DISCLAIMER; I don't own Tangled, Disney does. I only own the OC. This is strictly for entertainment, not money. Please don't sue me. I'm not worth the time in court nor do I stand a chance in prison.
Chapter 01; A Journey Begins
"My name is Jonah Payne and this is the story of how my hopeless, condemned life changed forever." This particular biker narrates in his normal voice as he rides through the night with his wheels and his bare skull are literally on fire as the Ghost Rider. Picking this up, Jonah quickly reassures, "Don't worry! This story's actually more fun than it seems. To be honest, it's barely even mine. This is a story about a girl in a hidden tower and a rogue thief who's heart she stole, ironically enough. And it begins with the sun." The sun shines in the sky.
"Centuries ago, a single drop of sunlight fell from Heaven. And from this small drop of sun grew a magic golden flower." He says as the sun drop entered the ground and turned into the magic flower. "It had the ability to heal the sick and injured." An elderly woman in a wine red dress and a night sky blue cloak carrying a green lantern. "Oh, you see that old woman over there?" The young man asked before suggesting, "You might wanna remember her. She's pretty important."
"Centuries passed and a hop, skip and a boat ride away there grew the kingdom of Corona." He said as the kingdom's construction fast forward from it's founding to it's completion. "As the world outside had changed throughout the 2 hundred years or so, Corona remained the same. And, to this day, the kingdom is ruled by a beloved king and queen." The biker narrates acknowledging the monarchs. "The queen is about to have a baby, but she got sick. Really sick." There's shown a room with the ill and pregnant queen in bed with the king kneeling at her side holding her hand in worry. The servants are just as worried for the queen. "She was running out of time, and that's when people usually start to look for a miracle." The people of Corona, along with the palace guard, search the land for a cure. "Or in this case, a magic golden flower."
Then we're back to the old woman and the magic golden flower. "See? I told you she'd be important." Jonah points out before continuing, "Instead of sharing the sun's gift, Mother Gothel has hoarded it's healing power and used it to keep herself young for the past hundreds of years. And all she had to do was sing a special song." Gothel removes her hood before singing to the flower. " Flower, Gleam and Glow Let Your Power Shine " Music comes out of nowhere as the magic flower shines brightly and Gothel continues, " Make the Clock Reverse Bring Back What Once Was Mine " The flower emits its magic as she finishes, " What Once Was Mine " She then uses the magic to restore her youth, smiling with satisfaction. Jonah narrates, "OK, you get the idea; She sings to the flower, she turns young, basically cheating death in the process. Disturbing, isn't it?"
Gothel's satisfaction is, however, short-lived when she hears voices closing in from a distance. Scared of losing her personal "fountain of youth", she hides the flower in a fake bush before picking up her lantern and running to hide. Without noticing, she accidentally knocks the false bush off with her lantern, leaving the magic golden flower in plain sight.
As soon as Gothel is out of sight, a guard shows up and sees the flower before shouting out, "WE FOUND IT!" They have found their queen's best hope. Moments later, two of the guards uproot the flower to bring back to the kingdom, much to the dismay of Gothel, who was watching from behind a bush.
After the magic flower was brought to the kingdom, it was mixed into a bowl of water so that the queen could drink it's magic as Jonah continues to narrate, "The golden flower's magic healed the queen."
"After that, a healthy baby girl, a princess, was born with beautiful golden hair." Jonah continues to narrate as Corona's newborn golden-haired princess giggles happily in her crib as she sees her parents' happy faces. The queen, looking like she's about to burst into tears of joy, picks up her daughter and holds her into an embrace. The king gently sets his daughter's tiara on her head with a smile on his face as Jonah narrates, "And the king and queen named her Rapunzel."
"To celebrate her birth, the king and queen launched a flying lantern into the sky." Jonah says as the royal parents did exactly that and the lantern floats as high up as possible as the kingdom rejoices. "And for that one moment, everything was perfect. And then, that moment ended."
Later that night, Gothel, in her old age, broke into the king and queen's master bedroom and crept over the princess's crib as everyone slept. " Flower, Gleam and Glow " Gothel sings the lullaby as she reaches for a lock of the baby's golden hair while it glows the same glow as the flower. " Let Your Power Shine " Her youth was restored again. " Make the Clock Rever-" She sings as she cuts the lock of the baby's hair in the hope of using that bit of hair for her youth, only to gasp in shock and horror as that lock turned brown and seemed to lose it's power as Gothel's outer beauty fades away. Desperate and greedy, Gothel decided to kidnap the princess. The baby girl's cries wake her parents up to witness, too late, the intruder stole their baby as Jonah narrates, "Gothel broke into the castle, stole the kid, and just like that, was gone!" She disappeared into the night.
"Despite their best efforts, the kingdom could not find the princess, for deep within the forest, in a hidden tower, Gothel raised the girl as her own." About 6 years later, in a lone hidden tower, surrounded by a gorge, now lives Gothel and the little girl with abnormally long magic golden hair which the woman brushes as the girl sings the flower's lullaby in front of the fireplace, "- What Has Been Lost Bring Back What Once Was Mine What Once Was Mine " Gothel smiles in satisfaction, once again, as her youth returns to her. "Gothel had found her new magic flower, but this time, she was determined to keep it hidden." Jonah narrates as Gothel returns to brushing her "daughter's" hair. "Why can't I go outside?" Rapunzel asks her "mother". "The outside world is a dangerous place, filled with horrible, selfish people." Gothel replies with a lie, "You must stay here, where it's safe. Do you understand, my flower?" The little girl complies, "Yes, Mommy."
"But the walls of that tower couldn't hide everything." Jonah points out as the little girl snuck out of her room to the only window to the tower without waking Gothel to see the mysterious floating lights in the sky that make her feel peaceful for reasons she doesn't understand yet. "Each year on her birthday, the king and queen release thousands of lanterns into the sky in hope that one day their Lost Princess would return home."
Back to the present, almost 18 years after the princess was taken from her family, Jonah Payne, who has dark brown hair that's combed back, light brown eyes with a shade of green, a thin jawlined beard, a large, angry scar that starts from half an inch above the corner of his right eyebrow to the right corner of his jaw, wearing a leather bomber jacket that has a zipper on the right side of the front of it-even though it's the middle of summer, blue jeans, black leather gloves and steel-toed boots rides on his late father's customized yamaha vmax walzwerk motorcycle on a dirt path that leads into the forest just outside the kingdom, "That's where I come in. For by chance, or God's will, depending on what you believe in, I've unintentionally found myself on a journey that would change the way I see the world around me, and how I would see myself, forever." Jonah narrates as he rides into the forest on his way to the kingdom.
After riding since the crack of dawn, Jonah decides to take a short break and parks his bike in front of a tree. "What a day it's been so far." Jonah mutters to himself as he takes a quick drink of water to quench his thirst. He dismounts from his motorcycle and sits back on the tree he parked in front of. He sleeps for about half an hour thinking about the 4 years he spent in solitude riding alone, looking for work when he needed it, looking for trouble to blow off steam, and that's during the day. Most of all, he thinks about that night from 4 years ago, when a cruel act of fate turned his life upside down forever. Then, he wakes up and notices a hand drawn wanted poster nailed on a tree on the other side of the path. He gets up to take a closer look.
Taking what he now knows is an 18th century style hand drawn wanted poster of a thief named Flynn Rider.
"Flynn Rider?" Jonah couldn't help but question, for that was one of the most pretentious and made up names he's ever heard in all his life, "And I thought 'Johnny Blaze' was too far on the nose."
Speaking of noses, the nose in the sketch did not match the rest of his smug face, which looks a bit like Fandral of the Warriors Three from Asgard. The differences being this guy's hair is darkly shaded instead of empty, indicating he's brunette instead of blonde, and he has no facial hair save for a small goatee.
Jonah then notices another wanted poster on the tree, but this one two fully grown men, who look like near identical twins, known as the Stabbington Brothers. One has sideburns and a scar below the right corner of his mouth, the other has no facial hair and his left eye is covered by an eyepatch, and their blank expressionless faces make them both look like cold-blooded killers. "I could probably use the reward money." Jonah thought. His funds are a bit low and he has to do something to change that.
Just like that, he puts the wanted posters into his pocket, gets on his motorcycle, starts the engine up, and rides through the forest. "This is a big day." He says to himself out loud on the way. What he doesn't realize is that this big day is also going to be strange.
AUTHOR'S NOTES; I must apologize for the sudden deletion. I realized that there are some details I need to put into the story and some flaws I need to correct. If you've read what's been put down already, chances are you probably won't even notice the differences. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this. I think I might enjoy writing it.