I don't own any characters. One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda and Tangled belongs to Disney.
It was a beautiful morning on the open sea and the thousands sunny was sailing slowly and gently through the ocean waves. However it's peaceful image was soon disrupted when the deck doors opened to reveal a frightened Luffy being chased by Nami and Sanji.
"Luffy! That was the entire supply of meat! Do you have any idea how long it will take to get more?!" Sanji screeched.
"I was hungry!" Luffy protested.
As Nami and Sanji continued to yell at Luffy, a sleepy Tony-Tony Chopper entered the deck followed by Zoro, Robin, Franky, Usopp and Brook.
"What's going on?" Chopper muttered.
"Luffy ate the meat again." Zoro deadpanned.
"Typical." Robin added under her breath.
Franky and Brook said nothing and just simply watched Luffy, Nami and Sanji fight while Usopp attempted to break it up.
The fight came to an end when Chopper shouted "Hey, what island is that?"
At once the group stopped to see an island with a lots of large buildings, a castle and a long white bridge that contented it to a mainland.
While the rest of the Strawhats tried to remember the name of this island, Luffy piped up with "Hey, maybe we can get some more meat while we're here."
An annoyed Sanji punched him so hard, that Luffy flew into the air, past the island and into a tower.
As Luffy landed with a scream, he thought he heard someone else scream too.
As he got up, he realized he was surrounded tables and other kinds of stuff you'd see at home.
"Ummm…whoever you are I'm really sorry…" Luffy started to say, but then he noticed a mural on the wall. It had a picture of the wood's night sky with what appeared to be balls of light and a girl with super long hair that went all the way down the hill she sat on.
"Woah, who painted that?" Luffy wondered. However before he could dwell on it, the captain of the straw hats felt something hard hit him and then his world faded to black.
Rapunzel couldn't believe how her 18th birthday was turning out. Out of all things she expected to happen to her day, she didn't expect a strange man come flying through the window. Thankfully, he was disoriented and gave Rapunzel an opportunity to hit him with her frying pan.
When he fell to the floor, the magnitude of what she just did hit suddenly Rapunzel in full force.
"Too weak to handle myself out there mother?" Rapunzel said confidently as she started twirling her frying pan. "Well...tell that to my frying pa-ow." She suddenly uttered as she hit herself in the head by accident. Thinking quickly and after several tries to fit him in, Rapunzel managed to get the strange man to fit inside her closet.
"Okay, Rapunzel. Calm down. I've got a person in my closet." the long haired girl said in a reassuring manner. Then another wave of shock came over her.
"I've got a person in my closet." She muttered in shock, before she repeated with joy "I've got a person in my closet!"
"Wait 'till I tell mother!" She added with excitement.
As if in response to her words, she heard Mother Gothel's voice call out "Rapunzel! Let down your hair!"
"One moment mother!" Rapunzel quickly replied as she put her hair in the hook and lowered it down.
"I have a big surprise!" Mother Gothel added as Rapunzel pulled her up with her hair.
"Uhh...I do too!" Rapunzel added.
"Ooh, I bet my surprise is bigger!" Mother Gothel added as she came closer to the window.
"I seriously doubt it." Rapunzel muttered to herself.
When Mother Gothel reached the window, she said "Let me go first. I'm making Hazelnut soup! Your favorite!"
Rapunzel took a deep breath as she worked up the courage to show her mother that she could handle herself in the outside world.
"Ummm...mother remember this morning when you told me that I wasn't strong enough to handle myself out there…" Rapunzel began say, but Mother Gothel interrupted with "Oh, I know you're not strong enough to handle yourself out there."
"But…" Rapunzel started to say as she approached the closet door.
"I thought we had discussed this." Mother Gothel answered in a tone that made it clear she would hear more of this.
"If you just listen…" Rapunzel pleaded as she grabbed the closet door and got ready to open it.
However, Mother Gothel suddenly snapped
"Enough with the lights, Rapunzel! YOU are not leaving this tower! EVER!"
A taken aback Rapunzel flinched at her words as Mother Gothel dramatically sat down and added "Great. Now, I'm the bad guy."
Rapunzel then knew that nothing she would say or do would change her mother's mind on leaving the tower. If she wanted to see the floating lights, she would have to find another way to do it. Then an idea came to her, if her mother wouldn't let her go, then maybe this stranger that she captured would help her...all she needed to do was convince him somehow and...make sure her mother would gone for the amount of time that Rapunzel needed her to be.
Then an idea came to her just as Mother Gothel said "Now, what was your surprise?"
"I...I...I...I just wanted to tell you that I changed my mind on what I wanted for my birthday...I would like that special paint from those white shells you got me for my last birthday."
At once, Mother Gothel's mods softened as she said "Well, in that case…"
Then as Mother Gothel put on her cloak, she paused as she added "But it's a long trip, ...three days time... you'll be alright on your own?"
"I know I'm safe as long as I'm here." Rapunzel replied absentmindedly as she glanced back at the closet.
Mother Gothel smiled softly at the 18 year old as she walked over to Rapunzel and patted her on the head.
"I love you, flower." She said.
"I love you more." Rapunzel replied.
"I love you most." Mother Gothel finished and with that, Rapunzel threw her long hair outside the tower window. Then Rapunzel watched as Mother Gothel climbed down her hair and then disappeared into the forest below.
Rapunzel sighed before she and Pascal exchanged smirks with other, they had a prisoner to interrogate.
Sometime later, Luffy awoke to find bound with...hair!
"Whoa...What the…?! How did I get here?!" Luffy cried out before starting to laugh in spite of the
"I know what you're here for and...I'm not afraid of you!" Rapunzel vowed as she stepped into the light holding a frying pan in her arms.
At the sight of the young girl holding a frying pan like a weapon, Luffy could help but begin to laugh like crazy.
Rapunzel couldn't help but stare at him in disbelief from her hiding spot in the shadows.
Was this man crazy? She wondered. No, I can't give in to doubt now. The 18 year old argued. Crazy or not, I need his help.
Tightening her grip, on her frying pan and Pascal on her shoulder, Rapunzel stepped out of the shadows "Struggling is useless...you'll never get out of there unless I want you too."
At the sight of the girl, Luffy stopped struggling for a moment and stated at her long blonde hair.
"Who are you and how did you find me?" Rapunzel demanded.
"I'm Luffy, Captain of the Straw hat pirates and your hair is cool!" Luffy answered in a cheerful voice.
Pirates?! Rapunzel cried in shock in her head. Mother warned her about pirates, she said that they were robbers and kidnappers. They would also surely do those things to her if they ever discovered her magical hair and what it could do. However, rather than looking like a murderous pirate captain, the young man who was tied up in her hair looked normal and even friendly. Still, Rapunzel wasn't going to give up what maybe her only chance to see the floating lights in person.
"Anyway my surprise is I would like that special paint made from those shells from my last birthday." Rapunzel fibbed, concealing her sadness.
"So, what do you want with my hair? To cut it? Sell it" Rapunzel questioned.
"Why would I want to cut your hair?" Luffy questioned.
"Uhhh...you don't want my hair?" A surprised Rapunzel questioned.
"I mean sure it's pretty cool and all, but I wouldn't want to cut it or anything." Luffy answered. "That's just plain wired." He added.
Luffy could only blink at the young girl for a moment before he replied with "Woah! Your hair is so long?! Did you eat a Devil fruit too?"
"What's a Devil fruit?" Rapunzel answered with a confused yet frightened expression as the green lizard on her shoulder appeared equally perplexed.
"You don't know what a Devil fruit is? Have you been living under a rock all this time?" Luffy remarked in an almost joking disbelieving manner.
"Actually, I've been living in this tower with my mother for all long as I can remember." Rapunzel asked with complete sincerity. "She's the only one who goes outside. I just stay here and wait for her with Pascal." She added. As she finished, the small green lizard crawled on her right shoulder.
"WHAT?!" Luffy cried with shock. "You mean to tell me you never even been outside!"
At this, Rapunzel sadly hung her head in shame as she replied "Yes." Then she looked right back up at the captain of the Straw hat pirates as she said "But, I'm turning 18 today and I'm planning to change that today, starting with seeing the floating lanterns tomorrow."
"Floating lights?" Luffy replied with confusion.
"Don't tell me you never even heard of the floating lights?" Rapunzel cried out with a dismayed expression on her face.
"What are the floating lights?" Luffy asked and with his words Rapunzel's heart sunk.
"Where are you from?" She asked.
"I'm from the Dawn Island, but the ocean is the home of me and my crew now." Luffy explained.
"Dawn Island?" Rapunzel questioned. "Where's that?" She questioned.
"It's in East Blue." Luffy replied. "What island I'm on now?" He added.
"Corona." Rapunzel explained, before she added "Ever since I was little I always dreamed to see the floating lights up close…."
Then Luffy interrupted with "Then untie I'll find a way to take to you."
"Wait, what?" Was all a flabbergasted Rapunzel could say. She was expecting a make an emotional speech to get through to this pirate's heart.
"If it's your dream, then let me help you as I look for my crew." Luffy replied.
Rapunzel smiled as she answered "Deal."
With that, Rapunzel united Luffy and pulled him up from the chair. "Hey, what's your name?" He asked.
"I'm Rapunzel and this is Pascal." Rapunzel replied as the green lizard crawled down her arm. As the lizard crawled down her long pink sleeve, it changed its color from green to pink. Luffy let out a gasp of shock, but Rapunzel laughed as she explained "He's a chameleon, he can change colors."
"What's a chameleon?" Luffy wondered.
The girl with the longest hair in the world, laughed and said "I'll tell you when we get outside."
"How are we going to get outside?" Luffy wondered.
"With my hair." Rapunzel replied.
"Are you sure you never ate a Devil fruit?" Luffy asked.
All he got was another incredulous look from Rapunzel and with that the captain of the straw hats and the 18 year old walked over towards the window.
As she hung her long blonde hair on the hook above her window, the 18 year old girl paused to have a look out the window, she couldn't help but feel that the world outside seemed even bigger than before. Feeling nervous, Rapunzel sang "Look at the world-so close, and I'm halfway to it! Look at it all-so big-do I even dare?"
As she finished singing, Luffy looked and said "Little nervous? Don't be, today's the start of an awesome adventure."
Rapunzel smiled in thanks while Pascal looked at from the blonde girl's shoulder and smiled in encouragement.
"Look at me- there at last! - I just have to do it!" Rapunzel sang as she nodded to Luffy to go first and she couldn't help but be amazed his arms and legs seemed to stretch as he climbed down the tower walls. If she didn't know any better, the young girl would've sworn that he was made of rubber. But that wasn't possible was it? Then she remembered Luffy asking her if she ate a Devil fruit. Did Luffy eat one himself? Then Rapunzel's thoughts were interrupted as Luffy called "Come on down!"
Once the captain of the Straw hat pirates was safe and sound on the ground, he waved towards Rapunzel as he yelled "Hey Rapunzel! Come on down!"
Rapunzel took a look at her painting herself seeing the floating lights in person, before turning back towards the widow.
"Should I? No. Here I go." Rapunzel sang as she slid down her own hair for the very first time.
Rapunzel laughed as she reached the ground and couldn't help but feel overwhelmed by the excitement of it all. After clinging to her own hair for a moment she placed one foot on the ground followed by another and then she pulled her hair from the hook and let it run with her as she sang
"Just smell the grass! The dirt! Just like I dreamed they'd be!"
As she was enjoyed the feeling of her feet in the dirt and glass for the very first time, a sudden breeze appeared.
"Just feel that summer breeze-the way it's calling me!" Rapunzel sang with wondrous excitement in her voice as she felt the wind in her hair.
Then she started to run across the glassy meadow and through a puddle as she started up her song again with "I could go running and racing and dancing and chasing and leaping and bouncing hair flying heart pounding and splashing and reeling and finally feeling now's when my life begins."
As she finished singing Rapunzel heard clapping as Luffy cheered "Yay! That was amazing! You have a great voice!"
Rapunzel smiled cheerfully to herself. For a pirate he sure was nice, maybe this start would continue to go well and the rest of his crew would get along nicely.
Well, what do you think?
I'll admit my knowledge of One Piece is a bit rusty, but hopefully it will come back to me.
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