Chapter - 9
Author's note - If you feel the need to make up a melody later, I intended the song to
be in the style of Elvis.
Hilarity sat outside and watched with awe as the Goblins repaired her ship in record
time. Maybe she had underestimated them. They were great mechanics. Her eye fell
upon the rose-bush again and she sighed with frustration. She was a bit of
perfectionist at heart and didn't like seeing things done wrong or badly. She took out
her pen knife and tried to undo the damage from the last gardener's terrible pruning
job.
"O Rose, thou art sick." she quoted William Blake and smiled "But don't worry, I'll
make you better." Suddenly her vision was blocked by a very fierce looking black
orchid which materialised in the air in front of her nose. She jumped violently and
accidentally severed a large branch from the rose bush. "Jesus Christ!" she cried.
"Wow! My last ditch attempt at scaring you and it worked." said Jareth appearing next
to the hovering plant pot.
"Don't do that, you nearly gave me a heart attack!" gasped Hilarity "And I nearly
nuked your roses!"
"Anyway I thought your folks might like this. What do you think?"
Hilarity eyed the orchid with curiosity "It's hideous and deranged. I'm sure they'll love
it." she laughed.
"So when are you planning to leave?" said the Goblin King feeling a little sad.
"Well, I thought I'd let Trin find his way here first. Make him feel good about himself,
y'know."
"Ah, the old fool your cousin into thinking he's saved you to spare his feelings trick."
"Exactly. But if he takes too long I'll just beam him up and wing it." she felt slightly
sorry about leaving so she decided to compromise "Why don't you come and visit one
day. I'll introduce you to my friends, they're nearly as mad as me but not quite. I hear
there's a Capital Punishment concert on soon, we could take Trin as a kind of
consolation present."
"I'd like that."
******
Trin was not a happy bunny. All this stress was not doing him any good. The sun was
setting and he seemed to be in a creepy junk yard. In the distance he could hear one of
Hilarity's piano solos. It was a Scarabande by Debussy. One of her best pieces. The
music seemed to give him courage and he strode on towards his destination.
******
"And now for an encore I shall play a song that me and Trin wrote about metalheads."
Hilarity said after the Goblins had stopped clapping. She began playing in a light rock
tempo nodding at some of the more intelligent Goblins who began to sing :
"Well we promised ourselves we wouldn't play air guitar,
Well we promised ourselves we wouldn't play air guitar,
But there's such a great guitar riff, we can't help the way we are...."
******
Trin could hear the music quite clearly now. Hang on a minute! It was the song they
had written together for New Year's Day. They didn't celebrated Christmas on their
planet but the new year was their most important festival. The song lyrics were getting
louder.
"Well we follow the music, it takes us where we wanna be,
Well we follow the music, it takes us where we wanna be,
Why don't you bang your head and follow the music with me."
It wasn't the best song in the world but it was catchy. Then the words changed to a
verse that Trin had never heard before.
"You turn left, then right, then right again,
You turn left, then left, then right again,
Then you spin around because you've gone the wrong way,
Turn left, then right, then right again,
No! your other right you stupid boy!
Turn right, then left then go straight on."
It was Hilarity! She had changed the words in order to give him directions through
song.
"Oh, you clever thing!" he said out loud and rushed to keep up with the song.
Author's note - If you feel the need to make up a melody later, I intended the song to
be in the style of Elvis.
Hilarity sat outside and watched with awe as the Goblins repaired her ship in record
time. Maybe she had underestimated them. They were great mechanics. Her eye fell
upon the rose-bush again and she sighed with frustration. She was a bit of
perfectionist at heart and didn't like seeing things done wrong or badly. She took out
her pen knife and tried to undo the damage from the last gardener's terrible pruning
job.
"O Rose, thou art sick." she quoted William Blake and smiled "But don't worry, I'll
make you better." Suddenly her vision was blocked by a very fierce looking black
orchid which materialised in the air in front of her nose. She jumped violently and
accidentally severed a large branch from the rose bush. "Jesus Christ!" she cried.
"Wow! My last ditch attempt at scaring you and it worked." said Jareth appearing next
to the hovering plant pot.
"Don't do that, you nearly gave me a heart attack!" gasped Hilarity "And I nearly
nuked your roses!"
"Anyway I thought your folks might like this. What do you think?"
Hilarity eyed the orchid with curiosity "It's hideous and deranged. I'm sure they'll love
it." she laughed.
"So when are you planning to leave?" said the Goblin King feeling a little sad.
"Well, I thought I'd let Trin find his way here first. Make him feel good about himself,
y'know."
"Ah, the old fool your cousin into thinking he's saved you to spare his feelings trick."
"Exactly. But if he takes too long I'll just beam him up and wing it." she felt slightly
sorry about leaving so she decided to compromise "Why don't you come and visit one
day. I'll introduce you to my friends, they're nearly as mad as me but not quite. I hear
there's a Capital Punishment concert on soon, we could take Trin as a kind of
consolation present."
"I'd like that."
******
Trin was not a happy bunny. All this stress was not doing him any good. The sun was
setting and he seemed to be in a creepy junk yard. In the distance he could hear one of
Hilarity's piano solos. It was a Scarabande by Debussy. One of her best pieces. The
music seemed to give him courage and he strode on towards his destination.
******
"And now for an encore I shall play a song that me and Trin wrote about metalheads."
Hilarity said after the Goblins had stopped clapping. She began playing in a light rock
tempo nodding at some of the more intelligent Goblins who began to sing :
"Well we promised ourselves we wouldn't play air guitar,
Well we promised ourselves we wouldn't play air guitar,
But there's such a great guitar riff, we can't help the way we are...."
******
Trin could hear the music quite clearly now. Hang on a minute! It was the song they
had written together for New Year's Day. They didn't celebrated Christmas on their
planet but the new year was their most important festival. The song lyrics were getting
louder.
"Well we follow the music, it takes us where we wanna be,
Well we follow the music, it takes us where we wanna be,
Why don't you bang your head and follow the music with me."
It wasn't the best song in the world but it was catchy. Then the words changed to a
verse that Trin had never heard before.
"You turn left, then right, then right again,
You turn left, then left, then right again,
Then you spin around because you've gone the wrong way,
Turn left, then right, then right again,
No! your other right you stupid boy!
Turn right, then left then go straight on."
It was Hilarity! She had changed the words in order to give him directions through
song.
"Oh, you clever thing!" he said out loud and rushed to keep up with the song.