Warnings: Child Abuse and Slurring (Censored) Mentions of: Sickness and Kidnapping
A girl with skin, brown curly hair, green eyes, pink lips, dressed in a sparkly aquamarine dress, a sparkly, silver tiara, aquamarine eyeshadow, red lipstick, sits on her right hip and pulls on the cold, black iron chains that are keeping her to the wall.
Her mind takes her back to a time when she sat in a brown wooden wheelchair on the green grassy palace lawn. She was only about seven years old. A teenage girl with short, black, curly hair, pale skin, grey eyes, and red lips wearing a grey shirt and black pants and boots, Cassandra was chasing a teenage boy with brown eyes, black skin wearing a red shirt, gold hoop earrings, black pants, and boots with metal handcuffs around his hands, Alnardo. A man with tan skin, brown hair and a beard, blue eyes wearing a red and blue suit, Frederic came out to the garden, surrounded by green, leafy bushes with little yellow flowers in them with a teenage boy with brown hair and eyes, tan skin wearing a white shirt, green jacket, and brown pants and boots, Eugene. "Cassandra! What are you doing?!" Frederic questioned.
"Playing Royal Guard!" Cassandra answered happily.
"I don't think Alnardo likes that. Can you please undo his handcuffs? Besides, it's time for lunch".
"I left the keys in the dungeon.". Frederic sighed.
"Please help me, Arianna." Natalia overheard him whispering. She was too young to understand the story of the Lost Queen and Princess, so she assumed it was some kind of curse. Eugene grabbed a brown twig off the green grass and fiddled it around in the lock. Alnardo's handcuffs fell off.
She looks around the tower. She sees a small silver needle lying on the floor beside her. Gothel, don't leave needles on the ground, you idiot! She thinks as she turns around. She leaned back and grabbed the needle. She twists her hand. Her wrist starts hurting. She fiddles it around in the lock. The handcuffs fall off. Her sweaty wrists breathe as the cool wind blows on them. She grabs an aquamarine notebook and a blue, peacock feather pen.
The old woman with curly, black hair, bluish-grey eyes, pale skin, wearing a red renaissance dress with yellow stitching and a black cloak turns around.
"You! How did you get out of your chains?" Gothel starts. "ᎡᎢ@ᎡᎠ are not supposed to be that smart!". Earlier that day, when Gothel called her that, Natalia broke down, crying. But this time, it was just irritating. She moves to a sitting position. She opens up her notebook.
Why are you doing this, you're a Coronan, just like me and my friends. Natalia writes. She turns her notebook towards Gothel. Gothel reads it aloud. "I am nothing like you and your imbecile friends." Gothel declares. Okay, that was better than what she had been calling Natalia, but still, pretty rude.
"It's time you learned a lesson
It's time that you understand
Don't ever count on anybody else
In this or any other land"
Gothel sings.
Gothel sang to a yellow, glowing flower. She could feel her body deaging. Suddenly, something golden and sparkly went flying down to the beach. She got up and looked down at the tan, sandy beach. A teenage girl with dark brown hair, tan skin, blueish-green eyes, a blue jewel necklace, a dress with purple middle and black outside with a red border with orange flowers, and another teenage girl with brown braids with hot pink, orange and aqua ribbons, brown studs, and two reddish-orange necklaces; the bottom one had a square aquamarine and two pairs of circular blue jewels on each side, a yellow shirt with orange sides and laces in the middle, and blue cuffs, aquamarine, orange, and hot pink bracelet, and white pants with orange buttons, Cassandra, Eugene, and Arnaldo dug up the Sundrop. The dirt underneath their hands felt cool. She shot a glare at them.
Natalia stands up. She threw a yellow piece of parchment paper at Gothel. Gothel caught it. "You open up your eyes?" Gothel read aloud.
"It's ti-me you le-arn-ed a less-on
It's t-ime th-at you un-der-stand
How mu-ch you hu-rt ev-er-y-bo-dy el-se
On th-is is-la-nd"
Natalia sings.
Gothel grabbed Natalia's chair. Cassandra rushed over to them, carrying a silver sword. Gothel made black rocks, rising towards Cassandra. The rocks knocked her back. Cassandra felt cold and as if she had broken every bone in her skeleton. Gothel ran out with Natalia.
"I once hoped for friendship,
To find a place among my kind
But those were the childish wishes"
Gothel sings.
A skinny teenage girl with pale skin, wavy white hair, and red eyes wearing a white dress, and a green cloak, Gabriella was in a village of brown, wooden houses and saw a teenage girl with tan skin, brown hair in a bun, wearing a pink dress, a teenage boy with tan skin, brown hair, wearing a blue shirt and brown pants, and a teenage girl with tan skin, brown hair in braids, wearing a purple dress. "Hi" The albino girl spoke. The other kids turned around and ran.
"IT'S A MONSTER!" The boy screamed. The albino girl curled up and started crying.
"Of someone who was blind"
Gothel glares at her.
"I go-t fri-end-sh-ip,
I fo-u-nd my pl-ace a-mo-ng my ki-nd
An-d the-ir lo-ve is no-t fev-er-ish or bl-ind!"
Natalia sings.
A young brunette woman with hair in an updo, tan skin, green eyes, pink lipstick wearing a white pearl necklace with three pink jewels in the middle, a purple and white renaissance dress and purple slippers, Arianna ran up to Natalia and hugged her. Her arms felt warm.
"Open up your eyes
See the world from where I stand
Me among the mighty
You caged at my command"
Gothel sings as she spins sideways.
"Op-en up yo-ur ey-es
See th-e wor-ld fr-om wh-er-e we st-an-d
yo-ur no-t an-y b-it mi-gh-t-y
we wi-ll ne-ve-r en-ga-ge in yo-ur de-man-d-s!"
Natalia sings as she smiles.
"Open up your eyes
Give up your sweet fantasyland
It's time to grow up and get wise
Come now little one
Open up your eyes"
Gothel sings as she leans and waves her hands towards Natalia.
"We all start out the same
With simple naive trust.
Shielded from the many ways
That life's not fair or just"
Gothel sings.
Ten-year-old Gabriella, who wore a white dress and green shall sat at a small white vanity and brushed her white, wavy hair with a golden brush with soft white brussels and a golden design of a flower on the back.
Ten-year-old Arianna who wore a dress with a white top and purple skirt sat on her knees behind a small, wooden cradle-crib with a thin white mattress that held a cloth doll with tan skin, blonde hair, green button eyes, pink lips covered in small, purple blankets. She grabbed the top bar on the left side and gently rocked it.
"But then there comes a moment"
Gothel sings.
A pregnant Arianna extended her hand to Gothel on a green, grassy cliff and smiled. Gothel struck her in the heart. Arianna's heart started burning, her eyes fell shut, and she fell off the cliff.
"A simple truth that you must face:"
Gothel sings.
Gothel sang to a yellow, glowing flower. She could feel her body deaging. Suddenly, something golden and sparkly went flying down to the beach. She got up and looked down at the tan, sandy beach. A teenage girl with dark brown hair, tan skin, blueish-green eyes, a blue jewel necklace, a dress with purple middle and black outside with a red border with orange flowers, and another teenage girl with brown braids with hot pink, orange and aqua ribbons, brown studs, and two reddish-orange necklaces; the bottom one had a square aquamarine and two pairs of circular blue jewels on each side, a yellow shirt with orange sides and laces in the middle, and blue cuffs, aquamarine, orange, and hot pink bracelet, and white pants with orange buttons, Cassandra, Eugene, and Arnaldo dug up the Sundrop. The dirt underneath their hands felt cool. She shot a glare at them.
"If you depend on others"
Gothel sings.
Gothel ran right with baby Rapunzel, who was bundled in a soft purple blanket.
"You'll never find your place"
Gothel sings.
Arianna ran left.
"A-nd as you ta-ke tha-t fi-rst st-ep
Up-on a pa-th th-at's all you-r ow–n"
Natalia sings.
Natalia looked out the yellow caravan window that had a purple frame, the cool wind blew in her hair.
"You see it all so clearly
The best way to survive is all alone"
Gothel sings.
"Open up your eyes
And see the world from where I stand"
Gothel and Natalia sing.
"Yo-ur no-t an-y b-it mi-gh-t-y
we wi-ll ne-ve-r en-ga-ge in yo-ur de-man-d-s!"
Natalia sings as she smiles.
"Open up your eyes
And behold the fading light"
Gothel sings as she closes the red curtains. The velvet feels soft and weird on her hands.
"It-s ti-me to gl-ow up and ge-t wi-se"
Natalia sings.
"Come now little one
Open up your eyes"
Gothel sings as she leans and waves her hands towards Natalia.
"Open up your eyes"
They sing as they point at each other.
Gothel waves her hands. A rock black cage forms around Natalia. Gothel pushes her hand out. The cage shots out the window, being attached by a black rock beam. Natalia grips the bars and screams.
Arianna ran into the tower. Her legs burn from climbing up so many stairs. Gothel notices her. "Arianna, breaking into my house uninvited, aren't you?" Gothel questions.
THE END
Author's Note: Sorry if this is hard to read. I put it in the second person because the book is in Arianna's, first-person perspective and I didn't want to constantly switch from Natalia's and Gothel's perspective, so I put it in the second person. This was hard to write.
