Cara'ch
Hey guys, sorry I've taken so long to update. I've been having to tidy my room and I've had to wait until my parents are out to write this.
So a big thanks to the 'Keep smiling' person ( I have no idea who they are, but they keep saying 'Keep smiling') for reviewing and reading the stories, I'm glad you like them.
Just so you know I am aware that an old story of mine that I abandoned has a character called 'Iola Avalon' but I just love the way it sounds. At various points in this story I'm going to have characters speaking Welsh so if you don't understand it then let me know.
I don't own 'Labyrinth' or any of the characters from it but all original characters are mine. I do realise that I've quoted 'Labyrinth' a lot here.
Iola
"Stupid Goblin King, shouldn't even exist!" I ranted under my breath as I stomped towards the entrance to the Labyrinth. I wondered how I'd gotten myself into this mess and I let my mind wander back.
Earlier that night I'd been sat quite happily reading in my room when Elen, my step-mother, knocked on my door.
"Iola, would you mind babysitting Nia for your father and I?" She asked softly, she was always careful with how she spoke to me, especially since my mother, Manon, had vanished. I have to admit that as much as I'd resented Elen when she'd married my father, Glyn, she'd grown on me and I adored her.
"Of course." I'd smiled. By the time they'd left I was sat next to Nia's cot reading as she slept, she was only 2 and had beautiful blonde hair and big blue eyes. I loved her to pieces; well, mostly, at first I'd hated her! But the moment she'd spoken her first word I realised that it was silly for me to hate her.
She'd started crying not long after our parents had left.
"What's up Nia? Would you like a story?" I smiled gently.
"STORWY!!!!!!!!" She yelled.
"Ok, Once upon a time there lived a young girl. She wasn't particularly pretty but she had the most beautiful little sister in the whole world…" I began.
"No! Not 'at storwy 'Ola! Gob'in storwy!" She interrupted.
"Oh, alright." I sighed, I had no idea why she liked it so much, she'd never even heard the end of it, generally she'd fall asleep before the baby even got taken.
"Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young girl whose stepmother always made her stay home with the baby. And the baby was a spoiled child, and wanted everything to himself, and the young girl was practically a slave. But what no one knew is that the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the the girl, and he had given her certain powers. So one night, when the baby had be particularly cruel to her, she called on the goblins for help!
"Say the right words," the goblins said, "and we'll take the baby to the castle, and you will be free!" But the girl knew, that the Goblin King would keep the baby in his castle for ever and ever and ever, and turn it into a goblin! And so the girl suffered in silence. Until one day, when she was tired from a day of housework, and she was hurt by the harsh words of her stepmother, and she could no longer stand it…" It was generally at this point that she fell asleep but for once she was wide awake so I carried on.
" "I wish the Goblins would take you away right now!" She…" I was interrupted as the lights flickered and went off.
Now I realised that the moment I'd reached that point in the story she'd been taken.
"How was I supposed to know that telling her that stupid story would mean she'd kidnapped by some crazy spandex wearing King?!" I growled. By this time I'd reached a horrible stagnant pool where a small dwarf was peeing into it.
"OH MY GOD! HAVE YOU NO RESPECT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT?!?!?!?!?!" I shrieked at him. He jumped about two feet in the air before putting everything away and turning to face me.
"Who're you?" He grumbled.
"I'm Iola." I growled, I get very angry when people start ruining their environment.
"That's what I thought." He sighed, picking up a little sprayer. He then started spraying tiny flying things which I soon realised were fairies.
"You horrible little thing!" I gasped.
"No I'm not, I'm Hoggle!" He said indignantly.
"Well Hoggle killing those fairies could have a serious environmental effect!" I growled.
"But they're annoying and they bite!" He whined.
"YOU'RE KILLING OFF FAIRIES BECAUSE THEY ANNOY YOU?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" I shrieked again. All of a sudden a nearby bush burst into flames.
"What the HELL?!" I gasped.
"It's never done that before." Hoggle gaped. He quickly regained his composure and put the fire out by peeing on it. Seems his filthy habits finally had a use.
"How do I get into the Labyrinth?" I gulped when the fire was out, this place was starting to freak me out.
"You gets in there." He said, pointing at a door that had suddenly appeared. It creaked open to reveal two long corridors. I turned around to look at Hoggle.
"Which way would you go?" I asked. He limped over towards me.
"I wouldn't go either way." He grinned.
"But if you had to." I insisted.
"Well, then I'd go left." He said after a few moments of deliberation.
"Thank you Hoggle." I smiled, I finally had some idea of which way to go.
"You're really going in then?" He asked curiously.
"Yep, I have to. I need to save my sister. Thank you cyfaill bach." I said before setting off.
I must have run for several miles without any turns.
"Argh!!!! Stupid thing! I shrieked, kicking the walls as I ranted and ran along. Suddenly my foot met thin air and I fell flat on my face.
"What the fuck?!" I gasped as I picked myself up and dusted myself down; I was covered in glitter, just like everything else here. But the glitter just wouldn't come off. In the end I gave up and just started to carry on figuring the Labyrinth out.
So as to avoid getting lost I began marking which way I'd been going with my black eyeliner. I always had my eyeliner with me. I never went anywhere without it, or my red lipstick. As I found myself at yet another dead end I sighed in frustration.
"Let's try another way." I muttered. I walked back and looked down at my mark. It had moved! Silently I crept to a different stone and made another mark before standing quietly to one side. The entire stone lifted up and a little creature began to move it around. Suddenly I jumped out and on top of the stone.
"HA!" I yelled as a squished whatever it was underneath me.
"Let that be a lesson to you to not change people's marks!" I snapped before looking around.
Where there had simply been a dead end before there was now two doors with four little heads poking out from behind two shields, two right-side up and two upside down.
"Is this place changing?" I asked softly.
"Yes." The upside down head behind the blue shield smirked.
"What do I do?" I sighed, just when things seemed to be alright, everything changed again.
"Well, the only way out of here is to try one of these doors!" The other upside down head said.
"One of them leads to the castle at the end of the labyrinth, and the other one leads to…" The blue one said again.
"Ba-baba-BOOM!" The red one giggled.
"Certain DEATH!" The blue one finished. All four of the heads went "Ooooooooooooohhhhh!", much to my annoyance.
"So which is which?" I asked, feeling slightly exasperated.
"We can't tell you." The red one said suddenly.
"Why not?" I was getting really angry by this time.
"Because we don't know; but they do." The blue one answered, looking up at the right-side up heads.
"Ok, I'll ask them." I sighed.
"You can only ask one of us. It's in the rules." The red right-side up head said quickly.
"And one of us always tells the truth and one of us always lies. That's another rule. He always lies." The blue one grinned.
"I don't I tell the truth!" The red one said indignantly.
"I'll stop you there because I can tell that this will go on for a while." I interrupted.
"Would he tell me that this door leads to the castle?" I asked the red guard.
"Um…yes…" It replied after a few moments.
"Then this door leads to certain death while the other leads to the castle." I grinned.
"But how do you know? He could be telling the truth." It asked, trying to confuse me.
"But then you wouldn't be so if you said that he would tell me that this door leads to the castle then I know it's the other one. And if you're telling the truth then he would be lying so if he told me that this one leads to the castle then I know it's the other one." I smirked smugly.
"Is that right?" It asked the blue guard.
"I have no idea, I've never really understood it." The blue one answered honestly.
"It's right! It's a piece of cake!" I grinned as I walked through the blue door. Suddenly the ground swallowed me up and I fell down into a hole.