Hi. this part was meant to be in the last chapter but it would had added more a very long chapter already. also i hope to finish this story sooner than I thought and I started a new story which I'll post it after this one. hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 8

With Toothless in tow, the Big Four and The Collins kids huddled close as they went. Hiccup walked next to the dragon, Jack held his staff ready, Merida fastened an arrow to her bow and Rapunzel held her frying pan up while juggling with extremely her long hair. Maria, Sally, Charlie and Ollie were in the middle, surrounded by the others.

"Who else gets the feeling like we're not alone" Charlie commented pulling the bike along.

"Yeah, the sooner we get back, the better" Maria answered holding her baby brother close. The deeper they walked; every simple rustle and snap of tree twigs make them jump.

"I'm kind of surprised mum and nanny haven't called yet" Sally pointed out after a moment.

"Yeah you're right. Maybe they busy... We should call them when..." But Maria didn't finish because all of a sudden they saw something black pass by them. Then another fell this time it landed near Hiccup and Merida, then another nearly hit Baby Tooth. Charlie felt something land on his shoulder.

"Ur yuck" Charlie said in disgust, to him it looked like black tar. He rubbed and scoffed up some of the thick substance. They heard the dragon growl, looking up above, they all slowly looked up and saw, watching from the trees, were creatures.

The nightmarish creatures were black and blurry with red smudged eyes. They looked like as if they had come out of a sketch book.

The group couldn't move or even scream, they were frozen with fear. One of the dark creatures let out an unearthly cry that snapped them all out their trans.

"RUN!"

No one needed much encouragement, they ran for their lives. The dark creatures instantly chased after them, some jumped from branch to branch like monkeys, while others ran on the ground like tigers.

Sally's heart was pounding. She was terrified ,Suddenly, three of the dark cratures appeared right in front of them. They slowly crawled towards them with a look of hunger in their eyes. The kids thought they were going to be slaughtered and they'd never see their mum again but just as one of the dark creature jumped straight at them, Toothless growled and fired a ligthing ball at the monster. The shot hit it and it exploded into dust. The other two backed away sensing danger. A high pitched scream shot out came from the right. Merida turned and gasped at the sight of a another horrible beasts in a tree it launched itself at them. Merida quickly drew her bow and released the arrow. The arrow hit its target, causing it to explode.

"Maria, you and the others run, we'll take care of them" Jack told Maria, at that moment another creature tried to attack but got a face full of ice from Jack.

"Right, come on" Maria said, wasting no time she, Sally and Oliver ran to an opening. Charlie bumped his bike and followed them. One of the creatures saw them an alerted four others then gave chase.

"Ok, there's five of us and about a thousand of them" Merida commented as the strange animals stalked closer.

"Thank you we can see that" Hiccup responded slightly sarcastically but really there was no time for jokes.

Rapunzel clung on tight to her frying pan when she spotted a dead old tree half out of the ground, around ten of the dark creatures were close to it. An idea popped into her head.

"Jack, I've got an idea but I need you to distract them" Rapunzel asked the winter Sprite. Jack turned to the golden haired girl, he wanted to ask why but something inside him trusted her.

"Ok, you all should hold onto something" Jack advised his friends

"Why?" Merida questioned but still she and Hiccup held on to Toothless, Rapunzel grabbed some strands of her hair and took hold of Jack's shoulder. Jack lifted his staff, took a deep breath and slammed it down on the ground. Immediately frost spread across and froze all of the creature arms and feet. They screamed with rage as they tried to break free, Rapunzel quickly threw her hair around the old tree branch. She then pulled on it but it only moved a few inches.

"Here" she heard Merida call, the redhead quickly came out and helped Rapunzel pull. Even now the tree still wouldn't move.

"Hey we've got this" Jack softly said as he stood next to Rapunzel and took hold of the hair. Hiccup too came over and stood next to Merida; he nodded and held on too.

Pretty soon, the old tree began to move it got so far but then it was stuck. Toothless saw this and he gently but firmly held on the long strands of hair with his mouth and pulled. With them all now pulling, the tree finally fell. The dark creatures were busy trying to get free from the ice, the ones that were nearest to the old tree stopped when they heard cracking, they looked up but it was late as the tree came crashing on top of them, They too turned to dust

As tree hit the ground the battle really began. Some of the other creatures managed to break free and jump to attack. Jack was shooting his ice magic at the creatures and using his staff or kicking them away. Merida was successful shooting arrow after arrow; any creatures she was aiming at quickly became dust. Rapunzel surprised her friends as she used her hair as well as her frying pan to wipe the floor with the creatures. Hiccup however couldn't fight for he didn't any weapons, he never carried weapons and felt useless as his friends and Toothless fought. One of the dark creatures spotted Hiccup and rushed toward him. The Viking turned and his back hit a huge rock when the creature leapt in the air ready to attack. Toothless spotted it and quickly rammed into it and pinned it down. As Hiccup was against the rock, he felt something in his vest. He looked and found a metal stick fastened to his belt; he unfastened it to have a better look. It was metal with brown leather around it and had two different dragons' heads at each end. He wondered where this came from. He'd never seen it before and yet it felt familiar. A scream jolted him out of his thoughts, Hiccup eyes widened as he saw Merida being dragged away by one of the dark creatures. Without giving a second thought, Hiccup ran after them.

"Hey, let her go" Hiccup yelled.

"Get off me" Merida screamed, she was desperately trying to grab on to anything to stop them. She had dropped her bow, so she Had nothing to hit them with. She finally managed to grab a tree root and held on for dear life. Her captor growled at her as it roughly pawed at her leg, as she struggled she got one leg free, then as hard as she could, Merida hit it across its face. It wasn't happy with that, it then yelled and reached out with its long sharp hand.

When Hiccup saw the creature about to strike Merida. He held tight to the metal stick and ran.

She could only watch in fear, she braced herself, but just as the dark creature was about to strike her down, a wave of fire appeared and sliced it in two.

Merida's mouth dropped and finally looked to find Hiccup, standing close to her, holding something that looked like a sword...on fire. Hiccup was just surprised, he wasn't sure why but he knew what to do. He just push a button on it and thin metal folded down and fire appered.

"Here" He quickly said and held out his hand. Merida instantly got up and stood behind him. The Viking held the fire sword out again at the other dark creatures. Some growled but didn't attack, Eventually they turned and ran off into the woods.

When they were gone. The flame died and Hiccup pressed the button again and folded it in. He turned to Merida and saw she was about cry.

"Mer, Merida what's wrong?" He gently asked putting his hand on her shoulder and Merida just burst into tears and then hugged Hiccup, buried her face into Hiccup's vest.

"Hey, hey, it's ok, it's ok" Hiccup softly said, holding the Scottish princess close. Merida didn't really know why she was crying. Was it because she was nearly killed or was it because she should have fought back harder, she wasn't sure which however holding Hiccup made her feel calm and peaceful, and also felt familiar.

"Do you feel any better" Hiccup asked as he pulled back a bit to look at her. Merida nodded as she wiped away some tears, she felt much better. "We'd better find the others"

"Aya, let's go" Merida said before the two rushed back the way they'd come.

Jack, Rapunzel and Toothless were not having a great time. No matter how many dark creatures turned into dust, ten more would appear.

When the Night Fury fired plasma blast and hit them with his tail, they fell like rag dolls. Jack continued blasting ice at them, he caught them off guard by knocking them out with his staff. After the creatures were reduced to dust, he glanced over to Rapunzel who was hitting them left and right, she then noticed one creature in a tree, glaring down at her. Rapunzel narrowed her eyes and threw her hair like a lasso around it. Once it was secure, she pulled and the creature came crashing to the ground Jack was impressed by the golden haired girl. She wasn't some damsel in distress, she could handle things he thought she was amazing. A high pitched scream pulled the winter Sprite out of his thoughts, he saw another of the creatures across from him. It rushed right at Jack but he managed to stop it by holding his staff in front on him. The creature grabbed on to the staff and pushed Jack up against a tree. Jack tried hard to get it off him but the creature wouldn't budge, its sharp teeth were getting too close for comfort Jack could smell its disgusting breath, not good.

The winter Sprite shut his eyes, thinking this was the end.

Rapunzel looked over her shoulder to see Jack in trouble. She ran over and with all her strength, she...

BANG!

Jack opened his eyes and found that the foul being had fallen by his side he looked on in surprise, he wondered what had just happened. He caught his breath before seeing Rapunzel with the frying pan.

"Think I was afraid of some monster" she said triumphantly, while twirling her frying pan which ended up hitting her own head. "Ouch "she murmured rubbing where it had hit. Jack chuckled in delight, goodness knows he needed a laugh after what had just happened.

Hiccup and Merida arrived just as Toothless roared at the dark creatures and they retreated.

"Are you guys ok?" Hiccup asked as Toothless purred happily to him.

"We're fine, we have to find the others" Jack said and the four of them with Toothless following behind ran to find the Collins kids

Meanwhile the kids were still being chased.

"If we split up, it'll be harded for them to follow" Sally suggested glancing over to see some of the monsters jumping from tree to tree"

"Isn't it a bad idea? Don't things go terribly wrong when that happens" Charlie questioned out of breath. They were all tried, Maria more so because she was holding onto Ollie.

"It's worth a shot" Maria said feeling her legs ache "on three, one, two three", Sally, Maria and Charlie went in different directions. Sally turned left and Charlie went right, Maria continued forward. A pack of four Monsters chased after them.

Sally's first thought was to run home but then she recognise where she was headed, it was where she'd fallen down the hole yesterday. Quickly taking a look to see how far away the creatures were, she Made the decision to jump in the hole to escape. She would have climbed in but there was no time. Sally hit the ground hard and let out of small cry of pain, she heard the dark creature's screams and quickly crawled closer to the wall of the hole.

Standing as still, as a staue and holding her breath, she could see the creatures shadows cast above her she could hear their heavy breathing, they lured and looked around suspiciously. Sally flattened herself against the side of the hole, just one of the monsters peered down but the young girl was too far for it to see her. Sally heard a loud cry coming from outside, suddenly they all scattered, when she was sure they were gone, she climbed out into the sunlight. Sally caught a glimpse of them headed to the house. Knowing this, she ran the other way, to find the others.

Charlie sprinted as fast as he could, jumping over logs, squeezing through trees and any other tatcic he could think of to slow them down. He's lost all sense of where he was going until he spotted his bike ahead. Glancing back and making sure he had plenty of distance between then, he grabbed the bike and rode as if his life depened on it. He heard the sounds of the creatures behind him, Charlie peddled faster down the path.

As for Maria and Oliver, they ran as far they could before they had to stop. Maria just couldn't run anymore.

"I'm sorry Ollie, I need to rest" Maria told him.

"It's ok" Oliver said, a cry filled the air that sent a chill down her spine. She noticed a huge bush close by, she carried her little brother to the bush and they hid behind it.

"We have to be super quiet, and not make a sound" Maria whispered placing a finger to for her lips.

Ollie put his finger to his own lips mimicking his sister and two stayed completly still. The brown haired girl didn't know how long they were under the bush until they heard a bell rang, Maria peered out from her hiding place her eyes widened as she watched Charlie who was luring the dark creatures away on his bike.

"Hey you ugly mugs!, come and get me" He shouted over his shoulder peddling as fast as he could with the creature right behind him.

"Charlie come back!" Oliver shouted, hearing this Maria quickly put her hand over her brother mouth. Hoping none of those creatures heard him and turned back.

Then other sounds arose around them Maria instantly recognised them.

"Sally?"

"Maria?"

"Charlie? Ollie?"

"Where are you?"

Maria smiled in relief when she saw Jack, Rapunzel, Merida, Hiccup and Toothless.

"Guys" she called before she and Oliver got up and headed towards them. The group were happy to find Oliver and Maria safe, Ollie ran ahead of his sister. He was a few feet away from his friends when a lone creature leapt out from the trees above. Toothless went into action and attacked it before it even came near the little boy. Jack quickly picked Oliver up as Toothless held the dark creature down, Desperately, the creature plunged one of its sharp fingers into Toothless's leg. The Night Fury roared in pain the without thinking fired right in the dark creature face.

"Toothless!" Hiccup cried as he ran to his best friend's side.

"Is he all right?" Maria said when she reached them. She quickly had a look at Toothless.

It was then that Sally arrived and sighed in relief to find that her friends and siblings were safe. She was about to call to them when She noticed another dark creature, it was gowling and walking on all fours, it was drooling and looking hungrily at Maria. Seizing its chance it then ran at full speed sprang up, claws out and hand outstretched.

"NO!" Sally cried reaching out her hand...

Then, something extraordinary happened. Pink sparklers came out of her hand and blasted right at the dark creature.

Maria turned to the creature inches away from her. Sally's blast hit it squarely in the side instantly turning it into dust.

No one moved or spoke, not only because of the monsters attack but they couldn't believe what Sally had just done. The shocked young girl looked at her hand in disbelief which were still sparkling around her fingers.

"What's just happened?" Sally softly said, Maria quickly rushed over.

"Sally...How? When?" Maria asked but she knew by the look on her face that she didn't know either.

The Big Four weren't sure what to say or to think, they stood looking at one another, trying to piece everything together. No one could think how Sally had got this power.

"Wait, where's Charlie?" Hiccup asked suddenly. This snapped them all out of their daze.

"Did he not pass you before? "Maria questioned" I saw him coming from you direction" Sally forgot about her new powers and looked at her sister.

"We have to find him" Sally said, the two started running were Maria has last saw him.

"I hope those creatures don't get them" Rapunzel said as they followed the sisters, all calling out his name, all hoping he is safe from harm.

"Charlie!, Charlie!, CHARLIE!"