Vincent Gets Tangled with Rapunzel

chapter 12

Penelope, Spike, and Matches decided to see Hugo to help him out a little.

"Father..." Spike and Penelope whispered.

"I expected more from you." Hugo sounded cold.

"You don't understand, Rapunzel and Vincent-" Penelope and Spike started.

"They tried to save you!" Matches added.

"Look at me!" Hugo glared at them. "I'm chained like a common dog because of you and your friends!"

"Hey, you should be grateful that we came back at all!" Vulpix growled.

"Vulpix!" Penelope, Matches, and Spike gasped slightly.

"Well it's true!" Vulpix huffed. "You're too hard on your own children! I know parents expect the best out of their children, but they're trying their best and it's not Spike's fault he was raised by ponies!"

"Are you saying that it's my fault?!" Hugo glared.

Vulpix stepped back. "Well, no, but..."

"If you don't have anything else to say, I suggest that you stay quiet!" Hugo told him.

Vulpix wanted to say more, but he decided to keep quiet, he then backed up to the others.

"Hugo, stop, you're frightening the babies!" Matches scolded as she felt the egg shaking on the inside of the shell.

Hugo just humphed and began to try to break the chain again.

"Okay, we saw him," Spike glared to his mate. "Are you happy now?"

"I thought seeing his family would cheer him up!" Matches defended.

"I thought so too, but I guess we were wrong, I don't think anything is ever going to cheer him up." Spike said.

"Cheer him up? What do you mean? Can't your mother cheer him up, Spike?" Vulpix asked.

"Mother?" Spike asked.

"Yeah, you know..." Vulpix insisted.

Penelope tried to make Vulpix stop talking, she put her arms up and shook her head behind Spike's back.

"Sh-She's no longer alive, is she?" Vulpix asked, Penelope afraid to know the truth.

"Everybody has a mother..." Matches told her mate.

"Penelope and I don't have a mother," Spike explained. "Right, Penelope?"

Penelope looked down with her eyes shut.

"What is it?" Spike asked his sister.

Penelope looked back at her brother. "She... She passed away sometime after you were taken from us... She was so emotionally upset that she couldn't live with it... So she took her own life."

"What?! That's terrible." Vulpix gasped.

"S-S-She did?" Spike asked, never knowing about that.

"I'm sorry, Spike..." Penelope said to her brother. "She was so distraught that you were separated from us, she couldn't live with the grief, she thought you could have been killed and she thought no mother should live with or go through that."

"I'm so sorry for you loss." Vulpix comforted.

"Penelope..." Spike now had tears in his eyes. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't think it'd be good to just dump it on you when we agreed you'd come for a visit to meet us," Penelope explained. "I'm sorry, Spike..."

"I-I just wished I could have met her." Spike sighed.