Chapter 4

[Jack]

Jack opened his eyes hesitantly, he'd panicked and froze (pun 100% intended) in fear at the sight of the crumbling ice castle. His head had smacked in to something on his way down and it had disoriented him enough to simply lay there covering his face with his arms in terror as sheets of ie fell towards him. Jack Frost, killed by a falling glacier, one of the more ironic deaths he was hoping to avoid. He hadn't felt anything though. Maybe this is what death feels like he thought to himself. If so, it was totally overrated. Once he lowered his hands and fluttered his eyes open he saw that he was in some sort of ice dome, similar to the one Elsa had made, the ice dome was covered in snow.

"You okay kid?" Frozone said walking over to him, Jack slowly nodded, accepting the teacher's outstretched hand to help him up. "I've gotta say, I thought your reflexes would be better after watching that snowball fight. We'll have to work on a way to get your reflexes working in dangerous situations, but finding methods the school will approve of is gonna be rough."

"Yeah," Jack responded sheepishly, "Thanks for that, but to be fair sir a snowball fight and near death tend to be a little different."

Frozone chuckled, "You'd be surprised at how similar they can be," he said with a wink, " Now if your flying with gusts of wind gave me any hints, I think you'll be able to get the snow off this dome? Or am I gonna have to do all the heavy lifting?"

"No Sir," Jack responded quickly, and with a wave of his hand, the snow on one side of the dome fell away.

"Perfect," Frozone said and he parted the dome in to two and they walked out in to an open empty field. "I'd say today was a very productive day wouldn't you?"

Jack laughed, " Well even though I almost died, at least we got to do stuff. Where is Frostbite anyway?"

Frozone looked around concerned, "We better let her know we are okay soon, I really don't want her to regress after all the progress she's made today."

You and me both buddy Jack though to himself. Frozone began running around the side of the giant snow pile, but Jack simply took to the sky. He searched around to find Elsa on her knees on the other side of the dome, which just looked like a giant pile of ice and snow to her. She was frantically digging and crying, " Not again…. Please not again,". He flew down to hover right behind her.

"Awww…. You really do care," Jack said. Elsa whipped around her eyes wide and suddenly threw her arms around his neck. Jack was so surprised he dropped to the ground his legs a little shaky from the shock of the situation. Unsure what to do he stood there for a few awkward moments before they heard Frozone shout, "Elsa!"

She realized what she was doing and just as quickly threw herself off of him. She fixed her hair, and crossed her arms, clearly uncomfortable, as he just shoved his hands in his pockets and pursed his lips.

"Ummm… uh… H H H How are you alright?" She breathed.

"Oh that?" Jack responded scratching his head, " Well you know Frostbite, it takes a lot more than a toppling ice palace to get rid of me."

"Uh huh," Frozone said rolling his eyes at him.

Jack shrugged, " Well I may have had a little help,"

"Don't you worry Elsa," Frozone cut in, " As long as I'm here, you kids have nothing to worry about. I'm here to keep you all safe, and I promise you thats what I'm going to do. Now I've got to get rid of this mess really quick and you all have a class you need to be getting to?"

Frozone set off to work again and the two ice prodigies walked back towards the school

"But seriously, how are you alright?" Elsa asked Jack once more as they approached the building.

"Like I said Frostbite…"

"No, I mean I saw the ice hit you. I saw it go to your heart. It should be frozen. You should be frozen…you should be dead, or dying at least."

"Well sorry to disappoint. Look I don't know what you want me to tell you. I live and breathe ice Frostbite. I'm alive cause the Man in the Moon put me here…"

"Wait the moon?"

"Its a long story, anyway ice is kinda my thing. Trust me ice to the heart, kinda just like a mosquito buzzing around your ears. Annoying as hell, but probably wont do much…unless you get malaria…you know what? Lets change the bug to a fly." He joked trying to lighten the mood a bit, but she simply continued to stare at him in a sort of shocked wonder.

"Well… I guess you can have these back now that class is over," he said, handing her back the gloves that had almost been the death of him. She timidly took them from him, seeming incredibly unsure what to do in the situation.

"It was nice to finally meet the fun side of you Frostbite," Jack said before he walked towards the school, leaving her clutching her gloves and staring after him in the field. He didn't know it, but that was the first time she had truly laughed in years.

[Eugene]

Eugene could not believe he was standing at the front entrance of the school at 6:30 on a December morning, and that too for an art field trip. That was his life right now. Shivering with 7 art geeks about to board a bus and Blondie was nowhere in sight. He'd been 100% duped. He was gonna give her hell for making him sign up for this, wake up this early, and then not even bothering to show up herself to the stupid thing she had blackmailed him in to. As the bus pulled up he had begun mapping out his potential escape routes to get out of the trip himself when he saw her figure bobbing in the distance. She looked completely disheveled, pulling a large bag behind her, he couldn't decide whether to be happy or sad. As she ran up towards him out of breath he commented

"Nice of you to join us Blondie, I was beginning to think you were going to leave me all by myself."

She looked at him, a new light in her eyes that brightened her face even this early in the day, " Are you kidding?! I wouldn't miss this for the world!" This was the happiest he had ever seen her, and she looked…gorgeous. Her green eyes were sparkling, the gold rings in them seemed to stand out in them more today looking like sunshine on a meadow. What was he thinking? This was Rapunzel. Sweatshirt wearing, short, art geek Rapunzel. Sure she'd been pretty when he'd first seen her, but then he'd gotten to know her. Sure she was sweet but also very annoying, annoying and cunning as didn't deserve someone like him. No, Eugene thought to himself, she deserves much better. They began boarding the bus, there were few enough people that everyone took a seat to themselves. Blondie was right across from him, it was gonna be long ride and he would need someone to talk to, her being the only one he knew. Mr. Rafiki took count, " Huh, we are all here except for…"

Suddenly there was a tapping on the bus doors, they opened and on strode an incredibly beautiful girl with thick luscious red hair, long legs displayed in a small green mini skirt, and slim waist revealed by a purple crop top.

"Ah Ariel, glad you could make it," Mr. Rafiki said to her.

"Sorry I was late," she said. She looked around. There were several open seats but she made eye contact with Eugene and he noticed her cheeks burned red, nearly similar to her hair. She made her way over and asked, "Is anyone sitting here?" Her voice was incredibly sweet.

Eugene dumb-foundedly shook his head no, and the girl took the spot next to him. He pulled out every charm he could think of, going as far as to drape an arm over the top of the seat, which with skilled conversation and maybe a little turbulent driving would lead to it calmly resting on her shoulders. If all else failed he would definitely be pulling his secret weapon on this one: the smolder. All the while he was completely ignorant to the red face and frown of another figure directly across from him.

[Hiccup]

"This smells worse than the barn," Merida complained as they walked in to the pens.

"Just come on," Hiccup said laughing. When they reached the night fury he heard Merida suck in a breathe and he couldn't help but smile to himself.

"Merida meet Toothless, Toothless, Merida."

The dragon quirked its head to the side at the sight of a new visitor.

"He's beautiful," she breathed inching closer, admiring the sleek smooth scales of his onyx body, the only change in coloring being the whites of his eyes. A shining black beauty of lean tough muscle and 5 inch talons, definitely more daring than her own steed.

"You wanna go for a ride?" Hiccup asked.

"Can we?!" Her eyes shone with excitement. She asked like a giddy toddler which only made his smile widen.

"Well he's mine, so I don't see why not."

They led Toothless out and Hiccup mounted first and reached out a hand to help Merida up. Toothless had taken to Merida surprisingly well, allowing her to touch him much faster than anyone else Hiccup had brought to ride with him.

"Hold on," was all Hiccup manage to say before Toothless took off in to a run, he unfurled his wings and then pounded them, once, twice, and they were off, soaring higher and higher in to the air. Hiccup heard Merida yelp in surprise before tightening her grip on Hiccup for a moment, before relaxing a bit and giving a whoop of excitement. Toothless responded by spiraling up, and then barreling downwards before snapping his wings out right before hitting the water of the vast lake beneath them.

"Show off," Hiccup muttered to himself, which earned him a well angled splash of lake water from Toothless that missed Merida completely. He could hear her laughing behind him, and as they soared through the clouds, the mountains, and the fields, their laughter and excitement never ceased.