Jack looked insecure at the edge of the forest. If the town were as bad as Bunny had made it sound like, then he would probably see some of it as fast as he stepped out of the forest since it ended on a hill, from where a big part of the city could be seen.

He took a hard grip around his staff, his hand shook a bit. He took some uncertain steps forward, soon he would reach the last trees that were in his way to see. Jack didn't even dare to look up, his eyes were watching the ground and soon the trees around him were gone. He swallowed before taking a deep breath, then he looked up while hoping that everything had been a lie.

His heart were beating faster than the wings of a hummingbird as he looked out over the part of the city that was visible from there. It seemed like a fire recently had bothered that part of town since a lot of houses seemed burnt. There wasn't many people out there but everyone Jack could see were wearing tattered and dirty clothes. None seemed to have clothes that was warm enough for winter. He couldn't be sure though since he couldn't feel cold at all.

Jack flied up to a roof a bit into the town to get a better view. He didn't think that it could get worse than the burnt houses and the people that walked around in too cold clothes. But he was wrong.

Just a bit into town he could already see the horrors that was torturing the kingdom. A bit here and there he could see body parts showing from under the snow. People that had frozen to death in the middle of the night and then been covered with snow. The few people that had a home barely could afford food, while those without a home had to resist the cold during winter.

Jack felt sickened by the bodies and the state the town were in. Almost all houses were damaged in some way, broken windows or a hole in the wall from a fire.

Suddenly he could hear someone crying not too far away. Jack turned his head towards the noise and lifted from the roof. This time he landed on the ground in a alley where no one could see him. He walked to the end of the alley and looked out carefully just in case that someone suspicious was close. Maybe Pitch's talk about murderers and thieves made him a bit more cautious.

A bit away from the alley Jack could see a line of people in front of a carriage. A woman were lying on the ground crying, everyone of them had chains around their feet.

"You really don't know anything, do ya?" Bunnymund's words echoed through his head. "for the first time in twohundred years slave trades has been legalized." Jack held his hands over his ears and took some steps back into the alley before falling down to his knees.

"It can't be." Jack mumbled to himself.
"He even went into war with the neighboring kingdom for no other reason than to kill." The words felt even louder when he remembered those words. Could Pitch really have done that to the kingdom?

"What should I do now?" Jack asked himself. Until know he had thought that the biggest problem he would have to face would be an arranged marriage or something like that. Why did Pitch want to kill him? How could he stand in Pitch way when he didn't even know anything about what Pitch were doing?

"What should I do?" He repeated as he held his staff in a harder grip, waiting for some kind of sign from his father. A sign that didn't come.

"If you don't want to die then I suggest you flee, run away and never come back." Jacks head flew up as he remembered what Bunnymund had told him to do. But where would he go? He already knew the answer though. Somewhere Pitch wouldn't be able to find him, somewhere no one would see him, somewhere deep in the forest where no one would ever dare to go.

Pitch walked back and forth, just waiting for good or bad news. Either a pooka would walk in and tell him the mission was completed or a kid would run in and tell him about an attempt to assassinate him.

He couldn't relax at all, if that boy could mess up his plans then he had to destroy him no matter what before it was too late.

Soon the door opened and Pitch turned to look, of some reason he felt a bit disappointed that it was the bunny that came through the doors and not the boy. But he didn't let that feeling stay for long from the moment he noticed it. This was something he should feel happy about.

"That went faster than expected, did you do everything I told you?" Pitch asked as he reached out his hands to take the chest in Bunnymunds hands.

"I carved out his heart and then got rid of his body where no one will ever find it. That boy won't disturb you again." Bunnymund told Pitch. "Now to your part of the deal."

Pitch looked straight into the pookas eyes, it was hard to find people who dared to speak up like that to the king. But since his problems were gone he would ignore the rude tone Bunnymund gave him.

"The east forest of Kalliham is now your territory and if anyone intrudes you are free to do whatever you want with them. From now on it is forbidden for humans to enter into that forest. That should give you some peace and quiet." Pitch said as he picked up a document and gave it to Bunnymund.

Kalliham was a city not far from there where Bunnymunds kind had lived. The east forest and the mountains behind had been their home. But after his people had been massacred, Bunny hadn't been able to return there because of the humans that still wanted to get rid of his kind completely. Now he would finally be able to go home, even if no one would be there to welcome him.

And I am back :3 I will be gone next weekend too because we will visit my sister ^^' But I will try to give you a lot of chapters until then x3

This is the first time I actually give a city a name xD I haven't even named the kingdom they are in xD But I felt it necessary in this chapter since I knew that Pitch would give him land :3

I know I promised you the seven children in this chapter, sorry it didn't happen xD I didn't think that I would put so much into the town part so I just had to wait with the seven children since I knew that it would probably become another thousand words xD

Bye bye, see you next time :3