The Big Four: Drabbles and One-shots
Kura: This is for Dragones. Hope you like it!
Sakura: No offense to any Twilight fans who end up reading it. We haven't read the books or seen the movies, just what people say about it fanfics.
Notes: Modern AU! Hinted HiJack. Half-bat-hybrid!Fem!Jack. Older!Hiccup. Half-falcon-hybrid!Emma. Vampire mentionings. Hybrids and hald hybrids. Twilight reference.
Summary: Hiccup, Merida and Rapunzel dare each other to go a house. Nothing wrong with that right? WRONG! This is THE HOUSE! Wait, you're confused. Legend has it, a vampire lives inside this house. Is the legend true?
Rating: T.
Legend of the House
"Okay okay okay!" Rapunzel giggled, "Hiccup, truth or dare?"
Hiccup bit his lips for a moment. "Dare."
"I dare you to..." Rapunzel puckered her lips in deep thought, "AH-HA!"
She turned to him, "Go to...The House!"
Merida gasped, "The House?!"
"THE HOUSE?!" Hiccup parroted, "Wait, what's 'The House?'"
Merida and Rapunzel gaped at him, "WHAT?! I JUST MOVED BACK IN!"
It was true, as a kid, Hiccup had left Burgess and lived in Berk for about, a little more than ten years. He was four when he left, and was nineteen now. You do the math.
"Legend has it," Merida whispered, grabbing a flashlight and holding it under her face, the light turned on, and eerily, the light was red, "a vampire lives there. No one goes there in fear that they will be turned. No one knows if the legend is true."
Hiccup frowned.
Really, vampires?
Well, it better not be another Twilight vamp.* Too much sparkles.
Not to mention, the movies sucked and the books put him to sleep.
"Alright," He smirked, "But I dare Merida to go as well."
"THEN I DARE RAPUNZEL!" Merida shot out.
Rapunzel gasped and hit her friend with a pillow.
Oh well, they could go together.
"Camera?"
"Check."
"Stakes?"
"Check."
"Garlic?"
"Check."
"Holy water?"
"Check."
"Idiocy?"
"Check."
"HEY!"
Hiccup laughed as the two girls punched him in the arms. What? Can you blame him for thinking their list was stupid?! IT WAS!
Besides, it's not like a real vampire was living there.
Right?
That night, they walked over to, "The House."
It looked like a Victorian Era house. There were vines on the walls. It looked rather...
well...
abandoned.
"Okay," Merida breathed in and out, "let's go."
They walked over and stared at the door. Hiccup reached over and opened it. It was dark inside. He flicked on the light and stared at the inside. Simple furniture could be seen.
CREAK...
"What was that?!" Rapunzel whispered. Merida held out a stake and garlic. Hiccup rolled his eyes.
CREAK...
Rapunzel took the garlic from Merida's outstretched arm. Hiccup rolled his eyes.
CREAK...
CREAK...
CREAK...
CREAK...
SNAP!
A small gasp came out of Rapunzel's mouth.
She could see a small figure. She nudged Hiccup and he turned his flashlight in its direction.
They could see a girl, about ten years old, maybe nine or eight, with straight brown hair, eyes of the same color, and a brown dress with a red waist band.
But what stood out, were her falcon like wings and talon like hands.
The girl stood frozen.
An eerie silence befell them until the girl opened her mouth and yelled;
"JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCKKKK!"
Hiccup, Merida and Rapunzel looked around in confusion. They swore they heard more movement.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!" Rapunzel shrieked as another girl appeared out of nowhere.
"VAMPIRE!" Merida yelled, pointing to very pale girl.
Said girl looked at her oddly. Her bat like wings folded behind her back.
"Half hybrid."
"What?"
"I'm," the girl gestured towards herself, "a half hybrid. The only parts of me that are remotely baty, are my wings, hearing, and craving for fruit and sometimes even bugs..."
Rapunzel cringed, "Eeeeeeewww..."
'Jack' shrugged. She turned to the girl, "Go back to bed Emma."
The girl nodded, "Goodnight Jack..."
Emma spread her wings and flew off.
Hiccup coughed and 'Jack' turned to him.
"Jack, right?"
A nod.
"What are...why are you..."
"You want to know my sister and I live here and look the way we do...don't you?"
Three nods.
Jack sighed, "Sit..."
The foursome sat down and Jack spoke once more, "I was eight when it happened. This was about...I'd say seven years ago? Maybe eight. Emma was only two. But... it happened on my birthday. My parent's took us ice-skating, because, well, I loved it. It was my life, and I was a prodigy since I was really little, along with Elsa Arendelle, who was about the same age as me. Well, while our parents were getting our skates, something...something happened. I don't know what. One minute, I'm holding Emma, trying to get to our parents, and then, darkness. When I woke up, it was to the light of the moon. I was scared. I couldn't move. I couldn't talk. I couldn't do anything. That's when they came in, but I never saw their faces. They hid behind masks. For the past seven to eight weeks, they experimented not only my sister and I, but on several other people. All of them, much, much, older than us. There was Edmund Aster Bunnymund, who was turned into a hybrid of a cross between a rabbit and a kangaroo.* Ana "Tooth" Memoria, a hybrid cross between a hummingbird and a dragon-fly.* And several more. Some weren't even animal hybrids, like Sandy Mansnoozie, who was hybrid to look like golden sand. I was to become a full bat hybrid, but it would have taken another eight to ten years of medicine and drug injections. They only got half way through with them. They couldn't stick them all in at once, they didn't want to risk the chance. So, one night, some of the older patients planned to escape, and naturally, I had them take Emma and myself."
Merida, Rapunzel and Hiccup leaned in, wanting to hear more of it.
Jack smiled at how they were like her sister whenever she told her a bedtime story.
"We came back here, this was our old home. We don't know where our parents are. Nobody wants to help us either. They'll come by to check out the house, catch sight of Emma or myself, looking out the curtains, we look pretty normal, until we reveal our whole selves, then they run screaming that we're monsters."
Merida lowered her stake and Rapunzel fiddled with her garlic. She looked at Jack, "Is there a way for you to go back to normal?"
Jack nodded, "Only if I wanna die."
Now Merida spoke up, "What?"
"Where ever it is Emma and I were held, a girl who was a half hybrid like ourselves, a half-cat-hybrid, was taken away to see if her tail, ears and claws could be removed by surgery. She died on the table. Our genes...our DNA...they mixed with the ones of our chosen hybrid. It's gotten to the point that...that there's a chance...our children, could be...mutated...like us."
Silence engulfed the foursome.
Jack's blue eyes seemed to glow in the dark. Her pale, white, bat wings folded in and out. In and out. In and out.
Hiccup stared at her, taking in her appearance.
First, her eyes. Her eyes were a rare shade of blue that could look silver in certain lighting, teal in others, sky blue in others. In other words, it was that blue that looked like every blue and then some.
Next was her hair. White as snow. Cut in a short, boyish, haircut. Her bangs somewhat covered her peppered colored eyebrows and blue eyes.
Her skin, pale. Very pale. Like it was carved out of ice from the wind.
Then he noticed her ears. They were slightly pointed, like an elf's.
Her lips were tinted with blue. Frostbitten probably.
She wore no shoes.
Somehow, she managed to wear a hoodie with her wings sticking out of the back. She wore tanned colored pants that hugged her legs nicely.
"Yer staring..." Merida whispered.
Hiccup spluttered and coughed. He looked at her oddly.
Merida and Rapunzel laughed at him.
"I'M TELLING YA, HE CAME HERE!"
"Snotlout, I'm warning ye, ya better be right about this!"
"...shit..." Hiccup groaned.
Jack looked up, eyes narrowing, she reached out a hand and touched the floor, sending frost to the front door.
Well, that explains her blue tinted lips...
"WHOA!"
THUD!
Rapunzel winced.
Hiccup sighed and walked over to the door. He opened it and walked outside.
"Hey," he smiled awkwardly, "hey, dad, hey...hey...so...what's up?"
"Hiccup," Stoick looked at his son, "what are you doing in an abando-"
"It's not abandoned. Let me...let me explain. Merida, Rapunzel and I were playing truth or dare. Rapunzel dared me to go to, "The House," but I didn't know what "The House," was, so they told me a legend about a vampire that lives here which is sorta true, but not exactly. Maybe...maybe I can show you what I mean."
Before his father or cousin or friends, who had also come along for some reason, Hiccup ran back inside.
Merida, Rapunzel and Jack looked up at him.
"Jack," Hiccup said, "I know...that you weren't given much of a chance to live your life, nor was Emma, but I think, maybe if...if we started off slowly, you can have it back."
Jack looked at him for a moment before nodding slowly.
Smiling, Hiccup took her hand, and led her to the door.
"Dad, guys, this is Jack." Hiccup led Jack outside.
She blinked and lifted an arm to her eyes, blinking to adjust to the sudden change in lighting.
She lowered her arm once she did.
Stoick gaped at the girl in front of him.
She looked somewhat normal, but...
also very different.
"Dad."
Stoick looked up at his son, "What is it Hiccup?"
"Do have any idea where the..."
"Overland Frost."
"Overland Frost family lives?"
Stoick nodded slightly, "Aye...let me see, they were that family who lived in this very house. They had two daughters who went missing at the ages of eight and two. It's been eight years since then. Their eldest daughter should turn sixteen in December."
Hiccup looked at Jack, and took her hand, giving it a gently squeeze.
"Dad."
"Aye?"
"Jack's their daughter. She and her sister, have been living hear for the past eight years. They were taken to some remote place, and this," He gestured for all of Jack, "happened."
"You just gestured to all of me," Jack pointed out.
Hiccup laughed.
Oh, the irony of it all!
Stoick looked at Jack once again. Take away the wings, round out the ears a bit, give her some more coloring in her skin, and turn her hair and eyes brown, she'd look just like...
"Jacklyn Overland Frost." He whispered.
"That's my name, but everyone calls me Jack, except Aster, who called me Frostbite."
Stoick nodded. He paced around for a while.
When he faced the duo again, he was smiling. "I'm bringing them."
Jack bit her lips. It's been hours since Stoick left.
Hiccup brought his cat Toothless, who got along with Jack's cat, Wind.
"What if they don't like us for..." Jack hesitated, "looking like this?"
"Then they are the worst parents on the face of the Earth." Merida said quickly.
"MERIDA!" Rapunzel chastied her friend.
Hiccup rolled his eyes, "It'll be fine, I promise, and if it isn't, I'll be here for you."
Jack smiled and turned to watch her sister play with the two felines.
Maybe Hiccup was right...
maybe they would get another chance.
"HICCUP!"
Hiccup jumped and fell out of his chair, making Jack laugh.
Rolling his eyes, Hiccup got up and walked over to the door.
On the other side stood his own father along with a man and a woman with a strong recemblance to Jack and Emma.
"Hiccup, this is Joseph and Lucinda. They are the Overland Frosts. You have something to tell them?"
Hiccup nodded and turned to the two adults, "I'm Hiccup, not too long ago, my friends and I came here to this house. We thought it was abandoned or inhabited by a vampire, some legend, I really don't know how to explain it, but the truth is, it wasn't. Your daughters are inside. But they never left because...because of what happened to them. I don't know how to explain that either, but...I think it'd be best if I showed you."
Hiccup walked back inside and came back with two girls.
Stoick had seen Jack, but not Emma.
He was surprised.
She looked almost like a harpy.
Almost.
Lucinda and Joseph stared at the two girls before them. They both looked so familiar. Yet so different.
"What did they do?" Lucinda whispered, tears stinging into her eyes.
"Whoever took them, turned them into half hybrids. Had they gotten out in another seven to eight-"
"SEVENGTYEIGHT?!" Snotlout asked, having stayed outside the house the whole time.
"I said, "seven TO eight," years, they would have been full hybrids."
Joseph nodded and looked at his wife.
They looked at their daughter.
Joseph walked over and placed a hand on Jack's shoulder and Emma's cheek, "No matter what you two look like, we will always love you."
Jack let herself go, and cried into her father's arms. Emma soon followed, and Joseph embraced his missing daughters, letting his own tears fall.
Hiccup smiled and felt a hand on his shoulder. Lucinda was smiling at him, "Thank you for bringing them back to us. We would have never returned if it weren't for you."
Hiccup nodded, "It was no problem."
Yeah, it was no problem. He was just glad he came to "The House," and met Jack, because honestly, sometimes we find connections to people, who are more different than what we know, yet so much like us. And for Hiccup, Jack was that connection.
Kura: Review! Next up, In With the Tide part 2.
*Again, sorry Twilight fans!
*Take a rabbit, give it the height of a kangaroo, and mix their furr.
*Humming bird's body, dragon-fly's wings.