Wow…ok moving to Europe is NO JOKE!

I'm officially in IRELAND!

OK! So the next chapter of Kidnapped has arrived!

Enjoy!

Orion lounged on his throne, his face still showing signs of his battle with Pitch, and a scowl darkening his beautiful features. Since Bunny's rescue from his clutches the constellation had sunk into a pouting session of epic proportions.

It started with demolishing the majority of his bedroom, throwing anything that wasn't nailed down against the wall, before grabbing one of his many chairs and hitting it repeatedly against one of the bedposts. He then indulged in screaming stomping, and smashing mirrors for a good half hour. It wasn't until his sleeping chamber was nothing more than a mess of broken furnishings and ripped draperies that the former hunter calmed down.

"Insufferable brat," Orion sneered from where he sat "and that traitor, when I get my hands on them they are going to regret ever coming into my home and taking my property."

"Oooh, you're so scary when you're throwing a temper tantrum like a little girl!"

The constellation sat up, his eyes wide and his lips curled in a snarl of fury "You," he hissed "you really have to stick your nose into my business?! This doesn't concern you!"

Scorpio sauntered through the white alabaster doors leading into the throne room, a smirk decorating his features while his arms were folded loosely over his chest "If you're doing it, then it's my business," the scorpion smiled "besides, beating you up is better than television, it's my favorite form of entertainment."

"I'm stronger than you," Orion snapped "I've defeated monsters and beasts that would make you quake in fear!"

"So says the guy who recently had his butt handed to him by a fluffy bunny," Scorpio shrugged with a yawn "honestly the one blemish on my rep is the fact that I have to deal with you, besides, if you really were stronger than we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place."

"Be silent you filth," Orion screeched "I don't have to suffer through your pathetic attempts at humor!"

Scorpio snickered at the man's obvious aggravation "If my humor counts as pathetic, then yours must be horrendous."

The hunter constellation sneered at the man "The fact that you even know a word that is more than two syllables long is a crime against spirit kind,

"And the fact that you're still acting like a spoiled brat after ten thousand years of me kicking your butt is equally shocking," The scorpion shook his head with a mock sigh "honestly Orion, how many times has this made? You'd think you'd have learned some common sense by now."

"Oh please," Orion grumbled crossing his arms with a petulant huff "I was merely getting my deserved revenge, and I just happened to have others who wished to join in due to their hatred of the rabbit."

"Revenge for the loss of a fight that you started in the first place," Scorpio spat rolling his eyes sarcastically "I mean seriously, you picked the fight, got your tail kicked by an injured half dead rabbit no less, and then you ran back to your palace crying like a little girl. How was any of that Aster's fault?!"

"He HUMILIATED me!" Orion shrieked stomping his foot for extra measure.

"You humiliated YOURSELF!" Scorpio bellowed back before clasping his head with both hands and giving a pained snarl "You know what, sometimes I feel like the kindergarten teacher, and I'm constantly yelling at you for doing the SAME THINGS!"

"Are you calling me childish?!"

"Well looked who just got a clue," the scorpion laughed sardonically "welcome to the game Sherlock, are you finally playing with a full deck now, or am I holding on to a false hope that one day I might be able to have an intelligent conversation with you?!"

"You-you-!" Orion spluttered before shrieking at the top of his lungs "YOU CRETIN!"

"Oooh, points for word usage, but I'm just not feeling it," Scorpio smirked condescendingly "maybe you should try putting more emotion behind your words, and make it more believable."

"UGH! I hate you!"

Scorpio burst into uproarious laughter, his hands clutching his sides as he guffawed "Very eloquent," he snorted "remind me to write that particular one down in my notebook so I can use it later."

Orion's eyebrow began to twitch spastically until it seemed liable to fly right off his forehead, the man let loose a mix of a snarl and a screech as he threw a stomping, clawing, hand flailing temper tantrum.

The scorpion constellation fell on his knees, and doubled over, one fist hitting the marble floor "I-I just…I can't…!" Scorpio bellowed in laughter as his frame trembled with mirth "you're just too much, you're such a sissy, why the Guardians are worried about you is beyond my comprehension!"

"Shut up, just SHUT UP!" Orion screamed "Stop making fun of me, you never take anything seriously, that's what I hate about you!"

Scorpio sighed, standing back up to his feet while swiping the heel of his palm across one eye that had watered up from his laughing fit "And you take everything far too seriously for my liking," the constellation murmured with a wry smile "in fact that is the whole reason why I'm here, because like the prissy little princess that you are, you took your senseless revenge beyond all acceptable boundaries, and made it an act of war against the Guardians; and that is not something I can just wink at and look over like it never happened."

"And what would you know about it?!" Orion growled.

"More than you think," the scorpion sneered "especially since it was your propensity of taking things too far that landed me in the wonderful job as your personal babysitter."

"You mean my jailer," Orion sniffed.

"Nah," Scorpio smirked "the term jailer would insinuate that I am protecting something dangerous, and thereby put my life on the line protecting mankind…I think Babysitter suits our relationship much better, don't you think?"

"You low born trash," the hunter snarled quietly as he drew out his signature bow and arrows "allow me to show you just how dangerous I can be,"

"Go ahead and try, I think we both know how it'll end," Scorpio snickered as he lowered his body closer to the ground and his tail began to twitch menacingly.

As one the two surged forward, twin battle cries echoing among the rafters as they sprinted each towards the other, nothing less than bloodshed on their minds.

Orion straightened his back, as his muscular arms drew back his powerful bow in one fluid motion, and as he notched an arrow Scorpio spun in a graceful twirl swinging his tail like a barbed whip at the face of his opponent. The hunter ducked the tail, bending over backwards before straightening back up and shooting an arrow, which Scorpio sliced neatly in half with his two Sai blades.

Lunging towards Orion, Scorpio punched the former hunter, twice on the face, and then slammed his knee into the hunter's abdomen. Orion grunted in pain, but returned the hits blow for blow, until he managed to trap Scorpio's head within the confines of his bow and began to pull up in a vicious attempt to choke his arch nemesis.

The scorpion smirked before hooking his foot around Orion's leg, then jerked it forward sending the hunter tumbling backwards, and as his body went slack and his grip left the bow, Scorpio performed a back flip over Orion's falling form, landing neatly on top of him. The hunter writhed and kicked, but the scorpion kept him pinned on the floor, disentangling the bow from around his neck, and snapping it as if it were nothing more than a twig.

"How dare you!" Orion shrieked shoving the man off of him in a powerful move and flipped onto his feet.

"Well come on princess," Scorpio laughed jauntily twirling his sai in his hands as he glared daggers at his opponent "we aren't even halfway done with the retribution I promised I'd give you for the Guardians."

"Oh believe me, I'm far from finished."

Stomping over to a nearby wall, Orion pulled two swords off of it, and turned back to his opponent "I prefer being more hands on with my prey anyways."

"Ah but that's the question isn't it," The scorpion smirked "out of the two of us, really, who is the hunter, and the hunted?"

"Seems like now is the perfect opportunity to find out," Orion sneered back, and once again the fight continued.

Scorpio ducked and weaved; his body flowed in a smooth barrage of endless attacks making it look more like some kind of chaotic whirling dervish than a fight. The two danced around each other, sparks flying as steel met steel, and screams of both pain and fighting spirit bounced off the stone walls.

With a running leap, Orion jumped high in the air, his swords prepared to plunge deep into the hide of a certain scorpion constellation, but Scorpio was ready and he ducked out of the way slamming the side of his tail across the hunter's jaw while simultaneously swinging his leg in one devastating arc into Orion's ribs, smirking as he felt the satisfying crunch give under his foot, thereby sending the constellation flying into a nearby stone pillar.

Cracks flew up the marble, and all of a sudden the stone gave way, and dust flew as it was demolished and fell onto the polished floor in thundering waves. Orion sat amongst the rubble, one hand gripping his side as a harsh grimace of pain twisted his features.

"You," he spat a glob of blood onto the floor, the crimson standing out against the white alabaster powder of the pillar "you seem to be taking this particular fight a tad more seriously than usual, but I want to know, why?"

Scorpio straightened, patting dust off his clothes, and rubbing creases out of his pants as he took in the carnage that was the result of them fighting "Because normally I have to beat you senseless over your basic forms of idiocy, but this time is different."

Orion gave a derisive snort "And how is it different?"

"Simply because you crossed a very definite line," The scorpion snarled allowing stark fury to overtake him when he remembered the image of Bunny sitting on his bed feeble and broken, his once lively green eyes now dull and lifeless from the despair infecting his heart.

"Oh please," Orion rolled his eyes "how is hunting a crime? I seem to remember you enjoying a good hunt every now and again."

"There is hunting for food," Scorpio growled lowly "and then there is sheer cruelty. You became the person, the trash, that torture and mutilates for fun. I normally overlook your spoiled nature, but this time, I must stand up and show you that you are wrong, and your actions require retribution in the swiftest and most vicious form."

"Then come," Orion snarled as he clambered to his feet, and gripped his swords once again "because I feel no guilt for what I've done, and I never will."

"Your inability to accept that you have flaws, and change your character, is what keeps you so immature," Scorpio sneered "this is why you haven't grown or matured in the past ten thousand years."

"If it's not broke, then don't fix it," Orion shrugged "isn't that what the humans say?"

"Oh trust me," the scorpion scoffed "you're more than broke, you've downright snapped, but I guess you can't see that considering you're incapable of thinking like a rational adult."

Fire lit in Orion's cobalt gaze and he sprinted forward, the two once again met on the field of battle, but this time their blades were crossed as they stared at each other face to face, and toe to toe. Each were pushing the other, every so often one would gain the upper hand shoving the other closer to the ground, but in the end the other would inevitably rally, and being their own assault.

Finally Scorpio rammed his head forward, slamming it into Orion's nose, and smiling when blood began to flow from the now crushed facial feature. Orion yelped as starts burst behind his eyes, and dizziness afflicted his senses.

Taking advantage of his opponent's vertigo, Scorpio turned around, placing his back against Orion's chest, and flipped him over his shoulder, his eyes dancing wildly in happiness at the satisfying thud the hunter's body made on the floor. Turning to look towards the door, the scorpion gave a sharp yell.

"Sandy, NOW!"

With uncanny speed, the sandman surged forward, and in an intimidating wave of golden sand he bombarded the fallen hunter and fastened an item around his neck with a satisfying click.

Both leapt back and smiled happily at their handiwork, Orion however was scratching and tearing at the object now trapped around his neck and he gave a scream of indignant displeasure "What is THIS THING?!"

"It is a lesser known mythological item lost to the ages," Scorpio smiled happily "It was made at the same time as a special brass ring, and both were stamped with the Seal of Solomon. They are capable of sealing and imprisoning any and all who wear them. If you were upset then about inheriting this constellation, then you'll be ticked after you hear this, because you're never leaving this palace. From now on, you will never leave this place, and any attempts to do so will end in…painful consequences."

"What?!" Orion shrieked "NO! This isn't FAIR!"

Scorpio and Sandy exchanged looks of unimpressed apathy and merely shrugged "I think it's perfectly fair," Scorpio snorted "especially considering that you collared Bunny with a shock collar, this is actually pretty merciful compared to that."

Sandy chuckled silently before nodding and writing in midair "You will never cause trouble, for anyone, ever again."

"You filth!" Orion screamed scratching at the collar as the duo walked away leaving him in his temper tantrum "You low born, common, FILTH!"

…

"Aw come on Pitch, you looked great!"

The specter rolled his eyes at the young spirit "I just can't believe I even allowed you to convince me to put them on."

Jack sent his friend a cheeky grin before popping the bunny ears back onto his own head and gave theatrical hops into the infirmary where he was happy to see Aster sitting up in bed drinking tea and eating dinner.

"Bunny!" Jack sang as he hopped through the door and leapt onto the bed "How ya feelin'?"

"I'm feelin' better snowflake," Bunny smiled gently "I don't know what it is ya did out there fer me mate, but I appreciate it."

"You'd better rabbit," Pitch grumped as he slunk in behind the snow child "Jack here forced me at gunpoint to wear a pair of bunny ears and frolic like some kind of sugar indulgent child."

"Uh first of all, it wasn't gunpoint, it was staff point-"

"…same difference…" Pitch grumbled in a dark whisper.

Jack rolled his eyes before continuing "And furthermore, you agreed that if it was for Bunny's welfare, you would be willing to do anything to help."

"I did not sound that cheesy," Pitch sniffed indignantly.

"Ok, you didn't say it exactly like that," The frost spirit huffed "but that was the general idea behind your words."

"I'm not quite sure how you came to that conclusion,"

Jack growled "You said that there were times when personal dignity could be sacrificed."

"You were preparing to launch into a dissertation of why the Boogeyman exists to a group of children all so they could see me," Pitch smirked evilly "regardless of the fact that it was to inspire faith in the Easter Bunny, how do you know I was referring to the rabbit's welfare?"

Jack narrowed his eyes at Pitch then whirled on Bunny "See what I've had to deal with while you've been gone?"

Bunny began to laugh at the duo before sending a wink to his little brother "Don't worry ankle biter, I'll be back on my feet and chasin' ya around the pole in no time."

"Well you'd better," Jack huffed "because I'm this close to freezing this man's underwear for being such a tightwad."

"Be careful Jack," Pitch growled menacingly "because you might find yourself on dangerous waters if you continue."

"Oh I'm so scared…"

"I mean it, Jack,"

"Well I was actually being sarcastic,"

"Ugh…never mind"

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I'm seriously tapping out for ideas, so guys give me any and all ideas you have so I can keep writing.

Now that Kidnapped is over I can start on my lovey dovey arc, but I seriously need some one shot ideas.

Northern Ireland is BEAUTIFUL, and I'm enjoying my time so far. I'm in Northern Ireland, so here's a shout out to all ya'll who live in Northern Ireland. WAHOO! I smell SHEEP!

BYE!