Child of Consequence Chapter 6, a Tangled + Brave, 2012 Crossover fanfic

So my original plan was for five chapters, sorry that didn't happen there was just to much to do for the last chaper, Tulli, a friend and sister to Rose, betrays Rose her her father, the Triclops king Kurisul. There is also a sun demon, Jack and Merida helped Rose find her powers but is she really ready for a fight?

I ran into the woods, hoping Merida and Rapunzel received my silent promise of return. Centuries ago my mother suggest I find a place just for myself, keep it secret even from her. I ran for about two miles letting the magic mother helped me make to find this place, no matter where I am, take hold. I walked down the little path that led to a lone cabin in the woods, I'm not gonna tell you where because then you'll be looking for it.

On my key chain was a key that very much stood out of place in this modern world. I slid the key into place and felt the tumblers move as I turned the key. I walked into the main room of the cabin looking around a smile of content graced my face as I walked over to a chifforobe by the fireplace within the main room. After a breif search through all of the drawers in the chifforobe I found what I was looking for. It was another key. I took this key over to a door in the back of the little cabin and opened in. The room was dark and smelled of steel and iron. I ignored most of the weapons and headed for a small chest in the back. I open the chest and removed from it a dark cloak, a pair of sies, and a sword, almost as thin as a rapier but not quite. There were also straps and buckles with which I wrapped around myself, strapping the sword to my hip, the sies to my arms and various other knives were also strapped along my body as well. After making sure everything was secure I ran back to the scene of battle, the magic from the cabin took me back to the place I needed to be, and what a sight I beheld.

Jack and Jannette were toe to toe steel flashing as they fought each other, I recognized the style as Tulli's. As I was running to help Jack I saw Merida and Amy shooting at each other, arrows flying all over the place. Further back I saw Tulli and Hiccup going at each other. Myles was going after Kurisul and that left Rapunzel alone with the sun demon. As I searched for her I saw that Rapunzel was unconscious on the ground with the demon reaching out for her making sure my hood stayed up I raced forward drawing my blade and I cut at the hand that reached for my friend forcing the demon to step back.

The demon roared at me in frustration, I'm preventing him from draining the life of my friend. I kept my blade pointed at him as I checked Rapunzel's pulse and life force. It was good and her life force was vibrant, even giving, like she was life itself, probably why the sun demon wanted her in the first place.

Jack and Merida both disarmed and incapacitated Amy and Jannette and started running towards us, the sun demon saw this and sent a wave of solar energy at them knocking them back several feet.

"Hey," I called out drawing attention back to me from everyone in the area. "You think just because you're this big bad demon that you can just push people around. Well you can't, I recommend you all surrender before you make me angry because I can't guarantee what I will do when I am angry."

The demons laughed and why wouldn't they all they knew what that I was a little girl with cloak and a sword, but I could see in the eyes of Merida and Myles that my voice struck a familiar cord with them. I looked back at Rapunzel and then briefly touched the cloak that protected me from harm. I remember the day mother gave it to me, I closed my for a moment then walked over to Rapunzel feeling the attack at my back but knowing it would not harm me, I smirked at the sun demon then walked to Rapunzel crouching down and removing my cloak, making sure my face was hidden from the others. I stood again facing the sun demon my blade pointed at him as I moved my right hand behind my back, I was using my left hand mostly to gauge the strength of my opponent.

Looking back at the sun demon I was aware that even standing before him I was giving him power. I focused on channeling that ability to the people I knew now were the good guys. But before I could engage the demon to a duel something crashed in front of me. I looked down and saw Myles unconscious.

'NO,' my soul screamed at the sight. She was the strongest being out there, these demons have now been feeding off of me long enough that they are now stronger than the angel of destruction.

"Leave the brat's discipline to me Ciril," Kurisul said as he lumbered over to us. "You can feed off of this Guardian's essence, it's most divine."

Essence, what make us who we are, so that's how he did it, every time she got in close to strike him he drew more of her power the leach. I started to tremble in anger trying to keep my rage in control.

'What can I do.' I cried out in my mind. 'How can I protect them, do I even have the power to save us?'

Kurisul reach out for me and I could feel my energy draining, I didn't stand a chance. I closed my eyes and prayed for a quick death.

'Are you seriously giving up?'

The voice rang in my ears and I opened my eyes. I was not on the battlefield, best way to describe where I was, the source of the northern lights. I looked around and finally saw the person who spoke, it was a woman roughly my height. I could see her face but what I saw, she was wearing a long purple skirt with a slit on the right side the stopped at mid-thigh her feet were bare and there was an anklet with a dark purple jewel on it. Her skin was also tinted a light purple color. Her top was a purple corset with black designs that shimmered with pink, she wore a necklace with a purple jewel like that on her ankle. On her arms were pink metallic wraps that made her arms look smaller.I could see bits of her hair that wasn't cut off from my vision either by her body or shadow but I saw it was long and that it stopped to about her waist.

'Who are you,' I demanded.

'I am what you were,' she said stepping out of the shadow. I saw my face as hers, her eyes were pink in the iris and purple in the pupils the hair was purple, pink and lavender, full of richness and beauty. On her forehead and around her eyes were intricate tattoos in a deep royal purple. The swirled and moved almost like it was alive. 'I am what you should be, I am what you can be. I am you and your true power.'

'What is my true power, what is the consequences of my heritage?'

'You mother fell in love with a man who was her complete opposite, she ran away to this universe, you don't belong here at all. Because of her transgressions your powers are outside of the norm. You can rewrite the fabrics of the universe, any universe. But because you are not God or any god for that matter there is consequence that the universe has created. For every time you use your power there is a reaction, a consequence if you will. It may effect you or those around you. Are you willing to pay the price?'

'So, lets say I do something with a selfish intent?'

'Something bad will happen, and if you commit an act with a pure heart and pure intention the consequence is more like a reward. The universe doesn't need more gods and the laws of the universe do need to be obeyed. Some laws, depending on the situation can be rewritten but not by you.'

'And what are you, my conscious?"

'Yes actually. I am the superior being you are destined to be, once your curse is lifted. You are destined for a fate that is most divine and someone is looking for you already, they may not know it but they are searching for you. Now should we finish this fight, or let our fates be sealed?'

I took a deep breath and looked at her with a new found determination. 'How do I release my power?'

'Get angry and let go of your rage.'

And I did just that, I opened my eyes and there was pink smoke all around me. I looked down at myself before the smoke cleared and saw my purple skin and my new dress, my head felt heavy from all that hair the smoke cleared and I looked up at Kurisul glaring at him. I could see his intentions, his past, his thoughts and the many potential futures. It kinda scared me a little bit, this is the consequence of forbidden love among higher beings? No wonder my mother was afraid for me, all of this at once is maddening.

Kurisul growled and reached out for me again his movements were slow to me as was the speech, I made a mental note to myself to ask Myles if it were possible to limit my powers until I was ready to control it. I raised my hands to Kurisul as he reached for me and demanded his ended, for the people he hurt and for his intentions for the future. Energy left my palms as fast as shadows and, well to put it plainly, obliterated Kurisul, I was getting really scared of my powers now. I let my hands down and looked for Myles and Rapunzel. Seeing Myles still unconscious I started running towards her, before I reached her I was snatched up by Ciril I raised my hand to strike him the same way when he squeezed breaking my ribs; I almost passed out from the pain.

I heard Jack cry out and Ciril moved me from one hand to the other and I saw Rapunzel in that hand with me. Ciril started draining our powers to gain more as he turned to face the little Winter Guardian. I could hear Hiccup, who was now being held by the neck by Tulli, shout something about shadows, Merida was shouting right along with him. Jack kept shaking his head in frustration, I reached out to him despite my pain and focused on increasing his power. We needed to win or people were going to die here today, Jack looked at me and made eye contact, I could see his fear, he was terrified, I looked back at Rapunzel her life was still vibrant thanks to my cloak but still ebbing away.

I looked back at Jack and there was a different look in his eyes. The fear was still there but there was something else, determination and love. I focused even harder pushing Jack's powers beyond their limits my own muscles were shaking. I vaguely noticed that all of the boosting power that I had was focused solely on Jack, Ciril and Tulli were no longer gaining power from me not even the other guardians and demons in the area. Jack held his hands together as Ciril started to focus energy into the hand that I no longer occupied. Energy began to pool in front of Jack. It was black and white, somehow they were familiar to me at least part of it. Jack release the energy at the same time Ciril released his, the two forces met in the middle, I gave Jack's power one final push quadrupling it before I lost consciousness.

It was weeks before I woke up, when I opened my eyes I was sitting on a surprisingly comfortable stone table in a room completely made out of crystal I blinked a couple of times before getting up, I felt sore and stiff. I hopped off the table and almost lost my balance. I found a door at one end of the room, it stuck out pretty well being a dark wood in this crystal room. I walked to it wobbling at I did so and opened it, on the other side of the door was Merida and Rapunzel carry a tray with honey a bowl of water and a rag, I looked in the bowl and saw lemons and espone salt in it, looked like they were trying to take care of me. A closer look revealed steam rising from the bowl. I looked back at the girls and we stared at each other for a minute.

"So," I finally spoke my voice sounding like I had been smoking six packs of cigarettes a day. "Does this mean we won?"

The girls laughed in relief and helped me to Myles's office. Turns out this was their place, they called it Sanctuary for ti was the one safe place they could always return too. They led me into Myles's office, which honestly reminded me of the dean's office back at my college, and helped me sit down. Everyone was in the Room Hiccup was standing by the fire and Jack was standing beside Myles who sat at her desk which was an ornate cherry wood the designs were wings and leaves that blended and mixed together, it was actually beautiful. There were eight others in the room I assumed that they were Myles's Kii that I heard about the ones that were chasing me the night of the archery tournament, man that seemed so long ago now.

Myles got up from behind her desk, she looked older to me now, about as old as my mother looked, not as the age of a college student. She handed me a goblet that was smoking slightly, I eyed it suspiciously before taking it.

"Its a recovery potion," she said catching my look. "You've been unconscious for over a week and not to mention what happened to you in battle and also what those demons have been doing to for what looks like months. Your nutrition levels are really low."

I drank the potion in two gulps making a face as I put the cup down. I hummed a little bit then spoke my voice already almost back to normal.

"So what happened," I asked.

"What do you remember," Merida asked.

"I remember Ciril grabbing me and breaking my ribs," I started looking at my hands. "I almost lost consciousness then, I reached out to Jack who seemed, lost, I focused my booster ability on him and increased his power. I wanted to save Rapunzel because it seemed like even though my mother's cloak was protecting her, Ciril was still getting at her life. Jack and Ciril both attacked at the same time and then I blacked out."

Myles nodded. "So you were aware of your transformation and that you killed Kurisul?"

I kept my head down, "Yes. That was the first time I took a life, it was scary how easy it was. Is there a way to limit my power now that I can tap into it?"

Rapunzel spoke up wrapping an arm around me. "Of coarse there is a way. Right?"

Myles looked at me and waited until I made eye contact before she spoke, "Is that what you want, you seemed to be in control the day of the battle."

I nodded, "I know that something in my subconscious can teach me but I want to do this right, I want a master to teach me."

Myles nodded in understanding smiling at the me. "You four get to decide who teaches her."

Merida immediately recommended Nure, I shook my head at that one, I wasn't much of a pyro, and I'm sure she's a great teacher and all, her style wasn't mine. Hiccup was in deep thought and recommended Nieve, I wrinkled my nose at that, even though most times I can't feel it I hated the cold, I hate driving in the snow. Rapunzel wanted me to go with Catori so I could be more in touch with my innerself, I flinched at that one.

I was Jack who made the the comment about Lyusya, she was the opposite of what I was, calm and methodical. I was rash and impatient. Myles thought about it and nodded, we were to go to the council that week. Everyone started talking excitedly to each other, so loud that I had to yell to be heard.

"What about the humans that were infected," I asked.

Nobody made eye contact with me. Hiccup finally spoke, "They're in a coma."

"No," I looked down staring into nothing. "How many?"

"Fifty last we counted more are found everyday."

"Is there a cure?"

"We tried everything, and we already used one miracle so Myles can't do anything."

I stood up and glared at them, "What do you mean she can't do anything?"

Myles raised a hand to stop Hiccup from speaking, she gently led me to the love-seat in the back of the room, she seemed sad.

"As you know there are laws that need to be obeyed in the universe," she said this as if she were speaking to one of her own children or family, I didn't know if I should feel insulted or touched. "So that I do not be tempted to over throw the Gods not even the one who is my master the Father of Heaven I am permitted to use only one miracle every twenty to thirty years, and I have to have someone command that release for the miracle. I already used a miracle to save Merida from a fate worse than death at the request and release of Hiccup and together she and I performed the final miracle that cost me my body."

I let go of my anger then and guilt took over. This was all my fault, Tulli and the other two demons did all this so I would be obedient so they could control me. I gripped my hands and they began to tremble as my knuckles turned white. Then they stopped as an idea came into my head, a wonderful, yet dangerous, idea.

"What if I used my powers to get everyone back," I asked.

Everyone looked at me like I was mad. Jack moved forward, it seemed like their minds were all connected. He glared at me.

"I forbid it," he said.

"Why," I demanded standing up.

"Because, when you were reaching out to me, asking for help or giving me power I don't care, I felt like I was looking at my little sister again. You remind me a lot of her. I sacrificed myself so that she would live, I'm not going to have you die."

I was about to argue saying I wasn't his little sister, when my powers kicked in the ability to see, everything about a person. He really did see me as a little sister this entire time, even in class and watching me during fencing club. How can I argue with someone who is thinking with their heart, hell he probably wouldn't even let Rapunzel do what I wanted to do on the chance it would kill her. But then I thought back to a story I've read, and an anime I watched after reading that story, the character I loved the most was trapped in a curse like I was and was trying to convince the main character, a girl by the name of Angelique, to fight in a battle against demons called Thanatos. What he said to her now rang in my head.

"Noblesse oblige," I said, Jack and the others looked confused, only Myles and the man she called Jonathan raised an eyebrow to my words, they knew it. "If you possess power, yet fail to use it: that is sin. I have the power to rewrite the universe, yes I want it restricted until I can control it but for now if I have that power to save everyone and I don't use it, I might as well take my blades and end their lives."

I stood in the middle of town square it was now New Year's Eve and there was little hope, we were working on how to amplify my voice so the entire town could hear it. Once Hiccup gave the okay I took a deep breath and began to sing.

"Children sleeping, snow is softly falling
Dreams are calling like bells in the distance
We were dreamers not so long ago
But one by one we all had to grow up
When it seems the magic's slipped away
We find it all again on Christmas day"
I pictured a path lighting up to show every lost soul to their perspective bodies.
"Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe"
I placed my hands together in a prayer.
"Trains move quickly to their journey's end
Destinations are where we begin again
Ships go sailing far across the sea
Trusting starlight to get where they need to be
When it seems that we have lost our way
We find ourselves again on Christmas day

"Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe
If you just believe
If you just believe
If you just believe"
I could feel their souls standing at their bodies, but they weren't entering them, why?
"Just believe
Just believe"

I didn't understand, but then it hit me, my work wasn't done, they needed a reason to enter their bodies. I closed my eyes and started another song.

"Lately I been, I been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I been, I been prayin' hard
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars
Yeah, we'll be counting stars
I felt the music take over me and I started to dance.
"I see this life
like a swinging vine
Swing my heart across the line
In my face is flashing signs
Seek it out and ye shall find"

"Old, but I'm not that old
Young, but I'm not that bold
And I don't think the world is sold
I'm just doing what we're told"

"I feel something so right
By doing the wrong thing
And I feel something so wrong
By doing the right thing
I couldn't lie, couldn't lie, couldn't lie
Everything that kills me makes me feel alive"
Every step I took light appeared filling the square.
Lately I been, I been losing sleep (hey!)
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I been, I been prayin' hard (hey!)
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars
Lately I been, I been losing sleep (hey!)
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I been, I been prayin' hard (hey!)
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be, we'll be counting stars"

"I feel the love
And I feel it burn
Down this river every turn
Hope is our four letter word
Make that money
Watch it burn"

"Old, but I'm not that old
Young, but I'm not that bold
And I don't think the world is sold
I'm just doing what we're told"

"And I feel something so wrong
By doing the right thing
I couldn't lie, couldn't lie, couldn't lie
Everything that drowns me makes me wanna fly"

'Lately I been, I been losing sleep (hey!)
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I been, I been prayin' hard
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars
Lately I been, I been losing sleep (hey!)
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I been, I been prayin' hard (hey!)
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be, we'll be counting stars"

"Oh, oh, oh."

"Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I learned
Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I learned
Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I learned
Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I learned"

"Everything that kills me makes me feel alive"

"Lately I been, I been losing sleep (hey!)
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I been, I been prayin' hard (hey!)
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be counting stars
Lately I been, I been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I been, I been prayin' hard
Said no more counting dollars
We'll be, we'll be counting stars

"Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I learned
Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I learned
Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I learned
Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I learned"

They entered their bodies but lacked the motivation to live, I knew this wouldn't be easy but come on, give me a break this was my first time doing such a thing on purpose and without the adrenaline pushing me. I continued moving about the square which was full of spectators now, watching me wondering what I was doing and where the light I left behind came from. Now I needed to give not just the lost souls but everyone a reason to live, my job just got harder as I started my new song.

"This ain't a song for the broken-hearted
No silent prayer for the faith-departed
I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd
You're gonna hear my voice
When I shout it out loud"

I pushed myself harder as a familiar heat came over me. I wasn't scared of it now as I embraced it feeling my form change once again, but not with that heaviness of battle.
"It's my life
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life"

"This is for the ones who stood their ground
For Tommy and Gina who never backed down
Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake
Luck ain't even lucky
Got to make your own breaks"

My skirts were a filmy material, light and see through, they were a dark blue, and I had on a tunic that hugged my skin tightly that was as light as silk yet was black.
"It's my life
And it's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive
'Cause it's my life"
I felt my hair lengthen and when I turned allowing it to fly in my face I saw it was black as pitch. I smiled and let my feeling and my power spill out of me.
"Better stand tall when they're calling you out
Don't bend, don't break, baby, don't back down"

"It's my life
And it's now or never
'Cause I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive"

"This ain't a song for the broken-hearted
No silent prayer for the faith-departed
I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd
You're gonna hear my voice
When I shout it out loud"

"It's my life
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life"

"This is for the ones who stood their ground
For Tommy and Gina who never backed down
Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake
Luck ain't even lucky
Got to make your own breaks"

"It's my life
And it's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive
'Cause it's my life"

"Better stand tall when they're calling you out
Don't bend, don't break, baby, don't back down"

"It's my life
And it's now or never
'Cause I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive
'Cause it's my life!"

They had the motivation to live, but the power was not there, their essence was gone. I was ready to cry. I looked at Jack, he had made me promise for his consciousness's sake that I wouldn't do anything to cost my life, well, it looks like I'm going to have to break that promise. I spread my arms out my aura beginning to glow like a phoenix's fire. And I sang one last song with the intent of sacrificing my own essence.

"Gracefully she's circling higher.
She has the wind beneath her wings
and looks down on us
She said:
"Robbed of my innocence, had no more time to play.
I sure got my feathers burned, but I'm stronger than the flames"."
I thought of my friends, Kayla, Amy, Jannette, even Jo.
"Here she comes, here she comes.
I've been waiting for so long.
Here she comes
rose again from the flames
my little Phoenix"
I thought of my clubs and my classmates, my teachers and tutors.
"Eternity is set in her eyes
throwing sparks back at the world that'll never die.
And I think:
"She has robbed of her innocence, had no more time to play.
She's only a little girl, but she stronger than the flames"."
I think of my past, those I have loved the children that I tried to have and the pain of holding their stillborn forms in my arms. A pain that never healed.
"Here she comes, here she comes.
I've been waiting for so long.
Here she comes
rose again from the flames
my little Phoenix."
I thought of the times I was born the thoughts I had over the many times I was an infant and the frustration of not being able to speak.
"Here she comes
I've been waiting for my little Phoenix."
I thought of the pains of life and how I don't regret a single moment, that I relish the thought of doing it all again and letting the cycle continue, yes it was a curse but it was my curse and even though I wish for freedom, I do not hate the curse.
"You've got to get close to the flame to see what it's made of
You've got to get close to the flame to see what you are made of."
I thought about death and the times I had to wait to be born again, that silence with no light. I don't want anyone to experience that, I want them to live.
"Here she comes, here she comes.
I've been waiting for so long.
Here she comes
rose again from the flames
my little Phoenix."

I ended my son with a smile, I could feel everyone waking up, then everything went black and the silence consumed me.

I would like to give credit to these songs to where they deserve. The first one is 'Believe.' by Josh Groban. The second one, is 'Counting Stars.' by Onerepublic. The third is 'It's My Life.' by Bon Jovi. And finally my last song is 'My Little Phoenix.' done by my favorite vocalist who used to be the lead in the rock group Nightwish, Tarja Turunen. An amazing woman with an amazing voice. If you haven't heard of her I recomend looking her up, she actually has a single with the symphonic rock group Within Temptation called Paradise in which she is singing a duet with the lead Sharon den Adel. Another amazing singer if I may say.

The next and last Chapter is going to be a wrap up chapter, and no I didn't die, not yet, you have to remember, my big rule, for every time I use my power there is a consequence and depending on the intention, is what happens. So no I'm not going to die no matter how willing I was, if I die whose gonna tell all these good stories huh?

Peace out. and don't forget to review.