Hiya! So this is my first story ever! I hope to update at least once a week. But we'll see how it goes.

A little disclaimer, just in case anyone gets confused I do not own Rise of the Guardians or any other characters that may or may not be mentioned in my story *coughJackSkellington*cough*

I also apologize for any punctuation,grammar, or spelling errors. I did my best to correct but if you see any errors or if my writing is just horrible let me know. Thanks.

Reviews are greatly welcomed, just be gentle.

Once again the Guardians gathered. The protectors of children's hopes, dreams, memories, wounder, and joy once again found themselves at the north pole. They had been summoned by the northern lights that North, also know as Santa Clause, had activated.

The other Guardians fearing the worst quickly dropped what they were doing and made their way to the Russian's dwelling. Jack frost was the last to arrive and was greeted by the Yeti named Phil.

"Hey Phil. Are the others here yet?" the winter spirit greeted the yeti with a wave of his hand.

Phil nodded and made some sounds while pointing to the globe room.

"Thanks." Jack said and quickly made his way to the globe. As he drew near he could hear a voice with an Australian accent.

"So you're telling me that you called us here for nothing?"

"Now Bunny, I'm sure North meant well." A female voice spoke.

"Well?! Just because he spends all his time playing with toys doesn't make him a child sheila."

"I do not PLAY with toys bunny, I create enjoyment for the children of the world." A Russian voice boomed.

Right when the 6 foot bunny was about to make another retort the winter spirit interrupted coming into the room.

"Oh save it North. The old kangaroo prefers eggs over toys any day of the week." Jack said with a smile as he leaned on his staff. He looked at the other Guardians, "'Sup Sandy? Tooth." He greeted the two with a smile and a small nod of his head.

The Sandman waved, while the tooth-fairy flew over and gave him a hug along with 5 or 6 of her fairies.

"Oh Jack, it's so nice to see you. Are you taking care of your teeth." She preceded to open his mouth and was about to inspect his teeth when Jack gently pushed her and her fairly charismatic fairies away.

"Well..." he was about to reassure her that he was doing the best he could, considering that his teeth were about two hundred years old, give or take.

"'EY what'd I say about calling me a kangaroo!" Bunnymound hopped over to Jack and with a glare stood to his full height, " You and old saint nick over there are just about to drive me crazy." He shoot said man a glare.

Sandy folded his arms, Tooth sighed, and Jack looked confused. All the Guardians turned to North, who shrugged, " I thought it was a good idea."

Jack looked between the Bunny and North, "What was a good idea?"

North opened his mouth to explain when Bunny walked over and spoke, "Oh he just figures that since none of us are doing anything important that we could all just pop in for some milk and cookies." He leaned on a rail and folded his arms, still glaring at the man.

North held up a finger as if to defend himself when Tooth buzzed in between the two and spoke to bunny, "Oh you know he doesn't think that. I'm sure North meant well... even though "She folded her arms, "Some of us do have to work everyday of the year. Isn't that right Sandy?"

Said golden man nodded and gave North a raised eyebrow while his sand turned into multiple children.

"Can someone please tell me why we are here?" Jack said swinging his staff around, "I was just about to start a snow day in the southern hemisphere so, not to be rude but I am a busy snow spirit."

Bunnymound snorted, "yeah right."

"Well it might not be a bunch of colored eggs, and I don't want to say snow days are better buuuuut they kinda are."

Bunny was about to retort when North clapped his hands together and all the guardians looked at him. "I understand that we are ALL busy taking care of the children of the world but I was speaking to Man in Moon..."

Jack muttered "Still don't can't hear him myself but whatever."

"AND.." North continued, "He believes that we need at least one day to relax and to catch up."

"RELAX!" Bunnymound's ears went straight up, "We don't have the luxury of relaxing mate. We have responsibilities."

"He's right North, my fairies are hardly capable of taking care of things themselves. " Tooth said before turning to a group of her fairies and quickly gave them orders to check on multiple cities.

Sandman's sand was a blur of beds, z's, and children just to name a few symbols that his sand raced to form.

"I'm all for a day off, but whose going to look after the children when we're off duty?" Jack said looking a little lost.

"Why, Man in Moon will of course." North replied with his hand pointing towards the sky. A full moon could be seen though the ceiling window.

The Guardians looked at the Russian, then up at the moon, then back at the Russian.

"WHAT!" they all responded, of course sandy simply showed a "?!" above his head.

"Look Manny, Not to be rude but why now? I mean..." Bunny said looking up at the moon with his hands raised.

He stopped as a shadow appeared on the floor and took an all too familiar form.

"Pitch? Pitch is back?"

"That's not possible!"

The shadow then changed into a form of a horse, then it represented each of the guardians before finally showing the outline of a scene that they all wished to forget. It depicted Sandy being hit by a weapon and then disappearing. The Guardians remained silent for a time not knowing what this all meant and not sure how to respond.

North finally broke the silence, "We were not prepared for Pitch Black last time. We could have prevented loosing Sandy." He placed a hand on the Guardian of dreams. "Taking one day of the year to relax and to talk to each other as a team will make us grow closer and help us to become stronger." He looked at each guardian, "Man in Moon is willing to take over our responsibilities for one day out of the year. We should be grateful for this time and treasure it."

The Guardians looked at each other, unsure about it all. Slowly they each started to smile.

Jack was the first to speak up, "Well who am I to complain? Winter came before my help was needed, I'm sure it'll come again."

Bunny shrugged, "I guess one day won't hurt."

Sandy smiled and gave his thumbs up.

Tooth flew up and did a loop, "Oh my, I haven't had a day off in... *giggle* a very long time."

North clapped his hands before rubbing them together, "Then it's settled. We shall catch up and then spend the remainder of our time simply enjoying the first official vacation day."

Four hours later the Guardians had finally finished catching each other up on what they have been doing for the last year and decided that a nice lunch would be in order.

They were all sitting around North's dinning area, except for the Sandman. Sandy had decided to use his time to take a much deserved nap in North's sleeping quarters.

The other Guardians were sitting at a round table with their own meals in front of them and were simply enjoying each others company in silence when Jack finally spoke up.

"So, I've been wondering. Besides us, who else is there?" Truth be told, Jack before becoming a Guardian, only had 1 run in with any of the mythical creatures. Which happened to be the Easter bunny, and well that didn't turn out to be a positive experience at least for the Easter Bunny anyway.

"Surly you've ran into a few of them while bringing winter? Right Jack?" Tooth questioned, her fairies were off

"Not really... no." Jack responded, rubbing the back of his head. Was it really that odd not to have interacted with ANY of the holidays or other creatures of the magical world?

"I'm sure they just don't feel like freezing their body parts off, can't say I blame them squirt." Bunny said as he took a bite of carrot.

"Don't mind him Jack," Tooth said giving Bunny a glare. Bunny raised his hands in defense, "There are plenty of holiday creatures and protectors around, they're all just probably so busy like we are."

"Tooth is right!, although I can't imagine how the leprechaun can be busy. Saint Patrick's day is no Christmas." North said rubbing his chin thoughtfully.

"Or Easter mate." Bunny looked at the bearded man before turning to the winter spirit, "Besides us and the green dwarf, there's the groundhog, mother nature, father time, both of which sit too high on their horses if you ask me mate," The Rabbit continued, this time counting on his fingers, "The Skellingtons are in charge of Halloween, the Hanukkah bloke, think his name is Harry...Herold...or something, the May Queen, Mother Goose but I haven't heard from her in a while and of course the Man in the Moon. Not too mention all the other mythical creatures like Nessie, nymphs, and unicorns but that's another subject."

North looked at his comrade with a raised brow, "Are you sure you are not forgetting anyone Bunny?"

Without looking the man in the eye the Easter bunny took a carrot off his plate and before taking a large bite responded, "Nope."

Tooth leaned on her elbows and gave him a sweet smile, "Oh come now bunny, there has to be ONE particular holiday spirit you're forgetting."

Jack looked between the other Guardians before thinking about what they could possibly mean, he began to list the different holidays in his head.

With his eyes closed and his mouth full Bunny responded, "I have no idea what you mean sheila." He folded his arms and continued to chew.

It was silent, save for the chewing sounds coming from Bunny, when Jack finally thought of a holiday Bunny didn't mention.

"What about Cupid?" He asked.

Bunny stopped chewing and started choking on his carrot. Tooth and North both laughed at his reaction.

Jack looked at the two laughing Guardians, and asked "What? There is a cupid isn't there?"

Bunny was still choking on his meal when North, still laughing, slapped him on his back as he answered "You are correct Jack. There is a Cupid. Isn't there bunny?" North looked down at the rabbit and gave him a smirk.

Jack looked at the Easter spirit with a questioning glance, was that a blush on the giant rabbit's face?

Bunny muttered something.

Tooth finally managed to speak, "I believe North asked you a question bunny."

"There is a cupid." Bunny said not making eye contact with his so-called teammates.

Jack obviously curious about everyone's reaction simply said, "So there's a bald headed baby with wings that randomly shoots people with love arrows?"

Bunny's head snapped his head to face Jack and stood up, "SHE IS NOT BALD OR A BABY! She is a beautiful smart woman that she doesn't just go around shooting people like some kinda of psycho, love is a serious business and she makes sure to..." He stopped talking as he noticed that North's face was red... well redder than usual from holding in his laughter and Tooth had her mouth covered.

Jack was surprised by the rabbit's reaction, but then a mischievous smirk appeared on his face as he quickly reflected on the Easter bunny's words. "So, what? is she you're girlfriend or something?"

It was silent, Bunny stood there with his blush slowly appearing on his furry face.

At this point both tooth and North could no longer hold in their laughter and allowed it to burst forth. Tooth holding her sides and North banging on the table, were both shaking in laughter. Frost of course couldn't help but chuckle as well.

"Oh sure pick on the rabbit. I see how it is." Bunnymound turned and made his way out of the dinning hall.

"Oh don't be like that." Jack said as he tried to stand up, however he felt a small hand on his shoulder. He turned to face Tooth

"Don't worry about it Jack," She said laughter still in her eyes, "North will talk to him."

At this the big man stopped laughing suddenly, "What?"

Tooth sighed, "Oh come now North just go talk to him please. Just to make sure he is okay."

North sighed and let his arms drop to his side. He looked up, but then clapped his hands to his legs and stood, "I suppose you are right my winged friend." And he made his way after his comrade.

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