Companions United

by Ruth Joyce

(Book 1) When Pitch Black and Mother Gothel join forces, the weakened Guardians look to the Moon for help. Suddenly, Jack Frost, Hiccup Haddock III, and Merida DunBroch are thrown together on the adventure of a lifetime. But things get complicated when Manny leads them to Pitch and Gothel's beautiful daughter Rapunzel, and Jack gets distracted. Rated T for violence and peril.

14. Epilogue

Author's Note: Surprise! If you're wondering why after all these years you're suddenly getting notifications for this, it's a re-write! After I few weeks I finished my big re-write. For the most part, the plot is the same, although some details have been changed. Mostly, I expanded a lot of sections and added some foreshadowing. When I originally wrote this, I had planned to make it into a movie version with my incredible masking and editing skills. Yeah...that never happened. So now it's more like a book instead of being all choppy. I am planning to do the same to Frozen Companions eventually, and combine some of my short-story sequels together. But for now, enjoy the newest edition of Companions United!

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The sun feels pleasantly warm on my pale skin. Father always believed that it burned me, because the first time I felt it I cried. I was only startled. But I was too scared to contradict him, and so lived my entire life in darkness.

Being a vampire is a curse, not a blessing as my parents believed. Sure, I can fly. But everyone is scared of me, and I'm scared of them. I'm afraid they will hurt me, drive me away from my home because they hate me. Not to mention I cannot control the constant shapeshifting from bat to human. I never know when it will happen. I have been a vampire for three years, and still I do not know.

I live my life in fear. I look up at the burning sun, so far away. I wish I could escape the life I lead, but I don't know how to stop living in fear and darkness. I must do so, to be safe. But I wish, more than anything, that I could do so in the sunlight.

"Mavis!" A harsh, crackling voice calls from inside the small cottage. "It's time for your lessons!"

"Coming, grandmother."

One last time I look up at the sun. I want to stay out here forever, but I swallow my desire and walk into the dark, fear-filled room that is my home. Father was right, he always was. I don't know why I doubt him, why I always forget.

Light is bad. Good is bad. Everything in the outside world is bad.

Grandmother Maggie waits by the caldron.