Authors Note: Heeeeyyy. I decided to keep going with this! Aren't you happy? -waits for the entire chorus of 'no's- Sorry for the shortness, but I am very sore and very sleepy. Also, say hello to Kaylee! For the sake of this fanfiction, I'm borrowing her. She's Kira-Karix-chans goblin.
Disclamer: I OWN IT! ALL OF IT! YOU CANNOT STOP ME!
Mini-Jareth: -whacks me over the head- She dosn't own Labyrinth. She only owns Heather.
I groaned loudly as I turned over, startling the small goblin-esque girl in the chair across from my bed. I still felt faintly ill; as if someone had stuffed an entire bag of unwashed clothes stained with cheese under my nose and pulled it away quickly. I moved my arm to test it out, and felt a tender pull. I sat up, very slowly. My entire body felt as if it had been worked over by a baseball bat, then dipped into a bath of melted cotton candy and rolled in the dirt. Sticky.
The girl in the chair watched me warily, as if I were going to clobber her for moving.
I hoped looked like I would.
"Doc shaid when yu git up yu need ta git in da baff." The girl mumbled, obviously still not used to her overly large walrus teeth that stuck out the front of her mouth. She looked vaguely feline, but short, with a long lion like tail. You could tell she wanted to keep up her old appearances, due to the graphic t-shirt (slightly ripped and stained, but still faintly stating that she was, in fact, a supporter of ninja's over pirates) and a very sensible black cap on her head, with holes cut out so her long ears could fit through. She hopped off the chair and grabbed my arm to help me up.
I promptly yelped, due to the insane bruising on my arms. She grabbed again, lightly, and helped me stand. I looked down at my feet. I had toes. I wiggled them oddly, not knowing an emotion that covers gaining back toes without claws attached. We started to walk to the door on the opposite side of the room.
"Whassha nme?" I started, but realized soon after that I was mumbling. I ran my tongue around my mouth, thinking 'well, that's new. Ow, dang that's pointy. What am I, a carnivore?', and restated my question.
"Whatcha name?"
"Kaylee. Yu?"
"Heather." I took a brief moment to celebrate my new ability to make the 'tha' sound.
"Yu look diffrnt. Wha happened?"
"King." At this she nodded, apparently used to the kings' not-so-painless flights of fancy. We walked through the door into a small bathroom, with the tub already filled. Ideally, it should have been steaming, but apparently I had been out for an hour after it had been poured up. 'Damn.'
"Doc put shumfin in da watah, shaid id make ya feel bettah. I'ma wait in fere," she helped me balance on the edge of the tub, then yanked her head in the direction of the other room. "Yu kay?" she asked, looking at me with concern in her green cat silted eyes. I nodded, briefly thinking 'Ow my necks stiff' and she pounced out the door.
I took a gander at my reflection in the dirty mirror above the sink. The changes weren't terribly shocking, due to the fact that I something looked like the me that I was once, but they did give me somewhat of a start. First, I had a nose. It wasn't cute, petite or upturned, but it was a nose and it was mine. My hair looked the same, wild and frizzy, sticking out at all angles around my long, animal like ears. I was comforted by their patchy presence, along with my tail that took that moment to swoop up out of the water and pose above my head, dripping with lukewarm soggy bubbles. I looked like a human, sort of. If you excluded the odd patches of fur along my back, shoulders, and arms. Along with the silted brown eyes.
'I want my old body back.' I thought with a frown, removing the now ripped and bloodstained clothing from me, and slipping (Well, kurplunking, actually.) into the bathwater.
'Oh, eww…' was my new inner catchphrase as the water, which felt more like vegetable oil than any liquid should, began to take on the rusty tint of dried blood and dirt.
Once again, sorry for the shortness. And sorry for the lack of leather pants'd Jareth. Oh, and by 'old body' she was refering to her monster one, not her human one.
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