Back at the Pole the grown ups, Eugene, and the Viking teens, were all together in North's office trying to think up what the kids could have that turned them from what they were to who they are now.
"Well my guess with Rapunzel, Your Highness'," Eugene said to Rapunzel's parents "Is the mirror shard I cut her hair with when I went to rescue her from Gothel."
"Why would a hair cut change someone so much it's in an ancient prophecy?" Snoutlout asked rolling his eyes mumbling how dumb this guy was.
Looking to Richard and Sarah, getting small nods Eugene sighed and asked if someone could check if Rapunzel was coming. When the coast was clear Eugene went into the story of Rapunzel and heir magic golden hair, how Gothel had stolen her when she was a baby, about the lanterns, how he found her one day and she asked him to take her to see them, all about her hair, and how after escaping the prison with the help of some friends and the horse Maximus, got back to the tower where Rapunzel was being kept and to keep her free from Gothel who only wanted her for the power her hair had, cut her hair making it lose it's power.
"There are a few more things here and there but that's the jest of it, so yeah..." Eugene said coughing getting all stares of wonderment and befuddlement, not believing any of it.
And that was shown by Snotlout laughing out loud tears coming to his eyes. "Yeah right... Good one."
"You don't believe me? Look here," Eugene said showing his side to the boy where a scar in the shape of a beautiful flower was shown. "This is where that Witch stabbed me with a knife, killing me!" he said venom in his voice to the brat "If it wasn't for the tear Rapunzel let fall onto me after I cut her hair, I'd be dead," he said resetting his shirt, then excusing himself from the room.
As soon as he left everyone turned to Snotlout and Astrid knocked him out angry at him for acting like that.
"Ok so that Rapunzel," Fishlegs said turning to everyone else ignoring Snotlout "What about the others?"
"Well the thing that changed Hiccup was Toothless," Astrid said answering for Stoick knowing a bit more about him than he did. When she got confused looks from the others in the room who were not Vikings Astrid told the best she could about how Hiccup met Toothless.
"I don't think the objects would be anything living Astrid," Fishlegs said a thinking face on. "Especially if they're meant to 'Come together'."
"We will rethink the boy's object later," North said getting everyone's attention. "What about Merida?" he asked turning to Fergus and Elinor.
"My guess will be the tapestry of our family," Elinor said getting a nod from Fergus. "A while ago she and I got into an argument, and she sliced through it with a sword in anger and pride," Elinor said hugging herself a bit. "To mend that bond that was torn, she had to stitch it back up, along the way learning a few things about jealousy and sometimes legends are not just stories," Elinor continued looking to the Guardians smiling a little.
"Ok so what about Jack?" Stoick asked the group no one coming up with an answer.
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Eugene was sulking off mumbling to himself following his nose to the Kitchens where he found Rapunzel helping Jo make some pies and cookies.
Waiting until her back was turned, he slowly snuck in and reached for a freshly made cookie that was cooling on the rack.
"OW!" he cried shaking his hand glaring at the little frog (chameleon) which had just revealed himself to the former thief.
"Eugene..." Rapunzel said turning around at the noise "I thought you stopped this thieving nonsense."
"Well I can't help it if the senors get turned on again by your cooking dear," Eugene said reaching for them again only this time for his hand to be slapped by Rapunzel. "Would you stop that?"
"Stop trying to snatch the cookies then."
Jo was amazed at how great the girl was at keeping the cookies safe. He should ask her how she does it later.
Hearing giggles, Eugene turned to see the Triplets and Merida there as well all with cookies and or pies in front of them.
"They helped make them, so naturally they should deserve a reward for all the work," Rapunzel said explaining before he could complain.
"Well I was helping too..." Eugene said crossing his arms sulking.
"I don' remember seeing ya in here pretty boy," Merida said smirking.
"That's because I was helping the Guardians and everyone else try and work out that dumb prophecy and what the objects were.
Before another word was said, Jack, Hiccup and Toothless came running up to the door.
"You two..." Jack said pointing to the Princesses "What happened when you were cut off from everyone when you were fighting the Nightmares back home earlier?"
There was some blinks of confusion at this.
Seeing this was important and wanted to get it off her chest, Merida turned to the boys.
"Boys, go find mum and dad and stay with them for a while will ya?" getting nods the boys ran out of the kitchen and shut the door, Jo already having left to deliver the cookies and pies to everyone else.
"What happened to me Jack..." Merida said picking up her bow as a form of comfort "Was Mordu came out of the woods formed as his Princely self and told me if I came over to their side, then he'd guarantee, that I didn't need to worry about my fears of not being a good Princess ever again," she said her back to her friends.
"When the shadows cut me and Suzy, a little girl who was falling behind, from everyone," Rapunzel said rubbing her arm really not liking her short hair at the moment "Gothel's voice rang around in my head, I know it was just my head because Suzy said she couldn't hear anything," she explained "And she just kept saying things I'm afraid of. Being locked back in my tower. People getting hurt right before me. My... My song Eugene..." she said confusing everyone but her husband who wrapped his arms around her rubbing her back.
"How could they of known their fears? And why were they spilling them out?" Eugene asked still soothing Rapunzel.
"To get them to crack and go over to them to make them stop," Jack said an angry look on his face pacing a bit "Pitch, as I've already said to Hiccup, knows everyone's fears. And they want make it so the prophecy doesn't come true. For that only ONE of us needs to back out and go over to them. But since I'm guessing they don't know who to target they've targeted all of us and will just wait to see who takes the bait." he explained.
"Hey Punzie..." Hiccup said after a bit quietly getting the brunette's attention. "It's probably not the right time to ask this... But what exactly happened to you to be afraid of all that? And what song? And didn't you call Gothel 'Mother' during the first attack?"
"HICCUP!" Merida screamed punching him on the arm with more force then Astrid normally does nowadays. "You can't ask her things like that!" she said turning as red as her hair.
"No no Merida it's fine..." Rapunzel said sniffing a bit and hurriedly rubbing away her tears. "If he, and you, I'm guessing Jack may already know... what to know my story I'll tell it. But not in here."
Agreeing they all followed Rapunzel to the library where there was nobody there but the librarian Yeti at the desk who said that anything he heard he'll keep safe, crossing his heart.
"Ok... Well it starts before I was even born..." Rapunzel began slowly.
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"After I came home there was a week long celebration and everyone's dreams came true. Then a few month later Eugene and I got married. The end."
Merida, Hiccup and Toothless were amazed at the story but accepted it saying their lives were just as if not slightly more crazy then hers.
"So you want to share your stories then?" Jack said smirking being the only one to possibly know all of them anyway, scratching his arm again.
"Are you ok Jack?" Rapunzel asked noticing this.
"Yeah," Jack lied "Just got bit by something back in Burgess."
"Ok then. You want to go next Mer or shall I?" Hiccup asked standing up.
"You can go next," Merida said playing with an arrow. "I... I want to save mine to last..."
"Ok," Hiccup said taking to the front "So first thing to note is that Berk wasn't always the be kind to Dragons community is is today..."
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"When I woke back up, my leg was missing, Toothless was in my house, and there were dragons all over the island not setting fire to anything. The end." Hiccup said bowing slightly getting blinks of amazement at how Hiccup was treated, and how brave he had to of been to go up against a Dragon eating Dragon the size of a mountain.
"So... that knife might be your object then..." Eugene commented on getting confused looks. "Before I came into the kitchen, I was with everyone else trying to work out these 'Objects' but only got as far as Rapunzel's and telling her story, to everyone... ONLY SO THEY UNDERSTAND WHY!" he said at a fast pace as a shocked Rapunzel lifted her pan to him "And Snotface began to laugh about it, before I left."
"Why do ya thinks it's the knife he threw into the pond?" Merida asked cocking her head slightly.
"Because if he hadn't of had it, one, Toothless would of still been in that net," Jack said explaining playing with some snow to take his mind off the itching "And two, Toothless probably wouldn't of trusted him enough to let him give him that fish. Did you really eat that thing like you say you did?" he asked turning to Hiccup.
"Only one bite but yes," Hiccup said shivering with the memory of the thing going down his throat.
"Your turn now then Merida," Rapunzel said switching the conversation to something they would all want to hear.
"It begins really on my sixth birth day..." Merida began
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"The end..."
There was a moment of shocked silence before Rapunzel, Hiccup, Eugene cried out "YOU TURNED YOUR MUM AND BROTHERS INTO BEARS!"
"The brothers were by accident," Merida said not looking anyone in the eye "And it was the Witch not explaining what would happen that got my mum to change. It was not my fault!"
"Hey I know a witch who turned herself into a half cat by accident once," Jack said trying to lift the spirits of his friends "Had the tail, whiskers, eyes, ears, everything. She had to spend two and a half months in the hospital wing of her school just for it to ware off."
This getting Merida to smile a bit she then turned to him "So what's your story then Frosty?"
"It's Frost, Princess," Jack said loosing his smile slightly "'Frosty' is the snowman."
"Whatever," Merida said rolling her eyes "What's your story?"
"You really want to know?" Jack asked "Because it's not all that a happy one," he said spinning his staff around scratching his arm again.
"We told you ours Jack," Rapunzel said kindly grabbing his scratching hand and turning his eyes to hers. "Please would you tell us yours?"
Sighing knowing he was fighting a loosing war, Jack began.
"Darkness, was the first thing I remembered," he said "It was dark, cold, and I was scared..."
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"The end." Jack said waiting for his out burst but surprisingly nothing came, everyone was just too shocked by the way Jack had been treated. Being alone for 300 years like he had already said. And then disowned by the Guardians because of misunderstanding they didn't even let him explain.
Jack was about to turn and leave them, to go to his room for some more cream for his arm, when the Triplets came charging him and wrapped themselves around his legs.
Turning around not so gracefully as he usually would, Jack saw everyone with the same expression telling him that they had heard all of his story.
"Jack..." Tooth said coming forward but staying her distance "Why... Why didn't you tell any of us about what happened on Easter between you and Pitch?"
"I needed more time to know I cloud trust you lot that's why," Jack said tapping the boys with his staff asking if they could get off, which they did.
"Besides, you didn't give me a chance to at the park, and we had bigger problems with Jamie after the Antarctica point." he said pulling out his Russian Doll Center.
Asking to see the thing, Sandy studied it and the held it up to Jack a '?' above his head.
"Yeah I guess it could of changed me..." Jack said understanding "I mean if it wasn't for my fun, I bet I'd of someway of ended up like Pitch. And it's my fun that finally stamped out his fear wasn't it?"
"That's one Object down then," North said seeing Sandy give the treasured piece of wood and paint to the boy. "Who's should we go after next?"