A/N
Here it is, my version of Bunny's story...
WARNING! Really sad! Waterworks may start a-flowin!
I hope you enjoy this chapter, it was emotional for me to write and Bunnymund... I am so so sorry for putting you through this! Forgive me!
~CandiLand95

Hundreds upon hundreds of Pooka's resided a forest very much like Bunnymund's warren; filled with colours, imagination and life. Different families could be identified by their fur colour and markings on their bodies, once a female Pooka found her mate, her markings would change into his, binding them together for life. The Bunnymund's were the alphas of the Pookas and kept the peace between the different families.

A petite white female Pooka with green eyes hopped out of the tunnel to her home and scanned the area instinctively. Her pink nose twitched as she smelt the air for any change. She turned back to the tunnel with a smile and said "You can come out now baby, it's safe..."

A pair of tiny floppy grey-blue ears poked out of the tunnel followed by a set of green eyes just like her own. Other Pookas that had been wandering around nearby stopped and watched as a small blue-grey bunny slowly revealed himself shyly. The mother lowered her head down and nuzzled her son's forehead where his markings formed a type of crown, symbolising his birth right.

She turned to the rest of the Pookas and with a proud smile announced "This is ... Bunnymund, the next leader of the Pookas." Everyone surrounding clapped and cheered for the young Rabbit who hid behind his mother's furry leg.

Aster's mother scoped up her shy son laughing softly. He looked up at her lovingly and cuddled up against her chest as she hugged him tight. "Don't worry Aster, your daddy will be back soon. He's got a very important job to do." Aster looked up at her with a puzzled expression and his mother began to explain the role of a Pooka. "...We give human's the most important thing in this world... Hope. Never forget that Aster."

xXx

"She taught me everythin', pop was always out helpin' some helpless bugger..." Bunnymund chuckled and April smiled softly. His smile suddenly fell. "Then Pitch Black attacked us..."

xXx

"Momma!" Called out the tiny voice of Aster as he bounded towards his mother, dodging Pitch's nightmares. His mother turned around frightened and opened her arms as her tiny baby bunny jumped into her comforting arms.

"Aster!" She gasped, clinging onto her dear son.

"Momma... I'm scared..." The bunny said, looking up at her with large green eyes. His mother looked around at what use to be their paradise and tried not to break down on the spot. The fearlings took many shapes and forms, attacking each Pooka with their greatest fears. The Fear caused their magical home to slowly wither and become like any other forest only darker. The mother Pooka forced back the tears for the sake of her son and looked around for her mate.

There he was, in the thicket of it like a blur of blue-grey with a powerful boomerang with a jaggered edge. She looked up at the man in the moon and silently asked him for help. Aster was shaking in her arms and tried to move as far away from the fearlings as possible. He looked up at his mother and saw her green eyes filled with tears and looking up at the moon almost pleadingly. "Momma..."

"Aster, I need you to listen very carefully..." She knew what she had to do, her mate needed her and the man in the moon had told her what had to be done. "I need you to run as fast as you can... follow the moon to a cave and stay there until the moon tells you it's safe."

"But what bout you and pop?" His shaky voice pierced through her.

She pulled him into one last hug and whispered "We love you ." She quickly put her son down onto the ground and pulled out her boomerang, the parter to her mate's and bounded into the fight.

"Momma!" Aster shouted as he tried to chase after her. A dark figure spotted the tiny bunny and chuckled, freezing Aster on the spot.

"Hello little baby Rabbit... what is your greatest fear?" It taunted. Aster looked up at the figure with pure fright in his green eyes. "How typical... a Rabbit afraid of Dogs..." Suddenly a group of fearlings shifted into large black greyhounds with amber eyes. With one last glance at his parents fighting together fluidly, Aster took off in the direction of the moon as fast as his little fluffy legs could go with dust dogs snapping at his fluffy grey and white tail.

He spotted a cave in the distance but he knew he wasn't going to make it, the dogs were too close and he wasn't as quick as his father. What would his father do in this situation? His father was strategical, he used the land around him and had the rare gift of being able to open up tunnels. Aster may not have that power just yet but he still was smart enough to get himself out of this situation. He ran up onto a large boulder and using his powerful hind legs to push him just that little bit further. He bounded to the tiny cave entrance with a small gap between him and the dogs.

Squeezing into the tight space, Aster had only just made it. The cave was tiny, not even large enough to be called a cave, more like a crack in the wall large enough for a little bunny to stay out of the dog's snapping jaws. Didn't mean they were going to stop trying. Their jaws pushed into the entrance and snapped viciously at the frightened bunny who quivered and cried.

xXx

Days passed before the Dogs gave up, dissipated and ran back to their owner. Aster had not slept or eaten anything during that time. The only thing that kept him going was the hope of being re-united with his parents again. The moon whispered to him it was safe and slowly, the ball of grey and blue fluff unravelled and left the cave.

When he finally reached his home he found nothing. Someone's fear must have been fire, the whole section forest was burnt to a crisp with a few random items and gnawed on bones in the ashes. Aster's green eyes widened as he looked at what was once a beautiful paradise, what once was his home destroyed by fear. He hoped around slowly as he took in his surroundings. His foot touched something smooth and wooden and when he moved his foot, he saw his father's prized Boomerang.

Tears filling his large eyes, he picked up the last piece of his father and clutched it in his tiny paws. After five minutes of continuous searching, he found his mother's boomerang near their old burrow. Aster curled up in a ball and fell asleep crying, holding onto the only things left of his parents.

xXx

"I decided then and there I would continue what my kind had been designed to do, help humans, give them hope. I lead lost children back to their families by leaving trails of brightly painted eggs for them to follow..." A smile crept up on his face as he remembered the lonely but fulfilling past where he had found his place in the world. "They believed something magical changed the egg shell and they began to exchange them and finally... they saw me." April could see happiness and pride filling his bright green eyes and she felt pride swell up inside of her. His face became serious and a veil of dark memories fell over his features "I trained myself and when I was fully grown, the Man on the Moon choose me to become a Guardian..."

Aster couldn't bare to look at April, he had never told anyone about his past, not even the other Guardians knew about his darkened past. They didn't understand his hatred of Pitch or why he was the last one of his kind. No one ever asked. He felt a pair of arms wrap around his waist and a face buried in his furry chest. April hugged Bunnymund and tried not to cry on his soft fur, he shifted his body around and wrapped his arms around her body.

"They would have been so proud of you Bunny..." She murmured into his fur.

If anyone had of said that to the Pooka, he would have told them to rack off but coming from her, it brought him comfort. Something he hadn't felt in a long time.

After a while, the sun had begun to set and April's stomach began to grumble "Come on Sheila, I'll make us some tucker and then I'll show you where you'll be sleepin'. Sound good?"

April looked up at him grinning like mad. "Say Tucker again."

Bunnymund's nose twitched and he let out a peel of laughter. "April will ya join me for some Tuuuuckkeer?" April Laughed and nodded her head.