Cassunzel Short Stories

Captured

This takes place after Cassandra took over the castle and destroyed Corona with her rocks. Except this time, Rapunzel was captured before Eugene made it to her (after Cass gave her the potion). This is my little turn on it. It may possibly get a little dark and very angsty but you know, with these two, it's ALWAYS dark and angsty. Also, blood warning! Anyway, enjoy!

Rapunzel's eyes slowly opened as her senses became awake. She tried to stand up but was pulled back down by chains wrapped securely around her wrists. It was now that she started to panic as she tried to remember how the hell she got there. She took a good look at her surroundings and realized she was in a cage, made out of black rocks, in the ballroom. Some stuff slowly started coming back to her. She remembered the day she spent with Faith.. no, not Faith. Cassandra DISGUISED as Faith. She remembered Cassandra trying to speak to her but before she got the chance, she was shot by Project Obsidian. And finally, she remembered Cassandra, eyes filled with fury and betrayal, giving her some kind of potion that made everything go black.

After that though, Rapunzel had no idea what happened. She had no idea how she ended up chained up to a wall in the castle.. Well, she had SOME idea but she hoped it wasn't true. She didn't know where her parents were.. or Eugene.. or Pascal.. or her other friends. She didn't know if they were alright. Surely, Cassandra would never KILL anyone, right? No, of course not. Mad with power or not, Cassandra wasn't that type of person.

With that knowledge, Rapunzel finally looked up and let out a horrified gasp. The once clean and tidy castle was destroyed to pieces by Cassandra's black rocks. She could only wonder what the REST of Corona looked like. Why would Cass do this? Now, Rapunzel was unsure if Cassandra WOULD hurt someone and that thought terrified her. If she was capable of doing something like this, then maybe, she really was too gone to be saved.

Rapunzel quickly shook her head and mentally yelled at herself. No, she knew her best friend was still there somewhere. She still refused to give up on her.

"You're awake," The voice in her thoughts rang out in the quiet room. Rapunzel looked up as Cassandra descended down the steps. Her light blue eyes glowed in the dark room, making her look.. inhumane. Dangerous. Absolutely terrifying. "Like what I did with the place? I always thought it looked so.. bland. So I upgraded it."

It took a second for Rapunzel to find her voice. "Cass.. what have you done?"

"What you couldn't," She sneered. The rock cage that surrounded her disappeared where they came from with a snap of her fingers as she walked towards Rapunzel. Rapunzel tried to pull on the chains that kept her closely bound to the wall. "Good luck with escaping. Turns out you can make anything with these rocks. If we had these a long time ago, so many people wouldn't have escaped prison so easily."

"Let me go, Cass."

Cassandra narrowed her eyes and pointed her sword at Rapunzel's neck, the tip of it barely two inches away. "I don't think you're in any position to make any demands, princess."

"Why are you doing this? Cass, this isn't you.."

Cassandra's eyes filled with rage as she roughly grabbed the princess's face to look at her, their faces merely inches apart. Her eyes were narrowed and her voice was cold as ice, so much it made Rapunzel shiver. "You don't get to decide if this is 'me' or not. The person you once knew before is gone, get over it. So you can just give up on trying to 'redeem' or 'save me' because I don't need to be redeemed and I most certainly don't need saving." She let go of Rapunzel's face roughly. "I don't need anyone."

"You KNOW that isn't true, Cass." Cassandra let out a scoff. "Zhan Tiri is manipulating you, Cass! All she wants is power. The moment you turn you back, she will grab the moonstone and then we ALL will be done for!"