Chapter 8
::After the guardian meeting::
Luna jumped roof to roof spreading her laughter here and there as Joy accompanied her. They talked as they went on, traveling the cities of different countries. As they reached a park, they dared each other to tell jokes.
"Okay, okay. How about this.. Why did the chicken cross the road?" Joy giggled as she twirled her staff around two lovers.
"Seriously? You go for that? LAAAMMMEE~!" Luna sang, sprinkling some laugh dust on the young male adult.
"Oh shut up. Just ask why."
"Tch. Fine. Why?" Luna rolled her eyes.
"To get to the gay chickens!" Joy said enthusiastically. Luna just stared at her and raised her brow.
"Ahaha! Okay. Knock knock." Joy continued.
"Who's there?" Luna replied boredly.
"The chicken!" They both bursted out laughing at Joy's corny joke. Feeling a bit tired, they sat on a bench near a lake in the park.
"Almost sunset." Luna smiled, glancing up to the pink sky. Luna loved to watch sunsets.
"Hey." Joy turned to Luna. "Don't get mad or anything but wha- LUNA!"
Luna screamed. She clutched her head in her hands, feeling a stabbing pain both in her head and in her chest. Her eyesight turned blood red for a second.
"Luna! Are you alright?" Joy asked as Luna breathed deeply.
She nodded. "Yeah.. I- I'm fine."
They both called it a day and headed to North's workshop.
::Pitch's lair::
"Yeah, but Onyx! What if the Guardians see me?!"
The nightmare horse neighed, as if saying "They won't"
Pitch groaned.
"Fine." S/he sighed, sinking into the shadows.
::Joy's bedroom::
"Soooo... What was happening earlier? With.. You know... Bunny?" Joy asked, handling Luna's mug of hot chocolate as she bit a cookie.
Luna groaned. "But.. I really don't feel like-"
"Please?" Joy begged, using her powerful puppy dog eyes. Luna pouted.
"Bunny just made breakfast for me.. A-and,, I don't know! We just kindda leaned i-in..." Joy gave a smirk.
"What are you thinking?" Luna asked suspiciously.
"Noooottthhiinnggg~!" Joy sang.
"That doesn't sound like nothing to me." She mumbled.
Luna was correct. It wasn't nothing. Joy, being the Guardian of Love, had sensed a spark between the two. She gave a light giggle as she kicked her staff under her bed, which Luna barely noticed.
The two sat near the fireplace, enjoying their hot chocolate (which Luna decided to put marshmallows in). They talked on and on, only pausing to take a big gulp of their drink. When they were on the subject of magic, like Harry Potter or some sort, they were startled by an alarmed, feminine voice.
"Luna!"
Their eyes widened as they saw who emerged out of the shadows.
"P-Pitch?!" Joy stared at her disbelievingly.
Pitch blushed. "Oi! It's rude to stare!" She answered in her British accent.
Luna examined her from head to toe as Joy bombarded Pitch with questions. ("What- but you have boobs!")
"It-... It must be Karen's spell." Luna said after a while when Joy stopped being suspicious.
"Exactly." Pitch replied.
"You know what I think? I think... It's time for a new name." Joy butted in, giving an evil smirk.
::North's Workshop::
"Hey Jack!" North called. "Bring me some cookies!"
"But whhhyyyyyyyyyyyy?!" Jack whined, hanging down from the ceiling.
"Because I cannot trust the elves anymore!" North boomed, glancing at the goofing elves who were somehow getting their tongue stuck on the windows.
"Ohh finnnneeeeeee."
Jack grumbled as he left, walking boredly at the hallway. Just then, he heard giggles inside Joy's room. Curious, he leaned his ear at the door.
"Hm, how about Darklier?"
"Nah. Too.. Overused..."
He raised his right eyebrow at Joy's muffled voice inside.
"Well how about.. Pitchy?" Luna bursted out laughing.
"Pitchy? As in.. Pitchy the Boogiewoman!" Joy snorted.
"WHAT?!" Came a british-accented voice.
'What? Pitchy? Boogiewoman?!' Jack thought.
"JACK! What is taking you so long?" A Russian accent boomed.
Completely alarmed, Jack ran to the kitchen, forgetting about Joy's conversation.
-Back in Joy's room-
The three of them perked up at the sound of North's voice,
"JACK! What is taking so long?"
Joy and Luna looked at each other, eyes widened with the same thought. Oh no.
Pitch's voice snapped them out of their trance.
"Well, how about.. Bellatrix Noir? It means 'female warrior' and 'black'." Luna suggested.
"PERFECT!" Both of them exclaimed, forgetting about Jack.
After a few more conversations, Pitch, or more like Bellatrix, left.
Joy stood up, cracking her knuckles.
"Uhh, Joy...?" Luna said, looking at her.
Joy looked at her, a grin at her face and a deadly glint were visible in her emerald eyes.
"I'm just going to beat someone's sorry ass.."
"Who's?"
"Oh you'll find out later.." She said sweetly as she patted Luna's head. Luna looked at her as she left.
Joy walked at the hallway, her Demon Aura seeping out everywhere, causing the elves to avoid doing anything stupid.
Joy smirked as she saw her target. Walking towards him and she grabbed his right ear and pulled him to a dark corner.
-1 minute later-
"You promise me you won't eavesdrop anymore?" Joy asked Jack who was nursing his head.
"Yes, ma'am!" He replied, childishly. Joy glared at him before turning away.
Jack flew away, grinning mischievously.
"ACHOO!" Joy sneezed as chill ran down her spine. She shrugged. Before going inside the kitchen, chopping apples into bunny apples. After that, she walked towards her room.
Joy stepped inside her room, seeing Luna staring into nothingness. Blushing by every second.
"Luna?" She called, inching closer to her.
Silence.
"Luna?"
...
"Luuuuuuunnnnnaaaaaaaa!"
...
"LUNA! I HAVE CHOCOLATE!"
Nothing.
Joy groaned before narrowing her eyes.
"HEY LUNA! BUNNY'S LOOKING FOR YOU."
Finally, she perked up. Blushing madly, looking around.
"Finally! Geez, what has gotten into you?" Joy said, sitting beside her, putting the bowl of bunny apples on her lap.
Luna's POV
"Nothing...Joy?"
"Yeah?"
I blushed, I couldn't believe I was going to ask her this.
"Uhm, h-h-how does it feel like to be i-in love?" I squeaked. Heat flooded my cheeks and I couldn't believe I just asked Joy that.
She laughed.
"Ooohhhhhh... Are you in loooovee?" She asked in the most annoying voice, her lips twitching upwards.
"I-it's not what I mean. I-I am just-" Ahh shit.
"Just what?" Joy asked, smirking evilly.
"Forget it. Forget I ever asked that stupid question," I grumbled, picking up the bowl full of innocent bunny apples.
"No! No, no. I'll stop now," She caught my wrist and pulled me down beside her.
I scowled.
"No, really. I won't tease you anymore," She smiled.
"Whatever," I huffed.
"So, what is this being in love?"
"I told you, just forget about it. It's nothing. It doesn't matter anyway."
"It's not nothing and yes it does matter," She insisted. She smiled gently while caressing my hair. I felt like a small child.
"You know, being in love is not a bad thing-"
"Joy, just go straight to the point," I sighed, rolling my eyes.
"Okay, what I mean is, don't hold yourself back. I know that you know how to fall in love and be in love, you're not that naive, Luna."
"And I know you are. With him."
I blushed furiously and pouted. Damnit. Can't I just take off my cheeks?!
"Him?"
"Bunny!" She said, smiling brightly.
"B-Bunny?"
"Yes!"
I blinked.
"Uhm... Are you sure?"
Joy exhaled and rolled her eyes.
"And here I just told you you're not naive,"
I laughed awkwardly, rubbing my neck with my hand.
But putting that aside, I knew she was going to say that. I know that deep inside me, something very horrible was stirring because of Bunny. I may look like it but I'm not dumb. I know the tickling sensation trying to invade me whenever Bunny is around. I know how my body reacts when he touches me. I know the way my heart pumps with extra force whenever he flashed his stupid, freaking adoring smile.
These feelings, as much as I hate to admit it, I know all of it. Because I am now perfectly aware that I am falling in love with him. Or maybe I was already in love with him for a long time?
"Don't hold yourself back, Luna," Joy repeated, giving me a pat at my back.
"Tell him how you feel with all the confidence you have. If you continue to deny it then one day, you'll be waking up with a sack of regret weighing you down. Love can turn your life either to extreme happiness or excruciating pain. The more you contain it, the more it hurts. But you have the power to manipulate the twist and turns of your life, don't let a small choice change everything."
I gulped.
"I...I'm scared."
"What's there to be scared of?"
"What if-what if he doesn't like me that way?"
"Oh, please!" I jumped slightly when Joy scoffed, as if I said something bad.
"Don't you see the way he stares at you like you're the only girl in his eyes? Luna, open your eyes; that Easter Kangaroo is in love with you, too."
I furrowed my eyebrows.
"Joy, you're seeing things."
"No, I'm not. Seriously, you two are always together yet you're blind to all his moves," She pouted.
"And I know what I'm saying. I'm the Guardian of Love, ya nincompoop... Also, stop denying it." Joy added.
It was my turn to pout.
"But you're the one who denies that you love Jack," I smirked.
"Wha-? You.. Hey! Th-that's not completely our topic!"
I ignored her, patting her head.
"'Tell him how you feel with all the confidence you have. If you continue to deny it then one day, you'll be waking up with a sack of regret weighing you down. Love can turn your life either to extreme happiness or excruciating pain. The more you contain it, the more it hurts. But you have the power to manipulate the twist and turns of your life, don't let a small choice change everything.'" I mimicked her.
She pouted, mumbling something.
"Pardon... what was that?"
"Nothing,"
"Eh? Come on! Tell me!"
"Nothing!"
"I don't take 'Nothing' as an excuse, Joy!"
"I said it was nothing!"
"Nothing you say?"
"Yes, nothing!"
"Eh? As far as I know you said, 'why do I always have to be readable as a book?'"
She blushed.
"So, is that what it was?"
She just nodded, furrowing her eyebrows together.
::North's Office::
Third Person POV
"Vhat do you mean... Pitchy?" North asked, tilting his head to a side.
"I dunno.. i heard Joy talking about 'changing your name'."
"Vait... Were you eavesdropping?" North raised a brow.
"I wa- Hey! N-No I wasn't!"
North narrowed his eyes at Jack. "Are you lying."
". . . Yes." Jack pouted.
Phil the Yeti suddenly barged in and grumbled something to North.
"You... Took the vaffle from the freezer... and... Ate it?"
Phil stared at North. He nodded and quickly ran away.
Jack raised a brow. "What?"
North shrugged and went back to work.
Jack exited and decided to visit Jamie when it was sunrise. It's been a while since he went there.
...
"JAACCKKKKKK~!"
"Hey there, little one! Aren't you quite early?" Jack chuckled.
Jamie giggled. "I've missed you so much! What happened? I mean.. It's summer! You've got no duties, right?" Jamie asked.
"Yeah.. Sorry 'bout that. Remember Joy?" Jamie nodded. "She's staying with us for some time."
Jamie smiled. "Oh cool! Can she visit us too?" Jack chuckled.
"'Course!" Jack answered, ruffling Jamie's hair.
"C'mon! Let's get some cookies!"
Jamie tugged Jack sleeve, smelling a new batch of freshly baked cookies from the kitchen.
"Snowy!" Sophie screamed, giving Jack a killer hug on the knees.
"Snowy?" Jack chuckled amusedly. 'Huh. I'm always up for a new nickname' He thought.
Jack stayed there until 8: 30 in the evening after making sure that the kids had fallen asleep.
"Goodnight, snowflakes.." He whispered, before exiting the room and calling the wind to carry him back to the North Pole.
Lady Luna's little note corner
Yeeaaahhh.. Sorry I'm late.. Really got stuck in the last part. And Doctor Who has really been stealing my attention and I'm finally at series 7 x-x Oh gods, I miss Tennant. *sigh* Anyways, thanks to my co-author for helping me earlier.. I really tried my best to focus the other parts on the other Guardians and Pitch but my brain wouldn't work...
Please do leave a review! I love reviews! xD By the way... Here, chocolate! :D *hands you chocolate bar*
