Chapter 4: Gone?

Hiccup couldn't help but stare at the structure in awe. He hadn't seen anything like it where he had come from. "By the way!" Hiccup shouted, getting Jack's attention "To answer your question you had earlier...I come from a place where it's twelve days North of hopeless, and a few degrees South of freezing to death, of course I knew who you were and I could see you. You're everywhere around Berk...or rather...you were...I think?"

"North of hopeless, and a few degrees South of freezing...never heard of those places. You sure you've got the right guy?"

Hiccup shook his head "N-no, it's an exaggeration." Hiccup was met with blue eyes that didn't seem to have any idea what he meant. "Just forget it. Let's just go in and get this over with, okay?" Jack chuckled and shrugged at the response "If you say so, kiddo"

Rather than opening the doors as Hiccup had thought, his eyes shifted to Jack who flew over to an open window above. He sat on the open windowsill looking down at the two "You guys are coming, right?"

"Well I don't know if you've noticed but I can't fly like you and Toothless can't fit through that thing. It's too small for him." He called out, shaping his hands around his mouth as a makeshift microphone that for some reason worked surprisingly well.

Jack scratched his head and peaked inside the open window. He squinted in an attempt to get a better view. "By the looks of it, nobody's home...odd"

The dragon rider waved his hands getting the spirit's attention "Hey! What's going on up there? It's getting kind of cold down here" Hiccup couldn't hold back anymore. His teeth chattered and he clutched his arms for warmth. "Looks like that Berk place isn't the coldest out there." He said with a smile as he flew down towards them. "J-just get us inside...please" Hiccup pleaded as he started to shiver. Jack's frowned; he's forgotten that humans could die if the temperature got too low. He never really saw the negative effects that winter brought to humans. Hiccup huddled close to Toothless who coiled around the boy.

The doors flung open. A large man with a bright smile on his face turned to a frown as he saw the unfamiliar guests with Jack. He looked expectantly at Jack, waiting for an answer. "I'll tell you after. Right now, they're freezing!"

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Still shivering yet not as hard as before. Hiccup, still huddled beside Toothless as the four of them walked through the large hallway. He was amazed at the things he saw. With a pencil in hand he took his small book from his satchel and started sketching quickly with shaky hands. "I see the moon has given you a new friend, Jack." North said with a smile motioning over to Hiccup. The spirit looked over to the boy who was too busily drawing his surroundings to notice the two talking. It seemed to have perked the interest of his winged familiar who gave what Jack guessed was a smile. "Now I see why his name is Toothless" He told mumbled to himself. "Anyway, what about the moon?"

"I'll explain after dinner. Your friends look hungry too." The bearded man said as he looked over to the two behind them.

"Aren't you surprised by the fact that there's a DRAGON just a few feet away from you?" Jack waved his arms in the air, emphasizing the word dragon.

He shrugged "I can't say I've been telling you the full truth about things. The man on the moon may have chosen you to be a guardian as well but there are still a lot of things we haven't told you about this world. But as times right now are getting...more difficult for us I'm forced to tell you and your friend much earlier than planned." Jack raised an eyebrow at North's words. "The two of us? What's Hiccup have to do with anything?" North didn't respond and kept walking forward as they finally reached the foyer.

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The Viking to be stared intently at the large globe. Millions of bright little lights adorned the gigantic sphere that caught the human boy's eyes. "The technology here is amazing." He chuckled a bit when he saw Toothless almost mesmerized by the globe's ironically unearthly glow.

"I'd never thought I'd ever hear a Viking say those words" Jack chuckled

"Well where I come from it's kind of just kill stuff, get really built, and have kids so I'm kind of the oddball of the town..." He said rolling his eyes

The snow spirit glanced at the globe and back at Hiccup. "Oh, A man of science? Those are popular nowadays" he pointed to the globe as a few more lights on it went out while new ones ignited. "What do those lights have to do with anything?" Hiccup questioned as he held his hand out towards the lights over the continent known today as Australia. His hand barely even covered a fraction of the globe. It was even bigger than the Vikings he had seen in Berk.

"Now now Jack, people like Hiccup aren't to blame for the lights." Both turned to see North in the entrance way. "We guardians become what we are because of humans. Humans created stories out of us, goals, roles, books, and legends about our creation. The guardians are solely based on human belief."

"So that means that you guardians that you talked about earlier are kind of dependent on humans like me because without them you lose yourselves?" Hiccup added

North nodded with a smile. "This brings me to another point. I'm afraid you, Hiccup aren't going back home."

Hiccup's heart sank "What?"

"It makes sense now actually..." Jack added. "You must be a guardian too. You were chosen just like...me" Jack reached out a hand toward him.

Hiccup shook his head "You're joking right? I'm pretty sure I don't belong here. And if you guys won't take me back home then I will." Hiccup lunged towards the desks around the globe, mashing buttons right and left. North shook his head at the boy's futile attempt.

"Hey hey hey hey! Stop that!" Jack ran up to him shaking him frantically. Hiccup shoved him away. He smiled with wide eyes and a large spiral shaped portal formed in front of him, growing in mass. North gasped in disbelief. That shouldn't have been possible to create a portal through those methods. Hiccup threw Jack off the balcony and leaped through the spiral, signaling Toothless to follow. "GET BACK HERE!" Jack shouted as he flew back up towards the globe. The portal was collapsing inside itself at a rapid pace. "I'll come back with him, North" he shouted as he flew through the spiral before it was completely out of sight.

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Well that's the end of chapter 4! Sorry if the grammar was kind of bad. It was kind of rushed because I haven't updated it in a while. Review on what you think!