In the year of 1908...

Jack waited anxiously for the Imp Lord, Rumple, to arrive. It was the leap year, and on the extra day of the end of February, the Seasonal Spirits were able to get together without any harm to each other. It was a day when their powers were almost at the bare minimum. Torch, was the Eldest Seasonal Spirit, then Jack Frost, Rumple and then Bunnymund.

Torch, Jack saw was sitting underneath of his boulder. The Summer Spirit was wearing a frilly old style white shirt over a pair of fiery red pants- which had blue and golden flames nearing the bottoms if the legs. And Torch's wild red hair ran down his backside, only being held back from wildly going everywhere by a single red piece of cloth, that was tied around his long hair. And like always, Torch had his fox mask slightly pushed back onto his head. The mask, Jack noticed, was white, with eye holes just wide enough to see through. But on the mask was red lines around the eyes, red lines indicating whiskers and a black and golden-colored nose.

Bunnymund, or the Easter bunny as Jack knew him as, was waiting in front of his mossy rock. He appeared regal, with his long gray furred ears up into the air. What struck the Winter Spirit was the aura that the Pooka radiated. Jack smiled and waved at Bunny, which the Pooka nodded slightly at.

It so happened at that moment, Rumple appeared. Instead of arriving in a flurry of fallen leaves, everyone saw a sudden smokey portal appear and the Imp came soaring into the area and landing on his head.

"An' quit bein' a coward," A boy said stepping out behind him. "Y' think y' can hide ou' today? Think again."

Jack smiled as he instantly recognized the boy to be Story. The fifteen year old Pirate boy stood in his full glory, with his light brown hair tied back with a leather string.

"Hi," Story said.

"What are you doing here?" Bunny asked Story not at all nice about it.

The boy raised his hands in an action of surrender.

"Jus' that Pitch is on the move again," Story told the Pooka with a smirk. "He visited me and offered me t' join him again."

Bunny gave the boy a glare, as Story continued to tell what happened, and soon relaxed.

"I refused him," Story announced, as he motioned with his hands. "Told him tha' I was gonna squish him one day. Then I started lookin' for one of you guys."

"I'll let the others know," Bunny said, his ears raising up into the air again.

"Yeah," Story said, creating a portal to leave. "You do that, cause Pitch once had me help kidnap children. So y' better take care of him an' quickly."

In the present time...

Story smiled as he saw that the tooth collecting was over. They had done their job, but Tooth and Jack were nowhere in sight. Then the boy noticed that North and Sandy had seemed to find them. Story grinned as he quickly followed the two to a window and saw Tooth and his Winter Pixie.

"There you are," North said as Story waited behind Sandy, to enter the room.

The boy quickly heard the two shhh at the big man.

"Oh," Story heard North whisper. "Sorry. How are you feeling Tooth?"

"Believed in!"

Story could vouch for that, he had felt his powers wane with the loss of belief, but they had managed to keep the children believing in the Tooth Fairy. And for Story, who actually depended on the Guardians to be the focus of good Belief, it was a source of freedom and life for him.

Story gave Sandy a thumbs up, as the little man knew more about the Pixie King than the Guardians, and both had an unspoken mutual agreement. Sandy returned the gesture with two thumbs and a grin.

"Oh," Bunny said. "Plotting against the Rabbit now?"

Everyone shh'd the Pooka and Story saw the creature lower his ears for a moment.

"Look at these bag of chompers," Jack said showing a bag of the teeth that he collected to Bunny.

"You call that a bag?" Bunny whispered back challengingly. Story grinned as he sat on the window soil and watched the Pooka bring out a larger bag. "This is a bag of chompers."

"Oh, fellows," North said stepping between them. "We are doing this for Tooth. This isn't a race to see who has more teeth, but if it was, I win it!"

Story grinned as he watched the big man show off the huge bag, which he noticed was bigger than the both of theirs combined, and everyone heard the loud exclaim from the man. Story gasped as he saw Jamie sit up in his bed suddenly and before the Pixie King could say anything, the boy had the flashlight in his hands and had turned it on. The light glared into the Guardians faces and everyone heard Jamie gasp in wonder and awe.

"Wow!" Jamie said excitedly as he pointed the light to each of them "You guys are here!"

"We came!" Tooth said trying to sound thrilled.

Jamie pointed the light at Story," You were right! They don't look like the fairy tales say."

"Nope," Story said coming from out of the window. He headed towards Jamie's bed, smiling and laughing slightly. "I told you that Santa was a Russian jolly man."

"What?" North said curiously."What did you tell the boy?"

"I told his tha-" Story started to say, before he was interrupted by a growl.

Everyone was surprised as they realized that the greyhound that belonged to the Bennets was awake and threatening Bunny.

"No Abby," Jamie said firmly. "Get down!"

Story knew just how much this dog actually listened to the boy, which was never, so he had a strong feeling that this wasn't going to end with the dog gone.

"Hey" Jack said mischievously as he pointed to the dog. "You guys know that this is a greyhound. You know what they do to rabbits."

Story ignored Bunny and grinned as he immediately knew what Jack was implying. And once again the Pooka was talking big. Story rolled his eyes and then spotted the old-fashioned alarm clock. He briefly wondered why that was in the boy's room, when a wicked thought came to him. He glanced at Bunny, as his grin grew wider and he picked it up, as Bunny went on to make everyone suffer with his bragging.

Sandy had decided to put the dog to sleep, when the alarm suddenly went off, and the dog became a flurry of motion. Sandy found himself wondering what to do as the entire room erupted into chaos. Bunny was calling out for Sandy to knock the dog out while trying to keep from being the chew toy, Jack and Story were laughing and North and Tooth were trying to catch the dog. The little man decided to give it a go, and he threw it, only to see Story swat it away with something that looked like a bat. Sandy could only watch in shock as it bounced around the room, knocking out the everyone but Jamie and Jack. Jamie flew into the Sandman's arms and was effectively put to sleep again.

As Sandy laid the boy into his bed, he glanced over at Story and shook his head, hearing Jack snickering. The man knew that the Pixie King was a mischievous creature, but to actually see it rebound on the boy, was like seeing a miracle.

"I wish that I had a camera," Jack said laughing. "This would be awesome."

Sandy shook his head again and smiled.

Then they heard snorting and both turned to see two Nightmares. Sandy watched Jack run to the window and jump out. He heard the boy call back to him, in a challenge for a game. It took the Sandman a moment to decide and then he followed Jack out of the window.

Sorry if this took me so long. I'm currently trying to beat life back into submission. I hope that you guys enjoyed the chapter.