A/N- PLEASE READ! so sorry guys I hope you'll forgive me I planed to do a two in one chapter and get Merida a Hiccup to join the group. But It took to long and now I only one have one long chapter about Merida joining. oof what a drag i diddn't even get her Scottish accent right (HELP REQUEST ON THAT). oh well here's the chapter enjoy!
The Summer Sun
Rapunzel
Rapunzel's ride through the snow globe portal was odd for sure but what surprised her most was where it took her and Jack. They wound up on top of a cliff overlooking the ocean green grass that jetted to the very peak. As they turned around they were met by beautiful and massive rolling hills that were covered with green grass. She looked at Jack "where are we supposed to find this girl?" she asked looking over Jack's shoulder to see the picture of a red headed girl her eyes were blue and red freckles dot the cheeks under them. She seemed quiet tall for her age. She wore a beautiful green dress with a bow in her hand and a quiver of arrows strapped around her waist.
Jack shrugged his shoulders "I have no clue. I found you purely by chance." He put the picture in his Jacket's pocket and put his staff over his shoulders and rested his hands on it. He looked at her. "Besides you technically found me."
"There's no hint on your photo?" Jack's eye knit together while a smirk formed on his lips as if to say really in a sarcastic way. She laughed. "Then what do we do?" she asked again.
"We just got to search for her" Jack walked away from the cliff with Rapunzel in tow.
"That will take a while"
"Kinda" Jack replied sarcastically. "Her name's Merida". After a long pause, Rapunzel noticed Jack glancing at her.
"Can I help you?" Rapunzel asked. Jack rested his staff across his shoulders and then his hands across his staff-she noticed he did that a lot.
"I was just wondering…. What is up with your hair?" he asked. "How long has it done that healing thing?"
Rapunzel's green eyes looked over at Jack. "Kinda my whole life, it was cut a long while ago. It lost its power and turned brown"
"Why would someone cut it?" Rapunzel looked away from Jack unable to meet his eyes and shrugged even though she knew the answer. Jack went silent as if he knew she was hiding something. "How did it get back to normal?"
"I can't explain how but. It happened during the night." Jack smirked as if he knew something. "What?"
"Ah nothing I can tell you later" they both stopped as a blue aurora began to shimmer in front of them. A small eerie whisper came from it. They both stared transfixed by it as it formed into what looked like a raindrop with small appendages with arms that ended in a point. Two solid white eyes stared at them. The arms curled towards its body as if encouraging them toward itself. "What… is that?" Jack said. Rapunzel watched Jack as he slowly stepped toward the small glowing body. As it did it vanished but more appeared trailing behind it all in a single line. Their whispers were quiet and high pitched which Rapunzel thought was highly unnerving. Rapunzel's eyes followed the small raindrops as they led in to a forest. "Beautiful, another forest" Jack said obviously not amused. He leaned on his staff and looked at Rapunzel "Should we follow them?"
"We have no other leads" Rapunzel said and walked past Jack toward the disappearing trail of their guides.
Jack Frost
Jack followed Rapunzel as they trailed into the forest. He looked as the clouds threatened to start pouring rain. Jack walked beside Rapunzel "so who was the guy that cut your hair?" Jack asked. Rapunzel's expression changed.
"He ah… he was a criminal." Jack saw Rapunzel look away as an awkward silence settled over the two. They continued to walk silently through the dark forest until Jack noticed a clearing start to come up. As they walked out from the trees the gasped. A ring of stones all up right and extremely tall lay in the middle of the grassy field. Jack stopped as the last blue raindrop took them to the middle then disappeared. Jack did a three-sixty as Rapunzel walked next to them he noticed one of the stones were tipped over on to something… something jet black and furry. Moss covered the stone so Jack could tell it had been there for a long while. What shocked Jack was that the body though hadn't decayed at all. Rapunzel noticed it as well. She began to walk towards her head cocked with curiosity.
"Yes great idea. Walk toward the big black creature that hasn't decayed" Jack said sarcastically. Jack stepped towards Rapunzel
"It's fine. This rock is horribly heavy even if it was alive it couldn't hurt me" Jack faced palmed himself. What a blonde Jack thought he took another cautionary step toward her. Rain slowly started to lightly fall from the sky. Jack felt his back twitched repeatedly but the whole scene made Jack stand on edge. His emotions started to show as snow began to quickly fall towards the ground. Rapunzel looked back at Jack. "Just calm down Jack we're fine"
"No something's wrong" Jack said as his back twitched again. What's happening? He thought. He was ready for something to happen. He held his staff horizontally in his hands like he was getting ready to freeze something. He looked into the forest as he heard leaves rustle. A flash of black dashed behind the trees. Great more nightmares Jack thought. As if on cue the shadow jumped on to one of the rocks. Jack cocked his head in confusion. "What is that?" he said confused. Before him stood a black humanoid figure it stood almost as tall as Jack. It had arms and hands that held what looked like sword. Like the body, the sword swirled quickly with black dust. It had no eyes but its head quickly glanced around then steadied on Rapunzel. Rapunzel's eyes widened the shadow lifted his sword and quickly through it at Rapunzel. Jack eyes flew to Rapunzel he quickly hooked his staff around her waist and pulled her out of the way as she grunted. On impact the swirling sword burst into black dust. The humanoid quickly jumped of the stone and rushed toward Rapunzel as a new sword formed in its hands. Jack quickly glazed the ground with ice. The shadow seemed to hate snow because it slowed down a lot giving Rapunzel enough time to get out of the way. As the creature regained its footing it let out aloud deafening screech that made Jack fall to one knee and Rapunzel fall to the floor with their hands over their ears. As the shadow stopped Jack lifted his head. His back began to spasm repeatedly causing an awkward discomfort. His hands slowly left his ears as Rapunzel slowly crawled backwards towards Jack. This is gonna suck Jack assumed as ten more black shadows joined the other. Yet all seemed to be focusing on Rapunzel. They all sped toward her as Jack grabbed her waist. "Hold on!" Jack yelled. With that Jack spun into the air while he forced snow to twirl around them. Jack grunted under Rapunzel's weight but the snow that surrounded them seemed to confuse their enemy as they tossed their heads side to side looking around. Guessing they don't like the cold Jack smiled and quickly forced the wind to take him back to the ground. He set Rapunzel on the ground and burst back into the air.
"What are you doing!?" Rapunzel asked fearfully as the shadows shook their heads and began to sprint toward her again.
"Trust me" Jack replied loudly through the wind. In mid-flight he stopped and sped back stomping on the grassy field. Snow exploded between his feet covering Rapunzel and their enemies in snow which forced them backwards. "Ha-ha" Jack said triumphantly. He looked at Rapunzel who looked on the verge of laughter and what Jack thought was annoyance. The shadows were freaking out as the dust moved in such a way that made them look like static. They let out a short screech and burst. After taking his hands off his ears, Jack laughed and did a backflip on to the collapsed rock that was behind him. He jumped and did fist pump in the air. Despite being cold Rapunzel's face lit up and she started to laugh.
Pitch
Pitch sneered as he watched Jack victoriously stand on top of the mossy fallen stone. He pounded his fist against a tree. So that's how you're gonna play Jack? Pitch held out his hand and allowed black dust to swirl through his fingers. "Brace yourself Jack because I'm forming my own team" he said to himself and held his fingers toward the crushed animal under the rock. He smiled as he saw its paw twitch and start to move. He glanced to his right as he heard something a twig snap at the other side of the circle. He sneered as woman with blue eyes and red hair followed the black dust her eyes widened as the animal's paws began to move. Pitch smiled and moved into the shadows. "Have fun Jack" he said quietly
Rapunzel
Rapunzel laugh began to fade as she saw the animal's paws start to move. "Jack…." Rapunzel heard her voice shake with fear. Jack's was still laughing with victory as he sat on the stone. The giant paws began to move under the rock. In a second the stone began to move. Rapunzel began to back up as Jack's eyes widened he jumped on his feet in a low crouch, as Rapunzel noticed the snow globe fall out of his pocket and rolls into the bushes. Before Rapunzel could say anything, Jack jumped and landed by Rapunzel as the stone rose. The creature rose with it. It was a huge black bear with one red eye. Hatred and greed glared down at the two. Its fur was mangled, matted and in some parts missing. Arrows and spears pierced its hide everywhere. A low but loud growl rumbled in its throat.
Jack stepped in front of Rapunzel raising his staff at the bear. Rapunzel's hands were shaking with fear as she rested her finger tips subconsciously on Jack's back. She flinched as she felt his back twitched. Jack began to back up slowly as the bear's growl rose it lowered its head at their level then roared. The bear began to charge toward them. Jack quickly pushed Rapunzel back almost hitting one of the stones behind her. She fell to the ground with a thud. Jack sprinted at the bear as he held up his staff to block the bear's powerful blow. The bear pushed its weight down into the staff. This thing has a mind of its own Rapunzel thought. She noticed Jack's knees buckling quickly. Rapunzel lay on the ground feeling useless once again as she watched Jack's strength fade. Then as if the branch couldn't hold any more weight it snapped with a loud crack. Jack let out a bloodcurdling yell and collapsed. Immediately all the snow melted away as rain continued to fall instead of snow. "JACK!" Rapunzel yelled and stood up to her feet with a determined look in her eye. Fear ran through her but she didn't care because she felt as if Jack was extremely vulnerable at the moment.
The bear rested his enormous paw on Jack's chest. Rapunzel glanced at Jack as he was obviously fighting for consciousness. His hands were weakly wrapped below the bear's paw obviously trying to move it. Rapunzel quickly threw her hair around the bear's paw and began to pull at it. The bear looked up as if annoyed by the insignificant ant that stood before it. Rapunzel quickly uncoiled her hair as the bear rose to its full height again her eyes widened. Then out of nowhere and arrow came and whizzed through the bear's ear-or what was left of it. "MOR'DU!" a loud Scottish accent yelled down at the monster. Rapunzel looked to see the red head in Jack's picture standing in between two of the tall rocks. Merida live and in person Rapunzel thought. The bear roared loud and long in reply. "Leave!" she demanded. The bear roared again defiantly towards her. The girl took another arrow from a quiver she kept around her waist and strung her bow. She quickly sent it flying. Then another and another and another all sunk into the bears flesh. It roared and sprinted off into the woods. Rapunzel quickly ran to Jack and grabbed his staff. Merida joined her they both stared down at Jack. His eyes were shut and his breathing was raspy and shallow. Rapunzel let out a sigh of relief. At least he's breathing she decided. Rain continued to fall as the two stood down looking at the unconscious boy.
Merida
Merida looked down at the white haired boy then at blonde. She was freaking out she shook the boy's body in attempts to wake him up. After a few minutes Merida stood up. The rain began to pour down drenching everything with water. "We should get out o this rain" Merida suggested. The blonde nodded "I am Merida. I'm Firstborn descendant and was the queen of Clan DunBroch."
The blonde smiled she seemed to have calmed down "I'm Rapunzel. I guess you could say I was the queen of Corona. This is Jack…Jack Frost." Rapunzel said. Merida looked at the boy in shock as she heard the name. So this is the boy that the Scottish merchants always have been talking about.
"Here let's get him op." the two girls each took one arm and heaved Jack up on. Merida gasped as she felt the boy's skin. "He's freezin' " she said as.
"He's kind of the winter spirit" Rapunzel said as they began to take Jack into the forest. Merida took them to her hut she made for her mom when she turned her into a bear. Though it was small they were all able to all fit. The girls laid Jack on the ground they stayed in the shelter. Merida put her hood on and leaned against a rock as Rapunzel wrapped her hair around herself to stay warm.
"So…" Merida said looking at Rapunzel. "How did ye find yourselves in that scrap back there" Merida noticed Rapunzel's huge green eyes widen even more so.
"Honestly, we were looking for you" Rapunzel said. "You see Jack came to get me for the same reason. Then he said we were off to find the next chosen person which was you and we came through a magic globe…" Rapunzel stopped when Merida realized she was giving her an odd look. The blonde went on more timidly "and um… we followed blue raindrop things that whispered at us. You see we have to stop this guy named Pitch who's endangering the kids of the world."
"Wisps!?" she shouted "ye followed the will -o- the -Wisps?" Rapunzel's eyes grew huge once more as she gave Merida a hesitant nod.
"They led us to those stones and then we were attacked by those dark dusty shadow beings. Then there was that bear you shot."
"Mor'du" Merida muttered to herself. "Ye said we were chosen to stop the man Pitch right?" Rapunzel nodded again. "…By whom?"
"I don't know he didn't tell me" Rapunzel said nodding in Jack direction. "I feel horrible. I just wish I could have done something" She said as she heard Jack shift subconsciously.
"Rapunzel ye stood up to thee bear, Mor'du" Merida said.
"Yeah but Jack…"
"…..Would 'ave been proud" she said with a smile. As if on cue the two girls heard Jack gasp for air and jolt upward. Their heads shot backwards at pale boy. Jack acted as if he was suffocating as his hand motioned to his broken staff that Rapunzel laid in her lap. Rapunzel seemed to be freaking out with excitement as she quickly gave the wooden pieces to Jack. Who steadily stood on his knees and slammed the pieces together. An icy blue aurora glowed through the staff as Merida watched Jack's face form a smug weak smile.
Jack Frost
As night approached the rain continued to pour. Jack sat under the shelter with his hood on. Thoughts began to fly through his head. Why was he able to hear the girls' discussion about the fight with the bear Mor'du? What also freaked him out was the fact that it reminded him of his discussion with North about Sandy. He looked up to find Manny bright shine through the branches. The girls were sleeping –Jack offered to take the night shift. He shifted as he felt a tree root stab the middle of his back uncomfortably. "Hey Manny" Jack said out loud. Wind seemed to stir through the leaves as if Manny was replying back. Jack stood on his feet on his feet and jumped silently onto the top of the shelter. He looked at Manny curiously. Another breeze rustled through the trees Jack listened as he heard something that nearly made him jump out of his skin. Jack A dark chuckle laughed at Jack between the wooded trees. PITCH! Jack quickly jumped in front of the girls. "Wake up we stayed here too long." He said shaking the girls' shoulders and poking them with his staff. They both shot up nearly hitting their heads and looked him with shock. "I know it's madness to leave during the night but we're not safe here." Jack quickly helped them both up-he could tell they we still deeply tired. Once they were ready to leave, the girls seemed to be a wake. Jack stopped as he felt his back start to spasm. "Something's coming" Jack said as he started to take the tiny episodes as a warning. "Let's get out of here" he said. The girls didn't argue and in a few moments the three found themselves running through the forest. Jack reached into his hoodie's pocket to reach for North's snow globe. Jack stopped forcing the girls to run into him. He quickly padded himself down "no. no. no." he turned around his was lined with panic. "We have to go back!" he said.
"Whut? Why?" Merida said
"The snow globe. It's not here" Merida looked at Jack like he was insane. Jack looked at Rapunzel though she didn't look surprised. She bit her lip and looked at the ground. "Rapunzel…." Jack's voice rose with a questioning tone. Rapunzel's huge eyes glanced at Jack like to big plates.
"Yeah uh…That's the thing when the bear moved the big stone you were on. it fell out of your pocket." Jack did a face palm.
"How are we supposed to get out of here?" Jack said running a hand over his forehead and through his hair.
"Why where do we need to go?" the three all nearly jumped with surprise as they heard aloud roar not too far away.
"Foula." Jack said "it's some island far from the tip of Scotland" another roar resonated from with the woods even closer.
"I 'ave a way. Though I stay away from the citizens in Scotland, traders com' through these woods" she said "they have huge boats that run all throughout the nation of Scotland" another roar sounded. Jack looked up to find the huge bear Mor'du towering about twelve feet. In front of him was Pitch. Anger swelled within Jack as the rain began to form into a fast moving blizzard. Jack stepped in front of the girls.
"I'VE HAD IT WITH YOU PITCH!" Jack said as he threw his hood off. Pitch gave Jack the usual half smile.
"Is Jack Frost mad?" He asked rhetorically.
"Isn't this blizzard enough to tell you to leave us alone?"
"You remember the last time you asked me to leave you alone Jack?" Jack scowled. "You nearly joined me." Jack began to rush toward Pitch who remained smiling. The girl's quickly lunged forward grabbing Jack by his shoulders.
"Jack no!" Rapunzel yelled. Though Jack didn't fight against their hands, he acted as if the two weren't there. He shrugged their hands off, half noticing they were shaking from the cold.
"If you thought for one second that I was going join you" Jack's eyes narrowed. "You're dead wrong!" Jack's voice rose back to a yell. Pitch laughed forcing Jack's blizzard to glaze the following trees with ice.
"Careful Jack, You may freeze your friends" Jack's eyes and snow storm turned soft as he looked back at the two girls. They stood huddled together; their skin was snow pale while blue stained their lips.
"Fine Then I'll just freeze you!" Jack screamed. Jack concentrated and then forced all the snow away from the girls and condensed it straight towards Pitch. Pitch –given no time to react- fell backwards toward Mor'du- who growled profusely. His looked back at the girls. Despite their shaking bodies, they both seemed to have smug smiles on their faces. Jack gave a short icy laugh as Pitch scrabbled to his feet. Anger riddled his face into a sneer. Bingo Jack thought. Pitch glared at Jack.
"You want to be left alone" Pitch said "Done! I'll leave you but my new creations won't." Pitched snapped his fingers. As if on cue Jack gasped. His back pulsed as if something pumped through the veins in his back. Meanwhile, he noticed the shadow beings surrounding them. As Jack looked past the riders behind them he caught a glance of a blue wisp. He faced Pitch "Do you like them Jack. I call them shadow riders. they do ride Nightmares. But their fine foot fighters as well"
"Jack… we need to go" Merida said cautiously backing up while stringing an arrow in her bow. Jack looked around. Sure enough they all were overrun by Pitch's shadow.
"Lead the way Merida. Rapunzel follow her. I'm gonna turn up the air conditioning" Jack said and stomped his staff on the ground forcing snow to cover the shadow riders.
Merida
Merida ran through the forest as she followed the guidance of the Wisps with Rapunzel running slightly behind her, her hair all bundled up in her arms. She looked back to find Jack starting to zoom through the air after them. "We need to go faster" he said he flew ahead of them as a small lake came into view. Jack flew to a nearby floating log and used a wind current to launch it up the slope toward the two. Merida's eyes widened as the log raced at them. "Get on" Jack yelled up at them as the log slowly began to stop because of the slope of the hill. They quickly climbed on as the log started to slide back down. Jack smiled "Just tell me where to go princess." He said sarcastically. Merida's smile widened.
"I think the wisps lead us to Otterson Loch. So Jus' stay straight" Jack gave them both a mischievous smirk. As the log started to hit the water Jack dropped his staff over the surface, glazing it with ice. Merida watched in wonder as the frost fixed over water in a lacey ribbon pattern. Her eyes widened as she watched the frost began to lace across the pond. Jack chuckled as he held his staff in one hand and looked at the two's reactions. Merida looked at him as he nearly stopped and noticed that he flinched uncomfortably.
"Get that bow ready. Fire head" he warned Merida. Merida didn't wait. She quickly laced her bow and kept her eyes open as Jack also looked to be readying himself. He took his staff into both of his hands as his head jerked side to side. His head shot to the left as they flew pass the other side of a lake. "Where now?" he said as trees surrounded them once again. Jack kept moving the log as fast as he can to avoid the trees. Merida was cut off as she sent an arrow flying toward a Shadow rider. The rider's body vibrated and separated as the arrow hit the black humanoid. The dust scattered against a nearby tree then fell softly to the ground.
She smiled and took another arrow in her bow as they passed the forest's edge and hit farmland. Jack looked back at Merida. "Left" she said as she and Jack both shot at another on coming rider. Jack glazed ice over the some wheat and flew at the log and bounced his feet off it propelling him through the air with three Shadow riders in hot pursuit of Merida and Rapunzel. The movement shook both girls yet it swerved them to the left. Merida quickly notched three arrows and let them fly toward the riders.
"Nice shot" Rapunzel shouted as the arrows hit their targets dead on. Jack flew back down and shot a stream of ice-the girls ducked quickly- behind the speeding log allowing black dust to burst behind them as they sped away.
"There Jack!" Merida said directing Jacks attention far to their right toward a bay that glowed in the returning morning light. Though no huge trading ship was there at the moment, a dock stood jetting out into the water. The only thing separating the three from getting to the dock was the busy street that lay stretched out over the coastline. Merida smiled as Jack directed the log toward the street. Her smile started to fade.
"Uh Jack it's getting closer" Rapunzel warned. His reply was a simple mischievous smile at the two as she and Rapunzel realized they were headed for a naturally formed ramp of dirt. After glazing it with snow he slid off the ramp himself and flew into the air himself laughing as Merida and Rapunzel screamed and laughed once the log rocketed into the air. They were almost over the street as Merida looked at Jack as his head shot to the groups left.
"NO!" He shouted as. He quickly shot a jet of ice as Merida looked to the left only to find a rider flying straight for her. The next thing Merida heard was Rapunzel screaming and the honking of a loud horn. At the moment she felt pain as her head hit the ground. The last thing she saw was a large semi-truck and a flash of blue light.