On making it back to the pole Jack was just about to rush to his room when three snowglobe portals opened up and everyone came back. All looking tired, and wiped out, Rapunzel, Hiccup, and Merida avoiding everyone's eyes.

Soon after they returned North, Tooth and Bunny came into the room asking if everyone was alright.

Getting nods and mumbles of agreements, Hiccup said he was going to go fly Toothless for a bit, Merida said she was going to go ask one of the Yeti's to make up some more arrows for her, Rapunzel said she would go help them make toys being as kind as she was, and Jack said he was just going to go to bed.

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"Well... that was weird," Bunny said after a bit having seen the four leave like that. "Anyone know why they all took off like that?"

"Rapunzel may just need something to take her mind off of what happened in Corona," Eugene said explaining what happened.

"Ok," Tooth said slowly "So what about the others?"

"To be honest, Hiccup seemed a bit off since he went to attack Alvin's ship," Astrid said scratching Stormfly under the chin.

"And Merida seemed a bit off since she came back from around the forest," Fergus said adding in to the conversation.

Just the Sandy came rushing in, super fast images flashing above his head an almost panicked look on his face.

"Sandy, Sandy, slow down we can't understand you." North said.

"He said Jack met up with Pitch after he left you," Hamish said grinning getting everyone to turn to the three small boys, all fixed on Sandy and wearing knowing smiles.

Smiling Sandy turned to the boys continuing the line of flashing images, mostly snowflakes and Sand-Pitch's.

"Er... He says, they were talking about how you 'Abandoned him'," Hubert continued, getting a nod from Sandy and everyone turned to the Guardians unbelievment in their eyes.

"And that he gave him somefing," Harris said said being the youngest having a lisp "But Sandy doesn't know what that somefing was?"

Looking worried, Tooth and Bunny rushed to Jacks room and banged on the door.

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"Hey Jack open up will ya?" Bunny called.

"Bunny that's no way to..." Tooth began but was cut off when the door opened.

"Yes Bunny?" Jack asked in a uncaring voice yawning a bit.

"Alright no more games Frostbite," Bunny said "What did Pitch give ya and why?" he asked getting Jack to pause a bit.

"Why's it matter what I get given by him?" Jack asked crossing his arms resisting the urge to scratch them "In fact why do you care so much that he gave me anything? Are ya jealous or something?"

"Don't play dumb with me Half-Pint," Bunny said everyone coming up behind him led there by the screaming. "Sandy saw ya speaking to Pitch and heard that he gave ya something. So tell us what it was."

"Who says I'm playing dumb?" Jack said avoiding the question shooting a half glare at Sandy "I'm the youngest out of you lot remember? I've been on my own for all that time remember? Who would of taught me anything that you know, if I had no one to teach me? Not even the bloody MOON taught me anything! Or spoke to me except at the very beginning when he told me my name!" Jack said getting louder with each word, breathing hard hands now clamped into fists, fury in his eyes at the rabbit.

After a few seconds, Jack reentered his room and slammed the door ice appearing around the edges blocking it.

Bunny was about to try again when Tooth got in the way her arms held wide.

"Tooth step aside," Bunny said strongly.

"No Bunny," Tooth said just as strongly "If Jack doesn't want to talk about it, then we should respect his wishes and leave him be."

"Tooth. Pitch gave him this thing remember?" Bunny said pointing to the door "It could be dangerous or could harm us in some way."

"We will try and get to him again, when he's calmed down a bit Bunny!" Tooth said stronger than last time her hands clamped into fists twitching as if ready to hit something.

Seeing them, Bunny sighed and took a step back "Fine but if anything happens from now till then it ain't my fault," Bunny said before tapping the ground and leaving.

Everyone was mesmerized at what just happened. So mesmerized that they didn't notice the three boys slip into one of the Elf-Doors and try and find their way into Jack's room.

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Jack had just finished putting on a new batch of the skin cream, around the wrists, all along his arm, and now over his chest. He had just put his hoodie back on and was coming out of the bathroom when he looked up and saw Merida's brothers sitting on his bed, half knowing, half confused looks on their faces.

"Hey boys," Jack said cheerfully "Hamish, Hubert, Harris. Good to see you. Good to see you. So any reason why you here or do you just want me to make up those reindeer I promised you?"

The looks on the boys faces didn't change, they just in sync raised their eyebrows.

"Fine..." Jack said digging into his pocket and throwing something to the boys, them catching it and seeing it was a type of skin cream. "That's what he gave me ok," he said snatching up his staff and began to play with it. "It's for my wrists, they've been itchy since I was thrown against the wall by him when they attacked this place." he explained.

"You mean when he threw you at the wall in North's room?" Hubert asked in a thinking tone.

"Yeah," Jack said nodding "But don't tell anyone ok?" he asked looking to the boys who looked to each other a worried look on their faces but then nodded.

"Ok, so lets go see why the others are like they are shall we?" Jack asked unfreezing the door, checking no one was their first before the four left to hunt down the others.

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First place they went was the workshop in seeking out Rapunzel and Merida.

"Hey Phil!" Jack cried as they came out out of the lift and found his favorite Yeti. "Do ya know where Merida and Rapunzel are?" he asked.

'Rapunzel is helping Tom paint some cars,' Phil said pointing to one of the tables below 'And Merida is with Chris helping him in making herself some new arrows,'

"K thanks," Jack said happily "Oh and don't worry about the boys they'll be with me the whole time."

'That's what worries me...' Phil mutters as the Frost Child went of to find the girls with the boys at his sides.

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"Ok boys, I hope you remember what happened last time and wont do it again. Right..." Jack dragged on getting nods from the boys who were again star struck by the place, as the four continued through the workshop making it over to Tom who was grumbling over his cars.

"Oh... did North tell him to repaint them again Punzie?" Jack called in a mocking voice, getting Rapunzel attention.

"How'd you guess?" Rapunzel said holding a brush halfway from turning a car from red to blue.

"It happens all the time. Doesn't it Tom?" Jack asked glad that no one else understood Yetish because of the words that were being said.

"Why not do half and half and half?" Jack asked looking at the cars smirking a bit, getting a confused look from Tom. "You know... Paint one half blue and red, and the other half red and blue. That way if something's wrong, you'll only need to repaint 50 instead of the whole 100, and since both ways will have both red AND blue, either way North should be happy about it."

Liking the idea, surprised he never thought of this before, Tom went to get back the red paint and a few new brushes.

"You ok then Punzie?" Jack asked while Tom was gone leaning on his staff, checking the boys were alright before turning his attention to the brunette.

"Yeah I'm fine," Rapunzel said Pascal on her shoulder shaking his little head a bit.

"You sure..." Jack asked seeing the gesture "It's just I don't think there was ever a time you painted something without a means to do so, be they good or bad."

"I... I just needed to get my mind off from what happened in Corona," Rapunzel said avoiding Jack's eyes "That's all."

Seeing Tom come back Jack said "Well when you're ready to share it, I'll be there to listen." he said before continuing along with the boys to get to Chris and Merida.

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"And that's sixty," Merida said placing the last arrow into her quiver shaking it so they would all fit and come out easily. "Thanks for the help," she said smiling to the Yeti, who nodded smiling, before he turned back to making toy arrows instead.

Coming out from behind the desk, Merida was nearly knocked over by her brothers who attacked her with hugs.

"Hey Mer!" Jack called coming over too.

"Hey Jack," Merida said smiling lifting one brother to her shoulders "So what brings you here?" she asked.

"The need to check up on my friends of course," Jack said shrugging.

"Well I'm fine," she said as they continued through the workshop.

"So nothing happened to you back in Dunbroch?" Jack asked making her stop, before continuing on at a slightly faster pace.

"Yeah something happened," she said "But I don't want to talk about right now," she said spinning around and gesturing to her brothers. "Maybe later." she said.

"Fine by me," Jack said shrugging "So with you two sorted I'm going to go off to find Hiccup. See ya later." he said taking a right turn as the red heads took a left as they came to the end of the workshop.

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The first place Jack went to look was the stables where he found everyone else, once again tending to their dragons.

"He said he was going to go flying, but that was when we all got back and he's still not back yet," Astrid said the one in charge when Hiccup wasn't there.

"K thanks," Jack said heading out to the wasteland of ice and snow to find the boy.

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After a bit the Wind came flying across his ears and a high pitched shriek and scream came to his ears.

"Found them..." Jack said laughing but dying as he heard bear roars following it.

Asking for an extra burst of speed, Jack set off to find them, finding them being surrounded by a few Polar Bears.

Rushing in, Jack slashed his staff and got the bears attention leaving the boy and strange creature alone and running over to the other boy.

"JACK LOOK OUT!" Hiccup cried beginning to rush over when he was shocked by the amount of laughter Jack was giving off.

Taking a second look, Hiccup saw Jack wasn't being attacked by the bears, he was being licked by them and nosed by them affectionately.

"Ok I'm confused," he said coming over, Toothless following behind.

"These Bears are a few I found as cubs a while back," Jack said getting up and hugging them around their necks. "Their mother to killed by an Killer Whale and they didn't know their dad."

"So you saying you raised them?" Hiccup asked slowly coming over a bit nervous, getting a nod from the white haired boy.

"Yeah and it wasn't easy. Jessie there," he pointed to the one on the left who had green eyes "Kept slipping and sliding on the ice, meaning she kept holding us up when we had to look for someplace to sleep. Wesley," the middle one who had brown eyes "Kept getting into fights with everything and everyone. And finally Emma here," he said hugging what looked like the smallest bear "Just wouldn't leave me alone while I was looking for stuff for them to eat. And that was... Kind of a problem in itself." Jack said loosing the happiness and and turning away.

"Can I ask why?" Hiccup asked now sitting next to him, Toothless and the other two bears coming around to keep them warm.

"Polar Bears mostly feed on bearded seals, and they like to stay safe buried under the ice, so I had to break that apart before I could get to them. And even when I did manage to get to them, most of the time they weren't there because they fled to the water." Jack explained shivering a bit "And I didn't know why until a while ago, but I always had a fear of water. So even though I wouldn't of felt it, or that my cubs would go hungry. I would of just left it and try again somewhere else."

"Well it looks like you did a good job in some way, Jack," Hiccup said smiling scratching Jessie under the chin.

"Thanks," Jack said smiling "But I didn't come here to tell you about my kids," Jack said getting up and dusting off his pants "I came to see if you were alright?" he asked rubbing Emma's head gently.

"Yeah. I just needed to get away from everyone for a while. Rethink what Alvin said to me and go back over his offer," Hiccup explained.

"His offer?" Jack asked turning his attention to Hiccup.

"Yeah he said I could join him, and with using my skills with dragons, and his with concurring over places," he began "We could take over the whole of the Archipelago. And with the amount of power we will have... No one will laugh at me for being who I am, or call me Useless anymore."

Blinking Jack went over what Hiccup just said.

"Is that what frightens you Hiccup?" Jack asked in a cold voice his hold tightening on his staff. "Is that what keeps you up at night? The fact that that's what used to happen? The question on does everyone like you because of who you are... or because of what you done?" Jack asked getting a shocked look from the Viking.

"How..."

"Just a guess. But if you haven't already, ignore all of that!" Jack said looking the boy in the eye "Alvin must of got that info from Pitch and is using them against you so we can't cut them down like that dumb prophecy says."

"Ok so how would Pitch know my fear were that?" Hiccup asked crossing his arms.

"Really?" Jack said giving a 'Oh-Come-On!' look "Pitch Black, the Boogieman, he is the embodiment of fear. He may not know somethings, but the one thing he always knows, Hiccup, is peoples greatest fears."

Just then Jack got a shocked look on his face. "We have to get back and check on the girls," he said saying good bye to the bears and jumping into the air Toothless and Hiccup behind him.

"What? Why?" Hiccup called coming along beside him.

"Pitch saw me, Alvin saw you," Jack began "They both said things that reminded us about our fears," Jack said getting technical with what Pitch said to him "And deals on joining them were strung. That can not be a coincidence. Or alone to just us two..."

Understanding a bit more Hiccup pushed Toothless on a bit more and they flew back to the Pole.