Chapter 3
Visions Unwind
Meg woke with a startin the middle of the night. She was covered in sweat, yet she couldn't remember if she was having a fit or a nightmare. She looked down and saw her night dress was sticking to her body. She was panting softly, her breathing was becoming normal, and her shaking body was calming down.
Meg looked over at the unusual clock to her left. It was a square wooden shape with the numbers in the middle. It was also encrested with jewels and precious stones. Meg sighed and snickered a little. She knew the Goblin King liked to out do himself with everything. He also gave her and her sister, Lyss, beautifully hand designed dresses. Her sister's colors primarially consisted of Black, Violet and Wine Red; while hers were Forest Green, Midnight Blue and Lavender.
Meg sighed and pulled thecovers off of her and crawled out of her queen size bed draped with a canopy of Baby Blue and White lace. She walked over to her vanity and looked into the mirror. The pale moonlight was pouring into her room casting an elegant glow on her skin as if she was born of the moon.
She looked at her reflection. Though her skin looked as though it was made out of silk, she thought she looked horrible. Her hair was ratty from tossing and turn moments before.She grabbed her brush and combed through her hair until it was perfect with out any snarles. She set her brush down and closed her eyes. Her eyes scrunched together. She felt a strong force. An evil. Images flashed through her mind. Images she would have prefered not to have seen. A second jolt of pain shot through her neck to her forhead with more images.
Meg opened her mouth in a silent scream, with her hands over her ears. The pain was getting to be too much to bear. She collapsed to her knees, her hands still over her ears, eyes still squeezed shut and her mouth still open with no luck of hearing a voice come out. With in seconds the images were gone and she was relieved to feel the pain vanish and have her body feel as though nothing had happened.
She stood up and looked around in worry as if someone was watching her. Meg clasped a hand onto her vanity for support. After the strange incident, she felt like passing out. When she caught her balance she walked back to her bed and crawled in. She took one last good look around her room, to make sure her suspisions were false. Meg layed down and sleep took over her again. She was completely unaware pf the piece of parchment she had knocked off of her vanity.
Meg woke up again a few hours later to the brightened sunlight seeping through her partly opend curtains and open window. She gave a confused look, she didn't remember if she had left the window open.
A knock came at the door, which made her jump.
"Meg, are you up yet?" called her sister's voice from the otherside of the oak wood doors.
"Yeah, I just woke up. Did I miss breakfast?" answered back Meg. "You can come in you know, I'm not in the nude." Without being able to put in another sentence, Lyss rushed in and closed the doors.
"Meg we have a problem. Toby is missing. He hasn't come back. Did you at all after last night or anything?" Meg looked shocked.
"No, why?" Meg was shocked to hear the lie come from her mouth. Why was she lieing after she just found out that Toby was missing?
"Jareth is beginning to think he may have gone evil again and joined forces with whatever is after us"
"No, Toby isn't like that. He wouldn't just go behind my back and betray me." Meg was upset that her sister would have said somethng like that even if it was coming from the Goblin King.
"Who, calm down. I believe you, I was just saying what Jareth had said. That's all. I know Toby wouldn't do anything that stupid." Meg nodded in agreement. "Anyway Jareth wants us to meet him in the throne room. He says he wants us to go into hiding until he was able to destroy the evil. I tld him that we fight to but he wouldn't listen"
"Yeah, I know how it feels to have someone not listen to you." spoke Meg in a shallow voice. Her mind was being pulled back to last night. She remembered everything, down to every last image she saw. She returned to reality with her older sister staring at her oddly. "What?"
"Is something wrong, Meg?" Meg blushed and quickly walked over to her to her closet, looking vigerously through her dresses, well pretending to anyway. "Megera, don't lie to me." Meg tried to hide her guilt, but she desperatly wanted to tell her sister what had happened last night, but she was worried about her reactions. So she turned around and acted as if nothing was wrong.
"Im fine, I'm just still a bit tired that's all. You didn't answer my question before. Did I miss breakfast?"
Lyss watched her sister eat slowly and take small sips from her drink. She was becoming irratated from feeling as though Meg was hiding something from her, but she was not the one to argue with her. Lyss turned her attentionback to her food and went into a deep thought about the meeting in the throne room.
"Meg, Lyss. I'm glad you could make it. I assume your sister told you about Toby?" Meg nodded her reply to the Goblin King. Jareth looked sadly at Meg. He knew of the Kindling love between she and Toby. Lyss looked at Meg and saw the hurt, but she had to snap out of her thoughts in order for them to talk about the real reason why they were meeting here.
"Jareth. Meg and I honestly think we should help in the fight. To help win." Jareth looked at Lyss. He could see she was telling the ruth. That she and Meg wrre not afraid to fight. They ready to defend their home, but soon they would have no home to protect. Bits and pieces were disappearing and were becoming the human dimension.
"I'm sorry, but Labrynia will no longer be its magical self. In the outer reaches it is becoming human. Goblins, Elves and Murks are becoming human." "Uh, that's not good is it." asked Meg. She quickly away realizing she had just asked a silly question. "Sorry"
"Don't be." said Jareth. He looked from Meg to Lyss and then sighed. "Alright, you may fight along side me, but only for a short while. You'll both do your part and then go into hiding until I come and get you. Do we have an agreement?" Both girls nodded and they headed off to breakfast.
Lyss hear snapping and she pulled her head up from her hand where it had been resting. She yelped and pushed back from the table, nearly forcing the chair to fall backwards.
"Whoa calm down." said Meg already at her side. "I was only snapping my fingers in your face because you were in a trance for the last five minutes. Are you ok?" Lyss's heart beat went back to normal and she answered her question.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I was just thinking." Lyss smiled at both Jareth and Meg to reassure them. They looked convinced but she knew they weren't.
The day had gone on with incident unless you include the servant goblins getting into a fight about was going to die first. Meg was the one to snap first.
"If you don't shut up, you'll both die at the same time." The two goblins knew that she was practically a royal being as the Goblin King's castle, so they both listened to her.
That night when everyone was asleep, Meg crept out of her room and down the hall to Toby's room. She walked in and shut the door quietly. "She was only snooping around to find out where Toby had gone. She was desperatly worried about him and wanted to make sure he was alright. Before she turned to face the inside of the room, she sw a shadow move at her right. She turned around slowly and leaned up against the room in fright, but she couldn't lean up against the door for long, because she fell to the ground with images forcing into her mind again. She moaned in pain and passed out after she saw twp pairs of hands in her visions reach out to her and in reality she felt someone lift her up. Then everything went black.
Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I'm sorry I haven't updated this in a while. BlackWingedAngel16.