Gothel's knees ached as she stepped over another large tree root, she was looking forward to getting back to her tower where her daughter would be, then she would be able to easily rid herself of the aches in her body along with the thick locks of gray that had recently started to appear in her hair. A few days from then would be her daughter's birthday and she always made sure that she would be there for it, and more importantly she had been gone for several days now and she never liked leaving what she kept hidden in the forest alone for long.
The woman's face scrunched up in disgust as a thick unpleasant odor she could not identify entered her nose, it seemed to be coming from some far off place. She held her nose as she continued forward, perhaps some animal had died and the body had rotted away?
Her heart skipped a beat when she scanned the area to see if the source of the smell was within her sight when she saw the several stacks of black smoke coming from what she knew was the same place her tower was hidden.
She grabbed her skirt with both of her hands to keep herself from tripping and sprinted as fast as she could to her home ignoring how her aging body was screaming for her to slow down.
The basket fell from her hands when she beheld the tower and by extension the area around it. Demonic and ghoulish creatures she had only thought could exist in her nightmares lay about the open field dead, some dressed in strange metallic armor and armed with equally queer weapons, most of them seemed to have been torn to pieces and disemboweled, small fires littered the once untouched green grass and large stones covered in scorch marks lay scattered about as if blown to pieces.
But Gothel's eyes stared transfixed upon the tower that was once her home. The top of said tower was gone leaving just its smoldering base and spine, the remains of her home swayed lightly as the wind brushed passed it, the groan and cracks of the burnt wood and brick signaling the woman that its remains could come crashing down at any moment.
She snapped out of her shocked trance and began to look about for the one thing she literally could not live without. panic was quickly building in her gut as her search only revealed to her more of the grotesque creatures. She stopped herself standing upright to help fight down her growing anxiety, she needed to be logical about this situation. Truthfully she never considered what would happen to her if her Flower were to die, it was something she had procrastinated on forming a solution to for much longer then she should have, but she knew her daughter was a clever girl so she most likely found a way to escape, she was never the kind of person to hide and pray.
With this thought firmly in her mind she began searching again and instead of looking for a corpse she searched for a sign that she had escaped.
As Gothel's search was nearing the hour mark she let out a single laugh of relief. In the mud near the creek several dozen yards from the towers remains was a set of footprints that could only belong to a small, barefoot girl that seemed to be heading towards the cave that led out into the woods.
She was about to break out into a run hoping that her Flower had not gotten far when something else in the mud caught her eye, it was another set of footprints, but these seemed to be left by a set of boots so large they might be wider then her torso, and none of the creatures that she had inspected seemed to match the prints meaning that it was possible that at least one of those hideous monsters were still alive, now that she stopped to look the same boot prints seemed to be everywhere in the area. Had one of the creatures killed the rest of them? But worst of all they were heading in the same direction as her daughter's.
She ran off in a mad sprint praying that whatever those boot prints belonged to it had not caught her, Flower.
Rapunzel laughed and squealed with delight as she cartwheeled down the sunlit hill. She was having without any exaggeration the weirdest day of her life.
And now that the horrifying part of it was out of the way she was loving every second of it.
She collapsed on the ground and let out snort of laughter before sitting up to realize she had become slightly tangled in her hair, she felt Pascal climb up onto her head and let out a small croak near her ear, she glanced up at the small reptile to see him pointing to the top of the hill where the strange knight stood looking down at her.
''Oh, Sorry!'' She called up at him with a wave. She leapt up to her feet and ran up the hill while gathering up her hair. ''I've just always wanted to do that, well to be honest there are a lot of things I've always wanted to do, you know?'' Her smile became forced and awkward once she stood before the giant man. He had yet to make a single sound since she had met him. (or perhaps meet was to strong a word to describe how she ended up in her current situation.) It also didn't help that she could not see his face through the glass visor of his helmet and he had yet to holster the strange weapon he held in his massive fists. ''Is there anything you've always wanted to do?'' She asked timidly.
The Giant turned away without a word and marched deeper into the woods.
Rapunzel let out a humorless laugh in an attempt to hide her discomfort as she ran to catch up with the knight. ''Right, why waste time talking about what we want to do when we can just go do it! Right, Pascal?'' The chameleon gave her a less then reassuring smile.
It had been a rather normal morning for her when the knight and the monsters appeared. She had been in the middle of making lunch for Pascal and herself when a smell more horrid then anything she had ever experienced assaulted her nostrils, she pinched her nose and looked at the small reptile sitting on the table close by, Pascal seemed to be suffering from the stench more then she was, he held both of his paws over his snout and was making a high pitched gagging noise while he began to turn a more pale green.
Just as she was about to investigate where the source of the smell was coming from she let out a shriek as a loud roar erupted in the center of her living room the very air itself split open like a gruesome wound, a swirling red vortex filled the split air while the roaring grew louder.
Rapunzel grabbed hold of her small friend, seized the first object she thought she could use as a weapon and backed into the farthest wall she could find. The very tower began to shake as the noise seemed to be reaching some kind of crescendo, she held out the frying pan she had hastily grabbed during her retreat and brandished it as if it were a sword while clutching Pascal to her chest.
Another shriek escaped her and her companion when a man clad in green armor flew out from the portal and slammed into the tower wall just a dozen feet from her.
The man fell to his knee but quickly stood as if the injury was only a minor inconvenience to him, he was the most peculiar knight she had ever seen. At least she assumed he was a knight, the only knights she had seen were in the picture books she read as a child and she never saw any whom dressed like the one before her now. The armor was bulky and tinted green, it oddly seemed more flexible then the ones she had seen in her stories even though it covered every inch of his body showing no skin or even a hint of where it opened, most of the front of the helmet seemed to be made of some dark glass, scorch and large claw like marks littered several plates of the armor, it wasn't until he stood at his full height that she realized just how massive the man was if she stood chest to chest with him her head would barely reach his collar bone, and the biggest oddity for her was the weapons he carried, the one he held in his hands was a large metal contraption of some sort made of dozens upon dozens of small metal pieces, there was a handle on the bottom with a trigger like the ones she had seen on the crossbows in her books, on the top of the weapon was a rectangular box that seemed to have a glass like material similar to The Knight's helmet at ether end, two metal boxes were attached to its left side, the one closer to the front she did not know the purpose of but the second one which rested closer to the weapons handle had a small opening at the top which seemed to be feeding a belt of odd pointed objects directly into the weapon. She had little time to observe the second weapon strapped to his back when a creature so horrific that she felt nauseous just from the sight alone stepped through the vortex.
The Creature was a massive skeletal like thing wearing an armor chest piece that had what looked to be two metal barrels mounted on the back of it. Its horrible pasty eyes were fixated on the Knight and she was silently grateful for that.
''Doom Slayer.'' The monster hissed just before two red balls of fire launched from the barrels mounted on it's shoulders.
The Knight, or 'Doom Slayer' as the monster knew him dove out of the path of the oncoming flaming projectiles. Rapunzel covered her ears and screamed when the two balls collided with the wall of her tower and exploded almost dropping her friend in the process, destroying the before mentioned wall along with a good deal of her furniture. The knight tucked into a roll after dodging the monsters attack and once he had halted himself he quickly stood with his odd metal weapon raised and attacked.
The noise that came from his weapon was so loud Rapunzel feared she would go deaf, she shrank into a fetal position, still covering her ears and watched as the monster's head seemed to be torn apart by the barrage of seemingly invisible attacks delivered from the Doom Slayer's weapon.
The creature's large body had only just barely touched the ground when more monsters began to climb through the same tear in space as the two before had entered her home through. These monsters were different then the one before, they varied in size, shape, color and even smell. But the one thing they had in common was the apparent desire they all had to kill the Knight.
One of the larger creatures lunged at him, the Doom Slayer let out another barrage of deafening noise from his weapon as he dove out of the creature's path. Rapunzel watched as the Knight began to kill the monsters with practiced ease and horrifying brutality, but much to her dismay it seemed there was no end to the abominations that forced their way into her home.
She covered her mouth in disgust as the Doom Slayer crushed one of the monsters heads beneath his boot when he froze for a beat. She looked down at the floor and felt her heart jump in panic at what had grabbed the Giant's attention. Her golden hair lay just a few feet from the freshly killed monster's pooling blood, the Knight's gaze followed the dizzying tangled path of her hair until she found herself looking directly into the dark glass of his helmet and she knew he was looking right at her, true she could not see hide nor hair of his face but she could feel his eyes burrowing into her.
She must have looked awful. Huddled into a ball at the foot of the staircase, tears staining her eyes and cheeks, clutching Pascal to her chest while the reptile covered its head and shook with fright while her other hand still held her frying pan in some vain hope she could use it to defend herself.
The Doom Slayer tore his gaze away from her when the tear let out another loud roar, the young girl bit back the sudden urge to vomit when the largest monster yet stepped through the tear.
It's head reached the landing of the second floor when it stood upright, its gluttonous body shook repulsively with every one of its waddling steps, it wore a metal chest piece like the first creature that had stepped through the tear her eyes were drawn to the small hole in the monsters chest piece slightly revealing a large organ covered in large yellow boil like growths poorly hidden beneath, but where as the other creature's armor had barrels mounted on its back this one's had two metallic ropes coming out of the shoulder blades of the chest piece and were attached to the creatures gauntlets which held no fingered gloves on the end but instead ended with two deep tunnels which burrowed back into the sleeves of the armor where a strong pale light emitted from within. It's one bright green eye locked almost immediately onto the Knight whom now looked minuscule compared to this new monstrosity, it let out a low guttural roar as the light from its gauntlets began to intensify. A stream of fire jetted out from the monster's gauntlets setting most of the furniture ablaze as well as the curtains leading into the pantry in a vain attempt to burn the Giant as he dodged the flames all the while killing more of the smaller creatures.
Once the fiery assault had ceased the Doom Slayer looked back at her for a moment before grabbing a small oval shaped object on his belt and tucking the large weapon underneath his arm, he lunged towards the corpulent monster and pulled the pin out of the what Rapunzel assumed was another odd weapon he possessed. The Knight ducked underneath a sluggish swipe of the creature's arm and threw his fist forward in a motion that was partially to strike the monster and partially to jam the small weapon into the hole in the creatures chest plate, the Doom Slayer's punch was strong enough to send the creature off balance and make it take several shaking steps backward, as the first off balanced step was taken the Giant released the weapon where it stayed lodged in the now slightly larger hole of his enemies armor and once his hand had separated from the body of the object the small lever on the top popped off with a small ping like noise and flew several inches into the air.
He then turned and ran full sprint at her, moving his weapon from underneath his arm and back into his hand, Rapunzel pressed her back even harder into the wall and began kicking her legs helplessly against the floor in some vain hope of creating more distance between herself and the charging wall of metal man. Then he was upon her, she swung the frying pan in front of her but missed him entirely, she felt one of his massive arms wrap around her waist and pull her off the ground, held her against his side and before she could think to struggle or strike at him to gain her freedom he took a charging leap out the gaping hole in the tower wall beside her sending them both plummeting towards the earth.
Instinctively Rapunzel threw both her arms around the Giant's neck and screamed louder then she could ever remember in her short eighteen years of life fearing this would mean her end, she could feel Pascal cling with all his strength to the shoulder of her dress letting out a high pitched squeal of fright himself.
The Knight fell to one knee when they landed in the mud just a few feet from the creek near the tower, Rapunzel had just stopped screaming when a final shriek ripped out from her throat as she covered her ears with both her hands when the loudest boom she had ever heard echoed throughout the forest. Several stomach churning splats and loud dull thuds followed afterwards.
It wasn't until all was quite that Rapunzel opened her eyes, and the first thing she saw was the armored Giant's chest, with more then a little hesitation she looked up at him. He was looking over his shoulder no doubt to check to see if there was any more danger to come, she felt a small flush come to her cheeks when she realized his arm was still around her stomach.
She felt his grip disappear as he stood an began walking away, the girl sat on her legs in the mud watching the Doom Slayer walk away. He was holding me in front of his chest, she pondered. Was he trying to keep me safe?
She snapped out of her thoughts when Pascal's tongue hit her cheek. She scowled at the reptile as she wiped the saliva from her face. Her hand fell from her limply when she saw the tower which as she suspected was the source of the deafening boom.
The top of the tower was now gone only leaving the spine and several smoldering rocks at the top, the remains of the tower as well as the monsters now decorated the grass in small and large chunks, she vomited into the creek when she saw the half eviscerated head of a monster splattered across a rock close by.
Her breath came to her in short rasping gulps, her home was gone. What was she to do now, where was she supposed to go-
it suddenly dawned on her where she was currently standing. She was outside, for the first time in her life she was outside of her tower. She looked down at the mud and grass she stood in and wiggled her toes giggling slightly at the odd feeling the plant and muck left on her feet. The sound of a snapping branch (or possibly the bone of a severed limb) gained her attention, the Doom Slayer was heading towards the cave that she had seen her mother use countless times. She felt torn suddenly, part of her told herself that she should wait here for Gothel's return that no doubt would be the safest option, but on the other hand following him may be her best chance (and if she were being honest only chance) to explore the world outside her grove and maybe, just maybe if she played her cards perfectly she could convince him to take her to see the lights that would arise in the sky in just a few days.
She glanced at Pascal whom was sitting on her shoulder, the cold-blooded animal shook his head in protest seeming to know exactly which choice she was leaning towards. ''It's not like this mess is going anywhere,'' She said with a grin. ''And who knows? Maybe when we get back Mother will let us rebuild the house on the ground.'' Pascal rolled his eyes and held on tight to her dress as she sprinted after the Giant with a gleeful squeal.
And that's how she found herself walking through the woods getting distracted and wandering off every few seconds by some new anomaly that would catch her eye, but she always made sure she would catch up with the Knight, as excited as she was, being alone out here was still a rather frightening prospect to her.
She looked up at the sun setting sky through the tree branches, they had been walking for the entire afternoon with no real sign of where they were headed. Or rather she had no idea where they were going, if the Giant did he had not said so, in fact he had still not uttered a single word or made any sound at all. ''Um...It just occurred to me that I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Rapunzel.'' She waited. The Doom Slayer kept walking, for all she knew he hadn't even heard her. ''Oh, oh and this is Pascal!'' She plucked the small creature off the top of her head, ran to stand in front of the Knight and presented her friend by holding him out in the palms of her hands. The Doom Slayer tilted his head just enough so that she knew he was looking right at her, his head tilted downward again to look at what sat in her hands. Pascal curled into a shaking ball and changed colors to match that of Rapunzel's skin.
The girl swallowed nervously, even though he had not given any sign that he would harm her or her friend, standing directly in front of the metal man was almost as frightening as the monsters she had seen him kill. The Doom Slayer stepped around the girl and continued into the forest.
Pascal and Rapunzel watched him disappear into a thicker section of the woods, this was the seventh time she had tried talking to him and it was as she expected another utter failure. The reptile turned its head up to the young woman and fixed her with a disapproving look.
''What?'' She asked with a shrug. ''Aren't you even a little bit curious about him?''
Her friend gave a slow almost mocking shake of his head, his front paws crossed over his chest.
''Well like it or not, the safest place I can think of being right now is with him.'' She placed the animal on her shoulder and jogged into the thick foliage to catch up with the mysterious knight.
She didn't have to travel far, the Doom Slayer stood in a small clearing not too far from where he had left her, he was currently laying down a series of stones in a circle, being able to guess his intentions Rapunzel began to gather fallen branches and piling them up next the stone ring. she sat across from the Giant and watched with fascination as he built the fire and lit it by rubbing two of the sticks together. She had built fires herself but she had always lit them with a piece of flint and steel.
Her attention was stolen by the growling of her stomach, she glanced at the Giant and a thought struck her. Was he hungry, did he even get hungry? ''I'm going to go find some food…'' She stood and slowly moved to the edge of the clearing giving a glance over her shoulder as she went. He hadn't even moved from his place next to the fire.
She let out a low harrumph. Would it kill him to at least acknowledge she was speaking to him? Honestly, the only time he ever even interacted with her since they left the tower was when she forced herself into his field of view. Did he even care that she was with him? Part of her reassured herself that he did, because if he didn't why would he slow his pace or even stop and wait for her when she wondered off to inspect the countless things that had drawn her attention that afternoon. She wished he would at least speak though. Could he even speak? Perhaps he was a mute? Was he even human?
That thought froze her in her tracks. What exactly was he in the first place? He had appeared with those...things from who even knew where, so there was no way to tell if he was like one of those creatures.
She shivered and retched at the thought. So what would he look like? A small blush came to her face when she thought of him looking similar to the princes from her fairy tale books, but then she remembered that the men in those stories usually were well spoken and gentlemanly.
Perhaps he looked like the rugged men from the risque books she liked that her Mother hid in her nightstand. That seemed to fit a bit better, tall, dark, adventurous, with a slight amount of stubbly facial hair.
But again for all she knew he could be a three eyed monster with tusks and tentacles for toes underneath that suit.
Delight filled her when she stumbled upon a small blackberry bush, she pulled up her skirt to use it as a makeshift basket and began gathering as much of the fruit as she could.
The sun had completely set when she returned to the fire, the Doom Slayer sat upon a large stone, his arms resting on his legs and one of his weapons draped across his lap. ''I found some blackberries,'' She said with a slightly full mouth, she had already eaten several of the larger ones on her way back. ''Would you like some?''
Rapunzel offered a handful of dark fruit to the man, he looked up from the ground at her, the reflection of the fire danced across his visor giving him an almost hellish look, he slowly shook his head and for the briefest of moments she could almost see the silhouette of one of his eyes and cheekbone, but it was gone so quickly she wasn't even sure it had been there in the first place.
She sat down across from him with her berries and Pascal in her lap she ate and hummed quietly to herself, occasionally she would steal a glance up from the fire at the man but he never moved.
When she awoke in the morning there was a painful crick in her neck, a low groan escaped her as she sat up. This had been the first time she had ever slept anywhere except her bed. She smiled slightly at the sight of Pascal sleeping, curled up in the trail of her hair.
It was much earlier then she normally got up, the sky still held a great deal of pink colors, she wished she had her paints and brushes so she could practice painting the colors of the sunrise, it was always a challenge for her to get them just right.
Her eyes wandered across the now extinguished fire and to the Doom Slayer. He still sat upon the stone and had not moved an inch, if not for the fact that his head was slightly tilted downward she would think he had stayed awake the entirety of the night. Briefly she wondered if he was dead rather then asleep, he gave no sign that he was breathing, his chest did not move and his shoulders didn't rise and fall.
Her gaze fell to the weapon that still rested in his lap, this one was a great deal different then the one he had used back in the tower, the handle was made of wood and was reminiscent of a crossbows, resting horizontally upon the wooden base were two metal tubes stained with what was no doubt blood, from the corner of her vision she saw his other weapon resting against the tree that stood no more then three feet to his left.
She knew she shouldn't, it would be wrong of her to do, but it was much to tempting. She felt Pascal crawl up her dress and yawn once he sat on her shoulder. Slowly and very cautiously she moved around the campfire, Pascal gave a low croak of protest that she tried to ignore as she took hold of the weapon.
It was much heavier then it looked, she almost had to lean backwards to support its weight. She held it the same way she had seen the Doom Slayer had but made sure that she kept her fingers away from the trigger, she noticed that there was a small dial and button just above the trigger, she turned the weapon in every direction she could as she observed it. How did it work? She knew it made a lot of noise, the small objects in the metal box would be fed into the weapon and small metal pieces would fly out its opposite side when the trigger was pulled but that was all she knew.
She felt Pascal tap her cheek, she lightly shook her shoulder to get him to stop but he only intensified his jabbing.
She turned her head to look at him. ''What?'' She said in a whispering hiss. And from the corner of her eye she saw what the reptile was so desperate for her to see.
The Doom Slayer had raised his head and was looking directly at them.
She spun around, eyes wide and slightly pale. She began to babble incoherently, eventually the only thing that she was able to say was a small meager. ''I'm sorry.'' The girl hung her head slightly and held the weapon out to him.
The Doom Slayer rose to his feet and instead of taking back his weapon he walked over to one of the larger trees and picked a pine cone larger than his fist up from the ground and placed it upon a low hanging branch almost level with her head.
He walked back and stood beside her, he lifted his twin tubed weapon up pointing toward the pine cone with his feet apart and knees bent. And then he looked at her.
She watched him for a moment before it dawned on her what he wanted. She shifted her feet until they were roughly shoulder width apart and slightly bent her knees, then held the weapon up so it pointed towards the branch. The Giant reached over to her and turned the dial above the trigger until it clicked twice, then he stood up straight and waited.
She glanced back and forth between him and the pine cone, he gave a single slow nod. She bit back her nervousness as she curled her index finger around the trigger while Pascal covered his ears.
The kick was so strong it knocked her flat onto her rear, her ears were ringing, Pascal had almost been thrown off her shoulder from the force of the weapon and her fall, she was amazed she hadn't dropped the weapon. Much to her surprise the Doom Slayer offered his hand to her, she took the offered hand and pulled herself to her feet with a grunt. She held the weapon awkwardly with one hand so she could rub her now hurt rear with the other one, the Giant cocked his head towards the branch. ''Again?'' She asked discouraged. He gave another slow nod.
Swallowing dryly she assumed the same stance as before but as her finger began to reach for the trigger she froze when one of the Doom Slayer's hands rested atop the weapon and the other came into contact with her shoulder to keep her in place, he moved the weapon back until the end of it firmly pressed against her shoulder, he then moved his hand from her shoulder to her back and placed his other hand on her stomach. Rapunzel flushed as he tilted her forward slightly, this was the first time a man or anyone other then her mother for that matter had touched her. His gentleness surprised her as well, just yesterday she had literally seen this man crush a monster's head with the same fist that now rested against her belly, he handled her like she was a glass figurine, as if one wrong move would break her into a thousand pieces. She bit her lip to keep herself from giggling when he crouched down and adjusted the stance of her legs, he stood and for the first time since they had met she looked him in the face without any sign of fear or nervousness, he gestured to his face with two fingers then pointed to the rectangle box on the top of the weapon.
She pressed her cheek into the cold metal so that she could look into the glass end of the box and found it was like looking into a spyglass with a small blue circle in the center. She raised her head slightly to glance at the Giant, he watched her as still as a statue his own weapon strapped to his back and his arms crossed over his chest. She took a deep breath as she looked through the box again, her hands were shaking making it hard to keep the pine cone inside the blue circle.
The kick rocked her backwards but she was able to keep herself from falling, unfortunately the pine cone still rested on the branch unharmed, she noted that the tree that stood behind the one she was using for target practice now possessed a hole she could easily fit her fist into. How was this weapon so powerful, and on top of that how did it even work? She was starting to suspect that perhaps it was some kind of magic. It wasn't that much of a stretch in logic she decided, after all she had magic hair that glowed when she sang.
She recreated to the best of her abilities the position the Doom Slayer had put her in before she had been knocked off balance, when she felt confident enough that she would not be thrown to the ground again she looked into the box. Her hands were still shaking, her tongue poked out from the corner of her mouth in concentration, she closed one of her eyes, she gripped the weapon tighter but still she could not keep her aim steady.
With a huff of frustration she lowered the weapon so it pointed towards the ground. With a bit of reluctance she craned her head to gaze at the Knight silently seeking his guidance once more.
Without having to utter a single word he seemed to understand. He placed a hand over his chest and as his chest deflated the hand moved down to his belly and when his chest rose with a deep breath the hand slid back up to his chest.
''Deep breaths,'' Rapunzel questioned. ''That's it?'' He gave no answer to her question.
She raised the weapon up and breathed deeply through her mouth, it seemed odd to her that this was what she needed to do to hit her target considering whenever she breathed like this she was out of breath from exercising or she needed to calm herself. But maybe that's exactly what she needed to do was relax, the noise made her ears ring and she didn't like that very much, the kick from the weapon hurt her shoulder and most of all she was nervous about making a fool of herself in front of him.
She closed her eyes and breathed slowly and deeply several times before opening one of her eyes and taking aim, the blue circle inside the box still shook but it was nowhere near as bad as before. Her finger curled around the trigger as she took one final breath.
The pine cone exploded in a spectacular fashion taking a good chunk of the thick branch with it. ''I hit it!'' Rapunzel cheered looking towards the Doom Slayer with a wide toothy grin. Pascal gave a congratulating croak in her ear and clapped his paws together.
The Doom Slayer looked from the remnants of the target to meet her gaze, and held up one hand giving her a small thumbs up.
She smiled bashfully for a moment then handed him back his weapon and spoke with a small blush on her cheeks. ''Thank you.''
He bent down, picked something out of the grass and handed it to her as he took back his weapon. She held it in both of her hands. She knew what it was, it was the things that flew out of the weapon when you pulled the trigger. It was a tube with a closed bottom slightly longer and thicker then her finger and was made of a material similar to copper. .50 FMJ was engraved on the bottom.
She held the hot piece of metal in her hand and watched the Doom Slayer walk into the forest. A soft sigh escaped her lips and a faint pink blush dusted her cheeks as she stared after him.
A noise from her shoulder pulled her away from her faraway gaze. She looked at Pascal who was giving her a look of shock and disbelief.
''What?'' She asked slowly.
With an accusing look on his face Pascal pointed to the Giant then to her, turned bright red and twisted his tail into a heart shape.
Rapunzel's face turned almost as red as Pascal was at that moment. ''I do not!'' She shouted. The reptile cocked his brow at her as he returned to his natural color.
She started to follow the Doom Slayer into the woods the metal tube held tightly in one of her hands. ''I don't!'' She argued. Pascal rolled his eyes with a smug grin.
Yesterday had been without a doubt the weirdest day of their lives. And it now seemed that the weirdness was not going to end anytime soon.