Chapter Ninety-Three: Rapunzel Glowing Hair?!

"Well, I got to say I didn't know you had that in you

back there, that was pretty impressive" Flynn said holding a lantern as they passed a skeleton with a sword in it.

"I KNOW! I know..." she said.

"That was very brave Rapunzel" Jason said,

"Sooo, guys where you from?" Rapunzel asked.

"Whoa, whoa, sorry Blondie I don't do backstory however I am becoming very interested in yours now I...I know I'm not supposed to mention the hair" Flynn said.

"Nope" Rapunzel said.

"Or, the Mother."

"Uh, uh."

"Frankly I'm too scared to ask about the frog."

"Chameleon."

"Gila monster. Here's my question, if you want to see the lanterns so badly, why haven't you gone before?"

"Uhh, well..." Rapunzel said as a rock fell off the roof as they looked down to see the rocks shaking and feel the ground shaking as well, "Uh, guys..." she said as they looked back the way they came to see a light coming down and then see all the guards running.

"Run!" Jason yelled as they ran and carried Rapunzel hair out of the cave and next to a dam.

"Were trapped!" Max said as they looked down the ladder and looked to see a cave a on the side of the valley they stood in as they saw the Stabbington Brothers break down the boards to a mine down below.

"Who's that?" Rapunzel asked.

"They don't like me" Flynn said as they looked back to the cave they just left to see the guards runs out.

"Who's that?"

"They don't like me either!" he said as Maximus ran out.

"Who's that?"

"Lets just assume for the moment, that everyone here doesn't like me!" Flynn said.

"That's true" Jason nodded.

"Here!" Rapunzel said handing Flynn her pan as she used her hair to whip around a broken track above them then swung down to a ledge away from them.

"Uh were not with him!" Jason said as he and Max backed away from Flynn.

"I've waited a long time for this" the Captain said drawing a sword as the man swung and Ryder ducked and hit the man in the face with the pan with a loud clang then deflected another guard sword and also hit his head then knocked out another then another as Jason and Max starred wide eye and mouth dropped at all the guards lying around them then looked at the pan in Flynn hand.

"Oh mama! I have got to get me one of these!" Flynn said as another sword got pointed at him as they saw it was held in the mouth of Maximus the horse.

"Okay?" Jason said as the horse came at Flynn swinging the sword as Flynn used the pan to block the swings.

"You should know that this is the strangest thing I've ever done!" Flynn said as the pan got knocked out of his hand and dropped down below and hit the ground with a clank.

"How 'bout two out of three?" Flynn said as the sword got point to his neck.

"Oh look fresh red apple!" Jason said as Maximus began to look around.

"Guys!" Rapunzel said using her hair to grab Flynn hand as Jason and Max grabbed on and they jumped down below.

"Look out" Rapunzel yelled as they began to swing towards the Stabbington Brothers as she pulled up and they swung over the brothers sword swings.

"Ha! You should see your faces because you look..." Flynn began as the three hit a bored sticking out, "Ridiculous."

"I think I broke a rib" Jason groaned as they looked to see Maximus kicking a beam to the dam and breaking it as water began to spill out of the dam and he used the fallen beam to head towards Rapunzel.

"Come on, Blondie!" Flynn said as she saw them holding her hair.

"Jump Rapunzel!" Jason said as she jumped and swung down below and ran as the brother followed and up above Jason, Max and Flynn slid down a water ramp then jumped as it fell apart and rolled on the ground next to Rapunzel then got up picked up her hair and ran to the cave.

The dam then broke and all the water began to flood into the valley as they ran into the cave as a large rock blocked the entrance but not before Flynn grabbed the frying pan and they stood in a dark cave with water quickly flooding in.

"Move!" Jason yelled as they climbed and found a wall of rocks.

"Where the exit?" Max said as Flynn dived into the water then came back up then dived again.

"Come on!" Jason yelled trying to pull the rocks as Rapunzel hit it with her frying pan.

"Flynn anything?" Max said as he came back up then tried to move the rocks and cut his hand as he grunted then dived again as the water was now up to their waists and Flynn came back up.

"It's no use, I can't see anything" he said as Rapunzel dived under and Jason and Flynn pulled her back up, "Hey, there's no point it's pitch black down there."

"Well this sucks!" Jason said.

"This is all my fault, she was right, I never should have done this I'm so...I'm so sorry, Jason, Max, Flynn" Rapunzel said cried.

"It's okay we'll get out of this" Jason said patting her back.

"Eugene" Flynn said.

"Huh?" Max said.

"What?" Rapunzel said.

"My real name is, Eugene Fitzherbert someone might as well know."

"Well since were confessing here I am actually from another world and have been traveling with Max between worlds to seal the keyholes to stop the Unversed from coming into each world" Jason said as Flynn and Rapunzel stared at him.

"It's true! The keyblades are what allowed me to do it" Jason said.

"I ran away from my home to prove to my dad I can take care of myself...I guess you and I are in the same boat Rapunzel" Max said as she smiled.

"I have magic hair that glows when I sing" she said.

"What?" Jason, Flynn and Max said as the water was now up to their shoulders.

"I have magic hair, that glows when I sing!" Rapunzel said as the water was now up to their necks, "Flower gleam and glow. Let your power shine!" she sang as she held her breathe as the water went over their heads and in the dark all of Rapunzel hair began to glow.

"Whoa!" Flynn said before covering his mouth and had wide eyes like Jason and Max as he hair lit up the cave and they saw her hair getting pulled into a small crack in some rocks below as they swam down and began to quickly move apart rocks as Rapunzel hair died out.

Flynn then broke the wall as they all fell out of the cave and into a river as they swam to shore gasping for air as they coughed.

"We made it" Rapunzel said.

"Your hair glows" Flynn said with wide eyes still.

"Her hair glows" Jason said with wide eyes as well.

"We're alive, we're alive!" Rapunzel said picking up her pan.

"Her hair firkin glows!" Max said.

"Did not see that coming, her hair actually glows!" Flynn said.

"Eugene..." Rapunzel said.

"Why does her hair glow?" Flynn said.

"Eugene!" Rapunzel said.

"What?!"

"It doesn't just glow" Rapunzel said pulling her hair from the water as Pascal smirked at them.

"Why is he smiling at me?" Flynn asked.

Later that night they sat at a camp fire as Rapunzel wrapped her hand around Flynn hand where he got cut.

"So you're being strangely cryptic as you wrap your magic hair around my injured hand" Flynn said before grunting in pain.

"Sorry...just don't...don't freak out" Rapunzel said.

"Why?" Jason asked.

"Flower gleam and glow" Rapunzel sang as her hair began to glow, "Let your powers shine. Make the clock reverse, bring back what once was mine, heal what has been hurt, change the fates design, save what has been lost, bring back what once was mine. What once was mine."

Her hair then stopped glowing as Flynn removed the hair on his hand and saw it was healed.

"Ahhh-!"

"Please don't freak out!"

"Ahhh…I'm not freaking out, are you freaking out? Oh I'm just interested in your hair and the magical qualities is possesses…how long has it been doing that exactly?" he asked trying not to freak out.

"Uh forever, I guess" she smiled.

"Magical hair that heals and glow?" Jason said.

"Mother said when I was a baby people tried to cut it, they wanted to take it for themselves, but, once it's cut" she said moving her hair to show a single brown strands of hair that was cut before, "It turns brown, and loses it's power, a gift like that, it has to be protected, that's why Mother never let me...that's why I...I never left the..."

"You never left that tower" Flynn said.

"Sound fishy to me" Jason said.

"And you're still gonna go back?" Flynn said.

"No...yes...It's complicated" she said.

"I bet" Max said.

"So, Eugene Fitzherbert, huh?" Rapunzel said.

"I see why you changed it to Flynn Ryder" Jason said.

"Ah yeah, well. I'll spare you the sob story of poor orphan Eugene Fitzherbert, it's a little bit ah...it's a little bit of a downer" he said as Rapunzel scooted closer and rested here hear in her hands to listen.

"Tell us" Max said.

"Ha, there was this book, a book I used to read every night to all the younger kids, the tales of Flynnigan Ryder, swashbuckling rogue, richest man alive. Not bad with the ladies either not that he ever bragged about, of course."

"Was he a thief too?"

"Ahh, well no, actually, he had enough money to do whatever he wanted to do. He could go anywhere that he wanted to go and...and, for a kid, with nothing I don't know, I...it just seemed like a better option. You can't tell anyone, about this, okay? It could ruin my whole reputation."

"Ahh, you wouldn't want that."

"As long as you two keep quiet about Max and I secret" Jason said.

"Oh, the thing about a reputation, it's all that a man has" he said as they all laughed.

"Um, well I should uh...I, I should get some

more firewood" Flynn said getting up.

"Hey, for the record, I like Eugene Fitzherbert much better than, Flynn Ryder" Rapunzel said.

"Well, then you'd be the first, but, thank you" he said walking to get fire.

"Hmm we got a pan, Max let's go get some food" Jason said getting up.

"Good idea, sit tight Rapunzel we'll be back in a sec" Max said as he and Jason walked away.

"Well, I thought they never leave" Gothel said as Rapunzel spun around to see Mother Gothel standing away from her with her hood.

"Mother?"

"Hello, dear."

"But I...I..., was going to...how did you find me?"

"Oh, it was easy really I just listened to the sound of

complete and utter betrayal, and followed that."

"Mother..."

"We're going home, Rapunzel, now."

"You...You don't understand I've been on the most incredible journey I've seen and learned so much I even met someone and made friends!" Rapunzel said.

"Yes, the wanted thief, the dog face and the keyblade swinging outsider, I'm so proud. come on, Rapunzel" she said trying to pull her away as Rapunzel pulled away.

"Mother, wait...I think...I think he likes me."

"Likes you? Please, Rapunzel, that's demented."

"But mother, I..."

"This is why you never should have left. Dear this whole romance that you've invented, just proves you're too naive to be here, why would he like you? Come on now, really. Look at you, you think he's impressed? Don't be a dummy come with mommy, Mother..."

"NO!"

"No? Oh I see how it is."

"Rapunzel, knows best. Rapunzel's so mature, now. Such a clever grown up, miss. Rapunzel knows best. Fine, if you're so sure now go ahead then give him, THIS!" Gothel sang holding the satchel.

"How did you...?"

"This is why he's here!" she sang hold the tiara, "Don't let him deceive you. Give it to him, watch, you'll see" she sang tossing Rapunzel the tiara.

"I will!"

"Trust me my dear, that's how fast he'll leave you I won't say I told you so...no Rapunzel knows best! So if he's such a dream boat, go and put him, to the test!"

"Mother, wait!"

"If he's lying, don't come crying! Mother, knows best!" she sang disappearing into the darkness of the forest.

"So, hey uh, can I ask you something? Is there any chance that I'm going to get super strength in my hand? Because I'm not going to lie that would be stupendous" Flynn said coming back with an arm full of firewood.

"We found lots of ingredients to make for dinner!" Jason said coming back with his hands full as Max did as they all noticed Rapunzel with her back to them looking to the dark forest.

"Hey, you all right?" Flynn asked.

"Rapunzel?" Jason said.

"Oh, sorry, yes just um, lost in thought, I guess" She said.

"I mean because here's the thing, superhuman good looks, I've always had 'em, born with it, but superhuman strength? Imagine the possibilities!"

"Eugene shut up if you got superhuman power that ego of yours would make your head pop" Jason said as Gothel watched from a distance with the Stabbington Brother as the four all talked.

"Patience boys. All good things to those who wait" Gothel said to the brothers.

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