The scene changed to a memory I don't like to look back on. However, I was extremely grateful that we skipped the holocaust. It's just, this was going to probably be really difficult on Aster. The year is 1968 and I was rushing into Emily's Castle, rushing to her room where she was sleeping. "Emily! Emily!" I shouted at her and shook her awake.

"Jack!? What is it!? What's wrong!?" She quickly asked as she sat up in her bed, wearing a blue long sleeved nightgown.

"There's a storm I was trying to take care of but there's a problem...It's become sentient...and there's shadows as well as a Wendigo! It's the middle of the night...and the night before Easter!"

"It's become Sentient!? A mind of it's own!?"

"It's even gained a voice! It tried taunting me! We have to go!"

"Leave my room and let me get dressed. Where is the storm now?"

"It's in Burgess, but it's trying to take over the whole coast!"

"I'll meet you there! Go see if you can take care of the Wendigo!"

The scene blinked and she shot out of her portal to meet me. "I took care of the Wendigo."

"Good job, Jack. Now..." We flew up to the storm together. "...we just have to deal with this thing."

"Oh, Mother Nature! A pleasure to meet you. I'm sorry if you don't know me, I was just a tiny sleeping winter sprite when suddenly...I got a taste of Jack's blood." In the middle of the blizzard we could both see a woman dressed in a light blue dress, pale wings and skin, and her eyes were red as rubies. She was just a bit shorter than Mother Nature, but the look in her eyes made her look positively mad.

"His blood!?" She quickly turned to me and I lifted my shirt to reveal a thick layer of ice covering two gashes that were at least an inch deep and three inches long going from my stomach and towards my back.

"The Wendigo got me during the blizzard, and then it became sentient."

"Blood is a powerful thing, Jack. You must be careful next time." Both Emily and Wendy told me at the same time.

"It's still creepy when the two of you do that!" I laughed out, which hurt my side, causing my amusement to die down quickly.

"Oh, no, please do give more blood! It made me so powerful! The world needs more snow, more purity, and just...more cold!"

"You cannot go on like this! You're upsetting the balance!"

"Wanna bet!" The storm shouted and the blizzard became even more fierce than before.

"Jack, do you remember what I talked to you about...sharing our powers?"

"That it would be completely different from the healing thing...that we would share powers. I would have half of yours and you would have half of mine..."

"Yes, and that you were never allowed to ask why only you and I can do something so powerful."

"Yes, I remember...wait...you want to do that now!?"

"Yes!"

"But I haven't even trained for it!"

"Consider this your training! It's the only way...I think you know that. Neither of us can do this alone. It's a sentient storm! It's not controlled!"

"Alright, I'll do it."

"Jack, stop the vision!"

"Stop...what is it, Uncle Aster?"

"This...this is 1968...isn't it."

"Yes...it is..."

"Oh..." He shook his head and his ears went flat against his head as he stared at the vision. "...I...I had no idea...and what Mother Nature is askin' ya to do...you never really found out?"

"Found out what? About the power sharing?"

"Yeah...well, I guess she wouldn't have told ya...it um...is only something the Pitchiner family can do. You and Mother Nature are part of the Pitchiner family. Whether you had his last name or not...you were his son, and he complete your staff rite. In your language it's called 'Noble Power Share.' What I don't think she told you is...well...what happens under the condition that a Pitchiner child is adopted from birth...which you were. Did she um...happen to tell you anything about blood getting mixed with what you're about to do?"

"No..."

"Thought so." I looked at Aster with a furrowing brow, and my gaze caught Sandy's expression. His eyes were wide and his jaw was dropped in disbelief and the same look of reverence he had before when I made my bond with my staff. "Ya see...the condition for an adopted child from birth...which you were in every sense of the word...is that if the eldest siblin' should preform the 'Noble Power Share' not only do they share powers, but they share blood. The power share can be reversed, and you both receive your proper powers again...but once the 'Noble Power Share' is preformed with an adopted child...the blood the adopted child was born with...changes. It doesn't alter ya by much...it...it just makes you completely related by blood. Basically...your blood changed as if you were born as Alain and Kozmotis' son. Alain was Emily's Mother and she was always known as Lady Pitchiner. So...when you...I'm assuming you did." I nodded. "Right...well...you don't need to worry about Wendy still being your Mother. She's still your Mother one hundred percent, it just makes the blood similar because you preformed the power share bond with Emily...It made your blood like hers. I bet you felt more powerful after didn't you?"

"I did...after everything...it felt strange and wonderful at the same time, but it was also a bit frightening."

"Right...so...now that you know you're not technically adopted anymore...?"

"I...Emily is my sister by blood now...isn't she?"

"That's what I said. What do ya think?"

"I think that's a lot to take in!" I chuckled out nervously.

"Yeah...it was one thing when he took ya in...another thing when you actually become related...don't worry...we'll have plenty of time to talk about that with Mother Nature after this."

"Oh man...won't she be surprised to know I have my memories back...does she know you guys do a whole memory trip?"

"No...no one knows but the five of us and Manny."

"Oh! I am going to have fun with that!"

"Yes well...I have self ridicule to get to...so..."

"You know...you're the one that asked me to stop the vision" I smirked at him." Sandy...are you alright?"

"You just keep being full of surprises...huh, Jack?" He grinned at me with his eyes still wide in shock. "Yeah, I'll be fine...it's just a bit of a shock. Go ahead."

"Continue." I told the vision and watched as Mother Nature flew down to the ground, with me following her.

She placed a palm on a tree and pulled out her staff. "Alright...you'll feel different during and after...but don't be afraid. You should be able to instinctively use my powers and I will be able to do the same with you." She extended her staff to me, and I did the same to her, letting the middle of our staffs touch each other. There was a bright white and green glow that surrounded both of us as she gained white highlights in her hair, and I gained black in mine. One of my eyes turned forest green while one of hers turned ice blue. "Whoa...Jack...your power is..."

"Yeah...your's too...it feels warm and comforting."

"Your's feels fun and exciting! Let's go! Remember, it should come naturally to you, and don't be afraid."

I nodded my head as we flew back up to the out of control winter sprite. "Done with your talk? Oh...it seems the two of you have taken on some different fashion trends, well I'm not one to judge...now...if you don't mind...I need you out of my WAY!" The winter sprite started manipulating the blizzard so that it would hit us, but I quickly put up a strange kind of shield using my staff. The shield floated in front of us, and it was green in color, but it also held swirling white snowflakes inside it. "WHAT!?"

"Well done, Jack!"

"Thank you." I told her with a mischievous smirk appearing on my face. I turned to her in mid air and gave a gentlemanly bow. "Care to dance, my lady?"

She took my hand with a broad smile as her eyes became filled to the brim with mischief of her own. "Don't mind if I do!" While we held each other's hand we both shot energy out of our staffs that were both giving off an electric blue and neon green light as we targeted the sprite.

"JUST...WHAT THE HELL...DID THE...TWO OF YOU...DO!?" The winter sprite screamed as she dodged our attacks.

Letting go of Emily's hand, I felt it in my very veins what I was able to do. I twirled my staff in my hand with my palm facing her, and created a sideways cyclone of snow that faced her head on, which was then accompanied by thunder and lightning. It knocked her out of the sky, making her dizzy, so Emily and I rushed down to the ground to meet her. Once we met her on the ground, I noticed that there was a lightning burn on her shoulder. "Huh...thunder snow tornado...interesting."

"I know right!?" I laughed out. "Now..."

"You think I'm finished!?" The sprite asked as she quickly got up, and though the blizzard had died down, it was still fierce.

"Oh, no...we're pretty sure you still have some fight in you." Emily growled out as she then pointed her staff at the sprite and shot ice daggers that were in the form of leaves, showing that even though I couldn't remember that I knew how to do that, she certainly could.

As she barraged her with frozen leaf daggers, I slammed my staff on the ground and not only did I make the ground shake, but I made ice form around her legs, and had it forcing it's way up to her hips. "You're not going anywhere." I then formed a large snowball over her head and dropped it on top of her, knocking her unconscious. The storm then went from being crazy, and dangerous to a normal small blizzard.

"Very good, Jack! Here, let's reverse..." We repeated the same action that altered our appearance and we went back to normal. Mother Nature wrapped the sprite up in thick thorny vines and opened a portal while she took her out of the ice. "I'll be back to help melt the snow...but dawn is approaching and it IS Easter...avoid the Easter Bunny if you can while you get rid of the storm. I don't think he would believe a word of what you say...and if he sees you...may very well blame you, and with as much of the ground is covered in snow...I'm afraid he will attack you..."

"Alright." I told her as I flew back up into the sky while she walked through her portal. Once she was gone, I got started how I usually did, but the other Guardians didn't know what I usually did. Until right when I started. I rolled my sleeves up as I floated in mid air, and started waltzing an invisible self waltz. I wasn't pretending I had a partner or anything, but the steps were the same, and I was literally walking on air rather than merely floating. While I waltzed I moved my staff to control the snow as Wen...Mother...followed my movements, practically dancing with me. As my dance came to an end I began laughing as I spun around in the air, giddy from the job well done I did and from when Emily and I fought together.

However, that's when Bunny stepped into the picture, and saw me. "Ya menace! Get down here!"

I shrugged my shoulders as I thought, 'Well...too late to run away now.' I flew down to him and was met with the most vengeful glare I had ever seen. "Hey, Bunny..." I started but was instantly met with a paw to my face, clawing my cheek up pretty bad.

I staggered back quite a bit as I brought a shaky hand up to the scratch marks. When I looked at my hand, I saw blood. "Ya damn useless spirit!" He swung another paw at me, but I dodged it. "Can't even control your own element!" He tried to swipe at me again, but I blocked him with my staff. "Ya ruined my holiday you unwanted, horrid, selfish, useless spirit!" He used his other paw and clawed me from the top of my neck to my collar bone coloring my entire shoulder and chest a deep crimson.

"Jack! Make it stop! I'm beggin' ya!" I heard Aster sob out from behind me.

"STOP!" I shouted and immediately turned to face Bunny, and to my surprise he pressed his paw to his head, transforming back into his human form. Tears were spilling down his cheeks like a waterfall while his eyes were wide with horror at what he had seen himself do to me. Once fully in his human form, he fell to his knees, and lifted his shaky hands to look at them.

"I-I d-don't...I c-couldn't have...I...I wouldn't have...I...attacked...I...c-clawed a-at you! I...I don't...J-Jack...I...I don't r-remember any of that! Y-You h-have to b-believe me...PLEASE BELIEVE ME! I d-don't..." He shouted in between sobs as he looked at his hands.

"Uncle Aster?" I questioned as I noticed how fast the tears were coming.

His head snapped up, his eyes looking at me with even more horror than his eyes had shown before. His jaw was dropped and he shuffled backwards until his back hit a tree in the memory. "D-Don't...c-call m-me that...I don't...I don't deserve t-to be called that! I..."

Although it kind of hurt that he didn't want me to call him Uncle anymore, I could sympathize with him and his reaction. "Bunny..." I trailed off with a slightly hurt smile. "...I know you don't remember it."

"Y-Ya w-what?"

"Tooth isn't the only one that can affect memories."

I heard Tooth gasp through her own shock, and at the moment I didn't even want to see North's reaction, but off to the left Sandy had slow tears falling from his eyes, and I honestly couldn't tell if they were for me or Bunny. "Mother Nature..." Tooth breathed out.

"Yeah...I asked her to take away his memory of it happening." I told her.

"You...b-but why?" He asked with desperation written on his face.

"It um...would be easier to show you. I'm pretty sure it will show it...if not, I will tell you. Will you let me do that?" With tears still falling from his eyes he stood on uneasy legs and nodded his head. "Okay...Continue."

We all turned around to face the vision of Bunny continuously trying to swipe at me, already getting two good hits in. "Bunny! Let me explain!"

"I don't want to hear your childish excuses! No...saying you're childish would be an insult to children! The very same children I protect from people like you!"

"I was controlling the blizzard!"

"Oh, yeah! I saw ya controllin' it alright!" He took another swipe at me, but this time he got right where the Wendigo wound was, and he tore the entire fabric that laid over the gashes. The scratch he gave that time slashed through the ice and cut up the gashes even more.

I fell to my knees in the snow, clutching my side in pain as my blood quickly stained the snow, and I could tell from where I was that he immediately regretted what he had done. "W-winter...sprite...gone...rogue...W-Wendigo too...tried to...help..." I breathed out in pain, and watched as he looked at his paws the same way he looked at his hands just moments ago, but before he could react or say anything, I heard Emily's portal and watched as she immediately took in the sight of my face, neck, and side.

"BUNNY!" She howled out, and suddenly the wind picked up as a thunderstorm rolled in. There wasn't any rain but there was certainly a storm if the sudden dark overcast was anything to go by.

"Emily..." Wendy started. "...calm yourself...please..."

Emily ignored her, and marched straight towards Bunny. "HOW DARE YOU!? I TOLD HIM YOU MAY ATTACK HIM, BUT I DIDN'T THINK THAT YOU WOULD TRY AND TEAR HIM TO FUCKING SHREDS! I want you to tell me what you are!"

"I...I am..." He started as he then turned his gaze to face her. "...the Guardian of Hope...the Easter Bunny...I guard and protect the children of earth."

"IS THAT SO!?" She growled out with a menacing look. "TELL ME...How old do you think he is?"

"He's...about a century or two... "

"As far as being a spirit goes, he's a little over two and a half centuries old, but that's not what I meant. Take a guess at how old he is physically."

"He's...seventeen or eighteen...why does that matter?" He asked as he swallowed a lump in his throat.

"WRONG! HE IS PHYSICALLY FOURTEEN! YOU JUST CLAWED UP A CHILD OF EARTH! AN IMMORTAL CHILD, BUT A CHILD OF EARTH NONE THE LESS!"

"H-He can't be a child...he...I mean...there's never been a child spirit before!"

"Yeah, well, Manny decided to make an exception!"

"M-Manny!? N-Not y-you!? You didn't create him!?"

Emily had a twisted yet highly amused smile. "I can assure you a thousand percent I had no part in his creation." And with what I know now, her words are much more hilarious, but I couldn't bring myself to even smirk as I continued to watch the events unfold.

"M-Manny created...and...he's...he's a ch-child...I..." He looked at his paws again with far more horror than before when he opened the wound, and he once again noticed the blood on his paws. "M-My p-paws! I...I attacked...no...no no no NO! I..."

"Emily..." I started as I pulled myself up out of the snow.

"Easy, Little Brother..."

"E-Emily!? Little Brother!? Wha-I..." Before he could say anything else, his eyes trailed to the blood stained snow. "No...I...how could I...I'm...s-supposed t-to be a...a Guardian...I..."

"Emily...I need you...to take away...his memories of...ever attacking...me. Keep the...sight he saw...the yelling, and the insults, but...take away him...physically attacking me. Also take away me explaining myself and you showing up. Leave JUST the blizzard he saw, the yelling, and the insults...and if you can...add something about me being a mischievous smart mouth...heh...sounds like me...doesn't...it?" At my last word, I lost consciousness as I fell back to the ground. However, thanks to the advantage given by Manny, I was able to see what happened while I was out.

"Strewth...t-tell me I didn't..."

Emily looked at my unconscious body and sighed, seemingly calming herself down as tears started to fall from her own eyes, which shocked and concerned all of us watching the memory. "Oh, trust me, Bunny..." She seethed as she then turned to face Bunny. "...if you had killed my little brother, you would be facing much more than my seething anger. You would be facing my wrath, fury, and every element I can command." She crouched down and used her staff to send some kind of nature related magic to the wounds, merely stopping the blood, not actually closing the wounds.

"W-What do you mean by little Brother?"

"That's right, and he thinks it's merely a nickname." She told him as she stood back up.

"IT ISN'T!?"

"No...Now, let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, almost two hundred and seventy years ago, a very gifted child was born, but he wasn't wanted by the family he was born into, and somehow had severed my ties to the North wind, also known as Wendy. The midwife that helped deliver the infant took him away from the home like the birth mother had asked...and she had unknowingly placed him on a mattress where a bed stood in the middle of the forest...which just so happened to be where my Father's lair was. My Father came out to see what had disturbed his defenses and he found a helpless newborn babe. Wendy had somehow been able to convince him into raising the child as his own, and Jack here..." She trailed off as she motioned to my body. "...did something extraordinary."

"W-What d-did h-he do?"

"With one touch, he returned my Father's humanity completely. After that, my father took care of the child and raised him as his own. He loved, cared, worried, scolded, played with, and trained him. With all of that, I had gained a brother I didn't even know about until the mid 1800's when I grabbed his staff. When I did that, I saw all of his buried memories. Manny took them away when he made him a spirit. Now, with that being said...that staff, Bunnymund...? It has been bound to him."

"I-It...you mean...he's..." Bunny's eyes widened considerably as he stared at my unconscious form.

"Yes, he's the second heir to the Pitchiner throne, and not only that, but we preformed a power share...we share blood now...and when I looked into Jack's hidden memories...I saw every bit the man you and I knew well."

"H-He...Pitch was...J-Jack...he returned Pitch's humanity...and I...he's the prince...but Pitch betrayed everyone..."

"No, he didn't. What I also saw was Pitch telling Wendy and Jack the truth of what happened. My father has been innocent this whole time. The nightmares and fearlings had possessed his body and his voice while leaving him on the inside to witness everything his voice said, and everything his body did. He had absolutely nothing to gain from it, and he even begged Jack that if he should turn into the Boogeyman, that he was to go with Wendy to get all of you together so that you could defeat him once more, and that he couldn't risk losing Jack. He didn't want to watch himself hurt his son. My father is innocent."

"H-He...he's innocent?...And...Jack is the...he's THE prince! I...attacked the son of the man I once called brother! I...I attacked a child!"

"Jack was right to ask me to do this." She sighed out, and swiftly moved to place her hands on the sides of Bunny's head. "E. Aster Bunnymund, you will not remember our conversation, you will not remember physically attacking Jack Frost, you will not remember hurting Jack Frost, you will not remember me interfering. The memories you have will be the blizzard, the yelling, the insults, and you will remember Jack as having shrugged it off as a fun prank and flying away. Once I leave with Jack, you will have remembered it as when Jack flew out of sight." Emily took her hands away, and waved one hand at the blood in the snow and at the blood on Bunny's paws, making both disappear completely. She then leaned down with tears in her eyes as she picked me up bridal style in her arms, and opened a portal.

Once she was through, Bunny seemed to wake up, and he just growled at the snow around him. "Damn Frostbite!"