𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚒'𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛

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I played with my staff as I waited for Elsa to call me. She said she had to call the others first before she introduce me to them. Honeymaren was with her and they had a bit of help from Ryder, who was apparently Honeymaren's brother.

"Alright, is that everyone?" I heard Elsa ask so I peaked at their direction to see her in the middle of a circle of people. They all sat there, listening intently to what Elsa was saying. "Okay, so I have to tell all of you something."

She turned to me and awkwardly signalled me to go there. I laughed a bit at her gesture before flying my way behind Honeymaren who looked at me with a raised eyebrow. She then used her eye to signal me to go beside Elsa instead so I did.

"Okay so um..." Elsa paused and looked around for reactions. None.

After that silence she cleared her throat. "Recently I just made a discovery. There are other spirits besides the elemental ones that we know of. I met one and he's quite connected to nature, specifically ice and snow like myself." Elsa said, her voice full of confidence and authority. Like she's done countless of announcements in front of masses before. Given that she was queen before I'm not surprised.

Everyone looked at her with different reactions, surprised, confused, some even looked like they were skeptical about what she just said. But despite the mixed responses she was getting she just continued.

"The spirit I'm talking about is known as the Winter Spirit named Jack Frost. Just like me, he can conjure and control ice and snow." Elsa said. "And he even has the aid of our very own wind spirit, Gale, for flight. And besides that..." She added. As Elsa was talking I scanned the other peoplr's reactions in hope of someone looking directly at me.

I noticed Honeymaren motioning her hands while Elsa was talking, I didn't know what she was trying to tell me but she was mouthing me a word. "Magic?" I asked in a whisper so Elsa wouldn't be distracted by me. Honeymaren nodded swiftly after hearing it, giving me a thumbs up.

I nodded and instantly thought of maybe using my magic to freeze the ground or something like that. But just as I was about to hit my staff to the ground I was hoisted up to the air gently. A gentle breeze went through the trees making me understand what Gale was trying to say.

He's right, freezing the ground might cause a bit of a panic.

I flew my way to the nearest tree that was around us and used my staff to cover it with frost with a bit of a tap.

It seemed to have caught the attention of some, including Elsa who stopped her small speech about me. Then I moved on to the next tree and did the same thing. I repeated it until the trees that surrounded us were covered in what Elsa described as ice with fern-like patterns.

I then flew to the same spot I was before, which was beside Elsa and gave her a smile. She was speechless for a bit, trying to think of what to say after the little show I did. It probably wasn't much compared to what she usually does but it did catch their attention.

"Okay." Elsa clasped her hand, putting everyone's attention to our direction. "Raise your hand if you see the winter spirit." Elsa said and a few slowly raised their hand, looking at me with the same surprised faces. Only Honeymaren had her hands raised proudly with a smile.

"Alright, can someone describe him to me?" Elsa asked making me raise an eyebrow at her.

"Oh oh! Let me!" Ryder said enthusiastically, standing up right away before Elsa can even say anything else. "He has white hair, pale skin like yours and he's wearing this, this cloth on his shoulder like a shawl but like-" he kept doing hand gestures that was trying to describe the length of it.

"It's called a poncho Ryder." Honeymaren told him.

"Yeah, that. A brown one. And he's wearing a white shirt underneath that sort of looked tattered. And not to mention his pants." Ryder said playing with the hem of his pants.

"Alright I think you described him pretty well, thank you." Honeymaren said making her brother sit down.

Elsa was covering her mouth but a small portion of her smile can be seen as she giggled softly. She then cleared her throat before straightening her posture. I unconsciously did the same.

"Yes, thank you Ryder." She said. "Now, to those who couldn't see him before. Can you see him now?" Elsa asked.

The answer was a mix of yes and no but most of the people said yes.

"Alright, say hi Jack." Elsa said lightly nudging me.

"Oh, uh... hi everyone. I'm Jack Frost the Winter Spirit. Nice to meet all of you." I said, mentally giving myself a facepalm for that awkward introduction I did.

And with that, I wasn't invisible anymore. People can see me. They hear me.

I know I wasn't alone before. But to be honest, this is the first time really I felt like wasn't alone. It was all thanks to her.

***

After my introduction and a short sort of show I put on for the Northuldrans everyone went back to what they were doing since they all have their own jobs to do.

Elsa and I went with the kids to the snowy field just outside the forrest to play. I found that I was actually good with kids for some reason. Although I did have to refrain from playing tricks on them because of Elsa.

In the middle of our friendly snowball fight, two kids suddenly started to quarrel. Instead of playing with snowballs they were taunting each other.

"I wasn't ready yet! That's not fair!" The kid, Andy said.

"It's not my fault you take too long to make snowballs!" The other, Bonnie, replied.

Elsa got a bit panicked. "Now now you two, how about we play another game." She suggested.

"No! I'm not playing a game if he's in it." Bonnie said crossing her arms and turning away from Andy.

"Me neither." Andy said doing the same.

"Well um." Elsa paused, not knowing what to do. "How does Honeymaren do it." I heard her mutter. At this point even the other kids were looking at them.

I just looked at the snowball that was on my hands. I raised an eyebrow, blew on the snowball and threw it at Andy.

"Hey!" Andy reacted. Elsa was at a complete shock, looking at me with wide eyes.

I made another one, doing the same process and throwing it at Bonnie next. For a moment the the two victims of my snowball were glaring until they both started laughing.

"Okay, you got us there. But I'll get you!" Andy said laughing as he started making snowballs of his own.

"Let's get him!" Bonnie said laughing as well as she threw the snowballs she made. I easily dodged them of course, with the help of Gale.

"Oh no, I'm out of snowballs." Bonnie said making me smirk.

"Not on my watch! Here have some of mine!" Andy said making Bonnie nod and then she grabbed the ones Andy made. They both threw snowballs at me.

"Let's get Jack Frost!" Bonnie yelled once more and at this rate even the other kids were joining in.

I was the target while they all worked together to hit me. This is some extreme dodgeball experience. Elsa was just watching and laughing at me, casually handing out dozens of snowballs to throw.

"Alright time out! You got me!" I said finally taking the snowballs they threw. The children cheered, giving each other high fives and smiles. As they were all giving each other congratulatory handshakes I flew my way beside Elsa.

"How did you do that?" Elsa asked.

"It isn't really that hard to dodge snowballs when you have Gale by your side." I laughed.

"No no, not that. I mean earlier, I didn't know how to handle the kids when they fought. Babysitting was usually Honeymaren's job and I just go with her sometimes. She's quite good at handling kids and other people in general." Elsa explained. "Anyway, I'm getting off topic. You threw snowballs on them and suddenly they're not mad at each other anymore."

"I did have to sacrifice myself and be the target, but it was one way to divert their attention." I said.

"How'd you know it'll work?" Elsa asked.

"I didn't." I admitted while shrugging.

Elsa raised an eyebrow at me. "I'm serious. I just got lucky and it did not end up with two crying children." I said making Elsa laugh. "I guess I also got lucky thanks to you." She said.

"You're welcome." I said bowing to her jokingly.

The moment I lifted my head I noticed the village elder was gazing on us. "Uh Elsa, I think someone wants to talk to you." I said.

She looked at the direction I was looking at. "Yelana, maybe she has something to tell me. Can I trust you to take care of the kids foe the mean time?" Elsa asked.

"Will do." I said. "I'll make sure they don't get to trouble." I added.

"Alright, I'll be back after. I'm sure it won't be long." Elsa said.

"Okay, we'll just be here." I told her before she left to talk to Yelena. I then turned to the kids and held my chin.

"What game shall we play next?" I asked them.

One of them instantly raised their hand. "Ooh! Teach us how to fly!" He said. The other kids instantly agreed.

"I don't know. It's pretty dangerous." I said.

"Please Mr. Jack Frost." They begged.

"Woah kids, it's not really for me to decide. Gale decides who gets to fly." I said. I started floating which I guess means I'm doing something good by complimenting the spirit.

"Well, how do we get chosen?" Andy asked.

"If you're being a good boy or girl maybe Gale will help you experience the power of flight." I said. Wow, I sound like a parent that promises a kid something impossible just to make them behave.

I hope Gale really does help other people fly, I don't want to get the kids' hopes too high.

"Cool, just like the elders used to say!" I heard someone say making me feel relieved for a moment. It's either Gale really did help the Northuldrans back then or it's a common saying to make the kids behave here. Okay now I'm a bit curious.

"Maybe we can ask the spirit here to choose someone. We'll see if anyone here had been a good kid." I said.

"What do you think Gale?" I asked. I felt a wind swirl around me before heading to the direction of the kids.

And to our surprise, they all floated for a couple of seconds, like they all jumped at the same time only that wasn't the case. They all looked at each other with surprised faces. I was just as shocked as the were.

"That was so cool!" I heard them say as the others agreed.

Okay, now what?