Chapter 20

The Bewilderbeast docked in the outside of the city, next to the Deadly Nadder.
It didn't snow anymore, but the once beautiful autumn landscape was now covered in a thick layer of snow.
Aster shivered there he stood arms crossed over his naked chest.

"Take on something or you will end up with frostbites!" Rapunzel said to him as she fixed her furry coat to get more comfortable around her. He muttered something in reply and walked into the galley and into the boy's room; where Nicholas was digging thru the chest; with winter clothes that Eugene had manage to save from the Night Fury's wreck.

"…to big… absolutely to big…" Nicholas muttered as he looked for some thicker clothes for Hiro and Tadashi, Tadashi had gotten to borrow one of Eugene's coats and Nicholas was currently searching for something for Hiro. After a while he gave away a triumphant "aha!" and gave the kid a thick poncho. Aster walked over to the chest.

"Can ye find me anything, freezing my nipples off in this weather?" Nicholas looked up at him raising an eyebrow before he chuckled and took up a thick jacket that belonged to the Pooka.

Hiccup looked towards the snow covered city, the castle stood out from the town, tall and beautiful, he let his eyes scan the aria, but he didn't see the black ship anywhere, he looked down at his compass the arrow did a spin before it pointed towards the northeast, his thought's then went to Jack and he blinked when the Arrow didn't stay in the same direction, but turned to the east. He stared at it turning it in his hands, but the arrow didn't change its position, keeping to point towards the east.

"Jack…" he mumbled out, Toothless walked up to him and nuzzled his head against Hiccup's leg, earning a pat on the head in return.

They had split up, to see if anyone in the city had seen the black ship, or perhaps even Jack, since it was clear he wasn't on the ship anymore. But no one knew anything. So in the end they had decided to do some shopping for the three newcomers to the crew, more clothes, but also things they needed, or to Rapunzel's delight some sweet's that made the two kids beam, even Tadashi gave her a warm smile as thanks.

"This is really not needed..." Hiro said as he hugged the new poncho around him, Tadashi sigh a smile, a cloud creating from his breath and Tip looked at him chuckling, Rapunzel looked back at him and smiled she heard Hiro mutter something under his breath about not needing it, and that she didn't have to waste her money on them, she ignored his mutters as her eyes roamed over the city ground and then caught the brown mop of hair that she recognised so well.
She stopped walking blinking, not sure if it was him or if she was imagining it, brown hair and pale skin, a brown poncho and thick boots, might be someone else, but she was certain about it when she called out his name.

"Jack!" she must have startled the boy; by the way his head shot up and the familiar brown and blue eye stared at her in confusion at first before his expression and body language turned to someone who just seen a ghost, stiff and frightened. She hurried towards him, and she saw that he was trying his best to form something to say, but only incoherent words left his lips, before she took his hands in hers and she beamed at him like a ray of sunlight. "I thought I never get see you again, thank the sun you're alright." She frowned on the inside at the sight of the bruises on him, but she was to glad to let her worry for the boy get the better of her. She hugged around him tightly. And that was when Jack managed to get his mouth to do as he wanted.

"Ra- Rapunzel?!" he said in a confused, but also frightened voice, as if he had trouble believing she was there at all. He had seen the ship sink and been told no one of them survived… there was NO way! She was here now hugging him. She let go of him and held her hands on his shoulders, far too thin for her liking, she was going to get Nicholas to cook a feast.

"Yeah, it's me… have you forgotten already?" she looked into those eyes, that had grown less lively since she last seen them. He blinked at her question, before he shook his head and looked away.

"Wha- no… I just- the ship- I thought… no I believed…" he mumbled before he looked at her again, for a short moment. "I was told there were no survivors… I-" she placed her finger over his mouth giving him a half-hearted glare.

"Don't finish that sentence." She said. "No one of us is gone, we are all alive, and we even gotten some new recruits." She turned to Tadashi, Hiro and Tip: who had moved towards them. "This is Tadashi and his little brother Hiro and Tip." Rapunzel introduced them with a smile. Jack stared at them. "And this is Jack." Rapunzel said to them.
Tadashi smiled as he held out his hand; Jack took it after a slight bit of hesitating.

"Glad to meet you, Jack." Jack gave him a stiff nod in return. "Your dad told us quite a lot about you." Jack blinked and Rapunzel noticed how he grew pale.

"He passed by their island when he looked for- you know." Rapunzel said making Jack look at her. "Oh-" Rapunzel's eyes opened wide and she smiled big. "Wait till Hiccup meet's you, he's been worried sick."

"Hiccup..?" Jack looked at her, and she saw worry in his eyes, before he looked away.

"He never gave up on you." She said reassuring. "Not once." Jack looked back up at her and she saw that he had trouble believing her words.

Anna moved uneasy left and fourth in the room, Olaf, Sven and Kristoff looked at her in worry.

"We need to do something! I never seen her so- so afraid before." Anna said looking at them, stopping for a short moment.

"We don't even know where she went." Kristoff said shrugging, but even he was worried about the queen.

"Why not look in her ice castle…" Olaf said looking at her.

"Good idea!" she said. "We leave right now."

"Now?"

"Yes! Now."

Hiccup sighed as he sat down on a bench, Astrid stood next to him, and Stormfly and Toothless played around in the snow.

"We'll never find him here." Astrid said. "For all we now, they could have dumped his dead body, and kept going." That earned her a frown.

"Please, Astrid, don't say that." Hiccup sighed; his shoulder's sagging as he looked down at the compass: the arrow spinning around; he wasn't sure what he wanted. "Let's just hope the others have better luck than we do." Astrid sighed and looked out over the city and the people of Arendelle that moved around dressed in thick cloths to keep the cold away, as it started to snow again, big snowflakes, falling form above, most hurried inside in their respective homes, but other's stayed outside.

The snow roared around the dale between the mountains, blowing hard and cold, Elsa hugged around herself, not because of the cold, but because if the fear that flared in her chest. Her pale hair blew in the wind. Snow made it hard to see, but she stopped walking when a dark shadow suddenly stood in front of her, she only saw the yellow of his eyes.

"I've been expecting you." The shadow said in a cold voice. She looked at him, the fear growing stronger.

"Who are you?" she asked taking a step back. A chuckle came from the shadow.

"Who I am is not for you to know, but listen to me when I tell you this." She saw how the shadow moved its arm. "You are to kill the captain of the Night Fury, my queen." Yellow absorbed her blue eyes; she took a shocked gasp for air, as the storm stopped abrupt, the snowflakes freezing still in the air.