Hey guys! *ducks to avoid being hit by flying objects* Sorry it's been such a long time. School, work, and hospital visits got in the way. So..basically life got in my way. I didn't mean to be away for so long. I really do hope that you like this chapter. I tried to answer old suspenseful questions but also create new. it is a long chapter but you guys deserve it for not giving up on me.

Enjoy! XD

Jack's reflexes were so fast. The moment the hand grabbed his arm and pulled him away from his sister, Jack flipped into the air and contorted his body to get out of the hand's grasp. He then came down on the body the hand was attached to and placed his staff on the person's throat.

"What are you-" Jack stopped talking once recognizing who he just pinned. "Hiccup?"

"Hey, Jack," he gasped. "Do you mind removing your staff?"

Jack released Hiccup and stood up, holding out his hand to help his friend up. "Sorry." He then noticed Toothless just behind Hiccup giving Jack a stern eye. "In my defense, Toothless, I didn't know it was him. I thought it was one of the people that took Emma."

"Bud," Hiccup said as he turned around. "He's got a point. Besides, I'm fine." Toothless looked him up and down as if double checking his friend's condition and after giving a few growls, he relaxed his stance. Hiccup then turned to Jack. "What are you doing out here?"

"I heard Emma calling my name."

Hiccup and Toothless looked at Jack in confusion. "I didn't hear anything. Toothless, do you sense anyone?" Toothless sniffed the air, let out a few sonic blasts, his perked ears falling as he shook his head.

"But I heard her," Jack insisted. He turned around and pointed towards the forest. "She was right there…" His voice trailed off as he noticed where he had initially saw Emma was empty. "I-I don't understand. She was right there."

"Jack," Hiccup placed a hand on his shoulder. "You must have been chasing a dream."

"Not a dream, dear boy. A nightmare."

The two boys stood back to back as they looked around for the source of the voice. Toothless jumped up and circled himself around the two, giving off a deep growl as he barred his teeth. Jack held tight onto his staff as Hiccup produced a small knife from the pack on Toothless' back. One of the forest's shadows began to move closer to them. Toothless roared at it, warning the others, as they watched it morph into Pitch Black.

"You!" Jack hissed. He pointed his staff at him and shot a stream of ice at the nightmare man. Pitch disappeared and appeared behind the three.

"Come now," Pitch smiled. "Is that how you greet an old friend?"

"We're not friends," Hiccup spat followed by Toothless giving him a growl.

"Sure we are," Pitch grinned wider. "You and I have so many years of history together." From behind him two black mares walked out from the shadows and pawed the ground. Pitch's eyes looked beyond the two boys and traveled in a semi-circle.

Jack and Hiccup looked behind them and saw that they were surrounded by a herd of black mares. Their eyes glowed an eerie yellow as they starred at the small group. Toothless tightened his protective stance and roared at the mares but they weren't fazed by the dragon's warning.

"Hiccup," Jack said, a hint of fear in his voice. "One of those things was forming over your head before I went after my imaginary sister."

"What?"

"See what I mean about us being old friends?" Pitch teased. "You've been giving me additional Nightmares without me having to be near you. Aren't they beautiful?" Pitch began to stroke the mane of the mare on his left as the other mares neighed in unison.

"I don't un-understand," Hiccup stuttered.

"You have so many fears. So many worries," Pitch explained. "Who are you? Where did you come from? Did your parents love you? Why can't you remember? You fight against those fears all the time. Afraid of the answers; afraid of knowing if you're as useless then as you are now."

Jack turned to look at Hiccup and saw that his eyes were wide, the grip on his little knife was tightening, and his breathing speed had increased. Jack turned to look at Pitch to see him grinning from ear to ear at Hiccup's reaction. "Hiccup isn't useless! He's intelligent, caring, creative, a great friend, and he can kick your butt!"

Toothless looked at Hiccup and gave him a soft coo which was returned with a smile from Hiccup. "It's ok, bud. I'm better now."

The mares around the group began to snort and pound the ground as Pitch's laugh echoed through the trees. "Better? Your fear has increased! They can smell it!"

"Shut up!" Jack yelled. "Don't listen to him Hiccup."

"Don't worry," Pitch suddenly went serious. "The fear won't last for long. Soon, you'll be with your sister and you," Pitch pointed to Hiccup and Toothless. "You two won't be heard from again."

Toothless roared in opposition as he charged up his plasma blast and fired one at Pitch, who dodged the purple blast. "If we're going to die," Hiccup stated. "Do you mind telling us where Jack's sister is? How you were able to trick Jack out here?"

Pitch materialized right next to Hiccup, startling him. "I don't have to tell you anything. However, what's the fun in that? All Jack heard and saw was an illusion. The audio was created by some of my comrades while I produced the physical illusion." He snapped his fingers and one of the mares changed its shape to make it look like Emma was standing in front of them. "Clever don't you think?"

"I think it's disgusting," Hiccup said.

"You still haven't told us where she is," Jack spat.

"Well, dear boy, some things are best kept as a mystery." Pitch then drifted over to his mares and then eyed them mischievously. "Sweet dreams."

All at once, the Nightmares began to advance at the three mutants. Jack swung his staff in front of him, destroying several mares in their tracks, giving him the chance to fly up into the air. Toothless shot off several plasma blasts before grabbing Hiccup and throwing him on his back and following Jack up in the air. Toothless pumped his wings hard to get more distance between them and the herd of mares following them. Jack followed closely behind, shooting at the mares every couple of seconds but they just kept coming.

"What do we do?" Hiccup hollered. "There are too many of them."

"I don't know," Jack responded. He looked back at the herd behind them and back at Hiccup and Toothless. "You guys keep going. I'll hold them off so you can get back to North."

"What? Jack! There are too many! You'll be taken!"

"At least I'll see my sister," Jack smiled as he turned around and flew right at the Nightmares.

"Jack!"

Jack was quickly engulfed by the herd. All that was seen was a giant ball of black mares running in circles. Pitch rode up to the giant ball on one of his Nightmares and looked on in awe at the sight while Hiccup and Toothless starred on in horror. Without saying anything, the dragon and the rider began to descend towards the circular cage but quickly stopped when light began to protrude from it.

Pitch's expression changed from delight to confusion as the light got brighter. He raised his hand to shield himself from the light but it did nothing against the blast. The circular cage began to weaken as the Nightmares tried to escape from the light but they weren't fast enough. The blast and light was accompanied by a loud scream and fast traveling line of ice which destroyed every mare it touched.

Hiccup looked at origins of the blast and saw that Jack's staff was lit up in a blueish white light that sent wave after wave of light and ice in all directions. Toothless saw that the blast was getting closer to them and began to back away to not to be affected by the blast. The two watched in amazement from a safe distance as Jack destroyed hundreds of mares and made Pitch fall from the sky.

As quickly as the light started, it stopped and Hiccup watched as Jack's arms fell to his sides and his body went limp. His body began to fall to the earth with no sign of him waking up in time.

"Jack!" Hiccup hollered. He urged Toothless forward as fast as he could go trying to catch Jack before he hit the ground below.

Gobber did the best he could from letting his prosthetic leg echo in the empty hallway as he made his way towards North's quarters. Coming up to the large intricately carved door, he knocked on it gently. There was no response and so he knocked louder. After a couple of seconds, he saw a light come from under the door and large, slow steps approach the door. The door slowly opened to re

"Gobber?" North asked a bit groggy.

"Sorry to bother ya but I forgot to give you some information earlier today."

"Oh?" North perked up and opened the door wider and beckoned Gobber to come in. "What's this about?"

"I think we may have a clue as to where Pitch Black and the others are hiding."

North poured some milk in a pot and began to heat it on the stove, adding a chunk of chocolate into it. "What did you find out?"

"We think that maybe they are in Cavern, Greenland. If they're not there, then maybe it's a good place to start narrowing the search."

"Who's we, Gobber? How do you find this out?" North asked as he poured the hot chocolate into a couple of mugs and handed one to Gobber.

"It was my friend, Stoick, from the Haddock Fish Factory. He noticed that every month a large shipment is sent up there but when he looked up the coordinates, there is nothing there."

North stroked his long white beard as he thought about the new information. "That is strange indeed. How much does your friend know about us?"

"Enough," Gobber said. "He's been my friends for years. He knows about our world and he does what he can to help out. He's the one that saved me from the government remember?"

"Ah!" North exclaimed. "That's Stoick. Alright. Sorry, Gobber. I though a stranger got wind of our world."

"No problem," Gobber smiled. It's an honest mistake. There's a lot on your mind."

"Who makes the deliveries to that location?"

"That's what North is trying to find out. Once he does, he'll let me know."

North chuckled lightly. "Well, tell your friend thank you. He may have made my job a whole lot easier."

"No problem," Gobber nodded as he stood up and placed his mug on the table. "I'll let you get back to sleep. See you later North."

"Good night, Gobber." North accompanied Gobber to the door and what they both thought was going to be the end of their night, the scene that the door opened to caused their hearts to skip a beat. Standing in front of them was Toothless. Hiccup sat on his back holding an unconscious Jack and had his staff lying across Jack's body.

"Something's happened to Jack," Hiccup managed to say.

Rapunzel closed her eyes in hopes that the situation she had gotten herself into would suddenly go away but it didn't. The darkness of the alley way was still there, the coldness of the night was still nipping at her face, and the hand of her captor was still over her face as he traced her collar bone with his chin and his other hand tracing her natural curves.

"You must have the clearest skin I've ever seen," David breathed into her shoulder. "What's your secret?" Rapunzel's voice was muffled as she tried to say something. "I'll remove my hand but if you even think of screaming, things will get very, very unpleasant. Right, Brian?"

"Oh, indeed," Brian stood up from the garbage can he was sitting on and looked over his brother's shoulder.

Rapunzel nodded in compliance. David removed his hand from her mouth but quickly spun himself and Rapunzel around and put his giant arm around her neck to keep her in a choke hold. Now facing Brian, Rapunzel was sandwiched between the two brothers.

"What were you trying to say?" David breathed into her ear.

"Pl-please," she begged. "Don't hurt me. Yo-you don't have to do this."

Brian began to laugh followed by David, his rising chest tightening the choke hold around Rapunzel's neck. "You're right we don't have to do it but we want to do it."

Rapunzel's eyes went wide once again as panic rose higher in her gut. "Pl-please! I beg you!"

The brothers continued to laugh. David hand began to wander once again across her body as it travelled down to the hem of her shirt and began to pull it up. Rapunzel shut her eyes as she clawed at the arm around her throat, and her torso moved away from the cold hand that touched her stomach. In her mind she debated whether or not to use her hair in defense but if she did, she would expose the mutant world, but if she didn't this will continue, but…her thoughts kept circling these two thoughts but she couldn't come up with an answer.

"Please! Don't…" Rapunzel cried.

"Oh, hell no," Brian laughed. "He's having too much fun."

Rapunzel's mind was made up as the hand made its way up toward her chest. Concentrating on her hair, she began to unbraid it and move it but her concentration is broken when another man's voice echoed into the alleyway.

"Hey! Sideburns! Eyepatch! Get your hands off of her."

Brian turned around and David's hand stopped moving to look at the new person. Rapunzel opened her eyes and saw a man about a half foot shorter than the two men who trapped her but that's all she could see from the shadowed man.

"Get lost," Brian snapped. "This isn't your problem."

"That's where you're wrong," the man spoke. "You mess with my client, you mess with me."

"Client?" David asked confused.

"Yes. Get your hands off my client!"

Brian and David looked at Rapunzel but she was too busy looking at the man in the shadows. "Please, help me."

"You want her," David violently shook his body to the side as he tightened his choke hold and caused Rapunzel to yelp and the sudden movement. "Come and get her."

The man in shadows was silent; he didn't was a word but there was movement. "I don't always bring my friend but I'm glad I did today. Say hello to Max." The three watched as the barrel of a machine gun glistened in the dim light.

David shoved Rapunzel away from him and grabbed his brother. "Come on, Brian. This guy is bad news." The two men jumped up on the garbage can, grabbed the ladder, climbed up the fire escape and climbed onto the roof.

Rapunzel pushed herself up and sat on the dirty ground as she tried putting herself back together. She pulled her shirt down and put the shoulder of her shirt back in its proper place, and tried save the hoodie but it wouldn't cooperate with her.

"Here, let me help you," the shadowed man reached for her hoodie.

Rapunzel backed away with fear in her eyes as she starred at the man. She could see he was wearing brown pants with black boots and his torso was covered by a long sleeve white shirt with a turquoise vest over it and a large brown hooded coat pulling the look together.

The man retracted his hand and pushed the hood back so that Rapunzel could see his face. "It's alright. I'm not going to hurt you." She looked at the man's face which was long with a bit of facial hair on the chin and his brown hair matched his eyes. "My name is Flynn."

"Rider? Flynn Rider?" Rapunzel clarified.

"Yes," Flynn answered cautiously.

"You did come! I thought you forgot about me," Rapunzel smiled sheepishly.

"Wait. You're Charlie? I was just kidding when I said that you were my client. Who knew I was right?"

"Yeah, I'm Charlie but -" Rapunzel nodded as a cold breeze whipped through the alley making Rapunzel shiver.

"Here," Flynn took off his coat and wrapped it around her. "Let's go somewhere warmer." He held out his hand to help her up and walked her out of the alley. "You never finished your sentence."

"Huh?" Rapunzel wiped the last of her tears off her face. "Oh, I just wanted to say that my name isn't Charlie. It's Rapunzel."

Flynn cocked an eyebrow as he looked at her in surprise. "Then why did you say your name is Charlie in your email?"

Rapunzel rubbed the end of the coat sleeves as she smiled sheepishly. "I wasn't sure about the site and I wanted to avoid what happened back there so I used a different name. I guess it didn't work."

Flynn smiled as he pushed her hair over her ear so he could get a better look at her face. "How did someone like you find my website?"

"By accident," Rapunzel said. "But I've heard your name before. My mother used to use your name all the time."

"You mother?" Flynn asked. "I've had a lot of dealings with people but I'm sure I would remember someone like you. Who is she?"

Rapunzel's face fell as she turned away and took a deep breath. "I don't want to talk about her."

Flynn nodded. "I understand. Look. How about I take you home and give you my number so that you can contact me later. You've had a rough night."

The icicles hanging from the cave shook as Dagur screamed. He couldn't believe his eyes. The storage cave had collapsed just like the man said a good portion of the supplies were destroyed. The men were working to try and salvage the materials while Mord'u and Alvin worked to remove the ice blocks from the area.

"This is not good. He's not going to like this! This is bullshit!" Dagur hollered as he punched the worked that was unfortunate to walk by him. "Fix this!"

"That's what we're doing," Alvin said.

"Did you back talk me?"

"No," Alvin looked at Dagur. "I'm telling you what we're doing."

Dagur glared at Alvin and the others before stomping off towards his planning room. Once in there, he began to go over the plans and try to re-arrange everything so that the plan would stay on track. The last thing he needs was for him to be wailing on him for something nature did. One thing was for sure, he better not be disturbed.

"Dagur," a guard called from the door.

"Get out!"

"But sir I have news I have been ordered to deliver to you."

Dagur slammed the pencil on the table and forcefully stood up. He turned to the guard as he ground his teeth. "This had better be good news because if it's bad, it will be the last words you utter."

The guard swallowed nervously as he began to deliver the message. "We-we have information that the Hamada boy is building some sort of machine to protect him from us. It's thought that this weapon could be used to bring us down."

"What!" Dagur grabbed a knife and threw it at the guard who was able to dodge it. "Has he been dealt with yet?"

The guard shakily stood up. "No, sir. He hasn't."

"For the lo-this is ridiculous! How hard is it to deal with a nerdy kid?"

"TRUST ME. THEY CAN BE REAL PAINS."

The guard and Dagur looked around for the voice but didn't see anyone. "You've dealt with people like the Hamada boy, Bill?"

"OH YEAH! I FOUND THEY CAN BE ONE OF TWO THINGS: EASY TO MANIPULATE OR A GOOD FIGHTER. THE POINT IS, YOU NEED SOMONE WHO CAN DEAL WITH THEM TO GET RID OF THIS PROBLEM."

"How about you?" Dagur asked. "Will be willing to handle this problem child?"

"SURE! I ONLY ASK FOR A SMALL FAVOR IN RETURN," Bill's voice deepened.

"Whatever you want," Dagur agreed. "Just deal with the boy." A blue light came from behind Dagur, startling him. All he saw was a long thin hand with a blue flame engulfing it.

"IT'S A DEAL!"

Dagur shook the hand and watched the flame and hand disappear into nothingness. Smiling, Dagur turned around to see the guard still standing in the room. "What are you still doing here?"

"I haven't delivered the entire message sir."

"Is it more bad news?" Dagur reached for another knife.

"No, sir," the guard responded quickly. "It's good. Apparently, we have found another person that can help with the plan."

"Really?" Dagur placed the knife on the table and grinned. "What's the name?"

"A guy named Doofenshmirtz."

Let me know what you think. Hopefully my next chapter update won't be so long.