A/N: Beep, beep hop in loser we're off to the magical world of crossover couples, the only couples I ever seem to ship. Rapunzel and Merida are my two favorite Disney ladies and the only three that even come close to the love I have for the two are Anna, Belle and Mulan. Obviously I must pair them together, obviously. The drabbles are set in all kinds of AU's and if they're hard to guess I'll tell you what it is in the author note. The length may range from 50-100 drabbles and I hope you enjoy it!
Disclaimer: Brave and Tangled are the individual properties of the animation studios Disney and Pixar, Pixar is owned by Disney. Both are owned by Disney, but that's beside the point, the point is if I owned them I sure as hell wouldn't be writing fanfiction about the two because all of my fantasies would be so cannon it'd tear a hole in the space-time continuum. Disclaimer over.
A wisp, that's what appeared in front of Merida and she looked around nervously, she was deep in the forest, completely alone if you didn't count Angus and she had no idea what kind of fate could be waiting for her under these conditions. The last time she'd followed wisps through the forest she'd been a young lass and she'd nearly gotten herself killed and her Father's leg bit off. She wasn't too eager for such events to repeat themselves, especially since her Father was nowhere nearby and if she did get into trouble she'd be on her own when it came to dealing with it.
Her grip on her reigns tightened as she stared at the little blue fairy like creature that continued to beckon her forward with distrust and hesitance. But what showed on her face wasn't all she felt inside, there was also longing, longing to know if a fate awaited her that was different than the one she faced everyday under her Mother's careful watch, she wondered if this wisp would lead her to something more meaningful than a life of dresses and properness and fake smiles. This wisp, it was dangerous because it was tempting and it offered Merida hope, and maybe an escape and these thoughts were what prompted her to make her steed take a step forward, and then another and another until the wind was whipping her hair in every direction and Angus was panting as they followed the disappearing and a reappearing wisps through the forest and to Merida's fate.
She almost didn't care what the wisps led her to as long as it was something unlike the plan her Mother seemed to have for her life, if it be bad she came to it willingly and if it was good she'd thank every God and deity there was, but as she came to a part of the forest unknown to her and the wisps began to lead to what looked like a rock wall Merida thought for once that maybe her Father was right and that things such as magic were all just tricks of the eyes and mind searching for things that were not there.
She tried to stop Angus smoothly before they made contact with the rock but the horse stopped quickly and Merida was thrown off and forward with a startled cry.
Her hands raised to cover her face and she hit the ground hard, but she hadn't made contact with any rock wall, no, the wall had been nothing more than a cave entrance with vines covering it. Or that's what Merida thought as she carefully pushed herself to her hands and knees with a groaned pain only to find yet another wisp beckoning her forward once more and she noticed that there was light streaming in from the other side of the 'cave' which she realized now was more of a small tunnel. She bit her lip looking back towards the vines where she saw the silhouette of her horse nervously standing just outside the entrance of the tunnel and she wondered if she should just forget the wisps and ride back home but it took only a second for her to decide that coming so far and walking away now would be silly and she slowly got to her feet.
"You better lead me to something good." The red-head muttered as she parted the vines and stepped into the prettiest little clearing she'd ever seen with flowers abundant and a beautiful waterfall behind a very, very tall tower. And as if the tower itself wasn't strange enough, at the very top of it was a window, which seemed to be the only entrance and cascading from the window was unbraided rope that looked soft to the touch and caught the light of the sun making it seem like liquid gold as it fluttered lightly with the wind.
When Merida walked closer to it and reached out in silent awe to touch it and it slipped through her fingers like the finest silk she gasped realizing it was hair.
And she gasped again when she looked up, searching for the owner of such strange and beautiful locks and found a girl, who couldn't be much older than she was, precariously leaning out of the tower's window with an expression of both amazement and terror. Both were frozen as they tried to take in every detail of each other from such a long distance and at the same time one thought crossed their minds as the last wisp disappeared.
'Wow'.
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