Shout out to the Deviant Artist who wrote this prompt, tehuti! I will probably using more of their prompts, because they are AWESOME!


Ghosts

Original: They say a monster lives in those hills.

(EDIT: They say a monster lives in these woods.)


"SNOOOOW DAAAAY!" A cheerful voice yelled as a strong gust of wind sent hundreds of snowflakes across the open space. A young winter spirit, Jack Frost, was up to no good again.

"Wind!" The boy yelled to his faithful yet invisible companion, "Take me to Merida's place!" He snickered with the wind as he was taken away. He sighed deeply into the cold, loving the way the temperature went from cool to freezing. Soon he was spiraling down to a particularly large and colorful Oak tree.

With a little extra effort the area around the tree was covered in snow. Jack drifted back behind the trees and waited. And waited. And waited, until...

"JACK FROST!" Jack nearly squealed in delight as a shrill voice shook the trees down to their roots, making several clumps of snow fall from the branches.

He held in his laughter, barely, as a girl a head higher than him with flaming red hair stormed out of the tree, which was her house.

"JACK! I know you're still here!" She yelled again, and Jack flew into view.

"You call, Princess?" He asked, his face a look of pure innocence.

"Listen 'er, Frost! It's no' supposta' be winter until next month! I's dangerous to-"

"To disturb the seasons, yeah yeah yeah." The look on her face made him think he was about to be speared with an arrow, so he quickly added, "But! I wanted to visit! And it was too hot here, anyways. You give Hiccup too much leeway."

"This coming from you?" She growled, and he held up his hands.

"True, true. No need to be so-Oof!" He was quickly struck down with a flash of light from Merida's bow. Nonfatal, but painful.

"Rough." He coughed weakly. He rolled over to his side, melodramatically crying out, "Woe is me! I have been bested! Ooch, this lass is a tough one!" He rolled to his back and gave a few gasps and added in a cough or two before sprawling out and going limp.

He kept his eyes closed, but he was sure he felt Merida roll her eyes at him. After a minute of silence he curiously opened an eye.

And came face-to-face with a medium sized brown bear.

"Boo."

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BEAR!" Jack jumped up quickly, gaining altitude. He heard someone laughing and looked down. Fifty feet below him Merida was on the ground in a fit of laughter, no bear in sight.

A bit indignant, Jack huffed, "Oi! Watch yerself, Lassie! They say a monster lives in these woods!" He laughed as Merida scowled at him, but she was soon rolling again, and the jab had no affect.

"Stupid ghosts." He rolled his eyes, beckoning the Wind to guide him again as he left the old Scot with her half-frozen tree.


A lot of head canons in this, sorry. Main one being Merida's forest, the one from the movie, is said to be 'Haunted' because she protects it fiercely. Merida doesn't, however, like the idea of the haunted forest, she just wants to protect the Wisps. Also, I think she can change into a bear because... Well, I used to have an idea that something about her death caused it. But it would be cool if she did.