Holy Gods of old Greece, I needed to update this!
Leopard the Warrior of Africa
Roux cut her tree sword into the trunk of a nearby tree, making the group of four's way through the dense forest they were going through. Fallo and Jack were traveling through the tree branches, jack leaving an icy path, while Bunnymund wasn't far behind.
It took Jack sometime to notice it, but the Guardian of Fun did, in fact notice that there was a rather… odd atmosphere around them. He noticed that it also didn't have to do with the Dragon of Summer changing the season's course and unbalancing, but a rather…. crowd relating. Part of it was just the fact he's been exposed to how Bunnymund and Roux react to each other, so it was similar to tense, and whenever he himself makes it snow on Easter. Another part of it was the part he noticed strangely.
Was it just him, or was Roux glancing over towards Bunnymund a lot?
Jack tried to hide a chuckle in his throat. Ok, granted, he would expect her to do so if it had been anger, or even jealousy, but for some reason, the looks seem to be more of…. 'Longing? Was that the right word?' Jack thought, sliding down to another tree branch. 'Maybe admiration? No, no that wasn't right. Hmmm, maybe…. Uh…. No, not that. Respect perhaps, could be that. Nah, far off looking defiantly. Longing sounds best actually.' Jack found himself smiling as he caught the Lokcore doing it again. Maybe there was a need to break the ice. (I swear, no pun intended!)
Roux glanced over at the Pooka again, taking note of his ear twitching at each sound in the forest. Every now and then, she would smile a bit at some memories, only to look straight ahead and frowning. It was… odd to say the least. She didn't even know half the time why she smiled at those memories.
Jack coughed loudly to get his comrades attention. "So, I've been wondering for some time, if there was anything between you and Roux that you didn't tell me Bunny," he said, earning a confused look from the Easter bunny.
"What do you mean 'between' me and Little Red?" Bunnymund said, a strange growling in his tone. Roux looked at Jack too, though in her case, she was struggling not to smile. "Trust me mate, there's no such thing as that."
"Kangamundroo, me lad, you don't remember that time we got trapped in a cave because of a rockslide?"
Jack and Fallo looked up at this, both wanting to hear more. "When was this?" Fallo asked, hopping to another branch.
"Before you became a Guardian, mate. If I remember correctly, Kangy,…"
"Call me that again, mate, and I will rip you!" Bunnymund narrowed his eyes, though it seemed Roux ignored this and continued.
"It had been the first time we had ever worked together. Heck, it had been just two years after I had become 'e Guardian. We had gotten into another argument while we took a refuge in a cave that we had found in them mountains. You leapt out at me in anger, which later caused the landslide," Roux said, struggling even more to not smile.
"What do ya mean I caused it? You were the one you was yelling at the top of your lungs!" Bunnymund said, seeming to struggle against the urge to strangle the female.
"Wait! Wait! Wait!" Jack yelled out, a smirk on his face. "Can't we just go into a flashback and then break into song out of nowhere while in the middle of it?" Fallo, Roux, and Bunnymund all looked at him at that last part.
"What?" Fallo asked, tilting his head confused.
"Hey, it's what all those classic kids' movies do."
"Let's just go with the flashback part, ok lad?"
Flashback-About 2,000 years ago- (Holy Undead Rouges of World of Warcraft, that's a long time!)
"I'm telling warning you right now, mate, you're really crossing the line!" Bunnymund yelled, already standing up and boomerang at hand.
"Well, I wasn't the one who decided to get lost in the middle of winter, in the Himalayas of all the places, and then say everything will be alright!" A far younger Roux yelled back. It seemed that Roux's blue markings came in later in her Guardianship.
"I wasn't the one who decided to waste the only snow globe North gave us to get your little minion back to the others!
"I wasn't the one who didn't make sure he could use his little tunnel trick to get us somewhere we knew!"
"I haven't entirely figured out how that worked yet!" Bunnymund folded his arms across his chest, looking away from Roux.
"Wait! Wait! Hold on a second!" Jack Frost said, interrupting the flashback. "Explain how that works? Or worked? Bunny, you know how to do that now, why not back then?"
Bunnymund looked strangely amused at this. "The thing that some people don't bloody know about Halloween and Easter, mate, is that both are about 2,000 years old. Roux and I are as old as our holidays. Not that I can say that Little Red's day is a holiday."
Roux growled and bared her teeth.
"But back then, both of us were still sort of new to our powers. Barely two to three years into our Guardianships back then."
"Ok, so back to the flashback?" Fallo asked, sitting against a tree trunk.
"Of course."
Back to Flashback-
"Ok, come on now, Kangamundroo, you wouldn't actually hit a girl, would ya lad?" Roux said, smirking up at the giant bunny. She placed her paws at her hips, daring him to do so. "But then, it is all your fault. Ya got us lost here, while Pitch is out there causing mayhem in this stupid Dark Age, mate!"
Bunnymund narrowed his spring eyes and stepped closer to her. "Says the fox pup that hadn't even finish her Guardianship coming before running out of the room for no reason. I'm surprise you're still even considered a Guardian." Roux frowned, her ears lying flat against her head.
"Look, kangy, I don't care at this point if you're even going to even do a little tutu dance with all that little cutesy, poor excuse of a tail, and your stupid, over-grown, kangaroo ears to humiliate or even…"
"THAT'S IT!"
Next thing either of them knew, Bunnymund had pinned Roux against the cave wall with a heavy thud while Roux tried to bite at his neck. Yelping in pain when she bite his arm, the Pooka returned by kicking her in the stomach. Roux returned this by pinning him against the ground, her teeth bared and ready to wound him until both of them noticed the sudden, and noisy, disappearance of light from the cave entrance. Bunnymund tried to see what had happen, only to hear Roux gasped. The Lokcore looked in shock at the pile of rocks that blocked the only exit and entrance. Bunnymund manage to push her off to see the damage.
"Oh great, look what ya done now, mate!" He yelled, looking at her while pointing to the rockslide.
"What do ya mean what I did, this is your fault, lad!"
The fighting began all over again. This time leaving more wounds on each of the fighting parties.
4 to 5 hours later…..
Roux bandaged her broken wrist while Bunnymund groaned in pain with his face on the ground, one of the fists pounding it with each long painful whimper/groan while the other protected a part of him that he had regretted having being kicked in. The rest of his body seemed to be covered in bites and claw marks while Roux's was mostly covered in bruised and cuts.
"Why out of all the damage… Why?!" he yelled, lifting his head with an expression of pain.
"Roux, 1, Easter Kangaroo, 0." Roux looked over at him with a smirk, leaning against the cave wall. There was some silence between the two, besides of course the small whimpers of pain that Bunnymund was making after having been kicked unsuspectedly at the last moment of their fight in the place of where the sun didn't shine to bright.
"So, Kangy, any idea on how to get out of this bloody place?" Roux asked, looking around the cave they were probably going to be stuck in for almost a week.
"Little bit busy on grieving in pain of the fact of you kicking me in the batteries, Fox Pup."
Roux huffed and looked over at him. "Oh come on, lad, it hadn't been that bad," she said, getting up and walking over towards him. Bunnymund glared over at her before slamming his down onto the ground along with his fist. Roux rolled her blue eyes and crawled over him. Bunnymund's eyes widen at this and lifted his head enough to look at her.
"What in the bloody name of the Outback are you doing!?"
"Well, you're being a drama bunny," she started, sweeping her tail under his chin.
"YOU'RE NOT A BLOODY BUCK THAT JUST GOT KICKED IN HIS PRIVATES!"
Roux continued as if she hadn't heard him, saying, "And I meself don't have a plan on how to get out of here. And in case you haven't noticed, mate, we're in the freaking Himalayas. Neither of us are built for this type of cold. Might as well as try to stay warm since we got no fire wood to start a fire. Now lay down on your stomach, lad, if you're tippy-toes to stay warm."
Bunnymund rolled his eyes, but never less laid down on his stomach, though curled up in a slight pain still. It seemed like hours before Roux felt the Easter Rabbit shift a bit under her. "What now, mate?" she asked, looking rather annoyed since she was about to go to sleep in boredom. Bunnymund pawed at her moving tail, a rather strange curious look on his face.
"Nice smooth fur, Foxy."
Roux blinked for a moment before moving so that she was just beside him…. and rubbing against his shoulders. "Same to you, Fluffy."
Bunnymund later got a smack on the back of his head.
"And don't call me Foxy, mate."
Jack seemed to be laughing while Fallo looked like he had just been given the talk. Bunnymund looked sideways again, this time to avoid Roux's eyes. "Aww, did the Easter Kangaroo like how soft and smooth the Vixen of Halloween's fur was?" Jack asked, leaning against a tree while still laughing.
"Soft, no. It was defiantly not soft, mate. Rather rough, actually. But smooth, yes."
Roux gave a slight smile before walking on. "Good thing back then North, Sandy, and Toothy found out by the end of the week. Any more time with Kangy alone, and I'd gone crazy."
"Will you stop calling me that!?" Bunnymund yelled, glaring at her with a growl.
"Kangy, Kangy, Kangy, Kangy, Kangy Kangy, Kangaroo, Ka- wow!"
Bunnymund leapt at Roux, causing them to roll over in circles until a tree root sticking out caused them to finally stop with Bunnymund on top of Roux, and muzzles meeting each other. Fallo and Jack started to laugh, while Bunnymund pushed himself off of the Roux as she licked her lips.
Bunnymund looked over at the winter and autumn sprites and growled before throwing a boomerang at them. Jack pushed Fallo down to avoid being hit, causing it to get stuck in the tree. Bunnymund hopped up to get it before looking over at them. "You two mates ever mention this to the other Guardians, I'll make sure you two bloody regret it," he said.
"Oh come on, Roux wouldn't let you hurt us. Right Roux?" Fallo asked, looking over at the Lokcore. "Roux?" Jack and Bunny looked at her two, to see her standing up and still licking her lips.
"Roux are you ok?" Jack said, confused at this behavior before looking at Bunny. "What's with her?" Bunnymund didn't answer, his eyes widen in terror and fear while his feet seemed ready to move in an instance. "Bunny?" Fallo tugged Jack's hoodie and pointed to Roux. She was on all four paws, her ears perked, and her eyes filled with what looked like hunger as she prowled closer to them.
"Pooka….such…. long… time," she growled.
"Crikey!" Bunnymund yelled out, hopping into the trees as Roux ran past Jack and Fallo after the Pooka. The two younger Guardians went after her, trying to get her to stop. Fallo grabbed her tail while Jack tried to send a path of ice her way to make her slip, though it seemed Roux's claws dug into it. Out of nowhere, a ball of golden dust hit Roux and bounced back onto Bunny (Jack dodged and landed on his back) before landing in Sandy's hands as the Pooka and Lokcore fell straight to sleep. Behind Sandy, Pitch came out of a portal caused probably by one of North's snow globes.
"Well, looks like we just had perfect timing to end Roux's little hunt," The Boogeyman said, before looking at Jack and Fallo. "Maybe you two would like to why you stood in one place on your patrol for so long?"
"We… um….we asked what happen last time Roux and Kangaroo worked together," Jack answered, getting up off his back.
"Yes, against me in the Dark Ages," Pitch said, his tone rather far off, making Jack think that he was thinking back to the Dark Ages. "Let me guess, that time they got stuck in a cave because of a rockslide?" Jack and Fallo both nodded. Sandy pointed to the image of Bunnymund and Roux together over his head while seeming to chuckle. Pitch chuckled as well, seeing this as a rather good joke. "Yes, I do find it amusing myself that their worst fears back then were both of them actually liking each other."
"Um….can you tell us what you two are-?" Fallo began to ask as Pitch and Sandy both picked up Bunnymund by the arms.
"MiM and North sent us. Everyone else is in the control room and pinpointing where Summor is. We were also tracking you four and saw you all staying in one place. Thought we should bring you all back. Besides, Halloween's coming up in America, isn't it?"
"Oh. Well… ok. We'll get Roux," Fallo said, lifting Roux up by her shoulders. "Talk about heavy." Jack joined in, Pitch whispering the North Pole into the snow globe and throwing it with one arm before the group dragged the Easter Bunny and the Fox of Halloween through the portal.
Me: Gods, I'm tired.
Jack: wait, so is that fact actually true?
Me: What fact?
Jack: Easter and Halloween both being about 2,000 years old?
Me: Yeah, I looked it up. It's about around that age. I figured to have everyone that had a holiday be the same age as the holiday that they represented. So, yes. That's true. And everyone who reads this review please… man I'm tired.