A/N: hiii there everyone did you miss me? welp im back with another rise of the guardians fanfction and if you havent read my first fanfiction, Sleep, then i suggest you do just so that you can have a glimpse of my writing style if this is your first time reading one of my fics :3

Dislaimer: I do not own Rise of the Guardians or the cover art. The picture i used for cover art was drawn by tumblr user mossmallow and is used with her permission but this website cut off most of the image and i have never been more pi**ed off in my life :I so if any of you out there know how i can fix this please tell me because i would like to show all of you the full sized image

Chapter One

This story's missing a wishing well
No mirror to show and tell
No kiss that can break the spell
I'm falling asleep

"Is that a challenge cottontail?"

"Ya don't want to race a rabbit mate."

Bunnymund suddenly became a blur as he hopped from rooftop to rooftop at record speeds. "Whoa!" Jack said at seeing the tall rabbit zoom off. He needed to step up his game if he wanted to beat the Easter Kangaroo.

Realizing that he was lagging behind the rest, Jack flew faster through the air. Tooth had given them orders on what houses to go to and Jack happened to spot the closest one. No one else was around, which meant that he had this house all to himself.

He slowly opened the window leading to the child's room. He was about to step through and grab the baby tooth under the child's pillow when a hole suddenly opened up besides their bed and Bunnymund hopped out of it. He reached under the pillow and pulled out the baby tooth and being the mature spirit he is, he smirked and waved it a Jack just to taunt the teen. Jack just furrowed his brow while narrowing his eyes at his rival and a bolt of ice shot out from the crook of his staff and he smiled when he heard the rabbit yelp as he was hit in the face.

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An obnoxious beeping sound suddenly woke Jack up in his bed. The sleepy teen pulled his white pillow over his head trying to block out his alarm clock but he could still hear it pounding against his eardrums. He groaned before slamming his hand over the infernal device. Five more minutes of sleep never did anyone harm did it? Besides, Jack was having such a nice dream. This time he was collecting baby teeth for the tooth fairy with the help of the Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, and the Sandman. He even shot ice at the Easter bunny's face while they broke into houses to collect the teeth.

Jack laid in his bed as his eyes remained closed. He was about to drift back into sleep before his alarm clock went off again only this time louder. It wasn't even five minutes yet! Deciding not to deal with this so early in the morning, Jack sat up and knocked his alarm clock onto the ground not caring that it shattered against the hard wood floor. He needed a new clock in his room anyway. Jack sighed and rested his head once again relieved at the silence filling his room. He would only be in bed for thirty more seconds. Sleep was an important thing to him. After all, last night he was watching a movie on the television with everyone else in the room. It was a Disney movie, and Jack wanted to watch it until the end.

It wasn't a moment after he broke his alarm clock Jack's eyes snapped open. He had school! Throwing his bed sheets off himself, Jack sprung out of his bed and ran to the dresser in his room. It wasn't much of a room, Jack lived in the attic at Burgess Orphanage since all of the other rooms were crammed with the other orphans all at least five years younger than he was. Besides, his eighteenth birthday was in a few days, which meant that he would be an adult soon.

After slipping on a pair of tattered brown pants, Jack didn't bother to put a shirt on and he just slipped into his blue pullover hoodie. He had already wasted time just trying to wake up and if he didn't get to the bus stop soon he'd be late and miss the bus. Again.

Jack didn't even know what time it was because the only clock in the attic was lying on the floor in pieces. There were some other clocks stored in boxes around the attic, but according to Ms. Dawdson, the caretaker of the orphanage, Jack wasn't allowed to touch anything in there because he might break them or sell them to some shady guy in a black van or something. Usually Jack would just wave her off and look anyway, but everything in those storage boxes were covered in dust and buried under thick bed sheets that he was too lazy to pull off.

The albino teen ran to the other side of the attic where a door was in the floor. He pushed the flap down and as it opened up a ladder folded out. Jack nearly tripped when he grabbed his schoolbag and climbed down the ladder that could give out beneath him at any minute. He didn't have time to run down the stairs so he just slid down the rails on the staircase as he reached the first floor of the three story orphanage. He was late enough, Jack didn't have time to comb his hair or to brush his teeth so he just popped a stick of strong spearmint gum in his mouth to get rid of any morning breath as he ran to the door not even bothering with breakfast.

Jack was almost out the door when he felt a hand pull him back. "Jack I think you're forgetting something." said a young feminine voice behind him. Jack turned around to see Katherine, a young girl with curly dirty blonde hair standing in front of him holding a blue pair of old converse shoes.

"Oh. Thanks Katherine."

"There's still some snow from yesterday so you'll be wanting to wear shoes before you run out."

Katherine handed Jack his shoes and he waved goodbye to her before rushing out the door. Jackson Frost had been at the orphanage for ten years and the closest things to friends he had was Katherine, who's parents had died in an avalanche of snow during a family vacation when she was a baby, and this other boy who everyone called 'Nightlight' because he always had a flashlight in his hands that he shined through the night.

Nightlight was adopted yesterday, while Jack was at school, and Katherine was supposed to be picked up by her new family today. Jack would really miss them even though they were only in the orphanage for three weeks. They were his friends. Well, they weren't his closest friends Nightlight was more like a playmate despite that fact the he barely talked and Katherine would tell amazing stories. All this was just another reason for Jack not being too social to everyone else. If he became social then he'd become attached. If he became attached then he'd be too sad when they would leave his life forever. That's the curse of being the seventeen year old orphan who nobody wants to adopt. He can never make any friends without them being whisked away to another family.

Jack was never adopted. Ever. He was known as the 'white haired hellion that nobody wanted'. It wasn't that people looking to adopt thought that Jack's white hair was weird, but he was such a trouble maker. Nobody wanted to adopt a burden, so it looked like Jack wouldn't be adopted anytime soon.

It was as if Jack wasn't meant to have friends. They would just fade out of his life as if he never meant anything to them. Jack couldn't even make friends at school. He was just a mischievous loner who the teachers didn't like because he always talked back to them. They really should have expected this though. Jack was a teenager, teachers should expect teenagers to use sarcasm.

Jack ran through the snow and almost tripped on his untied shoelaces. He never tied his shoes so they would always be a tangled mess. Whenever that Aster Bunnymund kid from school saw them, Jack knew that his untied shoes irked the Australian. Everyone thought that Jack never tied his shoes just to spite Aster but in reality, Jack had actually forgotten how to tie his shoes but he never told anyone that. Jackson Frost did not want to be known as the high school senior who couldn't tie a single knot. Besides, his father had taught him how to tie his shoes and the last time he even talked to his father was back when he was an obedient child.

Sprinting down the road, Jack hopped over every patch of ice and leapt over the snowbanks. He could feel the cold moist snow seeping through his tattered shoes but he didn't care. He had to get to the bus stop before it left without him. Jack cut through someone's front yard and off in the distance he could see his yellow school bus open its doors. That was when he started to run faster. He almost made it to his bus but unfortunately he tripped over his shoelaces and landed face first in the snow. Jack looked back up to see his bus depart without him.

"Hey wait!" he yelled as he he got out of the snow. He didn't even bother to brush the snow off of his hoodie as he trailed after the school bus full of high school kids.

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A six foot one Australian teen with green eyes rested his head on the window of the bus. A few locks of his brown hair hung over the grey and black bandana tied around his head but he didn't care. A dark green satchel hung off of his shoulder as he stared out the window. This boy was named Edmund Aster Bunnymund but he preffered just 'Aster' and he hated winter, he also hated riding a cold metal school bus to school. Winter was when all of the beautiful and colorful plants would die and it was too cold outside to enjoy anything. The only good thing about winter was that it had ended but it had left snow behind. It was as if winter was overstaying its visit during spring, and Easter was in a few weeks. Aster adjusted his long blueish grey winter coat and was glad that he had worn his boots today. There was still snow on the ground from yesterday and if he had worn his normal school shoes his feet would have gotten frostbite. The thought of frostbite suddenly sent a thought about that Jack Frost kid through Aster's mind and he scowled.

He hated that kid.

Jackson Frost had made a mockery of Aster in their freshman year together. It was during the Easter Egg Hunt too. Aster had been going over the rules with some volunteers and the next thing he knew Jack came out of nowhere and pulled down Aster's pants revealing his kangaroo boxers to everyone. It didn't help that Jack's hands were freezing cold either. That kid was as cold as a dead corpse. Why did he even pants Aster anyway? Was it because of some stupid dare? Was he forces to do it? Or was it because Jack was just a that much of a jerk? The points is that the Aussie had never been more embarrassed in his life and it didn't help that Jack constantly reminded of it since he kept calling him 'Kangaroo'.

Jack and Aster have never gotten along. It was always the six foot one Australian with thick eyebrows and brown hair that flared out at the sides under his bandana against the trouble making five foot six albino who looked like he had never been under the sun a day in his life and was the scrawniest kid Aster knew. You could get a paper cut from Jack.

Sitting next to Aster was Toothiana Fairie or 'Tooth' to her friends. She was five foot four with her light brown hair pulled neatly back into a high ponytail. She had a few feathery hair accessories on her head that included a blue headband with a round feather on the side. Dangling from her ears was a set of golden earrings shaped like diamonds and the engravings on them made them look even more beautiful when they would shimmer under the light. On here long eyelashes was a coat of pink mascara that complemented her pink eyeshadow. If any other girl had worn as much makeup as Tooth did, they would have ended up looking completely ridiculous but Tooth was able to pull it off stunningly. Most of it was because of her perfect teeth and the only reason they were perfect was because she brushed and flossed them four times a day. Underneath her brightly multicolored winter coat was a set of bright gold bangles on one wrist and a golden necklace with a feather hanging in the center.

She also had a tiny metal box the size of a nickel hanging from her neck that contained her first baby tooth.

Tooth gazed out the window that Aster was resting his head on and saw Jackson Frost chasing after the bus.

Again.

Jack could be clearly seen since his blue hoodie and bright blue eyes stood out in the white background he was sprinting through, and according to Tooth Jack was the hottest thing outside at the moment. There was a rumor going around school that Tooth had a major crush on the high school loner, and it was true. Another rumor was that Jack had teeth as white as freshly fallen snow and since Tooth wanted to be a dentist, she desperately wanted to see Jack's teeth. She never asked him though. Walking up to you crush and asking if you can examine their mouth is something that Tooth was not planning to do. "Hey Aster, I think we should tell the bus driver to stop." she said.

"Why?"

"Because Jack is chasing-"

"Eh, let him be. The kid needs to learn how to be responsible enough to not miss his bus."

"But its freezing cold outside!"

"Doesn't Frost love the snow? Remember that time when he ran barefoot through the snow wearing nothing but that blue hoodie of his and tattered pants? Seriously that boy is not right in the head to be doing something as mental as that."

"Okay I get it we all know you don't like cold weather."

"No, I loathe it completely."

Tooth frowned at her companion. How could he be so cruel? Tooth knew that Aster and Jack weren't buddies but Jack might freeze to death out there! Well, maybe he wouldn't die but there was a high chance of him getting a fever. Tooth looked through the window again to see Jack becoming farther and farther away. If only her other two friends were here, but Sandy walked to school and North just drove his car. Usually they would all ride in North's car to school but he forgot to pick them up today meaning that Aster and Tooth had to take the bus like everyone else.

Looking further outside, Tooth saw that the independent boy chasing after them was out of sight.

"Hey I don't see Jack out there anymore,"

"Frost probably fell behind. He's a fast runner but he was just too far to catch up to us. Any way he'll probably just find another was to get to school."

"Yeah probably."

Tooth hoped that Jack was okay.

On the topic of Jack, the boy was currently climbing up a tree that the bus would pass under anytime soon. There was a branch that extended out over the road, so if Jack could crawl out to the branch in time, he could just drop down onto the bus when it passed. To a normal person this would be the stupidest idea ever but to Jack it sounded rather exciting and fun.

He slowly made his way out to the branch as the bus came into view. Just a few seconds more and he would be able to drop down.

OoOoO

"What if he doesn't wake up?"

"Well we can't say if that will happen yet."

"But he's been asleep for days!"

"Maybe he was just over workin himself again."

"Yeah but even if he was he should have woken up by now. Sandy can't you do something?"

Tooth turned away from Bunnymund and looked at the sandman who just shrugged. He was the one who had found Jack Frost sleeping in a tree and at first he though everything was normal, until Jack didn't wake up. It was then that Sandy brought Jack to the North Pole and that was days ago. Jack hadn't even batted an eye or showed any sign of uneasy rest. It didn't even make sense for Jack to be asleep for this long. Pitch was gone, and even if he had somehow risen back to power he couldn't make a winter spirit go into a coma, and there was no way that Sandy had intentionally put Jack to sleep for this long.

"Do you want to try looking into Jack's dreams again Sandy?" North asked him. The last time Sandy had tried to look into Jack's mind the only thing he received was a massive headache from it. It was as if Jack's dream was too big for the guardian of dreams. Sandy nodded and walked up to the bed where Jack was resting. His golden hand was placed on Jack's cold pale forehead and he closed his eyes while concentrating. He began to look into Jack's mind but all he saw was nothing, just an empty white space. The connection faded away and Sandy opened his eyes to see Jack still asleep while the other guardians looked at him anxious for an answer.

"Well? What?" Bunymund questioned. A question mark formed above Sandy's head indicating that he did not know. All of them sighed in frustration. If the sandman didn't know what was going on in Jack's head, then that meant that he could be dreaming of anything.

A/N: okay so if you want to see what everyone will look humanized in this fic, just look at the amazing cover art made by tumblr user mossmallow :3

lets just say i saw the picture and became inspired by it. also, the italicized words at the beginning of this are song lyrics from the the song kill the lights by the birthday massacre but dont worry i wont include them all the time