5Okay so... I got really bored. I know I should be worrying about thesis, my emotional, mental, and physical well-being and the fact that I'm supposed to be looking for my ma's flashdrive... But when inspiration strikes, you just won't be able to let go. -.- Yeah I have like, three stories pending for an update. Well this is the good news:
This is a collection of one-shots that covers various themes and may also include extra chapters from my other fanfics. Totally random but I'm sure you guys would somehow like it... Somehow.
You don't need to read the other fanfics to understand the oneshots. So I guess we're okay. :) But if you would want to read the other fanfics well, I won't stop you. :D
So classes for me resume next week. I'm making the most of what this vacation-ish has for me.
Also if you have suggestions on what kind of oneshot you want me to write about, feel free to leave a review and I'll see if I can write about it when I have the time. :)
Disclaimer: The only thing I own is... Well you already know.
This first chapter is a sneak preview for my third multichapter fanfic which I will be updating... not very soon. Like I said, you don't need to read my other fics to understand this...
Title: The Chamber of Fearlings
Fic: The Story Book Chronicles
Characters: Jack Frost, Hiccup, Rapunzel, Merida
Genre: Angst-ish (Don't worry the events in the actual fic won't be auper angsty.
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Darkness...
Jack Frost recognized the feeling of being at its mercy pretty well... He felt it once, but he wasn't very keen on feeling it again.
Find it... Find your center...
They were inside a room... A dark room dubbed the Chamber of Fearlings... The other guardians told him this was where Pitch had gone insane. This was where he lost his humanity... where he became the Boogey Man.
This was a room of one's darkest fears.
"EUGENE!"
Three heads snapped towards a frightened blonde. Rapunzel, staring towards the darkness on her knees, her pretty voice breaking like a sobbing wild siren. Over and over she cried for her love who wasn't there, her arms reaching and reaching and reaching... for no one.
"Don't look Rapunzel!" Jack screamed at her as his clutch on his staff clung tighter in suppressed fear. "It's not real!"
Through Rapunzel's eyes, the shadows of the room shifted into a familiar scene. It was the inside of Gothel's tower, where the four of them saw Rapunzel and her cropped hair, holding a dead man in her arms as she sobbed and sang in melancholy.
Flower gleam and glow... Let your power shine!
Rapunzel found herself singing the same, her lips quivering and her voice breaking at every word. She looked on and saw herself, reminding herself that she had saved him... She had saved him... She had saved him...
"Heal what has been h-hurt... Change the fate's design..."
But the man in the vision didn't budge. As the Rapunzel in the shadows ended her song... the man in her arms stayed there lifeless... forever.
"EUGENE!"
And then a series of voices...
I will never stop getting away from you!
I love you most...
The world is a dark and dangerous place...
You are never leaving this tower... EVER!
"NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!" Rapunzel sobbed as she tried to yank her long hair from her head. Spotting a weapon, she tried to cut the soft heap of golden tresses... But in that world, it wouldn't cut... It refused to be cut.
And then another scream. Jack turned to his left and saw Merida in a crumpled heap, punching the ground and screaming obscenities in the air.
"MUM! NOOO!"
"Merida!" Jack called out to her, stuck in his place as he contemplated which of Rapunzel and Merida to rush to first.
"Mum!" she kept weeping.
The shadows reformed. A mother bear slaying three cubs... a large man losing a foot... and then a head... three clan leaders falling at the claws of a beadt... and an image of a large bear slaying a smaller bear played at the center of the room. Both monsters were impaled with a rain of spears... and the shadows dissolved.
"MUUUM!"
You embarrassed them! You embarrassed me!
Torn by pride..
He followed his own path... and the kingdom fell!
Elinooor!
"Merida!" Jack called out. He coughed an spurted blood... horrified at the sight. How could he possibly bleed? He was already dead!
Jack turned to the young Viking behind him... the only other one besides him who struggled to stand. His fingers trembled violently, trying to contain and control them by gripping his fists... and Jack clung to the hope that Hiccup would be strong enough... strong enough to stand by him and overcome fear.
And get their butts out of there.
"ARGH!" Hiccup growled as his knees gave way. Jack looked horridied... feeling dread and hopelessness seep into his chest.
"Hiccup... don't listen... it's all in your head... it's not real!" Jack pleaded.
The shadows around them went wild, swirling in a malevolent maelstrom abovehead, like a fleet of dragons readying for the kill. One giant monster hovered above them all, breathing hot dark fire in rings of hellish heat. Surrounding the four... a band of warriors shamelessly fallen, some burnt to cinders, others reduced to ash... and winged beasts of myth, mutilated on every side...
And before them stood an image of Hiccup... who lost not only his leg... but all of his limbs...
Like a mighty dragon roar, Hiccup screamed. His voice echoed through the room, almost deafening Jack with the intensity of the sound. His voice was loud, angry, and hostile... something Jack had never thought Hiccup could make.
The young Viking tried to stand on shaky legs, shielding his ears with his palms as he cursed at the murky air. And there Jack saw the spark of courage... futile as it was, it was there alive and burninh and ready to consume the darkness Hiccup fought like the flames of a Night Fury.
I just wanted to be one of you guys...
He's never where he should be...
You're not a Viking... you're not my son..
"You're not real!" Hiccup yelled. "You're not real! You are just a bad dream!"
Like a flicker of hope, Hiccup's voice reache the Scottish princess' ears. Shakily, Merida stood, grabbing her bow and arrow as she shot a vicious arrow against a Fearling that tried to attack Rapunzel. Rapunzel snapped to wakefulness as the vision of her nightmares died before her. The realization brought her to a suddden rush of adrenaline, drawjng the frying pan tied to her waist as she whacked another shadow that came for her auburn haired friend.
"Thanks Merida." Rapunzel panted.
"Jack?"
And so the three whipped their heada towards Jack Frost... a spirit staring off into dark space, his eyes set on a little girl no more than ten years with skates on uer feet and fear in her face. Jack only felt dread in the pit of his stomach... watching as the all too familiar scene played before him like a taunting memory.
"Jack... I'm scared..."
"Yeah... I know..." Jack found himself whisper. "But you know what? How about we have some fun instead?"
But even before the girl in the shadows could reply... she sank into the shadows with a cry... and all Jack could do was look on with horror.
"Jack, it's not real! It's not.."
But Jack could not hear the calls of his friends any longer... For ever so slowly, he felt himself sinking... sinking... sinking... deeper into the abyss as the shadows loomed in his line of vision.
Darkness. That was the first thing he remembered when he awoke... he prayed it wouldn't be the last...
But the Moon never rose...
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A/N: Dundunduuuuun...
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