Forever and always with you
Chapter 13: what should be done?
They can't believe it, she took her. She took their mother away, and they couldn't do anything about it. Sorrow, regret, anger directed at each other. They weren't fast enough, they weren't strong enough. They let their enemy take her away. Who knows what would they want with their mother, who knows what would they do to her. Fear started to enter their hearts, but they can't give up, not now. They promised to be strong so they will be strong. They dispatched their familiars everywhere in order to track Minerva, and they had yet to find her.
"what do you suppose they want from mother?" asked Merida
"Minerva said that she wanted the location of the keys" replied Rapunzel
"how is kidnapping mother will point them to the location of the keys?" asked Merida
"I don't know" replied Rapunzel.
North and Tooth looked at the four siblings with confusion, they felt like they were invisible, the siblings and Sandy were ignoring them. North coughed in order to get their attention. That did the trick, the grouped turned their gaze to the guardians.
"I'm sorry for interrupting" said North "but if it's not too much trouble, can you explain?".
Sandy and the siblings looked at the guardians before nodding
"I think it's about time" said Jack "but first can you check on bunny and see if his awake, it's better if all of you hear it"
Tooth nodded and went to the palace's infirmary.
Break…
Smoke, fire, invasion. His father telling his mother and him to run. hiding in a cave, his mother sacrificing her life for him. The tall dark ghost like creature with white orb eyes. fearlings attacking, and being saved by the young man. The young man reaches his hands towards him, he takes it and everything turn white.
Emerald eyes snap open, and he starts to breathes heavily. It was the memory again, and again he saw that young man who he does not remember seeing. Bunny presses his paw over his furry face and sighs. He looks around him and sees that he is in an infirmary. That's strange this doesn't look that the pole so where was he?
Memories of what happened started to rush through his mind. The war, the woman, the trees, the giant snake, the bite, and the pain. That god awful pain. Bunny starts to push himself up, till he became in a sitting position. He was about to get of the bed when suddenly the door opened. From the door a familiar blue, green, and gold head emerged, peaking shyly with amethyst eyes. Said eyes went wide when they saw him.
"bunny!" said tooth happily "your awake"
But then she noticed that he was about to wake up "what are you doing? You need to stay in bed" she urged while pushing bunny back to lie on bed.
"I'm fine tooth" said bunny
"you still need rest bunny, so stay!" she ordered
Bunny huffed in annoyance, his arms crossed over his furry chest under the sheets.
"go tell the others that Bunny is awake" Tooth ordered one of her fairies.
The fairy chrepted in response and darted out of the room. The two guardians waited in silence before they heard the footsteps of their comrades.
The rest of the group burst through the door, each taking a place next to bunny.
"Bunny my friend" boomed north "how are you?"
"great mate, but I would be beta' if you stop shouting"
The rest laughed (silently in Sandy's case) at North who was smiling with embarrassment. Jack crept closer to bunny and said "you must be a poison magnet kangaroo, first eating a poisonous plant, then bitten by a snake, in the same day"
"yeah" replied bunny "not my best day mate"
"but still glad you okay" said jack, sandy nodded next to him.
Hiccup coughed gaining the gang's attention "well since bunny woke up, I believe we have some explaining to do"
All of them looked at him specially the three guardians.
"I don't know where or how should I start explaining" said hiccup "but I'll try my best"
"it all starts long ago, in a very ancient time, when the sun and stars were very young and the planets younger. a being was born from the darkness nesting in the living heart. It sought to destroy everything, kill everything, engulf everything in darkness. this being's name is kötülük. Many planets were destroyed, stars turned to black holes, and creatures died. Leaving nothing at its awake. When that thing reached a certain blue and green planet, a group of warriors, known to us as the warriors of ancient times, worked together and defeated it. But as long as there is darkness in one's heart, kötülük won't die, so the warriors sealed it away. The only way to release him is by gathering the 8 keys at the time of the Olarak, because that is when the seal is at its weakest. And when that happen everyone and everything will be in great danger".
The three guardians were shocked and speechless. Too much information, so many emotions.
"vhat iz olarak?" asked north
"it is the time when the nine planet and their satellites are aligned with the sun, and the time when the 4 seasons are equal in length. A phenomenon that only happen every 100,000 years".
"how much time till then?" asked tooth
"a few weeks" replied Hiccup
The room was silent once again. The three guardians were trying to let all of this information sink in.
"do you have the keys mate?" asked bunny
"four of them" answered hiccup " but we don't know the others location"
"can I answer another question?" asked north
The siblings nodded
"who is the man and woman Minerva tried to take?"
The room fell in silence once again, the siblings expression was that of sadness and guilt. North wanted to apologize for asking, but was interrupted by Jack.
"they are our parents, Mother Nature and father time"
The room fell silence again for a moment before Jack continued
"Minerva is one of kötülük's most loyal subjects, long ago she tried to search for the keys and attacked us. She played dirty, ambushed us. Our parents were deeply wounded, the earth took them to heal them, and ever since then they didn't wake up,…it's been 250 years".
"I'm so sorry Jack" said tooth sadly
"don't be tooth, don't be" replied Jack
"why did they try to take them mate?"
"we're not really sure" said Jack "maybe as a hostage to take the keys we have, but Minerva mentioned something about knowing the location of the other keys"
"does mother nature know the location of the other keys" asked tooth
"it is a possibility" answered Rapunzel "she and father were one of the warriors of ancient times, but I don't know how will they get the information"
"I think I do"
The group turned their gaze the infirmary's door and saw Eros holding a ghoul.
"when I was out looking for Minerva, I found one of her henchmen, I think he may know".
The spirit of love looked at the ghoul and placed a small dagger on his neck.
"you better tell us what you know"
"….T-the mistress w-wanted to a-access the Queen's memories,…. S-since s-she and the king are the only ones that k-knows the location of a-all the keys"
"how will they access her memories?" asked cupid
"w-with t-the help of the n-nightmare king, pitch black" it answered.
"but pitch was defeated months ago, and he doesn't have powers over memories" said North
"No, it does make sense" said Hiccup "dreams are made from ones subconscious and memories, so by controlling someone's dreams he can access their memories as well".
"then we have to find them and fast" said Merida
"tell us where your hideout is" asked cupid
"it changes regularly so they won't get caught, I don't know where are they right now" answered the ghoul
Eros placed the tip of the dagger to the ghoul's neck
"you better not be lying"
"…..P-please t-that's all I know I swear"
"let him go Eros" said hiccup "we don't need him anymore"
Hiccup called the guards and took the ghouls to the dungeons.
"what should we do now" asked Rapunzel.
"we must find the rest of the keys before they find them" said Merida
"but how?" asked tooth
"Sandy" said Jack " can you access father's memories?"
The sandman nodded
"Since father and mother are the only ones who know the location of the keys, this our only chance" said Jack
"B-but going through father's memories like this?!" said Rapunzel
"Jack is right punzie" said hiccup "this is our only chance"
The rest all nodded in agreement.
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