Father Time murdered. His killer suffered the same fate. Guardians in peril. And Jack Frost stranded in a distant past with an immortal wound. When the misunderstood villain Horatius was no more, his two accomplice, Hercules and Sir George, continued his absurd quest to kill the three maidens in the past to save the world from the dark future.

Part 1 of 8: The Girl

"Hurry! Hide!" The girl with golden long hair pushed Jack inside a closet, hiding him from her mother. "If she sees you, you'll be dead."

Then Jack told her. "But I'm not alive anymore, I mean. I'm a winter spirit. Did you forget?"

The girl Rapunzel pushed him hard inside the closet and immediately shut it.

Mother Gothel called her sweet girl again, "Rapunzel! Let down your hair! How many times do I have to call you?"

"I'm here! I'm here, mother!" Rapunzel threw her hair down for her mother to climb on. Once the old woman came in, she was greet by the blond girl with a tight embrace.

"Mother! You got back early."

Mother Gothel said, "I was away for almost an hour now, flower."

"Oh, right."

Then they heard a loud sneeze. Rapunzel froze still, keeping her arms around her mother. However, Gothel tried to push her away. "What are you doing, Rapunzel? Did someone sneeze?"

"No! It was I!" Rapunzel said, trying to cover Jack. "It is just me… I sneezed. It is pretty dusty. Need more cleaning." The young girl picked up a brush and start cleaning up the place.

"What have you been doing, child? I thought you cleaned the place already while I was away." Gothel said.

What Rapunzel did for the past thirty minutes was listening to Jack's stories and his adventures across time. She doesn't believe his stories but she believes in his powers. Jack showed her his tricks with those ice. Rapunzel has never seen something like that.

"Rapunzel? Answer me." Gothel said.

"Oh, I was reading…"

"Which book?"

"I can't remember. I read a lot of books."

Gothel glared at the book shelves. "We have only three."

Rapunzel made an awkward laugh, trying to keep it cool. However, her mother immediately knows what she's doing.

"You are hiding something." Mother Gothel turned and started looking around.

"No! I'm not hiding anything!" But that doesn't stop Gothel from searching the place. She went to Rapunzel's bedroom and checked everything inside. While her mother was busy, the closet opened and Jack came out with distress. He exhaled and coughed after coming out from it.

"You didn't clean the closet." He commented.

"Hey! I cleaned a few minutes ago." Rapunzel reacted.

"Who are you talking to, my dear?" Mother Gothel saw her child talking to a wall alone.

"I…" Rapunzel noticed that Gothel can't see Jack. "You… you can't see him?"

Jack Frost just stayed there floating beside the blond girl.

"Rapunzel, I did not know you have an imaginary friend." Mother Gothel assumed because her little flower was always alone in the tower. "Now tell me… what's your friend's name?"

"Um… Jack." Rapunzel answered, still confused.

Acting like she's an understanding mother, Gothel imagined that her daughter's imaginary friend greets her and so she greets back. "Hello, sir Jack. How did you know about my daughter?"

Jack remained silent, trying not to make a sound.

Without a replay, Gothel said. "Okay. You two met at the tower. A traveler with stories of the outside world." Mother Gothel plays along. "You are so adorable, Rapunzel. Making your imaginary friends. I see this boy is pretty handsome. Let me guess. Silver hair. Blue eyes. Great smile."

Rapunzel wanted to say Jack was not imaginary but then she turned and saw the winter spirit waving his hands, telling her to stop.

So she did.

"Yes. My imaginary friend. You know how things go when you are alone in the tower for sixteen years." Rapunzel said with a smile.

"Right." Mother Gothel went up to her room to wash herself. "Just prepare for our meal. I really hungry after a long walk to the market."

"Okay, mother." Rapunzel kept on smiling until Mother Gothel went inside her room and shut the door. Then the girl sighed, knowing her mother did not suspect anything. Jack flies around the place checking her paintings on the wall, almost the entire room was filled with colorful drawings. "You made all of these?"

"Yeah. Do you like it?"

"Sure. But I'm not into art or anything but… this is fantastic." Jack commented.

"Which one do you like?"

The winter spirit looked around to see which is better. Then he saw one just above the fireplace. "Oh, I like that one." Jack can feel something about the painting. A hidden feeling. Mixed with loneliness and curiosity. A picture of Rapunzel watching the sky lanterns. "You like Sky Lanterns, right?"

"Lanterns? Those are lanterns?"

"You didn't know." Jack can now see the big picture. She has an overprotective mom. "How long are in here? I mean, have you been-?" But he was interrupted in mid-sentence.

"Tell me! Tell me all about it!" Rapunzel wanted to know. She's curious like a cat. "Why are those laterns appear in every birthday?"

"Whoa! Whoa!" Jack wanted to tell her he has no idea what those floating lights are or where it came from. "I don't know. I just know they are Sky Lanterns made by the Chinese. They call it… what's that name, um… Ko. Koming.. Ah! Kongming lantern." Jack got that information from watching Discovery Channel.

Then the girl asked, "What are Chinese?"

Meanwhile, a thief was on the run for his life. He stole a crown from a grand castle along with two thugs who he ditched them a few minutes ago. Then he heard horses coming to his direction. The castle guards are after him.

"Oh, boy." The dashing Flynn Rider ran deep into the woods, trying to lose them however, the horse of the high guard somehow manage to find him. It is strange but that stallion has some good nose. He can smell the stench of the culprit.

Flynn went to the bushes, trying to lose the horse but it was no use. The horse gallops over the bushes, getting close to the thief. "What kind of animal are you?"

Then, with an unexpected turn, a powerful orange light appeared right in front of him. The horse stopped and neighed in terror as a large man came out from the blinding light. Flynn manage to stop right away before he bumped the big guy. "Um, hello?"

He looked at the man's massive muscles and armor. He looked like a Viking. Flynn tried to talk to him, "Thanks for the help, man. You scared that bothersome horse away." The thief said, trying to catch his breath.

Then the larger man speaks, "Eugene Fitzherbert?" He mentioned the thief's real name.

"What? How did you know my name?" Flynn began to feel uncomfortable.

"Just now." The large man grabbed the thief and pulled out his axe.

"Whoa! Whoa, wait! What are you going to do with that?"

The man answered, "Change history."

Right back to the tower, immediately, Jack felt the gem glow in his pocket. He reached for it to see what's wrong. "Oh, no." Jack starts to understand the gem's extreme glow.

"Why? What is it?" Rapunzel asked.

The gem spoke. Timeline has been changed.

"They are here." Then a flash of light opened right in front of them, starting to consume everything around it. "What happened? What did I do wrong?" Jack watched as the entire tower room crumbling into the bright light. It is the same light that caught Tooth. Behind him, Rapunzel froze in fright and confusion as she saw the incoming bright tendrils.

"What is that?" The girl asked.

"I... I don't know." Jack tried to pull himself together and think of a way out. The guardian grabbed the girl and flew away from the white vortex. It started to pull everything into it like a black hole. The tower, the mountains, the entire forest and the entire land are pulled right in to that luminous vortex.

Unfortunately, it was too strong for the guardian to get away. He embraced the blond girl tight and told her "Hold on."

And she did. Tight like a baby holding on to her mom.

The two were pulled towards the ominous light and disappeared.

The past and the future are gone.

There is only now.

TO BE CONTINUED