Warren, before the fight...
In the Warren, everyone was waiting for any sign of the first attack, all was quiet, the egglets were hiding in safe places, the golems and a few Yeti's were standing by their masters ready to fight...
Then all at once Nightmares and Shadows, were everywhere charging at the Guardians.
Mordu, as a bear, charged towards Fergus and Stoick who were shouting for him to fight them distracting him long enough for the Dragon Riders to shoot at him.
Merida went after Rapunzel and Eugene, Merida riding one of the Nightmares using her bow the least amount of times possible but still always hitting her mark so not to get Pitch or the other villains suspicious.
And Jack hunting down Hiccup and Toothless, catching them about to fire at Mordu, blasting the dragon with a gust of wind making him shoot to the side only scorching the bears fur.
After getting both parties attention, they told them to follow them and took off into the warren a bit.
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After a bit Hiccup and Toothless landed, meeting up with Rapunzel, Eugene, Jack, and Merida who had gotten off the Nightmare and sent it on it's way.
"Mer... Merida?" Hiccup asked eyes wide, only hearing her voice in the video. "You're different..."
"Am I? Gee I hadn't noticed," Merida asked sounding shocked "Thanks for telling me Hiccup..."
"Come on Mer that's not why were here," Jack said coming forth and pulling out the tapestry, and dagger while she brought out the shard and doll. "Here..."
"But..." Rapunzel said confused looking up.
"They're the real Things don't you worry non," Merida said quietly looking around "But hide them before anyone sees. We weren't meant to take them, and you might want to test to see if they're still working once this is over."
With that Eugene stuffed the tapestry up his shirt, while Hiccup took the dagger, and shard and Rapunzel took the doll.
"So what now?" Rapunzel said carefully looking to the skies hearing the cries of Nightmares.
"Well since we're meant to be fighting and that threat Pitch has on my brothers..." Merida said, nodding to Jack who shot ice at Toothless pinning him down, and taking out a sword and began charging with out warning to them.
Hiccup's instincts telling him to grab the dagger he held it up, the blade going dragon-blood green, lengthening, and gaining a pattern of a dragon.
"Awe..." Rapunzel and Eugene gaped at it, Hiccup too busy trying to defend himself to see it, then they turned to the other Things and wondered what powers they might have.
"JUST GET HURT ALREADY!" Merida cried eyes wide "I'm doing this for my Brothers remember!"
"Merida we can work out how to keep your brothers safe together..." Hiccup called back ducking out of the way of another swing "Just drop the sword. We don't have to..."
"NO!" she cried attacking faster meaning Hiccup was having trouble keeping up. "Either way I'm stuck like this," she said through her teeth "Whether it because of tha threat or the deal... I'm stuck like this until we can take him down..." she said being sneaky and kicking out at Hiccup's foot making him fall over and the sword fly out of his hand turning it back into a dagger.
"I am not..." she said holding her sword to Hiccup's neck, tears in her eyes, and panting a bit "About to let anyone in my family get hurt again, because of me..." then looking up at Rapunzel said "I hope what you said about your tears was right Punzie..."
"Wh..." Rapunzel was about to ask when she got her answer when Merida did a sideways attack and got Hiccup on the waist making him cry out and roll up a bit to go with the pain.
"Keep those Things safe..." Jack said as he and Merida left as they saw the others coming over.
'Sorry Hiccup...' Merida said always looking over her shoulder until the shadows over took her and Jack and they were gone.
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"As soon as Sandy put him to sleep and I sang my song to him, we came here," Rapunzel said finishing up the story, Eugene nodding to confirm it."
Everyone was silent, no one knowing what to say until Hamish tugged on Rapunzel dress getting her attention.
"What threat against us?" he asked the other two boys having the same curious expression.
Sighing, seeing no one was answering Bunny answered. "Last night one of Jack's fairy's came with a camera of a meeting they had earlier that night. That's how we knew of the attack," he explained checking the boys understood. "At the end, Pitch told ya sis that since Alvin was now out of the picture, she and Jack would take his place. And telling her if she didn't fight the hardest she could, he'd do something to you three..."
"Well couldn't she of done that without hurting Hiccup?" Jamie asked eyes wide, playing with the dagger, trying to activate it, but nothing was happening.
"Our daughter is the best sword fighter in all of Scotland boy," Fergus said slowly "No one ever goes up against her and wins. If she's set on killing she will kill."
"And there's no doubt those villains know about it," Stoick said holding his sons hand, by the bed already forgiven Fergus and Elinore after hearing a recap of the story back in the Warren "Which means if the boy didn't get any form of injury they'd think something was up."
"On the bright side we got all the Things again," Tooth said smiling nervously after all the looks she got.
"Ok so... If this turns into a sword..." Jamie said holding up the dagger then looking to the rest of the Things "One why isn't working for me and two what do the other things do?"
"My guess..." Buddy said asking to look at the dagger "Is that you need to be one of these four to uses the Things," he said nodding to Hiccup and Rapunzel holding it out to her.
Slowly Rapunzel took it and the weapon, once again, turned dragon-blood green this time having the Corona crest of the eight pointed sun on the blade.
"Whoa..." everyone marveled at it the Twins begging Rapunzel to let them try it.
"So what about the rest?" Rapunzel asked picking up her shard of mirror looking into it.
Getting a feeling Rapunzel just said "Merida..." and the reflective glass glowed bright yellow Merida and Jack's picture taking her place.
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'What if he's seriously hurt Jack...' Merida asked hugging her knees.
' I'm sure he's fine Merida,' Jack answered beside her. 'Remember when it happened to Eugene she managed to fix him... And beside I've seen first hand how easily Hiccup can bounce back from things like this...'
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In the Cove everyone was amazed, all scrambling to get behind Rapunzel or in front of her to watch the shard.
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'Like what?' Merida asked looking the other way.
'Do you want the whole list or just the top five...' Jack asked getting a glare from the princess. 'Ok, ok top five it is... Five, when Daggur tried to drown him during one of those peace treaties Berk has with the Berserkers...'
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"You have a peace treaty with a clan who call themselves 'Beserkers?'" Richard asked looking to Stoick a 'Really' look on his face.
"We have had peace with them for almost fifty years, and their Chief's a good man and one of my best friends," Stoick defended "His son on the other hand..." he said pointing to the mirror referring to this 'Daggur'.
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'Four, when he got a broken arm when he was six, on one of the first days he began working as Gobber's apprentice blacksmithing, because he didn't tell him the difference between steel and iron...'
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Again everyone looked to Stoick.
"Gobber believes on 'Learning on the job'," Stoick said waving it off.
"But six, Stoick?" Elinore asked shocked "Are you trying to protect him or get him killed? A boy of six should not be working as a blacksmith," she said getting nods of agreement from the other women.
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'Three, when no one remembered and yelled at him on his birthday that time there was a dragon raid on that day and he tripped over a wire holding down a net holding a group of Nadders...'
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"You forgot your own boys birthday?" North asked taking his turn to look to the Viking Chief who didn't have an answer this time.
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'Two, every time Snotface makes fun of him because he doesn't have a mother because she was taken from him by that Stormcutter when he was a baby...'
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At that news Astrid gave Snotlout a dam good sucker punch right in the face knocking some teeth out, and then a kick right... yeah... But no one complained thinking he deserved it.
Stoick on the other hand was shocked at what he was hearing and wondering just how long Jack had been around his boy to know all this.
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'One and a half... When Stoick disowned him because he was being himself and not the killer his dad wanted him to be...'
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The whole room was silenced.
No one not even the Vikings had heard about that.
Stoick just looked away in shame sighing.
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'And finally one... When he lost his leg after fighting the Red Death...' Jack finished 'See all that's happened and he's been fine, what's to say he won't be alright after this?'
'The chances that I hit something important and Punzie couldn't fix it...' Merida said quietly.
'I'm sure he's fine,' Jack said comfortingly an arm around her shoulder.
'How do you know?' Merida asked shaking him off and getting up from the bed beginning to pace. 'How do you know that nothing bad will happen?'
'I don't,' Jack said sighing getting up too looking to her 'But if you don't have hope that everything will be fine, then when you find out that everything is, you won't be happy. Just something to think about...' he said before leaving her in the room alone.
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And with that the mirror, feeling that it's deed had been formed turned off.
"He's right about that bit about Hope you know," Bunny said proud of him for it. "Wonder how he knows that..." he mumbled.
"What do you think kept him going all these years?" Emily and Buddy said together.
"Wonder why Merida's so worried about Hiccup?" Pippa commented bringing that to everyone's attention.
"We'll work that out later..." Eugene said cutting off anyone who had an idea. "Next Thing Blondie..."
Picking up the tapestry, instincts told her wrap it around her shoulders.
"WHOA..." everyone called out this getting Rapunzel to look down and see her body was gone. Feeling around her shoulders finding a hood on the now cloak rather than tapestry she pulled it up and then she was completely gone.
"That is so cool..." Jamie said bouncing on his toes eyes wide "Just like Harry Potter an actual invisibility cloak! AWESOME!"
"Yeah yeah we get it kid calm down seesh..." Bunny said holding down his ears feeling like they were blown just by that one word.
Taking off the cloak, made it turn back to a tapestry, and the Twins began to scramble for it only to be knocked down by Astrid telling them that, thankfully, it wouldn't work for them.
Finally, Rapunzel picked up the doll. But felt nothing that time.
"Nothing..." she said confused "I'm... I'm not getting anything?"
"So does that mean that that might not be Jack's Thing?" Fishlegs asked worried.
"Well I'm getting something," Rapunzel said "But It wont let me get to it."
"Meaning that it may seem that only Jack can use it," North said getting nods of understanding, and looks of worry.
After a few more minutes, everyone decided to leave Hiccup in peace all wondering what Jack's Thing could possibly do.
AN: To Eveecat1248 - Happy now?
To everyone else... Hope you liked this, and will continue with it
U-D123 ;P