"So… Hiccup told me what happed back in the Dark Ages…"

Pitch stopped his light reading, he looked over at the open window to see Jack leaning against the windowsill. He could tell right off the bat that the Spirit of Fun is distraught and filled with unanswered questions. Inviting the winter spirit into the room, the Nightmare King stood up from the chair and headed towards the bookshelf in the room. He placed the book he was reading back in his place before pulling out another, one that is worn down but still legible. If one knows what language it is written in. "Is he moping?"

"…how di-Yes, he's moping." Jack took a step back at Pitch's question, his entire expression showed his confusion. "How did you know?"

"I've known Hiccup since the moment he first became a spirit before taking him under my wing." Pitch shrugged easily, he plopped himself back down in his chair and motioned for Jack to sit in the vacant chair that is across of him. "He does not like talking about that… time period. It was truly the dark ages for many of us. What did he tell you?"

Jack uneasily sat in the chair; he couldn't maintain eye contact with Pitch. "That… you took the blame for something he did."

Pitch moved his head left and right as he took in Jack's words, thinking over on how he should respond. "Considering he told you that… I suppose I could let you in on what happened all those years ago. Just don't get any ideas…"

Pitch reached for the book and slowly opened. The moment the book opened, light enveloped the room and in its wake is colorful sand that foretold a story. "When Hiccup became the Spirit of Autumn, Old Man Winter made it his life mission to make the young spirit's afterlife as miserable as his own. This, added with no one wanting to intervene and being left to his own devices, it was to no one's surprise that he went mad."

Floating above the book, the sand shifted into different shapes and figures that went along with Pitch's words.

Hiccup waking up alone after being born again as the Spirit of Autumn…

Hiccup dealing with the constant harassment of Old Man Winter…

No one wanting to help Hiccup or even want to be troubled by his own presence…

Then…

Showing how the lands becoming barren wastelands, incapable of growing food.

"During this time, the Dark Ages took a massive turn as monsters became feared for who we are and we reveled in it. We loved putting the fear into humans but like all good things… it must come to an end." Pitch turned the page and the images shifted to show Pitch approaching the then Spirit of Winter. "As much I wanted to continue plunging the world into darkness, I could no longer watch Hiccup continuously be tormented by him. However, we both knew that if someone was going down, it would have been Hiccup who would take all the blame…"

"…you took the fall for Hiccup." Jack began to connect things in his mind. "But why? You weren't even talking to him by that time?"

"I was once in his position, Jack Frost." Pitch said coolly. "You need to know that Old Man Winter was feared by everyone, minus myself of course. To ensure to restore order, I needed to cause as much chaos as I could for something to happen. Unlucky for us that planned on going up against, Old Man Winter… Hiccup beat us to it and I wasn't going to allow him to become a victim any longer."

"You took the blame for-?" Jack couldn't finish his sentence and Pitch finished it for him.

"Murder? Yes. To be frank, what I had planned on doing to the old spirit doesn't even hold a candle to what Hiccup did to him. It even gave me nightmares." Pitch shivered at the memories. He shook his head to move those memories back into the back of his mind for now. "I had several of my friends to hide Hiccup while I covered everything up and it wasn't long before Man in the Moon created the Guardians to take me down. I did make them work for it though…"

Pitch muttered out the last part more to himself than to Jack before he closed the book and the colorful sand disappeared with it. "Mother Nature does not blame Hiccup for his actions but knows that punishment needed to be dealt with to ensure he is left alone by the Guardians for his act of rebellion as North likes to call it. She made him age forward and backward… a curse really but Hiccup took it in stride."

"What of his wife? When did she came back into the picture?" Jack asked.

"Between you and me, I believe Mother Nature pulled some strings to have her become a Valkyrie."