I tried to do this as fast as I could since so many people asked! I got a lot of suggestions so I took most of the, and put them all together in one chapter. Thanks to: AbigailPaine, AyameKitsune, Rose Jennison, WRATH77, 1captain obvious, leeluluirty, SupernaturalChaatahFast, melancholyblood, IWillNeverStopFangirling, starskulls, GreatWolfSpirit, camierose, Taranodongirl, ladybug114, Kagirinai-Eternal, LuvFiction Xxxx, Jesters of the Moon, storygirl99210, Delph1762, lilyflower5189, Kuroshiroryuu, Dark Inu Fan, Jack Frost the Frost Child, sleepery, ReaderWriterDreamerGirl7, gamer479, Night-Fury1, jesusfreak200, sakuradancer3, Baylee1100, Alaia Skyhawk, TeddyBear98, siver282, Dude, Qwerty124, GGCharms, elvesknightren, Alana-kittychan, Rocky Pond, chloemcg, TiffRedd1994 (thank you so much for that review :D unfortunately, I couldn't send you a PM) for the awesome reviews! :D Oh and also for the people who had been asking where is Jack, he stayed behind to do something else. You'll know towards the end of the story. Well, I hope you like this chapter and enjoy!
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The next memory was obviously in spring since the snow outside was melted and the leaves were starting to poke their way out from the branches. The squirrels were chattering in the trees and the birds were signing happily amongst the branches.
The Guardians heard laughter coming from their right and turned to see Mr. Frost putting his arm around Jack's shoulder like old buddies, both of them with their shepherd's crook in their hands. This must've taken place a few months after the Christmas scene the Guardians last saw.
"Jack!" Pippa came running out of the house, beaming, and crashed in her brother so hard that he fell to the ground laughing with her. "You're back! You're back!" She kept on saying with an excited voice.
Their father roared with laughter and heaved the two siblings back on their feet, his wife coming out of the house to meet them.
"So," She said, grinning broadly "Did you boys have a good day?"
Her husband smiled and ruffled Jack's hair. "Jack here did a great job! I have never seen a sheep herder as good as him!"
"I've never really seen Jack as a sheep herder. He would probably freeze all of the poor beasts' butt up with that staff of his. No offence to him." North said.
Bunny snorted, as if having a mental image of Jack freezing sheep with his staff by accident and Tooth cuffed him around the head, frowning at North who said. "What? I said no offence!"
Tooth and Sandy sighed at their childish behaviour.
Jack blushed and hugged his dad. "Thanks for giving me that staff Pa."
Mr. Frost chuckled and hugged his son back. "You deserved it son, now come inside children, we have Easter tomorrow! So, who's going to catch the most eggs?"
"Ha! Now it's Easter! Would you look at that!?" North said.
Bunny looked surprised. "Yeah, I wonder if he believes in me at that age though." He said sadly.
"Well since it would seem that he believes in North, I don't see why he wouldn't believe in you." Tooth reassured him.
But Bunny still didn't look convinced.
"It's going to be me!" Pippa said, her voice full of determination. "Last time, Jack beat me, but this time, it's going to be the other way around!"
"We'll see about that!" Jack said, poking his sister in the chest.
Pippa giggled. "Hey!" Then chased Jack in the house.
Their parents chuckled fondly and walked in the house.
"They're such a happy family, I still can't believe that Manny would take Jack away like that!" Tooth said almost accusingly.
"Yeah, even I have to admit, that's kinda harsh of him, ripping a family apart like that." Bunny said.
"But he must have a reason to do that!" North said. "Manny doesn't do anything without a proper reason to do so!"
"Maybe we'll learn more if we keep on watching the memories." North said, drawing their attention to the scene that flashed white then suddenly, the door to the little house burst open and Jack and Pippa came out running and laughing, a straw basket swinging in their hands, and in Jack's case, his staff in the other. It was Easter.
"Ah, Easter!" Bunny exclaimed happily. "Can you just smell the hope in the air?"
"Come on! Let's follow them!" Tooth said then the Guardians ran after the joyful children looking for eggs.
Jack and Pippa stopped running and Jack turned to his sister with a smile. "Ok little Lady, how about we split in two and then come back when we get, let's see… 15 eggs? Then we'll see who has the keenest eyes! Alright?" He said with an excited smile.
"Yes! That sounds like fun!" She replied.
"So my little egg hunters," Their father came and put his hand on their shoulder, smiling at them. "You all ready?"
"Yeah!" Pippa said and explained what they were going to do to their father.
"That sounds like a good plan! But how exactly are you going to get back if you can easily get lost? You're going in the woods after all." He said.
Jack frowned. "I actually didn't think of that one…"
"Oh, I have an idea, wait for me here." Their father walked in the house and came back outside with two bags with a loaf of bread in each of them. He handed one bag to Pippa and the other to Jack. "Here, you can leave bread crumbs to find your way back. And don't worry about animals eating them, I made this bread with way to much salt by accident, they won't be wanting it."
"That's clever of him." North admitted. "I can see where Jack gets his cleverness from."
Jack beamed at his dad. "Thanks Pa!"
"Ah, don't mention it! Just don't go past the river alright?" He said.
"Pff, we can't even cross it since the current is so strong Pa, don't worry." Pippa said.
"Alright then, you kids have fun!" Their father said then walked back in the house.
"Ok then, I'll go right and you'll go left?" Jack said to his sister.
Pippa nodded and held out her hand solemnly with a smile and said. "May the best man, or girl, win."
Jack smirked and shook her hand, then lightly pushed her and darted towards the forest, laughing.
"Hey!" Pippa yelled then ran to her side of the forest, both of them ripping pieces of bread and dropping them on the ground after themselves.
"Come on guys let's follow Jack!" Bunny said then bounded after the boy, the Guardians right behind him.
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After half an hour, Jack found fourteen eggs, most of them hiding in the branches so he had to scoop them down with his shepherd's crook.
"Come on, come on." He kept muttering. "Only one egg, only one left, come on, where are you?" He sighed and walked back the way he came with the help of the bread crumbs.
"I should probably look at home, I haven't looked there yet." He said to himself.
Every time he saw a bread crumb, he picked it up and put it in his bag, looking for eggs at the same time in case that he might've missed one the first time that he passed through. His face lit up when he saw a colourful egg lying under a bush. He reached out to it and yelped when a furry hand reached out from the other side and snatched it from the ground. Jack stayed quiet and slowly got up and peeked behind the bush. He gasped when he saw a huge grey furry animal with tattoos in an even greyer colour inspecting the egg and muttering about it not being pink enough.
Bunny stared at himself, literally. "Jack was the one who saw me? Jack was the one who saw me! I knew I recognised him from before!"
"Wow wow Bunny! You mean to say that there was someone that saw you? And it was Jack!" Tooth said with wide eyes.
"Well, yeah! It was Easter three hundred something years ago, a kid saw me. I actually didn't remember what he looked like since he sorta disappeared the next year. Thought that I would never see him again, turns out that I actually did!"
Sandy made a few images out of dream sand and North nodded in agreement. "Yes Bunny, why didn't you tell us?"
Bunny rubbed his arm in embarrassment. "Might have slipped from my mind…"
Tooth face palmed.
The furry animal sat up and went to place the egg back but froze half way when it saw Jack staring at it mouth wide open.
"Erm, you didn't see anything!" It said, waving it's arm around.
Jack beamed. "You're the Easter Bunny! You look like a kangaroo though."
North snorted. "Even then, he called you a kangaroo!"
The Bunny frowned. "I'm not a kangaroo mate."
"If you say so." Jack said then pointed at the egg in Bunny's hand. "Could I have that?"
"Oh! Sure." Bunny gave Jack the egg, who put it in his basket.
"Say, didn't you see a little girl with long brown hair, brown dress and a basket just like mine? She's my sister and I want to make sure that she's alright." Jack asked.
Bunny thought for a moment. "As a matter of fact, yes I have."
Jack smiled. "Then could you take me to her?" He said hopefully.
Bunny hesitated. "I still have eggs to hide…"
"Please? There are so many dangerous things in this forest…" Jack tried again.
Bunny sighed in defeat. "Fine, I don't usually allow people to do this but climb on."
Jack jumped on Bunny's back and he hopped off into the forest.
"Since when do you ever do what Jack asks you to?" Tooth asked teasingly.
Bunny huffed in annoyance and crossed his arms. The Guardians ran after Bunny and Jack.
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"Here you go you ankle-bitter." Bunny said. "That's the place where I last saw your sister." He stopped at a spot in the forest, Jack slid off his back and looked around for Pippa.
"I don't see her, where is she?" Jack asked.
Bunny shrugged. "Hey kid, this is the last place where I saw your sister, I didn't guarantee that she was going to be here! But tell you what; I'll help you to look for your sister alright? It's part of my job to make sure that children are alright."
Jack's face lit up with a hopeful smile. "Really? You know, she's a really big fan of you! She believes in you and the others like the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman and Santa with all of her heart. I'll introduce you to her when we found her. You'll see, she's a sweetheart."
Bunny chuckled. "Is that so? Well I already like her."
"So, which way do we go?" Jack asked.
"Here let's go this way." Bunny walked further in the forest and Jack followed him.
They soon heard voices from behind a few trees.
"You actually believe in the Easter Bunny? That's so lame!"
"Oh that's because her family is so poor that they actually believe that the Easter Bunny will maybe give you money!"
They heard mocking laughter and then a sob and Pippa's voice. "Leave me alone! And the Easter Bunny is real!"
Jack's eyes widen. "Pippa! That's my sister!" He ran towards the voices and burst through the bushes yelling. "Leave my sister alone!"
The Guardians pushed pass the bushes to see two rich and spoiled looking boys leaning over Pippa who had backed up to the trunk of a thick tree, her basket of eggs spilled on the ground, her bag of bread crumbs too. She looked relieved to see her brother.
"Jack!" She yelled with a smile then gasped at the sight of Bunny. "Who is that?"
Jack smiled. "This is the Easter Bunny Pippa, he helped me to find you."
"The Easter Bunny?" One of the boys said. "There's nothing there! You're all lunatics!"
Jack smirked and jumped on Bunny's back, ignoring his protests. The boys gasped when they saw Jack hovering above the ground. They blinked and gasped even louder when they saw who Jack was sitting on.
"Now, do you believe me?" Jack said, sliding off Bunny's back and picking up his staff that he dropped when he jumped on Bunny's back and walked to the boys who were frozen in disbelief. "Now lay off my sister." He growled.
"Yeah Jack! You show them!" Tooth cheered.
The boys were either very stupid or very brave because they only sneered and one of them, the fattest, advanced on Jack and said. "Oh yeah? Or what? You're so poor and weak, you won't even be able to give me a little bruise if you even try to hit me! You and your family, you're just dirty weasels living in a rat hole!"
Jack was so angry now that he was shaking and looked like he was trying really, really hard not to hit the disrespectful boys.
The other boy smirked and said. "Especially your sister, she's so weak and stupid. Look at her!"
Bunny drew his boomerangs. "You little-"
SMACK! SMACK!
The Guardians blinked in surprise as the two boys fell to the ground, clutching their obviously broken nose.
Jack shook his stinging hand. "How about that as weak? No one insults my family and gets away with it! Now leave and don't ever think of going near my family again!" He said, his voice dangerously low.
The two boys scramble to their feet and ran to their homes, stumbling along the way.
Jack tightened his grip on his staff. "Good riddance." He said harshly then took a deep breath to calm himself and hoisted his sister to her feet. Pippa hugged her brother tightly and began to sob. "Thank you Jack, you're the best brother ever." Jack crouched down and returned the hug then turned to Bunny who was awkwardly standing there.
"Thanks kangaroo, for helping me find my sister." He said with a grateful smile.
Bunny smiled back. "You're welcome kid. You're a brave boy, I'll tell you that. Well, I'd better get going." He turned to leave but Pippa's voice stopped him. "Wait, you're leaving? Already?"
Bunny turned and smiled at the siblings. "Yeah, I have to get going, still have millions of eggs to hide. Here." He walked over to them and gave Pippa a necklace with a little egg hanging on it. "If you ever need me again, maybe if those boys come to taunt you again, smash the egg and I'll come alright?"
Pippa took the necklace delicately and nodded.
Bunny gave another smile at the siblings and ran off into the forest.
"Come on Pippa," Jack said, picking up his sister's bag and basket, putting the eggs back into it and handing it back to her. "Let's go home." And with that, they walked back into the forest, hand in hand.
"Aww!" Tooth cooed. "That was the sweetest memory yet!"
"I can't believe that I actually forgot about them!" Bunny said. "I don't think that Pippa actually used that necklace though."
"Jack is very protective of his family, especially his sister." North remarked. "I wonder what his family did after Jack was transformed into a Winter Spirit?"
"I hope that we're going to find out soon." Tooth said then they were gone again in a flash of white.
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Man! That was long to write! I spent all morning doing this from 7:30 to 2:00, which I hope was worth it. Ugh! My tailbone hurts so much now that I've sat down for so long! Well anyways, I think I'm gonna do maybe one or two more memories before the drowning one. So the next chapter is gonna be up in about a few days! Oh and please tell me if there's a specific memory that I should do, and tell me what you think about this one. Peace out! :D
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