Okay, so, here's my next little excerpt BEFORE 'As the World Burns'.
I've actually had this for awhile, I just needed to tweak it a little bit to fit the story.
Enjoy!
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It was an ordinary day in the Goblin Kingdom.
The Goblins were doing things that goblins do, and their King was watching a certain girl in his "glow balls of coolness", a wildly popular term coined by a goblin that was now probably at this very moment swimming in the Bog of Eternal Stench. And no, the Goblin King did not think he was stalking. In fact, he was just brooding and making sure that she was okay at all times. Really! It was not stalker-like at all.
The Goblins, on the other hand, had different ideas. The 'Lady', as they so referred to her, was now revered so highly she was only one half-step below Jareth, their King. They did not appreciate the fact that she wasn't with them in the Kingdom. Hadn't their King told them that the Lady was going to be their Queen? Hasn't happened yet, obviously! And what about that kid in the Waldo-looking pair of pajamas? (Yes, the goblins did know Waldo and quite enjoyed 'finding' him after several, several drinks) At least, couldn't the kid have stayed if not the Lady?
Their King's methods – which mostly involved following the Lady as an owl and spying on her in his glow balls of coolness – were not to their liking. They tried to drop subtle hints, from telling him that they were tired of his moodiness and that he should just get out there and win her heart (that stopped after the fifth goblin got dropped out of the highest tower of the castle) or sneaking in a boom box and playing a song about stalkers by some type of policemen, which they thought would give him the message. Instead, Jareth had chucked his glow ball at it, turning it into a chicken, much to the goblins delight, and yelled, "I AM NOT A DAMN STALKER!!" before conjuring up another glow ball and resuming his surveying of the Lady.
So, after all their subtleness, they decided they'd need to take things into their own hands.
The first attempt didn't go so well. They'd snuck into her bedroom and Snickle, their self-elected leader out of Skittles, Noggin, Smushy, Nickels, and Bingo, decided that it would be fun to surprise the lady by dressing up as her dolls and jumping out at her when she went to bed. But the Lady didn't think it was very funny and started screaming at them too. "YOU ROTTEN NINCOMPOOPS!! I THOUGHT I WAS THROUGH WITH YOU!! GET OUT OF MY ROOM, AND GET THE HELL OUT OF MY LIFE AND MY DOLL'S CLOTHES!!" After getting all the doll clothes off of them and putting them into the washing machine and muttering something about how the only thing she wanted was a night alone in the house without anyone to tell her what to do and without any stinking goblins ruining her life. Snickle assumed 'ruining' was good, and so they stuck around until she calmed down enough to tell them that if they didn't leave right this instant, she would find a knife and commit a major crime. They didn't know what she meant, but when the Lady ran to the kitchen to get a knife to show how serious she was and showed them all the pointy end, they decided it would be for the best if they left her alone for a little while.
Finally, finally the Lady got as tired of their King stalking her as they were and told his leather-clad buttocks off! Then things got all lovey-dovey and googly-eyed, and it made the goblins sick.
Still, they were happy that at least the two were back together. The Lady would be coming back any day now, right?
Wrong! The Lady decided she wanted to go to "college" and "act", whatever the heck those were. The King still watched her in his glow balls, and spent a chicken-load of time with her Aboveground. The goblins were tempted to revolt. They wanted the Lady in the underground, gosh darn it!
But she wasn't ready to come back yet, according to Kingy, also known as Mr. Hot Stuffs. A few more goblins got dropped in the bog for those nicknames, but they liked them.
So, they waited.
… and waited.
… and waited.
… and waited.
… still waiting…
… this is getting boring…
… and waited.
… and, yeah, still waiting.
The goblins began to wonder how flighty their new Queen was.
Which earned her a nickname…
Flighty Sarah Williams!
And then the King dumped them in the Bog.