Past...
"What do you mean that Nightlight chose to become Human?" Bunny asked in disbelief.
"I mean," Story said smiling, as he saw Sandy fly in. "That Nightlight chose to be human, after our victory against Pitch."
They were at the Tooth Palace, in one of the many colorful towers. Story had arrived at the Tooth palace and insisted that she call the Guardians together for something important. She had reluctantly agreed and soon they arrived.
"So he's a child now?" Tooth asked, starting to feel joy. Her mind raced with all the future possibilities, of new fairies and all. She fluttered around Story, her joy starting to spill out in a giggle.
"Tooth," She heard. She saw the brown haired boy smiling playfully and waving a hand. "Earth to Tooth."
"Sorry," She apologized, giggling slightly.
Story shook his head and rolled his eyes. As North stepped forward and looked at the boy.
"So who is the boy?" North asked chuckling.
"Uh," Story told them. "I watched Nightlight change, by Tsar Lunar's help. But after that Nightlight vanished. So I don't know."
"You think that he will remember?" Bunny asked, pushing the conversation, after a moment. "Where ever he is, you think that he'll remember us?"
"I sure hope so," North replied.
Present...
Jack was amazed.
There were unpainted eggs, he saw, popping out of flowers. He saw a joyful magical place, with rivers of colorful paint. The warren was covered in grass, and flowers that puffed out powered paint, that helped to color the eggs. He saw a large trail of eggs heading towards him, and he took refuge on his staff. He glanced at Bunny, who was picking up Sophie playfully.
"Are you sure that we have time?" Jack asked curiously.
"We have plenty of time!" Bunny said loudly and proudly.
Jack chuckled as he saw the Pooka bounce off and he shook his head as he saw a Pixie meet up up with Nyfe. The Frost Spirit smiled as he saw the two sort of dance in the air, before they shot off into the warren. Jack recognized the other Pixie to be Dash, his small form matching color to the warren. The rainbow colored pixie, had a pair of spots of black, that sort of looked like an eye on two of his wings. It made the tiny pixie look kind of bigger to cats, but Jack knew that Dash lived up to his name very well, being almost as quick as the Pooka.
Nyfe and Dash flew up to a elf, who had just pushed an egg into a purple pond. Dash pointed to behind the elf, and Nyfe saw that a huge trail of eggs was marching towards the pond. The elf turned out around too late, to see the crowd meet with him, and Nyfe watched the elf get pushed into the pond, with the eggs. Dash giggled and did a flip in the air.
North picked out a egg, that was floating on the surface and examined it. Nyfe flew up to check it out too, the dark pixie buzzing around the egg, as he heard North.
"Very odd," North said.
"No," Bunny said, looking up from holding some eggs that Sophie loved, and smiling. "It's adorable."
Nyfe buzzed back over to where Jack was and both saw Bunny stand on a high rock, as Sophie started to lead the front of the finished eggs to the front of the warren.
"There's going to be eggs in all of the northern part of the world," They heard the Pooka announce proudly. "My eggs hidden in shoes, under bushes, and in trees! There will be baskets filled to the brim with my googies. Easter this year will be the best one yet."
Nyfe smiled as he saw Dash near Bunny, and flew over to them.
"Look," Bunny said to Sophie, and pointing at a stray egg. She did, and then ran over to the egg, and picked it up. She giggled and brought it over to Bunny, for inspection. He smiled as Dash made a thumbs up.
"Oh that's wonderful," Bunny praised, as if she had made the egg. "Now all we got to do is get him and his buddies to their spots."
Sophie saw that he offered a hand towards her, and she took it trustingly. She was led to the front of the warren, where she watched in awe, as millions of painted eggs all started heading for a tunnel. They all parted into trails, all heading into a tunnel, that would take them to the surface.
Jack walked up, as Sophie yawned and snuggled into Bunny's furry arms. Nyfe saw Dash land on the Pooka's shoulder, as the little girl was soon fast asleep.
"That was not bad," Jack said, sitting next to Bunny. He glanced at the Pooka smiling and saw Bunny look up at him.
"You're not bad yourself," Bunny replied, looking at Jack with a new respect.
"I'm sorry about the kangaroo thing," Jack apologized.
"It's the accent, isn't it?" Bunny said chuckling a bit.
They both heard Sophie sigh and Bunny looked down at her.
"Poor tyke's all tukered out," The Pooka said, as Tooth landed to look at her. "She did a lot."
"I love her," Tooth said happily.
A moment passed as the Guardians all smiled down at the sleeping girl. Then Tooth sighed.
"We need to take her back home," She announced, sadly.
Bunny handed the girl over to the Fairy and they suddenly heard Jack.
"I can take her home," He offered.
"Jack, no," Tooth said, looking at the Frost Spirit in concern. "Pitch is-"
"No match for this," Jack interrupted, showing his staff.
"Tooth is right," Bunny said, standing up. "We need you."
"Don't worry," Jack said confidently as he smiled. "I'll be quick as a bunny."
The Guardians glanced at each other for a moment and then Bunny smiled, as Nyfe settled on North's big shoulder.
"Alright mate," Bunny said, watching Tooth hand the girl gently over to Jack. "You hurry back okay?"
Jack nodded and Baby Tooth flew over to the Frost Spirit.
"We'll be fine," Jack said, and Baby Tooth nodded, squeaking a bit.
Tooth smiled and they watched Jack and Baby Tooth leave.
Nyfe then watched with the other Guardians, as the eggs continued to march into the tunnels. However the pixie started to feel as if something wasn't right, and she looked over at Dash, who was still on the Pooka's shoulder. Nyfe noticed that Dash straightened suddenly and slowly pull out his tiny thorn-dagger. Before Nyfe could even alert the Guardian, Bunny abruptly cried out, as Dash slashed at his former friend. The Pooka jerked away from the now hostile pixie and saw Dash shoot off.
They saw the quick pixie, lightly land on a large outstretched hand.
To their shock, they all saw that it was the Pixie King. But each recognized the large winged form walking into view, as the Duskwalker.
Bunny pulled out his boomerangs, as they all saw the large creature. Dusk's dragonfly wings were now gray and the rest of his body was covered in the same black as Pitch. Tooth gasped as the Pixie King grinned and looked at them, as Dash disappeared into the growing swarm of Pixies now entering the Warren.
Nyfe bristled and hissed as he felt the fearlings on his king and knew that it wasn't Story.
"Story?" Tooth questioned moving towards him.
"Tooth no," Bunny said, as Nyfe shot between the two. The Pooka saw the dark Pixie tugging at her, and whispering something that the Easter spirit barley heard, as 'get back.' Tooth quickly fluttered back to take a bit of shelter behind North, who had pulled out his sabers.
Dusk laughed, and Bunny hated that wicked hallow laugh. He remembered the last time that they had to fight Dusk. It had been a mean battle, and one they only won because of Sandy.
"Dusk," North said threateningly. "Why are you here?"
"What?" Dusk said mockingly, and motioning around him, to his swarm of Pixies. "My Pixies want an Easter too. I think it's about time that they had one."
"The Eggs!" Bunny shouted, in shock. He realized that the eggs were unguarded, with the Pixie king between them.
"Oh," Dusk said laughing. "Don't worry about them. In fact, you are hereby relieved of your duty as the Easter Bunny."
"You're not gonna touch them!" Bunny yelled as he threw his weapons at Dusk and then ran at the corrupted Pixie.
Dusk dodged one weapon, and swatted the other aside, and turned to see Tooth rushing at him. He smiled as she was abruptly met with a swarm of pixies defending their king. North slashed at some nightmare the rushed at him and noticed the Fairy shooting past him, with a small swarm of pixies hot on her tail.
Nyfe was left buzzing in the air, as he saw the Warren turn into a battlefield. It wasn't supposed to be like this, he knew. Story was supposed to help the Guardians, not fight them. He saw Bunny running runing from a attacking swarm of pixies and kicking at some nightmares, Tooth dodging and attacking both pixies and nightmare and North slashing at the pixies attacking him.
"Nyfe," The small dark pixie heard. He turned to see the Pixie king looking at him. "Come to me my Nyfe."
Nyfe found himself wanting to go, and yet something inside him informed him that it was now wrong to do so. He glanced at the Guardians, seeing them fighting pixies, and hearing the screams of those hurt. Nyfe looked back at his King and saw the smile. But when the small dark Pixie looked into his King's eyes, he saw sorrow.
"No!" Nyfe shouted, his voice suddenly loud.
Dusk recoiled and the Guardians all looked to see Nyfe pull out his dagger.
"I will not see the Darkness win," Nyfe yelled.
"Then you will perish along with the Guardians," Dusk said, his face darkening in anger.
The Guardians saw the millions of pixies all vanish, disappearing into the tunnels with the Nightmares. And they saw the Pixie king lunge at Nyfe.
The little pixie dodged the big hand, and shot off.
"This is not over!" They all heard Nyfe promise, his voice fading into the tunnels.
Dusk glanced at the Guardians for a moment, then vanished into the same tunnel that Nyfe disappeared into.
Bunny ran towards his tunnels, and saw that there was a trail of broken eggs, leading deep into the tunnels. The Pooka shook his head, and frowned.
"Please let Easter be successful," Bunny pleaded to the air. "Oh, please tell me some of the eggs made it through."
I hope that you guys enjoy this twisted chapter. I wanted to make this one the best yet. I might be going back and adding more details to the earlier chapters, as I feel that there's not enough detail in some of them. So you guys enjoy.