A/N
Yes! I did it! I finished this chapter before thursday, and for a very good reason (if I may say so)! Because this chapter is mainly a birthday gift to XDragon WingsX, so Happy Birthday! I hope you'll enjoy it!
But of course this chapter is for everyone else too, otherwise I wouldn't post it... :P
A while ago, someone asked me (I don't know who, I couldn't find the message anymore... stupid me!) if I could make Jack and Hiccup telling each other their story, because it might be that someone hasn't seen one of the two movies... Well, I did now! In this chapter, it's mainly Jack telling Hiccup his story, so... MAJOR SPOILER ALERT! for those who haven't seen Rise of the Guardians and don't want to know what the movie is about. (I went into the detail at some points, so I'm sorry)
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- changeofheart505
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- XDragon WingsX
- Guest (December the 16th)
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- Phoenixofmyth
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"Hiccup, I'm sorry." And he really was. It was his fault after all. If he just went away when he knew Hiccup would be safe. If he prevented Hiccup to see him, his family and his friends wouldn't think he was delusional. But his thoughts were interrupted by Hiccup's question.
"You… You are real, right?" Hiccup asked, his eyes pleading for an answer that would prove him that he wasn't mad at all.
But no answer came.
Because Jack didn't know what to say. Of course, he was alive; he could eat, talk, sleep, he could move from place to place. That meant that he was real. But then there was the fact that people needed to believe in him for them to see him. And although Hiccup and Jack didn't know why, Hiccup was the only one who could see him. That would make Jack real for Hiccup, but nonexistent for everyone else.
"Yes… Yes I am," Jack responded after a while. A small smile appeared on Hiccup's face.
"I knew it! We need to show the others that you are real! That way we-"
"But I'm also not." Hiccup looked at Jack, confused by his answer.
"What do you mean with that?" The smile Hiccup once had, had disappeared completely.
"It's a very long story, and some parts can be complicated," Jack warned. The only way he could think of to explain Hiccup why he was real but not real, was by telling his story.
"Good thing I'm a good listener. And because I don't think they would let me out of my bed anytime soon, I suppose I have enough time too."
"Very well then." Jack took a large breath, and started to tell.
"Three hundred and three years ago, I died at the age of seventeen." Hiccup looked surprised by that fact. He hadn't expected Jack to be three hundred and twenty years old. Hiccup really wanted to ask Jack the question of how he died, but he wasn't sure how Jack would react. Would he be angry, sad, or would he shut down completely?
Knowing that Hiccup wouldn't know if he didn't try, he asked: "How did you die?"
Jack seemed a little upset when Hiccup asked it, and he was about to say that he didn't mind if he wouldn't tell him, but then Jack started to tell.
"I was ice-skating - you call it ice-slicing - with my little sister. She really loved that, and when the lake in front of our house finally froze, she immediately wanted to skate. But she and I had a very close bond. We did almost everything together. So when she wanted to skate, I went with her. The ice seemed fine, and when we put on our skates, we had a great time. Until the ice started to crack. My sister heard it first. She wanted to warn me, but I was having too much fun, so I didn't hear her. It was when I saw her, and the cracks in the ice underneath her, that I knew what was happening. My sister, she wasn't a very good ice-skater - she could hardly manage to skate a perfect circle - so she was trapped. If she moved, the ice would surely break. So I did what I felt I should do. I put off my skates, and walked as close to her as I could, not wanting the ice to crack under me too. Luckily I brought my staff with me - which my sister and father gave me for my sixteenth birthday - so I could reach her if only she would be half of a meter closer to me. I tried to distract her; she was really frightened. I got her to play hopscotch, and with that, she came closer to me. It wasn't much, but it was enough to hook her waist and pull her away from the thin ice. The force I used to swing her away was enough to get her on the thicker parts of the ice, but I unintentionally slid towards the thin ice. I didn't realize it then; I was just glad my sister was all right. But when I stood up and wanted to go to her, the ice gave in, and I fell in the water. I hit my head when I entered the water, and was knocked-out immediately.
I drowned, and when I woke up, I saw the moon, shining its light at my, inviting me to the world of the living again. And I did. I floated up to the surface, and broke through the ice with no effort at all. And I floated, and looked at the moon. I was almost ten meters up in the air. It was then that I heard someone whisper.
"Your name is Jack Frost."
After that, I didn't hear that person anymore. I descended slowly towards the ice, that seemed to fix itself under my touch; every hole was filled, every crack disappeared, and the ice was smooth once again. As if nothing ever happened. And to me, it just was like that. I didn't know what happened. I lost my memories of my human life once I was reincarnated by the moon. When I went to the nearest village, I learned that people couldn't see, hear or feel me. Even worse, they just walked right through me! I didn't exist for those people. I…"
All the while, Hiccup had been listening very closely. The story he was told, it was so beautiful, yet so tragic. Hiccup felt sorry for Jack, he had lost his family at such a young age. Yet he was also thinking of the fact that Hiccup almost died the same way. He couldn't help but wonder if he would be reincarnated too if he did drown in the lake.
"But why do you remember this, while you said you lost your memories of your human life?" Hiccup asked suddenly.
"That's where I'm getting to right now," Jack answered, and Hiccup tried to sit a little closer, not wanting to miss anything of the story he would come to hear.
"That day, when I woke up in the lake, I discovered my powers. I could make beautiful ice patterns, and if the wind blew, I was able to fly with his help. I could make it snow, I could create blizzards. It truly was amazing to discover. Yet it was also dangerous. Thanks to my powerd, people died of hypothermia when they were stuck in a snowstorm. I accidentally made the -in that time- worlds biggest cruise ship, The Titanic, sink because of an iceberg I lost sight of. Only 704 of the 2208 people survived, and it's all my fault." Hiccup wanted to say something soothingly to him, but he didn't know what. He decided to keep his mouth closed, hoping for Jack to resume with the more pleasant parts of the story.
"Three hundred years followed after the day I awoke, and I trained my powers to what they are now. But a few days before easter…" Hiccup didn't know what easter was, but he decided not to mention that, "... Pitch Black, the Boogeyman, returned. And I was chosen to be a Guardian, and help the other Guardians to defeat Pitch. It was during that time, that I befriended the Guardians and that I learned how I could remember my memories. You see, there are five Guardians right now. You have the Sandman, also known as Sandy, who gives you wonderful dreams. There is Santa Clause, North, who gives you presents once a year. And of course the Easter Bunny - or just Bunny. He hides eggs, and children look for them. Me, and the person who I was working to: The Toothfairy, who you can call Tooth. She collects the teeth of the children when they lose them. She does that, because the teeth hold the most important memories of childhood. And she used to have mine too."
"Used?" Hiccup asked. Jack didn't respond though, he just continued his story.
"But Pitch Black took them, along with all the other other teeth that she had. Later, Pitch lured me into his lair, to distract me. He didn't want me to be around when he was ruining Easter. He lured me into his lair, and he kept me busy for a while. After who knows how long, he gave me my teeth. But I paid a price.
When I returned to the others, I saw that Pitch had destroyed every egg there was, and children stopped believing in Bunny. When they noticed me, the also saw that I had my teeth, and that Baby Tooth - one of Tooth's helpers I had saved from the Nightmares Pitch had created - was gone, they thought I had traded her for my teeth. But I didn't, I swear!
The Guardians, they were very disappointed in me, and I left them. I really hated myself that moment. I went to Antarctica, wanting to get rid of my teeth, but I realized I couldn't. I didn't know what to do, and then Pitch appeared again. He tried to manipulate me, to make me join his side. But I refused. We fought, and when Pitch became desperate, he used Baby Tooth as a hostage. He wanted my staff, and after some hesitation, I gave it to him. But I should've never trusted him to give Baby Tooth back! He used the words I'd said when I was enraged against me. He wanted to get rid of me. And he almost succeeded. Baby Tooth almost managed to escape, by picking his hand. But Pitch threw her into a crevice. And after he did, he broke my staff. It hurt so much, and he used the time I was distracted to push me into the crevice as well.
I don't know how long I've been there, but it was a while. When I woke up again, I realized I still had my memories. After some thinking, I decided to watch them. That's why I remember everything now. I remembered that I saved my sister, and I realized that that was why the moon chose me to be a Guardian. Because I would put a child before myself, and that I always brought fun wherever I went.
To skip some details: I mended my staff, and went to Pitch's lair again, this time to free all the other helpers of the Toothfairy. But they couldn't fly, because of everything that Pitch had done. He wanted to ruin every belief every child had of the Guardians. Because the less believers a Guardian had, the weaker he or she would be. And when I went to the globe that showed how many believers there were by showing a little light, I saw the last five lights flicker out one by one. But then, I saw that the last one wouldn't go out. I looked closer, and saw that it was Jamie Bennett, a boy I had encountered before - without him knowing of course, he couldn't see me after all - and I went to protect him.
He was almost giving up his belief in the Guardians, and I could prevent that just in time. I made him believe, and even better: because I did that, he realized that I was real too! He believed in me, and he could see me!
Together with his friends and the other Guardians, we fought Pitch, and we won. I gained more believers, and I became a Guardian - the Guardian of Fun, to be precisely.
And I still don't know how, but you are the oldest person that has ever believed in me." Jack sighed, a bit exhausted from telling such a long story.
Hiccup was still going through the information he had been given by the Spirit of Winter, and he couldn't believe such thing really happened. But here Jack was, and even Hiccup's friends and father couldn't see the boy! But it all sounded a bit unbelievable, and Hiccup was starting to think that maybe he was seeing things that weren't there… Maybe they were right about him...
A/N
I'm sorry for any errors I made with spelling or grammar (my grammar still doesn't have the best quality)
Also, I'm in school right now, so I can't upload my video. I will soon though, after I've finished packing for tomorrow!
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