Hey peoples of Earth!
Guess who's back! I'm so so so sorry for the wait. I've been really busy with school, and the musical at my school.
I really hope you enjoy the newest chapter!
Disclaimer: As usual, I only own my Emma, Jasper, and Maxine.
Neutral POV
"Do we get to find out what happens to Uncle Jack now, Emma?" Jasper asked, looking up at his older cousin. Em giggled slightly, and nodded.
"Of course, Jaz." She replied, and they watched as the movie resumed.
Jack, facing a window, FROSTS OVER THE GLASS with his finger
to form a symbol of Sandy. North slowly walks up behind him.
NORTH
Are you alright?
Jack remains still, his eyes fixed on the image of Sandy.
JACK
I just, I wish I could've done
something.
"Done something? He fought against Pitch!" Bunny said, rolling his eyes, and Em smiled at him.
NORTH
Done something? Jack, you stood up
to Pitch. You saved us.
JACK
But Sandy wo-
NORTH
(putting his hand on
JACK'S SHOULDER)
Would be proud of what you did.
Jack pulls back his hoodie and stands up.
NORTH (CONT'D)
I don't know who you were in your
past life, but in this life you are
Guardian.
JACK
But how can I know who I am, until
I find out who I was?
NORTH
You will. I feel it, in my belly.
Jack and North approach the globe which is losing lights at
an alarming rate.
"How could you?" Anna suddenly asked, focusing her question on North and Tooth. "You just brought his hopes up, bringing him into your family, and telling him that he had a place, and he mattered. Then you just throw that all away because of a misunderstanding." She shook her head, scolding the immortals like the mother that she was. Em nodded.
"I wonder who he was in his past life." Jackson commented, and Em suppressed a giggle, and she saw Pippa doing the same.
TOOTH
Look how fast they're going out.
JACK
(GETTING IT)
It's fear. He's tipped the
balance.
Jack drifts up closer the globe. He looks at the lights
going out, then back to the Guardians. There's a nervous
tension in the room.
BUNNYMUND
(twirling his boomerang)
Hey, buck up ya sad-sacks. Come
on! We can still turn this around!
(MORE)
BUNNYMUND (CONT'D)
Easter is tomorrow and I need your
help. I say we pull out all the
stops and we get those little
lights flickering again!
INT. NORTH POLE - FACTORY FLOOR - DAY
A massive wooden door swings open; North leads Jack and the
Guardians through the doorway, into an elevator, and through
his factory.
NORTH
Bunny is right.
(TO BUNNY)
As much as it pains me to say old
friend, this time Easter is more
important than Christmas!
"Huh. Wonder how hard it was for him to say that?" Pitch said, and North glared at him.
"Trust me, mate. He only said it because he was in danger." Bunny remarked, and Em raised an eyebrow at her friend. It was the first time he had openly spoken against the other immortals.
BUNNYMUND
Hey! Did everyone hear that?!
NORTH
We must hurry to the Warren.
Everyone, to the sleigh!
BUNNY
Ohh no, mate. My warren my rules.
Buckle up.
Bunny directs the groups attention to the ground. He taps
his foot and a rabbit hole opens up under their feet.
NORTH
Shostakovich!
The Guardians plummet through Bunny's tunnels.
Jack, Bunny and Tooth arrive gracefully in the warren's
antechamber, while North and the yetis comes to a crashing
halt.
Em, Pippa, Maxine, and Emma giggled at the sight.
"That's my favorite Guardian transport." Sophie said, and sent a proud glance at Em, as if boasting that she had travelled with Bunny. Em rolled her eyes, ignoring the other blonde.
NORTH
(CHUCKLES)
"Buckle up." Is very funny.
BUNNYMUND
Welcome to the warren-
Bunny stands before them when suddenly, he shifts his
attention. He turns, his ears perk up and his nose sniffs
the air.
BUNNYMUND
Something's up.
Something's amiss. A faint scream begins to echo from within
the depths of one of Bunny's egg tunnels. Tiny eggs come
scuttling out from the tunnel.
Bunny grabs his boomerang, North draws his sword, and Jack
readies his staff as the sounds of booming footsteps,
screams, and the rustling of foliage grows louder.
BUNNYMUND
Ahhhh!
Bunny begins to charge toward the tunnel. At his side are
the Guardians, yetis, and sentinel eggs all bellowing their
loudest battle cries until...Sophie bursts out. All momentum
comes to a halt.
"That's one way to get the attention of a child." Kristoff said dryly, and Bunny grinned.
"Well, with the attack from Pitch, we were all a little on edge. I'm surprised Frostbite was like that." He said, and Em nodded.
"He was starting to think of you all as his family, probably, so he was ready to help protect you." She responded.
JACK
Sophie?
They immediately withdraw their weapons, mildly embarrassed.
Sophie giggles and immediately runs after one of the elves.
SOPHIE
Elf, elf, elf!
BUNNYMUND
What is SHE doing HERE!?
North looks down at his coat pocket.
NORTH
(EMBARRASSED)
Ah, snow globe.
BUNNYMUND
Crikey! Somebody do something!
JACK
Don't look at me, I'm invisible,
remember?
The Burgess teens all laughed at this, except for Pippa.
"It's not funny! That means that no one believes in him." She hissed at her friends, who looked at her in confusion.
"But he's just a fantasy. Jack Frost doesn't really exist, Pippa." Jamie said, smiling at the brunette. Em glared at him.
"That's rich, coming from someone who is in the same room as the daughter of Jack Frost." She said, flipping her hair over her shoulder. Jamie just looked at her in confusion.
Sophie giggles as she drags the elf by the bell atop its
uniform.
TOOTH
(CONFIDENT)
Don't worry, Bunny. I bet she's a
fairy fan.
(flies up to Sophie)
It's okay little one.
SOPHIE
(TO TOOTH)
Pretty!
TOOTH
Awww! You know what, I got
something for you. Here it is.
(she pulls something out)
Look at all the pretty teeth with
little blood and gum on them.
"Blood and gums?" Jackson asked, holding in a laugh.
"That, Jamie, is why I hate looking at loose teeth." Sophie muttered to her amused older brother.
"What a way to act around children." Pitch said, shaking his head. Tooth glared at him.
Sophie runs away screaming.
JACK
(LAUGHS)
Blood and gums? When was the last
time you guys actually hung out
with kids?
Meanwhile, Sophie is running around the warren, exploring and
playing. Sophie pokes her head into a small tunnel.
SOPHIE
Peek-a-boo.
NORTH
We are very busy bringing joy to
children! We don't have time...
(EMBARRASSED)
...for children.
Em stood, and turned to North and Tooth, giving them a slow-clap.
"Everyone, let's hear it for the best Guardians in the world! They don't have time for children!" she said, smirking evilly. Maxine, Jasper, Emma, Jackson, and Pippa joined her, and Bunny hid his smile.
"Well, we all know why the Man in the Moon choose you all!" Pippa said, giggling slightly.
"Pippa, what's wrong with you?" Claude asked in shock.
"Well, Claude, I've just gotten a new friend, and her father was always there through my childhood. Yours too, you just don't believe in him anymore." Pippa replied, and Em sat back down, laughing quietly.
Jack walks toward her, forming a SNOWFLAKE, which floats over
toward Sophie. She tries to grab at it.
JACK
If one little kid can ruin Easter,
then...we're in worse shape than I
thought.
Sophie follows the snowflake as Jack leads it over to Bunny.
SOPHIE
Weeee! Weee, weee, weee!
The snowflake lands on Bunny's nose and his concerns suddenly
seem to slip away. Jack's magic is taking affect.
INT. BUNNYMUND'S WARREN - DAY - MOMENTS LATER
Close up on a flower, that opens to reveal an egg. The egg
stands up wobbly on its spindly little legs. We pull out to
reveal Sophie and Bunny's faces looking on, Sophie amazed,
Bunny proud.
"They're adorable!" Em squealed, remembering the eggs that she had found as a child. Bunny smiled at her, while Sophie glared at the blue-eyed girl in jealously.
BUNNYMUND
You wanna paint some eggs? Yeah?
SOPHIE
Okay!
BUNNYMUND
Come on then!
We pull out further to reveal a massive stone spire, covered
in moss, as thousands of unpainted eggs stream down the side
of it toward a green meadow. North and Jack stand in the
midst of it all, slack-jawed, as the eggs rush towards them.
NORTH
Rimsky Korsakov! That's a lot of
eggs.
JACK
Uh, how much time do we have?
A GREEN MEADOW
SOPHIE
Weeeeee!
BUNNYMUND
Woooohoooo!
Bunny hops into view, Sophie clinging to his back smiling,
leading a huge mass of eggs down a wide PATH. As he passes,
FLOWERS BLOOM on either side in his wake, BLASTING the
passing eggs with color as they go.
BUNNYMUND (V.O.)
Alright troops, it's time to push
back. That means eggs!
Everywhere!
THE SORTING STONES
North looks out over the eggs as they get sorted.
NORTH
(WALLA)
Single file!
Sophie, on her back, is carried by the eggs through the
sorting stones. She giggles as North waves at her while she
passes by.
BUNNYMUND (V.O.)
Heaps of you in every high-rise,
farm house and trailer park!
Baby Tooth flies across the screen, diverting our attention
to a multicolored stream off in the distance.
BUNNYMUND (V.O.)
In tennis shoes and cereal bowls!
Baby Tooth joins an elf, who stands alongside an egg at the
edge of a cliff. The elf pushes the egg over the cliff, into
the stream, and celebrates with a victory dance.
BUNNYMUND (V.O.)
Oh, there will be bathtubs filled
with my beautiful googies!
"Bathtubs?" Jasper asked, laughing.
"Tennis shoes?" Maxine continued.
"Cereal bowls?" Em and Pippa said, laughing as well. Bunny rolled his eyes at the two older girls.
The elf turns just in time to see a stampede of colored eggs
come barreling toward him. They knock him off the cliff as
he and the eggs spill into the multi-colored stream below.
A SPARKLING STREAM
Colored eggs wade through the water, emerging with SECONDARY
COLORS and intricate PATTERNS of all kinds.
An unlucky egg veers off and gets stuck in a WHIRLPOOL. We
see a hand fish it out to reveal North, who looks at the egg
curiously. It's now got a SPIRAL PATTERN on it and its
little LEGS kick madly.
NORTH
Okay, that's little strange.
BUNNYMUND
Naw, mate -
Bunny's surrounded by butterflies and cute little eggs.
BUNNYMUND (CONT'D)
That's adorable.
"Awwww!" Em cooed.
"Emmy, I want one!" Maxine said, clapping her hands happily.
"Maybe Bunny will take you to the Warren one day, Maxie." Em said, picking her younger cousin up, and tickling her stomach, making the little girl squeal with laughter. Bunny watched them in amusement, and nodded when Em looked at him.
As a technicolored elf climbs out of the stream, North sets
the egg down and lets it rejoin the herd.
A GREEN MEADOW
As Sophie leads a parade of eggs, Bunny jumps to an adjacent
rock and sits up to address the eggs as they walk in stride.
Meanwhile, Jack rides atop a group of sentinel egg that are
marching in the back ground.
BUNNYMUND
There will be springtime! On every
continent! And I'm bringing hope
with me!
A GREEN MEADOW - CONTINUOUS
CLOSE ON: a line of eggs running down curled vines as yetis
sprinkle them with glitter. They continue on down various
vine corkscrew-like shoots, decorating the eggs with stripes.
A confused elf emerges from the vines, striped with paint and
walks off.
A GREEN MEADOW - CONTINUOUS
The striped elf walks past a Yeti, painting a mound of eggs
red. Bunny enters frame and hops across the screen.
BUNNYMUND
Too Christmas-y, mate, paint `em
blue.
"That poor Yeti." Caleb said, grinning as he shook his head.
The Yeti throws its arms up in defeat and tosses the eggs.
A GREEN MEADOW - MOMENTS LATER
A beautifully painted egg hides in the grass.
BUNNYMUND (O.S.)
Oh, what's over there?
Sophie appears, spots the egg, and delicately lifts it out of
the grass. She holds it close to admire the intricate detail
of its shell. Sophie brings the egg to Bunny for him to
inspect.
BUNNYMUND (CONT'D)
That's a beauty!
Bunny takes Sophie by the hand and leads her through a stone
archway.
BUNNYMUND (CONT'D)
Now all we gotta do is get him and
his little mates through the
tunnels, to the top, and we'll have
ourselves Easter.
THE STREAMS OF COLORED EGGS
Bunny looks out proudly at the eggs gathered in front of the
TUNNELS in the distance.
Em smiled. While she did love Santoff Clausen, at least with her family, and Arendelle, the Warren was the one place she longed to go to. Seeing it on the screen increased that longing. It was beautiful, a vision of what the world could look like.
Jack approaches from behind and makes his way alongside
Bunny, who holds Sophie in his arms.
JACK
Not bad.
Sophie yawns and begins to fall asleep. Bunny turns to Jack
with a smile.
BUNNYMUND
Not bad yourself.
JACK
Look, I'm sorry about that whole,
you know, the "kangaroo" thing.
BUNNYMUND
It's the accent, isn't it?
"Maybe." Em said, shrugging her shoulders, and Bunny chuckled.
North comes up from behind with Tooth at his side. They turn
toward Bunny, marveling at the sight of Sophie, fast sleep. Bunny's face softens.
"You look like you're remembering something, Bunny." Jamie pointed out, and Bunny nodded.
"One of my fondest memories was from years ago, when I met a young winter spirit, a child in both human and immortal terms. She was from colonial times, and her powers came naturally." Bunny began, and Em drew a sharp breath, staring at the Pooka Guardian. "Her parents and villagers chased her from her home, and she ran to the forest. I found her one Easter, the ground covered with snow. She was so innocent. I visited her as long as I could, and when she would have a nightmare, I would hold her, and she would fall asleep. She was around the same age as Sophie." Em smiled to herself, looking down at her clasped hands.
"What sort of spirit was she?" Monty asked, enraptured by Bunny's story, along with the others.
"She was a winter spirit." Bunny replied, and grinned at Em, who grinned back.
BUNNYMUND
Ah, poor little ankle-biter. Look
at her, all tuckered out.
TOOTH
I love her!
They look up from the sleeping toddler toward Jack. He's
taught them something today.
TOOTH
I think it's time to get her home.
Bunny hands the sleeping Sophie over to Tooth.
JACK
How about I take her home?
TOOTH
Jack, no! Pitch is-
JACK
-no match for this.
(twirls his staff)
BUNNYMUND
Which is why we need you here, with
us.
The Guardians look at Jack with concern.
JACK
Trust me, I'll be quick as a bunny.
INT. SOPHIE'S BEDROOM - NIGHT
Jack tries to lay a sleeping Sophie down in her bed, but she
won't let go of his neck. Finally, she releases her grasp
only to roll over and fall out of bed. Baby Tooth gives Jack
a scornful look.
Emma giggled, along with the other girls.
"You did the exact same thing when you were that age, Emma. Don't go laughing now." Jackson said to his sister, who looked up at him with innocent eyes.
"Who, me, Jackie?" she asked, and Jackson huffed, putting an arm around his sister's shoulders.
JAMIE'S MOM (O.S.)
Sophie? Is that you?
Jack and Baby Tooth's eyes widen. Sophie, asleep on the
floor, is quickly covered with a blanket and given a squeaky
stuffed animal.
EXT. SOPHIE'S BEDROOM WINDOW - CONTINUOUS
Jack closes the window and looks to Baby Tooth with a sign of
relief.
JACK
We should get back.
Baby Tooth nods, when...
VOICE FROM A MEMORY (O.S.)
(LAUGHING)
Jack...
Jack stops, confused.
"That voice sounds familiar." Jackson muttered.
"That sounds like me…" Emma said, trailing off, and looking at Em, her eyes going wide. "That's not possible!" Em nodded, smiling.
"It is, Emma. Don't spoil the surprise." She said, putting a finger to her lips. Emma nodded, pretending to zip her lips shut with a giggle.
He looks out across the town,
toward the woods, and the sound of the echoed voice.
JACK
That voice, I know that voice...
Baby Tooth looks to him, worried.
VOICE FROM A MEMORY (O.S.)
Jack...
"Why did that voice sound so familiar?" Jackson said.
"I don't know. I'm sure if we watch the next scene, it'll all be revealed." Pippa said, and Jackson nodded, and they watched as the movie continued, questions blooming in their minds.
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Thanks to everyone for sticking with me through the short hiatus. You are all amazing!
Stay wonderful, kings, queens, and Guardians.
Catch ya later!
Love,
Enchantress