Me: I don't own Tangled, Rise of the Guardians, Sleeping Beauty, Hercules, How to Train Your Dragon, the Black Cauldron, Pocahontas, Brave, Treasure Planet, Aladdin and Avalon High.
Note: Everything will be in Rapunzel's POV! Unless I switch it to Hiccup's, John's(or Aurora's), Merida's or Jack's POVs. Or if it's in normal mode aka no one's POV.
Chapter 2:
Rapunzel's POV:
Mr. Moore rang a bell, causing all of us to look at him. He put it down as he spoke. "Okay, first thing we're going to do is to break up into teams to write research papers. You'll draw your topics out of this." He said, pulling out a knight's helmet. He walked around. "Jane, you're with Tarzan." He said, standing in front of a girl in my row. The girl reached her hand into the helmet, pulled out a paper and showed it to him after she opened it. "The architecture of Camelot. Interesting." He said. "Jack, you're with Belle." He told him.
"Can't I be with Merida?" Jack asked him.
"No, Merida is with Hiccup." Mr. Moore said. Jack reached his hand into the helmet, pulled out a paper and showed it to him. "Ah." He said and laughed. "How apropos. The sports of Camelot." He said, going over to Merida. "Merida." He said, holding the helmet out to her. She did the same as Jack. "The tragedy of Camelot. Your paper is gonna be about the love triangle between King Arthur, his wife Guinevere, and his best friend, Sir Lancelot. Ultimately, it destroyed Arthur and Camelot itself. Bit of a downer." He said. Everyone laughed at the last part.
"Taran, you're with Rapunzel." Mr. Moore said.
"I'd rather work alone." Taran said, not looking up.
"I'd rather be eating a pineapple on a beach in Hawaii, but that's not gonna happen either." He said as Taran looked at him. I smiled then looked at Taran.
"Fine. I guess she'll do." He said, defeated and writing something.
"Wow. Thanks." I snapped a bit then reached into the helmet and took a paper out. I showed it to him.
"The Order of the Bear." He said.
I turned it around and looked at it. "I've never heard of that." I said.
"So much for the easy A." Taran said.
"Ask your parents. I'm sure they're heard of the Order." Mr. Moore said, walking away. I didn't notice Jim looking at me until I looked for a quick second then took a second look and looked at him. He looked away. Taran was looking at me though until he gasped and touched the sides of his head.
"Taran? Are you okay?" I asked as he looked at me.
"Yeah. I'm fine. Just tie your shoes." He said, looking at my shoes.
I looked at them too. "They are tied." I said, lifting on foot up.
"Then tie your other shoes." He said.
"What are you talking about?" I asked.
"Just tie your shoes, okay? What am I, your mother?" He snapped.
"Hmm." I said to myself. I was on the field, stretching and I smiled at Jack as he ran past me with the rest of the team. I started running a bit when I almost fell. I looked down at my shoe then knelt on one knee to tie it.
"Shoes all tied-y tied-y?" The coach asked me but I was looking at Taran and watched him walk off then I looked at the coach and watched her walk away. I finished tying and ran to the starting line. I got into position as I looked over. I saw the four of them as knights and my eyes widened. I heard the gunshot and focused. I ran. I was behind then I started catching up then I passed them.
Me and the other girls went over to the coach. "That was one of the fastest 400s we've seen in years." She said and stuck her hand out. "Welcome to Avalon High Varsity Track." She said as I shook her hand with a grin.
I laughed. "Thank you." I said.
"Okay, we'll see you here tomorrow, 4:00 pm." The coach said. I looked over and saw Jack running. "Jasmine, you and Belle, you also. Congratulations. Well done." The coach told us. I smiled and ran off.
I got home and was in the kitchen, holding plates. "Coach said I almost broke the school record. In tryouts!" I said, happily as I walked to the dinner table.
"That's amazing, sweetheart." Mom said.
"We're so proud of you." Dad said.
"I'm proud of me, too." I said, walking back to the kitchen.
"You really like it here, don't you, sweetie?" Mom asked.
"Yeah, I do. I feel like this is where we're meant to be." I said.
They looked at each other with smiles then mom got up and came into the kitchen, carrying a plate. "So. Did you make some new friends today?" She asked.
"A few." I said, smiling. Mom had a huge grin on her face.
"What's with that smile?" Dad asked me then he looked at mom. "Did you see that smile?" He asked her.
"I saw it." Mom said.
I shook my head, chuckled and sat next to my dad. "So, did someone float your boat?" He asked.
I laughed. ""Float my boat"? What year is this?" I asked.
"He means, did you fancy anyone?" Mom asked.
""Fancy"? Really, you guys. Century-up." I said.
"I think she's dodging the question." Mom told dad.
"Absolutely." Dad said. There was a knock on the door.
"Oh! I'll get it!" I said, getting up and running towards the door. I saw Taran standing there and opened the door. "Taran. What are you doing here?" I asked.
"We have a paper due." He said.
"In three weeks." I said.
"I don't like to dilly-dally. Do you want to do this or not?" He asked.
"I guess." I said.
"Rapunzel, do you want to introduce us to your friend?" Mom asked.
"Oh, yeah. This is Taran. We're doing a paper together." I said.
"Nice to meet you, young man. Come on in." Dad said, shaking Taran's hand. Taran walked in. I looked at dad who pointed at Taran and mouthed something like 'is that the guy you were smiling about?'. I shook my head and followed Taran to the living room.
"Can we just find the book we're going to use and call it a night, Taran?" I asked as we were looking through some books. He was eating some pie as well. "We have a lot of time to do this." I said, getting up and walking to the other couch.
"I always do my assignments in half the time allotted." He said, still eating pie.
"Why?" I asked, looking through a book I picked up.
"To prove that I'm better than everyone else." He said.
"And more modest." I said.
"That too." He said.
"That was sarcasm." I said, still looking through the book.
"How is it sarcasm if you're right?" He asked.
I looked at him. "Never mind." I said and looked at the book again. "Okay. I cannot find anything on The Order of the Bear anywhere." I said with a sigh and throwing the book onto the table then picked up a small book.
"Can't we just ask your parents?" He asked.
"Are you kidding? If I tell them I'm doing a paper on King Arthur, they'll never leave me alone. No, no, I will find it myself." I said, looking through the small book.
"I wonder what they ate in Camelot." He said, looking through a book.
I exhaled. "Mutton, with a side of beets." Mmm. And sage water, but only from the north." I said then looked up for a second. I looked over at him. "I didn't even know I knew that! It must've seeped in subconsciously while my parents went on and on about King Arthur. And on and on. And on." I said, closing the book and placed a hand under my chin. I sighed. I looked at him as I heard him groan. "Taran?" I asked.
"You have any ice?" He asked, putting the plate and the book he had down then got up and walked off.
"Yeah, yeah. It's in the freezer. Here, I'll get it for you." I said, getting up and running after him. I ran into the wall. "Ow! Ow, ow, ow, ow!" I yelled as I jumped up and down, holding my foot.
He came back with a tray that had the ice on it. "Here you go. Back to work." He said, putting the tray down then going back to his spot and putting his notebook and the book on his lap.
"What? How did you know I was going to need some ice?" I asked.
"Coincidence." He said as I was starting to dump the ice into the towel.
"No, you did the same thing earlier with the shoelaces." I said, putting the ice on my foot.
"It's not that hard to guess. You seem pretty clumsy." He said.
"But..." I started but he interrupted me.
"Just drop it, okay?" He snapped.
"You got it." I said.
"Thank you. Now, can't we just ask your parents about this Order of the Bear thing and save some time?" He asked.
I groaned. "Fine." I said. We walked over to my parents.
He held up the paper. "Order of the Bear. Anyone?" He asked.
I watched as my mom took her glasses off and looked at my dad. "Have you heard of it?" I asked. We watched as my mom went into her little bookcase and brought out a sack. She took something out of it and it was a book. "Whoa." I gasped.
"Jackpot!" He breathed.
"The Order of the Bear is an ancient organization, which believes that King Arthur will one day be reincarnated." Mom said, getting up, walking over to us and handing each of us a small stack of paper and a pen.
"Right. And when is this going to happen?" I asked.
"Arthur will return when he is truly needed to bring the world out of the dark and into a new age of enlightenment." Mom said, sitting back down.
"You mean bring back Camelot?" I asked.
"It's a metaphor." Dad said, getting up.
"You can't be sure." Mom said.
"I'm pretty sure." Dad said.
"He can't be sure." Mom told me and Taran.
"But even as a piece of fiction, it's actually quite interesting." Dad said, going over to the book and sitting down next to mom. He opened the book. "Let's see. Ah! As keepers of the prophecy, it falls to members of the Order to search for potential Arthurs in each and every generation. But beware the Dark Forces. Led by a reincarnation of Mordred, determined to find the next Arthur and destroy him before he can realize the prophecy. What they're saying..." Dad was about to continue when mom interrupted him.
"If Arthur isn't found soon, Mordred and his followers will send us back into the Dark Ages. Ignorance, humiliation, suffering..." Mom was explaining but Taran interrupted her.
"High school." Taran said and we both laughed as we looked at each other then at my parents. We stopped as we saw that they weren't kidding.
"It's no joke, Rapunzel. A lot of people take this very seriously." Mom said.
Dad nodded. "Some more seriously than others." He said, gesturing to mom. We laughed again and mom looked at him. He looked at her. "Some people are fanatics about it. Crazy. You're not. We're not. Here, read. There's a lot of good stuff in there. Refresh your memory." He said, handing her the book as she looked away from him then back at him. He closed the book. "Okay. Mom's mad." He told us. We laughed a bit.
Taran had gone home and I was asleep then I woke up, turned the light on, looked at the book, got out of bed and went over to it. I opened it and looked through it. "Camelot." I said as I looked at the picture of the school.