Hey guys Sorry for the long wait!

-DP-

North offered for cupid to come join them at the table but the love sprit promptly declined with a scowl.

"I don't see why we can't further discuss this now."

"Ve have to vait. I understand Samhain reawakening is big thing, but is better if all members are accounted for first." North said, hoping that the cherub would understand.

Bunny rolled his eyes.

"I don't know about that North, I'm with Cupid on this one! You know the kid is always late ta the meetings, sometimes the show pony doesn't even show up!"

"I activated northern lights, He will come." North said in a firm voice as he shot the Pooka a glare, this was promptly interrupted by a knock on the window.

"Oh, that must be him now!" Tooth chirped. She bolted from her seat and fluttered to the window to let their youngest team mate in. She paused when she noticed that he wasn't alone. Her purple eye's landed on the young girl that was floating behind him before flicking back to Jack with a questioning look. The white haired boy looked unamused and simply pointed to the hatch on the window, silently telling the bird woman to let him in.

Tooth sent one more glance in the girl's direction and opened the window.

A gust of cold air filled the room as Jack and his companion entered. All eyes immediately landed on Pippa.

The little girl shrank behind her brother, she felt uneasy about all of the attention, her nails dug into jacks pant leg.

"Jack Frost?" Cupid blurted out with surprise. "What—what are you doing here?"

Bunny raised an eyebrow.

"He's our newest memba'." The Pooka dead panned, ignoring the love sprits bewildered look, before casting another questioning glance towards Jack. "Jack, who's the kid?"

"She's my sister…"

"Your sister?" Bunny repeated with shock, his face was the perfect picture of confusion.

North and Tooth shared a disbelieving look.

"Sweet tooth," Toothiana asked, concern lacing her voice as she pointed at the semi-translucent girl. "Are you sure that she's…"

Jack's grip on his staff tightened. He couldn't believe what she was implying!

North frowned when he saw Jack's eyes flash in anger, it would probably be better to discuss Jacks new discovery at another time. So old Saint Nick did what he did best, he awkwardly diffused the situation.

The jolly old man stood from his chair with a booming laugh and swiped the new girl and the winter sprite up into a bone crushing hug. Pippa let out a indicant squeak at the sudden contact, while her older brother laughed teasingly at her displeasure. His grin widened when she fixed him with an unamused glare.

North set the two back on the ground before kneeling down to Pippa's eye level.

"What is name?" The old Russian inquired, his blue eyes sparkling over with mirth.

The wind spirit fidgeted slightly as she curled the faded gray fabric of her dress between her fingers.

"My name is Pippa sir, But most know me as the wind…" she answered. She took a few steps away from the man and glanced at Jack as if to reassure that he was still there.

Jack smiled reassuringly and placed a cold hand on her shoulder.

"Is nice to meet you." North boomed as he stood back up and patted her on the back, causing the young girl to stumble forward slightly. "We will have to throw big welcome party! But not now, now we need to discuss important guardian business."

"Right," Jack said with a nod before turning to his sister. "I have to sit through this meeting; you can stay if you want."

Pippa nodded.

Jack walked to the table and pulled out what normally would have been his chair and motioned for Pippa to sit down. She smiled and shook her head. Her brother was always the gentlemen.

Cupid stared at Jack with disbelief. What happened to the street smart boy he used to know, the one that rightly distrusted others. The love sprit sighed; at least Jack's big heart was still the same.

Jack pushed his sister's chair in before perching on the back of it, his staff sitting delicately in his lap. He then fixed cupid a cheeky grin.

"Hey Arrow, long time no see!"

The guardians mouths fell open.

"You two know each other?" Bunny asked with surprise.

"Sure, were old friends." Jack said with a smile. "Cupid was one of the few spirits that was kind enough to occasionally talk to me over the past few centuries."

"And I still hate that nick name." Cupid grumbled, he folded his arms over his chest and pouted.

Jack rolled his eyes.

"Oh smile for once Mr. Grumpy puss."

Pippa giggled at her brother's antics.

Sandy raised an eyebrow before flashing a picture of a smaller and sandier version Jack and Cupid talking over his head, followed by a fancy looking question mark.

"Oh that's a funny story, see I met cupid in Ohio. There's apparently this holiday there that's celebrated by the locals called sweetest day. It's kinda like Valentine's Day, but it's only specifically celebrated by couples and—." Jack began only to be cut off by a blushing cupid.

"Come now Jackie, they really don't need to hear that story." The love spirit stuttered out in embarrassment.

Jack let out a whine.

"But it's such a good one!"

Cupid glared at Jack and the winter sprit sobered slightly. If looks could kill, Jack was sure he'd be dead right about now.

"Alright, alright I won't."

A satisfied smirk stretched across cupids face. "All, you four need to know is that Jack and I get along well because winter is the season of love."

Bunny was about to argue that spring was actually the season of love, but stopped short when North gave him a warning look.

"Nothing makes two people cuddle together around the romantic flames of a fire like the bitter nip of winter weather." Cupid said with half ladled eyes, he let out a happy sigh as the image of what he described played out in his head.

Jack snorted at cupids bipolar-ness, leave it to the love spirit to go from 'I will kill you' to 'Aw what a romantic moment' in fifty seconds flat.

The rest of the guardians seemed uneasy about the sudden change in behavior, but then again Jack supposed that was normal. It's not like Cupid hung around them much. In fact the cherub had shared the same view as Jack did about the guardians back when he had first met them.

"Alrighty then…" Bunnymund said with hesitance. "I think it's about time we actually got down ta business."

Cupid's expression instantly hardened over again and the Greek warrior nodded in agreement.

"Right so..What's going on?" Jack asked.

"Samhain," Cupid said bitterly. "That's what's going on."

Jack blinked in confusion. "Who's that?"

Bunny's mouth fell open. "Who's—how, how do you not know who Samhain is?"

"Cut the kid some slack, he really hasn't been around for very long. After all I remember when all of you were that young. You were just as clueless." Cupid deadpanned as he fiddled with the string of his bow.

Jack blinked. "Wait, you were around when they first became immortals?"

Cupid sighed and ran a hand through his blond hair.

"I've been around for a very long time Jack; I was one of the very first Immortals created by the man in the moon, Along with, Trident the keeper of the seas, Mother Nature the keeper of earth and Aloes the herald of the winds. They were all created before I was, so I was sort of the baby of the group for a while. Annoyingly enough It took me a while to gain believers and considering Mother Nature always referred to me as her 'baby boy', Aloes called me 'son' and trident said I was his 'kid brother', the humans got the wrong idea and assumed I was a winged baby….. You can imagine how shocked my first believer was to learn that I was actually a teenager."

Jack laughed so hard that he fell off the back of the chair.

"I-," He gasped as he tried to get a handle on his laughter. "Always wondered where that 'winged baby' thing came from!"

"Ha ha ha, so very funny," Cupid scowled "Hey, I got an idea Jack! Why don't we talk about how that 'Nipping at your nose' thing got started!"

Bunny's ears perked up at that and Pippa broke out into a fit of laughter. She knew exactly what the love spirit was talking about, but in her brothers defense she knew how desperate he had been to get someone's attention, to be seen. He just, in that instance, didn't really think through what he was doing.

"You actually know where that originated from?" Bunny asked.

Cupid snickered and nodded.

"You wouldn't!" Jack blanched; he bolted up from where he had been laughing on the floor and leapt back onto the chair he had previously been perched on.

The glare that cupid received from the winter child sent shivers down his spine, but even still Cupid just laughed it off.

North cleared his throat.

"Ve vill hear that story another time. Cupid please stay on topic!" the Old Russian prompted.

"Right," Cupid said as he breathed a sigh of disappointment. Though he could understand why North was pressing the matter. "So I was the baby in the group, or at least that's what I had thought… You see Manny's not the only one that can create spirits and bring once living beings back from the dead. There was another master in the universe, one that rivaled the man in the moons power. He went by the name of Dark Matter; He could corrupt even the cleanest of souls, And he did just that…He brought a man back from the dead and dubbed him Samhain. We called him Sam for short. Sam was a very powerful advisory, he was comparable to pitch I suppose, though he was far worse…. You see Sam could kill someone with just the smallest touch, causing the flesh and bone to rot and decay till all that was left was dust…"

Cupid glanced up at Jack only to find his face was unreadable and solemn. It was unnatural and eerie, Jack was meant to smile…

"You're saying…" Jack said slowly as he blinked back a few tears, his hands suddenly petting his sisters hair as if to reassure that she was there and safe. "That this psycho has killed kids?"

Cupid shared a dark look with the other guardians.

"He didn't just kill kid's mate, he did the same ta adults and spirits, actually he did it ta anything tha' had a heartbeat." Aster said softly, his eyes were cast on the floor and his ears were pressed firmly against his head.

"And that's not even the worst of it, every Halloween he somehow gangs the ability to control all spirits for the entire day… Can you imagine, Jack, what he could do?"

-ROTG-

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