PART ONE
Okay, let me get this straightforward: I'm a Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons fan, or maybe better known as How to Train Your Brave Tangled Guardians… I'm not really sure, but onto the point…
I've seen plenty of gifs and pics and everything all over tumblr, Google images, etc.; everywhere. Most include Hogwarts, droning on about Merida as the fitting Gryffindor, Jack as the perfect Slytherin, Hiccup as the witty Ravenclaw (my house :D) and Rapunzel as the good Hufflepuff. I noticed that since Hogwarts classes only have two houses in each one, and decided that I'll insert that into my fanfic here. I'm not totally sure about Jackunzel right now. I DEFINITELY, however, ship Mericcup, so a little of that may be included, but this story wouldn't be filed under romance! So MAYBE Mericcup romance. :P
Now, I hope this is interesting! Please review. This is my first Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons fanfic. I do not own Rise of the Guardians or How to Train Your Dragon. DreamWorks does. I do not own Tangled or Brave. Disney does. And nor do I own their last names: Jack Frost, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Rapunzel Corona and Merida DunBroch are their true names!
Jack Frost leaned his chin into his hand, half-snoring as he listened to Professor Parvati Patil drone on about divination.
"Ah, yes, the divination professor before me, she was amazing," Patil gushed, beaming around. Her thin, dark face was flushed from the steam that clouded up the tower, issued from the teacups that everybody was stationed with. "Trelawney. That was her name. Professor Trelawney. She read a student's fate in their tea leaves, a terrible future… she saw the grim! I was in that class… it was Harry Potter, you should have heard of him before."
Jack muffled a yawn, shaking his head slightly when he saw how absorbed Rapunzel Corona was by this story.
"Seriously, Punzie," he groaned at her from the corner of his mouth.
"The grim!" Rapunzel hissed back. "Don't tell me you don't know what it is!" Jack rolled his crystal blue eyes, planting his chin on the tabletop.
"Oh, I'm the evil Slytherin, remember?" He muttered back. "Of course I'd know what a bad omen is."
"You know I don't mean that…" Rapunzel exhaled noisily, drawing attention from the professor.
"Do you have something to say, Miss Corona?" Patil said sternly, raising an eyebrow at her. Rapunzel flushed.
"Uh. N-no," she stammered, flinching back a little. Patil shook her head slowly before turning her back.
"Hufflepuffs," Jack could have sworn he heard the professor huff. Obviously a majority of students heard that, as most of the Slytherins sniggered, while the other half of the class, the Hufflepuffs, glowered at them.
"She's a teacher, for crying out loud!" Rapunzel whispered angrily, shoving her hands into her pockets and leaning back against the chair. "It's so cruel, mocking me in front of everyone!"
"Join the club," Jack told his friend.
"What club?" Rapunzel retorted, hastily trying to be the first to turn to page 173 of their textbooks as Patil gave the instruction.
"It's an expression," Jack sighed, lazily complying to Patil's orders. Rapunzel made a noise of annoyance, scowling at him from across the two-seated table.
"Do you think I'm a dummy?" She snapped, her glowering green eyes never leaving his. "What I meant…" she added in a lower voice, "was since when did you get mocked?"
"Since forever," Jack replied bitterly, and as if to prove his point, twisted his head to glare at one of his fellow Slytherin classmates who was hooting silently, and tauntingly, at him. "I'm supposedly a soft Slytherin just because I hang out with you guys."
"Us…" Rapunzel drummed her fingers against her textbook thoughtfully, gazing out the window that Patil was now wrestling open. "I just realized, Hufflepuff doesn't have any classes with Gryffindor."
"Slytherin has none with Ravenclaw," Jack shrugged, not seeing Rapunzel's point.
"Of course not," she sighed, shaking her head slowly. "But wouldn't you like to have a class with Hiccup?"
"And not with you or Ginger? No way," he said sardonically.
"Really!"
"Of course I would! What's your point?"
"Well, no offense to you and Hiccup, I'm kind of sick of classes with you guys. Merida and I are never together. So I think that I've got an idea!"
Anything to have a Punzie and Ginger free class, Jack thought to himself. Not that he didn't like them, but he hung out with them at lunch and dinner and during holidays, and also class. He wanted a bit of a break from them in class at least.
Jack tipped his head slightly towards Rapunzel.
"Tell me."
WITH MERIDA & HICCUP…
Merida DunBroch gasped when she saw the unicorns. One was white, the unicorn foal was pure gold.
"Hiccup!" She shrieked loudly in her thick Scottish accent, grabbing Hiccup Haddock's arm and shaking it. "Look at them! Look!" This drew a few amused glances from Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, but none found her behavior at all strange. Most of the girls were going moony over the unicorns.
"Hey!" As Merida shook Hiccup's arm, he drew a long, jagged line over his picture accidentally. "What was that for?" He rounded on Merida angrily. Merida was not daunted at all. Rather she continued to shake Hiccup's Ravenclaw robes in excitement.
"Whatae'ver, that was just a drah'ring – this is the rae'l life! Look at them! Just imae'gine what the ride would beh like…"
"For your information, I was sketching the Hungarian Horntail; they're nothing compared to Night Furies, but they're still pretty vicious." Hiccup began to launch a full lecture. "Night Furies have the gift of those really super-powerful flames. Sure, Horntails have a flame, but it's not much in comparison to Furies. But if I still had the opportunity to meet a Horntail," he gushed, "I wouldn't miss it for my life. Yes I know!" He added when Merida opened her mouth to interrupt him. "I already have Toothless, I know! But he's not here right now. Because–"
"–The school rules say that yeh can't bring anay'thing that big. Or dangah'rous. Or brutae'l."
"Toothless is not brutal!"
"Angus ain't any o' them, laddie! Well, heh's a little big, but heh's a horse!" Merida snapped. "Yeh don't have ter act as though yer the onlae'y one!"
"I wasn't," Hiccup responded, stung.
"Yeah, yeh were!" Merida shot back.
"Mr Haddock! Miss DunBroch!" Professor Bunnymund barked. He was a tall, athletic man with an Australian accent, who had been jinxed into the form of a six-foot rabbit a while back. "Would you two be ever so kind to come and answer a few questions about these lovely creatures?" He stood by the unicorns, and Merida only then realized that the rest of the class stood in front of him.
"Q-questions?" Merida and Hiccup both stuttered at the same time.
"Indeed," Bunnymund answered slyly. "Were you not paying attention while I told the class a little about unicorns?" Merida shrunk back only then, blue eyes huge and round. She'd never disappointed anyone during Care for Magical Creatures class, her being an animal person. Neither had Hiccup. He had the natural skill of training animals, and Merida waited for him to back down, but was surprised when he didn't. He tipped his head slightly and smiled charmingly.
"Why wouldn't we have been paying attention, Professor?" He questioned. Bunnymund's eyes narrowed slightly. The class all looked at the Ravenclaw as though he were stupid.
"Let's test you then." Bunnymund tapped his foot as he thought, then shot, "Would you be cursed if you killed a unicorn? Why do you say what you say?"
Hiccup shrugged casually. He was much more at ease in these classes than in others, Merida noticed.
"Not exactly. If you killed a unicorn, it's just not right. Unicorns are the purest creatures living. However, some beings desire becoming more than just human. If they killed a unicorn and drank it's blood, which is the elixir of life, then they would indeed be cursed."
Nobody had been expecting that result, and all gaped at Hiccup.
"Alright then…" Bunnymund's eyebrows knitted together into a frown. "Marco Polo, the Italian muggle traveller, thought that he saw a unicorn while he journeyed. He described it as an 'ugly brute, which looks nothing like we describe them as'. Why did he say that?"
"Because!" Hiccup said it as though it was the most obvious thing in the world. "He saw a rhinoceros, not a unicorn."
"Hmm. Correct." Bunnymund turned away gruffly let the others start to pet the unicorns. "These creatures prefer the touch of women rather than men. So be wary."
Merida turned from the teacher and fixed an amazed grin on Hiccup.
"So yeh really do know yer facts," she said admirably.
"Well, yeah." Hiccup rubbed the nape of his neck, back to his usual bashful self.
"Obviously!" Astrid said sarcastically as she passed. She was Merida's pretty blonde fellow Gryffindor classmate, and was quite a bit of a snob most of the time. "He's a Ravenclaw, Merida. Why do you even hang out with him?" She spoke as though she didn't care that Hiccup was listening. "All Ravenclaws are stuck-up."
"That's not true, Astrid." Merida frowned. "We've be'n here six years, and if yeh still believe tht old stereotypical poem that the sorting hat said during our first year, then that's prae'tty thick of yeh." Astrid went slightly red, but ignored her, walking away.
"I'm not going to dignify that comment with a reply."
"Ah think yeh mean that reply with another reply," Merida said. She sighed and gave Hiccup a swift hug. "Nobody thinks that excae'pt fer her," she reassured him. He didn't look very comforted, but forced a smile.
"C'mon," she said. Hiccup was a little surprised at how kind she was acting, rather than her tough, tomboyish self.
Don't get used to it, he thought, following her over to watch the unicorns.
"Ah still prefer Angus," Merida continued, a huge grin on her face as she watched the white unicorn shaking it's white mane.
"I still prefer dragons," Hiccup said.
A FEW HOURS LATER…
It had become a daily routine for the four of them to meet out by the lake in which the giant squid lived.
Jack was the first to get there, which was a surprise, as he was usually the last, seeing as he was always caught up pranking someone.
However, he was excited by Rapunzel's idea that she had announced during Divination. Slytherin had also been with Hufflepuff for astronomy, and Jack and Rapunzel had discussed the plan into further detail. Jack couldn't wait to tell Hiccup and Merida. He was certain that Merida would agree immediately, her being the bold Gryffindor, but Hiccup would probably be reluctant to the idea. Rapunzel would be able to persuade him into it, and if she didn't, Merida would. And if neither of them could, then Jack would have to… he supposed that it couldn't be too hard… so in other words, there was no way that Jack would let them back down now.
"You're early," Hiccup said from behind Jack, who jumped.
"Oh." He rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. "Yeah. Me and Punzie just had an idea…"
"You mean I had an idea!"
"What?" Jack and Hiccup said at the same time, spinning in circles. Rapunzel's voice seemed to have come from nowhere.
"Up here!" She laughed. The two of them automatically looked up, and Rapunzel was hanging up in the tree branches which sheltered them, her long golden hair a substitute for rope.
"Jeez, don't do that!" Hiccup complained, blinking hard. "Six years later and I'm still not accustomed to that hair!"
"Well you should be," Rapunzel retorted. "I may always wear it up in class, but it's allowed some freedom now and then."
"Yeah, whatever, let's tell them the plan…" Jack said impatiently. Hiccup looked at them both eagerly. Rapunzel tested how sturdy her hair was with a few tugs, then slid down it and landed lightly on her feet, flicking her hair away from the branches.
"So here it is," she began, then paused. "Where's Merida?" Jack groaned. Leave it to Merida to foil their plans.
"Just continue," Jack persisted. "She'll hear about it later–"
"No, yer waiting fer meh!"
The three shielded their eyes against the light which had hit the hilltops leading to the castle. Merida's silhouette stood out. She was holding her broomstick.
"Hurry up then!" Jack shouted.
"Quick, before she escapes!" A few voices came from over Merida's shoulder, and she sniggered loudly, settling her broom on her shoulder and taking off in a sprint, Gryffindor robes flying. Not long later, the Slytherin quidditch captain with three of his teammates came hurtling up after her. This was Jack's team, though he couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Hiccup sat down by the trunk of the tree, pulling his leather-bound sketchbook from his pocket and began to draw again.
"What're you doing?" Jack said, puzzled by his friend.
"Well, knowing Merida, she could take a while." Hiccup didn't even look up at Jack and Rapunzel's disbelieving expressions. He was completely involved in his pictures again. "So, you know, I've got this picture which Merida made me muck up during Care for Magical Creatures. See here? It's the Hungarian Horntail! Did you know that they–"
"Maybe another time, mate," Jack said, grabbing Hiccup's sleeve and jolting him upright. "We've got a certain ginger to catch."
"Aye sir!" Rapunzel said with a mock salute before pointing east. "She went that way! It looks as though she's got a gang of Slytherins after her." Hiccup shot Jack a suspicious look. Everybody knew that Jack and Merida argued constantly, despite their strong bond through friendship.
"I know nothing about this!" Jack argued, holding his hands up in surrender. "Let's just go and get this over with." He checked that Hiccup wasn't going to sit down again, then took off at lightning speed. All that quidditch had paid off.
"Ahem?" Rapunzel stopped him short. He looked back to see Rapunzel standing there, rocking back and forth on her heels and smiling angelically. Hiccup was struggling to hold her hair up from the ground. "Would you be so dear to help over here?" Hiccup nodded desperately for Jack to come over and give him a hand.
"Oh man," Jack said with an over exaggerated sigh. "We might as well just go to sleep at this rate."
"Good idea. Now can I please just finish this drawing?"
MEANWHILE…
No one can catch meh! Ah'm a dangerous flame licking along the edges of a dry grassland! Merida raced along the hilltops, her tangled red curls catching itself in the wind, her heart beating wildly in her chest.
"Still feeling so cocky?" The Slytherin quidditch captain, Pitch Black, yelled one hilltop away. The rest of the team jeered. Merida checked the distance between them before stopping and bowing sarcastically.
"Still cockae'y as ever," she taunted, before skipping away. She was silently quite afraid that if she tripped or ran out of breath then the Slytherins would catch her.
Oh, Angus! Ah wish yeh were here right now… No, she actually wanted to have Jack with her even more. He was braver than her, though she had to admit that she was pretty brave herself.
"Brambel Cuman!"
A gasp escaped her lips as the spell was cast, and the brambles among the dirt complied to the magic. They snaked around her ankles, catching her off balance and throwing her to the ground. Pulling her wand out, she directed it calmly at the vines and said, "Bēon Gān." The brambles broke apart from her legs, but it was too late. The Slytherins were already beginning to emerge over the hill and were swarming towards Merida like pesky ants.
Oh dear, Merida thought, running over a few spells in her mind. Le's see… a few hexes… um, there's the lock-leg one, the one that paralyses, that boogey curse… where's Rapunzel or Hiccup when yeh need thae'm? She quickly got to her feet. She wouldn't keep on running, which was probably a stupid thing to do. Standing up to enemies when you were hopelessly outnumbered was just one of those Gryffindor things. Then an even stupider idea came to her mind. It was worth a try.
"Accio Rapunzel. Please bring her here. Accio Rapunzel!Twice fer good accio Jack. Also please bring him here. Please! Accio accio accio Jack! Also fer good luck. Accio Hiccup, heh needs ter be here too. Accio Hiccup. Accio Hiccup. Three times fer luck," Merida mumbled under her breath, breathing slowly as the Slytherins surrounded her.
WHERE MERIDA'S SPELL IS HEADED…
"What's she doing, running a marathon or something?" Hiccup mumbled, finally dropping his pencil. He'd been drawing ever since they'd all decided it was worthless trying to find Merida with all of Rapunzel's hair to lug along, and Jack, bored out of his brains, had taken up his own idea of going to sleep. Rapunzel ran around there, braiding her hair again. She had to skip back and forth over her long hair to get the strips of hair plaited, and it would be a long process, but was worth it.
"Wasn't it you who announced that Merida would take a while?" Rapunzel frowned, finally pausing to wipe some sweat from her forehead.
"Well, yes," Hiccup admitted. "But I've finished here, and she should have been back by then." Rapunzel lifted a wry eyebrow.
"Done there, you say? Then how about you make yourself useful and help me finish up over here?" She glanced over her shoulder at Jack with obvious scorn, who was snoring loudly, his silvery hair poking everywhere. "Unlike him."
"Erm." Hiccup sat down again, grinning nervously. "I don't plait, so I'll just start a diagram on, umm, something else, maybe the–"
"Hiccup!"
"Sorry, sorry, sorry," Hiccup chanted, quickly standing. Nobody liked to anger Rapunzel. She looked at him with a small smile.
"Good boy!" She said jokingly. Then she grew serious. "So you see here, this will be number one, number two and number three. So number one would move over number two, like so. And then three would go over one. Then two over three. Got it so far?"
"No."
Rapunzel sat back with a sigh.
"Whatever. Just go have a sleep with Jack, then."
"Why would I want to go to sleep–"
Suddenly Rapunzel was lifted into the air, and she screamed, kicking wildly. Then some force dragged her away towards the hills. The wind pulled through her hair, drawing her hair back from the plait which she had been laboring over for so long.
"Oh my gosh! My hair!" Rapunzel wailed, her voice slowly vanishing into the distance. Jack was on his feet next to Hiccup within a matter of seconds. However alert his actions were, he was truly fatigued from his sleep.
"Wha'? Wha' goin' on…" he muttered drowsily.
"Rapunzel!" Hiccup shouted, which woke Jack up mentally.
"What? Why's she flying…?" He mumbled. The only thing visible of Rapunzel was her golden hair flying through the air. If there had been others by the lake (but seeing as it was a rather dull day, nobody else had come down) they would have surely been staring at her.
"She's not flying, you idiot!" Hiccup grabbed Jack's shoulders and shook him back and forth. "I think that she was snatched by a summoning spell!"
"A summoning spell–" Jack was the next to follow Rapunzel's footsteps. He, too, was wrenched from the ground violently, though rather than screaming about his hair, he bellowed, "BLOODY HELL!"
"Uh." Hiccup was the last to remain. He tucked his sketchbook away, pulling out his wand and circling, trying to figure out what the heck was going on. Nothing happened for a few moments. So Hiccup decided to run. He was off to a good start, except that he tripped. Then he heard something inside his head.
"Accio Hiccup." Then was yanked away from the ground despite the scramble that he put up.
"No!" He tried to hold onto the ground. "Don't take me away! Stop! Stop!" The grass whipped away beneath him, the wind sailing beneath him. It was a rather smooth ride, only Hiccup was scared out of his wits. He covered his eyes with his hands, trying to picture himself riding Toothless, rather than the wind.
Hey, this isn't too bad… he could actually get used to this. Then he dropped. He released a long scream. Then his feet touched the ground and Hiccup peeked through one eye. He was standing next to Rapunzel, Merida and Jack. Suddenly the spell released Hiccup, and he fell over, face-planting in the dirt. A few sarcastic laughs came from around him. He looked up in confusion.
Ah. The Slytherins which had been chasing Merida earlier were now surrounding them. Hiccup noted that they weren't outnumbered, but the Slytherins were all seventh years, and a whole lot taller than them.
"Oh. Hey, Merida," Hiccup said sarcastically. "Nice meeting here?"
"Just the usual," Merida muttered out of the corner of her mouth. Which was true.
Oh man. Now what?
Long chapter there! I would like to inform you that the spells which I used back when the brambles tripped Merida aren't actually real JK Rowling spells, but they're real words.
Brambel cuman = Come, brambles (Old English)
Bēon gān = Be gone (Old English)
Just wanted to tell you that. The next chapter should be out soon. I think that this story will either be a three chapter story, or maybe a four. Depends. I hope that you liked it! Reviews to encourage me, now! :3 Look out for Part Two by following this story!
~Black Cat Widow~