Disclaimer I don't own Any of the Guardians wish I did but I don't


Something had changed out in the world I could feel it and as moonlight touched be through a crack in the Hollow I felt myself stirring from my sleep, but it felt...wrong somehow like I wasn't supposed to wake yet. Where was Bunny? Where were the faeries? Anyone?

My eyes slowly opened the lids feeling like lead weights and carefully I sat up. There had been times when I had first woken up that I had little to no strength so time had taught me to be cautious. I took deep breaths the air felt much cooler than it should have been for spring my breath came out in puffs of white.

It was still winter. Why was I awake if it was still winter? My confusion was only heightened by my sleep addled brain and panic was beginning to set in.

'The Warren.' my brain finally supplied me

That's right I can go to the Warren I have my own tunnel that will take me there Bunny will probably be there and he will know why I'm awake so soon I just have to keep it together long enough to get to him.

Now with a plan and destination in mind I could focus and I could feel the panic receding to the back of my mind ready to strike should my plan fail.

I slowly stood stumbling into the wall next to my bed, well it looked more like a nest or burrow or something an animal would sleep in, as well as my staff which had been resting against that wall. My staff was a foot taller than myself with intricate carvings of flowers and vines from top to bottom with grooves for where my fingers had always held it and at the top it ended in a rose bud. Never in all my years had it bloomed and I had tried everything to make it do so, I don't know why I thought so but I knew it could bloom. Bunny thought I was 'barkin' if I thought a wooden flower could bloom.

Using my staff as a support I slowly made my way down the only tunnel that lead deeper into the earth in the Hollow. The going was slow, but my way was lit by moonlight and the glowing stones that I and Bunny had planted into the walls and ceiling of the tunnel knowing how much I disliked the dark after waking. Eventually though I saw the end of the tunnel and began to walk faster in hopes of soon seeing my friend and getting some answers.

I exited the tunnel to be surrounded by the familiar sight of the Warren. Green luscious grass you could fall asleep on, flowers of every kind and color, trees and rocks covered in soft downy moss, vines that freshly painted eggs would slide down on to be designed and little eggs on little legs walking everywhere, but so far no Bunny.

'That's ok, it's alright, it's a big place but we'll find him.' I reassured myself taking deep breaths

So I began my search, he wasn't at the flowers that laid the eggs, he wasn't watching the paint rivers where they jumped in to be colored, he wasn't at the vines where they got designed...he wasn't here.

'Why wouldn't he be here? He's almost always here when it's not Easter and I know it's not Easter cause I'd be out there making sure grass and flowers and trees were growing and that the animals had gotten up ok from hibernation and and...' I trialed off the earlier panic washing over me like a tidal wave

I sat down where I was next to one of Bunny's sentinel rocks curled up with my knees to my chest put my head in my arms and cried myself into a fitful sleep.