The Day with Bunny
Once again Jack and Bunny were going at each other, having their usual argue session of the day. North was up in his office working on an ice sculpture when somebody we all know yelled, "Oh yeah?! What are you going to do about it Kangaroo?!" North flinched and cut the head off of his ice sculpture. A sudden jolt of anger surged through him. He dropped his chainsaw and walked out of his office as his final string of tolerance snapped. He calmly walked down to the two guardians and put a hand on each of their shoulder. He looked at each of them with a smile, "Can you two not argue for ONE DAY?!" His voice boomed through the whole workshop.
Bunny glares at North and points to Jack. "He bloody started it!" Jack glares and pushes the offending paw out of his face. "Nu-uh, don't go blaming this on me!" "Who else would make it snow on Easter Sunday, ya Gumby?!" They continue to argue back and forth again. North sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose. He looks back up and yells, "SILENCE!" The arguing quickly stops. Bunny and Jack look at him with surprise and slight fear. The jolly man rarely shouts, but when he did it was kind of scary. North smiles at the both of them. "Good. Now, I want the both of you to spend the day together-"He quickly puts his hand up to silence the oncoming protests," and do something fun or productive instead of arguing. Everyone is tired of it and I am getting big headache." He pats their backs. Jack pouts. "What fun is there to do?" Bunny stays silent, thinking of ways to get revenge on the fat man. North looks at Jack with an unimpressed look. "You're the Guardian of Fun; you should be able to think of something." With that, North turns around and heads back to his office, mumbling in Russian.
Before North closed his office door he yelled to Jack and Bunny, "Oh and if you come back arguing again then you'll have to spend a week with each other! Is that understood?!" The two guardians grumbled. "I SAID IS THAT CLEAR?!" The two guardians yelled back to North is an annoyed tone, "Yes!" "No don't just stand there and be angry with me, go do something productive!" Jack and Bunny turned around, walked out of the workshop, and simultaneously said, "Ugh, could this day get any worse?!" The two looked at each other and Jack smiled, "For once we finally agree on something."
Bunny smirks and rolls his eyes. "Probably the only thing we'll agree on." Jack chuckles and continues walking, a slight bounce in his step. Bunny looks at him with a raised eyebrow. "Well, ya little frostbite, what do you wanna do?" Jack stops abruptly and puts a finger to his chin in thought. "Hmm…go ice skating?" He looks up at the Pooka with a smug smirk. Bunny shudders and shakes his head. "Oooh no, you're not dragging me out on any kind of frozen body of water!" Jack pouts and gives Bunny the puppy eyes. "Pwease?" He sticks his bottom lip out for good measure.
Bunny took in a deep breath and lets it out in an even deeper sigh, "Fine, but let's quick with it." Jack's face became as bright as light on a lamppost in the dead of night and he dragged Bunny onto the ice. Bunny stopped right as one of his feet were on the ice, "Uh, I don't think I can do this anymore, mate!" Jack tried to reassure Bunny with a nice smile, "It'll be alright. Trust me." "Uh, uh… I'm not s-sure. Ah! Ow…" Bunny's foot had slipped and he fell into a split. Jack laughed. Bunny glared at Jack, "It's not funny!" Jack held back his laugh, "I-I'm sorry." Jack held out a hand to Bunny. Bunny looked at Jack with a questionable look in his eye, "You're not gonna trick me are you?" Jack's face became serious, "No." This surprised Bunny, he never expected that Jack would ever be serious to help him unless it was dire.
Bunny hesitantly takes the younger guardian's hand in his bigger paw. Jack, true to his word, helped him up. Bunny stumbles a little but quickly regains his balance. Jack smiles and lets go of Bunny's hand. "See? I told you I wouldn't do anything." He chuckles and skates off, gliding and spinning with grace. "Come on, Kangaroo! One foot at a time!" Bunny looks down at his feet and frowns. "Easy for you to say, mate. You don't have big feet." Jack skates up to him and grabs his arm, causing Bunny to stumble after him. "J-Jack!"
Jack playfully pushes Bunny in front of him and accidentally causes Bunny to fall forward and land face first onto the ice. Jack skates in front of the fallen Bunny, "Sorry!" He held out his hand again and this time Bunny, somehow, without hesitation grabbed Jack's hand and Jack helped him up again. Jack instead of pushing Bunny ahead again, he helped Bunny get the hang of ice skating, although throughout the whole time Bunny fell time and time again.
After what felt like the hundredth time, Bunny finally stays where he fell and tries to catch his breath. "There's no use, mate. Rabbits weren't meant to ice skate." Jack sits down next to him and smiles. "You were skating pretty well though. Not bad for an overgrown bunny." He nudges Bunny's arm playfully. Bunny rolls his eyes, but smiles nonetheless. "Don't try to flatter me, mate. You know it was horrible." Jack busts out laughing and falls on his back, clutching his stomach. "Alright…It was really bad!" He continues to laugh for another minute or so before calming down. "Sorry, I've been holding that laughter in for a long time." Jack chuckles and sits back up. Bunny chuckles along with him.
Bunny laughed as Jack's stomach growled, "Guess it is time for lunch isn't it?" Bunny stood up and held out his hand and helped Jack up, "So do you want to take the long way or try my way?" "Let's try your way." "Alright! Try to keep up!" Bunny tapped his foot on the ground and a giant rabbit hole opened up from the ground. Bunny jumped in and Jack flew in after him.
Another hole opened up in the North Pole and Bunny's headed popped out first then Jack's. Bunny grumbled, "Dang it! Wrong spot again!" Jack laughs and flies off. "Catch me if you can!" Bunny grumbles and runs after him, shouting. "Oi! What did I tell ya! Never race a rabbit!" He quickly catches up, despite the biting cold and was now in front of the flying guardian above. "What did I tell ya, mate?!" Bunny shouts and smirks up at Jack. Jack just smiles and flies faster. They eventually reach the workshop and head inside. Bunny shakes the snow and water off of his fur, wiggling his tail. Jack snorts and heads to the kitchen, the older guardian trailing behind. When they reach their destination, they start to look through the cabinets. "Doesn't North have anything other than cookies and other sweets?" Jack pouts and crosses his arms. Bunny had found a few carrots and started to munch on them. "I thought teenagers liked sweets?" Jack sighs and grabs a few cookies. "Yeah, but not all the time. Hey! There's soda in here!" The boy reaches into the fridge he had been looking in and takes a few.
"Hand me one of those would ya, mate?" Jack grabbed another soda and looked at Bunny, "You sure you can have one of these?" "Yeah." Jack shrugged and threw Bunny a soda. Bunny opened the soda and drank some. After a couple seconds Bunny let out a ginormous burp. Jack laughed and took drank some of his soda and burped back at Bunny. Bunny smirked, "Are you challenging me?" Jack laughed, "I don't know. Does this sound like a challenge?" Jack burped again loud and clear. Bunny laughed, "Oh, it's on now Frosty!" With that said, the burping contest commenced!
A couple of yetis stare at the door to the kitchen as they walk by, wondering what the commotion was all about. Tooth smiles as she flies past the yetis, heading for the kitchen to get a drink. She was unaware of the event going on and opens the door, only to hear a loud belch come from the white-haired boy in front of her. She hears another from Bunny and watches as the two laugh to the point of gasping for air. Tooth scrunches her nose in disgust. "You two are so ill-mannered!" Jack looks at her with a charming smile. "Come on, Tooth! We're just having some harmless fun! And we're actually getting along!" Tooth just glares at them with her arms crossed. Bunny decides to break the awkward silence with another loud belch. Jack busts out laughing, leaning on the counter for support. Tooth huffs, her feathers ruffling. She turns around and leaves, but couldn't help the small smile. It was nice to see Bunny and Jack getting along.
As they reached the near closure of their soda Bunny and Jack made a bet, "If I make a better last burp then you gotta walk on the ground for a month!" Bunny smirked as he saw Jack sigh, "Fine! If I make the better last burp then you have to travel by North's sleigh whenever you go for a month!" Bunny's eyes opened wide but smiled, "You're on!" The burping contest continued and as the two laughing guardians got to their last burp, North walked into the kitchen for some cookies. North looked at the two and they looked back at him surprised. In about thirty seconds both Jack and Bunny erupted with the loudest burp that North had ever heard! Bunny and Jack bit their bottom lips to keep from laughing but couldn't hold it back any longer than what seemed to be 5 seconds. They doubled over, laughing so hard that tears filled their eyes. Remembering their bet, they both asked North simultaneously, "Whose burp was better?!" North laughed his jolly laugh, "I think it was a tie!"
They end the contest with the tie. Bunny invites Jack to his warren, asking him if he wanted to help paint some Easter eggs. Jack smiles and nods excitedly. "You'll really let me help?" Bunny chuckles and ruffles his hair. "Ay, you've shown me that I can trust you with some things." Jack pushes him playfully. "I'll take that as a compliment." The Pooka laughs and summons his tunnel. "Well, let's go! See ya later, North!" Bunny jumps in with Jack right behind him. The tunnels echo with laughter and "whoops" of excitement from Jack. They reach the warren in record time and rest to catch their breaths. Little, painted eggs walk about, enjoying the all year Spring weather. Bunny picks up a blank egg and hands it to Jack. The tiny creature nestles itself in the boy's hands, waiting to be decorated. "Here, ya might need these." Bunny hands him a paintbrush and some paint, quickly setting to work on his own. Jack looks at the different colors of paint and settles on a pale blue. He also sets to work, tongue poking out in concentration. A comfortable silence falls among the two guardians.
Bunny chuckled and Jack looked at him, "What's so funny?" "Did you see the look on North's face?!" Jack laughs; his focus still on the egg. "His face was priceless! I don't think I've ever seen him that surprised." Bunny nods in agreement and nudges Jack playfully. He was careful so he wouldn't cause Jack to mess up. Another comfortable silence fell among them for another half hour. Jack puts down his paintbrush and smiles at his work. The egg was painted a mix of pale and sky blues and snowflakes around the sides. A beautiful frost pattern circled around the top and bottom, weaving in and out of the snowflakes. Jack holds it up for Bunny to see, smiling triumphantly. Bunny's eyes widen as he looks at the beautifully painted egg. "Do you like it?" Jack bounces excitedly, waiting patiently for the Pooka's response. "Crikey, lad…where did ya learn to paint like this?" Bunny gently takes it into his paws to examine it closely. Jack shrugs and looks down at his crossed legs. "You learn to pick things up after 300 years. Besides, I already have some sort of artistic talent due to my frost." He smiles and lightly taps a patch of grass, encasing it in a beautiful fern pattern of frost.
Bunny looked at the frosted ground and smiled, "Well would you look at that." He looks back at his egg with the smile still on his face, "It's been fun…" Jack looked at Bunny slightly surprised, "You mean it? You're not just pulling my strings?" "Yeah, I mean it." Jack falls back onto the soft, comfy grass reminiscing about the day. He looked at Bunny, who was still hunched over painting his egg, and smiles. After a while Jack drifted off to sleep. Bunny turned around to show Jack what he had painted on the egg and when he saw Jack asleep, he smiled. "Must have tuckered you out." Bunny picked up Jack and opened up another rabbit hole and lightly jumped through the hole making sure not to wake Jack. The rabbit hole opened up in North's workshop and Bunny thought to himself, 'Finally I end up where I want to be!' He stepped out of the hole and walked up to Jack's room. He stopped at the door, wondering how he was going to open the door. Within a minute or so he got an idea. He stepped back from the door, picked up his foot, pushed down the handle with his foot and pushed the door open. He walked into Jack's room and laid Jack down on his bed. Bunny took a blanket and draped it over the sleeping guardian. Bunny took the egg he had painted and set on Jack's small desk next to his bed. The egg had three pictures painted on it, the first was of Jack ice skating and Bunny falling, the second was Jack and Bunny burping and North looking surprised, and the last but certainly not least a picture of Jack and Bunny painting Easter eggs and smiling. Bunny smiled looking at Jack as figures of him and Bunny running around having fun, formed above his head made from Sandy's dream sand.
Maybe…just maybe, they'll start getting along a little better
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