"Rapunzel!?" Mia called, but there was no answer, not a sound except for the wind. "Rapunzel!" She called again, suddenly the door slammed shut and a familiar shadow passed over it.
"Hello, Mia" said Pitch's voice, and Mia turned pale along with her streak.
"Where are they? What did you do with them?" Mia asked
"Don't worry they're not dead, yet" Pitch replied, and he appeared near the door.
"What do you want?" Mia asked through gritted teeth.
"I want the key to the ultimate power, and seeing as you won't die for me, I'll give you a chance to just hand it over" Pitch replied simply. Mia scowled at him,
"Well I don't know why you're asking me for it, but even if I did, why would I give it to you" she said. Pitch laughed,
"I was hoping you would ask that" he said, then the four appeared next him, chained down, completely unable to move and unconscious "otherwise I would have caught these slippery worms for no reason" Pitch continued. Mia gasped and attempted to run to them, but she had only taken two steps when her legs gave way and she fell to the floor. Pitch laughed at her weakness and Mia scowled at Him.
"What do you want from me?" She asked.
"I told you, I want the key" Pitch replied, a little irritated. Jack groaned as he woke up but didn't say anything.
"Then why come to me!?" Mia yelled "I don't have the Key!" She was getting frustrated with Pitch, who laughed at her.
"You don't even know!" He chuckled, Jack looked around in shock as Hiccup woke Up.
"Of course you have the Key" Pitch said "why else would i have bothered to kill you. Think about it, why else would i have attacked you,all those years ago. If you didn't have it then I would have just given you nightmares and made myself stronger"
"You're insane" Mia told him, but her voice held doubt.
"Am I?" Pitch asked "think about the riddle 'if you want the key look to the heart of flight' without wind nothing would fly. Birds, planes, dragons, not even Jack Frost"
"But I didn't have these powers when you first attacked me" Mia pointed out. Pitch sighed
"Don't you have a brain?" He asked "the riddle was made after you became the wind. man-in-moon hid the key in you, then when the second group of negatives died, when you still had the key but also was the wind, he made the riddle. I don't know why I didn't recognise you, now I do and I want the key, let me rid you of the thing that caused you so much pain"
"No!" Jack and Hiccup yelled at the same time, having both figured out what was going on. Pitch scowled at them, then he gagged them with his sand.
"Anyway, surely you want to be rid of the thing that caused so much trouble" he repeated smoothly. Then Mia looked at him and smiled.
"Yes I do" she said, but then the smile was gone and her streak turned red "but the Key didn't cause me trouble, YOU did! YOU were the one who attacked me all those years ago. YOU were the one who killed me and made me invisible. YOU were the one who tore me awayfrom my family, and YOU were the one that caused all my pain!" She calmed down slightly, though Pitch was fuming, because he was to close to her. Then Mia continued,
"I read, in one of my books, that the key is made from a tiny piece of the ultimate power. If I give you the key, then, even if you never get to the ultimate power, you would be strong enough to defeat us. So even if you stopped attacking me directly, the pain I have been suffering will continue" she began to raise her voice "because you will destroy the closest thing to a family I have had in 333 years! SO I WILL NOT GIVE YOU THE KEY!" Pitch scowled, then he gestured to the four,
"Wrong answer" he said as the black sand started to shift "you still have a chance to just hand over the key" Mia started to glow white, and stood up
"Have you been listening to me!?" She asked, shining brighter and brighter every second "The key is part of the ultimate power!" Pitch shielded his eyes, while Jack and Hiccup closed theirs. Mia then unleashed the magic that had built up. There was a blinding flash and all the sand vanished leaving Pitch unarmed, but Pitch didn't stay to fight, as soon as the nightmares vanished he retreated, fuming. The light faded and Jack and Hiccup stood up, glad to be able to move. Mia stumbled towards the four then collapsed. Hiccup and Jack were by her side in an instant,
"No! You just woke up!" Jack said, very distressed. Hiccup rolled his eyes,
"Jack, she's not asleep"Mia chuckled weakly,
"I'm just a little wiped out" she said, she didn't bother to sit up and just laid down on the floor. Jack turned to Rapunzel and gently shook her awake
"Uggh, what happened?" She groaned, then she noticed Mia, "are you okay? " she asked. Mia nodded and sat up,
"I'm fine" she said "are you?" Rapunzel smiled and nodded. Jack then woke up Merida by throwing a rather large and hard snowball at her. Merida lashed out at Jack, furious, and soon chased him out of the room. Hiccup sat down next to Rapunzel and Mia,
"So what now" he asked. Mia shrugged,
"I suppose we find the door" she said. Rapunzel looked at her,
"But we haven't got the key yet!" She said, Mia remembered that Rapunzel had been unconscious during the previous scene.
"Actually we have" she said and stared at her hand as it started to glow. Rapunzel looked at Mia's hand then at Mia, her eyes were wide with surprise,
"You have the key?!" Rapunzel asked. Mia nodded,
"Yeah, I do" she said. Rapunzel jumped up,
"So now we just need to find the door!" She said excitedly. Mia also got up, though not as fast,
"Yup, but first we need to rescue Jack from Merida" she said. Hiccup chuckled and the three walked out of Mia's room.
Pitch's lair...
"You failed?! How are we supposed to defeat the guardians without the key!?" Mother Gothel screeched, but Pitch's face was calm,
"Even if we had the key, it would be almost impossible to get the door, so we're just going to strike when they open the door"...
