A Prize not Won

by SkyeLight Hope

PNAU at first. Jack learned that the only way to get through High School is to be strong, even if it might be in the wrong way. But when Senior year starts and he sees the Junior, Hiccup, in a new light, things get more complicated. But maybe that's not a bad thing. Jack begins rediscovering the guy he really is and decides what kind of person he wants to be.

1. Prologue

A/N: Okay, I'm not American so School life here may not be accurate and would be loosely based on the things I watched in the movies, so just bear with me. If there's anyone who could coach me please PM or review about tips and suggestions. It would be much appreciated.

A PRIZE NOT WON

Some Prizes are won, but Rewards are earned

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Prologue

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In Burgess Local Highschool, the first thing Jackson Overland learned when he started his freshmen year was that High school is about survivable. There was the strong and the weak, and the only way you'd get the better end of the bargain is if you come out strong. Sometimes, you have to forget who you are to make it through.

Jack learned this the hard way.

The first week, he observed the smarter kids being picked on, bookworms being tripped over while carrying piles of books in the hallways, and those with inferior-complex come and go as they transferred schools the following days.

By the start of the winter break, he was almost killed when some bullies thought it might be funny to throw his backpack across a lake that's been frozen over. When he ran to retrieve it, he fell into a thin layer of ice. He'll never forget the darkness and cold of it all, or the bully leading the group.

Peter "Pitch" Black.

By some miracle, his foster father's old friend, Manny Moone, happened to pass by with his black Labrador Nightlight. The Dog dove him, and he was saved. It took five steaming cups of Nicholas's eggnog to get Jackson to stop shivering, though. The week after, it was heard that the bullies were found out and got suspended, Peter expelled since he threw the bag. Jack never saw him since. Which suited him fine.

But he learned his lesson. If you want to be strong, then don't show weakness. But some lessons learned are not the best kinds.

Jackson turned to a white-haired punk when spring came and classes were back. He hung out with the other punks and lost touch with his best friends, Jamie Bennette and E. Aster Bunnymund. The two tried talking some sense into him, Aster even tried to knock some sense into him, but after he and his new crew locked them in the cafeteria's freezing food storage, they took a hint. It was mostly this other kid's idea, Dax D. Ranger. They call him by his middle initial, Daggur. Or called, in any case. After that incident, his father Oswald shipped him off to military school. The worst Jackson got out of it was detention. That wasn't new. With Pitch and Daggur gone, Jackson led the punks, now known as The Frostbites. The kids in school called him Jack Frost, because he seemed cold-hearted the way he treated the newer kids.

But if they only knew, he wasn't always like that.

A/N: Not much, I know. Hiccup didn't even show up. But this was just to get the centerpoint out. If that. This is the first au! I'm making that isn't loosely based on anything. So it's really an idea of mine. That being said, don't expect consecutive chapters.