Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons Wolrd Shards

by Mico-J-Ken

Hogwarts, Camp Half Blood, the DWMA. Hunters, Mages, Descendants. You name it and it's most likely here. This is what happens when The Big Four are place in several different AUs. See how their stories unfold in each world. Rating changes depending on each story. Ships- Frostcup/Hijack. Merelsa/Eslerida and Eugen x Rapunzel. Read warnings please, and enjoy.

3. The Big Four and the Son of Fear

Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragon World Shards

Jack and his friends have had a rough couple of years learning magic at Hogwarts school for witchcraft and wizardry. Every year they have been attacked by monster that came crawling out of the Forbidden Forest or by potions dropped into their morning pumpkin juice. One would think there was someone out there trying to kill them. It could be perhaps because they were prophesied to defeat the darkest wizard of their time so he couldn't rise to power. Or maybe because there is speculation that one of them is the child of this dark wizard. Either way, it makes for an interesting couple of years. But with the sixth year secrets are revealed and hearts are broken. Can they survive the final year, can they beat Pitch Black, or will the son of Fear succeed in bringing him back?

AU- Harry Potter

Rating- T

Warning- Character death and strong language

Special thanks to Nesthellshert for editing and beta reading. And to The High Prince of Geeks for beta reading.

The Big Four belong to Dreamworks and Disney and the world of Harry Potter belong to J.K. Rowlling.

Please enjoy.

The Big Four and the Son of Fear

Elsa was going mad.

This was completely understandable given all that she had gone through since the end of June. Being told by the most powerful and most evil wizard in the wizarding world that your brother wasn't really your twin and was in fact his son can do a number on one's psyche. Add that to the fact that she hasn't seen her brother for two months. She had hoped that when they went to Guardian's mansion she would see him being his goofy self. But instead she and her sister Anna were met with the somber faces of his three friends, Merida, Rapunzel and Hiccup.

"He's not here." Rapunzel murmured giving the girls a tight hug.

"An' we 'aven't heard from 'im." Merida said sadly as she held Elsa close.

"How is Hiccup?" Anna asked watching as the boy whipped his wand around in a mock duel with his mentor Sandy Sandman.

"Not good." Rapunzel shook her head. "He's been practicing non-stop. Hardly sleeps."

"None ay us really do." Merida shook her head.

Elsa could see the bags under her eyes.

"All of you, get out here now." Aster Bunny, Merida's mentor called to them. "No rest till yur all casting with yur hands."

"Don't be so hard on them Bunny." Toothiana Fairy, Rapunzel's mentor, sighed beckoning them out into the yard.

"We best go." Rapunzel nodded with a sigh.

The three trained harder than Elsa had ever seen that summer, as if they thought that if they suddenly became good enough Jack would just burst through the door smiling and congratulating them. But he didn't and neither did his mentor Nicholas North.

They were missing in action.

They had been through so much since they started school at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, it didn't seem fair to add this to their plates. Bad things had always been happening to her brother and his three friends since they started school when they were eleven. They had been sorted into different houses- this was no surprise to them, they knew that no matter how alike they were their differences were too great and they were fine with that- she had been made a Ravenclaw and Jack a Slytherin. Not long after that Jack had made friends with a boy from Ravenclaw with a knack for disaster named Hiccup, then a girl from Hufflepuff gifted with healing spells and potions Rapunzel and made a rival in a Gryffindor girl who was more attuned to the world and the future called Merida. They were all inseparable after that, meaning Elsa got to know them all pretty well. Not long after they all came together, monsters started coming out of the Forbidden Forest and targeting the four. For the first and second year they were there this kept happening and with their team work and amazing magic talent they vanquished all evil. When ever she was there, Elsa would help. Together, her and her brother's winter magic was unstoppable.

The years that followed they were attacked again and again all because it was prophesied that Jack, Merida, Hiccup and Rapunzel would be the ones to destroy the reborn Pitch Black, the greatest evil of their time or else he would become stronger than ever. So they spent all their free time training with the Guardians, the most powerful wizards and witch of their time and the the ones that first destroyed Pitch, or training for quidditch- Jack and Merida- taming a dragon that they disguised as a cat- Hiccup- or wandering around the castle and painting- Rapunzel- barely any of that time was spent with Elsa or Anna, that is until they cornered their brother and demanded they take part in at least observing the training that way they can learn useful spells and spend even a little bit of time with him. To their amazement he agreed. So they trained with him, learning as many useful fighting spells as they could including the patronus. But last year, sixth year, was the year everything came bearing down on them. That was the year Elsa began to realise she may very well lose her friends, lose her love, lose her brother, all to the prophecy.

All to Pitch.

Even now, as she trained with the Guardians and three of the four, at the end of August, she could still remember very clearly everything that lead to her brother's disappearance. Everything was calm that year and that only served to unnerve the four and the Guardians. Pitch hadn't gone a single year without attacking them with something. His worst attack being the love potion fiasco that nearly broke Hiccup and Jack apart in fifth year. But this year there was nothing. Elsa saw it as a blessing. Perhaps Pitch was out of ideas. But the others didn't think so. It wasn't until Eugene Fitzherbert saw Jack sleepwalking out of the Slytherin dormitory that they realized why there were no attacks. At the same time that Eugene realized what was going on, Merida had a dream about the Boogeyman- the name everyone called Pitch when he was at large- rising from the ashes of a long gone mountain ash tree. Worse she saw Jack standing over them with glowing gold eyes. A color that even when he and his sister had brown hair and eyes was never present. She woke with a start knowing that she needed to get the others and find Jack. They all got the message pretty quick and ended up finding Eugene in a panic.

"You have to come, there is something wrong with Jack!" he huffed out of breath.

"Where?" Hiccup, Elsa and Anna demanded all at once.

"Follow me." he panted taking off for the room of requirement- Rapunzel had dragged him along for a few of her training sessions- where they found the passage which Jack had taken outside the castle.

As soon as they were outside Hiccup cast a seeking spell and followed in hopes that they wouldn't be too late. He didn't need Merida's sixth sense to know whatever was going on with Jack was not good. They ignored the fact that they had entered the Forbidden Forest, having faced and defeated most everything that was in the woods. They just kept running.

"Jack!" Hiccup cried when the snowy haired boy came into view.

Jack didn't turn. He didn't even start at his friend's voice. All he did was continue to point his dogwood shepherd's crook- his wand and broom had broke during a battle in fifth year, so North combined them into a crook for Jack- and mutter a few words.

"Jack?" Elsa whimpered coming to his side only to jump back. "...his eyes…"

Looking at her brother was always like looking into a magic mirror that would show her what she would look like if she was a boy. Their hair and eyes had always been the same and their complexion. Her face was a bit softer, rounder like a doll while his was structured and strong. Even before they had tried to make it snow all over London and turned their hair white and eyes blue, when their hair and eyes were brown, they had always looked alike. But now… now it was like she was looking at some stranger.

His eyes were a rich gold that glowed like cat eyes in the darkness. They blazed a kind of evil she had never seen before. Not even when she had faced the dementors in the dining hall during third years end of year feast. This boy was not her brother.

"Elsa?" Anna asked rushing to join her sister.

"No stay back." Elsa warned pointing her pine wood wand at her sister.

Anna paused looking scared and confused.

"Jack!" Hiccup urged grabbing the boy's arms. "Stop! Please stop. Guy's help me."

Rapunzel jumped into action trying to take the crook from him, but his grip was steel trap tight making it impossible.

"Merida get over here." Rapunzel cried desperately.

But Merida wasn't listening she was staring at the skeletal tree which Jack was trying to enchant. She knew what it was and what it would bring should Jack succeed in destroying it.

"Get back!" she snarled, drawing her blackthorn wand like a sword.

"What are you going to do?" Hiccup demanded suddenly defensive. "You can't hurt him. He's bewitched."

"Ah said get back." Merida warned again. "We can't let 'im destroy 'at tree."

Getting her hint they stood back their own wands drawn, Elsa taking her place next to Merida and giving her a stiff nod.

"Stupify!" Merida cried thrusting her wand forward.

Red sparks streamed out of the end of her wand hurtling for Jack. They all expected him to be knocked forward and knocked out, but instead the spell ricocheted flying back into Merida. Before Merida could do anything Elsa threw her wand arm across her putting up a shield and blocking the backlash.

"Thanks." Merida murmured.

"What now." Elsa begged.

"Jack." Hiccup begged shaking his shoulder. "Please listen to me, you have to stop. Jack, listen to me please."

Jack's muttering stopped. He dropped his crook his eyes closing. And then he was falling.

"Jack!" Elsa and Anna cried rushing forward as Hiccup caught him and lowered him gently to his knees.

"Hiccup?" Jack asked his eyes opening to reveal sky blue letting everyone around him breath a sigh of relief.

Everyone, that is, except for Merida.

"Get away from it!" she cried staring at the tree. "Hurrey, now get away."

They all looked to see the tree had burst into a dark black flame that was rendering it to grey ash. And worse there was a faint hint of manic laughter coming from the ashes. They all knew that laugh. They heard it in fourth year when Pitch sent his Nightmares after them. He had laughed and taunted them all year till they finally destroyed the dark horses with a patronus.

It was the same laugh, only this was no dream.

"Jack c'mon get up." Hiccup urged.

"I can't." he groaned. "My legs, they won't move."

"Help me." Hiccup told Elsa as he hooked his arms under Jack's left shoulder.

She didn't hesitate to hook hers under his right and together they dragged him away from the ashes. Jack hissing and groaning the whole way. Rapunzel and Hiccup noticed almost at the exact same time. As the laugh got louder, more coherent it seemed to cause Jack even more pain. As soon as they were back with Merida, a good twenty feet from the ashes, Jack had started screaming. Elsa gritted her teeth and got to work helping Eugene and Rapunzel with putting up a barrier to try and separate them from the tree. Merida had long since cast her patronus, a great black bear, in case dementors or Nightmares came after them. Meanwhile Hiccup was cradling Jack to his chest as his sister attempted to cast healing spells on him.

"Shh, Jack calm down." Hiccup murmured holding the boy closer as he started to thrash. "It's going to be okay."

"Rapunzel," Anna cried. "Help!"

With a nod from Elsa, Rapunzel left her post and rushed to Jack's side. Kneeling next to him she pressed the tip of her rosewood wand to Jack's chest and began to perform the spell she had created last year. Eugene saw this and rushed to grab her hand.

"Rapunzel no." He hissed. "This spell drains you."

"Jack needs help." she urged, gently placing her wand hand on his giving him a reassuring smile. "I'll be fine."

He deliberated for only a second, Jack had chosen then to give a bellow of a scream clutching his chest.

"Fine." he gritted going back to his post.

"Solem, Florana." Rapunzel said softly tapping Jack's chest with her wand.

A golden light leaked from the tip and blossomed into a beautiful golden flower.

"Flower, gleam and glow,

Let your power shine.

Make the clock reverse,

Bring back what once was mine.

Heal what has been hurt,

Change the fate's design.

Save what has been lost.

Bring back what once was mine.

What once was mine."

The spell done, the flower spread gold vines across Jack's body and wrapped him tightly in their healing light. Rapunzel slumped forward panting and watching Jack. He seemed better, not healed but definitely better. He was merely groaning and squirming now and staring fearfully at the tree which was now completely ash.

"Toothless." Hiccup cried swishing his wand at the cat that followed them, undoing the transformation so now Toothless was a fully grown night fury. "Go get professor Moon."

The dragon nodded and took off with a roar.

"It's too late." Jack whimpered. "He's coming."

Looking now to the pile of ashes they could see that it was rising. No, not rising, forming. The ashes were coming together to harden and form a humanoid shape. They closed ranks, crowding closer together so as to reassure themselves that they were not alone. They had a chance. They had to with how many of them where there. And because the prophesied four were there.

They watched as the ash got bigger and taller until their was a slim figure standing before them. It gave a big sigh and the ash fell away revealing a man they had only seen in images and dreams.

"Pitch Black." Jack hissed clutching his chest again.

His eyes opened revealing a greedy gold and he smiled reaching out his ashen grey hand to the boy.

"My son." he sighed. "You have done well."

They all stared beyond confused at the man.

"Son…?" Hiccup finally said ending the silence.

Pitch's eyes widened in surprise before they closed and he sighed again.

"Of course they wouldn't tell you." he opened them again and centered them on Jack. "Here me now, boy. You are my son, Jackson Black."

"You lie." Jack cried gripping the front of his shirt all the tighter.

"He's my twin." Elsa argued leveling her wand. "My brother. Your lies hold no meaning here."

"Oh yes," Pitch chuckled. "I can see the resemblance. Tell me, how did you get your hair and eyes to change? Last I saw you, your hair and eyes were brown."

"How could he know that?" Rapunzel whimpered.

"He's lying." Hiccup insisted, though he sounded desperate. "Using some kind of spell or something."

"Oh, that is a good idea." Pitch nodded holding his hand out to the ashes. Up flew a wand of some kind of black wood with bits of sand in it. He held it up aiming for Jack then smiled. "Legetament."

Jack went rigid as he tried to push Pitch out.

"Jack!" Anna cried gripping his hands.

But it was over within seconds.

"Oh, now I see." Pitch mused. "That clever Mani Moon. He saved you from the aurors and placed you in a family with a little girl that looked just like you, passing you off as her twin. Clever indeed. I must say I find your gift with flying and winter magic most impressive. Trying to make it snow the whole summer over all of England was a bit foolish though. But I suppose you learned your lesson. It did change your hair and eyes after all. And here I was hoping you would take more after me. But instead you looked more like your useless mother."

"My mother?" Jack choked.

"Don't listen to him." Elsa urged. "He's lying to try and confuse us. To try and divide us."

"Am I?" Pitch chuckled looking to Merida who had lowered her wand in astonishment. "Ask her. She has seen it all, haven't you?"

They all turned to Merida who avoided their eyes.

"Well?" Pitch encouraged.

"Merida?" Elsa begged. "He's lying, isn't he?"

Slowly, Merida turned her blue eyes to her love, her lip quivering.

"Ah-"

"Pitch!"

She didn't get to finish as Mani Moon and the Guardians apparated in front of them.

"You slimy git." Bunny hissed.

"Ah, the Guardian four all together again." Pitch smiled. "And the astounding Mani Moon. I'm so honored that you've all come just for me. And so thankful that you've taken such great care of my son. However I must insist that he come with me now."

"North!" Jack cried to his mentor. "He's lying isn't he? Tell me he's lying."

North didn't even look back. His focus remained solely on Pitch.

"North." Jack urged.

"All of you." Mani Moon boomed. "Back to the castle. Toothless will guide you back."

On que, the great dragon skidded to a stop in front of his boy and began making urgent chuffing noises.

"North?" Jack tried again, but Hiccup and Anna were already getting him to his feet and chasing after the dragon.

"It doesn't matter where you hide him." Pitch chuckled letting his voice call to his son. "I will find him when he accepts me and he will fulfill his destiny."

So they ran. Hiccup and Anna had to practically drag Jack between them who seemed to be too shocked to figure out how to move his legs. Behind them Eugene was carrying Rapunzel on his back while looking behind them to make sure they weren't followed. Elsa was close behind her brother watching Merida as she ran ahead of everyone with Toothless her wand poised and ready. She knew something. She saw something. And she was going to tell them even if Elsa had to use the cruciatus curse on her.

There was quite a commotion at the school when they arrived. Teachers and students alike were in the front court yard watching in amazement as a dragon came pelting at them with the big four- a name the students had taken to calling Hiccup and the others- Jack's sisters and Eugene coming after it.

"It's another dragon attack." one of the students, Eep Crood, warned.

"No don't hurt him!" Hiccup cried.

They stared confused as the four and friends made their way to them with an exhausted Rapunzel and Jack.

"You seven." shouted Professor Woodwitch, the Gryffindor Head of House and their transfiguration teacher, as she came shuffling toward them. "Explain, at once."

"The dragon is mine." Hiccup jumped in not wanting anyone to hurt him. "He's usually a cat, but I needed to undo his transformation so he could go get Professor Moon."

"And why did you need to do that?" Professor Gothel, the Slytherin head of house and their charms teacher, said coldly. "You could have endangered the whole school by letting such a dangerous creature in here. What if it had attacked the students?"

"He wouldn't." Hiccup insisted. "And I had to. Professor Moon would have known that I would never undo the transformation unless it was urgent."

"So Professor Moon knew about this beast did he?" she scoffed.

"That doesn't matter now!" Anna finally cried, losing her temper with this woman- they never got on. "We had to send Toothless to get Moon because Pitch is back."

A silence covered the crowd as they stared at her. And to Anna's astonishment, Gothel smiled.

"Oh he is, is he." she laughed. "That is an amusing story."

"It's not a story." Merida hissed staring at the treeline. "E's back."

"You can't be serious." she sighed.

"They are quite serious."

They all turned to find the headmaster and Guardians making their way through the crowd to the four and friends.

"All of you in my office now." he told them. "The rest of you off to bed. Their will be an announcement at breakfast tomorrow."

North took over dragging Jack from Anna and Hiccup, but Eugene refused to give up Rapunzel. Together they somberly followed Moon but were a bit surprised that they did not head for the statute that marked the entrance to the Headmaster's office. Instead they headed down a familiar hall that would lead to a dead end. They paused for a moment letting the door appear then entered. There was a sofa and a couple of cups of steaming spiced tea already on a table. They sat down as the Guardians and Mani Moon stood expectantly.

"Is it true?" Was all Jack could say staring unseeing at his cup of tea. "What he said, about my parents, and you. Am I… Is he… I'm his son?"

Mani sighed but nodded.

"Yes. It's all true."

"How could you hide something like that from me?" Jack demanded, but their was no bite to his words. They were hollow like he just admitted defeat, but Elsa knew. She could see it in his eyes, his temper was rising and it wouldn't be long before it blew.

"You have to understand." Moon murmured calmly trying to be passive. "Back then, when Pitch was in power, everyone was at each other's throats. His power to spread fear made sure that no one could work together so defeating him would be impossible. It was a miracle that the Guardians were there to stop him."

"You turned him into a tree." Hiccup gawked.

"We destroyed his physical body but his spirit would not go." Bunny groaned.

"So ve did vat had to." North offered.

"Using all our power together we trapped his spirit in that tree then had it transferred to the Dark Forest here for safekeeping." Tooth sighed.

"But we did not expect for his power to reach out beyond his prison." Sandy's voice rang out in their minds. "That's why all those creatures came after you those first two years and why he could only attack you at the school. He was able to influence all those that resided in the forest. And when he was strong enough, he could use some of his old magic like the dementors or the Nightmares."

"Then why didn't you just take the tree somewhere else?" Elsa demanded glaring at all of them. "Instead of leaving it here where it could continue to endanger my brother and the others."

"You don't think we tried." Bunny growled leaning closer to her. "Third year you were here that's all we tried to do. But the damn thing wouldn't budge. He sealed himself to the grounds. And he wasn't going to move."

"Not until 'is heir came an' freed 'im." Merida growled back getting in his face so he would back away from Elsa. "Ye didn't think 'at would bae somethin ye lot shood teel us?"

"You seem to know already." Bunny snorted.

"Ah only jist got th' vision thes night, didn't ah." she roared. "Whit was ah gonna doo with 'at? 'E already had Jack under 'is control! Ye shood 'ave told us! Now 'e es goin ta try an' use Jack as a vessel ta regain 'is power. "

"Enough!" Rapunzel cried standing up fast and glaring at all of them. "What happened happened. We can't change that. All we can do is stop blaming one another and prepare for the next step. So stop bickering like a bunch of ninnies and focus."

They all stared at her in shock, then she suddenly remembered how weak her spell had made her and slumped back onto the sofa.

"How." Jack hissed, clenching his fists. "How did this happen?"

"Jack." Mani Moon murmured catching the boys eyes. "We had known that Pitch had a son for a long while but could never get close to you. The ministry was aware of this as well and wanted you dead. When the Guardians defeated Pitch I rushed to Pitch's manor and retrieved you and destroyed the manor claiming that Pitch would rather his son dead than in the hands of the enemy. I then placed you in the care of a family I trusted whole heartedly. They had a daughter your age and it was easy to pass you off as her twin. The ministry forgot about Pitch's son then and you were left to live a peaceful life. I had intended you to remain that way, and I am not ashamed to say that before the prophecy was spoken, I had no intention of telling where you came from. I had hoped that you would grow up believing you were simply an Overland and live a happy life."

"You were going to lie to me?" he choked.

"Yes. But the circumstances have changed." Moon said straightening up. "You now know that you are in fact Pitch's son, but that does not make you a Black my boy."

"Doesn't it?" Jack scoffed.

"You're not." Elsa insisted turning her glare on her brother. "I don't care what that monster says. You are my brother. You are an Overland. And no Boogeyman is going to change that. You're mine, not his. And if he wants you he is gonna have to go through me."

"Through us." Hiccup swore gripping Jack's shoulder.

"No!" Jack suddenly cried standing up and crossing the room. "Didn't you see what happened tonight. He was controlling me. He used me to free him. What if he can do that and make me hurt you. No, you all need to stay away from me. I need to be locked up where I could never get out and he could never get to me."

"What like Azkaban." Eugene snorted.

"Exactly." Jack nodded.

"I wasn't being serious you git." Eugene growled. "We're not throwing you in Azkaban."

"Then Saint Mungo's." Jack insisted.

"We're not throwing you in anywhere." Hiccup urged quickly making his way to his friend.

Jack shook his head and tried to back up but Hiccup just grabbed his arms and held him still.

"Listen to me." Hiccup insisted. "We will find a way to keep this from happening again. But we have to stay together. Divided we are weak but united we are strong."

"I don't want to hurt you." Jack murmured letting his head drop.

"You won't." Hiccup assured pulling him close so the boy's head was resting on his shoulder. "We won't let him have you. You're ours. We'll keep you forever."

It was decided after that that the four would spend the whole summer with the Guardians to train rather than head home. Still Hiccup and the others went to Hogsmeade station to say goodbye to Elsa and the others as they got ready to board.

"Ah'll write ye everyday." Merida promised as he hugged Elsa as tight as she could without hurting her. "An' ye an' th' others can come an' see us in August. It's onley a month apart."

"I know." Elsa sighed resting her brow against Merida's. "I just don't like the idea of not seeing you, not seeing Jack that long."

"Ah'll look after 'im." She promised. "Everythin' es goin' ta bae fine."

"Elsa, Anna, Eugene, the train's about to leave." Kristoff, a fifth year Hufflepuff and Anna's boyfriend- much to Jack's dismay- called to them from the carriage door.

"Coming." Eugene called back before he and Rapunzel shared one more hug and soft kiss. "I'll see you in August."

"Be safe." Rapunzel implored.

"Always." He smiled. "C'mon girls, let's go."

"Wait." Anna growled looking anxious. "We haven't said goodbye to big brother."

She wasn't the only one that was looking nervous. Hiccup was pacing back and forth on the platform staring at the deserted streets of Hogsmeade wringing his hands. Toothless was following him mewing every time he almost got kicked or stepped on.

"He should be here by now." He gritted. "Where is he?"

"Eugene," Rapunzel started. "Did you see him in the Slytherin dormitories?"

"No, I assumed he was with you guys." Eugene shook his head. "Come to think of it, I don't know if I saw him come back from the come and go room last night."

Now they were all anxious. They jumped when someone hollard for everyone to get aboard. But at this point they didn't care if the train left without them. Jack had just been bombed with some seriously traumatizing information and now no one knew where he was. There was no way they were leaving without knowing if he alright.

Out of nowhere there was a loud crack and they whipped around to find three of the Guardian Four standing with their packs ready.

"What are you lot standing around here for?" Bunny asked hefting his pack. "You three get on the trian. The others we're apparating to the manor."

"Wait!" Elsa stated keeping everyone in place. "Where is my brother?"

The Guardian's all looked at one another before Bunny finally sighed reaching into his robes and pulling out a rolled up piece of parchment.

"He left this for you." He said. "All of you. We had hoped to get you to the manor before you opened it, but I can see that's not going to happen."

Elsa snatched the letter and as soon as she broke the seal it opened itself and started talking. But it wasn't a howler. From it came Jack's deep kind and soft voice.

"I'm sorry." he began with a sigh. "I expect that by now you all are quite cross with me. I had to do it though. I won't be joining you at the manor this year. North is taking me somewhere secret where Pitch and the Ministry will never find me. I expect that the Ministry will be sending all the aurors they can spare after me so as to throw me in Azkaban, so they'll probably question you. If you want give them this letter, it won't' tell them anything anyways.

"I will tell you this. I'm going to get a handle on this so Pitch can never control me again and I will come back. I don't know when. I'm hoping by the next term, but it might be later than that. I just need to make sure that he can't use me to hurt anyone. Everyone will be safe then and I can come back so we can defeat him once and for all.

"Elsa, Anna, tell mom and dad I don't blame them for not telling me and that I'm forever grateful to them taking me in and treating me like their own. Should we come out of the battle unscathed I'll thank them properly. But for now just pass on the message please.

"Hiccup, Merida, Rapunzel, keep training. Don't let up for even a minute. Don't let your guard down. Study hard all of you. Stay strong, I'll see you soon, promise.

"With love and sincerity, Jack Frost."

Elsa sniffled at the use of his nick name. When the Overland twins had gotten to Hogwarts, their fair skin, hair and eyes made them look like snow nymphs. Add that to the fact that they both excelled at winter magic and it wasn't long before people started calling them Jack Frost and the Snow Queen. When they talked in code sometimes they called each other Frost and Snow.

"He's not coming." Anna murmured playing with one of her braids.

"He'll be back." Hiccup insisted glaring at the letter. "And when he does, I'm gonna kill him."

"Yur not th' only one." Merida growled.

"You'll all see him soon enough." Tooth assured patting Merida atop her untameable red curls. "But we really should get going. The trains about to leave and you three have a lot of training ahead of you. We'll see you girls, and in August. Now hurry along."

With one last hug from Eugene and Elsa they boarded the train just as it was getting ready to leave the station waving to Merida, Hiccup and Rapunzel from the door.

"Let's be off then." Sandy said taking Hiccup's arm while the others did the same to the others.

And that is how Elsa found herself with her sister, Eugene, Kristoff and three of the four sitting in a carriage pulled by an invisible creature heading for their school. They had avoided talking about Jack, North or Pitch for the whole of August choosing to focus only on their training. But now there was nothing to keep their minds occupied.

"Before we get there." Elsa started her head resting on Merida's shoulder. "Did you hear any word from him?"

With a sigh Merida shook her head.

"Ah wood 'ave told ye if ah did." she assured wrapping her arm around the snowy haired girls shoulder.

Elsa chanced a glance at Hiccup and felt a pang of guilt in her heart. The boy hadn't looked like he'd slept all summer and he had chewed his lip so much that it was raw. Toothless sat on his lap sadly while Hiccup absent mindedly scratched behind his ear. She had known since the whole love potion fiasco in fifth year that Jack and Hiccup had feelings far stronger than friendship for each other. That year Pitch had gotten someone, though they still don't know who, to slip Amortentia into their morning drinks causing them to fall for someone. That's actually how she and Merida got together. After everything was set right and they were cured they admitted that they still had feelings for each other and stayed together. Same thing with Eugene and Rapunzel. For Hiccup and Jack though it was a bit more complicated. Jack ended up not being poisoned- thinking back she assumed that Pitch had figured out who Jack was and had wanted to try to make him jealous and loathsome of his friends- and Hiccup became infatuated with his friend Astrid as she did him. It was a disaster. Jack did indeed become jealous though he fought it as long as he could, and ended up losing his temper during one of their training sessions Elsa, Anna, Eugene, Astrid and Kristoff happened to be their when it happened. Jack had thrown the impediment jinx at Hiccup when he wasn't paying attention knocking the boy to the ground.

"What was that for?" Hiccup barked getting back to his feet.

"Maybe if you were actually focusing on the task at hand and not when you can snog your girlfriend next you could have blocked it." Jack snarled. "Pitch is coming and all you can think about is Astrid."

"What the hell are you saying?" Hiccup demanded.

"I'm saying your priorities are crap." Jack roared. "You are going to get us all killed unless you focus. You're going to get Astrid killed."

"Reducto!" Hiccup cried throwing the spell.

Jack barely had time to dodge and put up a shielding charm.

"Boys what are you doing?" Tooth cried.

"Stupify." Jack shouted only for Hiccup to shield himself.

Back and forth, they shot spells and curses, hexes and jinxes forcing everyone else in the room to take cover.

"Jack, Hiccup, stop!" Rapunzel cried. "Please."

"Ye idiots are goin' ta bring th' whole school down on us." Merida snarled.

Suddenly they both paused. The rage evident in their eyes, blue sky crashing down on grassy fields. They raised their wands together letting their anger fuel the magic as it poured into the wands.

"FIENDFYRE!" they roared as one.

The flames paused taking the shape of a firey fox and night fury before rushing and colliding creating a blast that threw both boys across the room. They had to be rushed to the hospital wing after that as they had knocked themselves unconscious and would not wake up.

The boys wouldn't talk to each other for months after that. When they trained they made sure they were on opposite ends of the room. And during potions and other classes in which they were partnered they managed to convince Elsa and Eugene to switch with them. It wasn't until after the December Holidays that Jack finally found it out thanks to one of Professor Flint Lockwood's potion lessons. He had gotten off track and started talking about love potions. Jack rushed to the Guardians and shared his theory about his friends being poisoned and they all got cured. The boys made up and Astrid never forgave Jack for taking Hiccup from her since they broke up shortly after that. Hiccup told her he just didn't feel the same and now she throws curses and jinxes at Jack every chance she gets. And the boys still didn't realize that what they felt for each other was real. Too afraid that they'll be rejected or lose their best friend. So they suffered in silence.

She felt bad for bringing it up knowing that Hiccup must be worried out of his mind for Jack and it was only made worse when Jack didn't show up to platform 9 ¾ for the start of a new school year. She didn't know what she would do if Merida had disappeared like this. Sure she was entitled to her grief since he was her brother. But she knew, losing a brother hurt, but losing your heart was worse than death itself.

"Hiccup?" she finally started scooting over so she was right next to him.

He didn't answer. He didn't even seem to hear her. He just continued chewing on his lip and scratching at Toothless who was now staring at her as if to ask her to make him stop.

"Hiccup." she said as gently as she could easing his lip from the grip of his teeth and making him look at her.

She wanted to tell him that she was sure Jack was coming back, that everything was alright and it would be done with soon enough. They would go on to live happy lives and he would finally have his heart's deepest wish. But all she could do was blink away tears and lay his head on her shoulder.

The rest of the ride was silent as everyone couldn't think of anything to bring up that would lift spirits right now.

Pitch was back, meaning their world was in great peril. Their best friend was missing along with one of the strongest wizards in the world. And to top it all off, none of them really knew how to deal with the fact that Jack was Pitch's son. They had just sort of been avoiding it all summer. But now they had to face it. This was their last year at Hogwarts, their last chance to destroy Pitch once and for all.

This was all they had.

Dinner was uncharacteristically uneventful. Lot's of parents didn't want their children in the school where the Boogeyman had been resurrected or where his son might be so the batch of new first years was smaller than normal. Most of them looked terrified to even be here. And worse most of the other older students were glaring at the four and known friends. Elsa made sure to stay close to Hiccup at the Ravenclaw table and could see Kristoff doing the same for Rapunzel and Anna for Merida. Eugene was on his own but one smile from him had everyone at the Slytherin table looking away. She hated that he could do that.

Even Mani Moon's speech was shorter than normal. Mostly he was just putting emphasis on the fact that the students should stay away from the Forbidden Forest at all costs.

He was just finishing up when the Dining hall's grand door suddenly burst open making everyone jump. Heads spun so fast it looked like a scene from a muggle scary movie. Standing there under the door's arch was a very tall and intimidating white bearded man with a soft smile that did little to ease his harsh features and standing next to him was a boy with a familiar blue pullover hoodie.

"Jack." Hiccup gasped barely audible as he made to stand, but one look from North had him freezing in place.

Elsa looked back to find Merida and Rapunzel had received similar looks from the other Guardians who were stationed all around the dining hall. This confused her and glancing at her right she could see it confused- and aggravated- Hiccup too. They watched as North and Jack made their ways up from the isles of tables heading straight for the headmaster. Jack did not look well. There were bruises under his eyes, he was paler than normal and his eyes held a haunted look they never thought he could achieve. Their concern only grew worse as he stared blankly at the staff table following North as if on a lead rather than actually meaning his actions.

"Jack?" Hiccup whispered again as said boy reached the headmaster.

The students were murmuring and hissed around them. Elsa knew instantly they were all aware of Jack's lineage and were now weary of his presence at the school. She glared at a few that made eye contact with her and sent a chill their way. There was no way she and the others were going to let the students treat Jack like he was the enemy.

He wasn't the bad guy here, Pitch was.

Mani Moon nodded at something that North said then patted Jack on the shoulder and gestured to the Slytherin table. Jack nodded and took his seat closest to the door and furthest away from the others. This means he had to walk past everyone again and endure their looks of disgust and contempt. But he kept his head held high and stared blankly as he did and sat down without looking at any of his house mates. Elsa made eye contact with Eugene and he just shrugged, but she could tell that he was also worried about the boy.

"Now then, I would like to finish by saying this." Mani Moon announced getting most everyone's attention. "Last year, a few of our students had a brush with the villain known as Pitch Black. He was resurrected within the grounds, that is true. But the Guardians and myself purged him from here and unless allowed back by myself he will not return. So you are all quite safe. Also I would like to say that this year we should all focus on banding together rather than drifting apart. Blood does not define us. It doesn't matter if you are muggleborn, pureblood or half blood. We are all people and we are here to learn, not judge. So please, do not let fear darken your hearts and look out for one another. And with that I urge you to get some much needed sleep. We all have busy days tomorrow."

With a loud collective scraping sound, most of the students got up from their tables and headed for their common rooms. The Prefects rushing to lead the first years. All except Elsa, Hiccup, Merida, Anna, Kristoff, Rapunzel, and Eugene. Elsa should have joined them since she was head girl she supposed. But it looked like Guy, also house Ravenclaw seemed to have it handled. So she waited with the others until the hall was empty. They stared at Jack who remained sitting waiting for something to happen. Still not really seeing anything around him Jack got up and started making his way out into the corridors. They all jumped up and ran after him. They caught up to him halfway to the Slytherin common room and surprising no one, Hiccup was the first to reach him.

"Jack!" he called grabbing the boy's arm and forcing him around.

On instinct Jack reached for his pocket and pulled out his crook which doubled in size upon his silent call of the growing charm. Hiccup cried out jumping back and holding up his hands.

"Jack!" Elsa cried stopping next to Hiccup. "It's us."

"Put 'at thing away ye git." Merida hissed pulling out her own wand but not raising it.

He blinked a couple of times before his serious glare turned into a genuine smile and he lowered the crook.

"Guys." he beamed pulling Elsa and Hiccup in for a hug. "I've missed you."

Her shock now gone, Elsa clung to her brother letting a silent tear slip down her cheeks.

"You've missed us?" Merida barked stomping up so she could thunk him on the head. "At's aw ye hae ta say efter two month ay missin' in action?"

"Ow, sorry, sorry." Jack whined. "I couldn't tell you guys where I was going. Pitch and the Ministry-"

"That doesn't matter right now." Elsa interjected pushing Hiccup aside so Anna could glomp her brother. He held her just as tight smiling all the wider. "Tell us everything that happened."

His smile fell just the slightest as he looked all around them and shook his head.

"Not here." he whispered. "C'mon I'll tell you everything in the room of Requirement."

They hurried along, dodging the caretaker Quasimodo and his awful rat Esmeralda as they went. Finally they came to a corridor with a dead end and summoned the door to the room of Requirement. Stepping in they found a bunch of sofas, a roaring fireplace with a table set in front of it and steaming cups of tea and a couple of feet from that a number of cots with thick quilts and plush pillows.

"Looks like none of us are going to back to our common rooms." Jack chuckled.

"Of course not." Anna insisted taking a seat and a cup of tea adding a mountain of sugar to it. "We are not leaving your side till tomorrow."

"C'mon tell us everything." Rapunzel urged pushing him into a seat next to his sister.

Sharing a look with Elsa, Hiccup wondering if he should let the siblings sit together. She merely rolled her eyes and took the seat on the other side of her sister leaving Jack's left open. Smiling gratefully at her Hiccup took Jack's left and added some sugar and milk to his own cup of tea.

"What happened?" He asked when everyone else was seated on the plush cushions.

Jack sighed.

"A lot. We never stayed in one place for long. Always moving from safe house to safe house. The longest we ever stayed anywhere was a week and that was only because the next safe house was compromised."

"What were you learning?" Elsa asked running her hand through Merida's fiery hair as she was sitting between her legs.

"Mostly occlumency." Jack groaned. "Trying to make sure that Pitch couldn't get into my head and make me do anything. That and honing my nonverbal casting and apperating."

"We learned that too." Hiccup nodded. "Nonverbal casting, occlumency and apperation."

"So why couldn't you learn with them?" Eugene asked not seeing why Jack had to go away when they were learning the same thing.

"...Because I had a few close calls." Jack said hesitantly, ashamed. "He got into my head a couple of times and made me attack North. He was trying to find me in my dreams too. I had to vanquish four nightmares and a double of myself called a fearling. His new masterpiece."

"Whit does 'at do?" Merida asked sipping her tea.

"Well it's like a nightmare only it stays in the physical world and whispers to you about how all your fears are real. You defeat it the same way you do a nightmare or a dementor. The trick is focusing and not letting it get under your skin. It took me weeks to defeat mine and by then I had already attack North five times. Pitch was trying to get me to leave North, to try and find him. To join him."

Anna gasped wrapping her arms around him and hugging him tight.

"But you're strong and you didn't let him get to you." She assured smiling softly. "Because your my awesome big brother."

"That and I couldn't let him win." Jack groaned. "I've developed this competitiveness when it comes to Pitch. The more he tries to prove I'm his the more I fight. It's like playing Quidditch. I can't let the other team get the snitch first. Or at least that's how I look at it to keep myself sane."

"That's good." Kristoff nodded. "As long as you look at it that way you'll be fine."

Jack glared at the boy, knowing that he only wanted to make Jack feel better so he wouldn't be so mad about his dating the youngest Overland daughter.

"I still don't understand why you couldn't be with us though." Hiccup murmured.

"Because Hic," Jack sighed heavily. "When I attacked North it wasn't just a few jinxes and curses. I was using the three unforgivable curses. I put him through so much. I couldn't do the same to you guys."

They sat in silence then just letting everything sink in. It wasn't until Elsa realized how late it was and urged everyone to bed when they finally lightened up. They talked and joked until finally passing out from a summer's worth of worrying exhaustion.

Elsa just hoped that whatever was coming they would be able to handle it.

The next morning they woke up to the booming voice of North.

"Children time for vaking." He called making them all jump or in Hiccup's case, fall out of bed.

"North?" Rapunzel asked rubbing her eyes. "What time is it?"

"Just a bit past dawn." Tooth told her softly coming to smooth her wild hair down.

"Why are we waking up so early?" Eugene groaned shoving his head back into his pillow.

"Because we need to talk." Bunny huffed pulling the covers off of Merida after she tried to bury herself further under. "So g'up."

Hiccup did as he said rubbing his bruised shoulder and giving Sandy a questioning look while the others just smiled at him softly. Jack was up and ready giving North his full attention. This stung Hiccup a bit. Whatever happened over this last summer changed Jack enough that he wasn't giving sarcastic comments whenever he wanted when it came to the Guardians or smiling like a kid on a snow day. These were just two things that made Hiccup's heart race, and now, now his Jack was an obedient soldier. Now more than ever Hiccup wanted this war to be over so he could get his old Jack back. Or at least as much of his old Jack as he could back.

"Whit's goin on?" Merida yawned now awake and glaring at Bunny.

"Loch I said, girlly. We need to talk." he crossed his arms glaring right back at her.

"About what?" Elsa asked helping her sister with her now gravity defying hair.

"It's really just something we need to talk about with the four." Tooth told her with a sad smile. "But it's alright if you hear it too."

"So you woke us up for nothing." Eugene whined.

"Better than listening to your snoring." Kristoff snorted staring at Anna's hair making her skin become the resemblance of a cherry.

"What's going on North?" Jack demanded. "What are you four up to?"

"Ve arre leaving." North said without hesitation.

"What?" Everyone cried.

"You can't!" Hiccup insisted. "What if Pitch comes back. We need you here."

"Pitch is the reason why we're leaving." Bunny told them still rubbing his ears.

"Whit?" Merida demanded.

"We've taught you all we can." Tooth assured. "There is nothing else you can learn from us. But we want you to keep up with your training. Even go as far as to teach other students if you want."

"The battle with Pitch is coming and you're going to need all the help you can get." Sandy nodded.

"But why are you leaving?" Rapunzel asked wringing her hair nervously.

"Pitch was our enemy to defeat first, and we failed." he said sadly.

"Ve arre hoping to confrront him now, find vay to stop him." North added.

"We may not be the destined ones, but the least we can do is find some weakness that will help you lot." Bunny nodded.

"That is all we can do at this moment." Tooth sighed. "We will try to stay in touch and let you know what's going on."

"But," Jack couldn't seem to come up with a good excuse for them to stay. "But we don't want you to go."

"Everrything vill be fine, Jack." North assured patting the boy on the shoulder. "Ve be alrright."

That morning was a somber one as they said goodbye to the Guardians and got ready for class. They stayed together as much as possible but had to split in the dining hall and go to their respective tables. Still, they stayed in pairs then, Jack and Eugene stuck close which put Hiccup and Elsa at ease as they saw a good portion of the houses glaring at him. Eugene would glare back at them while Jack just kept his head down and ate his food silently.

"You feel it too right?" Hiccup asked Elsa as they took their seats at the Ravenclaw table.

"Yeah." She nodded. "We need to keep an eye on Jack."

"Agreed." Hiccup said into his mug.

Thankfully they were still taking N.E.W.T classes all to prepare them for the exams at the end of the year, so they had quite a few classes with Jack. He only wanted to be a seeker for Chudley Cannons so there weren't too many classes he had to take but still he took all the classes that his friends took just to stay with them. Elsa wanted to teach at Hogwarts, mainly Defence Against the Dark Arts seeing as how that's all she and her friends did, so her schedule was packed with potion DADA and charms. Merida and Eugene intended to become an Auror so they were taking, DADA, transfiguration, charms, potions, and herbology. Hiccup was determined to work with dragons and help others to understand them, so he was taking DADA, potions, herbology, charms, transfiguration and care of magical creatures. He was the busiest of them all. No one was taking COMC with him, but he didn't mind. And unlike his fellow students, he didn't have to spend tons of gallions on his school books. He had a library journal. A magical journal that could become any and every book the owner would need. All they would have to do is tap the front cover with their wand three times then give the title and name of author of whatever book they needed and the pages inside would be the exact pages from the original book. This would even allow Hiccup to makes notes in the margins and drawing in the spaces between paragraphs. The notes and sketches would stay with the intended book even if he asked for a different book. It was his most prized possession. Rapunzel, well there was no question she was going to be a healer. Her parents were muggle Doctors and she had poured herself into magical healing since first year, and creating her lullaby spell in fourth. So she had to take herbology, potions, DADA, charms and transfigurations. They were all determined to pour themselves into their studies and training this year. But, as they saw in their first potions class, that was going to be difficult.

They had been walking to the dungeons when a bunch of their classmates passed them, each shoulder checking Jack with all their might.

"Oi." Merida roared whipping around on them. "Ye better watch where yur goin."

"Merida don't." Jack hissed.

"Oh we were, Dunbroch." one sneered his eyes burning into Jack's back.

"Oh ye were, were ye?" Merida gritted unsheathing her wand like a sword and flicking it up. "Levicorpus!"

All three of the students were raised into the air by their ankles crying out as the world turned upside down.

"Merida, stop." Jack urged. "It's not worth it."

"Indeed it wasn't."

Turning they saw Professor Gothel her own sneer in place.

"Twenty points from Gryffindor, Miss Dunbroch." she chided.

"Whatever." Merida growled dropping the students. "Ah ever see ye mistreating Jack again it'll be more than a small jinx. I'll curse yoo next."

"Merida!" Elsa cried.

"That's another, fifty points Dunbroch, you better watch yourself." Gothel hissed.

"C'mon." Hiccup urged grabbing Merida's elbow. "We have class."

"You shouldn't have done that." Jack sighed as they fell in step.

"Why?" Merida demanded. "Those git needed ta be taught a lesson."

"Because they won't be the last." he gave her a hard look. "I'm the son of Pitch, that means a lot of people are going to hate me. This is just gonna keep happening. Until Pitch is defeated by me."

"By us." Rapunzel corrected giving her own hard look. "And we won't let anyone touch you."

But as the day went on, Jack's words were proven true. Many students had attempted to throw things at him, trip him, bump him, and even jinx him. The others had their hands full throwing up Patean charms, catching things before they hit him and putting themselves between him and the other students. It was exhausting. And it wasn't made any better when Merida finally blew and started throwing curses and hexes at everyone in the library. She had gotten a week's worth of detention for that but she didn't seem to care.

The only time they were free from the glares and jeers of their fellow students was when they were in the room of requirement training. They had even taken to sleeping in there. They could stay together and keep an eye on Jack. Who, as it had became clear to Hiccup just three days after the start of term, had taken to sleeping in the room every night.

Hiccup was heading back to the Ravenclaw dormitories after a long night of study in the library when he had seen Jack running through the corridors from some Slytherins. Shocked and confused Hiccup ran after them only to have to crouch behind a wall as the Slytherins stopped at a wall.

"He did come this way didn't he?" one demanded out of breath.

"I thought he did." another shrugged.

"Whatever, he's gone. That's all that matters." the third said fixing her robes. "Let's get back to the dormitory before the hunchback finds us."

He waited till their footsteps' echoes were gone before he straightened up and went to the wall. The door to the come and go room etched itself into the wall and allowed him entry. He took the handle and opened it slowly, not wanting to spook Jack.

"Jack." he called softly, stepping in slowly.

What greeted him was a teary eyed Jack staring wide eyed and fearful at him with his crook pointed at his chest.

"Jack, it's me." Hiccup whispered taking another step forward his hands up in surrender. "They're gone. It's just me."

Realization came shining in Jack's eyes as he dropped his crook and let Hiccup pull him into his arms.

"I knew this would happen." Jack sniffled. "Pitch warned me. He said the school would turn on me because I'm his son. I thought I could handle it. But… I can't even go back to my own dormitory. They just chase me out. I, Hic, I don't know if I can keep this up."

"You don't have to." Hiccup promised.

"Don't leave me alone, please. I can't do this by myself."

"I will never leave you."

They pulled back just a little bit, staring into each other's eyes. Jack's eyes were a bright sky blue, unlike Astrid's placid azur. He had made the comparison many a time. Mostly when he was under the effects of the love potion. But then he was trying to fight with the potion. As it insisted that he loved Astrid, he was sure somewhere in his heart that he loved Jack, but he couldn't get past the potion. Now he stared openly at the eyes he had been staring at for seven years. Not filled with a fun loving glow like usual but a haunted sadness. He wanted desperately to take the sadness away and give it it's natural glow. He supposed that's why he started to lean in. Jack did to and they met halfway pressing their lips together in a desperate need for one another. This felt nothing like it did with Astrid. Where she was forceful and taking, Jack was gentle and giving. It was like he was letting Hiccup take whatever was needed. He nodded his head in this way that had them deepening the kiss. Hiccup clung to him never wanting it to end.

They fell asleep like that. Clinging to each other on a cot and lips locked. That was how Merida found them the next day. They had missed all their morning classes. Yet they couldn't make themselves care.

Everyone was brought up to speed on what the Slytherin house had done and now stayed with the boys in the come and go room every night. They had even taken to eating all their meals in their as well. The house elves didn't seem to mind. They always did like Jack ever since he saved them from an acromantula that had found its way into the kitchens and was attempting to eat them. They rarely interacted with the other students. Even Astrid had turned her back on them. She never liked Jack, but she was still Hiccup's friend even after he broke up with her. But now she hated them all. Her curses and hexes had taken on a more dangerous tone, almost fatal. Hiccup took it upon himself to protect Jack from these attacks. He had gotten into five duels with her already, and ten with other students and barely a month had passed since the start of term and all to protect Jack who refused to raise his crook unless it was necessary. Merida nearly went ballistic on the Slytherin quidditch team when they kicked Jack off and resigned from the Gryffindor's when they had said they would have done the same.

"I can still become an auror, I guess." Jack smiled that night when they were all gathered in the room of requirement.

"You'll still play for the Cannons." Hiccup assured laying his head on Jack's shoulder- to say everyone was more than happy at this relationship was an understatement. "Once we defeat Pitch, every team is gonna be begging to have you. And as skilled as you are you'll have no trouble staying on the team."

"'E's right Jack." Merida nodded. "Ye were th' onley one ah couldn't keep up with."

"I just want to play." Jack sighed.

"You still can." Rapunzel told him. "Mind you, with you and Merida it won't be a challenge, but we're all fair flyers. We can start scheduling practices alongside our training. Apparition is useful and fast, but sometimes you just need to ride on a broom. Not to mention I bet that there will be times that Auror's will have to fight while flying on a broom and we might have to fight Pitch while flying so it only seems natural to train in that as well."

"You mean it?" Jack asked beaming.

"Of course." she beamed back. "We'll start now if you want."

So they did. The room changed itself so it was big to accommodate for their movements. They only played a few rounds of quidditch with Jack and Merida on opposite teams to make it even but ended the last game in fits of laughter as Toothless got a little over excited and leapt at Jack knocking him into a wall. He was so focused on not letting Hiccup's pet fall that he lost control of the broom and bounced from wall to wall until finally landing on a mountain of pillows that wasn't there before. After that they practiced casting spells while flying breaking off into pairs and throwing magic back and forth. This went better than they thought. Turns out most of them were great at had trouble with it but figured that Rapunzel would be riding with him most of the time. She could cast and he'd fly.

When they finally tired themselves out they crashed on a bunch of sofas and sipped at tea and munched on biscuits while laughing at everything they had done that night. It wasn't long after that they retired to bed.

But they weren't asleep for long.

"NO!"

They all sat upright about three hours later, wands and crook clutched in their hands trying to find the source of the yell.

"Merida!" Elsa cried getting out of bed and rushing to the girl who was curled up on the floor. "Merida? What's wrong."

"It can't be." Merida creid. "It's jist a dream. It has ta be a dream."

"What was a dream?" Elsa asked gently knowing this behavior after spending summers with her.

"Merida what did you see?" Rapunzel urged.

"Was it Pitch?" Hiccup asked kneeling next to Elsa. "Merida what was it?"

"It can't be real." Merida shook her head violently. "It jist can't."

"What can't." Jack demanded getting worried.

But before Merida could answer the doors opened. This shocked them all greatly since none other than themselves should have known how to get in this room. Had another student found their safe haven. If so they were about to get a bunch of curses thrown their way. But upon seeing who it was they lowered their wands and gawked.

"Headmaster?" Kristoff said breathless.

"Children." Mani Moon nodded.

"No!" Merida cried standing, her watery eyes on the tall pale man. "Don't say it. Please. It can't be real."

"I'm sorry my dear but I'm afraid it is." he looked just as upset as Merida but seemed to be keeping a straighter face for them.

"What is?" Hiccup asked not liking this feeling of dread creeping up his spine.

He crept closer to Jack, grasping his hand to find some comfort and waited for Mani Moon to tell them.

"Children," he started with a waver in his voice. "Jack, Merida, Rapunzel and Hiccup, I'm afraid that I must inform you that, this night, a few hours ago in fact, the Guardian Four, Nicklaus North, Toothiana Fairy, Aster Bunnymund, and Sandy Sandman, were murdered by Pitch Black."

The room fell into silence as this all sunk in. The only sounds to be heard were the muffled sobs from Merida as she buried her face in Elsa's shoulder. All Jack could do was stare dumbfounded at the headmaster blinking rapidly as he tried to grasp the concept laid out in front of him.

"They're dead?" he asked unbelieving. "The Guardians are dead?"

Classes were canceled the next day. Almost all of the students knew the Guardians, they took turns teaching DADA after Professor Fredrickson retired. They were some of the best teachers in the school. Always were sure to teach them real things they would need. When they left they were replaced with Professor Callahan, who was fine but be he was no Guardian. Everyone was given a chance to mourn. But it was the four that felt the most, and Elsa and the others felt it was best to leave them to their space for now. So they sat in the room of requirement with only one another to share their pain. They had been with the Guardians since third year and had seen them every August since. They had become mentors, friends, brothers and sister. To suddenly realize that they can't write them and ask them questions, or apparate to the manor for tea, or even expect after lesson lessons was just too much. They didn't eat all day choosing to stay in the come and go room curled up together in a pile and let the tears come. They were the only ones who understood what the other was going through. There would be times one of them would leave the pile and stomp around the room breaking things, screaming at the top of their lungs as they threw things and cast hexes on others. The others would allow this knowing it's what they need right then and there. Soon enough they would come back to the pile and let the others hold them. They didn't speak. What were they supposed to say? Instead they just held one another and hoped the pain would stop soon. It was well into the afternoon when Mani Moon came to them again.

"Children." He said gently. "I must ask you all to come with me to my office."

"Do we have to?" Hiccup asked, his voice hoarse.

"Yes, you must." He said sadly. "There is someone from the ministry here to see you."

They followed him, heads down feet dragging all the way to the corridor with the gargoyle at the end of it.

"Fire Mist." The headmaster said softly and the stairway was revealed.

Inside there was a tall man wearing a long cloak lined with purple and a high collar, tall and lanky with dark hair and a long pointed nose.

"Minister Dracula." Professor Moon acknowledged with a nod. "The children."

"Ah, yes." Dracula nodded looking sullen. "Hello Mr. Horrendous, Ms. Corona, Ms. Dunbroch, and Mr. Bl-"

"Overland." Moon interrupted.

"Sorry, you must forgive me." Dracula sighed. "It has been a long couple of months. I'm sure you have no interest in being associated with that man."

Jack just glared at him.

"That is not what you're here for, Dracula." Mani groaned. "Please, let us be done with this business, the children don't need to be kept waiting. Their nerves really can't take much more I'm afraid."

"Yes, yes of course." Dracula nodded pulling out a rolled up piece of parchment and let it float in the air unrolling itself so that they could all read the cramped writing. "This is the last will and testament of Nicolaus North, Aster Bunnymund, Toothiana Fairy, and Sandy Sandman."

The four now stared at the parchment with great interest pain pumping from their heart and into their veins blue and cold.

"They have left the manor and all that is in it to Jack Overland, Merida Dunbroch, Rapunzel Corona, and Hiccup Horrendous." he read.

They all looked at each other quizzically.

"Why would they do 'at?" Merida asked.

"They had no living relatives." Dracula informed with a small wave of the hand. "No children or siblings. And it says right here in North's hand writing, and I quote, 'After we have passed on my fellow Guardians and I believe that these children will become the most powerful and lawful wizards and witches. They will carry on our legacies. Not to say that they won't go on to be the world's best quidditch seeker, or first class aurors and healers or chasing dragons around the world. But it does help to be known as the Guardians. We leave all our worldly possessions to these four children in the hopes that it will help them along in their life after Pitch. We know that they will prevail and survive.

Children, we are sorry to have left you as we did. But please, don't give up. You are strong alone, and invincible together.

You got this.'

End quote." Dracula finished. "They also left you this. With the hopes that it would help you defeat Pitch."

He pulled out a tiny sliver of a glass shard. Something that was barely the size of his finger nail. He held it up to them so they would take it, but they only stared at it.

"What is it?" Hiccup asked.

"I don't know." Dracula sighed rolling his eyes. "I was only told to bring it to you. So go on take it."

They all reached for it. Barely the tips of their fingers brushed it and they pulled back as if it shocked them. Their eyes glassed over as they saw flashes of images cross their vision. Images of the Guardians but different, Tooth seemed to be some kind of feathered fairy and Sandy was this tiny golden man. And Bunny, well he was a giant bunny. There was more, they saw themselves in what looked like muggle garb and standing under the moon. Pitch was there too but only briefly. More images came, this time of the Guardians as they know them only younger and fighting Pitch and milling around Hogwarts. Within seconds it was gone. They blinked looking at each other then at the shard not knowing what to do.

"What is it, children?" Moon asked with a knowing look.

"Nothing." Jack said hastily taking the shard and shoving it into his pocket. "Thank you minister, we appreciate you coming out here for us."

"It was for the Guardians." Dracula sighed. "The ministry owes them so much, this was the least we could do."

"Thanks anyway." Hiccup said wanting to get out of there and knowing that the others did too. "We should be going now. Need time to think about all this."

"Of course." Mani Moon nodded waving the door open. "Off you go children and do try to eat and get some rest."

"We will." Rapunzel assured as they hurried out.

They waited till they got to the come and go room before they talked. Jack pulled the shard out of his pocket and they all stared at it.

"You all saw that yeah?" Jack demanded looking back and forth at them all.

"Ay course ah did." Merida snorted. "Aam th' seer."

"I saw it too." Rapunzel said playing with her hair. "It was… weird. Like seeing into another world. We were there but we weren't us."

"What I want to know is why the Guardians think this will help us." Hiccup pondered rubbing his chin. "What does it do?"

"Shows you crazy visions." Jack snorted. "Is that what it feels like when you see things Merida?"

"Nah, it feels worse." She shrugged.

"The point is." Hiccup interjected getting everyone's attention back on him. "The Guardians gave this to us to help defeat Pitch. Which means it has to be some kind of weapon."

"But what does it do?" Rapunzel asked.

"I don't know." Hiccup shook his head. "Maybe we should touch it again and see if we can make sense of the visions."

"Ah think 'ats a bit dangerous." Merida shook her head. "Speakin' as th' only seer 'ere, fur those 'at don't 'ave th' gift it can be dangerous ta dabble loch thes."

"It's the only lead we have." Jack told her holding out the shard for everyone. "We have to try something."

With a sigh she nodded and they all reached out again.

The images flashed by faster this time. They couldn't really make out anything from the "other world" but new images came too. Slower and easier to make out.

"This has gone too long Pitch." North roared.

"You were our friend." Tooth cired. "Please don't make us do this."

"He made his choice when he attacked those people." Bunny growled.

"It's not too late, Pitch. You can change." Sandy begged.

"There is no turning back for me." Pitch smiled. "Even if you kill me now, I will not rest until this world fears me."

Anger, sadness, hatred, all these miserable emotions heavy in their hearts, the Guardians raised their wands as they surrounded the weakened Pitch.

"Then you leave no choice." North hissed ripping something from his neck and throwing it in the air.

They all raised their wands to aim at it and spoke as one.

"AVADA KEDAVRA!"

The curses crashed into the shard which glowed green and sent the four curses ten fold showering down on the defenseless Pitch.

And he collapsed limp and dead.

With an audible gasp they all stepped away from the shard leaving Jack to clutch it in shaky hands.

"'At thing!" Merida panted staring in awe of the shared. "It amplified their spell."

"And kept the memories of the event." Hiccup huffed intrigued.

"If we used that on Pitch…" Rapunzel trailed off.

"We'd be able to stop him once and for all." Jack gritted holding the shard tight. "This is the key to destroying that monster."

The weeks that followed the Guardian's death were the worst by far. Jack had to visit the hospital wing at least three times a day to get some cuts and bruises looked after. The worst case scenario he would have to get some painful pustules removed or some bones regrown. Hiccup, Merida and Rapunzel were losing points for their houses and receiving detentions right and left because they kept jumping to Jack's defence and ending up in duels. They sent more students to the hospital wing than Jack just for revenge. Losing the Guardians had done a number on their minds and they were not willing to take the shit the students were dealing out to Jack without exploding and fighting back. Twice Hiccup had undone the transformation on Toothless and set him on students for attempting to use the reducto curse on Jack. The school was becoming a war zone and it was driving everyone crazy. The teachers had taken to patrolling the corridors in order to make sure that no one tried to cause trouble and were quick to catch anyone that was rearing to attack Jack before they did sending them away.

"Thes es insane." Merida growled as they sat on the front lawn.

It was warm and sunny on this October day, most likely the last day as such until next spring. They wanted to get out of the room of requirement and breath so they sat under a grand oak tree just shy of the lake relaxing.

"We can't get two minutes peace." She continued tossing a stone into the lake.

"I know what you mean." Hiccup sighed, as he leaned against the tree and played with Jack's hair who's head was laying on his lap. "Just this last Care of Magical Creatures class I lunged at Maui for calling Jack the spawn of fear. Professor Gobber had a hell of a time pulling me off him."

"He's like twice your size, mate." Jack chuckled. "How did you manage that?"

"I may have used the impediments curse first." Hiccup blushed.

Jack laughed harder brushing his knuckles against a rosey cheek.

"That's my man." He smirked.

"Ye two are gross." Merida gagged.

"Leave them alone, Mer." Elsa sighed laying her head on the other girl's shoulder.

"Yeah, I think their cute." Rapunzel smiled.

"Of course you do blondie." Eugene snorted. "You've been shipping them since first year."

"We all were." Anna insisted as she and Kristoff finished up a game of wizard's chest.

"Guys." Hiccup groaned.

"Let them fawn Hic." Jack laughed harder. "They need something to keep them entertained."

"But why does that have to be us." Hiccup grumbled turning redder.

"Well look who it is."

They all sat straighter, or up in Jack's case, as a group they used to know so very well made their way to them.

"Astrid." Hiccup snarled getting to his feet.

"Hiccup, don't." Jack urged standing with him, hand on his shoulder.

"I can't believe you." Astrid hissed glaring at Jack's hand. "You know who he is, what he is and you're still okay with him touching you?"

"Of course I know who and what he is." Hiccup gritted stepping forward much to Jack's dismay. "He's Jack Frost, and he's my boyfriend."

"Disgusting." Snotlout spat.

"Mind yur own business." Merida growled stepping up with Hiccup.

"Or what, you'll tell the Guardians." Astrid shot back only to give a big dry laugh. "Oh that's right you can't, because Jack's daddy killed them."

"You bitch!" Merida roared as she and Hiccup pulled out their wands but before they could cast anything she was sent flying.

Turning they saw Jack, crook raised eyes narrow with fury.

"He is not my daddy." Jack roared as she got back to her feet pulling out her own wand.

"Filamentous!" she cried.

Hiccup stepped in the way throwing up a shield and casting madly back.

"Flipendo duo." he called knocking back Astrid and her little squad of five.

It was an all out war then, though a one sided one. Even if Astrid and her friends had just taken on Hiccup and the four it wouldn't have done hardly anything. They had been trained for four years by the Guardians to fight and before that Hiccup and Rapunzel were the top of their class with Elsa and Jack and Merida were always powerful. But add now Jack's sisters, Eugene and Kristoff who had all been taught on and off by the Guardians and Astrid's group had no chance. They were pummeled and with their being no teachers around Jack and the others were free to take out all their aggression on the others. A whole summer's worth. All the pain, all the suffering endurance, and the torment was let out as they roared and cried with their spells. Finally it ended with Astrid and the others knocked out and limp and Jack and his group breathing hard, their brows glistening with sweat.

"Ah!" Rapunzel suddenly cried running after something toward the lake.

"Blondie?" Eugene asked running after her.

"Acció!" she called pointing her wand, but nothing happened. "Finite! Arresto Momentum. Immobulus. Petrificus Totalis. Oh just hold still already."

"Whit are ye doin?" Merida called running after her.

Finally Rapunzel paused and waved her wand before pointing it.

"Gotcha!" she whooped triumphantly.

"Got what?" Hiccup asked catching up with her, the others on his heals.

"This." she beamed lifting her wand and a bubble with it.

Inside the bubble was something the four were all familiar with.

"Black sand." Jack hissed glaring at the sand with all his might. "Nightmare sand, Pitch's magic."

"Yes." Rapunzel nodded. "I saw it seep out of Astrid's mouth. Don't you see, Pitch's warning wasn't a warning. He did this. The students have been infected with his nightmare sand. He's been in their dreams filling them with fear for you Jack. He turned them against you."

"Then why haven't we been infected?" Hiccup asked pointing to everyone standing around.

"I'm not sure." Rapunzel shook her head. "Maybe he tried, but couldn't. We've beaten the nightmares before after all, so maybe we have a higher resistance to them."

"Either way," Jack interjected. "How did it get onto school grounds? Pitch's magic is warded off here. There is no way it could have been brought in."

"Maybe there's a flaw in the wards." Kristoff suggested.
"I don't think Mani Moon would make that mistake." Elsa shook her head. "But perhaps the wards were tricked."

"What do you mean?" Eugene asked.

"A simple but powerful charm would be enough to confuse the wards to think that a small amount of the sand was something else. Maybe just harmless sand in an hour glass. Then whoever did it could let the sand slip out and infect the students to turn on Jack and make him turn."

"You think that one of the students did it?" Anna asked looking murderous.

"No a student wouldn't be skilled enough." She shook her head. "It had to be a teacher."

"What?" her sister cried. "But all the teachers are allies to Moon why would they turn on him?"

"Because Pitch got to them." Hiccup told her. "There's no telling whether they joined because they wanted or if he made them, either way it's the most plausible answer."

"We have to warn Professor Moon." Jack urged.

"But we don't even know who it is." Eugene shook his head. "We have no suspects and only this bit of sand as proof. We walk in their now it will only be a waist of his time. We need more."

"You said it could be something like sand in an hourglass, right?" Kristoff asked turning to Elsa.

"Or something like that yes." she nodded.

"Then I have an idea of who it could be." he nodded grimly.

About half an hour later they found themselves back in the great hall with Mani Moon waiting for the suspect to come upon his summons. He didn't seemed at all surprised at what they had said and when they named their suspect he only sighed. It was like he knew all this already but had been trying to ignore it. Now however, as so many students have all come to the same conclusion he couldn't. Hiccup wanted to yell at him for this. If he knew then why didn't he do anything.

"Because I had no proof, Mr. Horrendous." Mani sighed not looking at the boy.

Everyone looked at Hiccup in surprise seeing as he had said nothing yet Moon answered his angry question.

"Sir, did you just-" But Moon interrupted him.

"No I did not use legitimacy on you my boy." He said now looking to Hiccup. "But I knew that you would be the one to think this. I had suspected for some time that someone in my staff had joined Pitch and I had an idea who, but I had no proof. If I had been wrong then I might as well drive them and a good number of my staff to Pitch's side. If it had gotten out that I had so little trust in one of my staff and they were innocent the rest of them wouldn't trust me either. I had to play this safe you see. I am sorry that you all had to go through so much trouble till this point though. If I could have done anything to prevent it I would have."

"Sir, if I might ask." Elsa spoke up, pondering something. "Why are we not meeting her in your office. Why are we in the great hall?"

"Because, I do believe you are telling the truth and I also believe that once she is found out there will be a fight. So I ask you all to stand behind me. Your fight is with Pitch, not your professor."

"But she turned th' whole school against Jack." Merida squaked. "Ye cannot

expect us ta sit back an' let ye take care ay it."

"I can and you will." Mani said with a stern look to Merida.

Before she could argue the doors were thrown open and Madame Gothel came sauntering in. Her robes swayed, sweeping the floor as she strode forward a smug look on her face her heels clicking loudly against the stone floor. Stopping just before the headmaster she put her hands on her hips and glared.

"Well, what is it." she demanded raising a brow.

"You brought the item I requested." Moon asked calmly.

Rolling her eyes, Gothel waved her wand and the hourglass appeared floating between them. It was the size of a pumpkin and was swirling with plain looking sand.

"Rapunzel, if you could show us what you found." Mani instructed.

The blonde nodded raising her wand and the bubble containing the nightmare sand. She brought it closer to the hour glass and predictably the tawny sand inside turned a dark pitch black. It swirled faster, attacking the glass and attempting to break free of its confines. They all watched it before looking up at Gothel with knowing glares.

"Care to explain." Mani asked.

Gothel was turning red now. They backed up sensing the tension between her and the headmaster. Finally she snarled.

"He will bring fear and our people will be the rulers of this world. We won't have to fear death or age." she was going manic now, raising her wand a curse on her tongue. "And he just needs that boy to do it. Incarcerous!"

Before any of them could do anything ropes sprung from her wand tip and collided with Jack wrapping around him so his arms were tied against his chest, his mouth gagged.

"Jack!" Hiccup cried rushing to his side.

Mani wasted no time engaging her in a duel then. He kept her busy while the children attempted to untangle Jack.

"Hold still." Hiccup told Jack pointing his wand at a length of rope by his leg. "Diffindo."

The rope was severed undoing the spell and letting Jack's friends pull the ropes from him and getting him up to his feet. The battle before them was incredible. Mani obviously had the upper hand being older and wiser, but Gothel was mad throwing spells and not caring where they landed. This caused the students to throw up their wands and cast the shield charm. Mani knew they could handle themselves and went on attempting to restrain her.

Then things got worse. Gothel suddenly pointed her wand to her throat and called sonorus making them cover their ears.

"All students to the great hall." she screamed.

Within minutes the hall was flooded with everyone and their sights were set on Jack. Gothel didn't even need to say anything. No kind and gentle words from Moon would have done anything either. They all took out their wands, not caring that there was a teacher and the Headmaster where there and started attacking.

The four instantly went into battle mode. Hiccup undid the transformation on Toothless and climbed aboard taking to the air. This got the attention of several students and they rounded on him. The others went along with the plan. Jack tapped his crook on the ground three times and it took to the sky. Best part of this was even though it worked like a broom he didn't actually have to ride it. This gave him the freedom to cast spells while he was in the air. Merida summoned her broom and she and Elsa climbed on casting spells from above. Rapunzel stayed on the ground casting a whip spell and knocking out anyone that got to close while Anna, Eugene and Kristoff went on casting and cursing around her. Though they were facing the entire school they still felt they had the advantage. Most of these kids hadn't faced the things they did. Sure they knew how to use all these spells but they've never used them on monsters and such. They had no battle experience. Half the school was knocked out in no time and they were working on the rest when something caught their attention.

"Avada Kedavra!"

Turning they saw just as the green streak slammed into Mani Moon pushing him back until he collapsed on the floor lifeless.

"NO!" they screamed forgetting the other students who were all shocked to see their headmaster dead and rushing to his body.

"No, Rapunzel." Jack pleaded leaning next to the professor. "Do something please."

"I can't." she whimpered.

"Jack we need to go." Hiccup urged. "Back to the room of requirement. The wards are going to fail. He'll come. We have to go."

But before they could make a move there was a cold laughter and the room filled with black sand. Everyone screamed dropping to the floor to stay out of its way. Jack clung to Hiccup who did the same, eyes closed to keep the sand out. When suddenly Hiccup gave a cry and was ripped from his lover's crushing grip Jack sprang to his feet to find the sand had faded and he was surrounded by doubles of his friends.

"Guys." he choked.

The doubles chuckled as they held tight to his friends keeping their pointed fingernails at their throats. He knew what these creatures were. He had fought one during the summer. Fearlings. They take on your form and whisper your deepest fears in your ear and how they'll come true. He knew how to defeat them too. Growling he raised his crook at the one holding his baby sister, but was stopped.

"I wouldn't do that, my son."

He froze. Turning slowly he saw what he feared most. The man that had cursed him since birth. Had killed his mentor. Had tortured him and his friends.

Pitch Black, his father.

"You." he snarled aiming his crook at him now.

All his anger from months of persecution bubbled till they burst and he charged throwing ice magic as he did. Pitch blocked it and threw his own magic at the boy who only dodged and jumped through the air so he was on the other side of the dark wizard and attacked. They cast at the same time their spell colliding and pushing for dominance. It wasn't until Jack gave a thunderous roar that his spell overpowered Pitch's throwing him back. But instead of admitting defeat or yelling in rage, Pitch laughed.

"Good, very good my son." he chuckled. "Yes, you are ready. Most excellent."

"I don't know what you think I'm ready for and I don't care." Jack snarled aiming his crook again. "Let my friends go right now."

"Oh I will." Pitch smirked standing at his full height. "But only if you accept my deal."

"Not happening." Jack gritted. "Let them go now."

"Jack!" Anna cried getting his attention.

The fearling holding her had dug its claws a little deeper into her neck.

"Stop." Jack cried aiming the crook at it only to be knocked away by Pitch.

"They won't Jack." he said softly. "They will tear your friends to shreds. Unless you do as l say and come with me quietly."

"No." Jack growled. "Even if I do as you say you'll just kill them as soon as I'm gone."

"I won't." Pitch swore. "I'd be willing to even make the unbreakable vow."

"Jack don't do it." Hiccup cried only to be smacked by his fearling.

"Don't touch him." Jack snarled. "I'll go. But you have to swear that you won't hurt them."

"I swear." Pitch nodded.

Glaring Jack got to his feet and marched up to his father holding out his arm.

"Swear to it." he gritted. "Make the unbreakable vow."

Pitch only smiled and took his his sons hand.

"Gothel, I believe your assistance is required." he called.

"No, not her." Jack shook his head looking to Hiccup. "Let him do it. He knows how and he's more than qualified."

Pitch looked to the fishbone of a boy and smiled.

"Very well, release the boy." Pitch nodded to the fearling.

The fearling released Hiccup and slowly, trying to delay the inevitable maybe, he made his way to the boy that he had loved since he met him. The boy that it had taken seven years to finally get. And now he was about to say goodbye.

"Don't do this." Hiccup urged when he reached them. "You can't go with him. He's going to kill you."

"Just do it Hic." Jack told him without looking at him. "Please."

Looking back and forth between them he gave a shaky nod and raised his wand. He kept thinking that all he had to do was cast the killing curse they could end this right here and now. But something told him that wouldn't work. They needed the four prophesied and the shard. The killing curse may not even work do to the fact that Pitch was a spirit. At least this way they had handicapped the villain. With a flick he initiated the spell linking Jack and Pitch's arms together with a silvery rope.

"Now Jack." He told the other boy.

"Do You, Pitch Black swear to not to physically harm my friends so long as I come with you and so long as I am in your presence?" Jack growled glaring with all his might at the taller wizard.

The smile that crept on his face was almost loving, something trying to imitate a father's love.

"I do." he nodded.

"And by the binding of this vow you accept that to attempt harm on them would mean death?"

"Yes."

"Then I will come with you." Jack nodded and the rope tightened then vanished as if it were seeping into their veins.

"Now that's done, let' be off my son." Pitch murmured reaching for the boy.

"Let me say goodbye to Hiccup first." he demanded backing away. "Alone."

Pitch sighed, but in the end he would get what he wanted so he nodded and took a few steps away so they had a bit of privacy. As soon as he was out of earshot, Hiccup threw himself on Jack and clung to him with all his might. Over Hiccup's shoulder, Jack could see Elsa but she only nodded as much as she could knowing what he was thinking.

"Jack you can't do this." Hiccup hissed, clinging to the Slytherin boy. "He's going to kill you."

"I know." Jack sighed holding the Ravenclaw tighter. "That's why, Hiccup, you and the others have to find me before he does. Come find me. We'll finish this once and for all. Come find me."

Giving a silent sob Hiccup buried his face in Jack's shoulder and nodded.

"Say it." Jack urged.

"I'll find you." Hiccup gasped. "Where ever he takes you, I'll find you."

"I'll be waiting." Jack sighed pulling back just enough to give the boy a chased kiss.

Not wanting to, he backed away from the dragon tamer, their hands trailing each others arms until they were brushing fingertips. He backed away till he felt Pitch at his back and let the dark one whisk him away. Hiccup's tear filled eyes the last thing he saw.

As soon as the smoke cleared and his feet touched ground, Jack sprinted for cover. Pitch laughed as he sent a spell after him.

"Trust me my son." He chuckled. "It doesn't matter how much time you stall for. Your friends won't get here in time."

"You promised you wouldn't hurt them." Jack snarled throwing a curse at the sand and running for a different spot.

"I will do as I have promised." Pitch called hurtling more sand toward his son. "But should they try to interfere, and I know they will, then I will intercept them."

"What does that mean?" Jack asked through his teeth behind an ashed pillar.

"I won't hurt them." Pitch promised. "But they may hurt each other."

"Fearlings." Jack hissed.

He knew that those things could confuse the others, or drive someone to do something lethal to a loved one. He had to warn them somehow. He had to let them know to stay strong and he had to help them find where ever he was.

"Expecto Patronum." he called softly pointing his wand and imagining the moment that Hiccup and he finally kissed.

A wispy silvery mist lept from his wand and quickly took the shape of a fox. He was surprised that it didn't take the shape of a dragon. He had heard that when you love someone and they're your happy memory your patronus can take the shape of theirs. He doubted that Hiccup's would become a fox though. He knew they loved one another and that not sharing a patronus didn't really mean anything. There were plenty of married people who were completely devoted to one another that didn't share a patronus. And besides that didn't matter right now.

"Find my friends." he told it. "Protect them from Pitch's power and lead them here."

And like that it was off and he was left alone to dodge and curse at Pitch as he attempted to stall till his friends got there.

Everyone stared as Pitch and Jack vanished in a cloud of black smoke and the fearlings with them. For a moment they couldn't understand what just happened. They couldn't let them believe this just happened. All the other students seemed to have gotten over their fear and were now looking at the four and their friends guiltily. Others were weeping into their hands, whether it was at the headmaster's death or their own actions the last month, no one knew.

"Jack." Hiccup whimpered before rounding on his friends. "We have to find him."

"How?" Eugene said simply. "We have no idea where the lunatic took him."

"Well we can't just sit here." Hiccup roared.

"Hiccup calm down." Kristoff urged.

"Don't tell him to calm down." Anna cried. "He's right we need to find Jack before that monster hurts him."

"Screaming at each other isn't going to solve anything." Elsa called. "We need to calm down and think logically."

"She's right." Rapunzel nodded still staring at the spot where Jack just disappeared from. "Jack can hold out until we find him. But if we're too busy arguing we'll be too late. So everyone take a deep breathe and calm down."

They did as she said letting a sense of calm, however fleeting, wash over them.

"Now we just have to think calmly and rationally." Elsa instructed. "Where would he take Jack?"

"Why dorn't we ask 'er." Merida called.

They looked her way to find her pointing her wand up where she had a bound and gagged Professor Gothel levitating in the air. She waved her wand and the woman fell with a thud.

"Where did 'e take Jack?" she asked after removing the gag, leaning over the woman.

"Like I would tell you." she snarled.

Merida looked up at her friends and received a nodd from Elsa. She hadn't done this since Pitch had sent a vampire to kidnap Elsa in sixth year- love potion wasn't enough it seemed, Pitch also tried to kill them with vampires and werewolfs, sort of backfired since both creatures hated each other and ended up killing one another. But still, Merida was driven near mad and had delved into the world of torture. She was not proud, but she would not deny that in the right circumstance it was usefull. Last resort only.

"Diffindo." Merida hissed making a cut on Gothel's cheek. "Where es Jack?" She asked again.

"I don't know."

Growling she stood up and flicked her wand.

"Assendele." she called sending Gothel soaring into the air only to come crashing down with a crack. "Next time ye say 'at ah'll use th' cruciatus curse." she growled fixing her wand on the winded woman. "Where es Jack?"

With a groan of pain the woman shook her head. This only pissed Merida off. She never used the unforgivable curses before. She never wanted to. But this was Jack. She couldn't just let that monster do what he wanted with him. She needed to find out where he was and this woman was their only lead.

With a snarl she fixed her wand on the woman's torso and spoke.

"Crusi-"

"Merida wait!" Rapunzel cried.

Looking up she could see why she was stopped. A silver mist was making it's way to them. It touched down on the ground and became the clear image of a snow fox.

"Jack's patronus." Hiccup smiled rushing to the silver creature's side. "He must of sent it to lead the way."

"Petrificus Totalus." Merida snapped swirling her wand at Gothel.

"C'mon," Anna urged. "Let's follow it."

"Wait." Merida murmured as she stared at the fox.

Slowly she joined Hiccup reaching out her hand to brush it's head. As soon as she touched it images flashed before her eyes. They were all separated, wandering a forest surrounding a destroyed manor where Jack stalled Pitch. They were all facing fearlings and not doing well. If they remained separated they would lose, she knew that for sure. She could see Anna running from her fearling tears in her eyes and Kristoff attempting to destroy his with reducto. They shouldn't have been there. They're too young for this fight. But what really shook her was when she saw herself facing her feeling she turned and attacked it with the killing curse. Only when she saw it fall to the ground she realized it wasn't the fearling, but Elsa.

"No!" she cried backing away.

"What is it?" Elsa urged wrapping her arms around the girl. "What did you see?"

"We can't." Merida shook her head. "If we go, 'en ye die."

"What?" the Ravenclaw gaped now looking the Gryffindor in the eye.

"We need a better plan." Merida shook her head. "If we dorn't know how tae defeat th' fearlings 'en we'll lose."

"Jack told us how to defeat them." Hiccup assured her. "Use the patronus charm on them."

"Then only those who can produce one should go." Rapunzel said.

"But I can't." Anna whined. "You can't expect me to stay here and wait."
"I can and I will." Elsa said sternly. "You and Kristoff haven't learned this charm yet. You two stay here and get a hold of the ministry. Let them know what's happening."

"No I'm going with you." Anna insisted.

"No you are not." Elsa stayed firm. "You are going to do as I ask. I can't lose both you and Jack in one night."

This sobered Anna up a bit. She blinked at her sister before finally nodding with a click of her tongue.

"You better bring him back." she growled.

"I will." She promised giving her sister a tight hug.

"If we get separated." Merida began remembering her vision. "Our first priority shood bae ta find each other. Try ta ignore th' fearlings. With th' unbreakable vow, they can't hurt us. Use th' patronus if ye must, but focus on finding each other an' do not cast any harmfull curses, jinxes, or hexes. They won't work anyway."

"If we get separated we'll use our patronuses to find one another." Rapunzel assured. "Now we really should be going."

Hiccup nodded climbing onto Toothless's back and watching as Merida and Elsa got on her broom and after Eugene summoned his he and Rapunzel got on it and to the sky they took.

"We're coming Jack." Hiccup promised under his breath. "Just hold on."

Jack was not doing well. He had used all the spells he could remember and even some he knew wouldn't work. But nothing was doing any damage. He even tried the avada kedavra curse but it did nothing. It only made sense. Pitch was not physical, that was why he needed Jack in the first place. He already used his patronus to send a message and lead the others to him so he couldn't use it on him now. He didn't regret his decision, but if his friends didn't get here soon he was positive that he would fall to Pitch's clutches.

"Come now Jack." Pitch called. "Are we not done with this little game. You must be running out of spells now."

He received no answer. Jack continued to stay hunched behind a charred wardrobe keeping a hand over his mouth so his breathing was muffled. He had to think of something quick. If he tried to leave then the deal would be off and Pitch would go after his friends as punishment. But if he stayed any longer he was more likely to be forced to do whatever Pitch wanted. In other words he was trapped.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are." Pitch coaxed to no avail. He sighed. "Fine, if that is how you want to be. Perhaps you'll come out for someone else. Phobose Umbras."

Before he could ponder what the spell was something tapped his shoulder.

"Jack," a voice, one he knew better than his own, one he would always melt at the sound, spoke by his ear.

He jumped back forgetting about Pitch, wanting to believe that it really was who he wanted but not wanting to get his hopes up. Crook raised eyes narrowed he locked on to what looked like Hiccup. But right away he knew it wasn't. This didn't feel like Hiccup and there was a dullness to the green in his eyes.

"You're not him." he snarled. "You're a fearling."

The copy blinked slowly and nodded.

"You're right." it sighed leaning against the wardrobe tilting it's head in an almost alluring manner. "I'm not him, but does that matter? I could be the same."

"No." Jack hissed backing up. "Hiccup is warm, you're lifeless and only know fear."

"You know nothing of my kind." Fearling Hiccup tutted. "We don't just whisper your greatest fears to you. That is our strongest point mind you, but our main ability is to look into the minds and hearts of our targets. I can see your deepest wishes and dreams. That's how we know what to attack. But we don't have to." it sighed again pushing off the wardrobe slowly and slinking towards him. "We can help make them come true if we really want to."

"If you're ordered to you mean." Jack scoffed keeping his crook level.

"Maybe I was ordered to make this easier for you." the fearling snapped. "Maybe I can make all your dreams come true."

He paused for effect slithering even closer so Jack could hear his voice at a subtle whisper.

"I know you just want all this to end." it murmured, circling Jack now. "You just want to finish this battle, then school. Take Hiccup to some remote location where he can see all the dragons he wants. Where you can be alone before you go and pursue your dream of being Seeker for the Chudley just want some time together now that you finally have him. You want to be away from the prying eyes of the wizarding world so you don't have to continue looking over your shoulder. You don't want to be known as the son of Pitch. One of the four that defeated him. You just want to be Jack. Just Jack and Hiccup. Just alone."

There was a subtle lull to it's voice. It was almost hypnotic and Jack found himself listening with keen interest. These were things he's wanted since the start of term. Since he finally got Hiccup in his arms. Since he knew that their lives will never be without the eyes of the wizarding world bearing down on them judging them.

He wanted this so badly.

"And I can give it to you." the fearling promised now inches from his face. "Not physically, mentally."

At Jack's questioning narrowed eyes it began to elaborate.

"Everyone is convinced that Pitch will kill you to take your body, but they're wrong. Being his blood you can actually coexist in the same body as him. You won't have any control it's true but you would still be alive. I admit that it really is no better than being a prisoner in your own body, but it doesn't have to be that way. We can be together, in your mind. Pitch will make a little world for you and me. We can live out that life you want. It will be your own little paradise. Doesn't that sound better than the world around you?"

"But it wouldn't be real." Jack shook his head trying to fight off the fog that was swirling in his mind.

"But is this reality really worth it?" the fearling asked caressing his pale cheek. "All this reality has done is outcast you. You're a pariah when you should be a hero."

"Pitch did that." Jack insisted, fighting desperately to keep his resolve. "He turned everyone against me."

"Pitch can't make anyone do anything they don't want to." Hiccup, no the fearling, shook his head closing his eyes only to open them and reveal a vibrant grassy color. Hiccup's color. "He can only empower the fear that was already there. Those people, your friends, house mates and classmates, were already afraid of you because you are Pitch's son. And in time, Elsa and the others will feel the same."

"No." Jack shook his head but in a desperate manner rather than a refusal.

"I'll never fear you." Hiccup promised bringing their faces closer. "I'll always love you. Come with me. Together we can be happy. Away from all the people who fear you, who will fear you. We can be together forever. Wouldn't you like that?"

Shakily as if about to weep, Jack nodded letting Hiccup press his lips to his. The kiss was short. Too short to realise their was something wrong with it. Hiccup smiled at the other boy and laid his head on his shoulder smiling at the black sand that was now climbing up Jack's legs and seeping into his skin.

"Just hold me for a bit." he told the boy his green eyes turning a chilling gold. "Everything will be alright."

Jack complied sleepy wrapping his arms around the boy and laying his head against the others.

This is what he wanted.

There was nothing to fight.

He just wanted to be with Hiccup.

Hiccup had been flying at breakneck speed, if he reached out he would be able to grasp Jack's fox. He could think of nothing else but following the furry creature and rescuing Jack. Tonight was the night that they ended this.

Tonight, Pitch Black died for good.

Then suddenly, the fox vanished.

Gone, blown away in the wind.

Hiccup pulled at Toothless's harness making he dragon rear and they stayed flapping in one place.

"Where did it go?" Eugene called as he and the others caught up.

"I don't know." Hiccup panted turning his head this way and that to try and find the fox.

"Somethin must 'ave happened." Merida called over the wind.

"Jack's in trouble." Elsa concluded. "Merida, in your vision, where was he?"

"The ruins ay Black manor." Merida said instantly. "But no one knows where 'at es."

"There has to be a finder spell or something." Rapunzel said racking her brain for anything.

"HICCUP, LOOK OUT!" Eugene cried just in time to see a dark mass collide with Hiccup and Toothless dragging them to the ground.

"HICCUP!" Merida cried veering her broom downward only to be consumed by more dark sand and ripped from her broom.

"Elsa! Merida!" Rapunzel screamed as the sand tore the two apart taking them in opposite directions.

"Blondie hold on." Eugene told her as he began to zoom around the sky evading the two masses coming for them.

Being the one of the Slytherin's chaser meant that he was actually quite skilled at evading flying objects.

"I think their fearlings." Rapunzel called over the rushing air around them.

"Then use the Patronus Charm." Eugene called back.

"One isn't enough." she cried. "I'm pretty sure there are two of them after us. We both need to use our patronus."

"I can't while flying." Eugene shook his head.

They were suddenly cut off by one of the fearlings, who's face bared a striking resemblance to the smolder that Eugene had tried to use on Rapunzel when they first met. To avoid it Eugene had to dive. Rapunzel clung to him to stay mounted on the broom, her hair whipping wildly behind her. She cried out as she felt her hair being caught. She would have been ripped right off the broom if Eugene hadn't heard her and quickly cast the diffindo spell to cut her hair releasing her. Knowing they were sitting ducks up there he quickly made for the trees and landed before grabbing Rapunzel's hand and ducking under a log.

"Are you hurt." Eugene asked looking her over.

"My hair." Rapunzel murmured feeling around her neck.

"I'm sorry." He murmured running his hand through the now shortened locks which had turned brown somehow. "I had to do something or it would have taken you… why… why is it brown now."

She blinked and blushed looking away.

"I… well over the summer of fifth year… I cast a spell that turned it brown. No matter what I tried it wouldn't turn back. The best I could do was cast a temporary spell that would make it blonde for a little while. I had to keep casting it, it was a bit annoying if I'm honest."
"Then why did you keep doing it?" he asked.

"Well, it was because you liked it wasn't it." she mumbled. "I didn't think you would like me with brown hair."

"Oh geez blondie." Eugene groaned. "I only liked your blonde hair because it was on you. I honestly really like brunette hair more."

"Really?" she asked blinking.

"Yes." he assured. "But it wouldn't matter if your hair was blonde, black or vomit green, I would still love it because it was apart of you."

"Oh, Eugene." she murmured.

"But I am going to have to come up with a new nickname for you aren't I." he sighed. "It's not like I can call you blondie anymore is it."

"You can think of something when we get out of this." Rapunzel hissed hearing something coming.

"C'mon." Eugene said as they crawled out.

As soon as they saw their double's retreating backs they both waved their wands in a spiral holding hand and thinking of all their happy memories together then called;

"Expecto Patronum!"

Two silver horses came galloping out of the ends of their wands, a mare and a stallion, and charged the unsuspecting fearlings stamping them into dust.

"Well that was easy." Eugene scoffed.

"Find the others." Rapunzel instructed the two horses.

With a ney they reared and took off toward the north.

"C'mon, blondie." Eugene said taking her hand and running after them.

"I thought you were gonna call me something else." she giggled.

"I'm working on it." he groaned.

Elsa was dropped to the ground when she was just inches from it making her gasp as the air came burning back into her lungs.

"Merida." she coughed getting back to her feet. "Merida, where are you."

"Aam 'ere."

Whipping around she found the redhead standing just under a pine tree looking disheveled and out of breath.

"Damn thing knocked meh off mah broom." she growled. "Broke it in two. Weel 'ave ta walk th' rest ay th' way. C'mon."

But Elsa didn't move. There was something not right with this. Merida wasn't right. Her eyes were too dull. They hardly resembled the brilliant sky blue Elsa had taken to getting lost in. They were just lifeless. Not wanting the take the risk she pulled her wand from her robes and leveled it at the girl.

"Whit are yoo doin." Merida demanded alarmed. "Put 'at thing away before ye hurt someone."

"What was the first thing you said to me when we met?" Elsa asked clearing her mind and shielding it from any form of legitimacy, she was sure that was how fearlings found out about one deepest fears.

"Aam sorry, whit?" Merida squawked still staring in alarm at the wand.

"The first thing you said to me in first year." Elsa demanded her glare intensifying. "What was it?"

Merida stared at her saying nothing for the longest time. Finally she let out a snort and let her demeanor become calm and arrogant. Leaning against the tree she leered at the girl.

"Whit gave meh away?" she asked still with the accent.

"Your eyes." Elsa shook her head. "I've stared at those eyes for years. I know them. You don't have her eyes."

"Clever gurl." the fearling scoffed. "Weel it's not loch ye can do anythin' about it now. Ah can't hurt ye, but ah can keep ye 'ere."

"I don't think so." Elsa glared thinking of the first thing Merida had ever said to her.

They were first years and Jack had just introduced them after he and Merida got done with detention for racing in flying class.

"You're pretty." she had said. "Like a fairy."

That, she believes is when she started to develope feelings for the girl. Their relationship over the years was rocky from that point on though. Even though the girl was nice in the beginning her pride made her quite insufferable. They had many a fights and yet it only served to make Elsa's feelings stronger. It didn't matter how mad she would be at Merida, the next day she was fine and willing to tolerate her arrogance once again.

She let the years of happy memories with the girl fill her up and then she cast it.

"Expecto Patronum." her silver wolf came howling out the end of her wand and lunged for the fearling but it vanished before it could land a hit.

Startled Elsa whipped around now looking for the fearling. When she spotted it, it was standing under another tree with a leering smirk. It pushed of the tree and began backing away toward the south.

"Ah think ah'll go see whit yur Merida's up to." it cackled. "Aam sure she has plenty of fears to exploit. Bein' a seer has ta be torture."

"No." Elsa growled taking off after it, her wolf running ahead of her.

The fearling let her get just inches from it before it vanished and reappeared again further away. It did this three more times before Elsa stopped and thought about what it was doing.

"It's luring me away." she thought. "The manor must be the other way."

And with that she turned her heel and ran the other way commanding her wolf to follow. It didn't take long for the fearling to appear in front of her but she ignored it veering to the left and continuing north.

"Whit are yoo doin?" The fearling demanded, but Elsa just ignored it again. "Runnin from yur fear won't solve anythin' yeh know."

She continued running not listening to it.

"Stop." it growled blocking her path.

"Get it!" Elsa cried pointing her wand at the fearling.

Before it knew what was happening the wolf was on it tearing at it with it's teeth till there was nothing left but dust.

"C"mon." she called back at it. "Help me find Merida."

Merida was not having any luck finding Elsa after she was thrown to the ground. The fact that they were split up did not sit well with her either. She couldn't shake the image of Elsa's lifeless eyes staring back at her.

"You know that if you continue on like this, that is exactly what is going to happen."

Freezing in place Merida placed her hand on her wand's handle but did not unsheath it.

"Show yurself." She demanded into the darkness.

Right in front of her a shadow stepped out from behind a tree. At the sight of a fearling Elsa Merida became unnerved. She gripped her wand all the tighter but still didn't draw it.

"Well go on." the fearling taunted with Elsa's voice. "Draw your wand. Make the vision true and kill the girl you love."

"Yur not 'er." Merida gritted. "So maybey whit ah saw in meh vision wasn't 'er. Maybey it was ye."

"Maybe." the fearling shrugged. "Or maybe I get you so confused that you think the real Elsa is me and you kill her."

"Ah won't." Merida shook her head. "Ah won't."

"And how are you going to be sure." it sneered. "She's probably on her way now. Best finish me off now before she gets here and makes things complicated. But you and I both know you won't. That vision scared you so bad that even the thought of it shakes you. Even destroying me will break a bit of you. Because even though I'm not her, not really anyway, I still have her face. Her voice. You won't hurt me."

Merida bit her lip, trying to will herself to pull her wand out and cast the spell.

"It's not 'er." she berated herself. "Jist draw yur damn wand already. It's not 'er."

"Don't please." the fearling suddenly sobbed sprouting tears and shaking against the trees. "Merida please, don't hurt me. I thought you loved me. Don't hurt me."

"Shut it!" Merida screamed putting her hands over her ears. "Shut it. Stop it right now."

"Merida!"

"Ah said shut it!" Merida roared drawing her wand and spinning around aiming behind her.

But all she saw was a silver wolf bounding at her. Elsa's wolf.

"Take a deep breathe." Elsa's voice called. "Think about the time you first kissed me. And then get that damnable fearling."

"Elsa." Merida gasped.

The memory came to her with a smile. They were just cured of the love potion, but Merida still felt very strongly for Elsa. She had since she first saw her in first year. They were in the astronomy tower after having faced another werewolf and vampire attack. They were scratched up and bruised and alive. And it was at that moment that Merida thought screw it. With these attacks she may never get another chance. And all the kisses they shared while under the influence of the love potion didn't count.

"Elsa." she said softly getting the girl to look at her and leaned forward.

They had done this a lot over the year, but this felt real. Like it actually meant something. It took only a second for Elsa to kiss back bringing her hands to the other girl's face while Merida wrapped her arms around her waist.

"Love potion or no." she panted after they parted. "Ah steell love yoo."

Elsa smiled resting her brow against Merida's.

"And I love you." she whispered like it was a secret just for them.

The memory filled Merida with the greatest happiness. All her fears and doubts, all her anxiety just melt with it's warmth and she rounded on the fearling just as the wolf passed her.

"Expecto Patronum." she roared releasing a monstrous bear that roared with her.

Both the bear and the wolf charged, the wolf going for the throat while the bear just mauled whatever it could get it's claws on.

"Merida." Elsa called coming out of her hiding spot and crashing into the red head.

"How did ye know." Merida sighed holding her snow queen close.

"I used legitimacy." she admitted. "I saw your vision. I knew that if I found you I would need to take cover."

"Ah wood never hurt yoo." Merida swore.

"I know." Elsa assured. "But I also knew that the vision did a number on you and your nerves were frayed. I took a precaution and it payed off."

They stayed like that for only a moment more before finally they remembered what they need to do.

"C'mon." Merida said as their patronus took off north again.

Hiccup had summoned his patronus first thing. He and Toothless were grounded by the attack, his tail fin was damaged meaning he couldn't fly. So they went by foot instead. Hiccup summoned his patronus and told it to find Jack. He knew that Merida said to find each other first but he just knew he had to find Jack now.

"Hiccup."

He suddenly came to a screeching halt when he saw none other that Jack Frost standing panting in front of him.

"Jack!" he cried climbing from Toothless's back and throwing himself into Jack's waiting arms. "I'm so glad your alright."

"I'm fine." Jack assured holding him tight. "But we need to get out of here. I lost Pitch back there but it won't be long till he finds us."

"What about the others?" Hiccup asked as Jack began to drag him south. "And what about ending this now. Jack, we have to take Pitch down tonight, so this will all be over."

"You weren't back there." Jack shook his head. "You didn't fight him. Hiccup, we can't win. We need to get out of here. As far as we can go."

"What." Hiccup gawked. "No, the prophecy-"

"Who cares about the prophecy, Hiccup," Jack shook his head stepping closer and caressing the other boy's cheek. "The only thing I want is for you to be safe. We can't win, if we stay we'll die. And I can't lose you."

"But…" Hiccup stared hard at Jack.

Something wasn't right. Shaking his head he looked down and glanced over to Toothless only to find that the dragon wasn't there. He was surrounded by black sand that was swirling closer and closer to him. How had he not noticed this. Looking back up at Jack he could see now that the icey blue of his eyes was all wrong. Cold and lifeless, not blinding and dreamy.

"You're not Jack." He hissed trying to step back but finding the fearling had a death grip on him. "Let go."

"So you can summon your patronus?" it tutted. "I think not."

"Where is Jack?" Hiccup demanded trying to free his wand hand.

"He's lost." the fearling smiled. "You're too late. Pitch has what he wants."

"You're lying." he cried.

"I'm not." it smiled pulling Hiccup closer. "But you don't need him anyway. You know he never really cared."

"Shut up."

"He only liked you because he felt sorry for you. This stupid kid with all this prestige and purity who couldn't even perform a simple spell without blowing something up. A boy who would rather be with bloodthirsty beasts than people because he knew that no matter what no one would care if he was here or not. He didn't care you know. He just saw that it would be easy to use you for whatever he wanted. Once he gets tired of you he'll throw you to the curb."

"I told you to shut up!" Hiccup snarled lifting his foot and kicking the creature away.

He knew what it was doing. It was hard to focus on happy memories when your head was filled with your greatest fears. But still he raised his wand and thought back, back to first year. Back to when he had smuggled a dragon's egg into the school and it had hatched on the second day there. He had ran all over the castle trying to find the dragon. It had caused quite a disaster. Scared anyone that saw it and bit at a few people who tried to touch it. When Hiccup had finally caught it he had made his way into the Slytherin common room.

"Right you naughty little reptile." he growled at the baby Toothless to show it who the alpha was. "I've had enough of this. You are going to behave yourself or I will lock you in a crate with an eel understand?"

This seemed to scare the dragon into submission as it coward in his hands.

"That's a good boy." Hiccup smiled. "Now let's get you some food and find a place to hide you."

"I hear the third floor had an empty room no one uses."

Hiccup cried out jumping at least a foot into the air. Once his feet hit the ground again he spun around and found a boy smiling in a plush leather chair.

"Hi." the boy smiled.

"I'm sorry." Hiccup cried hiding the squirming dragon behind his back. "I um."

"You're in Ravenclaw." the boy pointed out pointing at his blue and black tie.

"Yes." Hiccup gulped.

"How did you get in here then?" the boy asked giving him a scrutinizing look. "Did someone tell you the password?"

"No." Hiccup mumbled. "I've figured out what the password was based on patterns of past passwords. I've done it for all the houses portraits."

"And they just let you in?"

"I give the excuse that I have a friend in there and they gave me the password."

"That's so cool."

"Yes well if you don't mind I'll just be on my way." Hiccup nodded backing away toward the door.

"Hang on." the boy called getting up from his chair. "You can't just come barging into the Slytherin common room with a dragon, claim to be really smart and then leave."

"Can't I?" Hiccup wondered.

"No you can't." the boy shook his head. "Because now I know there is a really smart boy here with a dragon and I want to be his friend."

"Why?" Hiccup asked. "You do know what they call me right?"

"Disastrous Horrendous, yeah I know. But your a really smart boy with a dragon. You seem like you know how to have fun." he smiled even brighter and held out his hand. "I'm Jack Overland."

Hiccup stared at the hand for a moment before he spared one of his to take it.

"Hiccup Horrendous." he smiled back.

It was the happiest memory he had. And every time he thought about it it lifted his spirits making him think that nothing in the world could touch him.

Making his patronus all that stronger.

"Expecto Patronum." He cried letting his silver Night Fury launch itself at the fearling demolishing it.

The sand fell away and he was suddenly tackled by an overly protective, dragon.

"Ah, I'm fine bud." Hiccup said into the dirt since he was on his front getting twigs and leaves stuck in his robes. "C'mon bud, get off me I'm fine I promise."

"Hiccup."

Looking up he could see all his friends rushing to him.

"Guys." he beamed getting up after Toothless moved.

"Are you alright?" Elsa asked giving him a quick hug.

"Yeah I'm good." he nodded. "Fearlings are annoying."

"Tell meh aboot it." Merida snorted.

"We didn't really have any trouble with ours." Eugene shrugged.

"Lucky." Merida growled.

"C'mon." Hiccup urged the others. "The manor has to be this way. The fearling was trying to take me south."

They all agreed and started running north.

"Hang on Jack!" He thought desperately. "We're coming. Just hang on."

Jack wasn't aware of anything that was happening. He was only focus on the boy that was in his arms. The soft kind boy who tamed dragons and cooed over every other magical creature they came across. Who knew thousands of spells but couldn't perform all of them because they sometimes blew up on him. He was so smart too, able to read patterns and spot anything amiss. This was the boy that had captured his heart so long ago. And they were finally going to be together. Alone, but together.

"Jack!"

Someone cried making Hiccup stiffen.

"Get away from my boyfriend!"

His Hiccup turned in his arms and hissed at whoever was coming only to be attacked by a silver night fury. That was Hiccup's patronus. Why was it attacking him. He could see Hiccup being ripped apart in front of him but he couldn't seem to move a muscle to help. But he had to do something. He had to do it now or his heart was going to be destroyed.

"Hiccup get back." Elsa cried pulling Hiccup away from Jack and pushing the others behind a lone standing wall.

"But-"

"Trust me." she urged pushing them all against the wall.

Jack couldn't move, but he could feel his magic swirling inside him. Faster and faster it went becoming a storm of mass destruction. Building until it was a blizzard ready to blow.

"Aaahh!" with a massive cry he released it.

Frozen magic went everywhere. Freezing everything in it's path and shattering it in its wake. The sand that had been attempting to enter his body was suddenly pushed out and frozen in the air where it was then shattered like everything else.

When it was over he collapsed to his knees panting.

"Jack!" Hiccup called rushing to his side, sliding on his knees the rest of the way. "Jack, hey look at me."

Carefully taking the frost boys face in his hands he lifted it up so they were locking eyes.

"Hiccup?" Jack asked sleepily.

"Hey." Hiccup smiled rubbing his face with his thumb.

"You found me." he sighed leaning into the touch.

"Why couldn't you brats leave well enough alone." Pitch growled stomping his way to them.

This sobered Jack right up. He and Hiccup stood, the latter throwing an impediment curse at Pitch to stall him and dashed for the wall.

"Guys." Jack gasped as he was tackled by three girls.

"Good to see you in one piece mate." Eugene smiled

"Yeah, you too." he smiled.

"Jack, you come back here right now." Pitch roared from beyond the wall.

"What now?" Elsa asked looking to the four.

"We need ye ta cover us." Merida told her.

"For how long?" Eugene asked his wand ready.

"We need to figure out what the shard wants us to do." Hiccup told him. "I don't know how long that will be, but we'll be quick."

"Be careful." Rapunzel told the taller boy giving him a soft kiss to the cheek.

"Ye ta." Merida said hugging Elsa close.

"Hey, kick some arse." Jack told his sister before she left.

With a broad smile she nodded and took off after Flynn.

"We know we need to use this thing, but not what spell." Hiccup told them.

"The killing curse won't work on him, I've tried." Jack told them.

"Ah bet ye anythin' thes aw comes back ta th' patronus charm." Merida snorted. "Happy memories beats fear any day."

"I think she's right." Rapunzel told them.

"So do I but we need to be sure." Hiccup told them. "Jack, the shard."

"Yeah." reaching into his shirt he pulled out the shard which was now on a chain. "Ready, now."

They all reached for the shard and were bombarded with images once again. The other world, Pitch's death, the training sessions they had in school and over the summer. And finally the final battle the Guardians had.

Everyone else was dead. Sandy knew he was next. They knew that going into the battle they wouldn't come out alive. They had accepted that. He had accepted that. It still didn't feel any better to know that they were leaving the children alone. They had left them with the manson and this memory shard. Hopefully it would help and they could end this.

"And then there was one." Pitch chuckled as Sandy kneeled over Tooth's lifeless body. "And I doubt that there is anything you can do on your own."

"It doesn't matter that you'll kill me." Sandy sighed standing tall now. "In the end the children will stop you. They already know how. Your nothing but an overpowered fearling. Their combined happiness will end this once and for all."

"Well, one can dream can't they?" Pitch chuckled pointing his ash wood wand at the shorter man. "And this is the end of the Guardians. Avada Kedavra."

And the memory ended.

"Told ye." Merida said without any enthusiasm.

"That bastard." Hiccup growled, Sand was his mentor and that monster just murdered him in cold blood.

"So what now." Rapunzel asked wiping her eyes.

"We use the shard to empower our patronus and take him out." Jack told them thrusting the shard into Hiccup's hand. "I'll distract him, you three get into position. Surround him."

They all nodded and waited for him to step out from behind the wall once he was out they apparated to the remaining three positions hiding behind pillars and charred furniture and waited for Jack's signal.

Elsa and Eugene were not doing well. Pitch was using them as target practice mainly sending them flying or knocking them to the ground. Elsa had just been knocked into the same wall that Jack had step out from behind making the boys blood boil.

"Pitch!" Jack roared getting his attention.

"My son." Pitch smiled.

"Don't call me that." Jack growled stepping in front of his sister. "You swore you wouldn't hurt them."

"Yes, that was merely in self defence wasn't it." Pitch shrugged. "The vow will see that. Where are your other friends?"

"They're waiting."

"Waiting for what?"

"This, Hiccup now!"

On cue Hiccup jumped out from behind the pillar as the girls came from their hiding places. Throwing the shard over Pitch's head they all aimed their wands/crook at it and called out only when it was directly over Pitch's head.

"EXPECTO PATRONUM!"

Silver mist swirled around Pitch until it was surrounding him. Enormous animal shapes circled him, roaring, neighing and yapping in agitation. Pitch desperately tried to cast curses on the animals but they were closing in unbothered by the casting.

"NO!" he cried as they were now upon him. "NO! NOOOO!"

In a blast of silver light Pitch was consumed and then reduced to nothing. Not even dust or ash. Not even sand.

The next thing that happened was lost to all their memories. The shard began to glow a bright white and drew something from each of four. If they ever remembered it they will remember seeing an apparition of themselves only different being pulled from their bodies into the shard and then the shard vanished.

"We did it." Rapunzel gasped staring at the spot where Pitch had once stood. "We actually did it."

"You did it blondie." Eugene cheered as he lifted her into the air and swung her around as she laughed.

Elsa and Merida collided with another almost toppling over in their celebration. Jack was at Hiccup's side in seconds and they fell to their knees together in elation.

"It's over." Jack sighed. "Its finally over."

"We finally did it." Hiccup moaned.

"We did it!" Elsa cried tackling her brother to the ground only to be joined by Merida and the others catching Hiccup in the dog pile as well.

They let their exhaustion catch up to them shortly after that and fell asleep right there in the ruins of Black Manor.

Hours later Jack was the first to wake. This didn't surprise him in the least. Of all his friends he was the most lively. He could go days without sleep and still be as hyper as a five year old on a sugar high. He looked over and found Hiccup laying at his left, his hand barely touching Jack's.

"Hic." his voice was hoarse.

They hadn't realized how much magic they had spent. How they hadn't really been resting for the entire term. Everything finally caught up with them and it didn't look like any of them were going to wake up any time soon. But they had to get out of there. The ruins of Black manor were soaked with dark magic. The ground, the ashes, the very air was all toxic. They had to get back to Hogwarts. They had to tell the teachers what happened. They had to put Mani Moon to rest.

They had to get back.

Looking around again he saw his sister tangled with Merida at his right and Eugene and Rapunzel not too far from them in the same position. None of them were in any condition to move. He was in no condition to move. Every nerve in his body screamed in agony any time he tried to move. But he had to find a way to get help.

His answer came to him as in the form of a great scaley shadow that loomed over him.

Toothless looked like he was happy someone was awake, but also peeved that it was Jack. They never got on.

"Help me." Jack rasped. "Help me find help."

Reluctantly Toothless slung Jack onto his back and began running for the direction of the school or at least he assumed it was the school. Jack was sort of just laying across the beasts back drifting in and out of consciousness.

They only got about a mile away when suddenly there was a loud crack.

"Stop beast." some one called.

"Wait, don't hurt him!" someone else cried desperately.

"It's Toothless." a third someone urged.

Jack knew those voices.

"Anna." he breathed as she came into his view.

"Oh, Jack." she sobbed running a hand through his hair. "You're alright."

"Where are the others?" Kristoff asked just behind her.

"Where es mah daughter?" Elinor Dunbroch, Merida's own mother, demanded looking as if she was ready to burn the whole forest down around them.

Jack and Toothless lead them back to the manor where everyone was barely waking up. Both Elinor and Anna had cried in relief to find them all alive and listened intently at their tale. Soon enough they had them all back at the school and in the hospital wing where they stayed for a week. When got out the school had had a day of memorial for the late professor Moon and an announcement that Professor Woodwitch would now become the headmaster and Mrs. Dunbroch would be the new transfiguration teacher. It was a solemn couple of weeks after that even with the defeat of Pitch Black, but then the December holidays came and lifted everyone's spirits a bit.

They had decided to spend some time during their break at the Guardian's Manor so as to get a few thing in order and store other things away. When they got back Jack was pleasantly surprised that his fellow quidditch members had practically begged him to rejoin the team. Something he agreed to gleefully and had earned his team winning scores it took to win the championship cup much to Merida's displeasure. The rest of the year was unusually quiet. They all passed their .T.s with outstandings in every subject and greatly impressed the instructors with their defeat of Pitch. The house cup with the most points turned out to be Gryffindor that which was no surprise to anyone.

Then they graduated.

"Let's take a year off." Jack announced after the ceremony.

"What?" Elsa asked eyeing her brother.

"Let's take a year off." He said again. "Take some time to relax. We never really got to after dealing with Pitch. So let's just go to the manor and relax."

"But what about the canons?" Hiccup asked.

"I've already talked to them about it and they agree." He shrugged. "C'mon, you know that we all deserve a break."

"The apprenticeships will still be there after a year." Rapunzel encouraged.

"An' th' academy is always acceptin' recruits." Merida nudged Eugene.

"We could have our own little adventure without all the monsters and nightmares." Hiccup agreed.

"It would be nice." Elsa hummed leaning against Merida's shoulder.

"Sounds like we're taking the year off." Eugene chuckled.

And so they did. They mostly spent the year tidying up the manor and talking about the future, but mostly living in peace.

When the year was up they all went out and begun their careers Hiccup apprenticed for a dragonologist in Hungary and would apparate home every night with burns and scratches. And one night he came home missing a leg, sporting a silver prosthetic which Rapunzel had made for him out of her magic. Jack was furious.

"I managed to train a Norwegian Night Fury." Hiccup groaned as everyone took turns telling him he was a great git. "I figured that taming a Norwegian Rich Back couldn't be that much harder, now could it?"

"Yeah, except you had the Norwegian Night Fury since it was an egg and had raised it." Jack growled. "This Norwegian Rich Back was wild and had little to no interaction with humans."

"They're both from Norway though." Hiccup defended.

"That doesn't matter." Jack shout throwing up his hands. "Don't ever do something this stupid ever again."

He never did. Well not for a long while anyway. The next month he came back with a new scar on his arm.

Rapunzel was doing well as an apprentice at Saint Mungo's and had many a gruesome tale to tell about the patients there. Elsa was back at Hogwarts assisting under Professor Callahan so as to learn the ins and outs of being a DADA teacher. Both Merida and Eugene were now members of the Auror academy and were working hard to pass all their tests. Jack was now the new substitute Seeker for the Chudley Cannons and was optimistic that he would soon surpass his predecessor and be on the first line.

Overall their lives were peaceful and they had even started talking about the future marriages.

"I bet you ten gallons that Rapunzel and Eugene do it first." Hiccup said sleepily one night sipping at his tea.

He and Jack were up late one night, sitting in the sitting room on the floor in front of the fire enjoying loving touches and spiced tea.

"Why not us?" Jack asked running his fingers through the other boys hair.

"Because I want to be sure I have a good job before I go planning a huge wedding. And so does your sister." Hiccup yawned.

"Yeah I see your point." Jack nodded.

They were quiet for a moment and Hiccup let it wash over him. They were always so busy now a days they never had a moment to just be together in quiet harmony. But then Jack spoke shocking him out of his quiet stupor.

"So you will then?" Jack asked sounding nervous but playful.

"Will what?" Hiccup asked back.

"Marry me."

At this Hiccup moved himself so his back was to the fire and he was gazing at the other. Frosty sky kissing dewy grass. And smiled leaning forward to lay his brow on the other's.

"Of course I will. I've waited nine years for you to ask. I'm not gonna let you slip away from me again."

"I'm glad." Jack smiled. "I had this whole plan to ask you with singing toads and a dancing Toothless."

"This was better." Hiccup assured laying his head on Jack's chest making the other boy lay back. "It meant more this way."

"Then Hiccup Haddock Horrendous the 3rd, prepare to become Hiccup Haddock Overland."

"Why do I have to take your last name?"

"Because I'm not changing mine to Horrendous."

"Yeah, I see your point." Hiccup sighed.

"As soon as we are first line seeker and a dragonologist, we start planning." Jack hummed.

"Agreed." Hiccup nodded.

"I love you my dragon tamer."

"And I you, my son of frost."

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