Welcome to chapter 17. Sorry, I know I'm a few days late but I promised a friend I would update some of my other stories. Also remember to vote for kit names on my poll if you haven't already.
Returning Nightmares
Estimated Time Until Birth Of Kits: 1 Month 2 Weeks 3 Days
It had been nearly two weeks since Frost announced she was pregnant and Bunny was even more protective of her now than ever before, if that's even possible. He had also already built a nursery for the kits, with the help of a few yetis that he borrowed from North.
"Bunny, you have worked so hard lately. Why don't you take a break for a while? Take a nap or something." Frost said trying to shut her mate up from his ramblings of 'do ya need this or that?'.
"But what if ya need something and…" he begins.
"Then I'll wake you up. In fact if you go lay down I'll come with you. I'm a bit tired anyway." Frost cut Bunny off. He nodded and led her to their nest.
Once they had lain down Bunny put a paw over his mate's swollen belly. Being a Pooka, or as some of the children and teenagers had begun to call them, a giant rabbit, Frost was already showing as she would or should only be pregnant for about two months and was already about a quarter of the way through.
"So how many do ya think there are?" Bunny asked. Frost shrugged and yawned.
"Don't know. Too tired to think." She said. Bunny chuckled.
"Alright then. Can ya at least guess?" he asked.
"Probably about five or six." Frost said. Bunny nodded. "How many do you think there are?" Frost questioned.
"Well between this being your first time and what I saw back home before the whole Pitch thing, about seven or eight." Bunny said. Frost looked at him like he was crazy even though she knew how possible his prediction was.
"Are you kidding me? If it's that many I don't think I'll survive!" Frost put a paw to her forehead and tried sounding as dramatic as possible. Bunny laughed and pulled her closer, nuzzling her neck.
"I'm sure ya'll be just fine. And we'll be just fine raising 'em once their born, if that's what ya meant." Bunny said. Frost smiled and looked at her mate.
"I love you." She said before finally drifting off to sleep. Bunny smiled back at her.
"Love ya to." He said and fell asleep himself.
***Frost's Dream***
She stood there in a field of snow and flowers. The perfect combination of winter and spring.
Three kits with white and gray fur played in front of her and she ran after them laughing.
They were happy and so was she.
Because she knew they were her kits.
But then suddenly they screamed and when she turned to see what had happened…
Everything was destroyed and the kits were dead.
Tears rolled down her face as a black smoke filled the air.
An evil laugh splintered the quiet air around her and sent shivers down her spine.
"Pitch…" she breathed barely above a whisper.
The shadows laughed again.
"What do you want?"
Another scream.
"Why did you kill them?"
Her aunt's body fell in front of her and a spray of warm blood coated her white fur as it made contact.
"PITCH!" She screamed and fell to her knees.
A hand made of shadows fell of her shoulder, but she didn't look up.
"It hurt's doesn't it." A silky voice whispered in her ear.
A tear fell.
"I'll kill them you know, Bunny to."
It froze half way down.
"And I'll make you watch."
It continued to fall though.
"They'll suffer at my hands because of you."
It shattered on the ground beneath the smoke.
"Then you'll die to."
Her head turned slightly, but her eyes were shut.
"Your hunters can't come into the Warren, the contract forbids it." She reminded.
A laugh.
"It forbids human hunters from entering, not shadows, and certainly not me." The voice whispered.
She bit her lip.
"But you're not even strong enough to maintain a solid body." She reminded.
Blood seeped into her mouth from the bite.
"True, but it won't be long until I can." The shadow said.
The blood tasted salty and bitter.
"I'd say by the time there born I'll have a real body."
Her white fur became redder.
"And my shadows should be strong enough to hunt a month or so afterwards."
There was no pain, why was there no pain?
"And we'll come in great numbers to get you, and him, and them."
No white left.
"And we'll destroy the Warren to."
Only red.
"We'll burn it all away."
And black.
"No more Easter Bunny."
And two blue orbs, filled with fear.
"And no more Jack Frost…"
Frost woke up gasping for air. She sat up and looked over at the sleeping face of her mate.
Without thinking she began shaking him awake. She needed him NOW!
"Bunny! Bunny!" Frost cried in her panic. Bunny woke up and looked at her concerned.
"Frost? What is it?" He asked wiping away her tears.
"I had a nightmare! Pitch was in it and said he was coming back with his shadow hunters. They'll be here about two months after the kits are born! Said he'd kill them and you and make me watch before killing me to." Frost sobbed into Bunny's chest. He rubbed her back soothingly.
"Shhh Shhh. It'll be okay. I'll call the others and tell them. We'll figure this out." He whispered, even though he himself was scared out of his wits.
Frost soon fell back to sleep and Bunny sighed.
"It'll all be okay…"