Jack in Black (a.k.a. Jack is a Ninja...?)

Jack was sat, frowning, in his customary pose, arms crossed and leaning on his bent knees, on the window seat in the meeting room of Santoff Claussen.
The others, all debating what to do about the latest threat Pitch posed, namely some kind of new orb creation that could store fear, were still in a heated debate, and after three hours of it, Jack finally had enough. At the next lull in the conversation, he spoke up.
"Why don't we just destroy them?"
They all turned at that, and Bunny rolled his eyes.
"First of all, frostbite, we don't know where they are. Second of all, even if we did, we would likely have to beat Pitch, meaning we might not have the time to destroy them."
Jack raised an eyebrow.
"That's... All?"
"What you mean, that is all?" North said, sitting forward, "Is big problem Jack."
"Not... Not really. I mean, it's easily solved..."
They were all staring at him now, and Sandy had a huge question mark above his head and a bemused look.
"How?"
The golden guardian nodded and Jack shrugged.
"I'll get a hold of a sprite I know. Good with shadow-jumping. If the orbs will be anywhere, it'll be in shadow. He can find out where they are, then we just sneak there and get it."
They all stared at him, then North chuckled.
"Why not. We have no plan. May as well give Jack's plan shot."
Jack raised an eyebrow as Bunny stared at him, incredulous.
"Ya know, ya could'a told us that three hours ago mate..."
"But you all looked like you were having so much f-"
"I swear, ya say fun and ya won't be having any for quite a while, Frosty."
"... Is that a challenge, thumper?"
Before Bunny could do more than bristle at that, Jack gave a laugh and flew out the window, shouting something about finding the sprite and leaving Bunny to wish he'd never let Tooth show Jack Bambi...

Jack landed outside the network of caves, and sighed as he walked up to the edge, where the inside was full of shadow.
"Alright, Shady... I'd better not fall over this time..." Jack said, with a sigh, and head inside, hearing and sensing, rather and seeing, his way to the centre of the maze.
True, he had not had many friends over the last three hundred years, but he'd had a couple. Who he would speak to rarely. Like Shady. He didn't actually know his real name, but Shady seemed okay for the both of them.
He'd first met the sprite about one hundred and fifty years ago. Outcast from the rest of his kind for his interest in shadows and shadow jumping, he had decided he was better off alone, and had self taught himself to be a master at shadow jumping and deciphering anomalies within the shadow web. Eventually he would have become more of a Shadow spirit than a sprite, if Mother Nature had her way. Then Jack grinned. Maybe he had...He hadn't seen him in nearly three decades after all...
The first time he'd met the sprite was when he had been doing his usual job of just scattering snow.
Then he'd gone slightly overboard, and, being unable to make it back to his own home, had settled for a cave on a cliff face.
He'd woken up to being wrapped in a blanket and being stared at by a round, cheerful face...
The rest was history. They had both liked their own space, but Jack would stop by every few years for a week or so, or if he needed it. There was a silent agreement between the two that they needed space, but were always there if needed. And Jack had been planning to visit anyway...
He let instinct take over as he travelled through the tunnels, and was rewarded with a brightening of the tunnels, and an eventual brightly lit doorway.
A quick rap on the door, in his own unique pattern, had a familiar face appearing from around a doorway, a grin on his face.
"Jack! It's been a long time..."
Jack grinned as Shady gestured him inside, and nodded.
"Yeah... Sorry. Had a hell of a half of a century..."
"I know. That blizzard in 68? Man, I'll bet Bunnymund was not happy about that."
"You got that right..."

Jack didn't notice the time pass as they spoke. Shady had lightened up a lot since the last time Jack had seen him, but that may be due to that fact that he was now an official spirit. Which was impressive for someone his age. And he had slowed aging then, so he still looked like he was in his late teens, possibly early twenties. Though he was shorter. Much shorter.
They spoke for ages, until Jack found himself yawning, and realised he must have been there for hours.
"Damn it, the others will be getting worried..."
"Well, it is about time somebody worried about you. Or you let somebody worry."
"Still going on about that?"
"You could have ended up in a coma for years if I hadn't found you."
"I was fine!"
"Oh, really? Then how come-"
"You're right, I'm sorry."
"... What?"
"I'm sorry... And I don't think I ever thanked you for that?"
"I... Jack? What did they do to you?"
Jack laughed, but then it faded into a frown.
"Made me a guardian... And I need your help."
"I figured. Word's spread about Pitch's newest weapons..."
"And we need to destroy them. But to do that-"
"You need to know where they are. Way ahead of you, Jack. I'd have to be comatose to miss the imprint of those things... I'd need a map to show you though. I think I have one around here some-"
"Couldn't you show me at the pole?"
"The-the pole? Jack, that's quite a way aways-"
"Not with one of these it isn't..."
Jack pulled out one of North's teleporting orbs and Shady got a glint in his eye.
"Well, that would wind the Sprite Circle up for sure... Ah why not."
"Really? Oh. That was easy... I mean, you never leave the cave... Like never ever..."
"You didn't complain when I saved your ass..."
"Actually, I did."
"... Oh yeah, you did. Are you still that stubborn?"
"Worse."
Shady whistled slightly.
"Ouch... Then I pity anybody who gets in your way."
"Try telling Bunny that... Ready?"
"As ever..."
Jack grinned as he gripped the shorter man by the shoulder.
"Good."
He threw the orb, saying his destination, and they both leapt through the portal.
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An hour later, and they were plotting the best way to get into Pitch's lair. Because that was where the orbs seemed to be. Jack had rolled his eyes at the obviousness of it all, and was now irritating Phil by splattering the nearby elves with snow and getting them to trip him up.
Shady, which the others had also taken to calling him-even if it sounded very amusing in Bunnymund's accent- was idly flitting between shadows, and watching as the guardians, aside from Jack, as they pooled ways of sneaking in.
Jack eventually seemed to have had enough and drifted over.
"They still not got a plan?" He whispered, then groaned as Bunny's ridiculously good hearing picked up on it.
"Nope. Though it may move faster if ya started giving us a hand 'ere Frostbite..."
Jack rolled his eyes and drifted over, looking over the brainstormed ideas.
Then he snorted.
"Really? Oh dear..."
Bunny grabbed the scruff of his hoody and yanked him down, frowning.
"Okay then, Frosty, what's so funny?"
"Just... Why do you do things the hard way? Why don't you just let Shady jump one of us in, seeing as he had enough power to jump with one other person, that person can leave a tracker, then Bunny can open a tunnel near the tracker and sneak in, help the one already there pack the orbs up and open a portal here. Then throw the boxes through and saunter through ourselves."
Shady was grinning at the dumbfounded looks on the faces of the older guardians, and spoke up.
"I can do that. Only with one person though, and only for the one trip. I've been out of the shadows for too long to be of any more use, and I doubt you'll want to waste time waiting for me to recharge each time."
The older guardians shared looks, then North shrugged.
"Is good plan."
Bunny gave Jack a look which easily translated as 'don't let it go to yer head mate' and Jack grinned, before Shady tugged his foot.
"Another thing. Considering how dark it is in there, you might wanna dress in something...Black?"
Jack's face fell after a few seconds as he took in what he was saying.
"Oh... Oh no, not... Not that outfit...? Why are you so insistent that I wear it?"
"... I have a bet with the fashion guru that is the damned fall elf, that you would wear it before the next century was up. I only have a few years left..."
"All of that... For a bet?"
Jack looked incredulous, then rolled his eyes.
"Fine... This is to say thanks. But just this once. Never. Again. Are we understood?"
"Perfectly. And hey, it'll totally make the little fairies swoon again."

The other guardians all looked completely bemused, and Shady began to explain.
"Right. Me and Jack haven't seen each other much, but when we do, it became a kinda tradition to give each other something absurd that may actually come in handy. I asked a fall spirit for advice, an actual nice one this time, and we came up with...an outfit... Which will actually come in useful for this."
Tooth gave a gasp and started pressing for details, but Shady grinned.
"You'll have to wait and see..."
"And I'll bet MI5 never forgive you for stealing it." Jack snorted, and Shady gave him an indignant look.
"They never knew who it was!"
"But it was worth an awful lot. I mean, all of the protective and stealth technology and god knows what they were experimenting with...You know, that was the reason they blamed the Russians, and that was why I had to send that damned blizzard over the whole of Russia to stop world war three."
"You didn't have to do that."
"And what would the sprite circle have done if I hadn't?"
"Well..."
"Exactly. And it wasn't easy, let me tell you..."
"Okay, okay. But it all worked out f-"
"Ahem!"
They both span to see four very bemused, yet amused guardians, and Jack blinked.
"Oh, right. Yeah. I had a busy century."
"No kiddin..." Bunny said, with a small whistle, and Shady tugged on his foot again.
"I'll go get it... Man, I can't wait to see the damned elf spirit pay up..."
He vanished into a shadow, and Tooth grinned.
"Am I going to need a camera for this, Jack?"
He rolled his eyes.
"If you like... That spirit really is far too keen on placing bets concerning me, so might as well make the most of it."
Shady appeared a few minutes later with a black bundle, and threw it to Jack, who sighed as he stalked off.

The other guardians looked at the grinning spirit, who refused to give anything away, then North sighed.
"Right then. I assume we all need black also, dah?"
Shady nodded,
"Probably best. I mean, that red might stand out a little..."
They all either flew, or walked to follow Shady's advice, North deciding that it would be helpful and amusing to dye Bunny's fur black, much to his horror and extremely reluctant agreement, and it was almost an hour before they all returned.
Sandy, of course, couldn't anything but gold, so they decided he would be there to create a distraction if needed. Tooth had come back in a figure hugging all in one black leotard, black-very kickass looking- boots and a magical tint on her wings, to make them duller.
Bunny's fur was completely black, much to his irritation, though he had to admit it didn't create any problem aside from with his ego.
North was in pretty much the same as usual, but everything was black. As in, everything. Heck, even his hair was tied back under a black hair net kind of thing. He was really taking the whole thing as an awful lot of-probably too much- fun...
And that just left Jack, who was still yet to arrive.

Jack sighed as he looked in the wall length ice mirror he had just made.
First of all, he was in a black all in one outfit. Insulated to its core temperature, namely his, so he could withstand heat for longer. It was also very flexible, meaning it hugged his form perfectly, and could stretch with his ridiculous air acrobatics, as Bunny called them. The fabric was heat resistant, water resistant, shock resistant, bulletproof -though he had no hide when that would come in handy-blade resistant-seeing as it used some kind of diamond thread technology- and very comfortable, though he would never admit it.
Over the top went a black leather jacket-mainly for the bet's purposes, damn the shadow spirit- which he didn't bother zipping up, and black boots. Similar to Norths', but hugged his legs much more. Quite thick soles, which he was kinda grateful for, even if he didn't really like wearing shoes, and they went almost up to his knees. He slotted his dagger, which he almost never used-he wasn't even sure the guardians knew he had it- into to the sheath with came with the black belt which he quickly belted around his waist, and took another proper look at himself.
Just... Wow... But what about his hair? It appeared that Shady had had an answer for that too.
Non-permanent, spray on hair dye.
Was he serious? He wasn't serious... He couldn't be...
But it seemed he was.
Moon damn the little...
Then Jack grinned.
Oh well, may as well make the most of it...
Ten minutes later, he had most of his hair black, aside from a few white highlights at the front, and he had to admit he barely recognised himself...
Then he groaned.
How the hell were Tooth's fairies gonna react to this?
Suddenly a head popped from the shadows and Shady grinned.
"Oh yes, this wager is as good as mine...Heck Jack, you look completely... wow... Now move it, they're all in the study. Oh, and if it makes you feel better, Bunny had his fur dyed black..."
With that, he was gone, leaving a grinning winter spirit behind him.
On second thoughts, this might be just fine...
Five minutes later, he was taking a deep breath before pushing the door to the study open.

Tooth and the others were actually quite eager to see their winter spirit in black... Or rather, Tooth and her fairies were very eager, the men were really not all that bothered.
Her ears flitted as she heard footsteps, and then the door opened.
There was a moment's stunned silence as everyone took in Jack's appearance, then they all eventually reacted.
Most of the fairies in the room fainted on the spot, uttering small, delighted gasps, and the rest seemed too stunned to do more than stare at the latest arrival. Tooth was blinking, wondering why on earth she had never made him wear black before, before she fluttered to the sofa. Jack was grinning at the reception he had received, and the sight of the grin marked game over for the rest of the fairies, who promptly fainted on the spot.
North looked rather amused by it all, and was also wondering where the boy had got the boots... Sandy also looked highly amused by the whole encounter, and was wondering how the hell Shady had convinced him to dye his hair.
Bunny, on the other hand, was just staring. Simple as that. He was all prepared to throw a few jibes, but they all went out the window. The winter spirit looked... well... Was dangerous the word?
Huh... Maybe they had been underestimating their newest guardian...
Shady was quick to snap a couple of photos, much to Baby Tooth's delight, as she demanded that she get a copy-no one had trouble understanding her sharp gestures- to which Shady hastily agreed, before Jack seemed to finally have had enough of the shock and awe...
"So... We going or what?"

They were going, sure, as soon as they had picked up all of the fairies, a task allotted to Jack, seeing as it was his fault they were all on the floor in the first place.
It didn't help that they all stirred when they realised they were being moved, and, realising that it was Jack, immediately went into fan-girl tizzy mode, before promptly fainting again, safe in the knowledge that Jack would catch them. He was used to it, after all...
When they were all safe on the couch, Jack rolled his eyes as he turned to baby-tooth.
"Was this your idea?"
She chattered, and Jack frowned, hiding a smile.
"Oh, so you had nothing to do with the fact that there were a lot more of you guys here than usual?"
Baby Tooth chattered again, and Jack couldn't help laughing as she made herself comfortable in the collar of his jacket.
"She's blaming you, Tooth..."
He raised an eyebrow, black like the rest of his hair, and she blushed.
"Well...I-I mean..."
Bunny rolled his eyes as he stopped pacing, eager to get going.
"Don't botha lyin, Tooth. Ya came back 'ere with a bloody train of them be'ind ya."
Jack rolled his eyes.
"Really? I have enough of a fan club as it is... Anyway, who's Shady taking?"
Tooth raised her hand.
"Makes sense seeing as I'm the smallest. Less likely to be noticed."
"But what if he does notice you?"
Bunny nodded.
"He's right Tooth... You can't beat him on yer own."
As Tooth argued her point, a silent conversation was going on between Jack, Sandy, North and Bunny, who all eventually, however reluctantly, nodded.
It made sense. He could hold Pitch off, he was clearly more than capable of keeping out of sight, and he was used to being taken through shadows', having been through the experience a couple of times before. He snatched the tracker from the desk, just as Tooth realised what all the stares had been about, gave a quick grin and, with a nod to Shady, he gripped his staff tighter, grabbed the shadow sprite's shoulder, and felt a sharp tug, before the whole room vanished.
_

Jack blinked as a dark passage span into existence, and Shady had to grab him to stop the dizziness from sending him flat on his face. After a few seconds, it cleared, and Jack nodded.
"Okay, I'm fine. Let's get moving..."
A few minutes later, they arrived in a wide cavern, with stone walkways crisscrossing the entire distance, and Jack nodded as Shady gestured to the bottom of the huge space, where a-well, there really was no other word for it-workshop was situated, with several crates of the orbs they were looking for.
Jack frowned as he realised there was no wind this far underground, and debated the best way to get down, until Shady tugged his sleeve.
"I've got enough in me for one more jump, but then I'm gonna have to head straight back to the cave..."
Jack nodded, and gripped his arm, vanishing and using the all to prop himself up until the dizzy wave passed again when they reached the bottom.
"Thanks Shady... You'd better get going-"
"Not till that damned Pooka arrives. There's something about this place-"
"I'll be fine. If you don't get to your cave soon, and to those concentrated shadows, you'll end up comatose..."
"I can last a little longer..."
Jack sighed as he activated the tracker, and rolled his eyes.
"Don't tell me their over protectiveness has worn off onto you?"
"No. I know that you're a hell of a lot more powerful than they think. They need to realise that you spent 300 years looking after yourself, and that it can't change like that-" He clicked his fingers, then sighed, "But they were right when they said you spent far too long alone Kiddo."
"Meh, I had you and the others..."
"You had four people you could turn to Jack. Four. Over three hundred years. And one of those was the wind... I don't think I realised how bad it was..."
"Hey, I'm fine... You on the other hand, are not. You need to get going, or you're gonna end up like last century..."
The sound of someone clearing their throat for attention had them spinning, and Jack sighed in relief as he realised it was Bunny.
"See? It's fine. Now you'd better get going..."
The shadow spirit nodded, still reluctant, but realising he really had better go. Before he could spin away however, Jack clasped his shoulder.
"Hey, what is your real name anyway?"
The spirit raised an eyebrow.
"... Pantelaimerius Lidofus Corfusa. Why?"
Jack blinked.
"... Nothing. Just wondering... Hey, can I call you Pan from now on?"
"... Go for it."
He was still laughing as he vanished, and Bunny rolled his eyes.
"Come on then, Frostbite. Let's get these packed up."

Bunny was pacing, and Tooth was likewise doing so, but five feet above him.
"What's taking so long..." She asked, for the fifth time in as many minutes, and North sighed.
"Jack is fine. Give him more credit Tooth. Will take time."
Bunny was likewise nervous. The plan was meant to be simple... He knew the little frost nipper could handle himself, but something felt wrong... Something felt like it was about to go wrong...
A sudden beeping told them that the tracker had been activated, and they all looked up at the globe, where they had relocated to as soon as Jack had vanished.
Bunny honed in on the spot and got his bearings, before nodding and tapping the floor, jumping down the whole that appeared and popping up a short while later only to hear voices.
Don't tell me their over protectiveness has worn off onto you?" That was Jack...
"No. I know that you're a hell of a lot more powerful than they think."The sprite answered, both clearly unaware he was there, "They need to realise that you spent 300 years looking after yourself, and that it can't change like that-" Bunny heard the sound of him clicking his fingers and a sigh before he continued "But they were right when they said you spent far too long alone Kiddo."
"Meh, I had you and the others..."
"You had four people you could turn to Jack. Four. Over three hundred years. And one of those was the wind... I don't think I realised how bad it was..."
Bunny blinked... Seems Shady wasn't the only one who didn't realise how bad it was...
"Hey, I'm fine... You on the other hand, are not. You need to get going, or you're gonna end up like last century..." Bunny decided to intervene and cleared his throat to draw their attention.
They both looked startled, before Jack grinned, clearly relieved, and told the sprite to get moving.
He was still trying to wrap his mind around the real name of the spirit, when he vanished and he pushed it from his mind, to be replaced with the reason they were here.
"Come on then, Frostbite. Let's get these packed up. "
It wasn't difficult to throw the odd ones into partially full boxes, and Bunny grabbed the orb, throwing it and saying their destination.
North and Tooth's relieved expressions appeared the other side, and they started throwing the boxes through. The last was through and Bunny was just about to follow Jack through when he heard a noise.
He turned back, ears twitching, and just managed to dive out of the way as a nightmare came out of nowhere.
He landed in a roll, just as the portal closed, and pushed himself to his feet only to see that Jack had leapt back through at the last minute.
Bunny sighed as he leapt over and put himself back to back with the other guardian.
"Not your brightest idea, Frostbite..."
"Not yours either. Why not just jump through the damned portal...?"
"... Shut up."
For the first time, Jack listened, though that may have been because they were now surrounded by nightmares. A familiar laugh had them glaring at a tall, thin figure as he appeared in beside them.
"Well well, what do you know? You actually managed to find the orbs. After all my hard work hiding them... Oh well, I can make more. And having two guardians is a fair trade I think."
"Ya haven't got us yet mate..."
Bunny said, glaring, and suddenly threw his boomerang at one of the nightmares. It hit two more on the return journey, before landing firmly in Bunny's paw.
Just like that, the nightmares moved, and both guardians threw themselves into the fight.
_

Shady, or Pan depending on what you wanted to call him, cursed as he felt he fight begin, and knew there was nothing he could do in his weakened state.
Then he blinked. Actually, there was. He flitted to the pole, catching the other three guardians.
"North! Do you have any swords other than your own?"
"Well... Yes but why-"
"Where?"
North opened a portal to what appeared to be a weapons room-Santa Claus had a weapons room? Go figure...- and Shady bounded inside, grinning as he caught sight of a series of swords hanging on the wall.
"Can I take these two?"
North looked completely bemused.
"Why?"
"Because Bunny and Jack are surrounded by Nightmares, and Jack needs a decent weapon."
North and the other two blinked.
"Jack uses swords?"
"300 years is a long time to get bored. Jack liked the look of them and decided to learn... These will do until I find his ones."
"Then take. Take and go. We will be there also, when we calibrate portal location with location on globe."
"You got it."
Shady jumped back just in time to see Jack thrown back by Pitch, and Bunny turn to try and help, too far away to do anything.

Jack cursed as he got attacked not only by nightmares but also by Pitch. Bunny had his hands full, what with there being hundreds of the damned things in the cavern, and he wasn't able to call for the wind because they were too far underground. Freezing them could only do so much...
Just as he was thinking that, he felt himself thrown back and couldn't help an involuntary cry as he collided with the wall.
Bunny was too far away to give him a hand, and his staff was several feet away, where it had been torn from his hand. Just as he was wondering how the hell he was going to get out of this one, he heard a familiar voice, and turned to see Shady, holding out two twin Sai blades.
He didn't question where he got them, he didn't question why he was there, he simply gave him a grateful grin, caught them and leapt to his feet. They may not be his blades, but they would do...
After that, the fight seemed to turn for him.
Nightmare after nightmare fell, having to retreat to reform, and even though he missed his own frost marked Sai, which would have destroyed the nightmares, it was definitely better than nothing. A quick gesture ensured Shady grabbed his staff and kept it in shadow space, and he focused solely on the task at hand.
And, he had to admit, it might have taken years to learn to use all of the different swords and bows and martial arts, but it had kept him from being bored... and it as definitely worth the look on Bunny's face as he took it in.

E. Aster Bunnymund was near enough an expert at all styles of martial art. And was actually pretty good with the weapon styled techniques too, but he had never seen someone with a style quite like Jacks. It seemed to combine the weapons with various different martial arts moves and very agile, flexible techniques. And it was impressive. Very impressive...
Combine that with the outfit and the style of weapon choice- though he wasn't quite sure where they came from- and Jack was... well... A ninja. Literally.
Problem was, the nightmares kept reforming...Bunny made his way over to Jack, fighting his way through, and decided to keep a safe distance between them, until he could dart in and go back to back again, irritated with himself for not being faster with creating a tunnel out of their when the fight began, but taking the current revelation as something of a silver lining from the whole mess.
"Damn it, Frostbite, where the hell did ya learn to do that?"
"300 years is a long time. It stopped me getting bored. I just wish I had my own. They're frost marked and would actually destroy the damned things..."
Before Bunny could take in the fact that Jack had his own Sai, a fact which he wasn't sure worried him or reassured him, Shady popped from the shadows holding a bundle, and Jack gave a huge grin, eyes flashing. As Jack threw the two blades he was holding to Shady, the shadow spirit threw the bundle to Jack, who nimbly caught it and swiftly unwrapped it, revealing two very dangerous looking weapons.
Black leather was wrapped around the handles, but blue and white ice patterns trailed up each one, as well down the ice blue blades. They appeared to have incorporated Jack's element into them, essentially making them a part of him and he grinned at the dumbfounded look on Bunny's face.
"You think these are cool? Wait till you see my Katana..."
"You have a Katana?"
"Yup... But I gave up on Shruikans. Ones made of ice are far more effective..."
"... Ya know, I've been under-estimatin ya frostbite... How about a tunnel out of here?"
Before Jack could do more than grin at that, a portal opened and the other three guardians leapt through.
Pitch, seeming to finally snap, cried out for the nightmares to attack, and Bunny grinned as he realised that the other three guardians were in for quite a surprise...
Sure enough...

A few minutes later, and they had all managed to get to North, who opened another portal, letting them all leap through. As soon as it closed behind them, they all turned, incredulous, to Jack, who took a small step back, raising his eyebrows and shrugging.
"What?"
Ah from the corner had them all looking at Shady, who grinned.
"Oh dear, have they been underestimating you Jack?"
"Looks like it. Seriously guys, when I said I could take care of myself, I actually meant it..."
Jack grinned as he placed the Sai in the specifically designed spaces on the belt, and caught his staff as the shadow spirit threw it to him.
"Thanks Shady. Does Gale still have my Katana?"
"Yeah. I'll get her to send it over."
"Nah, that's alright. I haven't visited in a while..."
"Okay, I'll just let her know to expect you. Now I'm going to sleep. Like I do after every time you visit."
Before Jack could do more than exclaim indignantly, Shady had nodded to the other guardians and vanished.
Then Jack turned back to the other guardians. Sandy was grinning, and gave Jack a high five, North looked completely bemused, Tooth looked as if she wasn't sure how to take the news that her little sweet tooth was actually pretty capable of taking care of himself, and Bunny looked like Easter had come early.
"So Jack," North said, slumping down onto the sofa in the lounge, followed by the others, "How come you can use sword?"
Jack sighed.
"It's a long story..."
"We have time... "
The rest of them nodded avidly, and Jack sighed, getting more comfortable and nodding.
"Okay, well, It was about 220... no, 230 years ago..."

Next chapter, a bit about how Jack came to be a virtual Ninja, Bunny decides he wants to spar, and a few other random things I might chuck in :D

Disclaimer- I don't own Rise of the Guardians, or the places and characters...
(However much I might want to *sniffle*) Though Shady... or Pan... or whatever, is all mine :D

Please review and let me know what you think! Or to give me ideas for other one-shots :D
Oh, and sorry if some characters may go slightly OOC!

Raven xx