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Chapter 4 – Dancing from Danger

The little blue flame hopped around on Toothless' back. She jumped from scale to scale and when Hiccup looked closer it reminded him of a traditional dance that visiting travellers to his village once did when he was alive. He vaguely remembered the song that went with it, only because he was forced to sing along with the rest of the tribe.

As Merida moved onto another scale he began to hum. The little queen was startled at first from the sudden noise from the previously quiet boy. Recently the only other noises were the wind whistling by as they flew at top speed, Rapunzel pointing out every second thing that they flew over and Jack complaining loudly about Santa not letting him use a portal. After another second the wisp started again; hopping and twirling, floating and jumping in time with Hiccup's humming and the tapping of his left hand.

Step, step, jump, hop, step, twirl, step. The flame's movements could almost be called hypnosis, the dragon rider could certainly call it so; the only things he was focusing on the moment were the movements of the tiny flame and the breathing of his dragon. He hardly noticed the weather changing and becoming colder (possibly because he felt so warm from the dancing flame and the body heat of Toothless).

Suddenly the Night Fury landed on the snow, Jack and Punzie before him. Hiccup, who wasn't paying any attention, got jolted right out of the saddle, over Merida and Toothless and into the freezing snow. As the Viking regained himself and pulled himself upright again he was met with laughter from every one of his companions, including Merida who had just popped back to her full size and even Toothless who was making huffing sounds, almost if he were laughing. Hiccup stood up and brushed himself off.

"That was extremely graceful." Merida said between chortles.

Punzie looked up at the collection of buildings on the edge of an icy cliff. they were placed very precariously on the edge and were covered with icicles. She pointed upwards.

"Is that where we're headed?"

Jack hovered again in mid-air his eyes following her outstretched finger. He smiled, "That's it!" He landed next to Rapunzel and took her hand; his hands were, as fitting to his name, as cold as frost. As they flew toward the buildings on the cliff she peered over her shoulder she saw Merida morphing and teleporting to the top of the cliff where she morphed back and waved at them. She heard Hiccup grumbling and saw a black shape zooming past.

Jack sped up, "Hey! You can't leave us behind!"

Hiccup kept focused straight ahead and Merida's arms were waving like crazy.

Jack now flew alongside Hiccup, "Oi, Hic, is this a race?"

Hiccup turned to glare at the frost spirit, "Only to get away from those." He jerked his thumb over his shoulder. Jack and Rapunzel looked behind, only to see what Merida was panicking about and what Hiccup was try to get away from. A giant cloud of black dust was flying towards them, the particles sparkling in the setting sun.

Jack swore, (a word Rapunzel had rarely heard for the City of Flowers was always filled with content, happy people,) and turned back forward. The three spirits flew as fast as they could towards the now open door of North's workshop, the mass of black sand swelling behind them. They all entered through the giant oak doors at the same time; a flurry of scaly wings, snow, frost, flowers and blue flame.

The doors slammed shut behind them encasing the four in darkness. The only sound was the strange thumping noises that the black particles made against the oak and the large furry, yet friendly, creatures clambering over their work to help hold the door shut.

They all listened for a couple of seconds after the thumping had stopped and when Rapunzel was certain that they were as safe as they could possibly be she fell to her knees and stared up at the strange place that she was in. It was high-domed and everywhere you looked there were toys, the other three (and the dragon) had tumbled in with her and they were all either sprawled on the floor (which was mainly just Hiccup) or staring at the place around them.

Jack stood up first and instantly jumped to the second level in a gust of wind. He disappeared from her sight for a moment before popping back again followed by a gigantic man; he was larger than any other man the Rapunzel had seen and so she was shocked, Merida and Hiccup however were not phased and when Punzie pointed out the man (and his largeness) the two just shrugged.

The elevator clicked and the large man walked out followed by Jack, as soon as the man walked out he smiled, a gigantic warm smile and held his arms wide open.

"Welcome to North Pole!" he boomed.

Jack watched his new friends staring up at the strange man before them. He smiled proud to make an impression and introduced his father figure.

"Guys, meet Nicholas St. North." he smirked. "AKA: Santa Clause."

The three who were recently sprawled on the floor of the workshop jumped up and brushed themselves off.

"You must be tired, yes?" North suddenly swept his right arm towards the elevator, narrowly missing Jack in the process, "Come! You must rest."

Toothless tilted his large black head and the others looked among themselves nervously. Jack saw their nervousness and instantly knew the cause; the black sand. North also noticed this and the old man shook his head.

"Workshop has had its security improved," he said before motioning again to the elevator. "All is fine. We call a meeting of the guardians tomorrow. Tonight you rest."

A girl with black hair sped through the dark forests of a lesser known town in Romania, avoiding the rapidly rising sun. She stumbled once, twice, the black sand rising behind her threatening to swallow her and drag her back to where she came from. She knew where she was headed but had no clue how to get there. When she was, technically, alive… Her thoughts trailed off and she turned, staring down the black cloud. Behind a tree an unusually tall man gawked at her wondering if she had gone mad. A second before the sand would have touched her she seemingly melted into shadows. The sand circled around the area where she previously was before retreating into the distance.

The sunlight hit the area where she disappeared and the girl reformed, cowering in the sunlight that other than somehow scaring her was not doing her any harm. The tall man stepped out from behind the tree he was hiding behind as quietly as he could but the girl heard him. She snapped her head to face him. Her blue eyes almost burning into his so intently that he could see the flecks of gold in them. He closed his own plain grey-green eyes and opened his mouth to greet her, to welcome her to his forest.

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