Did you know that a buttercup is a kind of herb? If it's not, then the internet lied to me.

This is my first fan fiction ever! So comment and review!

Buttercup's POV:

So bored, so bored, I am so BORED! I tossed a green plastic ball at the wall in front of me and repeated the action multiple times. It's not much surprise to me that I'm so bored. After all, I have been trapped in this tower my whole life.

"Do you have anything else better to do then just playing with your ball in a dark corner?" a women's voice said, with a sigh. I knew who the voice belonged to and I quickly stood up to face the source of the voice.

"Mrs. Bellum!" I exclaimed as I jumped into her arms and hugged her. She laughed and hugged me back. Mrs. Bellum is my caring caretaker and my devil-like teacher. she can be the sweetest person in the world but when she's in teacher mode, she's like a demon who likes to give you a life time supply of homework. While she wasn't here, textbooks and food appeared on my desk every morning. I ate the food but I didn't even touch the textbooks. TEXTBOOKS ARE EVIL!

I looked up at Mrs. Bellum. I couldn't see her face because it's always hidden behind her curly red hair but I could tell that she's tired.

"What the heck? Come on Buttercup, let go before you squeeze my lungs out!" Mrs. Bellum joked. I gave her one last squeeze before letting go.

"Payback for not coming to see me for six months, do you know how much free time I had since you weren't here to bug me!" I said with a wide grin. Mrs. Bellum was three months pregnant when she left. She needed to move to a new house so her and her husband could have enough room for the baby to grow up in a calm and peaceful environment.

"Well, that is not my fault!" She said with a fake pout on her face. "If it's anyone's fault, it's my husbands. He's the one who wanted a kid in the first place." The day went by as if she hasn't been gone for six month. I pretended not to listen to her while she was teaching me math, history, science and world languages, and then she got angry at me and threatened to push me out the window. In the end of the day, we ate the fast food she brought from McDonalds. I like the French fries the best.

"Mrs. Bellum?"

"hm?"

"How old am I? And don't say I'm five, because five-year old girls don't have these!" I pointed to my C-cup breast. She busted out laughing.

"Don't laugh! I'm serious here! You been telling me that I'm five since the day I met you!" I yelled at my laughing caretaker/teacher.

"Ok, ok I'm sorry!" she kept laugh a bit longer but stopped when she saw how annoyed I was. "Let's see, I think your seventeen by now."

"So why haven't I been outside for the past seventeen years?" I asked. "I mean, I've been in this tower my whole life! When can I leave?" Mrs. Bellum thought for a moment and sighed.

"Sweetie," she started solemnly. "Listen to me, I'm being paid to take care of you but I'm not your guardian. So I don't have a say in when you can go outside."

"Who is my guardian?" I asked curiously but she just sighed again and turned her head towards the window, looking at the blue sky.

"To be honest, I don't know." She said weakly. I wonder if she really is ok. She just had a baby a little awhile ago after all. Maybe I shouldn't have asked her about going outside, she seems really bothered by it.

We didn't say anything else. It was time for Mrs. Bellum to go home to her family. She hates having to go down the stairs so she leaves by going out the window (I don't understand why she prefers climbing out a window than using the stairs). And since my window is fifty feet away from the ground we use my hair as rope. My hair is extremely long since I wasn't allowed to cut it either.

After she climbed down the gray-stoned tower, I was alone again. I didn't feel like playing with my small plastic ball again. I turned my head towards the window and I noticed that the sun was going down so I decided to call a night. I didn't have to change clothes since all I wear are night gowns anyway. I merely dropped myself on my bed, bored out of my mind again.

The next five minutes felt like forever. My hair spread out and acted like a blanket. I stared into nothingness. Who put me in this tower in the first place? my parents? Do I even have parents? If so, then why haven't I met them before? Maybe if I wait a little longer in this tower, they'll come and see me.

"You're so pathetic." Said an unfamiliar voice. I quickly sat up and stared at the women who stood in front of me. She looked young and was unmistakably beautiful, like a perfect glass doll. She was tall and slender. Her hair was black like mine and was floating around her, as if it was weightless. She was wearing a strap-less red dress that showed off her figure. Her long sleeves weren't attached to the dress itself.

"Who are you? What the heck are you doing in my room? RAPE!" I exclaimed in a panic before she quickly covered my mouth with her hand. She looked extremely irritated and glared at me.

"Jeez kid! Will you shut up?" I bite her hand in an attempt of freedom but she didn't even flinch. She only looked at me with a bored expression.

"You're too predictable." She said as she withdraws her hand from my mouth and snapped her fingers. Within a second, my bed sheets suddenly attacked me! In the end, after I struggled endlessly, the bed sheets won and tied themselves around my wrists and ankles. I struggled against them.

"Let me go!" I yelled at the woman who stood in front of me. She had a smirk on her face and seemed very pleased with herself.

"If I let you go, do you promise to be a good girl and listen to me?" she asked with the smirk still on her face. I glared at her but nodded. She snapped her fingers again and the lights turn on while the bed sheet let go of me. I sat up, not taking my eyes off her.

"How did you do that?" I asked but she just sat on a chair that was next to my bed and crossed her arms.

"I'm a goddess." She said simply. I looked at her strangely but she continued on. "I'm not like one of those immature goddesses from Greek mythology. My name is Fate and controlling others fate is my job. To be honest, I'm known as many things but goddess seems to the closest thing to what I'm really am."

"Ok, so why are you here if you're so important?" I asked, slightly irritated. Normally I wouldn't believe her but considering what I just been though with my bed sheets, I'm not taking any chances.

"Because your fate is changing and I'm not the one changing it!" she seemed angry by this but I didn't say anything and let her keep talking.

"I gave every living thing a fate to follow. I choose their fate by their personality and by that I'm able to predict the choices they'll make in life. But something is changing dramatically in your personality and as your personality unexpectedly changes, so does your fate." She said to me.

"Huh? What do you mean my personality is changing?" I asked politely. This isn't making any sense. I don't feel like anything has changed.

"That's what I mean! You're tamed! Your personality changed from bold to timid! It's not supposed to be that!" she calmed down a bit and gave out a heavy sigh, then looked at me with narrowed eyes.

"Do you want to know why you're here?" she asked me but I could tell she already knew my answer. She walked to the corner of my room picked up a thin book, blows the dust away and throws it at me. I caught it and looked at the cover.

"It's a fairy tale book. Why are you showing me this?" I asked, giving her a questioning look. She smirked and sat down next to me, taking the book from my hands and started flipping through the pages.

"I'm showing you this because your life is a fairy tale." She said as she handed the book to me. It's opened to a chapter that read 'Rapunzel'.

"In the story 'Rapunzel' there lived a hardworking man. His wife was expecting a baby but she was sick and was slowly dying. Desperate, he stole a green herb called Rapunzel from a wicked witch to cure his wife but he got caught before he could take the Rapunzel. He needed the witch let him go so her could heal his wife. the witch agreed to let him go, but he must give his first-born child to her as payment for the Rapunzel. She took the child from her family and raised her in a tower." My eyes grew wide but Fate continued.

"As she got older, her hair grew longer. And you know rest right?" she asked. I nodded. That sounds like me. Being raised in a tower and having extremely long hair.

"I don't understand. How can my life be just like the Rapunzel story? It doesn't make sense!" she only sighed and put the book back in the corner. Could Mrs. Bellum be the witch? No, that can't be! She told me herself that she was being paid to teach and take care of me.

"You were kidnapped from your family when you were a newborn and named after the herb that was stolen from your kidnapper, just like the story Rapunzel. Your kidnapper is insane and very dangerous. He thinks this is all a game. He plays with the fate of others for entertainment, as if they were dolls." She looked extremely angry. "And that's my job, damn it!" She quickly stood up and started kicking the nearby wall repeatedly until there was a hole on the wall the size of her foot.

"I feel better now." She said with a sweet, innocent smile and sat back down. Note to self, never get her angry.

"Ok, I think I somewhat understand all this, but why are you telling me all this in the first place?" I asked, curious to hear what she's going to say. She got up and stood in front of me. Looking down on me she points her finger at me.

"Because, you're going to change game, my dear girl!" she said, her eyes gleaming with excitement.

"Huh?" I explained, pushing her hand away from my face. "I don't mean to be rude but, ARE YOU CRAZY!? You said so yourself that he was dangerous!" I yelled at her but she only looked at me with innocent eyes.

"And you point is?"

"My point is how I can go against someone like that. I don't have any powers like you." I paused. "Why don't you do it yourself since you so powerful?"

"Because if I do stop him, that won't solve the entire problem." She answered. I'm confused again. "You're not the only one who's the victim here. The guy who set you up here is doing the same things to three other girls. So I need you to save them. And then face the man who trapped you here." She handed me a short, red dagger. Where did she get this from?

"But you have to choice." She said. "Hand me the knife and you will stay here forever. There is no prince charming coming to save you, but if you choose to leave and save the others." She runs her fingers through my hair. "You know what to do." I nodded and looked down at the red dagger in my hands.

I walked over to a full length mirror that was hidden under a sheet. I pulled the sheet down and looked into the mirror. My face was expressionless, my hair trailing behind me and the dagger dangerously close to my neck. I gathered all my hair with one hand and with the other, in one quick motion; I used the dagger to slice it.

"I like the new hair style." I heard fate said with a chuckle. "It suits you." the mirror showed a short-haired girl with a mischievous and bold grin on her face.

"Thanks. Now excuse me I have three girls to save!" I said proudly as I turned towards the window. Fate grabbed my shoulder and yanked me back.

"Not like that." She said kindly and snapped her fingers. My white nightgown turned to a green shirt that fit me nicely and black shorts that were slightly baggy. The white sleeves that belonged to my nightgown was replaced with a black and green jacket. A pair of black finger-less gloves with green fish net design wrapped around them appeared on my hands. Looking down, I discovered that I was wearing heel-less green and black boots. I turned to look at Fate.

"This isn't going to wear off at mid-night is it?" I asked with a playful smirk on my face. Fate only chuckled.

"You're going to need something to protect yourself with." She said. "Turn your back towards me and close your eyes for a bit." I did what she told me to and I felt her place something around my neck and patted my shoulder as if to signal me to open my eyes.

My hands immediately went to unknown object around my neck. It was a necklace. The chain of the necklace held a black ring with a green, glass-like stone. I looked at Fate with confusion.

"How can I use a ring to protect myself?" I asked while holding the ring up to my face, the chain still around my neck. Fate suddenly turns her head towards the mirror and narrowed her eyes. I turn my gaze to the mirror too, I quickly noticed that the mirror was beginning to turn a dark hue of red.

"I'll explain later." She said and forcefully drags me towards the window. "You can't stay here anymore, so you going to need a place to stay. The first person you met you're going have to convince him to letting you stay with him. Remember, don't take 'no' for an answer."

"Fate, what are you talking about? Why are you so jumpy all of the sud-" Before I could finish my sentence, Fate pushes me out the window.