I cracked my knuckles as I approached the North Pole. The yetis would let me in no problem, but North and I had a little falling out last time we'd been together. Nothing too big he just blames me for some storm I didn't do. I mean I was waiting for him to hit Canada to surprise him with a snow storm not Moscow. That wasn't even my work I mean who wants to hit someone full force? You make them think everything is just normal then you make it a white out and ruin their day.
"Not even snowing." I said with a frown. I flew high my hands started to glow light blue with my magic. I let my freezing magic go forming clouds as I went. There would be a nice new storm tonight. I was thinking several inches, maybe a foot depending if North was mad at me still.
It started to snow as I descended down on my favorite building. I would come flying through the chimney like usual. After sending a very cold breeze down to freeze the whole place like usual. Not literally of course, but enough to send a chill through everyone.
I lined myself up perfectly for a swan dive though the chimney. I took a deep breath in and one out blowing all the cold air through the North Pole. I dived down though the chimney and tumbled out landing perfectly square in the middle of the room.
"JACK!" I heard a woman scream. I waved my hand to clear the light blue chilling mist that I created as I came down. "YOU KNOW THE PLAYPEN IS RIGHT THERE! NICK!"
The mist wasn't clearing fast enough for my liking so taking another breath in, I sucked all the cold air back into my lungs. I coughed a bit I hadn't thought that it would be that cold. I guess not using my powers for a while made me out of practice. I saw a woman in front of me. Her eyes widened she looked panicked as she ran over to my left where two small children were playing with blocks. They looked at me and kept on playing.
"NICK!" The woman screamed again at the top of her lungs. "W-who are you?" She seemed scared. "W-what do you want? NICHOLAS! PHIL! JOY! STEVE!" She started calling for yetis and North. I didn't know who she was.
"Umm….hi?" I said a little confused. "I'm Yule and you are?" I smiled at her. Taking her in she was young but certainly looked older.
"I'm Ellie….Ellie St. North and my husband…" She started.
"North got married?" I said with a laugh. "Oh my, you certainly got your work cut out for you." I heard almost like a mob coming up the stairs they must have heard her shouts of panic. "I'm the spirit of Winter." I said. "I mean no harm thought I'd come say hi to an old friend."
"Ellie! V-hat is going on?" North appeared at the top of the stairs his swords drawn. "Yule?" He looked at me like he was seeing a ghost. "YULE!" He said with a laugh giving me a giant hug with his hearty laugh. "Vhere have you been?"
"Working." I replied. "I've seen you didn't invite me to the wedding." I'm hurt.
"Who is she Nick?" Ellie sounded angry.
"Yule? Yule is…" North tried to think of a good way to put it.
"I'm Yule…um like the Christmas song Yuletide carols anytime anywhere Merry Christmas?" I partially sang. "I'm an old friend. Who's this Jack person?" I asked my own question.
"Jack Frost." North replied. "He's a little…"
"Wait. Wait. Wait." I said holding my hands out. "Jack Frost is real? I thought he was just a made up guy in a song."
"He's real." The little boy piped up from the playpen. "He has like ice powers and can fly and has a staff! He's really cool!"
This Jack person sounded like almost a male copy of me. I wasn't going to take that. No way was I going to let someone show me up. "Is he the one responsible for the Easter Snow Storm of…"
"Yes." North replied. "Bunny is still angry about that."
I was mad. That had been my plan for that Easter, but I thought Mother Nature had beaten me to it. Knowing it was this Jack guy made me even bitterer about it. He was going to be my number one enemy.
"Hey guys, you know there's a pretty big storm going on out there?" A guy in a blue hoodie and gray pants came walking in twirling a wooden stick that must be his staff. His hair was a white but kind of had a blue tint to it. "I can slow it down for ya." He slammed his staff down and my snowstorm slowed down. I glared at him.
"Speak of the devil." Ellie muttered.
"Whoa El, just trying to help," His eyes scanned the room. "Well hello there." His eyes landed on me and his smile widened. "I'm Jack…Jack Frost." He started his walk towards me and held out his hand.
"I'm Yule." I said taking his hand and freezing it with my own ice locking his hand to mine for a little bit. "I don't appreciate people messing with my storms." I said seriously raising my left hand and snapping my fingers so that the storm would resume its former pace. I let go of Jack's hand he rubbed it with his left a bit as to warm it up.
"Vhat do I owe the pleasure Yule?" North asked as if nothing happened.
"Just thought I'd stop in and say hi. I was going to come up here in a few months with a friend hoping to have a room to stay in, but I can see it might be a little full. I'll just make myself a little ice hut then." I said gesturing to his family.
"Nonsense, Ellie said. "I'll make room for you. A friend of Nick's is a friend of mine. Actually would you like to join me for girl's night tonight?"
"Girls night?" I asked confused. How many wives did North have?
"Yes, Lex, Gen, and I have a girls night every two weeks." Ellie informed me. "Oh, Lex is the Sandman's wife and Gen is Pitch Black's."
"They got married?" I said astonished. "I must have missed a lot."
"We'll catch you up."