L2.+Poe+Parody

The Story of Rapunzel Once upon a time, there was a very happy couple. They were so overjoyed when they found out the wife was pregnant. Sadly, the husband was stricken with a deadly flesh eating disease that took him before her seventh month. The woman who was a witch was stricken with the disease as well, but it did not take her. Instead, it ate away at her face and body and seemed to be frozen in time. She was considered cursed amongst the village people and shunned by them. She was filled with so much grief that she lived in the abandoned tower on the outskirts, in the middle of the forest. Knowing the child may sucumb to the disease as well, the woman wore gloves in order to handle the beautiful girl. She named her after the last meal her and her husband had before he died, Rapunzel. She kept her sheltered from the cruelty of the outside world and took away the doors and windows except one window that looked over the entire wood. Fortunately, Rapunzel was not born with the disease, and she grew up to become a beautiful teen with long, flowing borwn hair that could drop down to the ground from the tower window. Everyday, at the exact same time, her mother would have her let down her hair so she could climb up to her daughter. Rapunzel was a very obedient child and never asked about the outside world. She could just see her mother’s face, although she mostly wore a hood, and imagine what had happened to her.

One day, the prince of the nearby kingdom of Delasnyderford was riding through the wood and came upon the tall tower, just as the witch called “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!” Then saw the dark brown hair fall seemingly forever down to the woman. The witch climbed up to the window and slunk into the tower. The prince was amazed at what he had just seen! // I must see this maiden //, he thought. // Only a woman of unimaginable beauty must posess that hair. //

After the witch left, the prince went over to the bottom of the tower and called Rapunzel. Not knowing any different, Rapunzel obliged and let her hair fall to him, thinking it was her mother. Once the prince reached the window, he was taken aback by her beauty, but she seemed terrified that a man had climbed through her window. “Do not be afraid, I saw your beautiful hair and wanted to see the woman who possessed it. You are more beautiful than I had imagined!” Rapunzel swooned, and he remained in the tower until the sun dipped down beneath the horizon. He left with the night and promised he would come back when her mother departed tomorrow.

As promised, the prince climbed her hair once the witch was out of sight. The witch did not know anything of the prince seeing her daughter. The prince and Rapunzel quickly fell for each other and he continued to visit everyday for three weeks. The witch noticed there was a change in Rapunzel though, she seemed delirious with love and happiness that confused her. // I shall come by again tonight //, she thought//, and see what is the matter. // The prince stayed longer than any other time this night. He went to depart and when he turned he saw the witch standing in the window sill. “So, you have decided to drop by and see my lovely Rapunzel have you?” She said as she dropped down from the and approached the two of them, her hands began to glow and she dragged the prince from the tower and plopped him on the ground. The prince turned in enough time to see a large wall of thorns form up to the top of the tower and wrapping between the roof’s sets. He fell onto the ground in horror as Rapunzel looked from the window in despair. The witch just looked at her daughter in disappointment before floating to the ground and sending her lover away. “Never come back you little neusance!” She shouted as he fled before she could zap him. Rapunzel began to slowly fall into madness from losing the prince. She was wailing with such despair that her ears viciously rang. She wiped her eyes before looking to the window and stepping up to its sill. “If I can’t be with him… I cannot live any longer.” She said before leaping from the stoop, her long hair flowing down with her as she fell through the thorns. When she stopped in the thistles, her skin was torn and her limbs hung precariously off of the muscles. The prince was driven to see his lovely Rapunzel again, so he decided he would do whatever means to get inside the tower. He rode his horse to the valley where the tower stood and screamed when he saw her wrapped in the thorns’ clutches. He ran to the bushes and attempted to cut the vines, but there was no use, they just kept growing back. Enraged, he remounted his horse and charged to the witch’s dwelling where he cut off her hands to gain her magic. Once he obtained the hands, he brought down the vines and ran to his Rapunzel. He was horrified at her appearance and saw that she was dead. “There has to be something!” He shouted as he cradled her in his arms. In a last attempt to bring her to life, he took the witch’s hand and held it to Rapunzel’s chest before clutching it tightly. Her body began to glow and rose from his hold before her eyes opened. “My prince! I am alive!” She cried before hugging him. The prince was disgusted by her bleeding skin and hanging limbs, and hugged her back before taking his sword from its holster and digging it into her breast. She dropped with a silent plead before dying again. The prince wiped off his sword before looking at his fallen lover and stuck his sword into his stomach, dying next to her. THE END