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Bunny gripped the newly furnished wooden arm of the sleigh holding on for dear life. They were on their way to North's favorite Russian forest that was once his camp. The toy-maker was the one who suggested that they all needed to loosen up and go on a trip and that they lacked 'bonding time' only gathering together when something was wrong.

Bunny didn't approve the idea, he was way too busy and he didn't feel like leaving his warren, he refused to tag along, a family that gathered maybe once a year is normal right? No it certainly was not, he was practically dragged out of his warren, now he was cowering in the back seat of the sleigh, unlikely of the brave Pooka he proves to be. Who wouldn't when you are about 800,000 feet above ground, sitting in an unstable vehicle with a reckless little trickster in control of the reins?

Yep, the driver was no other than Jack Frost the trickster with even more reckless ways than North. He used another arm to get a solid hold on the side of the sleight as it sped faster. He glanced over at Tooth and Sandy who raised their arms enjoying the ride and having fun, the part that Bunny didn't get the most. It's not like he didn't know how to have fun, but how exactly can you relax when you might fall off the edge anytime? Tooth didn't have a problem, she had her wings, Sandy didn't have a problem either, he could use his dream sand in case he fell out. Bunny was the one that was truly flightless and preferred his feet on the solid ground instead of the air.

His lunch got caught in his throat as the sleigh suddenly took a sharp turn. North gave a hearty laugh and lightly patted Jack on the head, "Great job my boy!"

"Why do you guys refuse to take the tunnels?" Bunny questioned, screwing his eyes shut. "Your tunnels are no fun," Jack turned to him and smirked.

And the worse part was North refuses to use the snow globe as a short cut because he wanted to see more of what he calls 'Jack's great driving skills' well what part of 'great' is spinning around in circles above the clouds?

"Relax Bunny," Said Tooth. "You have no idea how great this feels!" she leaned over the edge and stretched out an arm feeling the clouds beside the sleigh.

"How can I bloody relax? This thing is going too fast!" Bunny snapped, clawing the wood even harder that his nails were beginning to throb.

"That reminds me!" he heard North say. "Jack, go faster"

"What!? North, we're already going so-CRIKEY!" he cursed as Jack lashed the reins harder, making the reindeer run faster. He could hear Tooth, North and Jack laughing while Sandy was sprinkling dream sand like confetti. Black already dotted Bunny's vision and his stomach threatened to spew out his lunch. The sleigh jerked forward again as Jack summoned the wind to give them a boost. "That eez my boy!" North boomed and Jack felt so happy being called North's boy for 35 times, he has been counting.

Bunny never thought he was ever going to say this but, "North! Can't we just use your bloody snow globe so we can get this over with?" he pleaded.

"Okay fine," North dug in his coat and fished out his snow globe. "Here," he handed it to Jack. "Okay," Jack toyed with it in his hands before literally screaming, "TO RUSSIA" into it, copying North's accent. (Sorry I don't know any Russian forests XD) the sleigh entered a colorful vortex and landed in the middle of a beautiful wilderness.

Almost instantly, Bunnymund hopped out of the sleigh, enjoying the feeling of his feet on solid ground. "I am never going back in that thing ever again!"

"Aw, the Easter Bunny is scared of Santa's sleigh, that would be a great story to tell the children." Jack took his staff and tried to leap right out but the handle of his saber got caught on the handle, causing him to topple over, he would have hit his head if North hadn't gotten a hold of his arms and pulled him upright. "Thanks North," he smiled; it felt like North was always there for him. Jack made sure nothing was hooked before he tumbled right out of the sleigh.

The beautiful forest was filled with ever-green grass and leaves. Sunlight escaped the cluster of trees, shinning down in streaks. The air was spicy with the scent of blooming flowers. Birds sang from their perches along with the sound of the gentle swaying waters of the nearby lake, it was so peaceful; no wonder North loved it here.

Jack busied himself in freezing the lake, covering the entire lake with a thick sheet of ice and Tooth and Sandy were watching.

Bunny stood under the shade of a tree, thumping his foot angrily. "Seriously North, what's the point of this anyway?" he asked.

"I told you, we lack bonding time." North said.

Bunny rolled his eyes at how ridiculous it sounded. "Well, is that called bonded time?" he gestured at Jack, scampering on the frozen surface of the lake while pounding his staff on the hard ice.

"Let him have his fun," North waved him off. "It's been a while since we did something like this."

"No, the correct term is we never did something like this before." Bunny stated.

"And this will be the first, North added. "Look at it as a family vacation."

"Well, I still got a lot of work to do," Bunny muttered.

"You're just painting eggs, how much work could that possibly be?" the jolly man teased.

Bunny's ears dropped, "Here it goes again, I'm telling you North you got all year to prepare."

"Yes, but Easter is not Christmas." North wagged a finger in front of him. If Bunnymund was a vicious animal, he would have bit it off by now, but he wasn't. He wasn't in the mood to dispute, but North just went too far.

"Easter is more important than Christmas, you said it yourself."

"And that was before, children like Christmas better."

"They don't"

"They do"

"They don't!"

"They do!"

Jack was too busy freezing the lake to hear North and Bunny's childish arguments. He added a couple more layers to make sure it was safe to stand on. When the ice was thick enough, that not even a sharp ice pick can penetrate it, he pulled the squealing Tooth for a spin. Earlier today, she said she has never stood on ice before, and now Jack was going to change that. Tooth teetered on the ice, using her wings to support her balance, meanwhile Jack pushed Sandy into the rink as well, watching him flap his arms like a chicken in helping him balance, needless to say they were all having so much fun, even Bunny and North who were arguing under a tree. Jack glided backward on the ice while Sandy followed close behind, getting the hang of it keeping it up for hours. Bunny and North's heated argument still went on.

The clouds gathered, blocking away the sunlight. The sky darkened around them, cold mist swirled. The forest fell silent, the birds stopped chirping. Something was wrong.

Jack, Tooth and Sandy didn't seem to notice. But Bunny's ears picked up the sound of something drawing closer to them. "Hey North,"

"Hm? What iz it?"

"Did you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"That!"

"I don't hear any-" a cold shadow swept passed his feet, just like at the North Pole, Bunny and North shot each other a worried glance irises widening. North mouthed the word 'Pitch' and Bunny shrugged. It was impossible Pitch was too weak, they weren't expecting him to come back for decades.

But they have carelessly let their guard down. North searched around, trying to look for another explanation, unfortunately finding nothing but black sand seeping out of the soil.

"Jack! Get out of there!" he called, unsheathing his dual swords while Bunny readied his boomerangs.

Jack turned around his expression filled with turmoil. "What's wrong?" Sandy conjured a question mark of sand above his head.

North used to swords to point at the black sand gathering around the clearing.

Tooth gasped, "Pitch?" at that exact moment, Pitch's echoing laughter sounded behind them. Jack smacked his staff in the air, shooting ice at nothing. Pitch's shadow darted from tree to tree, the black sand tailing him formed into smaller dark horses. Obviously Pitch was weaker than before, but that does not mean it would be an easy fight.

"What do you want? "Bunny growled.

Pitch's full form appeared in the shadows of the trees. "Oh is it wrong to pay my long-time enemies a little visit? After all, we're just having fun, isn't that right?"

With that, Bunny threw his boomerangs at the him but the nightmare king quickly dodged it by disappearing into the shadows. North began slashing at the nightmares that came forward. Sandy extended his sand whips turning the horrible black sand into drams, Tooth used her wings to cut through nightmares and Jack froze everything he could find.

What was supposed to be a family vacation turned into a surprise attack. A dozen of questions were pooling in Jack's mind, like how the heck did Pitch find them, when did he plan it and what was his purpose. It wasn't the right time at this moment but Jack thought it was fun, the nightmares were easier to take out that before, it was like playing a game. Who knew what Pitch was thinking, he is way too weak to take them on. The winter spirit decided it was the perfect time to test out the golden saber North gave him only a few days ago. He pulled it out of its sheath and began slashing trough nightmares.

North spotted Jack wielding his sword from the corner of his eye. "THAT EEZ MY BOY!" He yelled across the clearing.

"North this ain't a good time to be proud." Bunny threw his boomerangs at the nightmare that was diving for North.

Once Jack cleared the circle of fearlings that was around him, he flew to the other intending help them, but a fearling just crawled right in front of him and ran deeper into the forest, there was no way he was letting it go that easily. He ran after the stray nightmare horse, straying away from the guardians where all the protection was.

Little did he know it was part of Pitch's traps again. The nightmare horse vanished into nothing and Jack raised his brow in confusion and forged with his staff out-stretched.

He tapped the crook of his wooden staff lightly and frost began to collect around it.

Pitch appeared out of the shadows right behind the little trickster who is the very cause of his fall. He formed an axe out of his black sand and got ready to swing.

As the axe moved towards him, Jack felt the slight movement behind him, before he could turn around the wind tried to pluck him out of the way, but the axe struck him in the leg, flinging him to a tree, knocking the air out of him from the hard blow against his back. His leg throbbed, immense pain spread all over his body he found himself too weary to open his eyes.

"I have more where that came from," he heard Pitch's voice whisper before the sound of slithering nightmare sand filled the air.

Hitched breaths escaped his lips, followed by a stream of tears. The pain didn't seem to go away. He placed a shaky hand on his leg shocked to see it was broken. He cracked an eye open and squeezed his appendage tightly sweat pouring down his forehead.

He bit his lip, getting ready for the pain that was about to come. He gripped the lower bone and forced it back in place, gritting his teeth to avoid screaming.

The guardians froze in bewilderment staring at each other with questionable gazes. One minute they were swarmed by fealings and the second they blink, it all disappears.

"Must've finally realized that he's no match fer us." Bunny smirked placing his boomerangs back in the leather sheath.

"But why would he attack us in the first place?" Tooth wondered, Sandy gave her a shrug.

"Where's Jack?" North asked his gaze averting around the forest, worry suddenly struck him.

"He was just there a minute ago."

"Yeah, I've seen him."

A nearby twig snapped everyone glanced at the direction of the noise to find Jack staggering to them, using his staff as support. Hot tears escaped his glassy eyes no matter how much he tried to hold them back.

North was the first one to react he caught him when he fell forward, scooping him up and leaning him on a tree. "What happened?" he took a hold of Jack's leg causing sharp cry of pain from the winter spirit, the jolly man's heart wrenched.

"Pitch happened," Jack managed to choke out. "My leg's broken."

"Then we better set the bone," Bunny scooted beside North, Tooth and Sandy hovered above them each with worried faces.

"It's already set," Jack answered with nonchalance, rearranging himself into a better position.

"What?" that was all North could say, "So you mean to say that you broke it?"

"No, Pitch broke it with his axe," Jack corrected.

"So…Pitch broke it….and he set it?" North asked.

"That sounds….wrong…." Bunny's ears twitched in confusion.

"No, Pitch broke it, I set it." Jack shifted his leg a little.

The guardians gave each other a worried glance.

"Jack, You don't set your own leg." Tooth was the first one to speak.

"Well I just did," Jack said flatly. "I'm fine now."

"Jack," North addressed, "Why did you wander off? You could have stayed with us and Pitch wouldn't have gotten to you."

Jack glared at the floor but remained quiet.

"So Pitch's purpose of the attack was to hurt Jack?" Bunny scoffed. "We'll be sure to get back at him the next time we see him." Sandy cracked his knuckles agreeing with the Pooka.

"Jack" North lifted his chin to look him in the eye. "If you need help from us just ask, you are no longer alone anymore."

"I don't need help, I said I'm fine!" Jack spat like venom, raising his voice, causing the other guardians to gape. North's eyes widened in astonishment gawking at the winter spirit, he tried to say something but nothing came out. Just when he thought Jack's trust was bounded, something has to prove him wrong again.

Jack gasped at what he just said, h tried to apologize but instead a dry cough evaded.

North acted fast, "Come on, let's go back." He scooped the winter spirit in his arms and ambled towards the sleigh with the others trailing behind them, trying to forget about what just happened.

Jack stayed quiet for the rest of the trip, feeling all kinds of shame and guilt. He had yelled at North for trying to help him at it was probably the worst thing he had ever done. He had no idea why, but it was just hard for him to realize that he has someone who wants to take care of him. He's used to taking care of himself after all.

North dropped off the other guardians to their designated places and went back to the pole. "Come on Jack" he called before lifting Jack in his arms like he weighed nothing.

He commanded the Phil to make a cast and marched straight to Jack's room, setting him down on his bed.

"I'm sorry," Jack finally said his voice hoarse from the long moment of silence.

North furrowed his thick brows, "Sorry for what?"

"For…for yelling…" his voice came out little.

The old Cossack smiled at him, "You don't have to be sorry, we have to be sorry."

Jack's head snapped up to look at North, "For?"

"For leaving you alone," His chest heaved into a sigh. "I don't know how, but I will be sure to make it up to you."

"Well, you don't really have to…" Jack's eyes met the floor again.

"But we are your family now, you have to remember that you are no longer alone anymore and you can ask help from us anytime." He held his shoulders and gave him a little shake, mindful of his leg. "You have to remember that, okay?"

For a moment Jack just stared at him, making North nervous of rejection, but to his surprise, Jack hugged him and it didn't take time for him to hug the winter spirit back, wrapping his arms around his tiny frame.

"You're grounded by the way…."

"What?"

North chuckled, "I've always wanted to say that."

It brought a smile to Jack's lips, "Feels good doesn't it?"

"Yes, it does….but you are not allowed to leave this room that makes you grounded…."

"Oh come on…."

Yes I finished at midnight XD the darkness sure is inspiration….HEY PITCH DID YOUR HEAR THAT!? lol I bet he'll be here soon O.O

There is nothing going on with the Pitch appearing all of a sudden, I just added him here to break Jack's leg that's all XD

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