Chapter: Into the Depths of the World
"Did our new roommate show up yet?" A throaty voice from another room asked curiously. The owner of the voice left the room, tying her long blond hair into a ponytail. Stormy gray eyes blinking, she stepped into a dimly lit living room where another girl sat curled up on a couch reading a book.
"If she was here, don't you think you would be speaking to her right now?" An amused voice said from behind the book as delicate pale fingers turned the page. The blond girl scowled deeply and put her hands on her hips.
"Michu Phixie! Stop making fun of me!" A shock of lavender hair swayed as Michu chuckled. "That isn't fair." The blond girl added.
"The world isn't fair." Michu said ominously as she put her book down. Her blue eyes pierced through the blond girl's attempt at seriousness and forced the girl to shrink back unconsciously.
"Well, tell me when she gets here. She'll be here sometime after six o'clock." Michu starred directly into the girl's gray eyes.
"You are going to dump her on me while you go to a party, aren't you Selena?" The blond girl named Selena bowed her head, feeling like a child with her fingers caught in the cookie jar. "That's what I thought." Michu said with a dramatic sigh. Picking up her book and returning to her place, Michu made no signs of farther conversation.
"Pardon me, Your Majesty!" Selena muttered. The book was slammed shut and thrown to the floor before Selena was once again rewarded with a terrible scowl.
"If you call me that one more time, I'll personally kick you out of here." Selena, knowing that Michu meant everything that she said, gulped and left at a run to get to her art class. Michu shook her head angrily before picking up her book carefully. Sighing, she reached into thin air and a crystal materialized before her. "I wonder how you are, Goblin King."
"I'm going to be late!" Sarah cried as she rushed about her room grabbing cloths and books as she fluttered around chaotically. A seven-year-old Toby watched in confusion and also admiration as his nineteen-year-old sister Sarah balanced books upon books in her arms and hurried around her room.
"Where are you going, Sarah?" Toby asked when his sister passed by him.
"I told you that I'm going to college." Sarah said warmly, sparing a moment of her hectic walks to favor him with a smile. "Don't worry, I'll come and visit you all the time. Don't give Karen or dad a hard time, okay?" Toby nodded.
"Karen is happy." Toby commented. Unfortunately for Karen, Toby had picked up the habit of calling his mother by her first name. Karen had tried all in her power to dissuade such things but Toby was a very stubborn child, especially when he was trying to act like his big sister Sarah (and Sarah had no desire to call Karen 'mom'). Sarah snorted at Toby's question.
"She won't be happy when she has to do all of the chores herself. Don't let her badger you into doing any of it either." Toby nodded, completely understanding every word his sister said. Even though Toby pretended otherwise, he was actually very intelligent. He never showed his intelligence at school (which was a reason that he was picked on by students and teachers alike). Only Sarah knew.
"I'll miss you, Sarah. Come visit me soon!" Toby said. Sarah smiled and blushed slightly.
"And remember not to tell anyone about you-know-what." She whispered. Toby nodded eagerly.
That night that Toby had been looking for Sarah a year before, he had discovered his sister kissing a boy! The boy's name was Will Stanton. He had been broad shouldered, tall, brown haired, brown eyed and very kind. He had been shocked and embarrassed when his girlfriend's six-year-old brother began to cry at the sight of his sister with a guy. Some quick magic tricks (not real magic) saved him from Toby's bad side. He was lucky since Toby ruled most of Sarah's life and without his praise, however young he was when giving it, Sarah would follow it to the letter.
"Is Will going to college with you?" Toby asked as he leapt onto Sarah's wonderful bed and dangled his tiny legs over the edge. Sarah smiled as she continued to pack.
"Yes, he'll be there. I'm going to have a roommate too."
"What's that?" Toby asked curiously.
"That's a person that you live with for a while." Sarah explained. "They are going to be two girls. I haven't met them yet but I hope that they're nice." Toby tilted his head slightly.
"They'll be nice to you." Toby said with conviction. "Just tell them a story and they'll like you." Sarah smiled at her little brother and his naïve notions. The world, unfortunately, wasn't as reasonable as the little blond haired boy sitting on her bed.
"I'll keep that in mind, Toby." Sarah said. Lugging her over-stuffed duffel bag onto her shoulder, Sarah hurried down the stairs with Toby trailing along behind her like a puppy. She caught her reflection in a mirror and stopped to fix her hair.
Sarah was a beautiful, tall girl with large green eyes specked with golden flashes. Her hair was a beautiful dark brown and her skin was quite pale for most people. Her figure had curved slightly since her trek in the Labyrinth even though Hoggle told her that she looked the same as ever.
Her friends from the Labyrinth only visited Sarah by speaking to her through mirrors. Actually coming took magic which they didn't posses. At least they could speak to her, and this helped a great deal since they were always there when she called (even if those times were sometimes the wrong time).
"Bye Sarah." Karen said as she walked past, an extra bounce to her step as she walked. Going towards Toby, she tried to kiss his cheek and probably hug him, but the little blond boy squirmed out of his mother's grasp and rushed to hug his sister around her long legs.
"I'll miss you Sarah!" Toby said before smiling up at her. Sarah smiled back and squatted down to be at eye level with the boy.
"I have a job for you." Sarah whispered excitedly as her green eyes danced. "I want you to guard my special book from the mean, smelly goblins. Can you do that for me?" Toby nodded vehemently. "Good."
Sarah's father drifted past her, not even noticing that she was packed and that his second wife was beside herself with fury. Giving Toby a quick kiss, Sarah opened the door to her house and stepped out into the world.
Michu sat under a beautiful maple tree filled with purple, orange, brown, and some green leaves, her eyes scoring through a book, as usual. As she read, she made no signs of seeing the three girls and their boyfriends coming towards her. The boys gazed at her longingly, even if they tried to hide their interest in her perfect curves and alluring aura. The girls reacted in the exact opposite way, just as other jealous creatures behaved.
"What do you want?" Michu's calm voice asked as she turned the page to her book, eyes never leaving her place. The girls jumped but then smoothed over their reaction.
"We just wondered why you always sit by yourself instead of eat with the rest of us." One of the girls said. She curled a nervous finger around a dyed strand of blond hair. The unsaid 'because you think you're better than us?' hung in the air maliciously. Michu chuckled and changed her page even if her eyes never left her book.
"You mean to tell me that I would much rather prefer watching you eat and then throw it all back up again just to go kiss your boyfriend?" Neither of the two genders at that place liked her words for completely different reasons (the boys obviously hadn't thought of this).
"Watch it." Another girl warned.
"Or what?" Michu asked quietly, her piercing blue eyes lifting to stare right through them all. "You'll use your cell phones on me I suppose." The third girl glared at Michu but her eyes wavered when she met those cool blue sapphires.
"Just watch it." She croaked.
"I'd prefer not to waste my time." Michu said as she got up. Marking her book, she brushed her cloths off gracefully. "Now if you will excuse me, I have to get back to my dorm." Without another glance, Michu left the girls and their slightly slower than a doorknob boyfriends to stare after her.
Rolling her eyes once she was away from them, Michu hoped for the millionth time that her new roommate wouldn't turn out to be like them. Ever since leaving the Labyrinth, Michu had discovered that humans were not only cruel but also bizarre. They tended to over-complicate their lives to an extreme level.
Opening her empty dorm room and coming to sit on her favorite love seat, Michu pulled out a note pad and pen to get down to writing.
The only reason that Michu had come to the Human Realm was to find some sort of peaceful place where she could forget about the Goblin King for at least a little while. She had started college just to see what it was like and had delighted that her writing turned out to be very wonderful for the mortals. They wanted to see more and more of it, and they wanted her to write it. So eventually she decided to stay and she had been living there for a year.
She had met her roommate, Selena Finella, in a bar. The girl had been partying pretty hard when she had fainted on the dance floor. Curious and wondering what had happened, Michu had taken her away from the man who had been walking towards her. When the man saw her approach, he turned tail and ran like the wind.
It took her several days to finally figure out that he had probably put something in her drink and been hoping to rape her. Making sure that Selena had been unconscious; Michu transported herself and the girl to her dorm room. Once there, she helped Selena recover.
Selena soon learnt the boundaries of her friendship with Michu and only crossed those boundaries once. After that, she didn't dare. Michu had a nasty habit of starring intently at everything she looked at, and this ended up giving her a frightening reputation of being a witch. When Selena told her this, Michu laughed loudly, finding the whole thing hysterical.
As Michu sat curled up and writing, she allowed all of the emotions she felt: the anger, the betrayal, the hurt, and the penetrating sorrow, wash over her and find its way onto her note pad. This was a creative writing assignment which her English teacher had assigned. Ms. Luke didn't like Michu and had decided that she was a bad writer, but she was in for a big surprise when Michu was going to turn in her next paper.
A soft knock came from her door and Michu rose from her sorrow very slowly. Wiping away some stray tears which had managed to escape the barriers which were her eye lashes, she walked towards the door.
Sarah took a deep, shuddering breath as she stood in front of the door. She didn't know what to expect but whatever it was, she had a good feeling about it.
A/N: Thank you to Jenny and Xithemonas *who were the only ones who had the time to review before this chapter was posted* for reviewing the story so far! ^.^ You guys put me to shame! So many reviews!
You guys obviously know where this is going but there will be more plot twists soon. I'm still not done with this story! For from it!
"Did our new roommate show up yet?" A throaty voice from another room asked curiously. The owner of the voice left the room, tying her long blond hair into a ponytail. Stormy gray eyes blinking, she stepped into a dimly lit living room where another girl sat curled up on a couch reading a book.
"If she was here, don't you think you would be speaking to her right now?" An amused voice said from behind the book as delicate pale fingers turned the page. The blond girl scowled deeply and put her hands on her hips.
"Michu Phixie! Stop making fun of me!" A shock of lavender hair swayed as Michu chuckled. "That isn't fair." The blond girl added.
"The world isn't fair." Michu said ominously as she put her book down. Her blue eyes pierced through the blond girl's attempt at seriousness and forced the girl to shrink back unconsciously.
"Well, tell me when she gets here. She'll be here sometime after six o'clock." Michu starred directly into the girl's gray eyes.
"You are going to dump her on me while you go to a party, aren't you Selena?" The blond girl named Selena bowed her head, feeling like a child with her fingers caught in the cookie jar. "That's what I thought." Michu said with a dramatic sigh. Picking up her book and returning to her place, Michu made no signs of farther conversation.
"Pardon me, Your Majesty!" Selena muttered. The book was slammed shut and thrown to the floor before Selena was once again rewarded with a terrible scowl.
"If you call me that one more time, I'll personally kick you out of here." Selena, knowing that Michu meant everything that she said, gulped and left at a run to get to her art class. Michu shook her head angrily before picking up her book carefully. Sighing, she reached into thin air and a crystal materialized before her. "I wonder how you are, Goblin King."
"I'm going to be late!" Sarah cried as she rushed about her room grabbing cloths and books as she fluttered around chaotically. A seven-year-old Toby watched in confusion and also admiration as his nineteen-year-old sister Sarah balanced books upon books in her arms and hurried around her room.
"Where are you going, Sarah?" Toby asked when his sister passed by him.
"I told you that I'm going to college." Sarah said warmly, sparing a moment of her hectic walks to favor him with a smile. "Don't worry, I'll come and visit you all the time. Don't give Karen or dad a hard time, okay?" Toby nodded.
"Karen is happy." Toby commented. Unfortunately for Karen, Toby had picked up the habit of calling his mother by her first name. Karen had tried all in her power to dissuade such things but Toby was a very stubborn child, especially when he was trying to act like his big sister Sarah (and Sarah had no desire to call Karen 'mom'). Sarah snorted at Toby's question.
"She won't be happy when she has to do all of the chores herself. Don't let her badger you into doing any of it either." Toby nodded, completely understanding every word his sister said. Even though Toby pretended otherwise, he was actually very intelligent. He never showed his intelligence at school (which was a reason that he was picked on by students and teachers alike). Only Sarah knew.
"I'll miss you, Sarah. Come visit me soon!" Toby said. Sarah smiled and blushed slightly.
"And remember not to tell anyone about you-know-what." She whispered. Toby nodded eagerly.
That night that Toby had been looking for Sarah a year before, he had discovered his sister kissing a boy! The boy's name was Will Stanton. He had been broad shouldered, tall, brown haired, brown eyed and very kind. He had been shocked and embarrassed when his girlfriend's six-year-old brother began to cry at the sight of his sister with a guy. Some quick magic tricks (not real magic) saved him from Toby's bad side. He was lucky since Toby ruled most of Sarah's life and without his praise, however young he was when giving it, Sarah would follow it to the letter.
"Is Will going to college with you?" Toby asked as he leapt onto Sarah's wonderful bed and dangled his tiny legs over the edge. Sarah smiled as she continued to pack.
"Yes, he'll be there. I'm going to have a roommate too."
"What's that?" Toby asked curiously.
"That's a person that you live with for a while." Sarah explained. "They are going to be two girls. I haven't met them yet but I hope that they're nice." Toby tilted his head slightly.
"They'll be nice to you." Toby said with conviction. "Just tell them a story and they'll like you." Sarah smiled at her little brother and his naïve notions. The world, unfortunately, wasn't as reasonable as the little blond haired boy sitting on her bed.
"I'll keep that in mind, Toby." Sarah said. Lugging her over-stuffed duffel bag onto her shoulder, Sarah hurried down the stairs with Toby trailing along behind her like a puppy. She caught her reflection in a mirror and stopped to fix her hair.
Sarah was a beautiful, tall girl with large green eyes specked with golden flashes. Her hair was a beautiful dark brown and her skin was quite pale for most people. Her figure had curved slightly since her trek in the Labyrinth even though Hoggle told her that she looked the same as ever.
Her friends from the Labyrinth only visited Sarah by speaking to her through mirrors. Actually coming took magic which they didn't posses. At least they could speak to her, and this helped a great deal since they were always there when she called (even if those times were sometimes the wrong time).
"Bye Sarah." Karen said as she walked past, an extra bounce to her step as she walked. Going towards Toby, she tried to kiss his cheek and probably hug him, but the little blond boy squirmed out of his mother's grasp and rushed to hug his sister around her long legs.
"I'll miss you Sarah!" Toby said before smiling up at her. Sarah smiled back and squatted down to be at eye level with the boy.
"I have a job for you." Sarah whispered excitedly as her green eyes danced. "I want you to guard my special book from the mean, smelly goblins. Can you do that for me?" Toby nodded vehemently. "Good."
Sarah's father drifted past her, not even noticing that she was packed and that his second wife was beside herself with fury. Giving Toby a quick kiss, Sarah opened the door to her house and stepped out into the world.
Michu sat under a beautiful maple tree filled with purple, orange, brown, and some green leaves, her eyes scoring through a book, as usual. As she read, she made no signs of seeing the three girls and their boyfriends coming towards her. The boys gazed at her longingly, even if they tried to hide their interest in her perfect curves and alluring aura. The girls reacted in the exact opposite way, just as other jealous creatures behaved.
"What do you want?" Michu's calm voice asked as she turned the page to her book, eyes never leaving her place. The girls jumped but then smoothed over their reaction.
"We just wondered why you always sit by yourself instead of eat with the rest of us." One of the girls said. She curled a nervous finger around a dyed strand of blond hair. The unsaid 'because you think you're better than us?' hung in the air maliciously. Michu chuckled and changed her page even if her eyes never left her book.
"You mean to tell me that I would much rather prefer watching you eat and then throw it all back up again just to go kiss your boyfriend?" Neither of the two genders at that place liked her words for completely different reasons (the boys obviously hadn't thought of this).
"Watch it." Another girl warned.
"Or what?" Michu asked quietly, her piercing blue eyes lifting to stare right through them all. "You'll use your cell phones on me I suppose." The third girl glared at Michu but her eyes wavered when she met those cool blue sapphires.
"Just watch it." She croaked.
"I'd prefer not to waste my time." Michu said as she got up. Marking her book, she brushed her cloths off gracefully. "Now if you will excuse me, I have to get back to my dorm." Without another glance, Michu left the girls and their slightly slower than a doorknob boyfriends to stare after her.
Rolling her eyes once she was away from them, Michu hoped for the millionth time that her new roommate wouldn't turn out to be like them. Ever since leaving the Labyrinth, Michu had discovered that humans were not only cruel but also bizarre. They tended to over-complicate their lives to an extreme level.
Opening her empty dorm room and coming to sit on her favorite love seat, Michu pulled out a note pad and pen to get down to writing.
The only reason that Michu had come to the Human Realm was to find some sort of peaceful place where she could forget about the Goblin King for at least a little while. She had started college just to see what it was like and had delighted that her writing turned out to be very wonderful for the mortals. They wanted to see more and more of it, and they wanted her to write it. So eventually she decided to stay and she had been living there for a year.
She had met her roommate, Selena Finella, in a bar. The girl had been partying pretty hard when she had fainted on the dance floor. Curious and wondering what had happened, Michu had taken her away from the man who had been walking towards her. When the man saw her approach, he turned tail and ran like the wind.
It took her several days to finally figure out that he had probably put something in her drink and been hoping to rape her. Making sure that Selena had been unconscious; Michu transported herself and the girl to her dorm room. Once there, she helped Selena recover.
Selena soon learnt the boundaries of her friendship with Michu and only crossed those boundaries once. After that, she didn't dare. Michu had a nasty habit of starring intently at everything she looked at, and this ended up giving her a frightening reputation of being a witch. When Selena told her this, Michu laughed loudly, finding the whole thing hysterical.
As Michu sat curled up and writing, she allowed all of the emotions she felt: the anger, the betrayal, the hurt, and the penetrating sorrow, wash over her and find its way onto her note pad. This was a creative writing assignment which her English teacher had assigned. Ms. Luke didn't like Michu and had decided that she was a bad writer, but she was in for a big surprise when Michu was going to turn in her next paper.
A soft knock came from her door and Michu rose from her sorrow very slowly. Wiping away some stray tears which had managed to escape the barriers which were her eye lashes, she walked towards the door.
Sarah took a deep, shuddering breath as she stood in front of the door. She didn't know what to expect but whatever it was, she had a good feeling about it.
A/N: Thank you to Jenny and Xithemonas *who were the only ones who had the time to review before this chapter was posted* for reviewing the story so far! ^.^ You guys put me to shame! So many reviews!
You guys obviously know where this is going but there will be more plot twists soon. I'm still not done with this story! For from it!
