*I don't own any of the characters in this story. They all belong to their rightful owners at Dream Works, Walt Disney Studios, and Pixar.
The Four came out of the portal to find themselves back in Burgess. Jack had a smirk on his face when he turned to Rapunzel, "So, you ready to celebrate your birthday, Goldie-Locks? How old are you turning?"
"Eighteen."
"Eighteen, huh?" Jack scratched behind his neck as he thought. "What where you planning before all…this happened?"
Rapunzel was twisting a piece of her hair in her fists as she answered, "I wanted to go see the lights..."
"Lights?" Jack repeated.
Rapunzel nodded. "Where I'm from, every year on my birthday, many colorful lights floated up into the sky."
Jack thought for a second then his eyes light up. "Oh, you mean lanterns! Okay, I got just the thing…"
"Which is…?" Hiccup asked.
"The Spring Festival. It's a festival that Burgess holds on the first day of spring every year to welcome it or something like that." Jack smirked. "And that's today."
Merida smiled slightly. "That sounds like fun. What kind of things do they have?"
Jack shrugged his shoulders. "Painting the sidewalks and streets, sculpting, games, live music, a ton of flowers that will make your allergies go crazy…stuff like that. I don't really stick around for the festival but Jamie talks about it a lot around this time of year." He smirked again. "And at the end of the festival, they take paper lanterns and lift them into the night sky. After that, it's over till next spring."
Rapunzel face lit up like a light bulb. "Really? They have the lights to?!" She ran off. "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"
Merida snorted a laugh and got on Angus, who she was glad to see again and got transported also. She patted his neck and Angus galloped after Rapunzel, carefully totting beside Rapunzel's train of hair. Jack and Hiccup looked at each other and shrugged, they followed the two girls.
Rapunzel's mouthed, "Wow!" when they got to Burgess' square. The town's square was decorated, as Jack said, with flowers of all kinds. Despite that there was some snow on the ground yesterday, the grass was green and the trees started to bud. Purple pennant banners that had a yellow flower in the center of each of them were hung above the streets. The people of Burgess walked on the sidewalks, going into little shops and come out with Spring Festival souvenirs, while the children ran with purple pinwheels or balloons in their hands. Some were in the carless streets, decorating them with chalk and sidewalk paint. Teens were shooting each other with water guns, laughing. Rapunzel bounced slightly up and down and started to walk into the square, she let out a startled yelp when she got yanked backwards. The Four's eyes widened in both shock and surprise that a person tripped on Rapunzel's hair and not going through it. Rapunzel backed up and bumped into another passerby. "Sorry!" Rapunzel went the other way and bumped into yet another person. "Sorry!"
"Why isn't she going through them?" Merida asked Jack.
Jack shook his head. "I have no idea…"
Hiccup was confused too. "Do they Believe in her or something?"
Jack shook his head again. "No…they shouldn't be Believers…they're too old to be…unless…" He pushed Hiccup into a man near them.
Hiccup didn't go through the man as expected. "Oh, gods, I am so sorry."
The man turned to Hiccup and laughed, "It's alright, boy! You're just in a hurry to enjoy the festival is all." He walked away from the flabbergasted Hiccup.
"He spoke to you!" Merida exclaimed. "Let alone see you!"
Jack snapped his fingers. "I bet they can see you because you represent the seasons…and today is the start of spring so that's why they can see you guys."
Merida got off of Angus. "And what 'bout you? Can they see you?"
Jack shrugged his shoulders and walked up to a kid painting the street. "What are you making there?"
The kid didn't look up at Jack when he answered, "A butterfly."
Jack's eyes widened and walked away from the kid. "They can hear me…" His mouth formed into a large grin. "They can hear me!" He let out a short laugh. "Th-that's incredible! They can see all of us!"
Merida couldn't help but join Jack's excited laughter. "They can see us! We're not ghosts to them!"
"But only just for today." Hiccup interrupted their joyous laughter. "If Jack's right, they can only see us today. And after the next sunrise, they won't be able to see us again until the first day of summer."
"Then let's enjoy it while we can." Jack, Hiccup, and Merida noticed Rapunzel was still having trouble with people trampling on her hair and her bumping into people. They helped Rapunzel gather up her hair.
'There must be a way to make this shorter…' Merida spotted four little girls braiding each other's hair by a fountain. She whistled to get their attention; the four girls looked over to the Four. Merida slightly raised Rapunzel's hair and looked down at it then back to them. The girls made a happy gasp and ran over to them. Two of the four girls took Rapunzel by the hands and led her near the fountain. Rapunzel sat down to the concrete floor as the four girls went over to take her hair away from Jack, Hiccup, and Merida. They ran until the train of hair was straight, the four girls quickly ran back to Rapunzel and each one took a chunk large chunk of hair in their fists and started to braid it. They wove the locks of hair like professionals; they even wove stray flowers into her hair. It was about ten minutes later till one the girls tied the end of Rapunzel's hair with all the hair ties she had on her wrist.
Rapunzel got up from the ground and looked over her shoulder to see her braid; she smiled widely to see that it now stopped at her knees and the bright flowers that decorated her hair. "Thank you!" she said to the girls.
The four girls returned Rapunzel's smile and ran off. But the littlest one stayed. She handed Rapunzel a daisy before saying, "You're welcome!" She ran off to join the other three girls.
Rapunzel somewhat squealed as she turned to face the rest of the Four. "Best day ever!" She grabbed Jack's arm and ran off to enjoy the rest of the activities.
Hiccup took Toothless and Angus to a near by ally way. "We'll come back you guys later, okay?" Angus neighed and Toothless made a soft grumble in his throat. "Good. See you two later." He patted the two animals on the head before returning to Merida. "So, ready to have some fun?"
Merida snorted a laugh and nodded. They followed Jack and Rapunzel.
THEY CAN BE SEEN! (Le gasp!) xD And this might look familar to you, too. TRIVIA QUESTION! X3: Which movie and what scene is the Spring Festival based off of?
And...I AM NOW ON SUMMER BREAK! WOOOOOT! (Dances around) ^-^
Big thanks to dA member Waterstar230 for giving me the idea of doing some kind of festivity that the Four could go to~! ^-^
Rapunzel:Bless you're face~!
Merida: And if you sneezed while reading this RotBTD fanfiction...
Hiccup: Then bless you.
Jack: Peace off.
All: BOOP!
Me: And have nice day~! До скорого!
