I wanted to write the characters of Big Hero 6 into a fairytale setting. This isn't a retelling of the movie or anything from the show, it's just the origin of the group if it were in a fantasy world. I don't know how many chapters there will be.

The scene starts in a tower.

Chapter 1- Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time, there was a Princess locked in a high tower and guarded by a dragon. Princess Leiko was not cursed or kidnapped or kept from the world because of her great beauty or golden heart. She was kept from the world because her father was a corrupt King, and it was a long-held belief that corruption bred corruption. Rotten apples don't fall far from poison trees, and so the Princess was considered a rotten royal and was locked up to protect the world from her rather than the other way around.

It was mind-numbing in that tower. It made her angry, and maybe it did make her just a little more wicked. It wasn't like she wanted to be like her father, who had hit the servants and never remembered her name. Maybe she was bitter and just a little bit mean, but it wasn't because she was like her corrupt father. It was because no one had given her a chance to be anything else. She was literally trapped in their perceptions of her.

Every day she paced the tower, every day she plotted her escape. The tower was no problem, she could get out of the tower easily, but she needed a way to get past the dragon. As far as weapons go, the only thing she had was a rusty pair of scissors that she used to cut her hair. She had cut her hair because her father used to yank her around by it when it was long. And no one else was ever going to yank her around ever again. Not her drunkard father or the villagers who had trapped her in the tower, and certainly not the dragon bred to track her every move.

The dragon spent most of its time asleep because if Leiko tried to escape the dragon would know. They were linked. But the dragon didn't tend to notice or care about anyone else near the tower, so people often came and jeered and yelled at Leiko while the dragon slept on. It made her angry, but she refused to yell back. Because if she yelled back, she would be the monster. If she yelled they would totally be right about corruption breeding corruption. She would not be her father. She would let them bend her but she would never break.

But it was getting harder to not break day by day. Sometimes Leiko thought that no one would ever give her a chance to be more than her father. She thought that they would just leer at her up here forever. She hadn't given up, hadn't lost her courage, but she'd been here for years. Sometimes she even missed the castle, in comparison, where her father would fuss and fight with her. Every day there had been like hell, so why was she nostalgic? At least in the castle, she could leave. Not forever, but for a little while. No, there was no looking back, it would do no good because she couldn't go back and she didn't want to. She wouldn't trade her limited freedom there for the full freedom she anticipated having once she could get past that stupid dragon. She just needed to figure out her getaway plan.

And then something kind of just fell into her lap.

"Princess Leiko!" She groaned and slid out of sight from the window, not wanting the villagers to see her on the verge of a breakdown.

"Princess, I know you're not a monster! Corruption does not breed corruption!" That caught her attention, and she popped into view, scanning the base of the tower to see the man who had called out to her. She spotted him, though he wasn't looking up at her. The man at the base of the tower seemed to worriedly be eyeing the dragon, hoping it wouldn't wake up. She let out a hesitant sigh, not wanting to trust someone on the outside. But he had two gleaming swords on his back, and she… Well, she had a rusty pair of scissors.

"What's your name?" She called. He jumped, worried that her voice would wake up the fearsome dragon. Leiko had no such concerns or reservations. The dragon was only a threat to her, and only a threat to her if she was out of the tower. And she was very much inside the tower.

"Wasabi."

"That's not a name!"

"My parents named me after the trade I was raised to do, peddling wasabi."

"Wow. Bad parents." Leiko observed, sitting in the windowsill.

"No kidding. That's how I know corruption doesn't breed corruption, your highness."

"So you're not scared of me?"

"Frankly, I'm scared of everything."

"Sounds super fun. Are those blades on your back for harvesting wasabi, peddler?"

"Not even a little bit."

"Born to be a merchant, and yet you're here."

"How do you know I'm not here to sell you wasabi?" He kept stealing nervous glances at the dragon.

"I don't know why you're here at all."

"Because I was born to be a merchant, but in my heart, I'm a knight."

"And how does that pertain to me?"

"What is a knight without royalty to serve? Besides, I'm on a quest. I've been hired by Prince Frederick of the neighboring kingdom to free you from your tower and escort you to him."

"If Prince Frederick wanted me saved, he could have done it himself."

"While I agree, it seems given the circumstances I'm the best chance you have. I'm a little scared of heights though, so I don't think I could get you down from there-"

"Don't worry about the tower, just worry about the dragon."

"Right, the dragon… Are we sure that has to be my job?"

"Come on Wasabi, you were born to be a knight." She didn't want to sit back and watch, but there was nothing she could do with her rusty pair of scissors. This would be the last time she played the damsel in distress, though.

Wasabi took a deep breath and looked at the beast.

"Right. I guess I have to then."