Chapter XIV: Snow Day

So I'm just going to skip ahead to December now as nothing really interesting happens in November, and I kind of want to just blow through this first year, mainly because I have something pretty epic planned in the future.

It was the first snowfall of the new winter, and Jack was excited. Luckily for him it was a Saturday. He leapt out of his bed and got dressed as quickly as he could before running into the girls' dorm to wake up Merida, and to flee when the other girls started throwing their pillows at him. Jack them made a run for the Ravenclaw tower to collect his friends there.

To his luck he found that Hiccup and Elsa were already up and dressed, and Rapunzel was awake in the dorm brushing her hair.

"You look pretty excited this morning, Jack." Elsa stated.

"It snowed last night! Lots of snow! Come on, we need to go outside!" He replied, but to his disappointment, Hiccup and Elsa didn't seem to be excited at all about the snow. With a quizzical expression on his face he asked them: "What's the matter with you two? It snowed outside; and think of all the fun we can have!"

"Well, Jack, it snows nine months of the year on Berk, and hails on the other three. Honestly, I was more amazed to find that there was a lot of grass to be seen during the time I've been here, in place of the snow." Hiccup replied.

"What about you, Elsa?" Jack asked.

"I have bad memories." She replied. A few seconds later Rapunzel ran into the room exclaiming her excitement over the snow that was on the ground, and a couple minutes after that, Merida entered the room and urged Hiccup and Elsa to come outside with them.

"C'mon, ye two turtledoves, maybe we can say 'hi' to Toothless while we're out." Merida told them.

"Fine, come on, Elsa, we should have some fun during this weekend!" Hiccup stated. So they got up and put their winter cloaks on before running outside.

Once Jack could touch the light and fluffy snow, he started putting on a tumbling act that made him appear as a crazed gymnast. He covered his hair in so much snow that it turned from brown to white; and once he was back on his feet, he gathered up a snowball and pelted it, striking Rapunzel's face!

"You fool!" She exclaimed before throwing some at Jack, but then she turned around to pelt one at Hiccup and another at Merida, causing them to join in. Jack only added to the fun by using his strange command over the wind and snow to create more snowballs. His friends marveled at his ability as they had for Hiccup when he found out he was an animagus and to fund out that Rapunzel's hair had healing and regenerative powers.

With her friends being amazed over Jack's special ability, Elsa couldn't help but feel a little jealous over him. After all, compared to her powers, Jack's weren't that impressive, and when the boy suddenly hit her chest with a snowball it was gloves off for her! She took off each glove dramatically and casted them aside, her eyes were locked with Jack's as she raised her hands above her head, and her ice magic produced a great ball of snow hovering above her head.

"Elsa? What are you… No, no, don't you dare!" Jack exclaimed as Elsa stepped towards him, but she couldn't resist throwing the great ball of snow at him with enough force to knock him off his feet! Jack was absolutely shocked to find out what Elsa can do. He got to his feet and looked at her with wide eyes and a slackened jaw. As far as the others were concerned, well they weren't paying attention to her, and Hiccup already knew of her gift.

"Ha, ha, look at Jack! Good show, Elsa." Merida called out.

"She actually conjured that big snowball!" Jack exclaimed. Elsa looked down at him and smirked. She pulled up her long skirt to her school dress and stomped the ground to create the form of a gigantic snowflake with its center pinpointed where her foot was planted.

"Elsa, what are you doing?" Jack asked.

Elsa raised her hands and the snowflake she stood on rose up into a platform. She looked down to her friends' shocked faces, but Hiccup looked to her with a beaming smile on his face as if to say: This is who you are and you are amazing.

Elsa make a clustered ball of magic with her hands and threw it into the air to command the sky to bring snow to the ground. Jack looked at her, completely astonished.

"You can make it snow! You can control the very weather, and you can conjure up ice! What are you, Elsa?" Jack asked her.

"She's an elemental, Jack." Rapunzel told him. Elsa made a slide of ice and slid down to stand next to Rapunzel.

"Any witch or wizard with the command over any element is known as an elemental. Elsa had control over ice and snow, and if her powers grow stronger she may have command over the water. You seem to be an elemental too, Jack, with a focus on air and ice. Elementals who have the command of two elements can't seem to match the same level of power as those who can control only one element." Rapunzel added.

"Well, I guess I can't have all the fun." Jack stated, and he called for the wind to sweep him off his feet and blow him into the air. The wind carried him over to one of Hogwarts's walls and at his touch, beautiful trails of frost crept over the bricks, but they still weren't as impressive as Elsa's command over the ice and snow.

The wind carried Jack down softly, but then he noticed that Merida was standing aside from her friends with her arms crossed and a pout on her face.

"Merida, what's wrong?" Jack asked.

"It jus' upsets me dat ye, Hiccup, Rapunzel, and now Elsa 'ave all these special abilities, and I 'ave none!" She replied.

"Hey, hey, c'mon Merida, didn't you once tell me that you're an amazing archer?" Jack asked.

"One of the best in fact. I should show ye sometime." Merida replied.

"Well, Merida, I don't know about the rest of us, but since I've never shot an arrow in my life, I'll be willing to bet that you're the greatest archer among all of us." Jack told her.

"I've tried using a bow and arrow before, but everyone tries to fix my hold of it, what with me being left-handed and all. Plus I don't seem to have enough muscle to draw the string all the way back. Good thing I make a good Blacksmith and wizard otherwise I'd be totally useless to my tribe." Hiccup replied.

"Also, Merida, it is worth mentioning that I didn't discover that I have my special abilities until last winter." Jack stated.

"The first time you saw me change into a Night Fury was the first time I ever became one. Elsa, Rapunzel, how did you two find out about your abilities?" Hiccup said.

"I've known about my healing powers for as long as I can remember." Rapunzel replied.

"Same here, of course I'll admit that I don't have the best control over my abilities. I don't know how to thaw what I've created." Elsa stated. She looked over to her snowflake platform and with a wave of her hand it shattered into tiny bits, about the size of small hailstones. As she was looking up, she caught the sight of a raven flying from the castle, and into the forest; but now that her creation was destroyed, she picked up her gloves and slipped them back on.

"Who knows, Merida, maybe you do have some sort of hidden ability, you just haven't discovered it yet." Hiccup told her.

"I hope so." Merida replied. A natural cold breeze blew past her, causing her to shiver. She looked to her friends and told them: "It's getting pretty cold for me, I think I'll go inside and warm up. I'll be in the Library if you want to look for me." With that, she went inside.

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As Merida was finding her way to the Library, she turned into a darkened and silent hall, and when she was about to turn at another dark corner, she heard the sound of a body being slammed against a wall. So Merida retreated and hid underneath a decorative table with an old tapestry draped over it like a tablecloth. Now in hiding, she listened to the conversation:

"J-Jafar, please!"

"You know he wants it, Pan."

"Braack, he wants it." Iago, Jafar's ever-present parrot repeated.

"Yes, Jafar, the stone, yes, I know it's in the castle!"

"Away with you now, Pan!"

The conversation halted there, and the two teachers split up.

From underneath the table, Merida watched as the hems of Jafar's cloak and robes swept past her.

"What a chump." A seemingly intelligent voice stated. Who was that?

"Hush now, Iago, Peter Pan is a friend to us. He'll be sure to assist us." Jafar replied.

"What I don't get is why we are going to give it to him, it would certainly serve a better purpose if we kept it." Iago replied.

"Hmm, very true. Oh, I love the way your foul little mind works!" Jafar stated, and they left the hall laughing. Merida couldn't believe what she had just heard, but what she was trying to make sense was what kind of tone they were after. Was it the Dragonstone that she read about a while back?

When Merida was certain she was alone, she ran for the Library and signed in relief before running off to collect the book she discovered the Dragonstone in and checked it out. There were other mystical artifacts in the book, some of them being other types of stones, but somehow she felt that the Dragonstone was the one to be focused on.

She looked around the Library before she found a place to sit down. Across the walls were scorch marks, torn paintings and banners, and there were reports of damaged or burnt books from the dragon's visit on Halloween. Luckily for the students, they were books mainly kept for the History of Magic class, and now poor Professor Fairy had a hard time figuring out how to assign interesting essays to students. Instead they were pretty much stuck doing readings from their textbooks, making her class the easiest to get high grades in for the students.

Merida sat with her book for a couple hours before her friends came in, slightly damp from their snowball fight, and when they grouped around her, she went into a quick ramble on what she heard from Pan and Jafar.

"There's some sort of stone within the school?" Jack asked.

"Yeah, and it must be powerful too from what Jafar said." Merida replied.

"You should report it to Headmaster Lunar." Jack told her.

"No, it would be my word against two teachers. I think that Lunar would believe them more than me." Merida told him.

"I say we should investigate this further, but not right away, it's too fresh in their memories and your memory, Merida... I wonder… Would any of you be interested in staying for the winter Holidays?" Hiccup asked.

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Alright, so Elsa has shown her friends her special ability, and well, Merida knows something she shouldn't now.

I'm open to more ideas, so please review.