Hello to everyone who has been keeping up on my story. I really appreciate all the reviews and helpful comments. It can only make my story better. So thanks again and here's your present for being so kind. Chapter 14!

Royal Pains

It had been 3 hours and Val was pretty sure her mind would explode. The chair she was tied to was hard and uncomfortable, there was nothing to eat or drink, and the company she had lacked personality. Sir Figglesworth was the only one present after the pink flamingo girl left and she was getting bored of trying to humiliate him. Granted, it was cool watching him turn into Chameleon Man whenever he blushed but even that got dull after awhile. Val kicked her legs aimlessly, humming a tune as she snipped at the rope on her arms with the scissors. Val felt a snap and held up the broken pair of scissors. Of course. Safety scissors. Made to protect against cuts, jabs, and girls trying to escape kidnapping.

"Okay I'll bite. Why did you kidnap me? Honestly, am I THAT amazing?"

Sir Figglesworth looked at her in shock. "You mean you don't even know?"

Val rolled her eyes. "If I knew, do you think I'd be wasting my breath by asking?" Yeesh dumber than advertised.

Sir Figglesworth paced back and forth while weighing the options. If he told her, she would have more intelligence about the reason and therefore, a motive to escape. But Sir Figglesworth just loved to brag and he got lonely bragging to just his teddy bear every night.

"Alright. I have decided to tell you."

Val smiled wryly. "Oh gee mister you just made my day. Now my heart feels super happy!"

Ignoring that. "I have captured you so my daughter can marry King Yakko and I can become a close relation to powerful rulers. If you are not present, Yakko will have no choice but to marry darling Henrietta."

Val stopped than snorted. "You mean the pink girl who knocked me out? Why would Yakko marry her? And more importantly, what does me being kidnapped have to do with a wedding?"

Sir Figglesworth nodded. "That's right you haven't been told a thing now have you? It is law that the eldest heir must marry a girl he chooses by his sixteenth birthday."

"Yeah so?" Val glared at him. Sir Figglesworth rolled his eyes.

"You are so daft. That girl he chose, was YOU."

Val blinked in shock. "B-but that doesn't make sense. He never proposed or did anything like that. We were just friends…"

Sir Figglesworth grinned. "Ah but he was planning something more. It feels good to be used doesn't it?"

Val closed her eyes, a headache coming on. Obviously the fat guy was lying. Yakko wouldn't actually have been planning a wedding would he? We haven't even kissed. He didn't give me a ring or any of that mushy crap! This guy is just getting under my skin.

"Well C-man, I'd believe you but then I would have to kill you. Sorry but this is a load of bull. I want to know why I'm tied to this chair right now!"

C-man glared at Val, sensing her anger building. "You are foolish for not believing me."

"Give me proof and I'll believe you."

Just then, the door opened and in walked all the proof anyone would ever need. The room went deadly quiet and then Val burst out in uncontrollable laughter. Standing in the doorway was Giselle, her head half shaved. The hair she still had was dyed a putrid green and her face looked like a clown threw up on it. Giselle glared at her hatefully and Val laughed even harder.

"What the heck happened to you?" Sir Figglesworth spoke over the laughs. He was fighting to be in control himself, snickering under his breath. Giselle's face went deep red. "I paid a visit to that horrid Queen Dot to learn about the engagement and she decided I had some split ends."

Val was trying to calm herself but couldn't stop laughing. "Oh I love Dot!" Sir Figglesworth was laughing too and Giselle stormed out in a big huff.

"I wouldn't call them beauty rages anymore Giselle!" Val shouted after her. "But clown rages may suit you just fine!"

…

You disgust me. You disgust me. You disgust me. Yakko couldn't get her words from his head as he laid, limp in his bed. I shouldn't feel this bad. Why am I so miserable? She's just another girl. Yakko sighed. But she's not. Val was different and Yakko knew it. He had known since his "check up" with Wakko and Dot. He had known when he tucked her into bed only the night before. Could it have really been only a night ago? It felt like he had been alone for years. Yakko heard a his bedroom door open and he buried himself even deeper in the blankets. A figure sat on his bed and belched loudly.

"Hey Wak." Yakko mumbled, glad he wasn't Dot, who would have yanked him out of bed by now.

"Hey bro. What's goin on?"

"Not much. Had my heart broken, lost the girl of my dreams…all the usual."

"Ah."

Yakko snickered. "Still the man of many words I see. What's bothering you Wakko?"

Wakko sighed. "Giselle won't make me anymore cookies. She says I am a bottomless black hole. Sure that may be true, but it still hurts." Wakko pouted. Yakko stuck his head out of the blankets and half-smiled.

"Girls. Who needs um?"

Wakko nodded. "Yeah. Sure they're fun to look at but no amount of helloooo nurses are worth the headaches that follow."

Yakko laughed. "Yeah."

Wakko stuck his tongue out. "So what happened with Val?"

Yakko sighed. "I'm not sure. Everything was great last night, today I even planned to kiss her and tell her about the law. But she didn't show so I went to go see her and she left a note saying she was disgusted by me and that she used me to be rich but now she was leaving. I just don't think it makes any sense. Val had to be bagged and dragged back here with me. Why would she make it so hard on me if she just wanted to come anyways?"

Wakko shrugged. "I don't know. Do you have anything to eat under there?"

Yakko sighed. "All I've got is baloney in my slacks and no you may not eat it."

Wakko pouted then settled into the blankets alongside his big brother. "Dot's not going to take it well."

"Take what well?"

"Well if you're not getting married, than we have to leave. Dot's gonna be pretty mad at you."

Yakko frowned. "We aren't leaving. Sure I won't find another girl I love but in the end, my sibs will ALWAYS come first. And no amount of ditching red heads will ever keep me from doing my job as big brother. We aren't losing this place."

"So…what are you going to do?"

Yakko shrugged.

All of a sudden, Henrietta burst out of his closet in an attempt at looking glamorous. Yakko yelped. "What the heck?"

"Why HELLO my darling future husband! Of course I will marry you!"

"I…uh…"

"Speechless I see. I usually have that affect on people."

Wakko gave her a creeped out look. "How long have you been in there?"

"That's not important. Come along Yakko, we have wedding plans to finish."

Yakko realized right then the price he would have to pay to keep his siblings happy. I'm being a good big brother by doing this. I have to put then before any problems I face…even THAT face. Henrietta was grinning like some horror movie villain about to kill his victim.

"Alright lady. I'll bite. Let's get this show on the road." Yakko sighed. Henrietta squealed and yanked him into her arms, making Yakko choke half to death and whisked him out of the room. Wakko sat, not believing what he had seen. He ran off to find Dot. If Yakko can be a good big brother, I can be a good middle brother!

…

Wakko found Dot and told her everything. Dot frowned. "Val wouldn't just leave like that."

"But she did."

Dot shook her head. "No Wakko. Unless you're doing a toon sprint like the last time Yakko brought her out of the castle, it would take at least 7 hours to get out of the castle boundaries. The guards would have spotted her leaving."

"What guards?" Wakko frowned.

Dot shrugged. "I didn't want Yakko to mess up on this and have her leave. So I hired some guys to make sure she stayed." Wakko balked at her and Dot crossed her arms. "So I wanted a sister. Big whoop!"

Wakko realized slowly what this meant. "So…Val's still here."

"Unless the highly trained ninja guards all went on coffee break at the same time than yep."

"Well than- wow wait! You got ninja guards? Where'd you get those?"

Dot rolled her eyes. "I can't believe you. Now come on. We have to go tell Yakko that something's up."

…

Yakko stood in the mirror looking at himself in distaste. I look too good to be miserable.

Wakko and Dot ran in and looked at him. "Nice tux."

"Yakko! Val's still in the castle!"

Yakko whirled around at lightning speed to face Dot. "She is? Where?"

Wakko took a deep breath and opened his mouth to speak. "Dot hired some guards that are ninjas and had them watch and no one left which means Val's still here in the castle and I can't believe I have the ability to talk this fast and you can't marry Henrietta!"

Yakko and Dot exchanged a look of shock than turned to Wakko. "Wakko I don't think I have ever heard you say so many words in your life." Yakko got a little teary eyed. "My brother!"

Wakko shook his head. 'Val's still here!"

"What? Well than we have to find her! I had agreed to marry what's-her-face today but if I can find Val we can wait until my birthday!"

"Oh no you can't!" Henrietta spoke in a sing song voice as she stepped out of yet another closet. All three Warners jumped. "Seriously! Do you have some sort of thing with closets?" Yakko gasped. Henrietta held up a piece of paper. "You can't marry on your birthday because of THIS!"

Dot raised an eyebrow. "A piece of paper?"

"A piece of paper Yakko signed agreeing to marry early. And if he doesn't follow through on contract and marry TODAY, you three will lose your thrones."

"YAKKO!" Wakko and Dot glared at him. Yakko gaped. "She told me I was just putting my name in a raffle to meet Michelle Pfeiffer! I didn't know!"

Henrietta laughed. "See you at the alter in one hour sweetums. And you had BETTER make sure you don't keep me waiting!" Henrietta left. Yakko, Wakko, and Dot slumped, defeated.

"What are we gonna do now?" Dot whined. Yakko grinned slowly. "Sibs. We're gonna do what Warners do best. Create chaos!"

"Sounds like you have an idea!"

"Faboo!"

"That's right sibs. And here's the plan…"

Don't be too angry but I hope you're all as excited as I am to see how the Warners get out of this problem. Read and review or I shall send the mallet of justice down upon your heads! Ah just kidding. But seriously, review.