AN: Again two chapters smushed together
It had been a few hours since Merida was reintroduced to the villains who were now her teammates.
But to her, it might of well of been days, weeks, months, or even years. She couldn't tell the time down here, what with there being no clocks, no sun, and her not being aloud to head up top alone in case she tried to make a run for it.
Her new outfit, Merida admitted rather shamefully to herself, was one she liked very much.
Instead of the regal ankle length, to-the-wrist, puffy-shoulders, and/or too tight dresses she was used to wearing that dragged her down sometimes, now wearing a two part black dress, dark red slip-on high heels, her hands were now covered by just-passed-the-wrist black fingerless gloves, her hair tied up in one large pony tail held together in a spiked scrunchy, a spiky choker around her neck.
Half of her liked that piece of jewelry, while the other half despised it as she imagined it to be a collar and she was a pet.
She was sitting where she and Hiccup found her brothers, her fingers playing with her bow, as she kept telling herself 'She did this for her friends', when she heard something behind her - the sound of frost extending up the wall.
"What do you want Frosti?" she asked her anger coming back towards the boy with white hair as she kept looking out into the cave.
"Can't one friend see another?" Jokul asked coming out of the shadows grinning, slightly less than usual seeing he was still confused at the Princess' actions from earlier.
"At the moment," Merida said anger in her voice "We are not friends. My friend is Jack Frost, the fun, will stick his neck out for you, caring, loves attention, big brother figure, snowballs and fun-times you." Merida said trying not to shed tears "Not... Not whatever this you, is."
"Why are you here?" Jokul asked getting down next to her.
"Huh?" Merida asked looking to him not hearing the joking tone in the boy's voice and seeing confusion on his face.
"If you hate us, and want to be out of here so much," Jokul said explaining slowly "Why in the world did you take up Pitch's deal and decided to come over to join us?"
"Because..." Merida said after a bit "If I didn't do anything, no one else would of, meaning everyone would of been killed. And besides," she explained grinning slightly hugging her bow a bit "People always do crazy/stupid things, for those they love."
A faint memory began to play inside Jokul's head.
*0*
Before him was a young girl, with brown hair and brown eyes, wearing a colonial dress and a scared expression.
Jokul had this feeling that he knew her, but the dark thoughts in his mind were clouding up the answers.
'Jack... I'm scared...' the girl said looking to her feet where below her the ice was cracking.
'I know, but it's going to be alright,' Jokul heard his voice say calmly 'Your not gong to fall in. Er... We're going to have some fun instead.'
'No we're not!' the girl cried tears in her eyes, making Jokul's chest hurt for some reason.
'Would I trick you?' Jokul's voice replied a laugh at the end of it.
'YES! You ALWAYS play tricks!' the girl said, the ice cracking even more.
'Ok, well not... not this time, I promise, I promise. You have to believe in me...' Jokul's voice said to the girl getting a nod in return. 'You want to play a game? We're going to play Hop-Scotch like we do everyday. Look it's as easy as One...' Jokul saw his foot moving across the ice cracks appearing where it was placed 'Two... Three...' he said ending up next to what was now his staff. As he reached for it, he looked to the girl. 'Ok, now it's your turn... One... Two... Three...'
With that Jokul pulled the girl across the ice and ended up where she had been standing and within a few seconds was under the ice himself.
'JACK!'
*0*
Coming back to sitting next to Merida, Jokul quickly got up. "I need to go," he said and zoomed off back down the tunnel.
Merida smirked having seen the look on the Frost Boy's face through-out the whole thing.
"Phase one, delivered," she told herself leaning back and looking to the ceiling, pretending she could see the moon and stars her friends and family could see from wherever they were.
(*)(*)(*)
Further back in the tunnels, in the cave he was given by Pitch, Jokul was going over what... whatever he might of seen, might of been, and why it came up when he was asking Merida why she did what she did.
"I... I saved that girl, but who was she?" he asked under his breath pulling out his memory box looking at his old face, it looking almost exactly alike to the girls. "Was... Was she my sister? No!" he said quickly "I never had a sister, I never had anyone, I was alone for my whole life."
'She was our sister before we became who we are now you muttenhead,' Frost's voice rang out inside Jokul's head. 'In Tooth's words 'We were all someone before we were chosen'.'
"And why didn't you tell me this pea-brain?" Jokul asked hissing the insult to Frost who was meant to be asleep.
'You know, when you call me that, you're also calling yourself it too... Pea-brain,' Frost said a smirk being heard on his voice. 'But to answer the question...' he continued feeling Jokul grip their staff tighter 'I didn't tell you anything, because I didn't ever think you'll be able to take over ever again.'
"Well I am now," Jokul said confidently "And I'm going to stay in charge until the end of time. You may have got back dominance over our body once in our life span... But it wont happen again."
No reply.
With that Jokul put the box back into his hoodie pocket and left the cave and lair in search of something... Fun to do.
(AN Sorry I just HAD to do this. I just had to place Jamie and his friends in here somewhere.
IF ANYONE THINKS THIS IS WRONG/IT SHOULD CHANGE PAH...LEASE SAY SO...)
Burgess was a small town, and most of the time it was pretty boring, the same thing happening over and over each and everyday.
Unless it was winter, where every believing child's favorite white haired teen came to visit, and bring along with him all the fun the coldest season the year can have.
"Free for all!" a young voice cried out as the owner let loose a snowball at one of his friends on the other team only ducking out of the way of an attack from the others on that side.
"Jamie Bennett! No Fair!" Pippa cried wiping the snow from her face "Why do you always go for me first!"
"I don't 'Always' go for you first..." Jamie said having a conversation with her as he shot at Monty knocking him over.
o0o
Up in the air Jokul Frosti was watching from above the clouds seeing all the fun these kids were having, his confusion doubling. Since when... have kids as young as these ones, liked winter so much?
"Must of happened when Frost was in charge..." he said looking away, his emotions making it even colder and flakes start to fall "He never tells me anything. NO ONE ever tells me anything!"
"HEY JACK!" the voice of the boy in the green jacket cried out "You up there?"
Looking over the side of the cloud again Jokul saw the friends had paused in their game and were all looking up at the cloud he was on, all of them wearing smiles.
"They can see me?" he whispered grinning, this warm feeling coming to something inside his chest.
'Yeah they can see you,' Frost answered in a 'roll-your-eyes' voice 'Because they can see me. And hear me. And you want to know how that came to be? Hmm? It was because of Pitch. They're the kids who helped the Guardians stop him. Oh and if you do anything to them I won't stop talking for a month.'
Nodding to say he understood Jokul got out Gothel's 'Eye-Drops' and pasted on a happy expression, flying down to the kids.
"Hey kids," he said not going to try and use names since he wont know them.
"Hey Jack!" they all called smiling then began asking questions like 'Where has he been?', 'What did he get for Christmas?', 'Is he here to play with them?'
"Wow, wow kids lets... lets calm down for a bit first alright?" Jokul said stepping back slightly as they stepped forward, not really wanting to hear Frost's voice in the back of his head talking nonstop for a whole month.
"JACKIE!" a shrill cry rang out and suddenly something very small and very fast and very giggly came running up to him and wrapped itself around Jokul's legs nearly making him fall over if it wasn't for his staff.
"Er... Hey Squirtette," Jokul said grinning nervously and looking down to the little blonde haired girl. "You... mind getting off me?"
"What the magic word..." the girl said beaming always being taught that you had to say this word before anyone did anything for someone else.
"Um... Alacablowy?" Jokul asked confused, that doubling when everyone began to laugh.
"Nope," the tall girl said shaking her head "Try again."
"Um... Abracadabra?" Jokul asked getting more laughs and feeling the corners of his mouth turn up slightly. He never, in all the years he was in control last time, heard children laughing before, and to think, they were laughing now because of something he said.
"Not that either," one of the twins said trying to stifle his snorts into his gloves.
"I'dlikeuss... Ifyou'dletgoofmeuss?" Jokul said thinking hard looking down to the girl on his legs.
"Say the right word and I will, Jack," she said beaming up at him her face looking like the sun while the overs were now all on the floor.
'Little help here Frost...' Jokul thought putting on a thinking face so not to get the kids suspecting.
'She means 'Please'...' Frost said straight away.
"Please...?" Jokul repeated confused.
"Okay!" the little girl said unlatching herself and then running to the boy in the green jacket giggling.
"That... That worked?" Jokul asked blinking.
"Of course," The boy said giving the girl - obviously his sister - a piggy back ride, then looked at Jokul confused. "You haven't been taught things like 'Please' and 'Thank you'?" he asked getting everyone to stop laughing and looked confused as they looked to the winter spirit.
"Of... Course I have," Jokul said waving it off "I was just messing with you kid. You know me..."
"No they don't... Frosti," an Australian accent spread out in the air, a wooden boomerang soon to come after that being deflected only just in time by Jokul's staff.
o0o
"Ah... if it isn't wee little Peter Cottentail..." Jokul said, the nice warm want-this-feeling-to-be-here feeling gone. "Shouldn't you be at the Pole with the others and getting ready for Easter?"
"I'm doing my job as a Guardian Frosti..." Bunny said catching his chosen weapon again as he came out of the shadows from the direction the little girl came from.
"Bunny?" Sophie's voice called out sounding like she was on the verge of tears "Why you attack Jack?" she asked, her thumb in her mouth.
"Yeah," Jamie said agreeing glaring at the rabbit "And what do you mean we don't know him? And why do you keep calling him Frosty? Frosty's the snowman."
"Because this teenaged spirit in front of you kids now," Bunny said pointing to Jack "Is not the one you gained belief over on that Easter night."
"What?" the kids asked, blinking, confused, some even stepping back.
"Leave it rabbit..." Jokul said glaring at the Pooka fist tight on his staff. "They don't need to be in this."
"Oh and since when do you care about the safety of children?" Bunny asked crossing his arms and staring the boy down.
"Forget it..." Jokul said looking away then taking a few steps back and kicking off into the sky and heading to... who-knows-where.
o0o
Back on the ground, Bunny was looking over the kids to see if they were alright.
"Bunny, Bunny," Jamie said shaking over the rabbit's paws "We're all alright ok? The only thing bothering us is why all... That... just happened."
"Yeah what's going on?" Pippa, Cupcake, Monty, Claude, and Caleb asked, Sophie was next to Jamie looking the most confused as to why her favorite Guardian would act like that to Jack.
"It's too long, and too difficult to explain it all in one go Jamie," Bunny said sighing and looking away a bit "But the main point is... At the moment, Jack's... Jack's not himself. And when he's not himself, he can be a dangerous to those around him. So... If you can, all of you, stay away from him. I need to be getting back to the pole."
With that he got up and walked off a bit to make a tunnel.
"'Member what I said kids," he said jumping through it and closing it up, leaving seven even more confused kids standing in the snow.
(*)(*)(*)
At the Pole things have really gone down hill ever since both Jack and Merida were taken by the other side.
All fun things, just didn't seem that fun anymore. And no one really seemed up to doing anything that would push their limits anymore either.
Trying to get away from it all, Hiccup and Toothless went out flying to see if they could think up some plans to get them back.
"AGHH!" Hiccup cried in frustration after a bit, lying backwards across his flying Night Fury, getting a coo of worry from said beast.
"Don't worry bud," he said stroking the black scales "I'm fine. I promise."
Thinking it best to just go with it, Toothless rolled his eyes and began to observe the ground below spotting something to the left making his ears flicker and teeth come out in a growl.
"Huh?" Hiccup asked getting back up and looked in the direction his friend was looking in to see a massive snowstorm that both boys were sure was not there seconds before. "Jack..." Hiccup said looking to his friend a silent question being asked before getting a nod, and they zoomed of after it.
o0o
Ever since that lousy, rabbit had chased him off from the kids, Jokul Frosti had been in the Arctic Circle having one of his tantrums, consisting of snowstorms, harsh winds, sleet, hail, basically all things cold.
The things he was most proud of were his life sized Bunny ice sculptures that had ice themed weaponry in them all over the place meaning you couldn't tell what it was meant to be.
"Dam the Rabbit!" he said after calming down a tad but still letting the storm rage on "I finally make some friends that can see me... that can talk to me... And what does he do?" he asked no one in mind "Oh that's right... HE TELLS ME TO *$ "& OFF!" he screamed slamming the crook of his staff into the ground as if it was a big sledge hammer, cracking the ice that still held thanks to how cold it was.
o0o
Hiccup and Toothless had decided it would be better to try and get to Jack on foot, what with Toothless, having a wingspan of 48 feet meaning that if they tried to come in from the sky they'd be killed.
"Almost there buddy," Hiccup said more to himself "Almost there...
(*)(*)(*)
Back at the Pole Bunny was relaying what had happened when he went to go play with Sophie Bennett that day.
"You Muttenhead!" Mother Nature screamed, standing up so fast she knocked her chair over, getting everyone to fall silent and look between her and Bunny confused. "Do you realize what you interrupting might of cost us? That might of been the only chance we could of got of Jack Frost being able to take over himself again! Idiot!"
With that she stormed off out the room, Rapunzel and Eugene and the Triplets following her, after giving their looks to the rabbit.
"She has a point you know Bunny," Stoick said agreeing with the embodiment of nature. "By the way you were talking about it Jokul's frozen hard cored heart was almost completely melted thanks to them kids, and then you came along an stopped it from happening completely."
Before anymore could be said (or rather screamed) Astrid and the teens came running in, all of them looking worried "Um Chief we may... have a slight problem with Hiccup and Toothless..."
That got the room to quiet down as they all turned to the young shield-maiden.
"Well is he alright Astrid?" Stoick asked worried getting up and going over to her.
"He... Might be..." she said nodding not really wanting to be the one to say this, but she was the only one who out of all of them was most likely to do so.
"Astrid..." Stoick said stretching her name and glaring at her. "Is my son alright or not?"
"We don't know Chief," Fishlegs said quickly wanting this to be over "He's not here. He's not anywhere at the Pole. He said he wanted to go flying for a bit, but then a storm started outside and he hasn't got back yet."
Gasping, Stoick looked to North a questioning look in his eye.
"There was now knowledge of there being a storm," Tooth said confused looking around.
"Jack," Sarah said quietly but everyone heard "My guess is that it's him making the storm out of being upset for what happened in Burgess."
At that everyone looked to Bunny again.
"Oh... Hiccup..." Stoick said rubbing the bridge of his nose before running out of the room to try and find his son.
"Hiccup would be dumb enough to go after him would he?" Bunny asked looking to the teens "Especially during a storm that he's making. Right?"
"Bunny meet Hiccup," Astrid said getting her confidence back now the message had been delivered "Of course he's going to be dumb enough to go after Jack. Now are you going to help fix the mess you caused or are you just going to sit there?" she asked following Stoick out the room.