Pitch had been looking all around North office trying to find what he wanted.
Honestly the fatso really needed to clean up more and be a bit more organized, how anyone could find anything in here was the real question.
"No. No. No. NO!" he screamed knowing with each minute he spent looking the more likely chance that they'd notice he was gone. "I know it's here somewhere but where can he of hidden it?"
"Maybe I can help?" a voice from the door said getting the Nightmare King to turn around to see Jack standing there leaning against the post a look of annoyance on his face, arms crossed his staff close to his chest.
"I doubt it Frost," Pitch said standing tall. "I highly doubt that North would of shown it to you. But if you'd be so kind as to leave me alone to find it on my own, that would most..." he didn't get to finish as a blast of ice and snow came firing at him right there.
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In the secret passage way Rapunzel and the Triplets had been wondering what the man in black was looking for surprised that he hadn't found them.
Harris was on tip toes trying to look trough one of the peepholes in the wall when Jack made his entrance knowing the look on their friends face and pushed his brothers and Rapunzel away from the wall and down the passage way a bit more, just as the blast hit the wall, and a few sharp icicles were coming through the wall.
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"What are you doing here Pitch?" Jack asked staff in both hands in a fighting pose. "Why do you have the others enemy's by your side?"
"Oh Jack... I can't tell you that," Pitch said smiling a scythe in his hand "That will ruin the fun. You'll need to work it out yourself."
"Then maybe you can work out whatever you're looking for out YOURself," Jack said slashing his staff again this time the ice being block by Nightmare Sand.
As the dust cleared, Pitch shot some more out to Jack, attaching him to the wall, after slamming him against a table making it fall over, but not all the way as if it was a triggering device (Imagine those old haunted house movie's and the books on the bookcases) and the bookcase hissed and flung open.
"Thank you Jack," he said looking to the boy trying to get down. "Looks like you were helpful to me after all," with that he went in and then came back out something in hand and went out the door.
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Rapunzel and the boys were looking for the way into the office from where they stood, again, finding a smallish door. Opening it and going through they helped Jack down and rushed out after Pitch, after a quick "Thanks", to continue the fight.
But when they got there the fight was over and the enemies were gone.
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Everyone went back to their own collies and checked that everyone else was right. After that was done Jack asked "Hey North what was behind that bookcase in your office?"
That got the Guardians to freeze and everyone else, minus Rapunzel and the boys to look confused, gaining in that as the Guardians rushed out of the room and to the man's office.
A few minutes later, they came back with worried looks.
"So..." Jack asked crossing his arms, just having finished making some ice bags for those who were hurt.
"It was room where an ancient prophecy was being held," North said coughing slightly eyes zooming over to the four teens.
"Why is it ALWAYS ancient prophecy's?" Snoutlout asked getting a punch in the stomach from Astrid to shut him up.
"Thankfully," North said holding up a scroll "I have a copy of it right here, I made it as soon as Manny told us this was going to happen."
Waiting in silence, everyone watched as North unrolled the scroll and began reading.
'The words written in this ancient tone
Are for those who were once truly alone
One of winter with hair so white
One a small Viking who refused to fight
One a princess who's mother would not hear
And one a princess who had been in a tower for many a year
An enemy of each you all know and know nothing about
Will bond together to turn the world inside out
The four children must work together, becoming one
So all the dark work the world will soon be seeing will be undone
For this to work they must go back to where they first began
And look for objects which helped turn them to women and man
Then the objects must come together on the eve of Spring
And that will stop the Nightmare King'
There was silence in the room as North looked up to a blinking with confusion crowd.
"Well that was helpful," Jack said twirling his staff one of the least affected by how weird this was.
"Look mate," Bunny said stepping forward "What it's saying is basically what Manny said would happen. Pitch has bonded together with the worst enemy's this lot have, and only you and the other teens," here he gestured to Hiccup, Merida and Rapunzel "Can stop them."
"And how'd exactly do ya know it's us tha piece of paper's talking about rabbit?" Merida asked just having finished collecting her arrows and storing them away.
"Well I'm not sure for the rest of ya Sheila," Bunny said crossing his arms "But the first one says 'One of winter with hair so white'. Take a look at Frostbite and tell me what color his hair is."
"And I'm the next one," Hiccup said stepping forward determined getting confused looks. "The next was 'One a small Viking who refused to fight'," he said looking down to Toothless sighing then looked back to his dad and friends who began nodding in agreement.
"Where we come from there are dragons, and the rule was kill or be killed.
One night, I managed to shoot down Toothless, but the next morning when I found him, I found as I looked into his eyes that he was a frightened as I was, and couldn't and wouldn't," he said looking to Astrid briefly "Kill a dragon.
One thing led to another," he said continuing with the story "And we found out why the dragons were attacking us in the first place, after taking down the Queen, and a few weeks later I woke up in bed at home with a missing leg, and the dragons and humans working together."
"The last one's me," Rapunzel spoke up stepping forward "'And one a princess who had been in a tower for many a year', I don't really want to go into as much detail as Hiccup just did his," she said hugging herself "But for the first eighteen years of my life, that woman Mother Gothel, hid me away in a tower away from my family," she said keeping it quick and simple.
"So seems you're the last one Red," Bunny said looking at the text "The 'One a princess who's mother would not hear'."
Merida and Elinor looked to each other and then sighed.
"It's true," Elinor said nodding speaking for Merida "I never did used to listen to Merida, but I do now."
"Ok so that's the first part," Jack called hanging from the rafters upside down no way of telling if his hood was up of if it was just gravity "What about the second half? The part about where we come from?"
North re-read that part out.
'For this to work they must go back to where they first began
and look for objects which helped turn them to women and man
Then the objects must come together on the eve of Spring
And that will stop the Nightmare King'
"I think," Rapunzel said speaking up after a moment's of silence "It means look for objects that turned us from who we were into who we are now." she said getting nods.
"Well if that's the case, you can forget it!" Jack said shocking everyone. "If it mean's my staff... There is no way in the world I'm giving this up. One it helps control my powers, two I saved my sister with this so it reminds me of her every time I use it. If it means these..." he said pulling out a golden cylinder looking box "You will have to kill me to get these. I only just got them back myself after 300 YEARS. There ain't no way I'm giving up my memories AGAIN" he said firing this to the Guardians "Just because Pitch wont stay dead!"
With that he dropped down and the left the room. A slamming door sounded a few seconds later.
"Awkward..." Tuffnut sang/said getting looks and a punch to the face from his sister.
"Um... shouldn't someone go after him?" Rapunzel asked speaking of Jack.
"Not unless you want to become a popcicle Punzie," Bunny said first "Just give 'im time and space, and he should calm down in about... three hours."
"Why's he so sensitive by what the text says?" Stoick asked raising an eyebrow "And what did he mean by 300 years?"
The Guardians looked to each other the Tooth answered. "Jack's a little older than he looks Chief Stoick," she said looking nervous "You see he came into the world three hundred years ago, and well... We ignored him, treated him like he wasn't there, and never spoke to him or anything."
"Well didn't anyone else?" Merida asked.
"There is a slight rule with people like us Merida," North said "We can only be seen and heard of, by people who believe in us. And until recently, no one believed in Jack. We do not know why that's just how is."
"You mean he was alone for 300 years?" Rapunzel asked shocked looking down the corridor Jack went down.
"I think we've all been alone, Punzie," Hiccup said getting their attention looking at the prophecy. "The very first two lines of this thing say 'The words written in this ancient tone. Are for those who were once truly alone' The way you were locked in that tower, the way Merida's mother didn't listen, the way I was treated by MY OWN TRIBE!" he said looking over to the Vikings who looked guilty avoiding his eyes "And how the way Jack was left to fend for himself for this so many years. We've all experienced loneliness and possible heart break and all that. This thing's just screaming us," he said looking to Merida then noticed something. "Er... anyone notice where the prince's went?" he asked getting everyone to see they weren't there.
Suddenly there was a 'BANG' from down stairs and running elves their outfits on fire came into the Globe room, followed by the brothers and a couple of Yeti's.
"Found them," Ruffnut said liking these kids very much.
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Jack had only been in his room for fifteen minutes when the 'BANG' went off and he zoomed out to see what was wrong. Just because he was upset didn't stop him from being a Guardian.
When he returned to the Globe Room he was nearly knocked over by the Princes who were trying to get away from the Yeti's.
Quickly the boys saw it was Jack they bumped into and rushed behind him.
Standing tall, Jack looked towards the Yeti and it what happened.
'The little things managed to over heat the paint drying machine,' one of the Yeti's said gesturing to the elves 'I always thought you and the elves would do that, but no... it was three human children.'
'Well that's no reason to try and kill them,' Jack replied shocking everyone, only North understanding the conversation.
'How would you feel if you were as small as them, and then someone as big as you came chasing after them and screaming at them huh?' Jack asked crossing his arms and looking disappointed.
'Well...' the Yeti began looking at the boys behind the Frost Child and seeing how small they were, around the size and age of Sophie Bennett.
'Exactly,' Jack said stepping forward so he was in the Yeti's face 'You'd be scared. So now you better say Sorry to them and find out a way to apologize to them... Or I'll tell everyone how you and Max are...'
'Ok, ok,' the Yeti said holding up his hand and shaking them looking behind him at North. Then looking to the boys who Jack got out from behind them. 'I'm sorry,' he said bowing his head a bit then got to thinking. 'How about a tour of the shop?' he asked, again looking back to North, getting a nod.
"As long as they don't break anything else, tis fine with me," he said wishing to Manny that that will not happen.
After Jack told the boys what they had just been offered, and they had left everyone looked to him all of them in shock and all but North in confusion.
"What?" he asked "Look just because I'm upset doesn't stop me from being a..."
"That's not it Frostbite," Bunny said stopping him "It was the fact that you not only understood what that Yeti was saying, you answered it too. Since when do you know Yetish?"
"I began learning around the 40th time I tried to bust in here 275 years ago," Jack began "I needed to know what they were saying to learn if I had been spotted yet or if they were screaming about a mixed up paint job."
"Ok aside from that," Merida said coming around too "Since when do my brothers trust you enough to be their run-to-guy in times of danger?"
"Please... You don't think they could of learnt all the secrets of Dunbroch Castle, and earned their criminal minds by themselves do you? Their only five years old." Jack said shaking his head surprised how dumb they were.
That got Merida, Fergus, and Elinor to blink surprised by the answer the boy gave.
"I also helped Toothless find Hiccup's helmet during that first Snoggletog after making piece with the Dragons," Jack continued pointing his staff to Hiccup who was getting a nod from Toothless and a look of confusion from Stoick.
"And every year, on her birthday, I made sure the sky was clear of clouds and rain, so little Rapunzel could see the floating lanterns from her tower," Jack said finishing up with Rapunzel.
"So... all this time you've been around us, and we never noticed you before today?" Rapunzel asked biting her lip looking guilty.
"Seems like it," Jack said shrugging.
Just then there was another even louder 'BANG' and the sprinklers began to go off as loud screams and cries sounded all around the pole.
