I have no idea why but in my last post the words were all bunched together. Huh. That's weird. Anyway, hope it doesn't happen in this chapter. Enjoy!

-Erica

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"You were a maid in the palace?" Rapunzel asked excitedly.

Mother Gothel smiled and nodded. "Yes flower, I was. I got to learn about the other people in the world and how it works. There was even a young man that caught my eye." She winked with a smile.

Rapunzel smiled wide and looked at her mother with utter interest. "Was it father?" The sun shone in from the only window in the tower and beamed down on Rapunzel's gold locks, making them shine. Rapunzel tucked a stand behind her ear as she waited for her mother to respond.

Gothel's amused expression turned into a glare as she pointed a perfectly-filed nail at her daughter. "You never mention that man. He left us when we needed him most."

Rapunzel nodded and bowed her head in shame. "Was it?"

Gothel sighed. "Yes, it was."

Rapunzel couldn't help but smile. Love stories always amused her. Even if her father "left her" –which she didn't know what that meant- she couldn't help but be fascinated with how they met. She wanted to know every detail. Growing up mother used to tell stories about a princess finding a prince and falling in "love." That's what it meant for two people to care about each other so much. Rapunzel wanted so much to hear about how her mother and father fell in love. How their story happened. Or at least to read a book about love.

Gothel pinched Rapunzel's cheek (when you live as long as she has, it becomes a natural habit) and walked up into the kitchen. "I'm going to go to the market, Rapunzel."

Rapunzel nodded absent-mindedly. Her mind was in the clouds. She walked over to the window and repeated the regular routine: got the bucket, get the hair out the window, lead mother down, wave happily, then go do your chores.

She watched as her mother disappeared out the clearing. When her mother was completely out of sight, Rapunzel sighed. She never knew what sadness was, and sometimes she wanted a book about that too.

She looked over her shoulder. Maybe her pet lizard Pascual was up for some games. But alas, he was taking his nap. Rapunzel sighed and looked back out the window, to see a ever to small snowflake fall down her window. She smiled. She loved snowflakes. She loved drawing them and their complicated but elegant designs. One was never the same from the other, she noticed that.

Excited for more snow, she looked up at the sky. Nothing but blue strenched along the infinite sky. Rapunzel quirked her eyebrow. How could that snowflake fall when the sky was blue?

She heard a rattle behind her, and whipped her head around. "Who's there?" She picked up her small hairbrush (it was the only thing around) and scowled at the shadows. Nobody showed themselves, until she noticed Pascual fell in the sink again.

Rapunzel put down her hairbrush- what a great weapon choice Rapunzel, really- and walked over to help Pascual get his little green body out.

"Do I have to go to Scotland dad?" Hiccup said. He scrunched his shoulders up in protection, prepared for the scolding he was about to endure.

He was right. His father looked up at him from across the table. They were eating alone tonight with the window opened. Toothless has been a little reckless lately, so they decided to eat with him. As Toothless was a shadow in the alley way eating his fish, Hiccup and his father had a charming conversation about Hiccup going to Scotland to stay with Princess Merida, his future wife.

Hiccup wanted to gag on his chicken leg. Marriage. Merida changed a lot. Her big hair and spunk never changed, only amplified. But now she would never give Hiccup a second glance during his visits. She was always grumpy, and would ride off on her horse if she got really frustrated. She always carried a wooden bow with her, which didn't help either.

Long story short, she was scary.

The worst part was, is there parents didn't tell them in the beginning. Hiccup and Merida were the best of friends during their childhood, but then they turned sixteen, and all this authority started getting shoved in our faces. It was sick.

"It will be good for our kingdom. Hiccup's family is very wealthy, and it will give Berk the protection they need for the future," Merida's mother would say.

"Hiccup, if it's about the marriage, there is nothing to be worried about. You and Merida and friends!" his father said. "End of discussion."

Hiccup grunted and walked out of the small log cabin. Hiccup's father called after him, but Hiccup trudged on. When he opened the door he grunted yet again, it was snowing. He ran a frustrated hand through his hair and walked around the house. He was freezing, but he didn't care.

He got on Toothless' back and forced him to leap off the ground. Toothless whined sadly. He didn't get to finish his fish. When the pair rised up, immediately Hiccup was shivering cold. The wind hit him square in the face, and the virus spead on throughout his body. He couldn't see anything below, he was immediately in a cloud. He felt Toothless shiver benealth him, "Don't worry buddy," he comforted, "We'll get past it soon."

As he flew up into the sky, he saw a quick flash of something blue. He hurled toothless to a stop, and looked around. Is there another dragon? Maybe it was one of the guys playing a trick on him.

He heard a quick gust of wind go by behind him and whipped around. Something was out there. Toothless whined, and Hiccup took that as a warning. They accelerated high up into the air at a rapid pace until they got past the coldfront, and above the icy clouds. The sun was setting peacefully. Hiccup sighed at the warmth the sun provided.

"Sleep tight, sun," he called to the sunset.

Merida rode swiftly through the green forest. This was her second home, and she knew it by the back of her hand. Her black horse beheath her galoped along the all-too-familular trail.

She did the everyday drills with her bow and arrow, never missing a target. She's been working on not grunting like a man when her arrow pounds off her bow. It's a nasty habit.

She twisted around to shoot her trickiest shot, and she nearly fell off her horse in surprise. They both halted to a stop, and her steed turned towards the miracle. A plain of snow strenched along the forest they just rode through. Merida gasped and covered her mouth. How could this be? The snow wasn't there as she rode through!

"Hey Merida, you remember me?" Jack yelled at his friend. He knew it was her. He never forgot her. He remembered her big hair and love for the color green, he just wasn't aware how much she grew since last time. And where was Hiccup?

Jack smiled widely and stood in front of his old friend, "Hey!"

Merida looked down at her steed with a perplexed look on her face. "Do you... see me?" Jack said. He laughed as if it weren't true. "C'mon! We used to play all the time with Hiccup! How could you forget me!"

Merida shook her head in disbelief and dashed off through the forest on her horse, riding straight through Jack. Jack's smiled faided immediately as he slowly looked back at Merida. She twisted around and looked over her shoulder once before disapearing in the depths of the cold, misty forest.

"Merida..."