Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons

Pride of the Heart

Merida carefully ran her hand along the tip of the tapestry, seeing the thread stick out from the seams.

"Mend the bond," she repeats as the others look down her shoulder at the piece of woven art.

"Stitch it up," Merida said with a confident smile. "This will change you back. We just need needle and thread."

Elinor nods and waddles her way to a chest in the corner. Rapunzel looks at her, trying to determine whether to help her or not. While Jack leans next to the tapestry with his staff over his shoulders. Out of everyone in the room, he seems less then confident about this plan.

"Are you sure this will work?" He asks Merida.

"It has too," she said looking at her mother.

He sighs while shaking his head. "I've been around for a long time, and if there's one thing I've learned is that nothing is ever that simple."

"What are you trying to say?" Merida asks with a raised eyebrow, a frown and hands on her hips.

Jack flips his staff so he can get a full grasp of it on his side. He then leans in to Merida so the queen wouldn't hear what he has to say. "What I'm saying is that I think there's more to this curse then just a tapestry. It can't be that easy to break a powerful curse."

"Well, unless you have a better idea on how to do this, I'm all ears," Merida said a little irritated. "Until then, we stick to what we know."

"What do we know?" He asks her. "How will this mend the bond? How will-" he got caught off with a sound of tapping. He backed away from Merida to see

Baby tooth pecking at a window just on the other side of the room.

He quickly flew across the room to the window, but he saw no way to open it. "What is it?" He asks her as he presses his face and hand to the window.

She began to chirp loud enough to hear, but then frost quickly covered the window.

"Ah great," he said backing away from the window. "Why do I freeze up everything I touch?"

"What was that about?" Merida asks as she walks toward him and seeing his handiwork.

"I don't know," he said looking at his free hand. "I didn't let her finish. This isn't good."

"Umm guys..."

The both of them turned to see Rapunzel backing away to them.

"I think it just got worst," she said with a shaking her finger to Elinor.

The others looked at the queen, sniffing the area around her. But it didn't look like she was looking for the needle or thread; instead she was just generally interested of where she was. Knocking stuff to the ground and breaking poetry with her paws.

Merida's eyes widen with horror as she saw her mother's eyes, pure black.

"Oh no," Merida whispers out loud, "not now."

Her voice caught Elinor's attention as she approaches her daughter. But she didn't seem to recognize her. Instead she sniffed her and quietly growled at her.

Merida placed her hands around her mother's mouth and held it shut. "Shhh," she whispers to her, "it's me. It's fine."

Her words somewhat soothed the bear, but not enough to take the tension away.

"What a sight to behold."

Everyone turned to the door to see the human figure of the queen. But everyone knew that wasn't the queen.