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Title: The Shifters of Walter Works High – The Dragon and the Arctic Fox
Fandom: Disney/DreamWorks; crossover AU
Disclaimer: All rights concerning the movies reserved to DreamWorks/Disney respectively. 'Guardians of Childhood' is property of William Joyce. 'How To Train Your Dragon' is property of Cressida Cowell. This fanfiction on the other hand is entirely mine. No money is made with this, though reviews are more than welcomed.
Warnings: shounen-ai, ABO-verse, shifters, mating, heat, sex toys, explicit intercourse, anal, oral, hurt/comfort, fluff, mpreg, shoujo-ai, hetero, polyamory (threesome)
Main Pairing: Hiccup/Jack
Side Pairings: Jamie/Hiro, Moana/Merida, Flynn/Rapunzel, Eret/Astrid, Honey/Fishlegs/Heather, Fred/Ruffnut, Tadashi/GoGo, Stoick/Cass, Nick/Toothiana, Pitch/Gothel, Fergus/Elinor, Tui/Sina
Rise of the Guardians Characters: Jackson Overland, Mary Overland, Toothiana, Nicholas Saint North, E. Aster Bunnymund, Sanderson ManSnoozie, Kozmotis Pitchiner, Jamie Bennett, Sophie Bennett, Cadence 'Cupcake' Miller, Pippa Morgan, Monty Jones, Caleb Jenkins, Claude Jenkins
How To Train Your Dragon Characters: Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Toothless, Stoick the Vast, Fishlegs Ingerman, Heather, Snotlout Jorgenson, Tuffnut Thorston, Ruffnut Thorston, Astrid Hofferson, Eret Eretson, Gustav Larson, Dagur the Deranged, Gobber the Belch, Gothi
Big Hero 6 Characters: Tadashi Hamada, Hiro Hamada, Cass Hamada, Baymax, Fred Lee, GoGo Tamago, Honey Lemon, Wasabi No-Ginger, Mochi
Tangled Characters: Rapunzel, Flynn Rider, Stabbington Brothers, Mother Gothel, Pascal, Maximus
Brave Characters: Fergus DunBroch, Elinor DunBroch, Merida DunBroch, Harris DunBroch, Hubert DunBroch, Hamish DunBroch, Angus
Moana Characters: Moana Waialiki, Sina Waialiki, Tui Waialiki
Summary: Walter Works High School is a place where shifters of all races and secondary genders learn together. It's located right at the borders of two very small towns and due to their size, the small towns share the high school. Hiccup, a young alpha dragon-shifter, is the son of the Alpha of Berk, one of the two towns. He's well respected and well-liked by others. Everyone expects Hiccup to one day be mated to Burgess' heir Merida, the omega bear-shifter. Both teens have been fighting this tooth and nail for years now, being good friends but nothing more.
One day, Jack Overland moves to Burgess and the gorgeous omega instantly catches the interest of Hiccup. The problem is that Jack is from a part of the world where omegas are seen as the lowest and most worthless of shifters, so he has no idea how to handle his new surroundings – a community of mixed racial shifters that live peacefully and see omegas as precious.
The Shifters of Walter Works High
The Dragon and the Arctic Fox
Chapter 9: Enchanted
Christmas at the Saint Norths' had been... not what Jack had expected. Not that Jack knew what he would have had expected. But it was good. Nick was very enthusiastic and Toothiana had cooked basically everything imaginable. They did their best to keep Jack and Mary distracted from the heartache but they deliberately weren't overdoing it, knowing that they weren't ready for too much Christmas. But it was good. Jack was glad to have this... this new family, in a way. They would never be able to replace Jack and Mary's parents, but they were now here, they were here for Jack and Mary and it was what both children needed and Jack was grateful for that.
"So you enjoyed Christmas?", asked Rapunzel happily.
The two of them were out for ice-cream. Flynn was off with the Stabbingtons, because an old child-hood friend of theirs was over visiting – Lance Strongbow, a big fella but from what Jack had seen actually pretty cool. Moana was still off with her family and Merida and Hiccup had some kind of family event where the leaders sat together for dinner regularly. So it was just Rapunzel and Jack.
"Yeah. It was... not what I'm used to, which is good, but it... It was nice", nodded Jack slowly.
"That's good", grinned Rapunzel, finishing her ice. "Do you want to go and see if Merida and Hiccup are done with dinner already? Merida got the Hobbit trilogy for Christmas."
"...She did?", asked Jack with a slightly dubious look.
"Her dad just knows that 'that archer you so love is in this, right? You like it, right?'", shrugged Rapunzel with a bad Fergus-impersonation, grinning. "And it has a dragon, so that totally makes Hiccup love it. Benedict Cumberbatch is Hiccup's favorite actor. He totally adores Sherlock. And since the actor is also a dragon-shifter and The Hobbit was his big chance of actually also playing in his shift-form, Hiccup fanboys so badly over those movies. It's funny."
Jack hummed and nodded. Hiccup fanboying was insanely cute. A slight blush dusted his cheeks. Okay, so maybe he had kind of grown fond of Hiccup over the past weeks. Ever since Hiccup had soothed him after the nightmare even more so than before. Before, it felt like maybe Hiccup could become a good friend. Since Hiccup had held him safe and secure, whispering gently and soothingly, well, somehow Jack was starting to see Hiccup slightly differently.
He had started to watch the way Hiccup's arms would bulge when working in the shop. The cute concerned wrinkle between his eyebrows when he was studying. The protective stance he took when with his little brother Hiro. The adorable blushes Hiccup occasionally spotted.
That Hiccup had then given Jack such a thoughtful Christmas present only made things worse. Hiccup sure was more than the awkwardly bumbling alpha Jack had first met. There was more to Hiccup and the more Jack saw, the more he felt himself growing more than just attached to him.
"Okay. Sure. Let's go and watch Hiccup be a dork", shrugged Jack as they got up.
GoGo and Honey Lemon were manning the Lucky Cat Café on their own today due to the Alpha-couple being busy right now. GoGo grinned at them in greeting as they approached her.
"You kids want to head upstairs?", guessed GoGo amused. "Send my boyfriend downstairs if they're done with dinner already? He still owes me for a bet that he lost."
"Will do", grinned Rapunzel as they headed past her to get upstairs.
And indeed, dinner was over, as they realized when entering the Haddock-Hamada household. Cass, Heather and Elinor were in the kitchen, sharing a coffee, while Stoick and Fergus were in front of the TV watching a football game together with Tadashi, Dagur, Merida and a less than enthusiastic Hiccup. Toothless was there too, much to Jack's surprise. But Toothless was very busy chasing Mochi, the family's cat. It was kind of amusing to see, considering that Toothless was a might and impressive dragon-shifter, his form the same black mighty beast as Hiccup's. But right now, he looked more like an oversized kitten, trying to catch Mochi like that.
"Tadashi, GoGo says that if you're done with dinner, you 'owe her for a bet' and are supposed to go downstairs", stated Rapunzel, curiously enough making Tadashi blush. "And Jack and I, we thought that Hiccup and Merida would want to watch The Hobbit with us, but... you look... busy?"
"The Hobbit?", asked Hiccup hopefully, clearly bored by the game.
Merida made a disgruntled sound but when Hiccup offered him the pleading puppy-eyes, she caved. Jack could relate to that. He would cave too. And he had less motivation than her; after all Merida was Hiccup's girlfriend. Jack frowned at the odd feeling in his stomach at that.
"Very well, children. Go", grunted Stoick with a dismissive hand-gesture.
Hiccup was off the couch and on the stairs within a moment. Toothless blinked up at them with his large eyes, gathering Mochi up in his arms and then following his best friend even though he hadn't caught anything of the conversation, his focus on the cat. Merida looked less thrilled as she too followed them. After popping the movie in and turning sub-titles on, the five teenagers got comfortable on Hiccup's bed. Merida and Hiccup were next to each other, shoulder to shoulder, with Rapunzel on Merida's other side and Jack on Hiccup's other side. Toothless and Mochi were sprawled out in front of them, Toothless still patting the not quite willing kitten.
The longer the movie went on, the more often Jack found himself watching Merida and Hiccup out of the corner of his eyes. There was this weird, heavy feeling in his stomach again. Merida was leaning against Hiccup, her fluffy red hair everywhere. Hiccup had a casual arm around her waist. The heavy feeling grew more uncomfortable. Frowning at himself, Jack scooted closer. For a moment, Hiccup looked startled, but then he tentatively wrapped his other arm around Jack and the omega found himself snuggling up to Hiccup even more. By the time the first movie ended, Jack had his feet resting in Hiccup's lap, very content with being so close to the alpha.
Merida all the while had gravitated to laying curled around Rapunzel. Something was just so weird about the supposedly relationship between Merida and Hiccup and Jack was unable to shake it. (Just like he was unable to shake the odd heavy feeling in the pit of his stomach, which was just so very utterly irrational, even more so considering he knew something was odd about Hiccup and Merida).
/break\
Toothless watched curiously how Merida, Rapunzel and Jack left the apartment. He had been watching closely lately. What had started off as something fun to tease Hiccup with was fast growing into something more serious. It was clear that his best friend wasn't just crushing on a pretty omega, he was falling hard and fast for Jack Overland, as a person. Toothless wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not. He liked Jack, a lot. Jack was good people, he was also a good omega so that'd make him a good match for a young Alpha-to-be. And part of Toothless hoped that maybe falling in love with someone would make Hiccup end this utterly ridiculous charade of dating Merida. Toothless sat and waited for Hiccup to do something.
"Okay. Spit it out. I can see the judgment in your eyes", prompted Hiccup after a moment.
"You were really cozy with Jack", signed Toothless with a shrug. After a beat, he added: "I'm not teasing. Not this time. Look. I can see that you... have actual feelings for him."
Hiccup blinked and blushed, ducking his head a little before answering his friend. "I... Yes. I think. Honestly, it's been getting worse every day. He is so... and I just... it's..."
Toothless made a grunting sound in agreement as he nodded slowly. "Have you talked about this with Merida yet? Because you two really should be on the same page there."
Hiccup bit his lips and before answering, he was already out of the room. Toothless was right. He mostly was. And oh dear lord, having Jack snuggled up to him might just be the best feeling ever. By the time Hiccup reached downstairs, he noticed that yes, Merida was still there, with her parents. The triplets had emerged again too – they had disappeared somewhere into the house after dinner, but since nothing had exploded, no one had been too concerned.
"Hiccup! Came to say goodbye? Such a good lad", chuckled Fergus fondly.
"I... uh... thought I could bring Merida home", offered Hiccup awkwardly.
"Ah, my. We did want to drop the boys off at the Bennetts'. So, if you wish to go ahead, Merida", nodded Elinor, pleased by the chivalry Hiccup was displaying.
Merida eyed him suspiciously, but in the end she shrugged in agreement. The triplets were making obnoxious kissing noises as Hiccup and Merida left the house together. Merida continued side-eyeing Hiccup as they made their way together and only when they were on the path toward Merida's home, off from public bystanders, did Hiccup gather up his courage.
"So... I mean. Uhm. You and I, we've kept this... whole spiel of courting up for... a while now."
"More or less successfully", hummed Merida in confirmation, looking around and not at her friend. "Mother buys into it completely. I think dad... suspects something, but he's not saying anything. What about you? Don't tell me Cass and Stoick are suspicious."
"No. That's not...", drawled Hiccup and ruffled his hair. "That's not why I wanna... I just..."
"...It's about Jack", concluded Merida with a brief nod. "You don't like how chummy he's getting with Moana so you'd rather come clean now before it's too late and we get invited to their mating-ceremony to watch them live happily ever after, eh?"
Hiccup made a face at that. Yes, Moana and Jack had become real close friends and yes, Hiccup could feel the territorial alpha inside of him rearing its head every time the two would touch casually. Maybe that was it. Maybe, more so than Tadashi's advise and Toothless' advise, it was how close Moana and Jack were growing. She was a good, honorable alpha. But...
"Don't act like it doesn't annoy you too", quipped Hiccup, hands deep in his pockets. "You've been baring your fangs at Jack. You've always been the sole focus of Moana's attention and now suddenly there's this pretty, new omega around who gets cozy with her and you don't like it."
Merida glowered at that, kicking a stone. Okay, so maybe she didn't. Maybe she had been just a bit hostile toward Jack because he was constantly so close to Moana. And maybe it wasn't fair to be territorial even though Moana wasn't hers. Stupid instincts.
"They're gonna glow a gasket", pointed Merida out. "All of them. It's been years now that we had this ruse going. If we flat-out tell them 'This was never real to begin with', they'll flip."
"...You're right. And I hate disappointing my parents. Lying to them for years...?", sighed Hiccup, tilting his head to look at her quizzically. "What do you suggest, Mer?"
"...That we let it fade out slowly", drawled Merida thoughtfully. "We thought we were a match when we were still kids, but we're 'growing apart' the older we get. Coincidentally, softening our parents up to the possibility of Jack and Moana respectively?"
"W—What?", sputtered Hiccup stunned, eyes large.
"You could start telling them about his good character trades, everything that's impressive about him and makes him a good potential mate, while slowly detaching them from the idea of you and me. Let's just give it a couple weeks time, make it look natural. After all, that's the whole point of a courting phase. That you can realize you're not meant to be and can still back out."
Hiccup paused for a long moment before nodding. "Okay. Yeah. Let's... try this."
/break\
Jack frowned curiously as he looked around the café. Hiccup had invited him over to help with a wall-painting that Cass wanted. Cass smiled brightly as she spotted him, waving.
"Oh, it is so nice of you to help out! Hiccup has been talking about your beautiful art so much and I thought that a few flowers could really lighten up the place!"
"No problem, Missus Haddock-Hamada", replied Jack with a smile, grabbing a pen.
"Oh please. Cass is enough. And if you want anything while working, just say the word."
Jack grinned at her before joining Toothless, Rapunzel and Hiccup at the large wall. Hiccup offered him a smile and a thank you. This was not strange, because Jack had been spending a lot of time with Hiccup by now, but this was a bit weird. Hiccup still smiled as the three artists got to work (Toothless was just sitting and watching, occasionally signing smart-ass remarks to them).
"So... uhm... what are you doing this break? Aside from painting the café?", asked Hiccup.
"Mh? Well. Eating too many cookies because of uncle Nick", drawled Jack with a grin. "Oh, playing ice-hockey with Jamie and the others. That's a lot of fun, actually. And going on... hunts with Flynn, Ron and Jon. Just us foxes. Do you think Hiro would like to tag along?"
"...That sounds like a horrible combination", muttered Hiccup. "He'll love it."
Jack laughed at that, making Hiccup's heart thumb dumbly. He was so gone on Jack.
/break\
Hiccup's heart was fluttering as he clung onto Jack's hand. They were out on the ice, together with Hiro, Jamie and Jamie's small pack. The younger ones were engaged in a game of ice-hockey – Toothless, Cupcake, Pippa and Hiro against Caleb, Claude, Monty and Jamie. Jack and Hiccup were on the other side of the lake, where Jack was helping Hiccup how to properly navigate the ice.
Okay, so maybe Hiro, Hiccup and Toothless had gone to the lake and hadn't expected the others to play there. Hiro eagerly After a while of watching Toothless grow frustrated with how Hiccup was doing, Jack had suggested to switch with him. Hockey wasn't exactly Jack's thing.
"You're doing good, Hics", grinned Jack reassuringly.
"Y—Yeah. Well... I am mortified though", muttered Hiccup stiffly.
Jack laughed again and it was a beautiful, ringing sound that made Hiccup fall just a little harder. Oh goodness, he was already so gone on Jack. It was ridiculous.
"Hah! Hics! Hics, did you see? I scored!", called Hiro out excitedly.
Hiccup smiled as he turned toward his younger brother, giving him a thumbs-up. With the motion, he lost touch with Jack and found himself slithering away from his guide. He yelped a little as he drifted off. He had no idea how someone was supposed to stop while on those stupid shoes. The kids playing laughed as they saw how he awkwardly slipped further away. Jack watched him fondly instead of coming to his rescue. The others were clearly having a bit of fun with this and Hiccup couldn't fault them. At least until he heard a cracking sound beneath him. The grin on Jack's face instantly froze as he and the kids watched in horror how the ice beneath Hiccup's feet broke to give way for a free fall into the ice-water. The shock was immediate, the water feeling like hundreds of needles on Hiccup's skin and fear wrapping him up tight, trying to suffocate him. Quite literally, considering that he was about to drown in a frozen lake. He turned to stare up at the surface and saw it already closing up again. Yes, this was it. This was how the alpha was going to die.
The water started to grow firm around his feet and he was sure this was it, but... the ice seemed to pull him, pull him up toward the surface and the ice broke once more, allowing him to be pushed out of the lake by the ice holding onto his leg. Had he gone insane? Had the ice-water already fried his brain? How was this possible? And then, suddenly, a cold hand grasped his and pulled him fully out. He gasped for breath as he laid sprawled out on the flat surface.
"H—Hiccup?", asked Jack nearly fearfully.
Hiccup turned slightly as he fully pulled out of the water. He looked at Jack – looked at his worried face, beautiful ice-blue eyes filled with concern and fear and then he looked at Jack's hand. Jack's hand, pressed against the surface of the frozen water, frost covering it and spreading out from it, growing to cover the cracks, to fill them up. The frost grew and the hole where Hiccup had crawled out of just closed up within a second. This was impossible. Hiccup stared at Jack in awe.
"Y—You... You have... powers", whispered Hiccup amazed.
Like this beautiful and funny omega couldn't get any more perfect. No, Jack was powered. This was amazing. How had he not realized this sooner? Puzzle-pieces seemed to fall into place. How Jack had always run colder than anyone else, walking barefoot even in snow, the tense way he had reacted to the reveal that Moana and Rapunzel had powers. Because he had powers.
"I—I don't know what you're talking about", growled Jack defensively and got up. "Jamie and the others ran to get help. We should get you off the lake for now."
Hiccup didn't doubt that the lake would hold now. That Jack was making sure of that. But he still obeyed the white-haired boy. Hiro and Jamie were the only ones still present, Jamie clearly holding Hiro back from rushing onto the lake to be with his brother. As soon as Jack and Hiccup stepped off the lake, Hiccup was tackled by his little brother, Hiro burying his face in Hiccup's stomach. Sighing shakingly, Hiccup wrapped his arms around his brother and allowed himself to be distracted long enough for Jack to slip away. But before Hiccup could decide to follow him, the others already returned with Gothi and reinforcements.
/break\
The incident at the lake had been two days ago and Hiccup hadn't seen Jack since then. He heaved a sigh and sprawled out on the couch. He was in the 'club-house' of his big brother's, formerly known as the garage. Tadashi, Honey Lemon, Gogo and Wasabi were all working on their individual projects in here. Wasabi was talking animatedly to Tadashi in a corner, while Honey and GoGo were working on a project together. Sometimes, Hiccup envied his brother for finding friends who shared his technological interests. Sure, Hiccup had Fishlegs, but that was kind of it. Astrid, Eret, Heather, Toothless – they all really couldn't care less about those kind of things.
Jack cared. In a way. He cared about the designs. He wasn't into inventing so much but he loved coming up with beautiful, delicate designs. Hiccup sighed at the memory of working on a robot together with Hiro, Jamie and Jack just last week – a robot based on one of the mythological creatures Jamie was so obsessed with, built by Hiro and Hiccup, with Jack working on the delicate designs to make it look as real as possible. An abominable snowman. They had called it Phil.
"So, what's with the mopey face, my dude?", asked Fred as he sat down next to him.
Hiccup frowned. He sometimes wondered how Fred fit in exactly, but then again, maybe he fit in the same way as Ruffnut and Tuffnut fit into Hiccup's circle of friends. Hiccup at the very least knew where Fred and Ruffnut came from; they kind of made sense, in a weird way.
"Say you had powers. Like Moana and Rapunzel", started Hiccup, because why not, maybe Fred could give him a different and fresh perspective (he sure knew Toothless would just tease and instantly know who Hiccup was talking about and Hiccup couldn't risk spilling the secret).
"That would be so cool!", exclaimed Fred enthusiastically. "I'd like to control fire, you know? Shoot it or something! That would be wicked awesome, man!"
"Yeah, okay, so say you could control fire", chuckled Hiccup. "Would you hide it? I mean, what reasons would you have to hide your powers...?"
Fred adapted a thoughtful look. "Well. Maybe, I mean, you know I read a lot of comics, right? And sometimes it's like... a hero with powers accidentally hurts someone they care about with his powers and then grows afraid of his powers? And then the hero needs to do something, well, heroic, to make him remember that his powers aren't evil, it's important you learn to control them. That."
Hiccup stared surprised. He hadn't really expected to get something that made sense, but... Fred was actually making sense. If Jack had bad experiences with people, maybe he felt the need to hide them, afraid of what they could do and what people would do if they learned. That made sense.
"Thanks, Fred. That... You really helped me out there", grinned Hiccup pleased.
Author's note: It is 2:30 in the morning which totally counts as it being this chapter's post-date, because I will be busy all day tomorrow! *^* Sooo, instead of a "let's see if I remember to post the chapter in the evening"-update, you get an ass-early one ;D
Neeext chapter will have lotsa Jack Angst and also Hiccup contronting Jack and talking to him about the powers. So. HiJack bonding!