Me: I put a poll up about which story you want me to do after 'The Big Seven: Seasons Awaken'.
I honestly want to get 'Ponies to Autobots' finished first because it's the first story I did and it has been a while since I worked on it.
Anyway, I hope you like the chapter!
The words "Letting Go Of The Past And Under Attack" appeared on the screen.
"What does the title mean," Jamie asked.
"Watch and find out," Triforce and Mask said.
Flynn and Hiccup are making a fire pit. The others are catching fish, their stuff near their campsite. Jack and Toothless are working together. Jack stays out of the water though, flying above it and pointing out different fish, allowing Toothless to jump and catch the fish in his claws. Toothless throws the fish to the shore, the fish landing in a pile of previously caught fish.
Toothless and Jack smile at each other before Jack spots a school of fish behind Toothless. Jack points at the fish, making Toothless turned around. Toothless went to jump, but his foot slipped on a wet rock and he landed in the water. Jack laughs at Toothless' plight, before Toothless sits up, shocked. Jack laughs even harder.
People laughed at the shock on Toothless' face and at his failed attempt to catch some fish.
Toothless blushed.
Merida, Rapunzel, and Jamie are holding a net in the water to let fish swim over. They giggle at the two boys. Jamie looks down. A school of fish swims above the net.
JAMIE
"Merida."
Merida glances down before looking at Rapunzel and Jamie. Merida nods and they lift the net, half of the school of fish trapped inside. Laughing, the three carry the net to shore. Once laying it on the ground, their pile's bigger than Jack's and Toothless', Merida looks behind her and laughs.
Merida, Rapunzel, and Jamie laughed and high-five, laughing harder when they notice Jack's and Toothless' faces.
SHOCK from Jack and Toothless. Rapunzel and Jamie look at the two before laughing as well. Jack and Toothless shake their heads, a chuckle falling from their lips. The five of them gather the fish, throwing the bad ones back in the water and the good ones in the net, before walking to Hiccup and Flynn. There's a fire going in front of them. Minutes later, they're seated around the campfire, cooking fish while eating the already cooked fish. Jamie's swallowing his bite when his face brightens up. Jamie reaches over to his bag and pulls out a book, the book he bought.
JAMIE (READING OFF BOOK) (CONT'D)
"Legend Of The Magical Golden Flower."
Everyone stopped laughing when they heard that, realizing it's the same flower the elderly man was talking about.
The six others look at him. Jamie smiles and opens the book.
JAMIE (READING OFF BOOK) (CONT'D)
"Once upon a time, a single drop of sunlight fell from the heavens and from this small drop of sun, grew a magic, golden flower. It had the ability to heal the sick and injured. People who found the flower could heal themselves of any illness. All the person had to do was sing a special song for the golden flower and it would cure them. But the flower could do another thing: it could reverse the age of a person. It is said that a witch found the flower, a witch cursed to be mortal, and used the flower to gain back her youth. Over the years, the golden flower was used by the witch to stay young when the Guards of the Kingdom Corona came and took the flower to heal their queen. After that, no one knows what happened to the golden flower."
Jamie finishes reading and looks up at his friends, smiling.
Rapunzel looked at her hair. She could heal and reverse aging just like the flower. The flower was given to the queen to save her, so that means to flowers powers passed down to her.
The only problem was that her future self didn't know that at all.
JACK (SMIRKING)
"Cool story."
Flynn looks over at Rapunzel.
FLYNN
"So you and the flower could do the same thing. That's cool."
Rapunzel shrugs, a small thoughtful smile on her face.
RAPUNZEL
"I guess."
Rapunzel groaned, facepalming.
Merida and Flynn rubbed her back, wishing to help her, but also knowing that they, too, felt the same way at the moment about her problem.
Rapunzel then looks down at Pascal, who's curled up and asleep. Rapunzel chuckles at the cute little smile on his face before yawning. She looks at the others. They're tired.
RAPUNZEL (CONT'D)
"I believe we should call it a night. We look like we are about to fall asleep anyway."
The others nod. They wrap up the non-cooked fish before laying down.
Toothless wraps Hiccup in his wings, Jamie lays in Hiccup's arms. Flynn has his arms around Merida and Rapunzel, who moves Pascal to rest beside her head. Jack flies up onto a branch over the campsite and looks down. Jack smiles before falling asleep.
The seven of them smiled at the sleeping arrangement. It looked like they were getting closer in the future as well.
SCENE CHANGE
It's morning. Smoldering remains of the fire crackle. Flynn groans and yawns, opening his eyes.
Flynn looks around. Jamie's sleeping soundly on Hiccup's chest as Toothless covers them both. A soft snore. Flynn looks up and sees Jack sleeping on the branch above them. Flynn then looks at the two girls sleeping in his arms. They're gripping him tightly.
Everyone either chuckled or laughed as Rapunzel and Merida blushed in embarrassment. Hiccup and Jack bristled. King Fredrick and Queen Arianna, as well as King Fergus and Queen Elinor, couldn't help but laugh at their daughter's silly sleeping habit.
Flynn smirks. He closes his eyes, ready to fall back asleep-
-when a hand grabs him and pulls him up, his hands being pulled behind his back.
Flynn YELPS, waking the others. Jack flies up and looks down.
CAPTAIN (GROWLING)
"Got you."
Flynn looked behind and gasped. It was the Captain and his men!
"That's brutal," Mask sighed.
People gasped.
"Oh! Not again," Flynn yelled.
Merida jumps up, reaching for her bow, but a guard seizes her, pulls her up and puts her hands behind her back. The others go to help, but armed Guards surround them.
CAPTAIN (CONT'D)
"Now you two are going to the dungeons for your crimes."
The Captain and Guard pulls Flynn and Merida away from the camp.
TOOTHLESS (YELLING)
"No, they won't!"
Toothless draws in a huge breath before letting out a SCREECH. The Captain and his Guards cover their ears, releasing Flynn and Merida while the others grab their stuff. Rapunzel gathers Pascal from the ground. Merida mounts Angus with Rapunzel behind her, Jack grabs Jamie, and Toothless transforms into his Night Fury form, allowing Hiccup and Flynn to get on. The Captain looks on in shock as the kids made their escape.
CAPTAIN
"I saw that right? I wasn't things."
The Guards shake their heads.
GUARD
"No sir, you saw that."
The Captain and his men grumbled at their failure and also at their reactions.
SCENE CHANGE
We pan down on a path in the forest. Merida, Rapunzel, Hiccup, and Jack are walking behind Toothless, Flynn, and Jamie. Flynn looks down, solemn. He looks up at his comrades. SIGH. He shakes his head. He puts his hand to his head before shaking it rapidly.
FLYNN (APOLOGIZING)
"I'm sorry, guys. If I wasn't a thief in the past, then you wouldn't have to run with me."
RAPUNZEL
"Flynn, it wasn't your fault."
FLYNN
"Yes, it is! You guys have to run with me because of what I did!"
Flynn frowned. It was true. Because he stole from the Kingdom and the people and haven't paid for his crimes, anyone he gets close to would have to run with him to prevent capture, especially if they helped him like Merida did. Oh, why did he have to be a thief?
HICCUP
"You did what you had to survive. You aren't at fault for anything. When I lived at Berk, I had to steal as well. Not breaking into people's homes kind of stealing, but being in the Great Hall when it's closed to get some food from that's supposed to be for the next day or from someone else's plate just because I was hungry. You aren't at fault for trying to survive."
Everyone, save Toothless, recoils in shock.
"Oy vey…" Mask said, scratching his head.
"Hiccup," Stoick said.
"What," Hiccup asked, glancing at his father.
"Why did you steal?"
"Why do you care suddenly?"
Stoick tensed and didn't reply.
MERIDA (SHOCKED)
"You? A thief?"
Hiccup smiled sadly.
HICCUP
"Yeah, I had to steal food to survive because Dad's cooking was terrible and so was Gobber's and I couldn't always feed myself and no one would give me food."
Mask didn't know whether to laugh at Hiccup's shot at the two Vikings or cast his gaze down in sympathy.
Hiccup gestured to the screen, "That's your reason."
"Am I really a that bad cook, lad," Gobber asked.
Hiccup stared at him, "Ask everyone you cooked for and they'll answer you."
Gobber turned and looked at said people, but they were pointedly not looking in his direction.
They resume their silent walk. Melancholy descends into the atmosphere. Jack looks around to try and find something to get them happy again. When he found none, he looked up at a snowy mountain that was far in the distance. The look on Jack's face said he got an idea. All at once, Jack started singing.
JACK-
The snow glows white on the mountain tonight, not a footprint to be seen.
Mask groaned, "That song? All the songs by Disney, let alone the world, and you chose THIS?"
Triforce hit Mask's shoulder, "Shut up! It seemed like a good idea at the time and once I listened to this version, I couldn't help myself."
Everyone would have wondered what Triforce and Mask were talking about in their own Language of Authors, but they were too busy watching the movie to pay attention to them.
RAPUNZEL-
A kingdom of isolation and it looks like I'm the queen.
Jack looks at Rapunzel before looking down again.
MERIDA-
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside.
Merida holds herself.
HICCUP-
Couldn't keep it in, Heaven knows I tried.
Jack, Rapunzel, Merida, and Hiccup frowned, looking down. Why did it seem the world was against them in everything? Why did it seem it wanted them to fail and feel like they don't have a place. Toothless, Flynn, and Jamie gave each other frowns, wishing they could do something.
The spirits didn't feel anything, nope, not a thing. King Fredrick and Queen Arianna frowned, wishing their daughter never was isolated for most of her life. Queen Elinor thought back to all those times she saw her daughter almost blowing her top and wondered just how often she held it in. Stoick looked down, ashamed of what he did to his son.
Toothless, Jamie, and Flynn frown at them in sympathy.
RAPUNZEL-
Don't let them in, don't let them see.
Rapunzel lifts her head up and looks behind her at her hair.
MERIDA-
Be the good girl you always have to be.
Merida lifts her head and moves her pointed finger as if scolding a child.
JACK-
Conceal, don't feel.
Jack lifts his head and swings his staff, a small burst of ice hits the trees.
HICCUP-
Don't let them know.
Hiccup lifts his head and looks at his hands which clench into fists.
ALL-
Well, now they know!
The four teens looked up at the screen, watching their future selves. Toothless, Flynn, and Jamie looked at the screen to, wanting to see what would happen.
The four of them look at each other and smile. They stop walking altogether. Toothless, Flynn, and Jamie looked them and smile, watching the teens.
MERIDA-
Let it go!
Merida spins with Rapunzel.
RAPUNZEL-
Let it go!
Rapunzel and Merida cross arms and pulls each other closer to the other.
HICCUP-
Can't hold it back anymore.
Let it go!
Hiccup puts a hand on his chest and shakes his head.
JACK-
Let it go!
Jack raises his staff in the air and shoots a blast of snow, making little snowflakes fall back down.
RAPUNZEL-
Turn away and slam the door.
Rapunzel mimics slamming doors shut.
MERIDA-
I don't care what they're going to say.
Merida stomps her foot and swung her fists down to her sides.
HICCUP-
Let the storm rage on.
Hiccup raises his hand towards the sky before letting it fall.
JACK-
The cold never bothered me anyway.
Jack leaned against his staff and made a 'no' motion with his hand.
Giving small laughs, the seven glanced at each other as they watched four of the seven's future selves dance themselves happily.
Jack, Merida, Rapunzel, and Hiccup walk off with confidence in every step. Flynn, Toothless, and Jamie look at each other with smiles before running after their friends.
HICCUP-
It's funny how some distance, makes everything seem small.
Hiccup looks behind him, right at Toothless who smiles.
Hiccup and Toothless looked at each other, wrapping an arm around each other's shoulders.
RAPUNZEL-
And the fears that once controlled me, can't get to me at all.
Rapunzel spread her arms wide with glee. After she finished that part, they all took off running.
Rapunzel linked her arm with Flynn as stay watched on with growing excitement.
Pitch growled. The little-lost princess thinks that? Well, she's got another thing coming because Pitch won't let anyone escape his fear.
Triforce and Mask groaned at Pitch's thinking.
"Oy vey," Mask groaned, gripping his facial covering.
"I'm regretting that ability a little, but the good part is that we hear what they say when they're embarrassed," Triforce said.
MERIDA-
It's time to see what I can do.
Merida runs ahead before turning, pointing to herself.
Merida nodded, looking towards her bow and arrows, thinking what she could do besides archery.
HICCUP-
To test the limits and break through.
Hiccup stops next to her and holds her shoulders.
JACK-
No right, no wrong, no rules for me.
Jack and Rapunzel come up next to them. Jack smiles as he shakes his head. He gestures to himself.
Jack and Jamie smiled. Ever the rebel, Jack, ever the rebel.
ALL-
I'm free!
They all raise their hands in the air before dancing and running around each other, ending up near a cliffside with the sky turning brighter each second.
RAPUNZEL AND MERIDA-
Let it go, let it go!
The girls run up a big rock that was near, unbridled joy on their faces.
JACK AND HICCUP-
I am one with the wind and sky.
Let it go, let it go!
Jack uses the wind to lift he and Hiccup up for a few moments before both of them are set back to the ground.
Jack, Hiccup, and Toothless eyed each other, remembering a promise for a race later.
RAPUNZEL AND MERIDA-
You'll never see me cry.
Both girls jump off the rock, landing on the ground with ease.
Merida found her arm being grabbed by Flynn and couldn't help but smile.
ALL-
Here I'll stand, and here I'll stay.
Let the storm rage on.
The four of them stomp their feet on the ground and toss their arms to the sides. Merida then spins in a circle back to the big rock while Rapunzel, Jack, and Hiccup get in a line. Merida leaned against the rock and waved her arm out, telling them to continue.
RAPUNZEL-
My power flurries through the air into the ground!
Rapunzel grabs her braided hair, gesturing to its golden glow, before spinning, creating a glowing spiral.
Rapunzel glanced at her hair, smiling.
JACK-
My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around!
Jack makes an icicle and throws it into the air, watching as it explodes into the snow.
Jamie and Jack high-fived.
HICCUP-
And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast!
Hiccup backflips as Toothless shoots a blast of fire above him in the air. Merida claps and points to Hiccup before she walks over to them. They all looked up at the embers and snow falling.
"Merida has a thing with explosions," Flynn says.
Hiccup and Toothless laughed, seeing they won what seemed a little pure fun contest.
RAPUNZEL-
I'm never going back.
The four of them narrow their eyes at each other.
ALL-
The past is in the past!
Let it go, let it go!
They look behind them. A mirage of their pasts form. They turn away sharply, looking over at the cliff and walking towards it. They headed up in a line: Jack, Rapunzel, Merida, then Hiccup as they stare at the horizon.
The seven smiled. Their homes can forsake them, but they will go on because it is what they always done.
JACK AND HICCUP-
And I'll rise like the break of dawn.
The sun rises. It brightens up all that it touches.
ALL-
Let it go, let it go!
The four teens smile as they look at the sun. In the background, Toothless, Flynn, and Jamie smile at them.
RAPUNZEL AND MERIDA-
That perfect girl is gone.
Rapunzel and Merida look at each other, putting a hand on their chest.
ALL-
Here I stand, in the light of day.
Let the storm rage on!
Jack, Rapunzel, Merida, and Hiccup grab each other's hands and raise them in the air.
JACK-
The cold never bothered me anyway.
The sun's light bathes them in a warm, shining glow. They take a deep breath in, then chuckle, then fall over laughing.
The seven laughed, feeling lighter as well.
They all watch the sunrise together. Merida and Hiccup let out a HUGE breath.
MERIDA/HICCUP
"Singing takes the pain away."
All because of that, apparently. But Merida and Hiccup could do without the embarrassment, again.
Merida and Hiccup go red. They look at the floor sheepishly. The others laugh. Jack shrugs after a while.
RAPUNZEL
"They are right. By singing alone my emotions felt better. Like they weren't even there."
Toothless nudges Hiccup on the shoulder.
TOOTHLESS
"By the way, when you guy's sung, it was like you let go of the past and moved on. No longer allowing the past to bother you as much as it did before. And honestly, hearing it myself made me let go of my past as well."
"Your welcome," came four replies.
"You four don't let it get to your head," came three responses.
"…WHAT," Mask shouted.
Triforce tossed Mask a look with a raised eyebrow. Mask closed his mouth with a sheepish look.
Flynn, Jamie, and Jack all nod.
JACK
"We did let go of our past."
Merida smiles.
MERIDA (LOOKING AT THE OTHERS)
"So I was right. Singing does take the pain away."
Everyone's smiling. Toothless' smile vanishes suddenly. He gets up and looks around urgently. Angus trots over to Merida, clearly nervous.
HICCUP (QUESTIONING)
"Toothless?"
Toothless slowly looks through the trees and the sky, sniffing the air. Hiccup slowly stands, the others following.
Everyone tensed. What was happening, what was going on?
HICCUP (QUESTIONING) (CONT'D)
"Toothless?"
The other teens look at Toothless in frightened confusion. Horse neighs, wicked laughter, and roars echo through his ears. Toothless turns his head to the path. His eyes turn to slits. Toothless' vision zooms. He gasps. Black horses with trailing sand, as well as Witches, Dragons, and Hybrids. They're in the teens' direction.
Pitch, Red Death, Mor'du, and Gothel smiled. They found them.
Hiccup walks over to Toothless. He looks in Toothless' direction and turns back to him.
HICCUP (ASKING) (CONT'D)
"Toothless, what do you see?"
TOOTHLESS
"We need to go."
Toothless grabs Hiccup by the wrist before looking around quickly.
JAMIE (ASKING)
"What? Why?"
TOOTHLESS
"Something is after us."
"More like someone," Jack said, glancing around at the crowd, looking for the ones that sent those creatures after them, gaze staying on the four people chained to seats close together.
Toothless still looks for a direction to run as he glances back at the coming danger.
FLYNN
"Who?"
Flynn grabs Merida's and Rapunzel's hands with his own. Rapunzel's holding Pascal while Merida's free hand has Angus's reigns. Jack picks up Jamie and holds him protectively.
TOOTHLESS
"Dragons and Hybrids, black horses that look at they are made of sand, and Witches."
JACK
"Black horses made of sand. I know what they are! They're called Nightmares, and they belong to Pitch Black, the Boogyman or the Nightmare King. He's a spirit and is not well liked because he started causing fear everywhere. I heard he was banished many years ago."
All eyes turned towards Pitch, who smirked evilly, causing many uneasy shivers in people.
FLYNN (DRYLY)
"Thanks for the tip."
Toothless' eyes lock on into a path.
TOOTHLESS
"And now we run!"
Toothless pulls Hiccup towards the path, running. The others look at each other before following.
RAPUNZEL
"Why don't you just transformed into your dragon form and carry Flynn and Hiccup, Jack's carries Jamie, and Merida and Pascal and Me and we run that way. Won't we escape faster."
Toothless shakes his head.
TOOTHLESS
"We can't."
OTHER SIX (CRIED OUT)
"Why?!"
They all suddenly stop, gasping. A colony of Nightmares and Dragons, as well as airborne Hybrids and Witches, stare down at them.
"…Is this a bad time to be excited," Mask asked.
"If by excited, you mean afraid, sure," Jack said, gripping his staff a bit more tightly.
TOOTHLESS (YELLING)
"That's why!"
"They're not gonna let you fly," Rapunzel said, horrified.
Toothless turns to another direction and runs, the others following him.
TOOTHLESS (YELLING) (CONT'D)
"They'll take us down if we do! It's what they want us to do!"
Jack aims his staff behind him and fires a few blasts of ice, creating walls on the ground. Some Dragons and Nightmares ran into the brigade while the rest bypass it. The Witches and Hybrids just fly over.
MERIDA (CRIED OUT)
"Somehow I don't think that's the only thing they want us to do!"
They all stop once more. Looking around, they're at the bottom of the cliff. They're surrounded by Witches, Nightmares, Dragons, and Hybrids.
FLYNN (REALIZING)
"This was their plan. The group that was running down the path jumped or flew down here while we were chased by the other group. With Hybrids and Witches in the sky-"
HICCUP (FINISHING)
"They completely boxed us in."
"We're trapped," Toothless stated, looking worried.
Mocking laughter from the Dragons, Hybrids, Nightmares, and Witches.
MERIDA
"They didn't come here to capture us. They came to kill us."
People gasped. Killed them? Children!? Emily turned towards Pitch.
"Why would you want to kill them? They're just children," Emily screeched.
Primrose also turned towards Pitch.
"Don't you have a heart? Don't you care," Queen Arianna yelled at him.
Pitch scowled at the two women, "I don't care that their just children and nor do I have a heart."
Emily and Queen Arianna were shocked at the heartless response.
Vanja, Wisp, and Midnight feared for three boys in particular and Nightcore feared for his brother.
RAPUNZEL (ASKING)
"But why so many? So many just to kill us and what for?"
JAMIE (ASKING)
"What do we do?"
Jamie clutches onto Jack's hoodie tighter.
JACK
"I don't know."
TOOTHLESS (GROWLING)
"I know one thing."
Toothless' claws protrude from his nails and his wings and tail are in battle mode.
TOOTHLESS (CONT'D)
"I'm not going down without a fight."
HICCUP
"I'm with you."
Hiccup pulls out his dagger and getting into a fighting stance. Merida grabs her bow and notched an arrow. Flynn takes out his sword. Rapunzel takes out her own dagger. Jack sets Jamie down in front of him before taking out his dagger, holding his side to his side. Jamie gulps, but takes out his dagger as well, holding it in front of him.
The seven looked at each other. They barely knew each other, but they were going to fight for their lives together. Reaching out, the seven grabbed hands, holding hard tight.
The Witches and Hybrids laugh. The Dragons and Nightmares shake their heads in glee. They lunge.
The screen turns black.
"What! It can't stop there!"
"Don't worry, there's more," Triforce said, working on getting the next chapter up.
Mask leaned over to her, "Need help?"
Triforce nodded, "Yep, I do. I'm very busy trying to get other chapters done in my other story before the year ends."
Me: I'm evil, I know.
Stopped at a cliffhanger.
See ya in the next chapter!
Thank Mask for the help!
And for the record, I did finish the story and it was the story version of this.