Witness

Chapter Five

Tangled

"Ah there it is!" Flynn proclaimed, gesturing at the pub which he knew to be the place Ruffians hid from Guards in. He heard Merida snort and hoped she didn't know about it. He looked across at Hiccup who just stared intently at the pub and sighed. Rapunzel was clutching her frying pan to her chest. "The Snuggly Duckling." Flynn continued, exagerrating 'snuggly' and 'duckling'. "Don't worry, very quaint place." He smiled to himself, "Perfect for you." He put his arm on Raounzel's shoulder and told her, "Don't want you scaring and giving up on this whole endeavor now do we?

"Well, I do like ducklings." She smiled at him, it was only now Flynn noticed she was quite petite and came up to his chin. Then again she was taller than both Merida and Hiccup, the princess and the lost viking. Flynn dreaded to think what Hiccup would tell his father, Stoic, if his father found out about the dragon. Flynn stayed as far away from the dragon as possible, it kept staring at him with his eyes. How the others managed to stay so close to it, he didn't know.

"Yay!" Flynn said really enthusiastically, when his arm was pulled back by the Princess.

"What are you doing?" She asked him, as quietly as she could. She'd heard rumours ruffians gathered here to hide, both from guards and bodies. "If they see you they'll kill you." She warned him, not that she really cared about Flynn, she knew Rapunzel did. She loooked at the Blonde girl in front of them, who slowly turned around to see where Flynn had gone. "She likes you, you know." Merida smiled.

Flynn pushed her to the side and walked forwards, Merida growled in disgust and pushed him to the side. How dare he, she was the princess! Great, thought Merida as they continued forward, I sound like my mother 'you're the princess, Merida'.

They opened the door to the snuggly duckling quickly and Flynn pushed Rapunzel inside, "Your finest table please!" He shouted into the tavern, Rapunzel at first felt a relaxed atmosphere of people sitting around and talking, then she noticed the blonde girl tied up to a pole and mean with hooks for hands. She shrieked. She gestured out her frying pan, "You smell that?" Flynn asked her, pushing her forward and walking her further into the tavern. "Take a deep breath through the nose." He was about to say how it smelt like the colour brown, when Hiccup interrupted him.

"Astrid?" Hiccup asked, pushing past Flynn and Rapunzel and running up to her tied on this pole. "You let her go, now!" Hiccup looked at the one with the hook for a hand, who was nearest.

"Or?" He asked Hiccup, smiling. Hiccup gulped, not sure how to answer that. Obviously he wasn't the strongest of vikings. Luckily, another Ruffian caught him off guard.

"Is this you?" the Ruffian had a hand over a wanted poster of Flynn Rider. Hiccup wanted to get away from them as soon as possible, chase down Astrid and worry about tomorrow. Well, he had one of those crossed out.

"No, that'd be.." Merida told the Ruffian, who clearly hadn't been speaking to her. She moved one of his fingers covering the poster to reveal Flynn with a very long, large nose. "Ah, yep that'd be him." Merida folded her arms over her chest and nodded a Flynn who shot daggers at her from his eyes.

"Oh it's him all right." The thug who'd beent alking to Hiccup added, "Greno," he pointed at one of the other thugs, "Go find some guards!" The thug held Flynn's collar, "That reward is going to buy me a new hook."

While the ruffians were arguing over who got the money, Astrid whispered to Hiccup, "I am going to kill you when I get out of this!" Merida went around the squabbling thugs, Flynn and Rapunzel to Hiccup and Astrid. "And then you son of a half-troll is going to-"

"What's going on here?" Merida asked cautiously, approaching them.

"Nothing." Hiccup said, standing between Astrid and Merida. "Nothing at all." Merida smiled, walking around Hiccup.

"Oh I see, you-" Hiccup covered her mouth with his hand, shushing her. If these Ruffians found out that he was friends with a dragon, they'd tell the guards when they arrived.

"Haven't any of you ever had a dream?" They heard Rapunzel finishing her monologue, Merida sniggered at Flynn being hung up by his collar and Hiccup could only think about what Rapunzel had done as the Thug with the hookhand swung his axe out and marched up towards her.

The room was silent..until: "I had a dream once." Oh nae, thought Merida as the music began to play. "I'm malicious, mean and scary." The Thug sang, staring straight into Rapunzel's eyes, which made him only more mailicious, mean and scary. "My sneer could curdle dairy." Rapunzel stayed with her frying pan covering her face from him. "And violence was my hands are not the cleanest." He gestured towards chained up Astrid who had a bruise on her left arm.

"Don't you say anything." She muttered under her breath to Hiccup.

"But despite my evil looks," Rapunzel stared at him curiously, to her he wasn't evil anymore. Not since he started singing anyway. What she noticed was he didn't have pointy teeth, which Mother had said evil people did. Therefore, that didn't make him evil. "And my temper!" Astrid rolled her eyes, temper? When she walked in the bar and simply asked for help he got annoyed she accidently brushed past him. That's when he chained her up to this pole and was going to kill her, but Hiccup and whoever everyone else was walked in. "And my hook!"

The ruffian paused before continuing, "I've always yearned to be a concert pianist." Merida rolled her eyes, of course.

Meanwhile, in the depths of the forest were some vikings looking for trouble. By trouble, of course they were looking for Mor'Du. "This is hopeless." Muttered one of the vikings, stepping over another pile of horse manure. Where was all this coming from? When did horses just stroll in the forest?

"It's not hopeless." Replied Stoick, who was leading the group. He was really looking for any signs of dragons, there were usually signs in the skies, but today it seemed rather clear for Dun'Broch.

"Exactly!" The King , Fergus, went in front of Stoick, oblivious to the sudden drop of land which he then fell down. Luckily, it wasn't much of a drop and with help from Stoick and other vikings, he got back up.

"Na, na, na, na, na, la, la, la!" The singing came from nearby and the vikings all paused. That was when they saw the guards who'd they'd split up from to cover more ground. They were being lead by a ruffian.

"He says there's been a sighting of Flynn Rider!" Said the captain of the guards, the group of vikings immediately followed. Flynn Rider had recently stolen the Queen's crown, and it was the Kingdom's duty to retrieve that.

During this, the guards had finished singing what all their dreams were. They proceeded to then ask their 'prisoners' what their dreams were."And you?" They turned to the three teenagers of Dun'Broch. Merida pushed Hiccup forward as Astrid kicked him forward. Hiccup nervously looked around at the group of vikings surrounding him. "My dream isn't simple," He began, singing off-key and quite quietly to begin with until the menacing stares of one of the vikings met him. "In fact it's rather crazy. You see I want dragons among people." At first Merida had laughed at how his lines didn't rhyme, until his first and third did. "Until the thoughts of monsters are hazy, I'll never be able to be with my best friend." He mumbled the last part, to himself mostly. He admitted it, Toothless was his best friend. Since he found him his life had improved so much, he was a champion in dragon training, his father was proud of him. Though everyone treated Hiccup like it was him who had accomplished these goals himself. He wanted them to know the truth from the start. Now Hiccup couldn't imagine going a day without Toothless, he was always so worried about the dragon being found.

The thugs looked at Merida, who gulped. "My, uh, dream is of my freedom," She stopped and took five seconds to think what rhymed with freedom. "That my role as princess of the kingdom," She continued, pausing every so often to come up with the preceeding lines. "Gives me chance to twist the laws, like ending the dragon wars." She looked at Hiccup and smiled, he smiled back. Merida heard his last sentence and felt a pang of sympathy for him. Nobody deserved to be separated from their best friend, for Merida hers was Angus. She couldn't imagine life without him, let alone being banned from being able to see him or worry he be killed every day. Merida glanced at Rapunzel who had been thankful for every thing that day. It made Merida realise not to be selfish, in a sense. If she could convince her Mother or Father the dragons were good, with Hiccup, maybe they'd also reconsider the marriage.

They looked at Astrid who stated: "I don't want to say." They raised their eyebrows. She sighed, and mumbled something about greatest dragon slayer, not meeting Hiccup's eyes. Merida bit her lip, trying not to laugh. Hiccup gazed over Astrid, what had she meant by 'it was' maybe Hiccup had changed her mind somehow. Maybe she'd help him prove everything they knew about Dragons was wrong.

Next the thugs turned to Flynn, "What about you?" The thug named Vladimir asked Flynn, in a low, grumpy voice.

"I'm sorry, me?" Flynn replied, acting like he had no idea what they were talking about.

"What's your dream?" Flynn smiled as he told them how he didn't sing, they'd got him down from the pole now, that was all he needed. Though, the ruffians got out their swords and pointed them at him. Their sharp exterior near Flynn's skin, he was especially worried about his nose.

"I have dreams like you." He jumped up onto the bar, as far away from the ruffians as he could, and their swords. "No really!" He pointed out his hands as if to say he surrendered. "Just much less touchy-feely," He didn't want to knit, fall in love, do puppet shows, "They mainly happen somewhere warm inside." He spotted Vladimir and his unicorns so jumped at the chance, "On an island that I own, tanned and rested and alone!" He put one of Vladimir's unicorns ontop of a pile of brown sugar which looked like sand. He lay next to it himself, but the ruffians ripped him off the table and stretched him out, each holding an arm or a leg. "Surrounded by enormous piles of money!" He finished as they threw him upwards.

Rapunzel knew she was one of the only one's left who hadn't sung, she jumped on a table in the centre. "I've got a dream!" She sang beautifully the light bouncing off of her hair, which she wasn't so worried about being used right now, "I've got a dream!" Merida rested her elbow against a table and yawned, unlady-like but hey, her mother was nowhere nearby. "I just want to see the floating lanterns gleam!" Flynn at this point sat back on the bar, he was also yawning to himself, who sang for no reason? "And with every passing hour-" Astrid looked outside and saw a woman open a window which was already ajar, she gasped as Rapunzel continued, "-I'm so glad I left my tower!" Astrid saw the woman slip away from the window, who was she? "Like all you lovely folks I've got a dream!" Rapunzel continued.

The ruffians went to sing another chorus, when the one they sent off to get guards for Flynn returned, "I found the guards!"

Sorry for late update, I had a surprise week and a half trip to Scotland. Which is actually where this is based, funnily enough.

I'm sorry most of the song isn't there, and if this feels rushed. I wanted to update before I went away again. I'll probably edit the chapter a little more when I get back.

I hope you like the cliffhanger at the end :) Initially I was going to write up until the guards go down the passage, and I have written some of that part already. Though I didn't want to rush the rest of it, so little cliffie there.

Are there any other songs you guys want to see done on here? I have ideas for two certain song crossovers, but won't say as it could spoil the storyline.