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Hiya! This is another story where something happens to Jack- it was bugging me really bad and I just had to write it down. I will reveal in the next update which story I'm doing- blind! Jack or Pooka! Jack!

I don't own rotg unfortunately...

ENJOY!

Bunny picked an egg from his basket- a purple one- and hid it behind a tree. The last one. In a couple of hours, children will be waking up and finding them. He got up, ready to go when:

"Working hard, kangaroo?"

Bunny turned around to see Jack Frost leaning on his staff and smiling lazily. He stepped forward and froze the grass with his foot as he did so.

"Yeah...harder than you ever have done." Bunny replied. Jack's smile turned into a massive grin.

"You shouldn't be hiding eggs in a forest you know," Jack said "It might be too hard and the child will get depressed and then they'll blow up because they can't find that one egg..." Bunny rolled his eyes.

"Where do you get things like that from?!" he said, shaking his head. Jack grinned and twirled his staff.

"How long does it take you anyway?- I could hide eggs quicker than that..." Jack challenged. Bunny scoffed.

"How abou' a race to prove it then, frostbite?" he said. He and Jack always were arguing whether bunny's were faster than anything or not. It always resulted in a race which Jack never refused.

"You're on!" Jack said, "through the forest?" Bunny nodded determinedly. They got into their starting positions and shared 'I'm going to beat you' looks.

"Ready..." Bunny said but Jack interrupted.

"GO!" he cried and bolted but Bunny predicted this and was close behind him. They had some rules that weren't broken though: Jack wasn't allowed to fly and Bunny wasn't allowed to use tunnels. The rest of the rules got broken. They were now neck and neck- it always ended up with them finishing like this or one an inch in front of another. Jack laughed and changed his route. Bunny didn't expect this and slipped whilst turning. Great. Now he was behind. He could hear Jack's laughter a long way off. Hey- he could still win this thing!

"Who's faster now, cotton t-" Jack cut off. Then a scream echoed in the woods.

"Frostbite?!" Bunny said and ran faster, bursting into a clearing. "Jack?" he called and spotted a stick on the ground. Jack's staff. Jack would never leave this.

"JACK!" he yelled urgently. He looked around wildly for anymore clues. Then he saw something which made him boil with anger. Black sand.

"JACK!" he cried the loudest he could muster.

"BUNNY! Help!" a scream echoed to his left.

"I'm coming frostbite!" he cried and started to run in the direction he heard it from. He had never heard Jack sound so scared in the time he's met him. He was worried. He needed to get him. He tried not to look at the desperate clawing marks on the ground and ran faster.

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Jack screamed as another nightmare thorn sank into his legs. They were dragging him somewhere and Jack was scared. Then he heard Bunny calling, and screamed his name as loud as he could.

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"BUNNY!" he heard Jack sob from the trees in front, "PLEASE!...". He ran faster and wished he could block out the screams. He was getting worn out but that didn't matter. He was putting himself in danger but that didn't matter. He could smell Jack's blood in the air and somehow managed to go faster than he ever had, jumping over tree roots and rocks.

"JACK! I'M COMING!" he yelled but there was no reply apart from another sob. He was getting closer. You shouldn't try and race a bunny- especially now.

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The thorns dug into Jack's legs and he could feel the blood running off them. Suddenly, they sped up and Jack grabbed on a tree desperately but with a harder yank, making the thorns tear down his legs more, Jack lost grip and let go with a scream.

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Bunny caught sight of some of the things that were taking Jack; they were black, massive thorns made out of nightmare sand. He was going to kill Pitch.

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Jack felt the thorns trying to pull him down a hole but Jack stayed gripping onto the side, despite the pain. He could feel himself letting go. With a last effort, he took hold of a tree root and hung on. His last hope.

"Please..." he sobbed but he was running out of energy.

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Bunny heard it.

"Please..."

He burst into a clearing and saw Jack sobbing and clinging onto a tree root. But he was letting go. Bunny ran and took hold of Jack's wrist to try and stop the vines from pulling him in a hole.

"Come on Jack..." he muttered and pulled. Jack screamed but held on to Bunny. Suddenly, a thorn flew up from no where and wrapped itself around Jack's waist. The scream Jack gave then was a scream Bunny never wanted to hear again from the child. He pulled harder and then held him with one arm. It was harder than he thought; he could feel himself slowly moving towards the hole. Je reached for a boomerang and threw it at what looked like the main vine. It let go quickly, and Bunny tugged Jack out of the hole in the ground. The thorns shot upwards and grabbed Jack again but Bunny was ready. He threw an egg bomb at them, and they all retreated, the hole closing up after them. He sighed in relief and turned his attention to the winter child. He was clinging onto him and was trembling violently. A child should never have to have gone through that. He rubbed his back and returned the hug.

"It's alrigh', ya safe now..." Bunny murmured and Jack's crying silenced a little. He felt the child's grip slacken, and looked at the state of his legs for the first time; they were covered in deep cuts.

"Look, lets go to my warren an' I'll sort ya ou'" he said and felt Jack nod. And for the first time, he realised Jack was still a child.