Page 11 of Caught By Her Guardian
“She can’t.Her magic is too strong and was singeing the bones.Santa thinks it’ll take another day to thaw it safely so the Portal isn’t damaged.”
“Hold on,” Pixie said.“Did you say Frost froze the Portal?”
“Yep,” Sebastian said.“It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.Santa said he did it just to be a pain in the ass.”
“I wonder if we could help,” Pixie said.“Let me go talk to Tooth Fairy.”
As he watched his mate walk away, he told Sebastian he’d call him back in a few.While he waited for his gorgeous mate to return, he stayed on the front porch with his brother, and they enjoyed the sunshine.
“This place is wild,” Winter said.“It’s so damn warm here.”
“It’s beautiful,” he said.“I like where our clan lives, but you can’t really beat tropical weather and the ocean views.”
Pixie called his name and waved him and Winter over.
Standing next to a large garden full of incredible looking flowers that he’d never seen before was the most powerful fairy in the world: Tooth Fairy.
“It’s so nice to meet you,” she said, shaking their hands.“Pixie told me what Frost did, and I reached out to Santa.Pixie, you and your mate and his brother gather the sun-vines from the garden.Pull them out with the roots intact, as many as you can gather.I’m going to call for all available fairies.Let’s meet in ten minutes!”
Pixie took them into the garden and showed them the sun-vines.The thick vines were topped with large flowers the color of the sunrise.She showed them how to pull them from the ground and keep the roots intact.As they made piles of sun-vines, the fairies gathered around them, picking up the bundles.When they’d pulled all the flowers from the garden, they met on the beach where the sun was shining and the salt breeze was warm.
“The thing to remember about Jack Frost,” Tooth Fairy said loudly, “is that his magic isn’t just snow and ice, but it’s literally his power.The one thing that snow and ice can’t withstand is the sun.”
There were at least twenty fairies with them, all holding bundles of sun-vines, and he and Winter were holding them too.Tooth Fairy opened a portal just outside Northernmost, facing the main entrance.As their group stepped out of the tropical warmth into the freezing cold, a collective gasp rose.
The Portal wasn’t just covered with a layer of ice and snow, it was positively buried under what appeared to be several feet of thick ice.
“That son of a biscuit,” Tooth Fairy seethed.“I don’t know how he managed to do this, but he must have used a lot of his magic to cause such problems.Never seen this before in my life!”
“Wow, we’re front and center to his madness,” Pixie said.
“He gets worse every December,” Hunter said.
At Tooth Fairy’s instruction, they laid their sun-vines in a half circle near the Portal.Beyond them, inside the magical perimeter of Northernmost, Santa and several Guardians and security team members stood watching.
Tooth Fairy recited a spell and the sun-vines began to glow like the afternoon sun.The fairies’ wings beat swiftly, blowing the heat from the blooms toward the Portal.
At first, it seemed like nothing was happening, and then there was a crack—a hairline fracture along one side of the Portal.As the crack grew, more cracks and fissures appeared, like spiderwebs spreading across the thick ice.There was a pulse of pure, golden light that made Hunter shield his eyes, followed by a sonic boom of shattering ice.
The Portal glowed as it was freed from the ice, and a cheer rose up from both sides.The sun-vines withered and died on the snow.Pixie explained that they’d done their job, and the fairies would harvest their seeds to plant more flowers.
The fairies entered Northernmost and replenished their magic if needed, then returned to the island, leaving only the Tooth Fairy, Hunter, Pixie, and her family.Tooth Fairy and Santa spoke quietly while Pixie and Hunter said goodbye to her family, who headed through the Portal back to the island, asking her to keep them informed of what her plans were when it came to her living arrangements and work.
“I’m going to check in with the security team,” Winter said.“And then hit the hay.I’m supposed to be on second shift, so I want to get a bit of sleep before that happens.”
“Thanks for coming with me and helping out,” Hunter said.“See you later.”
“Pixie?Hunter?”Tooth Fairy said, motioning for them to join her where she was talking to Santa.
They walked over, hand in hand, and greeted Santa.
“The team told me that you had found your truemate, Hunter.Congratulations.It’s nice to meet you, Pixie,” Santa said.
“It’s nice to meet you too, Santa.”
“I understand that we have a bit of an issue with you needing to go on your route because there is a shortage of fairies for the area,” Santa said.
“Yes, I’ve been tasked with a new territory in Pennsylvania for the time being.”
