All right. Here's chapter 17. In this, they'll switch back to their own bodies for sure, but first they need to find the other two halves of the Kings' Medallion. They know where piece number 3 is, but they still don't know where piece number four is. Any idea on where it might be? You'll see when they figure it out. On with the story.
In the kingdom of Corona, outside of the town and in a big meadow, Rapunzel and her ex-criminal boyfriend Eugene Fitzherbert were standing in the center, looking to the horizon as the sun went down.
"It's so beautiful," Rapunzel said in awe, while leaning on her boyfriend's shoulder.
"Yeah. I suppose it is. Unfortunately, back then, when I was a wanted man, I couldn't get out to enjoy it, because...well, you know. I was on the lam."
Then a whooshing sound was heard behind them, and they turned to see her cousins Elsa and Anna, along with everyone else.
"What did I do wrong that time?" King Adgar said rising to his feet.
"I'm not sure," Daniel replied. "Something must've happened. Maybe you slightly misread the spell or something."
"Elsa? Anna?" Rapunzel said surprisingly to her cousins.
"Hi, Rapunzel," Elsa greeted.
"What are you all doing here?" Eugene asked while stepping next to Rapunzel.
"We're here to gather something from the cemetery," Anna answered.
"The cemetery?" Rapunzel said confused. Then she looked to the king in Daniel's body. "Oh, and who's this?"
"Um, well..." Anna tried to explain, but didn't know how to tell Rapunzel it was their father in another man's body.
"Well, Rapunzel, Eugene, this is Daniel," Elsa stepped forward. "Except he's not exactly him."
"What do you mean he's not exactly him?" Eugene asked confused.
"I'm actually their father, but I'm in his body, and he's in mine," King Adgar explained.
Rapunzel and Eugene looked at them, now extremely confused. They took a glance at each other, then back to the others.
"What?" was all Rapunzel could say.
"And Anna and I are each other," Elsa continued. "I'm Elsa."
"Kristoff and Olaf, are also each other. We've all been switched into each other's bodies," Anna continued to explain.
"Hold on. Hold on. Could you start from the beginning?" Rapunzel interrupted.
"I think it'd be best if we explained the whole thing to them," Daniel suggested.
And then they began to explain what happened, like how they had with the king of the Southern Isles.
"So you're saying you've all been switched into each other's bodies, and you have no idea how it happened?" Eugene clarified.
"Exactly. But we may have found a way to switch back. Though we need to collect the four pieces of this," Daniel said pulling out the half completed medallion.
"What is that?" Eugene asked once more looking closely at the medallion.
"The Medallion of the Kings'. This is what they used to do their rituals. This is what makes the magic work," Daniel explained. "But as you can see it's only half complete. We need the other two pieces. And we believe one of the other pieces may be in the graveyard here."
"Hold on a second," Eugene stepped up in front of Daniel. He reached into his pocket, then pulled out a gold object. "Is this what you're after?" He said holding it up.
Daniel looked closely and saw it was marked with the same runes as the other two pieces. "Where did you get that?"
"Back in my days as a thief, I fought off this guy who claimed to be a grave robber. He was trying to get his hands on some of my stolen goods, but I fended him off, and he dropped this. He was out cold, and I never knew what this was worth, and I liked it, so I just kept it."
"The guy you faced must've robbed the grave and stole it from the corpse of Reginald Knight. Would you mind if I borrowed it, until we can use its power to help with our situation."
"Borrow it? Here," Eugene said throwing it to Daniel. "You can have it. I've never had any use for it."
"Thank you." Daniel then put the next piece on the bottom left of the amulet, connected the pieces together, and like before, the medallion glowed gold. When the glow faded away, the third piece had been connected to the other half, leaving only one missing piece, on the top left center.
"Just one more piece to go," said King Adgar.
"So where is this last piece of that medallion?" Rapunzel asked curiously.
"That's just it. We don't know where its at. When we read the story, it only told where two of the pieces of the medallion were. I had the first piece, and we just came from the Southern Isles to gather the second piece." Daniel explained.
"But we couldn't find any information whatsoever on where the final piece is," Elsa chimed in.
"Is there anything Eugene and I can do to help?"
"I wish. But unfortunately there's no known location as to where to find it. There's no one alive who knew where the piece of the medallion could be found. So we're gonna have to figure this out on our own," Daniel said. "But thank you for your help, and providing us with the third half."
"You're welcome. Good luck. I know you'll find it."
"Thank you, Rapunzel," Anna thanked her cousin.
They all joined together once more, King Adgar chanted the spell, and they teleported in a flash of gold light.
Back in Arendelle, when the sun was almost all the way down, the skies were getting darker and stars started to fill the skies, everyone but Queen Idub was in the library, trying to find a clue, as to where the last piece of the medallion might be.
"Just keep looking," Daniel called out to the others. "We need that last piece, but we need a clue as to where it's at."
"Give it up," Queen Idun interrupted. "You yourself said that the last assassin went missing, the night they killed the kings. You'll never find it."
"Don't say that, Mother," Elsa spoke up. "We can find it if we just look hard enough."
"And where do you expect to look. There are no books that tell where this last part of that trinket may be. The sooner you accept the truth, the better this will be for you all. Now I'm telling you all for the last time, it's hopeless. Just give it up. You're never gonna find out where it is."
"No. There's gotta be something we're missing," Daniel said ignoring what the queen said. "We're most likely going about this the wrong way. We're obviously looking in the wrong place."
"Wait a minute!" King Adgar interrupted and came up next to Daniel. "Say that again."
"What? We're looking in the wrong place?" Daniel repeated.
"Of course. What was I thinking? You're absolutely right about what you just said; We are looking in the wrong place. We've been going about this all wrong."
"What are you saying father?" Anna asked.
"Are you onto something, or what?" Kristoff chimed in.
"Maybe. Daniel, where was this place located? Where did the four kings live before they died?" He said looking back to the man in his body.
Daniel walked over to the table in the center of the room, and unfolded a big piece of paper that lay there, which was opened to reveal a map. "Here." He said pointing to an area with no other islands nearby surrounding it. "Ever since the whole place was destroyed, people have called it the Grave of the Kings."
"Get the medallion. We're going there now."
"But we still don't know where the last piece is," Anna spoke aloud.
"I think I might have just figured it out," King Adgar said going over near the fireplace, and grabbing his and Daniel's swords.
He walked back over and gave Daniel his sword, while hooking his own on his belt.
"So you think you've figured it out, huh?" Daniel said to the king, while pulling out the medallion. "Want to explain?"
"I will when we get there. Everyone, join hands."
They all gathered in a circle once more, joined together, then King Adgar spoke the chant for the spell; After doing so, the gold light shined on them, and they vanished out of the library.
In another place, that was completely in ruins, a gold light shined, and the group had appeared on the island.
They looked to see the once peaceful, but now destroyed island. Everywhere they looked, there were old buildings, that were burnt to ash and rubble, and shattered to pieces. Dead skeletons of people lay everywhere on the streets, and towering above the town, was the castle, which was no different from all the buildings. Like everything else, it was smashed to pieces and burnt up.
"Okay, so you took us here. And you said you figured it out. Mind explaining?" Daniel asked the king.
"Do you remember when you were telling us the story of the assassins killing the Kings? I think I've pieced it together. You said that after they burned down everything, only three of the assassins had left, but nobody knew what happened to the fourth. You said no one saw him leave, and after thinking hard about this, I've finally got it. What if he didn't leave?"
"Father, are you saying-?" Elsa began to ask.
"Yes. What if the last assassin didn't make it? Couldn't it be possible he died in the fire?"
"Now why didn't I think of that?" Daniel said in disbelief.
"If what you say is true, his body could be anywhere," Queen Idun chimed in. "There's at least a few thousand bodies here. How will we know which one is him?"
"He'll have the medallion piece around his neck," Daniel answered. "And as the story read, the last place he'd been seen was in the castle, before it was burned down. So our best bet is to search there."
"Then let's go," King Adgar led on, drawing his sword in the process.
Daniel drew his sword as well, and followed next to the king. They kept their weapons at hand, to be prepared for anything that were to come. Thankfully there was nobody and nothing to be seen, except for all the skeletons of the dead people, that lay everywhere they looked.
"I can't believe people could be so cruel, as to kill all these innocent citizens," Elsa said moving across the old gray, stone roads, as she and all the others tried not to step on the bones of the skeletons.
"Is there a reason you both have your swords out?" Queen Idun asked her husband and Daniel.
"You never know what could be hiding in those shadows," Daniel responded, while pointing his sword to all the areas, that were dark because there was no light whatsoever, except from the full moon.
"He's right," King Adgar stated. "There's no telling what dangers await here."
"Exactly. So stay close. He and I are the most experienced fighters, so we'll handle this."
They group of seven continued to make their way to the castle ruins, while walking through the destroyed town.
After about 15 minutes of moving through the ruins, they'd gotten there and stopped at the the stone gates, with wooden doors, which, like everything else were smashed to hundreds of pieces.
"The last place that Eric Manstrom was seen, was here the night they set the place on fire," Daniel said.
"So his body must be somewhere here in the castle," King Adgar replied.
"Should be. But we won't know by just standing here, so let's go."
"Swords out, Daniel." King Adgar said unsheathing his sword.
Daniel followed suit, and he and King Adgar lead the others past the gates, and through the courtyard, which was 5 times bigger than Arendelle's courtyard.
There were 4 old fountains, which were old and smashed to stone and rubble, and on one side of the castle, through a gate with a 10 foot tall fence all around, was the Kings' ritual sanctuary.
The castle itself was smashed up and was barely still standing, looking like any minute, the whole thing could collapse and fall to the ground.
The group moved through the courtyard, and into the busted down and burnt up doors of the castle.
Inside the castle, the walls were smashed in many areas, suits of armor were rusted and burned and collapsed on the ground, pictures were burnt and torn to pieces and like in the town, skeletons of dead citizens lay in few areas.
"This place is really giving me the creeps," Anna shivered.
"Me too," Elsa agreed completely with her sister. "The less time we spend here, the better."
"I may be in your body, but I still have this feeling," Daniel said turning to King Adgar.
"What feeling?" asked King Adgar.
"Like someone's watching us."
Everyone turned around, and looked to the shadows. King Adgar shot a ball of fire from his left hand, which hit and burst on the ground; In the process, the fireball blazed the room with light, revealing at least 15 goblins hiding in the shadows.
Once the goblins had been seen, they charged at them, and Daniel and King Adgar ran up to fight them.
"Daniel, how do I change into the armor?" King Adgar asked beginning to swordfight with one.
Daniel first struck one down then said, "Concentrate on it with all your might. Feel it. Give into the powers of fire, trust in them, and they'll take form of what you need. In other words, just think it."
"Okay, I'll try." King Adgar stabbed the goblin, then quickly put his mind into the powers.
As he was concentrating, Daniel run up to him, to defend him while he concentrated.
King Adgar slowly got ahold of it, and then he did as Daniel said; He put great thought into it, and the next thing he knew, fire conjured underneath his feet, and shrouded his whole body. In that process, he changed into Daniel's black and gray, heavily fortified armor. "All right. I did it." He raised his sword then ran over to the goblins.
Both Daniel and King Adgar, though they were in each other's bodies, they still easily took on the goblins. They slashed and stabbed them all, striking each of them down, one by one, until each one was slain.
"What are they doing here?" Elsa asked both her father and Daniel.
"My best guess, to make sure we don't get the medallion and switch back," Daniel answered her. "We need to find that last piece of medallion and switch back bodies, before things get any worse."
"You're right," King Adgar agreed. "Let's hurry and move on."
They continued to move through the castle, trying to find a skeleton that had the last piece of the medallion around its neck. They had checked every single one they'd seen, but not one had the medallion piece.
Everyone started to become restless with looking everywhere on the first floor, and the stairs to go up to the next floor were broken and unstable looking, so they dared not go up there.
They stopped in front of the stairs, to stop and catch their breaths.
"I swear we've checked every dead body down here, but no sign of that last piece of the medallion," Queen Idun said exhaustedly.
"We've checked everywhere on the first floor," Daniel corrected. "But not the next floor."
"Are you crazy?" Queen Idun asked, not taking him seriously. "Do you not see the stairs? They look like they can come apart any second."
"But it's the only choice we have. Unless we want to remain in each other's bodies forever, I have to try."
"Be careful," King Adgar said to him. "If we do succeed, I don't want you to get hurt, especially while you're still in my body."
"Trust me. Even without my own body, I should be able to do this."
Daniel walked over to the broken up stairs, and slowly climbed the steps. He moved very slowly and held onto the railing, as not to fall and get hurt. His footsteps made creaking noises with each step he took.
When he was about halfway their, he took another step, and one of the wooden steps broke underneath his foot, and he tripped, but didn't get seriously injured.
"Are you all right?" Elsa called up to him.
"I'm fine," Daniel replied getting back up and continued trekking up the stairs.
It took him a couple of minutes. but finally he made it to the top. Once at the top, moonlight shined through a big hole in the ceiling, so he was able to see the hall way was blocked by smashed pieces of stone and burnt wood. But buried underneath some of that debris in the front, he noticed a skeleton hand. "Hmm, I wonder?" He walked over to the debris.
He shifted through some of the stone and wood, moving it aside until he finally got the bones of the skeleton out.
The skeleton lay front first, wearing a burnt up suit, and its bone were also scorched. Daniel flipped the corpse over, and around its neck, lay the final piece of the medallion.
"Eureka!" He yelled back to the others. "I found it! You were right, Your Majesty. It looks as though the last assassin didn't make it out alive."
"That's wonderful. All right, Daniel. Grab the last piece, and let's switch back," King Adgar called back to him.
"Hello, Eric. I'll be taking that," Daniel said while taking the medallion piece from around his neck. He pulled the rest of the medallion out of his pocket, then reattached the last piece. It glowed gold like before, and then it was complete. The medallion was fully finished.
Daniel went back over to the stairs, but before he could walk back down them, both sets began to slowly fall apart, and collapsed to the ground, leaving Daniel stuck up there.
"Well, now what?" Daniel said annoyed.
"Anna, help him," Elsa said to her sister. "Make a pile of snow for him to jump on."
"Okay," Anna replied. She did what she'd seen Elsa do many times before, and waved her hands in front of her, then a flurry of snow shot from her hand. It went where the stairs had fell apart, and created a big pile of snow. "Wow, I actually did it. On my first try too. Now just slide down the hill."
Daniel did so and jumped on the snow pile, then slid right down it. "Now, let's go switch back into our own bodies."
Back outside the castle, the group had gone out and made their way to the Kings' ritual sanctuary. They made their way through the open gate, and into the area where they would do the spell.
It was in the center of the fenced area, where 5 15 foot tall stone pillars stood tall, untouched by the destruction of the fire, and untouched by time.
Each pillar, near the top had a big gem, the size of an apple. They were in the colors of red, green, white, purple and blue. And in front of one of the pillars, lay a pedestal, where it had a rounded hole, for the medallion to be placed.
"This is it," Daniel said taking the medallion out of his pocket. "This madness with us switching bodies is at an end."
No sooner, after he said that, was when he placed the medallion in its place.
The second after he did, a golden circle began to appear around them all, revealing the same runes that were encrypted on the medallion.
"The spell circle," Daniel said as the light faded, and the spell circle was left on the ground. "Now to get this to work, we all have to stand in the middle of the circle, and we need two people to read the runes."
"Two?" Queen Idun asked confused.
"Yes. When the Kings' would do it, they would all read the runes, but it really only required two."
"Anna," King Adgar said to his youngest daughter, in his eldest one's body. "Elsa also has the ability to read these magic runes. While I'm in Daniel's body, I can too. So for this to work, you and I both need to read them."
"But I haven't even done this before. I'm not even sure how it works. I don't know if I can," Anna said worriedly.
"It's really simple," Daniel stepped forward. "All you need is to concentrate really hard on reading them, and you'll be able to understand them, as if they were written in English."
"He's right. I've only been stuck in his body for a few days, and I think I've gotten the hang of reading this."
"You can do it, Anna," Elsa encouraged her. "We all believe in you. You can do it."
Anna looked to all the others who gave her encouraging looks, telling her she could do it. "Okay. I'll try."
"That's my girl," King Adgar said proudly.
"I don't mean to interrupt your moment, but we've got company," Queen Idun interfered and pointed forward.
Everyone looked straight ahead to see hundreds of goblins coming from the town, heading right for them.
"Come on. Let's do this," King Adgar spoke up.
The six all stood in the center of the spell circle, while Queen Idun stood behind.
"Now, remember. Keep reading the spell until it works its magic, and switches us back. I'll hold them off as long as I can," Daniel reminded them.
King Adgar and Anna both looked down to the runes on the spell circle, examined them carefully, then they began to chant the spell.
Few goblins had made it into the castle and ran right at the group in the spell circle.
King Adgar and his daughter still chanting, had made the spell circle start to glow electric blue; At the same time, the gems on the pillars all began to glow as well, and shined their light down on the group.
A few goblins reached where they were and Daniel started to fight them off. Slashing and stabbing each one, as the king and his daughter continued chanting.
The more they chanted, the more relentless the goblins became, and it was getting harder for Daniel to fend them off.
Queen Idun then came in front of him and grabbed one of the goblins' swords, then helped Daniel fight.
A huge pack of goblins started to come at them, and King Adgar and Anna kept on chanting, repeating the spell over and over, and then finally, the six all had the glowing auras around their bodies once more.
Those glowing auras left their bodies in stream forms, going into one another, until they were all switched; Daniel's aura was blue, King Adgar's was green, purple on Elsa, pink on Anna, Kristoff yellow and Olaf white.
They stopped chanting all at once, and then the light from the spell circle, the gems and the auras faded away.
Everyone all examined themselves and looked at each other happily and laughed.
"It worked!" Daniel exclaimed. "We're back in our own bodies!"
Elsa and Anna both hugged each other happily, while Kristoff picked up Olaf and rubbed his head.
"I'm glad you're all back in your own bodies again..." Queen Idun interrupted once more. "...but it didn't exactly help with our goblin problem."
King Adgar and Daniel both swapped swords, then stood to face the goblin army.
As the pack came closer, sea green mists started appear out of thin air and surround the whole area. From that mist, it took the form of the undead army, who charged at the goblins, and engaged in battle.
"Looks like we've got backup," Daniel said as he and King Adgar both ran up to the goblins, and helped the undead army take them on.
While fighting, Daniel had caught up with the general of the undead army. "This is a surprise. What brings you guys here?"
"We had this strange feeling, laddie. That you were in trouble. So we went where we felt yer presence, until we found ye."
"Well, it's a good thing you showed up when you did. I don't understand how the goblins found us."
"Mastermind, laddie. There's always a mastermind, who knows where everything is."
They all continued fighting, slashing and stabbing the goblins, picking each of them off.
When the goblin army knew they were outmatched, the remaining few dozen retreated.
"Well, that certainly is a first. They've never retreated before," Daniel said confused.
"A losing army knows when ta retreat, lad," the general responded.
"Thanks a lot for your help. I don't know what would've happened if you and your men hadn't come."
"As I told ye when we met, lad, you freed us, we're at yer service. Now, we'd best be headed back to Arendelle. Lads, fall out!" He called to all his men.
Like how they did before, the whole arm began to glow sea green, then vanished into mists.
"Well, our mission has been accomplished," King Adgar said stepping next to Daniel. "We should head home too."
"Now that I'm back in my own body, I can easily take us there. Gather around."
Everyone gathered and joined hands and this time, Daniel, back in his own body chanted his spell, and teleported them out of there.
Alright. Stopping there. What do you know? The spell really did work. Now that they're all back in their own bodies, this part of their situation is over. But the whole madness is far from finished. I have a pretty good idea on what to add next, but I won't tell. I hope you all enjoy this one; I know I did. Please read, review and enjoy.