Me: I don't own Tangled, Rise of the Guardians, Sleeping Beauty, Hercules, How to Train Your Dragon, the Black Cauldron, Pocahontas, Brave, Treasure Planet, Aladdin and Avalon High.
Note: Everything will be in Rapunzel's POV! Unless I switch it to Hiccup's, John's(or Aurora's), Merida's or Jack's POVs. Or if it's in normal mode aka no one's POV.
Chapter 5:
Rapunzel's POV:
I giggled as we ran. I saw him run around something. "Hey! No shortcuts." I said.
"Why not?" He asked.
The week went by pretty fast and it was Thursday. Me and Taran were watching the game again. It was the Crusaders vs the Knights. I cheered then Taran groaned minutes later. "Uh-oh." He said.
"What?" I asked.
"That's gonna hurt." He said.
My mouth fell opened as Jack got tackled. We watched him and Hiccup argue then I saw Hiccup bow down Jack. I leaned slightly over towards Taran's side. "Did Hiccup just bow at Jack?" I asked.
"I don't know." He said.
Everyone left and I went over to Jack. "Jack. Are you okay?" I asked.
He looked at me then away. "Not really. I'm pretty sure Hiccup let me get sacked on purpose. Like he wanted me to get hurt. But then, why would he do that?" He asked, looking at me.
I sat next to him. "Here's the thing. And this isn't easy. I just..." I started when Jim interrupted me.
"Hey there, superstar. Way to hit like a girl. Bet the scouts loved that." Jim said. We turned around and looked at him.
"Dude, get out of here." Jack said. I rolled my eyes slightly as I looked away from Jim then looked back at him as I shifted to get comfortable.
"Can't. Your dad said you'd give me a lift." Jim said.
Jack sighed then we looked at each other. "Can I call you later? You can finish what you were going to tell me?" He half-asked.
I looked at him then at Jim then back at Jack. "It's nothing. I just wanted to make sure you were okay." I said.
"I'll be fine. Thanks, Rapunzel. Really." He said, grabbing his helmet, getting up and walking past Jim. Jim looked at me and moved his fingers across his lips like he was zipping them shut to tell me to shut mine then walked after Jack. I sighed silently then went home.
It was dark out and I was sitting on my porch. I didn't notice Taran coming until I heard a bell. I looked over, saw Taran getting off of his bike and I got up. "Taran! What are you doing here?" I asked.
"You need help." He said, coming up the porch steps.
"How do you know I need help?" I asked.
"I just know, okay? Isn't that enough?" He snapped.
"No, actually, it's not enough. How do you always know things are going to happen before it happens? Like the shoelaces, the ice, the stuff at the football game, showing up here tonight. I think you knew about Merida and Hiccup before I did! What are you, psychic or something?" I asked.
"Don't say that word, Rapunzel." He said.
"It's okay, Taran. You can tell me." I said.
"No, I can't. I can't tell anyone." He said.
"I'm not just anyone. I'm your friend. If you tell me something, no matter what it is, I'm going to be there for you. Because that's what friends do." I said.
"I just... I'm already enough a nerd, Rapunzel. The last thing I need is something else making me different." He said.
"Sometimes being different is what makes us great." I said.
He didn't say anything else and I smiled. He smiled back. "Okay." He said, taking his backpack off and sat down. "So, I've been seeing things, like flashes of the future, ever since I was a little kid. Only now it's gotten stronger. Now it feels like I'm being hit in the head with a brick." He explained.
"And tonight? What happened to make you come here tonight?" I asked.
"I saw myself sitting here with you, reading a book." He said.
"Book? What book?" I asked.
"The Order of the Bear journal. It has a secret page." He said. I got up and ran inside. He followed me after grabbing his backpack. We went to my room, opened the book to the page of the reincarnation and he used a small knife to find the secret page. "Watch out." He said. I moved my arms away as he moved the small knife towards me. Once he was done, he turned the page.
I gasped as we looked at the page. "I've been through this book, like, a million times. I never saw this." I said, turning the book around towards me. "Thanks, Taran." I said, looking up at him and smiling. He smiled back. We looked back down at the page. "The King returns anew at the meeting of the moon's shadowing and a million falling stars. What the heck does that mean?" I asked, looking up at him. "Maybe the moon's shadowing is an eclipse? And a million falling stars..." I trailed off.
"A meteor shower?" He asked, looking at me.
"That's it! A meteor shower. So maybe King Arthur's return is when an eclipse and a meteor shower happens on the same day." I said.
He shook his head softly. "No. It can't be. That only happens, like, once every 1,000 years." He said.
"Oh." I said as we looked down at the page.
"Hold on." He said, pulling out his phone. "Total eclipse, meteor shower." He said, typing it in. "Okay, so it looks like every 1,000 years is next Friday." He said.
"The night of the big game? No, no. It can't be." I said.
"Maybe I read it wrong." He said, looking at his phone.
"Let me see." I said, taking the phone away. I looked at it. "It's right here, in plain English! Eclipse! Meteor shower! Same day! Arthur is coming back." I said and put his phone down. "Arthur is coming back." I said, slightly getting up.
"Beware Mordred, Arthur's half-brother and sworn enemy, who is tasked to destroy Arthur before he even knows himself to be a King." He read.
"Destroy Arthur? As in, permanently?" I asked. We looked at each other then I closed the book as he grabbed his phone and we got up. We ran down the stairs and over to my parents. "Dad, quick King Arthur question for you. It's for our research paper." I said, accidentally hitting Taran in the gut with the book by kind of shoving it at him.
"Shoot." Dad said.
"Okay. Say King Arthur did come back, and Mordred came back to destroy him. What would he do?" I asked.
"Well, the legend said that Mordred would try to make Arthur's perfect world fall apart. He would try to lose faith in himself and his destiny, and he would cause infighting amongst Arthur's knights." Dad explained.
We looked over at mom when she explained. "And he would try to crush Arthur's spirit so completely, he would lose the will to go on." Mom said, getting up.
"Nice guy." Taran said, sarcastically.
"I don't know how Mordred would do it today, but 1,500 years ago, he did it by telling Arthur that his wife Guinevere was in love with Lancelot. Arthur was so upset and betrayed..." Mom trailed off, sitting next to me.
"He lost all faith, he didn't have the strength to go on. I know." I said.
"What is it, honey?" Dad asked.
I sighed. "What you just said? It's happening. It's Jack. Jack is the reincarnation of King Arthur." I said.
"I told you, John! It's really him! I knew it! I told you we were right to move here!" Mom said.
"Whoa, whoa! Wait. We moved here because of the prophecy?" I asked.
"Um, a little bit." Mom said.
"And you already knew it was Jack?" I asked.
"I had a hunch, which you just confirmed. Of course, we won't know for sure until he wields Excalibur." Mom said.
"Oh. And where is he supposed to get that?" I asked.
"It says here, any sword in King Arthur's hand becomes Excalibur." Taran said and we looked at him.
"Pardon?" Dad asked.
Taran looked up. "Any sword in King Arthur's hand becomes Excalibur." Taran repeated.
"I know." Dad said.
"But I thought it was cool." Taran said, shrugging a bit.
"Very cool." Mom said. Me and Dad looked at Mom. "Now we just have to keep an eye out for Mordred." She continued.
"Oh, stop. This is ridiculous. Even if this were real, which it isn't, if Mordred were here, it'd be very hard to spot him. Unless, of course, Jack has an evil step-brother." He said, laughing slightly. We just looked at him. "I was just kidding." He said. We continued to look at him. "Jack has an evil step-brother?" He asked.
"Evil doesn't even begin to describe Jim." Taran said, looking down at the book as dad looked at him.
"I need to do some research." Dad said, getting up and walking to a bookcase.
"So that's why Jim, I mean, Mordred, didn't want me to tell Jack about Merida and Hiccup! He wanted to be the one to ruin Jack's life!" I said.
"Aurora! I need you! I need the book about the thing." Dad said, going over to mom's side.
"Don't worry, sweetie, we'll do some more research, and do everything we can to help Jack stay strong." Mom said, getting up.
"Now would be good." Dad said, leaving with mom.
Me and Taran looked at each other then got up and walked to the porch. "You know what? We don't have time for more research. We have to tell Jack so he can defend himself." I said.
"Oh, yeah, that'll be great. Jack, you're the reincarnation of King Arthur, your stepbrother is Mordred, and he's going to try and destroy you. Are you going to eat those fries?" Taran sarcastically asked as he sat down.
"Hmm. Yeah, it's a little out there, isn't it?" I asked.
"Yeah, we passed out there about five exits back." He said.
"Maybe we should wait until we can do it without freaking him out." I said.
"Good call." He said.
"Yeah. But what if Jim tells him about Merida and Hiccup before that?" I asked and looked at him.
"Like your mom said, that's Mordred's biggest weapon. He won't use it until he's sure it's the final blow." He said.
I sighed. "I hope you're right." I said.
"Of course I'm..." He started when he groaned then fell onto the ground.
"Taran! Taran! Wake up! Say something!" I said, getting on my knees and waved my hand in front of his face.
"You could really look into a breath mint." He said, sitting up.
I looked at him. "Did you have a vision?" I asked.
"Yeah. I think I saw Excalibur, but..." I trailed off.
"Where is it? What did it look like?" I asked.
"Well, if I saw what I think I saw, then... It was pretty awesome." He said, smiling.
I smiled back. "You know, if Jack is Arthur, and Jim is Mordred, maybe you're Merlin the wizard. Merlin was a psychic." I said.
"Doubtful. Merlin had a long, white beard. I can barely grow a nose hair." He said. We laughed and got up.
I was at school the next day and walking into class after Hiccup. I smiled at Jack as he looked at me. I didn't notice Jim was behind me until I heard him. "Drool much?" He asked.
I rolled my eyes and looked at him. "You're just jealous. But then again, you have been for centuries." I said and walked to my seat in my row as Mr. Moore rang his bell.
"Okay, hurry up. This is your final test on King Arthur." He said. We were all ready. "Thank you. Thank you. And you have exactly 45 minutes. Begin." He said as he looked at his watch then looking at us. He started walking around when he stopped at Jack's desk. I noticed him looking at the bottom of Jack's shoe and tapped at it. "What's that on the bottom of your shoe?" He asked.
Jack switched his desk away, bent down, found a sticky note, peeled it off, looked at it and gave it to Mr. Moore. "Looks like a cheat sheet." Mr. Moore said.
"That is not mine." Jack said.
"So, what, it just adhered itself perfectly to the bottom of your shoe all by itself?" Mr. Moore asked.
"No." Jack said.
"Don't lie to me, Mr. Frost. How could... I expect more from you than this." Mr. Moore said.
"Dude, if you get caught cheating, you're out of the game on Friday." Hiccup told him.
Jack slightly looked at him then at Mr. Moore and got up. "Mr. Moore, you have to believe me! I did not cheat!" He said.
Mr. Moore looked at the other students then at Jack. "Because of your spotless record and service to the school, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. This time." He said.
"Thank you." Jack said.
"Sit down." Mr. Moore said. Jack sat down.
"Special treatment." Jim said with a fake cough, causing me to look at him.
"Quiet. Back to your tests." Mr. Moore said. Once we were all done with our tests, we left and I hid somewhere.
I saw Jim walk in the hall and past me. I came out of hiding. "I know it was you who planted that cheat sheet, Jim." I said.
He looked at me. "You don't know anything." He said.
"I know more than you think." I said, walking away.
I was at practice when I accidentally distracted myself by watching the football team. I didn't notice the other girls stretching. My eyes widened as I thought I saw them as knights then they were back to normal. I snapped out of it and noticed the girls ahead of me. I stretched as the whistle blew. I watched as Jack and the other football player fought.