Cupid Makes You Stupid
ROTG FanFiction
Chapter 4
A/N- I am really sorry that I haven't updated in such a long time. I've recently started school again, and because I have a job on the weekends, I tend to find less time to write. But here's the next chapter.
Because I don't feel like describing the symbols over Sand Man's head, I'm just gonna use both bold and italics (Ex; "XxXxXx") so he can talk like a normal person. Let's just say he's speaking telepathically.
I don't own ROTG. I hope you enjoy.
BTW, Jack is seventeen in this story. His age tends to vary depending on how you look at it, but for reasons... He's seventeen here.
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"This is very, very bad!" Toothiana fluttered around the Globe Room nervously, somewhat neglecting to give her mini-fairies their instructions as to where to collect teeth. Sandy was shaking his head, somewhat irritated, somewhat worried. North stood by the fireplace, pacing back and forth, trying to come up with a plan.
What about Jack and Bunny, you may wonder?
They were off to the side, sharing a kiss, as they practically clung to each other for dear life. Some of the Yetis tried to break them up, but the lovebirds seemed to be a lot stronger than usual, to the point where the Yetis had to give up. Apparently Cupid's arrows also increased a person's strength, because those two weren't letting go for heck.
"I can not believe Cupid would do something like thing!" Tooth shouted.
"I can," North said, pinching the brink of his nose. "This iz Cupid, after all." Sandy nodded in agreement
"But I've never heard of her stooping so low!" Tooth exclaimed. "Not only did she play victim, but she lied that Pitch was back just to get Jack and Bunny here, and she used makeup to create the bruises to prove it!"
"And Cupid vill pay for her shenanigans," North stated firmly. "But zat vill have to vait until later. Right now, ve must focus on breaking ze spell."
"How?" Tooth asked.
"I do not know," North admitted.
"Perhaps we should check your library, North," Sandy said, floating closer. "There's bound to be a book with a cure in there."
"Yes, but it would take far too long, Sandy, to find it," Tooth pointed out.
"Let me rephrase that," Sandy said. "I'm not taking about a book, I'm talking about that book."
"Vhat are you- oh," Both North and Tooth said at the same time.
Out of options, the three of them headed off to the library. North told the Yetis to keep an eye on the lovebirds so that they didn't go anywhere.
North's library was on the far end of the workshop, filled to the ceiling with books and parchment and scrolls. Some relatively new, some as old as the Man in Moom himself. Some were even given to North from MiM himself.
One of which was a book regarding all spirits created by MiM, simply titled, 'The Children of Magic.' Due to its magical properties, there are only three copies of said book in existence. MiM had one, Pitch had the second one, and the third was in North's library.
The book itself was magic. It magically adds a new section every time a new magical creature or person was created, detailing the creature's name, magic, purpose, eta. Unfortunately, this, coupled with the fact that the book's pages also contained old and dangerous spells, North rarely looked at it to prevent others from figuring out what it was and taking it.
It was hidden in the back of North's library, hidden amongst normal books for safety. Both the spine as well as the cover of the book itself bared no title, no author, no words period. But the book was covered with a book cover of a different book, one that North had misplaced within the library ages ago.
North, Tooth, and Sandy went over to the back of the library. North reached up his arm and pulled the book out.
"It'z been a long time since I had to take this book out," North muttered, more to himself than the others.
North placed the book on a table and opened the cover, passing the title page (That did bare the book's title), and moving on to the chapter index.
"Okay, then!" Tooth said, much more happily, lightly clapping her hands together. "Let's see..."
She ran her finger along the list of names and chapters. "The Leprechaun... The Groundhog... No, no, no... Pitch, ugh... Jack..."
North shifted at that. Even years after young Jack was born into Jack Frost, he had never even bothered to do much as look at Jack's chapter. He never saw any reason to. Heck, North wasn't even aware of the boy's existence until years after he was created when he first saw him on the Naughty List. North never saw fit to read it, Jack wasn't his concern at first. Neither friend or foe. North never saw any reason to bother with a spirit that never bothered him (He didn't know that Jack had been trying to bust into the workshop for 250 consecutive years. The Yetis never informed him because they were afraid North would think they couldn't handle a seventeen-year-old boy).
North looked over at Sandy. One look at the silent man's face said that he was thinking the same thing. Even Tooth had a guilty look on her face.
Yes... They would have to read that later.
"Here we are!" Tooth exclaimed, snapping North out of his thoughts.
Both North and Sandy looked over Tooth's shoulder. "I found the cure!" She said happily.
North smiled at her, and Sandy nodded as she began to read aloud;
'...Due to the potential effects Cupid's love potion-tipped arrows can have on other spirits, as well as the potential that a couple is not happy together, for whatever reason, and due to Cupid's irrational and somewhat pushy behavior,
I have created a counter-potion in order to reverse the effects.'
North could almost hear MiM's voice narrating as the words passed his old eyes.
'•Five Lamprocapnos, more commonly known as 'Bleeding Heart flowers.' These flowers tend to contain a toxin that causes irritation to the skin, at least to humans. However, the the other ingredients cancel out the toxins.
•The petals of a single, dead, red rose.
•Some DNA from the person/s afflicted. Can be either hair, saliva, or blood.
•Year old chocolate.
•A torn up Valentine's Day Card (I generally suggest handmade ones, as they tend to be more personal, so to speak, but a store-bought one will work regardless as well).
•One bag of Sweet Heart Candies.
•One or more suction cup arrows, and a bow. Nothing sharp like Cupid's traditional arrows.
Heat in a pot at a degree of 350'F. Allow to cool down for thirty minutes, before sticking the arrow/s in and shooting the afflicted.
The idea behind these ingredients are to serve as negative effects. Dead roses, old chocolate, and torn-up cards serve as ways to 'break the heart' essentially. The arrows are suction cups in order to 'suck out' the false love.'
"This doesn't seem too hard," Tooth said cheerfully once she finished reading.
"Indeed," North agreed, relaxing a little. "This whole thing shouldn't take too long. Bunny and Jack vill be back to normal in to time!"
North read the ingredients over again. "Okay, Tooth, you vill get zee flowers. Sandy, you get zee Valentine and candy. And I have more than enough old chocolate and toy arrows to vork vith, so I vill get those."
Yes, North had year old chocolate somewhere in the workshop. His Yetis produced almost as much chocolate as they did toys for the children's stockings, but they often had tons of it left over every year, and it was... difficult, to say the least, to get rid of it.
"Okay," Sandy agreed. "But who is going to keep an eye on Bunny and Jack?"
"Ai, Yetis can handle it," North said, not too worried about it.
"Uh, no they can't," Sandy pointed out. "They couldn't pull the two away from each other earlier."
"Sandy, there iz nothing to vorry about," North stated. "Vhy so concerned?"
"This is why."
Sandy gently moved Tooth out from in front of the book, and flipping to Bunny's section.
"Look."
'...Young Aster E. Bunnymund, more commonly as Bunny, is the last of his kind, coming from a race of giant rabbits known as Pooka. His kind were destroyed...'
Sandy ran his finger along the words, then tapped at another paragraph;
'...The Pooka species, like other animals, have a period of time where they go into heat. The time as to when and how long for tends to vary depending on the Pooka. I rarely hear of Bunny going into heat, but that may be because Pooka are the type of species who choose a mate for life. Their magical properties bound them together. However, because there are no more like Aster..."
"Sandy, I am not seeing problem," North stated impatiently.
Sandy ran his finger along one of the sentences again.
'...Pooka are the type of species who choose a mate for life. Their magical properties bound them together...'
"Vhat does that- oh..." North's words trailed off as realization hit him in the face.
Tooth covered her mouth in surprise and Sandy nodded.
"Yes," he stated. "If the Yetis can't keep the two of them apart, there's no telling what Bunny will do to Jack in their current state. If Bunny... mates with Jack, their magic could intertwine and Jack could become Bunny's mate for life. Moon only knows how that will effect them once we break them out of the spell."
"Yes..." North said slowly. "But they do nothing more than kiss and cuddle. Surely they vouldn't go zat far. And even if they vanted, they can't leave zee Globe Room vith Yetis guarding-"
Suddenly, the door slammed open, and Phil, North's head of security, comes charging in. All three Guardians jumped in surprise.
"Phil!" North scolded. "Do not do zat! You nearly gave us heart attack!"
Phil wasted no time and began ranting in Yetish.
"Huh?! Bunny and Jack are gone?!"