Witness

Chapter Two

Tangled

Rapunzel sighed, kicking her legs in sync as she sat upon her balcony, Pascal gazing at her. Rapunzel was pretending she could feel the grass under her feet, as she was eighteen, but had never been outside her tower. Her tower situated in the middle of nowhere, Rapunzel could leave and explore the whole world.

She could find out everything. Like what the floating lights were that she saw every year on her birthday, what those creatures were that flew across the sky and those blue things she once saw. It had been a brief time when she was younger.

Her Mother had left to get some water from nearby and Rapunzel had been staring out her window again. Out of nowhere she saw blue floating things appear, leading up to her tower. Later on she'd asked Mother who jumped, but after understanding nobody saw Rapunzel, responded that they were mere flying creatures. The way she reacted after Rapunzel had told her still made Rapunzel question if Mother had told her the truth.

Rapunzel sighed, what was the truth? Her eighteenth birthday was tomorrow - surely Mother would let her go out this time? Just this once? So she could get answers? Today was a very big day, she was finally going to ask her Mother those questions, especially about going outside. Even accompanied by Mother at all times, so nobody would kidnap her and use her for her hair. Her magic hair that could heal injuries and make people younger - which she did with Mother more often than never.

She drew her legs from the window when she saw Mother emerging from the cave, Mother wouldn't be happy she'd been sat on her window ledge - not knowing that that very day she'd spark on an adventure with three others, one of whom she'd fall in love with, and discover the truth about everything. Including her true life. With that one simple sigh, came a wish. To discover the truth and discover it - she would.

"This is a very big day Pascal." Rapunzel climbed up her fireplace and sat beside it, putting away her paints that she'd used to paint her latest mural. Her chameleon climbed onto her hand giving her a look of confusion. She giggled, "I'm finally gonna do it," Pascal climbed up to her shoulders as she looked upwards, as though the lanterns were calling her, "I'm gonna ask her!"

"Rapunzel!"

Brave

"Yah!" Merida called out as she scrambled on to her horse, Angus, who neighed back to her and rode through the Kingdom of Dun'Broch, the kingdom was preparing flags, music, outfits for tomorrow was the birthday of the girl who went missing what was it? Twenty years ago now? Merida had been born two years later – she just didn't care about the girl, she didn't care about anyone. The only reason the kingdom as celebrating was because that day was the day a dragon mad epeace with members of the kingdom – though not all of them believe it.

Merida didn't care about dragons either. As she was the princess, she wasn't allowed to take any part with dragons, not the killing, not the training. Every time there was an attack, she'd be forced to hide away in the castle. Though, it didn't bother Merida - it meant her princess lessons were cancelled if Dragons attacked, but today was one of the few days that came around when she could be whatever she wanted to be. No princess lessons. No Kingdom schedules. A day she could change her fate.

She rode Angus out of the walls of Dun'Broch, the Glen calling her name as the wind whispered: Merida. She got an arrow and unhooked the bow from around her body and started shooting arrows into targets she'd set up in the forest. Hitting them each time, sometimes right through arrows, but this happened only every so often. Last week was her example, she'd discovered she'd be forced into a marriage with one of the Lord's sons, at the ceremony where they were introduced – wee Dingwall, wee Macintosh and wee MacGuffin, she learnt that only the first born of each of the great leaders could take part. As she was the first born of Fergus, she took part. She decided archery was the competition and hit the bullseye three times. Her mother had shouted at her, and invited the Lords to stay for a week for Merida to turn around on the idea. The week ended tomorrow. Her decision was final – she did not want to marry them.

That's why she made the most of days she could get out of the castle, get out of Dun'broch. Wherever she went, she could be herself. Not Princess Merida of Dun'brcoh soon to be married to one of the Lord's sons. She could be Merida. That was it and that was how she liked it.

She sighed as she carved an engraving on her bow, as her horse rolled around next to her. Archery was another thing she liked, but according to her Mother she was a Princess, a Lady, who should not be doing activities such as Archery, all Merida could say was, 'Who cares?' She'd been doing archery since she was little, she briefly remembered her birthday when her Father handed out a bow to her, Merida frowned. Why could her Father understand her, but not her Mother?

All of a sudden, Angus stood up and growled. "Angus?" Merida asked hesitantly, "What is it?" She asked, looking around. In the forest nearby she heard someone call something, a name, an activity. Rider. She also heard a horse's neigh, not Angus. Another horse. It sounded like one of the palaces horses. "Angus, we have to get out of here." She partially told herself, mounting Angus. Just because she didn't want to be a princess, that didn't mean she was a tomboy or that she had no fear. Brave, yes, but nobody looked for danger.

She waited awhile and no noise came, except the sound of fire-breathing overhead. She looked up, Dragons. Lots of them, heading for Dun'Broch, luckily none of them could see her, in the darkness overshadowing now, caused by the smoke and that Winter was coming up. Merida had to get out of here. Fast.

Angus saw them too and ran, just as a purple flame headed towards them after what sounded like a dragon aimed for them, Angus ran through the forest. Merida kept her head down, trying to stay aware, but terrified all the same time.

Merida heard a girl scream, she looked up and saw a blonde girl, look at Angus and look backwards and carry on running, what? Merida stayed ducked on her horse again, as Angus continued downwards, not following the mysterious girl.

Angus came to a sudden stop after about thirty seconds, and Merida got thrown off Angus, her dress designed by her Mother getting covered in mud and ripping. She cried in pain and looked up at her horse, who looked more terrified than she had been only a few seconds ago. "Angus!" She cried out, her voice sounding weak from her crying. Angus neighed and stayed a safe distance from her. I was only then she realised they were in the middle of a Stonehenge, which Merida had never seen before.

She looked back to her horse in confusion, who looked to the side of her, it was then she heard a tiny high-pitch noise. Calling her name. Merida gasped, she'd only seen a will' o the wisp once, she recognised it. A dream or a distant memory. As she got closer and went to touch it, it vanished and revealed a trail of the blue wisps, all calling her to follow them. The legend was they lead you to your fate, as Merida knew the dragons were long gone in Dun'Broch and she was safer in the forest, she knew. She had to follow them. She needed to.

She looked back to where Angus should've been, but her horse was gone. Maybe he wants to hide from the dragons, Merida knew Angus had a history of dragons attacking the barn and actually killing his mother, Merida shrugged and followed the wisps. They'd take her to where she needed to go. They'd lead her to her destiny.

She followed them round a corner, not recognising the part of the woods she was in. Missing a footstep in some mud, a footstep of an old woman. A woman on her way to get some paints. For a girl whom she'd never let leave a tower. Merida missed an important clue as the wisps lead her to a wall of vines. "Why would the wisps lead me here?" She said aloud, looking around and touching one of the vines. It showed no wall behind it, so Merida proceeded beyond the wall of vines.

She took a look around the cave it had lead her to, a dark, cold cave where the breeze seemed to gather. She placed her feet, one in front of the other, which lead her to the large opening in the middle of the forest, completely bare, with a waterfall in the corner and the sun gazing upon it. Though, Merida was staring at the large tower stood in the middle of the canyon opening, she walked up to it, maybe someone was in it who could help her change her fate.

As she reached it, she realised it was taller than she first realised, so she got two of her arrows, wrapping her hands around them tightly and began to climb the wall of the tower. When she reached a window, she pushed it open gently, not wanting to fall backwards, or forwards on her face for that matter, she was still aching after Angus threw her. She stepped into the tower, not seeing the Blonde girl, with her hand clasped tightly over a thief named Flynn Rider's mouth, holding a frying pan in her other hand. She barely had time to call out for someone, when she saw something dark out of the corner of her eye that hit her.

How To Train Your Dragon

Hiccup exhaled slowly, going over the events that had taken place over the last hour or so. He remembered waking up to find his Dad had returned to Berk, swearing he'd find the Dragon's nest before the 9-month long winter. That and he'd found out that day he was going to kill a dragon. In front of the entire village. Tomorrow. To celebrate a dragon being nice, which made zero sense.

Also, as he was a friend of hers, he'd been sent out to find Merida, who he hadn't talked to for five years after they just drifted apart really.

Like Merida even wanted to be found, she was always heading off somewhere. Hiccup would rather stay in Berk, trying to get Astrid's attention, he'd had a crush on her for a while now and she was much more bearable than Merida.

Hiccup had a stick which he'd dipped in black ink before he left, holding a map he again crossed out another spot where Merida could be, he'd trailed the forest now looking for her, for all he knew she'd gone back home. He sighed, angrily crossing out his map and closing the book. "Oh the gods hate me." He muttered, stepping over stones and folding his book in a bag he had over his shoulder. Containing fish. "Some people lose their knife or thief mug. Not me." He groaned, kicking a pebble on the ground. "I manage to lose an entire person." Technically, he hadn't lost Merida, she'd gotten lost. If he returned without her and she still lost, he'd be the one with the blame.

He sighed, noticing the opening. The opening to the cove. The cove where he hid his Dragon, Toothless. A Night Fury. Hiccup had to kill a dragon tomorrow and from then on he'd be expected to kill a dragon every time they attacked, two weeks ago, this would have been great. He'd have celebrated at the chance. Hiccup frowned, heading into the cove. He sighed, climbing down the rocky landscape, "We're leaving!" Hiccup announced, swinging his bag of fish and what held his notebook against a rock. "Let's pack up." He said, sarcastically. "Looks like you and me are taking a little vacation, he sighed, looking around for toothless. "Forever." He added, opening the bag to get out some fish for Toothless, "Oh man." He muttered to himself, getting out his notebook and standing up.

As he did so, Astrid, the girl who hated him for being so good at training with Dragons, sat on the rock sharpening her axe. "Ah!" He recoiled, almost falling backwards. "What the...?" She must have followed him there, of course she had. She'd been furious at him in the ring this morning when it was announced he'd be the one to kill the dragon, not her. "What are you doing here?" he asked, nervously looking around to check toothless hadn't been killed yet.

"I want to know what's going on." She told him, simply dropping the stone she'd been using to the ground. She banged the end of her axe against the rock, standing up and walking towards him. "No one just gets as good as you do." She started, "Especially you." Hiccup walked backwards, in hope he'd be able to lure her out of the secret cover he'd found. "Start talking!" She demanded."Are you training with someone?"

Hiccup didn't look at her when he answered, "Training?" Hiccup said in the middle of all the 'ums' and 'ers' he'd been stalling with.

"It better not involve this." She picked him up by the outfit he designed which attached to the roped he'd used while designing Toothless's tail. Why couldn't this be Merida? She didn't even care about Dragons, well when she was younger anyway. All she cared about was archery. Astrid's life was being the best at everything.

"I know this looks really bad, I'm supposed to be looking for the princess," He trailed off, "But you see this..." He was about to say has a really good explanation, when a sound caused birds to fly in the air, Astrid saw a dragon fly over, which meant some were already in Berk attacking there. Unfortunately, she wasn't there to join the party.

She dragged Hiccup to the ground to shut him up, which hurt Hiccup more than he could say. Astrid then saw a shadow, the other side of the cove and headed towards it, scrunching her eyes to tell what it was. "You're right. You're right. You're right." Hiccup stammered, seeing Toothless and standing up in front of her, trying to get her to walk away. Just walk away. That was all he wanted.

"I'm through with the lies." He lied. "I've been making outfits." Gods, what would his dad respond? "So you got me, it's time everyone knew." He grabbed her hand, and placed it over his chest, trying to get her to grab his harness again. He also tried his hardest not to blush. "Drag me back, go ahead." He told her. "Here we go."

She tried to look around him and bent his hand backwards, forcing Hiccup to fall to the floor with pain. "Ow!" he rubbed his wrist. "Why would you do that?" He asked her, standing up again.

"That's for the lies," She told him, kicking him back to the floor, Hiccup briefly caught a glimpse of toothless staring at them, he could only pray Astrid didn't see him. "And that's-" She dropped her axe on his crotch, Hiccup bit his lip to stop from crying out in pain. "-For everything else."

Toothless saw and growled, Hiccup muttered; "Oh, man." More about the pain she'd just put him through than anything else. He saw her walk to where Toothless's growl came from.

Hiccup had only just managed to stand up, when Astrid gasped and forced him back to the floor. "Get down!" She told him, as she dragged him to the floor.

Hiccup closed his eyes in worry, he had to tell someone sooner or later. He guessed he'd hoped the actual answer would be never. "Run! Run!" Astrid rolled off of him, standing up and threatening toothless with her axe.

Hiccup saw Toothless jump for Astrid, he quickly got hold of her axe and pushed it to the side before Toothless could do the same with Astrid's body. "No!" He scolded toothless. "It's OK! It's okay." She held out a hand to Astrid and a hand to Toothless, who continued to growl at Astrid. "She's a friend." He told Toothless. "You just scared him," he told Astrid, stroking Toothless's nose.

"I scared him!" Astrid shouted. "Who is him?" She asked Hiccup. Hiccup introduced the dragon as toothless, and Astrid ran off into the forest,, screaming. She ran across a pathway and saw a large angry horse, she saw a flash of ginger behind the horse, but remembered Hiccup's Dragon and carried on running.

A/N:

Wow, long chapter. I hope you liked it, sorry the Tangled part was shorter than Brave and HTTYD parts. I'm also trying to make this story unpredictable as best as I can and as it mainly centres around the events of Tangled, with elements of Brave and HTTYD, that's why some parts of the story are cut out, or skipped. Hiccup hasn't met up with Rapunzel and friends yet, just wanted to make that clear.
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