In this chapter there will be some historical legends that we really can't know if they really happend or was it just lies. Those legends however inspirated this whole story about Bunny.
But the Battle of the Milvian Bridge was coming closer. After a couple weeks Aster had to give Sofi to one older woman to who he trusted. She had kids her own so she was more than happy to take Sofi as the thirth daughter of her.
Aster didn't felt bitter about that. He knew that Sofi was in good hands and only now she would have a normal childhood. That was something that the soldier could offer to three year old. She needed a family. Not just a fater-figure who would die any time in the battle.
But still he felt a bit sad when the kid wasn't sleeping in his bed. He had a habit to sleep on couch ever sence Sofi had lived with him. But now he didn't have time to visit at her. He had to focuse on the battle. It was evening at 27th of October. His men were getting ready for fight but he was ready already. He was born ready.
"General Bunnymund. May I speak with you?"
Aster turned away from looking on the moon and saw Constantine the Great himself coming to him. Without any real feelings of respect, he stood up and stand straight when the man walked to him.
"Of course" you piace of shit. "What is trubling you, sir?"
Constantine looked at him eye brown rised high. For a second Aster was sure that the man had heard his toughts but then the man looked at his... their soldiers who were digging moats just to make sure that they had prepeared to everything. To Aster it looked like a rabbit's tunnel.
"I need you to tell me that we are going to win this battle. Max has much more soldiers. But are these..." Constantine looked at the soldiers is face stone. ".. strong enough to beat them?"
Aster looked a bit hurt. These were his soldiers. He took the pride of training them, even thought all of them weren't really pure from their hearts. His soldiers were like chocolate: when you used it right, it will bring you joy. Use it frong, and you just get fat. Same thing with soldiers, if you used them right, whitch was deserve their respect with discipline, they were actually quite happy to cooperate. Use them wrong, which was let them do anything they wanted to, and you had an army of walking disasters.
"Of course we will, don't you mind about that. We will..." His sentence was cut off when they saw two letters appear on the sky, right in front of the moon. They were X and P. In seconds later they also saw and heard someone say "Εν Τουτω Νικα".
That meant "In this sign, you shall conguer". No one other than they saw it. Constantine ran immidiately off to tell about this to everyone but Aster looked it with confusion. Constantine seemed to have idea what that meant, but Bunny wasn't that sure that the man was right.
Then it hit him. He rised his boomerangs and but them one side against another.
"" They really looked like an X. In this sign, you shall conguer... Then he looked at the P. From the angle he was looking at it, one side of the moon made it look more like B.
In this sign, you shall conguer...
Slowly, he moved his boomerangs to other sides against each others. ""
Suddenly Bunny brust out to laughter. It looked like an egg. What the hell was going on? He had no idea but suddenly it just felt somehow so... liberating. Like he had suddenly woken up from deep sleep and was now able to see the whole world in new light.
"Aster! Come here, we have the battle to win!" Constantine yelled. Aster looked at him. He saw nothing great in that man. He didn't see hope in that man. So he shook his head.
"No. I'm not part of this battle. My battle is somewhere else. Everyone, who is more willing to come with me, you are the most welcome", with that he left the King he never respected in this chess. His king was somewhere else. No, his king was all the children of the world. He was their soldier, their to command. He was their hope in chess against the darkness and fear.
His men looked around. Many of them followed him, many of them stayed behind. It was seberating the chocolate from the stones. Those who shared his believes, his hope, wonders and dreams followed him. Those who didn't see hope in little children and had used them in their own needs, became stones who had nothing but dull faces and were made to guard the Warren. Never meeting the children or able to touch them, but were still fighting with their leader, Aster.
Together they fought all the winter for children who were suffering. No matter how poor or how much you had suffered, E. Aster Bunnymund came to you, give you some chocolate, stayed with you until you smiled and had the best day of your life and then he left, promising that he would be back next year.
As the winter started to turn into spring, E. Aster Bunnymund and his big hearted chocolate soldiers were killed by Constantine. But that didn't stop the Easter Bunny and his soldiers leaving chocolate eggs around the world for kids to find. That didn't stop kids believing in big bunny, who had got his bunny -look from one of children's toys all those years ago. That didn't stop the kids hoping him to return every year, start the fresh beginning of spring and summer.
And that surely didn't stop kids believing in the thirth Guardian. The guardian of Hope.
