Fall of the Guardians

Chapter 8

                  

"I looked into his eyes, and I saw...he was just as scared as I was."--Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III: How to Train You're Dragon

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Pascal crawled over the earth. He understood what it had meant to Rapunzel, it meant her life. He had never seen he hurting so much, every time she moved she wince. No one else would realize it but him of course because he was always the one on her shoulder. He had learned to match her every move, down to the last little rumble. These spurts of pain were small as she tried to hold it back, but there.

He had to hurry, find Eugene and Maximus, she needed medical attention. He jumped from the path and onto a piece of wood. He looked around, people were running back and forth, and there in the distance, on top of Maximus none the less was Eugene. He trotted around sniffing the ground, looking up briefly and then changing direction. All he had to do was get Maximus's attention and give Eugene the ring. Then they'd save Rapunzel, the girl, and that strange white haired boy in the cave. Who ever he was.

He took a step forward and let out a squeak as he was lifted into the air by his tail. He swiveled around trying to find his captor and let our another squeak as he saw who it was. "Well what do we have here?" said the  persuasive voice, "A little lizard."

Your supposed to be dead, he thought, of course he couldn't say it only shiver as he stared at someone who had to be a ghost.

"Put the lizard down Gothel." Another man, dressed in black with grey skin and grey teeth.

"But look what he's got, Pitch." Gothel said, she held him up to the man who must have been Pitch. "The queen's ring, I saw it on her before."

Pitch frowned, "So?"

"So this little pain, is friends with Rapunzel, if he gets to Eugene and Maximus they'll unbury Rapunzel and your plans will be ruined." Pitch frowned at the lizard, that looked at him for a moment. Then reached out and bit Gothel. "Argg!" she shouted and dropped him. He scurried across the ground and a shadow rose, wrapping it's self around his legs and pressing him to the ground.

He tried to squeeze out but it was like tar, there was no escape. Pitch scowled, "Fine, throw the creature somewhere he can't escape, then let's move on."

Gothel grinned and leaned down, she picked the Pascal from the shadows easily. Pascal's face was turned to face her, his wide brown eyes staring at her scared. "I'm going to have fun with this."

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Jack blinked open his eyes in the dark. He hadn't realized he had fallen asleep. Rapunzel was still sitting there, with the girl, no light shown through the hole. It was clear now that it was night. He sat there, his shoulders hunched, his eyes down. They hadn't found Rapunzel yet? After all this time. Rapunzel held the little girl, she looked frightened and there was nothing he could do.

He sat there watching her sleep, the little girl whimpered as she had a nightmare. Jack let a small snowflake float around, sighing as it floated around his finger and finally landed on the girl's nose. She let out a giggle and sighed in her sleep. Where was sandy  with his dream sand? He was always there to give good dreams to children. Then again he might had not had been able to find them, deep in this hole, maybe he had already passed by for the night to the next homes that needed it.

His snow flake made it easy to have fun, even in your dreams, but it didn't last long with a kid asleep. Even now he noticed her tremble as her nightmare returned. He wished there was something he could do.