After leaving the others, Jack went over to Winter Woods to his living quarters in the Cove.

The palace was completely made of ice and snow, there was a balcony half way up the front of the building, and two polar bears lying in wait guarding the front entrance.

After saying 'Hi' to them and walking in, Jack began to head for his room the fairies and sprites going about their work on keeping the palace in perfect order nodding and smiling to Jack as he walked past which he returned.

On the way to his room, in the foray he passed one of his more favorite creations, a frozen water fountain. The place also had a fully stocked library, and a games room - well he was a teenager after all...

He was about to enter his room when someone called out to him.

"Sir... Sir..." turning around Jack spotted on of his helpers in bringing winter, a little girl with blue eyes, platinum blonde hair, a blue dress, and bare feet - being a Winter Elemental she didn't feel the cold, although that didn't stop her from having a brown shoulder cloak.

"Are you alright Sir?" she asked seeing how down Jack was looking.

"I'm fine Snow," Jack said perking up "And I told you before call me 'Jack' - I'm not a teacher, I'm a friend. Now what's the matter?"

"Oh well... Your sisters are asking for you over the mirrors," Snow said answering the question "They... Seem worried on if you're ok or not. Saying they just want to make sure."

"And they're not here in person because..." Jack said dragging the last word a bit.

"Miss Faleen, says it's because she doesn't like the cold," Snow said speaking of the Summer Season "And Miss Amber, says it's because she's trying to help keep her woodland critters happy and calm in the forests of Earth."

"Well please tell them I'm fine, please Snow," Jack said trying to be happy himself so not to worry the little girl. "And that I am sorry for setting off the storm, but it will be over with with within a week."

"Ok Jack," Snow said nodding before running away to do his wishes.

Once she was gone, Jack entered his room and went over to the bed setting his staff beside it, and taking off his cloak, before flopping onto it and pulling out his tooth box from the cloak's 'Get What You Think-Ask For' pocket (You ask for it in your head, you get it - sort of like Mary Poppins' bag).

Lying on his back, Jack looked into his old face and once again pressed the top letting his memories play before him.

(*)(*)(*)

Back with the others (Bunny having come back) everyone was wondering, what they should do, and planning their next moves using the Mirror to as spoken of earlier to spy on the enemies.

*o*

'That BRAT!' Gothel screeched her hair in a mess and a darker look than normal on her face.

'What no 'Thank you' for saving you from that beat my dear?' Pitch's voice asked a touch of sarcasm in his voice.

*o*

"What beast?" Rapunzel asked looking to Merida.

"Before we came here, they found out the Things were gone," Merida explained "To make our escape Jack zapped up a giant snowman that kept them distracted while we left."

*o*

'You'll get a 'Thank You' from me when you deserve one Pitch,' Gothel said firmly glaring at him 'I was foolish to think that you could pull this off... You couldn't take the brat and the Guardians down when you were the more powerful and all there was one snot-faced weakling in the way.
How could you possibly think you could pull this off?'

'Well if you don't want to be apart of this any more Gothel...' Mordu said as he was tending to a scratch on his arm 'No one's stopping you from leaving...'

With that Gothel began to leave when Mordu said something else.

'Not like you were doing anything to help us anyway... All you did was admire on how young you looked again.'

Quick as a whip Gothel span around and using her magic pinned the former prince against the wall.

'You take that back you spoiled-rich-boy!' she said venom in her voice.

'How can I take something back when it's true?' Mordu said breaking free from he magic and changing into a bear, charging towards her only to be stopped by Pitch.

'I'd rather not have my lair be the crime-scene sight of another battle thank you very much...' he said looking the bear in the eye.

After a bit Mordu changed back into a human before going back to tending his injury's.

*o*

"Wow things are getting tense there..." Eugene said getting nods from everybody.

*o*

Turning around Pitch looked to Gothel.

'You were leaving...' he said before walking off.

Narrowing her eyes, Gothel turned and left the lair.

*o*

"Gothel" Rapunzel said quickly the mirror reacting to her voice and showing an old black cloak lying on top of a pile of dust next to an old wooden bed frame in the middle of the forest somewhere...

"Whoa... What happened to her?" Tuffnut asked the less bright Vikings nodding their heads.

"Her deal with Pitch must of been broken," North said eyes wide getting a lot of 'Huh's' "Pitch must of had to make deals with these people to get them to work with him..." he explained thinking as he did.

"And Gothel's deal must of been that she was young again," Fergus said understanding. "But now she's not working with him no more, she's gone back to how old she was before the deal."

"Then that is one old lady..." Claude said exaggerating the 'Old' part getting nods from his friends.

"Well that's two down then," Hiccup said playing with his sword, getting use to it. "Now all that's left it the bear and then Pitch will be all by himself."

"Think someone should tell Jack about this?" Tooth asked looking around.

"I'll do it!" Jamie said raising his hand straight away.

"Um..." Tooth said looking around to the grown-ups silently asking if they thought it was a good idea. "Ok Jamie but you'd either need to have Emily or Buddy to tag along. They're the only ones who are more likely to know where he went after all."

"Oh that easy Tooth," Buddy said waving of the helicopter-parent feeling Tooth was giving off "He'll be at his palace in the Winter Woods, more likely thinking over things that happened in the last few days."

"CAN WE GO SEE IT?" the kids asked together eye growing wider wondering what the place in question could look like.

"You'll need to be in warmer clothes than that if you want to go there dears," Elinore said nodding to the outfits the children were wearing.

"That one of the tricks to my Cove, Elinore," Emily Jane said speaking up shaking her head gently "The person changes to fit the season they are in."

"Huh?" everyone asked.

"Come on I'll show you," she said leading everyone out and towards the Winter Woods

o0o

After a bit of walking, everyone was at the boundary's of Spring Vally and Winter Woods separated by a small river, on one side the ground was covered in green grass, on the other it was covered in snow.

Lying across the border, there was an old tree acting as a bridge for those who wanted to cross. Half way across the tree the snow started.

"So... who want's to go first?" Emily asked looking to everyone.

"ME!" the kids cried rushing to the tree.

"Whoa, whoa hold it kids," Buddy said getting in the way. "The spell will work on everyone, but you still need to go one at a time. That's a very thin tree."

"Well we could take some over on our dragons," Hiccup said checking if that was alright with the others and the grown-ups, getting nods.

"Ok, Twins together," Hiccup said pairing up Claude and Caleb with Ruff and Tuff. "Cupcake and Astrid, Monty and Fishlegs, Pippa and Snotlout," he said seeing Hookfang had taking a liking to the girl "And Jamie's with me and Toothless. The younger kids will be taken over by the adults and you lot will be ok right?" he asked looking to Merida, Rapunzel and Eugene getting nods.

After everyone was ready and on the right dragon, together the winged reptiles leapt over the river and landed on the other side, their riders now in winter survival outfits, including snow-boots, faux-fur lined coats, scarfs, gloves, and hats.

"WOW!" the kids (and the Thorstein Twins) called out together.

Once everyone was over the 'bridge', and all but Emily, Buddy, and the dragons suited for winter, Emily moved to the front and putting her fingers to her mouth gave a loud whistle.

After a bit...

"Nothing's happening," Snotlout said getting glares but small nods from the others too.

"Oh just be patient," Emily said looking around her eyes and ears wide open "It will get here."

Before anyone had the chance to ask 'What will?' a royal like sleigh being pulled by four reindeer came along and pulled to a stop right before them. Out of the drivers seat hopped down a young (early 20's year old) man with pointy ears, dressed in a greyey-blue short sleeved shirt and trousers and dark blue hair.

"Emily Jane," he said bowing smiling "Sorry I was delayed, my sister wanted to go see the Frost Festival."

"That alright Henry," Emily Jane said nodding to him to stand smiling "I was wondering if you could give my guests and I a ride up to Jack's place. We have some news we think he'd like to hear."

"Of course Ma'am," he said counting heads and then turning to the sleigh and punching in 24, suspecting the Viking teens will go on their dragons, and stood back.

A light covered the sleigh and before everyone's eyes it got bigger, big enough to fit the amount of people Henry punched in.

"Please, Ladies first," Henry said bowing once again after opening the door and setting the steps, holding a hand out for assistance.

Once everyone who was going to in the sleigh was in there, and the door was shut and the teens were on their dragons, Henry got back to the drivers seat and flicked the reins and the reindeer shot off towards the destination...

Jack Frost's Palace.