Chapter 2! Mini questions useful for later, What does MIM (Man in Moon) do to mess with them?, Who kidnapped Iris, and why? and Why did she change into a Pooka? O.o Think long and hard about these questions. Now, ENJOY!

"Iris!" Mother shouted after her daughter, but she was gone. "Mother?" Death walked into the room, and everything seemed to darken. "I can't find Iris, do yo-" he stopped when Mother Nature shook her head and glanced at the door. Death nodded and went back to where he was before.

"Mother, v'e could go get her," North said stepping forward and motioned to Bunny. The Pooka was embarrassed, his fur a light red where it was usually white. Mother nodded, "Last time she was out," Mother shuddered, "let's just say, something happened and sent the world into a time of dark and death. She can't go away from anything living to long or else she looses strength."

I was running through the tunnels. I hadn't gone through these in a thousand years at least. They looked different, there were less and they were shorter. There was running behind me. I took a random tunnel, and stopped. The running kept coming till it passed me. I knew it would be a mistake, but I looked to see who it was. It was Aster. He froze and his ears moved picking up the sounds of my breaths. Slowly he turned, looking at me, and I knew it was time to go.

"LIFE!" Aster yelled running after me as I took off away from him. "North, I found her, I'll tell you where we end up." I heard but I refused to look back. He was gaining, so I did the only thing I could think of, I stopped and changed forms. I turned into a humming-bird, since they were fast and small, and flew forward. I didn't hear him behind he, that's when I felt heat closing in around me. He was behind me.

I flew away again and turned into a Pooka again. I jumped out of a tunnel, but I didn't recognize where I had ended up. It was some park, there was trees, grass and plants everywhere. It made my heart skip a beat at the beauty I had missed when I was stuck in Mother's main home. Then I remembered how I got here, Crap! My black hair glowed slightly in the light, but I didn't have time to enjoy the warmth because Aster was closing in on me. It was 3 days till Easter and kids were everywhere. That's when a plan formed in my mind.

I knew they all believed in Aster so I waited till he came from the hole in the ground, and that's when they saw him. They all rushed him and were so clumped together that he couldn't move or else he would step on them. "Aye, you little ankle-biters I need to get to someone," That was the first time I really heard his accent. It was Australian and when he turned I saw he had two boomerangs. I took a second to study him and how he acted around the kids. He looked very uncomfortable with them tugging on his fur and trying to get his attention.

"Crikey! Will you little buggers get off me for a bloody minute!" I snickered. "NORTH! We're at Jamie's town!" He yelled into a communicator over the shouts of the kids. "Bunny, what's going on?!" North yelled. "She's using the little ankle-biters as a diversion to get away! Hey! Don't pull that! It's real fur okay!" He started yelling at the kid pulling at the fur on his back near the satchel he had.

I started laughing, only getting Aster's attention. He growled at me and I laughed and put my hand's up as if I surrendered, "I surrender, if you can catch me!" I started to run and a portal opened up a few feet from me. North and a few others came out on a sleigh. "Bunny! You okay!?" North yelled. Bunny was swarmed with about half of the town's kids pulling on his fur and trying to take his boomerangs or egg bombs.

"I'm fine! Go get her!" Bunny looked miserable. "Tooth, go help him," North said landing the sleigh, seeing someone running in the opposite direction. "Sandy, dream sand." Sandy nodded and aimed the dream sand. When he threw it though, a tree somehow randomly grew and the dust hit the tree.

I knew they were coming, so I shifted into a plant in a field of plants. "Sandy, Frost, find her, I'll help Bunny." Sandy and Frost came to the field, and Sandy put ? above his head. Forst started to make it snow, blanketing the field in snow. I had to change soon of I would start to freeze. I shifted to look like Aster, I had observed their behavior for years. I snickered on the inside, time to play I though as I jumped toward Frost and Sandy. "Frostbite! It's three days till Easter!" I said mimicking Bunny's accent perfectly. "Roo, where's North and Tooth?"

"They're back there back there, and how many times do I have to tell you I'm not a bloody Kangaroo!" North and Tooth were coming from behind Frost and Sandy. "Here they come, mate," I said backing up and opening a hole after they had turned. "Wait, who's with them? Ro-" Frost started, I had shifted back to my regular form before Aster saw me and did a solute to him as he came running at us. "Roo?" I winked at them and jumped in the hole as I heard Aster yell, "Crikey! Frostbite, what you doing, you're letting her get away!"

"See ya'" I called as the hole closed. I started sprinting away, enjoying the freedom I had.

"OKAY! Someone explain what is going on!" Jack yelled in frustration. "That was Life, or Iris, she goes by different names. She's Mother Nature's daughter. She ran away earlier today and Mother wants her brought back." Tooth explained.

"Now, if you don't mind mates, I have to go find the Sheila." Bunny said jumping into a hole he opened up.

He paused and sniffed the air. Rose's? How typical, Bunny thought as he followed Life's sent. About a couple of minutes of walking, he realized she was headed to his warren, but she didn't know. She was walking without a destination in mind.

I was walking when I exited in a field, again. I looked around and saw eggs and flowers everywhere. Oh no! I'm in Aster's warren! I was about to open another hole when I was tackled to the ground. I gasped in pain when I felt something go through my back, like a rock. "You, Sheila, aren't as clever as you thought," he growled. I was trying to wiggle out of his grasp when pain shot through out my body. I let out a whimper of pain turning to see a small pool of blood, gold blood.

Aster started to lift me to carry me fire-fighter style back to Mother's when I let out a cry of utter pain. He froze, not moving a muscle, glanced down to see the blood for the first time. Gently, despite my whimpers of pain, he lifted me little by little. His paw gently touched the area and I cried out again. "Sh, hey mate. Relax, poor guy was behind you when I tackled you. I'm going to take him out, okay?"

I bit down on my tongue to try to keep quiet and nodded. The pain was excruciating. I could feel the blood start to come out more. When the pain started to fade, I heard Aster say, "Got him, now, stay here, I'm going to get some bandages." I nodded and he handed me an egg, the top covered in gold blood. "Sorry little guy, I didn't mean to fall on you."

Bunny had gone to his den and grabbed some bandages when the other guardians came and found him. "Bunny, you hurt?" North asked. "No, why?" He replied scratching his head. "Why do you have bandages then?" He considered it telling them she was here, but then she would be sent back right away. "They're for someone else," Bunny mumbled moving past them.

"Hey! She's here!" Jack yelled. Bunny hopped past them and went to Life. "You stayed in one spot for once," he muttered to her as he wrapped the bandages around the wounded area. She let out a pained laugh, "I had no choice, that little egg hit a nerve and now I can't move my legs."