The Moon Meets the Sun
Summary: Prince Eugene meets Princess Rapunzel for the first time at her christening. Seeing her as nothing but a giggling infant who can't help but play with his nose, he thinks of her as just a annoyance. Until they get older and a friendship blossoms into something more.
*Universe where none of the movie/show events happened.
Prolouge
Long ago both a sun drop and a moon drop were given to earth from heaven. However the moon drop was dangerous so nobody messed with it in the fear of the destruction it would cause. Unlike it's destructive opposite, the sun drop healed the sick and injured only to be harvested by a greedy woman named Mother Gothel who wanted it for herself.
Centuries passed and five years after the birth of Prince Eugene in the dark kingdom or Moonshine as people called it, the kingdom of Corna was facing their own heartache. Queen Arianna was very sick. Fearing of losing his beloved and his first born, King Frederick had sent out his guards to find the sun drop.
And they did, resulting in a baby girl being born. The giggling infant loved her parents so and to celebrate her birth, Ariana and Frederick had lit a lantern into the sky. For the moment, everything was perfect.
And it almost ended but Frederick had stayed up to watch his wife and child sleep, hearing singing and a bright glow from his daughter's hair, seeing Mother Gothel, who was thought of as dead by this time, change from elderly to young again.
"Step away from my daughter!" He shouted, taking the infant from her cradle and stroked her hair.
Mothel Gothel refused, insisting that his little girl was the sun drop and tried to grab for the child.
The infant's wails of terror alerted the guards and Mother Gothel was arrested on the spot. Frederick calmed down his daughter by stroking her hair, telling her that she was the sun drop. Well her hair was.
Being an infant, she didn't understand what he meant but relaxed in his arms. The woman that tried to take her would never be near her again.
Before her execution four days after the infant's birth, Mother Gothel had been forced to sing the song she had sung the night she had unsuccessfully attempted to kidnap the unarmed princess as Ariana was alarmed at her daughter's glowing hair before smiling softly at Frederick.
Their little girl had a gift. A great gift that they would make sure that nobody took advantage of for their own benefits ever again.
And with such a gift, the king and queen crowned their baby girl with the name Rapunzel who stuck her foot in her mouth to nibble on happily in agreement.