Good Luck Mr. Snowman

Four

I flew my way from the North Pole to Burgess, where the guardians said they'd seen Jack last. Bunny came with me but hid in an alley, waiting for me to lure him there so we could take him to the Pole.

"Snow Daaaay," I heard falling from the clouds just as I saw the little town come into sight.

A man with white hair flew through the streets wearing a blue jacket and tan Capri pants, holding a staff in his right hand. So, that's Jack Frost, huh? I thought when I saw him freeze the windows of a couple stores along the road.

I settled myself on the ground a little ways nearby and inconspicuously did a bit of my job because I hadn't been to Burgess in a while. Clovers spread out from where my staff touched the soil beside me until there was a decent little patch there. I slowly lifted my staff and a single, tiny four-leaf clover erupted from where it once rested. A small smile greeted my face and I turned my attention back to Jack Frost.

He flew higher up before ice skating across a frozen lake, creating a thicker layer of ice wherever his staff touched. A book flew out of a little boy's hands as he went by and Jack went to look at it.

"Oh that looks interesting, it's a good book?" he questioned, not really expecting a reply.

He smiled as some of the boy's friends came by yelling praise for the snow day. I rolled my eyes at their eagerness and leaned against my staff.

"You're welcome," Jack waved his hand in the air as if he were being praised himself.

The boys walked off talking about Easter egg hunts and hoping they would be able to find the eggs in the snow. Jack followed, walking along a fence and listening to the boy as he grabbed his sled. His friends teased him about something I couldn't hear, seeing I'd moved to sit on a tree branch a little ways away so I wouldn't be seen.

"The Easter bunny IS real," the boy retorted.

"Oh he's real alright, real annoying, real grumpy, and really full of himself," Jack said as he draped his hands across his staff that was on his shoulders.

I laughed at Jack's unnoticed reply, knowing exactly how true it was even if Bunny would have my head should he hear that. The boys went to walk off when the one kid's mom came to put a hat on him, saying how he wouldn't want Jack Frost nipping as his nose.

"Who's Jack Frost?" the boy scoffed.

"No one honey, it's just an expression," the mom said.

"Hey!" Jack spoke up from his perch on the fence and I lost all cheer from a moment before. No one believed in him just like no one believed in me, the sting of that wound hits hard when it's all you're living for.

"Who's Jack Frost?" he continued, picking up some snow, hardening it into a ball, and breathing on it before throwing it. It nailed the one boy right between his shoulders, I was impressed.

"Okay, who threw that?" the boy asked with a laugh.

"Well, it wasn't big foot kiddo," Jack replied.

I had to move to a different tree to continue following him, he didn't see me though, no one ever does. I watched as a snowball fight broke out, Jack joining in unknowingly to the kids. He ran across the snow, creating snowball ammo for the kids. So this is a guy who doesn't care about children? I rolled my eyes as I remembered what Bunny said.

Eventually a snowball hit this one girl in the back of the head and everyone got silent, having looks of terror on their faces. The girl looked like she was going to explode, but Jack breathed on a snowball and threw it at her before I could step in. She giggled and joined in on the snowball fight, a complete opposite reaction than the one she began to show. Interesting, must be another of Frosty's skills, I thought with a smile.

I hopped from tree to tree to keep up with the kids and Frost as they ran joyfully from the girl with a giant snowball head held above her head. Jack created some ice and sent the one boy, Jamie I think the kids said his name was, on a joy ride with his sled. He seemed to be having fun until he took a detour into the street.

"Don't worry Jamie, I got ya. It's gonna be alright," he said as he guided the sled into a pile of snow.

The boy was ranting happily to his friends about how amazing it was as Frost just stood on a statue and listened with a soft smile on his face. Unfortunately though, a couch came from out of nowhere and hit the kid, knocking out his tooth. The conversation was swiftly changed to one about the tooth fairy.

"Oh no, no," Jack said desperately, "Oh wait a minute, come on. Hold on, hold on, what about all the fun we just had? That wasn't the tooth fairy, that was me. What's a guy gotta do to get a little attention around here?"

I watched as the kids walked right through him as they had done so many times to me, and my smile turned into a sad one. Jack's mood seemed to go down the drain too and he flew away dejectedly. I trailed behind him a ways, wanting so badly to give him some of my luck.

Jack watched Jamie get ready to go to bed, all hyper about staying up to see the tooth fairy, with a woeful smile on his face. He padded across the boys roof as he talked to the moon.

"If there's something I'm doing wrong, can you, can you just tell me what it is? Because I have tried everything, and no one ever sees me," he said, "You put me here, the least you can do is tell me, tell me why."

My heart ached for him after hearing that, mostly because I had felt the same thing numerous times before. He flew off the roof and onto the power lines, freezing them, when Sandy's dream sand began to work its way through the sky to the sleeping children.

"Right on time Sand Man," he said with a smile, running his palm through one of the streams of sand. A dolphin emerged and swam around him before continuing on its way.

The sand eventually dissipated and I decided that I would make my appearance. I flew past him, just a green blur among the dark sky, leading him to where Bunny waited. I landed next to Bunny's crouching figure, nodding when I saw Jack land. He then ran by a trash can, knocking it over. He leaned against a wall, concealed in shadows, as he flipped his boomerang.

"Hello mate. Been a long time, blizzard of '68 I believe, Easter Sunday wasn't it?" Bunny stated as he came out of the shadows with a frown on his face.

"Get over it Bunny," I rolled my eyes as I fell purposely from my perch atop a building, landing on my feet next to him.

"Bunny, you're not still mad about that, are ya?" Jack said with a smirk as he leaned against his staff, his eyes honing in on me without moving.

"Yes," Bunny replied, "But this is about something else."

Jack looked to him curiously for a moment as he stared adoringly at his boomerang.

"Fellas," Bunny smirked.

Two yetis came out of nowhere and one of them picked Jack up by his hood. They grumbled something in yeti language.

"Bunny," I warned, "I thought we agreed we weren't going to use force?"

"Change of plans mate," he grinned in reply.

"Hey, put me down!" Jack wriggled in their grasp.

They stuffed him in a bag and opened one of North's portals to the Pole. The one holding the bag looked back at Bunny and me and asked something along the lines of whether we were going back that way or not.

"Me?" Bunny laughed, "Not on your nelly. See ya back at the Pole."

He tapped his foot twice and one of his holes appeared. He looked at me to see if I was going with him or with the yetis, I just grinned.

"Race ya," I shouted, flying into his hole before him.

"Hey!" he yelled, coming in after me with a smile on his face.

The hole closed and we sped through the green tunnels neck and neck. Eventually though, I flew through the hole that let to our destination first and stuck my tongue out at him. He narrowed his eyes and frowned, not liking the fact that I beat him in his own tunnels.

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