Alright, big changes. I've decided to start writing in third person, hopefully something that will help this story less awkward to read and more enjoyable to write. I've decided I've had enough of first person, and it was time to evolve to a higher level of authordom. Well, here it goes. Hopefully this will be a lot better! Enjoy!

Rapunzel POV

She sat in her chair beside Jack and across from Merida. Rapunzel already knew that boredom was starting to wear down on Jack, because he began to draw things using frost on the table. She almost told him to stop, knowing that the cold was bad for the table, but refrained form doing so, knowing he would resort to teasing Merida if he had nothing else to do. That was a headache she didn't feel like having.

"So, to sum it up," Hiccup spoke aloud. "I caused an explosion, and then the explosion caused hidden genetics inside each of us to jump start, which gave us magic powers, and therefore caused all known existing laws of the universe to break apart into a thousand nonsensical pieces and scatter along the metaphorical floor of my sanity." He drew a hand across his face.

"To sum it up, yes." Gobber drawled, able to match the boy's sarcasm equally.

"Are we done yet?" Jack asked impatiently.

"Not quite." Gobber said. "Hiccup, there's something else you ought to know."

Rapunzel tensed up. She could sense where this conversation was going, and apparently so did Merida, as she cast a sympathetic look towards Hiccup, the first one he had received from her since he arrived.

"It's about your dad." Gobber said.

Rapunzel looked away; her suspicions were true.

"Don't tell me he has powers too." Hiccup asked, eyes wide with actual fright.

"No, no. Thank Odin, but.." Gobber said quietly, sorrow filling his eyes. "He thinks... we told him you died in the explosion."

"Oh."

"Hiccup?" Rapunzel asked. He didn't move.

"Listen, laddie, I know it's hard, but-" Merida began.

"He thinks I'm dead?" Hiccup asked, his voice cracking.

Gobber nodded.

"He lost her." Hiccup said, sorrow lacing his voice. "Now me."

"Aye." Gobber nodded.

Lost her? Who was 'her'?

The two seemed to be lost in their own solemn thoughts, until Gobber disrupted the silence. He stood and blinked once, hard. Then he turned to us.

"Show Hiccup the gym. Start him off easy. I'll be back."

And with that, he left them alone with the green-eyed teen still lost in thought. The three of them looked to each other nervously. By Jack and Merida's expressions, Rapunzel knew that they expected her to handle this. Before she could even begin consoling Hiccup, he stood and brushed himself off.

"So, uh, the gym." He spoke tentatively, eyes searching their group.

Rapunzel looked a little harder at this tall, lanky boy standing in front of her. He still looked sad, but was putting on a brave front. In only seconds he had managed to create a wall, allowing no one to see the sadness they had only just witnessed.

"Right." Jack cut in, looking very uncomfortable. "The gym."

He nodded as they left the room together, with Hiccup hanging back slightly. Rapunzel could see Merida drop back to join Hiccup, and grew nervous.

Though Merida was a good person, and would never purposefully mean to hurt anyone, she tended to say whatever first came to mind, which could often be taken as harsh and uncaring. To her surprise, however, when Rapunzel looked back she saw Merida smiling, obviously trying to cheer up the boy who's earth had just been shattered.

When they finally reached the gym, Jack pulled open the polished steel doors dramatically to reveal a welcoming sight.

"Welcome to the gym." Jack announced, striding in first, his steps bouncy and self-assured.

He stepped aside to reveal the gigantic room that took up half of the underground section. The bright lights hung overhead, illuminating the space with a warm glow. There were broken targets strewn across the floor and melted metal disks leftover from Merida's training earlier this morning. Rapunzel cringed at how messy it must have looked, but no one else seemed to mind.

Rapunzel observed Hiccup as he looked around curiously, poking one of the charred wooden targets with the toe of his shoe.

"Sorry. Forgot to clean up this morning." Merida said, almost sounding sincere.

"You did this?" Hiccup asked, bending down to closer observe a melted metal disc.

"Yeah. I'm working on my aim with higher temperatures." She said.

It seemed that Merida didn't hate Hiccup as much as everyone had expected her to. Rapunzel had figured that there may be some spite with her, but it looked like the calming and kind demeanor of the boy before her had worn down her normally persistent prejudice.

"How?" Hiccup asked.

Rapunzel began to notice a familiar spark in his forest green eyes, one that she normally only saw on Gobber when he began talking about machines. Rapunzel saw Jack cast her a knowing look, as they both knew where this was heading. It happened every time a new report popped up on Gobber's computer screen.

"Well, I know that the hotter the fire, the higher it tends to go, so I've been trying to aim low." Merida explained, crossing her arms over her turquoise shirt.

Hiccup was silent for a second. "Can you control the heat of the fire from a distance?"

"Yes." Merida said, sounding a bit miffed by his assumption that she couldn't do something.

"Then aim as you normally would, but only increase the heat when it reaches impact. That way the heat already coming from the explosion will intensify and melt it much faster, without impairing your aim. The corona of a blast is ten times hotter than the heat of the fire itself, so intensifying it will only increase it's damage upon impact."

All three of us stared at him.

"What?" He asked, starting to look uncomfortable.

"That sounded like something an excited Gobber would say when he gets all science-y." Jack noted casually.

"That's a pretty advanced examination of thermodynamics." I heard Merida say. "How old are you?"

"Uh, 17. Why?" He asked, looking a little suspicious.

"You actually listened in school?" Jack asked, sounding mildly impressed someone other than Rapunzel could ever care enough to listen closely to school lectures.

Hiccup scratched the back of his head. "Well, not in high school."

"University?" Rapunzel asked, awed. She had never thought she'd ever get to go to university, not with her mother breathing down her neck and her lack of real-world expertise.

"Well, no. I was going to accept a scholarship. One of them, sometime, long ago, I guess." He explained, as though that mattered. "I'm taking courses online."

"You're a bloody genius." Merida said, sounding slightly impressed.

"Uh, no. Not a genius. I've just got a lot of free time." He stood and looked around the room, his expression soon turning into one of disbelief. "So, uh, Gobber said something about... you know, finding powers and all that."

Rapunzel nodded numbly. She had been home schooled her whole life, her mother always telling her she was a bright student despite Rapunzel's yearning to go to school to study with people her own age. Not to mention Hiccup seemed rather young to be taking university level classes, online nonetheless. Perhaps he was a genius, or maybe he really did just have a lot of free time.

Jack leaned over and whispered something in her ear.

"We should check for flight, first." He murmured with a mischievous grin.

Rapunzel frowned at him as Merida continued to gesture around the gym, introducing the spacious area to the newbie. Checking for flight meant pushing someone out of a window without telling them there was someone at the bottom to catch them. If they could fly, they saved themselves before they landed. If not, well, that was what the other person was for.

"That's a little harsh." Rapunzel admitted. She didn't want to terrify Hiccup on his first day here.

Jack grinned anyways and walked over to Hiccup, placing a hand on his shoulder, almost the same height as his own. Too late, she realized, he was going to do it.

"Come on, Hiccup. We'll find your powers tomorrow." Jack told him, his voice a little too excited to sound casual. "I'll show you our advanced systems upstairs."

Hiccup glanced back at Rapunzel and Merida for support. Merida only sighed and followed behind him, knowing the drill. Rapunzel bit the inside of her cheek, knowing this was wrong, but following anyways. It was the best way to check for flight.

She sighed, feeling guilty, but followed behind Merida despite her warnings against it.

Merida POV

Merida trailed behind Jack who desperately tried to make easy conversation with an obviously distrusting Hiccup. She couldn't blame him, Jack wasn't the easiest person to trust with his troublemaker grin and mischievous sparkle in his eyes. These aspects were familiar to her because of the fact that she saw them every time she had looked at her brothers. Still, this was the most effective way, and probably the only way they would be able to discover if he could fly.

She also kind of wanted to push someone out a window.

When they finally reached Gobber's office, Merida was thankful it was empty. Gobber hated intruders, especially those without his permission, and definitely wouldn't approve of the four of them doing this.

The door had been left wide open and the lights remained shining. Jack took this as a welcoming sign and waltzed right in, chattering excitedly to help fill the suspicious silence.

"What are we doing in here?" Hiccup asked.

Merida snuck around behind him and opened the window quietly, feeling guilty, but excited. The only time she had witnessed an event such as this was when Jack had been pushed out the window, to test for his own flight. That event had been no fun, because he had begun to hover above them almost immediately.

"I'm giving you a tour." Jack grinned. Hiccup began to turn around, attempting to see what was happening behind him, but before he could even protest Jack gave him a harsh shove out the window. He didn't even have time to scream.

"I really hate doing this." Rapunzel said. She rushed to the window and looked down to the ground. "Jack-"

"I got it." Jack announced, jumping out the window.

Merida hadn't realized it was already dark out, a tendril of worry beginning to eat away at her. They waited a few moments, before becoming too anxious for news from Jack. What was going on? Did Jack catch him? Had something happened?

"Guys." Jack called out worriedly, as though sensing their shifting thoughts. "I can't find him."

Merida and Rapunzel shared a panicked look. The guilt that had first begun to eat away at them now engulfed their entire being. They rushed over to the window and stuck their heads out the window. Merida lit a hand and held it out, looking down at the ground. Rapunzel's hair began to glow brightly, at the same time shining two beams of light on the ground. Twin golden spotlights swept from side to side.

"What do you mean you can't find him?" Merida demanded, a sharp edge of worry in her voice.. "Where'd he go?"

"This is terrible." Rapunzel said, fretting. "I'm a despicable human being. We never should have done this."

Merida scanned the ground carefully for any sign of the lanky teen they had pushed out a window. Rapunzel was right; they never should have done this. How did they know Hiccup was even special? There were no crazy attributes about him that could indicate a change, strong emotions hadn't affected him. Maybe he was just a boring, old, regular-

There was a faint whistling from overhead. Merida frowned and tilted her head to listen. No airplanes passed over this building, this was a restricted air zone. The whistling grew until it sounded like it was right over their heads. Merida managed to look up just in time to be plowed over by an object flying through the window.

On instinct, Merida's hair caught fire as she rolled over. As she pushed herself onto her side, she first checked to see if Rapunzel was okay, and when she saw her crawling to her feet, she moved onto what had attacked them. The thing that had crashed into the duo was now groaning, and rolling slowly onto his back.

"You guys are jerks." Hiccup muttered, let his head fall against the ground as he sighed.

Merida breathed a sigh of relief. It had only been Hiccup.

"So you can fly." She said. Interesting.

"Apparently." Hiccup replied, not sounding very impressed. He hadn't moved much from his place on the floor.

"That's great." Rapunzel said brightly, looking relieved as she tucked a stray piece of hair behind her ear. "You do have powers."

Hiccup just grunted and pushed himself off the ground. Merida held out a hand to offer him some help, but pulled it back when she felt a sharp jolt pass between their fingers. Hiccup tumbled to the ground as she clutched her hand to her chest.

"Ouch." Merida hissed. "You shocked me."

Hiccup apologized as he heaved himself off the floor.

"Sorry about shoving you out the window." Jack announced as he flew into the room. Accompanying him was a cold breeze, causing goosebumps to appear on their arms. "At least we know you can fly."

"I'm starting to question your methods." Hiccup said, looking sightly put out. She supposed being thrown out a window before finding out you could fly would do that to a person.

"They're not my methods. They're Gobber's." Jack defended.

Hiccup opened his mouth to say something, but quickly closed it, reluctantly agreeing. Apparently Gobber's do-first-think-later techniques were well known with him.

"How did you do it?" Rapunzel asked as they began to clear out of the room. She looked relieved that Hiccup hadn't been hurt, but still a little guilty. The four of them began making their way back downstairs slowly.

"I tried not to die." Hiccup deadpanned. Merida rolled her eyes.

"But how?" Rapunzel repeated.

"When I fly, I use the wind to hold me up." Jack elaborated, hoping to simplify the question. "Some nice aerokinesis, if you will."

"I don't know." Hiccup answered, looking confused. "I guess I just kinda... I don't know."

Merida took a closer look at the tallest one of the group. She didn't think anymore training today was a good idea. Despite being asleep for six months, Hiccup looked completely exhausted. Tell tale signs of restless sleep caused him to drag his feet and blink slowly as they progressed forwards.

"I'll show you where the bedrooms are." Merida interrupted. She was growing tired as well, the image of her poorly made bed flashing through her mind.

"Uh, sure." Hiccup said. He turned and waved a little awkwardly at Rapunzel and Jack. "Well... see you guys in the morning, I guess."

"Bye." Rapunzel said, grabbing Jack's sleeve and leading him around the corner.

"Right." Merida said. "This way."

She began walking down the hallway, allowing Hiccup to jog in order to catch up.

"So, uh... pyrokinesis." He said feebly, trying to begin a conversation. "How did you find out?"

Merida took a deep breath. "It was about three days after I woke up. Gobber had just told me my family thought I was dead, and I got angry. My hair caught fire."

"Oh." Hiccup said simply. Merida wasn't the best in story telling, and apparently Hiccup wasn't the best with replies, either.

"Can I ask you something?" She asked, cautiously looking up at Hiccup.

His eyes widened slightly, but he nodded. "Uh, sure. Go ahead."

"Earlier, when you said your dad had lost her, who were you talking about?" She asked, hoping she hadn't crossed some invisible, personal line. Hiccup blinked, then looked away.

"My mom." He mumbled. "She was- she died a few years ago."

"Oh." Merida said, shocked. Now she felt like she had intruded on something personal, and felt bad for doing so.

He shoved his left hand into the pockets of his jeans, searching for something. He carefully pulled out a slightly crinkled piece of paper. He unfolded it and handed it to her.

"It's the only picture with her and I in it." He explained sheepishly.

Merida took the dainty little piece of paper and looked at it closely. There was a short, skinny little boy standing beside a tall, elegant woman. They shared identical smiles as they stood in front of a house.

"This is you?" Merida asked, curious.

Hiccup nodded.

"This looks nothing like you." She told him.

Hiccup frowned. "I don't look that different. Maybe a bit taller, and more freckles, but-"

Merida shook her head, persistent. She handed the photo back before remembering something; the change.

"Hiccup, have you looked in a mirror recently?" She asked him, not meaning for it to sound as rude as it did.

Hiccup looked slightly taken aback. "Uh, well, no. It wasn't exactly a priority-"

Merida grabbed his sleeve and led him towards the last room on the left wing of the hallway, the one next to hers. She swung the door open and led him into the barren room, deride of any personality. She had almost forgotten how sterile and cold these rooms could be when not being lived in.

Merida stopped in front of the oblong mirror that hung beside the neat bed. She placed a stammering Hiccup in front of it and stepped aside. He peered into the mirror, first confused, then awed.

"This isn't-it's not me, is it?" He asked, sounding simultaneously impressed and overwhelmed. "Do I actually... I look like this?"

Merida nodded.

He ran a shaky hand through his messy auburn hair. His deep green eyes widened as he continued staring at his reflection. Merida could sympathize with him, knowing how shocking it was first seeing yourself after waking up.

"Wow." He finally said.

Merida grinned. "Six months of sleep really changes a person, doesn't it?"

"Apparently." Hiccup muttered, finally tearing his gaze from the mirror.

He looked around the room, taking in the view.

"It's not much." She explained, hoping to answer a few of the questions probably swirling through his head. "But after a while, it gets better."

Hiccup nodded and ran another hand through his messy hair.

"I should get going." She told him, tiredness causing her eyelids to droop. "We'll have to get up early to find any other powers of yours."

"I have more?" Hiccup asked, amazed.

She shrugged. "We won't know until tomorrow." Merida walked over to the door.

"Hey, uh, Merida?" Hiccup said. "Uh, thanks for, you know, not hating me and everything."

She couldn't help but grin. "Don't be late."

"Yeah." Hiccup said quietly as she left the room.

When Merida finally made it into her own room, she was half asleep. She closed the door and took a deep breath. Today had been a long day. A very long, long day.