Chapter 5

(Goblin's just want to have Fun!)

Quietly, Whippley entered the empty school hallway. "No get caught by Lady or Princess." Whippley reminded his fellow goblins. The others simply nodded.

"Others see us?" Widget asked.

Whippley shrugged. "King just say no let Lady or Ari catch us. Din say nothing bout anyun else." He replied, his tail moving from side to side.

"Ooh look. Girl of car we put in water," A short dark green goblin with pointy ears named Ricket said seeing Delilah approach. The Goblin's stayed out of sight as the girl came closer. "Watch this..." Just as Delilah was almost to them, Ricket jumped out.

"AHHH!" Delilah let out a blood curdling scream and went running the other direction.

The goblins giggled, pleased. "She scream loud." Digger said pleased. "Do it again!"

"She ran way. How we gonna make her scream if she ain't here?" Widget said to the orange goblin with claws and thumped the side of his head.

"Don't know, but we better hide!" Whippley said, annoyed. He scampered up the wall and disappeared into a vent on the ceiling with the others right behind him.

From their hiding spot they watched as a few adults came to the spot where Delilah had been scared. They looked around the area but found nothing.

"Perhaps losing her car in the lake was more traumatic for her than we thought." A school secretary commented.

"I'll send her to the nurse's office." A short heavy set dark haired woman said. The brunette nodded and they walked away.

"Scare girl more?" Ricket suggested. "I follow. She was mean to Lady." Whippley smiled mischievously and the goblins left the tunnel and silently followed the short woman as she collected Delilah from the office and took her to the nurse's office.

"This goon be fun." Digger said with anticipation.

The goblins hid in the shadows and waited. Once the woman was gone the goblins entered the room.

Delilah was on a bed, still shaking. The goblins were on the floor where she couldn't see them. Whippley smiled at his fellow trouble makers and silently crawled up the wall. Delilah's eyes were closed as she tried to calm down.

Whippley crawled along the ceiling until he was over the top of her and waited. He waited a little longer before giving up. Goblins are not the most patient of creatures. Slowly he lowered his tail toward her, then gently he let the ball of fluff on the end of his tail touch her forehead. Delilah absently brushed away at it. Whippley waited and brushed her cheek.

"What is..." Opening her eyes she did the only thing she could think of and screamed bloody murder. She jumped off the bed and screamed again seeing the other goblins.

"No,no,no,no, this isn't, this isn't …no...no" Delilah's brain shut down and she hit the ground.

"That gonna leave a mark." Torch giggled.

"She deserve it. Let go play somewhere else." Whippley told his brother. Pleased with their little game of torment of the girl, they began scouring the school looking for more fun. That meant splitting up.

Whippley and Widget entered a dark classroom through the air vent. The class was watching a movie, making it easy for the creatures to move about undetected. Widget smiled and began tying everyone's shoe laces together. Whippley on the other hand began randomly taking things from people and putting the articles in other people's bags. Whippley loved how humans were so judgmental and quick to accuse and think the worst of each other.

Torch and Digger made their way through the school before ending up where they could have some fun in the cafeteria kitchen. The two goblins smiled mischievously at each other.

"Mashed potato's" Digger said and giggled. They looked around the kitchen and watched as the two women left the room to get more supplies. Once they were gone he headed for the large metal tub of potatoes. He put his first claw into it and finding it hot, he yanked his hand out and hissed.

"Fire!" Torch said looking at the stove. He went over and immediately began playing with the burners.

"Hey! No get on me!" Torch said as potato hit him. He reached over and picking up an egg threw it at Digger.

"Hey!" Two seconds later Digger threw mashed potatoes purposely at the fire loving goblin. The food fight was on! Potatoes, eggs, flour, applesauce, bread and milk soon covered the entire school kitchen.

"What that?" Torch said smelling something.

"I don't…uh oh."Digger said as his eyes went wide the two goblins looked over to see not only was food everywhere but some bread had landed on the stove as well as a towel. The stove was on fire.

"That not good," Torch said as the fire began to spread.

"Let get out of here!" Digger announced and the two goblins scampered away.

Meeker and Ricket found themselves in the library. There was a class inside trying to find books. With a nod at each other the two goblins split up.

Meeker slipped behind the library checkout counter. There was no one there at the time so he carefully approached the desk and running his fingers over the key board, hit enter and watched as the computer began to overload. Snickering, he slipped past the counter and into the back room. Staying out of the view of a worker in the back he began to move around things, messing up their order and placement.

He crawled up the side of a shelf to pull down a few articles from the top, when he suddenly slipped. He fell, knocking down some magazine holders and, grabbing another shelf, he swung onto it, only to have it give way. He cursed as the shelf fell. He hit the ground and quickly jumped out of sight. Meeker knew the loud crash would attract the workers attention. Looking at the other shelves, he noticed they were sagging. The shelves were overfilled and the added little bit of his weight had caused it to crash. Meeker smiled. He'd caused an even bigger mess than he'd hoped.

Ricket wandered around the shelves of books and occasionally would push one out to fall on a student's head before they could grab the book they were after. As the student reached down to pick up the fallen book, Ricket would cause the book the student needed to suddenly go missing as he flicked it away. Sometimes hitting another student in the process.
Richet continued on and smiled seeing the library computers. The computers were how most students found their materials. With a wicked grin the goblin headed for the power box. No power meant no computer use. Ricket quickly headed to the library control box and turned off the power.

Suddenly a loud ringing rang through the school. "That new." Ricket told himself. He'd never had that happen before. He wondered when they'd put alarms on power boxes.

"Fire Alarm!" Someone screamed.

Meeker and Ricket both groaned. If there was a fire, Torch was probably responsible. Elsewhere in the school, two other goblins groaned. They also knew Torch was responsible.
Sarah and Ari stood on the football field watching as fire trucks battled a fire that had started in the school cafeteria.

"Mrs. Crawling is a lousy cook but I didn't think she'd set the kitchen on fire." Lola commented shaking her head.

"Hey did you hear about Delilah?" Jenna asked.

"Yeah she screamed so loud when she saw the frog." Lola laughed.

"Yeah, but I meant this afternoon." Jenna replied. "She's hallucinating and having a mental breakdown. She swears some creatures were trying to get her." The girls all laughed except Sarah.

Sarah listened and, after hearing of a few other things that had happened, she couldn't help but think of goblins. She was confused, she could believe goblins were responsible for at least some of the things, but it was daytime. Didn't goblins only come out at night?
The goblins were quite pleased with themselves as they returned home.

"That woman here again." Rolly pouted, crossing his arms. "Me no like her." The small gray bumpy skinned goblin sneered.

"She mean." Tullia agreed sitting in the window looking down at the Fae woman. The female goblin narrowed her eyes at the woman. "Mean and no fun."

"Lady Sarah will be fun." Squirt told them. "Princess teach lady how to have fun." The other goblins smiled and nodded. They may not have had a lot of time with Sarah, but they had watched her and liked her.

"I want have fun!" Noxy pouted.

Tullia looked down at the blonde haired Fae woman. "She want to look good for King right?" The other goblins nodded. She smiled and the other goblins smiled back with understanding. It was play time.

Goblins don't view things like most. To them, play was whatever made them happy. Others might hate them and what they did, but to them it was fun. They loved their king because he understood them and rarely punished them. Even when they got carried away.

"Think King get mad?" Rolly asked.

"Nah he no like Fae woman either. We might even get treat!" Squirt replied. Rolly nodded liking the idea of a treat.

"Here's what we do…" Tullia began.

Lady Yolanda sat in the garden patiently waiting for the King to pass by. She already knew he made an afternoon trip through the garden on his return to court. She checked her hair and made sure her dress lay around her gracefully. King Jareth was a very eligible bachelor and she wanted to land him and become queen.

Jareth was not the only unmarried royal, but he was certainly one of the most powerful. She had tried to catch Prince Amador's attention but been unsuccessful. The woman would have tried King Soren but had never been able to get close to him. If it wasn't for her father having business with Jareth she wouldn't have the opportunity to get close to the Goblin King either. This was her last day to catch his eye and she wanted to make good use of it. Especially since the last two encounters had been disastrous. The first being she'd slipped on a waxed floor and fallen in a heap at his feet. The second had been after she'd somehow gotten locked out during a rain storm and had looked like a drowned rat. This might be her last chance.

Rolly rolled down the stairs and into the garden where the woman was. He didn't hide himself and stayed in plain view. Stopping, he unrolled out of his ball form and looked at her. He walked over and offered a flower to her. "Flower?"

"Not from you." She said coldly and flipped her hair as she turned her attention away from him.

"But flowers nice in hair. King like it." Rolly told her.

"Fine." She sighed and took the flower. Without even looking it over she put it in her hair. Yolanda wanted the King's attention. If he liked a woman with flowers in her hair, so be it. Rolly took a few steps and, rolling back into his ball, rolled away.

Yolanda sat there patiently waiting. Any time now the king would come by and see how beautiful and alluring she was.

A minute passed and as a bug neared her, she swished at it. Another one followed and she waved her hand at it as well. Without warning she was suddenly surrounded by flying little pests.

"Ahhh!" She screamed, as she was unable to get the bugs off of her.

"I help." Noxy said and, grabbing on to her dress, crawled up and removed the flower, causing the bugs to leave her and go after the flower.

"Noxy, you get her dirty!" Tullia informed the Fae woman. Yolanda looked down to see dirt now covered her dress.

"We fix!" Squirt said and, pulling out a hose, began spraying the woman down. Yolanda screamed.

"That not help." Noxy said. Now instead of just dirt, she had mud on her. Outraged she screamed again.

"What is..." Jareth's sentence died on his lips as he saw the woman was covered in mud and water and her hair was a complete mess. "Do I even want to know what disaster has befallen you this time?"

Yolanda didn't even curtsey as she sprinted away crying.

"I don't believe my goblins like Lady Yolanda." The Goblin King commented to his captain.

"At least Torch isn't here. She could be on fire." Chale remarked.

"Good Lord, Torch went with Whippley?"Jareth said. "I do hope they aren't causing too much damage."

"Speaking of." Chale said seeing the group of goblins walking toward them.

"You're back rather early." Jareth said.

"Torch caught school on fire." Whippley huffed. Both Jareth and Chale's eyes widened at the group of goblins in concern.

"No worry King. Princess and Lady fine." Widget assured his King. Looking at Tullia he said, "We had fun."

"We did to." She replied and the band of goblins walked away.

"Better the school than the castle." Chale sighed. He didn't need to see the school to know it was probably a complete disaster. Jareth simply nodded and the duo continued on to court.

Author's note: Hey I need suggestions for a Halloween costume for Arianna in the next chapter. Send me your ideas. Keep in mind she's a tomboy. The next Chapter will center on Ari and Sarah and trust. It will be the chapter after that Ari will learn her identity.
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