well heres chapter 3 reminder that translations for icelandic are italics
We came across the paintings of the past Kings and Queens. Jazz stopped to analyze them like she always does, I just kept walking and ended up down another hall. A painting caught my eye and I backed up to see it just as a guard came around the corner and Ásta coming from another. I was staring at this painting for a while that I never noticed them. I was staring at the painting of the current King and Queen, the King looked like me, ok a lot like me, which confused me a lot. I then looked at the newborn in the Queen's arms, ok this was getting weird, the baby also looks like me. The guard taped my shoulder and I jumped and turned to him just as Ásta grabbed hold of my arm. I saw his eyes go wide, his eyes sifted to the painting behind me then back to me about five times. Ásta also turned to look at the painting and I heard her gasp as she looked at me and back to the paining. the guard cleared his through and Jazz appeared from around the corner.
"Danny, what did you do this time?" I gasped in mock shock as I turned to her.
"Why Jazz, why would I ever do something wrong?" she raised a brow and gave me her usual look.
"Oh come on, you have no sense of sarcasm" I said and she rolled her eyes turning to the guard.
"Fyrirgefðu hvaða vandræði litli bróðir minn hefur valdið" I'm sorry for any trouble my little brother has caused I glared at her.
" I didn't do anything though Jazz" I wined and she just grabbed my hand and dragged Ásta and I back to the ball room.
"Come on lets go find mom and dad and tear them away from some poor person as they talk about ghosts" at that I agreed and Ásta giggled not understanding a thing we were saying in English, god was she getting annoying.
We didn't see the guard run up the stairs to the throne room. Jazz was now flirting with someone and I was stuck with Ásta. I watched Jazz from the corner of my eye making sure another Johnny 13 kind of guy wasn't hitting on my sister. At that I frowned and got a sad look on my face and had a distant look in my eyes. I miss Amity Park and all the hours I put into Ghost Hunting. Ásta saw that there was something wrong and tried to talk to me about it. the King and Queen enter and walk my direction, Ásta sees them and sakes my arm and I snap out of my daze and see why she's trying to get my attention. Ásta curtsied in her dress. I swear im looking at me in 20 years when I see the king. I bow to them and straightened whispering to Jazz who just finished her curtsies as she came over to us.
"Never doing that again, that was embarrassing" she nodded in agreement. The Queen walked up to me trying to hide the shock on her face with a gentle emotion, I don't know why, but I feel safe by that.
She reaches out and moves my bangs a bit, I let her not wanting to be rude by pulling away. As the Queen is doing this I see mom over her shoulder. Mom goes paler than my Ghost half and she clings onto dad who looks equally as pale. I saw the Box Ghost floating around dancing to the music having a good time. I look back at mom and her legs give out and she collapses, Jazz and I gasp and Ásta grabs my hand shocked.
"Afsakið okkur Tignarstöðu þína" Excuse us your highness Jazz said as she pulled Ásta and I to mom by then Ásta let go of my hand and we were all running to her.
"Mom are you ok?" Jazz asked as dad is kneeling by mom trying to help her up.
"What happened to mom, dad?" I ask, he looks at me slight relief on his face when I said mom and dad to them, why? I felt Ásta kneel next to me
"Er mamma allt í lagi þín?" Is your mom ok? Ásta asks and I look at dad.
"She's alright champ, she got over heated. Not used to wearing a dress you know" he said and I laughed a bit.
"Just like you and suits dad" he smiled.
"I still feel like a penguin" he said and mom grabbed my hand and I looked down at her seeing her staring with a glare and panic in her eyes.
I look up to see who she's looking at. The Queen and King are standing directly behind Jazz and having a glaring contest with my parents. Jazz and I backed away not wanting to be in the cross fire. I pulled Ásta with us as things were starting to get bad, I really didn't want to have to run away and use myself as Phantom as a distraction for my parents to get out of this mess. I heard several whispers and many people were staring at me, is there something on my face or something? I mean come on. Ásta and Jazz heard them too and stayed close to me.
"You, so you are the ones" the King said in broken English pointing a finger at them.
"You are the ones responsible for the crime that happened 17 years ago" Jazz and I both looked over at them in shock.
"You committed a crime?" Jazz said in a whisper. I grabbed her hand and Ásta took hold of my other one. They both laced their fingers with mine and squeezed tight, I didn't feel it on either hand.
"The crime is of the kidnapping of prince Daniel, my son" he then turned to look at me, a lump formed in my through and I stared wide eyed at them and so did Jazz. Ásta was confused as to why the King was looking at me for I never told her my full name was Daniel.
"You cant prove he's yours" mom yelled, at this the King turned to her.
"There was key on a necklace that he was wearing since birth that was taken with him" at this I gasped in shock.
"The key had white crystals imbedded into it, it is in the form of an old key from the medieval time." I was now clinging to Jazz.
I tightened my grip on her hand and Ásta let her hold go on my other one. My now free hand moved on its own placing itself over where the key lay on the necklace I wore. I remembered Dash asked about it once when we were swimming in the lake at his cottage during the summer we first started dating. I had told him I've had it forever and never bothered taking it off for I couldn't't figure out how to get it off.
"I have the feeling you never gave the key away for it's to valuable and would be traced back to you if we ever found it on an auction site. Plus we made it so that it could not come off of him, ever, despite the long chain" the Queen finally spoke up.
That's when my mind shattered and memories came flooding in. I gasped and let go of Jazz clutching my head taking a few steps back running into a chair. Jazz and Ásta tried to catch me but I ended up falling over into it anyways. I lay there and waited for the sudden memories to stop. Once they did I sat there taking deep breaths, deeper than when I had to use my Ghostly Wail. The room fell silent and the only thing I could hear was the heals of Jazz and Ásta walking around the couch to get to me. I looked up and saw Boxy floating there with worry on his face as he floated down next to Jazz and Ásta but stayed invisible to human eyes.
"I cant believe you would do such a thing" I heard Jazz say to our, no, her parents as she held me close to her.
"I'm disgusted at you. I bet I was kidnapped to then huh?" she said with such venom Boxy and I actually looked at her with wide eyes and our mouths hanging open. I then look over to who I thought were my parents, they were cuffed and had angered looks on their faces directed to the King and Queen.
"Taka þá í burtu, munum við bregðast við þeim síðar" Take them away, well deal with them later the King said to his guards. I looked back at Jazz who was crying now. I embraced her and let her cry into my shoulder. Ásta stayed where she was and stood there in silence I could see the confusion as to what just happened flowing in her eyes. What will Jazz do now? Her parents are in jail, she's lost a brother…no she wont lose me, I wont let it happen.
"No matter what Jazz, your still my sister" I said to her. She looked up and smiled whipping away the tears smudging her makeup.
"You'll always be my little brother Danny" I smiled back at her and wiped away more of her tears.
"Svo héldu þeir nafnið þitt ég sé" So they kept your name I see I heard the King say back in Icelandic. Jazz and I looked up at him.
"Við sem heitir þú Daníel ef þú hefur ekki heyrt mig þegar ég sagði að áður en" We named you Daniel in case you didn't hear me when I said that before at that I chuckled a bit.
"Ég gerði aldrei eins og að vera kölluð Daniel sem er hvers vegna ég breytt því að Danny" I never did like being called Daniel that's why I changed it to Danny I said and they smiled. I looked up at them again but confused and scared.
"Er ég virkilega sonur þinn?" Am I really your son? I asked and they nodded.
"Þú lítur nákvæmlega eins og pabbi þinn" You look exactly like your father the Queen said. I then reached down my shirt pulling at the chain that hung around my neck revealing the key they mention was stolen with me. They blinked surprised.
"Alltaf síðan ég var lítil ég hef borið það, ég hef aldrei tekið það burt og ég vildi veit ekki hvernig á að" Ever since I was little I've worn it, I've never taken it off and I frankly don't know how to I said and laughed a bit.
And well you get it, I'm the lost prince, Jazz is living with us as per her request, and I don't have to deal with Ásta hanging off my arm when I go to school for she told me she shouldn't hang with a prince because her parents didn't want her to. It was fine with me but now I had a tough decision to make, do I tell Sam and Tucker this or not. I ended up not telling them, it was to soon and im still getting used to the royal life. My parents let me finish off my schooling at the school I was attending. On the walk home one day I was crossing the street when I saw Sam and Tucker talking to Jazz, a huge smile found its way to my face and I knew there were guards keeping an eye on me but I didn't care. I ran the rest of the way across the street and they saw me and I hugged them both at the same time. I saw one of the guards that was hiding around the corner tense up. I was literally freaking and smiling as I hugged them and talked with them. They told me the class came to Iceland as a senior trip not knowing I had moved here. I told Jazz to tell mom and dad I was going to hang with my friends and show them around, she smiled and nodded heading back to the palace. I know that a guard stayed close to me as I showed Sam and Tucker around. We eventually came to the statue Tucker had designed and suggested they put in the capital of each nation. We stood there looking at it and talking about that day. And since there was snow on the ground we all ended up going to the park and had a snow ball fight. We threw snow at each other and laughed, Tucker and I getting hit in the face several times by Sam, we both got a few good sots at Sam too for pay back. It started to get dark and since we were closer to the palace than the hotel I told them they could stay at my place, I figured it was time to tell them. Once we got to the palace gate and I stopped to open it Sam and Tucker gave me weird looks as I pushed the rest of the gate open and walked in. I waved Sam and Tucker to follow, they were clearly confused. Sam told me this wasn't a good idea to sneak into the palace as we got up to the door. I just smiled at them and opened the door and found Jazz walking by no doubt heading to the library. Sam and Tucker were extremely confused now but followed me as I walked in and handed my coat the man by the door.
"Velkominn heim ungi herra" Welcome home Young Master he said and I thanked him and he took Sam and Tuckers jackets too and went to hang them in the closet.
I took their hands and lead them up to my room. Once there I flopped down onto the bed and sigh as they now were asking me questions after I told them.
"Yes guys, I'm really the lost prince" I tell them and I sit up to see there reaction, there completely speechless, and I see the gears of ideas turning in Tuckers head.
"No Tucker, whatever your thinking, no" I said to him.
"Aw man" he pouted and crossed his arms and Sam and I laughed.
" I might as well tell my parents your hear and to prepare meals for 2 extra people, and yes Sam ill tell them you're an Ultra Recyclo Vegetarian. And ill tell them You favor meat Tuck" he wooed and we all laughed as the door opened and my parents were there, we didn't hear them we were laughing to hard.
"Yep I can still remember when Sam changed the menu and the Lunch Lady went after her" Tucker said and Sam glared at us while we laughed.
"Not funny guys" she said crossing her arms still glaring.
"Sorry Sam" I said as I laughed and fell of the bed landing in a very painful position on my neck and shoulders.
"You ok dude?" Tucker had asked me and I nodded and I saw my parents watching from the door.
I paled a bit and tried my best to get into the right position. I heard my mother giggle and I saw Sam and Tucker look over as I finally got into and upright position. I introduced them to each other. Tucker told them they were on a school trip and my parents had a sudden brilliant idea that I hated. My parents ended up throwing a party for the class and forced me to go, I told them I didn't want to be seen as the prince in front of everyone else, Sam said shed be interested to see what id wear and asked if anything Goth was acceptable to my parents. My mother nodded she liked the Goth fashion but couldn't wear it that often. Sam and my mom became good friends and they went to my moms room to look for something to wear for the ball the next day. Dad took Tuck and I to look for things to wear too. Tucker and I ended up picking the same styled outfit but in different colors, his was a soft yellow like his usual yellow shirt, and I had a soft blue that was close to the color of my eyes. Sam got back but wouldn't tell us what she was wearing. The next day my parents contacted Mr. Lancer and told them they could come pick a outfit to wear. Even Boxy showed up and I told Sam and Tuck about how Boxy and I became friends and such. We all stayed hidden in my room, my Prince secret was only told to those who knew my Phantom secret minus Kwan. Boxy entertained us till my mom came in to tell us to get ready, she left taking Sam with her. Tuck and I changed into our 'princely like outfits' as Tucker had called them. We both looked over ourselves in the mirror and Tuck took a picture for a memory to look back on and laugh at when were older.
yes i have a weird mind as i know your all going "wtf just happened"