Wanting To Belong
It was Winter in Earth and Sarah was getting ready for Christmas.
She missed her cousin Mel.
She'd gone to another world after marrying Blaze, Jareth's son.
Sarah was now a published children's author and was working on her new book.
Sometimes Mel visited her and they would talk.
But in the Underground Blaze was excited.
Mel was giving birth to a babe and soon he would be a father.
He was with Hoggle, Ludo and Stank, Ludo's son.
"How is she?" Hoggle asked him.
"I think it's nearly time for it to come." Blaze answered him.
But then they heard the sounds of infant crying come from the castle.
"It's here!" Hoggle said as they ran there.
Mel was in her and Blaze's room in bed.
Blaze saw she was holding a white bundle in her arms.
"Is it what I think it is?" he asked her.
She nodded.
He saw his child.
It had light blue skin, golden eyes, a silver rose on his forehead.
"He sure doesn't look like any goblin I've seen in the Underground." Hoggle muttered.
"Baby pretty!" Stank said.
Blaze smiled at that.
"You're right he is pretty.
Besides it doesn't matter." He said to them.
But Mizumi wasn't happy.
She could tell Melora and Blaze's child was a mortal.
"This is funny, a half goblin child born to the new rulers of the Underground." She thought.
Melora saw her show up later and was nervous.
"What does she want?
I've a feeling it's about the baby." She thought as she saw Mizumi smile at the babe.
"Isn't strange that he looks nothing like a goblin eh?
Such a pity that he's a.... half goblin." she said smiling evilly.
"Shut your mouth Mizumi!
He may not be like other goblins but that makes him special.
Besides Jareth wasn't like other goblins and we all respected him as a ruler." Hoggle told her angrily.
"I see somebody got a confidence boost when Sarah was in the Underground." she replied going away.
"Ignore her Melora she's vain and cruel." Blaze told her as the babe gurgled happily in her arms.
It's golden eyes shone with magic.
"Wow he's gifted like his father." Hoggle commented.
"What should we call him?" Blaze asked her.
"Snowia like the winter snow." Melora told him.
It seemed to fit him well.
Mizumi gloated seeing that little bit of magic come from the young heir.