I recently watched Would You Rather, a pretty terrifying psychological horror which gave me an idea for this fic. Hiccup is invited to a dinner party and a game. If he wins, his life will change unimaginably. The host is offering money and anything that Hiccup needs if he makes it to the end of the game. But what game will they be playing? Hiccup will have to play to find out...

This is a Big Four fic with implied HiccupxJack, RapunzelxFlynn and maybe some AsterxMerida? Not sure yet.

This is based on a horror movie plot so be warned, there will be blood, threat, sexual acts, triggers, language, just about everything I should be worried about... Enjoy x

"Our eighth and final guest." Gothel announced, presenting me to the rest of the people standing around the small room. Their heads all turned to me, some looking interested, others bored. Before I realised it, Gothel had floated out of the room again, closing the door behind her and I was left with these seven strangers.

I was expecting an awkward silence to follow, so I was quite surprised when two of the guests walked straight over and offered me a drink.

"Oh no thank you. I think I'll wait until dinner." I tried to be polite. After all, I'd be spending the next few hours eating dinner and playing a game with them.

"I'm Jack by the way." The boy who offered me a drink said by way of an introduction. He smiled down at me with piercing blue eyes. He was slightly taller than me and had snowy white hair, but he still looked to be about my age. He was wearing a full formal suit with a pale blue tie and I suddenly felt underdressed in my dark green collared shirt and black trousers. The girl stood by his side huffed and stretched out her hand to shake mine, a big grin crossing her face.

"Merida." She said, and right away, I heard the strong Scottish accent in her voice. She was dressed in a pretty blue dress with gold trims that reached her knees, but her most impressive attribute had to be that hair. There was so much of it. Bright red and curly, reaching her hips, even though she had half of it tied up in a knot at the back of her head. I smiled at them both and shook their hands.

"I'm Hiccup." I said, after a few seconds of silence in which I zoned out, staring incredulously at Merida's fantastic hair. "Uh, so are you both local too?" I asked, trying to break the ice a little more.

"Nah, they flew me in from Scotland." Merida explained. I could've guessed that… I thought. I turned to Jack.

"Burgess." He said simply. I knew that town. It was only a few states across from this one. "You got any idea what's gonna happen tonight?" He asked, more quietly.

I shrugged.

I could tell by the sudden flurry of orange in my peripheral vision that Merida had done the same.

I honestly had no idea what kind of game we'd be playing. I just knew that I needed to win if I wanted to pay for my dad's medical bills.

"What do you do?" Jack directed the question to both of us but going from the fact Merida had been there for hours, I guessed he'd already drained every topic of conversation out of her, so he looked at me for an answer.

"Uh, I don't really have a job at the moment. That's partly why I'm here." There was a strained silence, "Yeah, I'm not quite as glamorous as any of you guys."

"Glamorous?" Jack laughed, a little louder than I'd have liked. A few people stopped their conversations to listen. "My job's far from glamorous. I'm a doctor, or well, in-training at least. I'm sure Merida'd love to tell you all about her job." He drawled sarcastically.

"Oi! I'll have ye know mah job sucks sometimes too." She turned to me, "I'm training for the Olympics." She said proudly.

"Wow, really?"

"Yup. Archery. I nearly got in last time but some codger from London took the GB spot." She glanced over to Jack, who was hiding a smirk. "And I'm gonna get in this time! Ah've got to!"

"Okay okay, whatever." Jack raised his hands. I could tell the two of them had already had this conversation and were simply reiterating it for me. I decided to change the subject quickly.

"So, is this everyone?" I asked.

Jack nodded.

"How long have-?"

"Ah've been 'ere for hours, if that's what y'er gonna ask." Merida tossed her hair back and took another sip from her glass. "Jack only rolled in a coupla' minutes ago."

"More like thirty…" He corrected her.

I glanced around the room, "What about everyone else?"

Jack matched his eyeline to mine and began to speak.

"Well, the girl over there with the spiky skirt, that's Astrid. I think she's a vet, which kind of vet, I have no idea though… Uh, that big guy with the tattoos, that's Aster. He's an artist, probably. Next one, she's uh Tooth? I think that was her name. She's a teacher from New York. Very chatty. You're not gonna want to start a conversation you don't intend to finish with that one. She didn't get the warning in time. That blonde bombshell. I think her name was Raz- no, Rapunza-?"

"Rapunzel. She's a model, obviously..." Merida butted in. "And the lad hitting on her is Flynn Rider. Know 'im?"

I stared at the man. Yes, I did know him. "Is he an actor or something?"

"Only the best rising star at the moment. No idea what 'e's doin' here though."

"And that's everyone." Jack rounded off, sounding somewhat miffed at Merida's obsessing over Flynn. "And now you're here so-"

Jack was interrupted by the opening of the doors I came in through. Every head swivelled towards it and I had to jump to the side to avoid receiving a faceful of Merida's mane in the process. A tall man in a fully black suit stepped in. This was Mr Black. He was the one who invited me in the first place, the one who said he could-

"Welcome." He threw his arms wide, grinning around at us all. "Welcome everyone. I'm so glad to see you all made it. Now, before we kick things off, I do have to make one small request."

I turned to glance at Jack, who was also peering to see my reaction at the same time.

"Due to the nature of the game you will all be participating in tonight, I must ask that you hand over all your possessions, within reason, of course, to avoid any cheating or advantages to any players. Mobile phones, keys et cetera. I hope you understand?"

The room went dead silent as everyone exchanged suspicious glances. The first to react was Astrid, who stood up quickly and tossed her bag into one of the trays being held out by the servants beside Mr Black.

"Thank you for your compliance, young lady."

One by one, we all followed suit, placing our belongings in the trays. It felt weird having completely empty pockets.

"Lovely. Now if you'd like to follow me. Don't worry about your drinks. They'll be cleared away by my staff."

Mr Black was English. His accent was incredible. Mesmerising. Everyone put their glasses down on various tables around the room and proceeded to follow Mr Black out of the 'waiting room'. Jack, Merida and I were at the end of the line as we paraded through several corridors before finally reaching a large frosted panelled double door. The doors were pulled open on our approach, presumably by some more servants of the house on the other side.

Beyond, a massive table that could easily seat sixteen people was laid out like a fancy restaurant. Wine glasses and napkin swans were dotted around and a large chandelier hung directly above the bright red table runner.

"Placecards have been provided. Please, take a seat." Mr Black sat at the head of the table by the door and the rest of us were left to wander around looking for our names. The table was set out so that four people would sit on each side as well as two places at both heads for Mr Black and somebody else… There was a place set up but it didn't seem like anyone else would be arriving to fill it. Maybe Gothel, the butler?

As I circled the table, I read some of the names that weren't mine.

E. Aster Bunnymund

Merida Dunbroch

Flynn Rider

Astrid Hofferson

Rapunzel Corona

And right next to that one… Hiccup Haddock III

Just my luck I'm placed between the prettiest girl I've ever seen and…

Jack Frost

Wow, what a fantastic name. So appropriate too, especially considering the white hair and bright blue eyes…

Next to Jack, the teacher sat. I couldn't believe I hadn't noticed before, but I realised now that she had green green and blue streaks running through her short brown hair. What was her name again?

Toothiana- but her surname was hidden behind Jack's napkin swan and I didn't want to lean across him to see the rest of the name so I settled for only knowing the girl's first name, which was peculiar in itself anyway. Her seat was next to the head at which Mr Black sat and the two of them were exchanging pleasantries.

"Hello there," Rapunzel, the model (up close I could see how she got the job), pulled out the chair to my left and glanced at my name card before sitting. "Hiccup, looks like we're sitting together." Her smile was so contagious it made me smile just looking at it. "I hope you're good at games, because I'm not. We should team up, eh? It'll be loads of fun!"

Her optimism was astonishing. Her bright green eyes shone with enthusiasm and her cheeks flushed pink when I agreed to team up if need be. Another thing that quickly caught my attention was her hair.

What was it with these girls and their hair? Rapunzel's was a shimmering blonde and reached the floor. As she was sat down, it flowed across the wooden back of her chair into a graceful puddle of hair at her feet. She wore a purple dress that complimented the blonde unbelievably well.

I scanned the other side of the table. At Mr Black's end sat Aster. Really looking at him, I noticed how big of a man he was. Large navy blue tribal tattoos covered both of his beefy arms and his hair, also a very dark shade of blue-black was long and spiked at the ends. He looked like the kind of guy you wouldn't want to come face to face with in a dark alley. But when he suddenly turned his head and made eye contact with me, his face broke into possibly the warmest smile I'd ever seen. I returned the gesture and decided this man was just a big softie.

Next to him was Merida, and she needed no second introduction for me. She looked rather excited at being placed between Aster and Flynn. So far, Merida screamed tomboy to me.

Flynn was immaculate. He was an actor and starred in a lot of romance films. No surprise how he managed to land the roles, considering his generic handsome face and perfect floppy hair. He and Merida were talking. Or rather, Merida was talking. Flynn was half-listening, half trying to get a word in edgeways.

My eyes finally wandered across to the girl sitting across from Rapunzel. Astrid. She'd come across as a bit of a punk from the moment I saw the spike studded skirt and closer inspection only proved my opinion correct. She had dirty blonde hair in a thick braid on the one side of her head and a brown leather headband across her forehead. Her face expressed pure boredom with a hint of disgust, no doubt because Rapunzel was now attempting to make conversation by complimenting her on her earrings, of which there were at least six in each ear.

Definitely not a people person, is she… Better make a note not to be too friendly with that one.

"Okay, alright. Everyone, please turn your attention to me." Mr Black announced, hushing everyone's conversations immediately. "This is my son, Dagur." He gestured up the table to the once empty seat in between Rapunzel and Astrid, where a man was now sat,

"Hello, everyone." Dagur waved down the table. He was a large, muscled man with a tattoo covering one of his eyelids and eyebrow. A tuft of messy ginger hair stuck up from his pear shaped head. He didn't look like Mr Black's son at all.

The entire table gingerly waved or smiled back at Dagur. Nobody was sure whether to take him seriously or not.

"He will be joining us for dinner and for the game." Black continued, smiling down the table at each of us, but fixing his son with a meaningful stare, as if reminding him of something. Dagur rolled his eyes and slumped deeper into his chair.

"Speaking of dinner, tonight we will be having a wonderful meal prepared by our very own chefs, a meal of the best ribeye steak money can buy, fresh new potatoes and an assortment of the finest vegetables from our very own garden."

Several waiters suddenly filed into the room, bearing plates of the delicious looking food. A plate was placed in front of every guest, including myself. Then, shortly after, our wine glasses were filled with red wine from bottles without labels.

"Looks delicious, doesn't it?" Black said proudly, picking up his own wine glass and taking a long, tentative sip.

I peered across to Jack, who was taking up his knife and fork. Our eyes met briefly and I gave him a small smile, before beginning to eat. The steak was heavenly. And I usually didn't like steak. About three bites into my meal, someone else spoke up.

"Sorry mate, I uh, probably shoulda' told you earlier, but I'm a vegetarian."

I glanced around the table, trying to decipher the source of the voice. The strong Australian accent was coming from Aster.

"A vegetarian?" Black said, locking his fingers together and leaning forward on his elbows, "Well, this is awkward. You see, we don't have anything else we can serve you."

"Oh nah, don't worry. It's my fault fer not letting ya know sooner." Aster apologised, waving his hand around, very nearly smacking Merida in the face. "I'll just pick around it and y'know, the potatoes and veggies look great." He began to eat the potatoes and I couldn't help but feel sorry for the guy. Mr Black could've at least had a backup menu in case this happened. Vegetarians aren't that uncommon nowadays. I considered becoming one for a while but could never really commit to it.

"How long have you been a vegetarian?" Tooth asked.

"As long as I can remember. Never 'ad any meat in my house an' I never 'ad any reason to try it so…"

"Well well. Now this is interesting…" Black grinned, adjusting his seat so he was looking right at Aster. "You, my dear man, may have just given me the perfect excuse to begin awarding some money.

Aster, I will give you one thousand dollars if you eat that entire steak."

Chapter 2 will be posted soon-ish. It's A-Level exam season atm so writing this is my procrastination from Psychology revision. Please review if you liked this chapter and tell em how I can improve. I love constructive criticism! Thanks everyone xx