Chapter L: Night of the Flurry

"So what did the crystals show you guys?" Scythe asked. He was hanging out with Kay, Ivan, Emily, and Jessica.

"Why don't you start by telling us what you saw?" Jessica returned.

"Fine, I saw blades… jutting out through the earth at my command." Scythe replied.

"I saw flames of all things." Emily stated.

"I saw my eye glowing with a heavenly light and feathered wings." Ivan told them.

"Well my crystal showed me a few different images: a potion bottle, a human, and a dragon. I don't know how I'm to pursue it." Jessica replied.

"In your case, you'd have to start with the potion… I can read it in your magic." Kay told her.

"Aren't you going to tell us what you saw?" Ivan asked him.

"Absolutely not… It brought back a memory I do not wish to dwell on."

"Oh come on, Kay, it's not like you've killed someone!" Jessica pressed. He looked at her, but he did not answer. Instead he just left the room. Jessica turned back to her friends and asked: "He didn't kill anyone, did he?"

"No, that was Scythe, thus his nickname." Ivan replied.

"He was a criminal anyway." Scythe defended.

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Each passing day was long and filled with nightmares for both parties. Valka and Jenny feared that help would never arrive, and the Furious Flurries feared for the well being of them. So this led to be the longest week of their lives.

The ongoing famine in Corona didn't help either. Food was very limited from the area and the imports' prices were still climbing. So it led to smaller or less satisfying meals for the Furious Flurries. It came to the point where they felt that the seventh day would never come

Until it finally did…

That morning, Elsa, Ivan, Rapunzel, Scythe, Hiccup, Emily, Jessica, Jack, Kay, Merida, and even Iago made their way to the forest outside the kingdom and practiced for their siege, and they decided to use Toothless for the first attack as he had better night vision than Cloudjumper.

They trained until the sun started setting, practicing their jinxes and charms, Elsa and Jack teamed together to see how intense of a blizzard they could make the answer was something that could prevent someone from seeing their own hand right in front of their face, although they promised that they wouldn't get that intense when they reached Pontefract; and Merida practiced her archery in low visibility. She promised Rapunzel that the only villain she planned on shooting was Mor'du for her father's revenge.

Now that the sun was setting, it was time for them to take their mounts and fly off to rescue Jenny and Valka.

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In the empty room in the dismal Pontefract house, Valka and Jenny were hopeless, and the only comfort they had was each other's company, but they no longer felt like talking. Aside from not being alone, there were the meals, it appeared that at some point they ran out of pears, and Jenny was delighted for that, and eels ended up being in short supply, and so the meals started to take a turn for the better. Pears and eels were soon replaced with chicken and apples.

Still, all they wanted was to get out of that empty, locked, room, but they lost all hope that help was coming, and they had Pitch Black coming in every day to taunt them about it, and how they never would have been accepted

"I'd never thought I'd say this, but I even miss the jerks at school." Jenny stated.

Valka didn't reply; she just held Jenny closer. If she ran out of hope, then perhaps Jenny still did, and that was worth protecting.

"Have hope, Jenny, have hope." Valka told her.

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The grey house was in sight, and Merida held up a hand signal for Jack and Elsa to start up their snowstorm, Jack picked up the winds gradually, and Elsa added in the snow. With a wave of her hands she created large banks of snow. At the same time, Hiccup, Scythe, and Kay maneuvered onto the roof with Toothless and dismounted.

Now, Jack and Jessica found the door to the storm cellar, and Rapunzel was there to stand guard over it, and once the others were in position, Toothless jumped on the roof and let out a loud roar!

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"What on earth was that?" Pitch Black asked. He ordered his company, except Drago was off trying to spread terror and to collect more dragons, to go outside with him to see what was going on. He was still weak, but he still had nightmares at his command to protect him. However, once outside, he found that there was a nasty blizzard going on.

"Show yourself, beast!" Jafar snarled as he readied his staff for battle.

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Now that Toothless had played his part, Hiccup brought Kay onto his back, and they flew down to conceal the dragon in the forest, and Kay returned to the roof, by climbing up a stack of firewood, to help Scythe cover Hiccup. To start the fight and to keep the villains outside, they began throwing snowballs and jinxes at the villains.

However, from the forest, Toothless got the idea that this was a real battle and he even threw in a couple plasma blasts towards the villains, knocking Jafar's staff out of his grasp, and also sending Gothel on her backside.

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Jack and Jessica were now sneaking their way through the house, lighting their way through the dark basement with the tips of their wands. However, luck really wasn't on their side with the basement. It turned out that Iago forgot to mention that the basement was cluttered almost floor to ceiling with weapons, luxurious furniture, torture devices, awkward baubles, mysterious trinkets, freaky statues, books on dark spells and scary stories, gold coins, and jewelry. It was going to take them a while just to maneuver through it, and not to mention, Jack still had a lock to pick.

They used their levitation charms to move some stuff out of the way, but it still took a bit of climbing to finally get to the staircase leading into the house. They ran up the stairs and over to the door leading to the room Valka and Jenny were being held captive.

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There was a sudden knock on the door, which made Jenny and Valka sit upright and alert. The villains ran out of the house when they heard the roar of a dragon from the roof. The noise had only startled them as they were dealing with so many traumas by now, but now with this knock on the door, a spark of hope lit in their eyes.

"Who's there?" Jenny called out.

"It's Jack and Jessica, we're here to get you out of this place!" Jack's voice sounded through the door.

For the first time in a long time, both Jenny and Valka smiled and even laughed. Help arrived after all!

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Outside, on the ground, Merida, Ivan, Elsa, and Emily preoccupied the villains. Elsa lightened up the storm by lowering the winds, but the snowfall alone made it hard to see.

"Would anyone mind if I created a floor of ice for them?" Elsa asked. Nobody had any objections, so with a flick of her wrist, Elsa froze the ground below the villain's feet.

The results were quite comical. Each villain was having problems getting their footing right without slipping, and Gothel took a stumble, which ended up with her hitting her head and knocking herself out. It earned cringes and laughter from the Furious Flurries and their friends, especially when Jafar's slip ended up with him doing the splits!

"On your feet you fool!" Pitch Black snapped at Jafar, and he started to call for his nightmares, but a plasma blast from Toothless interrupted their calling, as well as a couple gigantic snowballs thrown at his head, Pitch Black was now buried under a couple feet of snow!

"Oh my god we're humiliating them!" Elsa exclaimed with a giggle.

"I told ye that if all went accordin' to plan, everythin' would play out smoothly fer us… but Jack and Jessica are takin' longer than I had expected." Merida replied.

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"Hurry up, Jack, who knows how much time we have!" Jessica snapped.

"Hey, lock picking is a delicate art! It's all about the tumblers, and it takes time. So unless you happen to find the key, then don't tell me to hurry it up!" Jack replied as he fiddled with hairpins and wire inside the lock. From the other side of the door, he could hear Valka and Jenny chatting quietly between each other.

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On the roof, Hiccup, Scythe, and Kay were laughing at the sudden misfortune that befell upon the villains. Gothel knocked herself out, Jafar did the splits, and Pitch black was buried under snow. Mor'du was making an effort to dig him out, but he was still being bombarded with snowballs and stunning spells. He couldn't even focus on shifting his form into a bear!

Together, Hiccup and Kay created a large snowball about half their size. Hiccup instructed Scythe to levitate it, and using his skills in Transfiguration, he turned the thing from snow and into stone!

"Now, throw it next to that man trying to dig the man out of the snow." Hiccup told him. Scythe threw the boulder and it landed so hard, the ground shook! Mor'du jumped up, slipped, and landed on his back, and from below, Merida took this opportunity to ready her bow and an arrow.

"This is for me father's leg." She told herself as she took aim at Mor'du as he got back to his feet. With her sights ready, she loosed her arrow, and it struck Mor'du, causing him to howl in pain, as he buckled over and grasped at the area the arrow struck him.

Merida, realizing where she hit Mor'du, let her bow slip from her grasp and she backed away a few steps with a look of disgust on her face.

"I can't see; where did you hit him, Merida?" Emily asked.

"Let's just say that me arrow flew to the 'straight and narrow' and that Mor'du won't be playing with his 'bagpipes' anytime soon." She replied. Ivan overheard her and cringed to himself saying: "I'd be screaming like that too if you did that to me."

On the roof, Hiccup, Scythe, and Kay saw what happened to Mor'du and cupped their hands over their mouths for a moment, and decided to hold back on the fighting for a moment, which gave Jafar the time he needed to dig Pitch Black out of the snow.

However, Ivan's blue angel eye managed to pick out Jafar's form, with a minor level of concentration, he felt his eye throb with power, and so he deliberately channeled his power into his eye, and then his eye shot a beam of pure light magic at Jafar. His scream filled the air as he collapsed! If the blokes on the roof had better visibility at what he had done, they would've been in awe!

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Inside, Jack and Jessica heard the lock click, and they opened the door to embrace Valka and Jenny.

"Come on now, let's get out of here!" Jack told them, and so they led them down to the maze of the basement. They didn't care about the clutter so much anymore, they had what they came for now.

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Pitch Black was free once again, thanks to Jafar's digging, but now it was time for Jafar to inflict some damage on their assailants. He stood upright, though staggered a bit thanks to the damage he had taken, and scouted the area around the snow banks, and then he caught a shadow and fired a jinx… A lucky shot.

"No! Ivan!" Elsa exclaimed as she rushed over to the boy. He was unconscious and when he landed he undoubtedly cracked a couple ribs and broke an arm. The ground was rather solid, and Jafar's spell struck him hard. Out of anger, Elsa froze Jafar's feet to the ground and threw a ball of ice at his hand holding the staff, thus disarming him. As for Pitch Black, he called for his nightmares, only to be bombarded with stunning spells!

Then, that faithful moment happened, Jessica, Jenny, Jack, and Valka made it out of the cellar and met up with Rapunzel. She brought them the dragon and Jessica sent the purple sparks into the sky to signal to the others that the job was done.

Elsa created a sled for Ivan and ran with it as she called for Valhalla, the great white dragon flew down and collected them; while Valka saddled up on Cloudjumper, and the others climbed onto other dragons. Quickly, everyone cleared out of there, but Jessica took the time to look back, and she casted a spell upon a tree. She severed the trunk, and the tree crashed through the roof of the house!

"Now that's what I call a finale." Jessica told herself and she turned back to wrap her arms around Jack as she was riding Dagger, all of them left Pitch Black to rage in his defeat.

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Ivan woke up in the hospital wing at Hogwarts the next morning, but he was happy to find that Jenny, among his other friends, grouped around him, including his brother Royce.

"Jenny, it's great to see you again!" He stated.

"I have all of you to thank for that. Seriously, those people were horrible! They fed me pears!" She replied.

"Pears, PEARS! Oh, what an evil son of a bitch, feeding you pears! Had I known about that I would've set that house on fire!" Jessica exclaimed.

"Okay, can someone tell me what the heck happened to you guys?" Royce asked.

"We went to go looking for a legendary cave over the break, and some villains kidnapped Jenny. So we had to rescue her, which resulted in a fight." Hiccup replied, just trying to keep it short and simple.

"Well why didn't you guys take me along? I would've been of some help and would have enjoyed going on a trip!" Royce exclaimed.

"I didn't want to risk putting my little brother in danger." Ivan replied.

"Come on, Ivan, I know how to look out after myself. I don't need you to look out after me!" Royce snapped, and with that he turned and left.

"Um, quick question, how did I get here?" Ivan asked.

"You rode with me on the back of my dragon. When we landed, we all worked together to bring you up here, even Valka." Elsa replied.

"Well, thank you, all of you." Ivan stated.

"Who wants cookies to celebrate?" Rapunzel asked as she held out a batch of assorted cookies to share. Everyone took one and munched away happily. Although Jenny had hers gone pretty quick and eagerly took another one. She was glad to be eating anything that wasn't pears or gruel… or whatever else Pitch Black fed her.

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Well I hoped that the rescue mission lived up to its expectations. Let me know!

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