Bunny a little visit since it's been a few days since I visited him to mess with his warren. I decided to wait til he calmed down from my last visit where I froze over his warren; not enough to do damage, but enough to make Bunny turn red with anger.

I haven't been able to get anywhere close to Bunny's warren because some reason Sphinx, the summer spirit who hated my guts, was really ticked at me and the past two weeks consisted of me attempting to go to Bunny's or really any of the other guardians; only to be intercepted and beaten by Sphinx each time.

I would just be flying then out of nowhere I would get attacked by those vicious fire sprites. Then Sphinx would attack when I got tired out from fighting off the sprites. At first I was able to fight him and the sprites off long enough to escape and get back to my lake, since he wouldn't dare go there because he would be at a very big disadvantage. As the days drug on I found myself less and less able to fight him off. Each fight I began taking hits more than I gave them. I couldn't even leave my lake for long before he would always intercept me, forcing me to retreat back to the lake to heal. Most times I stayed at the lake for two or three days at a time, wondering if the others even noticed that I wasn't around.

"Dang it! It's already been three weeks! I need to contact one of the guardians, I'm not gonna last much longer like this." I've already got bruises and small and shallow to long and deep cuts on my chest, arms and legs, not to mention a long, and painful (might I add) knife wound on my back. My clothes are almost non existent. I long since lost the hoodie since it was only a few pieces of cloth held together by a few laces. My pants are torn in many places, actually, I'm surprised they still covered me.

"Well, maybe I can just fly to Bunny's without fighting Sphinx or his sprites." I say aloud. "I can't continue this I Just gotta out fly him. I can do that, right?" I stood there for what seemed like forever, staring at the land that stood between me and the closest guardian I could get to, Bunnymund. Deciding it was now or never, I took off with one goal in mind. 'Get to Bunnymund!'

I made it pretty far this time. I was about an hour away from Bunny's warren before I was struck in the back by a blast of fire. I barely turn before I see a large flash of red. Sphinx?!

Wait, why was he attacking me first? Deciding not to think to hard on it, I push myself to go faster. "Not-gonna-stop-here! Can't- give- UP!" I gritted my teeth and kept flying as fast as I could. I didn't make it twenty feet before being pounded into the ground by a sudden kick to the back. I struggled to catch my breath as I pulled myself off the ground; only to be kicked in the side, sending me flying into trees. I finally stopped flying when I hit a very thick tree, I slumped down trying to will myself to move before I was attacked again. My vision began getting blurry as I tried to stand, temporarily forgetting what happened. 'Man, is it just me or is he being more violent than usual?' Just as soon as I thought that I was greeted with another blast of heat to my stomach. I was looking straight up at the sky, 'When did I get on the ground?' I thought tiredly. Sphinx and his evil little fairies came into my view. I had to say it, I knew I shouldn't have, but I had to.

"Could you move? I'm trying to watch the beautiful clouds and your ugly faces are blocking my view!" I tried to crack a smile, I think I managed to make a small one, though it may have looked like a grimace. My face was hurting too much to tell. For the first time in these past three weeks he actually spoke.

"Yeah,Joke around! That's all you're good for." Ouch. "You should have never been chosen as the new guardian! It should've been me! You're nothing but a useless, waste of space that kills everything you touch." he yelled as he kicked my side a couple of times, 'Okay, that's at least two broken ribs.' I groan weakly.

"Heh!" I'm certain, through my blurred vision, I saw him smirk at me. "Look at how well you fit in with them!" He pointed out when he stopped kicking me. "You have been a no show for three weeks and not one of them even came looking for you! What does that tell you? You're irrelevant, useless, and the guardians don't need a weakling like you on their team!" He waved for the sprites to begin attacking. Most of them just shot fire at me, I was almost used to getting hit with that stuff... Almost, but not quite. The others just scratched and clawed at my chest and arms, trying to get to my face which were covered by my arms.

'I only have one option.' I thought weakly. 'If I can gather enough energy maybe I can probably make a storm big enough to reach the warren. Hopefully, I'm close enough. Even if they don't need me or could care less about me, at least he will have to come to chew me out about making a storm in summer.' I hated think that I wasn't needed, but honestly why wouldn't any of them be searching for me if they really cared about me, or needed me. 'Well, here goes nothing...or everything!" I shut out all the pain from the sprites and focused to conjure up as big of a storm as possible. I could hear Sphinx shouting at the sprites to fly away; he must have noticed what I was doing, but it was too late. Snow not only weakens him but it can destroy his sprites if they are exposed to enough of it.

General POV

"Get out of here! Fly as far away as you can!" Sphinx noticed that Jack had not moved in quite some time. He was just laying there with his eyes closed as if he were dead or sleeping. He knew that Jack couldn't die, and he highly doubted that he would just doze off in the middle of getting beaten. He looked up, the sky was filled with dark, threatening clouds. "GO!" He yelled once more.

Before the sprites could comprehend what was going on Jack's eyes shot opened; glowing bright blue, there was a loud, piercing scream escaping his lips. That's when a blizzard snow quickly covered the forest, destroying every one of his summer sprites, and leaving Sphinx utterly powerless as he tried to flee.

Bunny POV

It's been three weeks...

Three blasted weeks since frostbite has came to me warren to freeze it over or just to bug me. I was mad at him first few days so it didn't bother me that he was a no show... But now, frankly, I was gettin' worried. He used to come every other day to either visit or just play pranks on me. I hadn't had much time to really notice his absence because it was getting near Easter and I was falling behind. I was glad to not have any distractions; I was able to catch up pretty quickly.

Now that I finally had time to stop and think. I had noticed that he was a no show three weeks in a row. That's odd for Jack, usually he would give me a couple of days to cool down and visit one of the others.

Normally I would have been surprised that the others haven't noticed Jack's in-attendance lately if it weren't for the fact that Sandy and North were "out of town" for the annual meeting between the two of them and MiM. North just left his work to the yetis and Sandy with his dream sand. Tooth was just as busy as could be since she was finally going out in the field with her baby teeth.

Jack probably most likely got caught up in Burgess since it's still winter there. "I better go find and tell the frostbite and see what's goin' on, just to make sure." I exited me warren only to find snow lightly covering the ground. "And here I was gettin' worried abouch ya!" I groan. 'So he finally came by to prank me.' I give a silent sight of relief. The snow continued to fall but Jack remained out of my sight.

"Ha ha! Nice one Frostbite! What 'ave I told ya about messin' with me warren! Where have you been anyway?" A looked around to try and find Jack I notice the clouds were unusually dark farther away for such a light snowfall. "Frostbite?" I call out. "You there?"

All I was answered with was a scream. It was feint and very far away, but- since your ears are soo huge (yes I went there XD)

- Oi! Oi! My ears are not huge, mate! They are just tall. Sorry, sorry. Can I get back to the story now? Yes -_-

Anyway- It was feint and very far away- What was far away XD- *Growls* Sorry ;)

All I was answered with was a scream. It was feint and very far away, but with my hearing higher than a normal persons, I could hear it clearly as if it came from next to me. Suddenly the light snowfall became a blizzard, not as bad as the one in '98 but it was still bad.

"Jack!" It was hard to believe at first, but that blasted scream came from Frostbite! I took off in the direction of the scream, the forest. The deeper in I went the darker the clouds got and the closer I came to Jack; I could tell by the snow on the ground gaining depth, making it hard to hop fast.

Finally I could see him, Lyin' in the middle of a large snow bank, covered deeply. I race to him and dig the snow off of em. There were broken and shattered trees all around as if there had been a battle. Wait- Was that blood I saw? I rubbed my eyes, hoping my mind was playing tricks on me...They weren't. I gasped when I saw Jack.

Jack was covered it cuts and bruises. He looked like he was still breathin'. That's good at least. Right? His pants were ripped and burned, his hoodie gone revealing many small cuts and large ugly bruises. Even his snow white hair was... wait his clothes and hair are Burnt? But, there's only one spirit who can burn things. "Tha- That makes no sense." I muttered as I bent next to him.

I heard the sound of one of the nearby trees cracking. I quickly looked up to see, "Sphinx!" I growled at the spirit of summer, who was surrounded by a dozen of his fire sprites. By the way he was standing I could tell the snow must have made him too weak to fly. He just smiled wickedly and before I could react he ran off, leaving me alone in the freezing cold to tend to Jack.

"Oi! Hold on, mate. We'll get cha home and fix you up. Then you can tell us what in the hell went down between you two." I picked Jack up, he groaned in pain. "Sorry bout that." I apologized as I made a tunnel to my warren, I knew he probably wouldn't want to be seen like this by the other guardians right now.