Together Forever
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Author's Note: Hey everyone! (to all my past readers, so sorry about not updating the other fics; This summer has just been bleh) I've recently discovered the Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons and I'm now addicted. And so now I present to you the first chapter of Together Forvever! Enjoy!
Chapter 1: Graduation
"Guys, come on!" Rapunzel said, pulling on Hiccup and Merida's hands behind her. She pulled the two into the main courtyard as Jack follows behind.
"Rapunzel," Hiccup said, trying to pull away "My dad is going to be here tomorrow morning to take me home and I still have to finish packing."
She blew a raspberry at him in response. Merida and Jack just laughed while Hiccup sighed. Rapunzel pulled them towards the large tree in the corner of the courtyard, and then pulled them down to sit next to her.
"This is it guys," she said smiling widely, "We are going to graduate from Republic City's Royal Academy in 3 hours." She squealed and clapped her hands, making the rest of them smile.
"After this," Merida said, "We can finally do what we want."
"I'm getting my own place here," Jack said, "I'm spending the summer with my folks and then back here to party it out for a year."
"I'm taking over the family business," Hiccup said, leaning back so that he was laying on his back, "I'll probably stay there for the rest of my existence."
"I'm off to my parents," Merida muttered, resting her head on Hiccup's stomach, "I don't even know what they're going to make me do."
"We're all going to different places," Rapunzel said sadly, leaning against the tree, "We might never see each other again..."
They all sat in silence for a few minutes before Merida started giggling.
"What is it?" Jack asked, but Merida couldn't stop laughing. It didn't take long for Rapunzel to join in and soon enough the two girls had tears coming out of their eyes.
"What are they laughing about?" Jack asked Hiccup, but the brunette just shrugged.
"I-I can't breathe," they choked out at the same time which only made them laugh harder. The boys only got more confused.
"What is even happening," Hiccup muttered, sitting up and making Merida roll off. He moved over to where Jack was sitting and rested on his hands and they watched the two girls in fascination.
"Do-do you two remember what happened the first day we met?" Merida finally managed to choke out. Rapunzel only laughed harder, clutching her stomach as she wheezed out breathes.
"It was in art class?" Rapunzel clarified when the boys stared blankly. Immediately they too started laughing.
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Shit shit shit, I thought when I walked into the classroom. Nearly everyone knew at least one other person and they were all already sitting with that person.
This is not going to be fun...
"Everyone take a seat," the teacher said, and to the few like myself who were still lingering around, he just pointed us to different seats. He pointed me to one with three big guys and I grimace when they all turn to stare at me. I slowly walk over to the seat but then I'm suddenly thrown to the ground by another large guy who only smirks at me before taking that seat.
I scoff and then stand, straightening my clothes before looking around for another seat. I see an open one next to a girl with long blonde hair. When she sees me looking she smiles. I take that as permission to take the seat next to her.
"That was so uncalled for," she said when I sat in the seat next to her. She stares at the table of four guys for a few seconds before she smiles mischievously. She turns to the red headed girl across from her and nods. The red head turns to the boy next to her and whispers something to him, making him laugh.
I see him stare at a bucket of purple paint and then a few lines of it raising out of the bucket. I watch as the lines each travel to one of the big guys at the table. Because they were all facing the teacher none of them noticed the weird designs happening on the others' faces.
"Oh dear," I mutter as I try to hold in my laughter. Once he was done, I saw the blonde haired girl wave her hands and I saw the paint harden ever so slightly. I was still shocked that the teacher hadn't noticed anything yet.
The red haired girl waved her hands too and the entire room heated up. But it must have been much hotter by the four guys because they almost immediately started sweating. One of them wiped his forehead, smearing the paint.
Now we were all giggling.
"What's your name by the way?" the blonde asked.
"I'm Hiccup."
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"The idiots were convinced it was somehow my fault," Hiccup laughed.
"You're an earth bender," Rapunzel said, "Why would they think that?"
"Which is why they're idiot," Jack answered, laughing. The white haired man shrugged out of his school blazer and loosened his tie. ("We won't have these anymore," he muttered to which Hiccup laughed at.)
"We were, what, 9 when we all met?" Merida said, "And now we're all 18."
"I'm 19," Jack said, winking.
"And I'm only 17," Rapunzel added, laying down next to Merida on her stomach.
"Well, you two were born right by the cut off dates, so shut up." The two laugh before silence engulfs the group of friends.
After a long pause, Jack breaks it. "We should all do something this summer."
"Why?"
"Because, guys, this is it," Jack explained, "This is the year we graduate. Now it's not that we'll see each other again after three months. This is it."
"So what do you think we should do?" Merida asked, rolling over so she too was on her stomach.
"We could travel," he said after thinking, "We can take my family boat-"
"That'd be a little long, and we probably couldn't go everywhere," Hiccup cut in. He turned to the side and stretched out his legs, leaning his back against Jack's shoulder.
"We could take Tanya!" Rapunzel said, smiling widely as she got excited about the idea.
"Tanya?"
"My air bison, remember?" Rapunzel frowned slightly and hit Merida on the shoulder. "I can't believe you don't know."
Jack and Hiccup both moved closer to the girls who were both smiling widely.
"This could work," Jack said happily.
"We could travel the world!" Merida said, sitting up normally.
"This is going to be brilliant," Hiccup said.
"Wait, what time is it?" Rapunzel asked, jumping up to her feet. Jack checked his watch, and then jumped up when he realized there was only an hour left till graduation.
"It's already been two hours?" Hiccup asked, also jumping. He grabbed Jack's discarded jacket and tossed it to him.
"Shit," Merida muttered and Jack helped her up. "Shit shit shit." She helped Rapunzel dust off some of the grass that had been left behind on her skirt. While Merida did that, Rapunzel fixed the red head's hair.
"Time to run." The two boys took off in the direction of their dorms while the girls booked it in the other direction, to their own dorms.
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"Merida, keep still!" Rapunzel said, as she tried to pull a brush through her friend's wild hair.
"Can't you just leave it the way it is?" Merida responded, trying to squirm out of Rapunzel's death grip.
"No! Fire Nation hairstyles always have at least a bit of the hair up!"
"Well, don't Air bender girls usually have their hair shaved back and in a braid," Merida snapped back, pulling back once more.
"My father wasn't from the Air Nomads," Rapunzel said, forcing Merida down back in the seat. The blonde haired girl decided it'd be best just to leave as much of Merida's wild hair down as possible, so she just took two long locks from the sides of her face and just pulled them back and pinned them there. "I take his hair."
Merida just scoffed. "We've got 20 minutes before we have to be at the ceremony."
"So what? I'm already dressed, my makeup is done; I just need to do my hair."
"Do that one lose side braid and put in that flower clip; It'll show off your hippie ways." Rapunzel stuck out her tongue but did as Merida said anyway.
"Could you just check one last time, please, if we left anything?" Merida gave her a look.
"We didn't-"
"Just check." Merida sighed but did as she was told anyway. The walls in their shared room for the past 9 years were completely bare. The beds on either side of the room had been stripped down to the plain mattresses. The dressers and desks were completely empty. The two wardrobes were empty except for the two mirrors they came with. The closet had nothing in it but the built in shelf.
"Well, it's all empty," Merida assured as Rapunzel turned away from the mirror, her hair complete.
"The engraving is still there right?"
Merida just smiled fondly as her hands traced the rough engraving in the wall near the floor. Rapunzel came over and squatted down next to her, her hand reaching out to it.
JF HH
RS MF
"Remember when we made it?"
"Of course I do!"
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"Jack," I say, standing from my chair, "Get off my bed!" I push the fool until he's off and he falls on the floor.
"Dammit," he mutters as she straightens. "That's not any fair."
"Today's my birthday," I reply snarkily, "Anything I say or do goes." He huffs at me before going and sitting in my chair.
"Happy 16th," Hiccup says, laying on the other bed, next to Merida. Jack takes out his pocket knife and flips it in and out.
"Isn't that against the rules?" Hiccup said, eyeing the small blade.
"Eh, who cares?" Jack says, "Unless I hurt someone, I don't see the point in worrying."
"Here," Hiccup says to me, and then tosses me a wrapped box, "Happy birthday."
"Draw me like one of your French girls, Jack," Merida whispered in a fake sultry voice, doing a ridiculous pose on the bed. Hiccup and I just laugh while Jack makes a face.
"You know what we should do?" Jack said, standing up. "The youngest of us is now technically old enough to get married; We should celebrate." I jump out of bed, and basically flatten myself against.
"You want to get married, Jack?" I say in a fake super-happy, super-bimbo-like, voice. "Oh yes, Jack! I say yes! We can elope and Hiccup and Merida could be our witness; Oh what a happy day!"
"What the hell is with you two today?"
"You're getting married?" Merida said, jumping out of bed and running over to me. She and Hiccup both started getting into it while Jack kind of stood there, very confused.
"He just proposed!"
"But Jack!" Hiccup said, hugging him from behind, "It was supposed to be me and you together forever."
"I'm open to that stuff," I say, moving so that my chest was right against Jack's.
"For the love of Yue," Jack muttered, trying to squirm away.
"Ohh," Merida said, coming over and joining us, "Room for one more."
"Of course," I say, leaning in towards her.
"Oh dear, they're going to do it," Hiccup said. He and Jack both freeze to watch Merida and myself. Then we stop and turn to face them.
"Don't think so, boys," Merida says, flicking them on their foreheads ("Ow!"). I plant a light kiss on each of their cheeks and laugh.
"Anyway," Jack said, recovering quicker than Hiccup. "We should actually do something."
"Like?" I say, jumping into the bed next to Merida.
He pursed him lips as he tried to come up with something.
"Oh!" Hiccup said, "I know! Give me your knife!" When Jack hesitates, Hiccup takes it from him with a frown.
"I won't damage your precious knife," he mutters before he moves between the spot in the middle of the beds.
"What are you doing?"
"Hold on." He drops down to his knees and then goes to a spot pretty close to the floor. I drop down next to him and watch as he carves all our initials into the wall.
"That's vandalism," I say, frowning.
"Who cares?" Jack said, crouching behind us. "That's fantastic, Hic."
"Anyone who lives here after us will see it," Merida said, leaning over the bed.
"We'll be immortalized," Jack replies, staring at the engraving in happiness.
"Our friendship will," I say with a smile.
"Always, Rapunzel."
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"We're all going to get married, remember?" Rapunzel says, smiling at Merida.
"Our friendship is going to be here forever," she whispered. "No matter where we are in 5, 10, or 20 years."
"Always," Rapunzel says. We stand like that in silence, going over memories in our heads.
"Oh for the love of Agni!" Merida says, shaking her head and wiping her face. "We are not going to cry tonight!"
"Of course not!" Rapunzel says, blinking back her own tears.
"We are only going to watch Hiccup cry," Merida said, steeling her own voice.
"Right!" And then the blonde starts giggling.
"What is it?"
"Hiccup hiccups." Merida is silent as she processes what her best friend just said.
"Did this actually take us 9 years to figure out?" Five minutes of silence happen before the girls dissolve into giggles.
"O-Okay," Rapunzel finally says, "We've got 2 minutes to get down to the ceremony." The two girls glance at each other before racing out the door.
Their entire race down had them in giggles. They ran down the stone hallways which were open to the courtyards and cut through classrooms. When they finally arrived, they didn't even have a chance to say hello to the boys before each grabbed one of the girls' arms.
"You two are insane," Hiccup says, pulling Rapunzel into the seat next to him.
"There are 30 seconds before the ceremony starts," Jack continued as he pushed Merida into the seat beside him.
"Don't push me!" He made a face at her in response.
"Shut up, the both of you," Hiccup whispers, "It's starting."
Merida elbowed Jack, who then did it back until Rapunzel switched seats with her so that the redhead was sitting next to Hiccup.
"He started it."
"Shut up, Merida." Jack laughed and Rapunzel hit his side.
"Don't even say it, Jack."
Less than 10 minutes into the ceremony, it began raining.
"You've got to be kidding me..."
The headmaster didn't say anything for a few seconds as the rain poured down on everyone and then he looked out to the 50 or so graduation students.
"Well?" he said.
Immediately, Jack and the other water benders stood and created a giant water dome that was over the entire ceremony. Hiccup and the rest of the earth benders stood after them, all moving in a synchronized way as they raised up giant slabs of rock to create a makeshift room. While Merida and the other fire benders worked on making enough light for the room, Rapunzel and the air benders worked on drying off the rest of the people.
The headmaster made a few jokes about the situation before continuing through with the ceremony.
"This is boring," Rapunzel whispered to Jack. He looked down at her in amusement.
"Well, after we get our certificates," he promised, "We can ditch and plan our world trip."
"About that," Rapunzel whispered, "How are we all going to meet up because we need Tanya."
"We'll figure it out," he assured.
"Shut it, you two!"
After the ceremony and all the pictures, the four friends went back to the boys dorm to help Hiccup finish packing.
Jack and Merida sat on Hiccup's bed while Rapunzel helped him fold the clothes to put in the suitcase.
"How come you have your own room?" Jack asked. Hiccup shrugged in response.
"I had requested one," he explained, folding up a shirt, "But I didn't actually think they'd come through with it."
"How come? You don't like rooming with me?" Hiccup scoffed.
"No," he says, "You always play jokes on me; it's no fun."
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Hiccup looked like a little kid whenever he slept, I noticed. He was curled up in a fetal position with his arms outstretched.
This is going to be fun...
He would kill me when he woke up though. After a moment of consideration I decided it was worth it.
I take the small bowl of warm water and carefully lift his right hand.
He was going to murder me.
I put his hand in the bowl, wait a few seconds and when he stirs slightly, I assume it worked and jump back into my own bed.
"What the hell...?" I hear him ask drowsily. I have to bit the inside of my cheek to keep myself from laughing.
A minute passes and then I hear him gasp in surprise and shock.
"Dammit Jack!"
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Jack stuck his tongue out at him while the two girls laughed.
"Anyway," Jack continued, "How are we all going to meet up for this trip?"
"My dad's picking me up tomorrow," Hiccup said.
"My parents will be too," Rapunzel said.
"Ours are coming next week," Jack said, gesturing to himself and Merida.
They all stay silent, the only sounds being the clothes being folded and put away.
"This one's full, where's another?" Rapunzel asked quietly once she was done.
"There isn't another one," Hiccup muttered.
"What?" Merida asked.
"I only brought one..."
"You fit all these clothes into this?" Merida gestured to the medium sized suitcase.
"Astrid helped me pack..."
"Ohh, Astrid~!"
"Shut up!"
"Oh!" Rapunzel suddenly said, smiling at Hiccup's blush, "I know what we could do!"
"You have another suitcase?"
"No, you twit, she's talking about the trip; The suitcase isn't as important!"
"Hey!"
"Which is?" Jack asked, cutting off Merida and Hiccup.
"Okay, so Hiccup can leave with his dad in the morning-" ("Thanks...") "Hold on!- And then you and Merida can come with me and my parents! Then once we spend a few days with my family, we can take Tanya and go pick up Hiccup, spend a few days there with his family, and then visit your or Merida's parents and then the other's parents and then go off on our trip!"
"And how long is this trip supposed to last?" Hiccup asked.
"The entire summer," Jack assured. "We can go everywhere!"
"For three months we can be free!"
"We know how much you like to be free, Merida."
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"You're going to die!" Rapunzel yelled at me as I soared through the air.
"Maybe someday, Rapunzel!" I yell back, shouting happily, "But today is not that day!" I whoop as I suddenly extinguish the flames from my hands and feet, making me drop through the air. I hear Rapunzel scream and then the sound of her flying after me.
"You are going to kill yourself!" she screams but I ignore her. I move out of the way so she couldn't catch me and start the flames from my hands and feet again, flying even higher than I was before.
"Don't do that!" Rapunzel yelled, but this time she let me fly as high as I want.
"Rapunzel," I call out, flying lower so that she could hear me. She crosses her arms and I could see the worry in her face.
"My mother is visiting tomorrow," I say slowly, and a look of understanding crosses her face briefly but then it's replaced by worry again.
"You know she won't let me do anything! 'Act like a lady,' 'Do this, do that,' 'You aren't allowed to have fun!'"
"Oh come on now, she isnt-"
"Yes, she is!" Rapunzel frowns slightly and then I soar back up again.
"Merida! Come back here!"
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"So is that confirmed with you guys?" Rapunzel asks. Jack and Merida both nod, and Hiccup just waves his hand dismissively.
"Now that that's done and taken care of," Hiccup says, pulling Jack and Merida off of the bed, "You three need to leave!"
"Wha-"
"I need to pack and I can't do that with you guys here!"
Author's note: I do hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Hopefully I can get hte second one up soon enough, but in all honesty, I can't give any promises... I am so sorry about this fact...
Anyway, please leave a review! I'd like to know if people do enjoy this :)
Till next time,
*Star*