Hey guys! I just wanted to get started on my Halloween fanfic a little early this year. This is my first time doing anything other than a one-shot so please be patient with me. If I don't upload for a while it's either because of technical error or because I haven't had time in between school, homework and work. Please let me know what you think and please enjoy!
Bunnymund's POV
"Hurry up ya slow sacs! It went this way!" I yelled at the other, much slower guardians. We had met up in the middle of these hidden woods somewhere around Salem, Massachusetts when I had run across one of Pitch's stray nightmares. We had been on this hunt for any strays for a while just to make sure there would be the smallest chance of his return ever happening. We hadn't seen any and the others had started to think that we had got em' all but I still had this feeling that there was more out there. North too.
"Aw come on Bunny! We've been following you for an hour and we haven't seen any signs of black sand or fear anywhere. You sure you saw a nightmare?" Frost asked, whining. I held my boomerangs at the ready just in case while North held out his swords in preparation for an attack. Sandy and Tooth took up the rear, making sure none snuck around from behind.
"Jack, if there is any chance of vat Bunny says is true, we should listen to him," North said, trying to ease him. Jack humphed as I turned back to watch where I was going.
"Besides, it couldn't have gotten far, I know there isn't any people around here for it to scare and it's still daylight out so there's no chance of it feeding off of any dreams," Bunny said.
"Exactly! It's broad daylight! Why would a nightmare come out in a place that is completely empty of…," Frost looked around a moment. "Wait. There aren't ANY signs of life here at all! Why would a nightmare be out here?" Frost asked, starting to sound a little more invested. That's when I started to notice the same thing.
"Actually, yeah, that doesn't make any sense, Frost," I said, looking around in the trees for birds and on the ground for squirrels. Nothing. I lifted my boomerangs back into my fighting stance, feeling the fur on the back of my neck stand straight up as the late October winds blew cool air through the trees. I started walking forward again when I saw something black. "There!" I shouted and started hopping after the black figure, the others following close behind.
"This one is really fast!" said Frost, keeping up beside me on his staff, followed closely behind by Tooth and Sandy then last by North, all the while he chopped dying branches off of trees to keep from getting hit. That's when we all ended up in a creepy, foggy clearing and no sight of the nightmare. We assumed our battle stances back to back, ready to fight if there were more than just the one we had been running after, Sandy's sand creeping around on the ground as if it were a living trap.
"What is this place?" Tooth asked after a moment, breaking formation and flittering around the clearing.
"I don't know but I have strange feeling about dis place," stated North. "Tooth! Stay back here with us! I can't see you through dis fog," he said, taking a few steps towards where she had wandered, Frost, Sandy and I moving close beside him.
"Guys! I'm over here!" she shouted through the fog. "I found something weird!"
"Tooth! Keep talkin'! We'll find ya," I said. The fog was so thick, you couldn't even see your nose in front of your face.
"Okay! I found what almost looks like a huge rabbit hole! But it's weird, there's a ladder leading down into it!" she said as we finally reached her. I looked around, noticing that the fog dissipated around the hole which was much bigger than a natural rabbit hole as it looked to be even bigger than the one I used to get my egg golems into the fight earlier in the year with Pitch. "I would have fallen into it had I not been flying. It's so weird though, do you think anyone is down there?" she asked.
"I do not know but vat I do know is dat if anyone is down there, they are probably being attacked by dat nightmare! Let's go!" and with that, North started down the ladder. Tooth, Frost and Sandy flew down the hole while I waited until they were some distance down. I looked around, hoping that we all weren't making an awful mistake. I took a deep breath, looked deep into the large hole in the ground and jumped, hoping that if my jump took out any of my fellow guardians, it would be Frost.