How to save a life

Raven's plan

Jacklene's POV

"Why are they flying there? Weren't they there before?" I asked to no one in particular. Raven answered me, "No, they were at the little shack you visited before. They left barely a few minutes before you arrived."

"Wait, they were just there? I could have caught them!" I yelled at her.

"Hey! Maybe I didn't want you to find them, not yet..." She said at a loss of words.

After a few moments of silence she says "Jackie, in order to save your 'friends' I need you to know what they will do. Give me a second..."

She cups her hands and forms a ball of nightmare sand about the size of a baseball. She shoots it towards the screen she made earlier.

The screen changes into North's palace. All the guardians are there, Jack and Hiccup talking and laughing. I burst in, holding my side. It looks like I'm bleeding... Black sand.

"Is this my future?" I ask.

"No, this is what you will do to succeed. You need to be in this state to get Hiccup alone. He will be at your bedside while the guardians come look for me and Pitch. We're the only ones who could possibly do this to their 'precious guardian.'

"When will this happen? When I burst in I mean." She stops the scene with a single hand swipe. "Soon, but when you are finally alone, tap your staff three times. It could be you or Hiccup or anyone. Three times, got it?" I nod.

"But when exactly will this happen?" She smiles darkly, "Now," she makes a dagger out of sand and stabs me in the side. The exact place where it was in the vision. I fall to the ice, gasping and screaming out in pain, "Now," she says. "Go to them."

I grab my staff and fly off towards the palace as fast as I possibly can.

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Jack's POV

I was sitting at the table with Hiccup, the guardians sitting eating by the fire. Me and Hiccup were having a competition on who can make the other laugh harder.

I was in the middle of a joke I was sure to win with when all of a sudden the door flies open. Snow blows in, I cover my face. As the snow settles a little, I look towards the door and Jacklene is standing in the doorway.

I stand up, in total shock. No one says anything. I look down at where she's holding her side, she looks to be bleeding but her blood isn't red, it's pitch black. "North! Pitch got her!" I yell at him.

I fly over to her and catch her as she's falling. She looks up at me with sad eyes, she whispers "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, so sorry."

I look at her with a confused look, "Why are you sorry? You didn't do anything wrong," I say.

"Not yet, I'm sorry..." She says before her eyes close.