Discovering the Meaning of Life Chapter 23: Clear?, a Brave, 2012 + Rise of the Guardians Crossover fanfic

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[Tales of the Abyss OST – Cheagle Wood]

"Baby Tooth told me what happened," said Queen Clarion toward the gang after they decided to return to the Fairy Tree for Baby Tooth to report back. "You met with great danger on your behalf. We are grateful that you have kept your promise even after 2000 years.

"Of course." Frost smiled, accepting her gratitude. "Aiding the fairies is part of Sofia's teachings."

"But the original cause of all this was Baby Tooth burning the ligers' home," Clarion frowned. "So I will have Baby Tooth atone for her mistake."

"What are you going to do?" Frost asked, concern in his voice.

The queen fairy was silent before she heavily sighed and said, "I will exile Baby Tooth from our tribe."

"That's too cruel!" yelled Frost. Hiccup was very much captivated by how fairies communication (for this is his first time), while Ezra somewhat agreeing wit Frost. Only Merida didn't look any interested.

"Naturally I don't mean forever." Clarion turned to Merida. "I hear that Mistress Merida saved Baby Tooth's life. Fairies do not forget their debts. Baby Tooth will server Mistress Merida for one cycle of the seasons."

Merida's eyes widened. "WHAT?!"

Baby Tooth flew over Merida's face with a shy smile on her face. "I'll do my best to be useful, Mistress."

[Music stops]

"Really, how did I get involved in this?"

"Please wait, Mistress!"

"Don't follow me!"

Ezra could only sigh at what he saw from behind the princess. Really? Picking a fight with a tiny fairy who just want to help.

Jamie was waiting for them in the center of the path at the edge of the forest. "Welcome back!" he greeted as they approached, gesturing out to the fields beyond the forest. Sure enough, the same landship they saw earlier was not too far in the distance.

"Hey, Jamie. What's the status of the Light Fury?" asked Hiccup with a wave of his hand.

Jamie nodded at him. "It's in front of the forest, just like you asked. You said to hurry, so we came as fast as we could!"

[Tales of the Abyss OST - Miserable Spectacle]

"Well, I guess we'll be off- " Merida started to say, but she was cut off by Hiccup's strange gesture, and suddenly Merida, Ezra, and Baby Tooth were surrounded by a ring of Mared Krows Imperial soldiers, all with weapons at the ready.

"Restrain those two." The order came out from the small colonel's mouth, referring to Merida and Ezra. "They're the one who've been emitting the Seventh Fonons."

"Hiccup!" Frost interjected. "You better not hurt them."

"Don't worry, we won't kill them. ...Assuming they don't resist," Hiccup taunted.

Unfortunately for Hiccup and his plans, Merida intended to do no such thing. She flicked her bow into a staff and hit the soldiers that had approached her out cold and the ones trying to grab Ezra didn't even see what hit them. The remaining soldiers turned their attention to the princess.

A soldier swung at Merida, and she spun around, sword and staff meeting in midair. However, another one came from behind, and though Merida knew full well that he was there, she knew there was no way she could block that attack!

But the sound of metal on metal rung through the clearing as everything else fell silent. Nobody expected the Fon Master ran into the battle, blocking the attack the tuning-fork part of his staff to stop the sword from coming down to Merida's neck. He was shaking slightly at the weight of the soldier's blade on top of his, but managed to throw the soldier back. He now stood back to back with the princess. Oh he'd get yelled at later for sure, but he didn't care. They are not hurting them!

Merida herself look surprised when she glanced back at her partner. "Frost?"

[Music stops]

Next thing anyone knew, torrents of water crashed down on the two teens, the fonic arte successfully subduing them both. Sopping wet, Merida was hauled to her feet and restrained, the soldier doing the same to Ezra.

"Guys, please. Cool down a bit-" Hiccup halted mid-sentence as he watched the two wet teens. "Okay… This is interesting."

While Jamie was still mad because basically Hiccup attacked the Fon Master turned to see for himself what had the boy's attention. "Oh."

Ezra raised an eyebrow. If you ignore the gender, clothes and hair, you'll see two identical face. Both of the teens have the same sky blue eyes (while one looked guilty, the other just annoyed), fair skin, face shape, and even body height. Which… Supposed to be impossible.

"Take them aboard the Light Fury!" Hiccup commanded, regrouping his soldiers. "We'll get this all sorted out there," He added more for his own benefit than for anything. "And please, be nice."

That concludes Episode 2! Next target: Finishing the first volume of the manga!

Cast:

Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians © DreamWorks (Now, I know what you are thinking "But Jack doesn't look anything like Merida!" He is in the story. So, for now, imagine Jack is the exact copy of Merida, but with short-spiky-slightly-curly white hair. This will be explained further into the fan fiction.)