(Varian's powers are surging, he fears destruction was his destiny all along)
"What am I doing??" Varian asked himself shakily as he fell to his knees while running from the scene in the Dark Kingdom, he was just trying to protect Rapunzel by taking the Moonstone, but it changed him somehow, and he didn't want to look more guilty for everything he's done, so he had no choice but to run. "I never wanted this to happen to me.." He whispered, "I can't be the villain again, I just can't!!" In that moment, a red rock shot up from the ground, then another, followed by another. "No.." He murmured, shivering. He just curled in on himself, burying his head under his arms as he became trapped in a surging, electric ball of crimson magic swirling around him.. he was afraid, very afraid. And his memories of his evil past haunted him as they flashed continuously before his eyes. Rapunzel, Eugene and Cassandra see these red rocks pop up everywhere. "What the frick is that traitor doing?!" Cass thought. "Is he trying to kill us again??" Eugene muttered to himself. But Rapunzel knew better, he wasn't trying to hurt them, he never meant to absorb the Moonstone's power, albeit having no idea how he could in the first place, and she knew that he was just scared and alone and doesn't know what he was doing. Suddenly, Eugene began shouting, claiming that Gothel was attempting to kill him once again, however, neither Rapunzel nor Cass could see Gothel at all, it was like, he was hallucinating. Shortly after, Cass was saying that she saw Andrew attacking Corona once again, but Rapunzel couldn't see that either, she was... immune to the red rocks in a way. But then both Cass and Eugene froze up red in terror because of the rocks, and Rapunzel believed she could see Varian through one of them, seeing his surrounded by red lightning as if it were a storm, the terrified look in his glowing eyes as he wrapped his arms around himself. "Varian??" She asked softly into the red rock, he heard it. "Princess??" He asked, his voice breaking. "Varian, please try to breathe, you'll be okay.." She comforted. "No.. You guys see me as a monster, but I never meant to prove you right! I thought I was saving you, now you hate me more than you ever did!" He shouted tearfully, Rapunzel's heart breaking for him as she watched him hyperventilate. "I'm dangerous Your Highness, I've been bound to it since the beginning.." He admitted. "No, you haven't Varian, you made mistakes in the past, but I see through that, I trust you, Varian." Rapunzel told him. He stopped crying and looked up in surprise as the surging tempest around him slowed, the red rocks retreating. Eugene and Cass thawed out of their statue like states and they protested that Varian tried to encase them. "Guys! He is just as shocked as we are that he's linked to the Moonstone, he was confused and afraid, he just wants to be heard, so no matter if he hurts us with this new magic of his, we must support him." Rapunzel declared.