A/N: As answer to one review, I don't plan to turn Hiccup to an autumn spirit so they can be both immortal because that's just cruel to Stoick, so I hope you can understand that. Worry not, I have a better plan.
Conquered
Faster than he ever went, North manuevered the sleigh faster than it ever went, it wasn't that Manny's solution had a time limit, but they need to get to Hiccup before the fearlings did. Bunny was so anxious to get there, for once he didn't feel nauseous.
Jack gasped as soon as they got overhead of his lake, finding Hiccup being hovered by Toothless. "HICCUP!" He couldn't wait any longer and simply flew out of the sleigh and going over to the two as fearlings and a wave of dark sand neared from behind the sleigh.
"Oh, no! North!" Tooth screamed. The guardians only had time to look back when the sleigh was consumed, along with them.
The last words escaped from North's mouth. "JACK, HURRY!"
Black sand tried getting in his way, but Jack shot sparks of ice to them until he finally reached his love.
Toothless growled as Jack neared them, curling up to protect his rider. Jack continued to approach, determined to get to his Hiccup.
"Please Toothless!" Jack begged. "I can save him, please, you have to believe in me. I... I don't want him to die, either..." He looked at the dragon with a pained expression. "There's not much time... Please, I can't be alone again..."
Toothless felt emphatic and somehow, he could understand what Jack was saying, and his senses told him that the spirit could be trusted. Slowly but cautiously, he moved away from Hiccup.
Jack immediately gather the boy into his arms, keeping close. He didn't know what exactly he had to do, but he knew he couldn't leave things like this. He clutched the boy tightly against him, starting to cry. "Please... Wake up, Hic... I need you," Jack choked.
The dark sands were slowly creeping up to them, attracted to the fear at Jack's heart, the fear of losing Hiccup. Toothless growled, blocking Jack and Hiccup as they were coming in fast.
Jack pulled away, holding Hiccup's face. "I love you," He whispered, leaning his face forward to Hiccup's, planting a passionate, meaningful kiss on the brunette's lips. Frost patterns were sketched across Hiccup's body, and unlike Jack's common patterns, these glowed quite brightly, almost blinding that the black sand disappeared.
Jack's eyes widened after a moment when he felt those lips kissing back, and hands were also pressed against his face.
Jack pulled away a bit, choking as his tears stopped. "H—Hiccup?"
"Jack," Came the response, and the spirit saw a shy smile from the same lips that kissed him. "I love you, too..."
Overjoyed and ecstatic, Jack wrapped Hiccup in a bone crashing hug.
Hiccup choked and gagged, but he still returned the embrace, laughing. "I thought I was dead, but strangely, this still hurts." He grunted.
"Nope," Jack smirked, pulling away to cup Hiccup's face. "you came pretty close, though."
Hiccup shook his head. "How did you save me? I thought for sure I really was a goner, there was just... Darkness... And it was just cold and empty..." He stared into those winter eye's, and Jack was mesmerize by the sheer beauty of those forest one's.
"All I know is that I'm no longer immortal," Jack smiled softly, taking Hiccup's hand and pressing it against his chest. "Feel that?"
Hiccup nodded slowly. "Your heart beat. So?"
Jack snickered. "Well, thank you, Captain Obvious." Hiccup pouted, but Jack nipped his nose, bringing their foreheads together. "You don't get it... My heart hasn't beat for fifty years..."
Hiccup's eyes went wide.
"It's true, being immortal, we don't need our hearts to beat but, now mine does, I became mortal for you..." The spirit planted a chaste kiss on the boy's lips. "My heart now beats because of you."
Hiccup smiled, looking into those winter eyes. Jack returned the smile, and they leaned in. But they were interrupted by a roar of outrage. That's when the boys realize that black sand was still everywhere.
"NO! THIS CANNOT BE!"
A pile of black sand builded up and slowly Pitch materialized glaring at the two boys.
Jack got in front of Hiccup, pointing his staff to Pitch, Toothless by his rider's side baring his teeth.
"So, you can't just stay asleep, can you?" Pitch huffed. "Well, there are more than one way to take you down, Henrik." He sneered.
Jack scoffed. "Yeah, I want to see you try anything! I can take you on!"
Pitch growled, and suddenly grew gigantic till he was transformed to a large, dragon. The Green death.
Jack and Hiccup widened their eyes.
"Still think you can take him on?" Hiccup asked.
Jack frowned. "I think I'm gonna need some help..."
They dodged away when Pitch-the green death-tried to stomp them. He breathed out flames, Jack quickly countered by zapping ice with his staff. Suddenly, they heard rustling sounds from behind, and when they turned around the saw fearlings closing in on them.
"A lot of help."
Jack kept Hiccup close to him as the fearlings were closing in, but before they could consume the boys, something flew by and cut through the creatures.
"Toothiana?!" Hiccup gasped.
She giggled. "There's you lots of help!"
That's when the other guardians showed up, Sandy turning the dark sand to golden dreamsand, North cutting through the creatures with his swords then summoning his yeti's for help by throwing down snowglobes. Aster demonstrated that he hasn't lost his fire after years of being mortal, taking down two dozens of fearlings with one throw of each his boomerangs. He then stumped the ground and in no time, gigantic eggs surfaced.
Jack and Hiccup were dumbstruck.
Hiccup made a look. "Well... That explains all those little egg hunts being his favorite to do with me." He muttered.
"Wow, remind me never to get on their bad side."
Bunny jumped passed them while continueing to fight. "You're technically in my bad side already, mate."
North called out to the boys. "We take care of this!" He said. "You get out of here!"
Hiccup gaped in disbelief. "What, so it's 'kiss and run' now?" He shook his head
"Why?" Jack grinnned cockily. "didn't you enjoy it?"
Hiccup smirked, shaking his head. "You, my Frost spirit, are so full of hot air."
"You avoided the question."
"Oh, it's not that," Hiccup patted Toothless, facing Jack. "I just have something else in mind."
The guardians continued they're fierce fighting when something flew overhead them. They only had time to duck.
North gasped. "HICCUP!"
Hiccup rode on Toothless, Jack right beside him. The Green death saw them coming and tried to get them with his jaw. He missed by an mile as Toothless manuevered away.
"Hiccup, let's see if Pitch can fly!"
Hiccup nodded, a spoke to his dragon. "Toothless, Plasma blast! Get those wings!" He instructed.
Toothless dipped his head and launch a blast directly on the Green death's wings, flying higher afterwards.
The Dragon let a growl of annoyance. "Irritating pests!" The Green death let out his wings and slowly but surely, he was lifted from the ground. Hiccup smiled, seemingly at ease.
"Well," He looked at Jack. "He can fly."
Jack grinned at the brunette. "I can see that, but can he keep up?"
"Let's find out, shall we?" Hiccup gave Toothless a pat. "C'mon bud, let's give him a run for his money."
Toothless let out a roar and launched higher to the skies, cloud blocking them, as the Green death followed on their tail. By the time he got up, there was clouds everywhere, he couldn't find Jack or Hiccup. Suddenly, a plasma blast was launched at him somewhere at his left. When he tried to look for it, Jack came flying circles around him, zapping him with cold, frosted ice while he was at it.
"Try keeping up, Boogeyman!" He laughed, turning over and disappearing somewhere at the right.
In his frustration, The green death let out a roar of outrage. "If you want to fight dirty, then this is about to really get messy!" In no time, the green death surrounded the clouds with a overbearing flamethrower, leaving no clouds unscathed.
"Whoa!" Being an ice spirit and now, no longer immortal so that death could touch him, Jack had no time to search for Hiccup as he had to get out of the heat, going down to a lower level from the clouds. "HICCUP!" He screamed, eyes frantically searching for his brunette.
Hiccup looked at his surroundings, scowling. Toothless's artificial tail caught on fire. "All right bud, time's up! Let's finish this!" He told Toothless, and the dragon made a dive but made sure that the green death saw them doing so, so that it followed them.
Jack saw Hiccup diving down from the fiery flames that were once clouds, Toothless's tail burning, The green death right behind him. He gasped, Hiccup was a long way off and not even trying to get to Jack. "No, Hiccup! Over here!" Jack took the initiative to fly towards him.
But Hiccup didn't need his help.
"Okay bud, hold it," Hiccup hunched his shoulders, waiting. He heard a deep growl from behind him and felt the heat intensifying. "OKAY, NOW!"
Toothless turned around, and launched a plasma blast directly to the Green death's opened mouth that was preparing to launch another flamethrower. In no time, the green death erupted to flames, starting from his wings, as it let out a roar of dying agony. Hiccup manuevered Toothless across the dying dragon's back, not seeing where Jack was at all, when suddenly the tail of the Green death got in the way, completely knocking him off of Toothless, and bringing him to unconciousness the last thing he knew was an intense pain and someone calling his name.
"HICCUP!"
The guardians looked around as the fearlings completely vanished, leaving a trail of dark sand. It was over, Pitch has been defeated. Now they went back to their most concern, Hiccup.
As soon as they thought of the Viking, something came crashing down on the river. They rushed to the splash as someone came out of it, coughing.
"I—I," Jack sputtered the water from his mouth. "I forgot what it was like... Not being able to breathe under water,"
They saw the boy in his arms.
"HICCUP!"
The guardians rushed over, North taking him in his own arms. Toothless came at that same time, looking over to his rider as North pressed his ear to Hiccup's chest. "He's alive! You brought him back alive,"
The guardians embraced Jack, Bunny only gave him a thumbs up. To Jack, that was as good as it was gonna get.
"Well, of course," Jack laughed. "I wouldn't have it any other way."
North laid a hand on his shoulder. "His father would be grateful, you brought him back."
Bunny looked over, grimacing. "Well... Most of him,"
Stoick paced around the great hall nervously, it was almost midnight and the Guardians have yet to show up. He can't believe he even managed to fall asleep! He doubted the fact that he didn't get a wink of sleep last night had anything to do with it. Because everyone seemed to have fallen asleep with him, and he suspected Sandy.
He sat down, slamming a fist to a table. "If those guardians decided to keep Henrik all to their self, I'll..."
He caught himself as Gobber hollered that everyone get out of the way. Luckily, they were no longer drowsy to act quickly. In no time, a sleigh landed on the great hall.
Excited, Stoick got to his feet.
The guardians piled out and gave regards to the viking chief. Everyone stared at them, as if they just came from a rough battle.
"Sorry, you can say we are... fashionably late," North shrugged.
Stoick was approaching the sleigh as another person who was barefooted and wearing a short cape, white shirt and brown pants stepped out of the sleigh. He never seen that boy before, and before he could ask, the stranger held a hand out of the sleigh to support a short freckled arm.
Stoick gasped as a scrawny, gangly brunette stepped out of the sleigh, where his left leg should've been was a prosthetic, a dragon supporting his other side. But more importantly, it was his son. He finally came back.
The stranger smiled as he helped his son get to him along with the dragon's help.
"Uhm, h—hi dad," The brunette smiled crookedly at the large man who was his father. "I—I hope you're not disappointed by what you see," He gestured to his entire form. Clearly, he wasn't the comman man by Viking's standards.
But Stoick could careless.
"Of course I'm not disappointed! I've been waiting for this for thirteen years!" He lifted his son off the ground, Hiccup choked and yelped at the strong arms embracing him before putting his own arms around him. "Welcome home, son!"
Everyone cheered and started dancing. The Guardians and Jack smiled happily.
Stoick presented him with a helmet. "Here, your mother would've wanted you to have this," He smiled as Hiccup took a good look at it, smiling as he place his other hand over it. "It's half of her breastplate," The boy flinched, moving his other hand away. "Matching set,"
Hiccup looked at his father, laughing nervously. "Y—you don't mind that I'm a runt and have half a leg?"
Stoick laughed as he placed him down, ruffling his child's hair. "Of course not! I bet it's a battle scar, oh Odin! You must have gone through a lot, huh my boy?" He gave his back a hard pat.
Hiccup grunted, laughing nervously. "You have no idea,"
"Hm," Stoick grinned widely. "So, tell me, how did you get that?"
Hiccup laughed nervously looking at Jack. The spirit shrugged, smiling wearily. "It's kinda a long story, dad..."
Stoick smiled fondly. "Please, I have all the time in the world now." He said, wanting to say that for Thor knows how long.
"Well, first," Hiccup took Jack's hand and pulled him beside him. Stoick widened his eyes, of horror or amazement, they couldn't tell. "I'd like you to meet Jack, my lover."
A/N: HAHA! NEARLY FINISHED, you gotta read the epilogue to know how they gave Stoick the run down of everything and how he took it and everything after that.
