ADMIN- Guess what? I am officially on summer break now! I'm kinda busy because I'm starting college in August but I am hoping to finish this story by the end of the summer! Please follow I will try to update frequently :) Please leave reviews! I know you have probably heard this same speech a million times so I will keep it short. Now I leave you with some of Captain America's wisdom.. seriously Cap America gave me this advice himself I'm not crazy.. or am I? :P cap America says: Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out? *sparkle* CAPTAIN AMERICA WISDOM IS THE BEST! :) Enjoy this next chapter of Unwritten! I will be changing point of view in this chapter so you can get more background from Link's point of view and Rapunzel's point of view!
Chapter 3 - Rapunzel Is A Boy?
LINK
First day of classes. Yay.
Link leans up against his locker as he watches his classmates rush by. Some princes, probably the NPHS (National Prince Honor Society) members, look like they actually want to be at school. They hurry by with mountains of books in their arms toward their lockers. Others, like Link, look like they would rather eat lima beans than be at school that day. As Link contemplates building himself a tree house in the woods where he can read books and teach himself everything he needs to know about like, he turns the dial on his lock and opens his locker. Inside are his books for his classes like Princeology (the study of a perfect prince) and Public Speaking which was one of Link's most hated classes because first of all he wasn't much of a people-person and, second of all, he hates people staring at him. Link is more of an introvert and likes to keep to himself. Only a few people are able to break down the walls he built up around his heart. One of those people was running toward Link right now at an alarming speed.
His name is Peter Pan. A fairy hangs for dear life onto the feather on Peter's hat as Peter hurtles toward Link. Peter reaches Link and pulls him into a big bear hug. Peter is more of a people-person than Link ever will be. He is also a hugger which sometimes annoys Link who likes to keep his distance from people. Peter bounces around on the balls of his feet excitedly.
"Guess what? We have all of the same classes! We even have the same homeroom. What what?! The three musketeers are together again!" Peter exclaims.
Just as Peter says this, a boy pokes Link from behind. Link turns on his heels and he is suddenly face to face with a prince with disheveled hair. He seriously looks like he just rolled out of bed ten seconds ago. Perhaps that is exactly what he did. This prince is named Flynn Rider. His real name is Eugene Fitzherbert but that is a mouth-full so most people call him by his nickname Flynn Rider. He got this name when he was living on his own as a kid. He was a notorious burglar and he lived with a bunch of thugs before he came to Prince Academy to learn how to become a prince. In his story, he is supposed to save a maiden from a tower. Right now all Flynn Rider cares about is having as much fun as he can before he has to get married to his princess and rule his own kingdom just like a lot of other princes at Prince Academy.
The three musketeers were all together again: Link, Flynn Rider, and Peter Pan.
Seeing his best friends lifted Link's mood as the bell rang, warning everyone that class was starting in ten minutes. Link walked toward Princeology class with his best buds on either side of him, counting his blessings and wondering how he got so lucky to have such amazing friends. He sat down in his desk in the back of the classroom. Link flipped through his textbook, not really paying attention to the words on the page, but rather trying to imagine what Rapunzel was thinking at that moment on the first day of school. Was she thinking about him just as much as he was thinking about her? Or was he the only one fantasizing about them together?
RAPUNZEL
La. La. LA!
The alarm clock on the side table near Rapunzel's bed played a cheery and LOUD little ditty.
"Time to wake up, sleepy head!" Snow White chirped as she tidied up her side of the dormitory. Her side of the room was always spotless while Rapuzel's side of the room looked like it was run over by a train. Rapunzel fell out of her bed onto the ground, startled by the loud alarm. She smacked her lips and batted the sleep dust out of her eyes with her eyelashes. She moved slowly toward the mirror and started brushing out her long golden hair.
"Better hurry up, dear. There is only half an hour until breakfast ends in the cafeteria! See you later, sweetie!" Snow White reminds Rapunzel as she fluffs her pillow one last time before bolting out of the door to meet her friends in the cafeteria.
"Shoot!" Rapunzel swears as she frantically brushes her hair as fast as she can. She changes quickly into a purple peasant top and black skinny jeans. Most of the princesses will be wearing skirts and dresses, but since it is the first day of school Rapunzel wants to be different. She slips purple diamond ballet flats onto her feet and pulls her long hair into a high ponytail. Rapunzel swipes on some chapstick before she grabs her school bag and bolts down the hallways toward the cafeteria.
After Rapuzel, Zelda, and Mulan eat a four-course breakfast together because they love food way more than is healthy, they skipped together across the field that leads from the dorms to Princess Academy. As they reached the steps of Princess Academy, Rapunzel hears a whisper calling her name.
Rapunzel. Rapunzellllllll.
"I'll catch up with you guys later in our first class! I think I forgot something at the dorms!" Rapunzel half-lied to her friends. She really just wanted to slip away so that she could investigate where the whisper was coming from.
"Oh, Rapunzel. What are we going to do with you? You are being your forgetful self again! Okay, we will just have to go on inside and do our awesome entrance without you. What a shame." Zelda says, feigning hurt on her face.
"Let's go, my love!" Mulan tells Zelda as they lock arms and skip up the steps of Princess Academy together. They had this weird thing of acting like they were a couple just to throw people off. Rapunzel laughs as she watches them skip away.
Rapunzel follows the whisper. The whisper leads her to the garden in the back of Princess Academy. As Rapunzel walks through the sunflowers, she hears a rustle of leaves that leaves her on edge. She can feel a presence near her but she doesn't know where it is. Rapunzel runs in fear through the garden and trips on a stone in the ground. She falls into the soft grass. Rapunzel sits up in the grass. As Rapunzel was about to get up and go back to class, ignoring the whisper, a fairy lands on the tip of her nose. The fairy is tiny and lovely. She has a pink aura to her and she is wearing a little dress made of pink rose petals.
Rapunzel smiles at the fairy. The fairy makes little tinkling noises. Then, Rapunzel hears the whispering again.
Rapunzel turns her hear toward where the whisper is coming from and sees a magnificent sight. The goddess that greeted Rapunzel in the meadow is back. She comes from the sky and floats down, resting on a bed of roses.
Rapunzel. I have called you here today because I have a monumental task for you.
"What do you want me to do?" Rapunzel asks the goddess out loud.
The lovely goddess answers without speaking any words.
You must go to Prince Academy and retrieve Link. He will be your guide through the Forbidden Forest that lies on the outskirts of this academy. You need him with you in order for you to go on your journey to learn more about your Unwritten powers. There is evil brewing in this place and you are the only one who can stop it. You are in a sense The Chosen One just like Link is the Chosen One in his story. This is your story, but what is different about your story is that you can change it to whatever you want it to be. You can also change the stories of others too. You need to learn how to harness these powers before you can stop the evil lurking in the shadows of this land. I will help you along the way. I have sent you Rosetta, this fairy here, so that you can have a way to contact me wherever you may be. Please, young warrior, you must go to Prince Academy and find Link and escape together into the Forbidden Forest. It will be a daunting task, but I know you can do it. Goodbye for now...
The goddess' voice trailed away into a low whisper as she faded away into thin air. The fairy tweeted what seemed to be a goodbye to the goddess. Then, she flew up onto Rapunzel's shoulder and sat on it like it was her very own pedestal.
Rapunzel put her brave face on and tried to formulate ways that she could get into Prince Academy without attracting much attention. There were no girls her age at Prince Academy so she would stand out right away. She needed a disguise.
Rapunzel raced toward her dormitory. She wrapped a bandage around her chest to make her chest seem flatter. Then, she pulled on her reading glasses, a sports jersey, and jeans. She tucked her hair into a short brown wig. Thank goodness Snow White has so many wigs that she never uses only when she is on stage performing in a play. Rapunzel put her feet into some tennis shoes and grabbed her black school bag.
She ran outside and realized she had NO idea how she was going to get to Prince Academy.
Rosetta seemed to sense Rapunzel's uneasiness. She beckoned for Rapunzel to follow her. Rosetta flew toward the garden at Princess Academy again. She stopped in front of a hot air balloon. Rapunzel wondered how it got there because it wasn't there before. Then, Rosetta used her magic to light the burner in the hot air balloon and Rapunzel realized that the mysterious hot air balloon was probably Rosetta's doing. Rapunzel climbed into the hot air balloon, grateful that she wasn't afraid of heights. She did spend most of her life on the top of a tower so naturally heights were not a problem for her.
The hot air balloon soars over the forbidden forest that separates Princess Academy from Prince Academy. Rapunzel gaped at the beauty of the scenery around the academies. The scenery looked even better front this point of view.
The hot air balloon touched down in a meadow near Prince Academy. Rosetta blew out the fire as Rapunzel tied down the balloon to the ground.
Rapunzel took a deep breath as she walked up the steps to Prince Academy. She practiced her manly voice as she walked into the admissions office near the front of the academy. She was thankful that all of the princes were already in class by now because she didn't want to see them. Rosetta hid inside Rapunzel's school bag as Rapunzel opened the door to the office.
"Welcome!" A cheery secretary chirps as Rapunzel comes into the office.
"Hello." Rapuzel answers in her best manly voice. She sounded more like a little boy with a cold than a man.
"What can I do for you?" The secretary says, smiling ear-to-ear.
"I came to enroll in Prince Academy. My name is, er, Rumpelstiltskin." Rapunzel answers.
"Okay, Mr. Rumpelstiltskin! I already have you in the roster!" The secretary says. Meanwhile, the real Rumpelstiltskin is stuck at the dormitories sick from fairy dust fever.
Rapunzel let out a sigh of relief. She couldn't believe her luck.
"Your first class is Princeology with Mr. Genie! Next time try to get to school on time, young man!" The secretary exclaims, bouncing up from her chair to hand the schedule to Rapunzel a.k.a. Rumpelstiltskin. She leads Rapunzel down many hallways until they reach a blue door.
The secretary smiles at Rapunzel as she gulps and enters the room with the blue door. Rapunzel sees a room full of maybe fifty princes and they all turn to stare at her as she walks into the classroom. The teacher who is a big blue Genie smiles as Rapunzel comes in.
"Come in, newcomer! What is your name?" Mr. Genie asks her.
Rapunzel clears her throat. She hates being stared down by so many people and then put on the spot like this.
"Rumpelstiltskin." She says before making her way to the empty seat that happened to be across the whole room. Why did it have to be all the way across the room? She couldn't take this staring much longer. Some of the princes looked at her confused. Many of them probably know the real Rumpelstiltskin and he is supposed to be at the dorms and sick.
"I'm feeling a lot better now and I didn't want to miss the first day of school!" Rapunzel/ Rumpelstiltskin adds.
"Well, Rumpel-bud you are fashionably late I see! All is well in the kingdom though! Just take your seat! You are just in time for my amazing demonstration of my power to turn any man into the perfect prince! I have a volunteer here! Aladdin, get up her, front and center!" Genie exclaims.
As Aladdin bounces up toward the front of the classroom, Rapunzel sits down next to a boy with a red hat that has a "M" embroidered on it. The boy looks quizzically at her.
"I didn't know you wear glasses Rumpel," The boy says.
"I only wear them for reading and for when my eyes really hurt like today," Rapunzel answers, trying really hard not to sound girly.
The boy just shrugs and says 'cool' before he goes back to laughing at Mr. Genie who is picking up Aladdin in his big blue hand.
"Bibbidi Bopidi Boo!" Genie says before a blue cloud of dust surrounds Aladdin. When the blue cloud subsides, Aladdin stands in a ridiculous prince getup in front of the class. He certainly looks the part of a prince.
"Ta-da! Now he isn't Aladdin anymore! He is PRINCE ALI!" Genie yells.
As the princes clap at his little demonstration, Rapunzel glances over her right shoulder. Just three seats away from her sits Link. He has a bored look on his face. He seems to sense her staring because he glances over, giving her a quizzical look like he recognizes her.
Then, Rapunzel got an idea. She releases Rosetta from her schoolbag. She writes a quick note explaining who she is and why she is there. Then, she gave the note to Rosetta who flies under the chairs to bring the note to Link. Before she could reach Link, Rosetta is whacked by the hand of the prince who is sitting to Link's left side.
"Mr. Genie! There's a fairy in the classroom! No fairies are allowed in the academy right?" The frizzy-haired prince yells out to Mr. Genie, smirking at Link and at the prince who is sitting to the right of Link.
"Peter Pan! What did I say about you keeping Tinkerbell in your dormitory?" Mr. Genie scolds the boy to Link's right.
"I am keeping her at the dorms! That isn't my fairy!" Peter Pan yells, glaring at the prince on Link's left.
Meanwhile, Tinkerbell hides in Peter Pan's jean pocket laughing like little tinkling bells ringing.
Just then the school bell rings and the princes rush out of the classroom.
"Goodbye class! Wait! Peter Pan and Flynn Rider! You two stay in here so we can figure out this fairy business!" Mr. Genie yells.
"Okayyyyyy..." Flynn Rider and Peter say as the stand up and walk toward the front of the classroom toward Mr. Genie.
Rosetta flies back to Rapunzel as Rapunzel makes her way toward Link. When she reaches his desk, he had already found the note she wrote him and he was reading it. Link finishes reading it and looks up at Rapunzel. He nods in order to communicate to her that he understands the task they have to fulfill and the immensity of it.
"You could have picked a better hairstyle if you want to play Rumpel. He NEVER does his hair that nicely." Link smirks.
"Hey, I don't exactly have a wig in every boy hairstyle known to man." Rapunzel retorts, smirking back at him.
"Let's go before anyone notices we are gone," Link says as he grabs Rapunzel by the hand and drags her out of the classroom.
Meanwhile, Peter Pan, Flynn Rider, and Mr. Genie scratch their heads when they can't find Rosetta anywhere.
Link drags Rapunzel out into the garden behind Prince Academy. They both look out at the Forbidden Forest. They both feel intimidated by the mysterious woods that they have to get through together.
"So, are you going to stay dressed like a boy or are you changing back into your girly self again?" Link teases Rapunzel.
"Hold that thought." Rapunzel says as Rosetta uses her magic to change Rapunzel into the outfit she was wearing earlier for school.
"Much better." Link smiles his lopsided gorgeous smile as they walk into the Forbidden Forest, ready to start their next adventure and still holding hands.
To be continued...
The prince with the red hat mentioned in this chapter is actually Mario from Super Mario Bros! Sorry I didn't put his name! I hope you liked this chapter! :) Sayonara!