Tooth and her mini fairies had finally collected all of the teeth for that night. The fairies were exhausted. There were a lot more than usual, which is also a lot. Somehow though, Tooth was hyper and awake. But The fairies wanted rest.
Tooth decided to see if any of the other guardians were awake.
North was awake, but far too preoccupied with Christmas coming up soon. Sandy was still doing his job as the sandman. Jack was asleep. Bunnymund was the only one awake and NOT busy, but he seemed a bit depressed.
"Hey there, Bunny! How you doing?" Tooth greeted him with delight.
"Fine," he muttered. "What do ya' want?"
"Oh, that doesn't sound to FINE," Tooth felt slightly offended by the Easter Rabbits tone. "Come on now, what's the matter?"
"Nothing," Bunnymund was keeping to himself. Tooth didn't like seeing him in such a slump.
"Oh boo, I came here to play around, but that's impossible if you aren't in a good mood," the Tooth Fairy pouted as she puffed out her cheeks.
"There's nothing to help that, now, is there," Bunny huffed, not looking at her.
"Tell me what's wrong?" Tooth placed a hand on Bunnymund's shoulder.
Bunnymund gave her a sorrowful gaze and sighed. "Have you ever thought of how Easter has always been belittled by Christmas? How…the EASTER BUNNY is not as well cherished as SANTA CLAUS," Bunnymund questioned.
"Where'd this come from?" Tooth asked. Bunny looked away. That's when she began to giggle. "Has Jack been teasing you again? You know he doesn't mean what he says. He just tries to get under your skin." Tooth said and gently forced The Easter Bunny to look her in the eyes. "Besides, even if it was true or whatever. You are still very well beloved. Children love you, Bunny." She patted him on the head.
"Thanks, Sheila," he muttered. "Why are you here again?"
"I was bored and I thought I'd come hang out with you, since you seem to be the only one available at the moment," she laughed as she answered.
Bunnymund let out a chuckle. "Of course." He teased. She smiled.
Tooth gave him a giant, girly grin and began to babble on and on about everything she could think of, Bunny could find himself to keep up with any of it.
"Is it possible, you may actually be OVERLY tired, by any chance?" Bunnymund asked her as he realized that, although she acted as wide awake as anyone possibly can be, her eyes looked drowsy.
"Why do you ask?" She asked quickly.
"No, uh, specific reason," Bunnymund held back the truth behind his question, not wanting her to lecture-babble him about being rude or something along those lines. "Just a possibility, was all I was thinking."
"Oh, well then, I think that may be a good point then, I was tired at some point, but I couldn't rest because the kids needed me. Oh, those sleeping faces are just so adorable, you know!" she began to babble on and on about how much she loved what she did.
"Well, I think it would be best if you tried to get some sleep then," Bunny cut her off. "Everyone needs some sleep, even us Guardians." Bunnymund playfully shooed Tooth away. He was fond of Tooth, but he couldn't stand it when she became so chatty to the point the other person can't speak unless they force their words into the conversation.
"Oh, okay, thanks for talking with me, Bunny, I had fun!" Tooth cheered.
"Sure thing, see ya'," Bunny saluted her off.
Tooth smiled once more at him before going off the try to rest. As soon as she laid down, she fell into a deep sleep. She had a pleasant awakening in the morning, possibly a bit in the afternoon. She felt replenished.
"I guess Bunny was right," she giggled. She went to go tell him, however, the northern lights were shown in the sky. Tooth rushed to Santa's workshop to find out the reason behind the matter.
"Pitch is back?" was the first thing she heard, coming out of Jack's mouth, as she entered the workshop.
"What? Are you serious? But, but, but…didn't the nightmares of his take him away?" Tooth questioned everyone and she flew around the room in a panic.
"Yeah, what she said," Bunny entered. Sandy had his sleeping sand form a hand with a thumbs up and an arrow pointing to Tooth.
"Yes, it is what we all think," North began to stroke his beard. "Is bad predicament, no?"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no," Tooth began to mutter to herself. Tooth couldn't think of anything to do but rush back to her palace and prepare all of her mini-fairies. She didn't want Pitch to take them or the teeth again. She refused to let him take anything from her again.
Night approached. Tooth, cautiously, along with her fairies, set out to collect children's teeth.
"Alright right girls, be careful now," she reminded them all about what she had heard about Pitch.
It seemed to all go smoothly, although Tooth was not with all of her fairies, except for baby Tooth, she could feel that they were safe.
"Aren't you such a caring mother," a familiar, terrifying, voice came from behind her as she left the final house of the night.
"Pitch!" She gasped. "So you did come back." She was growling fiercely at the boogie man.
"Isn't it such a SHOCK," he laughed. Tooth could feel his anger. It scared her, but she refused to back down from him. He looked much more dark than he had previously, even a bit on the beat up side.
"If you think that you'll be able to take my fairies, you are gravely mistaken," she told him.
He tsked her. "I'm not here to take any of your bite-sized fairies this time around, Toothiana," he spoke with an evil grin. "I'm here for YOU." At that moment, as she was cut off guard, Pitch's nightmare sand surrounded the Tooth fairy.
Baby Tooth watched in horror as her MOTHER was swept away. Tears dripped down the poor mini-fairy's face as she rushed to the other guardians.
