A/N: Hey guys! Was up? ..I don't really have anything special...On with the chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own Rise of the Guardians or Guardians of Childhood.
. . .(RoTG)
Bunny looked in timeline after timline after timeline after timeline, with no sign of Frostbite. Sandy had been checking in on his every few hours, making sure he was actually working. The process itself was long, difficult and frankly, boring. And with Sandy hanging over his shoulder it felt like slave work.
The Pooka scowled for the forty-th time that day and set up another tunnel that would take him through time and space. This was taking up quite a bit of magic and he hadn't used it in awhile, so it was more tireding.
When Bunny emerged from the tunnel he had created, he glanced around, not seeing much.
He was on the edge of a forest. The trees were seemingly grown in a ring, locking a tiny village of sorts inside. He had blocked the magic signal that his tunnel emitted so no one was the apparent guards weren't alerted. He could sense a large bear pacing the perimeter as well as a spirit woman. There were nine childeren, 142 insects, 56 arachnids, 123 mammals, (including the bear) nine elders and one moonbeam-like...child. At least, that's what he could sense. He shifted from paw to paw, pressing his arms across his chest and focused harder, spreading out his magic to be more clear. When he found no sign of Jack still, he rolled his eyes and hopped back into his tunnel.
Just as Jack flew into the clearing.
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"Sandy! There was no sign of 'im! Stop yelling at me!" Bunny stomped to his nest to collapse into it. He buried his face into his fluffy pillow as Sandy continued 'yelling' at him. He was exhausted and he didn't bother asking why Sandy seemed to so strongly dislike him right now.
Dreamsand flew from Sandy's ears as his comrade continued to ignore him. He turned and scanned the floor, picking up a small oval shaped wood trinket and chucked it at him. Bunny shot up as it hit him directly on the head.
"What the bloody 'ell, Sandy!" he shouted. "I know yer worried an all but really! I've been working mah tail off and you hit me with a bloody jorival!"
Sandy had no idea what a jorival was, but his eyes softened and he nodded apologetically at the Pooka, who relaxed and slumped back down onto his nest. Sandy turned to leave and subconsciously gave him dreams of Easter, even though he felt Bunny didn't deserve it.
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Sandy was really worried. It had been 3 weeks since he had last seen Jack, and, well... The first time the dreamweaver had met him hadn't been pleasant. He kinda had to wonder about his mental state. He had always known Jack was a little emotional. But when the others had sent him away...
Sandy tried to clear his mind of Jack for the moment and focus on giving the children of Earth sweet dreams. They didn't need to feel uneasy, even if they didn't understand why.
He frowned when he felt one of his dreamsand trails drift lazily away from where it was supposed to go. The Sandman put it back on course, watching it closely flow to a child's window, only to tumble away again. Sandy huffed and floated down from his cloud to see what was happening. The window, he realiezed, was Jamie's window. The child who had saved them all those years ago. Jack's best friend.
Sandy peeked timidly through the window, only to startle back when he saw Jamie's face so close to the glass. Jamie flung open the window and hugged him. Sandy patted his back a bit awkwardly.
"Oh, Sandman! I'm so glad to see you!"
Sand nodded and a question mark appeared above his head, along with and arrow pointing first at him,then the bed.
Jamie looked bashfully at him. "Ya, I know, but I'm to worried about Jack. He said he'd be back to play two days after he had left but.. its been a long time. And he never breaks his promises. Do you know where he is?"
Sandy hesitated then shook his head no then he made a 'we're searching' gesture.
That seemed to satisfy Jamie. He shuffled over to bed and buried himself under the covers. He yawned and glanced up at him as he went to tuck the kid in. "Please find him," were his last words before he driffted into dreams of snowball fights and sledding.
. . .(GoC)
Ombric felt a sudden shift in Santoff Claussen's boundaries. Some sort of magic source was detected, obviously trying to hide itself. It wasn't a harmful magic. In fact it was similar to Bunnymund's type of tunnel magic. He figured he was trying something new and disregarded it.
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Jack waltzed around the grassy clearing, leading a small parade of children around in circles. Jack had just been pacing at first, but soon enough, a kid had started copying him, then another, then another. Then it had turned into a sort of game. Jack suddenly dropped the the ground and watched as the children hurried to follow. The last one down, Sascha, giggled a bit then sat down next to the others who had got out, content to watch them finish the round before she could join in again. The Youngest William stuck his tongue out at her and she teased him back. "I'll get you next time!" she yelled, a glint in her eye that made him a little nervous.
Nightlight laughed from high up in the trees as he watched the children play. He jumped a little when Jack looked up at him and waved. When he waved back, the spirit gestured him over.
"Come and play!"
Nightlight smiled and floated down, dropping next to Jack who grinned mischievously. He turned to the other kids.
"Hey guys! You wanna play racing?" They all let out cheers of excitement, running to get in a semi-straight line, waiting for Jack and Nightlight to get in position. Jack glanced at him again and Nightlight glared playfully.
"In 5...4...321GO!" Jack took off, running with all his power, which wasn't really that fast,seeing as how he had been sitting in bed for such a long time, but he was fast enough. Nightlight launched forward as well laughing all the way. The children knew they wouldn't be able to outrun them, but they raced against each other, tripping and shoving playfully at one another.
Nightlight was, by now, caught up with Jack, who was tried to get the wind to carry him to the decided finish line. The spectral boy laughed and took to the sky after him. The moonbeam under his feet lifted him up and pushed him in front of Jack and he reached finished before the winter spirit.
Jack collapsed to his knees, panting and all the while glaring playfully up at the older spirit. "You...you cheat," he insisted in between pants. Nightlight just chuckled. The other kids, who had just now finished, couldn't stop running, and their momentum brought them crashing one after the other in Nightlight and his new friend. The all landed in a big wiggly pile of smiles and laughter.
And as the kids started arguing over who had one between there group, a stray thought caught Jack's mind.
'I could get used to this.'
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A/N: And all the kids can magically speak English. :P But then again.. they can talk to bugs.
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