Warning: Mention of children abandonment
Summary: To acquire a piece of the scroll, Rapunzel travels to an ancient museum atop a tall spire.
Everyone arrives at a green spire. They go inside. Inside the spire, there were green walls with holes that held magical artifacts in them. Green stairs were up against the walls. A small woman with short braided blonde hair, tan skin, blue eyes wearing glasses, an orangish-brownish dress with riffles at the bottom, a white coat with brown lining, a brown belt around her waist, and brown sandals, Penelope approaches them. "Hi guys, I'm Penelope; what do you need?" She introduces herself.
"We're not sure." Rapunzel replies. Okay… a bit weird. Penelope thinks. Rapunzel, Eugene, Arianna, Cassandra, Varian, Lance, Hook Foot, Natalia, Sara, Catalina, and Kiera look around. Varian sees a purple granite crystal. Wow! He thinks. He runs to it and picks it up.
"The number of crystals in this must be thousands upon thousands!" He explains. Okay, he's weird. Kiera thinks. Maybe they could help me. Penelope thinks.
"Hey, guys, do you want to walk with me down to the vault?" She asks. Sounds fun. Rapunzel thinks.
"Sure." Rapunzel replies. They walk down a dark stairwell.
They are walking in a passageway lit by torches. "You know we tried to get the Sundrop in the vault but, when we went to Corona about 14 years ago, it was gone and there were just a bunch of rocks." Penelope explains. "You're from Corona, know anything about that?". Arianna and Rapunzel just freeze.
"Uhh… We ate it." Rapunzel replies as she holds Arianna's hand. Huh Penelope thinks.
"Do I even want to know what happened?" She asks.
"NO!" the group replies.
Suddenly, a giant red bear with ram horns, spikes, beady eyes, and fangs, the Curlock, jumps out. You gotta be kidding me. Penelope thinks.
"Don't worry… This was in my training." She announces. She pulls out the keys. She fumbles with them. The Curlock charges them.
Rapunzel pulls them aside. "Key, key, key," Penelope mumbles.
"Do you have the key?" Cassandra asks her.
"I don't know!".
"How could you not know! You're the Keeper!". Penelope sighs.
"I'm not the real Keeper! The real Keeper's my pa. But he went missing a few months ago. And ever since, I have been running this on my own. I had two more lessons to complete. They were about how to open this door and what to do about this thing.". Arianna hugs her. Eugene and Lance could pick the lock, and Rapunzel and I could defeat the Curlock! She thinks.
"Eugene and Lance could pick the lock, and Rapunzel and I could defeat the Curlock!". She tosses Eugene her pink beret. Rapunzel tosses her hair to her. They trip the Curlock. Eugene and Lance pick the lock. They open the door to a crystal blue room with a table with a parchment scroll in the middle.
Rapunzel runs over to the table. She picks up the scroll. A picture of a hooded man with tan skin, and a metal eyepatch, dressed in black, Lord Demanitus, with a pink and blue background surrounded by writing in Old Coronian is on it.
We had to go through all that for a picture of a man in a hood. Eugene thinks. "Seriously, we had to go through all that for a picture of a man in a hood?!".
"You Coronians, of all people, should know that nothing worth having comes easy." An old European man with a long beard, and bluish-gray eyes, wearing the same robe, Keeper says as walked into the room. Daddy! Penelope thinks.
"Dad!" She exclaims as she runs over to him.
He kneels and hugs her.
"Surely there was another way to teach her that without almost getting us all killed." Eugene says. Keeper laughs.
"The Curlock is actually a loyal family pet of ours, and as a finishing training gift, you get a baby one." Keeper explains. A baby Curlock comes out behind him. Penelope hugs her.