THE BIG FOUR! WATCHING THE MOVIE! ALTERNATE UNIVERSE! RUN AWAY!
Watching the Big Four Untie.
Chapter Four: Enter the Guardians/Enter Furious the Red Death
Everyone was a little confused. One minute, everything was calm and dandy, the next an anthropomorphic rabbit and some Yetis kidnap the Four and toss them through a portal? Jack was a bit ticked. Hiccup was confused. Rapunzel was scared. Merida wasn't sure what to make of the situation.
They couldn't even speak until the screen came on once more.
Scene sets in some sort of workshop. Everything was silent, until a large portal opened up and Toothless came tumbling out, on his feet in an instant, growling at the shadowed figures that were approaching.
"Easy, big boy. Easy." a soothing feminine voice told the Dragon, who growled lowly at her, before other cries of fear sounded off and the others, still trapped in their sacks, and flew through the portal and hit the ground.
The audience jumped when the bag seemed to hit the camera.
"Toothless? Toothless! Where are ya, bud?!" Hiccup's worried voice came out and Toothless tore through each sack, and the camera cuts to Jack's point of view as he lifts the sack off his line of sight.
He sees two Elves peaking at him before rushing off at Toothless's roar, then sees three figures. One of them was Bunny, who stood with his arms crossed, not happy. The other was a man as big as Stoick only much older, but seemed very lively and fit. And fluttering in the air was a young Asian women with silver and faded pink fairy wings, and her entire body, besides her face, was covered in blue and green feathers with golden bracelets and anklets on each limb.
"Look guys! It's us!" Tooth said excitingly to the other Guardians.
"Ah, here they are!" the man boomed with a thick Russian accent, as the Fairy chattered rapidly to some smaller creatures. Screens cuts to the Four's confused expressions before turning back to the strangers.
"Welcome!" the man said, arms raised in glee as a small man that looked to be made of gold sand floated by Bunny.
Cuts to the Four's stupefied looks.
The present four had the same looks.
"You have gotta be kidding me." Jack mumbled, before Phil lifted him into the air by the hood of his poncho. "Ah, put me down. Please." they complied with the request, dusting him off before leaving him.
Jack frowned. He hated being manhandled.
Toothless worryingly looked over Hiccup for injuries as Merida helped Rapunzel up.
"The Yetis treated you well, I hope." Jack chuckled humorlessly as he kicked his staff into his hand.
"No, no. I love being thrown in a sack and tossed through a magic portal!" Jack glared at the end, but the older man didn't hear the sarcasm.
"Oh, good. That was my idea!"
"Well, I suppose sarcasm is a foreign language to that guy." Hiccup said with the same sarcasm as future Jack used. Snotlout looked over to them.
"I think you two" he pointed to Hiccup and Jack "are related somehow."
This comment made Jack and Hiccup exchanged looks, before Jack smirked.
"Well, then bro, we'll catch up on the brotherly bonding later." he joked, making Hiccup roll his eyes with a smile.
Hiccup scoffed, before the man spoke again.
"My name is Nicholas St. North. More commonly known Santa Claus or North. North is fine." he man introduced himself, before gesturing to Bunny.
"You've met Bunny, obviously." Bunny said nothing. Just kept his glare on the Winter Spirit.
"Obviously." Jack muttered sarcastically.
Bunny rolled his eyes.
"And Toothiana the Tooth Fairy." the fairy fluttered over to them.
"Hello, children. And Tooth is fine." Tooth reassured them, smiling broadly. "I heard a lot about each and every one of you. And your teeth!"
"Pardon?"
"M-my what?"
"Huh?"
"Did you say my teeth?"
"Open up. Are they as white as they say they are?" Tooth asked, opening Jack's mouth, much to his discomfort and to Hiccup's humor.
Tooth blushed, and Toothless laughed along with Hiccup. Jack looked a bit uncomfortable. Manhandled was one thing. Someone forcing your mouth open and looking at your teeth was another.
She gasped excitingly. "They do sparkle like freshly falling snow." the tiny creatures, which looked like a smaller version of Tooth, chittered excitingly.
"Never thought I would see a Fairy with a tooth fetish. Then again, I never thought I'd see a Fairy in general, right Toothless?" Hiccup turned to the Night Fury, who nodded in agreement.
"'Toothless'?!" Tooth zoomed to the unsuspecting Dragon and forced his mouth open to reveal his soft, squishy gums.
Hiccup laughed even more, clutching his belly as Toothless looked away, a darker color on his cheeks.
Frightened, he brought out his pearly white teeth, making Tooth flutter back in surprise, before smiling as she opened his mouth more to examine the molars and incisors in his mouth.
Merida and Rapunzel giggle, while the boys just smirk at the 'almighty' Night Fury at the mercy of the Tooth Fairy.
The kids did the same thing as the Pixies tried to get a peek in his mouth, much to his annoyance.
"And Sandman, Sandy." They looked down to the small man, who was sleeping right side up, hovering on the spot. "Sandy? Wake up!" The man boomed, startling the sand-made man awake.
"Pleasure to meet you, really. Now anyone want to tell me why we were kidnapped by Frosty the Snowman and his friends and an anthropomorphic rabbit?" Hiccup asked rhetorically.
Jack, Tuffnut and Snotlout moaned. "Too many big words." Hiccup rolled his eyes, as did most of Berk.
Jack rubbed the bridge of his nose as though he had a headache. "Too many big words." he moaned, making the girls chuckle and Hiccup roll his eyes. Sandy stepped forward, waving his hand, volunteering to explain. But he couldn't speak and only made symbols and patterns on top of his head and they were going too fast to follow.
Sandy blushed.
Jack laughs a bit at Sandy's attempts. "T-that's not really helping, but thanks little man."
Jack started to wander around, freezing an Elf with refreshments in his place.
"Must've done something big to bring you all together." Jack gathered, before turning to them with a curious and cheeky smile. "Am I on the Naughty List?"
North laughed, "'On Naughty List'? You hold the record." he told him sternly, ("Yes!") before turning to the girls, "And you two are losing points, running away from home like that." they had the decency to look ashamed.
The girls did the same thing.
Then he turned to Hiccup and looked sympathetic.
"I'll be sure your parents' gets coal this year's Christmas." Hiccup smiled and hummed.
"'Christmas'. That sounds way better then Snoggle Tog."
Jack and Bunny bursted into laughter. "You do you Viking blokes have such wacky names?"
Many Vikings glared at the snickering Bunny and Jack, and the blushing Hiccup.
"Anyway! Needn't worry about List. We overlook. Now that we're wiping clean the slate." he told them all slyly, wiping his tattooed arm for effect.
"No!" Jack yelled dramatically, falling on his back in mock agony. Hiccup once again eye-rolled, as did Merida, while Rapunzel just giggled at his playful nature.
Jack's eyes narrowed, somehow going well with his curious smirk. "How come?"
"Good question." Bunny muttered, as an excited sparkle overtook North's eyes.
"'How come'? I tell you 'how come'! Cause as of now, you are all Guardians!" he cheered as two Yetis behind him lifted up flaming torches and the Elves start blowing trumpets.
"What?!" Jack sat right up, eyes blown in shock and panic.
The Guardians frowned. Why was he reacting that way?
It went hectic from there.
Flags with the Guardian 'G' flopped down from the balconies, as the Pixies fluttered over with charm necklaces. They all rejected them, stepping back, while Toothless got one sitting on his head like a crown. He shook it off.
"What are you doing? Get off me." Jack protested over the noise, as a Yeti tried to settle Rapunzel's nerves, and Toothless curled his tail around Hiccup protectively.
"This is the best part!" North yelled as the Elves got into a marching band position, two Yetis beginning to wield fire staffs, making Jack flinch. He thanks Toothless, who shielded him and the other kids from the flames.
"Thanks, big guy." Jack patted Toothless's head for shielding him from the fire. Toothless cooed and nuzzled into his hand.
An Elf tugged on Rapunzel's dress and Jack's pant leg and pointed to two pairs of shoes, one pink, and one blue. They frowned.
"No way are you putting those monstrosities on my feet!" Jack yelled, pulling his knees against his chest, covering his bare feet.
"Get a grip, you big baby." Merida nudged him.
A Yeti delicately handed North a big leather bound book with the Guardian's 'G' imprinted on the front. North smiled and opened it.
Screen cuts to the kids and the Dragon, the spirit looking for anyone that would at least lend an ear to listen.
No luck. Tooth and the Pixies twittered with dreamy joy. Sandy raised his cup of eggnog in a toast, Bunny was frowning throughout the whole ceremony and North was busy trying to find the right page.
"Toothless, cover Hiccup and the girls with your wings. I have just about had enough." Jack muttered, sounding pissed as he raised his staff.
Toothless made a noise that almost sounded like 'uh oh'.
Toothless wrapped his wings around Hiccup and the girls and his head, shielding himself and them.
North and the Guardians saw what Jack was about to do too late.
He slammed the bottom of his staff to the ground, sending a sock wave of wind, ice and frost in every direction. The music dulled away, half of the audience was blown away, some even hiding behind Toothless's form to get away from the force.
Everyone was silent. The only ones not wide eyed and rather frightened were the Four and the ones used to magic.
Everyone was now staring at the pissed Winter Spirit, the startled mortals, and a very protective Dragon.
"What makes you think we want to be Guardians?" Jack demanded, his voice sounding rather pitched as he said this.
The Guardians continued to stare, before North let out a booming laughter, Bunny following along nervously.
"He doesn't understand seriousness either."
"SHH!"
"Of course you do. MUSIC!" the Elf was about to blow, but Toothless roared; a clear 'no'.
The Elf slammed his trumpet to the floor and stormed off.
Toothless gave an eye roll. Elves were as annoying as Terrible Terrors.
"I can't be a Guardian. I have to get back home to my tower before mom does!"
Gothel smirked. Even though she was disregarding every rule she put up, she was still loyal to her.
"I have to protect the Dramillions encase the hunters come back!"
"The whole reason I ran away was to get away from responsibilities!" the kid's complaints and protests were heard clearly by the stars truck Guardians. They didn't turn down their offers to Guardianship. What made their cases different?
"Look," Jack interrupted, trying to sound as calm and causal as he could. "This is all very flattering, but, uh... you don't want us. We all got our own things to do. Rapunzel has to get back home before her overprotective mom comes back, Merida needs to go back and settle things with her own mom, and Hiccup's already got a duty as protector of the Dramillions. And with me? You're all 'hard work' and deadlines'. I'm snowballs and fun times." he finished, standing by his friends, fair and firm. "I'm sorry. But that's the way things are."
Bunny made sounds of agreement. "That's exactly what I said." North nudged him. Tooth turned to them.
"Kids. I don't think you understand what we it is that we do." she then directed them to a huge sphere of the Earth, many countries covered with bright golden dots. "Each one of those lights, is a person."
"A person who believes. And good or bad, naughty or nice, we protect them." North finished, staring at the lights, before a protesting warble was heard off screen.
"Tooth." Tooth froze, her head halfway inside Toothless's head, "Let the dragon be."
The four chuckled again as Toothless tried to hide under Hiccup's chair.
Tooth giggled and stepped back, as Toothless smacked his lips from the dryness in his mouth. "Their beautiful." Toothless snorted.
"Okay, no more wishy-washy. Pitch is out there doing who knows what!" North exclaimed, hands falling to his sides.
North frowned. He should have known Pitch was involved.
"Pitch?" Rapunzel whimpered, hiding behind Toothless's wing.
"Who's that?" Jack chuckled at Merida.
"The Boogeyman." Hiccup chuckled.
"'Boogeyman'? And I thought the name 'Snotlout' was bad." he whispered to Toothless, who laughed.
"Hey! That sounded like an insult!" Astrid and Ruffnut groaned, as did Fishlegs. Tuffnut just stared at the screen stupidly.
Bunny turned and glared.
"This isn't a laughing matter, mate! This is serious business!" he yelled, making Toothless growl, not liking the way he was talking down his brother.
Toothless growled from under Hiccup's seat. No-one bad talks his Soulful One. No-one.
"All the more reason to pick people more qualified for this." Jack told them, waving them off.
"'Pick'? You think we pick?" North asked increasingly, "No, you were chosen. Like we were all chosen! By Man in Moon." he told them, pointing to the open ceiling, which showed the full moon starting down at them.
The kids' frowned. What?
"What?"
"Last night, he showed us a prophecy. And you're all in it."
"Possibility." Bunny protested, before the Moon started to cast shadows on the ground.
First it showed Pitch's figure, then a large Dragon, then a Bear, and then a hooded woman surrounded by thorny vines and flowers. Then they showed a boy riding a Dragon, no doubt a Night Fury, wielding a flaming sword in his hand, as he and a swarm of Dragons charge at the Red Death.
Toothless growled at the image of his jailer, before Hiccup scratched his chin to comfort him.
Then it shows a girl with unruly hair riding a horse, bow and arrow in hand as she fired it at a scarred bear.
Merida gulped and tightened her grip on her bow.
Then it showed a girl with incredibly long hair, using it as whips as she squared off with the hooded figure, vines and flowers curling around the figure in retaliation.
Rapunzel almost fainted.
Then it showed a boy with a Shepard's Crook in his hand as he came down on the Nightmare King's form.
Then the shadows stopped.
The kids in the theater basically did the same actions their future counterparts did.
"Well that's a nice story." Merida said sarcastically.
"Hey, it could happen." Hiccup defended, making Bunny roll his eyes.
"But I still don't see why he couldn't just tell us that in the first place." Hiccup said, looking at the Moon with a peeved look. Jack nodded.
"I've been waiting years for something, anything, and this is his answer? To spend eternity locked up in some secret hideout coming up with new ways to bribe kids? Oh, no. That's not for me!" he yelled at Manny, before turning to the Guardians, a somewhat innocent look on his face.
"No offence."
Bunny stammered, stepping forward. "How is that not offensive?" then he chuckled, "You know, I think we just dodged a bullet. What would these kids know about bringing joy to children?" he asked, before scratching his chin with his foot.
"Sour egg."
"I heard that!"
Jack smirked, going back to his peeved attitude.
"Uh, every heard of a snow day? I know it's know hardboiled egg but kids like what I do."
"But none of them believe you, do they?" Bunny goaded, "See, your invisible mate. It's like you don't even exist." Bunny smirked as Jack looked away, upset. Hiccup glared at the rabbit and screen goes to his hand, which cracked as he balled it into a fist.
"Um, Hiccup looks pissed." Tuffnut called out, as even Astrid got wide eyed at the angry Hiccup.
"Well, that's because none of you did anything about it!" he yelled, getting in between the surprised Spirit and the shocked Guardians. "Maybe if you had stopped sitting on your rumps, painting eggs and wrapping presents, Jack wouldn't be known as just an expression! And honestly, where were any of you when we were all going through our own struggles?!"
The Guardians had the decency to look shameful. Where were they when Hiccup was bullied and exiled and turned away by both of his parents for his dreams? Where were they when Rapunzel was sheltered and told exaggerated stories about the outside world? Where were they when Merida ran away from home and struggled with her sense of worth? Where were then when Jack first came to exist and didn't know what was going on when people couldn't see him?
"Don't get into things that don't concern you, Runt." Hiccup bit his lip, that one word hitting home.
Toothless snarled, banging his head trying to get out from under his brother's chair so he could charge the rabbit for even breathing such a word. Hiccup had to hold him by his tail to stop him from tearing him limb from limb. Stoick was a bit shock at how overprotective he was of his son.
Sandy blew his cheeks, his stature screaming 'awkward', before he tapped North with an expression that said 'Do something!' North turned to the kids.
"Kids. Walk with me."
"Uh oh." the rabbit mutter, shutting up immediately when Toothless growled.
Screen cuts to North leading them through the workshop, taking them to his office.
"Look, its nothing personal North. But you got the wrong kids, okay? It's not our thing." Jack told him, as many Elves rushed off to hide as Toothless walked by.
"Man in Moon says it is your thing. Now come!"
"Manny probably said a lot of things." Jack muttered, making North mock glare at him.
"Slow down, will ya? I've been trying forever to bust in here! I want to get a good look." Jack chuckled, struggling to keep up as he continued to look around. North turned around with a small glare.
"What do you mean 'bust in'?"
"Don't worry," Jack waved off, as a Yeti from behind him turned around: Phil. "I never got past the Yetis." he then saw Phil, completely unafraid when he punched his palm with his fist. "Oh, hey Phil."
"We're still gonna have talk about those 'break ins'." North told him.
Jack chuckled.
Screen goes to follow Hiccup and Toothless, who were looking at all the ice sculpture scale models of toys and castles, while Yetis were copying them wood by brick. Hiccup smiled as he ducked under a flying wooden Dragon, then rushed up to walk by North.
"I always thought it was the Elves that made the toys." North chuckled at the Viking.
"We just make them believe that." he leaned over to whisper, making Hiccup laugh.
Hiccup laughed. The Elves reminded him of Terrible Terrors.
Merida raised an eyebrow at some Elves that had wrapped themselves up in some tinsel, lighting themselves up like a Christmas tree.
"Very nice!" North exaggerated, placing a hand on Merida's shoulder to make her continue, "Keep up good work."
Merida chortled and Elinor resisted the urge to tell her that a Princess does not chortle.
They then walked past a Yeti that was painting a toy robot blue.
"I don't like it! Paint it red." the Yeti cried out, looking over to a whole stack of blue robots and groaned, banging his head on the door. Rapunzel stopped in front of his desk, and gave him a comforting pat.
"Keep up the good work." she cheered, before rushing off.
They finally reached North's office and went inside, Toothless unable to fit, due to his large body.
Everyone laughed at how Toothless got his head stuck in the doorway and tried to shuffle in.
"Stay out here, bud." he let out a sad warble. "Don't worry. We'll only be a minute. Until then, play with the Elves or Pixies or something." Toothless groaned and sat down, looking around the workshop...
Before looking at his feet to see a whole herd of Elves looking at him. He warbled in concern.
Toothless let out the same kind of sound as some Elves began to descend towards him, making him hiss.
Hiccup chuckled. If the Elves were anything like Terrors, he better ready himself.
Screen cuts to inside North's office, filled with ice sculptures and wooden puppets etc. Camera floated to North, who picked up a plate.
"Fruitcake?"
Jack frowned. He didn't like Fruitcake that much. "No thanks."
"I'm good, thank you."
"Maybe later."
"No thank you."
North's face then shifted to a glare as he tossed the plate aside. "Now we get down to tacks of brass."
Jack eyes narrowed in confusing as North cracked his knuckles. "'Tacks of...'"
The doors slammed shut, locking up and throwing away the key. Toothless crooned in shock and tried to scratch through the door.
"Toothless!" Hiccup ran to the door and tried to force it open, but had no luck. Jack turned to North, about to demand what was going on, before North started to march over to him, making him back up to the door.
"Who are you, children? What is your Center?" he asked them, tapping Jack's chest where his heart was.
"What/What?"
"I'm-I'm sorry, what? 'Center'?"
"If Man in Moon chose you to be Guardians, then he must sense something special in each of you." the kids looked confused, as North stepped back. Jack sighed and slowly stepped back to the others.
Something special? The four thought. What could possibly be special about us?
North rubbed his chin in thought, before shaking his pointer finger in the air, as though he had a brain storm and went over to his shelf. He picked out a Russian Nested Doll that looked like North with two golden swords.
"This is how you see me, no? Very big, intimidating." he chuckled, "But if you get to know me a little, well, here." he passed it to Rapunzel, who frowned before twisting the top off, to reveal a smiling North.
"Your... downright Jolly?" Jack smiled/smirked, and he nodded, before motioning to continue. Rapunzel opened it again to reveal North wrapped up in a red cloak.
Hiccup took a wild guess. "Mysterious?" he nodded, making him smile.
Another one, showing him with a red face, roaring madly. Merida looked up at him, "Fearless?" he grinned.
Rapunzel looked at one with North cuddling a baby deer with a tear of joy. "Caring?" he smiled, then held his hand out.
"And at my Center." she tipped the doll, and a tiny baby version of North wrapped up in a red bundle came out.
"Okay, now I'm confused." Jack said, and they nodded.
"And there's a tiny wooden baby." Jack moaned, rubbing his forehead in confusion.
"Look closer. What do you see?" he urged, and Jack shrugged, taking the baby in his hand.
"You have big eyes." he commented, looking at the unusually large baby blue eyes.
"YES!" they jumped at North's cheer (As did the present Four). "'Big eyes'! Very big, because they are full of Wonder!" he told them, shaking Hiccup's shoulder, before wondering around the office.
"That is my Center. It is what I was born with! Eyes that see the Wonder in everything! Eyes that see lights in the trees and Magic in the air!" he cried as a toy Dragon flew past them and out into the workshop, giving the camera a breathtaking view.
"This Wonder is what I put into the World! And what I protect in Children! It is what makes me a Guardian." he told them passionately as the camera guided back to him and the kids as they stood by the balcony, watching a wooden Hummingbird.
Everyone, especially the kids, were in awe at the raw passion in his voice as he spoke of his purpose proudly.
He turned to them with a soft smile. "It is my Center. What are yours?"
Hiccup looked away. Rapunzel looked at her feet. Merida clutched her bow tightly. And Jack just shrugged.
"Don't know." North moved his fingers over the doll, and Jack let out a small smile to the old man's direction.
Merida then let out a bark of laughter. They looked over to her with a raised eyebrow and she pointed somewhere behind them. They looked and clutched their bellies in laughter as Toothless stared back at them in a deadpan way, covered head to toe in tinsel lights, Christmas ornaments and a little star on his head. With a grumble, he shook it all off, making them laugh even more.
The audience laughed at how funny Toothless looked just then, and he just grumbled, hissing when he saw some Elves trying to sneak his way towards him.
The scene eventually faded from the group laughing together to the balcony outside the workshop, to show Hiccup swinging his legs off the balcony, a look of deep thinking on his face. He was alone, before a large shadow cloaked his body, and a comforting rumble made him tilt his head backward. He grinned, "Hey bud."
Toothless warbled in greeting.
Hiccup let out a long sigh and looked out into the horizon. "I don't know what to do, bud." He started, "According to the 'Man in the Moon' I'm a part of this big prophecy involving saving the world. But it also involves me having to kill a dragon to do it. But we both know that I can't."
Toothless warbled to him, subtitles appearing as he tried to say to his brother 'You can't save everyone, little brother' but Hiccup just shook his head.
"I wish I could understand you." Toothless let out a Draconic sigh. 'Me too, Sál. Me too'.
Everyone was silent, the somber music taking a bit of a toll on everyone's emotions.
Meanwhile, Furious looked on in disgust. Nothing could kill him. He is eternal.
The two were silent, staring out into the sunrise. Toothless then perked up and nudged Hiccup's shoulder for his attention. Hiccup turned to face him, and Toothless presented his saddle to him, grinning.
Hiccup smiled.
Scene changes to above the clouds, when Toothless suddenly appears with a twirl before spreading his wings and flying away. Hiccup smiles as the two fly above the clouds of the North Pole, the former letting out whoops of delight as they flew to their hearts content.
"Come on! Let's see what you got today!" Toothless warbles, before closing his wings, allowing the two of them dive down next to the cliff of North's Workshop. Hiccup lets out a woo-hoo as Toothless opens his wings at the last second, stopping their descent and then speeding over the frozen waters.
Close up to Hiccup's face, smiling before spotting something. The camera cuts to an arch of ice. Hiccup smiles. "Ready?" Toothless nods.
Hiccup then takes his foot out of the stirrup, making the makeshift fin start to flail around, nearly throwing Toothless off as he tries his best to stay aloft. Hiccup then stands on the saddle.
"Easy!"
Everyone looks on with worry. Stoick's grip on his chair made his knuckles go white.
Then Hiccup made a leap, going over the arch while Toothless went under, and then the two was connected again as Hiccup landed back on the saddle with an 'oof' and re-connected his foot with the stirrup, allowing the fin to open up naturally.
"Yes! Finally!"
"'Finally'? You mean you attempted something like that before?" Astrid asked, disbelief in her tone.
Hiccup blushed. "Uh… yes? Several times actually. Those last times though never ended that well."
Astrid continued to look at him in incredulity, before she nodded, looking impressed. The boy who she wouldn't trust with a dagger had done a death-defying act time and time again, and with a dragon no less. Clearly not as cowardly as she thought he was.
They took off towards the clouds again, this time just drifting and relaxing. Hiccup laid back on the saddle, once again looking deep in thought. When Toothless warbled in question, Hiccup smiled and patted his neck.
"Don't worry bud. I'm gonna figure this out. And I'm not gonna let anything happen to you."
Toothless gave a grin before he noticed something poking out of the clouds. A twirling tail. Toothless let out a warning growl, making Hiccup frown. "What's up, bud?" he sits up and notices the tail, which starts to sink back under the clouds.
"Okay." Hiccup said, placing a gentle hand on Toothless's head, "No sudden moves."
They watched the line of clouds, dead silent. In the silence, they began to hear something. Whispers.
Fishlegs's eyes widened in terror.
"The whisper."
Hiccup's eyes widened in fear. "Oh, Odin."
With a loud shriek, a Whispering Death shot out of the clouds and zipped around the duo, before stopping in front of them.
Everyone jumped at the sudden appearance of the hostile dragon made everyone jump.
Toothless growled and Hiccup looked on with worry. They knew this Whispering Death.
"Groundshaker."
The Whispering Death let out a malicious hiss, while Toothless growled.
"Groundshaker?" Snotlout asked.
"Toothless's rival. He and Groundshaker had some sort of spat in the past. I don't what, but it's quite a grudge."
Toothless growled, as though to confirm the claim.
"Hold on. Hold on!" Hiccup told the Night Fury, wanting to wait at the last possible moment for an attack.
And one did come. Only from behind.
A roar made Toothless turn his head around, and his eyes became slits as he noticed the quickly ascending shape, claws out towards.
Hiccup was then snatched from Toothless's saddle by a Monstrous Nightmare. Hiccup cried out in shock as Toothless flapped around in the air, trying to stay airborne long enough to fire a plasma blast at Hiccup's kidnappers, only for Groundshaker to spin around and hit Toothless's stomach full force with his tail, forcing him to descend back first towards the iced over water.
"TOOTHLESS!"
Toothless roared out to Hiccup, actually speaking in English as he neared the ice.
"HICCUP!"
And then hit the ice and break through into the frozen waters with a sickening crack.
Jack flinched at the sound of the ice breaking. He didn't know why, but something about hearing the ice shatter under Toothless's weight made him terrified.
Pitch smirked, feeling Jack's terror from the second floor.
After three seconds of being submerged in the water, Toothless leapt out and attempted to fly towards his brother, but ended up falling back into the water. He tried again, this time, trying to find a footing on the ice around him, so he could pull himself out of the water and attempt to chase them on foot or run to Jack and the girls for help, but the ice continued to break under his paws.
Toothless let out a helpless cry as he watched his brother get taken away. Scene changes to show the back of Groundshaker's head, watching Toothless struggle and let out an evil chuckle, before turning to follow the swarm of dragons.
Toothless watched as Hiccup's struggling form and the swarm eventually become black dots in the sky.
Everyone was looking on with fear for the Viking boy. What did the dragons want with him?
Scene cuts to the balcony Hiccup and Toothless were previously on, dead silent until Jack appeared at the door.
"Hey, Hiccup. Me and the girls were just about to talk about this whole 'Guardian' thing. Feel like joining…" Jack trailed off when he realized that the balcony was vacant of the Viking boy and the Night Fury. Jack looked around, confused. He was just in the next room with the others while Hiccup went to get some air. They didn't see him re-enter the room.
"Hiccup?" Jack continued to look around, "Toothless?" when he didn't hear a response, his tone took a turn for worry.
"Hiccup?" when silence met his ears again, he called out to the other room. "Merida! Rapunzel!" he turned back to the empty balcony as the girls appeared behind him. "Hiccup!" he called to the boy again, making the girls notice the youngest's absence.
"Where is he?" "I don't know."
They look around, dramatic music settling in as the scene cuts back to the still struggling Toothless. Finally, after one final attempt to pull himself out of the water, he pulled his head back and shot a plasma blast into the sky. The shot made a shockwave, one that Rapunzel spotted.
"There!" she pointed to the ring of smoke in the sky and Jack took off with the wind on his back. He flew up close to the smoke, looking around before his sharp ears picked up Toothless's roars and looked down at the frozen waters and spotted the struggling dragon.
"Toothless!" Jack cried out in shock and dived down towards the Night Fury, only pulling back when frozen water threatened to splash the spirit in the face. Toothless continued to let out anguished roars before Jack raised his hands to sooth him.
"It's- it's okay, buddy. We're gonna help you out." Jack then noticed his empty saddle and cold fear gripped his heart.
"Where's Hiccup?"
"Yeah, where is Hiccup?" Hiccup sighed. Here we go…
"Duh, bonehead! He was kidnapped by dragons! Idiot!" Ruffnut hit her brother in the shoulder, of course enticing a fight to break out between the two.
The triplets giggled, and eventually joined the fray, overpowering the twins and beginning to win.
"Boys!" they all froze when Elinor called out. "Leave the two Vikings be." The triplets groaned and rejoined their parents, leaving the dishevelled twins staring off into space.
"Those kids… are my spirit animal."
Scene cuts to Hiccup still being carried by the enemy flock. Groundshaker had long since disappeared and Hiccup was still struggling.
"Let me go! What do you want with me!" the Nightmare holding him huffed, clearly indicating for him to keep quiet. Hiccup continued to struggle before Hiccup noticed the shipwrecks lining up next to spires of pointed cliffs and the mist surrounding them. His eyes widened with terror.
"Oh no…"
Jack frowned, "What? What is it?" Hiccup swallowed.
"I know where they're taking me."
They continued flying until begins to see the volcanic mountain through the fog. Hiccup made one more effort to wiggle out of the Nightmare's grip, before giving up entirely and just continued to stare at the mountain. The flock then dove into a crevice in the mountainside, leading to a tunnel, which then lead to the caldera at the heart of the volcano. Large, red hot with lava, and swarming with different kinds of dragons. The Nightmare swooped down and carelessly dropped Hiccup down on some ground, pretty close to the large hole that many dragons were dropping large portions of food into.
At the sight of the many dragons dropping meat of all kinds in the pit, realization cut through Stoick like a knife.
Hiccup was taken to the Nest.
Hiccup hastily got to his feet as some dragons began to approach him, growling threateningly. Hiccup raised his hands in front of him to shield himself before a low, guttural sound made the dragons slink back and whimper into their hidey holes.
Hiccup kept his attention on the dragons before a large, clawed paw rose up from the fiery pit and landed with a thud beside him making him spin around as he struggled to stay standing. Plates of rock scatter from the sharp talons as another paw followed suit and landed by Hiccup's other side. Hiccup's arms were close to his body but carefully raised in defence as the two powerful limbs began to hoist something up from the pit.
A large head appeared in front of Hiccup, and six blood red eyes opened and centred on the boy in the front. The gigantic dragon let out an evil chuckle, showing rows upon rows of long, dangerously sharp teeth.
"At last we meet, young dragon rider."
Hiccup just continued to look up at the Red Death, his expression astonished and his eyes wide with fear.
With a whisper, he said the dragon's name.
"Furious."
The scene cuts to black.
"WHAT!? IT CAN'T END THERE! WHAT IS THAT MONSTER GOING TO DO TO MY SON?" Stoick demanded of Tomb, while Hiccup was shaking in his seat, not even taking into account that Stoick called him 'son'.
"Calm down, Stoick. Hiccup comes out fine in the end. You'll see. Just try to relax and watch." Stoick and Valka hated how calm Tomb was being about all this. Their son was in the claws of the Red Death, the most vicious and merciless dragon in the dragon world.
The Big Four were worried too. One of the creatures the Guardians wanted them to defeat has just kidnapped their friend. Hopefully, the rest of them are already planning a rescue mission.
No-one kidnaps their friend.