My Guardian

Chapter 29 - More Than A Memory

I always feel guilty if it takes a while for me to upload. Because, as always, I got distracted with another story, called The Young Witch and the Split Blossum, maybe I'll change it's name. Hahaha! Anyway, thanks for reading guys. I can't believe it's reached 12'000 reads! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!! Love you!!

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"Mother Nature? As in... Pitch's daughter?!" Jack understandably sounded and looked very shocked. I just nodded. The shock in his eyes took over for a moment and he looked at the ground, taking one deep breath.

"But... but how? ...Why? I thought she was gone..."

"She was. She disappeared."

"How do you know it was Seraphina?" Jack asked, looking back up to me. This time it was my turn to stare at the ground.

"I saw her. In fact, I talked to her..."

"What did she say?"

"She told me that her father lied to her... that she had been watching me grow up and Pitch needs to get over Katherine's death. But I told her that he is trying to find her. He needs his daughter. I tried to persuade her to go to her father but she said it wasn't her job to reunite loved ones..."

"It's Cupid's..." Jack finished.

"Exactly. So now I have to find her again and find Pitch as well as trying to make them see each other again."

"Right now though, we have to find North and everyone else. How's your ankle?"

"Surprisingly healed," I raised an eyebrow at him, smiling. His brows raised also and he beamed a grin back to me.

"Great! But... how do we find the others?" Jack replied. Then I felt a tap on my shin. Looking down I found the elf smiling up at us.

"I think he knows where to go," I said, picking him up and tapping his nose. He was so adorable! Jack just chuckled as we began walking off in the direction the elf was pointing. Cold air whipped past us, slapping me, though it didn't feel cold against my skin. I assumed it must be cold for we were in the North Pole after all.

It was a while of walking through the snow, being helped down steep slopes by Jack and even more walking before we came across a cave. It was dark inside so we couldn't see anything. All we could hear was the wisping of the cold air, using the cave as a vacuum.

"Hello?!" I called out. It echoed for a moment before I would hear running footsteps hitting the rocky floor. Heavy footsteps too. My heart caught in my chest as my mind boggled over with terrified thoughts. They had to be here. What else could be running towards us, weighing a tonne in a blackened cave? Okay that wasn't helping. I'm not even afraid of the dark.

"Hushkaba!!" I heard something grunt happily. Then it came into view; with arms wide open sprung Calvin, one of North's yetis. It ran up to us, grabbed me, lifted me off the ground and pulled me into a tight hug, almost crushing the elf I was holding. I just laughed as he put me down. Within a second, all of the other yetis and elves ran up happily yelling at us from the back of the cave. Or at least the yetis were for I don't think the elves could speak. I couldn't help but giggle as we were surrounded within seconds by happy helpers. I put the elf I was holding down and he flashed me a smile before excitedly returning to his friends whom welcomed him home. Well... it wasn't exactly home, but it was all they had.