Hello everyone! This is a Rise Of The Guardians, How To Train Your Dragon, Frozen, crossover. Unfortunately, I could only choose two options, so I picked Rise Of The Guardians and How to Train Your Dragon. This story actually follows the movie plots quite closely, except for Rise Of The Guardians which will be covered in part two.
Ages have been changed for everyone, because I wanted them all to be teenage if not younger at this point. It makes it more fun.
This chapter is one of the shorter chapters, because I just thought that it was the right time for it. I'll try to keep the updates consistent.
Chapter Ten
A Spirit's Tale
Jack
"From the very earliest of my memories, I can't remember anyone ever helping me, or trying to help me, or even saying anything friendlier than a brisk greeting of hello. I don't remember ever having a family or any real friends.
"Make yourself comfortable, Hiccup, this is going to be a long story.
"Before I was the spirit of winter, there was another person doing my job. They call him Old Man Winter, and he was terrible. Harsh, spiteful, bitter. So I've heard, at least.
"It certainly seems that way, all the stories you would hear about the colonial times. Cruel, ruthless winters with little food and scarcely any clear days. Biting hail and stinging ice and how spring was the biggest cause for celebration.
"Not very different from the kinds your tribes' ships get when they're out, and the freezes that hit your village whenever you're safe inside. Sorry about those, by the way. I rather feel they deserve it.
"Anyway, Old Man Winter gave winter a pretty bad reputation. When I came, most of the other spirits stayed clear of me. Well, those that knew I existed. Most didn't.
"I did get into a little tiff with the Easter Bunny (yes, he exists), tall Australian chap with some killer boomerangs. He wasn't very happy when one of my blizzards messed up his egg hunt that year. Blizzard of `68, you may have heard. I was still trying to get the hang of my powers back then.
"Honestly, my relationship with the other spirits haven't changed much. I tend to stay grounded for fleeting periods of time. Before Berk I had been hanging around Michigan, and I dropped by Arendelle for a little while too. A healing spirit named Airmid lives there, she didn't really know that I was the new spirit of winter.
"Then there's the fact that I'm so much younger than all the other spirits. I know, I'm technically about 300 years old, but that's really little for a spirit. Some of them are thousands of years old. A century or two doesn't seem like much of a difference to them.
"In fact, I'm sure the only tantamount spirits that could possibly be as young as I am would be the Baby Tooth Fairies. (Yes, they exist too)
"So, the other spirits knew all about what they were meant to do. They knew why they were there, they knew who they now were. And guess who told them?
"If I were to believe what they said, the Moon told them so. Man In Moon, they called him.
"Man In Moon was there when I first came. He, unlike to all the others, never told me anything. Well, he told me my name, but that was all.
"I have long wondered if, perhaps, he was as biased against me as most of the other spirits were. Whenever that happened, I got sad and starting losing control of my powers. And, well, you can imagine.
"Without any friends or family, I was desperate to find a place where I truly belonged. So every few decades, I pick a child to watch over. I get to know them and take care of them the best I can.
"So that's where you come in, Hiccup."
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