Wow wow wow! So many reviews. I love you guys! Thank you so much to my continued reviewers and all you new reviewers. You're awesome. A special thanks and recognition to Queenlaur who gave me the suggestion for the last part (I won't spoil it) So this one is a little longer and action based so I hope you like it! Also I just realised Doc Manager isn't letting me save my paragraphing so it's meant to be more spaced out. Sorry about that I don't know what's wrong with it.

WINTERS WRATH

"Bloody hell…" Bunny muttered in shock.

The Guardians had located their youngest on an isolated mountain if that's what you would call it now. It had taken them three hours though to do so. There was nothing but the blistering white of snow. The blizzard had erupted out of now where. North had bellowed out Jack's name but the boy hadn't replied. The only sign that Jack was here being the blizzard. Mother Nature had confirmed that it wasn't meant to be in this area and it was growing stronger and larger at an alarming rate.

"How are we supposed to stop him?" Tooth yelled over the banshee scream of the wind.

"We don't stop him just delay until Mother fixes staff," North said pulling out one of his swords.

Sandy glanced at Tooth and gave her a shaky thumbs up which she returned with a smile. They advanced forward only to be instantly pushed back by a sudden explosion of icicles that shot from the ground aiming to impale them. Sandy floated above them, only narrowly missing one from cutting his shoulder. The icicles kept coming though. Boomerangs and swords sliced through, shattering the deadly structures. Their movements were sluggish now. It was well below -5 degrees. Tooth was having a hard time flying, part of her wings were beginning to ice over. Thankfully she had collected a few daggers from her Tooth Palace, a souvenir from long ago forgotten battles. The icicle on slaughter died down.

"Regroup, we need to get to Jack!" Tooth yelled.

They arranged themselves into a tight circle, covering all angles of attack. To think they were battling Jack Frost, their friend and family. The sky above them grew darker and the clouds released their cargo; huge pieces of hail and snow to mix into the blizzard that was buffeting them. Then to make things worse a sudden lightning sparked ice bolt shot between Bunny's ears.

Bunny leapt out of the way, boomerang raised, as he skidded to a stop, crouched low and dangerous. He felt the ground shudder beneath him, then being forced into the air by propelling himself off the icicle. It was like playing hopscotch with shards of ice. Another flash of ice zoomed past, off to Bunny's left followed by a yelp of surprise belonging to North.

A brain shattering scream suddenly tore through the blizzard. To accompany the horrid sound came a hundred bolts of ice shooting in every direction, originating from the centre of the blizzard.

"Hit the deck!" Bunny yelled throwing himself at the ground grateful that this outburst had meant a reprieve in the icicles.

To his right North crouched behind a cluster of ice protruding from the ground, quickly bandaging his arm. Sandy had flattened himself to the ground beside a now flightless Tooth, using his sand as a barrier against the ice blasts and the hail which was thankfully now more heavy snow. Little bruises were already forming on Tooth's arms and one on her cheek.

"We c-c-c-can't survive much longer out here," She stuttered.

"We must s-s-top him. If too cold Toothy, you and Bunny retreat then come back later, da?"

"N-n-n-no w-w-w-ay mate." Bunny said, clenching his mouth shut to try to stop his teeth from chattering.

Sandy shook his head, showing a picture of a frozen Bunny and Tooth with little 'x's over their eyes.

"Da Sandy is right; you will be no help dead."

Tooth went to reply but didn't get the chance as the ice stopped. Everything had stopped. The blizzard wasn't moving, as if time had frozen. There was barely any wind. No snow falling from the sky. The eeriest though was the lack of Jack's screams. That should have been a comfort to the Guardians, knowing their boy wasn't suffering anymore, but it just felt too wrong.

Then time started again and so did the blizzard and the on slaughter of noise. Jack was screaming again but this time it held more animalistic tones of savagery than human pain. The snow swept around them then was violently pulled in towards the centre of the storm, towards Jack. The graveyard of icicles retracted back into the iced ground. Sandy was the first to stand up and pointed with an exclamation and question mark in the direction the snow was heading.

"Sandy what's…oh my god…what is that?" Tooth said, her cold arms falling limp at her side. Bunny joined them along with North who was the only one to find his voice.

"It's Jack."

Mother Nature made a low growl in the back of her throat causing the Boogeyman hanging over her shoulder to retreat a few paces. They had been working on Jack's staff for four hours now. Pitch had voted for himself to stay back and help. Mother Nature was not happy, to say the least about the arrangement but as Sandy had pointed out, they had to work together. She almost chuckled at that thought. Jack Frost had kept his word and made them accept each other by becoming the common enemy. She was sure that wasn't what he had had in mind when making that promise. A chilling breath ran down her spine breaking her concentration on the staff lying dead in her lap.

"Pitch Black if you don't stop that then I will suck all of the air out of your pathetic body!"

"Touchy, touchy. I'm not the problem here Mother."

"Yes you are," She growled, picking up the staff again.

"To you perhaps, but in truth you are the root of the problem. You're the one that caused this mess," Pitch leaned in close so his wire thin lips grazed Mother's ear, "you're afraid that everyone will die because of your mistake. A mistake that Jack Frost was worthless and selfish. You're afraid that –"

"Enough!" Mother roared, throwing the staff on the floor and rising to her feet.

As the staff hit the ground it coated the area around it in a thick layer of ice. Mother Nature muttered a hushed curse before getting back to work.

"I thought it was useless without Frost holding it?"

"It is, but his powers are out of control and so is the magic contained in the staff. Now let me be to repair it."

Pitch threw his hands up in a surrendering gestured and sat back down on the couch. Another hour trickled by. The Guardians must have found Jack by now. Maybe he should have gone with them?

"Why did you stay behind?" Mother asked, not turning around.

"To spend some wonderful quality time with you of course,"

Mother scoffed at that.

"Or it was perhaps to help Frost. To show you that he was right."

"Why?" Mother whispered. She had finally managed to retrieve a bit of the destructive magic in the staff and now she focusing on pulling it out and back into herself. A glimmering string of green light flowed out of a crack in the staff and wrapped itself around Mother's hand.

"Why help him? Let me get this straight first this is not a friendly gesture it's simply because I owed him one. He gave me a chance so now I'm going to give him one. Second chances and all that sickly good stuff. I thought you would have been all for it Nature. Maybe you are just as twisted as me." Pitch sneered standing up and walking away.

"Now as much as it has been a pleasure having you snap at me I'm going to make myself useful and find some back up for the Guardians. I believe they are going to need it. I can't have the world falling into an ice age. Everyone would be dead and there wouldn't be any more people to scare. That really is no fun."

With that Pitch disappeared into the shadows. Mother Nature sat on the floor, the last of this piece of magic being extracted. However, at the end of Pitch's speech her concentration broke. Was she, Mother Nature, divine being and protector of nature and balance doubting herself? Yes, she was and it was because of Pitch Black of all people. Mother let out a startled yelp as her grip on her magic wavered and shot back into the staff causing a large crack to slit the top of the crook.

"Oh Manny help us."

She had just made things a lot worse.

When Pitch showed up with reinforcements his eyes almost bulged out of their sockets. The terrain reminded Pitch of a war. There were small craters in the side of the mountain, a blizzard raged and the sky resembled the colour palette of death. With a gesture of his hand the four beside him launched in to the help the struggling Guardians.

"Oi Pitch!"

"Oh great the fur ball is coming to chat, goody." Pitch muttered.

"How'd ya get them? What is this?"

"Reinforcements. The Halloween twins were easy to convince and Bed Bug and I have been on good terms for a century now. It was the Leprechaun who was the main problem. Although once the circumstances of this war were discussed they all seemed to agree for a stalemate."

"And they listened to ya?" Bunny asked, ducking as a chuck of ice sailed over his head. Pitch didn't even flinch.

"Well I told them I was working with Mother Nature in order to stop Frost. He's the common enemy now, uniting us. Funny isn't?"

"No, not really. You call that funny?"

The that Bunny was referring to was a huge ice giant. It's jaggard limbs slamming into the mountain, dislodging rocks and spraying ice and snow over the ant like Guardians and reinforcements below. It's legs and arms had iciles extending from it, like a club with nails but on a grander scale. It's head was square and had five sets of sharp ice teeth, but no eyes. Pitch leant around the rabbit and saw that in the ice monster's chest was Jack Frost. He didn't move but he was certainly awake. His face was set in a permanent and now silent scream. His features betrayed the savagery of Winter and the pain the Winter boy was feeling as it consumed him, ripping away from Jack's body and outward in a destructive force that it seemed now one could stop. Pitch turned to Bunny a blank look on his face.

"Yes I think it's hilarious."

"I hate you," Bunny said matching Pitch's deadpan tone with a hint of frustration, "we can't beat him. We tried and once we got a few hits in he turned into this!"

"He's gone on the defence, but don't worry."

"Don't worry? Are you insane mate unless Mother has fixed the staff then…wait is that what ya meant? Has she fixed it?"

"No," This time Pitch did duck as Treat tumbled threw the air landing somewhere behind him in the snow.

Bunny nodded and looked back at the battle field. He was scared and he wasn't ashamed to admit it. Jack Frost was at this moment terrifying. Bunny almost laughed, Pitch was probably jealous. The Guardian of hope turned around to thank the creepy man only to find him casually strolling to the back of the battle field.

"Oi where the bloody hell are you going?"

Pitch turned and grinned, exposing his rotting teeth, "to level the playing field." Then he vanished into the shadows.

Bunny was going to protest, but an ear shattering roar tore him back to the battle. He winced as embedded in that roar was the small voice of Jack Frost, the real Jack not this mindless beast. It was a small, pained and scared scream, that sounded more of a whisper on the wind. A battle cry erupted from Bunny's throat as he flung himself on the leg of the ice monster Jack had formed to protect himself. He hacked at it with his boomerang until he was literally flicked off, crashing into North.

Tooth zipped around the monster's head. Thanks to the fire of the Halloween Twins her wings were functioning again, but wouldn't for much longer. It was far too cold. They would only be able to survive for another hour at most. North had used his rusty magic on them to keep them warm after reinforcements had arrived but she could feel that it wasn't going to hold. Tooth chipped at the ice of the monster with her wings all the while battling the crazed wind to stay upright.

The Leprechaun and Trick were attacking the left foot, as neither of them could fly while Bedbug had scurried up to the knee and was assaulting it with a small army of bugs that clawed and bit down on the ice.

North and Treat were taking down the right foot with aid from Bunny but with little progress. It seemed every time a little ice came off more would appear to replace the damage. Although it was taking longer when Treat and Trick used the Jack'O lantern fire to melt sections, along with Treat's exploding candy and Tricks flaming playing cards. The trio had developed a pattern. Treat would melt a section then North and Bunny would hack at it then switch out when the ice began to return. The twins fire though wasn't a strong fire, more of a flame than inferno or a proper fire.

Fighting the beast's chest and arms was Sandy. The bringer of dreams had taken it upon himself to try and free Jack. His whips made little progress. They were only useful in holding back the razor sharp arms of the monster from swatting at his friends below and above. He could see Jack's eyes though. They were following his movements, but they weren't the ice blue ones that held laughter in them, only occasionally when the monster faulted did they flash into existence. Otherwise the eyes that followed Sandy were pure glowing blue and white orbs that held only raw power in them.

Jack Frost was fading from existence.

Okay so Queenlaur was the one to suggest Jack as an ice monster so thank you for that. Next chapter is on the way and I think it's time Manny got off his lazy ass or not because he's the Man in the Moon and doesn't care. Thank you for the reviews and I can't wait to hear what you all think of this chapter!

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