Disclaimer: I don't own Rise of the Guardians, How to Train Your Dragon, Tangled or Brave! None of me is in anyway affiliated with Dream Works or Disney. This is a fan fiction, written only for fun.

Here we go, another chapter. Am I doing ok? Is this something I should stick with? Or should I only ever do Gundam Wing Fics?

Seasons Change

Chapter 2: Relearning the World

Jack didn't move, he hadn't been spotted yet. Tooth was hovering over the boy North had brought, and apparently an iridescent woman with wings flying around him was too exciting to look away from.

Jack felt an uncontrollable surge of jealousy and dislike, he didn't want to be here for this. He used the distraction of this boy introducing himself to Tooth to climb up into the support beams of North's workshop.

He braced his back against and beam and draped one leg over his staff and then the staff over his shoulder. Nestled in, he silently watched, holding still and listening.

"Hiccup, you should have taken better care of your teeth."

"Huh? But I..."

"There's no excuse, look at these molars, completely neglected. And so worn, what were you doing? Chewing rocks?"

Jack bit back a laugh, he'd wanted to laugh the moment he saw, uh, Hiccup? Odd name. His hair stuck out in all directions and his face looked like someone had shoved it into a fireplace. He essentially looked like he'd come out on the wrong end of a science experiment.

It didn't help that when Tooth hovered closer to scold him he fell over into North and he and all his gangly limbs went down into a nest of elves.

Jack covered his mouth and tried not to fall off his hiding place. Now that he saw Tooth going crazy over someone else's teeth, besides his own, it was rather funny.

Jack turned to his left as a thumping noise and lots of Yetti talk came down the hall.

"I've no time ta stop, lay off." Bunny was shaking snow off his shoulders as he walked, with Yetti's trailing behind him with towels and rags. "Next time I'll wipe my feet, ok?"

Behind him trailed a girl with...

Jack stared, the Yetti's were all doing their best to avoid it, but there was a trail of hair. Wet from snow hair. The girl was leaning forward against the pull as she followed Bunny. And she did not look happy.

Jack covered his mouth with both hands to stifle his laugh, it hung around her face with all the grace of a wet cat. And now Yetti's were chasing after her with blow dryers. Jack turned back around when they walked under him and joined North and Tooh.

Hiccup and the girl regarded each other. They were suspicious, they were both near Jack's age and it seemed to Jack as if they were starting to guess that something was up.

"This is Rapunzel." Bunny said, gesturing to the girl beside him.

"This" North clapped a big hand down on Hiccup's shoulder, causing him to tilt dangerously sideways, "is Hiccup"

"I'm Tooth, and this is North" Tooth flitted over to Rapunzel and pushed her hair out of her face to get a better look at the girl, though it fell right back being wet and heavy.

The girl and boy regarded each other, and Bunny was looking around behind him. Jack held his breath, he knew Bunny was looking for him, but there was no way he was giving up this great hiding place just to...

"Sandy!" North boomed as a cloud of dust rose up through the great halls center, next to the great globe and hovered over the railing to bring it's two riders to the ground.

It was almost too much, Jack nearly fell off the support beam. It was another girl, with bright red hair, that looked very akin to an afro. Apparently naturally curly, it hadn't stood up well to Sandy's idea of traveling. And she looked like the maddest poodle Jack had ever seen!

Sandy was gesturing wildly to her while she stomped forward to where North had the other two children corralled and came to an abrupt stop and folded her arms over her chest.

"I'm Merida." She said in a low growl and heavily accented.

Jack did let a little bit of his laugh out then, but he couldn't help it. He looked down to see if anyone noticed and found Bunny looking up at him with a knowing smile. Jack made a small cough and turned away, pretending to look at one of North's many flying contraptions floating by.

"You arrived safely, great! Now we can start!" North boomed, around his ankles elves scuttled into place, pulling out the dreaded horns and drums.

Yetti's dropped hair dryers and grabbed flags. Jack put his face in his palm. Yeah, he'd had the right idea when he'd wanted to skip out on this whole thing.

North turned back to the grubby and disheveled children and a small frown appeared on his face. Jack saw him counting and decided now would be an excellent time to book it. He got up into a crouching position, ready to launch himself into the air.

"Where is Frost?" He heard North ask and even started to push off, eyes towards the ceiling. There were rooms higher up with windows that opened, if he could just make it up there then he had his escape.

And as he pushed off the boomerang clipped his leg and tilted him just too far as he lost his momentum and plummeted to the floor. Right into Bunny's arms.

"Here he is." Bunny dropped Jack unceremoniously and just in time to casually reach up and catch his boomerang as it returned.

"Gee, Thanks Kangaroo." Jack grumbled as he used his staff to help pull himself up. He looked up to find all three children looking at him. Three sets of big eyes watching him.

"Jack, introduce yourself." Bunny nudged him.

Jack let out an all suffering sigh and put on a forced smile. "I'm Jack Frost."

Rapunzel took a step towards him, her eyes gone from his face and up to his hair. "Your hair is white!" She sounded like it was strangest thing she'd ever seen. And it instantly made Jack bristle.

"Yeah, well, at least I don't have a mile of it." He told her, his smile melting away and his eyes daring her to comment on the fact that he didn't have shoes. Although, giving her a glance, she didn't either.

Rapunzel took back her step and her eyes fell to the ground.

"Be nice" Bunny's voice ordered from behind him.

Jack whorled around. "I don't feel like it." He snapped back. Be nice? Who had been nice to him? Bunny? No way. He'd been worst of all. Every once in a while he could still hear Bunny's voice, telling him that he wasn't a Guardian. That he messed up everything he touched. How come these three got the royal treatment and he was literally left out in the cold?

"Get nice or get gone." Bunny barked back.

"That was the plan" Jack shot back, "Until you guys dragged me here and locked me in a room."

"Because we knew there was no other way ta wrangle ya in. This is important." Bunny stomped his foot.

"Doesn't seem to be if you're telling me to shove off now." Jack ignored Bunny's temper and acted as if the whole thing had him totally bored. Inside he felt like it was Easter all over again. That he'd failed them, and Bunny was once more tearing into him. How come he was always at fault? "You know what? You're right, and I'm just gonna shove off. I have more important things to do. Winter things. Why don't you go take care of them?" He pointed over at the three children, but kept his eyes on Bunny.

"Oh, that's what this is about, isn't it?" Bunny started yelling back. Jack met him word for word and now they were yelling over each other as Sandy got between them and tried to push either of them back.

"Jeeze. What's wrong with him?" Hiccup asked in a stage whisper, leaning over to Merida. Unfortunately, even while Jack was arguing with Bunny, he caught that and turned, stopping mid sentence, eyes glaring at Hiccup.

"What's wrong with your face?" Jack asked, more insult than question. A smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, though it wasn't really a welcoming smile.

"What?" Hiccup reached up to touch is face. As if he were wondering if part of his face were missing and they were all just not saying anything about it out of kindness.

"Oh, that's nice." Merida sneered at Jack. "He's just a little dirty."

"Looks more like ash to me. Not dirt." Rapunzel remarked as she reached out and dragged her finger across his cheek. It came away black. She held it up to Merida and rubbed it with her thumb. "Yes, see, ash."

Hiccup looked relieved for a moment and then proceeded to turn bright red under the ash. He started to rub at his face with his sleeves, they came away black.

"There's no need to be rude." Merida scolded Jack who laughed at being barked at by a red poodle he could barely understand.

Bunny shoved him from behind and Jack stumbled towards the children. Rapunzel moved as if to help him and suddenly Jack was flying in completely the other direction where he slammed into Bunny and took them both down in a hard tumble.

"Oh, that's it. You wanna go snow flake? We'll go!" Bunny shoved Jack off him and got up with a paw on his bandolier.

"It wasn't me" Jack protested as he got up slower, rubbing his shoulder where it'd hit the ground.

"Sure, yea, I believe ya." Bunny made to move forward and North finally interfered, moving Jack aside with a sweeping gesture and holding out a hand for Bunny to stop.

"I don't believe it was Jack my friend." North said, laughter dancing in his eyes. "It was the young Spring Turnling." He held an open hand out to Rapunzel as if to say "ta-da".

Bunny looked at Rapunzel, as did everyone else in the room. Except Jack, who was brushing off dust that wasn't there. It made sense to him, the wind hand't felt... right.

"What did you call her?" Merida asked, her hands coming down from where she'd been trying to tame her hair.

"He said Spring Turnling." Hiccup said, "What's a Turnling?"

Jack walked back to his window and stared out as North began to explain. He tried to squash down the resentment, but it was hard. He hurt so much inside. He longed to be gone from there.

"You are all now Turnlings. Music." North pointed at the elves at his feet and instantly music began to play. Jack rolled his eyes and tried to ignore it. And he thought he showed great restraint in not freezing any of the little "helpers".

"Wait" Merida cried out over the music, it ground to a halt with a few off notes. "What is a Turnling?"

"You are all seasonal spirits now. The Man in the Moon told us you were coming and would need help." Tooth took a break from two tiny teeth she'd been looking over. "So we brought you here to explain things to you."

"Turnlings help the seasons change. Help them flow and keep them from destroying everything. Seasonal magic is very powerful." Bunny said, "You three are Spring, Summer and Fall."

"Magic..." Rapunzel looked down at the hair she was absentmindedly running through her fingers.

"What about Winter?" Hiccup asked, Jack could feel eyes on him as he glared out the window. His hurt and anger were reaching their last threads. He didn't need to hear all this. He already knew it, had learned it all on his own. Three hundred years of lonely knowledge earned the hard way.

"Jack is Winter." Bunny said, his voice belied his anger and frustration with the teen and it was just enough to push Jack over the edge.

Jack stormed away from his window and started down the hall.

"Jack..." Tooth started to say, worry over him clear in his voice, but Jack froze the nearest elves and wooden beams. He didn't want anyone following him, he wanted very much to be alone right now.

He found the nearest room with a window that opened and stormed in and threw the window open. Jack plummeted out the window, ignoring the part of him that was even more hurt when no one followed him.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Sandy flew up into Bunny's face, a sand volcano erupting over his head as he shook his finger at Bunny.

"I didn't do anything." Bunny defended himself, though half trying to convince himself as Sandy left, flying after Jack.

Tooth gave him a look, a sad look that said 'you know what you did' and Bunny turned away from her, going to lean against a wall. Of course, completely missing the similarities between him and the missing teen.

North cleared his throat and got the Turnlings attention back on him.

"As Bunny was saying, Jack Frost is the Winter Turnling. And he has been for over three hundred years now. He already knows how to use and control his powers. So he will help you."

"Doesn't much look like he wants to help." Merida said quietly.

"Why is he so angry?" Rapunzel asked North, Bunny watched her closely. Had she really used her powers to push Jack into him? He hand't seen her use the East Wind yet, though MiM had warned them that all Turnlings could.

"He... is not mad." North said with a nervous laugh. "Sandy will bring him back. But you," He pointed at Rapunzel, "Are Spring."

He pointed at Merida next, "Autumn"

And he once again laid a heavy hand on Hiccup, almost making the youth's legs buckle beneath him. "And Summer!"

"And we're supposed to control the seasons?" Hiccup asked, bewilderment coloring his voice with a slight panic.

"Not control, but help. Reign in." North said, his voice going a little breathy with the mystery of it all. Grand stander.

"You'll each be able to use Wind Magic." Bunny pushed away from the wall to take over and make sure the kids didn't lose any of the necessary tidbits in North's extravagance. "Spring uses the East Wind, Autumn the West, Summer the Southern Wind and Winter the Northern."

"So... I really did push him?" Rapunzel asked, her green eyes wide with surprise and wonder. "I didn't mean to." Bunny smiled down at her and rested a reassuring hand on her shoulder.

"That explains what happened." Merida said, "I was moving those leaves" If Bunny had to guess she was talking about those leaves that were still stuck to the back of her dress.

"I almost flew." Hiccup marveled.

"And with practice you'll be able to. It's how Jack gets around." Bunny confirmed, smiling when Hiccup looked at him with blatant disbelief on his face. "You have seasonal based powers as well."

North gestured with a large hand to Jack's handiwork. "Jack makes frost. And much more."

"The rocks..." Hiccup looked down at his hands.

"The berries." Merida's hand darted up to her lips.

Bunny glanced at Tooth who just shrugged back at him, just as confused as he was.

"North?" Tooth got his attention. "Maybe we should get them settled for the night? It's getting rather late." Behind her through the window the sun was setting over the snow covered mountains.

"Ah, yes! Come, we have beds." North said. The Turnling children followed him, Rapunzel smiling up at Bunny before she followed.

"Bunny." Tooth hovered over to him, reaching out to touch him.

Bunny turned away, pretending not to see. "I have ta get back to my Warren."

"Don't leave, can't we talk about this?" Tooth asked, her sad eyes making his back itch. If he turned around now he'd be lost and would just give in to her.

"It will be winter soon." Bunny said casually, "Easter is closer than you think."

"Bunny, why are you so hard on Jack?" Tooth's question sent a new surge of anger through him.

"Tell North I'll be back in a couple of days to help." And with those words he was gone down a rabbit hole back to his Warren. Striving not to remember the look on Jack's face as he'd passed by before he'd left. Telling himself that he'd imagined the hurt there.