~*~ Hi guys! Thanks for staying with me this far! This is a continuation of the Merricup and there will be Jackunzel here too. Just the start of it but it is still a scene... there'll be more of them in the next chapters.
~*~ I do NOT own "Rise of the Guardians" "Brave" "Tangled" "How to Train Your Dragon"
~*~ Chapter 3 ~*~
~*~ Normal POV
"Now hold on tight" Hiccup smirked. "Where?" Merida asked. Just the second, Toothless spread his wings and shot up in the air.
Merida screamed as she felt the air brush up against her. She was soaring high now, above the clouds. "HICCUP! I changed me mind! Gemme down!" she cried, clinging to Hiccup.
He blushed red and Toothless shot up, higher.
"Hiccup! Get me down from 'ere!" Merida screamed.
Hiccup grinned. Merdia was frankly scared of this height. The blazing red curls flapped in the wind.
"Hiccup!" Merida screamed. Hiccup looked at her. Toothless was flying steadily now, soaring in the sky.
"Just open your eyes. It's alright" Hiccup assured Merida.
She shook her head. "It's too far down!" she cried.
"Trust me okay?" Hiccup battled his hand from clasping Merida's. She seemed quite surprised at the warm touch but she was too frightened to even think about it. Slowly, she peeked from her hair. The clouds hung just a stone's throw from them. Nervously, she held up one hand and touched a drifting cloud. She giggled softly.
"I take it back. This is amazing!" Merida laughed, releasing Hiccup from her embrace and holding up two hands. Hiccup laughed with her.
"Hiccup this is so fun!" Merida suddenly wrapped her hands on Hiccup's neck. Hiccup turned angry-red.
"Y-yeah. It is quite..."
"Breathtakin'!" Merida cut him off.
Hiccup smiled. Toothless landed back to where they had taken off and Hiccup helped Merida off.
Much to his surprise, she gave him a quick peck on the cheek. she quickly pilled away, blushing like mad.
"Thanks for tha'" she bit her lip and ran off to Rapunzel.
The blond was currently helping Lillith who just awoke. "Where? Who are you?" she looked frightened enough. Supposingly the experience she had just gotten into was scary enough.
"My name's Rapunzel and you don't have to be afraid of me" Rapunzel said.
"You're Pitch Black's daughter, right?" Rapunzel asked. "I am, sort of" Lillith looked around.
"Where are they?" she asked. "
Who?" Rapunzel raised an eyebrow.
"The three boys. They came here with me" Lillith scrambled up the snow but a sudden pain in her side made her fall back on her knees. Rapunzel helped her sit back.
Merida stomped over to Lillith. "Thank ya. Fer savin' me brothers. They said ya got inta a lotta trouble fer those li'l devils" Merida scratched her head.
"You must be their sister" Lillith smirked. "I can see the resemblance" Merida flipped her hair to one side. Jack pushed her roughly away.
"What do you want, Lillith?" he asked coldly.
"Jack, I-I mean-Frost-I mean..." Lillith stammered. Jack's icy eyes softened.
"Jack's fine. I asked you a question" Jack formed a snowball in his hand and blew the tiniest bit of frost into it. Hiccup walked over to them with his sheepish smile. Merida looked at him and the scrawny boy immediately blushed and looked away.
"My dad had a change of plans" Lillith said.
"He told me the Guardians would be captured to be used as baits for Jack" Lillith hung her head.
"Has he done anything yet?" Jack asked, kneeling in front of Lillith. The girl shook her head.
"He's waiting for you" she said.
"Me?" Jack pointed to himself.
"And the the others" Lillith dropped something.
"What's this?" Hiccup asked, picking it up. Jack had seen one of those in Jaime's house the other day.
"That's a recorder" Jack said, examining the thing in Hiccup's hands.
"I used it to record the conversation" Lillith explained.
"Don't you trust your dad enough?" Jack snapped. Lillith shrugged slightly.
"He was acting strange all of a sudden. I thought something was going on" Lillith pressed a small button on the recorder.
"PITCH!" Tooth's voice rang out, almost defeaning. Hiccup held the recorder back.
"You ankle-biter! Where's Jack? What've you done to him?" Bunny yelled next. There was a loud clanking of metal.
"Nothing, Aster. Nothing at all" Pitch laughed again. Jack gritted his teeth.
"Don't you worry. I don't have Jack, just yet" Pitch said.
"Lillith, I think we have company" Pitch said.
"You knew about that?" Jack asked. Lillith shook her head.
"I was pretty surprised at first"
"Mother Gothel!" Lillith's voice sounded hoarse in the recording. "It's nice to meet you too, darling" Gothel said. Rapunzel whimpered.
"She! She cut my hair!" Rapunzel felt for Pascal on her head. Lillith gasp was undeniable. There was more than Pitch and Gothel in the room. There was a sudden loud roar. Merida shook slightly. "That's Mor'du. The demon bear" she said, her voice filled with dread.
"Calm down, Mor'du. It's just Lillith" Gothel shushed. There was another deafening roar. It was different, more like something big, like a loin or...
"Dragon" Hiccup looked at Toothless who growled in agreement. "Shut up!" Gothel yelled. Bunny snickered softly.
"Welcome, Gothel" Pitch laughed.
"Don't flatter me Black" Gothel wagged her fingers. I came because of our deal" she said.
"Deal?" North's voice asked. Pitch laughed. "That's North!" Jack said softly.
"Bring the hostages in" Pitch said.
"Hostages?!" Tooth cried.
"Hostages?" the four echoed.
"Dad, you never said anything about hostages" Lillith's voice protested. Pitch's voice was cold when he answered his daughter.
"Change of plans"
There was a loud scratching and bloops then the sounds stopped.
"This is great!" Jack said, suddenly glad. Lillith looked at him with a smirk.
"I knew you'd figure it out" she said, her eyes slowly drooping with sleepiness.
"But the others? Who are they?" Hiccup asked. Lillith closed her eyes, trying hard to remember what they even looked like.
"One was a man" she said. "He had brown hair and he looked like some sort of thief. There were bags everywhere around him and in one of them was a pretty crown" Rapunzel gasped, hearing Lillith's words.
"Eugene" she whispered, barely audible.
"The other one was a girl. She had her blond hair in a thick braid. She looked tough, with a spiked skirt and all. But that was all I could see about her.
"Spiked skirt? Blond braid?" Hiccup looked nervous. "Astrid, maybe?" Toothless shrugged his black shoulders.
"What happened to you?" Jack looked at Lillith. "You were pretty beat up" he said and his attention turned to Rapunzel. "What did you do, she's so good and back to normal now?" he asked, his blue eyes regaining their glow.
"I don't really remember. I'm sorry" Lillith dusted herself up, placing a hand on a tree trunk for balance. The snow crunched under her boots.
"You want me to take you to my father's?" Lillith asked. "Yeah" Jack flew to his feet. Harris, Hamish and Hubert looked at their sister. "I will if you promise me one thing" Lillith glared at Jack.
"No one leaves each other" she looked as if she was going to break down. "You're a team. Every enemy is to be faced by all of you as one" Lillith said. Jack nodded without hesistation.
"What about yer?" Merida asked.
"My dad thinks I didn't survive the cold. I'll sneak you in and handle my dad while you get your friends out there" Lillith said.
"Leave Pitch. He's mine" Jack twirled his staff.
"It's time I face Gothel, whether I lose my hair or not" Rapunzel stood too.
"Mor'du's me rival. I will take 'im on" Merida snorted. "It's not like yer can handle 'em all by yourself ya know" she said.
"We got Big Dragon before. We can make him taste fire again" Hiccup offered.
"Fine. I'll provide distraction while you get your friends out of the cages" Lillith said. "End of discussion" she said before Jack could protest.
A black katana manifested in her hand. "I never thought I'd use it" she said, looking at the gleaming black blade. She slung it over her hip.
"Dad must be checking on the prisoners now. We wait for nightfall" Lillith said.
"Why?" Rapunzel asked.
"That's when my dad turns dreams into nightmares. It will give you enough time to unlatch the cages and set the others free. By the time you're done, Pitch will be back" Lillith eyed the rising sun. "We stay 'till you guys can go unnoticed" she walked calmly over to a lone spot and settled there, brushing the katana's blade with bits of snow. Snowflakes began to fall. Rapunzel giggled as one landed into her hair.
Jack grinned. The grin wasn't the good grin. A snowball formed into his hand. The perfect snowball. He held it in his hand for a moment and cupped his other hand to his mouth.
"Lillith! Think fast!" he yelled. Just as Lillith turned aroud, the snowball went flying and landed square in her face.
"Frost!" she wiped her face off the crystals. Merida burst out laughing and proceeded to form a snowball of her own.
"Hohoho!" Harris, Hubert and Hamish giggled as they began to fire at their sister, non-stop.
"Oh, yer gonna get a cold ice cream in'ya face, ya devils!" Merida began firing back.
"Alright, who needs ammo?" Jack slid across the ice, covering it in fresh snow.
"Hiccup!" Merida fired a snowball. Hiccup fell back as it hit him in the face.
"Oh, you're gonna pay for that!" he formed a snowball and threw it at Jack. Jack fell backwards and smashed into a pile of snow. Now, even Rapunzel was laughing. She flung a snowball at Lillith who threw another one at Jack.
They were laughing like crazy when the sun started to set. Lillith still settled by the far side. Jack floated lazily too her and sat beside her. "I never thought I'd see you again" he smirked.
Lillith laughed. "Yeah. I didn't think we'd meet here too" she sighed. "To be honest, you look pretty startled" she glanced at Rapunzel. She was giggling over whatever Merida and Hiccup were talking about. Jack was looking at her too, in a way that made Lillith feel happy.
"How long do you plan on staring from the distance?" she asked softly. The question seemed silly. But to Jack, it was a whole new thing. He snapped out of it and glared at her.
"What are you talking about?" he hissed. Lillith threw her head back and laughed.
"What do you mean, what am I talking about?" she giggled. "You're being too obvious" Lillith chuckled.
Jack blushed bright pink. "I don't know what you're talking about" Jack stuttered, ignoring Lillith's smirk.
"Oh, really?" Lillith nudged Jack with her elbow. "You know perfectly well what I'm talking about, Jack" she wagged a finger at him and closed her eyes and laid back on the snow.
"I used to look at you that way" she whispered.
Jack's eyes widened with surprise. "You did not"
"Did"
"Not"
"I did, Jack" Lillith stared out in the horizon. "It was a long time ago, wasn't it? It was heaven back then" she sighed deeply.
"It was good old times" Jack murmured. "I remember. But not what you just told me" he blinked twice. "I don't remember much" he confessed.
Lillith mumbled something inaudible. "I know. You told me once. Right after you died, that put me in some state of shock" she admitted, blush creeping up her pale cheeks. "It was awful. And because of that, I cast my past aside. I wanted to forget. I never will, maybe. I changed my name, took on a different course, chose something that will haunt me with a memory that isn't you..." Lillith said.
"I'm sorry I didn't get to let North and the others go" she murmured.
Jack looked at her and raised his eyebrows. "You serious? You're apologizing for that?" Jack asked. "Lillith, the past doesn't matter to me anymore. It doesn't matter what you chose before, what became of it. I don't care anymore. What's important is we still get to live our lives just the way we wanted it to, right?" Jack nudged her shoulder.
"I guess" Lillith replied, turning back to Rapunzel. The girl was now toying with Pascal and was talking with Merida at the same time. Hiccup was on Toothless again, smoothing the black scales.
"Don't lose her" Lillith murmured. Jack widened his eyes.
"What are you talking about. Lillith you're being silly" he said, looking away, determined to hide the blush on his cheeks.
Lillith turned to him, suddenly serious. "I mean it Jack. Don't lose any of them" she bit her lip. "And not only them. Even the Guardians. Don't lose them. I don't want you to" Lillith said.
"You're not my mom" Jack shuddered at her tone. Clearly, she was upset about her past. Nothing he would ever say would comfort her. It was a scar she was destined to bear forever. But still, it wouldn't hurt to try.
"Jack, I don't want you to feel the pain I felt!" Lillith said, raising her shaky voice slightly. "I don't want anyone to feel the same way" she cried, her white hair flipping to one side. "I don't want to lose you again!" she dashed the tears brimming in her eyes away.
Jack stumbled back hearing that. "But I don't want you to lose your friends either" Lillith looked back at the other three around the campfire. "Live on, Jack. This is your second chance and I won't get in the way this time" Lillith said. And with that, she turned on her heels and leaned on a small tree. Lacey frost designs formed by the trunk.
"Is that why you drowned yourself in the same lake, six years after I did?" Jack demanded.
"I couldn't bear it anymore. It haunted me every single day of my life. Tore me apart" Lillith clutched her chest. "You changed a lot, in the past years, I never thought about seeing you again" Lillith ran a hand on her white hair.
"I don't care about that anymore though" she said, suddenly cheerful. "What matters is, Jack Frost or Jackson Overland, you'll always be my brother, right?" Lillith smiled and walked away.
Jack sighed. Hadn't his past haunted him long enough? Now he wished he didn't remember.
He walked back to the campfire and noticed that the three were stirring up quite a hurricane.
"-she almost got me! That blasted woman!" Rapunzel crossed her arms over her chest. "She even got a strand of my hair!" Rapunzel fumbled with her golden strands, yanking a tangled braid and brushing it over.
"Lemme help yer" Merida walked over to Rapunzel and took her golden tufts in her hands and began to braid.
"Thanks. I'm really having a hard time with this thing" Rapunzel tossed yet another tangled braid and brushed it again.
Jack pretended to be interested. "How do you do that?" he asked, eyeing Merida's work. The redhead worked faster than he thought. She was almost at the mid-length of Rapunzel's hair and the blond was catching up, her braids, a little tighter than Merida's work.
"Come here. I'll show you" Rapunzel patted a patch of snow beside her and dropped the strands she was braiding.
Jack went over to her and sat down casually, cross-legged on the snow. Rapunzel handed him a separate part of the strands she had already brushed and was smooth again.
"Here" Rapunzel took Jack's cold hands in hers and began to guide him across. "That's it. Over, under, over, under. You got it Jack!" she giggled and looked up from his hands. Her green eyes met Jack's blue ones. They held each other's gaze for a moment at looked away. Rapunzel released Jack's hands.
"Sorry. That was awkward" she ran a hand on her hair. She was turning pink.
"Yeah, that was a bit. Sorry" Jack turned red. From a corner, he saw Lillith give him a thumbs up. She had a big childish grin plastered on her face. Then she disappeared behind the tree.
Rapunzel gnawed the inside of her cheek. "Come on, Punz. Speak up!" she mumbled to herself. Eyeing Jack slowly gave her an idea. "Um... Jack, you alright?" she asked.
"Yep. Pretty much fired up now. You?" Jack twirled his staff again.
"Alright. But the sun is going to set soon and you'll get to see Pitch" Rapunzel tapped her chin. "Doesn't that make you nervous?" she asked.
Jack shook his head. "I've handle him before" Jack said confidently.
"I see. I just had to ask" Rapunzel fiddled with a strand of hair again. "I'm pretty nervous like Hiccup" she said.
"How come?" Jack asked.
"It's Gothel. I don't know very much how to fight and she's an expert. What if I get stuck with her? I don't knw what to do" Rapunzel cried. "I don't know much on how to defend myself against a dagger" she sank down on the snow.
Jack hesitantly patted her back lightly. "You'll be fine. I promise" he said. "We'll be with you every step of the way" he said. Rapunzel's ears perked up and she blushed. "Thanks" she mumbled.
~*~ That's that for now! Thanks for going with me so far and so... Jack and Lillith's relationship has been revealed! And I need a little help. I don't know how to bring up the romance part. If you'd like to give some tip on how to stir up Merricup and Jackunzel blush scenes, please review for your suggestions and I will put them on the story for you. Thanks so much guys!