Me: The next chapter is here!
I hope you guy's like this one even though I know you will.
And I'm sorry for taking so long. Mask hasn't answered me. I think work got in the way and there's a new baby in my family so there's that too.
Italic - Singing
The words, 'Guardian Of Redemption And Emotion' appear on the screen.
Merida leaned against the wall as she watched Eugene and Cassandra sword fight with Elliott watching them. On the other side of the courtyard, Rapunzel was standing with King Fredrick and Queen Arianna with Pascal on her shoulder. Toothless, who was no longer wearing his cape, was standing and talking with Jack as Jamie tried catching a butterfly.
Everyone smiled at the sight of the family being together. Triforce sighed, "New family addition everyone. Plus, Mask hasn't answered my messages so I'm going without him for now. Forgive me if things aren't right."
Merida smiled at everyone before blinking, frowning as she looked around, seeing someone missing.
HICCUP
"Looking for something?"
Merida gasped and jumped, turning to her left to see Hiccup standing there with a smile on his face. Merida smiled before pushing Hiccup on his shoulder.
MERIDA
"More like someone who is you."
"She's watching you," Jack teased to Hiccup who swatted his head.
Meanwhile, Rapunzel was giving Merida a smirk, one the Merida did not like.
"Don't start," Merida said through gritted teeth.
Rapunzel just smiled a sweet smile that wasn't all too sweet and turned back to screen, planning on getting Merida later.
Merida then tilted her head in an afterthought.
MERIDA (CONT'D)
"Where were you by the way?"
Hiccup blushed and looked away.
HICCUP
"I was picking something up and tweaking it a bit."
Merida looked curious.
MERIDA
"Really? What is it?"
Hiccup smiled and shook his head.
HICCUP
"Nope. Not telling you. You're gonna have to wait to see it. I still have something to do."
The audience went wild with teasing catcalls and wolf howls as Hiccup blushed and ducked his head, hiding it from view. Merida was blushing as well, not expecting it what her heart was beating funny.
OH DEAR GOD, JUST STOP IT, GIRL, Merida screamed internally.
THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING, Hiccup yelled inside his head.
Her face brightening, Merida looks at Hiccup in the eyes.
MERIDA
"'Gonna have to wait'? Does that mean it's for me?"
Hiccup nodded. Merida blushed and looked away.
Merida and Hiccup screamed in their heads again, not understanding why they were filling this way. Merida wasn't sure if knowing the item was for her or the fact Hiccup was going to give it to her made butterflies fly in her stomach more. Probably both.
Hiccup just didn't understand why his heart was falling for someone again. Look how that turned out. The girl he had fallen for wanted a true Viking and wouldn't give him a second thought.
Hiccup looked away and stared at everyone else. Cassandra was now lying on the ground with a smirking Eugene pointing his sword at her. Pascal was now sitting on top of King Fredrick's crown with a laughing Rapunzel and Queen Arianna. Jack and Jamie were laughing at Toothless, who had the butterfly land right on his nose.
Cassandra glared up at her new brother, who was chuckling and trying to hide his smile. King Fredrick and Queen Arianna were laughing along with Rapunzel, Pascal rolling on his back and holding his chest. Jack, Jamie, and Hiccup were laughing at Toothless, who crossed his arms but a small smile was on his face.
Shaking his head at their antics, Hiccup then looked thoughtful and smirked, looking back at Merida.
HICCUP
"Hey, Mer?"
Recognizing the nickname, Merida smiled and looked at Hiccup.
MERIDA
"Yes, Hic?"
Hiccup chuckled at the nickname.
"Mer?"
"Hic?"
At the stares they were getting, Merida and Hiccup blushed and looking away from each other and their friends and muttered, "Nicknames."
HICCUP (ASKING)
"Remember when we first meet?"
Merida and Hiccup smiled in delight as they remembered that day.
SCENE CHANGE: FLASHBACK FIVE YEARS AGO
The grass was wet from the rain which stopped an hour ago. Now the sun was out. There is a stone building standing in the middle of a clearing with a small hill with a rock on top near the building.
A ten-year-old Merida sitting outside near the building, playing in the mud. There was mud covering her hands and her left cheek, but no mud was on her dress. Merida was so into her playing that she didn't see a ten-year-old Hiccup walk up to her.
Queen Elinor sighed deeply, rubbing her head with her hand. A Princess should not play in the mud, she needed to stay clean. But seeing that the mud was only on her hands and her cheek, but nothing on her dress. Queen Elinor smiled at this before frowning at the sudden thought that came to her head.
Was Merida's dress clean of mud only because Merida didn't want to get her dress dirty for her?
HICCUP (SHYLY)
"Hello."
Merida let out a shout and jumped up, twirling around. The mud in her hands flying out and hitting Hiccup on the front of his tunic. Hiccup gasped and stepped back in shock and surprise.
Everyone chuckled.
"You had a nice aim even without your bow," Eugene said.
"You must be so surprised, getting mud fling at you after saying hello," Toothless teased.
Merida and Hiccup proceed to push Eugene and Toothless out of their seats.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare you! I just wanted to say hello!"
Merida sighed and gave a small smile.
MERIDA
"It's alright. I didn't notice you were coming up to me."
Merida looked at Hiccup curiously.
MERIDA (CONT'D)
"Who are you and how old are you?"
"Why is it girls can ask the question all fine but when boys ask it's like an insult when it's not," Eugene asked.
Hiccup looked surprised at the question, but he still smiles and answers.
HICCUP
"I'm ten and my name is Hiccup Haddock."
Merida frowned.
MERIDA
"Haddock? Like the son of the Viking Chief my father is speaking with right now?"
Hiccup nodded and paused.
HICCUP
"Wait, your Princess Merida, the daughter of the King my father is speaking to?"
Hiccup let out a grunt as he was pushed into a mud puddle behind him by Merida. Merida scowled down at Hiccup.
"You weren't kidding," Jamie said to Hiccup.
Hiccup looked at him with a raised eyebrow, "What, think I was just making it up?"
"Whoa, you just met him and you pushed him into the mud," Rapunzel said.
"Shut up! I was young and I really hated being called Princess because that's what everyone saw me as, a title. Plus, I was kind of in a bad mood cause of an argument between me and my mother," Merida said.
Rapunzel nodded, but still smiled at Merida, making the wild-haired princess groaned.
Why does it feel like this chapter was gonna embarrass her? Wait, what is happening on screen happened when she was ten and what happens next is...GREAT.
MERIDA
"Don't call me Princess! I hate it!"
Hiccup holds his hands up in understanding and surrender as he gets up.
HICCUP
"Sorry! Didn't know!"
Merida sighed.
MERIDA
"It's okay. I just really hate it when I get called that."
Hiccup nodded. The two kids just stand there, looking unsure of what to do. Hiccup rubbed the back of his neck in a nervous manner. Hiccup looks thoughtful as he ponders a question in his head.
Everyone chuckled at the sight of the two younger versions of Merida and Hiccup looking nervous at how to talk to each other.
HICCUP (ASKING)
"How does it feel to be a Princess. Is it hard or easy? Is there too much to be expected of you."
Now it's Merida's turn to look surprised. She then thought about the question.
MERIDA
"It's hard and suffocating. There is too much expected of me and I'm only ten years old! How about you?"
Queen Elinor frowned. Was it really hard for her daughter? If it was, why didn't she try and tell her? Then she thought about all the times Merida tried talking to her, but she Elinor blew her off. Was that the reason Merida never told her?
HICCUP
"Pretty much the same thing. I'm not only the Heir, but I'm a Blacksmith as well."
Merida scoffs and kneels down, wiping her muddy hands in the wet grass to get the mud off her. She then uses her sleeve to wipe the mud off her left cheek. As she gets up, she starts ranting.
MERIDA
"My mother doesn't let me do things I want because she doesn't see them right for a Princess. I can't shoot my arrows with my bow without her causing trouble about it, I can't act crazy, I can't sing to let the pain out-"
HICCUP (INTERRUPTING) (SURPRISED)
"Wait, you sing?"
"Oh my god," Merida whines, sinking down into her seat, her hair acting as a curtain, hiding her face from view. Eugene and Rapunzel tried helping their sister, but knowing they could make it worse, just pressed their lips together and patted Merida's shoulders.
Merida blushed at what she just said.
MERIDA
"Well, yeah. I sing to let the pain out sometimes. I try to find a place where my mother isn't around to do so, however. To me, singing takes the pain away."
Hiccup smiled as an idea came to him.
HICCUP
"I got an idea! Why not sing how you feel about it? I won't judge!"
Merida looked shocked before she smirked.
MERIDA
"Alright! But you need to join in!"
"She had under her thumb," Toothless says, looking at Hiccup with a smirk.
"Toothless, shut up," Hiccup said, blushing.
Toothless shut his mouth, but Hiccup knew that Toothless wasn't done due to the fact of the look Toothless was giving him, along with the twinkle in his eyes. This told Hiccup that Toothless was far from done, especially when Toothless made a teasing smoochy face at him.
Hiccup slapped Toothless on the head for that.
Hiccup nodded in agreement. Merida rubbed her chin in thought before smiling brightly. Merida looks up at Hiccup and started to sing.
MERIDA-
"All my life I've always wanted to have one day just for me.
Nothing to do and for once nowhere I need to be."
Merida holds one finger up and shakes her head.
"With no lessons, lords or lunches, or to-do list in the way,
No one to say when to eat or read or leave or stay!
That would be the day!"
Merida taps her fingers like she was making a list. Merida looks up and holds her arms to the clouds. Hiccup took it as his cue to join in.
Merida laughed, remembering when that was all she wanted. Now, she wanted her mother to see that she couldn't make her do things that she thought were the 'right' things to do. Back then, she had days to herself, but as she got older, those days became rare and few.
Queen Elinor made a sound that showed how she felt about this. King Fergus grinned, seeing that his daughter when she was younger was the start of her becoming a spitfire. Merida's brothers just moved their heads to the music.
HICCUP-
"All my life I've always wanted to have one day for myself.
Not waking up with a pile of work on every shelf!"
Hiccup holds up one finger and gestures around like he's surrounded by work.
"With no weapons in need of repairing and no tools in disarray.
No demands to make weapons in a single day!
And no dislike sent my way!"
Hiccup shakes his head. Hiccup starts to walk around Merida. Merida follows with her eyes, turning her body to keeping facing Hiccup. Merida looks confused at the last sentence.
Vikings of Berk flinched when they got glared at. Gobber rubbed his head because he knew that it was his fault, but he got so busy at times and most of the time the work ended up going to Hiccup. Some Vikings remembered when they demanded Hiccup to make or repair their weapons on that day within an hour. No, Vikings don't feel guilty, they don't.
MERIDA (ASKING)
"What do you mean by that? No dislike?"
Hiccup turned to her.
HICCUP (ANSWERING)
"Let's just say that my home doesn't feel like home."
Merida nods in understanding.
MERIDA (SADLY)
"I know. My mother tried making me do all these things."
HICCUP (KNOWINGLY)
"But you don't want to do that?"
Merida shook her head.
MERIDA
"No, I don't want to do them. But my mother says that a princess doesn't complain."
HICCUP
"My father is the same."
MERIDA
"Their mistake."
Merida and Hiccup smile in happiness that each other understood.
Queen Elinor and Stoick tried not the flinch at how their children spoke about them. All they wanted was what's best for their kids, but what they didn't understand was that they were hurting their kids in the process and pushing them away.
HICCUP-
"What would it be like to be..."
Hiccup gestures for Merida to join in.
MERIDA-
"What would it be like to be free?"
Merida joins in with a loud note. Merida runs to a hill and runs up it to the rock on top.
HICCUP-
"Free?"
Hiccup follows Merida up the hill and stands next to her on the rock.
MERIDA-
"Free to try crazy things!"
Merida jumps carelessly off the rock.
Queen Elinor's eyes twitched.
HICCUP-
"Free from endless repairs!"
Hiccup jumps off the rock as well.
Gobber gasp in mock offense, knowing Hiccup was enjoying himself.
MERIDA-
"Free to try!"
Merida makes a fist and holds it to her chest.
HICCUP-
"Free to fly!"
Hiccup holds his arms to his sides like they were wings.
Eugene, Rapunzel, Jack, Jamie, and Toothless looked at the two blushing teens who were making it a point by not looking at their five friends who were looking at them.
MERIDA-
"And marry whom I choose!"
Uncurling her fist, Merida placing her hand over her heart.
Elinor gasped. Merida wanted to marry, but it had to be her choice?! That's what was gonna happen?! But then Elinor remembered that this was five years ago and Merida probably wanted to marry someone else besides the three young sons of the Lords.
HICCUP (ASKING)
"I heard marriage is a big deal for royalty. But is it really that bad? You are stopping a war from breaking out."
Merida nods.
MERIDA
"I know. But it's not fair."
HICCUP
"I guess it is. You should be able to choose."
Merida smiles before she starts to sing again.
Jack catgirls, making Merida and Hiccup turn to him. The two attempted to hit him, but the Spirit only flew up above his seat, making it difficult for the two fifteen-year-olds to catch him.
MERIDA-
"You would think that I'm so lucky, that I have so many things;
I'm realizing that every present comes with strings."
Merida gestures to herself before making an imaginary string with her fingers.
HICCUP-
"Though I know I have so little, my determination's strong.
People will gather around to see who I can really be!
Do you want to come see?"
Hiccup's face looked determined as he nodded. Hiccup gestured to the world around them before looking questioningly at Merida. Merida smiles then she frowns.
Ignoring the Winter Spirit, for now, Merida and Hiccup returned to their seats, allowing Jack to sit down again.
MERIDA-
"Now I fear I'll never be..."
Merida holds her right hand out to Hiccup.
HICCUP-
"Soon I will never be..."
Hiccup takes her offered hand with his left hand.
MERIDA AND HICCUP-
"Free!
I close my eyes and feel myself fly a thousand miles away.
I could take flight, but would it be right?
My conscience tells me, "Stay"!"
Merida and Hiccup look up at the sky. Merida and Hiccup look at the stone building their fathers were in.
Triforce turn to look at the DunBroch and Berk.
"Merida wanted to leave, but she stayed because she knew it was right for her people. Think about the next time you believe she doesn't care or is acting out like I know some of you believe. And Hiccup had many reasons to leave, but he stayed because he believes it was the right thing to do. He didn't want to leave his tribe, the same tribe who didn't want him," Triforce says.
DunBroch and Berk look down in shame.
MERIDA-
"I'll remain forever royal!"
HICCUP-
"I'll forever stay a blacksmith!"
Hiccup and Merida looked resolute as the sang on before they looked at each other.
MERIDA AND HICCUP-
"Duty means doing the things your heart may well regret!"
Hiccup and Merida looked burdened, but understanding as they sang this.
MERIDA-
"But I'll never stop believing!"
Merida smirked rebelliously.
HICCUP-
"They can never stop my schemes!"
Merida and Hiccup smiled.
Yeah, they chose to stay, but that would never stop their plans on leaving one day, no matter what. And it didn't.
Hiccup smiled defiantly.
MERIDA AND HICCUP-
"There's more to living than weapons and gowns and repairs and lords.
In my dreams, I'll be free!"
Merida and Hiccup nodded to each other before raising their free hands to the sky.
Hiccup and Merida laugh as they sit down on the rock. They don't notice that they are still holding each other's hands. They stopped laughing a minute later, but there were smiles on their faces. Only then did they notice they were still holding hands. Hiccup and Merida pulled their hands away from each other, blushing.
Merida and Hiccup blushed, glanced at each other, before looking away.
Damn those two had it bad. There was no way the feelings they had for each other would go away. In fact, the two are probably gonna be blushing at what happens when they speak to each other or when it is shown they have feelings for each other.
HICCUP
"Thanks, Mer, I had fun."
MERIDA (ASKING)
"Mer?"
HICCUP (EXPLAINING)
"A nickname for you."
MERIDA
"Well thank you, Hic, I needed that."
The two laughed again.
"So that's where the nicknames came from," Toothless said.
"Childhood nicknames," Rapunzel stated, smiling.
"How cute," Jack teased.
"Shut up you there," Merida exclaimed.
"Why should they," Jamie asked.
"It is cute," Eugene stated.
"Give it a rest guy's," Hiccup told them.
"NOPE!"
SCENE CHANGE: END OF FLASHBACK
HICCUP
"I never thought we would meet again after that. Well, despite talking about peace matters if we ever took our parent's places. I never thought running away would make me meet up with you, or in the way it happened."
Merida nodded as she smiled, only to frown in remembrance.
MERIDA
"Why?"
HICCUP
"Huh?"
Hiccup looked confused as he stared at her.
MERIDA (ASKING)
"Theo? Why did you do what you did? You let them beat you, hurt you, just to save us from getting beaten ourselves?"
Suddenly, everyone went silent, as if the topic was something not meant to be mentioned at all. Everyone wanted to know why Hiccup would let himself get hurt for the others, nearly dying as well.
At the thought, people grew angry at the thought of Theo and his men but knowing they weren't here so did nothing.
Meanwhile, the Dark Four, Blacknight, and Markus just sighed, watching as everything went down.
Hiccup went silent as he pondered the question.
HICCUP
"At the time, Rapunzel and Jamie didn't know how to fight. They would have gotten seriously hurt. Eugene and Toothless could take a beating, but they would be brought down by pain in a couple of minutes. You could handle the pain like Eugene and Toothless but would be brought down in a much shorter time. Plus, Rapunzel and you are girls and they were men so it could have ended up going in that direction."
Merida shuddered at the thought. Hiccup nodded at this. Merida bit her lip as she thought about what Hiccup said, seeing that he forgot himself.
Everyone else shuddered as well. Humans could be so cruel.
MERIDA (ASKING)
"And you?"
Hiccup looked at her and was silent for a moment before answering.
HICCUP
"I handled being beaten up my entire life. Before and after I met Toothless. When there was a punching bag needed, who better have than the one that everyone believes was the cause of their problems. They couldn't hurt me too bad but it hurt enough. That's how I knew I would be able to handle those beatings and any broken bones."
There was a crack as the armrest of Stoick's chair finally gave way from his clutched fist. Stoick turned to glare at his Tribe, who wisely looked away. Stoick may have wanted his son to get tougher, but he was drawing the line at beating him up to get him there.
"How dare you! I wanted my son to beef up! Not get beaten up! Who did it!"
His tribe didn't confess, but Stoick growled, sitting back down in his seat, grumbling and crossing his arms.
MERIDA (ASKING)
"But you nearly died! We almost lose you! And what of Toothless and your father, didn't they do something? How about Gobber and Gothi?"
HICCUP
"Toothless couldn't do anything that would point back to me. He was there to help take care of me, but he wasn't able to get back or help. Gobber could beat up the Vikings or deny them their weapons repairs. Gothi could give me something to help heal me and take care of my wounds. My father..."
Merida gestured for Hiccup to go on by tilting her head forward a bit.
HICCUP (CONT'D)
"He never knew. Those beatings only happened when he was gone. Everyone knew I was the only thing left of my mother, who my father really loved."
Stoick wanted to yell, to scream, to shout, to roar, to do something. The only thing he did was a sigh, lowering his head, and sinking into his seat, resting his head into his head. He didn't know what to feel, he didn't know what to do. So, he let his mind go slowly down so he could hear what the Hiccup on the screen said.
Merida gasped.
MERIDA
"And you never told him?"
HICCUP
"Never had the chance. He was too busy."
MERIDA
"But you never will know if you don't try."
Hiccup looked away.
HICCUP
"I tried, but I couldn't tell my father that most of his tribe beat his own son. Guess I didn't try hard enough."
MERIDA
"The next time you get a chance, remember that you're not alone."
Hiccup smiled and looked at Merida. He then looked at the others. Toothless, Eugene, and Jamie were talking together and Rapunzel was holding onto a blushing Jack as she spoke to her parent's much to their amusement. Elliott and Cassandra were off to the side, also talking.
HICCUP
"I know."
Stoick leaned back into his chair watching the screen. Spitelout hesitantly leaned towards his chief.
"Um, Stoick-"
Stoick interrupted with an, "Did you know?"
Spiteloute went silent for a second and that was Stoick needed, Valka practically fuming at her brother. Spitelout cleared his throat and tried to speak to Stoick once again.
"Stoick-"
"Don't talk to me."
Spitelout leaned back into his seat, going quiet. The order was simple: Don't talk to you unless you confess and tell me or if you want to be beaten to a pulp.
Hiccup watched this happen silently.
The two were silent before Hiccup smiled teasingly.
HICCUP (TEASING) (CONT'D)
"So, push anymore boy's into the mud because they called you Princess?"
Merida blushed and hit Hiccup on his shoulder. Hiccup laughed and ran off, Merida on his heels.
Merida and Hiccup groaned and resisted blushing as their friends laughed at them.
SCENE CHANGE: A WEEK LATER
COUNCIL MEMBER
"Princess Rapunzel, as much as we thank these six for saving you and bringing you back, you can not go with them on this journey. You only just got back after eighteen years. This Kingdom needs you."
Rapunzel's smiled slowly diminished at that, looking at the screen. What was going on?
King Fredrick and Queen Arianna and the other six are silent. Rapunzel looks annoyed and irritated.
Merida and Eugene both did a small whistle, knowing that if Rapunzel was annoyed and irritated, she must really be annoyed and irritated.
RAPUNZEL
"I'm also needed by my friends. They need me."
Pascal was sitting on her shoulder, looking annoyed and irritated as well.
COUNCIL MEMBER (TRYING)
"But didn't you enjoy being back here with your parents and your people? Leaving like this so soon is highly unacceptable."
Wrong thing to say, for Rapunzel's eyes narrowed with anger.
RAPUNZEL (ASKING)
"Are you implying that I don't care about my people or my parents or my home?"
The Council Member, upon realizing what he just said, tried to backpedal.
Rapunzel growled, narrowing her eyes before looking over the crowd in an attempt to find the Council Member response for saying that. Fortunately for the Council Member, he was hiding, hunching down in his seat to the point it looked at like no one was there.
COUNCIL MEMBER
"No! I'm just saying that you should stay here and be with your people. Not with a heartless thief, a small child, a weak Viking heir, a wild Scot princess, a dragonic boy, and a spirit who is addicted to himself off on a fool's fight as a naive princess."
That was the wrong thing to say as well, for Rapunzel's eyes turned furious. Rapunzel stepped forward and slapped the Council Member so hard, he fell to the stone ground he was standing on seconds ago.
SLAP!
RAPUNZEL (FURIOUS) (ROARING)
"How dare you?! Eugene is not heartless, he is my big brother and he is caring and kind; he had no choice but to be a thief to survive! Jamie may be small, but his heart is bigger then yours will ever be! Hiccup may have a weak body to you, but he is stronger than his entire tribe combined! Merida may be wild, but that is her and she's my little sister and I don't want her to change! Toothless is a Dragon Hybrid and a Prince who cares about us with all his being! Jack is not addicted to himself; he can only be seen if he's believed in and he is fun, sweet, and a caring big brother to Jamie. I may be naive, but I'm not gullible to certain things and I am no fool!"
Rapunzel didn't care if she was causing a scene, she was ticked off. Meanwhile, her friends looked amused and were blushing to what Rapunzel said.
Slowly, everyone begins to clap, proud at what Rapunzel did. Blushing, Rapunzel giggled nervously and waved slightly at the crowd.
"Thanks for defending me," Eugene says.
"I guess I have a big heart," Jamie said.
"If I seem that stronger to you, then I will not bother trying to change your mind," Hiccup says.
"I guess I am wild but thank you for not wanting me to change," Merida states.
"I would die for you guys, you're my friends," Toothless says.
"Not many people defend me, but you guys are the best. Thanks, Rapunzel," Jack said.
RAPUNZEL (CONT'D)
"This 'fool's fight' that you call it, do you know that if the Dark Four wins the entire world will be under their rule. Everyone will be enslaved and people will die! I'm more help to my Kingdom if I go and fight because if I stay here, The Big Seven will lose."
COUNCIL MEMBER
"But you can die! Please, Princess Rapunzel, the Kingdom just got you back and they don't want to lose you again, your parents as well."
Rapunzel calmed down and sighed, seeing his point.
RAPUNZEL
"I see your point, but I've made mine. If I don't go, I won't be there to help my friends fight. To help my people and my home, I must go and fight the battle that we weren't strong enough to win the first time."
"She's right. If Rapunzel stays, the Big Seven will be missing a member and they need all of their friends in order to win the battle against the Dark Four. It has to be all members of the Big Seven and not six," Triforce explains.
The Council Member looked troubled and concerned, but knowing that there was no way he could win, he nodded and stood up.
COUNCIL MEMBER (ASKING)
"And if you live, how can we be sure you come back."
Rapunzel thought about it before looking at Pascal, then to her parents. Smiling, she took Pascal in her hands and walked over to her parents, placing Pascal in her mother's hands.
RAPUNZEL
"Pascal was my friend before I met Merida and Eugene. I care about him, but the fight could kill him and I don't want that. I want him to stay here. Pascal is important to me, so this is how you'll know I'll come back. It might not be to stay, but I spent my entire life in a tower and only left a month ago. I want to taste some more freedom I barely had."
Pascal looked upset about being left behind, but Triforce appeared before him and Rapunzel. Triforce pointed to were King Frederick and Queen Arianna were sitting. Between the King and Queen, a post appeared, on top was a pillow with food around and a female chameleon.
With a click of Triforce's tongue, Pascal disappeared and reappeared next to the female chameleon, who Pascal smiled at and huddled up against. Triforce nodded to Rapunzel before disappearing back into her seat.
King Fredrick and Queen Arianna looked sadden, but understanding.
QUEEN ARIANNA
"I had a feeling this would happen. The Council all understood beside this man here so we allowed him to talk to you and see your point. Forgive him, he means well, he just doesn't think about what he's going to say at times."
She pets Pascal's head with her finger.
KING FREDRICK
"Since Hiccup, Merida, and Toothless have parents who are rulers, I made these letters for hopes of a peace treaty between us all."
He handed the letters to Hiccup, Merida, and Toothless, who pocketed them.
HICCUP (STATING)
"My father would have to think about it, but in the end, he would most likely agree."
Stoick nodded his head. Allies were always good, especially in the winter.
MERIDA
"My father would agree so he could have someone new to talk to and my mother would agree because despite being a peaceful Kingdom, you're quite deadly in battle if the Witch attack is an example."
King Fergus grinned. Allies were good, people to talk to you were even better.
TOOTHLESS
"My father would never agree because he believes Night Furies are a superior race. But my big brother Nightcore would definitely agree."
Black Night huffed. He wouldn't even try to make a peace with those he saw lower than himself. However, Nightcore nodded, agreeing to what his brother was saying.
KING FREDRICK
"Promise us you'll come back."
Rapunzel smiled.
RAPUNZEL
"I'll try my best to come back to you, mom and dad."
Rapunzel gave her mom and dad a hug. Elliott and Cassandra walked up, drawing attention.
ELLIOTT
"So, your leaving."
Eugene nodded.
EUGENE
"I'm sorry, dad, but I need to. My reason is the same as Rapunzel's."
"You are your mother's son. I don't think I can stop you even if I tried," Elliott said.
JACK
"We'll look after him, don't worry. Him and Rapunzel."
Elliott nodded and drew Eugene into a hug, which after a couple of seconds, Eugene returned. After pulling away Cassandra stepped forward and hugged her brother.
CASSANDRA
"Take care of yourself and come back arrive, big brother Eugene."
Eugene smiled and hugged Cassandra back, rubbing the back of her head.
EUGENE
"Don't worry, I'm fine. Well, as fine as I will be."
JAMIE
"Yeah, we'll be together, so be won't be alone."
Eugene smiled and pulled away from Cassandra to stand next to Toothless, who also pulled away from where he stood next to Hiccup. Jamie jumped for to them as they shared a look.
JAMIE (ASKING) (CONT'D)
"Can we? Can we do it know?"
TOOTHLESS
"Yes, we do it know."
JAMIE (SHOUTING)
"Yes."
Eugene, Toothless, and Jamie looked at the Hiccup, Merida, Jack, and Rapunzel with smiles.
"What are you three planning," Midnight asked.
"Probably something nice," Wisp said.
"Or something for Hiccup, Merida, Jack, and Rapunzel," Vanja said.
MERIDA (ASKING)
"What?"
JACK (ASKING)
"Why are looking at us like that?"
All at once, Eugene started singing.
EUGENE-
They're independent.
They're beautiful.
Some girls would wish to be like them.
They got the girls and the boys so wrapped around their fingers.
Merida and Rapunzel blushed, smiling slightly as they glanced and moved towards at each other. Eugene smiled at them before frowning.
Merida and Rapunzel copied the reactions of their future selves. It was true. The two had gotten Eugene to do many things for them with just a couple of pleading eyes.
Rumor is there some kind of dream.
Nobody knows, they cry themselves to sleep!
Merida and Rapunzel at this, not bothering on hiding it.
True, they did that when they were younger and still do that time-to-time, depending on what they dream about.
MERIDA-
We are not that different from each other!
Merida wrapped her hand around Rapunzel's shoulders and Rapunzel did the same for Merida.
RAPUNZEL-
We just want somebody to discover!
Rapunzel leaned her head against Merida's, making Merida do the same to her. Rapunzel's hair started glowing.
MERIDA AND RAPUNZEL-
Who we really are when we drop our guard!
Merida and Rapunzel used their free hands to touch their chest.
Merida and Rapunzel both reached out and took each other's hand.
TOOTHLESS, JAMIE, EUGENE-
That, well, is going start with all of us!
Weeeeeeee!
Toothless, Jamie, and Eugene gestured to each other as they sang together.
JAMIE-
He's on the top of the social scene.
He's stylish and cool.
Jack blushed, his cheeks turning blue as he stared at Jamie with a smile.
Jack blushed, looking down at Jamie who just grinned up at him.
TOOTHLESS-
He's clever.
He's got a cool attitude that screams,
"He's got it all together!"
Toothless crosses his arms as he stares at Hiccup with a smile. Hiccup blushed and rubbed the back of his neck.
Hiccup looked at Toothless to see if this was true, who then proceeded to nod. Hiccup looked away, a small blush on his cheeks.
JAMIE-
You'd think he's addicted to himself.
The Council Member flinched with guilt and looked at the seven with an apologetic frown.
JAMIE AND TOOTHLESS-
But they wish they could be someone else!
Toothless and Jamie pointed to Jack and Hiccup with their pointer fingers.
All their life they were told they were not good enough, so of course, they wanted to be someone else.
HICCUP-
We are not that different from each other!
Hiccup looked down as he turned to Jack.
JACK-
We just want somebody to discover!
Jack held his staff against his shoulder as he stares back at Hiccup.
HICCUP AND JACK-
Who we really are when we drop our guard!
Hiccup and Jack smile at each other as Merida and Rapunzel joined them after letting go of each other.
Hiccup and Jack looked at each other. Maybe they didn't have to worry about that anymore, not with the friends they have now.
TOOTHLESS, JAMIE, EUGENE-
That, well, is going start with all of us!
We've gotta come together!
Oh, you know you never ever have to be alone!
You've got a hand to hold!
Yeah! Lalala! Oh! Oh! Oh!
Toothless, Jamie, and Eugene walked up to them. Eugene grabbed Rapunzel's hand, Rapunzel grabbed Merida's hand, Merida grabbed Jack's hand, Jack grabbed Hiccup's hand, Hiccup grabbed Toothless's hand, Toothless grabbed Jamie's hand, and Jamie grabbed Eugene's hand. The Big Seven formed a circle.
Without even thinking it, the Big Seven took hold of each other hands. Triforce smiled in delight. Looks like the seven didn't need anyone telling them about how they needed to bond.
ALL-
We are not that different from each other!
We just want somebody to discover!
Who we really are when we drop our guard!
The Big Seven smile as they looked at each other with looks of happiness, ignoring everyone who was watching them.
That, well, is going start with all of us!
We, oh, oh, and we, and we, you and me,
We, we've gotta come together!
The Big Seven laughed as they finished, holding their chest in glee. They smiled at each other as they stopped.
Midnight, Vanja, and Wisp looked at each other and grinned.
"Both," the three shouted with glee.
TOOTHLESS
"As long as we're together, we'll never be alone."
Eugene and Rapunzel smiled and chuckled before they gasped, Eugene's eyes flashing turquoise while Rapunzel's flashed with a mix of pink and yellow. Eugene and Rapunzel let out a shout as they clutch their chest, hunching into themselves.
Everyone gasped, worried for the two who suddenly to be in pain. Rapunzel's parent's and Eugene's father and sister were instantly worried, as were their friends. What was happening to them?!
The Dark Four growled, seeing what was happening right before their eyes and they didn't like it one bit.
EVERYONE (SHOUTING)
"Eugene, Rapunzel!"
Eugene and Rapunzel looked up, showing everyone their glowing colored eyes.
However, Eugene and Rapunzel couldn't hear their names being called, for they saw something else. All around them, pink and yellow energy flowed around along with water. Looking in front of them, they saw two people.
They saw another Rapunzel and another Eugene knew who they were.
RAPUNZEL AND EUGENE
"Our past selves."
Rapunzel and Eugene looked at their past selves in awe, noting how alike they looked and yet, looked so different. One thing Rapunzel noticed was that her past self had short brunette hair instead of long flowing blonde hair.
Past Rapunzel and Past Eugene smiled. Past Eugene stepped forward.
PAST EUGENE
"You overcame your greatest challenge and your greatest fear."
Past Rapunzel stepped forward.
PAST RAPUNZEL
"Now it's time you earn your titles."
PAST EUGENE
"Eugene, Spirit of Water; Guardian of Redemption."
PAST RAPUNZEL
"Rapunzel, Spirit of Healing and Spring; Guardian of Emotion."
At once, some spirits cheered. The Spirits of Water, Healing, and Spring had a member of the Big Seven as one of them, which to them was a big thing. It was like having a celebrity on your side of the ballpark and sitting right next to you.
They vanished; Rapunzel and Eugene blinked, the glow fading. Rapunzel and Eugene stood straight again.
JAMIE (ASKING)
"What happened? Your eyes started glowing."
EUGENE
"We saw our past selves."
JACK (ASKING) (SHOCKED)
"You did?"
RAPUNZEL (EXPLAINING)
"Yes. They said we've overcome our greatest challenge and our greatest fear and earned our titles. I'm the Spirit of Healing and Spring; Guardian of Emotion."
EUGENE (EXPLAINING)
"And that I'm the Spirit of Water; Guardian of Redemption."
"Yeah, they know," Snotlout spoke up with a huff. He clearly forgot about the threat and the next thing he knew, he was being hit with the big baseball bat that Triforce had.
"Score," Triforce cheered and laughed outright.
Triforce healed Snotlout's injuries, but left the pain behind, making the walk back to his seat very painfully.
TOOTHLESS
"You came here to find out about and meet your parents. Before that, you've told us your deepest secret, which is our greatest fear."
HICCUP (BITTERLY)
"Which means, going back home to confront the reason we left or to find out the truth is our greatest challenge."
The Vikings of Berk sighed, knowing it was because of them Hiccup didn't want to go back.
Seeing Hiccup's and Toothless's bitter looks, Merida spoke up.
MERIDA
"Why don't we save Toothless and Hiccup for last. They have the worst challenge out of all of us. And honestly, I'm not ready to meet my mother or the other clans yet."
Hiccup and Toothless looked at Merida in thanks.
Toothless and Hiccup did the same thing, giving Merida a smile and a little hug.
JACK
"Then that leaves Jamie and me. I don't mind, though, facing the other spirits isn't something I want to do, but I want to get that out of the way."
"I don't blame you," Toothless said, looking back at the Spirits.
HICCUP
"Then let's go."
Toothless stepped away from the group before he started to change into his Night Fury form. Since they never saw it, everyone who lived in the Kingdom gasped.
Eugene looked at King Fredrick, Queen Arianna, Elliott, and Cassandra.
EUGENE
"If you want to know more, there's a girl named Vanja Upton in the village Spiritwatch. She's the Mayor's daughter. She knows about us. Talk to her if you want to know more about the Dark Four."
Vanja blushed at Eugene's mention of her. Midnight and Wisp were instantly all over her, much to her embarrassment, but lucky for her, no one seemed to notice what was happening to the village girl.
Jack picked Jamie up and Rapunzel ran over, using her hair that wasn't in the braid to tie Jamie and her to Jack before wrapping her arms around Jack's neck, pressing her chest against Jack's back. Once they were settled, Jack flew a couple of feet into the sky.
Rapunzel looked back at her parents.
RAPUNZEL
"Take care, Pascal. Listen to my parents, okay? Explore the castle a bit. Maybe when I get back here you and I can play hide and seek."
Pascal nodded at Rapunzel, smiling.
Rapunzel grinned. She and Pascal have been playing a never-ending game of hide and seek, the points keep getting added to any win they have.
Merida got on Toothless saddle, Hiccup getting on after her and taking hold of the reins. Eugene got behind Hiccup and wrapped his arms around them both. Toothless glanced behind them and gave a little nod. With a flap, Toothless shot into the air, Jack following.
Once in the air, Hiccup turned to Jack.
HICCUP
"Jack, you got here, so lead the way to Burgess."
Jack nodded.
JACK (EXPLAINING)
"Okay. Just to tell you, we need to go past the Spirit Grounds, were Spirits tend to go to mingle. It's the fast way in and out to Burgess. We'll have to deal with any Spirit that gets in our way. Try not to reveal your powers, except Eugene and Rapunzel. The rest of you have this scent of being mortal, no need to draw attention to yourselves by revealing your powers. Eugene and Rapunzel can because while their still mortals, they're giving off the scent of a Spirit. It's something that Spirits and animals can sense, not to exclude dragons and hybrids."
"Smart."
"They don't want to get attacked."
"Why do I have a feeling that they will be?"
"Don't jinx it!"
"Opps."
EUGENE
"Thanks, we'll keep that in mind."
MERIDA
"Let's go."
Jack then flew off, leading the way to Burgess.
The screen turned black before it lite up again, going to the next chapter.
Me: So, how did you guy's like it?
I'm working on getting a job but will update the chapters when I can. Plus, I'm working on the chapters on my own so it may take longer.
The songs were 'Free - Barbie/The Princess and The Pauper' and 'We - Joy Williams'
See ya in the next one!