"This is never going to work out, is it," Pitch sighed, walking around his cave, changing location quickly every once in a while. Eboni glared at him, holding her hands together in front of her, her back to the cage like the day before.
"You don't have a chance, Pitch," Eboni commented, "The Guardians will always beat you."
"But at least I'm not alone," Pitch smiled as he stopped, spreading out his hands to circle the room, "am I?"
Eboni eyed the capsules, the ones with the teeth, and the little tooth fairies who started chit-chatting with each other excitedly. "They aren't either."
"That isn't what I meant." Pitch walked towards Eboni's cage slowly, his hands falling to his sides. "Have you ever thought... about how lonely you are when you're a 'Guardian Angel'?" Eboni glared stronger at him. "No one can see you. No one can comfort you. And those Guardians? They have stuff of their own to take care of."
"Shut up," Eboni muttered and Pitch smiled wider.
"Have you ever thought about how you could be much more powerful, much more alive, when you're believed in?"
"Shut up," Eboni ordered, more loudly, and Pitch smiled even wider, if that was possible.
"Have you ever wondered-"
"SHUT UP!" Eboni screamed at him, jumping up to her feet and banging the cage with all the strength in her fist. "It's not my fault I'm not believed in!"
"But that's the point," Pitch cooed. "It's not your fault. But they still don't- with me, you will be believed in-"
"I will be feared," Eboni mumbled. "Guardian Angels are not feared. They're loved."
"But they aren't right now, are they?" Eboni sighed and fell down, making circled on her foot. Then she thought to herself- Maybe I can make new ones. They'll go to the owners- the Guardians will be first.
"Well, I'm going out. Tormenting the Guardians takes work- I'll be back in a couple of hours." Eboni sighed, rolling her eyes from under her arms. "What?"
"Try your best, Pitch," Eboni mumbled, smiling, "you'll never win."
Some time later...
"Ha ha HA!" Eboni smiled widely, singing as she peered at the band of five Guardians that floated in front of her. "You guys think you can break me out?" The angels circled the cage, whispering thoughts to each other, before one of them pulled up a lock, with some work, and swung the door open. Eboni stared, mouth wide open in embarrassment. "It was right THERE?!" She cried, slapping her forehead. She jumped out of the cage and faced her eager companions. "Go to the Guardians- see to it that they are safe from the dangers of the mind." The angels nodded happily and zoomed off. Eboni looked around the big cavern before she started jumping from cage to cage, opening the doors to all the fairy cages. At one point, she noticed that none of the fairies were moving out- "None of you can FLY?!"
Bunnymund stomped around his Warren, still trying to figure out exactly where the place was. "I know that Pitch has a cavern! Where is it, though?" He mumbled to himself. His big egg statues stared at him with concern, but Bunny ignored them. "Where, where, WHERE?" He shouted out angrily, punching a tree that splattered tons of paint on him. He stood, drenched, is anger heat starting to bubble inside him. He wiped the paint off his face, trying to contain his anger, and suddenly- there was a white shape, buzzing towards him. He started to step back slowly as the white thing got closer. To Bunny, it was nothing but a white blur. The thing buzzed toward him, and Bunny thought of running before the blur crashed into his heart area, and he felt a surge of heat flow through his body, coming out as a angry yell throughout the Warren.
Bunny remembered when this happened before- it was a normal day, Bunny was looking around at all his eggs that were being painted. Suddenly, something smashed into his back. The surge came, and Bunny yelled even louder. He stared down at his chest- there was some sort of line painted on his fur. It was white, and it suddenly started moving, waving to something. Bunny looked up and saw a Pooka, much like him. She was dark-furred, she was being shaded by one of the trees, and she was smiling softly. Bunny's eyes widened and he jumped up, going to run to her, see who she is, see what was in his fur. But before he could start running, she was gone. Poof.
"She's back..." Bunnymund murmured as he pressed a hand to his new angel.
"She's out of reach, as long as she is in the Boogeyman's clutches," a soft voice added, and Bunny looked down at his hand. There was a girl angel there- Bunny had seen enough of them to recognize what it was. "My name is Jessie. And Mother Guardian was never gone."
"Where is 'Mother Guardian'?" Bunnymund demanded Jessie. She flinched, and flew back into Bunnymund's heart.
"She's coming."