Down the tunnels everyone had their own way of looking for the boys.

Some like the Twins and Snotlout were not really putting much effort into it in the hopes that they could just get out of their sooner, but were always told No by their dragons who kept pushing them further along.

Others like Astrid and Rapunzel, and Fishlegs and Eugene, put a bit more effort in to looking, but were still not putting their all into it because one third of the team was scared and that kept holding them back.

And finally there was Merida and Hiccup. These two were thorough with their searching and were fast at moving.

(*)(*)(*)

Merida & Hiccup

Merida had told the others that the boys like to hide in small spaces, especially if they were scared. Whether the others were using this news or not, she didn't know, but they defiantly were.

As they came by ever nook and cranky, Merida asked Baby Tooth to go in and see if they were in there. So far all they found out of the six spaces, were three bat caves, two Nightmares wanting to take a nap away from the others, and one empty cave.

"Oh this is ridiculous," Merida said after that empty cave, sliding down against the walls and hugging her knees. "We aint ever going to find them."

"Come on Merida," Hiccup said joining her, Toothless and Baby with him "Don't be like that. They have to be somewhere in this place right? And you know first hand how great they are at getting out of trouble... I'm sure they're fine."

When that didn't work, he tried thinking of something else.

"Is there a way you get them out of hiding when you can't find them back home?" he asked.

"Well... It's normally a bribe with my desserts or something like that," Merida said thinking a small smile on her face "But there is also a song that nearly always works as well. But I'm not all that good a singer."

"That's ok, neither are we," Hiccup said gesturing to himself and Toothless.

"Fine just don't... don't judge ok?" she asked standing tall.

'Come stop your crying
It will be alright
Just take my hand
Hold it tight

I will protect you from all around you
I will be here don't you cry...'

Hiccup and Toothless were shocked at how wonderful Merida's singing was - and she said she wasn't a good singer.

Getting her confidence back Merida motioned the boys to come along as she and Baby continues as she continued to sing.

'For three so small
You all seem so strong
My arms will hold you
Keep you all safe and warm

This bond between can't be broken
I will be here don't you cry...

o0o

In a different part of the network of tunnels and caves, the boys were going over what they could do to try and get out and warn their friends about the bad guys.

Hamish was about to suggest they just wait until they come to them, when something caught his ears.

"Guys shh... you hear that?" he asked.

Ever since they had been turned into bears, their scenes had a higher rank than anyone else in the kingdom.

It was very faint, but it sounded like...

"It's Merida singing mum's song," Hubert said a smile on his face as he took the lead. "Come on we can find her now."

"But it's so faint," Harris said a straining look on his face only just hearing it. "We might not get to her before those meanies do..." he said "She's drawing attention to herself by doing this."

"Which proves she loves us enough to do it," Hubert said grabbing his brother's hand "Now come on the sooner we get there, the sooner she can stop, and we can all get out of here..."

With that, they began to follow their sister's voice to be reunited with her.

o0o

Astrid & Rapunzel

Down Rapunzel and Astrid's tunnel, since they were going so slow by walking because Rapunzel was jumping at almost everything, the girls were aboard Stormfly and were searching the higher levels of the tunnel not sure how they could of gotten there, but knowing that they couldn't pass up the chance.

"Astrid..." Rapunzel asked after a while hugging her friend around the waist a bit more "Do... Do you think that we're going to find the boys? I mean look at this place, it reminds me of some of those old Greek Myths with the Minotaur and it's Labyrinth. Unless you know where you're going, you can't get out of it."

"I'm not sure Punzie," Astrid said sighing agreeing with her about the Labyrinth thing. "But we have to try. These boys aren't just any old kids remember... Their Merida's family and our friendship family. And you do not leave family alone to suffer things like this. When they need help, you're meant to be there to help them, not staying back home where it's safe just because it's too dangerous." she said going ridged slightly and clutching her fist.

"Um... There something on you're mind Astrid?" Rapunzel asked telling Stormfly to land for a bit.

"Back on Berk..." Astrid began after taking a deep breath "Every ten years we have something called Aurvandil's Fire, that light's up the sky. Along with it comes one of the most feared dragons the Northern Archipelago has to offer. We call it the Frightmare.
The last time it came, my uncle, Fearless Fin Hofferson, told me I was too young to join him in taking it down, and went off after it himself.
The next thing I know, everyone was saying that he just 'froze in fear' by looking into the dragon's eyes and because of that..." she said starting to shiver with tears banging against the saddle a bit, Rapunzel shocked at this and feeling sorry for the girl in front of her.

"That's why the next time it comes," she continued after a bit of time "I'm going to track it down, defeat it, and restore my family's name. To show the whole Island that the Hofferson's are not cowards."

"Is that so..." a cold voice said to the left getting the three to look and find Pitch coming out of the shadows. "I must thank you Princess," he said bowing slightly in a mocking way to Rapunzel "Why if you hadn't of asked her to tell that story why, I'd never of been able to find you, you were going so fast. But let me tell you dear," he said now directing to Astrid. "Even though you are a Hofferson, I can still sense fear in you, mostly towards not being able to restore your family's name, but there is also loosing your friends too, one in particular I might add. Isn't there?"

Suddenly and axe came flying towards Pitch's head which he only just managed to dodge.

"Pitch you Dirty-Son-Of-A-Troll-Half-Wit-Pice-Of-Filth! Get back here!" Astrid screamed jumping off Stormfly rushing over to her axe and running down the tunnel Pitch went down, too full of pride to remember about Rapunzel and Stormfly.

"Er..." Rapunzel said sliding off the dragon too. "I think we should just stay here Stormfly," she said patting the Nadder "Wait for her to cool off and all that you know."

"Well then I'm here to tell you you'll be waiting for a long time Punzie," Jack... no Jokul's voice came from above the two as he was lying down on one of the higher ledges smirking like the Cheshire Cat. "So while that timer's going," he said coming down "How about... you and me get comfortable?" he said coming reaching out to her but was halted by a blast of Stormfly's fire.

"You may of forgotten this with all that darkness in your mind Jack," Rapunzel said sticking close to Stormfly "But I am married... And you have a girlfriend, who has a broken arm because of that ice you shot at her by the way..."

"They don't have to know..." Jokul said smiling a bit more leaning forward eyes wide some trust in there. "Pwease... Surly you at least must know how boring it is to be by yourself all the time..."

"Um..." Rapunzel said not sure how to react to that but Stormly let Jack come over anyway and joined him by the wall.

"That's better isn't it?" Jokul asked after a few seconds still smiling.

"I guess..." Rapunzel said playing with the pan. "Um... Jack? Why... Why are you being so nice all the sudden?"

"Can a bad-guy not be nice to his BEST FRIEND?" Jokul asked amplifying those words by throwing his arm around Rapunzel's shoulder and bringing her in closer.

""I guess... not..." she said after calming Stormfly down a bit. "But um... You remember my story? About how Gothel was only nice to me for my power..." she asked nervously "Well... This kind of nice... feels like that kind of nice. That you're only being nice because you want something."

"It's true," Jokul said bringing his arm up and getting up himself to look at her "I do want something. I want those three little boys out of here, so they can be safe."

That stunned Rapunzel a bit. Then again Jack is a Guardian... And Jokul is Jack... Maybe just for now... the Good's over riding the Bad.

Getting a nod from Rapunzel, Jokul continued.

"We are keeping the boys in the Globe Room of this place..." Jokul said following through with Pitch's plan. "You go there... You find them."

"Er... how do we get back there?" Rapunzel asked embarrassed.

Smiling Jokul just snapped his fingers and out of thin air, a little fairy appeared. She looked like the one's Tooth had except she was wearing a dress that made her look like she was wearing ice crystals and her hair was white as snow.

Looking around the fairy looked to her master saluting him, confused as to why he had black eyes instead of blue and why he looked so angry.

"Perri here will help you get back to the Globe room when Astrid's cools off enough to come back," Jokul said giving the fairy her orders to which she nodded to and then went over to Rapunzel and went to her shoulder.

Amazed Rapunzel looked to the snow-fairy and laughed a bit then remembered Jack. "Thank..." But he was gone.

Suddenly to the left Astrid came storming back out in a huff swinging her axe in anger.

"Lost him..." was all she said to Rapunzel "Oh well guess we'd better keep searching for them boys."

"Um actually Astrid... While you were gone Jack came to see me..." she said not wanting to get Astrid more angry than she already was "And said to head back to the Globe Room of this place to find the boys."

"Ok, away from the Globe Room we must go then," Astrid said spinning around and beginning to walk off.

"What? Why?" Rapunzel asked left blinking.

"It's obviously a trap Punzie," Astrid said rolling her eyes "Besides we don't even know how to get there."

"That's why he also gave us Perri here," Rapunzel said holding out her hands so Perri could land on them and present herself to the other girl. "He said she'd show us the way back."

After a bit and looking down the tunnel, Astrid sighed.

"Alright. I still think it's a trap... but I... have been wrong about things before so..." she said remembering her line about fighting's only fun if you get a scar out of it, and then all those days Hiccup was out cold, now with a missing leg.

With that they began to follow the little fairy back down the tunnels and to the Globe Room of this place. Not really sure how to feel. But as long as they still had the Tapestry (which they do) both girls felt that it will be ok.

(*)(*)(*)

This plan went on for all the tunnel's. The bad-guy's would get the stronger one out of the way, while Jokul would talk to the weaker one and give them one of his snow-fairies to lead them back to the Globe Room.

They didn't really have any trouble until they came to the one with Snotlout in it.

"So what now Smart-Guy?" Gothel asked being the one to have to go after this brat.

"Well it's obvious that the plan won't work, since he's on his own and all that," Jokul said speaking out the problem just to annoy her. Then remembering how much of a smooth talker and lady's man this git thinks he his came up with a plan.
"Say Gothel... How good are you're disguising powers, and flirting skills?"

o0o

Snotlout had been kicking the same pebble along the tunnel since right near the start not even looking around as he kept giving curses to everyone who made him come down here.

Suddenly Hookgang looked around sensing something and got his boy's attention by whacking his tail around the kids head.

"Ow!" he whined looking around to see "Astrid? How'd you get here? Didn't you go with Rapunzel down that other tunnel."

"I did," Astrid said sounding afraid "But then some how I got separated from her and my dragon and now I can't get back." Gothel said putting it on to get Snotlout to come over. "I did run into Jack though... And he said the kids were back in the Globe Room of this place, and said Jodie here lead us back to there. But this place is so big and scary I... I don't think I can do it on my own."

Now Hookfang may not of been the smartest dragon the world had to offer, but he could definitely tell something was up here. Astrid was never normally like this so why would she be like this now? And more importantly... Why is she trying to get Snotlout to fall for her when she keeps making it quite clear that a, she's not interested, and b, she's Hiccup's?

But being as dumb and wanting Astrid for so long as Snotlout was, Snotlout went over and comforted her saying 'It will be alright Astrid. I'm here now.'

After a bit they began to follow the fairy back down the tunnel, Hookfang keeping an eye on this 'Astrid'.

o0o

The Twins were a bit of a set back as well, seeing they both shared a brain.

Instead of going with their plan, Jokul just told Mordu to get the Wisps to lead them there.

"They're like sheep," he said when the bear man asked why. "They always follow things. Whether it's whatever anyone else is doing or something shiny that looks interesting that could lead to destruction and chaos."

Not really understanding, but couldn't be bothered to argue or think up another plan, Mordu sent out the Wisps and after getting the Twins attention began to lead them back down the tunnel.

o0o

Merida & Hiccup

It had been a while since Merida had finished her song and they were waiting, hoping, praying, that this plan has worked.

At once they began to hear fast pacing footsteps heading right towards them.

Getting ready to fight they were looking all around but strangely not finding anything then all at once... the footsteps stopped.

"Er... should we be glad or worried about that?" Hiccup asked after a bit.

"I'm not sure," Merida said still looking around bow at the ready. "Just... OW!" she said spinning around to Hiccup "Why'd you throw a stone at me?" she asked loudly.

"What?" Hiccup asked "I didn't do anything like that. What just because I'm a boy makes you thing I'd do stuff like that to everyone?" he said turning away checking on some things to Toothless' tail "OW!" he cried spinning to Merida who was looking the other way but getting her attention by his cry. "I said I didn't do it?"

"So?"

"So why'd you just do it to me?" Hiccup asked standing as tall as he could looking Merida in the eyes.

"I didn't do anything!" Merida said "Look obviously..."

"OW!" they both cried this time, both looking up while rubbing their heads to see Hamish, Hubert, and Harris all trying to hold back on their laughter pebbles in their hands a couple of ledges above them.

"Should of known," Merida said unsetting her bow, putting the arrow away. "Sorry for blaming you Hiccup. And for my brothers behavior."

"That's ok Merida," Hiccup said smiling a bit "And I'm sorry I blamed you for the second one."

"You boys coming down then or what?" Merida called to the boys.

"Can we jump down?" Hubert asked grinning.

"How well are your catching skills Hiccup?" Merida asked the Viking.

"Er... Not all that good."

"No!" Merida said back to her brothers, giving them frowns.

"But Toothless is a good catcher," Hiccup said the boy's smiles coming back "But I have a better plan on how to use Toothless to get the boys. That is as long as none of you don't like heights?"

"Please when the Clans were sailing away after the Bear thing they were on top of one of their masts laughing their heads off," Merida said rolling her eyes.

"Ok then," Hiccup said jumping back onto his dragon and kicking open the tail and getting him to hover next to the ledge, just below it. "Come on then," he said holding out his arms a kind smile of trust on his face.

Smiling even bigger smiles, one by one the boys jumped into Hiccup's arms and crawled to sitting behind them. Once they were all on, Toothless went to land next to Merida.

Scrambling off the dragon the brothers ran towards their big sister and hugged her as much as they could, as she knelt down and ran her fingers through their hair.

"We need to get out of here Merida," Hubert said pulling away first "The bad-guys want to catch all of you so you can't stop them." he said answering her unasked question.

"And you boys know this... How?" Hiccup asked still on Toothless raising an eyebrow.

"Earlier, we heard them say..." Hamish said answering first.

"That they're going to use you, to get us to come out of hiding," Hubert continued.

"Then use us to get you to give them the objects." Harris said finishing up.

"Oh must you boys always have to ruin everything?" Jack... No Jokul's voice begin to ring out around the tunnel, getting Toothless to get ingto a battle stance and Merida to ready her bow, getting in front of her brothers.

"And just when everyone was having such great fun too..." Jokul said coming out of the shadows grinning.

Baby Tooth didn't know if she should be happy or not. Happy because this was Jack... But, Not happy because this was Not Jack. Not her Jack anyway.

Her Jack, didn't make fear fulled shivers go up her spine and make her want to hide.

"So since Hide and Seek is now over..." Jokul said looking to everyone. "How about a game of Follow the Leader. I'm it..." he said then zoomed off down the tunnel laughing.

Quickly all the red heads climbed onto Toothless' back and the dragon took off after the boy.