"No! We can't rest!" Rapunzel said.

"But I'm tired!" Flynn exclaimed.

"You didn't want me to wait for Jack-

"Because he does not exist!" Flynn said.

Rapunzel ignored him. "Now, these are the consequences. We, as you said, must arrive early! Because if not, I won't see the lights and, in consequence, you won't have your precious satchel. Come on" she pushed him in front of her as a guide, when suddenly the trees and the shrubbery started moving. Rapunzel, faster than the wind, climbed to Flynn's shoulders and pointed with her frying pan to the place where the movement had come.

"What is it?! Do they want my hair?! Or is it a monster?!" She exclaimed.

After a few seconds, a bunny went out from the trees.

"Stay calm. He can probably smell fear" said Flynn with irony.

Rapunzel laughed a little, uncomfortable about being weak, and put her barefoot again on the grass.

"Sorry" she said.

"Are you at least hungry?" Flynn asked smiling.

"Humm..." said Punzie, unsure. She was hungry, but what if they wasted a lot of time? "A little" she answered at least.

"Great! I know a place where the food is delicious!" He exclaimed.

Punzie laughed nervously."Where?"

"Just follow me" Flynn said, and for the first time Punzie looked at him with attention (discarding the time when Punzie made the deal with him).

His eyes were brown (same as his hair) and he was strong. He was wearing a light green vest above a white shirt. His jeans were light brown, and his boots the same color, but darker.

And, yeah... what happened before this?

After Jack helped her with Flynn, he went out. He said he would come back in thirty minutes, but he didn't. Rapunzel felt sad about it. But you must come, too! She had told him. And also she was worried. Every time Jack left the tower, he came back exactly at the time he said (often two hours). She knew this time was less because of her birthday, so she didn't worry. The problem was, she made wrong about no worrying, and Jack never had told her where he always went to. But she still had hope he would come. Besides, it only had passed an hour, so...

After Jack went out, her mother came.

"Mom! You said you would come back in one hour! And it only has passed twenty minutes!" Punzie had told her.

"Oh, darling! You're so innocent! I would never forget your birthday! I brought the ingredients to make your favorite soup: hazelnut soup!" Gothel had answered.

"Oh, thanks! But Mom you must see this! You think I can't handle myself out there, but the truth is-

"Oh, Rapunzel, I know you can't handle yourself outside" Gothel had said.

"I want to see the lights! So here is the probe-

"What lights?"

"Those who appear every year only on my birthday! I am older, I can handle myself alone! Mom, please!"

"I've told you a million times the outside world is dangerous"

"No, it isn't! I can show you. All my life there's been-" But then Rapunzel had remembered her mother couldn't see Jack "Mom, please! I can handle myself, I swear it for the Sun and for the Moon and everything you-

"I SAID YOU'RE NOT GOING OUTSIDE AND I SAID YOU'RE NEVER LEAVING THIS TOWER! NEVER, RAPUNZEL!" Her mother had shouted.

Punzie had felt her eyes getting wet, and she had returned her hand, which was about to open the closet where she had locked the man. But she hadn't give up. She promised Jack she won't. But he also promised you he will be with you...

She had told her mother that instead she wanted new paintings, and Gothel went out for them.

After that, Rapunzel had made a deal with the man in the closet called Flynn. The man had been carrying a bag with a... Rapunzel didn't know what it was. The deal was that Flynn will take her to see the lights in exchange for the satchel. They had been walking deep into the forest to the castle, and now they were here, about to eat something.

They arrived to a house made of wood called Snuggly Duckling.

"Don't worry. This house is for princesses like you!" Flynn said.

Rapunzel smiled.

Flynn opened the door, and as soon Rapunzel saw the men who were standing in, she grabbed her frying pan as a weapon.

"They won't hurt you!" Flynn said, but then whispered "I hope"

"Why did you bring a girl we don't know, Flynn Rider?" A strong man with tattoos on his face and a graph asked, getting closer to Punzie.

"Stay away!" She exclaimed, without putting down her frying pan.

"They won't hurt you" Flynn said again.

"We won't. Only if she's dangerous, we will. Why did you bring her here?" The strong man asked again.

"See, Blondie? We have to go, the outside world is dangerous..."

"You haven't answered our question yet" the man said.

"Argh, ok. See, she wants to go and see the lights that appear each year on her birthday. I'm only her guide to the kingdom. We are hungry, that's why I bring her here" Flynn said.

"Yes! Haven't any of you ever had a dream?" Punzie exclaimed, and then they sang instead of eating, until some guards came and ruined everything.

"Wow, you got to be kidding me" Jack whispered.

In front of him there were four persons, but also a big, big Earth with a lot of lights on each country.

"Jack Frost!" Someone exclaimed, marking the "r" with his Russian accent. Jack recognized it as Santa Claus. He stood up and looked at them.

"Wow, look! The big four together: Santa Claus, Sandman, Tooth Fairy..." He said "... And the Easter Kangaroo"

"What? I'm a Bunny!" Bunnymund claimed.

Jack ignored him, and instead asked to the big and strong Santa with tattoos on the arms, the classical long white beard and the red outfit:

"Am I on the Naughty list?"

"Naughty list? Ha! You hold the record!" Santa answered.

"But..." Said Tooth Fairy. Jack looked at her. She was, literally, like a bird with green and blue feathers. Only her face was human with purple eyes. "Someone is about to beat that record. Right, Santa?"

Santa laughed. "True, true! And she's a girl!"

"What?" Jack asked "Don't tell me she's going to be Jackie Frost now. There's only one Frost, and there's only one record, and it is mine!" He said proudly, smiling and pointing at himself.

"No, no. Actually her name is Rapunzel" Santa said.

"What?" Jack and Bunnymund asked at the same time. Jack was surprised, and Bunny was puzzled.

"Yeah, she has left the tower where she was locked along with a man and went into the forest. She wants to see the lights that appear each year on her birthday, and for that she distracted her mother with paintings, only paintings!" He laughed "Can you believe it? It's the best story I've ever heard! Always follow your dreams, always!".

Jack unconsciously made his own snowflakes fell on him. He wasn't smiling anymore.

"Are you ok, Jack?" Tooth said getting closer. She touched his shoulder, but immediately returned her hand. "You are very cold!"

"Yeah, it's just..." Jack kind of answered. His voice sounded sad.

"He..." Bunnymund said looking at him. "He..."

"Has to go" Jack completed "I- I have to go"

"But you just arrived! Besides, we haven't talked about Man in Moon and-" Tooth said.

"What?" Jack asked again. "Man in Moon told you something? He speaks to you?" More and more snowflakes fell on him.

"Yeah, all the time... He chose all of us to be Guardians..."

"And yesterday he chose you" Santa said.

All of them were talking slow and carefully, afraid of which will be Jack's reaction and afraid the snowflakes would become into a blizzard. The snowflakes stopped. There was no storm, after all. Physical storm, no.

"After all those years asking of him, this- this is the answer?! To be a Guardian with a lot of responsibilities about kids, like if we were the parents?!" Jack exclaimed angrily.

Emotional storm, yes.

"Jack, I don't think you understand what we do..." Tooth said.

Jack ignored her.

"That's not for me!" He said, looking at the guardians. "No offence"

"How- How was that not offensive?" Bunny asked. He was starting to lose patience "It is our work to protect the children all around the world, not yours" he told Jack. Then he talked to the guardians. "Since when do we need help?! We can leave him holding his precious records of the Naughty list and do our job alone! Let him waste his life like that! It is his life, not ours!"

"You finished? That's all you have to say, Kangaroo?" Jack asked facing him.

"Rapunzel wouldn't like you to act like this, am I right? Leaving children without any protection. Oh, wait, children can't see you. They don't believe in you!" Angry Bunny exclaimed, spreading his secret out loud, and Jack felt like if Bunnymund had just pierced his heart with a knife.