Pitch's Lair, Just after Jokul jumped through the Portal.
"Ah... Jokul you're back," Pitch said looking up from his Globe "That was a bit quicker than I thought, but there you go."
"Yeah, yeah, nice to see you too," Jokul said annoyed "Did you know you're daughter is working with the Guardians, Pitch?" he asked red bag still in hand.
"Like that makes any difference to anything," Gothel said coming over curios to know what was in the bag.
"Yeah well it's thanks to her Gothel, that now everyone knows I'm not Jack," Jokul said annoyed "Or I got the objects they were collecting."
"So what's in there if it aint those things boy?" Alvin asked sharpening his axe not looking up at him.
Instead of answering Jokul just dropped the bag small 'Omph's' being heard inside and let the boys come out on their own.
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Being the eldest, Hamish was in charge of his brothers when things like this happened and so was the first one to crawl out of the sack, quickly followed by Hubert and Harris.
Looking around they found themselves surrounded by the bad guys in an unknown place, probably one of their hide outs.
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"What you bring the Princess' brothers here for?" Mordu asked confused.
"Er... duh as ransom for them dumb trinkets..." Jokul said as he began to walk away. "If anyone needs me I'll be at my pond. Oh and you might want to think about getting the kids tied down... They tend to wander off if no one's keeping an eye on them."
With the warning set Jokul quickly left, leaving everyone to begin to panic slightly that they couldn't find the brats.
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Quick as can be, the brothers ran away from the bad guys and try and find a way out of here, or at least somewhere that was safe.
Finding a place that was too small for the bad guys to get into but big enough for the three of them, the boys went in there.
"How much do you think Jokul has taken over Jack?" was Hubert's first whispered question "I mean he did just let it so we could try and get out of here..."
"I don't know..." Hamish said panting slightly, looking out "But I don't really trust him all that much. Remember what Rapunzel said he nearly did to her?"
"Then what do we do?" Hubert asked "Do we stay? Do we go?"
"Everyone's probably found out we're not there anymore by now," Hamish said tuning to his brothers "And there's bound to be one person who knows wherever this place is, is. So for now we stay put. And only come out if something's coming, or someone we know is out there," he said.
"So just like when we were bear cubs?" Harris asked smiling at the memory.
"Yeah." Hamish said smiling going back to lookout again.
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Up top, Jokul Frosti was watching over his pond waiting for the sign of anyone coming to save the boys.
Finally after what seemed like forever, one of North's snowglobe portals appeared and the teens came out on the dragons, being led by Baby Tooth over to the entrance to Pitch's lair.
"Let the fun begin..." Jokul said under his breath following them, being as silent as he ever was because of the wind.
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"You expect us to go down there?" Snotlout asked loudly to Baby Tooth.
"Snoutlout will you be quiet?" Hiccup asked climbing off Toothless "We're trying to be sneaky here to see if we can rescue the boys without giving up the objects remember?"
"Not really happy with agreeing with Snotface, Hiccup," Merida said stringing up her bow and sliding off Toothless as well. "But unless we were sure my brothers were down there... I'd definitely not be going."
"Oh but then you'd miss all the fun Merida..." Jokul's voice rang around the clearing getting everyone to spin around to see him leaning against a tree twirling his staff, half coated in shadow. "Don't you like playing Hide and Seek?"
Instead of answering him Merida shot the arrow and it would of gone right through the jerks head if he hadn't dodged it.
"Are you really going to waste your arrows on me Red?" Jokul said now walking along a branch, staff over his shoulders "You'll more likely need them for when you get down there. Who knows what trouble they've gotten into? Oh and don't bother threatening me to tell you where they are cause I don't know."
"What do you mean you don't know?!" Merida yelled slight fear in her voice.
"I mean, I... Don't... Know..." Jokul said slowly, mocking her "As I was talking to everyone else they managed to slip off somewhere and I didn't take note of where they went. Hope you're all good and finding things..." With that he took off and returned to his pond saying he'd give it five minutes before he'd start following them.
"Great..." Snotlout said "Now we do not only need to go in there, but have to split up to find the kids too."
"You don't have to join us Snotface," Merida said climbing over the body of the bed "But I, on the other hand, am going." With that she jumped down and readied her bow looking all around for anything. Looking up she said it was all clear, getting out of the way so the dragons could come down.
When they were all down, Snotlout needing some... persuasion - namely Astrid threatening to chop off his head if he didn't go down, they set off coming to a large room full of hanging bird cadges and a black Globe in the corner.
"Ok so what now?" Eugene asked in whispers eyes all over the place as if feeling something was not right about this place.
"Now we split up and find my brothers duh..." Merida said pointing out "Ok me, Baby Tooth, Hiccup and Toothless will go down the corridor on the far right," she began "Astrid, you Stormfly and Rapunzel go down the one next to it. Twins you and Barch (mixed Barf and Belch) take the middle one. Fishlegs you Meatlug and Eugene take the forth and finally you Snotface, you and Hookfang take the one on the far left."
Agreeing that that seemed the best thing to do, the objects were split up just in case something happened (Hiccup and Merida got his knife and Jack's Center Doll, Astrid and Rapunzel got Merida's Tapestry, Eugene and Fishlegs got the Mirror Shard - Snoutlout and the Twins not being trusted with any of them) and they set off giving each other 'good luck's' and 'be careful's'.
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Deeper into the lair Pitch was rubbing the bridge of his nose in frustration. "Where are those brats?" he asked out loud. "How come no one's found them yet?"
"Maybe cause they don't want to be found?" Jokul's voice answered him as he came out smirking.
"What do you want Frosti?" Alvin asked just as annoyed as Pitch was.
"Oh only to tell you, my wonderful partners in crime," Jokul said bowing "That they're here and in the lair already, looking for the same brats as you are. So if you want to win the game... I'd get going if I were you."
"No. That's it," Gothel said taking charge "I'm done playing games boy. You will be the one to find them. It was you're fault they got loose in the first place."
"Really?" Jokul said confused "Because I don't remember telling them to go and be free and hide from you lot. All I did was tell you I could only get them instead of the objects."
"Exactly," Mordu said a growl in the back of his throat "You were distracting us while they made their get away."
"Oh don't be like that..." Jokul said looking upset, but the feeling not really working when he was smirking so much "It's not my fault you lot weren't smart enough to think the brats would do something like that."
"GETTING BACK TO THE POINT!" Pitch called out taking charge. "The teenagers are in here too you say?"
"That I do..." Jokul said twirling his staff grinning.
"Ok we all take one of the corridors and trap them," Pitch said as leader seeing this was his lair "When you have them, bring them back to the Globe Room. Those brats will have to come out when they see we have their sister and her dumb friends. Right?"
What they didn't know was that the brothers were listening in on all of that.
Up on a ledge above them the three were there observing their enemy, just like their dad, and Jack, always told them to do, and rushed back into the shadows to go over what they had just heard.
Jokul Fosti looked up as he felt a shift in the air, looking to the ledge and smiled a bit. He loved playing Hide and Seek.