CHAPTER!

Eden had seen enough strangeness in one day to last her a lifetime, one moment she was living a out a normal day (her version of a normal day at least) talking to Jack when all reality was torn away as the giant rabbit hurtled himself into her kitchen.

They had all situated themselves around her living room. Eden had taken it upon herself to sit as far away from the giant rodent as possible, sitting in the small armchair in the corner of the room, also the closest to the nearest exit incase she needed a quick escape. She turned from the exit back to the crowded room and flinched slightly upon seeing the giant monster rabbit situating himself on the floor on the opposite side of the room, glaring at her threateningly, his legs twitching as if to warn her that is she made any move toward the doorway he would catch her in an instant.

She gulped inwardly, slinking back to the bottom of the cushioned chair and looking over to Daniel for any moral support whatsoever only to find nothing. In fact, he seemed perfectly calm in the entire matter. Sure he had seen strange things, being friends with a dragon has that small drawback, but the Easter Bunny was sitting right in front of him, glaring daggers at his best friend and all he could offer was his usual sarcastic character.

To be quite honest though, it did do a lot to calm her down through, knowing that the occurrence wasn't scaring the only one in the room with nothing to defend himself with almost made the giant rodent seem less threatening… almost.

Jack was floating aimlessly in the middle of the room as if trying to find the right words to start with.

"Alright Frostbite, out with it. What's going on?" The rabbit exclaimed suddenly, Standing up to his full height and marching over to the center of the living room, making Eden flinch nervously, trying to resist the urge to flee the room entirely. The rabbit stared at her in what could only be described as disgust before looking expectantly at Jack.

The winter spirit in question gulped nervously before starting his explanation. "Well…" He trailed off as if his idea had dissipated suddenly.

"Well?" The Bunny prodded, obviously annoyed. Something seemed to snap inside Jack.

"Stop it!" He snapped. The monstrous rabbit flinched slightly in surprise, making Daniel snicker and look at Eden with a friendly smile. Eden smiled back half-heartedly before looking back at the angered guardian. "Quit rushing me, I'm trying to figure out how to explain this the best I can and you sending death glares over my shoulder isn't helping."

The rabbit's glance quickly flashed from Eden back to Jack guiltily as if he had just been caught stealing cookies, his eyes softening slightly. He nodded in agreement, crossing his paws over one another and looking at him expectantly.

Jack took a deep breath, and looked back at Eden for a moment almost apologetically. "The night we got the message from the moon, I snuck off to find the dragon." He blurted out.

The Rabbit seemed taken aback "What? You were-"

"Tired of being treated like a child." Jack said, cutting him off mid-sentence. "I've taken care of myself for three-hundred years and I don't need your protection now."

Eden's face fell, he had been ignored by the guardians even longer than she had and he was an immortal! He was supposed to be noticed wasn't he?

"I got angry that you guys were excluding me and went in search of the dragon only to find Eden." Eden was broken from her trance at the mention of her name in the conversation. "She's not evil and she doesn't want to kill me." He continued quickly as if the rabbit would try to interrupt again before he got to his main point.

"How do you know that?" The uninvited guest burst out in complete anger and confusion. "That- that thing could just be waiting for you to turn your back before it-"

"I would never hurt anyone!" Eden fought the urge to smile as everyone visibly jumped in surprise as she took her own stand in the conversation. She was no longer afraid of the giant rabbit standing tall above her anymore. First he thinks he can leap into her house and accuse her of trying to hurt Jack and then she hears that he, along with all the other so called guardians had ignored her only friend besides Daniel for three-hundred years. Realization hit her hard. The Easter Bunny was in her house, why was she afraid?

She was practically face-to-face with the Easter Bunny now when she heard Daniel stand up from his spot on the couch to join her and placing a hand on her shoulder defensively.

"And she is not an it." He pressed, the sarcasm in his voice disappearing entirely as it was quickly replaced with anger.

The rabbit stumbled back a bit, looking at Jack quickly before realizing that no one was siding with him at the moment before giving in slightly to the gang up on him. His ears flattened against his head and his eyes fell to the floor before Jack spoke up again, floating up between Eden and the rabbit.

"Bunny, I don't care if you believe me or not, but you can't tell anyone about this." Jack said. "I'm not the only one being hunted here." He said determinedly, looking back at Eden as if to verify this.

"Wait, I thought you said that you weren't being hunted." The rabbit said confusedly.

"Not by her." Jack said, gesturing towards Eden.

The Bunny's eyes widened in shock as realization dawned upon him. "There's more?" He almost whispered.

"Just one." Eden said nervously as if it weren't her place to speak but knowing that Jack wouldn't really know how to answer.

Daniel raised an eyebrow and chuckled slightly, the usual sarcasm returning to his voice. "And she kind of hates her." He said, sticking his thumb out almost accusingly at her. Eden glared at him angrily at the abruptness of it all.

The room became once again, awkwardly silent before the rabbit cleared his throat. "So what now?" He asked.

"Yeah… we don't know." Daniel said, earning a sharp jab in his side by Eden's elbow. "Ow!"

"What he means is, we haven't actually planned that far yet since Jack was stuck at the pole for the past few days." Eden offered, feeling the tension between her and the rabbit, although obviously still there, slowly begin to deteriorate.

"Does anyone else know about this?" He asked, turning to Jack pointedly as if telling Eden to keep her distance even if they were no longer on enemy terms. Eden took her cue and stepped back slightly.

Jack shrugged a bit, clutching his staff closer to his body. "Just Sandy, he kind of tracked one of the dreams I sent her and found out on his own."

Eden looked up in shock, that's how she got that dream a few nights ago. "You did that?" She asked, completely dumbfounded at the fact that after knowing her after just one day he would actually replace her usual nightmares with an actual dream.

He smiled sheepishly. "Thought the least I could do was give you a real dream." He said.

Bunny's eyebrows knit themselves together in confusion. "Wait, waddaya mean a 'real dream?' Don't you sleep?"

Eden smiled as she tried to stifle her laugh, unlike Daniel who had burst out in a sudden fit of laughter. "Yes, I do sleep. I just don't actually… dream." The rabbit raised an eyebrow tentatively. Eden let out an annoyed huff before trying to explain. "I don't get visits from any of the guardians, so I don't actually get dreams like most people do."

…

Bunny let his ears droop down in shock. This kid seriously didn't get any dreams from Sandy? No visits from any of the guardians. Bunny knew they steered away from creatures other than human children, but he had never actually thought of the consequences of this. Eden couldn't have been younger than fifteen and yet she seemed perfectly fine in a traumatic sense and seemed more annoyed than grudging against him, although that could probably have been explained through the fact that he had just broken into her home and accused her of trying to hurt Jack.

He didn't trust her yet. No, he hadn't quite given into the whole 'good dragon' story quite yet, but he did believe that if she had any intentions of hurting Jack she would have done it by now, when she had him alone.

What else had she missed out on? No dreams, no Christmas presents from North, no teeth replaced with a quarter… no Easter eggs. The girl had grown up with no sense of belief in the guardians, or if she had, it had disappeared quickly. Although she shouldn't be able to see them if she didn't believe in them, nut Bunny had decided to leave that to the fact that she wasn't even human.

Her friend was though. The boy, Daniel obviously believed even through his teenage years, but seeing as though he had places his friendship into that of a dragon, the guardians probably weren't that big of a surprise anyhow.

"So what is it?" He blurted out, honestly, through all the confusion whirling around in his head, Bunny was surprised that he had managed even that much.

"What?" Jack asked confusedly, looking over his shoulder to Eden who merely shrugged her shoulders.

"The thing that is hunting you? It is a dragon isn't it? Can it disguise itself too?" This time, he actually turned himself towards the dragon girl, still keeping his distance but acknowledging her at the least.

She almost seemed surprised to have the question directed at her rather than Jack but took only a moment to regain her composure. "Yeah, she's a dragon, I'm not sure if she can change, I haven't seen it happen myself, but it's a form that we're given once we're born, so I doubt she would spend all of her time in dragon form seeing as though it wouldn't be a very kept secret now that we don't have all that many places to hide around here. I'm not sure why she'd be after Jack though." She explained.

"Why would she be after you?" Bunny asked curiously, seeing Jack nod out of the corner of his eyes as if wondering the same thing.

"Because she hates Eden." Daniel said plainly as if it were a perfectly good explanation.

"It's not my fault!" Eden shouted defensively.

"I never said it was… but it is true, she hates you… like a lot." The boy prodded. Sheesh, this kid was almost worse than Jack… almost.

"Why?" Jack inquired.

"We're the last two dragons, I'm not really sure why that makes her so defensive, but she wants to be the last one, she thought she killed me eight years ago along with my parents and brother, but I guess she found out somehow that I'm still alive about two years ago and started giving me weird reoccurring dreams. I don't know why, but she's really intent on being the last of us."

Both Jack and Bunny stared at her solemnly. Her parents had died at the hands of the same beast trying to kill Jack. Not only had the Guardians not been there to protect her childhood hopes and dreams, but they had failed in realizing just how bad this situation had become. She had lost her parents at such a young age and their murderess was now trying to kill her off as well for no apparent reason? And why bring Jack into this?

Daniel placed an arm around his friend as if to comfort her although she didn't seem all too bothered by the subject at hand. Then again, she had already lost most of her innocence, simply speaking of it couldn't worry her too much, it was like when Sandy had been taken by the Pitch a year prior. Sandy was one of them, his friend, his family. But when he was taken, all Bunny could think about were the children, that was what they lost Sandy for and they weren't about to give up on him.

Luckily, Sandy hadn't actually been killed though, just overtaken by darkness and taken away from the guardians until the children were able to bring him back. Eden's family had been killed, they wouldn't come back and neither would she if she died.

Bunny took a deep breath and sighed. "Oi, fine, I'll help you two, but you've gotta tell the others eventually Frostbite. We're gonna need more help than just Sandy and me."

Jack's face fell. "Even North?" Bunny raised an eyebrow quizzically. "Not that I have anything against that it's just… the doll I gave E… I kinda stole it."

"What!?"

OH… My… GOSH!

Okay, I think I've finally pushed my way through the thick wall of writer's block and I'm sorry most of this chapter was a recap, but I thought it was kind of necessary.

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