Vincent Gets Tangled with Rapunzel

chapter 6

Meanwhile, Rapunzel, Vincent, and Vulpix were still exploring. This had to be the best day of Rapunzel's life.

"Nothing could possibly ruin this moment." Vincent smiled.

The butterflies flew by their faces and just looked so peaceful. There came a trio of girls who seemed around Vincent's age on horseback.

"Whoa, boy, whoa!" one girl called to the horse.

"Those girls look nice." Vulpix smiled before going over to them.

"Oh, careful, Vulpix!" Rapunzel called as she and Vincent went after the fire fox Pokemon.

The blonde girl came off the horse and stroked his face and gave him an orange vegetable. "It's my last carrot." she told the horse.

"He still looked hungry." the brown-haired girl pointed out.

The red-haired girl was about to bite into her apple until her friends looked at her. "I was going to share..." she said before giving her apple to the horse. "Here you go, Botticelli."

'Botticelli?' Vulpix thought to himself, confused.

The three girls then looked down to see Vulpix and awed at him.

"He must be a kit..." the blonde girl guessed.

"Where'd you come from, little fella?" the brown-haired girl pet Vulpix.

"Somewhere far, far away from here." Vulpix told them.

"He's probably hungry too..." the red-haired girl pouted slightly.

The blonde girl looked around, then pointed with a smile. "Melody, Lorena, look!" she told her sisters. "Enough for everybody!"

Vulpix looked with them to find an apple tree. "Ooh..."

The blonde girl ran ahead, but then suddenly fell into a hidden pit.

"Katrina!" the brown-haired girl cried and ran after their fallen sister.

"Oh, dear..." Vulpix said.

"Come on, we better help." Rapunzel suggested.

The blonde girl was clinging to a branch to keep herself from falling. "Help me!"

"Hold on," Vincent reassured. "We'll get you!"

"Yeah, just hang on." Vulpix added.

"I'll get help!" the red-haired girl climbed back onto their horse.

"Hurry, Lorena!" the brown-haired girl cried as she rode away.

Rapunzel scooted closer and held out her hand to the blonde girl. "Grab on!"

The blonde girl tried to reach it, but struggled. "I can't!"

"Just let go of one hand and reach up!" Vincent told her.

The blonde girl whimpered and did just that and reached for Rapunzel's hand.

"That's it!" Rapunzel coached, keeping her hand out for the little girl.

The two then joined hands and the blonde girl was then brought back up to safety. Vincent and Vulpix joined in to help them out. The blonde girl nearly slipped and was about to fall again. Rapunzel held onto the girl's hand so she wouldn't fall, but a young man held Rapunzel back by her waist. The blonde girl was now safe and closer away from the pit and she hugged the young man who came.

"Thank you for saving my sister." the young man replied.

"And you, for saving me." Rapunzel smiled to the young man.

'Sure is a good thing he arrived just in time.' Vulpix thought to himself.

The horse came in between Rapunzel and the young man.

"I think he was worried about you." Rapunzel told the young man.

The young man helped his younger sister onto the horse.

"His name is Botticelli." the blonde girl told Rapunzel.

"He takes us everywhere." the brown-haired girl added.

"That's why he's always hungry." the red-haired girl finished.

"I can tell." Vulpix said.

"Come on," the brown-haired girl told the red-haired girl. "Let's go get those apples."

The red-haired girl smiled and followed after her. The blonde girl smiled to Rapunzel, Vulpix, and Vincent before following her friends while on Botticelli's back.

'Thank goodness no one got hurt by that trap.' Vincent thought to himself.

"Um... What... Beautiful girls." Rapunzel smiled shyly to the young man.

"Thank you again for saving my sister." The young man said.

Vincent sensed something, so he walked off.

"Papa, where are you going?" Vulpix followed him, leaving Rapunzel and this young man alone.

"I'm leaving them alone so then they can have a moment alone." Vincent explained.

"But why?" Vulpix asked.

Vincent sighed, shaking his head. "You have much to learn about L'Amour..."

"La what?" Vulpix tilted his head.

'If this is me with a Pokemon, I wonder what I'll be like as a dad...' Vincent thought to himself.

"Have we met before?" the young man asked once he was alone with Rapunzel.

"I've never been here before." Rapunzel admitted.

"Do you live in Wilhelm's kingdom?" the young man asked.

Rapunzel tilted her head, that name idd not sound familiar. "Who is he?"

"The king that ordered that." The young man said, referring to the trap.

"Why would he do such a thing?" Rapunzel asked due to how awful the trap was with trapping a little girl.

"Wilhelm claims that our king made something terrible to him years ago." the young man explained.

Rapunzel looked curious. "Did he?"

"No." The young man said.

"But if the king didn't do it, can't the kings talk or explain?" Rapunzel asked.

"It's too late for that," the young man shook his head. "The only way is end the fury is through force."

"That seems foolish." Rapunzel commented.

"Oh... Do you think so?" the young man asked back.

Suddenly, they heard the three little girls, sounding like they were having trouble with each other.

"I better make sure they're okay," the young man told Rapunzel as an excuse to leave. "I'll be right back..." he then rushed off to catch up with the much younger girls.

Rapunzel, Vincent, and Vulpix then heard a tower bell ring, telling the time.

"Oh, no," Rapunzel grew wary. "How did it get so late?" she then looked to see her newest friend kept running and she wouldn't have time to wait for him.

"Late?" Vincent and Vulpix asked.

"Come on!" Rapunzel ran back to Gothel Manor, hoping they would make it before her guardian would blow her top.

Vincent and Vulpix ran with her, hoping to make it back in time. Unknown to either of them, Otto had seen them in the village.