The End

Flynn's memory repeated constantly through his head as the dawn began spreading an orange glow over the school's walls while he and Fred ran down the Grand Staircase.

He'd woken with a start at the unpleasant feeling he'd come to associate with Pascal's tongue zipping into his ear. When he looked around he saw Rapunzel standing frozen at the door and began to struggle out of bed to confront her when the she went rigid and stared into the ceiling, her eyes glowing as two miniature suns, the same shape as the ones Rapunzel drew into her art, appeared in her eyes.

'The power of the four was awakened by the sacrifice of one life for the lives of the others but the power could never be sustained with only one sacrifice. When the choice must be made at the sun's rise, all four must sacrifice their lives for one another, without knowing it. Only then will the power truly awaken within them and protect them from death as it has once before. Only then will the Dark Council fall!'

With that Rapunzel stumbled for a moment, leaning on the door to keep her balance. Flynn began to ask her what she meant but it seemed she didn't remember speaking as she paralysed him and Pascal a moment later.

Flynn could only hope that Rapunzel and the others were okay. That by some miracle they hadn't gone to die or, if they had, that they had all gone, because then they might have a chance.

The killing blows struck.

Great towers of golden light roared up from around the four as they did. Pitch's killing curse broke over it like glass while Gothel's draining magic failed to connect and snapped away from the pillar of light, making Gothel reel back in alarm. Terror's flames began to fade around Hiccup and Toothless's tower while Mordu roared in pain as his paw was deflected away when it came into contact with Merida's light.

The towers seared higher into the sky, making the crowds beneath them gasp, and then curved towards one another, meeting in the middle between them and dissipating, revealing the four who stood in their centres.

'Well Pitch,' Jack stated to a horrified looking Pitch as the icy blue light in his staff glowed stronger than ever before, 'it looks like you're in trouble.'

With that he gripped his staff in both hands and swung at Pitch. He felt the power coursing through him and his staff as he summoned the winds at its tip, hitting Pitch and his Nightmares head on and sending them flying away. The gales hit with such force that the trees as far in as the centre of the Forbidden Forest shook with their fury and Pitch had been hit full on with them.

Gasping for breath as his Nightmares rallied behind him and slowed him down Pitch managed to gasp out, 'Attack, kill them all!'

His Dream Eaters and many Nightmares obeyed him immediately and descended onto the crowds that had been watching the events with awe. Shouts and spell blasts began to fill the air again as Jack floated serenely towards Pitch who watched him with no less than pure hatred.

'Want another go?' Jack asked before Pitch struck.

'How? How is this possible?' Gothel shrieked with rage as she stared in fury at Rapunzel whose short brown hair and skin seemed to be glowing with a faint golden light.

'No matter,' she continued as Rapunzel didn't reply as she was too focused watching in awe as the wounds she'd sustained last night began to vanish with the golden glow, 'I've fed my stone with the lives of countless wizards. If I can't have your life, then I'll just take it!'

With that Gothel pointed her wand at Rapunzel and sent a curse flying at her heart. Rapunzel blocked it with barely a thought, raising her wand as if she had all the time in the world. This enraged Gothel further, causing her philosopher's stone to glow with dark purple light as she tapped into its magic and fired a second, far more powerful spell that Rapunzel met with one of her own. The two spells met together with a flash of purple and gold light, created a shockwave between the two women that made Gothel fall back but merely made Rapunzel stumble.

Soon Gothel was back up on her feet and sending powerful spells fuelled by the energy of her stone at Rapunzel who blocked and defended every one before waving her wand, causing everything around them, from large blocks of rubble to small shards of glass, for many feet to rise into the air as if invisible strings that connected them to the ground had been cut. Rapunzel pointed her wand at Gothel and sent them all at her, forcing them women to create a shield around herself to protect from the impacts.

When it was over, Gothel sneered angrily at Rapunzel and retaliated with more spells that Rapunzel allowed to hit her without raising her wand in defence. Gothel laughed in triumph but then screamed again as the wounds that she had inflicted on Rapunzel faded away into nothing mere seconds after they had been made.

'Sorry Gothel but you can't hurt me anymore,' Rapunzel told her as she raised her wand and began their duel again.

Hiccup could feel the power flowing through him as he watched the remains of Terror's flames sputter out around him and Toothless. He could also see himself and Toothless through the eyes of the animals beneath them and quickly sent them the thought that they should re-join the rest of the school continue in the fight. They obeyed him immediately and he marvelled when he saw through their eyes as they began to run back towards the castle.

In front of them Terror roared in fury as they still flew before him after being hit with his attack. He lunged forward, opening his large jaws to swallow them whole.

'Ready bud?' Hiccup asked as the jaws began to close around them and was answered with a rumble from his dragon as Toothless flapped his wings once. They were immediately out of Terror's range, or so it seemed to Terror as they had travelled so fast they were barely a blur to him, moving faster than any dragon had moved before.

In his range the Red Death sent his dragon minions to attack the two, believing their number would compensate for the Night Fury's new speed. Hiccup merely raised his hand and the dragons around them stilled in their charge as a light returned to their eyes. To Terror's horror the minds of his minions slipped from his control so easily it was as if they had never belonged to him in the first place. With a wave of his hand Hiccup charged the dragons to go and aid in the battle at Hogwarts as well, now seeing from high above with their eyes, leaving Terror alone in the sky with him and Toothless.

Mordu stared at Merida with his usual furious expression as the golden light disappeared from around her. She simply smiled back at him and took the sword of Godric Gryffindor by its hilt and drew it from the ground to look it over, holding it up to the light of dawn.

'A good weapon to die with, but a better one to fight with,' she said to herself as she turned her head to look at Mordu before pointing the tip of the blade towards him in challenge.

The bear roared in anger and charged towards her, raising his paw to slam down upon her. Instead of dodging, Merida raised the sword and blocked his attack with the flat of the blade, sliding along the ground but not budging a muscle. Mordu was horrified, he had given himself the strength of ten men and no human should have the power to withstand a direct hit from one of his blows. And yet there stood Merida who blocked it without a sweat and now swung the blade with enough strength to knock Mordu off-balance as his arm was flung away by the swing. Merida brought her other arm round and pointed her wand directly at Mordu's chest so fast that the bear had no time to react as she calmly said, 'Stupefy.'

The power of the spell hit Mordu and knocked him several feet away onto his back, knocking all the breath from him as he landed. He staggered back onto his four feet and stared wildly at Merida who charged at him, wand and sword at the ready.

'Looks like they all tried to be stupid heroes,' Fred said to Flynn, half-angrily and half-gratefully, as they stood in the Great Hall while Dream Eaters began a second attack.

The odds no longer seemed in their favour though as people had been rejuvenated by seeing the new power of the four against the Council and so returned to the fight with even greater strength, Flynn and Fred included.

They saw North go passed them, swinging his curved sword in one hand and firing spells from the other, and Whittler who was just a blur of knives passing through the Dream Eater hordes. Soon the animals returned to the battle from the outside, biting and cutting their way through while dragons attacked them from above, much to their horrified surprise.

'Those guys are going to owe us so badly when this is over,' Flynn laughed as he fired spells at Dream Eaters and as Pascal hid in one of his pockets.

'You two!' A voice called to them from the Dream Eaters, revealed to be a half-crazed looking Mulcaster. 'Why do and the rest of your stupid gang always have to ruin everything?' He yelled furiously as he began to fire spells at both of the boys who blocked and retaliated with spells of their own. Mulcaster blocked both of their attacks with flicks of his wands and then the real battle began between them, dodging and attacking in a two on one battle where Mulcaster's anger seemed to be granting him extra strength.

'Sorry Mulcaster,' Fred said mockingly as he blocked a curse, 'it's just your unlucky day.'

Pitch had forsaken the rest of his remaining Nightmares in the battle, instead choosing to turn them into a vortex of black sand that supported him from the ground as he and Jack raced around one another.

He sent two black whips of sand at Jack, hoping to wrap them around the boy's throat and pull him down, but Jack blocked them by creating a massive block of ice in front of him. He then threw the ice block towards Pitch and created several others around him with a flick of his staff that all fell towards Pitch who managed to dodge around most of them but was still caught and sent hurtling away by the force of the impact until his vortex could catch him again.

Gritting his teeth, Black shot hundreds of boulder sized chucks of sand at Jack who danced around them, the winds that supported him now so cold that a sheen of ice developed around the sand as it tumbled to the ground and shattered.

'Come on Pitch,' he goaded joyfully, 'surely you can do better than that.'

In response Black waved his arms over his head and summoned a giant mass of black sand that fell upon Jack like a tsunami and laughed in the belief he had won. Jack just grinned as the wave of sand fell down to him and thrust his staff forward into the black mass. Immediately Pitch's laughing stopped as the entire wave began to freeze over, the ice running faster and faster towards him until he was knocked back by its arrival and by the shattering of the wave as the ice reduced it to nothing.

Jack wasn't done though as descended to where Pitch had been caught again by his vortex and spun his staff around, firing giant balls of what looked like flaming ice at Pitch who blocked and dodge away from them. Each ball caused an explosion as it met a solid object, the shockwaves having enough force to knock Pitch back even when hadn't been touched by it.

'This isn't possible,' he said to himself as he created a gigantic black scythe to slice at Jack who blocked it with his staff, causing ice to freeze any part of the scythe he touched. Another swing and Jack had made his way to close to Pitch for comfort, making him immediately turn to retreat backwards.

Jack jumped at the opportunity and urged the winds to propel him further through the air and landed on Pitch's back, driving the end of his staff into the man's back. Pitch had no time to react before an icy shockwave sent him hurtling down through his own sand which grazed him as he fell before he managed to rally them to catch him.

When he turned back to send an attack against Jack they boy wasn't above him but beside him, swinging his staff once more at Pitch. This time it wasn't just incredibly strong ice cold winds that hit Pitch but a wall of ice magic as well that destroyed the black sand around Pitch that scorched his skin and flung him away with his arms spread wide as if he were trying to catch the wall of power that hit him.

He landed onto the ground with a thump, scattering several fighters around as he did, and took a moment to stagger to his feet while Jack landed lightly onto the ground in front of him.

Gothel and Rapunzel's battle had destroyed half of the greenhouses as Gothel's destructive spells ricocheted from Rapunzel's protective spells, unable to break through them. Rapunzel waved her wand and giant roots appeared from the ground, catching Gothel by the ankle and attempting to lift her into the air.

Gothel yelled out angrily and the glow of her philosopher's stone glowed slightly more brightly as the roots around her withered and died at her touch. Turning on Rapunzel she sent a wave of magic at the girl who created a paper thin barrier between them and absorbed the wave without wavering for a moment.

'Damn you!' Gothel screamed as the stone at her throat began to pulse slowly, growing brighter with each beat. 'Even if I must use all the power I have taken I will end your miserable life!' She claimed furiously as the stone reached its brightest light.

She waved her wand and with it came all the power that remained in her stone which she directed to Rapunzel who was suddenly bombarded from all sides by the dark force, creating a barrier in the nick of time to protect herself. Gothel began to laugh as she saw Rapunzel's barrier shudder slightly under the strain of the collected energy from the stone, Rapunzel's face a mask of concentration.

Her laughter stopped as Rapunzel took a step forward, and then another. 'No!' She cried as she directed all of the energy between them, trying to force Rapunzel back.

It seemed the girl couldn't be stopped though as her barrier began to change to a golden light and she took another step closer. Gothel began to back away in fear as Rapunzel gained ground, the dark energy flowing around her like water. Another step and she and Gothel were almost touching, Rapunzel looking deeply into Gothel's horrified eyes.

Reaching out, Rapunzel let her hand pass through the protective barrier and reached out to Gothel who tried to grab her wrist but was too late. Rapunzel's hand closed around the shining stone at her neck, her own golden light dimming the light of the stone. Rapunzel's hand closed around the tightly, causing a cracking noise and black shards to fall between her fingers.

'What have you done?' Gothel asked in horror as the dark magic faded from her. She could feel all the years she had avoided rushing back to meet her now, causing her to age and wrinkle before Rapunzel's eyes. Gothel had the chance to watch as her hands withered away like the plants in the Herbology greenhouses before she crumbled away into dust, her robes flapping away in the breeze.

Rapunzel sighed and looked down at her clenched hand before opening it and letting what was left of the philosopher's stone fall away into nothingness.

Hiccup and Toothless flew around Terror in a blur, hitting the dragon with fireballs that knocked the dragon through the air. They moved so fast that one moment they were hitting him from behind and then a second later they would hit him from the opposite direction.

Hiccup was focused on more than just his own battle though. He followed the animals as they charged through the Dream Eater ranks, advising them on where to attack and assisting them to work together as a unit. It was like he was at the hub of a great hive mind where he didn't control but persuaded the animals to do as he asked.

He and Toothless were suddenly diving down upon Terror and hit the dragon on the top of the head with a blast so powerful that Terror was sent plummeting to the ground, crashing with a shock that shook the entire school.

'Okay Toothless,' he said, 'it's time to end this!'

With an agreeing noise from Toothless they dived down onto the dragon, appearing at his side as he tried to rise from the ground in seconds. They flew around until they faced Terror head on, the dragon's small eyes focusing on them as it raised its head.

'Come on then,' Hiccup called over to him while Toothless made a challenging call, 'give us your best shot!'

Terror roared and opened his mouth widely, revealing the orange glow of fire climbing his throat until he breathed it out in a wide mass that would engulf them. Hiccup raised his wand and added his own magic to Toothless's fire which shot forward into Terror's inferno with such power that the larger dragon's flames billowed away from it as it went closer.

Terror's eyes had only a minute to register surprise before their flames burned their way through his and reached into his mouth, igniting the gas within. The next moment he was caught in his own fiery maelstrom as the gas within him exploded at once, consuming him in a moment and leaving nothing but a fiery explosion in his wake.

Hiccup and Toothless had flown far enough away by then to be unaffected by the blast and watched it instead from a safe distance.

Merida slashed at Mordu with her sword, cutting into the bear's side before pointing her wand at him and sending him stumbling back with a spell. Mordu was back a second later, snapping at Merida with his large jaws which she jumped lightly away from before firing another spell that hit Mordu between the eyes and sent him skidding back along the grass.

Mordu roared and charged again, biting down on Merida's shoulder before the girl could avoid him. Merida just smiled at him and twisted away, dragging the bear up slightly so she could hook her sword holding arm under him and effectively throw him away. Mordu looked up and snarled as he saw Merida's shoulder had been unharmed by his bite, the skin underneath her tattered cloths unbroken.

Mordu roared in challenge once more and reared on his hind legs as Merida came closer, swinging down with both paws at her head. Merida danced out of the way easily and jumped onto one of his large arms before he could move it away. He twisted and bit at her as she jumped further up to his shoulder, making her move out of the way and grab him around the neck with her wand arm. Mordu struggled against her; standing on two legs her smashed his back against the castle wall to dislodge her. Merida had jumped above him before his back had met the wall though and as he fell back onto his hind legs he suddenly had a very clear picture of what she would do.

In mid-air Merida gripped the hilt of the sword with both hands, her wand pointing down along its blade, and fell back to earth and back to Mordu. She sank the blade deeply into Mordu's back, firing a spell from her wand to hit into his hide and weaken him so she could sink the blade deep enough to reach his heart.

Mordu had only the chance to roar one final time before falling forward, dead. As Merida took the blade from his back and jumped down she looked back and saw with surprise a ghostly shaped peeling away from the bear's crumpled body.

The torso of a man formed in front of her, made from blue flames, and looked around in surprise. When he spotted her, the ghost of Mordu saw Merida with human eyes for the first time as she saw him as human for the first time. Without a word, the blue edged ghost nodded to Merida before condensing down into a wisp and disappearing, leaving Merida to stare in wonder.

Spells flashed between Flynn, Fred and Mulcaster as battles raged around them in the Great Hall. Even so they were given a wide berth as the ferocity of their duel had begun to crack the flagstones beneath their feet. Mulcaster sent twin bursts of green light at the two who dodged them before sending their own attacks in retaliation which Mulcaster blocked angrily.

'When I'm done with you, I'm going to find your girlfriends and make them wish they'd never been born!' He gloated as more spells danced between them. 'And I'll teach that mudblood girl her place too, I'll…GAH!' Mulcaster jumped into the air as Pascal, who had jumped from Flynn's pocket onto Mulcaster's robes, had just stuck his tongue in the boy's ear.

Fred and Flynn both took the opportunity of his distraction by hitting him with twin disarming spells, sending the boy flying into a wall which he slid down into a slumped position, groaning slightly.

'Good work Pascal,' Flynn said as he knelt down and picked the chameleon up, 'finally a good use for that trick.'

'It's over Pitch,' Jack stated as he created an ice shield to block a wave of sand sent against him, 'surrender now and you'll be taken back to Azkaban.'

'This fight isn't over yet Frost,' Pitch sneered disdainfully, sending a slicing wave of black sand and Jack's feet, causing the boy to tap the end of his staff to the grand and freeze it in place.

'You think that growing stronger will win this battle. I am Pitch Black, the Bogeyman, the Nightmare King, how could I ever lose while there is fear and strife in this world?' Pitch raged before pointing his wand at Jack and intoning, 'Avada Kedavra!'

Jack spun his staff in front of him, creating a circular pane of ice between them with a surface so sooth it acted as a mirror. When Pitch's killing curse hit it he could see himself reflected on its surface, as if the spell was hitting him in the heart instead of Jack. Suddenly he felt the blow the a spell as it rebounded on him and stepped back a few paces, looking in surprise as Jack released his mirror shield and let it shatter on the ground. He fell onto the ground, his face still a mask of surprise, even in death.

As Jack stood over the body he thought he should say something clever but knew that nothing was worth saying at this moment. Instead he turned away and walked back to Hogwarts where the sound of cheering had begun as the Dream Eaters had either fled or surrendered at the sight of their defeated masters.

The power faded away like a sigh of relief, the four's relief on returning to their old selves. As the four sat in the Great Hall they could feel it draining away now that its purpose was complete and knew that they preferred it that way, having all that power was great for a short time but they wouldn't have wanted to keep it.

Everybody was celebrating now that the battle was over, sitting in groups around the Hall as house-elves began to hand out tea and coffee. The Guardians were all sitting together, North laughing with Bunnymund and Maximus while Toothiana and Whittler were having an animated conversation about where to visit for the summer.

The clans of the Scottish Highlands were all gathered together, making jokes and starting fights between one another. Elinor had to separate Fergus and the three lords several times over a single hour, pulling them away by their ears until they apologised.

The students were all looking at the damage the school had sustained with awe. Several were boasting about the craters they had managed to blow into the school while more were talking animatedly about the fights they won, many were already over exaggerating.

After giving their goodbyes to Hiccup the animals of the Forbidden Forest returned to the forest without joining in on the celebrations. The dragons that had been controlled by Terror were currently being rounded up by Berkians and taken back to the coastal village to join with the already established dragon colony.

'You guys know you owe us right?' Fred said as he leaned back on his makeshift chair of rubble.

'Yeah, we expect a big payment for having to go through undue stress,' Flynn joked beside him.

'I don't know if this'll help but one of the house-elves managed to find a box of Bertie Bott's every flavour beans for me,' Rapunzel said offering the two the box. 'Actually, why don't we have a game of Bertie Bott's fishing? We used to do it all the time when we wanted to celebrate something,' Rapunzel suggested to the agreement of everyone, even Hiccup although he groaned dramatically when he pulled a bean from the box.

'Okay, one, two, three,' Jack said when everyone had a bean. All of them bit into their beans together at his count and swallowed.

'Caramel,' Merida smiled.

'Butterscotch,' Fred said in a slightly muffled voice.

'Strawberry,' Rapunzel added.

'Cherry,' Flynn said.

'Walnut,' Jack said, licking his lips.

'Pineapple,' Hiccup finished to everyone's surprise.

'Oh my god Hiccup, you finally got a good one?' Rapunzel asked in delighted shock.

'Not really, I don't like pineapple,' Hiccup replied to an accompaniment of groans.

Hiccup and Jack moved into Berk. Jack had really grown to like the small village during his time spent there and it was where Hiccup had wanted to stay.

Jack had become an Auror. For the final part of his training he'd been assigned to shadow Harry Potter and had always wondered whether it had been intended or not. Much of the time he was assigned cases further up north but occasionally he would help further south when a former Dream Eater was being chased down.

Hiccup created a Dragon Academy on Berk to teach the Berkians on dragon taming, caring and rearing. He employed Astrid and the others as teachers and trainers, each specialising in their own dragon species. Under the Academy's influence the dragon population in Berk thrived and grew, teaching the world how to live in harmony with dragons.

Eventually, when the time was right, they adopted a son.

Merida and Fred moved to Diagon Alley for a while, renting the flat above Weasley's Wizard Wheezes where Fred began to work with his father who began grooming him to take over the busyness when he was ready for retirement.

Merida also began training to become an Auror but decided against it in the end. Instead she applied for the beater position with the Howling Harpies, now led by her old Quidditch Captain Alice, and was accepted nearly straight after the try-outs as she had easily out flown the other competitors. With her help the Harpies soon began to win match after match, finally winning the National Cup for the first time in the team's history. She'd got everybody free tickets for that match and they were cheering the loudest among the crowd when Merida's team was handed the cup.

She had to leave the team for a short time, however, as she had to give birth to her and Fred's twins.

Rapunzel and Flynn spent two years exploring the world as they promised each other they would. They travelled mainly on foot and by apparition from the Americas to Africa and then on to Asia, camping under the stars whenever night fell.

On returning, Flynn started off by helping Fred in the joke shop as they'd planned but eventually moved on when the position for Charms teacher opened up in Hogwarts. The position had never been truly filled after Sandy's death, instead having a new teacher appear every year, but Flynn changed that and soon became the permanent Charms teacher for Hogwarts.

Rapunzel, meanwhile, worked for Madam Pomfrey at Hogwarts while Flynn was at the joke shop but was eventually sent to work at St Mungo's with a glowing reference from her old teacher. After a few years she was promoted to Healer-in-Charge of Spell Damage, making her one of the youngest Head-Healers in the hospital's history.

Eventually, she and Flynn had their own little golden haired son.

Mulcaster and his father, along with many other accused Dream Eaters, were given life imprisonment in Azkaban. It is reported that Mulcaster still complains about this decades after his imprisonment.

Fifteen years later and the crowd at Platform 9 ¾ was packed, making it tricky for Hiccup, Jack and their son Jamie to weave Jamie's trolley through the milling people. Eventually they found a space and shot through it, nearly running into the rest of the group.

'Whoa, steady on guys,' Fred said, waving his arm up in defence, 'you're going to get someone hurt.'

'Sorry everyone, the crowd was a nightmare,' Hiccup apologised as he bent down to check everything was alright on Jamie's trolley.

'And someone wouldn't let me fly the trolley over,' Jack joked as he hugged Merida and Rapunzel.

Fred was talking to the twins who were both starting their first year. 'Now remember what I told you two,' he reminded them sternly.

'No copying other people's pranks because we need to prove ourselves,' Alice replied, speaking as if she had memorised the instructions.

'And always remember to tell people where we got the joke shop stuff,' Finn added in the same voice.

'Oh, I'm so proud of you,' Fred said, tugging his children into hugs which they desperately fought to get out of.

'I'm glad to see your parenting skills are still finely tuned,' Jack joked to him and Merida when he let the twins go and talk to Flynn and Rapunzel's son Sandy.

'Yeah, dad doesn't even let me feed fireworks to Swift Shock anymore,' Jamie said. He was entering his third year at the school and already growing like a weed.

'I don't think you should be doing that to your pet Night Fury,' Sandy stated as he walked over with the twins. He was taller than the rest as he was in his fourth year and had chosen to keep his golden hair cut short since his second.

'What? He loved it, he kept trying to reach for more through the bag,' Jamie explained with laughter.

At that moment the whistle for the train sounded and the children were hurried onto the train, hefting their luggage with them. Soon they all found an empty compartment to sit together in and wave to their parents from the open window.

They waved goodbye to their children until the Hogwarts Express turned a corner and was gone. Smiling and rubbing their eyes they walked out together, reminiscing about their old school days, good and bad, and feeling grateful that their children would only have to go through the good times.

The End.

Thank you all for making it this far :D

I hope you like how it turned out and that you're not too sad it's over.

If anyone's interested I'll be starting a second story based on Supernatural soon, so look out for that.

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