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=Hiccup=

The oddest thing about not knowing what exactly was going on was that, I was myself, standing in a black pit and looking past Autumn who was protecting me at all costs. I was Autumn, I could even see the part of my soul that he held onto and feel his emotions and pain. I was Pitch, standing on the far side of the black chasm with a dark smile on his face and advancing towards us victoriously. The best part about all this was that I couldn't stop it, even with my soul split in three, you would think that I could have some control over the dark spirit trying to destroy Autumn and consume me. But no, I was useless here, the only thing I could do was watch, my training felt useless.

"Autumn take me!" I called to him, it wasn't the first time I had told the spirit to do this sense I arrived in the black pit. The spirit shook his head, refusing me again and the black spear ripped into his side. I winced with him, feeling the numb pain in my own body. The thing that sucked most, was that Pitch's magic blended in with our surroundings giving him the advantage point. There was also a thumping sound and every once it shook the cavern.

"Give it up Autumn you can't protect him for much longer." Pitch chuckled as another spear rushed at him, he managed to block this one and send out his own counter attack. It honestly looked like a pathetic attempt to stop the spirit but surprisingly enough managed to hit him and shove him back a few paces. Pitch chuckled again, brushing off stray leaves from his robe and continuing towards us. Autumn dropped to his knee, holding his side. I started to him but a strong gust of wind kept me in place.

"Autumn please, let me help you!" I called to him. He just shook his head again, refusing me.

"Why don't you let him Autumn?" Pitch mused, advancing further. He was almost at the half way point. "You need the extra strength, and if nothing else, that's what he'll give you." I could feel Autumn's anger at Pitch and wasn't surprised when he threw volley after volley of attack's towards him. Pitch easily deflected most of them, only a few hitting him in the sides but not having much effect on him. He flicked off the last attack and tisked at Autumn, stretching out his own arm and sending a round of spears at Autumn, I tried to call out for him but I felt hands wrap around me, one covering my mouth. Several of them struck Autumn and agony filtered through me.

I was pulled towards Pitch and passed Autumn. He reached out and grabbed onto my hand, though I could tell that the movement brought him pain. He was able to keep me in place, though my arm felt as if it could be ripped off at any moment. Behind him a light flashed and I could see three dim figures glowing in the dark. "Imposable!" Pitch growled and I felt my hand slipping from Autumn's. He held it with his other one as well, a determined look in his eye. He would refuse to loose this battle. Behind him the three spirit's emerged, their forms solidifying and assessing the situation quickly before jumping into action. Spring, the brightest of the three, was quickly at Autumn's side, taking in his wounds and healing them. Summer, who almost matched Merida's appearance started fighting with Pitch, keeping him quite distracted with shooting fire in his face (or heat, whatever she calls it.) Winter, or Jack considering they had merged worked on getting me free of my trap, as well as giving defense to Spring and Autumn.

"I swear to the gods Hiccup," Jack mumbled as he tore the shadows from me. "If we get through this I'm never leaving you alone again." He told me, and I felt happy. I don't know why, he was mad at me and clearly going to yell at me later if I made it out of this as myself, but he made me happy. Once I was freed from my binding, well mostly free, I hugged him. Getting Autumn to laugh and Spring to smile.

"I hope you keep to your word." I said to him, pulling back and looking at his shocked face.

"I'm not one for breaking promises." He said to me, linking our pinkies.

"Jack, Merida need's help." Spring, or I guess it's Rapunzel said to him. He nodded and went to join Merida with distracting Pitch. I looked at her as she finished healing Autumn. "Are you alright?" She asked.

"Yeah everythings great." I responded sarcastically. "Just another monster trying to consume my soul. A normal day in the life of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Viking leader in training." She smiled at my comment and Autumn laughed silently. "You guys seriously showed up at a good time."

"Well, ya'know." She shrugged, standing. "Can't keep you from your future boyfriend can we." I blushed a dark red.

"How...?"

"Please Hiccup." She rolled her eyes. "I dated you for a year, and I've been your friend for much longer. I know you like him, I just wanted to be selfish for a while and keep you to myself." She crossed her arms over her chest gave me the, you're not fooling me, look.

"It was hardly selfish. I did like you." I said to her, she smiled.
"I know, I'm just teasing." She said, I tried to stand but I was still tangled in a web of shadows. Autumn stood, looking between us and then at the fight.

"He doesn't like you guys fighting our fight." I told her, sensing what he was thinking.

"Well, it's as much of ours as it is yours." She rolled her eyes. "We're all connected." There was a cry of pain and she turned to see Merida holding her side. "Don't do anything stupid." She ordered me.

"What? Me?" I asked. "Never," she studied me for a moment before going to help the others. I looked at Autumn. "Autumn I'm not getting out of this." I said to him and his head snapped back to me, panic in his eyes. "I need you to protect them from Pitch." I told him and he opened his mouth as if to replay, temporarily forgetting that he can't talk. "Do it for me, please. If any of them were to get hurt because of him. I'd never forgive myself." His mouth closed and he studied me for a moment before nodding. "Tell them how to defeat him. Make sure that they know it's the only way to safely take him out." I said and again he looked as if he wanted to protest "Autumn do this for me. Please. If I die and I stay dead then at least Pitch was defeated, for the time being at least. If I die and they bring me back, merged with you as you did for Jack, then that's a miracle all of it's own." He nodded again. I felt the bindings tug on me, pulling me towards Pitch again and he quickly grabbed onto my arms, his feet digging into the black supporting us to keep me from moving. I held onto him, trying no to give into the whisper in my ear telling me to give in. It was pointless to struggle, not that I hadn't already known that. This was a loosing battle from the start, I just had to prove to myself that I could fight against it for as long as I could. "Keep them safe," I told him as the last of my strength faded, I slipped from his hands and used the little control I had over this place to send the four spirits out of my body.

"No!" The voice echoed in my mind as I completely merged with Pitch, my parted soul clinging to me as the third part was torn almost completely from my body. I felt lifeless, bodiless and for lack of better words, dead. My mind being consumed with nightmares and loosing the little sense of self I had before.

Around me I heard quiet breaths, steady and even. My eyes opened and the brick ceiling of the hospital wing stared back at me. I sat up and turned, letting my legs drop out of bed. It was dark, night must've fallen long ago. I looked out the window and saw a ghostly figure staring back at me. "Finally." My mouth moved and I stared into the glowing dark yellow eyes that replaced the once green ones. My hand moved up to push some hair out of my eyes only the touch was of cloth. I stared in disgust at the glove and tore it off my hand. "Pathetic wasn't I?" I said to myself, standing and taking a minute to readjust to the prosthetic. "Really Pathetic." I looked around, there were four occupied cots, each of a face I knew. Each of a face that were now my enemies. To my right, was Rapunzel, to my left Elsa. On the other side of the room were Merida and Jack. I walked over to his cot, and studied him. I could see why I liked him. "At least I had good taste." I murmured.

I lent down, putting my arms on either side of him and pressed my lips to his, startling him awake. "Hiccup?" He asked against my lips and I smirked.

"Not quite," I responded, climbing on top of him and pushing him into another kiss. He tried to push me off but I pinned his hands with mine. "I think I'll enjoy this." I mused, grinding our hips together and getting a gasp out of him.

Stop! The echo of my former self begged in my head. Instead of stopping, I trailed kisses down his neck as the boy under me struggled with my hold. I bit down on a tender piece of skin and a soft moan escaped his lips.

"What a lovely sound." I mumbled against his neck before grinding against him again. He moaned again. "Shh, don't want to wake the others now do we?" I mused before capturing his lips again.

"G-Get off." He demanded, when I pulled away.

"No, I quite like it here." I chuckled, but before I was able to touch him again, I was pulled of and found myself glaring at Autumn.

Yes! My echo sighed with relief. I growled at both of them. Jack, sat up in his cot, looking at the both of us.

"Get lost leaf boy I won." I snarled at him. "You're not needed here any more."

"No, as long as you're still alive I'll be here." He said to me.

"Got your voice back did you?" I laughed, he scowled at me. "You know I thought about giving it back once or twice, I missed our arguments. But no, watching Hiccup suffer with my comments and you unable to do anything to stop it was much more enjoyable." Around the others were starting to stir.

"Autumn... what are you doing here?" Jack asked confused. He didn't turn to face the boy, keeping all of his attention on me.

"Yes what are you still doing here?"

Standing between you and them. The echo told me.

"I'm doing what I was asked," Autumn responded. "A final request, at least until Hiccup regains control of the body."

"He's not coming back." I growled. "Not so long as I'm alive, ah but he told you that didn't he?" I mused. "So long as this body is living, I'll remain in control." I felt the shadow's collect around my hand, they felt like particle's of sand as they brushed against it and I was glad that I had long ago learned how to harness this magic with this body. Though, a few changes will have to be made for it to be completely compatible with me. Starting with the stupid leg. I'll leave during break and get it regrown.

"Well then I'll be right here standing between you and what you want, just as always." Autumn told me. I narrowed my eyes at him then straightened up.

"Good luck keeping up," and with that I left the hospital wing. I returned to the dorms and prepared myself for living out this boy's stupid school year. Though, some things I won't mind going through, having already been to several classes I know that there will be times were I can corner the pathetic brats and tear them down. Yes, Autumn will be an obstacle but I've beaten him once, there's no challenge in doing it again. First I just have to train this body. I looked at myself in a mirror, the gray scar that the poison left hasn't moved since I assumed control. Nor will it ever move again. The darkest parts were of at my hand and lower arm, where the poison had been contained for several long months before breaking the barrier's put in it's place. Then it slowly faded to a lighter color, eventually blending in with the peach right above my heart. It had also scarred my neck and abdominal, half mimicking the aiding as well as spreading out further while following vein trails, stretching much further than the mass of the poison had.

I have to say, it did good work, though not on the person it was originally orchestrated for. Scowling, I tore off the rest of the ripped shirt and fell into bed, sleep was the first thing I needed to prepare myself for the torture of the next two years. After all, an education is valued highest if one's going to get into the ministry.

The next few weeks were filled with countless annoyances and deadlines. Not many people noticed my changes, luckily but few dared to come up to me and play tricks or make fun of me. I set them straight almost right away each time, scaring the off and separating me from the other students. My cousin didn't seem to get it though, he thought I was just pranking him back for all these years of bullying me. But, his pain became a form of entertainment to me. The few people who had noticed my changes, including the ones that had been there to see it, veered away from me and I knew that the seasons were trying to come up with a way to save Hiccup, without killing me. But their stress levels were high, constantly looking out for me on the rare occasion that I would advance towards one of them.

The first was Rapunzel, who had been quite easy to torture as we sat next to each other in several classes and I adopted my old self's ability to draw. One of his sketchbooks, the one for this year as he had seven each filled with art from different years at the school, along with the eighth one he had been given from his mother before she died. I spent several of my classes ignoring the lesson on something I already knew, Hiccup having already read ahead in all of his classes so he would have time to slack off and just draw. But unlike his normally happy or calm drawings, mine were dark. Sometimes she would glance over at what I drew, out of habit and I would hear her gasp and I could feel her tremble as I drew the boy I consumed trapped inside me, struggling to get out. Or, more entertaining would be to draw what I did to torture her other friends.

Merida was hard to break, but there were small things I could do in our single class together that would make her tremble. Few people know of her fears, such as spiders or being trapped as a Princess, not allowed to be herself. Sometimes even a simple prank sets her on edge and that's quite fun to pull off. There would be days where I send a shadow spider to haunt her, the entire class, making her jumpy for the rest of the day. Or I would send whispers from the past to resurface, such ones like the disappointment of her mother when she wasn't good enough. Wasn't a true Princess and witch as she spent the next day or two in a state of depression.

Then there was Jack, who had quite a lot of classes with me. He was quite easy to break, as I was the boy he liked. Only who he liked wasn't in control. Quite often I trap him in a room and use this to my advantage. Getting my Echo to beg for me to stop, that was an added bonus. "Just give in Jack," I purred in his ear as I had him pinned to a wall. It was a particularly cold day, just before break. Most students were back in their common rooms by now so we were quite alone. I nibbled at his ear. He always had a hard time fighting against me, with his oath to never hurt Hiccup in any way shape or form. It gave me an advantage over him.

"G-Get off." He hissed then moaned when I bit down on a sensitive spot.

Please stop. My echo cried, struggling against the barrier's I had trapped it in. Stop, leave him out of this. Please! And my answer to him was to continue exploring Jack. I captured his lips and ran a hand up his shirt, tracing everything I could. I found his nipple and pinched it, getting him to gasp and giving my tong access to his mouth. Out of the three, Jack had become my favorite toy.

When I returned to London that first day of break I found my way quickly to St Mungo's and found that my letter had reached them. They brought me into a treatment room and removed my prosthetic, reminding me that regrowing limbs was painful and it took time to readjust to using it. I suffered through the night, and spent the remainder of break at the hospital relearning how to use my leg. The nurse's were quite pleased with my recovery, saying that I was one of the quickest they've had and a few days later I was heading back to Hogwarts. It was much easier to move with proper limbs.

Elsa had become a different sort of problem all in her own, she was the only one to come to me and fight me, which seemed to be a weekly thing and annoyingly enough we always ended in a draw. Both too tired to finish what was started. There were days when she was angrier than others, and I assumed it was because of problems with her girlfriend. Her and Astrid had started going out the summer before I took control, and I'm sure she expects me to tell the world about the secret. I would, honestly and I will when I feel like pissing her off, but that's only when I know I'm strong enough to face her and win. This has been something I've been constantly working on, often going to the forbidden forest to train and improving my skills greatly.

"What a beautiful nightmare." I mused, running my hand through the horse's sandy mane. It nuzzled me affectionately, recognizing me as it's master and ready to do anything I wanted when asked. "Beautiful," I repeated and laughed a bit. "I have a task for you." I told it, and it stomped it's hoof impatiently. "There's a girl that you're to haunt." I said to it. "She's quite a bother to me and honestly I could be spending my time doing more important things than fighting her." It huffed, ready. "Elsa Arendelle." I gave her the name and she disintegrated with the wind, going off to haunt the girl.

It worked magically, the annoyance that Elsa had been slowly became less and less. There were bags under her eyes from lack of sleep and her fight against me had easily become a struggle to her, and then finally. I beat her, sending her to the hospital wing, of course no one actually knew it was me that had done this. In fact it was my nightmare that put her there.

The next few days after were fun to watch, Astrid was depressed and her own nightmare had started haunting her, actually the one I had created seemed to be spreading like wild fire. Touching one student after another. I could see who had the small horse following them and who didn't. But no one ever got as bad as Elsa had, she ended up in a coma, staying there for almost a month before waking. Her nightmare still following her and she separated herself from everyone. "What did you do to me?" She demanded watching the horse that had stuck to her trot over to me and nuzzle into my side.

"I didn't do anything." I responded, letting the horse rest in my hand. "You've just had a nightmare Love. Everyone gets them." I crushed the horse, though it wouldn't do any damage to it. It appeared next to Elsa again and her eyes seemed to glaze over.

"They will stop you." She told me, struggling to keep herself awake.

"They are in no better a position than you are." I responded because it was true, the three seasons were fighting struggles of their own. Their own nightmares, their school and then trying to stop me. The stress was weighing down on them, driving them insane. I left her with that comment, he body slumping to the ground and falling into a deeper coma than she had been in before. She was sent away from the school, sent to St Mungo's Hospital. Astrid broke with this, watching her sink deeper and deeper into a endless depression.

Astrid, I'm sorry... My echo tried to call out to her. She wasn't the only one that sunk into depression, more than half of the school joined her. Their worries becoming reality, their stress taunting them. Of course there were the few people immune to the nightmares, immune to the sickness spreading through the school. They spent a lot of time trying to cheer everyone up. One of these being Izzy, Jack's little sister.

She had been spending a lot of time with her older brother and his friends, trying to cheer them up and doing her best to make Jack happy. It worked in small amounts, along with the help Autumn had been giving them, the two vanquished the Nightmares surrounding the three. Whenever I saw that spirit it just made me angrier. He stands in the way of a lot of things but he can't always be there for them. Without a body it was hard for him to materialize, I wonder who was supporting him. Obviously one of three. No one else would be able to do it. I assumed Rapunzel at first, she had been the closest to Hiccup and Autumn before I took control, but then I remembered who she was. Spring. She couldn't do much more than heal Autumn, if they shared a body, even temperately it could do harm to the girl. The seasons were opposites.

I thought Jack for a few days, it seemed likely. Autumn was more closely linked with Winter than Summer, the season drags Summer into it's counter part. But then I realized that if Jack had been holding Autumn, I wouldn't be able to dominate the boy as often as I do.

That left Merida, and who else could it be now that I fit the pieces together. Merida had been Hiccup's first real friend. She had been the closest one to him, the one to make that stupid promise to him. The first promise that started to bind the four. Best friends, no matter what happens between us. The echo repeated and I scowled. Yes, and here was proof of it. She was stupid enough to host Autumn as well as her own spirit. Surely she knows the risk, he must've told her and she would've been too stubborn to give him the chance to refuse. That stupid girl has to be the first one I take out. No! I felt the echo struggle against it's chains and a headache washed over my mind I pressed a hand to my head and leaned against a wall.

This was the first time I realized how much control I truly had on this body. I remembered the last link, the reason I wasn't whole was because Autumn still held a part of Hiccup inside him. When the merge happened we had split him into three, himself, Autumn and me. I growled scaring some first years. I need to have complete control. I can't risk loosing control. I glared at Merida, yes, she truly has to go.

When it was apparent that I didn't have full control of the body, the echo, no Hiccup, started struggling to regain himself. For a pest he put up one hell of a fight, even without Autumn backing him. Headache's became a constant part of my life and I'm sure he would slip in for seconds at a time when I least expected him too. Around the school, my nightmares were dying and I know it's because of him. Sometime in the middle of March Elsa returned to the school, completely recovered and her girlfriend tackled her in front of everyone. Giving up on their secret and kissing the girl. Letting everyone know. She confronted me and the struggle with Hiccup was vengeful this time. He distracted me to the point where Elsa had me pinned and her murderous attitude would've ended me. "Hiccup?" She stumbled away from me, though the ice binding me to the spot was unwavering.

"Elsa," I sighed in relief, ignoring the mind splitting headache. "I don't have a lot of time." I told her, she nodded, completely and utterly shocked.

No! Pitch struggled against me and I winced in pain.

"Elsa tell them that they have to kill me." I said to her, feeling tears stinging my eyes. "They have too."

"But you're in control now." She said. "Can't you keep it? Can't you defeat him?"

"No," I told her weakly. "I can't, it's a struggle to fight him off now, I can't last..."

Shut up! He snarled at me, pain shot through my entire body.

"He's going to kill Merida if they don't kill me." I told her. "Kill her then finish off Autumn to gain complete control." Around me I could see black energy circling around me.

"Hiccup!" She gasped.

"Go!" I yelled at her, she hesitated, nodded then ran off as the energy shot into me. Blinding pain swallowed me.

I dropped from my prison and rubbed my wrists. The ice had cut into them but it was just a few minor cuts, nothing that's not easily taken care of. I walked out of the room, leaving the ice for somebody else to take care of and cursing Hiccup for that moment. Well, now if he gets control again, which is quite unlikely, at least he won't be able to speak. Did he think he could just exploit my plan without any sort of punishment? Damn him to hell. I stormed through the halls, people moving out of my way as I made my way out of the building. I made my way into the forbidden forest and passed a small clearing the dragon stayed in, it looked up at me eagerly. Expectantly and bounded over to me. I struck it down, as it got in my way. It's cry of pain echoing in my mind as I continued through the forest. Inside I could feel Hiccup's anger boiling.