Chapter 1 – The Keeper of the Light

The light! It is fading?! Have to hurry to gather more! Can't let it wane! It is the purest light in all creation, the light from the exact beginning of time that we, Pookas, were sworn to gather and to protect. But all of a sudden, Tsar Lunar, the Man in the Moon's father, had called me. I wonder why of all time when the light is fast fading?!

"G'day, your majesty." He lowered into a respectful bow.

Wearing his green long coat and holding his golden staff with an egg like orb on top, he did not make a step as he stood on top of the highest snowy peak of the tallest mountain in the Himalayas. His eyes covering with his green tinted glasses, remained marveling the vast seas of white clouds were rolling down and surrounding him until radiant light shone down and Tsar Lunar appeared and stood before him.

"It's alright, my friend, E. Aster Bunnymund, you can step and hop on my clouds, they will carry you high above the heavens. I will make sure the heavens will never let you fall."

He followed Tsar Lunar who was floating effortlessly amongst the heavens and entering the most beautiful of all heavens. Unlike any cold freezing atmosphere, this known paradise of a heaven was the warmest, great for a Pooka like him who abhorred the coldest and darkness of the vastness of space.

Hopping away from the clouds towards the golden and jeweled doors before him, Bunny gave a bow immediately to the divine being before him after she welcomed the Ruler of the night skies.

"Tsar Lunar, the Light during the Nights, is always welcome in my home, Fólkvangr, so is the guardian of hope."

Two powerful deities together- The Tsar of the night sky gods, and the benevolent golden goddess of love?! This was overwhelming as a representative of my own kind, the Pookas!


And it seemed they are not alone, there also stood the other legendary immortals.

The Pooka's eyes rolled around in keen observation.

"Finally, we are complete. Let us begin our meeting with the reason why we are all here," Tsar Lunar spoke while Bunny stood attentive during the entire meeting until the golden goddess of love touched the egg-shaped rod relic he was holding. They conversed telepathically.

"The light I hold… it is fading…"

"You worry as ever, Bringer of Spring."

"My lady of love and beauty, if the light would fade?"

"There is a light that you will gather, and it will never falter."

"H-Huh? My golden lady talks of riddles?"

"And the guardian of hope seemed to lose hope?!" She paused, gave a captivating and amused look at Bunny. "You are just like Tsar Lunar and those gathered around us, they were uncertain of the changes, and yet hoping for the golden age to come. The golden age will come. However, all things end." She paused, her blue eyes shifted away from the guardian. "I am a deity of the First Age, sooner than later, I will be joining those before me, I will return to where I first came with the other First Immortals. But I will be leaving my legacy here, so does Tsar Lunar and those who are with us, and you, even if we are immortal…"

"As the Universal Laws decreed…" Bunny whispered under his breath, audible for the goddess beside him to hear. "And leave everything to the youngest race - the humans…"

"Yes…it is the time for the mortals, and the way that they will give back to the universe just like we all had contributed …"

"And you believed it is their time to rise when many of us saw and tested them how they usually failed since they are flawed and easily corrupted with petty things, but…"

"You still find a bit of hope about them." Her eyes focused at the Pooka.

"Well, I reckon' they will, you know, find their enlightenment!"

"There will come a time they will need your light, the light that will inspire and lead them. Same light that melted the coldness and help the good turn the tide against the overwhelming darkness."

Falling into deep contemplation upon hearing the goddess' enigmatic words, he spoke telepathically in his known logical self.

"So you are saying what everyone opposes will be coming…?! As I heard, even the other side, the chaos gods, hated what the Norns, three sisters of Chronos spoke of - the inevitable change?!"

"Yes, my good friend, a change in the balance. A change we all hoped for-the golden age." Her eyes returned to metallic egg shaped relic on his hand. "And we are hoping that the new light you will carry will be the new hope for us to open the golden age for all that is good."

"And what is it to you and your legacy?"

"I always believed that to have hope, there should always be love, and the power of love will always bring change even to the coldest."

After what the goddess said, the Pooka was more confused. He came here to gather lights, but after the meeting with Tsar Lunar and the other deities, he was advised that the light he was looking for to gather was not in the heavens.


E. Aster Bunnymund had no choice, he had to look hard and to look far from the reaches of time and space.

This is useless?! I have been here and there, and all over, even to the most unfamiliar realms I never been, and not a single light, which the goddess of love spoke of?! Now, I am here back on Earth without any new light?!

Standing on the cliff overlooking the seas and pondering in silence, his attention shifted at the blazing fires on the fleeing ships in a distance.

Bloody chaos gods at their own destructive work again?!

The Pooka ceased observing when he realized in shock that it were not the chaos gods who were attacking the ships, but the Norns, also known as the Fates, the three sisters of Chronos.


"Have you found what we are looking for?!"

"No!"

"Keep looking or we will never be free from their wraths!"

"Free from whose wraths?!"

The three sisters faced the Pooka who swirled his rod powerfully extinguishing the fires around him.

"Pooka, E. Aster Bunnymund, our brethren in time wielding, it is not for you to interfere!"

"Oh, you made me interfere, when you three suddenly break the rules of Time and Space here. These ships were never meant to be destroyed in the first place, until you appeared out from nothing and acted like baddie hags causing destruction and death! You are not even chaos gods to have the authority to act like this!"

"If you are not going to leave us in our own business, Pooka, then prepare yourself to cease to exist…"

"Are you yanking my chain?! Fine, bring it, gasbags." Bunny did not let them finish with their threats and lies, gave a defensive stance as he held out his golden rod and gave it a twirl to prepare himself for a long and powerful fight.


Damn it! These bloody basket case witches are too much to handle, worse, they were killing the surviving innocents inside the ship. I cannot let another ship end up gone!

He could hear the screams of people as the remaining ship was hurled away powerfully by the Norns. It was going straight to a particular place that Bunny dreaded. Giving a curse so loud before striking down one of the Norns unconsciously, the Pooka jumped and dashed where the ship collided on the icy ground. He struck immediately his rod on the ground to prevent it from bursting into flames, but even so, he was too late to save everyone.

"Come on, please tell me, all I did was not in vain!" Bunny cursed and gritted his teeth, destroyed the wall of the ship, almost staggered down to his knees when seeing so many lives snuffed out. He almost lowered his head until a cry of a little child was heard. He scrabbled in desperation to where the cry was coming from as lethal winter winds howled outside.

The moment he saw her, he kneeled down to pick her up quickly, pulling the little platinum blonde haired girl away from her heaps of debris and corpses. "It's all right, I am here…I will make sure you are alive and safe…I promise you, everything will be all right…"

The blue eyed mortal girl ceased crying in pain and sorrow. She eyed him as he ceased whispering at her when the sound of spreading frost began to enter the ship.

Shit! A chaos god, and what is worse, I am on his damn frozen domain! He will be claiming everything, even the dead! I cannot let him kill you! No, I cannot allow him since you are a reminder that I did not fought in vain, that I never ever failed saving a life! Now, where could I hide you that even that chaos god will not find and claim you!

Bunny ceased contemplating when the little child looked up at him in deep fascination instead of fear of his inhuman appearance. Her blue eyes focused at his egg shaped rod in wonder. The Pooka gave a wide smile at the little blue eyed girl after sensing her thoughts and emotions as a plan brewed in his head to outwit a chaos god of winter.

"Yeah, you are one clever ankle biter, aren't you?! How about a piece of chocolate for a change, I think, you and I will be a great team, sweets!"