Faith and Trust

The Last Light

He felt a blast of cold air hit his face, and then landed face first in the snow. He jumped to his feet, spitting snow, and tried once more to fly. The wind blew weakly, but did nothing more than ruffle Jack's hair. Fine. If the stupid North wind, wasn't going to respond, he would get to Burgess a different way.

He spent the next hour trying to climb back up to the window that he had jumped out on. By the time he finally tumbled back inside he was covered in scrapes and bruises and was majorly ticked off.

He picked himself up, and then immediately ducked behind the globe. A Yeti had just come walking by and with the Guardians new attitude to their problem, he risk getting caught. He walked along the corridors of the North Pole, ducking and hiding when ever he saw the hulking forms of Yeti's or heard the telltale ring of bells that announced the elves presents.

After one very stressful near miss with a Yeti, Jack finally made it to his destination: North's snowglobe room. Jack opened wincing at all the creaks it made and then shut it behind him. He quickly grabbed one.

"Burgess!" He slammed it down and stepped the the swirling portal...and immediately wished he hadn't. It was muggy and very hot. The sky was covered in thick grey clouds and they seemed to be hanging much lower than usual. He wiped his already sweaty brow and groaned. He knew the summers in Burgess did get hot, but it was broiling out.

Jack realized that he had no idea where to find Jamie. Heck, he didn't even know how old he was. He then saw kids-no not kids. They were called teenagers if he was remembering correctly. They were all coming out of a building that Jamie's mom had once called the High School.

He waited by a lonely bench and watched as all the Teens came out, keeping a sharp eye out for any Jamie look alikes. Something was wrong though. It took him a minute before he realized it was the noise. Or lack of, in this case. Whenever he stopped to talk to Jamie and his friends after they got out off school, the noise of the elementary kids was deafening and the few time he had gone over to the High School, the noise was louder if that was possible. Here however, there was only sound of pounding feet and the occasional whisper. All in all, it gave Jack a creepy feeling.

He waited for a while and gave up hope that Jamie was here when the crowd on people disperse to only a few stragglers. Jack was about to leave, when suddenly he was knocked into the bench.

"Oh, I'm so sorry!" A girls voice said "I wasn't watching-I'm really really sorry. Oh, no my books!" A black haired High School girl was crawling on the concrete removing her fallen books. She stood up and turned to him. "I am really- Are you Jack Frost?"

Wait, this girl was the last light. What? "Where's Jamie" He blurted out completely confused.

"Jamie..you mean James Bennett" The girl said.

"Yeah! That exactly who. Do you know where he is!"

The girl looked devastated "I'm really really sorry. James Bennett...he's dead."

"What" Jack's head was spinning. Her words kept echoing arounding inside his head. "he's dead...dead...dead"

"No!" Jack slammed his staff into the ground, feeling the hot tears trace down his face. "No..."

"I'm sorry" squeaked the girl, half terrified, and half in awe at the small thin patch of snow that Jack had created, "I really am" He felt a small stab of guilt for scaring her, but that was drowned out by his anger at her, because she was the last light and not Jamie, and Jamie was... he was gone.

"How do you know this" He barked at her as she got up from the ground for the second time. "When did he die"

"He died 7 years ago" The girl said timidly "I was there. My name is Mira Bennett. Jamie was my great grandfather."