After agreeing that the four and the teen Vikings would go to Rapunzel's tower in the morning, everyone went to bed, still having their heads full with the stories they had just heard.
Jack once again placing some of that cream onto himself sighing. He knew that he should tell somebody, but like he told Tooth earlier, there just wasn't enough trust yet.
He was about to turn the light off when a knock came at the door. Confused because he thought everyone was already asleep, Jack went to answer it his staff in his hand.
But when he opened it... There was no one there, only a small blue blob of smoke in the shape of a flame, waving it's arms beckoning to the Frost Child to follow.
Biting his lip remembering what Merida had said about these 'Will-O'-the-Wisps' Jack hung back at first, until a small trail began to lead him through the workshop the whispers and calls getting louder and louder with each new blob.
Getting a suspicious feeling, Jack took out his doll and left it hidden under a pillow on a couch near the door, making a frost pattern on the pillow so the others will know where to look if something happened to him.
After that was done, Jack took a deep breath and began following the Wisps closing the door behind him.
o0o
One by one Jack followed the Wisps through the workshop, not meeting or hearing anyone or anything besides their calls.
He was so fixed on following them, he didn't notice they were leading him right into a trap.
After about five minutes, Jack was led by the Wisps through a wall that was covered in shadows, his arms beginning to itch again but he ignored that.
He only stopped, and came out of the spell the Wisps had placed on him when the last one poofed away.
Looking around, Jack gasped slightly as he caught sight of all the bird cadges and the black Globe of Belief over in the corner.
Spinning around trying not to be afraid, Jack began to run back the way he came only coming to a stone wall.
"Now Jack," Pitch's voice said echoing around the place "It will be very unsportsmanlike to run away from a game before it even begins wouldn't it?" he asked.
"I'm not here to play games Pitch..." Jack said gripping his staff "Now let me go!"
"And you told me this young man has manners Pitch," Gothel's voice rang out now disbelief in her voice "He has the same amount as Rapunzel does."
"Fine," Pitch says ignoring Gothel "Leave if you wish Jack. No one's stopping you. Go on be off."
Jack was about to go when Pitch said. "Just a shame about your 'Bite marks' though isn't it? Oh if only someone had a cure of them..."
"Ra... Rapunzel could do it," Jack said not much confidence in his voice, turning back around to all four villains, all of whom were wearing their signature looks of evil on their faces.
"But then... she'll think you'll only want her for her power Jack," Mordu said in his gruff voice. "And although that's how it was in my time... That's not really any way to treat one now is it?"
"At least I didn't keep using her to stay young," Jack said looking to Gothel. "Or over rode my pride and divided up my family." Mordu "Or try and kidnap a boy, who was a Son of a Chief, just because I can't tame dragons myself." Alvin.
"Maybe not boy," Alvin said taking his turn in speaking to the Frost Child "But as we all heard from Pitch here... You did spend almost every other night looking up at and asking Moon to talk to ya and nothing happened. You destroyed Easter twice in your years of being spirit. And I happen to know for a small fact that there is a darker side of you, that at one time did run by pride... Jokul Frosti..."
That cut the breaths Jack was breathing short for a while, until all the anger he was feeling to these people built up and he cried out "THAT. IS NOT. MY NAME!" slashing his staff with all his power through the air aiming mostly for Alvin, the ice and snow being held back by the black sand and shadows Pitch and Gothel were working together to create.
Panting after he had cut the blast off seeing he wasn't going to win, Jack glared at them all their grins haven to of grown a bit.
"You were right Pitch," Gothel said smirking "He does have great power. Oh if only he would use it for the right side."
"I am using it for the right side lady," Jack said his eyes flickering from blue to black and back as he shook his head trying to keep the doors he closed two centuries ago closed.
"How can it be the right side Jack... If no one understands what you've been through?" Pitch asked beginning to walk up to him slipping a hand onto his shoulder. "As I told you back a few years ago... I know what it's like to be cast out, to not be believed in, to long for a family. I know what it feels like to go through what you've have and will one day go through again."
"NO!" Jack said shaking the man off and backing away from him. "I will NEVER feel like that again. I... I have believers now. I have friends now. I will never be like you or anyone here!"
"What about when those children grow up Jack Frost?" Mordu asked crossing his arms. "Then what will happen? Do you really believe in yourself, that more will just come by and take their places?"
"And what of these 'Friends' boy?" Alvin asked smirking "Can't really be called that, if you can't even trust them with this deep secret of yours. Can ya?"
It may of been the words that were being said, or the constant noise making him loose his concentration, or the extra dose of dark magic Pitch gave him while he was holding he boys shoulder but Jack was finding more and more difficult to keep those doors shut and his mind was beginning to think up more and more evil things to do with his ice and frost.
Knowing that one more blast aught to do it, Pitch grinned as another taunting came into his head, knowing that this will work.
"I wonder if Jamie Bennett knows of this side of you Jack?" he asked loving the fear Jack was giving off at that "I'd love to see what he will say or how he'll react when he gets told. In fact... why should we wait I doubt he'd want to keep being friends after he's heard, and he's going to find out at some point. Why wait?"
"Leave... Him... ALONE!" Jack screamed again slashing his staff at Pitch only to be locked again.
But the damage had already been done. As soon as Jack had screamed that sentence and slashed the staff his hair got a tad less snow-white, and his eyes had switched to black. His teeth became a bit more pointy and lost some of they're shine as well.
As the blast settled down, and the mist cleared the boy before the villains wasn't Jack Frost anymore. But Jokul Frosti.
The next morning at the North Pole, everyone was in the Globe Room where they were discussing what the plan was.
"OK... I'll show you all where my tower is," Rapunzel said looking to her friends "But there is NO way that I'm ever going back in it. So by all means look around just... just don't touch or ruin anything. I put a lot of work into the art on those walls and even if I will never see them again, I don't want anything to happen to them."
"We understand Punzie," Astrid said smiling resting her hand on her shoulder "You can just stay outside with the dragons and whoever will be look out with you, while Eugene shows us the towers and we find the mirror shard."
Smiling and giving a nod, Rapunzel was about to throw one of North's snowglobe when Merida noticed someone missing.
"Wait a sec..." she said looking around "Where's Jack?"
"Here I am," Jack's voice came from the corridor "Sorry overslept, so we going to go or what?"
The Triplets were looking up at Jack and ran behind their dad's leg hiding from the boy they thought of as a brother not liking the new feeling they were getting off him.
"You don't normally oversleep Jack," North said confused "Normally you're first to wake up and late to go to sleep."
"Yeah well I had to deliver a snowstorm to London last night," Jack said acting natural "Bit last minute yeah, but you do not argue with Mother Nature about stuff like this."
Getting nods of understanding from all of the other Guardians, except Bunny who knew Mother Nature a bit better then the others, the comment was dropped as Rapunzel threw the globe again.
After everyone who was going jumped through, the boys came out.
"That was no Jack," Harris said taking a grip on his dad's kilt sucking his thumb slightly, a scared face showing, his brothers nodding along wearing the same expression.
"What ya mean son?" Stoick asked looking down to Harris confused.
"That was no Jack!" he said again a bit firmer, and louder, but that was all anyone got out of him, or any of the Princes.
"Guys," Bunny said to the Guardians as the others were trying to calm down the boys "I'm... I'm just going to check up on something ok? Nothing bad, just to make sure of something."
With that he left racing down his tunnel's to Mother Nature's Grotto.
While Bunny was checking up on that the kids were all staring up at the seventy feet tall tower with wide eyes.
"Whoa, that's really where you spent the first eighteen years of you life?" Fishlegs asked turning to Rapunzel who wasn't looking at it and nodded.
"So how do we get up there?" Astrid asked seeing the space and the door were way too small for their dragons to fit.
"There's a back way into the tower," Eugene said leading the Vikings and Merida around the base of the tower "But it will take a while before we get there."
With that they entered leaving Jack, who stayed to keep Rapunzel company, Rapunzel and the Dragons wait.
o0o
*Flashback*
"Alight, Pitch," Gothel said a bit harshly "We got him to change into Jokul Frosti. Now what?" she asked.
"Now... My dear Gothel, we let him destroy his own team," Pitch said facing Jokul "With no one being the wiser."
"Bit hard to do old man," Jokul said grinning along with them "What with the differences me and that softy has." he said pointing to his eyes the most obvious difference.
Snapping her fingers, Gothel brought forth a small bottle that appeared to be eye drops. "Here then," she said throwing it to the boy "One drop in each eye, at the beginning of everyday, and they will turn back to blue. Happy."
"Not really, I kind of like black," Jokul said but accepted the bottle.
"Enough of this," Alvin said getting the others attention "Where are the brats going to go first boy?" he asked knowing that he would know.
"Rapunzel's tower for the mirror shard her dumb husband cut her hair with," Jokul said proudly. "Our plan is to go in the morning."
"She won't go back in there," Gothel said "She'll wait outside by the pond."
"Did you say 'Pond'?" Jokul asked evilly.
*End Of Flash Back*
At the base of the tower Rapunzel began picking flowers and picking off the petals wondering what was taking so long.
"Hey Punzie want to go Ice-Skating?" Jack asked smiling seeing she was board.
"How?" she asked confused.
"It's easy," Jack said, Jokul trying not to gag over how 'good' we was meant to be playing. "First you think..." Smiling Rapunzel thought of a frozen pond to stake on. "Then you wink..." giggling Rapunzel did as winked her right eye "You do a double blink," Jack said tapping his staff to the top of the pond as Rapunzel did as ordered. "And hey presto. One frozen pond for us to skate on."
"Oh wow..." Rapunzel said running over jumping with excitement. "But... Is it safe?"
"Sure do you trust me?" Jack asked holding out his hand bowing a bit, smiling.
Just as Rapunzel was about to answer and step onto the pond Toothless came running up and blocking her off from Jack.
Toothless had been watching the Frost Child the whole time since they got there, and he would know an enemy anywhere. Before 'Jack' or whoever the boy was could put Rapunzel in danger of a thin iced pond, him knowing it was like that because of how quickly the boy lifted his staff, Toothless got in between them.
"Hey there Toothless," Jack said backing up a bit "We're only trying to have some fun while the others are gone."
But that didn't make Toothless any happier.
"Toothless," Rapunzel said running around the front of him, "What's wrong boy? Is there something wrong with the pond?"
o0o
While this was going on outside, Eugene and the others had just made it into the tower.
"Wow..." the others said as they stared up to the all the paintings, Hiccup spotting the one over the fire place of the floating lanterns.
"She really did all of these paintings?" Merida asked coming out next eyes wide.
"Yep," Eugene going over to the mirror shard, which was exactly where he left it.
"Wow..." Tuffnut said looking to the ground "That's a lot of hair..." he said getting nods.
"Yeah... about seventy feet it was before I cut it," Eugene said smirking seeing Snotlouts face. "Believe me now?"
Just then they heard Toothless' cry from outside and rushed to the door/window to see what was wrong and confused to see him up against Jack.
"I wonder what's wrong?" Fishlegs said.
"Something must be up," Hiccup said grabbing the hair and tying it to the hook outside.
"Hiccup what are you doing?" Astrid and Merida called together as he threw the hair out the window and slid down, running over to his friend.
"I think I'll choose the stairs," Fishlegs said getting nods from everyone but the twins, who followed Hiccup out the window.
o0o
"TOOTHLESS!" Hiccup called running over to his dragon. "What's wrong bud?" he asked rubbing the dragons head.
In answer Toothless just pointed to Jack and then screamed to Stormfly. Replying to her friends request, the Nadder flew to the middle of the pond and landed on the ice, quickly having to jump up again because the ice broke under her.
Gasping Rapunzel and Hiccup turned to Jack with confused and scared looks on their faces.
"You... You were going to let me fall into the pond Jack?" Rapunzel asked backing away.
"What no!" Jack said shock on his face, Jokul cursing the dragon "I just must of not counted the effect the size of the pond would have on it," he said.
This answer getting a suspicious look from Hiccup and a growl/snarl from Toothless.
"Rapunzel!" Eugene's voice called out as he ran over to see if she was alright.
"I'm fine Eugene," she said hugging him back.
"Well anyway we've got the mirror shard," he said as they pulled away. "We can get going now."
"Ok, where next then?" she asked looking to Hiccup and Merida asking who wanted to get their object next.
"I'd recon Hiccup's will be easier if all it is is a knife at a bottom of a pond," Merida said.
Everyone in agreement Rapunzel threw the globe and they entered.