Chapter 20: The Tough Decision

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[Next week there was yet another confrontation between Rapunzel, Eugene, and Cassandra at The Spire. Their old "friend" Calliope, had asked for their help because Cassandra was attacking the spire. She was trying to get a stone that would supposedly control the minds of the brotherhood of The Dark Kingdom. Rapunzel and Eugene went to help, they fought against Cassandra and her little friend but in the end, they had to give her the stone to save Calliope from being sucked into a lamp for 10,000 years. Right after their confrontation, Cassandra left, but her little friend came back to reveal herself to Rapunzel. Right then and there, Rapunzel found out that Cassandra's little friend was the evil witch, Zhan Tiri, Demanitus' greatest arch-nemesis. She threatened Rapunzel telling her how an eclipse would soon come for her and that she and Cassandra would take over everything she held dearest to her heart and would take her down. She later then disappeared leaving Rapunzel alone with her thoughts but little did she know that Zhan Tiri held other plans for Cassandra. Rapunzel quickly left The Spire, she got in the hot air balloon with Eugene and they started to talk about what Rapunzel had just found out as they flew back home. Zhan Tiri had shown Cassandra one of Gothel's enchanted mirrors with one of her memories. It was when Gothel had gifted Cassandra a music box when she was four years old, but Zhan Tiri had manipulated it and taken out a piece to make Cassandra think that Gothel had some affection towards her, but in reality, she never cared for her. She had told Cassandra that she had found the mirror in Rapunzel's bag the day of Eugene's birthday. Of course, Cassandra being blinded by hatred believed her every word. Next week, Rapunzel had gotten stuck in a deep cavern in Gothel's old cottage in the woods with Cassandra. They decided to help each other escape the cave, which was emitting poisoned gas, but Cassandra would surprise her with something else up her sleeve. As soon as they found an exit from the cave, Cassandra got out but had sealed in Rapunzel to finally finish her. Pascal used the music box chime to lure out the huge blind mole and it broke through the cave allowing Rapunzel to escape. Pascal threw the music box chime at Cassandra and the mole went after her, so she had to quickly make a haste exit. Rapunzel thanked Pascal but she admitted and decided that she had enough of Cassandra. She was gonna do whatever was necessary to bring her down for good and went back to the castle]
{In her bedroom}
Eugene: I can't believe Cassandra did that, I just can't believe it
Rapunzel: Yeah, me neither, this has gone far enough. I gave her a chance to do the right thing when we went to the tower and what did she do? She tried to crush the life out of you. That was strike one, I gave her a second chance, again, to do the right thing back at The Spire, and she almost killed Calliope then almost sucked her in limbo inside a lamp for 10,000 years. That was strike two and now this, she tried to murder me, this stops now Eugene, that was strike three, I won't take it anymore
Eugene: I sincerely hoped that she would come back to us, Rapunzel, I wanted her to, you know she became sort of like a younger sister for me, but after today, I can't even look at her. She tried to kill you, the woman I love, and I won't stand for it any longer as well. There is a fine line of how far a friend who is now your enemy can go before they use up their chances
Rapunzel: I agree as I said, she hurt and tried to kill you, Eugene, she also kidnapped Varian and drugged him for him to tell her what she wanted, and she attacked her father. I know that Zhan Tiri is behind all of this and somehow she's manipulating Cassandra's decisions and clouding her judgment but in the end, it was Cassandra's decisions
Eugene: You do make some good points there, sunshine. She chose to do wrongful things, Zhan Tiri just showed Cassandra her past and made evil suggestions to her. At the end of the day, Cassandra chose to listen to them
Rapunzel: Yeah, you're right, she chose to listen to the advice of a random spirit girl that she barely knew, that's why we couldn't see who she was talking to, and she chose her fate. I did try to get through to her multiple times because I didn't want to give up on her
Eugene: Me neither, I have faith in you, and I wanted to help her just as much as you and the others did. You changed my mind but she went against her father, the man who raised her, who gave her a home full of love, she went against you, all of her friends, and her kingdom. Enough is enough and it's time to take action, as much as we don't want to but it's a necessary thing to do
Rapunzel: We will, Eugene, I hate to say it as well but she will be brought down to justice
Eugene: You can bet on it, let's go outside for a little bit, you need fresh air, you're still recovering
Rapunzel: I promise I'm fine, Eugene
Eugene: You heard what the doctor said, as much fresh outside air as possible, we'll have dinner down there as well
(Rapunzel giggled)
Rapunzel: Oh alright, I do like eating outdoors
[They hold hands intertwining their fingers and go outside for some fresh air, so Rapunzel could keep on getting better from the incident that had occurred today. The king and queen and the others had dinner outside alongside Eugene and Rapunzel and they had begun talking with the others about what they had spoken about Cassandra up in Rapunzel's bedroom, and the others agreed with them. Rapunzel had notified Varian and he decided to start working on an alarm system for the castle just in case Cassandra or anything tried to attack, but that wasn't the only thing that he would start working on. Just in case Cassandra decided to attack, he started designing a weapon to bring her down]
*Pretend Rapunzel's other animal friends were there as well*

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