KanaMac presents…
"Once Upon A Time" a Big Hero 6 fanfiction.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the fairytales I use in this story or Big Hero 6.
Hiro: 13 years old
Tadashi: 18 years old
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"This can't be seriously happening!" Hiro exclaims. "I wake up one morning thinking all is right with the world and then I'm in some cozy cottage." Hiro wore a bright red cloak with a large bow at the nape. Even his bird's nest of a head was fashioned into little pigtails.
There was a rap at the door and it hesitantly creaked open. A young woman wearing a tattered dress about the age of Aunt Cass stepped in. "Little Red Riding Hood, your grandmother is awfully ill. Take this basket to her please. I've filled it with pastries and fruits."
Little Red Riding Hood? No! That means I'm…a girl! Hiro thought, horrified at the idea of cross dressing.
"Um, excuse me. I was wondering where am I right now." He whispers to the woman who must be his 'mother' in the story. "Is this some sort of play that I'm in or,"
The woman's once warm brown eyes turned stony. "Please proceed with the storyline." her tone was monotonous like a robot.
Then she turned back to her normal bright self. "Tell Grandma that I send my regards! And go straight to her house. Don't stray from the path."
Panic rose in the child prodigy's chest. "B-but where's Tadashi and Aunt Cass?"
"Please proceed with the storyline." the woman repeats.
Not knowing what else to do, Hiro took the basket of pastries and fruits and started down the path into the forest. There were shadows shifting in every corner of the wood. Hiro felt goose bumps rise along his arms. The big bad wolf from the story would come out soon.
He squatted on the forest floor and began to cry softly into the red cloak. He was confused and agitated. As he continued to cry, his mind reeled back to yesterday night and any strange phenomenon that could have triggered this Red Riding Hood story.
Flashback:
It was Hiro's thirteenth birthday and the whole gang was here. It was a surprise party and caught Hiro off guard as he came home from school. He remembered the happy faces of Honey Lemon, Fred, Gogo, Wasabi, Aunt Cass, and Tadashi. The group had jumped up from their hiding places when he came into the café. Fred fell from the ceiling.
"SURPRISE!" they cried and everybody held out their gifts for him.
"Thanks guys!" Hiro cried and took their presents and started to open them.
Aunt Cass got him lots of gummy bears and Tadashi got him new parts for him to make better robots. Wasabi bought him a green sweater that matched his and Gogo hugged Hiro and handed him a new laptop, while Fred thrust him a cool-looking samuri sword. Baymax got him a bottle of antibacterial spray.
Hiro thanked his friends again and again. He noticed one more present on the floor. This present looked different. It was wrapped in soggy newspaper and there were no silk ribbons tied around the package, but tangled strips of fraying string. The gift looked decades old.
"Who's is this?" Hiro had asked, studying the package.
The party goers looked at each other and shook their heads saying no.
"I wonder what's in it…" Hiro wrestled the string off and forced the sticky, soggy paper off whatever was inside. The friends crowded around the birthday boy and stared at the gift.
It was a large filthy book.
The book had a cover made of some sort of hard skin. There was no title. The spine was tough as wood and it took a lot of force to open it. Hiro tried to rip the book open to the first page to no avail.
Tadashi took it and tried to open it. It wouldn't do so.
Aunt Cass tried.
Fred tried. Everyone tried, but the book would not open.
"Is this some prank?" Hiro asked, glaring around.
"NO!"
Frustrated, Hiro kicked the book. "Open you stupid thing!"
It fluttered open with ease at those words. Hiro's eyes got bigger. He held the book and skimmed through the pages. There were no words or pictures or anything on the yellowed pages.
He flipped back to the first page where he found newly inked words in swirly cursive.
It read, 'Once upon a time…'
The book continued to start a tale in the same cursive as if a ghost that nobody could hear or see was there, writing. The party stopped and everyone stared at the ongoing story.
RIIIIIP!
Then it happened. It was a mere accident—the pages were old and brittle. Hiro ripped the cover clean off. They all gasped at the awful sound like flesh was being torn. There was silence. The writing in the book halted. Hiro felt like something bad was going to happen.
The writing began again. This time faster and less delicate.
'You have harmed the tales of stories. Now you will all pay the price. At sunrise tomorrow, you will find yourselves trapped in pages. The key is to survive the tale and all its glory. If not, trapped mice you will be, for I will be the cat.'
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"Hiro?!"
The boy was jerked from his thoughts and he looked up to find a quite furry and menacing figure bending down to him. Hiro cried out in fear and got ready to bolt.
"Wait! It's just me! Tadashi."
Hiro looks up and sees a hint of his brother under the harsh coat of fur. He sees his almond eyes and handsome chin. It was his brother alright.
But this Tadashi had brown ears and a strange looking snout as if he were some sort of wolf/human hybrid that terrorized people at night. He was a wolf. The wolf. The big bad wolf. Hiro couldn't help the snort that escaped him. This was ironic. He was Little Red Riding Hood and Tadashi was the Big Bad Wolf.
"Tadashi, I know this sounds crazy, but we have to act out Little Red Riding Hood like this. Remember that book I found and ripped apart at my birthday party? We won't be able to go back if we mess up the storyline!" Hiro explains urgently.
Tadashi looked a little pale under his fur. "What do you mean 'we won't be able to go back'?"
"We're in some sort of freakish fairy tale world. I bet Gogo and the others are trapped somewhere in here too." Hiro cries. This was a terrible situation to be in. He never read many fiction books!
"Even Baymax?"
"Yeah, probably not good. We have to act this out, okay?" Hiro spat.
Tadashi nods. "Gotcha. I need to say one thing though. You look ridiculous."
Hiro blushes furiously. He ducks, hoping his brother/wolf wouldn't notice. "I know. Just shut up."
Tadashi hugged his little brother, and then got onto all fours. His dark eyes became an eerie yellow and his canines looked a lot longer. "What do you have in that basket, Little Red Riding Hood?" he growled.
"Just some pastries and fruit for my dear grandma Mr. Wolf." Hiro answers.
"And where does you precious grandma live?" Tadashi or the Wolf asked in a deep voice that sent shivers up Hiro's spine.
"Along that path, past the wild rose bushes, then through the gate at the end of the wood,
Mr. Wolf." Hiro or Red Riding Hood replies foolishly like in the book.
The Wolf scampers off and Red Riding Hood continued his way down the path. He picked some flowers along the way, so he wouldn't mess up the storyline.
After much more walking, Hiro finally reached a shabby cottage near the end of the forest. He went up and rapped on the door, knowing that the wolf probably ate his 'grandma'.
Nobody answered the knock.
Hiro pushed open the door and was met with an awkward scene. Tadashi was in the cottage on two furry hind legs with a confused Aunt Cass whom was screaming her head off. And her head was covered in white and gray hairs instead of the usual lush brown.
"AAAAAH A WOLF!" Cass screeches and tries to scramble out of bed.
Tadashi, still looking quite like a wolf, tried to reach out his paws and comfort her. "I-it's me Aunt Cass. I can explain! See, Hiro's here. It's alright!"
So Aunt Cass is the 'grandma' of the story.
Hiro gave a brief and detailed summary of why they were here and why they looked like this. Cass began to calm down. "So you're saying the book got mad and sent us into a fairytale?! And we have to complete the story?!"
"Yup. Tadashi, you have to, um, eat Aunt Cass."
"CRAP! Do I have to?" Tadashi hisses.
His little brother put his hands on his hips. "It's the storyline! I doubt Aunt Cass will actually get hurt. The huntsman also has to chop you open with an ax. You know, so I can live happily ever after?"
And so Tadashi reluctantly ate his freaked out aunt.
"My, what big ears you have, Grandma."
"All the better to hear you, my dear."
"My, what big eyes you have, Grandma."
"All the better to see you, my dear."
"But Grandma, what a big nose you have."
"All the better to smell you, my dear."
"My, what a big…mouth you have Grandma."
"ALL THE BETTER TO EAT YOU UP MY DEAR!" with those words, Tadashi sprang up from the bed with a huge stomach because he ate Aunt Cass.
Hiro screamed as loudly as he could, when the 'huntsman' burst in. More of a huntswoman, probably. Gogo Tomago burst in wielding an ax threateningly at the Wolf. Winking at the brothers, she brought the glinting ax down on Tadashi with a grunt.
Tadashi screamed and a bright white light filled the entire cottage.
I have a feeling that this isn't over yet. Hiro moaned to himself before the light engulfed them all.
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