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For those who are wondering why Roux's race is based on foxes instead of cats, well… am I'm really the only who thinks that black cats for Halloween is a bit… what's the word… really trite?
Leopard the Warrior of Africa
North face palmed his face at Bunnymund's and Roux's explanations once Tooth had manage to find the right shampoo and water to get the dye in Roux's fur out. Jack still sat in the corner, still having his knee against his chest and not saying anything. North didn't exactly blame him. Fallo, who had became a Guardian before Jack (the autumn sprite just died at a younger age), had also gotten scared during the Easter Bunny's and the Autumn Bringer's fights with each other.
In speaking of which, the other boy was sitting next to Jack. While the older Guardians were discussing, Fallo was bouncy his red rubber ball as he sat in a chair next to Jack.
"Don't worry, you'll get used to it. They're rarely ever near each other to have their little 'fights' with each other," he said, smiling shyly at Jack. The winter bringer looked at him for a moment and sat in his chair normally.
"How long do they last?"
"About two to three hours if no one interrupts them."
"What happens after that?"
"I don't know. Bunnymund usually loses though."
"To a girl?"
"Don't judge Roux too soon. Trust me; I've been here longer than you, Jack. I know that she isn't just a jokester like ya. She can be just as stubborn as Easter Bunny there," Fallo said, looking at the other guardians. "Personally, I think that if it wasn't that she's a predator, and is a trickster, and he's her kind's prey and the Guardian of Hope, I would say they would make a good match." Jack laughed at Fallo's statement.
"I doubt that even Cupid or the Valentine twins have any sense to shoot an arrow at them!" he said, laughing at the thought of it. The two boys looked up at the sound of Bunnymund stomping out of the door and Roux opening a portal to the Furan. Fallo got up and followed the Lokcore into the portal. Jack walked up to the other guardians and looked at each of them. "So, what's the decision?" he asked, already knowing by Tooth's and Sandman's expression that there was now a new rule between Roux and Bunnymund.
"Zhey are now not allowed to be in zhe same room vith each other, not to come anyvhere near each other unless need-be, and need to stay five feet from each other," North said, his eyes still closed. Jack nodded before Tooth spoke up.
"And you're not allowed to join in her pranks."
"OH COME ON!"
…
10 months later…
Jack Frost looked was coating Southern Japan in snow as Fallo made the leaves in front of him fall. The two stopped at a river, turning to look at their handy work before noticing something. The leaves were back, and green as they can be, and the snow was gone, puddle damping the ground.
Fallo tried to make the leaves fall again, only to have new, fully grown green leaves put in their place seconds later. Jack tried to make it snow, only to have it rain heavily on the two boys. The winter sprite looked the autumn one, blue eyes looking at dark red. Both stared back at the summer scene in confusion.
"Jack, why isn't it..?"
"I don't know. Didn't Roux have the leave change…?"
"Yeah, she did. Shouldn't it be then...?"
"It should. Do you think that someone playing a tri-?"
"No, not since the blizzard you made in '68. Everyone knows better than that. Should we tell the others?"
"Probably."
"Are we going to do that first?"
"Most likely not. Should we see who's doing it?"
"Yeah, we should," Fallo finally said, only to have a giant shadow cast over them. Both the sprites looked up, to see something that would even scare Napoleon into living back with his parents.
…
"You saw what!?" North and Tooth yelled at the same times, a deepened expression on their faces that was mixed with confusion, fear, worry, and shock.
"I'm telling you for the tenth time! Fallo and I saw a dragon that had to be ten miles long, had green arms, head, and neck, blue and yellow hair on it's back, golden horns that looked like deer antlers, crocodile teeth, bright orange sales, an emerald tail, and pale yellow green eagle feet that kept turn the work Fallo and I did into a summer scenery, took my staff and Fallo's bouncy ball that makes the leaves fall, broke them, threw the remains on the ground, and then said that summer would rule the world!" Jack said, breathless and panting before sitting down in a chair. Fallo was in a chair next to him, crying over the remains of the red bouncy ball that had once helped him make the leaves fall. Sandy's jaw was always dropped to the floor, as it had for the tenth time, and sat down in a chair also. North had already sent the signal to the other guardians, and everyone had been waiting for them to come now.
It must have been 10 minutes at the least, but it seemed like an hour before the first of them came. It was Cupid, who resembled a young man with long blond hair, bright green eyes, and had a long red bow and a whole bunch of arrows on his back in a heart covered pouch, a red shirt, and dark purple jeans. Behind him were his children, Valen, a red-headed boy with a purple heart on his right cheek and who had bright blue eyes, and wore a purple shirt and blue jeans, and Valen's twin sister Tine, a girl with long pink hair, dark green eyes, and a long soft petal pink robe-like dress. Each of the Valentine twins had similar bows and arrows like their father (there was rumor that a mortal woman was the twins' mother).
Next was Roux and Scribblebrickle. Scribblebrickle bowed to everyone while Roux ran over to Jack and Fallo and held them close to her. Fallo cried into the Lokcore's fur as Jack just hugged back, happy to see Roux again, but to shocked by what he and Fallo saw to smile.
The next guardians to come were Pitch and the Man in the Moon, or MiM. Everyone looked at the Nightmare King; even though they knew that he was "living" with MiM so that he wouldn't cause anymore trouble.
And at but not least, E. Aster Bunnymund himself came. Just the look on the Pooka's face at the sight of Roux said it all. "Did she do something?" was the first thing that he asked. Everyone found it good that Roux chosen to ignore Bunnymund's question, has one of her ears did perk up as she kept the younger two Guardians close to her. North held his hand up and walked around, getting a good look at everyone.
"No, Roux did not do anyzhing vrong, Bunny. But, we now know for sure who is causing zhe trouble zhis times," he said, giving a hard look around. Tooth flew and tapped Roux on the shoulder, signaling to the Lokcore that she needed to listen.
Tine, who, along with her twin brother, seemed to be at the age of a teenager like Jack, looked around. "Where Summor? Isn't he supposes to come here too?" she asked, having a thick Greek Athens Accent. North sighed and turned to Jack and Fallo.
"Summor vas zhe dragon you two saw. And since he is not here, we now know, he is planning to make summer the only season of the world," he said, his eyes narrowed at the globe. "This is a threat to us all. If Summer is the only season…"
"Jack Frost may melt like the snow, Easter Bunny would have melted chocolate eggs to give out on Easter, Fallo would have a forever fever, and Roux would be powerless because no one would be out in a hot summer's night on Halloween, it would take who knows how long for the kids to actually go to sleep, so that's less power for Sandy and Pitch, Tooth would be exhausted due to the heat of the night, you would have trouble with your yetis and reindeer with no snow and have a bad overheating for you guys in the North Pole, and the twins and I may be lucky if there was anyone in the heat of the day to shoot those love arrows into," Cupid said, who, unlike his daughter, didn't have a Greek accent at all. Bunnymund's bright green eyes caught Tooth and Roux holding Jack and Fallo close to both of them.
MiM looked at Cupid and then to Tooth, sandy, Pitch, and North. "North, Tooth, Cupid, Pitch, Sandy, I want to talk to you in one of the back room. Bunny, Roux, keep an eye on the young ones here."
"WHAT!? You can't be serious! Dad!" Valen said, looking at his father. Cupid put his hand up, signaling his son to be quiet. "MiM is our main leader when he's here, son. If he says for Bunny and Roux to keep an eye on you, your sister, and the boys, you listen to him." Valen looked away, his bright blue eyes closed, but clearly not pleased with this. Bunny crossed his arms, and kept well away from Roux, who kept Jack and Fallo in her arms. The twins sat near Bunnymund while Jack and Fallo stayed in Roux's arms.
It was all too clear to see which side they were on.
After much silence, expect for Fallo's small crying, Tine soon spoke up. "So... Why are you and Roux not having a go at each other?"
"New rule between us, mate."
"Ok, what did SHE do this time," Valen said, only to get a glare from Tine.
"She and Frostbite tried to spill my chocolate batch on my fur about what, nine, ten months ago now?" Bunnymund said looking at the Lokcore. Roux looked at him from the corner of her blue eyes. She finally let go of the winter sprite and the autumn sprite before glaring at the Easter Bunny.
"Ten months. And yer' was the one who push me into the dye, mate," she said standing up as she kept eye contact with Bunnymund. Tine gave a small look to Jack and Fallo before Valen spoke up.
"Hey, um... we're going to be in the toy factory part with the yetis, ok? Um, we'll leave you two to your little… um, disagreement center. We'll promise not to wreck anything." All four youngsters walked away slowly to the toy area, Valen adding under his breath, "harshly." Jack smiled a small bit of a smile at the twins.
Bunnymund stood where he was, his fists clenched. "Well, it wouldn't have happened in the first place if you and Frostbite hadn't thought of the prank and went in the first place! And besides that," Bunnymund stepped right in front of Roux, ignoring their new 'five feet stay away rule' and as close enough for his nose to touch hers. "What are you truly and exactly here for, Little Red?" he asked, making Roux growled at the nickname.
"Hold yer tongue, Kangamundroo!" she said, her teeth bared.
"It's Bunnymund. E. Aster Bunnymund. At least I have a full name," he said, the both of them circling each other as if they would pounce in seconds for each other's throats.
"I have a full name, I just chose not to use it," Roux responded, stepping closer, her eyes narrowed deeply. Bunnymund growled a bit, both of them pausing. They could have kept that pose for hours if it wasn't for the fact that the others Guardians had come in.
"OK, WHO LET ROUX AND BUNNYMUND STAY ALONE TOGETHER! THIS WAS THE REASON WE HAD THE KIDS BE KEPT AN EYE ON BY THEM!" MiM yelled, grabbing Roux's and Bunnymund's attention. Jack, Fallo, Valen, and Tine looked in from the toy factory with some of the yetis.
"Oh, we weren't supposed to do that?" Jack said, putting on a sheepish smile. Pitch face palmed his forehead as Tooth giggled a bit.
"Ok, Roux, Bunnymund, you two get back to your boundary level before I decide to shoot you two with love arrows," Cupid said, crossing his arms. Roux and Bunnymund looked at him before backing away from each other quickly. "And we decided that each of us should go into pairs to patrol the areas that Summor doesn't have under summer yet, and call the rest when seeing him."
"I call either Sandy or North, mate!" Bunnymund said, standing up rightly. Sandy shook his head and made a picture above his head that looked like the number two, a pair of humans, and an idea bubble. "What?" Bunnymund asked, not getting the message.
"We already made up zhe pairs," North said. "And you aren't exactly going to like it, but its best we got."
"Pitch's with Sandy, MiM's with north, I'm with Cupid, Fallo and Jack are with each other once we replace Jack's staff and Fallo's ball and the twins are with each other of course, Scribblebrickle will be the one here staying in the control room, so that leaves…," Tooth said, smiling apologetically. Bunnymund and Roux looked at each other before snapping their heads back at everyone else.
"NO!"
"Oh come on now, this could be your guys' chance to let all the anger against each other out, that and um… you two are actually the perfect patrol group," Valen said, earning a smack by Tine. "And besides, Fallo and Jack could be with you while they're stuff's being replaced."
Roux and Bunnymund glared at each other before looking away again. "And if either of you complain, Pitch won't be the only one living on the moon with me," MiM said, crossing his arms. Roux and Bunnymund mumbled "Agreed" before Tooth flew to the globe.
"Ok, so which areas does each pair patrol first?"
Me: *smiles* Ok, I'm really proud of the repeating joke I made.
Bunnymund: What?
Me: The play-on-words joke.
Bunnymund: I don't see it.
Me: How can you not see it!? It's so easy!
Bunnymund: I just don't.
Me: Ok, this is why Roux is the perfect patrol partner for you. She's tons of fun, and you're no fun at all.
Bunnymund: what did you just say?
Me: Please Review everyone!