AN: Sorry for the error, it is now fixed. If it happens again, please comment and let me know. That would be much appreciated. Also sorry it took so long to fix.

Okay! Now for the fun stuff! This is the last book in the Companions saga. Can you believe it?! I can't! But I'm super excited. This is a fun one to write. I get to work more with the characters, particularly Anna and Hiccup. I apologize in advance for North. I don't know how to write a Russian accent. But enough talking! Let's get started!

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to any of the movies and characters mentioned within. How to Train Your Dragon, Rise of the Guardians, and The Croods belong to DreamWorks. Tangled, Brave, and Frozen belong to Disney. Brave also belongs to Pixar.

Chapter One: Trouble

Nicholas St. North was having a regular, routine day. After administering the day's assignments to the yetis (and fake ones to the elves, to keep them occupied), he retired to his office for his project. His large, meaty hands worked delicately, carving an intricate Fabergé egg completely from ice. It was meant as a surprise present for Bunny, celebrating 3,000 years of Guardianship, Easter, and hope. After a whole day of exquisite, painstaking work, it was nearly finished.

And then came the explosion. Well, the first explosion anyway.

The entire North Pole shook, and the Fabergé egg fell to the floor and shattered. North cried out in dismay as his handiwork lay ruined at his feet. Another blast hit. Reluctantly, he ran to the door, but it was jammed and he couldn't open it.

"Help! Vill someone get ve door open?" he roared. "Vat is happening?"

"It's the elves mate," Bunny said, popping out of a tunnel. "Looks like they're rioting. Couldn't get through the front door, so I tunneled up here."

"Vat are they rioting for?" North asked.

"Dunno. Maybe they finally discovered that what they do doesn't matter. Took 'em long enough, too. They ruin another of your ice sculptures?" he asked, bending down to look at the fragments.

"Yes, and my best work, too! Took me am entire day to get it perfect."

"Wow, that's saying something. You must be pretty upset."

"Well, now that I know we are not under attack, I think it's safe to say…I'm furious."

He stormed over to the door and with a mighty heave he wrenched it open.

"Careful!" Bunny warned, but it was too late.

A huge bucket of molasses dumped right onto Father Christmas.

"They're targeting me now?" North asked.

"They've always been targeting you," Bunny yelled over the noise of the uprising. "The yetis just got in the way."

"Not soon enough to stop this trap from being built," North grumbled.

He went along more cautiously now, but, alas, didn't see the thin, nearly invisible trip wire. With a complex, domino effect, the wire activated the futuristic toy military planes. In silent horror they flew all over the Pole, destroying many more fragile pieces of artwork. There was no way to stop them. North looked on in dismay as one particular plane flew straight into the room where he kept the portals and other such magic devices.

There was a tremendous BANG, which effectively stopped the war.

Magic, visible and invisible, flowed out of the door. Inanimate objects began to move, some of the elves and yetis started speaking English, Russian, or French, and other mini explosions broke out throughout the room. But worst of all were the portals.

In random places, they appeared, sometimes only for the blink of the eye, sometimes remaining for hours afterward. One portal opened up in thin air high above the floor. All the female elves that had disappeared thousands of years ago tumbled out to the floor, to the amazement and joy of their male counterparts.

North suddenly understood why there had been a single portal opening for no reason in the last few hundred years. They weren't just appearing in space, they were appearing in time. Bunny realized it too, and remembered why he had come over in the first place.

"Uh, North? The uh, the reason I came over here…All the Companions have disappeared. As well as Elsa and Anna."

The workshop went deathly silent. Even the elves knew they had gone too far this time.

North sighed and rubbed a hand across his face. "Those portals could have taken them at any point in their timeline. Now, they're immortal, so they'll live no matter vhere they're taken. If they're in the future then they'll reappear eventually. But if they've been sent to the past, then, vhen they catch up to vhen they were born…"

"Trouble?" Bunny guessed.

"They could be erased from existence," North mused. "I don't know, all of time is in flux. Changeable. At least that's vat my friend told me."

"Is he the one who helped you make your sleigh bigger on the inside?"

"That's ve one."

"So…what do we do?"

"Ve have to fix those portals and find a way to track them down so ve can bring them to the right time again."

"But there are hundred of portals that just went off!" Bunny exclaimed. "That'll take forever!"

"Not forever, just for a long time. So we'd better get working."

"Call Tooth and see if she can send over some reinforcements. I know she's busy with teeth, but maybe some of her fairies can help.

"Good idea. The quicker we do this, the better. They're counting on us."

As often happened in the longer summer days on Berk, Hiccup spent the entire evening drawing at his desk before finally falling asleep. Toothless usually moved him to the actual bed, but this time the dragon had fallen asleep before his rider. And so it was that Hiccup woke around midnight. Confused, he groggily tried to go down stairs, thinking it was morning, but he stopped at the sound of his father's voice.

"…I was just so disappointed with him. I mean, the boy's an utter failure!"

Hiccup rubbed his ears, not believing what he was hearing.

"But he's the best dragon trainer and rider in Berk," Gobber said. "And the world for that matter."

"I know!" Stoick said, seemingly laughing at the stupidity of it all.

That was it. Hiccup mounted Toothless, shaking him awake. Sensing his master's distress, Toothless flew through the skylight as quickly as he could. Shocked, Hiccup didn't pay attention to where he was going.

He was 18! It had been four tears since dragons had first been tamed and Hiccup became Berk's hero instead of embarrasment. After all this time, did his father still think he was a disappointment? But it seemed to be going so well! He just didn't understand.

He urged Toothless higher, up into the clouds. Their cool mist usually calmed him down, as did the open sky above the murk.

"It's pretty thick tonight," Hiccup remarked as they didn't emerge right away.

Just then they did emerge, and before they could stop, Hiccup and Toothless flew right into a magic portal.

The next morning, before news of Hiccup's disappearance had reached DunBroch, the triplets were in deep trouble. At ten years old, they loved nothing more than to annoy their immortal sister. And this time, they decided to steal her bow.

Big mistake.

Furious, Merida chased them around the castle, sword in hand. "Come back here, ye wee devils! Yew can't run forever like I can! I'll be running around yew in circles when you're old! Ha!"

The boys rounded a corner, hoping that Merida wouldn't see which way they turned. Just in case, they turned and prepared to fire arrows at her, even though they knew she would block them with her sword. To their surprise, a colorful spiral had opened up in the doorway. Unfortunately, it was just far enough back that Merida didn't see it until she charged around the corner and right into it.

The portal collapsed on itself in a blur of sparkles, leaving the bemused princes standing alone in the corridor.

"I call her room!" Hamish said.

At Arendelle, the Frosts were enjoying dinner together. And Jack was really enjoying freezing everyone's drinks and blaming it on Elsa, who melted them just as quickly as someone discovered it. Rapunzel laughed.

"Jack, stop it," she admonished. "Everyone knows it's you, not Elsa."

Only Anna remained quiet, barely even smiling at her father's antics. Jack frowned. Before he could speak, however, a portal opened up beside the table.

"Dinner's over everyone," Rapunzel announced. "North's calling us." Excitedly, they all jumped up and entered the portal.

But they did not land in the North Pole.

Instead, they were in a rocky desert, at the mouth of a dark cave. There was no sign of any civilization.

"Where are we?" Elsa asked, confused.

"No idea," Jack answered. "Well this should be fun."

Suddenly a scream came from behind them. "Duck!" Rapunzel yelled.

They ducked just in time. Toothless, flying low to the ground soared over them and crash-landed a few feet away. Hiccup got off and ran to them.

"What just happened?" he asked.

"We don't' know," Jack said. "We only just got here ourselves."

There was another flash of light, and Merida appeared, raising a sword and shouting angrily.

"…and then I'm gonna…" she stopped, seeing her friends in front of her. "Am I dreaming? Hallucinating? Hubert!"

"No, no!" Hiccup said, approaching her. "We're real and just as confused as you are. Now put the sword down."

Merida sheathed her sword and looked around. "Oh great. I'm stuck in a desert without my bow and arrow. Great."

"You still have your sword," Anna pointed out.

"I want my bow!" she yelled.

Abruptly, Toothless growled at the cave. "Um, guys?" Hiccup whispered. "I think we should all be very, very quiet. Move away from the cave, very, very slowly."

These wise words were lost on his friends, who instantly took up defensive positions. Only Rapunzel, who didn't have a frying pan, listened and followed Hiccup's advice. None of them were prepared for the giant, green and white tiger that lumbered out, licking his lips. Anna's hands caught fire, and though it didn't burn her, it caught the tiger's eye, and he lunged at her. Jack quickly built a wall of ice and snow, but the tiger knocked it down.

"RUN!" Hiccup screamed.

He, Rapunzel and Merida jumped on Toothless, and Jack carried the girls. But neither Jack nor Toothless could go very fast with the extra weight, and the tiger would not be shaken. Elsa iced the ground, but that only made it slide towards them faster. Merida stood on Toothless' back, sword raised. She was just about to jump over Jack and drive her dirk* into the beast's head, when salvation appeared in the form of an elephant.

A hairy, elephant with leopard spots came charging out of a hidden valley and rammed the tiger. It was driven by a wild looking girl with red hair, nearly as tangled as Merida's. She bared her teeth and growled at the tiger, then directed her panicking elephant in the direction of the fleeing Companions.

"Hop on!" she yelled, not in the slightest disturbed that two girls were floating in mid air. Or, if she could see Jack, that he was flying.

Either way, Jack was glad to be his daughters down. Elsa and Anna clung for dear life to the elephant's, thick, corse fur and were soon joined by Rapunzel. They made faster progress now, and the tiger was soon left far behind. When the coast was clear, the primitive girl dropped to the ground, holding onto the elephant's tusks and effectively stopping it with no apparent damage to herself. Casually, she dusted herself off and smiled at them.

"My name's Eep," she said cheerfully as Toothless landed beside her. "Now who are you?"

"Uh…I'm Hiccup," the dragon rider said. "This is my cousin Merida, and my dragon Toothless."

"Cool. Can I pet him?"

"Well…"

She reached up excitedly. Toothless sniffed her and snorted. He seemed to think she was ok, but he was still a little confused by the time jump. The Frosts introduced themselves next.

"I'm Rapunzel, and these are my daughters, Elsa and Anna."

"Who's the flying weirdo?"

"Alright!" Jack said. "She can see me! My name's Jack Frost. I make it snow in the winter."

"What's snow?" Eep asked curiously.

"This is," Jack said, waving his staff around.

Cold, delicate snowflakes began falling all around them. It was refreshing after their narrow escape. Eep was delighted, experimentally snatching them out of the air like a cat and laughing almost maniacally.

"This…is…amazing!" she yelled loudly, mirroring Elsa and Anna's reactions when they were children. "I have to show Guy!"

"Guy?" everyone asked.

"My boyfriend," she said dreamily. "Watch this."

She took out a tiny pink conch shell and blew on it. A few seconds later, another one answered.

"He's on his way!"

"So, Eep," Merida said. "This might sound like a really strange question, but what year is this?"

"What do you mean? What's a year? And what happened to your hair! It's so curly…"

She pounced over and ran her hands through it.

"Ow!" Merida said. "Please don't, it hurts."

"Oh, sorry. I know exactly what you mean. Mine hurts too. But it's not as big as yours. Or yours," she added, walking over to Rapunzel.

"We've landed in cavemen times," Hiccup said. "Great."

"I know!" Eep said. "These are fun days. Well, unless you run into my tribe. They're really territorial and stubborn, and they kill anyone who's new. So try not to be caught."

"Great, we'll keep that in mind," Elsa said.

"So, is there a forest or something like anywhere around here?" Rapunzel asked. "We need to start making shelter soon, it looks like the sun is setting."

"Oh, you can stay with my cave if you don't have one of your own!" Eep offered.

"Didn't you just say your tribe will kill us if they see us?" Anna asked.

"Yep, but I have my own cave now, and it's the one on the outside. I don't like hanging around them, they're too old fashioned. Those are pretty skins you're wearing. Where'd you get them?"

"Well, they're not skins, exactly," Hiccup tried to explain. "They're sheep's wool that's been flattened and colored."

"We don't have sheep around here. What are sheep?"

Before they could explain, however, a large dust cloud appeared in the distance.

"Is that…" Jack began.

"It's Guy!" Eep said, waving. "I'll be right back."

She ran out to meet him, and she was surprisingly fast. The Companions looked at each other in disbelief.

"The Stone Age?" Elsa groaned. "That means North hasn't even been born yet, let alone become a Guardian!"

"So no one to help us," Merida summed up. "Except ourselves."

"You forgot the angry tribe that will try to kill us," Anna added. "Especially if they find out I can make fire."

"Or snow," Jack reminded them. "That's just as interesting."

"Did anyone happen to bring a snowglobe?" Hiccup asked. Silence. "Seriously, no one?"

"North doesn't let us keep them," Rapunzel explained.

"Well he will when we get out of this mess," Merida said with gritted teeth.

"Everyone just calm down," Jack said. "There's nothing we can do, except one thing."

"What?" everyone asked.

"Have fun!" He grinned. "Come on guys, we're in a whole new time! We should just explore and enjoy ourselves. North will come and rescue us. Eventually."

*a Scottish name for a sword.

AN: a couple notes. I noticed there weren't any female elves, and to add to the confusion of the moment, I decided to add some with a background story. A thousand years before this they were all together (maybe a party, idk), saw a portal, and walked through. Also, yes, I made a Doctor Who reference. Sorry! I couldn't help myself.

Finally, I'm posting the second and third chapter in a few minutes As compensation for all the delay. Plus I'm going to see if that helps keep my views up.