Chapter Nine(filler)

Hiccup-

Hiccup, Jack, Rapunzel, and Merida were pretty much inseparable in the days after their detention. There's something about almost getting killed by a bunch of mermaids that brings people closer. Professor McGuffey had caught on to Rapunzel and Hiccup's friendship and almost always put them in the same group now.

"Hey, buddy," Hiccup fed Toothless some chicken from his lunch. Toothless gulped it down hungrily from where he was hidden in Hiccup's robes. "Good boy."

"Hey, Hiccup, what are you doin?" Mason asked him curiously.

"Oh, I, uh, had an itch," Hiccup stammered. Mason shrugged then return to his homework. "You better hurry up with that if you want to make it to the Quiditch match," Hiccup said.

"Yeah," Mason sighed. Today was the first Quiditch match of the season. It was Gryffindor against Ravenclaw. Mason had painted his face blue for the team and Hiccup was wearing his blue scarf and hat.

"Who's that even from?" Pally asked. Her hair sparkled with blue sparks.

"Starling," Mason answered.

"I already finished if you want to copy mine," Pally offered her homework to him. Mason gratefully accepted it.

"Thanks," he smiled. Hiccup slipped some more chicken to Toothless while they were distracted.

"Are you guys ready?" Claire asked. She was dating one of the Quiditch Chasers and always got there early so she could get the best seats. She had gone all out for the game with blue highlights, face paint, and clothes.

"I am," Hiccup stood up from his arm chair. Pally stood too. Mason finished coping Pally's homework then stood up.

"Let's go," she pushed open the portrait portal and steeped out of the corridor. They followed her. Yosline, Claire's bestfriend, came with them. Hiccup and Mason talked excitedly about what the game might be like sense they had never seen one before.

They climbed up the blue Ravenclaw bleachers and sat at the front. To his surprise Rapunzel and Jack where there, decked out in blue and scarlet, obviously cheering for both teams. Merida sat next to them, completely covered in scarlet. It was no secret who she was cheering for.

"What are you guys doing here?" he asked.

"Supporting you guys' teams," Rapunzel said brightly.

"I'm only supporting Gryffindor," Merida said loudly. A few Ravenclaw's gave her odd looks. "I just came with them," she motioned to Jack and Rapunzel.

"And we're with her," Liam said. He, Blake, and Dorian had sat unnoticed by Merida.

"And him," Bounder pointed at Jack. He and Tess had adorned blue scarves, but no scarlet had touched them.

"And her," Ashley added. She and Drew were dressed similar to Rapunzel. Hiccup realized that almost half of the bleachers were filled with students from other houses. He grinned at his friends.

"Thanks," he smiled. They nodded. Then he noticed Jack had a raven painted on his cheek. On the other cheek was a lion. "Who did that?" he asked.

"Rapunzel," Jack said. "She's got a real knack for painting."

Then the game started.

Rapunzel-

Rapunzel leaned forward in excitement as Drake threw the quaffle into the air and Lauren from Gryffindor caught it. Almost immediately she sped towards the Ravenclaw goals. The other Chasers flew after her. She threw the quaffle, but Nate blocked it.

"Go Nate," Rapunzel screamed.

"Nice try Lauren," Merida yelled.

"You'll get it next time," Dorian cried. Rollin had caught the quaffle after Nate blocked it. He was from Ravenclaw. Flying towards the Gryffindor goals he got blocked by Kessley. While he was distracted June grabbed the quaffle and flew back to Nate. This time it made it in.

"Go June," Merida cheered. The Ravenclaws and Slytherins booed loudly. Merida smacked Bounder in the back of the head.

"Sorry," he grunted.

"Keep trying Ravenclaw," Rapunzel encouraged. Jack laughed at her. She nudged him. "What?"

"You're just so nice," he shook his head.

"Is that a bad thing?" she blinked her big green eyes at him.

"No, not at all," he smiled his real smile. His hand wrapped around hers and Rapunzel blushed. She turned back to the game so she wouldn't have to see his smirk.

Ravenclaw had made a goal by Jason, Claire's boyfriend. No sign of the snitch yet, which was required to end the game. Now June had the quaffle again. She threw it, but Nate blocked it.

"He's good," Rapunzel commented.

"Yeah, that's why he's our captain," Claire agreed. "Go Jason," she shouted when her boyfriend grabbed the quaffle. He shot it and made it.

"Ten points to Ravenclaw," Hiccup, Pally, and Mason shouted together and high-fived. Rapunzel laughed. The game dragged on for a while with Ravenclaw and Gryffindor making more and more shots.

"Jocker's seen something," Merida cried after a while. Jocker was the Gryffindor seeker. "Go, Jocker, go," she screamed as Jocker soared threw the air. He dove towards the ground, after the golden snitch. Juniper, the Ravenclaw seeker wasn't far behind him.

"Speed up Juniper," Yosline yelled. But it was too late, Jocker had caught the snitch.

"Gryffindor wins," Merida shouted, jumping into her chair and waving her arms in the air. She jumped on Blake's shoulders and they ran around the bleachers cheering. Rapunzel laughed and hugged Jack to celebrate. He hugged her back tightly.

"We'll get you next time," Hiccup told Merida.

"Don't count on it," Merida shot back. Hiccup grinned.

"Party in the Gryffindor common room tonight," Blake yelled. They all burst out laughing.

Jack Frost-

Jack struggled to pay attention in Defense Against the Dark-Arts. Rapunzel was sitting next to him and she looked really pretty. He longed to hold her hand again like he had at the Quiditch game, but he didn't want to overstep his boundaries.

They were supposed to be studying gnomes but, Jack found it much more interesting to study Rapunzel's face. He laid his head in his hands and watched her eyes flicker was she red.

"Are you studying, Jack?" Alex asked.

"Huh, oh yeah," Jack sighed. Alex walked by and hit him with some parchment.

"Gnomes?" he questioned. Jack grinned and Alex rolled his eyes. "Focus please." Jack laughed then tried to read his book. All through class his eyes kept wandering back to Rapunzel. Jack was relieved when Alex gave them homework and sent them to their next class.

"Do you want to study together this afternoon?" he asked Rapunzel when they left the classroom.

"Sure. I'll ask Merida and Hiccup if they want to come too," she smiled brightly. Jack's smile faded. He had hoped it would just be them studying.

"Yeah, sure," he smirked.

"Bye, Jack. See you this afternoon," she ran to catch up with Ashley and Drew. Jack sighed.

"How's your girlfriend?" Bounder teased ruffling his hair. Jack shoved him.

"Shut-up Bounder," he snapped.

"Just ignore him Jack. He's just jealous because he knows he'll never have a girlfriend," Tess taunted. She snatched Bounder's wand and raced down the hall.

"Hey," Bounder yelled. He tore after her. Jack laughed as they ran away.

"Hey Jack," Jasper ran into him causing Jack to fall to his knees and throw his books in the air. "See you in class," he laughed. Then he sprinted down the hall with Gabby at his heels. Jack's ears burned in anger. Grumbling to himself he began to pick up his books.

He had assumed they would stop bothering him after the duel on the sixth corridor, unfortunately that was not so. Hiccup hadn't mentioned Gowthur and Deb so Jack hoped they had decided to leave him alone.

Shaking his head to clear it of those thoughts he finished picking up his books and hurried to Transfiguration so he wouldn't be late. Even though Professor Durwing was a little slow he wasn't afraid to give homework if you were late.

After his classes were done Jack and Hiccup headed up to the library to study. Hiccup had told Jack that Rapunzel said to meet up there. They arrived before Merida and Rapunzel.

"So what are we studying?" Hiccup asked, scanning the books for the right topic.

"I don't know," Jack plopped into a chair.

"I thought you arranged this," Hiccup said.

"Well I had thought it would only be me and Rapunzel," Jack sighed. Hiccup nodded in understanding.

"Hmmm, how about herbology. Rapunzel needs some help there and Merida mentioned that you need some help to," Hiccup suggested, pulling out a big blue book with a funny looking leaf on the cover.

"I'd rather impress her with my immense knowledge," Jack said.

"Potions then. Merida said she was a hopeless case," Hiccup replaced the blue book and grabbed a green one.

"That's more like it," Jack grinned as Hiccup dropped it on the table in front of them. Just then Merida and Rapunzel arrived.

"Shouldn't we go somewhere more private?" Merida asked. Jack and Hiccup looked at each other.

"What?" Hiccup asked.

"Aren't we talking about the shadow?" Rapunzel checked, her voice just above a whisper.

"We haven't spoken about it since detention and I think it's about time we got on this mystery," Merida stated.

"Oh," Jack said. "Um sure. Let's head out to the courtyard," Jack suggested. The girls turned to leave and Jack got up to follow them.

"What about studying?" Hiccup asked.

"There are more important things," Jack said. With that they left for the courtyard.

Merida-

Merida sat in the grass in the courtyard. She shivered from the cold and wrapped her cloak around her. Rapunzel was next to her, her long hair up in a bun. Hiccup and Jack sat across from them.

"So, any ideas about who the shadow is?" Merida asked.

"Nicholas Jurntry," Jack said almost immediately.

"What? Why?" Hiccup asked.

"Remember what Peeves said, 'crazy old coot', and he wanted us expelled just for well breaking several rules, and I just don't trust him," Jack explained.

"I don't think that's enough to go on," Rapunzel pointed out.

"He gives me the creeps," Merida stated. They looked at her.

"And I suppose that is enough to go on?" Jack asked. Merida rolled her eyes.

"I was just saying. I mean his hands look like spider legs," she pointed out. Rapunzel gagged.

"He's the Hogwarts headmaster. He wouldn't have been hired if he was evil," Hiccup pointed out. "Besides who's to say those mermaids were right. They did try to kill us." Rapunzel nodded.

"They just wanted us to help them," Merida argued. "It can't be easy to live with the feeling that someone is going to kill you."

"I've been feeling like that everyday now," Hiccup said glumly. "I keep expecting some shadow to jump out and kill me." They all grew quiet and glanced around. There were a few students scattered through the grass, but none were paying them any attention. "Just saying."

"We don't have enough information to go on," Rapunzel said. "All we know is the 'shadow' is at Hogwarts and it preys on the students."

"Of course," Hiccup gasped, slapping his hand to his head. "Why didn't I think of it sooner. The students," he shouted. Merida gave him a bewildered look.

"What about them?" she asked.

"The students that were almost drowned are the ones who are following him. They must have some answers," he explained.

"Of course," Rapunzel grinned. "I bet Madam Lawson has a list of every student who came in from the lake." They all got up and raced to the hospital wing.

"Madam Lawson," Jack panted when they reached the little witch. She glanced at them in surprise and worry.

"What's wrong. Is someone injured?" she asked.

"No. We need a list of everyone who was almost drowned in the lake," Hiccup gasped for air. Madam Lawson narrowed her grey eyes at them.

"Why on earth would you need that?" she asked suspiciously.

"School work," Merida answered quickly. Madam Lawson gave her a disbelieving look.

"What class?" she asked.

"History," Rapunzel answered. "He wants us to compare the rates of almost drownings then and now," she lied. Madam Lawson looked thoughtful now, but she obviously still didn't believe them.

"I'll have to ask Professor Jurntry about it," she said as she began to walk away. Merida's heart sank.

"Wait, I think Professor Durwing said he had a copy. We'll just go get it from him," she said quickly. Madam Lawson paused. She gave Merida a knowing look.

"You better hurry along then," she smiled a fake smile. They turned and ran.

"That was close," Hiccup panted when they were far away. "She almost turned us in to Nicholas. Good job Merida," he grinned at her. She shrugged.

"But we still didn't get the list," Jack pointed out in disappointment.

"Don't worry. I'm sure we'll find some other way to get information," Rapunzel patted his shoulder.

"I should probably go. It's almost curfew," Merida said. "Bye."

"Bye, Gryffindor," Jack grinned. She rolled her eyes then sprinted towards the common room.

A/N:

Yet another filler. Sorry about that. This chapter seems so short compared to my other ones. I just figured it was time for Quiditch to start and I didn't know where else to fit a game so here it is. Also the next chapter is like a potions duel between Slytherin and Ravenclaw. Who shall win? Vote for your favorite house. I'll need to know before the next chapter. Also you can start voting for your favorite house to win the house cup if you want. Thanks to XxXBlueRose23XxX, Bailey24, and Turner Child for reviewing. Thanks for reading and please review!