Chapter Fourteen(filler)

Merida-

Merida slumped into an armchair in the common room. She had just returned from the latest Quiditch match. Gryffindor vs. Slytherin. It had been a close match with both teams working their hardest, but in the end Gryffindor had lost.

"We'll get them next time," Liam said, cheerfully.

"You bet we will," Merida agreed. Dorian and Blake dropped down on the floor in front of them. Ellen walked up the stairs to the dormitory.

"So who knows how to celebrate a great loss?" Dorian asked. Merida raised her eyebrows.

"Let's play truth or dare," Blake suggested. They all nodded. "I choose Dorian. Truth or dare?"

"Dare," Dorian said.

"I dare you to sneak into the Slytherin common room and shank the Quiditch captain," Blake said. Dorian's jaw dropped and she looked horrified.

"Let's choose things that won't get us detention," Merida said. Blake rolled his eyes.

"Fine. I dare you to shank Jack," Blake smirked.

"What's up with you and shanking?" Liam asked his friend.

"It's funny," Blake said mater-of-factly.

"Jack's not here. How can I do that?" Dorian asked.

"You don't have to do it now. Do it some other time," Blake said. Dorian sighed.

"I choose Liam," Dorian said. "Truth or dare?"

"Dare," Liam said bravely.

"I dare Liam to go kiss Lauren," they all turned to look at the Chaser from their Quiditch team. She was relaxing in a chair by the fire after the hard game. "Go on Liam." Liam sighed and rose from his chair.

Walking slowly he approached her. "Um Lauren," he mumbled. She glanced up at him.

"What Liam?" she asked. He glanced back at them and they all smiled. Taking a deep breath he leaned down and kissed her right on the lips. Lauren froze. They all gasped.

"WHAT THE BLOODY HELL WAS THAT FOR?" she roared, jumping up from her chair. Liam took a step back from the furious Lauren.

"I'm sorry, i-it was a dare," he apologized. Lauren was still fuming. She grabbed a nearby book and threw it at Liam. He yelped and took off for the boy's dormitory. Lauren ran to Tanner.

"Go get that idiot," she pointed after Liam. Tanner hid his laughter behind his hand.

"Sure, anything you say Lauren," Tanner followed Liam towards the boy's dormitory. Merida, Blake, and Dorian were rolling on the ground laughing. Dorian (after she stopped laughing) stole Liam's chair before Blake could get it.

"Beat ya," she sneered. Blake grumbled and sat back down on the floor. Merida gripped her stomach and finally stopped laughing.

"Alright, let's keep going," Blake said.

Rapunzel-

Rapunzel brushed her hair out of her face as she bent over to read her Defense Against the Dark-Arts book. Jack was in a deep slumber beside her. His face was hidden by his book so Alex wouldn't see him.

"Rapunzel," Jack muttered in his sleep. Rapunzel glanced at him. His eyes were shut tightly and he twitched. "Punz," he sighed. She glanced around to see if anyone had heard. Everyone was focused on their books.

"Jack," she poked him. He blinked open his eyes and glanced at her.

"Huh?" he sat up and looked at her. His blue eyes still looked tired and confused. "What's going on?"

"You were mumbling my name in your sleep," Rapunzel answered. Jack's cheeks burned in a blush.

"What was I saying?" he asked.

"Just my name," Rapunzel shrugged, feeling this conversation was getting awkward. Jack turned to his book and Rapunzel was grateful that he had dropped the conversation. She began to read again.

Hey, I'm bored, Rapunzel recognized Merida's handwriting show up in her yellow notebook.

Hey Mer, Rapunzel wrote.

Hey Punzie. Are the boys going to join us?

Rapunzel nudged Jack and pointed at her notebook. Jack grabbed his and opened it up to where their writing was. Jack's here.

Hiccup's here too.

So everyone's here now?

I think.

Well I think it's about time we start working on the mystery of the master. If we find him then we can destroy the 'shadow'.

Merida is right. Anyone have a guess at who it is?

I do!

Other than Nicholas.

Oh.

Well we know it has to be a teacher.

How do we know that?

To get the shadow in the school the master would have had to already be in the school and the only people allowed in the school other than students are teachers.

Point taken.

It could be a student.

I seriously doubt that.

I agree with Hiccup. I seriously doubt any student here is smart enough to conjure a spell to steel lives and then make it into a 'shadow'.

I guess.

So out of the teachers it must be either Nicholas, Professor Starling, Professor McGuffey, Drake, Professor Rooker, Professor Lucida, Professor McCraw, Professor Durwing, Professor Moor, Professor Eldredge, Alex, and Professor Ailler.

We can rule out Drake and Alex. I know Alex and he wouldn't do that and Drake is his brother. And Professor Lucida isn't that smart.

I doubt Professor Durwing would be able to do that.

We forgot to add Mr. Cinders to the list and Gossle.

Who's Mr. Cinders?

The gamekeeper.

He definitely seems the type. He certainly gets along well with Nicholas.

But I don't think he'd be smart enough to conjure that spell. Gossle too.

Good point.

So here's the list in order of who we suspect it to be. 1. Nicholas 2. Professor Moor 3. Professor Starling 4. Professor McCraw 5. Professor Ailler 6. Professor Eldredge 7. Professor McGuffey 8. Professor Rooker.

That's long. Who else can we eliminate? I'm going to say Professor McCraw is way too weird and wacky to do something like that. He's not sane enough to be able to plan it out.

And Professor Ailler is way too sweet. She couldn't hurt a fly.

Has it ever occurred to you that they might be faking it?

That's true… Maybe we should wait until we find out more to take anyone off the list.

That seems fair.

Agreed?

Agreed.

Hiccup-

Hiccup approached Professor McGuffey's desk with shaky knees. He was performing his test to see which teachers he could eliminate. "Professor I was wondering if you could give me a pass to search in the restricted section to do some extra research," Hiccup said. Professor McGuffey looked up at him through his reading glasses.

"What are you researching?" he asked suspiciously.

"Goblin effects on plants. I couldn't find any books on it in the library," he lied. Professor McGuffey looked thoughtful.

"I'm sorry Hiccup, but there are too many other books in there that you might stumble upon," he answered. Hiccup nodded.

"Thank you for your time Professor," Hiccup turned around and walked out of the room after the rest of his class. Rapunzel was waiting for him in the hall.

"What was that about?" she asked.

"I was trying to see if it was Professor McGuffey," Hiccup answered.

"How?"

"If he was to allow me to go in the restricted section he probably doesn't care about me or what I might find so he might be a suspect."

"Or it could be that he believed you and was trying to help out his favorite student," Rapunzel pointed out. Hiccup thought of a reply, but couldn't come up with any.

"I hadn't thought of that," he sighed.

"Honestly. Sometimes you're too smart to see the obvious stuff," Rapunzel laughed. Hiccup chuckled.

"Sometimes that's a good thing," he shot back.

"Whatever," she rolled her eyes. "So do you think it's him?"

"Not really. Professor McGuffey never struck me as the threatening type, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see." Rapunzel nodded.

"We should all sit together at dinner and discuss how we can find out which teacher it is," Rapunzel said.

"My next class is with Slytherin. I'll tell Jack."

"I'll handle Merida," Rapunzel said. Hiccup nodded and they parted ways.

Jack Frost-

Jack was sitting with Merida, Hiccup, and Rapunzel at dinner. They were all in a deep discussion about how to find out who the master was. Jack was listening to them while he was eating. At the moment he was more concerned with dinner than getting into the argument.

"Pig," Merida grumbled, glancing Jack's way.

"Hey. If there's some crazy guy who can take lives at our school then this could very well be my last meal and I want to make the best of it," Jack retorted. Rapunzel and Hiccup laughed. Jack could see Merida was trying not to laugh.

"I think Jack's right. Let's take a brake and just be normal First years," Rapunzel said.

"What do normal First years talk about?" Hiccup asked.

"Gossip," Jack said. "Tess likes to talk about other girls."

"I figure she'd want to talk about Bounder. Those two seem awfully close," Merida smirked.

"They'd never admit it," Jack grinned.

"We're only eleven. In my opinion that's a little young to be dating," Hiccup said.

"How innocent," Jack said. Hiccup huffed and crossed his arms. Merida rolled her eyes.

"So now what?" Merida asked. "We've gossiped."

"We can talk about schoolwork," Hiccup suggested.

"Only if we're complaining about it," Jack said. "Like the stupid Defense Against the Dark-Arts and potions completion coming up."

"It's just a way to get extra points for your house," Merida said.

"I think it's a waste of time," Jack said.

"You just don't like them because Hiccup beat you in the last potions competition," Merida teased. Jack made a pouty face. Merida smiled triumphantly.

"Gryffindor is so going to win it," she said cockily.

"You didn't win the Quiditch match," Jack said slyly. Merida glared at him.

"We would have if I was on the team," Merida snapped angrily. Her blue eyes were getting the flame in them they got when she was mad.

"Oh really?"Jack asked. Merida jumped up from her chair.

"Of course. Unlike if you joined the team. Yours would only get worse." Jack's face darkened.

"Then you should want me on the team," he stood up too.

"I do," she yelled.

"Awww you want to play Quiditch with me," he smirked. This made her grow angrier.

"You need to come off of your high cloud," she shouted. "Not everybody loves you."

"Don't be so sure," he replied. Merida threw her hands up in the air.

"You are hopeless," she cried. Suddenly Jack felt his pants fall down.

"What tha?" he pulled them back up.

"Sorry. It was a dare," Dorian apologized before walking back to the Gryffindor table. The Great Hall was silent, everyone's eyes were focused on Jack. For a moment he panicked, unsure what to do. Then an idea struck him.

"I'm sorry everyone, but they aren't' coming down again. That was just a glimpse at heaven that only a few of you will get to see again," he smirked. Everyone burst out laughing and Jack sat down again.

Merida's jaw was hanging open. "I rest my case," he said. She slammed her chin in her had angrily and glared at him as Jack continued to eat his dinner.

A/N:

Sorry it took me so long to update. I had a show this weekend. Well it was just another filler with some friendship fluff and some fun. I chose starskulls's gamekeeper. Thanks for sending him in starskulls. Sorry to everyone one else. I really liked zedetta's gamekeeper, but starskulls's fit into the story better. Also I forgot to mention in the chapter before that Toothless doesn't have half a tail. He is able to fly on his own in this story. So obviously the HTTYD story didn't happen. I'm not sure how hiccup met Toothless, but I don't think that will be important in this story so yea. Thanks to WatchingForStars, Cristyceci, xXWatergirlXx, AlexJohnD, Bailey24, Kasha Eliz, starskulls, kairi196, Zedetta, and 4EverETRNL for reviewing. Thanks for reading and please review!