Chap. 1 Broken Ice
A white haired teen ran across snowy ground, not even blinking an eye when he stepped onto a frozen lake. "Leave me alone, Hiccup!" He yelled over his shoulder, a flash of pain shining in his ice-blue eyes before it was swallowed up the anger that was lurking there.
"Wait! Jack!" A second teen ran out from behind a rock, this one with messy brown hair and two braids. He yelled again, "Jack! Wait! I need to tell you something!" He ran across the frozen ground, but unlike the boy named Jack, he stopped when he reached the lake, recognizing the grains of black sand that were scattered throughout the ice.
Jack kept running until he was standing in the middle of the lake. "You don't understand anything! Why do you think I would listen to you?!" He yelled to the wind, spinning around to face Hiccup.
"Jack, I'm sorry. I didn't mean for any of this to happen!" Hiccup tried to reason with his friend.
"What, you think I believe you?" Jack half-laughed, the sound coming out strangled.
"Jack, I really am sorry. When I started, I-I thought… Well, never mind. But I never, ever wanted this to happen. Please you just have to listen!"
"What? What do you need to tell me?!" Jack snapped.
"It-It has. . . to do with me." Hiccup said, every word quieter than the rest. Then, the quietest of all, so quiet Hiccup himself could barely hear it, "And Elsa."
"And what?!' Jack turned around again, because while Hiccup was talking, he had stormed off in the opposite direction.
"And Elsa!" Hiccup yelled, finally. Thinking that he might have gotten his friend to listen, Hiccup bent over, trying to catch his breath. He was a dragon rider, not a runner.
"What?" Jack whispered his world coming crashing down around his ears. He was too torn between anger and other conflicting feelings to notice that Hiccup's face, when he looked up, didn't look right. Instead of a sorry/sad/frustrated friend face like it should have been, it was a look of pure anger, and overshadowing it all, just plain evil.
"Jack, listen to me. I have a way to make it better. For you, for me, for all of us, if you would only-"
CRACK
"What was that?" Jack asked, turning around slowly, trying to find the source of the noise in the barren landscape.
Hiccup also spun around, drawing his fire sword. He had a slight idea of who was making the noises. He also noticed that Jack had dropped his staff, and accidentally kicked it away. That wasn't good. Without his staff Jack wouldn't be able to fly away.
Jack had finished turning, and as the cracking continued, he looked down to see small depressions in the ice underneath his bare feet. Small cracks were radiating out from under his feet, going a little ways around in a small circle around Jack.
"Hiccup!" A new strain was in Jack's voice.
"Jack, don't take another step." Hiccup said.
"What?" Jack was freaking out. He tried freezing the lake over, using his hands since he didn't have his staff. He tried again. "Hiccup! I can't freeze the ice! My powers aren't working!" Jack was in complete panic mode. In fact, he was so panicked that he didn't notice that the black specks in the ice would flare up, glowing dimly every time that Jack would try to freeze the lake.
"Jack, don't move. If you move it will only get worse." Hiccup kept advancing, his fire sword still drawn.
"Hiccup, what are you doing? Fire doesn't help ice."
"I know. Trust me, I know." Hiccup's face was looking evil again.
"You know?! What-"
CRACK. CRACK. CRACK.
A sound like gunshots echoed around the lake. Jack sank a little into the ice, the depressions and cracks widened. A spider web of thin vein-like cracks spread farther out. Hiccup stumbled back, trying to get away from the little cracks. This was not supposed to happen.
Hiccup slipped, falling on his rear end. he scooted a little farther back, then, when he reached solid ground, he stood up.
"Hiccup!" One last crack echo around the lake, and then there was silence.
Hiccup had gotten up just in time to see his best friend plummet beneath the ice.