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"You mean the lantern thing, they do for the princess?" Although he said this like it didn't matter, he just shattered everything Rapunzel knew about the outside world.
"Lanterns!" She gasped. She looked back at her painting. "I knew they weren't stars!" I rolled my eyes. Since when were they stars?She took a breath and pointed the pan at him, even though the pan wouldn't do any damage at this distance. "Well, tomorrow evening, they will light the night sky with these...lanterns." She tried the word for the first time.
I looked at her, then back at him. He looked bored. I glared at him.
"You-will take me to see the lanterns and return me safely. Then!" She shook the pan. "And only then—will I return your satchel to you. That is my deal." She crossed the pan across her chest.
Earwax flipped himself on his side. "Yeah, no can do, Blondie. You see, the kingdom and I aren't exactly 'simpatico' at the moment, so I won't be taking you anywhere." He looked at us like we were just going to give in. Not that easy.
Rapunzel looked at me the same time I looked at her. Her look asked me what to do next.
"Throw him out the window." I said as I pounded my fists together.
Earwax's face changed into fear, but it quickly passed.
Rapunzel looked back at him, looking amused. She jumped off the ledge and picked up her hair. Earwax was somehow on his back and Rapunzel pulled him up. "Something brought you here, Flynn Rider. Call it what you will: fate, destiny..." She stepped towards him.
"A horse." Earwax said.
Huh, I've never heard fate being called a horse. Oh, well.
"So I have made the decision to trust you."
I froze. WHAT! This is NOT the plan!
"A horrible decision, really." He said.
Thank you for agreeing with me! I started chirping in Rapunzel's ear before she did something stupid. Or worse…
"But trust me when I tell you this." She tugged the hair and the chair flew forwards into her hands. I just went with the flow and started supporting her cuz there was NO way I was agreeing with this idiot.
Her face was shoved into his. "You can tear this tower apart brick by brick. But, without my help! You will never find—your precious satchel!" She hissed the last words. I narrowed my eyes.
He cleared his throat. I looked him up and down and he glanced nervously at me. "Let me get this straight. I take you to see the lanterns, bring you home, and you'll give me my satchel?"
Darn right! I thought.
"I promise." Rapunzel said.
I froze. Rapunzel's promises were binding! If she broke one...there would be disaster! It would be the end of the world. She can't promise! Not to him!
He looked at her like she was crazy. I was starting to actually agree with him, as much as I hated him.
"And when I promise something, I never ever break it." She stressed every word.
He raised his eyebrow.I'll raise your eyebrow when she wants me to raise your eyebrow!
"Ever!" She added. I nodded in agreement. It was true.
He looked at Rapunzel and me. He sighed, "Alright, I didn't want to have to do this...but you leave me no choice. Here comes the smolder." He ducked his head.
I was wondering what he was doing when he lifted his head and showed us his face.
He had the stupidest look on his face! His eyebrows were turned up and his lips were all funny. I glared at him and when he looked at me, I licked my lips.
"This is kind of an off day for me. This doesn't usually happen." A few seconds passed with that idiotic look.
"Fine! I'll take you to see the lanterns." He gave in!
Pascal:1! Earwax:0!
"Really?" Rapunzel let go of the chair, letting it crash onto the floor with Earwax still in it. "Oops."
I didn't care. He deserved it!
"You broke my smolder..." He groaned.
"Good." I smiled. Rapunzel shot me a look that said, Stop, or he won't take us and I'll blame you!
I shrugged. "It's not like he understands me."
"Can I have some help here?" Earwax moaned from the floor. Rapunzel hesitated, stopped by my glare, but pulled the chair up.
She darted off to get some food with Earwax watching her every move.
"You won't need that." He smirked. Rapunzel froze in the act of packing a basket full of nice, juicy grapes.
I jumped off her shoulder and ran to the chair. "What?" She slowly turned around. I started climbing the chair leg.
"I'll buy you your meals." He smiled, trying to seduce her...again! I climbed his back. "Courtesy of Flynn Rider." He raised an eyebrow.
"Oh. Um, okay?" She didn't know what 'buy' meant, but I didn't either. I climbed around to his chest and he still didn't notice. "What should I bring?"
"Just yourself." He waggled his eyebrows. I was going to barf. I was positioned under his chin and just above that was my prize.
I shot my tongue up and once I got past all the hair, I found my prize—boogers.
"Ahh!" He screamed. "Okay! The ears were okay, but THIS! Can we go now?" He yelled.
Rapunzel plucked me out of his lap with me punching his legs.
"My nose! My beautiful, beautiful nose!" He wailed. I rolled my eyes. Let him go. Rapunzel hesitantly unraveled the hair and Earwax shot up with his hands cupped around his 'beautiful' nose. "EW!" He yelled.
He looked up to see Rapunzel picking up her frying pan. His jaw dropped. "Do you have to bring that? I mean- it's..."He started yelling but was stopped by a frying pan to the face. He held up his hands in surrender.
"Out." Rapunzel said. "Now." SHe shook the pan in his face.
He walked backwards until he reached the window and he looked down. "Umm...how do I get down?" He was cautious not to fall out, as much as I wanted that.
"Same way you got up." She gestured to the discarded sticks on the floor. "With those..." She paused.
He looked at the 70ft of hair and pointed to it. "But! Your!" His attempt was hopeless. He sighed and bent down to grab them. He turned and sat on the window ledge. He turned and lowered himself and started climbing down.
Rapunzel made sure he was halfway down until she prepared her hair. She looped the hair around the hook and grabbed the other end.
"You coming, Blondie?" He shouted from below.
She took a deep breath.
Look at the world, so close, and I'm halfway to it. She softly sang. I retreated to the hammock to make sure my special grape would be untouched. I tied a loop of hair around it.
Look at it all, so big, do I even dare? She leaned out and I prepared for the jump, but she didn't do anything. She turned to face inside the tower.
Look at me, here at last, I just have to do it. I realized that while my grape was secure, I wasn't!
Should I...? She reached a hand inside. I poked her neck, reminding her of her lifelong dream. No. Here I go. I climbed onto her shoulder and tied the hair around my waist. I gave her the claws up and puffed out my chest. She giggled. I climbed back to her neck and hugged it.
She tossed her hair out the window and, narrowly hitting Earwax, slid down it, giggling. I was enjoying myself until she suddenly stopped and I was shaken up. I looked out and saw her toes inches from the grass.
"Go!" I yelled.
She cautiously put her toes on the grass, then the other toes and stood there, giggling, moving her toes around.
Just feel the grass, the dirt, just like I dreamed they'd be! She sang while bending down to lay in the grass. She flipped over.
Just feel that summer breeze, the way it's calling me.She got up to follow some floaty white things and splashed into the stream.
For, like, the first time EVER, I'm completely free! She cupped her hands and threw water in the air. A bluebird flew by and she followed it to the exit.
I could go running, and racing, and dancing, and chasing, and leaping, and bounding, hair flying, heart pounding!She ran through a curtain of leaves to reveal the forest.
And splashing and reeling and finally feeling! She turned, taking in the sight of the forest. She was giddy and shaking so much I fell off her neck.
That's when my life—be—gins!She looked around. I was so happy for her, but then Earwax walked through the curtain and my mood turned sour.
"I can't believe I did this!" She yelled, completely and utterly happy!
"I can't believe I did this." She said, holding her hands to her head.
"I can't BELIEVE I DID THIS!" She screamed, twirling around and around, making me dizzy. I fell backwards.
"Mother will be so furious." She crossed her arms over her chest and hunched her shoulders. Something caught her eye and she gasped.
I climbed her hair as she ran off to the nearest pond and splashed through it to reach the lilies growing in the water. She sat on a rock and held a lily. "What she doesn't know won't kill her, right?" She asked me...or herself...I wasn't really sure.
She dropped the lily and spun around to only see Earwax standing there.
"We gotta go if we want to make it to the kingdom in time." He pointed his thumb in the opposite direction. Rapunzel darted up and ran ahead, taking in all the sights, as was I.
She saw a dark opening in a rock and pointed to it. "What's that?"
Earwax sighed, "It's a cave." He stood in front of it.
Rapunzel squealed and ran inside. She looked around and sat down. "Oh my gosh, this will kill her!" She wrapped her arms around her knees and rocked back and forth.
I hugged her neck tightly.
Earwax interrupted us a few minutes later by clearing his throat. "Are you done in there?"
Rapunzel got up. "Yeah, I'll be right out!" She took a deep breath and skipped out. "Ready!" She said. She walked forward and I looked around the forest. It was green...very green. And brown, very brown, but a good brown.
All of a sudden, Rapunzel stopped dead in her tracks. I looked in front of us and there was a gentle hill. At the bottom was her prize, a pile of leaves.
Earwax walked ahead of us and stopped at the tree next to the pile. "You coming?"
"Just a second," She called out. She took a step back and ran down the hill and screamed, "This is so fun!"
She kept running and climbed up a tree. She surveyed her surroundings and put her head against the tree. "I... am a horrible daughter. I'm going back." She shrugged. I climbed onto her head and hung upside down and smiled, trying to get her to do the same.
She gave a small grin and climbed down. She kept walking with Earwax behind her and saw a steeper hill. She did a cartwheel and tumbled down it, "I am never going back!" She was completely encased in her hair like a cocoon. "Whoo-hoo!"
She unraveled herself and kept walking, making the distance between us and Earwax bigger. She kept walking the path until she saw a field of flowers. She ran through it and flopped down, "Pascal, look! You can see all the clouds here!"
We waited until Earwax came, playing "What is it?"
He sat down next to us. Rapunzel flipped onto her stomach to look at the flowers. A few seconds later, she put her head on the ground and yelled, "I am a despicable human being!"
She remained like this until Earwax stood up and so did she. She followed behind him. She climbed a tree and was darting from branch to branch without Earwax noticing. I clung to her shoulder and checked up on my grape. It was still there.
He stopped and looked behind him and noticed Rapunzel was above him. She looped her hair around a tree branch and jumped down. He ran with his arms open to try to save her, but she was soon turning around the tree.
He frowned and leaned against the tree trunk.
"BEST. DAY. EVER!" She yelled out loud. I was on the grass and I followed her turns until I got very sick and I turned a sickly shade of green.
She saw me and jumped down to check up on me. I recovered quickly and we were soon on our journey.
She ran up ahead, dancing around. She jumped down a set of rocks, and when she came to the last one, she sat down to catch her breath.
I was dropped in the jumping and was making my way carefully down the mountain of rocks.
She burst into tears and put her head in her hands. She was still crying when Earwax came around.