Chapter 3

First Author's Note WEEEHEEEW! Thank you for the reviews! They mean the world, it's my first fanfic and I'm honestly just really happy to see that people are reading it at all. This chapter our characters are going to be breaking some barriers, its a bit longer but I hope you guys like it! Without further ado…

[Jack]

Jack sat in the field bored out of his mind. He'd been told that after two weeks he'd be able to start using magic in his field training class outside, with teachers instruction and supervision. He'd been let off with a stern warning the first day since he was new, but it taught him to steer clear of this Elsa chick ( which was kind of hard considering they were the only two people in two of his classes). However they were already three weeks in and the most he'd been allowed to do was make it slightly flurry. Since they were the only two students with the powers of ice, they were both taught field training by Frozone. However since there were only two of them he wanted them to keep pace with each other. So while Jack heard Hiccup's stories of soaring with dragons and Rapunzel's stories of healing a decapitated frog; he was stuck here. On a field making snowflakes while Frozone tried to persuade Elsa to take her stupid gloves off. Jack had been sitting on that field every day of this week, listening to the same thing for an hour.

"Elsa your ready,"

"You know I can't"

"Just try, I'll be right here to help you.

"What if it doesn't work?"

Finally Jack had had enough, " Hey Frostbite!" He shouted to her, " you can't do anything with your gloves on, and frankly I can't either!"

"Jack be nice," Frozone snapped. He looked at Elsa sighed and turned towards Jack, " Why don't you go ahead and show me what you can already do and I can at least use the rest of class to work with you."

FINALLY Jack thought to himself, "What do you want to see?"

"Make something," Frozone replied.

"Anything I want?" Jack asked.

"Surprise me, within reason though,"Frozone said winking at him.

Jack noticed Elsa scrunching her nose at him from behind Frozone, but frankly he couldn't care less. He picked up a fallen branch behind him, took the make-shift staff and began. Ice poured out of the end of it, creating a sort of rink with beautiful swirling patterns in it, on it began to rise ice sculptures, creating a little scene depicting a snowball fight.

"Very good," Frozone said, but his voice gave away his surprise at Jack's talents, even Elsa looked on wide eyed. Jack smirked, " Hey look Frostbite I even made you," he had indeed, there stood a perfect rendition of Elsa frowning at him with her gloves on. Suddenly it cracked and fell away to reveal a different sculpture of her looking incredibly startled as a new statue rose up aiming a snowball at her.

"Wha…"

"Preview" Jack said cutting her off before launching a fair sized snowball at Elsa of Arendelle. The girl looked at him astonished, Jack could see Frozone trying to hold back a laugh.

"You…" she started but Jack cut her off

"Oh come on Elsa don't be so uptight." A snow flake slowly drifted towards her nose and her saw something sparkle in her eyes. Her usually frowning or worried face turned in to a challenging smile which was almost scary.

"Uptight? I'll show you uptight" she pulled off her gloves threw them at Frozone's feet and before he knew it Jack had been thrown back, his face full of a giant snowball. Now this was going to be fun. He sat up beaming, even Frozone was smiling in astonishment, as Elsa pretended to polish her nails triumphantly.

"Challenge accepted" Jack said, and she looked a little surprised clearly not expecting any retaliation. He threw a snowball, ducking behind the statue of her as a shield. She formed an ice shield in her hand to block it and sent one swerving around to hit him. He smashed it with the staff in his hand before swinging it around to form a volley of snowballs falling at her. She raised her ice shield and blasted the other snowballs out of the air with shards of ice of her own. Jack thought in the back of his mind how fascinating it was to see the two different patterns of ice interact. He thought ice was just ice, but nope, hers had her own signature, her own pattern to it, now melting together with his. He really didn't have time to think too much though from the rain of snowballs and ice pellets heading his way, He took his staff and launched himself in to the wind, flying up and creating a giant snow wall as a barrier, but as he made his he noticed she built a fortress of her own. As he sent dozens of snowballs at her rapid fire, they were blocked by her newly formed ice palace. She stood as a tiny target in the doorway of the third story, attempting to break down his barrier with ice of her own to be able to hit him. He was losing a snowball fight for the first time in his life, this was not okay. He only had one choice. He geared up, swung his staff, and sent the entire wall of snow and ice toppling at her ice palace. He noticed her eyes go wide before throwing her arms up to protect from the avalanche. He quickly flew to the side of her ice palace in a corner so she wouldn't see him when she got out. She had formed an ice dome as a sort of force field around her. As she realized the attack was over, it cracked and shattered like glass, showering everything but her. She looked around warily for him, cautiously moving away from the door to the edge of a sort of balcony she had created. He took his chance, he swooped right behind her touching her shoulder. She whirled around towards his hovering figured.

"Hey Frostbite", and he pushed her off the edge of the ice palace. He wasn't fast enough. On her way down she had grabbed hold oh his wrist and he toppled down with her on the already forming ice slide coming down from the castle. The two slid down laughing, Jack looked over towards her and her eyes were bright and her cheeks rosy from the exertion, but her smile was full of joy.

"I knew you could have fun," he said to her. She smiled shyly and tucked one of her loose strands of hair back in to her braid.

"Yeah, I…" Suddenly a red ball landed at their feet and a familiar face ran up to get it.

"Wow what happened here?" Anna asked.

Jack got up, brushed himself off and tossed her the ball to her.

"You know, just your average snowball fight in the middle of September. What are you doing?"

"Oh we're just playing dragon ball, on the other field with the trained dragons."

"Isn't that on the other side of the school?"

"Yeah I threw mine a little far, I was on Toothless with Hiccup so we figured he'd be fast enough to go get it instead of breaking out a new ball. You seem to be having a great time though!"

" Oh Yeah! We…" he looked back to where Elsa had been to find the other girl gone. "where'd she…" Anna cut him off shouting, " I have to get back sorry! But it's awesome that your class is getting fun!" Jack nodded no longer really paying attention to what the redhead was saying. He let the wind carry him up, searching around to see Elsa frantically running back towards where Frozone had been with her gloves. Elsa fell in front of her gloves and began rushing to pull them back on. He flew over to her.

"Hey Frostbite, what are you doing?"

"Nothing" she responded, taking far longer to get the gloves on in her frantic state.

"Why are you putting those back on? Look how much fun we just had, look at what we made!"

"He's right Elsa," Frozone chimed in, " You're both incredibly skilled, don't underestimate yourself, I'm sure you can…"

"I have to go, I'm going to the nurse, I'm sorry," and she began running towards the school. Frozone held out a hand to stop her but just shook his head, accepting the progress that had come today. Jack on the other hand wasn't about to give up so easily. He flew after her, laying down casually in the air and coasting next to her,

" Umm Frostbite, you realize class is that way right? And its not over yet sooo… oh okay we're gonna keep running."

"SHUT UP JACK"

"See I would but you know me, gotta stick to the rules and would you look at that! We still have 5 minutes of class left!"

At that point the she let out a shrill scream as the wind scooped her up and brought her back to where they had started. As she stumbled to catch her footing, it pushed in to the gaps of her gloves slipping them off her hands and they floated right in to Jack's open palm. She took a deep breath.

"Jack give them back."

"Hmmmm, let me think bout that,"

"JACK!"

"I've decided no,"

"FROZONE," but Frozone was long gone to the other side of the field, working with The Human Torch to get rid of all the ice they had created and using it to water the field. She looked around frustrated and helpless.

"Jack give them back now!" She cried

"Oh come on Frostbite," he said hovering closer to her level now.

"STOP CALLING ME THAT!" Shards of ice blasted from her body, Jack felt it like a shockwave as a shard hit him straight in the chest throwing him back. He flew so far as to knock straight in to her castle, which had not been melted down yet. The force of her outburst shook it, shattered it, and Jack watched as crumbling shards of ice toppled towards him.

[Flynn]

"So Blondie, any chance I can skip out on the actual festival? I mean you just need 10 sign ups right?"

"No, because the school is paying for it, if you don't go, they'll be more skeptical and more reluctant to actually let us go next year".

"Can I have someone pretend to be me?"

"No, Mr. Rafiki knows what you look like."

" Oh Come on! What's it gonna take for me not to go? I mean I never even agreed to go in the first place. Our deal was only for me to sign up!"

"You're going or so help me I will tell Mr. Rafiki you've been bullying me in to doing your artwork for you."

"I'll tell him you're lying,"

"I'll tell him to actually make you paint an assignment in front of him,"

"You're bluffing,"

"You don't want to find out,"

"Fine!"

Stupid art festival Flynn thought to himself. He walked in to history, Rapunzel was in this class with him and he glared at her from across the room as she sat down at her desk with a satisfied smile.

"Ehem!" A chubby man they had never seen before said. "Mr. Smith is absent today so I will be substituting for him today," the man said in a very proper British accent, "you may call me Mr. Cogsworth."

Flynn raised his hand following his normal protocol for substitutes. "Yes," the sub said looking annoyed.

"Can I go to the bathroom?"

To his surprise the substitute huffed and replied, "No you absolutely may not. You think you can fool me in to skipping class? Quite frankly I haven't even finished attendance and you just came from lunch. That was your time, this is my time, so be a big boy and hold it." That caused a wave of snickering to go throughout the class. His plan had failed… his plan never failed. The sub always let him go asking for his name before he went and he would just point at the sheet and tell the sub to call him Flynn Rider. He's stopped memorizing the attendance list after he had figured out that little trick. Shit, now even if he did miraculously think of something, he had no idea when his name would be called. His real name. The sub called through the A's, the C's the D's the E's and suddenly the name Eugene Fitzherebert rang throughout the room. Everyone looked around confused. Flynn stayed silent, his face turning bright red. The sub called out louder "Eugene Fitzherbert!"

Silence. The nerd Belle began to stand and say that there wasn't anyone in the class named Eugene when Flynn finally weakly called out "Here," his voice had cracked. Even better.

"WHAT?" Everyone turned and stared at him utterly confused. He felt his face get a thousand degrees hotter.

"Well its about time" Mr. Cogsworth said with a huff as he checked the name off the clipboard. For the entire rest of the class he could feel everyone's eyes boring in to him and could hear Eugene followed by snickers throughout. He shoved his things in his bag and briskly walked out the minute class ended. The faster everyone forgot about this, the better. But of coarse, that was never going to happen.

"Hey Fitzherbert! Is that really your name?" He heard Snotlout taunt from behind him.

"Well hey, his name at least matches his lame ass personality now," Snotlout's twin sister said coming up next to her brother. Flynn turned towards them spitting back,

"I wouldn't be talking if I were you, at least I wasn't named after the ball of mucus up my mom's nose."

Snotlout shrugged it off easily, grinning back"It's still better than Eugene, at least I don't sound like I belong benched on the math team. Don't worry I'll get you a pair of glasses and suspenders to match."

"Hey!" Flynn heard a familiar voice called out. The blond twins turned to reveal Blondie standing behind them clutching her books. She stared straight at Flynn and said, " Eugene Fitzherbert huh?".

He simply stared back at her surprised that even she was going to jump on the bandwagon to make fun of him now. Instead she just said, " For the record, I like Eugene Fitzherebert much better than Flynn Rider." With that she spun on her heel and walked to her next class.

He stared after her wide eyed, and noticed the two siblings gaping as the watched her walk way. They turned their heads towards him speechless.

"Hey" Eugene said shrugging and he walked off to next period.

[Hiccup]

"Merida I'm telling you you have to if you want to do this."

"I don't even have anything to do it with."

" Don't you carry on you?"

"Does it look like I do?"

"Just use a rubber band,"

"No"

"Fine then I'll work on it by myself and you can pick it up in two weeks."

She glared at him, looked from him to the rubber band on the table, and put her hair up with a groan.

"See? How hard was that?" Hiccup said teasing.

"Very when you have as much hair as I do. Ya you deal with dragons, but this is a beast of its own," Merida replied, " Now what?".

"Now Let me introduce you to Sawyer the power saw."

2 Weeks Later

Hiccup sat looking at the nearly finished bow. All there was left to do was drill the holes to string it, sand it and then polish it. It would have taken a lot less time except for Merida's insistence on being there and learning during every single step. Considering she could only be there every day for an about an hour, and since he had to explain all the steps thoroughly, it took that much longer. Hiccup had finally just settled on making two different bows, one he would make and one for her to make. It worked out better because now she could have a backup in case one broke. He sat working on a different project as he waited for her (some kid wanted his own miniature catapult for undisclosed reasons). She was late as usual considering she was always coming from the barn, but today was exceptional, she seemed to have bailed. He thought about working on both of them himself and playing it off as though that's how far they'd gotten this whole time, but he decided he did not want to face the wrath of an archery legend if his lie was discovered. He finally got up to close up shop when Merida barged through the door… in a dress…and some sort of odd looking bonnet cap. He'd never seen her in a dress before and he had presumed the idea so ridiculous that he had never even given it a thought, and forget about doing anything to her hair. But there she was before him, in a long blue and white muddied dress looking enraged. He tried to suppress his laughter.

"Ummm… You look nice… I guess."

"UGH! I hate my stupid mother! Why cant she get it? I want more in my life than flouncing around in this circus tent looking like the prettiest daisy in the meadow. AHHHH!" She tore off the cap attempting to tame her hair and a wild puff of fire frizzed out.

"She just doesn't understand." She said quieter now, breathing heavy but still wearing her frustrated furrowed brow.

"Okay," Hiccup said, " Come with me."

"What? No!" Merida said, " I want to work on my bow. Show her I'm not gonna be some shy little traditional girl. I'll be like a man if I want to be like a man and I'll be the best man there ever was! Now hand me the drill."

"Whoa there Mulan, I think its in everyone's best interest not to give you anything sharp while you're like this. Besides shop's closed anyways, but come on, I want to show you something. I guarantee it will make you feel better."

She looked at him and his outstretched hand warily. Hesitantly she took it and followed him out.