AN: First sorry for making it go on so long (I'm not sure how long it will get to but I am working on getting it near the end)
Second thanks to everyone who have been sticking to it this long.
In the Games Room, Jack Frost was on one of his favorite games... 'Wack-A-Bunny'.
He was about to beat the overall score when...
"Hey Jack!" someone called.
"GAH!" Jack yelled in surprise and span around to find Buddy leaning across one of the Pinball machines, making him miss the next bunny and the 'Game Over' music to play.
"DUDE!" Jack yelled as quietly as he could not wanting to wake the whole palace up. "Do you have any idea how long it takes to get to a score of 101,994 points?!"
"No. No I don't but then again I don't come over that often to find out." Buddy said loving the anger coming off of Jack. "So this is what you do when it turns dark when you're here and not Earth is it?" he asked looking Jack up and down seeing him in his Earth clothes (the pants and hoodie) smirking.
"I get bored in my room ok?" Jack asked "Why do you think I had this one made?" he asked going over to 'Tetris' and starting it up.
"Yeah I'm not buying little brother," Buddy said coming over and taking the screen next to him and began playing too. "Anyone who knows you well enough, knows you only play games when there's something on your mind. So out with it. What's wrong?"
"Well..." Jack said placing a yellow square into it's place. "It's just... What if Molly doesn't help us? How are we suppose to get rid of Mordu? And even then we still need a way to get rid of Pitch, and we still have to work out how to use the Things. Why do we have to listen to that dumb thing anyway? It's just a bit of paper with writing on it? It's not like it's some big shot super villain holding a gun to our heads..."
"Jack I might not know a lot about this world, the mortal one or the immortal one," Buddy said placing a green zed and popping two lines "But I've come to learn that things happen when it is time for them to happen. Everything, especially in the immortal side, has a reason for being there. And they will eventually find out. You did remember?"
"Yeah, after 300 years of being in the dark, with no memory of who I used to be." Jack said sarcastically too focused on the game to notice the Guardians - who Buddy had woken up just for this, were at the door listening in.
"I thought they apologized for that," Buddy said looking over and raising an eyebrow.
"They did," Jack said setting a pink tee and setting it were it was meant to go. "But it still happened. And I still haven't had the Moon speak to me when I'm on my own. What? Does he hate me or something? Did I do something wrong in my first ten minutes of life that made him regret saving me from the pond that he just cast me aside, like an old glove?"
"Ok lets get off of Manny and come back to Molly," Buddy said pausing the game so he could look at Jack. "How exactly did you meet her?"
"After I got Merida out of that hole she fell into when she was a child," Jack began pausing his game too "I just started walking. I kept on walking until I found a ring of stones. Feeling a strange magic there I went indie the ring to try and work out what it was but found nothing," he said catching his breath.
"As I was about to leave I felt the magic shift and began to hear something behind me calling to me. I turned around and saw a Will O' the Wisp and it was leading me out of the ring and back into the forest but in the other direction. Being the curious young boy I was back then, I began to follow it and came to the front garden of a stone cottage and a little old women chopping wood.
"I was about to leave and think it must be a fluke, when I noticed the axe was doing the chopping on it's own. Being nervous of what might or might not happen, I stepped out of the bushes and called out to her. She heard and span around, sending the axe flying my way in surprise.
After apologizing and inviting me in for tea by way of apology she asked 'What's a young boy like you doing out at this time of night? Where are your parents?' So I told her who I was and that I was coming from helping the Princess sort out a family matter.
On seeing how honest I was, she told me who and what she was. At first I didn't believe her so to prove it she made this hoodie appear out of thin air.
I thought that I could ask her for something to make me visible to the people of the world. But thought against it having learnt from somewhere 'all magic comes at a price' and I wasn't sure I wanted to pay what ever it might be.
Once we were done having tea and biscuits, I got up, thanked her for the meal and the hoodie and was about to leave when she said 'Thank you for not asking for anything Jack Frost.'
"When I turned around to ask what she meant, she said something about 'too many unsatisfied customers'. And said if ever I wanted to see her or wanted anything, her door would always be open to me." Jack finished getting back to the the game he was playing.
"And you're sure that she'll help us in sorting out Mordu?" Buddy asked raising an eyebrow, and looking to the door seeing the Guardians were gone.
"Us? No..." Jack said after a bit remembering who's on their side (ie Snotface) "Me... It depends how she feels but I think I have a better shot." he said getting bored of this game and moving over to the 'Air-Hokey' table inviting Buddy to play.
(*)(*)(*)
When the sun's rays reached the palace the children and the teens groaned and whined wanting to stay in these surprising warm beds just a little bit longer.
Down in the Dining Hall, the adults, the Guardians, Emily Jane, Jack - back in his Seasonal outfit and Buddy - also back in his, were already up and having breakfast.
"Don't you think someone should go wake them up?" Tooth asked looking at the clock.
"Don't worry Tooth," Jack said waving her off, "This place as a timer for if guests are staying here..." he said a wicked look on his face.
"And that is boy?" Fergus asked concerned for his kids.
"The reason all the rooms have extra clothes in the cupboards..." Jack said looking at the clock himself. "And it will go off in Five, four, three, two, one..."
Nineteen loud cries of surprise and shock came echoing through the halls and into the room, followed by all of them crying out "JACK!" and the sound that sounded like a herd of elephants come charging down the stairs and through the halls.
"And here's where I take my leave," Jack said getting up and running out of the room in the opposite direction to the door, and through the secret door for the 'servants' closing it just as nineteen soaking wet fuming mix of children and teenagers (the Vikings, Rapunzel and Merida brandishing their weapons).
"Well that's defiantly one way of waking them up," Tooth said surprised that Jack would let this happen.
"Yeah why do you think we came by earlier to tell you to be down before half past eight?" Buddy said smirking while Emily Jane as holding none of it back.
"Where's Jack?" Astrid asked stepping forward one of the ones who was the least happy. "Ooh when I find him, this axe is going right up his..."
"ASTRID!" Stoick stopped her reminding her there were now children with them.
"Come on guys," Buddy said taking the boys back "We'll get this sorted out..."
"Yeah you can hurt Jack for alarm clock later," Emily Jane continued getting up and taking the girls "Though I did come around the beds and wake you all up and warned you."
"So did I," Buddy said nodding "But who ever listens to people like us ah Em?"
With that the boys went upstairs and the girls went down the corridor all muttering and complaining while trying to get some feeling back in their arms.
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Half an hour and a bit later, everyone was back in the dining room and having breakfast when Jack came in though the main door.
"Good morning everybody!" he called out beaming "Hope you all had a marvelous stay. On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your visit?" he said pulling a clipboard out of nowhere looking up when all he got was silence a small smirk on his face when he saw all the weapons shooting at him from the younger half of the crowd.
"I'll give it an eight Jack," North spoke up smirking a little himself. "Good service, comfy bed, love the food. Only thing to put it down is the lack of views out the window."
All this Jack wrote down and then looked up again as if wanting another review.
"No one?" he said sounding hurt after a bit "Not even you kids?" he asked looking to the Burgess gang.
Coming together, they began to whisper and nod stating their own review. After a bit they all looked to Jack and Jamie said "We together give it a six... Like North said it had good service, We all love the Games Room, the place in which this place resides is awesome, and the beds were super comfy. But..." he said crossing his arms and glaring at Jack "None of us really enjoyed that 'Wake-Up-Call' of yours."
"Well then next time get up when you're told Squirt," Jack said shrugging but writing it down anyway and coming over, staying away from the Vikings and Merida.
"So when are we going to Scotland then?" he asked helping himself to a second breakfast of chocolate-chip-pancakes.
"As soon as we're done and the Dragons are ready to fly," Hiccup said answering for everyone.
"Can we come too?" Jamie asked, asking for the Burgess kids.
"Molly's not really one to like kids, kids," Jack said trying to think of a reason why they should stay. "Besides if you come along... Who's going to be in my Games Room trying to beat my high scores and win the title of Super Video Game Master and win this trophy?" he asked pulling out an iced trophy with the title 'Super Video Game Master' written on it.
"Well..." they all said looking between the trophy, the teens, out the door to the Games Room, and each other.
"Me! I am!" Snotlout said standing tall and running out of the room to begin playing.
"Shouldn't we go after him?" Merida asked.
"You mean you want him to come along?" Jack asked leaning back and looking at her.
"Point taken," she said and went back to her cereal.
"Come on guys," Jamie said standing up too "We can't let that guy take what's rightfully set to be one of ours can we?"
"NO!" they all cried and ran out.
"Alex, Zack!" Jack called and the Winter Elementals from last night came in. "Watch the Game room while we're gone and make a note on if anyone beats one of the top scores. Oh and make sure Snotlout doesn't cheat in anyway, or break anything just because he's losing."
"Yes sir," they said together and left.
(*)(*)(*)
After that, and after breakfast everyone who was going - namely the teenagers minus one Snotlout, were getting the dragons and themselves, ready to go to Scotland.
"So where do we meet up again once it's time for us to come back?" Jack asked looking to the adults.
"Back at my cove," Emily Jane said in reply. "That is, if we can get the children away from your games..."
"Right," they all said nodding before mounting the dragons and took off, Jack speaking into the snowglobe and throwing it, leading everyone in, coming out in the circle of stones and landing in twenty feet of snow.
