Tangled: Stardust and the 12 Zodiacs (Varian Fanfiction)

Chapter 9: The Song

"What do you call a sheep with no head and legs?" Eugene asked, trying to hold back his laughter.

"Gee, I don't know. What?" Kiera asked not amused with the man's antics.

"A sheep!' He answered as he burst out laughing. Everyone except Lance and Soul deadpanned at the ex-thief. Lance was laughing as hard as Eugene, while Soul was not with them.

It was currently 4 in the afternoon, the group got out of the Jungle around 5 in the morning. The trip back to the caravan was longer than when they entered to search for the temple. After all, traveling through a jungle with very little light source proved almost impossible. The group was lucky not to encounter an angry predator or attracted any, with the noise they've been causing. They, however, got stuck in vines, Lance almost falling off a cliff, to which Soul completely froze up when she saw the said cliff. Catalina and Red got stung by some wasps, luckily Soul knows the antidote and quickly whipped up some. Rapunzel almost lost Pascal as the poor chameleon followed a fly, throwing the group off from their path to look for him. Luckily, they got out safe and in one piece. Once, getting inside the caravan, everyone dropped asleep waking up at lunchtime.

Which leads the group to what they are doing now. The said group is currently sitting around a campfire as they eat their lunch. Ham sandwiches, proudly made by their alchemist friend. While Eugene is telling some jokes that nobody laughs at except for his best friend.

"Har-di-har Flynn." Varian said as he leaned on his hand, taking a bite off his ham sandwich. Ruddiger was next to him munching on an apple.

"Okay okay okay. What do you call a farm who makes bad jokes?" Lance asked. Everyone except Eugene gave him a "please stop already" look.

"What? What? What?" Eugene replied holding his laughter, puffing his cheeks.

"Corny!" Everyone except the two grown men facepalmed exasperatedly.

"Lance, Eugene, We love you and all but stop it with the bad jokes! It's starting to get really annoying." Catalina commented, annoyed.

"You just don't have a good sense of humor." Eugene replied as he stopped laughing and crossed his arms. The red-haired pre-teen just rolled her eyes. The ex-thief eyed the group and noticed that their navigator is not with them. "Hey, where's stargazer?"

"We asked her if she wants to eat lunch with us, but she refused, saying that she wants to do experiments on the plants she took." Rapunzel answered as she fed Pascal.

"Geez, does that kid do anything else besides studying? At least Varian here knows how to socialize and stuff." Eugene said as he pointed at Varian, the alchemist blushing in embarrassment. "I mean come on, All she does is read and read. I barely see her interact with any of you. If it weren't for Varatos here, she wouldn't talk at all."

"Eugene!" Rapunzel scolded. "Soul is not like Varian. May I remind you, that Soul lived alone for who knows how long since her parents and brother died? And according to Xavier, Soul doesn't have many friends aside from him. Maybe Soul just doesn't know how to interact with people that much." She continued, defending the young astrologer. Rapunzel understands why Soul didn't want to eat with them. After all, years with not eating with anyone else besides your family, proved that there ate two types of people in the world. One who is excited to meet someone else and would gladly eat with other people, and one who is nervous and would rather eat alone than eating with someone they don't know. It just so happened to be that Soul was one of the latter, and Rapunzel completely respects the girl's decision of turning down her invite. Although, Rapunzel would definitely persuade her next time,as she really wanted to get to know the astrologer more.