Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons

Prologue

I was running as fast as I could, I couldn't get away fast enough. I came to a river and jumped, I still don't really know how I made it, I really shouldn't have. He was gaining on me, he'd jumped too and then he tackled me -- it was over.

I lie on the ground laughing as he lie on top of me, "Hiccup!" I had squeaked as he tickled me. I got him back though by pushing him into the small stream that ran beside me.

"Guys," it was Jack, he came out of the trees that we played in everyday, Rapunzel was with him, her long hair touching the ground.

"Jack was showing me clouds and I almost made out a snowflake in his cloud," she turned to us, "until you two interrupted."

Hiccup, who had come up shortly after Jack showed up, was soaked and still laughing as he pulled me in with him.

But that was years ago.

***

I haven't seen them in years, after that day I guess it was time for all of us to grow up and accept our futures.

I saw Hiccup once, he was on a dragon, flying high up in the air, he was with some other girl, I'm sure he's forgotten me and that day when Jack dared me to kiss him, we were only about 4 but I did it.
He kissed back.

Rapunzel is a bit of a mystery to everyone, one day she was happy with her family playing with us, and the next... gone. Nobody really knows where...

Jack... I haven't heard from him since the last day, that's what I called it whenever I got the thought about it. I wonder what happened to him though, he was always the one to start the fun, the one to take us back into the woods when we got afraid, he never forgot the day we were supposed to meet, I do miss him. I miss all of them. I miss old me too.

Back when sword fights in the woods with sticks was enough to make you a princess once one of the brave knights saved you. I always bent the rules and escaped before Hic could save me, I would run past the tree guards that kept me from my "true love". Back then I could find truth in that, but now I'm going to be betrothed and have to push away my childhood that was full of sword fights and castles, if I didn't like it, I could just stop pretending and run away with Hiccup chasing me. I really do miss it.

I didn't even have to be a princess, I could always flip over to the knight side.

When you leave those things and lose your childhood friends, too many problems arise.

But this story isn't about what happens after we split apart, it's about how we got back together.