6. The Spell Book
A few days later, Jareth was sitting in his throne reading one of the new books they have gotten from Aboveground. He had one leg propped on the arm as always and gazed down at the pictures. It was the one about the goblins. He snickered at what it said about them. It showed nothing what he had in his kingdom. These were tall and smart. He looked up and turned to Sarah. She was sitting beside him in her seat. "You have to see this when I'm done." He held the book and showed it to her.
The goblins were amazed at the cover. They all thought that Jareth must be the smartest person in the realm since he could read. They were lucky enough to remember what they ate the other day.
Sarah was thinking about her friend when Jareth caught her attention. She wondered how Damia got into a situation like that. She shifted her eyes to him. "Hmmm." Then she looked at the picture and smiled. "That's nothing what we have here." She laughed.
Jareth leaned in, "What's been on your mind, my dear?" He lowered the book and set it on his lap. "You've been like this since we returned."
"Damia." She said with a sigh. "I can believe her parents kicked her out for being pregnant."
"Humans are strange, Sarah." He replied. "They didn't know what to think and want to deal with it. So, they got rid of the problem by throwing her out and they don't have to look at it." He closed the book with a loud slam.
Sarah blurted, "That's awful! My parents wouldn't do that." She couldn't imagine someone would do such a thing to his or her child.
Jareth pointed a finger at her, "But they will put you in a loony bin for being with me."
She sank down in her seat. "Yep. It appears to be so." She hated the thought of being in that place. She knew nothing was wrong with her. But that's going to happen if the police catches me, she thought, then they'll threw Jareth in prison.
"Time here and there is different." He said. "Wait another month and go find her then." He stood up as he grabbed the goblin book. He headed toward the library and stopped. He turned around. "It would be wise to wait, Sarah. Those officers remembered seeing you from those posters your parents made. Best to wait." He pulled the torch and left the room.
Sarah slid down on to the floor with a heavy sigh. She looked around the room and stood up. I need to get some fresh air, she thought. She went to the front door as she put her hands in her pants pockets. She looked at the floor while she walking out of the castle. She just kept going on without paying attention in where she was going. She left the Goblin City and walked through the junk pile. She passed the Junk lady without noticing her. She followed the path to the forest and turned right. She walked around and stopped by a huge oak. She sighed and sat down on the ground.
"Oh, poor, Goblin Queen." said a voice above her. "Poor thing."
Sarah jerked up her head as her heart skipped a beat. She knew that voice very well and was the last she wanted to here. She stood up quickly and took a few steps back. She looked up at the tree and saw Cinda sitting on a branch with her legs crossed. "Get out!" she shouted.
The fae gave her a Cheshire cat's smile. "Are we worried about a friend in the other realm?"
"Guards!" Sarah shouted at the top of her lungs and took a few steps back. She tripped over a tree root and fell flat on her butt.
Cinda placed her hands on her knees, "Tsk. Tsk. Your guards are too bust training for a war that won't happen."
Sarah stood up and dusted herself off. "Stop putting your nose in our business." she wanted the fae to get down so she could beat her up. She was sick and tired of that face.
"Oh, I don't plan to attack this little maze for a long time." She replied. "I know a way for you to see your friend without being caught by the police." She waited for Sarah to let her guard down.
"What?" Sarah yelled. "You go Aboveground and spy on me? I bet you made my parents crazy."
"No, Goblin Queen." Cinda answered. She still kept that smile going and it was making Sarah mad. "I have ways to find these things out myself." She moved her hand to he back and held up a brown book. "This tells you how to become invisible and stuff." She threw it. The book landed by Sarah's feet.
Sarah looked at it, but didn't pick it up. "A spell book?" She peered up at the fae. "What's the catch?" She raised a brow.
Cinda shook her head. "No catch. You can say that it's a very late wedding present." Her wings started to disappear. "You need your own book of shadows anyway." Then her legs vanished. "Check it out and discover things that you never dreamed." Her arms disappeared. "It will help your powers." Then the rest of her was gone.
Sarah turned back to the book and stared at it. "She's up to something." She saw some letters in silver, but they were in English. She lowered herself down and sat Indian style. She cocked her head and gingerly touched the cover. The book began to glow blue and it opened. She leaned back. She feared that it might suck her in some type of trap. But it didn't and the glow went away. The title was on the front page and said Ancient Spells from the Human World. Sarah picked it up and set it in her lap. It was a large book, but very light. She read on: Some of these spells came from the great wizards and witches of their time. You will find a few from Merlin and Morgan Le Fay.
Jareth finished the goblin book and let out a small chuckle. He found it very amusing. He got up from the chair and put the book back up in the bookcase. He decided to go check on the goblins training. He came out of the room and entered the throne room to see is Sarah was still moping about Damia. He wished that she didn't care about her old world. She will soon enough in time, he thought as he saw that she was gone. He shrugged and headed to the new training room that he made last week. He leaned on the doorway and saw a few goblins doing jumping jacks and sit-ups. Some were too small to do anything like that, but Jareth didn't care. He wanted all of them in tip top shape. He was worried that Cinda would attack at any moment. "Faster, you slime!" He said and they screamed. They didn't know that he was standing there. A few ran around blinding from smacking themselves in the back of the head from the floor.
"Ouch!"
"Ow! Ow! Ow!"
"That was my head, idiot!"
"Idiot!" A small goblin shouted in a tiny voice. "Who are you calling an idiot? You're a big fat ninny!"
One had his headband pulled down in his eyes. "Where did everyone go?" He pulled it up and saw Jareth. Then he pulled it back down and stepped on someone's tail.
"Stop stepping on my tail!"
"That was your tail? I thought that was you foot!"
A short goblin wearing spiky armor came out of a hole in the floor. He had a sack in his arms. "I got the water bottles and energy bars."
"I want walnut!"
"Eew! Give me a pickle icing one!" A tall goblin waved his hands in the air. "Besides you owe me."
"I owe you nothing!"
The Goblin King raised his voice and said, "Quiet! Get back to it at once." He turned away shaking his head. "They get dumber every day."
Sarah read a few pages of the book. She was fascinated by the Glamour spell, but she thought she didn't need to use that one. She found the book interesting and sat there for a long time. She wondered why Cinda wanted to give her the book. She didn't notice the Fireys were coming up to her. They were singing and dancing.
"Hey, lady!" One said as he clapped his hands. "Why are you here with your nose in a boring book?" He leaped in front of her and giggled.
She jerked her head up and saw the five of them standing there laughing their heads off. "Not you again." She went to close the book, but a firey grabbed her wrist and pulled her up.
"Come and have a good time with us, but don't take our heads off again." The second one pulled her away from the book.
"Yea!" cried the third one. "We won't forget that. If you weren't our queenie we would have taken yours off."
Sarah stood her ground and jerked her wrist away. "I just want to be left alone and read my book."
"But, queenie!" said the first one as he jumped up and down. "This is our forest. It goes around the Bog and once you take foot in it, we want to party."
"Yea!" The fourth one made a fire. "We don't charge anything."
Sarah took a step back and started to head back for the book, but two fireys grabbed both arms and pulled her away. "Hey! Stop!"
"Come on."
Sarah had it. "I order you to stop." She hissed through her teeth. She made a mad face at them.
The first firey stopped what he was doing and looked at her. "I think she means it, guys!" He said excitedly as he jumped up and down. The others left her go. "Sorry, queenie!"
Sarah fixed her shirt back and picked up her book. She turned to them and they started to sing. She started to go back toward the Goblin City and said, "I wish you would learn when it's a time and a place to party."
They all came to a halt and stared at each other. "Whoa. I think I understand now." One of them blinked twice as they watched her go to the Junkyard.
"Man, she's feisty."
A few days later, Jareth was sitting in his throne reading one of the new books they have gotten from Aboveground. He had one leg propped on the arm as always and gazed down at the pictures. It was the one about the goblins. He snickered at what it said about them. It showed nothing what he had in his kingdom. These were tall and smart. He looked up and turned to Sarah. She was sitting beside him in her seat. "You have to see this when I'm done." He held the book and showed it to her.
The goblins were amazed at the cover. They all thought that Jareth must be the smartest person in the realm since he could read. They were lucky enough to remember what they ate the other day.
Sarah was thinking about her friend when Jareth caught her attention. She wondered how Damia got into a situation like that. She shifted her eyes to him. "Hmmm." Then she looked at the picture and smiled. "That's nothing what we have here." She laughed.
Jareth leaned in, "What's been on your mind, my dear?" He lowered the book and set it on his lap. "You've been like this since we returned."
"Damia." She said with a sigh. "I can believe her parents kicked her out for being pregnant."
"Humans are strange, Sarah." He replied. "They didn't know what to think and want to deal with it. So, they got rid of the problem by throwing her out and they don't have to look at it." He closed the book with a loud slam.
Sarah blurted, "That's awful! My parents wouldn't do that." She couldn't imagine someone would do such a thing to his or her child.
Jareth pointed a finger at her, "But they will put you in a loony bin for being with me."
She sank down in her seat. "Yep. It appears to be so." She hated the thought of being in that place. She knew nothing was wrong with her. But that's going to happen if the police catches me, she thought, then they'll threw Jareth in prison.
"Time here and there is different." He said. "Wait another month and go find her then." He stood up as he grabbed the goblin book. He headed toward the library and stopped. He turned around. "It would be wise to wait, Sarah. Those officers remembered seeing you from those posters your parents made. Best to wait." He pulled the torch and left the room.
Sarah slid down on to the floor with a heavy sigh. She looked around the room and stood up. I need to get some fresh air, she thought. She went to the front door as she put her hands in her pants pockets. She looked at the floor while she walking out of the castle. She just kept going on without paying attention in where she was going. She left the Goblin City and walked through the junk pile. She passed the Junk lady without noticing her. She followed the path to the forest and turned right. She walked around and stopped by a huge oak. She sighed and sat down on the ground.
"Oh, poor, Goblin Queen." said a voice above her. "Poor thing."
Sarah jerked up her head as her heart skipped a beat. She knew that voice very well and was the last she wanted to here. She stood up quickly and took a few steps back. She looked up at the tree and saw Cinda sitting on a branch with her legs crossed. "Get out!" she shouted.
The fae gave her a Cheshire cat's smile. "Are we worried about a friend in the other realm?"
"Guards!" Sarah shouted at the top of her lungs and took a few steps back. She tripped over a tree root and fell flat on her butt.
Cinda placed her hands on her knees, "Tsk. Tsk. Your guards are too bust training for a war that won't happen."
Sarah stood up and dusted herself off. "Stop putting your nose in our business." she wanted the fae to get down so she could beat her up. She was sick and tired of that face.
"Oh, I don't plan to attack this little maze for a long time." She replied. "I know a way for you to see your friend without being caught by the police." She waited for Sarah to let her guard down.
"What?" Sarah yelled. "You go Aboveground and spy on me? I bet you made my parents crazy."
"No, Goblin Queen." Cinda answered. She still kept that smile going and it was making Sarah mad. "I have ways to find these things out myself." She moved her hand to he back and held up a brown book. "This tells you how to become invisible and stuff." She threw it. The book landed by Sarah's feet.
Sarah looked at it, but didn't pick it up. "A spell book?" She peered up at the fae. "What's the catch?" She raised a brow.
Cinda shook her head. "No catch. You can say that it's a very late wedding present." Her wings started to disappear. "You need your own book of shadows anyway." Then her legs vanished. "Check it out and discover things that you never dreamed." Her arms disappeared. "It will help your powers." Then the rest of her was gone.
Sarah turned back to the book and stared at it. "She's up to something." She saw some letters in silver, but they were in English. She lowered herself down and sat Indian style. She cocked her head and gingerly touched the cover. The book began to glow blue and it opened. She leaned back. She feared that it might suck her in some type of trap. But it didn't and the glow went away. The title was on the front page and said Ancient Spells from the Human World. Sarah picked it up and set it in her lap. It was a large book, but very light. She read on: Some of these spells came from the great wizards and witches of their time. You will find a few from Merlin and Morgan Le Fay.
Jareth finished the goblin book and let out a small chuckle. He found it very amusing. He got up from the chair and put the book back up in the bookcase. He decided to go check on the goblins training. He came out of the room and entered the throne room to see is Sarah was still moping about Damia. He wished that she didn't care about her old world. She will soon enough in time, he thought as he saw that she was gone. He shrugged and headed to the new training room that he made last week. He leaned on the doorway and saw a few goblins doing jumping jacks and sit-ups. Some were too small to do anything like that, but Jareth didn't care. He wanted all of them in tip top shape. He was worried that Cinda would attack at any moment. "Faster, you slime!" He said and they screamed. They didn't know that he was standing there. A few ran around blinding from smacking themselves in the back of the head from the floor.
"Ouch!"
"Ow! Ow! Ow!"
"That was my head, idiot!"
"Idiot!" A small goblin shouted in a tiny voice. "Who are you calling an idiot? You're a big fat ninny!"
One had his headband pulled down in his eyes. "Where did everyone go?" He pulled it up and saw Jareth. Then he pulled it back down and stepped on someone's tail.
"Stop stepping on my tail!"
"That was your tail? I thought that was you foot!"
A short goblin wearing spiky armor came out of a hole in the floor. He had a sack in his arms. "I got the water bottles and energy bars."
"I want walnut!"
"Eew! Give me a pickle icing one!" A tall goblin waved his hands in the air. "Besides you owe me."
"I owe you nothing!"
The Goblin King raised his voice and said, "Quiet! Get back to it at once." He turned away shaking his head. "They get dumber every day."
Sarah read a few pages of the book. She was fascinated by the Glamour spell, but she thought she didn't need to use that one. She found the book interesting and sat there for a long time. She wondered why Cinda wanted to give her the book. She didn't notice the Fireys were coming up to her. They were singing and dancing.
"Hey, lady!" One said as he clapped his hands. "Why are you here with your nose in a boring book?" He leaped in front of her and giggled.
She jerked her head up and saw the five of them standing there laughing their heads off. "Not you again." She went to close the book, but a firey grabbed her wrist and pulled her up.
"Come and have a good time with us, but don't take our heads off again." The second one pulled her away from the book.
"Yea!" cried the third one. "We won't forget that. If you weren't our queenie we would have taken yours off."
Sarah stood her ground and jerked her wrist away. "I just want to be left alone and read my book."
"But, queenie!" said the first one as he jumped up and down. "This is our forest. It goes around the Bog and once you take foot in it, we want to party."
"Yea!" The fourth one made a fire. "We don't charge anything."
Sarah took a step back and started to head back for the book, but two fireys grabbed both arms and pulled her away. "Hey! Stop!"
"Come on."
Sarah had it. "I order you to stop." She hissed through her teeth. She made a mad face at them.
The first firey stopped what he was doing and looked at her. "I think she means it, guys!" He said excitedly as he jumped up and down. The others left her go. "Sorry, queenie!"
Sarah fixed her shirt back and picked up her book. She turned to them and they started to sing. She started to go back toward the Goblin City and said, "I wish you would learn when it's a time and a place to party."
They all came to a halt and stared at each other. "Whoa. I think I understand now." One of them blinked twice as they watched her go to the Junkyard.
"Man, she's feisty."