Two small, red
coloured shadows slipped silently into the Castle at the Centre
of the Labyrinth - it wasn't custom for the Fireys to go this far
into the Labyrinth, but these Fireys weren't you average Fireys.
For starters, they were smaller, they were children, and each had
only one leg, due to a silly accident when the first twin,
Flopsy, had set a snare up to catch and unfortunate beast passing
through the Firey Forest, and had snared off the second twin,
Mopsy's, leg.
They then lost the leg, and had been fighting over Flopsy's leg,
when they're oh-so-sensible parents had taken the extra leg,
leaving them each with one, and a crutch.
"This way!" whispered Flopsy urgently, moving with the
crutch through the throne room, where one or two Goblin guards
lay sleeping.
"Keep your leg on!" insisted Mopsy, moving a little
more slowly, struggling to see through her name-sake mop hair,
which filled her eyes at almost all times.
Going behind the throne, the pair found what they were looking
for: A door, a large wooden door, through a narrow corridor
behind Jareth's Throne.
"We found it!" cried Flopsy, forgetting to be quiet.
"I don't see it!" yelled Mopsy "But I'll celebrate
anyway!" She began to dance a silly jig on one leg and a
crutch, giggling hysterically.
Flopsy ignored her sister, and the awakening Goblins, and eyed
the door suspiciously "How are we going to get
through?"
"Ain't it so great we found it?!" continued Mopsy, as
per usual not knowing when to let it go, and swayed a little,
sending her foot sliding under the door.
"Heeey... not bad, Mopsy! You figured it out!!" Flopsy
began to pull herself apart, each limb moving of it's own accord
beneath the door.
A few moments
later, when both were on the other side, and reassembled, with
Goblin guards finally on their tails, and standing sheepishly
outside the door, half heartedly calling "Open Up...",
Flopsy said "This is it!"
Mopsy began to celebrate again, dancing around and leaning on her
crutch.
Absently, she slapped Flopsy on the back, sending the arm which
wasn't holding the crutch flying across the room, towards a large
free-standing mirror.
The arm disappeared right through it, with a soft ripple, and
then the glass turned smooth again.
"OOPS!!!" said Mopsy, looking at the mirror in awe.
"You idiot!" wailed Flopsy, forgetting the stupid
LEgend about the stupid Magic mirror, and hopping angrily
"We don't even know what the mirror does!!! YOU could have
just INCINER... BURNED MY ARM INTO A SMALL PILE OF WHITE
POWDER!"
"Sorry!" sniffled Mopsy "I'll get it BACK,
okay?"
Mopsy did her version of a run on one leg and a crutch towards
the mirror, jumping towards it, and disappearing through it.
"M-Mopsy?" Flopsy was an inch from the mirror's surface
by now "Did you get burned to a powder?"
"Lemme check!" Mopsy called back through the mirror
"...No!"
"Life is good!" declared Flopsy as she clambered
carefully through the mirror, listening to a Goblin pound the
door once and call "Come back here..."
Sarah was alone
in the house, 5 year old Toby asleep in his room upstairs.
She was trying not to think about the fact she was alone,
babysitting, for the first time in four years since the
Labyrinth.
Sighing, Sarah flicked the channel. There was nothing on.
Finally, she settled on a re-run of "Bewitched".
Thud.
Sarah stiffened, a noise, from her parents bedroom... That's
where Toby used to sleep and ...
She forced herself to stop that train of thought before it
reached it's destination, and went upstairs, telling herself it
was to make sure Toby wasn't up to something.
Toby was sound
asleep, but Sarah was still curious, like she always would be no
doubt, and headed towards the room.
She opened the door, and flicked on the lights.
Automatically, her heart leapt into her throat, and she looked
around for Goblins. There were none. Of course there weren't -
she hadn't called them, so why would they be here? Evidentally
she was letting her imagination run wild.
As she turned to go downstairs, she didn't see the print of a
small arm where it had hit the window only moments before.
"Who was
that? She didn't look like ... like... like..." Mopsy
struggled to find a meaning to why she had even begun her
sentence, and when she couldn't, she said "...like a
Goblin."
"She's not a Goblin," said Flopsy, picking up her arm
from where it fell, and getting comfy on her crutch again
"Let's see what we can find!"
Flopsy put her hand against the pane on the French Windows, and
pushing.
Mopsy soon cleared the hair out of her eyes for long enough to
see what was going on, and began to help.
Finally, they had the door open just enough for them to squeeze
through.
"This room's boring." muttered Flopsy, looking around
"There's nothing good in here!"
"Another door! Will there be a better mirror behind
it?" asked Mopsy, looking at the door quizzically.
"Maybe!" said Flopsy, watching as Mopsy opened the
door.
"Nope, no mirror." said Mopsy sadly, "But there's
a staircase and a few other doors out here!"
"What are we standing around in this crap place for,
then?!" demanded Flopsy, assuming the role of LEader, and
heading for the stairs.
Soon, the pair
had made it downstairs, tip-toeing past the living room, where
Sarah was glowering boredly at the TV.
"We'll say hello later," whispered Mopsy, waiting for
Flopsy to sneak over the door opening.
"Yeah," agreed Flopsy, leaning on the hip with an
entire leg attached, and pushing herself slowly across the
doorway.
Mopsy immitated her movements, only on her left side, meaning she
wasn't facing the living room, and eventually, when they had both
gotten by, and managed to stand up again, they were in the
kitchen.
Mopsy climbed up onto a chair, and onto a worktop from there, and
found a jar of Sugar.
Like all young children usually do, once she had gotten it open,
she put a handful of the substand into her mouth.
"MMMMMMM!!" she cried, swallowing it "This stuff
is good!!!"
"Look!" Flopsy held up a can of Diet Pepsi, shaking it
"This is heavy! Ooh! It has a thing at the top!!!"
Flopsy pulled at the ring pull, trying to open the can, which was
half her size.
"Mopsy..." she panted "...help!"
Mopsy took the ring-pull, and Flopsy held onto the can, and soon
it at exploded all over the Kitchen.
Mopsy swallowed what could be counted as a harmful amout of
Pepsi, before saying "I'm taking this stuff back with
meee!!!"
Sarah yawned,
and stretched.
She was thirsty... sighing, she stood up, and ambled towards the
kitchen.
When she got there and turned on the lights, she forgot all about
wanting a drink.
The frige was open, there were buttery foot prints, leading from
the butter, which was upturned on the floor, out of the room, and
a trail of Sugar, Pepsi everywhere in the kitchen, cheese slices
thrown like frisbees around the worktops, the sink was full of
chocolate syrup, a mountain of coffree grains surrounded the
kettle, which was on, and making a hideous noise.
Sarah turned off the kettle quickly, and looked at the
footprints.
Goblins. she thought angrily, and followed the trail,
growing more and more panicked as they led upstairs, towards
Toby's room.
A sense of foreboding filled Sarah as she saw his door ajar, she
was having severe flashbacks to the night this had happened
before... the light wouldn't work, she was certain of it...
Sarah pushed the door open and flicked the light switch.
Light flooded the room.
Toby was wide awake, his mouth full of butter, chocolate syrup,
Pepsi and Sugar, and a wide grin on his face.
On either side of him, sat two blitzed Fireys, they looked like
they were wearing an english breakfast.
"Oh, hi!" called one, with hair flopping into it's
eyes.
"My name's Flopsy!" Offered the other, "This is my
sister Mopsy!"
Sarah screamed.
Toby screamed.
Flopsy and Mopsy screamed.
"GET AWAY FROM HIM!!! HORRIBLE LITTLE BEASTS!!!" the
Fireys were one of Sarah's worst memories "You can't have my
head! OR his head! Get away!!!"
"Scuse me, Lady?" said Flopsy politely, sturggling on
the soft mattress with her crutch to get to the end of the bed
"But we have our own heads."
"We do?" said Mopsy stupidly, looking around, and
finally placed her hand on her head "Oh yeah! I never saw
before!"
Sarah blinked, visibly shaking "T-toby... are you
alright?"
"Uh huh!" said Toby absently, he was playing with
Mopsy's crutch as she devoured more and more Sugar.
"F...Floppy?" Sarah said to Flopsy "What are
you-"
"Flopsy." interrupted the small Firey, grinning.
"...right. What are you and Mop..sy doing here?" asked
Sarah, resisting the urge to grab the fiends head, hurl it away,
and scream for Hoggle... help. She meant help.
"We sneaked here," said Mopsy through the Sugar
"The Goblins is all asleep."
"Were all asleep," Sarah corrected instinctively, not
knowing what to do, obviously they hadn't been sent, and they
didn't seem to be the same age as the other Fireys.
Either way, they were making a hideous mess.
"You have to stop making this mess!" ordered Sarah
"Give me the Sugar, the pepsi, the syrup, and... you know
what? Flopsy, you can just keep that butter right there..."
The Goblins
weren't bright, but they had eventually figured out that their
pleas were getting nowhere with two Fireys who were no longer in
the room beyond the door.
"You better wake up 'is Majesty!" said one, pointing to
another.
"I'm not!"
"Me either."
"I say we pretend this never happened!" agreed another
"'is Majesty will be very... upset wiff us if he don't be in
the mood fer bad news!"
"... what'll we do?!" wailed the fourth Guard "We
wasn't all s'posed ta be asleep!!!"
"Le's ask Roo!" suggested the first "She's meanta
be the Wise Wummin o' the Goblins!"
"You go wake 'er up!" The second prodded the first in
the stomach "An' come back wiff news!"
Furtle sighed,
he was always the one to come up with and carry out daft ideas.
He made his way down into the Goblin City, one of the Houses
nearest the Castle belonged to Roo, an ancient, wrinkled old
'Medicine Woman', more commonly reffered to as a "Damned
Voodoo Witch" by many of the Labyrinth's inhabitants who
were unfortunate enough to know the bad tempered old bat.
Furtle was only on guard duty because another wasn't, he actually
had a very odd job in the Labyrinth.
He grew Goblin children.
The way things worked in the Labyrinth was never the way people
from Earth would think it was: Specifically, Goblin children were
grown in an actual cabbage patch, with the cabbages, and it was
Furtle's job to plant the seeds of the mother and father, and
nurture the little beast until it was ready to be
"born".
What a life, thought Furtle, raising his hand, and thudding
Roo's door, hard.
A small, beaked face peeked out, a hideous gobble hanging below
the chin.
"Hello, Static." said Furtle flatly to Roo's
'familiar', Static the Chicken.
Static looked up at Furtle, wide eyed.
Slowly, the door opened further, and Roo stood there, holding
Static in a wrinkled, grubby little mitt of a hand.
"What do you want?" she demanded, frowning, causing her
face to wrinkle even further, long straight, ratty grey hair hung
around her face.
Furtle groaned, and said "The Guards require your
advice."
"Make it snappy," said Roo impatiently, she had no time
for blithering gardeners, not tat this time of night, and not
even if they were the only two Goblins left alive.
"Two young fireys just got into the Mortal Realm, what
should we do?"
"Send the most stupid to wake up Jareth. Goodnight."
Roo slammed the door shut.
"OH YEAH!" yelled Furtle "They send me down here
in the dead of NIGHT and you give me the same advice we were all
arguing over before?!"
"Tough," called Roo, heading back to bed.
"WHAT?"
yelled Jareth, in a temper because some stupid Goblin he couldn't
remember the name of had woken up, and then said that some stupid
Fireys had gone into the mortal realm.
"I said-" began Furtle nervously "That-"
"Shut up."
"Sorry, I -"
"SHUT up..." Jareth paced angrily, he hadn't tried a
kidnapping since Sarah had beaten him four years earlier, he had
ignored each call, which meant that the mirror, which hadn't been
used since the night they had all been at Sarah's house, would
still be aimed there.
"How did they get past the guards? Which Fireys were
they?" asked Jareth, calming down a little, hoping for some
elaborate plan involving weapons to be the next thing escaping..
Frickle's mouth.
"The twins," said Furtle, careful to answer the second
question first.
"Aren't they all twins?" said Jareth eventually, unable
to distinguish between the Fireys.
"The one legged twins."
Ah, he knew who they were... they looked different to the others,
so Jareth remembered them.
"Aren't they children?"
"Yes, sir..."
"And they got past the guards." said Jareth, leaning
menacingly over Furtle.
".. the guards were alseep, sir..." Furtle squeezed his
eyes shut, expecting to be hurled into the Bog of Eternal Stench.
Jareht, however, was too preoccupied to be bothered with
randomnly shooting messengers, he had to recover the Fireys,
before Sarah knew they were in her house...
The End for now... more soon... if I can even be bothered...
