I decided to go a little different in this chapter and have it in J's point of view! I hope you like it.
-Erica
J's POV
Sometimes I see old 'cinema posters' in deserted antique shops. There's one down the road from the bakery, actually. There was one with a young blonde-haired girl on the cover. It had 'Alice in Wonderland' written on the front cover in bold yellow font. On the large paper had three words on the bottom put in quotations; "Curiouser and curiouser." I wish there was a book I could read with a whole bunch of quotes about being curious, or even about oblivion, but the library got burnt down while I was changing, like Tooth.
Poor, poor Tooth.
Her blood stopped gushing out of her next and turned stale and bitter. Hiccup tried to lick it up at one point (making a very awkward scene seeing as her limp body was in her arms) and he gagged on the retched taste.
Were stumbling through the back alleyways, twisting and turning until the ruckus behind us faded away, and Rapunzel stopped shaking, which was never, so we still run.
She doesn't know what happened back there. Why we had Tooth, what happened to her friends, where we were going… wait- where the hell are we going?
I moaned, trying to give Hiccup the message. He looked at me over his shoulder for a split second then carried on.
My grip tightened on Rapunzel's shoulder, making her wince. But she knew, she saw. We were facing a road. There was an old graveyard past it, and from the looks of it, we were making our way there.
I looked at Rapunzel, and she was taking deep breaths. Finally, some strength from her!
We slowed our pace and casually walked onto the road. Rapunzel shrugged my hand off of her, and she walked regularly. I huffed, and hit her shoulder lightly. She turned around and glared at me. "Be… dead," I moaned and shuffled ahead. She nodded and obliged, making the worst zombie impression ever. Whatever, it worked fine.
When we made our way onto the graveyard, we picked up into a run again. Rapunzel made her way beside Hiccup, complaining I was too "slow."
Hiccup twisted through the various graves, and stopped at a old looking chapel. Beside it were different sizes of bricks, probably fallen off of the small structure.
I push Hiccup aside and walk in first, you know, to check if everything was alright. If he went in first, he couldn't fight any other zombie in there with a decaying body in his hands. And if Rapunzel went first… oh boy.
I scoped the place out. Seems Hiccup had made this his home. It was pretty good, he had little nick-nacks around… I'm trying to ignore the severed dog paw in the corner. Maybe he took Toothless because he needed another friend besides Merida.
Rapunzel slumped down in the corner and brought her knees to her chest. I think she's crying. I could her soft sobs coming from her side of the room.
Hiccup and I were placing Tooth down on the floor. She'll rise any second now, it doesn't really take us long.
Hiccup easily became distracted and started playing with Toothless, letting out sounds of delight as he ran around on his four legs. They seemed to have really hit it off.
I sat beside Tooth to keep her company. Somebody should.
I looked at Rapunzel from across the room. She looked up, and we made eye contact. Dammit, those green eyes. I couldn't look away.
"That your girlfriend?"
I moaned, confused.
"Is she your girlfriend? Are we burying her body or something?"
Oh, shit. "N-no.."
She quirked her eyebrow at me and slowly stood up, "Then why did you bring her here?"
"M…She-" Crap, I really wish I could talk normally. I pointed at myself, "Z…zom-"
"Oh, she's going to become a corpse?"
I nodded. Yes, point hot girl for understanding zombie.
"You like her, don't you?" she chuckled.
I stopped to think about it, but I shook my head no.
Rapunzel bit her lip, "So… he does?" She looked at Hiccup, he was still playing with Toothless. "Or did he just want her dog?"
I smiled breathlessly. Two points hot girl, for making a corpse smile.
She walked closer to me, and I caught myself blinking faster. I firmly shut my eyes and opened them again. "Alright, now I know why everybody else is here… Why am I here?"
I shrugged, "Not..hm..safe." Oh, that was good J!
"I didn't need you to help me, I would have been fine on my own," she insisted.
Perfect, she's stubborn too.
She sat about three feet away from me, cross legged. I didn't show any emotion, I just looked down at her boots. They were very muddy and black.
"My boyfriend, Flynn… I don't know what happened to him," she began.
BOYFRIEND? I knew there was a Flynn, but boyfriend? Well, I hope Merida took care of him.
God dammit J, that was rude.
"…and I want to go back and see if he's alive-"
"No," I said quickly. "Not…safe,"
She huffed, "I get it, I've dealt with this stuff before! I hunt you things for a living, for Christ's sake!"
That made me a little uneasy. I don't really know what to do at this point either. I could get up and walk away and I could act annoyed, angry, or sad. That's one thing. Or I could stay and try to reason with her with the two words I can shove out of my mouth.
A tear shed down Rapunzel's face. Her face got a little red and puffy. "I just, don't want him to get hurt."
That's it. That's fucking it.
I stood up and pointed to the floor, "S-stay."
And just like that I marched (well, stumbled) out the door to find Flynn.
What does he even look like?
