I DO NOT OWN RISE OF THE GUARDIANS OR ANY CHARACTERS ACCEPT FOR MY OC's
Chapter 1
Meeting A Longtime Unique Friend
LENA'S POV.
It was a normal day for me. I was just sitting on my bed playing my guitar, when I got a message from North telling me to head over to the Pole, and said that he would explain what was going on when I got there. Of course I stopped what I was doing and headed over. I told my mom and dad where I was going and was soon off. I flew as fast as I could, not knowing what North was going to tell me. Was everything okay? Had something happened?…was something wrong with Jack? I hated to even think about it so I just kept on flying.
Once I got there I started asking a bunch of questions, everyone but Jack and Bunny were there too, from what I could see, which only made me more worried.
"Lena calm down." North said trying to calm me.
"Lena?" I turned and saw Jack, who had just come in the room with a cookie and was eating the last of it.
I immediately hugged him, burying my face in his hoodie.
"I thought something happened." I whispered to him.
"Nothing has happened." Sandy spelled out.
"Then why did you call me here. Not that I'm not glad to be here, but I'm just wondering."
They all seemed to look at each other a bit sadly.
"What?" I asked.
"Well, as you know, Bunny is the last pooka of his clan, not to mention his kind." North said. "And right now is usually when they would have their annual Festival of the Pooka."
"Bunny is very glum around this time of year, so we were trying to think of ways to cheer him up." Tooth stated.
Now it made sense, I knew about what had happened to Bunny's clan, and I could also understand that he would be really upset, but I also knew for a fact that he was not the last pooka on earth.
"But Bunny isn't the last pooka." I stated.
"Lena…his entire clan was wiped out by the nightmares. There were no other survivors." North said slowly.
"There was more than one clan of pooka besides Bunny's, guys." I said. They looked at me with hopeful eyes.
"So that means that there are more clans out there right?" asked Jack.
I looked down bowing my head in respect.
"I hate to say this, but no. The other clans were wiped out as well, but there were a few survivors from one other clan. But during their search, many were killed in attacks, and not just by nightmares." I said sadly. The others looked sad as well after hearing that news.
"But there were two survivors. I'm actually personal friend of the two." I said.
"Why didn't you tell us or Bunny?" Sandy spelled out.
"They made me promise not to tell. They thought it would be better if no one knew, plus they didn't want for the nightmares to track them down." I explained.
"Okay, that is understandable." Jack said.
"Right, but I think it would be best for them to meet Bunny. It would also be good for Bunny." North said.
"Yeah, and they both already know about Bunny, so it isn't really fair that he doesn't know about them, I guess." I concluded.
"So when can we get them to meet?" Tooth asked.
"Just give me a minute to make a spell call." I said before going into another room.
I took out my spell orb and said,
"Call, Candice."
It started to make the connection, and after a minute, a voice came in.
"Hello?" a thick Australian voice answered.
"Hey, Candice, I'm calling in a solid 'you owe me'. What do you say to meeting a friend of mine?" I asked.
"Let me think..."
Five minutes later I was back in the other room with the others.
"Well?" Jack asked me.
"It's all set. We can head over today in fact." I explained.
"I'll send Bunny a message to come here immediately." North said.
"What if Bunny decides against it? If you don't tell him exactly what friends we're going to see, he might be against it." Jack questioned.
"Don't worry I have plan for that. Oh, Bunny is going to love this!" I said.
"I'm going to love what?" we heard a voice ask.
We all turned to see Bunny standing there with a glum look, but with suspicion and curiosity.
"Well we were going to take you with us to meet some old friends of mine. They really want to meet you." I said.
"Sorry, but no thanks. Tell them I apologize, but right now, I'm just in no mood to really see anyone. I just came because I got a message from North saying to come right away and that it was urgent. But if that's all it was for then I really am in no mood, sorry." he said.
It was a good thing I had a back up plan for that. I glanced at the others, sending a silent message saying, 'get ready for this.'
I reached into my pocket and held onto the magic transporting globe that North had given me, for if I needed to get somewhere fast.
"Oh, that's too bad. Please Bunny?" I pleaded.
"Sorry, Sheila. Not this time." he said glumly.
'You've forced my hand, Bunny…' I thought.
He turned to leave and I took out the globe quickly and whispered,
"Candy's warren."
I then threw it to the ground and it turned into a portal, and took us all through. They were all a bit surprised, but Jack and I still enjoyed the ride. I sat in his lap as we slid down the portal and soon into a healthy, green, naturalistic surrounding, but with a lot more flowers of all different colors and types, some that even Bunny doesn't have, and without the egg statues.
I got out of Jack's lap and was met with an annoyed Bunny. But I merely smiled and said,
"Oops, my bad."
"Lena, I said I didn't want to come, why did you-" but he was cut off as another, more feminine Australian voice spoke up.
"Who's there?"
"You're favorite sheila friend, and some other visitors." I said.
Just then something jumped down from a high ledge. It was grey white and orange. It stood up, opened her eyes and revealed to the others to be a female pooka.
"Candy! It's great to see you again." I said, hugging her.
"It's good to be seen." she said. We both laughed.
She was a grey and white pooka, with green eyes. She was also 5''9'. She had on her normal apparel. She wore an orange dress with one strap, that went to her mid-thigh and had a long wide slit that went to her hips on both sides. She also had a black body suit underneath that is strapless and instead of pants, it was shorts. She also had on an orange hair band that tied her ears together and let them fall over like a pony tail. She even had a green vine that started at her left foot, went up her leg and around her body, to her right arm on her wrist. She also had a flower like birthmark on her left arm.
She looked to the others, and for a split second, her eyes locked with Bunny's wide ones. Then she started to speak.
"Hi, it's nice to meet you all." She looked to Bunny and giggled at his still wide eyes.
"My name is Candice Flora Rabbit, but I prefer to be called Candy. Again, it's nice to meet you all."
Just then another rabbit came up next to her, this one was also a girl, but was shorter and clearly younger.
"Lena!" she said, jumping up and hugging me.
"And that is my little pain-oh, I mean sister, Eliza." she said.
The smaller rabbit stuck her tongue out at the older rabbit.
"Candy, Eliza, these are other friends of mine, North, or Santa Clause, The Tooth Fairy, Sandman, my boyfriend Jack Frost, and-"
"E. Aster Bunnymund, or as most know you as, the Easter Bunny. Yeah, I know a lot about." she said, then giggled.
I saw Bunny's fur turn a red shade slightly.
"Well don't be strangers, you're free to explore the warren, just be careful of some of the larger flowers, they might bite. Seriously." She said.
We all went off to explore the warren, I went with Jack , of course. I saw Bunny run to catch up with Candy, and I smiled, then flew off with Jack towards the small spring fed waterfall. I could already tell, that Candy and Bunny were meant for each other, and it wasn't just because they were two of the last of their kind.
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