CinderFrost

A Sorrowful Beginning

Her mother had died long before she could even remember.

For Jack's entire existence, it had always been she, her dad, North and her older sister, Katherine. Their mother had died from a terrible illness just after Jack had been born.

Though even so, they had only grown closer and closer as a family as time went on. Of course, North had cried at the death of his wife but he had never given into his need to grieve. Instead he celebrated her life as he had promised her to move forward.

He made sure to be there for his girls an in turn, had led him to raising two strong ladies. Both who shared their mother's honey brown hair and eyes, fair skin tone and loving heart.

The older, Katherine, grew up to be an aspiring writer. Loving the art of wordplay and desire to create magical tales for all to read. The younger, Jacklyn, grew up a trickster-adventurer. She longed to run wild but still to be close by for her family. Of course, she was still a young girl. She hadn't yet found herself.

Though, as most tales go, it would not last.

As the sickness that had taken their mother, had made a quick comeuppance as of late. Latching itself onto those of the weak and elderly. While North had been very strong, is immune system was no longer what it used to be.

Leaving Katherine and Jack alone, who neither had the means to make rent nor had Katherine even managed to finish her first book. Kathrine had no choice but to marry in order to keep them afloat.

Jack didn't want her to do so and tried to convince her out of marrying for money and not love. She tried to convince Katherine that they could survive until her book was finished. Of course, the older understood that the younger just didn't know how the world worked yet.

So Katherine managed to find and seduce a strapping man who was fairly wealthy. He had originally been a high respected general in the army but upon retiring due to the death of his eldest child, he was gifted a longtime welfare from the kingdom.

Kozmotis Pitchiner, or as Katherine and Jack would come to call him: Pitch.

He originally had three children, one of which had died years ago from the very sickness that took their parents and around the same time it took their mother. The remaining two were a pair of twins, just a little older than Jack; Rachel and Terrence. Who also went by Ruffnut and Tuffnut for the fun of it.

Even though Jack was technically their aunt-in-law, they had actually gotten along great together. They were pranksters who would go around causing the other to hang from a tree or get pie to the face.

The only one Jack didn't really get along with was Pitch himself. Katherine herself was fond of the man and he let her continue her passions of writing. Jack never had anything against him but they were never really able to bond over anything. Their personalities were just too different.

Other than that, they all lived happily.

Until Katherine's dreams came true.

Her first book became a hit success across the kingdom. Many – rich and poor – paid a great deal of money to read it. It was so big that a very high ranking family; the Hofferson's, requested her presence to meet the writer who inspired such creativity in a kingdom that was mostly of hardened warriors.

Jack hugged her older sister as she boarded the carriage to take her across to a ship that would travel to large city of Berk.

Because, you see, the kingdom of Berk was a large island kingdom that's boundaries went far past the island's watery shorelines. Berk City, was the capital city and home to the royals. While Jack and her family lived in a small little town just on the edge of the outer boarder, Burgess.