*I don't own any of the characters in this story. They all belong to their rightful owners at Dream Works, Walt Disney Studios, and Pixar.

**I do own Katelynn Odden, however

"Don't hurt her!" Merida yelled.

"I would never do such a thing…" Pitch told Merida. Then he made a pointy-toothed smirk. "But Mor'du will…"

Jack's eyes widened and pointed his staff at Pitch as he growled, "Let Rapunzel go Pitch…"

"I'm afraid I cannot do that either…you see, Jack…Rapunzel has a special ability that Lady Gothel literally can't live without." He folded his hands together. "However, I suppose I can make a compromise…"

"Which is?" Hiccup asked, his arms folding across his chest.

"If you surrender to me…I will promise you that poor Rapunzel will never get hurt."

Rapunzel shook her head madly and made muffled yells, most likely to not agree to Pitch's terms.

Merida spun around when she heard Mor'du growl. He was slowly getting closer to the group. Merida drew an arrow and pulled it back, having it aimed at Mor'du. "Jack…" she timidly said.

Hiccup looked up when he heard a roar in the sky. The larger than life dragon was hovering above them, with all six eyes narrowed at them. "This conversation is feeling very one-sided."

Jack scanned their situation and made a heavy sigh. His eyes met with Rapunzel's. Rapunzel was still shaking her head 'no'; her eyes were welling with tears. Jack took a deep breath and looked up at Pitch under his brow. "You've got to be kidding me, Pitch. I remember you tricking me four years ago and I won't make the same mistake ever again! I know for a fact that no matter what I would say, you would hurt her in some way, let alone let her go. I'll have to say no to your little 'proposal'."

Pitch's smirk quickly faded, it being replaced with a scowl. "Fine. Have it your way." Dark sand swirled around them, Pitch disappeared. Along with Rapunzel and the large dragon, even Mor'du. In their place were Pitch's Night Mares. They slowly closed in on them. "Kill them…" Pitch's voice echoed through the suspenseful night air.

"Jack, what were you thinking?!" Merida hissed.

"I'm working from experience." Jack told her under his breath, harshly. "I know what I'm doing…you take the ones on the left, I take the ones on the right?"

"Seriously?" Hiccup questioned.

"I got a plan." Jack explained.

Merida rolled her eyes. "Oh? Really? How well is it going so far?"

"Just hold on…this all going the way I planned it."

"How do you get rid of these things?" Hiccup asked.

"They turn back to dust when you hit them." Jack shrugged his shoulders. "Just attack them, they'll go away. It's that simple."

Merida made a stressed sigh. "I hope you're right…" she fired an arrow. The Mare turned the dust, as if it were a signal the other Night Mares lunged at them.

"Toothless, up!" Hiccup yelled. Toothless made a small roar and rocketed into the sky. Hiccup tapped on Toothless' head, signaling the Night Fury to fire. A rapid fire of a faster-than-lighting blue flame burst out of the dragon's mouth. The Night Mares scurried away from the blasts, but some didn't get as lucky. Over half a dozen Night Mares disintegrated to the ground. To make sure they wouldn't come back, Jack sent a wave of frost at the piles of black sand, freezing them in place. Merida shot arrows like there was no tomorrow, all of them hitting their targets where they would be most vulnerable.

Merida turned around and gave Jack a smirk. "I'd duck if I were you."

Jack raised an eyebrow at Merida, then looked over his shoulder. "Whoa!" He ducked as a Night Mare galloped behind him. Merida fired an arrow, the arrow blast through it. Jack picked up the arrow and tossed it over to Merida. "You're getting a little short on arrows there, Merida."

"I know…I only got a wee handful left. Can you go and fetch 'em, please?"

"No prob…" Jack hovered off of the ground and knocked Night Mares that were in his way with his staff, turning them back into black sand. He dodged two Night Mares as he grabbed a handful of Merida's arrows scattered along the concrete.

From above, Toothless and Hiccup fired at Night Mare's that got too close to Merida, who was now out of arrows. Completely defenseless. "Jack, I would like me arrows back now!" she yelled.

"Just hang on a second! I almost got all of them…how many of these things do you need?! I can barely keep a hold of my staff!" This was true…he was even holding some in his mouth, he had so many.

"Toothless is running out of steam, he can't keep firing for very much longer!" Hiccup yelled.

Jack fired frost at incoming Night Mare's as he made his way towards Merida. He jumped backwards when a blue flame exploded in front of him. "Watch it, Hic!"

"Sorry!"

"Make sure to hit the Night Mares, not me!" Jack finally made it to Merida. He handed her back her arrows. "Here you go, who knows how many arrows."

"Thanks." Merida frantically refilled her quiver and loaded her bow. As she and Jack fired at the closing in Night Mares, she asked Jack, "Is this part your plan?"

"Little bit."

"Is part of the plan getting Rapunzel back?" Merida shot down the last visible Night Mare.

"Yes. Hic, are there any more baddies?"

"I don't think so." Hiccup reported. He and Toothless landed back on the ground. "I'm pretty sure that was all of them." Toothless' ears suddenly stood on end and spun around, growling furiously. "Whoa, buddy, what's up?"

Out of one the alleys came out a human figure in what looked like dark brown, almost black, leather armor for a top and a black shoulder guard on the left arm. The other shoulder pad was also black but was much larger than the other and had a dragon head like design on it. A lighter leather armor covered the sides of its legs and consisted under the outer shell of armor. The under layer of armor looked like scales. Under the leg armor was, oddly, dark blue jeans and the person was wearing black Nikes. The person was carrying a vibrantly painted wooden shield and a battle ax. It faced the group and motioned for someone to come out, then pulled off the leather mask it was wearing.

Hiccup's eyes widened in disbelief on who the person was. "K…Katelynn…?"

Katelynn was ruffling her hair, trying to fix it due to her mask, as she said, "Not only me, Hiccup!"

"Jamie!" Jack yelled when Jamie came out of the same alley. Jamie was wearing a Viking helmet and had armor on his shoulders. He too was carrying a shield and battle ax.

"RAPUNZEL!" the group yelled in relief when Rapunzel came out closely after Jamie.