Rise of the Nightmares (Jelsa/The Big Five)

Chapter 13 - Tiana's Palace

Hiccup POV

"Merida," Hiccup said feeling a shiver crawl up his spine. "Maybe we should get out of here?"

They were in an alleyway a few blocks west from the institute.

It had been Merida's idea to go scouting for Nightmares. Hiccup disagreed with her at first, but knowing Merida, she was always stubborn and would go without him. 

Hiccup being the responsible one of the group, agreed to go with her to make sure she'd be safe. Although he knew she was tougher and stronger than any Guardian, besides Jack.

"Let's just go to Tiana's Palace to get something to eat." He insisted again when she didn't answer.

Merida turned around to face Hiccup and was about to say something to him, but her gaze shifted to something behind him. "YOU THERE!" she shouted.

When Hiccup turned around, he saw something slithering away from the alleyway. Merida ran eagerly passed Hiccup in a blur, aimed her bow, and shot. It was enough to slow the creature down but not kill it.

"Merida!" Hiccup ran after her.

Merida jumped onto the back of the slithering creature, her bow ready to take another shot. "Tell me where Pitch is! Or I swear to the Man in the Moon, I will turn you into a pin cushion."

"Lord Pitch will come for you and your friends. When he does, all of you Guardians will burn." The creature hissed, revealing his ugly slithering tongue. "And the world will burn down with you."

Hiccup only looked at Merida's reaction. She looked flushed and disappointed with the creature's answer. She poured her Guardian sand on it causing the creature to disappear forever.

Hiccup loved that part, the part where the Nightmare's disappeared. It made him love being a Guardian more than ever.

"Let's go eat." Merida got up from where she was seated and faced Hiccup.

He laughed. "Only you would kill a Nightmare and still have an appetite to eat after."

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Rapunzel POV

"Jack, just come and bring Elsa too," Rapunzel hung up her phone. She sat at a booth in Tiana's Palace with Flynn and Anna waiting for Merida and Hiccup to arrive. Rapunzel noticed Anna looking a little sick.

"Hey Anna," Rapunzel said. "I think we might be second cousins or something, the Corona's and Arendelle's. I'm not one-hundred-percent sure about the history but I can show you the library when we get back home and we can check."

Anna just smiled and nodded at her. "Thanks."

"So," Rapunzel said looking at the both of them, "You both have something in common," she teased. "You're both Guardians and you both can't fight."

"Hey, listen here," Flynn said. "I can fight."

"Says the one who fell flat on his face against the Stabbington brothers." Rapunzel teased.

"I was out numbered," Flynn said. Rapunzel thought she saw him wink at her, "I bet if you were outnumbered like that you wouldn't--"

"Hey, they're here," Anna said, looking towards the door of Tiana's Palace. It was hard for Rapunzel to hear her over the jazz music. "And, I can fight, I was trained growing up. It's only Elsa who wasn't." Anna said.

Rapunzel didn't know what so say, so she looked up and saw Merida and Hiccup come towards their table. They both slid into opposite sides of the booth.