Chapter Three: How interesting

"Hhhhmmm..." the voice hissed, the bright golden eyes pierced the darkness as he watched the globe, lights! LIGHTS EVERYWHERE! And why? All because of those, guardians!

"Its not fair!" came a voice, "Ever since the end of the dark ages I've been written off as nothing more THEN A BAD DREAM! And its all thanks to them! THE GUARDIANS!" he shouted, his nightmarish ghouls hiding where they could to get some kind of sanctuary;

"Master." came a scraggly voice from the shadows, "What?!" the man hissed whirling around to find a ragged looking black cat, "Keegan..." he said rolling his eyes as he spoke glancing at the wretched looking thing, why he put up with this animal at all was beyond him! But he also knew that having Keegan around was a useful thing too; The animal could go into place he could not and gather, sometimes, useful information. But most of the time any of the information he gathered had to do with the 'where to get the best tuna,' or 'who was dealing catnip.' and not dealing with the REAL information that the nightmarish man needed; "You had better have something useful cat! Or else..."
"MASTER PLEASE!" the cat interrupted, curling into a ball to avoid his master's wrath! Lately he'd been more 'n more abusive towards the cat due to the fact that he wasn't gathering the intel he needed, and he just couldn't deal with the idiocy anymore!

"Its about Bunnymund," Keegan began, "Bunnymund?" the man muttered confused, at least for once it related to a guardian, "He found a... a b-b-bbaby girl! A HUMAN baby girl! A-a-and-and he...he took it in! He's gonna raise it! At least … that's what I heard him say when I saw him." the cat said, arm raised over his head and flinching. "Bunnymund has a daughter?!" he said, with the realization finally hitting him, "Bunnymund HAS a DAUGHTER! AAHAHAHAHA! It's perfect!" he cackled, it was just too perfect! Bunnymund had a child and now, the man had an idea formulating in his head; "Keegan!" the man barked, "Yes Pitch?" Keegan responded, "I need you to keep an eye on Bunnymund and the baby, and when she's alone, outside of the warren and away from the other guardians come and get me." Pitch said his hand shooing away Keegan,

"Pitch... one more thing, I sense the child has powers similar to the guardians... but what they are I'm not sure." Keegan informed him, Pitch's eyes grew to the size of saucers. "Powers? Did he say.. Powers?! Oh this just TOO good to be true! A child with powers! How could this get ANY better?" Pitch thought, "You're still here Keegan?" Pitch said, the cat felt his bones form into a melted substance and he took off as if he'd been shot!

"Now all I need to do is finish perfecting my nightmare sand, hopefully, this will work out just swimmingly." He said inspecting his nails as though he had this plan in the bag.

"Well then, let's see. How am I going to go about …" as he began to develop his idea he heard a scream coming from above him, his mouth dropped and he had his lightbulb moment! "That's right! Its almost Halloween isn't it?!" he exclaimed, an evil grin crawled across his face; he had it now! "I will get her alone during halloween! I'll call her down an ally way … NO! Get her alone in a backyard someplace, in the shadows! Kidnap her! Make her my apprentice! Oh this is just TOO perfect!" he exclaimed,

Keegan was in the tunnel and he heard what was going on, he knew there was no way to stop Pitch but he had a plan to help keep the little girl safe; "I've got to buy the kid as much time as I can and hope she doesn't leave the side of the guardians. And if that doesn't work out... A familiar, is the only other thing I could offer her." he thought, it hurt him to think that this child was going to be ripped away from the only father she'd known; and all he could do was try to delay it as long as he could.

"I hope she has a good power! Perhaps the ability to form into a child's nightmare? I know, perhaps she'll know what it is they're afraid of so that I may form those fears into a nightmare!" Pitch said to himself, wondering what this child would be like, her was only really worried about her powers , nothing else really.

After a while Keegan had been out looking for Bunny or any of the other guardians, and luckily, he hadn't found them; Afterwards he'd made his way down to the pond, taking in the frozen sight. "Nice job Jack, its beautiful as always." he commented, the pond glazed over with ice as if it was glass and the snow was so pure looking, none of the kids or other adults had been around to walk on it; so it still remained untouched. "Shame the humans will soon be flooding this place with their tracks." came a female's voice, Keegan turned only to find a white cat with one green eye and one blue. "Ebony." he said walking towards her and rubbed faces with her, exhausted Keegan let out a sigh and then took notice at his friend. "Ebony are you..."

"They're all yours Keegan." she said, his face light up like a christmas tree and for once in his miserable life a ray of happiness shown through his dark world. "Ebony … I have some news.."

"Its about the baby isn't it? The one Pitch is looking for?"

"Yes, but.."

"Nothing goes on that I don't know about Keeg." she said smirking at him, "So what's your plan?" she asked

"Ppff, WHAT plan? All I can do is buy them sometime together, and hope she never leaves the side of the other guardians. Its all I can do really." he said

"It won't do any good Keegan, as she gets older she'll want to go out into the world and explore it. She'll want to leave the warren, or the work shop or wherever it is that she maybe... She'll try to escape it." She said sitting next to her mate, and nuzzling him to give him comfort; "But I do have a back up plan." he said with a little bit of hope. "What's that?" she asked him

"A familiar …" he said, Ebony placed her hand over her belly.

"Perhaps giving her one of our kittens." she suggested, he looked at her fondly and nodded his head agreeing with the idea. "I should think that would be a great idea, the kitten will keep her safe from any harm and... perhaps will prevent her from losing her innocence and purity." Keegan said, hoping this idea would work out well; and hoping they wouldn't have to resort to this plan.