Chapter Four - What the Bloody Hell is going on?!

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A/N - OK, it's a shorty today. Holidays are over and I'm snowed under with revision!
Fewer updates I'm afraid or lots of little ones like this.

P.S - Big thank you to Clover for the idea about it being Trin's fault. ^_^ laters!

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Hilarity looked around her living room, eyes widening with shock. Thousands of
Goblins of all shapes and sizes were wreaking havoc in her apartment, breaking her
crockery and fiddling with the household computer and the coffee machine. Some of
them were building little camps under tables and chairs or making themselves very
comfortable inside cupboards and drawers. The Goblin King sat calmly on the sofa as
if nothing was happening and Sarah was cautiously watching Caradoc as he played
with what looked like a small torch.

"Jareth, what the bloody hell is going on?!?" shouted Hilarity, suddenly coming to her
senses.

"Aunty Hils, look what I've found." said Caradoc happily holding up the torch,
unaware of his godmother's spiralling temper.

"Oh no, Caradoc, that's not a toy. It's an all purpose swiz army lazer beam!" she said
worriedly (the swiz star system is famous for its army lazer beams but whenever an
interstellar war broke out it conveniently stays neutral). "Just be careful OK!" she
turned back to the original focus of her anger "I'll repeat my question. What's going on
and why are there seven hundred Goblins in my front room?!!!"

"We had to evacuate, my Lady!" said one of the more intelligent if not enthusiastic
creatures. Hilarity was briefly surprised at its Russian accent.

"I'm afraid Boris is right." said Jareth who upon closer inspection looked a lot more
tired than usual "The Labyrinth has been invaded by pirates and we had to leave."

"What? How?" said Thomas.

"I don't know, they took us completely by surprise! The guard fought them off the best
they could but they were just too strong. The only option was to evacuate."

"Yes, but why here?!" said Hilarity through gritted teeth. Goblins were fine in their
natural habitat but not on her nice clean carpet.

"Because this is all your fault!" Jareth shouted.

"My fault! How can it be my fault?"

"You must have told them the way through the Labyrinth via the underwater coral
caves."

"I did no such thing. How could you suspect your best friend of doing something like
that?" Hilarity yelled. She would have been hurt if she wasn't so damn angry.

"You're the only other person who knows how to get in that way. I showed you on that
fishing holiday we went on!"

"That was seven years ago! You know my memory's not that good!" said Hilarity "It
must have been someone else. But the only other person who went with us on that trip
was..."

The arguing friends looked at each other as it dawned on them, clear as crystal.

"Trin!" they both cried in unison.