Odds and Evens (The Big Five)

After School

Punzie

Merida shot another arrow at the tree. more snow sprinkled the tree's roots on impact. Jack, Hiccup, Elsa, Merida and I were at our hideout, which was located behind the school building.

"Honestly! It's so irritating how everybody expects me to be perfect at everything just because my mum happens to be the headmistress! Why does everyone expect me to live up to some invisible standard that no one else has to?!"

She's still irritated that Snape gave her a detention for talking to Elsa in class and letting Elsa go.

"I'm sorry for getting you into trouble, Merida. He probably didn't give me a detention because I'm new," Elsa apologised nervously, persuading Merida to lower her bow. Temporarily.

"I don't blame you Elsa," Merida reassured her, grinning. She raised her bow again and split her previous arrow down the middle. Elsa sighed with relief.

"It's just that every teacher picks on me," Merida explained to her. "Last semester, Mrs Hooch made me do a lap around the school just because I was a teeny weeny little bit late!"

"You were half an hour late Merida," Jack sighed, balancing on a nearby log.

Uh oh. Merida lowered her bow and glared at Jack. Taking the hint, he slowly got off the log and raised his hands in defence.

"Sorry, sorry," he repented. "Hey, I have an idea, instead of impaling a tree with your arrows, why don't we have a snowball fight?"

Actually, that's a great idea! Once again, Merida lowered her bow.

"Okay! Boys vs girls!" I yelled. We were so gonna win! Merida's the sportiest girl I know, and Elsa has her powers!!!

"Sounds good," Jack answered, smirking. "We'll start in two minutes." He quickly grabbed Hiccup, who dropped his book in surprise.

Quickly, I gathered Elsa and Merida into a huddle.

"Elsa, I want you to use your powers," I told her in a hushed voice. She suddenly went red, and Merida went pale, as if Elsa had taken some of Merida's skin colour.

"Her wha-" Merida started.

"SSSHHH!!!" Elsa hushed her suddenly. "They're meant to be secret!" she whisper-shouted at me.

"We'll hide behind that bush so no one sees you," I gestured to a huge bush near the shooting tree, "And Merida can keep a secret. Right, Mer?" Merida slowly nodded her head.

"Don't worry Elsa, your secret is safe with me," she gave Elsa a small thumbs up, and Elsa beamed back. We dashed behind our chosen fort.

"Okay, let it go Elsa," I ordered Elsa, (but not in a do-what-I-say-or-you're-dead way! I told her as kindly as possible). Elsa smiled slyly, and swirled her hands in a wheel motion; a stack of snowballs appeared on the frosty ground.

"That's brilliant," Merida muttered in awe. But before we could admire her powers anymore, we felt our defence shake.

"FIRE!" Merida shrieked, snatching some of Elsa's snowballs and throwing them over the bush. I did the same while Elsa made us more ammo. While I was chucking frozen fire I noticed that Hiccup was the one retaliating, while Jack was crouched behind their log appearing to be making their retaliation. I would have thought it would be the other way round, as Jack seems more of the competitive guy than Hiccup, but I'm not really fussed...

"TAKE THAT! AND THAT!" Merida yelled, catapulting snow into the air. The fight went on for what seemed like AGES.

"Hey, I have an idea," Elsa whispered. We paused for a moment and crouched behind our defense.

"Punzie and Merida, pretend you're throwing this," she directed. Suddenly, powder was floating off the ground into a snowball the size of a oversized beachball hovering over Elsa's fingertips. As she slowly got up, Merida and I held the bottom of the snowball. By the time Merida and I had stood up, we looked like we were holding a tonne of snow, when in reality Elsa was levitating it from the foot of the bush.

"And... fire," Elsa murmured. We pretended to push the snow boulder into the air, as it lifted into the sky. Hiccup and Jack stood up, eyes popping, mouths gaping, as a mountain of snow landed directly on their heads.

"WE WIN!" Elsa, Merida and I screamed with excitement. Jack and Hiccup emerged from the powder snow, spluttering.

"No fair!" Jack groaned, brushing snow off him.

"Hey, there's no rules," Elsa giggled. I looked at my watch.

"OMIGOSH! WE HAVE TO GET HOME!!" I cried. "BYE GUYS!" I dragged Elsa by the hand away from the hideout. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Elsa wave towards the group slightly, and I could have sworn Jack grinned at her... WAIT...