So…who's up for Jack acting all hyper due to candy overdose?

I am writing this as an ode to Easter, and I thought it would be fun to have Bunny let Jack have his own private Easter egg hunt at the warren, and it turns into something a lot more funny as he starts to fill up on sugar.

No…I do not own ROTG…evil people

"Jack" Toothiana chuckled "You need to keep your eyes closed."

Jack squirmed on the grass, his eyes clenched shut, though one persisted in trying to peek open. "Aw come on." The winter sprite moaned "You guys drag me down here, and then you plop me down on the grass and order me to keep my eyes shut, you really expect me not to be curious about what's going on?"

"Because it's a surprise" Tooth sighed with a fond smile.

"Like that makes keeping my eyes shut any easier!" Jack groaned.

"Well ya can stop your whining" Bunny voice shouted from his right, heavy footsteps walking up to where the winter sprite sat "Go 'head and open your eyes!"

The guardian of fun opened his eyes, quickly rubbing them as the figures of the four guardians came into focus. Excitedly he looked around, his azure orbs bouncing around the entire area of the warren, but his face took on a pout when he saw nothing. Looking back towards his new family, Jack cocked his eyebrow in confusion, feeling a keen sense of disappointment burst inside his chest; but he smothered that emotion by playing it as a joke. One fist placed in front of his mouth, Jack feigned a grin, and fake coughed a small laugh.

"Um…" the winter spirit snickered "I love it?"

North gripped his stomach as he bellowed out one of his typical laughs. "Is ok Jack, the surprise is hidden, and you must find it."

"Hidden?" Jack perked up as soon as the surprise the guardians had set up for him became a game "How do I find it?"

"We are not allowed to tell ya," Bunny said with a wink "but I can give ya a hint."

Hopping forward, the Pooka pulled out an item he had been hiding behind his back since he had told Jack to open his eyes. Placing it in front of the winter spirit, Aster chuckled as the boy gazed in wonder at the object. It was an Easter basket, specially crafted and designed for Jack. The wicker had been weaved and knotted in intricate knots that were made to resemble snowflakes, painted in various hues of blue, navy, white and silver, the basket itself was certainly a work of art. Jack picked it up with gentle hands, his eyes wide, and mouth slowly pulling into a delighted grin. But the smile disappeared when he peeked into the basket and spied a letter. Reaching inside, he sent a quick glance up at the guardians, but after they sent him encouragement to open it he shrugged and opened the envelope.

Frostbite,

You have the next six hours to find a surprise hidden for you somewhere in the warren. Your only hint for how to find it is the basket, and the three snowflakes inside of the envelope. Each one represents one question that you can ask me and I have to answer truthfully, but once you run out of Snowflakes, I'm keeping my trap shut, so you better choose your questions wisely.

Have fun,

Bunny

Jack picked up the envelope and shook out three snowflakes crafted from ice, and glowing with magic. Holding them in his hand, Jack pursed his lips as he thought about his questions. He already had solved the hint about how to find his surprise, no doubt there were eggs hidden around the warren that had been decorated in similar colors and snowflakes like his basket, and he had to find them in order to find some kind of clue leading to where the surprise was. No, his first question was something entirely different. Standing up, the boy slowly approached Bunny, his face smirking as the Pooka's whiskers twitched in barely concealed excitement.

"Ok" Jack said with a grin as he held up one of the snowflakes "My first question."

Bunny swallowed the urge to share a smile with the sprite but instead adopted a serious attitude, and molded his features into that of what he hoped resembled a creature of vast wisdom. "Proceed" he intoned in a gravelly voice, but everyone could hear the laughter bubbling just below the surface.

Jack hesitated, his breath catching in his throat as he considered if he really wanted to ask his question, but then charged ahead "Why are you doing this for me?"

Bunny felt his breath catch in his throat, and his eyes bugged out "W-what?" he squeaked.

"Why are you doing this for me?" Jack repeated slowly before quickly whipping out his finger only to point it at the rabbit "Just so you know, repeating my question doesn't count as two questions, got it?"

Aster nodded quickly, then shook his head "Wait Jackie, why do ya want to waste one of ya snowflakes on a question that has nothing ta do with the game?"

"Because I don't need them," Jack shrugged as he casually leaned on his staff "I mean, I am the spirit of Fun, which means that I have a pretty good talent for solving puzzles and winning games. But what I want to know is why the Easter Bunny, the guy who usually tries to keep me out of his warren and avoids cold like no tomorrow at all costs, has willingly crafted a game with a surprise at the end for me IN the warren."

"Uh…Well…I…um…" Bunny spluttered his eyes whirling to the other guardians pleading for their help.

"Go on Bunny" North prodded, his face growing pink from the suppressed chuckles threatening to spill forth "The rules say, one snowflake, one truth. You cannot go back on promise, da?"

"Uh…" Bunny's green eyes widened before he sighed, shoulders deflating in defeat "fine, ya win. Last Easter, we were all pretty cruel to ya, and I…I wanted to make it up to ya by giving ya your own Easter egg hunt, and a little surprise to apologize and officially welcome ya as part of the family."

Aster stood there, his head hanging low as he bashfully rubbed the back of his neck with one paw. Jack stood in complete shock at the answer as he gazed at the normally gruff bunny finally soften and allow Jack to see that he did genuinely care. "Was this all your idea?" the sprite practically whispered in awe.

"Uh…Yeah," Bunny nodded his ears going back in embarrassment at all the attention "Yeah it was."

A huge grin split Jack's face, and before anyone else could say anything else, he lunged forward and wrapped the Pooka in a tight hug. Aster stood stock still, his face blank with shock as his brain raced to process just who was gripping his fur tightly and snuggling their face into his fur. Slowly, the rabbit felt a smile grace his muzzle, and he brought his arms up to hug the boy back. Wet tears seeped through his fur, and Aster had to swallow down the ball of emotion getting lodged in his own throat at the sheer amount of gratitude flowing from the boy without him donning a mask or putting on his usual hellion act.

Finally Jack pulled back, swiping his eyes quickly so that the others wouldn't see his momentary meltdown, and then flipped the snowflake in the air like a coin towards the Pooka before turning to walk away.

"Oi Frostbite!"

Jack turned around to face the Pooka, only to see a smirk full of mischief spread across the furry face. Raising one hand, the bunny held up two fingers, and his smirk widened to a grin "That'll be two snowflakes, mate."

"What?!" Jack exclaimed "What do you mean TWO snowflakes?!"

"Two questions, two snowflakes…" Aster sniffed.

Jack immediately face palmed as he remembered his second question "But…" the boy spluttered "That was asked in an emotional moment, it doesn't count!"

"Yes it does." The rabbit coughed.

Jack opened his mouth to argue, but found he couldn't; the rules were the rules, besides, if he only had six hours to find his surprise, then he needed to get a move on. So with a glare loaded with tolerant amusement, the boy all but threw the second snowflake at the bunny before grabbing his basket and flying off in the opposite direction. Bunny's laugh echoed behind him as the boy took off across the warren, his keen eyes searching for anything that was blue or had snowflake designs. Finally he felt a jolt as he saw his first egg. Flying down, the boy picked it up to find it was an egg crafted by ice, and painted in paint normally used on stained glass windows. To say that the effect was stunning would be an understatement. Flipping it around in his hands, the boy noticed that the egg had a hinge on one side, turning it around, the sprite grinned when he saw the clasp and opened the egg eagerly. Inside laid chocolate coins, and a small piece of paper with letters written in sparkling gold lettering.

"The"

"The?" Jack wondered before shrugging his shoulders and popping the chocolate coins into his mouth.

The winter sprite closed his eyes in mini rapture as the flavor of the chocolate burst across his tongue and sent tingles up his spine. Opening his eyes, he licked his lips and then set off to find his next egg, a grin spread wide on his face.

Egg after egg, the boy zipped around in a way reminiscent of the Tooth Fairy, his basket becoming loaded with eggs. They all had a piece of paper inside accompanied by chocolate coins. Some of the papers had one word on them; others had squares of paper with pictures on them that resembled a piece of a jigsaw puzzle. Jack sat on a stone golem, his blue eyes staring in concentration at the last snowflake in his hand, and he pursed his lips in thought. Should he spend it? It would be a good idea to know how many eggs he had left so that he wouldn't waste time looking for eggs that didn't exist, but at the same time, he wasn't sure if that was a good enough question to spend his last snowflake on.

Suddenly the sunlight glinted off something in the bushes, and Jack cocked his head as he squinted his eyes to get a better look. A grin quickly blossomed as he noticed another egg, and immediately dove down to grab it. Once again opening the clasp, Jack popped the candy into his mouth and glanced at the paper, it was a corner edge piece, the last one, which meant he had collected all the edge pieces and only had the middle to worry about of the map. As he put the egg into his basket, Jack felt something very queer happen in his nervous system. All of a sudden, things began to feel like they had slowed down to a crawl, and Jack felt his brain begin to buzz and spark.

A strange urge to giggle almost overwhelmed him, but Jack clamped his hands over his mouth before the sound came out. That was when he noticed he had somehow started bouncing on his toes, and the urge to laugh was becoming even stronger. Casting his eyes around, the boy searched for something to help him maintain his sanity, but the thing his eyes landed on did not help in the least bit. Suddenly the Easter basket and its contents glimmered even more brightly, the colors dancing as they shone in the sunlight. As Jack watched, entranced by the glitter of the sunlight on ice and paint, the first of many maniacal giggles crawled its way up his throat.

"Egg" he snickered "I. Have. Eggs! In a BASKET! And I'm on a scavenger hunt for a SURPRISE!"

Jack bounced on his toes some more as his eyes closed and his fists came on either side of his head as he pumped the air in apparent victory all the while bouncing up and down "This is so COOL!"

Thus began mayhem…

Jack took off through the trees, alternating between flying and running around giggling his head off. The guardians watched him spiral further and further out of control in his sugar rush, their eyes following his movements as he ran down the side of one hill shouting nonsensical words mixed with shrieks of glee, and then watched as he flew up into the air and smacked into one of the many stone arches around the warren. Bunny winced as the boy fell down and landed with a loud crash in a section of bushes he had carefully pruned not even two days before. Tooth stared at the crash site; one eye twitching as the sprite popped back up seemingly unharmed and once again set off running.

"What" she began slowly as her voice built in volume "did you put in those chocolates Bunny?!"

"Look Sheila" Aster said his paws up in a defensive stance "I made a game that had an element from each of us inside it. North Carved the eggs, I painted them, the letters are written in gold lettering like Sandy's dream sand, and the chocolate coins look like the quarters you leave under pillows. I didn't know that the kid would get a sugar high from a just few of them!"

Sandy gave a silent laugh as he sent across pictures that clearly said "A few? Try a few dozen!"

"'F' is for friends who do stuff together!" a wild voice sang raucously in the background.

"A few DOZEN!?" Tooth shrieked.

"'U' is for You and Me!"

Bunny shrugged his eyes widening with guilt and genuine shock at Jack's current condition "I needed to cut the map into as many pieces as possible to make the egg hunt interesting!"

"'N' is for Anywhere and ANY TIME AT ALL!"

Toothiana's jaw dropped "Yeah, and because of your poor planning skills, Jack is now not only sugar high, but his poor teeth are gonna be ruined!"

"Here with my best buddies!" Jack finished his song with a delighted giggle as he danced around in a circle.

Bunny watched the boy jig in slack jawed shock "I don't think that his teeth are what we should be worried about…I'm more concerned for the kid's brain."

"Indeed…" North nodded almost solemnly his blue eyes twinkling with amusement "I fear Jack is headed for what they call 'Burn out'."

Aster nodded slowly, his mouth growing wide with the grin as he watched the child's antics begin to hit a fever pitch "Yeah, and I hope it happens soon, otherwise the poor kid's heart is liable to burst!"

Sandy was doubled over in a silent laughing fit, his legs kicking as he lost all control over Jack's hyper goofiness, while at the same time snapping various pictures of all the things Jack was doing. After multiple pictures of the spirit jumping, laughing, and dancing around in circles, gold sand coaxed the boy over to them, and soon the winter sprite chased it down, once again rejoining the guardians, his face glowing with the grin currently decorating it. Plopping down on his rear, the kid dumped out his basket and promptly began opening his eggs to fetch the pieces of paper. In a flash he had the pictures separated from the words, and even had the message in the words deciphered.

"X Marks the Spot"

"X marks the spot…" Jack read aloud before fetching all the pictures "OH! It's a map!"

Suddenly Jack disappeared in a blur of motion, his hands flew as they put the pieces of picture together, but as he sat still focusing on piecing the puzzle into its rightful state, another strange thing happened…Jack yawned. His hands began to feel like they weighed ten tons, and his eyelids were at least double that estimation. Over and over, the boy found his mouth stretching wide from the yawns now plaguing him, one was so wide his jaw actually popped.

The guardians watched his progression from wild and full of energy, to practically drooping with fatigue. With a knowing smile, Aster poked North, his paw held up as he counted down.

"Check it out," Bunny whispered with a smirk "…5…"

Jack yawned, one hand rubbing his eyes, and his nose wrinkling as he struggled to focus on the map.

"…4…"

The winter spirit's head drooped, only to snap back up and give a vigorous shake.

"…3…"

Now his eyes were practically crossed as he fought to maintain consciousness.

"…2…"

Jack's back hunched as he slowly fell forward, his eyes drifting closed as he fell face first onto the soft green grass.

"…1…"

A snore drifted up from the now unconscious child, and Tooth held back a giggle as Bunny and North fought off the deep laugh threatening to overwhelm them. Sandy was once again melting into silent giggles over the adorable scene in front of them, and promptly snapped a picture. Tooth smiled, and flew down towards the sleepy child, one hand fondly running through his silver hair. Aster shook his head with an amused chuckle then stooped down and picked Jack up, his features softening when the boy curled up so that he could snuggle his face into Bunny's fur. North stood next to the Pooka, his own face soft with a fatherly smile, one hand ruffling the child's head. Sandy snapped many pictures of the moment, his face alight with glee at the touching scene.

"Well," Aster chuckled "he found all the eggs, and would have finished the puzzle. I think we should just take him to his surprise and let him see it for himself when he wakes up."

One snow globe later, all stood in Jack's bedroom at the Pole watching as Bunny and North tucked the boy in. North straightened the blankets, securing them around his small frame, while Bunny opened the windows, barely suppressing his shudder at the icy chill. Tooth dropped a kiss onto his sleeping head, and Sandy brought a teddy bear over, only to snap another picture of the boy cuddling up to it. The tooth fairy gave a playful glare over the picture, knowing full well that Jack wouldn't appreciate, but then quietly giggled knowing just as well that she would ask for a copy later. Then all four snuck out of the room, leaving the winter child to sleep off his sugar rush.

…

The next day, Jack awoke in his room clutching a teddy bear. Sitting up, the boy rubbed his eyes, looking around in confusion. Wasn't he just in the warren? Suddenly all the memories from his sugar rush came back to him, piling on top of his head like an avalanche. Flopping backwards onto the bed, the teen groaned, two fists pressing into his eyes as if he could scrub away the images of all the idiotic things he remembered himself doing. Oh yeah, yesterday was now one of his finer moments. But then another thought struck him…Did he ever find his surprise?

Shooting up out of bed, the boy looked around until his eyes alighted on a large package wrapped in shiny bright red wrapping paper. Much like a hungry wolf tackles its prey, Jack scrambled off the bed and pounced on the package. Paper flew, and soon Jack was standing in awe of his surprise…

Bunny sat at the table, a newspaper in one paw, a cup of herbal chamomile tea. North sat next to him, hot chocolate steaming on the table as he looked through a toy catalogue from one of the major toy companies. Tooth was also flipping through a magazine, her newest edition of Dentist Weekly, and was ooh-ing and Ah-ing over the various new ways to keep your teeth clean. Sandy was looking through the pictures he took from the day before, occasionally breaking out in silent laughter at some odd shot he had managed to capture from during the sugar rush.

"Hey Bunny," North said vaguely his eyes never leaving the pages of his magazine.

"Yeah?" The Pooka replied.

"Think Jack found his surprise yet?" The large man asked.

Suddenly a loud "NO WAY?!" echoed down the stairs, making the whole table burst into uncontrollable giggles. Bunny turned, and watched through a nearby window the snow spirit take off, a blue snowboard firmly tucked underneath one arm. A fond smile lighting the rabbit's face, he gave a soft chuckle and said;

"Yeah, yeah I think he did."

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