Welcome back readers! I'm excited for the next chapter because there's going to be more action, adventure and danger. Plus there will be more funny moments here too. I promise to make the canyon adventure scene very exciting and funny for all of you. And a little dramatic too.
Anyway, let's begin!
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Chapter 7: Canyon Adventure
Inside the Snuggly Duckling, the guards were still looking for Flynn but to no avail. Even some of the thugs we're trying to impersonate Flynn but apparently the guards weren't buying it.
Also, along with the guards were two dangerous criminals named the Stabbington Brothers who were arrested after Flynn left them at the guards hands when he stole the crown from the kingdom.
"Sir, there's no sign of Rider." One of the guards told the captain.
Suddenly everyone heard a horse neigh. Then Maximus came bursting through the door. "Maximus." The captain said recognizing the horse.
Maximus began sniffing around the place to find any trace of Flynn. Then he discovered what he was looking for and made his way to the bar.
"What's he doing?" One of the guard asked but the captain but his hand over his mouth shutting him up.
Maximus pointed at the passage to the hidden tunnel but the guards had puzzled looks on their faces. He became frustrated and pushed the lever revealing the passage.
"A passage. C'mon men, let's go! Conli, make sure those boys don't get away!" The captain commanded and the guard guarding the Stabbington bros pointed his weapon at them.
Suddenly one of the bros knocked out the guard using his head and together they broke their manacles and took their leave down the passage.
Gothel was watching eveything unfold in the restaurant and she had a look of pure fury on her face.
"Those insolent children and that thief took away my prize! Now I'll never stay young forever so long as they are around!" Gothel exclaimed furiously referring her prize to Rapunzel.
She then took her dagger out and smoothed the blade. "Fine, if those insolent brats want to die then so be it. I will stay young forever if I have to kill all who stand in my way!"
Suddenly, Gothel heard a voice behind her. "Well, well, well. Seems that someone lost their prize to stay young forever. Is that correct?"
Gothel looked around for the source of the voice. "Who's there?!" She asked.
"You can say that I am someone who is willing to help you. Now, is it true you lost your prize to stay young forever?" The voice said.
"Yes that is correct. Now why don't you show yourself so I know who you are and if you really are going to help me or not." Gothel requested.
"Very well." The voice said.
Then a corridor of darkness opened in front of Gothel and it disappeared revealing to be Master Xehanort. Gothel had a puzzled look on her face while Xehanort smirked at her.
"Greetings... Gothel." Xehanort said and Gothel had a very surprised look on her face.
"Who are you?" Gothel asked the person in the coat. "And how did you know my name?"
"I am Master Xehanort. I am here to help you reclaim what was taken from you by those meddlesome children. The girl with the magic hair, otherwise known as 'the lost princess'."
"How did you know about her?" Gothel asked the old man.
"I've been watching over you for a while after sensing a great amount of darkness inside your heart." Xehanort said smirking.
"I find it so intriguing that you kidnapped her when she was an infant and you've been using her power to stay young forever." Xehanort added.
"I'm impressed of your ambition. This world needs people like you around, well I do at least." Xehanort finished.
"What makes you think that I can trust you to help me reclaim what was taken from me." Gothel asked not trusting Xehanort.
"Because, I can give you other abilities that others do not. The power of darkness." Xehanort said.
Gothel started to become a little intrigued by this new ability. After careful thinking, she let out an evil smile and looked at Xehanort.
"Tell me more, Master Xehanort." Gothel said smiling wickedly.
Xehanort smirked at her. "I'll show you."
Xehanort brought a hand out to Gothel and darkness began to swirl around her. It entered her and began to give her great powers and abilities. "This power. It feels... Amazing!" Gothel exclaimed feeling the powerful darkness inside her.
Then Xehanort commanded the darkness again. The darkness swirled around Gothel's hand and then a sword with dark wisps appeared in Gothel's hand.
"What is this?" Gothel asked.
"The dagger you have won't be enough to kill your enemies and reclaim your prized possession. That sword however, is the perfect weapon you can use."
Xehanort stepped back a bit. "Here's another ability for you." He snapped his fingers and heartless appeared around them.
Gothel gasped as she looked at the heartless around her.
"These are called heartless. You can use them as another tool to reclaiming the lost princess and destroying all in your way. With the new power of darkness I have given you, they are now under your command." Xehanort explained and Gothel was really intrigued by this new power.
"This power is truly amazing." Gothel said letting out a wicked smile on her face.
"Yes. Indeed." Xehanort said. "I have a deal to make with you."
"Anything." Gothel said.
"You may already met Sora and his friends."
Xehanort said.
"Yes I have." Gothel said.
"Well, the red haired girl that is with Sora named Kairi is a Princess of Heart." Xehanort said.
"What's a Princess of Heart?" Gothel asked.
"A maiden with a heart of pure light." Xehanort said. "There are seven of them and I've been trying to kidnap them so that I can use them to reshape the world in my own image. Just think of what we can do if we have the Princesses of Heart in our grasp."
Gothel became really intrigued. "Yes. I can see it. Having a Princess of Heart will give us greater power over the world."
"Not only will I stay young forever but with the power of darkness and with the heart of pure light in our hands we will be unstoppable!" Gothel exclaimed feeling very excited and evil.
"Yes, indeed." Xehanort said. "Here's my deal: I will let you keep those new dark powers I have given you so you can reclaim the lost princess, if you agree to help bring me the Princess of Heart."
"You have a deal Xehanort. I will bring you Kairi so I can have all the power you gave me and Rapunzel will be in my good hands again." Gothel said.
"Good." Xehanort said smirking.
"But." Xehanort said getting serious. "I do have a warning Gothel. I must have the Princess of Heart of we are to reshape the world. If you fail to bring her to me, I will make sure you suffer grave consequences. Understand?"
"You have my word. I will not let anyone keep me from kidnapping Kairi." Gothel said.
"Excellent." Xehanort said smirking. "I'll be waiting."
With that, Xehanort disappeared in a corridor of darkness.
Gothel let out a very wicked grin on her face before being interrupted by the sound of drunk singing.
Out of the Snuggly Duckling came a very short thug dressed in a cupids outfit who apparently was involved in the party with the other thugs and is not wasted.
"I got a dream, I got some dream, I…" The short guy saw Gothel. "Oooooh, somebody get me a glass, coz I just found me a tall drink of water."
Gothel chuckled. "Oh, stop it you big lug. A-ha-ha-ha-ha."
Gothel then pointed her dark sword at the thug. "Where's that tunnel led out?"
"Ah! Sword!" The thug exclaimed, he then went to talk about the tunnel to Gothel.
Meanwhile in the passage Sora, Kairi, Donald, Goofy, Flynn and Rapunzel were waking through and having a conversation with each other.
Donald still didn't trust Flynn after finding out he's wanted for a crime.
"Well, I've got to say, didn't know you guys had that in you back there. That was pretty impressive." Flynn said referring to the show eveyone out on in the restaurant.
"I know!" Rapunzel exclaimed excitedly before composing herself. "I know."
"Well Flynn. We definitely had a lot of fun back there. Right Kairi?" Sora asked.
"You bet Sora." Kairi said happily.
Rapunzel spoke up again. "So, Flynn, where're you from?"
"Whoo-oo! Sorry, blondie, I don't do back-story. " Flynn said.
"Oh come on Flynn. We just want to get to know you more." Sora said.
"Yeah. I especially want to know if we can trust you or not!" Donald exclaimed.
"Donald." Goofy spoke up. "We just want to get to know him more. We can't do it your way. We have to do it peacefully."
"Uh. Ok, if you say so." Donald said crossing his wings.
"Anyway. Can you please tell us about you Flynn?" Sora asked.
"Sorry, it's like I said, I don't do backstory." Flynn said. "However I am becoming very interested in blondie's backstory. Now I, I know I'm not supposed to mention the hair."
"Nope." Everyone said in unison.
"Or the mother." Flynn said.
"Uh uh." Everyone said in unison.
"Frankly I'm too scared to ask about the frog." Flynn said before Rapunzel spoke up.
"Chameleon." Rapunzel said.
"Nuance. Here's my question though blondie: if you want to see the lanterns so badly, why haven't you gone before?" Flynn asked.
Everyone looked at each other feeling uneasy. "Do we have to?" Donald whispered.
"We should, so long as we make sure he doesn't tell anyone." Kairi whispered.
"Ok." Rapunzel said before turning to Flynn. "Uh. Well..."
"You see Flynn..." Sora spoke when suddenly the cave began to shake.
Everyone looked around the cave. "Flynn?" Everyone asked in unison.
Then everyone turned and saw a light coming to them. The source of the light was the guards and they were running directly to them!
"Flynn?!" Everyone asked in unison.
"Rider!" The captain exclaimed as he ran to the group.
"Run! RUN!" Flynn exclaimed and everyone ran forward through the cave trying to get away from the guards.
In a few moments the group ran out of the cave and were in the middle of a canyon with a weak wooden dam. The group ran to a ledge ahead of them and looked down.
They saw another cave at the bottom of the canyon but suddenly the Stabbington Bros. appeared after breaking through a shaft blocked off by wooden planks. They were holding swords and were looking for Flynn.
"Who's that?" Everyone asked Flynn.
"They don't like me." Flynn said pointing at the bros.
The guards appeared in front of the group. "Who's that?" Rapunzel asked.
"They don't like me either." Flynn said pointing to the guards.
Then Maximus appeared in front of the guards. "Who's that?!" Everyone asked in unison.
"Ok let's just assume for the moment that everyone in here doesn't like me!" Flynn exclaimed.
Suddenly a large group of heartless appeared around the group. "What are these things?" Flynn and Rapunzel asked in unison.
"These dark creatures are called heartless." Goofy said.
"And let's just say, they don't like us." Donald said.
Eveyone got their keyblades, magic staff and shield out ready to battle the heartless.
"Rapunzel. Get somewhere safe. We'll try to hold them off." Sora said to Rapunzel and she nodded.
"Here Flynn!" Rapunzel exclaimed handing her frying pan to Flynn.
Rapunzel hooked her hair to a broken wooden beam and swung herself to a nearby rock.
Everyone looked at the enemies in front of them.
"Attack!" Sora exclaimed and everyone charged at the enemies but Flynn seemed to not know what to do since all he has is the frying pan.
Sora began to attack some heartless next to him and was able to take them out with a few hits as well as some powerful hits and magic spells such as fire, ice and light.
Sora then turned to his left and helped Kairi who was trying to fight off some heartless and guards, together they were able to fight them off.
They fought well against the heartless but they were a bit weary about the guards. Since they were living human beings they didn't want to kill them.
Donald was busy fighting the heartless by casting fire, ice and thunder spells at the heartless and guards. Donald was able to fight off the heartless but was weary about the guards like Sora and Kairi, he didn't want to kill the guards either.
Goofy was fighting off heartless and guards and using his shield to block blows from the heartless and guards on him and his friends.
Sometimes he would do his famous Goofy spin attack on the enemies which gave him an advantage. Like Sora, Kairi, and Donald he did well waist the heartless but he didn't want to kill the guards either.
Everyone was doing well against the enemies and protecting Flynn who still didn't know what to do since all he had was the pan.
While the intense battle was going on Rapunzel was suddenly surrounded by heartless and looked really scared when she saw them.
"Ah! Help! Someone help me!" Rapunzel cried out.
Kairi turned to Rapunzel. "Rapunzel! Hang on!" Kairi exclaimed feeling worried about Rapunzel.
She ran to the cliffs edge and fired blasts of light at the heartless making them disappear.
She then saw some heartless scaling the canyon walls to Rapunzel. "Rapunzel! Throw me your hair! I'll swing to you!"
"Here Kairi!" Rapunzel throwing her hair to the wooden beam which wrapped around it before moving in fronting Kairi.
Kairi grabbed the hair and she swung herself to the rock where Rapunzel is.
Then the heartless surrounded the girls and Kairi began her battle against the heartless like she did earlier. Butt now she was protecting Rapunzel.
"Kairi!" Sora exclaimed to her.
"Don't worry Sora! I'll protect Rapunzel! Focus on protecting them!" Kairi exclaimed referring to Flynn, Donald and Goofy.
Sora nodded and continued to fight the enemies with the other. Suddenly, oblivious to Sora, the captain of the guard got up from taking a hit from Sora earlier and walked menacingly to Flynn.
"I've been waiting a long time for this Rider." The captain said deviously.
Sora saw the captain about to kill Flynn. "Hang on Flynn!"
Sora ran to the captain and locked his keyblade with the captains sword.
"I won't let you hurt him!" Sora exclaimed to the captain.
"Your making a big mistake assisting that thief!" The captain exclaimed to Sora.
They continued to lock on to their blades before giving each other a powerful push sending both of them sliding on the ground staying on their feet.
Sora was about to go fight the captain but more heartless were attacking him. He went to focus on the heartless but saw the guards getting up and focusing on Flynn.
"Flynn! Fight back! Use the frying pan!" Sora exclaimed throwing more hits at the heartless.
Then Flynn, in a panic, banged a guard in the head with the frying pan and did the same thing to the other guards. After a few moments of dodging attacks and banging the guards with the frying pan they were all knocked out.
Flynn was really impressed with using the frying pan as a weapon.
"Oh mama, I have got to get me one of these!" Flynn exclaimed excitedly.
Goofy saw Flynn excited about the frying pan and wanted to try it.
"Hey Flynn. Can I try that?" Goofy asked.
Flynn nodded yes and gave Goofy the frying pan. Then Goofy with the frying pan and shield used both weapons to take out the remaining heartless.
The shield was an effective weapon but the frying pan really did the work for him by doing great damage to the heartless. He seemed to take out the heartless in only two hits thanks to the frying pan.
All the heartless were then destroyed and Goofy was very excited.
Goofy turned to Flynn showing the frying pan smiling. "I like this thing." Goofy said.
"Way to go guys! That should be the last of them!" Sora exclaimed.
Suddenly Maximus drew a sword in his mouth and pointed at the group. Then a few more heartless appeared next to Maximus.
"Oh. Not quite." Sora said.
Goofy awkwardly handed the frying pan back to Flynn.
"Ok. Are we seriously fighting a horse with more heartless?" Donald asked in disbelief.
"I know Donald. This has got to be one of the weirdest fights I've ever been in." Sora said but suddenly Maximus threw his sword at Sora.
"Sora look out!" Goofy exclaimed.
Sora saw this and blocked the blow with his keyblade. "Right, right, right. Never let my guard down, even when fighting a horse." Sora said correcting himself.
Sora unlocked his keyblade with Maximus' sword and then Flynn went to fight the horse while Sora, Donald and Goofy went to fight the heartless.
Kairi managed to clear out all the heartless that surrounded her and Rapunzel and looked to see that the boys were in trouble.
"They're in trouble." Kairi said to Rapunzel.
"Girls, you should know that this is the strangest thing I've ever done!" Flynn exclaimed still fighting the horse.
Then Maximus flicks the frying pan out of Flynn's hands. "Uh oh." Sora, Donald and Goofy said after finishing off the heartless.
Flynn had a nervous look on his face. "How 'bout two out of three?" He asked the horse.
"Flynn!" Rapunzel exclaimed throwing her hair to Flynn which wrapped itself around his hand and pulled him off the cliff leaving Maximus astonished.
Flynn swung on the hair and is about to be struck by the Stabbington Bros. "Flynn! Look out!"! Everyone exclaimed.
Rapunzel pulled her hair up giving Flynn extra air time. This proves to be an advantage as the Stabbington bros. slashed their swords but missed Flynn.
Flynn laughed at the two criminals. "Ha! You should see your faces because you look…" he said but then he crashed into a wooden plank. "...ridiculous."
Sora, Donald and Goofy saw the horse glaring at them and the guards getting up. "We can't stay here!" Donald exclaimed.
"What do we do?!" Goofy asked desperately.
"We're gonna need to go down the ladder and run!" Sora exclaimed pointing to the ladder in front of him and his friends.
The trio ran from the enemies and slid their way down the ladder and to the ground below.
They ran to the other side of the canyon taking out the Stabbington Bros. together with ease.
As they ran they heard of banging wood and saw that Maximus was kicking one of the dams support beams down.
The beam came crashing down and it made a bridge to get to the girls.
"Oh no!" The girls exclaimed feeling worried. Sora, Donald and Goofy were worried about the girls too.
Suddenly the girls heard Flynn call out to them. "Come on girls! Jump!" He exclaimed holding on to Rapunzel's hair.
"Come on Rapunzel! We'll have to swing together!" Kairi exclaimed as she and Rapunzel ran to the ledge of their cliff.
As the girls got to the ledge, Kairi grabbed Rapunzel and held her by the waist and they jumped together.
Maximus tried to grab Rapunzel's hair with his teeth but he missed.
Both girls held on to both Rapunzel's hair and each other as they swung down to the ground.
The girls swung their way to a puddle on the ground and slid over the water. Rapunzel then grabbed her hair and then the girls ran their way to the others.
Flynn began to surf his way to the others on the dams wooden stream.
But unfortunately it was very unstable so after a few moments parts of the stream broke apart but Flynn still made it to the others.
Suddenly the entire dam burst, sending a massive flood of water down the canyon willing everything in its path out, even Maximus, the guards and the Stabbington bros.
Everyone was the dam burst and had looks on horror on their faces.
"The dam burst!" Donald exclaimed.
"RUN!" Sora exclaimed as everyone ran for their lives to get away from the massive flood.
As everyone ran for their lives, the flash flood sent a massive boulder down and it looked like it was going to crush eveyone.
Everyone saw another cave in front of them and ran for their lives to get into it.
"Faster! Move!" Sora exclaimed as everyone continued to run to the cave.
In a few moments, everyone made it to the cave just in time before the boulder fell and trapped them inside. Despite trapping everyone inside the cave the Boulder didn't stop the water from flowing into the cave.
"Oh no! We're trapped!" Kairi exclaimed feeling very scared. Everyone ran back into the cave to try to find a back way out but all they found was a wall, no way out.
In desperation, the team dove into the water to find a way out but they found nothing. The team then tried to break the rocks to get out but nothing worked.
Flynn tried to move rocks out of the way but he couldn't move any rocks but he did scrape his hand opening a wound.
The team kept diving to find a hole to make bigger or something, but found nothing then they decided to give up.
"It's hopeless!" Donald exclaimed scared.
"It's no use. I can't see anything." Flynn said.
"I can't find anything either." Sora said scared.
"Neither can I." Goofy said feeling scared.
Rapunzel refused to give up and dove into the water to try to find a way out hit was stopped by Flynn.
"Hey, there's no point. It's pitch-black down there."
Flynn said trying to comfort Rapunzel but she is very scared.
Kairi was very scared too and she held onto Sora to try to gain some comfort in this moment that may end their lives.
"Sora? Is this the end?" Kairi asked feeling scared and starting to shed a few tears.
Sora just held onto Kairi. "I don't know Kairi. I don't want it to be though."
That was all Sora could say. He didn't want to accept that this was the end but the situation they are in, he had to accept that this may be the end.
Kairi leaked more tears and then she began to sob and continued to hold on to Sora. If this was indeed the last moments of their lives, all Kairi wanted to do was hold onto Sora until their time of life is up.
Rapunzel began to sob too. "This is all my fault. She was right, I never should have done this."
"I'm so... I'm so sorry, Flynn." Rapunzel sobbed. "I'm so sorry everyone."
As Rapunzel and Kairi sobbed and everyone was feeling very scared, Flynn spoke up to everyone.
"Eugene." He said.
"What?" Everyone asked in unison.
"My real name is Eugene Fitzherbert." Flynn or Eugene said revealing his real name.
"Eugene Fitzherbert?" Sora, Kairi, Donald and Goofy asked in unison.
"Well yeah. Someone might as well know." Eugene said.
"We never knew that Flynn, I mean Eugene." Sora said letting out a little chuckle.
Rapunzel smiled. "I have magic hair that glows when I sing." Rapunzel confessed making Eugene have an awestruck look on his face.
"What?" He asked.
Everyone gaped. "I have magic hair that glows when I sing!" Rapunzel exclaimed excitedly.
"That's it! That's how we'll find a way out of here!" Sora exclaimed.
But the water level reached up to their chests. "You might wanna sing like now!" Donald exclaimed.
The water had risen to their chins now. Rapunzel began to sing. "Flower gleam and glow let your power shine!" Everyone took a deep breath and the water covered them all.
Sure enough her golden hair glowed an eerie yellow. Eugene let out a yelp when he saw her hair glow which caused him to lose a bit of air.
The glow continued to flow and sure enough everyone found an opening in the cave which was a way out. They swam to the opening and dug their way through.
In a few moments, the wall burst open and everyone was out of the cave but they fell into a river.
Everyone pushed themselves into shore, and surfaced from the water coughing and sputtering.
Everyone besides Eugene felt very happy knowing they are alive. Eugene couldn't stop thinking about Rapunzel's glowing hair.
"We made it." Rapunzel said in happiness.
"We're alive!" Donald and Goofy exclaimed in happiness.
"Her hair glows." Eugene said in disbelief.
"We're alive!" Sora and Kairi exclaimed hugging each other happily.
"I didn't see that coming." Eugene said in disbelief.
Everyone saw Eugene's disbelief and called out to him.
"Eugene." Everyone called him.
"Her hair actually glows!" Eugene said to Pascal in disbelief.
"Eugene." Everyone called him.
"Why does her hair glow?!" Eugene exclaimed to Pascal in disbelief.
"Eugene!" Everyone called him the last time.
"What!" He asked everyone.
"Rapunzel's hair doesn't just glow." Sora said.
"It's true Eugene." Rapunzel said gathering her hair.
Pascal smiled at Eugene. "Why is he smiling at me?" He asked not liking where this is going.
Kairi spoke up. "Come on guys. I think it's time to show him. Right Rapunzel?" Kairi asked.
"Yes Kairi. I agree." Rapunzel said.
"Let's set up camp for tonight, and then we'll show Eugene." Sora suggested.
Eveyone nodded and went to set up camp for the night.
Meanwhile in another part of the forest, Gothel was walking through holding her sword of darkness when she came to another passage tunnel with the Snuggly Duckling's logo on it.
She heard the sounds of coughing and groaning and she hid herself. Then out of the passage way came the Stabbington bros. soaked to the bone and furious.
"I'll kill 'im. I'll kill that Rider! We'll cut him off at the kingdom, and get back the crown. C'mon!" One of the boys told his brother before waking their way through the forest.
Gothel saw this as an opportunity and unsummoned her sword of darkness. She then called out to the brothers. "Boys."
The brothers turned to face Gothel. "Perhaps you want to stop acting like wild dogs chasing their tails and think for a moment."
Gothel held out Eugene's satchel and the bothers drew their swords. Gothel only laughed. "Oh-ho, please, there's no need for that."
She tossed the satchel and the bothers fought over it. In a few moments they found what they were looking for, the stolen crown.
"Well, if that's all that you desire then be on your way. I was going to offer you something worth one thousand crowns, would have made you rich beyond belief and that wasn't even the best part, hoho, oh well, c'est la vie. Enjoy your crown." Gothel said and began to take her leave.
The brothers felt intrigued by Gothel's words. "What's the best part?" One of the brothers asked.
Gothel held out a wanted poster with Eugene's face on it. "It comes with revenge on Flynn Rider. And his new friends." Gothel said referring to Sora, Kairi, Donald and Goofy.
The boys were excited by this deal Gothel was offering and they accepted it. Gothel smiled evilly, everything was going as planned.
Another chapter done! Whew! I felt that was a long and rigorous chapter to write but it's all done. I hope you guys liked the adventure and humor in the canyon and the drama when everyone was trapped in the flooding cave. I also hope you guys hoped you liked Master Xehanort's appearance and his deal with Gothel. About the sword of darkness, picture it as just a regular medieval sword but with dark wisps swirling around it. I felt this was a better weapon for Gothel than a small dagger, especially when the final battle happens. When that battle happens, I plan to have Gothel use that sword and dark powers. Anyway, stay tuned for more Tangled adventures with our heroes in the next chapter!
