Forever and always with you
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Chapter 10: a sad past and confusion
Bunny was in his warren painting eggs like always in his free time (he really needs a hobby) then he noticed that his last 10 eggs were all winter themed. Calling himself officially distracted he went to cook dinner. As he went to the storage next to his barrow, his mind went to the events that occured one week ago
'FLASHBACK'
"Yes Sandy, I was attacked by kötülük's menions". Jack answered the sandman.
Bunny's eyes widened, he was right, Jack was lying. He wasn't attacked by a pack of wolves in fact the only wolf bunny saw turned into Jack, but why would he lie to them?. Bunnymund kept listening, maybe he'll figure it out.
It seems Sandy formed another question mark because Bunny heard Jack answered "You wanna know what happened Sandy?"
Bunnymund gessed that Sandy nodded
"Well it all stared when i was in antartica giving it a few billizards, when an owl of mine came and reported that it saw some weird movement in the Himalayas, speceficly Mt. Everest".
"İ instructed it to report this to Arianna to get backup and report this to the rest of you, while i flew to Mt. Everest, i kept watch for a while but didn't see anything out of the ordinary. İ was about to head to the pole for the meeting, when over 100 of kötülük's low-rank minions appeared. They maybe low-ranks but there was just too many of them and were not normal, when i blasted them with ice they just disappeare or more specifically desinigrate" Jack paused for a few seconds before continuing.
"one of them was able to take hold of my staff, i couldn't use the wind to fly so i shape shifted to a wolf and foght back"Bunny was shocked! 'Jack is a shape shifter?!' he thought ' well that explans some things' he was interupted from his thoughts when he heaard Jack speak. "They did a number on me. İ was finally able to get my staff back and they retreated, that's when Bunny found me" he said that last sentence with sadness in his vioce "i think he saw me shift back to human form, when i fell unconscious" again he said it with sadness in his tone. 'why would he be sad to know i saw him shape shift?!' thought bunny
"it was clearly an ambush" said Merida in her scottish accent
"after all this time why start now?" asked Rapuzel "did they found some weakness to kill us?"
"i don't think they were trying to kill me" said Jack
"What do you mean?" asked Merida
"they weren't attacking any vital areas, it seems they wanted to weaken me" replied Jack
"why would they do that?" asked Rapunzel
"to take a hostage" ansewered hiccup " to torcher information out of him, maybe the location of the keys?, there is alot of possibilities"
"What should we do now" asked Rapunzel
"when any of your spirits or familiars report of something, don't go alone" replied hiccup "always take someone with you, the same thing could happen to any of us as well"
After a long silence Hiccup spoke again "only we know the location of the keys, there is no doupt that they would attack again when they get the chance" Hiccup sighed "... we must be ready"
Bunnymund was about to hear more when someone called him. He turened to the vioce and saw it was Arianna "Mr. Bunnymund" said the snow queen astonished "is something the matter?"
Bunny looked at the woman for a while before answering "N-no nothing's wrong, I-i just got lost on my way to the bathroom"
Arianna didn'y look convinced but she pointed bunny to the direction of the Bathroom
"Thanks sheila" said bunny and walked away, the snow queen saw him leave.
'Present day'
Bunny's mind came back to reality when he heard water boiling, apparently he was so lose in his thoughts he didn't notice that he got out of the storage and started to cook carrot soup. He quickly turned the oven off and grabed a bowl. He headed toward his dinning table and sat on the chair, occationally sipping his soup and sometimes playing with it as his mind drifted back to the conversation he heard.
'kötülük?!', 'keys?!' it left him with more questions that answers!, he had to talk to either jack or sandy, and he haven't seen either for a week now, but from what he heard from North that Jack has healed completely and he is back to spreading snow.
Suddenly bunny started to feel light headed, and he wasn't able to breathe his view became blurry. He had to hold the table firmly to stop himself from falling when a wave of nausea hit him.
He didn't know what happened or why did he suddenly feel sick. he couldn't even move without tripping and falling, so he did the only thing he could do in his current condition. He thumped his feet thrice on the ground. After a few minute a couple of googies came through the barrow's open door. Bunny looked at them while trying to compose himself "…G-go…c-c-all…..N-north" he ordered then and everything went black.
Break…..
Darkness, can't see!, Can't breathe, smoke! Smoke everywhere!, it's covering the morning sky, covering the sun, it's light is unreachable. It's too hot!, houses are burning. People are screaming, their terrified!. 'Run!, Run' they yell, there coming!. 'Protect the kits!' Others shouted.
"Go and hide" his father ordered them
"but beloved!" his mother protested
"You have to stay alive" his father interrupted "you have to stay alive for our child"
His mother became quiet, she couldn't protest, she wanted to stay next to her mate, but she had to protect her son.
She carried her protesting son and cradled him in her arms.
"N-no, mom we have to stay with daddy, I don't want to leave him" he looked at his mother with teary eyes
"Aster" his father called "I am the father, my job is to protect you, you have to be strong not just for your mother but for me as well,…can you do that? Can you do that for me?" his father asked
Aster looked at his father and nodded. His father smiled "that's me boy" he said proudly
His father turned around and looked in front of him, his back was facing his family . "Go" he ordered them "go now"
His mate looked at him one last before running with her child in her arms.
As they moved away they heard the father's battle cry. Aster's face was buried to his mothers chest, he couldn't see her, but he felt her tears falling like rain on his head. He cried as well for his father.
After what felt like hours they reached a small cave and hid inside it. They stayed in for a long time till nightfall. Suddenly, they hissing, dark terrifying hissing. They were coming closer and closer. His mother tightened the grip of her protective arms around her son, her eyes filled with determination. She knows that it was a matter of time before they found them, she had to protect her child at any cost. The mother went deeper into the cave until she reached a dead end. She looked around her till her eyes fell on a small opening in the wall of the cave, big enough to fit her son. She set her child inside the opening and looked at him with a warm motherly gaze.
"Don't worry my love" his mother told him with her soft voice "I won't let anything happen to you, they will never get near you, I promise"
Aster looked at her with sad eyes, he didn't know why, but he felt he won't see her again.
"Aster promise me you won't get out of here till I come back or till the sun rises alright"
He stared at her his eyes shedding hot tears, but he nodded
"…..I-I promise mommy"
"just remember when you are afraid, think of me and your father, think about your friends and all the happy times we had together,...Never lose hope, always be positive that every thing will be alright in the end, and even if we not next to you we will always be in here" she pointed her finger to her son's heart and smiled sadly.
She hugged her son one last time "I love you Aster, don't forget that" she said with a sniff.
She kissed her son's forehead and placed him in the opening again and placed an amulet around his furry neck a protective amulet that will hide his fear from those shadow fear sensing creatures. She took a small rock and placed it in front of the opening. The rock was big enough to hide the opening, but it still allowed air to seep it.
She looked at her child one last time and smiled then she went away. Aster curled around himself as he heard his mothers footsteps become fainter and fainter.
Then he heard a voice " there is one alive, after her" he heard the hissing become fainter as well as they chased his mother. He heard something come in the cave, it's hissing echoed between the walls, the sound became stronger as it came closer. Aster peeked from his hiding place, big emerald eyes looking on the intruder, a tall pitch black ghost like creature, it's white orbs like eyes searching franticly for any survivor that might have escaped him and hidden here, it's eyes was full with malice, and they showed no mercy, Aster for the first time in his life felt fear and is hands accidently slipped from the rock that it caused several pebbles to fall on the ground. the things eyes grew wide, and it turned it's head toward the sound, and slowly walked towards the little child. Aster's heart was beating so fast, he wished his parents were here, that's when he remembered what his mother told him. He kept remembering every happy thing in his life, he remembered his father racing will him and how he told him stories about the great hero's of his race. He remembered his mothers smiles and hugs, how she always cheered him up when he was sad, but most of all he remembered how safe he felt with his parents. His fear diminished till it was gone so was the hissing of the ghost like creature. he peeked again and saw the things head turn towards the cave's entrance. he heard the creature hissing with another of it's brethren and headed towards the entrance. The fearling looked around the cave one last time before heading to it's mouth. Aster heard the hissing becoming fainter till they disappeared. It became quiet , too quiet for his taste, the silence was suffocating him, he felt so alone, he tried to do what his mother told him. As time past, it became too much for him to bear, he started to cry, he cried for his parents, cried for his friends, cried for his people, he kept crying till he fell asleep and became dead to the world.
He opened his eyes again and saw it was morning. The child pushed the rock away and got out. His back was sour from sleeping in an uncomfortable position.
He stayed in the cave for awhile before deciding to venture out. He looked around the entrance of the cave for any of those ghost like creatures but saw non, so he went outside to search for his mother or anyone of his village that survived and to look for food and water.
He ran till he reached a river and darted towards it. He drank till he was satisfied when suddenly he heard the same terrifying hissing. He turned around attempting to run but was too late the fearlings cornered him and made his escape impossible. One of the fearlings walked towards him attempting to finish him off
Aster felt the fearling's hot breath as it approached, he closed his eyes waiting for his fate, but it didn't come, he no longer felt the fearling's hot breath. Wondering what happened he opened his eyes and didn't see any of those things but saw a man in there stead. His back was toward the sun so bunny couldn't see him properly.
"it is alright now" said the man "they are gone, they will not come for you again" he reached his hands toward Aster. His voice was reassuring. The child looked at the hand hesitantly before grabbing it and then everything turned white.
Bunny's eyes bolted awake as he breathed heavily it took awhile for him to calm down and when he did he recognized his surroundings. He was in his personal room at the north pole. The events of what happened before he lost consciousness flowed back to him. North must have come for him and brought him to the pole. His mind went back to his nightmare-no memory about his own kind extinction leaving him as the sole survivor. The last memory confused him, he doesn't remember being saved by a man, a young man to be exact that what his voice indicated.
"B-Bunny?" he heard and turned his head to see Jack frost on a chair next to his bed, rubbing his eyes and yawning.
"thank god your awake" he said "you had as worried you know, how are you feeling?" asked jack as he headed toward bunny and sat on the edge of the bed.
"tired I guess, What happened mate?" asked bunny
"we came to you when one of your eggs came to the pole, North called us, and we found you unconscious, apparently your soup contained some poisonous plant" Jack said as he walked toward the bed. "well poisonous if you took it in large doses, why did you add such a plant in your soup?"
"I was thinking of something while I was taking ingredients for my soup, I didn't notice that I took such a plant" answered Bunny
"must be some deep thought if you didn't notice it" said Jack as he stock the fur on bunny's head
The pooka didn't know why but something about Jack stroking his fur like this seemed like de ja vu , as if Jack had done that to him before, but that is impossible he only known the kid personally for about 3 months he must be confusing it with how his mother did that to him when he was a kit, but the comforting cold radiating from Jack's hand seemed familiar, too familiar and that confused him even more, but none the less he leaned to the spirit touch, it was so comforting.
Bunny was interrupted from his thoughts by Jack "I'm going to tell North that you woke up" he said with a smile and headed to the door.
After jack left the room, bunny realized that he missed his chance to ask Jack about what he had heard one week ago.
' I can't believe I'm such a dill' he thought
Suddenly the pooka heard North booming "Bunny old friend, iz good to see you up"
The rabbit smirked at north who came in his room with Jack
"how long was I out" he asked
"a whole day" said North
"blimey" said bunny with shock
Suddenly the windows jolted open and the three guardians jumped in surprise, a cold wind made its way in the room.
Jack's eyes went wide with shock and darted toward the window, he heard North calling for him "Jack!" the Cossack shouted "vhere are you going?"
"there something I have to take care of" he replied as he flew to the horizon.
that was long! It's getting more exciting! Hope you enjoyed reading this chapter.
I felt bad for bunny when I wrote this, poor bunny.
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