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Chapter 4: North's House!
"Please, Jane, pretty please with sugar and skittles on top! Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaasssssseeeee~" Jamie clasped his hands in front of Jacks neck in prayer format; this situation seemed very familiar to Bunnymund. It took Bunny a few seconds to realize, with a groan, how alike Jamie was to Jack.
"Noo, don't do this to me, please don't do this!" Jane broke Bunnymund's train of thought as she wined back at Jamie; she can't deal with kids and their outrageous cuteness. "Please don't make this up to me."
"All you have to do is say 'yes' and I'll stop! Please, Jane I really wanna go!" Jamie wined. Jane knew she was a goner when she locked eyes with him; grey against amber.
Jane sighed, "Well…what will your parents think? How long would we be going a-and how long would it take? Humm?"
"We'd just like ya ta meet with North and talk for a bit. It won't take more than an hour at most." Bunnymund answered, maybe Jamie could annoy her into going?
"Then how do we get there? I'm pretty sure it takes more than an hour's drive to get to Antarctica." Jane crossed her arms; this was such a bad idea but if Jamie went…would that make her his semi-parental guardian for a limited amount of time? Was she obligated to follow and make sure he comes back?
"It's actually in the Arctic Circle," Jack handed Jamie his staff to hold, Jamie grinned in excitement. "But if you were to go, then, I'd take Jamie and the Kangaroo would take you." Jack smirked, adjusting Jamie on his back.
Bunnymund snarled at Jack's direction, "I'm a bunny, Frostbite. Try and remember that next time you find my Boomerang shoved so far up you're—"
"Okay, okay calm down guys!" Jane said, holding her hands out to stop their bickering. The two had a stare down but Jack was the only one still smirking. Jane looked at Jamie desperately but his eyes were staring wide at her; the puppy-dog look. Jane sighed, this was not what she was looking for, "Oh kill me! Fine, fine, fine! I'll go to this North place; just stop…this!" She gestured to the scene in front of her.
Jamie just about fell off of Jack's back as he fist-pumped in the air; oh yeah, he's going to see everyone again! Bunnymund turned to her with wide green eyes, "Seriously? Ya aren't yankin' my leg?"
"No, I'm not! Let's just go before I change my mind." Jane growled. Her body was still shaking; from the cold or adrenalin starting to pump in her veins, she didn't know.
"Cool, no pun intended," Jamie laughed at Jack's joke. Jack adjusted Jamie for the last time before giving them a sailor salute. "See you guys there."
Jane held her arms up against the gust of wind that left the two as Jack jumped into the sky; disappearing with only a trace of cold and whoops of laughter. She turned back to Bunnymund, who shook his head after glaring at the sky for a second. Jane really did have to pull though with her agreement; Jamie was at the place she was headed. That fly-boy had better be there with Jamie when they got there.
Bunnymund shuffled in front to Jane before crutching low for her; he looked over his shoulder at her. "Climb on up, then."
"This is such a bad idea…" Jane mumbled for the millionth time today. She tensely grabbed his shoulders then hopped up onto his back; internally freaking out about how much she weighed. What if he couldn't move fast enough with her as extra baggage weight? Oh god, she was so screwed! Why did she do this again?
"Calm down, Sheila, It'll be al'right." Bunny chuckled, shifting the young woman higher up on his back. "I need ya ta hold onto me by yourself. I need my front paws to run with, 'Kay?"
"Hu-huh," Jane affirmed, trying not to think too much about wrapping her legs around the giant Bunny's torso. She tightened her hold on his shoulders so that when he started moving, she could feel his muscles rippling beneath his skin and fur; she was secretly surprised.
He walked off the patio and onto the grass, where he tapped his foot twice; a giant hole suddenly appeared. Out of the corner of his green eye, he saw Jane peak over his right shoulder at the hole; her eyes widened ten-fold. "HOLD ON!" He yelled with a laugh.
The moment they dropped down the hole, Jane screamed and shut her eyes. Bunnymund's laughter resonated throughout the tunnel and rumbled in his sides; this was the best! "Open your eyes, Jane!"
"No, I-I will not!" She screamed back, but she cracked her eyes opened, just a little bit! The whole thing seemed to be a blur of greens and pastels; she shut her eyes again, feeling nauseous. "I don't understand how you can run through this! It's making me sick!"
"Well you aren't the one running! Wahoo!" He roared with laughter. Jane continued screaming, shutting her eyes tightly. Jane's screams died down to small whimpers, eyes still closed. This was miserable…ish.
She opened her eyes and looked forward; not at the walls of blurring colors. They were going fast, much faster then she had thought, but Bunnymund seemed confident as he dashed thought out the tunnels. Bunnymund grinned, "Havin' fun?"
Jane glared at his big ears, "No, I'm terrified!"
"That's better than you're screamin', much better." Bunny could practically feel her grey eyes burning a hole through his head; he laughed. Jane grumbled a curse under her breath, something about chopping his left foot off and making rabbit stew… but Bunny's giant ears caught the words.
Bunnymund scoffed back while rolling his bright green orbs, "You are such a lovely little date, aren't ya?"
Jane attempted to re-adjust her hold on him, half-paying attention to what he was saying, "A-a what?"
"Neva-mind, we're almost there…"
They hopped along the tunnel for a few more minutes when Bunnymund suddenly twisted his body and, giant feet planted on the green grass wall of the tunnel, catapulted to the ceiling. Jane's eyes widened, but she didn't get a chance to even open her mouth to scream, the ceiling opened up in front of them; sunlight poured through the hole. The moment the pair popped out of the rabbit-hole they were immediately swallowed by the icy wind of the Arctic Circle; Jane was going to freeze. Bunnymund suddenly high-tailed it across the snowy tundra as Jane buried her head against his furry body; damn him for being so warm.
In less than two minutes the cold ice whipping winds and snow were completely gone and Jane was starting to have feeling in her face, "D-d-d-damn…t-t-that wa-was c-c-c-c-cold!"
"No, really?" Bunnymund said sarcastically before standing up on two feet. The weight on his back suddenly slipped off; a small shout and loud thud followed closely behind. He turned around and tried not to laugh as Jane groaned on the floor, lying on her back, "Pfft…Oops, s-sorry, mate…"
Jane glared at the Bunny before grabbing the paw he held out for her; he pulled her up quickly with a short jerk of his arm. She pulled her hand quickly out of his paw, muttering her gratitude with a scowl; after today it might just become permanent.
"So where are we?" Jane asked. She slowly turned about to look at the giant foyer they had come into. It was magnificent; the whole room was made out of some sort of white marble, waterfalls of red velvet draped over the marble and dark wood that made up a long winding staircase; the next level up.
"We're at North's place; you'd know 'im as Santa Clause?" Bunnymund asked, even though it sounded more like a statement than anything else.
"Seriously?" Jane asked skeptically, well if the Easter bunny was real…why not the jolly old Saint Nick?
"Dead, now let's get goin', ya wanna see if the kid's still alright, yeah?" Bunny asked, starting to make his way up the staircase.
Jane followed closely behind, a curious look on her face, "How'd you know?"
"Humm?"
"How'd you know that I came because of Jamie?" Jane asked again.
Bunnymund shrugged; paw sliding up the railing as they walked on, "You seemed like a very motherly kind…save for the cursein' part. You did what Jamie told you to do; that's not really common among adults to follow children's orders. He ended up helping you break your 'adult eyes' and see me. I'm sayin' that you two seemed to click even though ya didn't know him well."
Jane blinked, "Wow…thanks…I think?"
Bunny chuckled at her expression as they made it to the top of the staircase. A gigantic wooden door was the only thing between them and Santa's mythical workshop.
"Just…brace yourself." He said, paw on the brass colored handle.
"Why?"
The door opened with a loud 'whooshing' sound.
"Oh…I see…"
Bunnymund navigated Jane through the crowd of Christmas rush; the giant Yeti's thundering about, making toys, drawing sketches of toys, fixing toys, painting toys, perfecting toys, toys, toys, and more TOYS! Jane would have been completely motionless if Bunnymund hadn't been pushing her forward, leading her to the doors of Santa's conference room.
"G'day, Phil," Bunnymund nodded his head at one of the Yeti's they passed. Jane was shocked even further when the giant being waved back.
"They can understand us?" She asked him in a stunned, wonder-filled tone; her voice was barely above a whisper.
"Yeah, and they can do a whole lot of other thing's too." Bunnymund smirked at her awestruck face. He pushed her through the large doors to North's conference room; Jane was stunned to silence, and movement…again.
The large balcony they were standing on oversaw the other floors of the giant castle. Beyond the wooden archway they were standing under oversaw the center of the room. Taking up most of the space in the building, sat the largest world globe she'd ever seen; specks of gold was scattered about the green parts of the globe. It was beautiful and…and glowed…brightly…
Jane shook her head and rubbed her eyes quickly, "Okay, okay, now it has to be a dream. It's getting too intense for me. Way to intense…I must be on Nightquil or something. Damn, I've got to lay off that shit; giving me these crazy dreams…"
Jane and Bunnymund turned when they heard Jamie call out Jane's name: "Come on over and meet everyone! They're so excited to meet you!"
Jane looked at Bunnymund but he just shrugged then started out of the archway, towards the group of people Jamie was sitting with. Jane shook her head in disbelief but hesitantly followed the anthropomorphic rabbit; what else could possibly happen?
"Oh my god…" Jane whispered, hands covering her slackened mouth. More childhood iconic figures were standing no more than ten feet away. "I was wrong…totally wrong…"
Jane was wrong and so was the rest of the world. Santa Clause was seriously not Santa Clause, well, he did have a little jelly belly, a long white beard, twinkling blue eyes…but then again he was never known for the 'Naughty' and 'Nice' tattoo's on his arms, or the strong build of his body; This Santa was foreign to Jane. Completely and utterly foreign.
"AH! Young one, come join us!" A thick Russian accent rumbled out of the supposed Santa; he really was foreign…
Jane stood there like a deer caught in headlights; what was she going to do? There was no turning back now, being that she was already here and what not, but she was seriously contemplating on running over there to grab Jamie and hightail it out of this nut hole. Jane's body had a completely different view on things, seeing as Jane's brain told her that she was much, much closer to the people now.
"Oh my, you are young…but not young, not young at all. You see us, yes?" North asked the human as she joined the circle of guardians.
Her grey eyes were bright and wide in wonder; it was an amazing sight to behold. Jane nodded her head, crazed blonde hair bouncing with each nod. North laughed heartily, deep voice booming, "Dis is good, very good! I can feel my powers growing as we speak!"
"This is so great! Finally a girl in our ranks! Well, sort of in are ranks…but a girl still!" A quick, feminine voice suddenly piped up. The sound of humming buzzed in Jane's ear and with a quick turn, Jane's body turned sheet white. Fluttering in front of her was a beautiful half-human, half-hummingbird woman; her feathers were glowing iridescent purples, greens, blues, and yellows. What struck Jane the most was her purple eyes; shimmering and compassionate. "Hi, I'm Toothiana; the tooth fairy," she grinned, "You can just call me Tooth if you want."
"J-Jane…" Jane choked out her name, she was wondered what comes after 'confused as hell'?
"You have such nice adult teeth…" Tooth's small hands were suddenly prying Jane's mouth open. Jane was making 'ah' sounds as Tooth's violet eyes narrowed in shock; she looked from Jane's teeth to her wide grey eyes. "Ooh, you had your incisors shaved down! They were much longer when you were a kid; when did you get them done?"
"Kicks yess ago," Jane tried to talk, but it was hard when a crazy lady was shoving her hand down your throat!
"Tooth, back off!" Bunnymund snapped gruffly upon seeing the human starting to choke.
Tooth pulled her hands out of the young woman's mouth; she grinned at Jane sheepishly, "Sorry, I get carried away when it comes to teeth; their just so pretty and unique! And I can't believe that you only got them shaved six years ago, that's—"
"Tooth!" North laughed, "Calm down, our guest is still trying to adjust."
Tooth smiled sheepishly again before quickly patting Jane's hand then flying off next to a short man who seemed to be made entirely out of…golden sand? What was going on here?
AN: Okay here is the 4th chapter! I didn't get to update the past couple days since my school decided that it was okay to jam three exam-like tests into two days as well as having more homework! I cannot wait until things cool down! R&R guys!
