((Hello everyone!~ I am sorry I was out for some time. My ipod crashed down and that was the only thing that was available for me to write with, but now my long lost computer was fixed and so here I am. I am back. Hope you missed me. ^.^ Ha..ha... probably not huh? Oh well, anyways here is ch. 7.))


Chapter Seven: Trouble

After looking for a good place to hide, the six found a place. It was a deserted place, right outside of the village that they had just been in. Had the structure of an old village or town, but there were no buildings in sight. The place looked as if it had been burnt to the ground.

"Are you sure we should stay here?... Looks questionable to me" Flynn commented.

"It will do" Astrid answered, giving him a stern look as if telling him and everyone else that if there was any complaint they would be attacked by her.

All their things were gone, apart from the small things that Merida had tied around her waist, or the supplies the others had bought and carried along with ten into the village. This made it east for them to settle down together.

After some time, when it began to get cold, Hiccup had an idea.

"What if I build an earth tent around us? Yes we might risk getting caught, but it would shelter us from the cold night which means there would be no fire needed." He suggested.

"Good idea" Astrid was the first to agree, but would be the last to admit she was cold.

"Yeah, let's do that" Flynn also agreed. He got up from his spot, dusted himself off and waited for Hiccup to do the same.

"Oh yeah, he is an earth bender too" Merida said.

"Right" Hiccup said, now standing up too.

Both guys went ahead and began with there work. Each pulled up a wall from the ground and set it up firmly. They did it once more to cover up the open sides. After that, they both agreed that it would be to obvious someone was inside with a tent looking rock, so they worked their magic to make it look like a really big rock from the outside.

"You are safe now ladies, thanks to us gentlemen" Flynn gave his famous side grin, that was meant to seduce any regular girl, but not any of the three there with him.

All three girls just raised their brows at each other and laughed to themselves.

The time went by and everyone knew it was already past ten because they were tired.

"I think we can afford some sleep" Jack commented, noticing everyone's droopy eyes. "We are in a huge rock after all."

They all thought about it for sometime and came to the same conclusion, that it would be alright if they slept.

The girls took to one side of the tent while the guys took the other.

Before any of them knew it, it was morning. And oddly cold in the tent.

Everyone woke up and looked around. There didn't seem to be a whole, or apparent that they were inside, so why was it so cold? That was when an embarrassed Jack shrugged away.

"Sorry, I guess I must have had a bad dream or something" he apologized.

"What do you mean?" asked a confused Astrid.

"He is a water bender who can make the small amount of water in the air into ice. He can make snow and well also... he can make it cold by that" Merida explained, as she used her hands to rub her arms in an effort to warm herself up.

"Oh..." Astrid nodded.

"Yeah, well let's head out and get some earth between us and the others" Flynn said.

Everyone was shocked to hear him say that. They would have expected anyone else to say it, even Jack but not him. Flynn was the one who was always complaining about all the walking and lack of food.

"Alright!" Rapunzel was the first to agree, for obvious reasons, that were also becoming obvious to Flynn.

Both of them seemed to be getting along great. They would talk a lot when walking, and always sat together when eating.

"Let's go then" Hiccup said,already having packed his stuff, which weren't much. All he was packing with himself was a knife that he had since he had met Rapunzel and Merida, a small kit to fix random things, and a small whistle he had made to keep in contact with Toothless.


"Ok... we have been traveling for about three hours and nothing is coming up! You said there would be some type of town in about and hour and a half from the other" Flynn almost shouted, turning on Hiccup.

"Yes I did, but this map that I am going by might have some errors, it is old. Remember it was the only thing I could get with the lack of time we had to flee. If I had a more recent one, then maybe I wouldn't be so off" Hiccup retorted, also a bit aggravated at the fact that they weren't getting anywhere.

"Calm down guys, we need to keep calm and quiet. We don't want to get caught" Astrid muttered, glaring at Flynn.

There was a silence between them for a while, until Merida let out an exasperated sigh.

"What now?" grumbled Astrid.

"Nothing... I am just not used to walking so much. I used to have Angus remember. I never went on foot to shoot, I went out on my companion... that I was forced to leave behind. I didn't even go say hi when I went back to get Flynn" Merida explained.

"Maybe we should take a break" Rapunzel suggested.

Not even a second went by before every dropped there stuff and let themselves fall to the ground.

Rapunzel chuckled and seated herself down.

They all sat there for a couple of minutes, catching there breath. Merida leaned back on a rock that was smoothly carved on one side, making it comfortable. She closed her eyes slowly closing her eyes, taking in the view of the place they had stopped at.

"Wait..." she mumbled, opening her eyes suddenly and pulling herself up, probably startling the ones around her.

"What?" asked Jack, who was sitting next to her and noticed her abrupt reaction.

"This place, look at it" she said.

The rest looked around and shrugged, "So what?" Jack answered.

"It looks like burnt down place..." Hiccup commented.

"Yeah, this is how it has looked for the last half an hour" Astrid added, saying it in a questioning matter, "So why does it matter?"

"We were supposed to get to the other town around that time" Flynn spoke, realizing what Merida was getting at.

"So you mean...?" Astrid mumbled, sort of catching up.

"That the others got here before us and destroyed the town before we got here, so that we didn't find it" Hiccup finished.
Everyone stayed silent.

"We need to get walking again, they must have estimated that we are here already" Rapunzel said, frantically picking her things up again.

"Why are you leaving so soon?" came the dark and familiar voice of Pitch.


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