Unseen Ch 3 View From The Other Side
After the race Bunny and Ana left the school, Ana chatting constantly about the race either not seeing or ignoring the irritated look on Bunny's face. In less than thirty minutes they reached the woods that boarded the town when Bunny finally snapped
"ANA I say this with the upmost respect SHUT UP!" he shouted the last words as he shot a glare at Ana who finally caught on that he was tired of the continual play by play and fell into silence as they traveled deeper into the woods, after another thirty minutes they reached what seemed to be an impassible blockade of trees. Bunny walked up to the trees then reached out and pushed the trees aside like they were a curtain and amazingly they slide to the side and Bunny walked through the newly made archway Ana following close behind, once they passed through the trees returned to their original positions effectively sealing the entrance behind them. In front of them looked like what could be describe as a city made entirely out of living trees each tree was a building and for bigger buildings and halls several trees were grown together to make large comfortable spaces. The smallest of the single standing trees, which were individual homes for spirits and faeries alike, were sixty feet around at the base and the trees soared untold feet in to the air before erupting in a leafy green crown there were doors and windows embedded in each of the trees and several of the homes had small porches where several occupants were sitting talking with neighbors or working on some project or another. The two friends waved to several of the spirits and faeries that called out greetings to them.
Bunny and Ana kept heading north till they till they reached a grove of white birch trees that stood like the first wall of trees, instead of pushing them aside the two sprites walked along the wall till they reached an archway guarded by twin faeries, the twins were around six feet tall and were identical down to the last scale, their skin was acid green scales glinting in the weak sunlight, at the moment the scales laid flat soft and moveable but at a moment's notice they could become armor hard. They each had four twisting horns nestled deep in their wavy hair, their eyes glowed yellow as they turned to blink at the two spirits.
"Hey Barf hey Belch on guard duty today?" Ana asked as she and Bunny passed by. The twins shrugged simultaneously as they answered
"We drew the short straw" the seeing the two spirits wave and head towards the main hall the twins remembered something shouted "Watch it hook is cooking tonight Storm says she'll have a backup meal waiting." Bunny shivered and made gagging noises, the last time Hookfang had been in charge of cooking Bunny had been spitting fire for a week, and Ana laughed thinking about Bunny's face when he had tasted Hook's food. Ana and Bunny walked towards the main hall each entertaining their own thoughts so that they didn't notice when they entered the hall till Bunny was hit in the face with a large snowball. The two of them blinked as they looked around the main hall that had been transformed into a winter meadow. The ground was covered in snow where the halls reflection pond was completely frozen over. The hall was filled with young spirits and faeries running about laughing some were building snow people, others were skating on the pond, while others were rolling around in the snow making their versions of snow angles; still more were having a vicious snowball fight. A little flower fairy rushed up to Bunny and Ana with a huge smile on her face, her skin was a pale pink and she was wearing a dress that was made entirely of purple flower petals her hair was made of bright red petals and her eyes were a pale spring green.
"JACK MADE IT SNOW JACK MADE IT SNOW" she cheered jumping up and down before getting hit with a snowball and rushing off for revenge against the tree spirit boy that had thrown the snowball. Bunny groaned while Ana laughed they made their way through the hall dodging snowballs and running spirit and fairy children. When they finally reached the other side of the hall Bunny was grumbling about how he was going to strangle Jack.
"Aw come on Bunny where your sense of fun?"A mischievous voice asked causing both to look up. Hanging upside down from a branch above them was a pale skinned spirit with sapphire blue eyes and snow white hair and teeth, he was wearing a blue hoodie that was covered in frost, he was wearing brown pants that ended just above his ankles and was currently barefooted. It was the cause of the indoor snow day Jack Frost the King of the winter Faeries and Spirits. Bunny glared as he answered
"it died the day I had to start looking after you, now get down here the three of us need to talk" with groan Jack slipped off the branch and landed on his feet next to Bunny. Ana Floated a few feet in the air and whistled loudly catching all the children's attention
"Sorry guys but we need to speak about the festival tonight so all of you should go home" Ana said as kindly as she could than started herding the children out of the hall as they groaned and complained. With a sigh Jack made all the snow and ice disappear the ground was revealed to be green marble the reflection pond was unfrozen and several water blossoms and lily pads appeared the walls were still made of white birch trees but their leaves where changing a rainbow of reds, oranges, and browns. A large mound of snow behind them slowly disappeared to reveal a raised dais with a carved white wood throne. Jack walked up the stairs but didn't sit on the throne they waited for Ana to come back before speaking.
"So what's going on I already have tonight's festival planned out and the food is being prepared by our top chefs and don't worry Hookfang is not cooking the festivals food I found him something else to do." Jack said lazily creating snowflakes then flicking them into the air. Bunny sighed with relief but shook his head remembering what he had wanted to tell Jack. He moved over to the reflecting pond he picked up one of the little pebbles that rested next to the pond focusing his thoughts he let the pebble fall into the pond. The pebble broke the surface causing ripples to spread across the pond in when the waters stilled there was a perfect image of Hiccup, Jack looked at the image wide eyed as he listened to Bunny
"I know it sounds odd but this boy can see you Ana was sure he could see us before I was but I know because when we raced he was racing against me and-"
"And you lost" Ana interrupted with a smile before moving to hover in front of Jack and launching into a full moment by moment recall of the race, but Jack was only half listening to her he was staring at the boys image as he thought back what felt like eons ago but honestly could only have been seven to eight years ago. An autumn night she was out spreading frost when he came to a human nature park and some of the night faeries where beating something normally he would have left it alone but then he had heard it scream and he knew in that moment it was a human they were torturing he confronted the dark faeries and sent them away even though he wasn't technically king at the time those faeries had to listen to him even if it took all his concentration to make the command obeyed. He had turned to the human seeing how messed up he was Jack was sure he was going to die but something made him bend down closer to the human to see that he's eyes were still open though out of focus they were an impossible green color and the boys face was covered in freckles well the part that wasn't covered in blood, Jack couldn't tell what color the kids hair was.
"Hey don't worry it's going to be okay" Jack said with a shaky smile he watched the humans eyes slip closed Jack scooped the boy into his arms his mind working quickly he remembered where the humans healing place was and quickly made his way there while he wrapped himself in a illusion that would make him appear human. The smell of the place made his nose burn but he rushed in and in a panic voice got the kid some help, as soon as he could slip away unwinding the spell that made him look human. He had always wondered if the kid had survived now he had his answer and he couldn't wait to meet the kid face to face and figure out what made him save the kid in the first place.
"JACK ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING" a loud angry voice broke into his thoughts he blinked and looked to see Bunny glaring at him.
"Yes of course I am." Jack naturally responded Bunny lifting an eye brow crossed his arms over his chest
"Then prove it what was the last thing I said?" he challenged Jack blinked a few times before sighing sagging a little in defeat Bunny nodded his head with a smug grin on his face.
"Knew it now like I was saying we should keep this quiet from the rest especially the dark faeries and spirits that will be coming here for the autumn festival once the festival is over we can properly decide what to do about the boy he-"
"Do with him?! what do you mean do with him?" Jack interrupted a little worried Bunny wasn't the captain of their warriors for nothing he was strong and fast and smart and that made for an extremely dangerous capable warrior.
"We can't leave him as he is, he could lead a whole army of humans here and wipe us out." Bunny stated his eyes narrowing as he looked at hiccups image. Jack was about to argue when Ana voiced his thoughts instead
"Are you crazy? He is a child you can't just steal him from his family and you know as well as I that its really extremely rare for a human to even sense us let alone see us. Face it we have fallen into being nothing more than legends and myths to the humans the fact he can see us is just a twist of fate or a fairy trick gone wrong or never completed we should do nothing to the boy he hasn't done anything to us in fact he has gone out of his way to ignore us" Ana argued seemingly getting angrier and angrier as she talked she fluttered right up to Bunny glaring at him. Bunny sighed as he started arguing with her making valid points about safety and the need to be prepared while Ana held up the end that they shouldn't attack some defenseless boy who was not long out of childhood that hasn't provoked them and would have little success in convincing others of his kind to fight against them. Jack listened to both of them till they started to repeat themselves. Jack sighed knowing that the two of them would keep going until the end of time making his decision he stepped forward both stopped to look at Jack.
"I have heard both sides of this argument and now I give you my decision" he said as formally as he could so that Bunny wouldn't immediately shoot down his idea knowing form experience that it would be shot down if he didn't sound like he had given the decision plenty of thought
"I will see this proposed threat with my own eyes and weigh whether further action is necessary" he finished holding his breath waiting for Ana's and Bunny's approval after a moment they both nodded their heads. Jack sighed with relief as the trio walked out of the hall. In no time at all they were standing outside the book store jack shaking with mirth the kid worked at the book store that he went to get all the books for Sandy. And there was the kid working at the counter, Jack had to talk to him to see if the kid remembered him so as quickly as he could he wrapped a spell around him so he would appear human and walked up to the door pulling his hoodie down over his hand so he didn't touch the metal as he stepped inside the kid looked up to greet him only to stop when he caught sight of him Jack walked up to the counter and stared at the kid he couldn't help but smile he felt the same tug towards the boy that he felt all those years ago though it looked like the boy held nothing but fear from him he was about to talk to him to reassure that he wasn't going to be hurt when he heard a familiar voice. He turned to see the owner of the book store after a simple conversation the boy disappeared from view to get his orders when he came back up he couldn't seem to get him to make eye contact just when he was about to leave he shoved a piece of paper into the boys hand causing him to look up and make eye contact.
"If you ever want to, there's my number, we'll have a little fun" Jack said with a wink as he walked out the door. Finding Bunny and Ana still waiting for him he started walking towards the forest as soon as he was clear he let the spell surrounding him fade away they didn't speak till they were in the forest
"So what do you think?" Bunny asked breaking the silence Jack sighed as they reached the main hall, once more climbing the stairs of the dais when he reached the top he turned to the other two then took a deep breath
"I have made a decision; we will observe the human he doesn't seem like a threat so closer observation is needed and after the festival the three of us will decide what to do about it okay but for now do not mention this matter to anyone. Now I'm sure each of us has things to attend to I know I do so let's part ways" he said then watched as the other two left before heaving a sigh and flopping down on the top step and rubbing his hands through his hair. 'This is going to be fun' he thought sarcastically before standing up and going to help with the preparations.
That night different colored light hung in the air and music the was beautiful and unearthly played and even though both dark and light spirits and faeries were on edge around each other the celebration went off without a hitch the twins performed a mock dual, Hookfang and a few others handpicked by him preformed some acrobatics, the biggest success was Stormfly's dance she was amazing memorizing and graceful the Dark faeries and spirits brought entertainers too but they paled in comparison to the show that the light faeries put on. During the celebration Jack slipped into the shadows where he knew his closest friend stood
"Hey enjoying yourself?"He asked slipping to the tall dark figures side; the figured turned his green eyes on to Jack with a small growl before turning to look out over the festivities.
"Just staying out of the way you know how I feel about them" he growled. A stray light floated past them briefly illuminating the figure it wasn't a shock that the figure blended so well with the shadows his skin was blacker the deepest shadows his skin rippled with hidden muscles and the scales that covered him stood up in a defensive way like he was poised to attack. Jack sighed he knew how his friend felt about the dark faeries and reached up to pat him on the shoulder, knowing it was a risk he whispered as quietly as he could
"Toothless do you remember that day when you left the dark faeries and spirits behind?" feeling Tooth flinch he pressed on quickly
"You remember that human boy that saved you when Pitch and Red were about to finish you off?" Jack looked up to see Toothless staring at him wide eyed his pupils blown out to wide circles instead of the narrow slits they had been moments ago
"He is alive and I want you to find me once our 'guests' have left so I can tell you everything" Jack said before moving away. Toothless watched Jack till he disappeared before thinking about that dark day.
AN: okay so once again thanks to everyone who reviewed faved and followed I love hearing what you guys think so please review more it just might help me get some new ideas next update will come next Saturday so everyone look forward to Saturday updates.
