A/N: PLEASE READ! ! !
I'm baack! And I've got a new fic for all you lovely people! Plus, it's finished, so you get regular updates! I decided to post the first two chapters today because it's my birthday. You heard right, I'm posting two chapters at once! I know this has been done before, but I put the characters of Hetalia in the plot of Tangled.
Cast List
Rapunzel - Aria, my Ireland OC
Flynn/Eugene - Kiku Honda/Japan
Pascal - himself
Maximus - himself (kinda)
Gothel - Katya/2p!Ukraine
The captain of the guard - Arthur Kirkland/Britain/England
The Pub Thugs - themselves, though I've named the hook-handed thug and the big nose thug.
The Stabbington brothers - themselves, but I've named them.
The Queen - Devnet, my Britannia OC. Devnet is pronounced Dev-nit.
The King - Brannan, my Hibernia OC. Brannan is pronounced Bran-in.
The name I gave the kingdom is Éire. It's pronounced Ay-reh (the first syllable rhymes with day), and is the Irish Gaelic name for Ireland.
Also, for this story, I'm giving Japan Flynn's personality. After all, in a different world, there's no guarantee that he'd have the same personality. I'm also using Flynn Rider as Kiku's alias.
"ITALICS" - Kiku's narration
'ITALICS' - thoughts
"BOLD ITALICS" - singing
Thanks to pastaaddict, whose fic Hetalia Tales 5: Tangled was a big help to me.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Hetalia or Tangled. Sadly.
It was a beautiful summer day in the kingdom of Éire, and Kiku and his fiancé Aria, who happened to the princess of Éire, were enjoying it in the palace gardens. With them were their friends Feliciana, Lovina, Antonio, Ludwig, and Gilbert. Arthur – the captain of the guard, Amelia – Arthur's wife, Madeline - Amelia's sister, Elizabeta - Aria's lady-in-waiting, and Roderich - Elizabeta's husband and the court composer, were with them too.
Kiku was seated on the ground. The others were seated in front of him, except for Aria, who was seated next to him, her chameleon, whose name was Pascal, on her shoulder. Maximus, Aria's German shepherd, sat next to her.
"Hey Kiku, why don't you tell us a story?" Feliciana asked.
"Yes, tell us a story." Ludwig and Gilbert agreed.
"That's sound good to me." Antonio said.
"You actually tell good stories, so I'm okay with it." Lovina said, for once agreeing with her younger sister.
Arthur looked at Kiku. Arthur was Aria's younger brother and it was important to her that he got along with her fiancé. Much to Arthur's surprise, Kiku had become a good friend. And Kiku did tell good stories.
"I'm in." Arthur said.
"I suppose a story couldn't hurt." Roderich told Kiku.
"I'd love to hear a story!" Elizabeta exclaimed.
"A story would be wonderful." Madeline said. Aria and Amelia also agreed.
"Alright. What kind of story should I tell?" Kiku asked.
"One that most of us haven't heard before." Amelia answered.
"I know just the one." Kiku replied. Then he began his story
"This is the story of how I died. Don't worry, this is actually a very fun story, and the truth is, it isn't even mine. This is the story of a girl named Aria, and it starts with the sun."
"Now, once upon a time, a single drop of sunlight fell from the heavens. And from this small drop of sun grew a magical golden flower. It had the ability to heal the sick and injured."
"An old woman named Katya discovered the flower while walking along a craggy hillside. You might want to remember her. She's kind of important."
"Well, centuries passed, and a hop, skip, and a boat ride away, there grew a kingdom called Éire. The beautiful kingdom was surrounded by sparkling blue water, its gentle waves dappled by sunlit skies, and the island itself was rich both in good fortune and an easy harmony among its people. Éire was ruled by the beloved King Brannan and Queen Devnet."
"The people of Éire had recently become especially joyful, as there was news that Queen Devnet was expecting a child. But all too soon, the joy came to an abrupt end. Word spread that the Queen was sick. Really sick. She was running out of time, and that's when people usually start to look for a miracle. Or in this case, a magical golden flower."
"Ah, I told you Katya would be important. You see, instead of sharing the sun's gift, Katya hoarded its healing power and used it to keep herself young for hundreds of years, and all she had to do was sing a special song." Taking off a camouflaged basket that made the flower look like a bush, Katya began to sing to the flower. As she sang, it glowed and she turned younger.
"Flower, gleam and glow. Let your power shine. Make the clock reverse. Bring back what once was mine…what once was mine."
"Alright, you get the gist. She sings to it, she turns young, creepy, right?" One night, as she was singing to the flower, Katya spotted a search party from the kingdom. As the kingdom's search party approached, Katya covered the flower with the camouflaged basket. As she fled, her green lantern knocked the basket over, revealing the flower. Two guards arrived.
"We found it!" yelled one of the guards. Katya watched from the shadows as they lifted the flower and its roots from the dirt.
"The magic of the golden flower healed the queen. A healthy baby girl, a princess was born, with beautiful golden hair. I'll give you a hint: that's Aria."
As Aria lay in her bassinet, she looked up at a mobile with a sun at its center. Hanging from it were a duckling, a dog, a bluebird, a chameleon, and Cupid. Her parents smiled down at her as she giggled at them. King Brannan chuckled in response. Queen Devnet picked her daughter up and brought their faces together, laughing softly. King Brannan placed a beautiful crown made of gold with petal shaped diamonds on Aria's head. Aria laughed as it fell down around her ears.
"To celebrate her birth, the King and Queen launched a flying lantern into the sky. And for that one moment, everything was perfect. And then that moment ended."
That night, Katya snuck into Aria's room. She moved silently to the bassinet where the baby princess slept, pushed the mobile out of her way, and looked down at Aria, praying that she was right. She began to sing.
"Flower, gleam and glow." Aria's hair began to glow.
"Let your power shine." Katya took a lock of the princess's hair in her hand. She could feel herself becoming younger. She then cut the lock of hair.
"Make the clock re…" Katya gasped in shock as the hair she cut and the lock it was cut from stopped glowing and turned red-gold. Katya became old again. She glared into the bassinet.
Woken by their daughter's crying, Brannan and Devnet ran to the nursery. They arrived only to catch a glimpse of Katya as she fled with Aria.
"Katya broke into the castle, stole the child and just like that – gone. The kingdom searched and searched, but they could not find the princess. For deep within the forest, in a hidden tower, Katya raised the child as her own. Katya had found her new magic flower, but this time she was determined to keep it hidden."
Every day, Katya would brush Aria's hair and sing. As the princess grew older, Katya taught her the song. Soon, it became routine for Katya to brush Aria's hair while Aria sang. One night, they sat by the fire as five-year-old Aria sang.
"Save what has been lost. Bring back what once was mine…what once was mine."
Aria finished singing and Katya became young again as she brushed Aria's long glowing hair. "Why can't I go outside?" Aria asked Katya.
"The outside world is a dangerous place, filled with horrible, selfish people.
You must stay here, where you're safe. Do you understand, flower?" Katya replied, still brushing Aria's hair.
"Yes, mommy." Aria answered.
That night Aria tiptoed down a staircase.
"But the walls of that tower could not hide everything." Her blonde hair trailed along the ground behind her as she hurried to a window, creeping past Katya's room. Aria opened the window and stared at the distant lights that floated in the sky. "Each year, on her birthday, King Brannan and Queen Devnet released thousands of lanterns into the sky, in hope that one day, their lost princess would return."