Guys I love you and I'm so sorry about this hiatus! My computer was wiped and I'm pissed because I had my one shot I wrote for my 50th reviewer and I have to redo it and to be honest, I don't remember everything I wrote so I hope she forgives me.

I promise not to make you guys wait this long again. I really want to be done with their first year. I want to write their third year. OMG the plans I have for that year. (And the smut between characters I'm not going to spoil ;D)

Thank you guys for waiting (as if you had the choice lol) and here's the next chapter!

dedications: Kia, Imyshrall, sakurasapprentice7, Alligates, superwholockStuck, Mitsuru and Ruru, changeofheart505

Chapter 12:

~Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III~

"It's so good to see you, Rapunzel." I knew it was odd that I was clinging to her. But unlike the nightmare before, she felt real this time.

"It's great to see you too! Now come on. We have to find Merida and Jack." She said with a bright smile on her face. "Where can we find Merida?"

Simultaneously as she spoke, the world around us melted into nothingness. We were in the dark again, with nothing but the perfect colored outlines of each other. Flynn seemed confused and Rapunzel looked around with concern.

"Don't worry guys. This always happens." I assured and I walked in a random direction. It didn't matter. I would find Merida. Whether or not I would save her was a completely different story.

$)* ( #*

It had been a long while walking until we walked into the area that twinkled and formed various shapes and colors. It was time to save Merida. Let's hope I was prepared for it.

"What the hell..?" Flynn muttered out loud and gaped.

We were in the mountain of a volcano. It was hot and I already started to sweat. Rapunzel put her hair in a bun the best she could and we stared at the entrance way and walked through it.

There waiting for us, was a mine cart. I smiled at the thought of the old Donkey Kong games and climbed into the car. Flynn and Rapunzel followed shortly after and I lit a match and it made a loud popping noise and the cart was flying off instantly. It was exactly like a video game. It was hard to portray that to the others behind me. They had to make sure that they leaned in the proper direction in order to not be thrown out of the cart.

We were doing really well and then my stomach was in knots. I forgot that the tracks broke off at the opening of the inner volcano. If we stayed in the cart, we would be fried for sure.

Nudging Rapunzel I pointed up and she noticed a stalagmite that curved slightly up. She seemed to understand what I was saying. I didn't have the time to really say it. But she yanked her hair out of her bun and quickly whipped it as we passed the curved stalagmite and it caught on her hair and with a pained look she was pulled out of the cart. Flynn and I grabbed onto her and we were both pulled out before the cart fell into the lava. Moments after, we heard the hiss of the lava burning the cart.

"Ouch." Rapunzel rubbed her head and I looked at her sympathetically.

"I'm sorry I made you do that." She shrugged.

"It's fine. I had to save us." She said with a smile and stood up.

"It's only a nightmare." I answered and she gave me an uneasy smile but said no more on the matter.

"Look up." Flynn pointed and we all followed his direction. There was a tunnel above our heads. I believed it would be hard to climb but I knew that we needed to do it.

Flynn helped push Rapunzel up and when she was secure in the tunnel she let down her hair and I climbed up her hair and so did Flynn.

It was stuffy and really crammed in the tunnel. We were all dirty and covered in soot. The rocks kept digging into my skin and I was cut in several places.

"Do we keep going?" Flynn asked and I nodded, and I told Rapunzel to stay below Flynn and I. I didn't remember quite why, but I didn't want her climbing above us. She followed my orders and we shifted up the tunnel as best as we could. It hurt my arms being how I had no upper body strength and it was awkward being so stretched apart as I was. We all shimmied up the tunnel far enough when I realized why I didn't want Rapunzel being the first one climbing.

The gravitational force shifted and I fell straight down. My arms and legs still spread out to hold myself and the force cut deep into my forearms and I grunted in pain.

Finally we dropped to the bottom and I looked around with mild interest. All I knew is that it was insanely hot in here and I just wanted this nightmare to be over.

I noticed in the back of my mind that the rocks and dirt in the whole area was slightly sparkly and had purple specks.

There was a spiral downwards towards the magma chamber. The opening was huge and randomly strewn through the volcano were railroad tracks for the mine carts. I looked all the way up and there was Merida.

Her mouth was covered and she was tied up and hung upside-down from the opening of the volcano base. She was about 13 stories away from the molten lava beneath her.

I heard Rapunzel stifle a squeak of surprise and turned to her to see her mouth was covered.

"How do we get her?" She asked and I sighed and shook my head. I didn't remember. She was directly in the middle and the diameter of the volcano was thicker towards the bottom. Even as we got to the top she was still about 17 feet from the edges.

"Let's figure it out when we get there." Flynn offered and started to grab the clumpy walls to keep his balance on the small 1 ½ ft ledge. He flinched and moved his hand away and rubbed it.

"Be careful." I mumbled. "It's hot." It wasn't a time to be a smartass, I just couldn't help it.

"Well sorry, my feet are just a smidgen bigger than an 11 year olds. I will need more security than a dingy ledge that could crumble at any moment." Flynn retorted with a slight glare. I shrugged at him and moved him out of the way. I pressed my back to the wall and started to shift slowly up the ledge. It wrapped around the whole volcano. If you wanted to you could walk from the bottom to the top or vice versa with little problems. Well, aside from the fact that you're in a volcano and could fall to your imminent death at any point in time.

My nerves were all jumbled up and scaling up the side of this thing wasn't making mefeel any better. As we got higher, the ledge grew slightly smaller and I was getting hardcore vertigo. This dream made me realize how afraid of heights I actually was. I never thought heights scared me. After all, I really wanted a dragon.

Speaking of dragon, I wonder how well that dragon that Jack got me would do in this dream. It would certainly make getting Merida a lot easier. A lot.

Jack... I felt my heart flutter at the thought of his name. It beat quickly then ached. I missed my best friend. I wish I knew where he was. I felt like right now I needed him. I wanted him here with me, telling me I could do this. But I didn't know how well Jack Frost would do in lava situations.

In all honesty, I always wondered if Jack had any powers. Well, aside from the normal witch or wizard powers...

Wait. Do my powers work in my dream?

I started to frantically pat down my pants looking for my wand. To my dismay, It seems that I didn't pack it. Of course. I'm only going to save my best friends. One of which is in a volcano. Why pack my wand? That's just silliness.

I seriously hate myself more than anything right now. This is my dream... I should be able to control certain aspects of it... Right? Maybe not.

"Hiccup, are you okay?" Rapunzel asked through the loud popping of the lava underneath us. I turned to her and she must've seen it in my face. She frowned.

"I'm sorry sweetie. We can do this. We'll get Merida and after that, we'll get Jack. And everything will be fine." She seemed to believe it more than I did. For some reason I just didn't believe after this dream everything was going to fade away and we'd forget the trauma of the endless nightmares, the sleepless nights and the... purple powder Jack was seeing.

Purple? Was this what Jack was talking about? Was that thought process proper English? I looked around in amazement. How did I not realize this? I smiled slightly. Even when Jack wasn't here, I thought about him. I really should be thinking about Merida hanging upside-down right now but I couldn't. I looked at Rapunzel.

"Do you see the purple? I think I finally understand what Jack was talking about." I said with a smile and she paused to look around.

"This is the nightmare dust? I didn't realize it was in our dreams. When we're asleep, we can see it." She touched the wall behind her and stared at the glitter like substance left on her hand and turned to look passed Flynn and smiled at nothing.

I continued upwards trying my best to get to Merida. We only had about two more stories to go. That's about 20 feet, right?

The closer I got, the more I realized something. Was I just seeing it? Were my eyes messed up? I squinted and shifted up to look closer. I kept moving. I almost slipped off of the edge trying to strain my eyes to see just what was near Merida.

"Hiccup, be careful." Rapunzel warned and I glanced at her and pointed up at Merida. "What is it? Is the rope breaking?"

"No." I shook my head. "Is it just me, or is there something around her?"

"Oh my god." Flynn saw it, glanced to his right and looked back up. "It is The Boogeyman." He inhaled and at this moment, I felt lucky to have a Gryffindor with me because even in the face of the danger of the Boogeyman, Flynn wanted to continue up. In fact he was muttering to himself on how to fight the Boogeyman.

One story left. So close.

We're getting there. Hold on Merida...

"Oh look at you guys. So cute." The Boogeyman spoke and his voice gave me goosebumps but at the same time, his voice was oddly relaxing. "Hiccup you really are sticking this one out, aren't you?" He teased and my lips formed a thin line.

"What do you want? Haven't you done enough?" I spat and was now trying to hurry up and get to Merida as quickly as I could. This clearly couldn't end very well.

"Have I done enough? No. Actually. I haven't even gotten started. So what, that your little buddy Jack has saved young Fitzherbert, Corona and DunBroch from their nightmares." He smirked at me. What on earth was he talking about? I looked around and I didn't see Jack. "But in this nightmare, Jack doesn't exist, does he?"

"What are you talking about? Of course he exists in my nightmare. I've seen him once before."

"No. You haven't. And do you know why that is, Hiccup?" I didn't. I genuinely thought Jack was in my dreams. "I thought not. Jack ceases to exist in your dreams, Hiccup-"

"That's a lie! Jack is right here!" I turned quickly to Flynn and noticed that he was nudging nothing. Was he mocking me?

"Oh, that's the ghost of Jack, my dear boy. Jack doesn't exist in Hiccup's nightmares because poor poor Hiccup's worst nightmare is that he never met Jack. That Jack doesn't even exist. And I made that a reality for you, Hiccup. Go ahead. Save Miss DunBroch. You know what that will get you? You will sit here for an eternity, sitting in self loathing because you don't have a best friend. No one likes you and you know why. Because you're weak, pathetic, and alone. You always will be, Hiccup. Don't think they're going to stay with you forever."

"Hiccup he's lying. I will always be here for you. So will Merida and you know Jack will always be by your side." Rapunzel said desperately but at this point... I understood. I looked up at the Boogeyman and realized he was right.

"Don't you dare give up!" Rapunzel cried and I snapped.

"Give up on what, Rapunzel? I can't see Jack. You guys are taunting me with smiling over there like he's here, well if he is here, why the hell can't he say anything? Where is he? Why can YOU see him and I can't?" I've never felt such a strong pulse of jealousy before. I was so angry! But I was more upset with myself. Why did I let the Boogeyman take this out of me? This isn't me.

"Hiccup, you know Jack is here." Flynn butted in. I don't know why. I'm not even friends with him. "I don't care what that asshole says, you know for a fact that Jack won't leave you. You know he'll stand up for you and you know damn well that he is here for anyone in need, especially you. You're his best friend. And right now he's fuming and yelling at Pitch. You can't see him but that doesn't mean he isn't here. It's YOUR dream. You can make him appear if you think hard enough."

Could I? Could I fabricate my best friend in this situation? Why would I put him in danger? But I need him. I need him more than anything. I closed my eyes tight and my heart was racing. I tried so hard to believe. Believe that Jack is here right now, cheering me on.

"How cute but I'm going to cut this meeting short. I have other places to be. By the way, Merida." I opened my eyes briefly to notice that he wasn't looking at the Merida who was bound. He was looking passed Flynn. "I hope you like lava."

He cut the rope. If Jack was here, that wouldn't happen. Where's Jack? I need you Jack. Please dear god Jack. Please help. I was screaming, so was Rapunzel. Flynn made a grab for her but she was a couple feet away from his grasp.

"JACK PLEASE." I screamed and a light flashed. There was a loud clapping noise and the lava began to rise rapidly. I heard a laugh.

"Nice try." And with a surge of power, there Jack stood, holding Merida in his arms, standing on frozen lava with a victorious smirk.

"JACK!" I screamed and with the scowl of the Boogeyman, everything went white.

NEXT TO COME: THE MUCH ANTICIPATED JACK'S NIGHTMAREEEEE.

And from there we go back to school being a bummer, some birthdays, summer and then the second year which is probably the most underdeveloped year I have planned because they're not old enough to do anything lol.

After the next chapter it's pretty much going to be filler and shit until we get to the next year... Which isn't planned out. Maybe I should just skip to year three lol.

I'd also like to thank you guys. Seriously. I have 55 faves and 69 (hey now ;q) followers for this story. That means a lot! And I always love to hear from you!

Questions you can answer me:

1. Each year, should I make a completely different story or should all of them be in this story file?

2. Is there anything you WANT to see happen in this year or the next year? (Trust me, this is very helpful and you can help me write this story. Win/win.

3. Who had the creepiest nightmare?

4. Who is your favorite character?

Review :)