Jamie and Jenny opened their eyes not sure what to expect, but were not expecting this.
All around them was white. White and open space.
"You sure we used this right Jamie?" Jenny asked looking at the stone in her hand that was now a ring which she slipped onto her finger so it couldn't get lost.
"Not really," the boy said looking around "But then we wouldn't be here if we got it wrong right?"
"Absolutely correct Last Light." someone said behind them making them turn to see the Man in the Moon complete with his white tux, one strand of blonde hair, kind smile and a red bow tie.
"Salutations to the both of you," he said bowing snapping his fingers making three comfy looking arm chairs appear "Please sit. What may I help you with?"
"Well actually Sir," Jenny said trying to be as polite as possible while being strong but not upstagy to the God of the Moon. "We've come to ask what's going on Friday night that's got Lorelei and Pitch Black so excited."
"And what's it got to do with Jack Frost and the Guardians?" Jamie added thanking a Moon-Bot for the hot chocolate he had just been given. "Because I'm not losing him again."
"On Friday night," Manny said loudly because the two were arguing over how to speak to someone, "There will be a Luna Eclipse, and in that time I will not be able to help any of you, and all those with the powers of the Moon will weaken, while those with my sister's power, the power of the Sun will rise."
"Not really helping in explaining how what's going on here Manny," Jamie said now upside down in his chair being ignored by Jenny who was muttering to herself something about 'Boys'.
"Then lets untangle that web of confusion, Jamie Bennett," Manny said smiling. "When I came to talk to you a couple of years ago when you found out your connection with Jack Frost," he said pausing to let Jamie remember and enjoy the look on Jenny's face as she stared at this boy next to her "What did you say to me after I told you who I am?"
"You're the one who makes all the Guardians?" Jamie asked answering the question but still confused, then it hit him "The Guardians will lose their powers when the Eclipse is going on won't they?" Jamie asked turning the right way round to act all serious getting a head rush for going to fast.
"So are the 'Seasons' connected to Solveig?" Jenny asked snapping out of her shock "And if they are, Sir, Who exactly are they?"
"Yes, they are," Manny said nodding "And as Lorelei already said young Viking, the Seasons are a group of four who keep the year running with their seasonal powers. The powers of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter," here he looked at Jamie "No matter what kind of power it is, or if they have any other title before hand."
"Jack's one of them?" Jamie asked not sure if he should be glad or worried "So... So what will happen to him? If... If his Moon powers weaken, but his Sun powers grow..." he said slowly trying to work this out.
Suddenly there was a ringing noise and a Moon-bot came up to Manny with a written message which he read.
"Would it be helpful if you meet them Last Light and you too of course young Viking?" Manny said nodding to the bot, who scurried away, getting up a smile still on his face.
"Probably not," Jamie said sighing losing his train of thought because of that bell "But I would like to meet them please," he said a grin of fun on his lips.
"Oh yes please Mani," Jenny said getting up and smoothing out her night dress.
Smiling, Manny clapped his hands, and the world swooshed past them and stopped making the children a bit dissy.
In front of them were three teenagers the girls looking a bit confused, the boy with the missing left leg wearing a Moonstone ring as well.
**o**o**o**
North Pole, a bit earlier
Hiccup and Toothless had just come back into the workshop and went to find the girls, finding them in the kitchen helping Bob with the cooking. Well Rapunzel was anyway, Merida was just making a mess and burning things.
"I would of thought a Child of the Flames would know how to use an oven, Merida," Hiccup said trying not to laugh as she got a face full of smoke when she opened the oven door to rescue some burning cookies.
"We're our own ovens Nitwit," she answered coughing waving the smoke away. "It's all these dials and buttons and switches. They're too confusing."
Just then from the next oven along, Rapunzel brought out a perfect looking pie and placed it on the trivet on top the counter.
'Rapunzel seems to understand them...' Toothless said trying to get closer to the delicious smelling pie 'Can you ask her if I can have some Hiccup? Pweese?' he asked biggerfying his eyes butting Hiccup until he did what he wanted him to do.
"Punzie," Hiccup said sighing a bit "Can Toothless have some of that pie you just made, before he has me instead?" he asked to a giggling Rapunzel a chuckling Bob, and an eye rolling Merida.
"Of course he can have some." Rapunzel said letting Toothless rub his scaly face up to her. "But it needs to cool down first. Once it's cooled down you can have a piece okay?"
"Beside Your Highness, that's not what we came here for remember..." Hiccup said making sure to put a joking tone on the 'Your Highness' to keep the secret.
"We came here to talk to you two about a meeting with someone we just met outside."
"Shouldn't we get the Guardians then?" Rapunzel asked cleaning up the spot she had been working at.
"Trust me," he said playing with the Moonstone, "I think they already know him."
"Well I'm up for it," Merida said getting up throwing her burnt cookies away "I can not take another minute in here. No offense," she said to Bob who just nodded waving his hand to her saying she can go and gently pushing Rapunzel out too.
"Are you sure? It's just I'd really like to help pack everything away. That is if that's alright..." she said trying not to play with her hair since she's in the kitchen.
But Bob just shook his head and pointed to the stone in Hiccup's hand and pushed her out, shutting the door after her once she was on the other side.
"Mind telling us what's so special about that rock that we got pushed out of the kitchen like that Hiccup?" Merida asked collecting her bow North had her lock away while she was in the kitchen for the elves and everyone else's safety.
"FYI, you chose to leave it remember?" Hiccup said a smirk just visible on his lips "Second, we need to go somewhere private before I can say why it's important."
With that the three of them and Toothless went to one of their rooms and shut the door careful not to lock it.
"So do you want the story or questions answered first?" Hiccup asked standing next to a grumpy for missing out on his pie Toothless.
"I think the story's a good place to start please Hiccup," Rapunzel asked coming over to try and cheer the upset dragon up.
"Well we were out on a moonlight flight, when Toothless started hearing something and we flew away from the Pole a bit to see what it was," Hiccup began "There we met Mani who told us..."
"Stop right there," Merida said halting the Viking in his story telling "Y'all expect us to believe, while Punzie and I were in the kitchen's cooking..."
'More like burning Hot-Head...' Toothless whispered but still the two heard it but surprisingly Merida didn't so anything.
"Y'all expect us to believe, while Punzie and I were in the kitchen's cooking," she tried again "You were talking to Manny outside?"
"'Believe...' No," Hiccup said thinking "To listen to my story, staying quiet so I can get to the point... Yes." he said looking at her, arms crossed.
"Seesh. Sorry," Merida said returning to engraving her bow with a pattern.
"Well Mani told us that we might be facing Jack on Friday night, because of this whole Season's rise in power thing," he said "And he said he didn't tell the Guardians because they might get worried about it."
"So what the stone for?" Rapunzel asked cocking her head a little looking at it.
"He said if we want to talk to him to use it," Hiccup said laying it out in his hand. "It's a Moonstone see," he explained "All you have to do to use it to talk to Mani is turn it three times and say 'I wish to talk to the God of the Moon' and as long as we're holding hands and all say it, we can all go,." he said looking up at the girls.
"Are you sure it's safe?" Rapunzel asked coming over to look at it.
"Sure..." Hiccup said shifting his eyes "Ok no I'm not entirely sure. But we wont know unless we try right? So you girls coming or will it just be me?"
*o*
After some talk, the teenagers agreed that they should all go and talk to Manny and possibly ask for help/advice for Friday night.
"Ok Toothless. One, be good while were out of it seeing Mani, alright?" Hiccup said rubbing the dragons nose to cheer him up that he was missing out "Two, if the Guardians happen to come in and find us knocked out and start to panic... Under no circumstances are you to shoot plasma blasts at them or scream into their faces until they leave us alone. Understand?" he asked getting a... 'You really think I'd do that Hiccup?' from Toothless.
"Just saying. And finally we'll be counting on you to protect us from anything else. But if it get's too bad try calling for either me or Merida hopefully it will get through to us ok?"
'Sir yes Sir, Heir of Berk,' Toothless said lifting his wing to his head saluting him. A gummy grin on his face.
'At ease Prince.'Hiccup said in their heads hoping Merida didn't just hear that.
"You coming or what 'Heir of Berk'?" Merida asked tapping her foot her arms crossed a look of impatience on her face.
"Yeah, yeah I'm coming," Hiccup said getting up and going over to the girls taking hold of Rapunzel's left hand as Merida took her right.
"Ok, now after I've turned the stone, we all have to say 'We wish to speak to the God of the Moon' ok?" he said waiting for nods of understanding.
"Ok... One," he said turning the Moonstone in his left hand "Two... Three."
"'We wish to speak to the God of the Moon'" they all said together their eyes drooping as they finished starting to fall unconscious being saved by a slightly nervous Toothless who propped them up against the bed as he took rest in front of them eyes on his rider wondering if he'll be ok.
**o**o**o**
As they came to, the first thing they saw was that everything was white. The second thing was that no one else was here.
Slipping the now Moonstone Ring onto his finger, Hiccup smiled the most, eyes full of wonder as he looked around.
"So where's this Manny of yours Hiccup?" Merida asked a bit nervous at the emptiness of this place.
"Why right here Season of Summer," someone said a few feet in front of them making the three look up and see Manny and two children the boy looking like Jack when he was human, the girl looking a bit nervous also wearing a Moonstone ring.
"Sir," Hiccup said bowing a bit smiling "I hope it's alright I brought Rapunzel and Merida so we can ask a bit more about Friday night."
"Oh it's quite alright, Hiccup," Manny said smiling "But first I think a bit more introductions need to be taking care of," he said gently pushing the children towards the teens.
"Hiccup, Merida, and Rapunzel, these are Jenny and Jamie," he said holding up his hand to the Seasons telling them to wait before they start yelling at Jamie "Jenny and Jamie these are the other three Seasons. Hiccup of Autumn, Merida of Summer, and Rapunzel of Spring... Now you may start screaming at the boy," he said with a smirk looking at the teens stepping away with Jenny a bit.
"You're Jamie?" they all asked looking the kid up and down, who gave a slightly nervous nod.
"You... You look just like Jack used to," Rapunzel said clapping her hand over her mouth blushing "Sorry," she said to Manny "I probably shouldn't of said that."
"Helps a bit I'm related to him..." Jamie said smiling holding out his hand to them always up to meeting new people.
"You're related to Frostbite?" Merida asked raising an eyebrow at the boy.
"No I'm related to Jack Frost," Jamie said smirking "What all that hair blocking your ears or something?" he asked.
"Ok now I see the resemblance," she said rolling her eyes and taking his hand making sure to burn it slightly for making her look like a fool.
"OWW!" he cried taking his hand away cradling it glaring at her.
"Um... how exactly are you related to him Jamie?" Rapunzel asked looking at the burn to see if it was going to be alright "That is if you don't mind us asking."
"His sister, the one who he saved from a cracked iced pond when he became Jack Frost," Jamie began "Was my Great Great Great Great Grandmother, which means since he was her brother, he's my, that many 'Great's' Uncle," he said smiling loving the silence he got.
"Well that was something the Guardians missed out when they were telling us his story," Hiccup said thanking a Moon-bot who just gave him some hot chocolate.
"I haven't even told my friends about it yet," Jamie said receiving his own cup "And it's been two years."
"Sorry to break up this lovely matter," Merida said not sounding the least bit sorry at all "But this wasn't why we came here remember."
"Quite right Merida," a new voice said making everyone turn to see a young woman with brown eyes, brown hair, wearing a white dress and a shield on her wrist "Then may you be so kind as to explain why you are here, dear Princess?"
"Solveig..." Hiccup and Jenny said together showing respect to her, shocked that they were meeting the Goddess of the Sun AS WELL AS the God of the Moon.
"Princess?" Jamie and Rapunzel asked now focused on Merida too many expressions on her face to say what she was thinking.
"Yes children," Solveig said smiling placing her shield down on a table Manny had just made appear "I'm sorry to say that Jack Frost is the only one without Royal Blood in this new set of Seasons. But then that wouldn't make him all that fun would it?"
"So how are Hiccup and Rapunzel royalty?" Jamie asked curious and speaking his mind.
"Jamie!" Jenny said punching him on the arm, telling him to shut up and apologize for interrupting her.
"It's quite alright Jenny," Solveig said smiling a beaming smile and turning to Jamie after calling Hiccup and Rapunzel over.
"Rapunzel, was the Lost Princess of Corona, until she was rescued by who is now Antony of Padua," she paused letting the two meet "And Hiccup was the son of Chief Stoick the Vast of Berk, who along with his Night Fury dragon Toothless," she said tightening her grip on Hiccup's shoulder saying he can trust her to stay quiet "Helped mend the bond between Vikings and Dragons."
After a few minutes of silence to let the children get the new info into their heads, Mani turned back to Merida.
"So Merida...why did you come here?" he asked making some armchairs so they can all sit down.
"Right..." Merida said clearing her throat turning a bit red for some reason "We came to ask for help/advice for Friday night."
"So did we," Jamie said "We came to ask what's going to happen and what's going on."
"As I'm sure both your parties already know," Manny said stretching a bit trying not to yawn too loudly, "There's going to be a Luna Eclipse."
"In that time," Solveig continued accepting some lemonade from a Moon-bot "Those with the powers Mani has given them, meaning mostly the Guardians, will grow weak, where as those with the powers I have bestowed on them, meaning the Seasons," here she looked at the teenagers "will get stronger."
Jamie stuck up his hand getting everyone's attention.
"So what's the condition with Jack?" he asked sounding worried "And... And why is he at Lorelei's place and not with them helping us get us out and home?" he asked pointing to the teenagers slight anger in his voice but everyone could tell it was for the siren.
Here Hiccup and Rapunzel just looked at Merida who took a sudden interest in her arrows not wanting to look up at anyone.
Sighing Hiccup just got the news running.
"When we were out this morning looking for you and the rest of the kids," he began looking to Jamie "We had a bit of a run in with Pitch who showed us something Jack said when he was upset about something. Not understanding why he said it, we got mad at him and he decided to carry on looking for you alone.
"The good news is we have reason to believe he's somewhere there with you," he said trying to lift the boys spirits.
"If you really are Jack's friends like you say you are..." Jamie said fists clenched not looking at anyone.
"Then you'd know he does and says stupid things like that when he's upset.
'Apparently almost all those dumb blizzards he makes are because the kids he's following, say 'Jack Frost's not real' or die meaning he's all alone again," he said getting up and walking away from the group muttering to himself, a Moon-bot tailing him to make sure he doesn't get lost.
