It wasn't exactly what they wanted, but it was a tower, and a tower meant escape. Luckily, two of the three could fly, the boy carrying his staff yanked the fiery princess into his arms and they whooshed up and dove through the open window. There was just one problem, the other boy and his dragon. "Hiccup, you need to leave Toothless outside."

"He might be spotted!" Hiccup argued in a whisper.

"Just. Do. It!" Jack said through gritted teeth.

Hiccup sighed, patting Toothless on the side, he instructed his dragon to hide on the roof before leaping through the window, landing in a tangled mess on the floor.

"Okay, so, where are we?" He asked.

"Shh." Jack spun around, "this place is occupied…"

A loud clang resounded in the room, Merida and Hiccup started, turning to see a blonde girl staring at them, a heavy metal pan lying at her feet.

"Wait, wait- don't scream, it's not what you think! I swear." Hiccup said urgently, "we just… we… well… we needed a place to hide! There are bad people after us. Please.. can you hide us?"

Jack rolled his eyes, if only this girl could see him. "I doubt she is going to let that happen. We are, after all, complete strangers."

Merida sighed, "You don't know!"

The blonde blinked in confusion and eyed the space Merida was talking to –nothing was there. "Who are you?" she asked, feeling defenseless without her pan. She tried to reach down for it without them noticing, but that wasn't happening. They watched her fingers grope for the pan handle.

"Uh…" Hiccup said, intelligently, "We are just travelers. I-we-just… need hide!"

Merida closed her eyes with a groan, "What he means is, if we could just hide out here for a little while until the storm blows over."

"How do I know you aren't after my hair?!" The blonde girl suddenly demanded. Jack blinked, "what? Did-did she just say hair? Why…?" he trailed off, his eyes following the long rope of flaxen hair that disappeared into the dark tower. "Uhm…"

"We don't want your hair," Merida said, stepping forward, "we just need to hide. Though I would rather shove an arrow through our enemy' eyes."

Jack muffled his laugh, when the blonde girl's eyes widened in surprise, "Pft, being the invisible third party is actually really amusing."

Merida shot him a glare, causing more confusion to flit on the blonde's face.

"What's your name?" Merida asked, "I'm Merida," she offered her hand, something Jack had taught her.

"I'm…"

"Rapunzel?" A voice called from far below.

Hiccup jumped away from the window, "who is that?"

"My mother!" Rapunzel said, rushing to the window, "oh no… no, she can't find you here."

"Where do we go?" Hiccup asked.

"I.. Uhm.."

"Rapunzel? Where are you?"

"One minute, mother…" She turned, and shrieked.

"What? What's wrong?" Hiccup and Merida both asked.

"Who… who?" She pointed at Jack, who she just now noticed.

"Wait… why can she see me?" Jack asked.

"Ehm… magic?" Merida offered, shrugging.

"Thanks," Jack rolled his eyes.

"That doesn't matter!" Hiccup interrupted, before Merida could shout, "we need to take cover!"

"What about that room?"

"No! That's my bedroom…" Rapunzel scampered away from the window, thinking. "Okay, in here!" She opened the wardrobe.

"Uh… you're kidding right?" Jack said, "That's tiny! We'll never fit."

"Just get in! My mother can't see you."

"Well, she won't anyway…"

"Jack, if Rapunzel suddenly saw you, there may be powers at play we don't understand." Hiccup said, "better safe than sorry."

Merida nodded in agreement, "you never know what might happen."

Jack sighed, "alright, but if it gets weird, I'm leaving."

Rapunzel released an aggravated sigh and with more power than any of the three thought possible, she shoved them tightly into the wardrobe, "enough! Just be quiet." She said, slamming the doors shut. Hiccup blinked; somehow he had managed to get his face crammed into the back of Jack's hoodie, each and every one of their limbs were contorted in ways they never thought possible, it was painful to say the least. Merida and Jack were doing their best not to kick each other. Jack's face was jammed into Merida's hair, making it hard to breathe, and he was sitting on Hiccup, while Merida was practically in Jack's lap, her face inches from the door and her hands pressed the walls of the wardrobe, keeping herself from falling out or worse, further onto Jack and making the whole situation that much more unbearable.

"Well… this is awkward," Hiccup said, his voice muffled.

"Awkward," Jack spit out a curl of Merida's hair, "doesn't even begin to cover it."