Tower life
Ch 1 Free.
Rapunzel POV
"Are you all right?" Gothel asked, worried. I emerged from my room and held on to the curtain that acted as my door.
"I am the lost princess." I breathed softly.
"Oh, please speak up Rapunzel; you know how I hate the mumbling." Gothel said, annoyed.
"I am the lost princess, aren't I?" I asked in a louder, hard tone. Gothel's eyes grew wide. "Did I mumble, mother? Or should I even call you that." I hissed.
Gothel chuckled, "Oh Rapunzel, do you even hear yourself? Why would you ask such a ridiculous question?"
I shoved her against the wall. "It was you! It was all you!" I said.
"Everything I did was to protect you." She emphasized.
I shoved her out of my way, "Rapunzel." She yelled.
"I have spent my entire life hiding from people who would use me for my power…"
"Rapunzel!"
"…when I should have been hiding, from you!"
"Where will you go? He won't be there for you." She stated.
"What did you do to him?"
"That criminal, is to be hanged for his crimes."
"No." I gasped.
"Now now, listen to me, it's all right. Everything is as it should be." She said as she attempted to soothe me. She tried to pat my head. I grasped her hand.
"You were wrong about the world, and you were wrong about me, and I will never let you use my hair again." She struggled out of my grasp, and slamming into the mirror, broke it into hundreds of razor sharp shards. Realizing what I had to do, I picked up a large shard.
"And do you know why I'll never let you use my hair again?" She just looked at me. I showed her the shard. "Because it is no longer mine." Before she could stop me, I grabbed my hair just above my waist and sheared it with the shard of mirror. Sixty-eight feet of my hair hit the floor and instantly began to turn brown. The hair on my head turned a vivid brown as Gothel screamed.
She gathered up my hair as if she could keep it gold if she pinched it just right. She instantly began to age; hair turning white and her skin wrinkly and gray. "What have you done?" She shrieked as she made her way to the window. I ran to stop her, but before I could, she launched herself out the window. I ran to the window to watch as she turned to dust before she hit the ground.
I breathed a sigh of relief. "I'm free. I'm free from Gothel forever!" I laughed out loud. I danced around my tower. I tied my severed hair to the hook and read. An hour later I heard galloping hooves, Max and Eugene. A minute later, I heard Eugene call my name. "Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair!" He had a tone of urgency to his voice.
I opened the window and let my hair out of it. He climbed it quickly. "Rapunzel, I thought I'd never see you again!"
I leapt into his arms and kissed him. "Rapunzel, your hair!" he exclaimed as he saw that my hair was shorter and a different color.
"Yes Eugene, I'm free from Gothel forever. I love you Eugene. I am the lost princess Eugene. I want to go to my parents." I stated.
"You can't!" he warned.
"Wha, why not?" I asked, alarmed.
"As I was coming to save you, the kingdom was invaded. Your mother and father have gone into hiding, and we must stay here."
"Ok."
He eyed the tower. "Could you give me a tour of our new home?" he asked enthusiastically.
"Of course," I said as I led him around the tower. I showed him the kitchen and pantry, the dining room, my room, Gothel's old room, and my little library.
"Nice place we have here." He said. "We just have to make it sustainable."
"Ok. We have fertile land for the garden that we'll need, fresh water, and a home." I said.
"We just don't have trees." He stated.
"Your right, but we do have Max." at that moment, Max neighed sadly. We slid down my hair to the ground. Max stood at the base of the tower with his head hanging low. "Everything is going to be alright Max." He looked at me with mournful eyes. Eugene walked around the tower. When he found the old entrance, he proceeded to remove the rocks that sealed it. I walked up to him. "I'm going to go to the market and buy some seeds and things with the money that Gothel had before the invaders arrive." I said.
"Ok my dear." He said as he kissed me.
I climbed back up my hair and grabbed a couple of things. I grabbed Gothel's cloak, her basket, some of the money that she had stored in her old room, and a long bit of strong rope. I slid back down my hair laden with these things. Eugene had half of the doorway cleared when I was back on the ground. I took off Max's royal insignia and laid them carefully on the ground, leaving just his saddle and bridle. He seemed to understand what we were doing. I donned the cloak and pulled the hood over my hair. I held onto my basket as I mounted Maximus. Taking his reins in my hands, I guided him in the direction of the hidden entrance of our little sanctuary. We broke through the wall of vines, and began our trek to the market.