I wanted this chapter to be longer but I'm running low on ideas for what they do as first years so just work with me.
I apologize that this chapter is so short. This is usually how long my chapters are.
Word Count: 2,318
Dedications: Junday, wally's girlfriend, hellomotto27, joyce
Chapter 3
~Jack Frost~
Flying is something I could get very used to. Especially in the cold. I love the cold.
I'm not exactly allowed to fly around on my broom since I'm a first year but hey, I was never the one to follow instructions. Madam Hooch was trying to scold me as I levitated upwards but after I started flying around without a problem she kind of gave up. It seems everyone else couldn't get up in the air but I could and that's what made me glow with pride. Even Dash and Dusk looked at me enviously. I was born to fly.
"How did you do that?" Dash asked wide-eyed and I shrugged and let my feet touch the ground.
"It's rather easy." I said cockily and Dusk sighed when he noticed Rapunzel looked rather impressed by me. He shouldn't. I have no interest in her.
"That was so cool!" She said with a bright smile and Merida continued to glare at me. I just smiled.
"I can ride a dragon." Hiccup pointed out in the background. I guess he wanted to feel important too. Cute.
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Potions. I can safely say I did not like this class. It seemed… odd. I looked around the room and noticed something. Even though Hiccup was in Hufflepuff and they're known for being lovey and gay, he was sitting alone. But it looked like it didn't bother him. The room was filled and I looked back at Dusk and Dash. In potions you needed a partner.
"You guys sit here so I can still talk to you. I'll sit next to Hiccup." I said simply and they exchanged looks and nodded.
I plopped down and Hiccup looked startled. He stared at me and gave me a small smile.
"Hey." I nodded at him.
"Sup?" He chuckled and I noticed he was drawing something so naturally I grabbed it from him. He made desperate attempts to grab it back but I was pushing him back with one hand. "Wow." He turned bright red. "You like Rapunzel?"
Dusk immediately looked up with a disapproving stare.
He had drawn her sitting down, looking away with her hair down, out of her braid.
I glanced at Hiccup who looked so flustered he was tearing up. I quickly gave him the paper back.
"I'm not making fun of you. She's very pretty." I said quickly. "You draw her beautifully." I complemented and Dusk made a noise of indigence.
"…Really?" He said quietly and I nodded.
"Thank you…" He looked at his picture with pride.
After Professor Slughorn actually started teaching, I thought I was going to die. I was literally so bored that stabbing myself in the eye socket with my wand was sounding way more appealing than listening to him.
Good thing Hiccup was on a roll. He was writing everything this guy told him to write. I'm lucky if I remember my name by the end of this class. I was starting to get jealous of Dash and Dusk because they were passing notes. I want to be passing notes.
I slid Hiccup a question and he read it then looked at me with a raised eyebrow.
Draw me?
He shook his head and rolled his eyes and I frowned and started sliding the paper back and forth, hitting him in the arm with it. Eventually he got so annoyed he snatched the paper and drew a stick figure that said 'I'm Jack Frost and I don't like letting Hiccup learn' and slid it back to me with an annoyed look and I smiled sheepishly.
I took that as an invitation to reply to the stick figure drawing and drew one of my own. I drew a stick Figure with Hiccup's hair and drew giant nerd glasses bigger than his head and wrote 'I'm Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Hufflepuff and I hate Jack Frost because I'd rather pay attention to become successful later on in life than to protect my dear friend Jack Frost from killing himself now by just passing notes with him.' I slid it back and he glared at me before he read it but he smirked a little bit and drew a little more detailed stick figure.
'I'm Jack Frost and I'm so old with my white hair, would you look at my cane? I've been in Professor Slughorn's class for over 300 years because I keep passing notes instead of paying attention.' He slid it towards me and I grinned. He drew me with a rather awesome looking cane. I want one now.
'I'm Hiccup HHHHHHHHHH and I'm a successful adult because I paid attention in a potions class. That's it.' He rolled his eyes with a smile and drew me on a broomstick.
'I'm Jack Frost and screw the rules because I'm 300 years old and who's going to tell an old man what to do?'
'I'm Hiccup and I like to tell Jack what to do. I don't succeed very often, but the attempts are still there. Hey look. I'm riding a dragon.'
Yeah, I think I'm going to like potions class. And by the grin on Hiccup's face, I'd say I just corrupted him. Good. That's what Jack Frost does. Shows people fun.
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"So what's the deal with that Merida chick?" I glanced at Dusk and sighed and went back to writing my foot of parchment for Potions. I had to rely on Dusk to tell me what I missed since I had been distracting Hiccup with drawings for well over a week.
"I have no idea. The woman hates everything about me." I said with a sigh and he grumbled.
"She keeps showing up every single time I try to say something to Rapunzel. It's seriously getting on my nerves." Dusk sighed and Dash walked over with several books. "Study much?"
"No, it's all about Quidditch." He said and placed them down. "I'm trying to get all of the rules down, they're having try-outs next week and I'm just dying to be on a sports team." He replied, sitting down at the table.
"Oh that sport is so easy to play." Dusk said smiling. "But I doubt you're going to get a spot. They usually only pick one freshman and it looks like they have their eye on Mr. Big-shot over here." He pointed his thumb in my direction. I barely paid attention.
"Settle down you. I'm trying to do homework." I said and scratched my head. "I just have no idea what to do." Dusk perked up.
"Why don't you ask Rapunzel? She just walked in." I could tell he just wanted Rapunzel near so he could talk to her.
"Oh great…" Dash sighed. "She's with my sister." I glanced over at Rapunzel and did notice a rather skinny girl who looked like she was in her 4-5 year here. That's cute. Rapunzel had a mentor.
"Hey Rapunzel! Can you help me a sec?" I called and she smiled at me and said something to Dash's sister whom sighed upon looking at Dash and they both walked over.
"Hello Dashel." She said monotonously and Dusk snorted.
"You're real name is Dashel?" He teased and Dash pouted and glared at his sister.
"Yes, Jack?" Rapunzel asked with a sweet smile and I glanced down at my parchment.
"You any good at potions? I'm having a hard time figuring out how to write my essay." I said and she nodded and sat down and picked up my paper and scanned it. I was suddenly feeling quite self-conscience.
"Why don't you write more about medical potions? I'm sure Slughorn will be very impressed by a paper on Skele-Grow. Or maybe you could even talk about Amortentia." She smiled sweetly. I didn't even know what an Amortentia was.
"I would totally smell Rapunzel with Amortentia." Dusk whispered to Dash who chuckled. Rapunzel, thankfully, hadn't caught on. Violet gave them a warning look.
"Well I'm really sorry that I have to cut this short but I'm going to go hang out with Merida and we planned on finishing our homework together. It was nice seeing you guys." She waved and she walked out with Dash's sister.
"Dude, what's your sister's name?" I asked Dash who sighed and looked back down at the book he was reading.
"Her name is Violet. Please don't tell me you like her." He said seriously so I grinned really wide.
"Do you think I have a shot—"
"Absolutely not. She's 15, she wouldn't date an 11 year old." He said and I laughed and started writing my paper, thinking of making the 'I'm 300 years old' argument but they wouldn't understand that.
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I hadn't been doing much thinking when I was sitting away from the fire in a chair in the Slytherin common room. However, I really wasn't expecting Dusk to burst into the room cupping his face with blood oozing out of the creases between his fingertips.
My mind was on high alert and I practically flew over to him and glanced him over.
"Dude, are you ok?" A nod. "What happened?"
"I got beat up. What the hell does it look like?" He asked with a scowl. I had him sit down and I had literally no idea what to do. Luckily for me, Buzz was just walking into the common room.
"Buzz, can you help me, please?" He raised a brow and strode over and whistled when he saw all of the blood.
"Man, someone really did a number on you, huh?" He pulled out his wand and cast a cleaning spell and moved Dusk's hand away from his face to look at the damage and flinched.
"Punch right in the nose and the corners of your eyes are kinda black. Looks like you're going to have two black eyes." He cast a quick healing charm on Dusk's nose and he covered his face and groaned. "What happened to you, kid?"
"I got beat up by a group of Gryffindors." He spat distastefully and I suddenly felt really angry. Weren't the Gryffindors supposed to be the good ones and they were picking on a first year?
"What year were they in?" Buzz asked with a frown.
"I don't know… Third? Fourth? I'm not sure…" Dusk sighed. "But don/'t bother doing anything. They're the good guys. They get away with everything." I couldn't believe he was giving up so quickly. It kind of made me mad. But I figured he was right. That didn't mean I wasn't going to beat the crap out of (or at least try) the guys who hurt my best friend.
Someone was going to pay. I just needed to find out who exactly that was…
~Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III~
Jack didn't look very happy today. And by looking at Dusk, I could see why. But it was strange. I think I admired Jack a bit more when he had an angry look to him. He seemed like he had a mission.
Of course when Rapunzel saw him she absolutely freaked out and Merida glared pretty hard when Rapunzel started babying Dusk.
"I swear, Hiccup. They're up to no good." She said lowly and at this point, I wasn't exactly sure that they were up to no good. They seemed perfectly fine to me. Dusk, I didn't like too much. I think it's because of the way he hangs on Rapunzel.
And no, I don't like her. I just appreciate her company is all. And he happens to steal it very often and I strongly dislike that factor. But right now I wasn't even going to bother. He needed more attention than I did and honestly, I just wasn't in a mood to be angry about it today. I was just exhausted.
"Hey Jack. Are you trying out for Quidditch?" I asked as soon as he was in range for me to hold a normal sound leveled conversation. He shrugged.
"Not exactly sure," was his brisk reply. I wasn't going to push it but I rarely see Jack so I really just wanted to talk to him. Plus, since he's always around Dash and Dusk he rarely talks to me. I'm not saying I dislike Linguini, Russel, Merida or Rapunzel, but Jack was just kind of the guy you just WANTED to notice you. He just had that cool vibe coming from him.
"So what's new-"
"Do you believe in the Boogeyman?" He asked quietly and I raised my eyebrow.
"The Boogeyman? Like the monster that hides under your bed? No. Why?" I asked and Jack shook his head and started playing with one of the plants. Something seemed off about him.
"What's wrong?" I asked quietly and he glanced over at Dusk and then looked at me.
"I woke up last night, Hiccup. And Dusk was talking to someone. I didn't want to say anything because I thought he was just sleeping. But I saw him. The boogeyman. I saw him climb out from under Dusk's bed. I didn't know what he did to Dusk, the curtains on his bed closed but when they opened up again, Dusk had tears down his face. I saw this elongated figure slip under his bed and disappear. I know that was the boogeyman." I admitted and I was a little perturbed at the random admittance from Jack.
"Why are you telling me this?" I asked and Jack looked at me with a frown.
"I have reason to believe that the boogeyman took something important from me. But now there's a bigger issue." He said and I looked at him, eager for him to follow through with the rest of his story. He took in a deep breath. "I'm sure the boogeyman are responsible for my missing parents…" But that wasn't the end of the story. "But it's also Dusk's father." Well that's new information.
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