Disclaimer: This is a Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons in an AU world that just so happens to be SNK (Attack on Titan's) universe. The story will take in similar places to SNK, but it's going in a different path and in different characters point of view. This fanfic was mostly inspired by mimera's RotBTD - SNK AU fanart on Tumblr!
Pairings: Jackunzel, Murricup, Kristanna, additional pairings.
Rated: M
TW: Blood, death, suicide.
Chapter 1. Invasion
Snowing. It's snowing again. Usually, snow is the most exciting thing about this place. The kids always get so excited; running around, making snow angels. It's almost as if they forget what's really out there. But lately, it just seems too quiet. People are getting sick. There's not enough medicine for everyone. Only the higher-class people get medicine right away, then the kids, then woman. Someone like me, my little sister, my friends, we'd never be able to get our hands on medicine on time. Because of that, I feel like I have to protect them; make sure they don't get sick. I'll steal medicine and get my arm cut off if it comes to that. As long as they're all safe.
Jack looked down at a frozen stream of water near his house. It was frozen enough just for him to see his own reflection. Brown hair, brown eyes, just an ordinary kid. Some light flakes of snow slid atop of the ice, resting in place whenever the wind would stop. Enough flakes stopped on Jack's reflection, almost making it look like he had white hair.
While being distracted by the snow, Jack's attention was now focused on rushed little footsteps he heard behind him. Hearing this, he turned his head to see a friend.
"Sophie? What are you doing-" Jack was cut off by the little girl.
Sophie stopped and placed her hands on her knees, taking a moment to catch her breath.
"Jack! It's your sister! She's...She needs your help!" Sophie panted, standing up straight again after speaking.
Jack got up with no hesitation, a worried look on his face. "What happened?!" But before he could get a reply, Sophie was already running back towards his house.
Jack quickly followed behind as he watched Sophie run inside the house, closing the door behind her. Few seconds past until Jack rushed into the house, leaving the door wide open and shouting, "Where's Emma?!"
As Jack was focusing his attention on the four silhouettes he saw standing in front of him, before he could shout again, he was interrupted with a loud "SURPRISE!" from the four other people in the room all at once.
"What..is this?" Jack questioned in slight shock.
Sophie turned on the lights behind him, making everyone's faces clear.
Emma, Jack's dear little sister. She has brown hair and brown eyes just like him. Currently ten years old.
Sophie, Emma's best friend. They met a few years back. She has messy blonde hair and green eyes. Light freckles filled her face. Ten years old.
Edward Aster, a guardian who acts as an older brother to Sophie and her sister. He's the oldest out of all the kids. His skin is slightly tan, and his hair is black; it looks like a dark blue in some light. His hair is always messy. He never bothers to do anything with it since Sophie always loves playing with his hair. Seventeen years old.
and Rapunzel. She became good friends with Jack and his sister through Sophie and Emma's friendship. She has long golden blonde hair that ends somewhat past her waist, green eyes, and light freckles that tickle around her nose. Seventeen years old.
The four kids surrounded Jack. Emma was standing in front of him, holding out a cupcake.
"Happy Birthday, brother!" Emma said with a bright smile. "Punz and I made this for you! Well, she decorated it."
Jack stared at Emma for a bit, calming down now that he could see she was just fine, then reaching out to grab the cupcake.
"I completely forgot it was my Birthday. Uh, thanks..guys. I guess this means I'm fourteen now."
"Jack! Where are your shoes?! You really shouldn't go out in this weather without any shoes on, you know." Shouted Rapunzel from the kitchen.
"Okay, okay! I just forgot them, alright? No need to shout." Jack replied.
"Sorry, Punz.. It's my fault he's never wearing shoes-" Emma was interrupted.
"Emma, you don't need to bring that up."
"Yes I do, Jack! The only reason you're never wearing your shoes is because you gave them to me! Because..my shoes were getting too small for me and hurtin' my feet." Emma quickly added in.
"I get it.. I'm sorry for shouting. Hey, Emma, how about we make you a new pair of shoes tomorrow, or see if someone in town grew out of theirs?"
"Okay, that sounds fun!"
After a little more bickering, laughing, and conversating, a few hours passed. It was late, but everyone had yet to eat dinner.
"Well, while we're all here I might as well make dinner." said Rapunzel.
"Can I help?" Questioned Emma with a determined tone in her voice.
"Of course! What would I do without my special helper?"
After looking around the kitchen for a bit, Rapunzel noticed the lack of food.
"I guess I have to get a few things from mine and Sophie's place. I won't take long. Sophie, stay with Jack and Edward, okay?"
"You mean Bunny?" Questioned Sophie.
"Yeah, Bunny." Rapunzel giggled, then left the house to go get some things for dinner.
"Tch', why not give me a cool nickname? Like 'Lion' or 'Tiger', anything but Bunny. That's embarrassing." Edward remarked.
"Hehe, it's because you remind me of a bunny. We've been over this! Your name is Bunny and it's stayin' that way!"
"Okay, okay.."
While the kids and Edward were playing around and being loud, Jack looked out the window. A great view of the giant wall blocking them from anything and everything interesting. As the fog started covering up the window, Jack thought he noticed some kind of flash of light. Because of this, he got up and went outside.
"Where's he going?" Edward questioned to the girls.
"No one ever knows. He does this at least three times a week. We all need our space every once in a while, 'suppose." Emma replied.
Jack looked over at the wall where he saw the light, but there was nothing there.
"Typical. We're not even lucky enough to get a lightning storm here." Jack said to himself. "I guess I'll go back in. It's taking Rapunzel a long time to get whatever it is she needed. I don't know why warm bread wasn't enough to satisfy her. Maybe I should go see what's up?"
Jack then went back inside the house.
"Edward. Go check on Rapunzel. She's taking forever."
"Eh?! Why me?! It's your idea!"
"I'll stay here and watch the girls. Emma's my sister, after all. And this is my house. I don't see why I'd go."
"Tch', whatever. Fine, fine. I'll go get Rapunzel. I'll be back soon, she's probably just down the block anyway."
Edward then put on his jacket and boots and quickly went out the door waving to Sophie as he did, then went on his way to get Rapunzel.
"So.. uh. What were you three playing?" said Jack, trying to start conversation once he noticed the place seemed a lot more quiet than before.
"Heheh, we were just braiding Bunny's hair! I would ask if we could do the same with your hair but..it's a bit too short." Sophie replied mockingly.
"Well that's a shame." Said Jack, sarcastically. "Well..we can, uh, play in the snow?"
"Jack...We were in the snow all morning. I want to do something inside for the night. Besides, it's a lot colder than when the sun was out." Said Emma.
"Yeah, alright. Why don't you draw while we wait for the others to get back?"
"Okay! Punz showed me a lot of different ways to draw things. I'll make something for you, Jack. So no peaking!"
"I'll be at the table, then."
After about half an hour of doodling, Jack started to get a little worried.
"Hey, maybe we should-"
Emma interrupted. "Look! I'm all done. I don't think it's too bad. Not exactly as good as Punz can do, but I'm learning. Wanna see?"
"That's why I was waiting, isn't it-"
Jack was once again interrupted, but this time not by any person. He heard a lot of rubble crashing down from a short distance beside his house, followed with a slight shaking in the ground, and worst of all, screaming from the people in the walls.
"Jack! What's that noise? It scared us." Emma said, huddled up to Sophie.
Jack then thought back to when he saw the light by the wall, and remembered exactly why there's a wall there in the first place. To keep things out. Terrible, murderous things that the human eye should never have to see; Titans.
Jack quickly picked Emma up and had her rest on his shoulder, holding her close. Then grabbing Sophie's hand and quickly ran out of the house.
"I can't explain exactly what's going on, but we have to get out of here, now!"
Rapunzel was walking down the block, still a bit away from Jack's place.
"Jeez..I can't believe even I didn't have everything I needed. I had to make a trip all the way into town just to get it all.. I hope they didn't give up on waiting and just ate warm bread without me." Rapunzel said to herself.
from behind, Rapunzel heard a woman scream, by the time she was going to turn around to see what was going on, the woman crashed into her, causing Rapunzel to drop all of her belongings.
"H-hey! Please watch-"
"Lady, get out of here! Now! Run!" Shouted the woman, running farther and farther away from Rapunzel.
"Why would I run away?..." Rapunzel questioned, then hearing a loud crash as she quickly turned around.
Frozen, scared, and shocked by what she saw. Slowly, she looked up at the beast in front of her. Terrified.
"A t-titan..."
She didn't know what to do. Fear was taking over her body. This was her first time ever seeing a titan in person. She only ever heard of them from people in the walls, most of which haven't even seen a titan themselves. Seeing one now, they're much more terrifying than her imagination ever pictured.
As the titan reached down to pick her up, she quickly snapped out of it and ran into an ally, still terrified.
"H-how did this happen!?" Rapunzel questioned to herself, still running away form the titan. "Where am I suppose to go?! What do I do!? I need to get to- S-Sophie and the others..Are they?... No! They're fine! But I won't be able to see them if I don't get away. Think, Rapunzel, think..."
While her mind was all over the place she looked around and hid behind a building, trying to stay out of the titans view.
Shaking and scared, she stood straight against the brick building. She could still hear the titan behind her, but didn't know what direction it was going. Panicking, she then noticed something from the side of her eye. By habit, she looked over in that direction.
"A...chameleon? What is it doing.. At a time like this? Why am I wondering about a chameleon?!" Rapunzle tried to slap herself a little so she could try and focus.
She couldn't help but keep looking at that chameleon. It looked like it was trying to get her attention. The curiosity just kept eating at her. That was always a bad trait of hers.
Feeling pressured, she finally gave up and ran over to the lizard. Thinking it would run away as she got closer to it, but rather it stayed there, as if it were waiting for her to reach it.
By the time she got to the chameleon she was frightened by a loud crash behind her. She didn't have to look; she already knew what it was. It was the house she was hiding behind. The titan completely destroyed it with it's hands, like it knew she was there.
"I.. would have been crushed if I stayed there any longer. But..it didn't notice me run over here? Oh, wait, the chameleon-"
While Rapunzel was questioning everything around her, the lizard climbed up her leg and onto her shoulder. She would try to ask it what's going on, but being in such a situation, she rather decided to run and get away from that titan as soon as possible while she was still at an advantage.
"Sophie! Please, run just a little faster!" Jack shouted.
"But..Jack! What about Punz, and Bunny! What about them?!" questioned Sophie, worried.
"Don't worry! I'm sure they're fine! Edward probably found Rapunzel and got her out of this mess.. I'll get you to them, I promise! Just keep running!"
"R-right" Sophie tried as hard as she could to run like she never had before. This was no game of tag. There were no 'safe zones' in this. She knew that.
Running and running Jack never let go of the girls. Having to dodge every mineral flying at him, one finally managed to knock him down. It caused him to lose focus for a little bit as he passed out for a few minutes.
Slowly opening his eyes, Jack woke up.
"O-ow.." Jack tried to sit up but his whole body was sore and his vision a little blurry.
"Get up! Please, get up! We need to go! They're coming! Emma, get up!"
Jack quickly gained consciousness after he heard Sophie yell Emma's name. The two girls were a good 10 feet away from him. He looked at what was going on, and Emma seemed to have lost consciousness. Looking closer, he also noticed Sophie's leg was crushed by bricks.
"Emma! Please!" Sophie shouted, shaking Emma trying to wake her up.
The second Jack managed to get himself up a titan reached out and grabbed both of the girls, one in each hand.
"No! NO! LET THEM GO!" Jack lost it, running up to the titan.
All Jack could hear was the screeching and screaming from Sophie. Sophie tried to reach over to Emma, even though she just got farther and farther away as the titan started bringing Emma up to his mouth.
"EMMAAA!" Sophie screamed at the top of her lungs. Trying to punch the titan, she didn't notice the second titan behind it. This titan reached out and grabbed Sophie from the hand of the first titan.
"No! Let me go! I have to help Emma! Let me go!" Sophie screamed, struggled, tried to hit the titan as many times as she could; but nothing changed what was going to happen.
Before he could do a thing, he watched Sophie get eaten right in front of him. The only thing going on in his mind were the screams that came out of the tiny little girl, the little girl who was smiling hours before all of this.
The titan, that horrible beast was chowing down on one of his friends. Sophie's leg was hanging from its mouth, then falling down and hitting the ground hard a short distance in front of Jack.
Not being able to look away, Jack saw his little sister, Emma, be devoured by the first titan. He couldn't do a thing. He fell to his knees looking up at the titan. He was frozen; couldn't move. That was it. He had nothing else to live for. His only sister was gone in seconds. He wanted nothing else but to die. He wanted to take her place. It wasn't fair.
Jack sat there, giving up on everything. One of the titans reached down about to grab him. Before this could happen a Stationary Guard came spinning in on his 3D maneuver gear, slicing off the titans hand, then landing down next to Jack.
"Kid! What are you doing?! We have to get out of here!" The man started to shake Jack a bit, trying to get his attention. No good. Nothing was going to snap Jack out of shock. The man realized right away that this boy just saw something he'll never forget. But he wasn't going to leave him behind.
"You can hate for this later, but you're coming with me! We're getting out of here!" The man said. He grabbed Jack and threw him over his shoulder and getting out of there as quick as he could.
"By the way, the name's Kristoff."
In another location of town Rapunzel was sitting on the ground hiding her face in her knees as her new chameleon friend was still beside her.
There was crushed buildings all around her. Cold red bodies were scattered on the ground. She refused to look up at the mess that was in front of her. She didn't want to remember what was happening.
Her body was shaking from fear, no matter what she did, it wouldn't stop. She heard Footsteps heading towards her but still refused to lift her head. A part of her thought she was just imagining the whole thing and didn't want to get her hopes up.
"Rapunzel? Hey, Rapunzel, is that you?"
The voice was familiar and without hesitation she looked up at the boy. It was Edward.
"E-Edward.. These people..." Rapunzel said with a shaky voice.
"I know.. There's nothing we can do about it now.. Don't look at them, okay? Come on, I'm going to take you to the safety boats."
"No! I have to get to Jack's..I have to get Sophie. She's probably so scared.. I've been trying to find his place for so long but everything is rubble.. It's like a completely different town. I don't know where I am anymore. I don't remember who use to live in these..houses.."
"We can't go back there, I already checked. There were no signs of them anywhere at his place..or what's left of it. We have to head to the safety boats while we still can. I bet they're already there." Edward tried to calm Rapunzel down, but his own words only made himself worry even more.
"But..."
"Rapunzel. I've been running around the area trying to find as many people as I could so I can take them to the boats. They're waiting for me right over there." Edward turned to his left and pointed to the distance, revealing a group of civilians waiting for him.
"O..okay... Sophie and the others are probably waiting for us there..I'm sure of it.." Maybe it was the fact that she finally saw more living people rather than all the dead bodies she's seen for the past hours, but she finally got up and decided to follow Edward and the group to the boats.
"Yeah.. I'm sure there all waiting for us.." Edward mumbled this to himself wanting more than anything for Rapunzel's words to be true.
About an hour later Edward and the rest of the group made it to the safety ships. They lost a few people alone the way due to titans and the others being too sick to continue walking.
Everyone went on to look for their families or try to get on the boats while Rapunzel stayed next to Edward. They both searched around the crowd or terrified people trying to find their friends.
"I don't see them.." Rapunzel said with a wobbly voice.
"Keep looking. I'm sure it will take a while to find them with all these people around." Edward replied in a strong brittle voice. He's trying to stay strong and confident so he won't worry Rapunzel more than she already is.
After nearly half an hour of looking through all the people, Edward spots Kristoff in the mess.
"Hey, Kristoff!" Edward shouted for his attention.
Kristoff noticed and walked over to Edward right away.
"Hey, glad to see you're doing fine, Ed'."
"Yeah. Anyway. Have you seen a boy and two little girls? He's fourteen, has brown hair, brown eyes. Very stubborn. One of the girls is his little sister and the other is blonde with green eyes."
"Well, I haven't seen any little girls like that, but I managed to save this little brat earlier further in town near the walls toward the East." Kristoff replied, pointing over at Jack who was sitting down staring at the ground.
"Jack!" Rapunzel shouted and quickly ran up to Jack the second she saw him. "Jack! You're okay.. I'm so happy.." Rapunzel wanted to ask so badly why Sophie and Emma weren't with him. But she was scared, as if she already knew the answer. She couldn't manage to let the words escape her lips.
"Rapunzel.." Jack continued to look down. His voice was cold and eyes were dull of any light or hope. "I'm so sorry..."
Rapunzel's eyes widened. Jack didn't have to finish his sentence, she already knew what was going to come next.
Rapunzel fell to her knees and started crying uncontrollably. Jack didn't know what to do to comfort her. He just sat there looking at the ground, listening to Rapunzel's cry of pain. He couldn't help but blame himself for everything that was happening.
"It's my fault.. I couldn't help them in time.. I saw it all happen and I couldn't do a thing.. I'm so sorry, Punzie..."
Rapunzel looked up at Jack, still crying. She shook her head and quickly wrapped her arms around his shoulders.
"You can't..blame yourself..." Rapunzel said with pauses in her words. She couldn't let him take a blame like this; it would eat at him for the rest of his life. She couldn't handle this situation, but she knew she would need Jack by her side. If he keeps putting the blame on himself, he won't be around to help her hold on anymore.
From the distance Edward heard the whole thing. He walked up to Jack slowly with his head down.
"So..you're saying Sophie?.." Edward said in a rough tone.
He stood next to the two kids. None of them could say another word. Rapunzel was crying and Jack was speechless. Kristoff understood the whole situation and decided to stay out of it.
After a while of mourning, Kristoff finally stepped in and tried to catch their attention.
"Guys. The boats are almost full. I can get you on, but you have to go on right now."
"Yeah, I'll get them on. Go help the other civilians." Edward replied, not even looking at Kristoff.
"Alright'. Good luck, Ed'." Kristoff left shortly after.
Edward got Rapunzel and Jack on the boats safely. No one wanted to say anything. He knew it was going to be an uncomfortable time, but that didn't matter to him.
There was a lot of noise and yelling from civilians outside the boats. Edward decided to go and check what was going on.
"If you're sick, you're not allowed on the boats! That's our orders!" Shouted a guard.
"That's bullshit! Let us on! We suffered enough! Get us out of this damn place!" an older woman replied.
The woman tried to push the guard out of the way so she can get on the boat, but he grabbed her and threw her at the ground.
"Listen because I'm not saying this again! Anyone who is sick is not allowed on! We can't bring you into the other wall, it's too risky and we'll be at a loss of medicine! Anyone who is sick is staying behind!" The guard said with a rude look at all the sick civilians, as if they were the monsters.
The woman was furious so she got up and coughed in the guards face followed by a lot of words that don't need to be repeated.
Edward was sickened just by looking at all of this and decided he wanted nothing to do with it. He couldn't risk anything and needed to stay with Jack and Rapunzel. Before he went to go back the them, a woman stopped him.
"Excuse me..Sir?" Said a woman with a very croaky voice followed by a few coughs.
"Listen.. I want to help, but I can't do anything-" Edward was interrupted by the woman.
"Not me... I'll stay behind. I don't have much time, anyway.. But..my boy..." The lady looked down to reveal a little brown haired kid beside her leg. "Please..He only has a small cold.. He will only need very little medicine. Please just...please sneak him on the boat with you.. I'm begging. It's all I want..."
Edward looked down at the boy. He couldn't look away. The kids big green eyes and crazy freckles could only remind him of one person; Sophie. No matter how strongly he didn't want to break any rules, he just couldn't leave this boy behind. After long hesitation, he finally agreed to take the boy onto the boat.
"Oh, thank you! Thank you so much! You're a very kind man..I'll never forget you even when I'm gone." The woman said joyfully.
After a painful goodbye, Edward finally got the boy onto the boat and brought him over to Rapunzel and Jack.
"Hey, I know this is sudden but we're going to have a new member of the group for a while.. He has a cold, but don't let anyone know about it. He can hide it easily. I have some medicine in my jacket and I'll give it to him when there's less people around. Just try to welcome him a little. We've all been through a lot."
Jack and Rapunzel looked over at the boy. Rapunzel had nothing to say but she wasn't indifferent about the situation, she just wanted to stay quiet for the time being. Jack stared for a bit then decided to question the boy.
"So..who are you?"
The brown haired boy didn't say anything which just tested Jack's patience. Jack had enough of the silence and looked away, resting his elbow on the frame of the boat and his head in his hand.
After a good moment of silence, the boy finally decided to say something.
"My name.. Is Hiccup."
Ch. 1 END.
Characters used in this chapter are listed below.
Jack Frost, Emma/Jack's sister, Sophie, Edward Aster/"Bunny"/Bunnymund - Rise of the Guardians.
Rapunzel, Pascal - Tangled.
Kristoff - Frozen.
Hiccup - How to Train your Dragon.
I hope you "enjoyed" chapter 1! Depending on the reviews, I'll get chapter 2 up as soon as possible.