A small sigh escaped the lips of Rapunzel as she put the finishing touches to her hair; she pulled her paint brush away before smiling softly at her latest of murals coating the walls of her tower. It consisted of her sitting in a tree watching the floating lights up close instead of locked away in her tower as it had been for her entire life. The blonde sighed to herself again; her seventeenth birthday was in six months, though to her it might as well have been a billion years. Six months until the floating lights would rise up in the sky for fifteen glorious minutes of her life, she felt as if she was in her own little world, it was magical. "But it would be even more magical if you were there in person" Rapunzel said out loud to herself. She slapped a hand quickly over her mouth, how dare her conscience say that. "You know what mother says is out there" Rapunzel began arguing with herself, "There's ruffians and Thugs and cannibals and…and…" She stuttered a little, another breeze had just swept by, bringing up the smell of fresh grass. It was intoxicating. Rapunzel had always wondered what fresh grass felt like. She remembered her mother bring a handful of blades to her once, she had spent the next couple hours rubbing the grass on her face, her pads of her feet, and between her toes. Though, it still hadn't filled that wonder part of her enough, she actually needed to be there for it to be complete. A grimace spread across Rapunzel's features, was she always going to have false hopes at the end of all her dreams, it couldn't be…it just couldn't be. The blonde stood up straight and puffed out her small chest with her fists clenched at her sides, now determined from the gutsy decision she had just made. "Get anything you may need Pascal". The chameleon squeaked from the bed in confusion, "We're leaving" Pascal replied in high pitch protest, one that made Rapunzel freeze from the activity she was going.
"I just can't stay here anymore Pascal" Rapunzel softly said, the chameleon squeaked another protest speech to her. "Don't worry I wouldn't leave permanently" Pascal raised an eyebrow in disbelief, "We will come back. I just want to go get a glimpse of the world, see if I am really too weak to handle myself out there as mother says I am, please?" The chameleon looked to his pleading friends face. He had made a vow to always watch over Rapunzel after she had saved him when he had escaped from some animal smugglers and was on the brink of death. This was her dream though; could he really deny her this chance to live her dream? Pascal sighed to himself; he sure hoped he knew what he was doing. Pascal climbed up to her shoulder and nuzzled against chin in approval, Rapunzel kissed his tiny scaly in thanks. "Wait! No I shouldn't be doing this! I should definitely not be doing this! What about mother? Will her poor heart take it? I can't let her heart break" she said snapping out of her determination. The conflicted young woman didn't even see Pascal roll his eyes at her sudden change in heart, that's all he needed, another one of her conflicts with herself. She just couldn't do this to Mother Gothel! The woman, who had raised her and cared for her, always told her she loved her. This would just break her mother s heart! She couldn't do that, could she? She gulped as she held her frying pan close to her chest. The blonde's feet betrayed her as they kicked her massive hair out the window, creating the perfect way for her to escape her door less tower. Just one slide down and she could fully be a part of this world. One of her feet immediately hooked around her hair, "No you don't, get back here!" She exclaimed to her foot, but only have her other foot loop into the golden locks, "Oh this is happening! This is happening!" Rapunzel panicked as her body betrayed her commands as hand over hand, she began climbing down her makeshift rope. However, once the blonde finally calmed her mind and wheezing breath, she actually began enjoying this. Rapunzel felt with every inch she was climbing down, more and more invisible weight was taken off her shoulders, it was the taste of close freedom. Rapunzel began giggling excitedly as she was now only a few feet away from the ground, from her fantasy land. Though she came to an abrupt halt her eyes wide as she looked down at the grass in terror unsure if how it would feel against her bare feet, the blonde gulped before nervously placing her foot down cautiously and then her other. "I can't believe I'm doing this" she squealed her eyes widening in joy before she pulled down her massive hair where it landed behind her in pile. A wide smile crossed her lips as she began to twirl around in joy before she joyfully ran out of the cove. It didn't take long before the blonde stopped short and stood against a tree holding her frying pan loosely in her hand "I'm a despicable daughter. I'm going back." "I am never going back!" she squealed cartwheeling down a hill shortly after. Rapunzel hummed softly to herself before her brow furrowed as the ground started to vibrate…..wait vibrate? She blinked perplexed before Pascal hid in her hair as the noise got closer. "Thugs! Ruffians! Men with pointy teeth! Why didn't I listen to mother!" she managed to say fear already consuming her as she bolted through the forest not even looking back as the noises got closer. The blonde looked around as she found herself on the top of a water fall. She panted softly and felt dread and panic filling her by the minutes. Her eyes widened as the noises got closer and a small shriek escaped her lips as a group of men dressed in uniforms and a frighteningly large muscular white horse emerged from the forest. The blonde backed up as they approached before Pascal let out a little squeal but it was all too late as the blonde lost her footing and screamed as she fell backwards into thin air and only to splash into the river. Rapunzel struggled to keep a float and spat out water as the current brought her farther away. With her luck she might end up being dragged out to sea.
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