My room is nice to say the least; a queen size bed with a red bedspread; a fireplace, complete with fire; a comfy red arm chair; a green rug with gold trim covering most of the floor; a dark wood wardrobe and a window with a spectacular view of the mountains. I let my cloak slid to the floor and sink onto the bed sighing. Heaven. Before I know it I'm waking up to shouts outside my door, "again?!" "grab your bow!" "where is he?". I slide out of bed and pick my cloak up. The fire's gone down, must be about five in the morning. Jack bursts in, "Jack, what's happening? is Pitch here?" "I hope not, get out here!" I glance down the hall. Jack motions for me to follow, I hesitate. "What?" "I don't have a weapon." "Just come and watch, we'll get you something later. Come on!"
We make it to the globe room just as Rapunzel screams. A shadow creeps across the floor, chasing the end of her hair which she rapidly gathers in her arms, trying to protect it from that thing. An icy blast hits it dead center and it isn't even fazed, an eerie laugh echos through the room. Rapunzel screams again. The shadow lunges and she runs behind a piller. Another icy blast and one of Merida's arrows collide forming a type of 'frost arrow', a direct hit! It slows and the laugh falters, but not for long. Climbing up the piller is no problem and it creates the perfect backdrop for a shadowy image of Pitch Black himself. Toothless growls and Hiccup puts a hand on his head. No need to blast a perfectly good piller, no matter who's on it. Pitch reaches a hand around the piller and pulls Rapunzel into the light. "now that I've got your attention..." every hand tightened around it's weapon, or, in my case, into fists. "All of you combined can't beat me so you go to a puny girl? she can't even fight!" my eyes narrowed, I could too fight! I just chose not to. "Pathetic choice, Jack. Out of all the world you pick her, and you wonder why no one likes you." he chuckled and Jack exploded. Literally. White light streaked with blue threw everything into sharp relief as a whirlwind of snow tore through the room. I blinked the spots out of my eyes. It was over. The shadow had either vanished or been destroyed and the left over snow settled to the ground. We stood for a moment of shocked silence, then Jack stocked out of the room.
I found him on the roof of a tower making little snowmen run around his feet. Several things ran through my mind, 'I can actually fight.', 'he's trying to frighten you.', 'what did he mean, "no one likes you"?', 'like any of us would listen to him.', 'I like you.'. but none of them sounded right, even in my head. So I left him to his snowmen and didn't see him again 'til he sat down at the dinner table. Silence. Merida stopped talking hair problems with Rapunzel, Hiccup and Santa stopped arguing over where Toothless would spend the night, and I stopped worrying about Jack. My worrying didn't matter anyway, he was obviously not okay. He didn't look at anyone, just sat down, picked up his fork, and put a piece of turkey in his mouth. Eventually we realized we were staring and the talk started up again as if it hadn't stopped.
