"I gotta admit, Blondie," I said, "I didn't know you had it in you. That was...pretty impressive. Turning the entire group of thugs with you."

"I know!" Blondie exclaimed. "I actually didn't think that was going to work!"

"Wait, w-wh-wh-what?" I stuttered. "You didn't think that was going to work?"

"Nope, honestly!" Blondie replied. "I thought it was actually going to backfire and get us both killed."

"Then why'd ya do it then, huh?" I asked.

"Well..." she hesitated. "I got you to work with me...so I figured maybe I could turn them too!"

"Woah, slow down there, Blondie. Let's get this straight. I haven't 'turned.' I'm just sticking with a deal, where you promised I'll get my satchel back!"

"Yeah, yeah," Blondie said. "It's the same thing, isn't it?"

"No!" I cried. "If it didn't work, we could've gotten killed!"

"But we didn't!" Blondie smiled. I sighed. She has a point. It did work. And we're still alive. Well, I guess I shouldn't underestimate her. She's got more in her than she looks. "So...Flynn," Blondie said through the silence. "Where are you from?"

"Woah, Blondie. I don't do backstory stuff," I replied. "However, I am becoming interested in yours. I...I know I'm not supposed to mention the hair..."

"Nope," Blondie replied.

"Or the mother..." I continued.

"Uh huh."

"And, frankly, I'm scared to ask about the frog," I finished.

"He's a chameleon," Blondie corrected again.

"Same thing," I replied. "My question for you is, if you wanted to go see the lanterns so badly, why didn't you go before?"

"Well, uh..." Blondie replied hesitantly. "Uh, Flynn?" she said. I turned around. It's the Stabingtons. Ugh, they always get in the way! "They don't like me!" I said, grabbing her hand. "Let's go!"

We made it outside the cave, thankfully without anyone getting hurt, but left without an answer to my question. "Who's that?" Blondie asked, pointing at the Royal Guards.

"They don't like me either!" I replied.

"Who's that?" The guard's horse, you remember, the one who was chasing me in the beginning, came out from the cave as well. I don't know how, but the Stabingtons came out from below us, in the canyon below. Everything else around us is a water system.

"Let's just assume, that for the moment, everyone here doesn't like me," I replied.

"Here!" Blondie said, giving me a pan. A pan? Why? "Flynn Ryder," the Captain of the Guard said. "I've waited a long time for this." He approached me with his sword. I looked at the frying pan in my hand, then back at his sword.

Welp, make do with what you have, I guess. Although, in this moment, it's extremely inconvenient. Never bring a pan to a sword fight!

I closed my eyes and fought off the Captain of the Guard with the pan. "Ha, hah!" I exclaimed. I knocked him unconscious with the pan, and did the same for the rest of the guards. I looked at the pan, satisfied. Wow! I have never done that before! "I have got to get myself one of these!" I exclaimed.

The horse pointed a small dagger at me. You know, I really shouldn't be surprised at the horse at this point, but, I was shocked to see him holding the dagger, let alone, know how to actually use it, and fight me with it. "Hah!" I exclaimed, pointing the pan at him.

I started fighting him off with the pan, and actually winning at it. "You know, this is the strangest thing I've ever done!" The horse knocked the pan out of my hand. We both watched it fall. "How 'bout two out of three?" I asked.

"Flynn!" Blondie called from somewhere. Her hair grabbed my hand and pulled me down, away from the horse. I finger saluted the horse. The horse stared at me, confusion covered his entire face. "Hah! You should see your face right now 'cause you look-" My gut, without warning, slammed right into a plank of wood, sticking out of the rock. Oh, man. That is going to hurt later. "-ridiculous..." I finished, pained.

I slowly, and painfully, climbed up the wood. Blondie threw her hair somewhere else and swung closer to me. She wrapped her hair around the wood. "Let's get out of here!" We climbed down her hair together. "Blondie, jump!" I called. It's a little bit of a descent. "Trust me!" I said. She looked at the horse and complied. I caught her when she fell and quickly put her back on the ground. "In there, go!" I said, pointing at a cave in front of us.

I ran behind Blondie, gathering up her hair. The rocks behind us started falling. "Faster!" Blondie cried, panicked. "Faster!" I heard water crash against the ground behind us. Blondie ran inside the cave. I ran in after her, throwing her hair in, and grabbing her pan, before a rock fell and closed the entrance.