Battle of a Thousand Nighmares

… yeah… I've been on a Kingdom Hearts kick. I have no inspiration at all for this. Even the title of this chapter was inspired by the KH 'battle if 1000 heartless'. Enjoy… warning: chapter's a bit gory.

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When she was the huge wave of black being led by the witch, the bear, the evil secretary, and Panem's president, she knew they were in trouble.

"Oh God."

"Jack, that's a bit of an understatement."

"I know! I'm going to put you down towards the back, so you can pick up the heavy duty that Pitch's saving for last."

"What? You're not putting me down with the rest of the Movement?"

"Yeah. Shut up."

She huffed, but could see his reasoning. "Fine. But, Frost, if you let anybody die, I'll personally kill you ten times over in the worst ways I can think of."

"That's a deal."

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Flaming arrow after flaming arrow. Frozen Nightmare after frozen Nightmare.

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Rapunzel brained creature after creature. Fearling, Nightmare, human, they fell under the wrath of her frying pan and long golden locks.

She was a sight to behold. Hiccup couldn't be happier to see her, flying to her side on Toothless and dropping North and Bunny off. "Hey, Punzie! Haven't seen you in a while!"

"Hiccup! Oh, it's so good to see you! They kidnapped Flynn!" He scowled.

"Good riddance," he mumbled, but didn't let Rapunzel hear that. "He'll be okay! We have to get through this first."

"I know… hey, is that a dragon?!"

"… yeah. Toothless." He kept stabbing black horses with his dagger.

"Oh! He's adorable!"

"Focus, Punze."

"Sorry. Hey, do you think you can go take out some of the front-liners? It's a witch, Pitch, and his secretary."

"… sure. A secretary?"

"I'd be wary of her, if I were you. She looks the most normal, so she's probably the least."

"Okay. See you."

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Toothless kept shooting fireballs, but the winged, giant woman kept on catching them and shooting them back.

Turns out Rapunzel was right, the secretary was hiding something.

"I'M THE RED DEATH! NO SOUL ESCAPES MY WRATH!"

Yeah, the dragon-woman was downright crazy.

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Merida should have known that the legend of Mor'du would be re-created.

The giant, demonic bear lumbered after her, shaking off her arrows like they were nothing. He didn't seem to notice he was on fire.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAR!"

Yeah, she was in trouble.

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The witch, Gothel, kept on shooting lightning at Rapunzel. She cackled.

Blood poured out of wounds caused by Rapunzel's frying pan, and one foot was twisted backwards. But she kept on coming, regardless and unaffected.

Suddenly, a small rebel warrior lept out, stabbing Gothel in the leg. He was dragged along by the psychotic witch, causing another small soldier to come and attempt to assist him. Gothel summoned a wind to blow them back, causing their helmets to fall off. Rapunzel gasped. "What are you doing here?!"

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Jack kept shooting bolts of ice at Pitch, who countered it with shots of Nightmare Sand. He was by far the most formidable enemy here. Sandy lashed out at Pitch with his whips, North stabbed at him, along with Tooth, who had an even bigged sword. Bunny kept on throwing his 'sword-a-rangs'.

They got a hit in every once in a while, but they were taking more hits than they were getting.

Jack had a back-up plan, but he didn't want to use it. It was a last resort.

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"Into the clouds, Toothless!"

The pair, dragon rider and dragon, shot into the stratus layer.

Red Death bellowed.

"Hey, Toothless, how good's your aim? The only thing we haven't tried in inside her mouth!"

"I AM THE RED DEATH! YOU SHALL DIIIIEEEE-" and that was when the rapidly fired fire went down her throat.

She started to combust. "DIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE! YOU SHALL NOT… Defeat… the red death…"

And she plummeted from a fatal height to the ground.

"Great job, Toothless! Let's go help Punzie!"

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Merida was out of arrows. So she did the natural thing. She drew her sword and lit it on fire.

Covered in her own blood, and more coming, her red hair had turned crimson, caked with the substance.

The bear stood over her, preparing the final blow, and stopping to gloat.

It felt so natural. She could almost feel the fang of the original Mor'du in her hand, lending her the power of the bear.

The sword seemed weightless, and arced up on its own, severing the head of her opponent in a single, powerful blow. Blood exploded everywhere. She had a feeling that she could be mistaken for a blood monster right now. She laughed, in hysterics.

She had to keep fighting. Enough people were working on Pitch, and it was a mostly aerial battle, which she couldn't participate in at the moment, as she was out of arrows. So she ran towards Rapunzel, screaming like the demon she currently embodied.

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Nico and Emma looked slightly guiltily at Rapunzel and the newly arrived Hiccup, helping in the attempt to slay the witch.

"I- we- had to! I had to fight for Bianca!"

"I wanted to see Jack again!"

"Come on, let us help!"

Hiccup glared. "Well, it's a bit late to be asking for permission."

Gothel cackled. "Come on, let the little chickabiddies help! It won't make any difference anyway."

She thrust a hand behind her, shooting lightning at the approaching figure, Merida. The lightning, though enough to knock out and maybe kill a person, barely seemed to affect her, pushing her back. Her eyes were a devilish red.

Nico, Emma, and Merida fought with swords, Hiccup darting in for stabs with his dagger, Rapunzel whacking with her pan. Pascal scurried around, distracting the woman.

"You can't destroy me! We took away the only one who could!"

Rapunzel and Hiccup's eyes met, and they knew they were thinking the same thing.

They both moved at the same time, dagger going for the heart and pan for the head.

Emma and Nico copied the movements, seemingly, Nico swinging down towards Gothel's head and Emma stabbing towards the witch's heart.

As all four attacks hit her, Gothel screamed, recoiling like she was being burnt. There was a flash of light, and Gothel was nothing but a gooey, fleshy mess on the ground.

Merida gaped. "How- how-"

Rapunzel and Hiccup smiled, entwining their hands (Nico and Emma made faces, "Ewww."), "There's an old legend in districts 3 and 4 that Percy told us, that only two of the same heart can kill a witch, if they strike at the same time."

Emma seemed to redden a bit, all of a sudden. She hoped that what destroyed the witch was Rapunzel and Hiccup.

And then they felt the cold.

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There was no choice. The only way to destroy all of the Nightmares, Fearlings, and Pitch himself was his last resort.

He stabbed his staff onto the ground, and pushed out all the power he could.

And as the wave of ice rippled out, destroying all the enemies in its path, it plunged the world into its first ice age.

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Ooh, yay! All there is left is the epilogue. Turns out, I had a lot if inspiration for this pent up. Oh, and did anyone notice that it was the first ice age? Heheheh… I finally decided that this was how it was going to end. Hope you enjoyed, even though I think it was somewhat anticlimactic.

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