Witness

Chapter Four

Tangled

"But that's okay, I mean what she doesn't know won't kill her right?" Rapunzel mumured to herself as she held lily flowers in a lake, feeling the water around her feet and ankles. Birds chirped around the forest where they'd gone so far and the way morning sunshine reflected off the water - Rapunzel had never imagined anything so beautiful. Or the smell of the flowers at that - the scent was incredible. Although she'd been outside for mere minutes, Rapunzel was enjoying herself immensely.

Merida and Flynn weren't however. Rapunzel had to comment on every single detail and aspect of the journey. Everything was beautiful. Eye-opener to wonderful things of the world, right? Hardly. Not when you were ecstatic about every single thing. The only thing which kept them sane, a safe distance from Rapunzel and the occasional 'I blame you's shared to each other.

Of course they'd tried taking her away from the lilys, the lake, but then she ran into a cave and sat in a corner for a while. The two decided not to waste time and take her out. Then she found a large pile of leaves. She kicked them and then had to jump into every single pile of leaves she could find.

Following this, she climbed a tree. There, she could see the cave they'd emerged from, "I am a horrible being, I'm going back." She'd mumbled, but Merida remembered the wisps had lead her there and brought Rapunzel down and told her about rolling down hills. Immediate regret as then Rapunzel kept finding hills to roll down.

Soon after she she rolled into a large grassy area and claimed to be a despicable human being. Flynn, fed up of Merida poking him for no reason at this point, sat beside her on a rock. Bored. Rapunzel then decided to wrap her hair around a tree and jump. She carried on in a circle until her hair unravelled.

"Ahem." Flynn cleared his throat, walking up to the distraught girl. Merida had walked off somewhere in the forest, claiming to look for wisps...whatever they were. Flynn, of course felt sorry for her. Yes. That's why he thought it'd be best for her to go back to the tower and re-build the trust in her relationship with her Mother. Nothing about getting that satchel back...no. "You know, I can't help, but notice," He crouched down so he was level with Rapunzel at this point, "You're a little at war with yourself here." He said as gently as he could.

Rapunzel stopped rubbing the tears from her sore eyes and looked at him, "Wh-what?" She managed to stammer as he stood up.

"No, now I'm only picking up bits and pieces," He began to list them, "Overprotective mother. Forbidden Road trip. Merida being annoying." He smiled at her, "I mean this is pretty serious stuff, but let me ease your conscience." He carefully chose his wording here so she'd think he was on her side. "This is all part of growing up. A little rebellion, a little adventure. That's good." He paused and added: "Healthy even." Then he noticed the girl's frog climbing up his shoulder looking angry, so he simply wiped his shoulder and accidentally the frog was also thrown off.

"You think?" Rapunzel asked him, wiping her nose on the part of her arm which was revealed, tears were no longer falling down her cheeks like the waterfall near where the tower was, so he was getting through to her. Rapunzel kept to herself she felt a little, sort of a happy feeling dance inside of her during his speech.

"Oh, I know!" Flynn told her, "You're way over thinking this, trust me." He smiled slyly to himself, hoping his plan would work. "Does your Mother deserve it? No." When he said 'no', Rapunzel shook her head sadly. "Would this break her heart and crush her soul?" Flynn then added, "Of course, but you've just got to do it."

Rapunzel gripped a lock of her hair tightly, "Break her heart?" Rapunzel heard Flynn mumble something, but she continued, "Crush her soul?" She added. Flynn picked a grape from a bush nearby.

"Like a grape." He muttered, squeezing the grape which made the juice splatter across the moss growing on the tree. Some droplets landed on Flynn's forehead as well.

How to train your dragon/Brave/Tangled

"I'm worried." Stoic paced in front of Gobber anticipating his son's arrival. Where was he? Stoic worried immensely as a Dragon attack had occured, and he wasn't fully sure if Hiccup would be all right against more than one dragon at a time. Even the King couldn't distract him.

Stoic was actually surprised the King was jumping around and singing despite that his daughter had been gone several hours now during a difficult time of her life and a dragon raid. "Mor'du! Mor'du!" He chanted.

It looked as if Gobber was going to say something when some of the palace guards entered the room. "Guards!" Stoic marched up to them. "Have you seen my son? Hiccup?" They shared glances.

"We don't know how to tell you this..." One of them barely whispered to the Viking.

"We fled the forest." Another added shortly afterwards. "We were looking for the theif of Queen Elinor's crown, Flynn Rider." Stoic was more surprised at the King's joy then, not only the whole Merida thing, but his wife's crown stolen? "However, there was a dragon raid and we hid in the nearest place we could find - what appeared to be ruins of a castle." He was waiting for them to say they found Hiccup's dead, mangled body inside, but was surprised to hear them finish: "One of our men was killed by the bear none other than-"

He was cut off by Fergus singing a long, loud off-key note of 'Mor'du' and gestured at the King. Mor'du had killed a man that day. The beast was still at large. "Get some weapons ready and more men, we're going after Mor'du." He told them.

Tangled/How to train your dragon

"You see? She is the worst." Merida hit Flynn several times, she'd accidentally scared the princess by jumping out of a large bush, she was meant to scare Flynn, but failed.

Nearby another bush moved, Rapunzel ignored the quarrelling pair and headed toward it bravely, however she stuck her frying pan out. Pascal crawled up her shoulder and squeaked in fear, Rapunzel gulped and her Frying pan moved in a quick up and down motion as her nerves acted.

"It's okay." A voice of what sounded to be a boy came from the bush, soon after a small-ish boy emerged from the bush. He had chestnut hair and wore a green shirt and fur jacket. He smiled at Rapunzel. "Hi, you lost?" Rapunzel nodded, Flynn and Merida hadn't been much help. The boy smiled. "My name's Hiccup."

Rapunzel lowered her frying pan slowly. "I'm Rapunzel" she giggled nervously. She looked around him and saw two eyes staring at her from the bush. She screamed slightly and Hiccup calmed her. He nodded at the bush and out stepped what looked like one of the flying things Rapunzel had often wondered and daydreamed of. "What is that?" She asked, studying the creature.

Hiccup titled his head, hadn't she seen a dragon before? "It's a dragon." He shrugged, "His name is toothless, he's a night fury dragon." Rapunzel nodded and walked slowly up to the creature, it was only then Hiccup noted her long hair which trailed along the floor. "Be careful." He told her, following her hair with his eyes, "He doesn't like strangers." Hiccup then noticed two pairs of feet by the hair, he looked up and gasped when he saw two figures.

Princess Merida. So she'd been with this girl all day. Her once blue and white dress was partially ripped showing some of her skin and scars or brusing developing in some areas. She stared open-mouthed at Toothless, in awe and shock. Hiccup wasn't sure if she knew about his sucess at the ring that day. Or success for his father, failure for him. He didn't want to kill the dragon. He couldn't kill dragons.

Hiccup also looked at the second figure. Wanted Theif Flynn Rider. He also stared in awe at the scene in front of him, furrowing his eyebrows a bit and tilting his head. He shook his head slightly too and mouthed: "Mad."

Hiccup turned around and saw Rapunzel stroking Toothless's head and nose, that was weird. Strange. Certainly not the reaction he'd been expecting, from either of them. Rapunzel looked scared when she saw Hiccup, let alone Toothless. Toothless also didn't react well to Astrid evidently or weapons at all. A frying pan wasn't really a weapon, but Hiccup expected Dragons would find anything metal that could be gripped would be seen as a threat to them.

"He likes you." Hiccup commented walking back to Rapunzel and Toothless, making sure he didn't step on her hair. "Hey, I have to go somewhere, and...well let's just say he can't come." Hiccup sighed if his father knew about Toothless, there'd be a lot of punishment. For both Hiccup and the Night Fury.

Merida just stared in awe at Rapunzel and more importantly Hiccup. She'd been his friend till she was about ten years old, her mother extended the length of her princess lessons and the days they were on, when Merida had spare time she'd spend it practising archery. She'd occassionally go to hang out with Hiccup but he'd be making up something about killing a dragon or seeing a troll. Merida wasn't embarassed by him; but she knew they'd grown apart by then and they wouldn't be able to re-build their friendship. Now, she couldn't believe it, Hiccup had a night-fury dragon as a pet almost. Then she rememberd the wisps and Hiccup had been with her that day, maybe she could change his fate too. "What about where your tower was, Rapunzel?" She asked them, partly answering Hiccup's question.

Tangled

Gothel was walking along, kicking a stone as she did, she hated three-day trips. She was only walking to Dun'Broch where she'd buy the shells at the market, but that took her a long time and it required two nights sleeping in the middle of the forest worrying that guards would find her or worse her flower and take the magic away again. Gothel had been extremely terrified that night, she'd been close to death again, so reaching and being healed was a miracle. Then the dragon arrived, tore the flower from the ground and flew off.

Gothel went to the village and found out about the dragon dropping the flower, that night she broke into their home. She only wanted a lock of the child's hair, it would be ideal for her as she'd be able to use the magic whereever, but it failed. The lock of hair turned brown, powerless and the roots also turned brown. She knew she had no choice but to abduct the child, whose name she'd learned as Rapunzel in the village square 'the miracle baby' they'd called her.

Rapunzel had no idea of her origin, Gothel almost thought she'd figured it out when she'd asked about the "floating lights". It reminded her when Rapunzel spoke of the wisps, leading up to the tower. To this day, Gothel truly wasn't sure if someone had been lead to Rapunzel, so it scared her to leave her flower alone.

Out of nowhere, while Gothel had been walking, two horses jumped out at her. A white, blonde mare and a white, brunette mare. Mere palace horses, they still made Gothel scream when she saw them. "Oh, palace horses." She smiled slyly at them, horses couldn't talk and as they were palace horses they could not kill her as obviously the riders wouldn't. That was when she noticed there were no riders. "Where's your riders?" She asked them, aloud. "Rapunzel!" She quickly realised. They might find her, figure out who she is. Gothel would never be able to use her hair again. "Rapunzel!" She gasped again, turning around this time and she ran off disregarding the horses.

She entered the cove and immediately recoiled, a dragon - which looked like the one who originally stole the flower - stood blocking her path. She knew they were a danger and would kill if they had the chance. She looked up at the tower, there was a chance Rapunzel was already dead. "Rapunzel!" She shouted as calmly as she could across the cove, "Rapunzel?" She shouted louder, more anxious this time.

Her heart skipped a beat.

A/N: I know I promised I've got a dream, but this chapter seemed really long and I thought putting part of the mor'du song in would make you guys somewhat happy? Ah! Okay it will be in next time, that is going to be soooo hard to write.

I've noticed a lot of your reviews say that it's hard combining two films and I've managed to combine three really well, thank-you! It actually isn't that hard for me but I think that's because this is loosely based on plotlines of the films. Writing the villains. That's hard. Mor'du and Gothel featured today.

Edit: 20/07/12 Thanks to MysteryGirl7Freak for the idea of how Hiccup could meet the others!