THE IMMORTALITY OF LOVE

Chapter 7: One heart

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"I'll make it clear, I... I feel nothing for you"

Hiccup held his breath when Jack said that. No, it wasn't true, he refused to believe him.

"You're lying ..."

And yet, he was torn up inside.

"And you're just confused, you need to think things and you'll realize."

Confused? No... No! He was not confused! He had accepted his feelings for Jack, and for the first time in his life he was quite sure about what he felt.

And he had to repeat it; he had to make him understand that!

"I don't want to... I don't want to see you again. Ever"

"..." Hiccup's eyes widened with surprise and the pain he felt because of what Jack had said was evident on his face. He tried to say something, but the words just would not come out of his mouth. His chest was pressed and his throat closed. It hurt so much... it hurt so much to hear Jack saying that.

But he was not looking at him.

He wanted Jack to look into his eyes, saying so in his face!

"From now on you're dead to me and I am dead to you."

"..." Hiccup tears ran down his cheeks. For a short moment, his body was completely paralyzed.

And Jack go through the door without looking back.

It was then when Hiccup reacted.

"Jack...!" his first impulse was to run after the guardian, but suddenly a sharp pain in his chest stopped him.

Surprised by the sudden ache, he looked at his hands. They were pale.

And he didn't see it, but black marks began to spread on his chest.

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Winter was her name. She was cold and rebel as the blizzard, pure as snow, fragile and transparent as frost.

Summer was his name. He was blazing and persistent as heat waves. Passionate and firm as the flames of the sun.

No one else knew, but they met.

Hot and cold, they formed the longed temperance.

Winter and summer, they formed the spring.

With the rain, representing the depth of their feelings.

With flowers, representing the beauty of their union.

Was it called the season of love?

It couldn't have a better name...

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Toothless, lying on the grass, was moving his head from side to side looking at the redhead guardian, who kept walking in circles, exasperated by the waiting.

"Aaaagh!" Merida screamed in frustration, "How long do we have to wait here?!" she asked to the witch, who was still sitting quietly on a tree trunk humming a song as she carved a wood piece, "It's been hours!"

"Impatience will not fix anything" it was all she said in reply.

"And staying here uselessly will not fix anything either!" the guardian objected.

Toothless lifted his head in alert, and suddenly the discussion was interrupted by a loud noise in the sky.

They looked up and saw a magical portal open, a red sled came out from it flying.

"North?"

The sled landed, revealing its passengers. North, Toothiana, Sandman and Bunny were there.

Right after that, Pitch appeared behind them, from the shadows of the trees.

"MIM informed us about Jack" North said getting off the sled showing a worried face, "We came to see if he's ok!"

"Don't talk for me, I came here to see him suffer" Pitch corrected with a calm and satisfied expression.

Merida was about to complain about how the witch wouldn't let them see their friends for hours, but the woman interrupted.

"It's time to get in."

The witch snapped her fingers and went to open the door. The rest followed her quickly.

Merida walked in front and was the first to enter the cottage, followed by Rapunzel. The redhead's eyes fell on the bed first, because that was the last place where she left his friends, but the bed was empty.

That's when she saw Hiccup thrown face down on the ground.

"HICCUP!" the girls ran towards him. The archer knelt beside the viking and turned him to see his face. The chestnut had the same brands that Jack had the last time they saw him.

"What? What's going on?!" Pitch asked clearly surprised. He had heard about the curse Mandrake put on Jack, but he knew nothing about the Hiccup's condition, he wasn't expecting to see him like that.

"Hiccup, talk to me!" the redheaded rested the viking's head on her lap. Hiccup was breathing with difficulty and he seemed about to lose consciousness.

The councilors looked at each other, feeling so helpless and sad. They knew that they could not do anything to fix what was happening.

"Please ..." Hiccup muttered weakly.

"What?"

"Don't ... don't tell Jack..."

"Jack?" Merida looked around, there was no sign of the white-haired boy, "Where is Jack?!"

"He already left" the witch said, "He was healed because he took his place."

"How did that happen?!" Rapunzel asked feeling confused, "we didn't see him walk out the door!"

"My power works with space and dimension" the witch said, although they did not understand her at all, that kind of clarification didn't matter on that point.

"Hiccup, hold on!" redheaded Asked his friend. Toothless approached, looking at his owner with much distress.

Hiccup felt weak. He tried to focus his eyes on the faces of his friends in front of him, but his sight began to become blurred. The black marks were spreading over his face and he felt a excruciating pain in the chest...

He couldn't help wondering if that was the pain that Jack had felt when he had the curse on him.

Soon he would cease to exist.

But he didn't care. He had decided so.

That was the only way to save Jack.

"Take care of Toothless..."

"Shut up, you fool! Stop talking as if you were going to die!" Merida couldn't stop her tears to come out; his friend was dying in her arms and she could do nothing. As a last resort, she looked at the witch with desperation in her eyes, "please, help him! Can't you make another pill or anything?!"

"No, he decided to pay the price." it was all the witch replied.

"Price? What price!? Price of what?!" it was strange to see, but one of the most distressed persons was Pitch, "Explain what's going on!"

"He volunteered to die in the guardian's place. Offering his life and staying close to him, he didn't just transmit his warmth, he conveyed his love, too" the witch said, "Any harm in the heart can be healed with the love from loved ones, but in this case it could only be healed by his special someone"

"What is all this nonsense about love that you're talking about? I don't understand anything!" the raven complained in frustration and looked at the councilors to see if they had understood or knew anything so they can explain it better, but they were silent, seeing with desolation how the viking was leaving little by little.

"Hiccup..." Rapunzel muttered with tears in her eyes.

"No! I can't see him die!" the redhead refused, "We must do something!"

"There is nothing we can do" ratified the witch, "but he can"

"What?"

"He is the only one capable of saving himself from Mandrake's magic" the woman said, showing them a wooden figure with the form of a heart that she had just carved, "that dark magic was absorbed by his body, but it hasn't consumed his heart yet, that's why he's still alive. If he feels pain because the snow boy broke his heart, he will die; but, on the contrary, if the pain he feels is connected to the boy's pain, he will live. True love shares, not only joy, but also pain."

The rest of the people hadn't understood what the witch had just explained, and Pitch was the first to protest.

"What does that even mean?! Speak in terrestrial language!"

Just then, Hiccup's body went completely heavy, and Merida realized that. When she looked at him, she saw that the viking was beginning to close his eyes...

"... Hiccup!".

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... Hiccup!

The voice of his friends began to fade slowly, and suddenly everything became dark.

But there was something strange; he was still conscious. He struggled to open his eyes again, but when he did so, he was in another place.

Hiccup's limp body was held up by a rotten tree, black roots that grew slowly held him there as if threatening to make him part of that rotten tree, and he didn't have the strength to fight it.

"Hiccup Haddock..."

A dark voice reached Hiccup's ears, and he looked up.

His green tired eyes fell on the person standing in front of him. He frowned at the sight of that man.

"Welcome to the last bit of consciousness you have left" Mandrake said. What was he doing there? Mandrake was still alive? Or was he just hallucinating? "My dark magic makes wonders on people, don't you think so?" the man smiled, looking around, making Hiccup notice the conditions of the place where he was.

It was a forest, destroyed and rotten. He noticed that there was green grass a few meters around him, and it was little by little changing its green color for a dark gray and lifeless color.

The last bit of conscience?

"Do you like the place?" the man asked, noticing the bewilderment of the chestnut, "The inside of every person is like a forest" he explained, walking towards another rotten tree that was there, "every tree, every flower, every little grass here represents a feeling, represents a memory, they are the moments of the past that make you who you are today, and as in any forest, there are also climate changes. But not everything is beautiful in an internal forest; as in every forest, there is a rotten part representing the bitter moments of your life, moments that caused pain" he pulled a small branch of the rotten tree and crumpled it in his hand, "and now, thanks to me, everything within you is reduced to this."

Hiccup fixed his eyes on the small space of green grass that was left ...

So that was how his magic worked...

"You finished me with Inferno, Haddock, but I left a part of me before that happened" Mandrake spoke walking towards the viking with a casual air, "My goal was to take your beloved guardian away from you, so you would suffer the rest of your miserable life" he confessed with a malicious smile, "but I'll be okay with your death. Too bad your heart is pure; you may have been a formidable boggan."

Hiccup's eyes narrowed with contempt. How dared he to even mention Jack?

Before he could say anything, a sudden sharp pain landed on his chest. He felt as if he were being torn up inside.

"Kh...!" the chestnut closed his eyes tightly and pressed his teeth trying to bear the pain. He wanted to scream, but he refused to do so. He would not give that man the satisfaction, and he wouldn't complain about something that he had chosen. If this was the pain he had to endure to save Jack, he would.

"It hurts, right?" Mandrake asked with a pleased smile as he watched at Hiccup's containment. He knew exactly what his magic caused, "your heart is broken… shattered..."

"You know what? You're right, you're useless, I don't even know why you are here."

Hiccup's eyes widened upon hearing Jack's voice in his mind. He didn't think it was possible, but the pain in his chest increased, but it was not a purely physical pain. The pain he felt in his soul upon hearing that words, revived and multiplied. His tears began to flow as his mind involuntarily recalled scenes from the past.

"You know what? You're right, you're useless, I don't even know why you are here."

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"It doesn't matter what you felt, and it doesn't matter what you feel now"

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"I don't love you."

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"I'll make it clear, I... I feel nothing for you"

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"... I don't want to see you again. Ever"

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"From now on you're dead to me and I'm dead to you"

A sob escaped his lips as his incessant tears wet his face. His mind had forgotten everything, and now he could only think of the pain those words had caused on him.

It hurt...

It hurt so much...

Mandrake continued seeing with satisfaction the scene as the black roots that wrapped Hiccup's body started to grow faster. That was the first step towards the destruction; soon he will be completely wrapped. And he wouldn't miss the opportunity to expedite the process.

"He was very cruel, wasn't he? You gave your life for him, you sacrificed for him, you gave him your love, and what did he do in return? Despise you, hurt you" the man smiled a grim smile, "it's so unfair, don't you think so?"

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He paced back and forth, not knowing what to do.

At that moment, he was in the south, the coldest place in all kingdoms. Snow covered everything, there was no living being in sight.

Whenever he felt overwhelmed, he went to that place, trying to download everything he felt.

And what he felt at that right moment, nothing was comparable to it.

"It's all your fault!" the guardian cried exasperated, looking at the moon, "why? Why did he have to fall in love with me?!" the cold wind crashed into his wet face. He had never felt so bad, "Now he has to suffer this, too!" in that moment, Hiccup was all that mattered, the only thing he could think of. He didn't care what he could feel, the suffering in Hiccup's face was the only thing on his mind, "I could have stood it... I could have stood it knowing that he was happy, but he is not" he clutched his face in frustration, lowering his gaze as his silent tears wouldn't stop coming out. Suddenly, he realized that the staff in his hand was covered with frost; and he managed to fly to that place, that meant that his powers were normalized.

"I'm so glad you're getting well…I don't know what I would have done if something bad happened to you."

Jack closed his eyes tightly as he put his hand over his heart.

He sat beside a snow-covered rock, shrugging his body there.

"I'm sorry, Hiccup... I'm so sorry" he apologized, as if waiting for the wind to carry his words towards the chestnut, "please, forget... forget me..." he begged hugging himself, "I don't want you to suffer..."

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Those phrases sounded in his mind over and over again.

"You know what? You're right, you're useless, I don't even know why you are here."

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"It doesn't matter what you felt, and it doesn't matter what you feel now"

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"I don't love you."

He felt that his life was fading with every word. He wanted to die.

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"I'll make it clear, I... I feel nothing for you"

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"... I don't want to see you again. Ever"

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"From now on you're dead to me and I'm dead to you"

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"I went to Berk frequently to see if they knew something about you, but nobody said anything…"

Hiccup was startled to hear that last sentence. Suddenly, his weak heart started beating strongly. The memories that Mandrake's magic was trying to take out of his mind began to emerge...

"You have always helped the team"

"You mean sharpening Merida's weapons? Anyone else could do that"

"You make plans and strategies, too."

"Which are never carried out. You guys always end up doing what you want and at the end my plans are useless."

"But you…"

"I just ruin and mess things up! Why do I bother? What would you know? You're Mr. Popularity. You'd never understand."

"…"

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"We didn't do anything but look for you, while you were very relaxed living your life without caring what happens to us. Well, good for you."

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"I went to Berk frequently to see if they knew something about you, but nobody said anything. Your father said there was nothing to worry about, he said vikings were in the habit of going to the nature to seek enlightenment and that surely that was what you were doing."

"Enlightenment?"

"I didn't believe him. But what else could I do? Just keep looking for you like an idiot"

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"I don't trust him, but I trust you. That's enough for me."

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"Obviously you're going to end up marrying Elsa."

"What?!"

"No need to pretend, it obvious you're in love with her. And don't worry, she feels the same for you."

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"... I love you"

"... Ehm... I-I love you, too ..."

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"You're a fool… you never noticed anything ..."

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"You were never a hindrance to me, Hiccup, and I'm sorry if I ever made you feel that way..."

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"We can't meet again."

"But there is no restriction. We can s-"

"The restriction doesn't matter! Don't you understand? I'm immortal, and you... you're not."

"..." Hiccup tears began to fall again, but this time the reason was a different pain.

Mandrake was so distracted watching his suffering that he didn't notice that the black roots had stopped growing.

"Your broken heart is being consumed by the pain, and there is nothing you can do about it"

Hiccup, who had kept his head down until that moment, looked up at Mandrake.

Mandrake was startled to see the viking's expression. His look of determination was not something he expected to see.

"You're wrong" Hiccup said firmly, "my heart is not broken"

Mandrake was surprised, and it was then that he noticed that the rot on the lawn was receding, and it was regaining a green color again.

He felt a sudden desperation when he saw that.

It was not possible.

"That's a lie!" Mandrake refused, "your heart is broken! His cruel words broke it!" he said in exasperation.

"His words hurt me, but my heart knows they were not sincere" the viking said, "My heart has no reason to be broken, Jack has always returned my feelings, my certainty is born of his actions. His words told me one thing, but the sadness on his face told me otherwise" he clenched his fists and narrowed his eyes as the anguish surrounded him. Everything he loved about Jack was present in his mind, just like everything Jack had done for him. He remembered his beautiful face with that pained expression reproaching that he left, thinking that he loved someone else, having to tell all those hurtful words to get him away because they could not be together, "The pain I feel now is not because my heart is broken; it's because it hurts to know that at this moment he is suffering. It hurts to know that I was the reason of his broken heart; it hurts to know that he was trying to get rid of his love, thinking that I didn't love him back; it hurts to know that I was an idiot who didn't notice how much I hurt him!"

The black roots began to deteriorate rapidly, the rot receded.

"Stop!" Mandrake ordered desperate.

"I don't care how much pain your curse could cause in me, because I love him!" the dried roots were smashed, and Hiccup was free and standing. Mandrake draw back in fear when he saw the viking walking towards him, "If I have to die to save him, I'll do it..." he said with determination, "One and thousand times!"

Suddenly, soaking rain began to fall all over the place. Every drop that fell on the grass eliminated the rot, and every drop that fell on Mandrake burned him like fire.

"NOOO!" the man cried, just before he got petrified and disintegrate. His powder flew into the void.

Hiccup stood there, quiet. His tears were lost in the rain falling down his face.

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.. Hiccup!

"Hiccup!"

"...!" Hiccup opened his eyes, startled. It took a moment to adjust his thoughts. What had happened? Where was he?

"He's alive!" Rapunzel said full of happiness.

Hiccup observed all the faces that were all over him, looking at him with relief and joy. Merida, Rapunzel, Toothless, Pitch, Toothiana, Bunny, Sandman, North, and ... the crow on North's head?

"What an awful fright" Bunny said rubbing his forehead. That was not good for his nerves.

"You almost give me a heart attack, boy!" Pitch grumbled.

"What ... what happened?" the chestnut asked feeling confused. Wasn't he supposed to die?

"It is incredible! Mandrake's magic vanished!" Merida informed all euphoric as she helped him to sit up, "the marks disappeared completely!"

Hiccup grabbed his head, a little dazed; He looked at his redhead friend with doubt.

"What does that even mean?"

"You won't die!" Rapunzel replied with a smile.

"What?" Hiccup blinked surprised at the answer, "What will happen to Jack?"

"The boy is healed, because you received his curse" the witch explained awkwardly opening a space between the bystanders hogging Hiccup's view, "and you could eliminate it thanks to the connection of the feelings of you both. You didn't have a broken heart, your heart aches for him, not for yourself, and that's different"

"Isn't it great, Hiccup? You're both saved!" her blonde friend said happily. But Hiccup didn't look very happy.

"..." the viking lowered his gaze, thinking about everything that had happened, "That doesn't change much"

"What are you saying?" Merida asked looking at him with confusion; that wasn't the reaction she expected, "You both will live! Do you think that's not much?"

"Jack is suffering. And it is..." he sighed while keeping his sad face, "it's my fault."

"Huh?" Merida didn't expect to hear that. Rapunzel and she exchanged glances, worried. Did that mean that he was aware of Jack's feelings?, "Why do you say that?"

"Stop pretending" the chestnut snapped with irritation, "You know well what I mean. He had a broken heart because of me, and still does. He almost died and it was my fault" he narrowed his eyes containing the disappointment he felt of himself, "I am... I'm a fool."

"Hiccup..." Rapunzel squatted in front of Hiccup for him to look into her eyes and see in them the seriousness of her words, "you are not to blame for anything, a person can't decide who to love, no one could prevent all this will happen, do you understand?"

"..." Hiccup looked away for a moment. He understood, but yet, it didn't take away the guilt he felt.

"Hiccup, even though you don't love him that way, we know how important he is for you and that you don't like to see him suffer" Rapunzel continued talking, "but it's the best that you..."

"I love him" Hiccup said, interrupting. Rapunzel and Merida gasped, surprised to hear him say that. Until then, they had only come to assume it, but they never had complete certainty that Hiccup loved Jack. And now, Hiccup had made it an irrefutable fact, "and I said it to him."

"Oh dear…" the blonde girl put her hand on her mouth in shock. That complicated things even more.

"What? You are in love with Jack?" Pitch grimaced in disgust, "Why? He is horrible!" he complained just before getting elbowed by Toothiana.

"And... what did he say when you did it?" Rapunzel asked with an expectant look.

"He said that he didn't love me and didn't want to see me again" the viking said with a depressed face.

"I told you! He is horrible!" Pitch spoke again, and this time he received a scat in the head by Sandman, who was floating at his side.

The blonde put both hands on her mouth at what Hiccup just said. Now she understood better the situation.

"That's not true, Hiccup" Toothiana said trying to help, "He wouldn't even date me, because he loves you."

"That would be awful, you collected his teeth when he was a little kid, you pedophile" Pitch told with great contempt.

"I had enough!" Pitch dodged the blow that the fairy tried to give him and disappeared, then he appeared across the room showing a sly smile, "come back here!"

"W-Well, don't mind him, Hiccup" Merida said with a nervous smile, trying to encourage the viking, "Surely it was his nervousness, whoever can say nonsense when they're nervous. If you had given him a kiss he would have get some confidence" she suggested, without really knowing what else to say. She didn't want Hiccup to feel so sad, and less after he almost died.

"I kissed him"

"Oh dear…" Merida opened her eyes wide at the news, and blushed "W-well, whoever gets nervous when they get their first kiss" she chuckled a little but without really wanting to. Now she had run out of ideas.

Hiccup looked up at her, surprised to hear that.

"First kiss?" he thought internally. Jack had told...

"And... what about you? Have you kissed someone?"

"Yes, many times."

He had told him that he had kissed someone else, but...

"After all, I'm Mr. Popularity, remember?"

"It was not true..." he concluded, surprised ... why the hell was he surprised? He should haverealized before! Jack wouldn't do such a thing. He had told him that lie just because he deserved it.

He grabbed his head, running his fingers through his hair, feeling helpless again.

"He loves you, too, Hiccup" Merida assured him, thinking that Hiccup thought otherwise, "don't think that-"

"I know" the viking interrupted, standing up, "I know he loves me, and that's the problem. If he didn't love me, at least it wouldn't hurt him that we can't be together."

"If you really told him that you love him, I don't think he is suffering because of that right now, Hiccup."

Hiccup looked up at Rapunzel, giving her all his attention.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"It breaks your heart to know that you can't be with the person you love and that that person should be with someone else; that was the reason for his broken heart when you found him in the snowy mountains. I know because I feel the same," she confessed putting her hand on her chest, "we must get away the person we love , and it's not because we don't want to be with them, it's because death and time will separate us sooner or later, and it will be very painful for both," she said lowering her gaze for a moment, "but ... I'm sure that what hurts Jack the most right now is something different. He loves you, and what matters to him is your happiness, so he was willing to stand a life away from you while you stay with someone else. But now, he knows that you love him back, so he knows that you are suffering as well to be away from him. I'm sure what hurts the most is knowing that you suffer" Hiccup was speechless. Was that true? That was his main pain?, "Just like the lady said, when love is real, it's shared not only joy, but also pain" she put a hand on Hiccup's shoulder, for him to listen very carefully, "Hiccup... Jack only wants your happiness, and he is willing to walk away from you forever, for you to forget about him and make your life; and under these circumstances, that's the best for both of you. Maybe it's hard, but-"

"No" Hiccup flatly refused when he perceived where the conversation was going, "I won't make my life with anyone else."

"Hiccup, I know how you feel, but you must understand" the blonde insisted, "you should-"

"I wouldn't be happy" the chestnut looked at her firmly, "I couldn't even pretend to be happy."

"..." Rapunzel looked at him very surprised. She, like Jack, wanted the person she loved to be happy; in her case, it was Eugene. She always thought it would be possible for Eugene to find someone else, but… was it possible to ignore his own feelings and have a normal life with someone else? Could he be happy?

Hiccup just said no.

Then she realized something...

She changed the hearts making people return to the path of their dreams; that was her center. And, what was a dream? Dream is something that a person wants to reach, something that can give you happiness. That was a real dream.

At that time, Hiccup was saying, in other words, that Jack was his dream.

But how could she inspire him to achieve that dream, if she had renounced her own dream?

"What will you do then?" North asked, joining the conversation, while the viking was wearing back his armor set.

"I'm going to continue" the chestnut answered, "I'll get my immortality back" he said clasping the cords of the covers of his arms, finishing to dress.

North and Bunny looked at each other. Hiccup seemed very sure that he could regain his immortality.

But there was something he needed to know...

"You won't regain your immortality, Hiccup" the white-haired man reported, causing Hiccup to stop all movement.

The chestnut turned to North and stared.

"What?"

"The Man in the Moon told me" North continued to say, "It's in vain. He will not give you the immortality, no matter what you do or how much you ask him."

Hiccup stood staring at him, dumbfounded. He tried to see in North's eyes some glimmer of lying, but the look of the white-haired man was firm, so the viking looked down, overwhelmed, still unable to digest what he had just heard.

He had the idea that the Man in the Moon would grant his immortality back if he could be worthy to be a guardian, giving his all to protect people and finding his internal and external talent. That was why he had tried so hard to be a good protector and doing everything that the Man in the Moon commanded.

And now it turned that he wouldn't give him a second chance?

"You gave up to be guardian and turned down the position, therefore, you are no longer worthy" North ratified.

"..." Hiccup remained in silent. So that was it? He would never be guardian? He would not live to protect people? He would never be able to be with Jack?

Merida and Rapunzel looked at him with concern.

The viking closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Then he looked up and stared at North intently.

"I don't care."

North raised his eyebrows with surprise.

"What do you mean?"

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Sitting at the table in his house, Stoick was reviewing the report of the day, absently. His wife came to him with a cup of hot tea to accompany his work.

"Did the riders return from Arendelle?" Valka asked, sitting down next to her husband.

"Yes, I was informed that everything went well in the battle" Stoick reported with obvious relief, then he took a sip of tea.

"I'm glad to hear that" the woman said smiling.

"Yes, surely our son stood out" Stoick said proudly, making his wife laugh a little. But Stoick stopped smiling when something struck his mind, "that boy worries me."

Valka looked quite confused by the sudden change of mood.

"Why?"

"It's just, he is..." he made a short pause searching his mind for the right words to explain it, "he spends all his time trying to regain his immortality, and I don't understand why, he already does the same as the guardians do, protect people."

"He longs for his friends" his wife said with a calm countenance.

"His friends are the most important thing he has? What about us? His parents, his people."

Valka smiled. She knew that Stoick was not undervaluing Hiccup's friends, he just missed his son living in the village.

Vikings were very rooted to their origins and their people, they always remained united and so they were a strong nation. But Hiccup was destined to something else, and Stoick didn't really understand why, but she did.

"The village has you, and we have each other" Valka said putting a hand on the shoulder of her husband, "is natural that Hiccup also wants to be next to his special someone."

"..." Stoick remained meditative for a moment, and when he finally digested the words that his wife just said, he sent her a puzzled look, "you mean that he's in love with one of the guardians?" Valka smiled sideways, which he took as an affirmative answer to his question, "Did he tell you that?"

"No need to tell me, a mother perceives that sort of things" the woman said, then stared at her husband to explain in more detail Hiccup's situation, "Stoick, our son was born to be a guardian. He has a heart that leads him to take care of others, just like you, the difference is that he was chosen to protect everyone, not only the village" Stoick looked away thoughtfully, he understood the point, "but how to protect everyone if you can't protect the person you love the most? Everything is better when you're next to the person that complements and makes you happy."

Stoick nodded. He understood that. For a long time, he was away from his wife, and although he struggled a hundred percent to be a good chief, it took a long time to be a good father despite he loved and tried to protect his son; he found it difficult to show the affection he had for him. The one who changed it was his own son, he had much of his mother within him, and that side was what helped him become a better person, a better leader, and a better father.

"So that's why he wants to return with the guardians" Stoick concluded meditatively, "he wants to protect everyone and be with her..."

"Him" Valka corrected him smirking.

"Him?" Stoick repeated feeling a little confused.

"Him"

"Him?"

"Him!"

"..."

"..."

"What do you mean?" he looked bewildered.

"You said her, but it's a him."

"..."

"..."

Now he understood.

"The snow boy?" he asked narrowing his eyes in doubt.

"Yes."

"Is it not Merida, the warrior redhead? She is strong, beautiful, brave and-"

"No" the woman chuckled at the insistent assumption of her husband, "try to think from the perspective of your son, Stoick, not from your own opinion."

"Hmm..." Stoick looked at the nothingness, remembering….

/ * / Flashback / * /

"The guardians came here looking for you again."

"Really?" Hiccup looked at his father with great attention, while Stoick was putting away some weapons in a wooden box, "and ... Jack came, too?"

"Yes, he threatened to freeze our crops if he knew that we did something bad to you" he said absently, "seriously, what kind of guardian is that?"

Hiccup chuckled.

"Do you think he will return here by soon?" the chestnut asked approaching him with a pot in his hands. Stoick held it without knowing what it was, "I want you to give him this pot of ice cream. It is melted, but it will freeze quickly when he touches it."

Hearing that, Stoick looked at him as if he had grown another head.

"He threatens me and you want me to give him ice cream as a prize?"

"It's ... It's just..." Hiccup moved shoulders, clearly nervous, "it's not for him only, it's for the girls, too" he said running a hand through his hair as he gazed down, "but he is the one who can freeze it, right?"

"Oh, okay" his father said shrugging, without paying much attention to the expressions of his son "The girls are very nice, aren't they?" Stoick asked with a suggestive tone, patting him in the arm... a pat that apparently was stronger than it had to be since his son immediately started rubbing the area trying to dispel the pain.

"Uhm, yes…" he replied slightly dislocated by the comment of his father, who turned around to put the melted ice cream away .

"I heard that the birthday of that snow boy is soon" Stoick said.

"His name is Jack" Hiccup corrected rolling his eyes, "yes, his birthday will be soon."

"But I think he will not make any celebration, just like last year."

"..." Hiccup looked up thoughtfully. Stoick was a little confused when he saw that reaction, his son seemed worried, "I guess the life of a guardian is busy."

/ * / End of Flashback / * /

"Hmmm ... I see" he said simply as he put a hand on his beard, "well, anyway, Hiccup wants to be a guardian. Guardians don't have children, so there is not much difference."

Valka smiled slyly to the resignation of her husband.

"And Jack is very nice" the woman said, urging her husband to agree with her. But he didn't agree at all.

"I think he's quite arrogant" he frowned confused by the so sure review of his wife; He didn't remember seeing her interact much with the guardian.

"Look who's talking!" Valka said, laughing.

"And he's very rebellious" Stoick added.

"Indomitable, just like a wild dragon. Ideal for your son."

Stoick let out a couple of laughs at that comment; it all had to do with dragons to her?

"He is too thin" Stoick continued.

"He's very attractive" Valka corrected raising a suggestive eyebrow. She had to admit that at first she was not very happy when she caught the interest of her son towards the guardian, she still didn't know him and thought it was very strange that Hiccup preferred a boy, having so many beautiful and interesting girls around him. But the more Hiccup talked about him, the more she realized it was not a simple temporary feeling, and she had more desire to know him personally. And she was very pleased when she did so. The boy was fun, beautiful, strong, brave, and she could notice his great concern about Hiccup.

"Astrid is more attractive." he just wanted to contradict as if it were some kind of competition.

"No, he is more attractive" she smiled and crossed his arms, maintaining her position tough. And she really thought he was more attractive.

"What about the beauty inside?" Stoick objected.

"Our son fell in love with him for a reason, right?" Valka said using a tone full of obviousness.

"Hiccup liked Astrid when he was younger."

"Liking is not the same as loving. It's not just a crush."

Stoick grinned. His wife was not going to give up.

"Okay, you win" he accepted it.

"That's what I like about you…" Valka said putting a hand on his shoulder and looking at him with affection, making her husband smile back, "you're a good loser."

"Yes, I'm a good ... hey" he looked at her accusingly.

They both began to laugh.

Stoick looked at his wife for a moment, watching every feature of her smiling face. Besides being husband and wife they were friends, and that was what made their relationship so natural, pleasant and fun; it was true love. Perhaps, that was what Hiccup had found, and as expected, his son would not let go of that so unique feeling for anything in the world.

"I guess this means that Hiccup will continue to seek his immortality" Stoick concluded.

"He never gives up" his wife said showing a little smile, "He got that completely from you".

Stoick smiled with pride.

"Surely he will soon come to visit us, now that the dangers in Arendelle finally ended" he said.

"Sure."

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With his mind completely exhausted just like his body, curled in that cold place, Jack ended up asleep.

He didn't know how much time had passed, when he suddenly heard someone's voice, and woke up.

"Well, well…" Jack opened his eyes, and saw Pitch standing in front of him, "aaw, your eyes look so tired, have you been crying?"

Jack frowned, he immediately stood up and held his staff in hand. He told Hiccup that he would trust his decision about Pitch, but that didn't mean he trusted Pitch. He didn't like the sarcastic and mocking tone that he always used to talk to him.

"What do you want?" he asked as he got in a defensive position.

"Turn around."

Obviously, Jack didn't obey. He was not so foolish as to let his guard down like that.

But then he heard someone laughing behind him.

"Hiccup?", he couldn't help it and turned.

Just he turned around and found himself somewhere else. It looked like the inside of the castle of Arendelle, but Jack paid little attention to that when he saw Hiccup there.

He was some feet away from him. By reflex, Jack hid behind the nearest wall, and continued to watch the scene in front of his eyes.

Hiccup was there with Elsa. They both looked very happy. Elsa was carrying a baby. The queen placed the baby on the floor to let him walk towards Hiccup, who crouched and waited with open arms. The baby took two shaky steps and reached the chestnut, who, with a big smile, caught him and lifted him up with pride.

"Hahah! That's my son!" the viking exclaimed.

Jack gasped as his eyes moistened watching the scene in shock. Then he lowered his gaze... he didn't want to see it, it hurt too much.

"Isn't it lovely?" Pitch said, standing behind him, showing a slight smile, "This was what you wanted, right? This was what you expected to happen..."

"..." Jack looked at them again, seeing how Hiccup, with the baby still in his arms, gave a little kiss to his... wife, "I just want him to be happy" the guardian muttered, watching attentively the joy on Hiccup's face.

"Of course, he looks very happy..." Pitch agreed, "too bad this is not real."

Suddenly the scene in front of his eyes faded and everything went blank. Jack blinked, surprised, and just before he could turn to Pitch for an explanation, he heard a voice...

"Jack..."

Jack turned around quickly.

Hiccup was there, standing a few feet away from him, alone this time, without anyone or anything around him.

He had his head down, so he could not meet his eyes.

Slowly, Hiccup looked up. Jack froze to see that sad face... pale and with black marks spreading across his jaw.

"Forgive me..." Hiccup asked just before he fell on his knees while clutching his chest and shrugging, trying to bear the pain.

"Hiccup!" Immediately, Jack ran to him, but he just stepped forward and slammed into a glass wall, "What is this?!" he put his hands on the glass trying to push it, then he hit it with his fists, but he couldn't move it, "Hiccup!" he shouted.

"It's useless" Pitch said standing behind him, "He can't hear you."

"You!" Jack turned, throwing an attack with his staff, but Pitch was ready for that, and he quickly eluded it, disappearing all of the sudden, "What did you do to him?!" the white-haired boy exclaimed furiously while searching Pitch with his gaze, but he found no one in sight.

"I didn't do this, Jack" he heard Pitch's mocking and ironic voice coming out of nowhere, "you did."

Jack didn't pay attention to his words and continued in attack position, looking around for some shadow that could reveal the location of Pitch, but everything was white.

"Do you know what was the price of your healing from Mandrake's curse?" Jack turned toward the voice and saw Pitch standing beside Hiccup, who was still on the floor containing the pain, "Someone else should take your place... and die" the raven said quietly. Jack froze as his brain began to process what Pitch was saying. Suddenly, Pitch was standing behind him again, putting a hand on his shoulder, approaching his ear to say what Jack was trying to deny inside, "Guess who volunteered..."

"No..." the white-haired boy whispered as he looked at Hiccup with anguish and despair, "Hiccup, no!" he ran toward him again, but the wall was still there, stopping him. He hit the glass in desperation, but it was useless, "please, no!" he shouted, unable to hold the tears that started to run down his face.

Suddenly, images that were not part of his memory began to play on his mind...

Hiccup held him in his arms as he lay unconscious.

"Jack! Jack, answer me, please! Jack!"

.

"There is only one way to save him, and it's getting someone else to die in his place"

"I will!"

Hiccup said immediately

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"If I have to die to save Jack, I will"

Jack was breathless; he remained in place, paralyzed, unable to move a muscle by the shock he was feeling. No, it was not true, it could not be true…

"You are special. You are a guardian"

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"Yes, they are already in the time of having a good moment with their families. You should go back to your village and do the same"

"Nah, I'd rather be with you. If I have known you'd stay here, I'd have stayed, too."

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"I don't want him to hurt you, Jack... I don't want him to hurt anyone. So I thought if it was possible to have him on our side, then I had to do it."

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"I'm so glad you're getting well… I don't know what I would have done if something bad happened to you."

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"I love you ... I'm not lying."

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"You have no idea how much I regretted every second after I left, and even when I wasn't allowed to see you, I couldn't spend a day without learning something about you. It took me so much to name this feeling, but it was always there, pushing my actions."

"Your actions? Actions like leaving without saying anything and desert the team knowing that it entailed not see us again?"

"I wasn't thinking straight! I was angry and all I could think about was how useless I was to the team! To you! I wanted to fight at my teammates' side, but I especially wanted to fight at your side. When I knew you better and I saw what you were going through, I understood your pain; I knew you felt lonely just like me, and I... I wanted to be your friend and be with you, but how?… how to do it if you were on a different level than mine? You were not invisible anymore, everyone admired you, I was desperate seeing how you got higher and higher, while I was left on the ground."

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"You were arrogant, rebellious and playful. I admired you, I hated you, I... I loved you! I loved you, back then. I know that now. I know it because what I feel for you hasn't changed at all. And that day, when I realized that Toothless couldn't be my talent and I was left at zero again, I felt I would never be able to reach you "

"He did so much for you..." Pitch's voice broke the silence, "And how did you pay him back?"

"You know what? You're right, you're useless, I don't even know why you are here."

.

"You find it very easy to think of yourself, don't you?"

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"It doesn't matter what you felt, and it doesn't matter what you feel now"

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"I don't love you."

.

"I'll make it clear, I... I feel nothing for you"

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"... I don't want to see you again. Ever"

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"From now on you're dead to me and I'm dead to you"

Jack looked at the floor as he wept inconsolably.

"Say goodbye..."

The white-haired boy looked up and watched in horror as Hiccup got completely petrified and then fell apart as if he were made of dust.

"Hiccup... NO, HICCUP!"

Jack awoke all of the sudden, taking a deep gasp abruptly, as if he'd just leave the water looking for breathe. He was in the tundra again.

He rubbed his wet eyes and saw black sand floating away from the place.

A nightmare. It had been a nightmare created by Pitch's powers.

But even knowing that, he didn't feel calm.

"Do you know what was the price of your healing from Mandrake's curse?"

An empty feeling came over him.

"No…" could it be true? Hiccup had done something like that to save him?, "No, it can't be!"

He stood up and took flight. He had to verify. He had to see that Pitch was lying!

It didn't take long, and he got to the cottage where he had left Hiccup. He went in quickly.

"..."

There was no one...

Then he felt fear.

He felt a deep fear inside.

But he was not going to stop there.

He went to the Hiccup's house in Arendelle, he was probably there.

When he arrived, he looked through every window in the house. Hiccup was not there.

On impulse, he went to check in the castle of the queen, but by looking thorugh the window, he only saw Elsa talking to his sister. Hiccup was not there either.

The next place he went to check was Berk, he thought that perhaps Hiccup had gone to his parents' house, but he was wrong.

Where was he?

"Guess who volunteered..."

Pitch's words echoed in his mind over and over again. It was not possible, Hiccup was fine the last time he saw him, at least physically. Besides, why would he believe in Pitch? He was not a trustworthy person; surely he only said that to make him feel worse, taking advantage of the situation.

"Pitch was lying, he... he was just lying..." he convinced himself, and decided to return to the Palace of the Guardians. It was time to go home.

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"Wargablar" greeted one of the Yetis when he saw Jack entering the Palace.

"Hello, Bob" the yeti observed him, confused. Jack looked very exhausted and depressed, and also it was strange to see him arrive at the palace alone, he usually came from a mission with the rest of the team… and at a decent hour, not at four in the morning, "tell me when the girls arrive, ok?" he asked passing by, heading for the stairs.

His plan was to go to rest in his room, but before entering he laid his eyes on the room that was in front of his door. It was Hiccup's old room, and Phil was there wiping with a duster to remove the dust from the objects. Since Hiccup left five years ago, they had kept the place intact, awaiting his return...

But now...

"You don't need to do that" Jack informed, approaching the yeti, "he won't come back."

"Blarghaghablr Wargablar?" Phil asked him, puzzled. Jack ignored his question.

"We better occupy this room for something else. Take everything out of here and... burn it" he ordered. If he wanted to get rid of Hiccup, he had to do it definitely.

The Yeti showed him a horrified expression.

"Blarghaghablar!" Phil said, shaking his head.

Given what was obviously a negative response, Jack frowned.

"Whatever, I'll do it myself" he said, walking toward the rack that was in the room, "where there is a match?" he just finished asking the question and found a box of matches.

"Blarghghablarwar!" the startled yeti exclaimed and immediately walked toward him to try to take the matchbox away from him, but Jack threatened him with his staff, preventing the yeti to get closer.

"Don't give me your blarblarblar! He won't come back, got it? And don't you dare give him information about us as you have been doing!" He ordered roundly, "Now get out of here, I want to be alone"

Phil lowered his arms resignedly and obeyed getting out of the room, leaving the door open.

When he found himself completely alone, Jack turned his back to the door and looked around the room. He took a deep breath, then he looked at the box of matches in his hands... could he burn everything?

"What are you doing?"

"...!" he heard the voice behind him and he got startled. He turned quickly, thinking that his ears were tricking him and that he had misheard, but no...

Hiccup was there.

"He's fine ..." that was the first thing he thought as he watched the viking with astonishment. He decided that Pitch had lied, and he was soon frowning, "What are you doing here?"

Hiccup took a couple of steps into the room and closed the door, looking around for a moment and thinking that the place seemed smaller than he remembered.

"This is my room" the viking said simply.

"It's not anymore, and that doesn't answer my question!" the guardian said, angry at the casual attitude of the chestnut, "what part of 'I don't want to see you again' didn't you understand?"

Hiccup looked at him with a face full of irony.

"I'm not a very obedient person. I thought that was already established."

"I'm serious! Leave!"

But instead of leaving, Hiccup walked closer, changing his sarcastic face to a smooth one.

"Jack, I want to talk to you."

"There is nothing to talk about, just go" the white-haired boy snapped. Seriously, what else could they talk about? Everything was said, in his opinion. In addition, Hiccup should detest him after the way he treated him, he shouldn't be there trying to talk to him again, "in the meantime, I'll burn this place" he said showing the match box in his hand. Maybe that will show Hiccup that he was speaking seriously.

"You what?" Hiccup was surprised to hear it, and stared at him in disbelief.

"I'll burn it!" the guardian repeated, angry because apparently the chestnut didn't think he could do it.

"Aren't you being overly dramatic?"

"I don't care, I'll burn it anyway!"

Immediately, Jack lit a match and dropped it on the carpet in the room.

And...

The fire of the match was quickly extinguished.

"..."

"..."

Jack was silent for a moment as he watched the extinct match.

What had happened? And the fire?

Oh, right. He had to spray the place with some fuel first.

"What was supposed to happen after that?" the viking asked curiously, looking over Jack's shoulder at the match, and just after that, the guardian was aiming him with his staff menacingly, "Wow! Calm down!" he walked away a few steps and raised his hands in self-defense.

"I told you to get out" the white-haired boy ratified.

Hiccup frowned.

"And I told you that I wanted to talk to you" he replied firmly.

"And I told you that there is nothing to talk about!"

"And I told you...!"

"SHUT IT! Get out!" he stepped forward making Hiccup recede by reflex, but the viking step his movements soon despite Jack's menacing visage.

"Shoot, I have an armor covering my whole body and it won't let some ice bother me" the chestnut said, determined not to be intimidated.

Jack looked at him in boredom and aimed his staff directly to the area that was not covered in armor... right in the middle of his legs.

"WAIT!" the viking cried all startled and took a quick step back, "D-Don't do anything rash" he asked showing a frightened face.

Jack sighed with resignation and straightened, leaving the threatening position. On another occasion he would laugh out loud, but he didn't feel like laughing in that moment.

"Just leave, okay?" he asked looking aside with a dull face.

"Jack, please" Hiccup said, approaching a bit, "just listen to me one last time."

"..." Jack was silent for a moment, reconsidering his words ... he said 'one last time', right?, "And you promise to leave after that?"

Hiccup dropped his shoulders and looked down.

"If that's what you want, yes" he said resignedly, "I just want to talk to you, no staff and no kicks..." his sentence was going to stop there, but then he remembered another point, "and no punches..." then he thought again and concluded that something else was missing, "and no pinches… and no slaps..." he showed him a not amused face when he realized all the conditions he had to state, "you know? I just realized that you're the sweetest person in the world" he said sarcastically.

"I can also bite" Jack said smirking for a moment and walked to the wall to let his staff there, "well, speak quickly" he turned to face him.

"I wanted to..." Hiccup took some time to think where to start, "I wanted to apologize."

"It's not necessary, I have nothing to forgive you" Jack said quickly as he put his hands in his pockets.

"Do you remember our last conversation five years ago?" he definitely knew that he remembered, "I know that I hurt you with my words. For a moment I forgot that no one could understand me better than you."

Jack looked up from the ground, listening intently.

"And then, I hurt you when I left, making you feel guilty" Hiccup stepped towards him, then he stopped. It was the best to give him some space while talking to him, so he wouldn't react defensively, "forgive me."

"I already told you that I don't have to forgive you about anything, it was not your inten-"

"Please" Hiccup interrupted him, showing Jack a pleading face, "forgive me" he repeated.

"Okay, I forgive you" he accepted looking away, knowing that Hiccup would not go without forgiveness, "if that's all, you can go now."

But Hiccup was far from getting to the end of it.

"Do you know what was one of the reasons why I felt like I should go and leave the guardians?" asked the viking, making Jack glance at him curiously, "It was because I thought that my work as a member of the team was already done. That was my only achievement as guardian, in my opinion, at least."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean making you accept to be a guardian" the chestnut answered with a slight smile, "Making you accept the post of guardian and decide to live with us as one of the team, it was my first and greatest achievement."

Jack looked at him surprised as he felt his heart pounding. Stupid Hiccup! He was making things worse with his...! His...! Feelings and honesty!

"After I left, I used to travel from one place to another and I didn't set in any particular place" Hiccup said as he took one of the crafts that were on the shelf in his room and watched it idly, "but then I decided to stay and live in Arendelle, do you know why?"

Jack frowned.

"Because of Elsa?" he asked, rolling his eyes.

Hiccup smiled a little at the face Jack was making.

"Yes" he responded, enjoying the gesture that the guardian made narrowing his eyes, "when I met her, I felt a strange urge to protect her..."

"Hah" Jack snapped satirically and looked away, still frowning.

"Because she reminded me of you" Hiccup confessed.

Jack glanced at him again. His anger seemed to have disappeared suddenly.

"Elsa is a wonderful woman, she is beautiful, intelligent, fun, gentle, charming…" and Jack frowned again, making Hiccup smile again. He had not been wrong to think that Jack was the possessive type, "but you know? Despite all her virtues, I never managed to fall in love with her, and I wondered why. And now I know for sure the answer to that question" he slowly approached the guardian taking advantage that he had set his gaze on the floor again, as if trying to ignore what Hiccup was going to say, "I could never fall in love with her, because no matter the similarities..." he stood right in front of him, and Jack looked up, making their eyes connect intensely during that short pause, "she was not you."

"…" Jack took a deep breath and held the air in his lungs for a short moment. And then he managed to break the eye contact when a question came to his mind.

"Hiccup, answer me something" he asked, so Hiccup stared at him with double attention, waiting to hear his question, "Is it true that you ...?" he paused for a moment, since just saying it felt horrible, "... that you were going to die?"

"What?" the viking raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Jack looked into his eyes firmly, to give him no chance of lying. He really wanted to know the answer.

"Is it true that giving your life for me was part of my healing?" he repeated frowning, hinting Hiccup that he should tell the truth.

"Uhm... who... who told you that?" he asked nervously.

"Pitch."

"Uh..." Hiccup rolled his eyes. He must have guessed. Well, he had no way out, he should tell him "yes, indeed" he said with no enthusiasm.

Jack opened his eyes wide, then he looked down at the floor, clenching his fists. His shoulders were completely tense.

"But... but look at me, I didn't die" the chestnut said quickly, "just-"

Suddenly a fist flew right to his jaw, interrupting him.

"Could you express your emotions in another way?!" the viking asked angrily as he put a hand on his face trying to hold the throbbing pain in the area. But his anger faded soon when he saw Jack's moist eyes and his face filled with anguish.

"Why didn't you tell me?!" the guardian asked furiously.

Forgetting the pain in his face, Hiccup straightened and looked at him fixedly.

"It wouldn't have changed anything. You would just have felt guilty."

"Of course I would feel guilty! You were going to die because of me!"

"If I died it wouldn't be anyone else's fault. It was my decision" he said firmly, "and I'd do it again."

"No! Don't say it!" the white-haired boy ordered, "Don't you dare do that ever again!"

"I couldn't let you die, Jack" he confessed, using a soft tone, "the world needed you, and you still had much to offer. Moreover, I wouldn't stand it if you died".

"And you think that I would stand your death?!"

"You were not supposed to find out" the viking said looking away and running a hand through his hair nervously.

"You're so...! Argh!" Jack put his both hands on his face trying to calm down, "promises me that you won't do something like that ever again" he ordered him seriously.

"No." was Hiccup's decisive response.

"Promise me!"

"I can't."

Jack held his breath for a moment. Hiccup's feelings were sincere, he knew...

"I love you... I'm not lying."

But those feelings should cease to exist. How could he make him understand that?

He needed to be sincere as well.

"Hiccup..." he said using a so soft tone that the viking was a bit surprised and put his full attention to hear, "What I told you back then in the cottage... it was not true" he confessed, and then looked up at those green eyes that looked back at him expectantly, "I love you too" he saw how Hiccup got stunned, then Jack looked down at the ground again to keep talking, "but that doesn't matter, you know it, right? We can't be..." he looked at the viking again, and when he saw the expression he was making, he frowned, "why the hell are you smiling like an idiot?"

Still smiling excitedly, Hiccup replied.

"You just said that you love me."

He knew Jack loved him, but hearing those words from Jack's own mouth filled him with happiness and and an indescribable excitement.

Jack pouted a little and frowned. He was making him feel embarrassed and hadn't even understood his point!

"And I also said that it doesn't matter" the white-haired boy repeated.

"It's all that matters to me" the viking said, approaching him slowly. Jack started to draw back by reflex.

"Well, no matter what matters to you! Don't you understand what I'm saying?! And get serious already!" he demanded, still taking steps backwards, "I hate to be the serious one here! I hate having to follow rules! But I do it for you! You must forget about me!"

He couldn't go backwards anymore when his back bumped into the wall. He was cornered.

"Jack, no matter how much you walk away from me..." he approached him as much as possible without touching him, "I won't stop loving you" he said softly.

Jack shook his head. Hiccup was ignoring the problem.

"You're so stupid. What you plan to do, eh?" he looked at him challengingly, "Wasting your life asking for immortality? Wasting valuable time? Wasting your happiness?"

Without another word, Hiccup began to lean on in, bringing his face to his.

"Hiccup, don't do this..." Jack whispered with his last remnants of will as he put a hand on Hiccup's chest, preventing him to come closer, "listen, I'm a guardian, I got an established fate, but you are free, you can do, accomplish and have whatever you want, you can…" he looked away remembering the scene he saw in the last nightmare, "you can have a family, you can have a home, you can-"

"Yes, I can… but my heart must be torn off first" the viking interrupted putting his forehead against Jack's, and the guardian couldn't help squinting while his heart was beating fast, "You are the only one I want. I have given my heart to you, Jack, forever…" With his right hand he held Jack's left hand that was trying to get him away, and laced their fingers, "you just need to... accept it..."

He moved closer, tilting his head. Their breaths mingled while their eyes connected intently…

And then Hiccup closed the distance.

Jack closed his eyes as warm lips touched his. His body shuddered for a second at the contact. The touch was so soft, so intimate, so pure.

His hand interlaced with Hiccup's closed, completing the union. Hiccup was transmitting his love through that kiss, and he transmitted it back.

The slight touch of their lips stopped after a moment. They both opened their eyes a little, meeting with the other in an intense look.

And they kissed again, this time more desperately.

Hiccup held his back and waist tightly, and Jack hugged his neck, approaching each other as much as possible, as if trying to merge as one.

Jack forgot it all; he didn't care about anything else, at least, in that little moment he was having with the person he loved.

They broke apart again, breathing hardly.

The white-haired boy released him and tried to pull away, but Hiccup held him firmly, preventing him away.

"I'm immortal now" the viking said smiling.

Jack raised an eyebrow.

"What?"

"I'm immortal."

Jack rolled his eyes.

"You're immortal by kissing me? What do you think? That this is like the story of the frog prince?"

"Hahaha! No" the chestnut denied, amused at that commentary. He loosed a bit the grip he had on the guardian to start explaining, "Jack, I know that being close to me without being able to be together hurts you, so I would not have come if I had not got the immortality. The last thing I want is to hurt you. And yes, I was willing to spend the rest of my life asking for immortality."

"So..." Jack frowned in confusion, "You got immortality? All of the sudden?"

"If you don't believe me, I'll show you" the viking stepped back to do what he said.

"What?" Show him? How was he supposed to show him? The answer came when the chestnut pulled a knife from the cover of his arm and then put it over the palm of his hand with the clear intention of cutting, "No, wait...!" but Hiccup ignored him, and cut. Jack stared surprised at the wound on his hand… it was not bleeding.

One feature of immortal people was that they could not bleed because coagulation was immediate.

Unfortunately, that didn't remove the fact that it hurts.

"S-see?" Hiccup pursed his lips holding back the urge to blow the wound to soothe a little the ardor he felt. He cleared his throat trying to ignore the pain, "now you believe me?"

"You're immortal ..." the white-haired boy whispered, holding Hiccup's hand to inspect the wound, making sure that he was seeing correctly, "You're immortal again!" he exclaimed looking into his eyes, waiting for an explanation... and shaking his hand.

"Ow, ow!" the viking grimaced in pain.

"How?!"

"Well..."

/ * / Flashback / * /

"I don't care."

North raised his eyebrows with surprise, as if he wasn't expecting that kind of answer.

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that I'm not giving up" the viking said determinedly.

"Didn't you hear what I said? No matter how hard you try, the Man in the Moon will not give you immortality" North repeated, showing a serious expression.

"Then I will die trying. But I won't stop asking for my immortality."

"It won't make Jack happy to know that you're sacrificing yourself this way" the white-haired man argued. Perhaps with that Hiccup could come to his senses.

"He doesn't have to know" the viking said taking his helmet from the table, "when I get my immortality, I'll go to him. But in the meantime, I'll stay away from him, so I won't hurt him anymore."

"Hiccup, you are sacrificing your entire life for something you'll never attain" North reminded him with concern.

"Yes, I'm aware of that, and I said that I don't care."

He was very stubborn.

"You should listen to Rapunzel" North continued to insist, "it is the best to make your life and forget about Jack. What about Elsa? You two are very close friends, and she looks a lot like Jack... she even has ice powers!"

Hiccup frowned at that.

"I'm not in love with Elsa."

"What about Astrid? She has blue eyes too, and she has an ax ... imagine that it's a staff."

Hiccup looked at North incredulously. Was he trying to convince him to run after another girl that easily? And because of such stupid reasons?

"No" he replied flatly.

"What about Anna?" Hiccup glanced side to side looking for a logical explanation to North's questions, it made no sense at all, "She's a very fun girl. Kristoff will suffer, but he will get over it someday."

"What?" Hiccup squinted in confusion.

What the hell?

"Or maybe you want another boy? Kristoff is a good guy, he likes ice."

"..." Hiccup gaped at him, speechless. Ok, that was getting ridiculous.

"Or, what about Eugene? He has a nice white smile..."

"I said no! No one can replace Jack! I'd prefer to die!" he exclaimed "I'd be lying to myself if I even try to love someone else, I'd be letting go of my own being. Do you want me to be happy? Then stop asking me to give up on the only person my heart longs for."

"..." North got serious all of the sudden and approached Hiccup intimidatingly to look at him intently, "So... is that your last word?"

The chestnut held his gaze firmly.

"Yes."

"..."

"..."

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" North straightened laughing like crazy.

"He finally lost it" Pitch said as he and the others in the room looked at North as if he had grown another head.

"That's what I wanted to hear!" the white-haired man cried with a big smile.

"What?" Hiccup grimaced in confusion.

"You are willing to spend the rest of your life looking for immortality, because of Jack and because all the people, renouncing anything that could apparently make you happy. But you know and distinguish between true happiness and superficiality. You have matured; Now you really know what it means to be a guardian, you know what is teamwork, you know what is the highest sacrifice" he assured putting a hand on Hiccup's shoulder, "that means that you've won..." he paused dramatically, "… immortality."

"What?" he repeated.

"And you will be a guardian again!" North said happily.

"Bu-But ..." Hiccup blinked rapidly, feeling very confused, "you just said I would never get immortality back!"

"He lied" Bunny said smirking calmly.

"Yes!" North confirmed grinning, "I just wanted to test you."

"Lying is naughty" Pitch reminded him amusedly.

"I did it for a good cause!" the white-haired man excused.

"So..." Hiccup was just digesting the news, "So, I can get my immortality?"

"You'll recover your immortality" said North, "now."

"Now?"

"Now."

"Right now?"

"Right now!"

"How?!" the viking asked excitedly.

"The last chapter of the Book of the Guardians says about the return of a guardian. You didn't read that part, did you?"

"Uhm ..." Hiccup scratched the back of his neck, a little ashamed, "I never got to the last chapter."

"Well, it says that if you have a pure heart, and your internal and external skills defined, you have the qualities to be a guardian again" North informed.

"Do you really think I'm ready?" Hiccup asked. North was about to answer, but Pitch took the word.

"Are you kidding? You deserve to be guardian more than any of these losers!" he said pointing to the councilors, "no offense."

North ignored him and turned to Hiccup again to ask him an important question.

"Have you set your internal and external talent?"

"I know my external talent is… dragons" Hiccup said thoughtfully, "but my internal talent ... I don't know" he looked up, not knowing what to say.

"Think. How do you change people's hearts?" North asked him, "Jack is Fun, Merida is Union, Rapunzel is Dream. What about you?"

"Difference."

Everyone turned to look at Pitch after he said that.

"You demonstrate to people that being different is not bad, that being different is special, and we all can change things for the better" the raven said.

"..." they all stared at him with astonishment.

"That was very cute, Pitch" North said, smiling and putting a hand on Pitch's back.

"I didn't ask your cheesy opinion, you fatso!" Pitch stepped aside with a disgusted expression.

"Thanks" Hiccup thanked.

"Yes, whatever, whatever. I will not say anything like that again!"

"Well, now that your talents are defined, there's only one thing left to do. It is the process of restitution" North said returning to the subject, "since you gave up your immortality willfully, it was eliminated; therefore, to be immortal again, another person must grant you their immortality."

"What do you mean?"

"It must be done on the Moon Mountain" he carefully explained, "The process consists of you taking the hand of an immortal person, and under the will of both, the immortality of that person will be transmitted to you while your mortality will be transmitted to the other person."

"But, who would give up the immortality?" Bunny wondered.

"I know who" Merida said, and walked closer to Rapunzel putting her hand on her shoulder.

"Merida?" the confused blonde asked.

"Punzie, you did a wonderful job as guardian, you got many people in this world to pursue their true dreams and be happy..." the redhead said smiling gently at her friend, "It's time that you reach yours."

"Thank you, friend!" Rapunzel hugged her partner. Finally, she would have the opportunity she wanted, and her friends supported her.

"And also, we need one of the guardians to shoot Hiccup right in the heart" North added.

"Excuse me?!" Merida asked undoing the embrace with Rapunzel.

"A guardian should shoot you in the heart to prove it is strong and pure" the white-haired man said to Hiccup. The viking nodded.

"You mean metaphorically or physically?" Merida asked, breaking into the conversation.

"Physically" North responded.

"Worth a try" Hiccup said looking at Merida intently, hinting his silent request, "do you have your bow and arrow with you?"

"Are you crazy?! I will NOT throw you an arrow in the heart! You'll die!" the redhead exclaimed upset, "Why does everything have to wrap your possible death?! I don't want to kill you, thank you very much!"

"Actually, it would be a suicide, because I'm asking you."

"That doesn't make me feel better!"

"You continue, I have something to do. You know, my work" Pitch said interrupting as he walked to the door, "Toothiana, I need a couple of memories, if it's not too much trouble," he asked the fairy. Sometimes, he used the memories to make nightmares, because many of the people had already experienced situations that caused them fear. And this time, he wanted to do something special...

He was going to give nightmares to Jack as punishment. The bastard almost killed Hiccup!

Of course no one knew that was what he was about to do.

"You know where you can get it" Toothiana said.

"Thanks" he said smirking before leaving.

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At the top of the Moon Mountain, the same place where Hiccup had renounced his immortality, they all were to begin with the restitution.

Following the protocol, Hiccup and Rapunzel were there holding hands while North was making the appropriate questions.

"Rapunzel, do you accept to grant your immortality to Hiccup and give up your position as guardian, handing the responsibility that your power brings?"

With that, he meant she would resign her healing power. She would no longer have magical hair.

"I do." Rapunzel answered.

"And you, Hiccup, do you accept Rapunzel's immortality and accept the responsibility that comes with being a guardian?"

"I do."

"Then, by the power vested in me, I-"

"I OBJECT!" someone yelled, interrupting the process.

Everyone turned toward the voice and saw Eugene approaching, riding on Maximus fast. The boy got off the horse and ran to Rapunzel.

"Rapunzel, don't marry him! I… I… I love you!" he confessed desperately. He didn't expect to confess his feelings in such a situation, but he had no other way.

"Eugene!" the surprised blonde exclaimed.

"If you're going to marry a mortal, then marry me!" Eugene asked.

"They're not marrying, you silly" Merida said rolling her eyes.

"..." hearing that, Eugene looked at all the people there present, and felt shame to see that they were staring at him as if he were a weirdo, "you are not getting married?"

"No" Hiccup confirmed, not amused at all.

"But… the tall man with black hair told me you two were getting married" Eugene said, obviously referring to Pitch.

"This is a procedure whereby she will give me her immortality" Hiccup said impatiently.

Eugene looked at Rapunzel, then he looked at Hiccup, then he looked at Rapunzel, then he looked at Hiccup.

"Oh ..." said Eugene, and then cleared his throat, "this is embarrassing ..."

Maximus looked at him with a face like "I told you, you idiot."

"Wait," when the shame went away, Eugene seemed to realize something, "Does that mean she will be mortal now?" he asked.

"Yes," Rapunzel replied shrugging and showing a little smile.

"I ... I don't know what to say" Eugene said softly, denoting his internal emotions and getting all sentimental suddenly, "I think this is one of the happiest days of my li-"

"Could you get out of the way so that we can continue?" the viking asked interrupting his cosmic moment. He had no time for that.

Meanwhile, Rapunzel giggled.

"Ok, ok! Sorry" Eugene stepped away.

"Thanks" Hiccup said. He took Rapunzel's hand again and turned to North to continue.

"Is it necessary to hold hands?" Eugene asked, interrupting ... again.

Hiccup grunted.

"I'm in love with Jack, just so you know" he told him so that he would stop bothering and thinking that he wanted to steal his girl.

Eugene blinked quickly, surprised at the sudden information.

"... Jack?"

"Yes."

"Is that a code between guardians?" Eugene asked, that was the only explanation he found, "I mean, it's a way of saying you love him a lot as a friend, right?"

"No" Hiccup said seriously.

"But ... Jack is a guy, right?"

"Yes, he is."

"So... ... you and him… kiss and stuff?" He asked, his eyes wide with curiosity.

"... Yes" the viking snapped.

"But ... Jack is a guy ... UF!" Maximus hit him in the stomach to make him shut up.

"Thanks" Hiccup thanked the horse.

While Eugene was on the floor writhing in pain, North cleared his throat.

"Let's continue" he said opening the Book of the Guardians again, "having both of you accepted the conditions, the Man in the Moon will give his approval through the ultimate test" he turned to look at the redhead guardian, "Ready, Merida?"

"I'm ready" she said with her bow and arrow in hand.

"Keep your hands together. When the arrow goes through your chest, if the Man in the Moon approves your heart, you will receive immortality, and Toothless, too" North explained Hiccup. Toothless would also be immortal, since he was the most important part of Hiccup's talent, "but if the Man in the Moon does not approve, you'll die."

"Wait" Eugene had gotten up from the floor and interrupted raising his hand to ask a question, "this is not going to hurt Rapunzel, is it? UF!" Maximus hit him again.

"Are you ready?" North asked the viking.

Hiccup shook his shoulders, preparing himself.

"Yes, I'm ready" he said.

"Merida" North spoke to the redhead to take her place.

"Yes!"

"Everyone, get away!" North said, and got prepared to give the signal to Merida, "Three, two... ONE!"

Merida shot her arrow straight to Hiccup's heart.

Hiccup closed his eyes when the arrow hit his body.

A bright light suddenly flooded the place and all who were around had to cover their eyes for a moment. When they turned to look at Hiccup and Rapunzel, their auras were visible, fluttering around them.

Each person had an aura that represented their being. Rapunzel had purple waves and yellow flowers swirling around her. Her long hair rose in the wind and began to glow.

Hiccup, however, with his aura visible, seemed to be in flames. Fire was undoubtedly his element in every way.

The arrow in Hiccup's chest became a light that entered his body.

Suddenly Rapunzel's hair was cut, and dyed golden threads started to get brown, while the brightness of the healing power floated into a crystal ball they had previously prepared.

After a moment, the light show ended.

Rapunzel was no longer immortal.

Hiccup was no longer mortal.

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/ * / End of Flashback / * /

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"The Man in the Moon returned my immortality because I managed to mature" Hiccup said.

"Mature?" Jack narrowed his eyes and smirked, "Reeeally?"

"I'm serious, ask North" Hiccup said, "I learned that being a guardian is not about others recognize me or know my name, it is about to protect them. I learned that teamwork is very important and my teammates are my biggest support. I learned that the value of someone is not by the time they fight against an evil, but by the size of the sacrifice they're willing to do for the good of others" he looked at Jack straight in the eye, "and most importantly, I learned that true love is immortal."

Jack giggled and looked down.

"You also learned to be cheesy?"

"How cruel you are!" the viking complained with a smile on his face.

Jack gently stretched his ear as a sign of rebuke.

"You could have saved a lot of drama if you had said from the beginning that you already got your immortality, you dumbass!"

Hiccup chuckled. Jack was right, but...

"I wanted you to know that, immortal or not, I love you and I can't be happy with anyone else."

Jack lowered his gaze, smiling. That silly viking was so... honest with his feelings. He made him feel ashamed.

The white-haired boy looked up, showing a smirk.

"Really?" he asked, as if he did not believe him.

"Really." the chestnut said.

"Really?"

"Really!"

Suddenly, Jack grabbed Hiccup by his cheeks and slammed him against his mouth. That kiss was more like a blow, and it didn't even last half a second.

"We have to celebrate your return! We'll have a big party!" Hiccup had been paralyzed and shocked by the sudden kiss, but he reacted when Jack walked past him with the intention of heading to the door, "I'll tell Phil to prepare all the-"

"Hey, wait, wait! Where are you going?" he grabbed Jack's arm and made him turn pulling the guardian toward him. He held him in his arms so that he will not escape, "This is supposed to be a very romantic and touching moment, and you just go thinking of parties? You should be hugging me, crying of happiness and kissing me tenderly" he feigned annoyance.

"Hahahaha!" Jack laughed as if he had never heard anything so funny in his life, "not even in your more crazy dreams, big head!" he said mockingly as he pressed his nose.

Hiccup laughed too. Obviously he didn't expect a different reaction from Jack.

"You love to make me beg, don't you?"

"Yes, I do" Jack replied with pride.

Hiccup smiled maliciously.

"I will make you pay for being so mean!"

"What?" he asked, just before that Hiccup bent a little and strongly gripped his waist to lift him, "What are you doing?! Put me down!" the white-haired boy demanded, but he had no time to give him a kick, because by the time he reacted, Hiccup had brought him to the bed that was in the room and laid him there. Jack looked surprised when the viking scrambled to position himself on top of him, "wait, what will you do? no ... No! hahahahaa Hiccup! haha stop!" he began to squirm when the chestnut began to tickle.

"Say you love me and I'll stop."

"Hahahaha but ...! Hahaha but I said it!"

"But I want to hear it again."

"Hahahaah No! Hahahaha"

"Say it, say it!"

"Hahahaha Okay! I love you! Hahahaha"

Hiccup stopped tickling and Jack could finally breathe.

He looked at the viking, who had a victorious smile. Ha! He was about to give him some cruel kicks, but he thought the poor chestnut had already suffered too much physical pain that day, it was just pity.

Still breathing hard, the white-haired boy stuck his tongue out playfully, making the other chuckle.

The chestnut got closer, being careful not to crush him, to kiss him on the lips. Jack received him gladly.

"I thought I would have the chance to say 'get a room', but apparently you already did so."

They both pulled away and got up when they heard Merida's voice.

Everyone was there, at the door... watching...

When the hell did they open the door?

"Don't you think it's too early to do that sort of things?" North asked.

"W-We were not doing anything!" Hiccup explained all flushed and embarrassed, "We were just, just..."

They already knew. They had heard the laughter caused by the tickling from behind the door... but still, kissing on the bed could lead to something else.

"Some privacy would be nice" Jack grumbled as he walked to his staff.

"Does that mean you two are together now?" Toothiana asked flying around with excitement.

"Yes" Hiccup said.

"No" Jack replied.

"Huh?" Hiccup looked confused.

"You thought that you'd get it easy just because you're immortal again?" the white-haired boy asked smirking, then he walked towards the rest of the people, leaving Hiccup standing there, gaping.

"B-but ... but, but...!"

"Rapunzel! What did you do to your hair? It looks great" Jack said, speaking with Rapunzel, and ignoring Hiccup.

"Thanks!" said Rapunzel, who was now chestnut and had short hair.

"I understand what you're going through, bro" Eugene said, putting his hand on Hiccup's shoulder. Hiccup glanced at him, "But you know? I know a strategy to make him give in. All you need is..." he made a dramatic pause, as if he were about to say the biggest secret in the world, "years and years of asking, and asking, and asking. And then, he'll finally say yes."

"Uh... thanks?"

"You're welcome... ugh!" suddenly, someone stretched Eugene's neck with a staff and got him away from Hiccup, interrupting the intelligent conversation.

"Rapunzel, I think this is yours" Jack said pushing Eugene to Rapunzel and stood beside Hiccup, who was looking at the wound on his hand, "you didn't have to do that, big head" he said to the viking, "explaining was enough."

"It's not easy to convince you of something without deeds and words."

"Does it hurt?"

"Of course not-OW!" he winced when Jack touched his wound.

"Were you saying?" the white-haired boy asked smirking.

"Obviously it hurts if you put your finger there!" he complained.

"Take this" Rapunzel said, handing him a crystal ball, which contained her old healing power. Hiccup's wound was healed when he touched the ball, "A part of me will always stay with you."

"Don't talk as if you were about to leave forever" Merida said giving a tap to her friend, "you can visit us whenever you want and I will go to visit you."

"Thanks, Merida."

"And where is Toothless?" Jack asked just before the dragon poked its head through the door, "Hello, buddy!" He greetedToothless and the dragon came running to receive a pat on the head. Then Toothless began to sniff and look around the room curiously. The room smelled like his owner, but he had never been there, "he is immortal too?"

"Yes" Hiccup said, and he couldn't be happier. He was guardian again, he had Jack, he had Toothless, and they all were fine, "Well, since we're together..."

"I told you we're not" said the white-haired showing a smirk.

"... Now we must dance and sing a song" Hiccup said taking the staff of Jack's hand to put it aside so it won't get in the way.

"Excuse me?" Jack questioned chuckling. He was kidding, right?

"It's a fashion. Everyone does, even my parents" the viking said showing a smile and taking Jack's hand, "I'll start, if you want" he cleared his throat and began to sing, "your heart and my heart are one onlyyy~" he made Jack do a spin, which he succeeded only because the white-haired boy was stunned, "now you go."

"You are nuts!" Jack got released and left the room walking at a fast pace. Obviously, Hiccup followed him.

"Oh, come on! You want to sing and you know it!" Hiccup laughed while chasing him down the hall of the rooms; the others were all entertained watching the scene, "you make me run after you, but it doesn't matte~r"

"That doesn't even rhyme!" Jack scoffed. Hiccup grabbed his arm and pulled him closer, managing to catch his waist as he had done before.

Hiccup made them take a few spins as he continued singing.

"My love shines like the sun to give you waaaarmth~"

"Stop singing!" he pushed his face making the viking release him. Everyone was looking, for heaven's sake! "You're making me hesitate about this relationship!" he started to run down the hall again.

Hiccup ran after him with an amused smile.

"I would die for youuu~AHG!" Hiccup fell face down when Toothless tripped him with his tail, "Toothless!" the viking complained when he saw the dragon run alongside Jack, both of them laughing at him "Betrayal!"

"Run, Toothless!" Toothless and Jack ran down the stairs towards the main hall.

"You two!" Hiccup got up, "Come back here!"

Jack had forgotten his staff in Hiccup's room, so all he could do was run.

They three began to run around the room, still laughing (Toothless and Jack running away from Hiccup), and it seemed like he would not catch anyone, until he finally...

"Gotcha!" he caught Jack from behind. Jack laughed, and turned to try to push him away and run again.

"Stop holding me!"

"I'm not holding you, I'm hugging you" the viking embraced him tightly, and smiled happily when he felt Jack wrapping his arms around his neck.

Jack chuckled and shrugged when he felt Hiccup's nose rubbing against the sensitive skin of his neck, it was ticklish. The chestnut let out a warble when he noticed that; now he had a new curiosity… where were Jack's sensitive spots? He will definitively find out.

After a moment, Hiccup looked at Jack deep into his blue eyes. The white-haired boy looked back and smiled as the viking gave him a kiss on the forehead.

"What? What's going on? I want to see" Eugene said as Rapunzel covered his eyes with her hands.

"Trust me, you don't" Bunny said idly.

"You like to see them all lovey-dovey and you know it" North said grinning. Bunny rolled his eyes.

Meanwhile the girls were all overjoyed.

Hiccup and Jack stared at each other again, and before sharing a soft kiss on the lips, both of them thought the same thing...

This is happiness.

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Reality separated two entities. One of them shone in the day; the other one shone in the night.

He removed the clouds. She stirred the waves.

Sunrise and Sunset were those little moments, when they could feel closer.

She loved him. He loved her.

And reality tried to extinguish the love they felt.

Then, the impossible happened.

And that infinite moment was called Solar Eclipse

They knew then, their feeling couldn't get extinguished.

Reality could not separate them anymore.

They knew then, the immortality of love.

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THE END

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