You finally get to find out who's been affected by the bad guy!
Hiccup: I'll tell everyone what happened next in the story.
Merida: Go for it.
"We have to do something."
"What CAN we do?"
"We can't jus' ignore it. There 'as to be somethin' we can do."
"Well what do you suggest we do, then?"
"She's been acting so mean and Slytherin-like since we got back from Christmas. We need to know why." I said, silencing the other two.
"But if we say something, she might turn on us." Jack retorted. I didn't understand why Jack was against talking to Rapunzel. Merida and I had been trying to convince Jack that we needed to talk to Rapunzel for the good part of an hour and I was getting tired of it.
"Will you stop being so stubborn! You aren't a Viking, you know!" I hissed. Jack sighed.
"Fine! We'll talk to her but if it comes back to bite us in the – "
"It won'. Rapunzel is our friend, Jack." Merida said, cutting him off from what we all knew he was about to say. The three of us got up and went to look for Rapunzel. After a while of searching, we found her in the astronomy tower, looking at some star charts.
"Hey, Punzie." Jack said softly.
"Oh. Hi." Rapunzel said. I noted that there was no emotion in her greeting. Maybe something happened and she isn't coping well.
"We need to speak with you." Rapunzel sighed and moved away from the charts. She crossed her arms and motioned for us to speak.
"We're worried about you. You have been acting really aggressive and violent since Christmas. We just want to know if everything is okay." I asked, slowly, being very careful with my words.
"Aggressive?! Violent?! What sort of friends are you to think of me like that?!" Rapunzel yelled accusingly.
"You weren't always – " I started only to be cut off by Rapunzel.
"I guess you also think I'm stupid and reckless! Maybe I should do something stupid! I know, let's go deep into the forest and challenge whatever we find!" She yelled condescendingly, heavy with sarcasm.
"No, Punzie. We don't think you're stupid but – " Jack tried to say.
"No, no! I think we SHOULD go into the forest! It sounds FUN!" Rapunzel said, no more sarcasm in her voice. She pushed past us, slammed the door and headed out and down the stairs, towards the rest of the school.