Fairy Tales | Tangled | Natsu X Reader | 08

Chapter Eight: Break Out

The last thing that Natsu remembered was being knocked out by his former partners when they said they wanted (Name), after that he ended up being taken into custody by the Royal Army having been tied to a boat and sent back to Magnolia. His thoughts were interrupted by Lahar entering his cell with several of his men behind him.

“Let’s get this over with Salamander” he stated as stared at the man he had been chasing for years.

“Where are we going?” Natsu asked, the look from the royal guards and the gallows outside his cell window he understood quickly what was in his fate “Oh”

“Bring him out”

As the guards led him through the dank hallways, Natsu hated himself for getting himself in this situation. Hated that he had left (Name) alone in a world she had spent eighteen years being shielded from, especially if his former partners had gotten to her. Hated that she most likely believed that he had abandoned her once he got the crown. Walking through the corridor he knew that his time had caught up to him until his gaze fell upon his former partners in one of the cells. Elbowing the guard on his right and kneeing the one of his left, going to the cell he grabbed the elder Vanish brother’s collar “How did you know about her? Tell me! NOW!”

“It wasn’t us! It was the old man!” the Vanish brother added

“Old man?” he thought, before it hit him, (Name’s) father. As he came to the revelation, he was reprehended by the guards with one punching his stomach to calm him down, as they kept leading him to his execution he kept struggling and trying to be free. He couldn’t let her be locked up in that tower again “Wait. No! Wait! You don’t understand that she’s in trouble!”

Despite his struggling the guards were able to continue dragging him down the halls, as they went passed a small alcove, the pink haired male saw a melting ice sculpture of a dragon. Coming up to the wooden door, it instantly slammed shut right before they could go through it.

“What’s the?! Open up!”

“Password?” a voice, Natsu recognised as Romeo’s, teased while he riled up the head of the royal army.

“What?”

“Nope”

“Open this door”

“Not even close”

“Open it!”

“Are you even trying?”

“You have three seconds, one” as Lahar banged on the door the guard on Natsu’s left was knocked out, “two” followed by the one on his right, “three” finally the last guard was slammed into the wall by Erza.

“Thanks” the thief thanked the scarlet haired woman after she knocked out the people who were helping to restraining and undoing his shackles.

“Move it. You need to get out of here” Erza shoved the man and started to lead him through the tunnels until they came out into the courtyard, with the reinforcements from the royal army quickly coming after them. Stopping in front of Gajeel who was just smirking at what was happening around him

“Head down” the pierced man instructed the thief who surprisingly followed the directions he was given.

“Head down” Natsu repeated as he followed his rescuers prompts.

“Arms in”

 “Arms in”

“Knees apart”

“Knees apart. Knees apart? Why do I need to keep my knees apart?” the pinkette questioned as he cast a confused glance to Gajeel, in doing so he didn’t notice Elfman jumping down from one of the stairs, landing on the other end of the wagon so that he was sent flying through the air until he landed on the back of Pantherlily

“Pantherlily? You brought them here? Thank you. No, really thank you. I feel maybe this whole time we’ve been misunderstanding each other and…” hearing a snort come from the horse, Natsu knew that he needed to shut up and go find (Name). “Yeah you’re right we should go. Let’s see how fast you can run Lily”

…….

“There. It never happened. Now, wash up for dinner.” Hades spoke to (Name) as he picked all the flowers out of his daughter’s blonde hair, having already undone the intricate braid. Seeing how she responded to what had happened, the older man sighed “I really did try to warn you about the dark, selfish and cruel world out there (Name). It’s a dark place that will destroy even the slightest ray of sunshine.”

Once he had left the room the blonde laid back on her bed as Happy curled into her side, everything that had happened to her finally caught up to her. As she adjusted her body so that she was in the foetal position, a small (favourite colour) scrunched up piece of material falls out of the pocket on her dresses skirt, seeing what had fallen on to the bed sheets Happy wandered over to it and opened the material to see what it was.

“This is …” Happy trailed off attracting the attention of the blonde, who slowly sat up and looked at the exceed.

“What do you have there Happy?” (Name) asked before (eye colour) eyes fell on the fabric which the blue winged cat handed to her, “Oh, the flag Na – Salamander gave me.” Looking up, something seemed odd about all of the imagery that she had painted on her walls, casting her gaze back to the flag before returning it to her artwork. As she became more focused on her artwork the blonde notice something that all her pictures had in common, they all had Magnolia’s symbol incorporated into their designs.

With the bombardment of symbols running through her head, another image came to mind. A babies mobile with the Magnolian symbol, a blue cat, a black horse and a lantern hanging off it dangling above a small blonde child. The child was then lifted up by the Queen from the mural and the King jokingly placed the tiara that Natsu had stolen on top of the child’s head, only for her to gurgle happily when it fell in front of her eyes.

As the previous imagery disappeared, (Name) saw herself when she first found the stolen tiara and tried it on top of her head.  

Stumbling back as she clutched her head in response to what was going through her mind, the blonde felt her back collide with her vanity which caused her mirror to clatter to the ground and break into several pieces along with her paint set and books.

……..

Hearing all the commotion coming from his daughter’s room Hades became worried about his flower. Walking from the kitchen to the stairs that led to the young woman’s room he called up to his daughter “(Name)? What’s going on up there? (Name) are you alright?”

“I’m the lost princess” the blonde mumbled as she came out of her room and stood atop of the stair case.

“Please speak up (Name). You know how I feel about the mumbling”

“I am the lost princess. aren’t I?” this time she enunciated every word, making it so that her ‘father’ could understand exactly what she was saying. Seeing the shocked look on the male’s face did nothing to curb the blonde’s determination to get through what she needed to say “did I mumble father?  Or should I even call you that?”

“(Name) do you even hear yourself? Why would you even ask such a ridiculous question?” as he spoke Hades climbed the stairs so that he was standing in front of the magical girl, hoping to dissuade her of the idea she had in her mind.

“It was you! It was all you!”

“Everything I did was to protect you” Hades told the girl as he reached out to his daughter, knocking his hand out of the way and pushing past the male as she went down the stairs

“I’ve spent my entire life hiding from people who would try and use me for my powers. When I should have been hiding from you”

“Where will you go? He won’t be there for you” those words stopped the girl in her tracks as her eyes widened at the implied threat.

“What did you do to him?”

“That criminal is to be hanged for his crimes”

“No”

“Now, now it’s alright.” Hades soothed the emotional girl who had frozen in place from the news of the impending death of the thief, reaching out to pat her on the head “Listen to me, all of this is as it should be”

“No!” (Name) stood her ground as she reached out and grabbed the male’s wrist before he could touch her “You were wrong about the world and you were wrong about me! And I will never let you use my hair again!” Pushing the man, she believed to be her father back so that he stumbled and knocked down the mirror so that pieces of it scattered around the room. Once Hades had been pushed away, she was able to walk away from him “You won’t be able to keep me locked up anymore”

“You want me to be the bad guy, fine now I’m the bad guy”