The Dragon Boy - Chapter 20 - The Truth
Frostcup fanfic

Authors Note: wow I really can't believe the response from the last one! I honestly don't know if I'm sorry for that last cliffhanger or not but well... It's nearing the end of the story so they aren't over yet. I hope you like this one please review (and thank you sooooooo much to everyone that does it really means a lot^^) anyway enjoy the chapter and I'll be back with more tommorow as always^^

Hiccup had so many questions, and no answers. What was Jack, really? Was he dangerous? Was he really his friend? How?- what happened that day?... and that creature, what was it? He had to know, and the only person with answers, was locked up, and only Stoick himself was allowed to see him, but the chief hadn't been to see him, deciding to leave him there until the hearing, where they'd decide what they were going to do about him. It was as if Jack were some terrifying, deadly beast- he wasn't... was he?

Hiccup walked round the back of the building Jack was being kept in, as the son and heir of the chief, he though he might be allowed in. After all, dragons were his thing, and Jack was his best friend- or, at least, he thought so- who better to try and talk with him, and find out what's going on? But, no. It was deemed too dangerous. But the thought of Jack being a dangerous was ridiculous- Jack Frost, who's worst crime amounted to rigging snow above everyone's front doors, so every Viking that morning got covered in the stuff? Like Hiccup said- ridiculous. Stupid, stubborn Vikings, he thought, why couldn't they just let him-. He stopped, as he heard a voice, Jack's voice.

"I'm alone, again. What are they going to do? The look on Hiccup's face- he thinks I'm a monster, they all do... and now he knows I'm alive- he'll come for me. He'll come here- he'll destroy everything and everyone- it'll like last time- no it can't happen again- it can't..." He was saying, wallowing in sorrow. How was this possible- how could Hiccup hear him from inside- wait, hold on... Jack's voice wasn't from outside, it was like... he was only hearing it, in his head? He closed his eyes and concentrated.
"Jack?" He thought, experimentally. Silent alarm emanated from him, as he retreated deep within himself, putting up thick mental barriers- until he realised who it was, and took them down.

"Hiccup." Jack said, sounding wary and ashamed. "I'm sorry- I should have told you from the beginning- I just, I didn't want you to think I was some kind of freak, and-"
"Woah, woah!" Hiccup interrupted, overwhelmed by this sudden mental outpour. "Hold on, before we get to that, what is going on? How are we communicating, right now?" Jack appeared to confused by this reaction, but explained.
"They call it a Trust Bond, when us "Sky Dragons"- as you call us- trust someone enough, they link minds with them." He was probably going to add more, but that was all Hiccup was interested in for now.
"So, you are a dragon, then?" Hiccup noticed.
"Yeah" he confirmed, somewhat sadly.
"...and you said "Us" Sky Dragons, there are others?" Hiccup asked. Jack's mind was suddenly clouded with sadness.
"Once there were, there was at least a hundred of us, flying at heights other dragons could only dream of, until..." He faltered, unable to finish.
"What happened?" Hiccup prompted, Jack didn't answer.

"Maybe, you should start from the beginning?" He suggested. Jack gave a mental sigh, and took a moment to gather his thoughts, before responding.
"I don't really remember life as a hatchling, but I remember the time that followed, three hundred years, alone, is hard to forget."
"Wait! Three hundred years!" Hiccup repeated, amazed.
"Yeah, we pretty much live forever, as long as we weren't killed, so, really, that was nothing." Hiccup took that in- that wasn't nothing, and Jack knew it, to be alone, fending for himself for that long, that wasn't the kind of thing you could just shrug off, even if you did live forever. He thought back to that broken look, he'd noticed Jack was hiding, when he first entered the academy. It had slowly vanished over the time he'd spent with them, and now... here he was, alone again.

"Anyway, at that point, I didn't know about the other "Sky Dragons". I just travelled from cold place to cold place, looking for company. I tried to find friends at a couple of villages, but they were all just terrified of me, they hid from me or else drove me- sometimes I thought the driving away was better, anything rather than being ignored. Anyway, to cut a long depressing time short, at some point I realised I could control ice and wind and, over time, I taught myself to control them better. It was hard, on my own . I had more than one accidental collisions with mountaintops, along the way..." a brief memory of a chunk of rock appearing out of nowhere at breakneck flashed through Hiccup's mind, and he couldn't help but chuckle, same old Jack. "...but, in the end, I figured it out, eventually. I carried on like that for a long time, messing around in the air in my spare time- well, all my time really- until, one day, I found the others. I was in a forest, somewhere, when I heard voices." Jack created a mental image of the scene for Hiccup, much like when he'd seen the story of how Jack ended up on Berk come to life in his head. This time it was another memory.

He was surrounded by snow covered pines, there a warm glow ahead, and voices coming from that direction.
"Do we have to come this ruddy far north, North?" A male voice complained, he had a strange accent Hiccup couldn't place.
"Come now, Bunny. Is not that bad." Another, strangely accented, voice said.
"Easy for you to say, you know not all of us can set ourselves on fire, right Tooth?" Jack had shrank back at the word fire, but curiosity pulled him back.
"It is a little bit chilly." A female voice admitted. "But I think it will be worth it when the stars come out- Oh, or if it snows! Oh it's been ages since I've flown through snow. I've almost forgotten what a snowflake looks like." There was a strange tinkling noise, a very loud laugh accompanied it.
"No, Sandy, that's just how the humans draw them." Hiccup heard Jack's thoughts from back then- they don't know what a snowflake looks like?! Well, I'll have to have to clear that up. He gazed up at the quickly darkening sky, and concentrated, willing it to snow. Fat fluffy flakes drifted from the sky. The female voice gasped, then there was a whoosh of wind, and the complaining voice spoke again.
"You know, just 'cos she's a wind elemental, doesn' mean she should go zipping off at every littl' thing." Jack's eyes widened, they were like him, they could control the wind, or perhaps some other element. He pushed through the trees to get a look at them.

Hiccup didn't know their species exactly, but there was a large, bulky red one which resembled a four-legged Battlegore, it had flames burning across its scales, like a Monstrous Nightmare, but despite it's great muscular size, he had a merry twinkle in his eye. One of them look a little like a large Hogfly, or perhaps a Gronkle, golden yellow, with a kindly look on it's face. The last was a- well, the closest Hiccup could figure was a Nadder, like Stormfly, as it was standing upright on two hind legs and it's wings took the place of forearms that weren't used for walking. It's head looked nothing like a Nadder's, though, it was short and roughly triangular, with two large long horns protruding from the back of it's head.

The golden one spotted Jack in the trees, and tilted it's head at him, it got the large, red dragon's attention, and gestured towards him. Jack wanted to run, but stayed where he was, if this group of dragons was like him, then maybe, just maybe, he might finally have some friends. The red dragon smiled, expansively, at him, the twinkle in his eyes grew.
"Well, what are you hiding in there for, come on out." Jack's mind raced, was this... an invitation?! "Though, I daresay, you'd prefer the cold?" The older dragon continued.
"No, no, it's just... I've never any other dragons, like me, before." Jack said, silently thrilled to be talking to people who would talk back. The group looked puzzled at this.

"Can all of you, control the elements?" He asked, enthralled.
"Ya, Sandy here has a little control over both earth and fire..." The golden dragon moved some heated golden, loose earth into the shape of a waving hand." "...Bunny controls earth..." The two legged dragon just grunted, not bothering to give a demonstration. "...and I, I am a master of fire." He announced, letting loose with a loud roar, so that the flames on his body grew to five times their size. Jack sheltered under his wing, subconsciously creating a shield of ice between him and the burning dragon.
"Um, yeah, ice guy here." He explained, somewhat irritated.
"Oh, I'm sorry." The big red dragon looked genuinely apologetic, too. The big light show had brought back the girl from earlier, she appeared so fast it was like she appeared from nowhere.
"North, what's going-" She stopped as she saw the new arrival at their campfire.
She was a long, serpentine dragon, covered from head to toe in beautiful feathers, ranging from blue to green to purple- and a little yellow on the crests at the back of her head and tail- she resembled a mood dragon, without the whole colour changing thing, Hiccup thought.
"Oh, hello." She said. The scene faded, as Jack ended the memory.

"I travelled with them after that, and for a while, everything was perfect... But, Tooth and the others..." He faltered again."
"Where are they now?" Hiccup asked, confused as to why they'd left him- then a dark thought struck him, and he dearly hoped he'd thought wrong, but no- he was right.
"They're gone" He answered.

"Just like every other "Sky Dragon"."

"Dead."