This is the chapter i've been waiting forever to write! I absolutely adore Sophie and i couldnt wait for this part!
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Chapter 12: Preparing for Easter
When they all gathered in the globe room, they found that the lights representing the children all over the world who believed in the Guardians were flickering, most going out completely.
"They're going out faster." Tooth said.
"It's fear." Jack said as he and Casey floated up to the globe. "It's tipped the balance."
There was silence, as no one knew what to say. That is, until Bunnymund spoke.
"Hey, buck up, ya sad sacks." He said, jumping up onto the control panel. "We can still turn this around! Easter is tomorrow and I need your help. I say we pull out all the stops and we get those lights flickering again."
North grinned and soon enough he led the others to the lift which took them down. "Bunny is right. As much as it pains me to admit, this time Easter is more important than Christmas."
Bunnymund looked around in shock. "Did everyone hear that?"
"Everyone to the sleigh!" North exclaimed.
Bunnymund got in front of North. "Oh, no, North. My Warren, my rules. Buckle up." He tapped the ground. North looked down and said something in Russian before a giant tunnel opened underneath them. Bunnymund and Narain jumped in after them, soon getting ahead of the others. Jack and Casey acted like they were surfing the tunnel while the rest of the group tumbled and spun as they descended.
Soon enough, the tunnel's end appeared and everyone except Jack and Casey tumbled up.
North chuckled. "Buckle up." He said from where he was lying on his back, holding up a single finger and sat up. "Is very funny."
Bunnymund chuckled. "Welcome to the Warren." He said, his giant sentient eggs standing behind him, their revolving faces spun to smiling expressions. Then his face got serious, his ears and nose twitched and he was looking in the direction of one of his caverns. "Something's up." he said. And that's when they heard it: A high pitched screaming.
Thinking it was somehow Pitch's nightmares again, the Guardians and spirits stood at the ready, each one prepared to fight. Even the two yetis who had came along were ready to fight. As the screaming grew nearer, they all shouted and rushed forward, only to stop when they realized the screams weren't due to a nightmare. It was a little girl, about two-years-old with messy blonde hair that fell in front of her right eye.
"Sophie?" Jack questioned, just as confused as everyone else to how the youngest Bennett child had gotten here. Sophie was Jamie's little sister and was quite a playful little girl. They all relaxed, quickly smiling and hiding whatever they had previously had out in order to fight.
Sophie looked at them for a moment then, seeing one of the elves who had also tagged along, she began chasing the elf, yelling, "ELF! ELF! ELF!"
"What is she doing here?!" Bunnymund exclaimed, exasperatedly, looking at North.
North suddenly began patting his coat. "Snow globe…" he muttered.
"Somebody do something!" Bunnymund exclaimed.
Jack and Casey raised their hands. "Hey, don't look at us. We're invisible, remember?"
Sophie, meanwhile, had managed to catch the elf and was now dragging it across the ground by its bell hat. Tooth smiled. "Don't worry, Bunny, I bet she's a fairy fan." She said as she posed in front of Sophie.
Sophie gaped at her, her little feet turned inward, one on top of the other. "Pretty!" she said.
Tooth smiled wider.. "Ooh! You know what I have something for you." She took out some teeth. "Look at all the pretty teeth with little blood and gum on them." Sophie's eyes widened and she screamed, running away, chasing little eggletts.
Jack and Casey sighed. "Blood and gum?" Casey repeated to Tooth as she and Jack flew through the air, sitting on one of Bunnymund's monuments as Sophie chased the eggletts into the gap under it. "When was the last time you guys actually hung out with kids?"
North watched Sophie play. "We are very busy protecting children. We don't have time… For children?"
"I have to agree with Jack and Casey on this one, guys." Windsong said as she started playing her pipes which got Sophie giggling.
Jack made a snowflake which spun around his hand before he set it off into the air. "If one little kid can ruin Easter, then we're in worse shape than I thought."
Sophie chased the snowflake which landed on Bunnymund's nose. His eyes sparkled blue and a chuckle slipped out.
The next moment, all of them were set to help Bunnymund get Easter ready. Narain and Bunnymund stayed close to Sophie as she watched eggletts pop out of flowers. "We can do this." Narain said. "We can make Easter happen even with Pitch out there!"
"He can't stop us!" Windsong exclaimed.
Bunnymund looked at Sophie. "Wanna go paint some eggs, yeah?"
Sophie jumped with excitement. "Okay!"
Thousands, possibly millions, of eggletts charged down the hill.
"Rimsky Korsokov." North said, placing his hands on his hips as he looked on with amazement. "That's a lot of eggs."
Jack, while he and Casey balanced on the tops of their staffs, asked, "Uh, how much time do we have?"
Turned out, it wasn't as hard as Bunnymund made it out to be to paint the eggs. They would run through these flowers which, when shaken, puffed out bursts of color which covered each egg. Then the egg went to the purple dye river where they were dyed and then they proceeded to get their respective designs. The elf Sophie had been chasing before had ended up falling in the dye then got a design all over him. North picked up one of the eggs. "Okay, that's a little strange."
"No mate," Bunnymund said and North saw that the Pooka had eggletts crawling all over him. "That's adorable."
Pretty soon, all of the eggs were heading for the tunnels that would take them to the surface. Bunnymund and Narain kneeled down watching with Sophie. Jack and Casey walked up.
"Not bad." Casey said.
Bunnymund smiled. "Not bad yourself."
"Look, I'm sorry about the, you know, the kangaroo thing." Jack said as Sophie curled up in Bunnymund's arms.
He chuckled. "It's the accent isn't it?" He looked down at Sophie as Tooth and North came over. "Aw, poor little ankle-biter. All tuckered out."
"I love her." Tooth said. Then she reached over and took Sophie from Bunnymund's arms. "I think it's time we took her home."
Jack and Casey stood. "How about we take her home?" Casey suggested.
"Jack, Casey, no. Pitch is-"Tooth started but Jack interrupted.
"No match for this." He said holding out his staff. "Come on. We'll be quick as bunnies."
Tooth soon complied and allowed Jack and Casey to take the little girl home. They flew out of the Warren and were soon on their way to the Bennett home.
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And i still think you guys should check out the RotG fic by MistyLilyValley. It's amazing!
