Cara'ch
Hey guys. Here's the next instalment. Earlier I had a review that stated that and I quote here "It's kinda gross that Seth has fallen for a girl JUST like his mother. X". Iola is not exactly like Sarah, I will grant you that there are similarities but for one Iola is a major Goth, I haven't described her makeup yet because there's going to be a reflection from Seth about Iola. Also Iola is actually Welsh and she will be speaking more Welsh later on, especially when she gets to the Bog of Eternal Stench.
I don't own 'Labyrinth' or any of the characters from it but all original characters are mine. I may quote 'Labyrinth' here, I'll have to see how it pans out. An I will have loads of Welsh proverbs here.
"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.
I refused to scream as I fell down the hole, but suddenly things from the wall started grabbing me and slowed my fall. Of course they were also attempting to feel me up. As I looked closer at them I realised that they were hands.
"Listen you pervy hands! If you don't stop trying to feel me up then I'm gonna rip you out the wall, got it?" I snarled. They immediately stopped feeling me up. Instead a load of them made a face.
"Which way do you want to go?" It asked.
"Huh?" I said, confused.
"Up or down?" Another face made from hands clarified.
"Umm…whichever way is quickest to get to the castle." I said slowly, not sure what was going to happen.
"She chose down!" A third face said in a sing-song voice.
"Down?" Another one giggled. Then they started passing me down until I got to the bottom and I was unceremoniously dumped into a dark hole , after which the hands pulled a grate over the hole.
"Oof!" I said as I landed. Suddenly a light was struck and I could see around where I was.
"Oh great! I'm in an oubliette!" I grumbled.
"You know what one is?" Came Hoggle's voice.
"Of course, the name comes from the French 'to forget'. We have them in my world too. What are you doing here?" I was still grumbling.
"I knew you'd get into trouble as soon as I met you." He said, his mind obviously elsewhere.
"Well I may be in trouble now but 'Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom.' So I'll get out eventually." I smirked.
"I don't know about that but I've come to give you a hand. I know a shortcut out of the whole Labyrinth." He smirked back.
"And would this shortcut happen to be back at the beginning?" I asked, my right eyebrow arched.
"Wha…how did you know that?" He gasped.
"Just a hunch. The Goblin King would never let you come and help unless it was a trick." I sighed. Suddenly an idea came to me.
"Listen, if you'll take me as far through the Labyrinth as you can then I'll give you this." I said, pulling out a small silver necklace of mine. It had small pieces of rose quartz, turquoise and topaz all over it.
"I'm not going to promise anything but I'll see what I can do." He said eventually.
He walked over to a small bundle of rags and kicked them to one side. Underneath them was a small door which he lifted up and put against the wall. He opened it and out fell a load of brooms and a mop.
"Oops." He said, closing it and opening it the other way. Outside the door there was a long stone corridor that had large stone heads all over the place.
"GO BACK!" The first one boomed as we walked past.
"DON'T GO ON!" The second one said, in the same booming voice.
"THIS IS NOT THE WAY!" The third one was very dramatic when he boomed his warning.
"DO NOT CONTINUE FOR THE…" The fourth began but I interrupted it.
"Oh shut up!" I snapped.
"Oh please, I haven't said it in such a long time!" It whined, it's normal voice fairly quiet and just a little bit northern.
"Oh fine. Just don't expect me to pay any attention." I sighed.
"Of course not!" It said happily before clearing its throat.
"FOR THE PATH YOU TAKE WILL LEAD TO CERTAIN DESTRUCTION!" It boomed finally.
"Thank you very much." It said but I wasn't listening because at that point a small crystal rolled past Hoggle and I before stopping at a beggar.
"Well, what have we here?" The beggar asked.
"Umm…nothing." Hoggle mumbled.
"Nothing? Nothing? Nothing…tra la la!" He said as he removed his disguise to reveal the Goblin King.
"Hogface…" He asked.
"Hoggle." I corrected. Hoggle gave me a small smile.
"Are you helping this girl?" He asked.
"Um…no?" Hoggle didn't sound sure.
"Because if you were I'd have to suspend you over the Bog of Eternal Stench!" He snapped at poor Hoggle. This made me see red and I pushed the Goblin King back roughly.
"Hey! Listen! Why don't you pick on someone your own size, you big bully!" I yelled. Suddenly the beggar costume burst into flames. The Goblin King threw it to the floor an conjured a crystal which turned into a load of water to put the fire out.
"That seems to happen a lot around you." Hoggle commented dryly. The Goblin King looked at me with slightly surprised eyes. Then he seemed to do a small double take before vanishing.
"Hmm… He's never done that before. Come on then." Hoggle said cheerfully as he lead me out.
Seth
When Iola had put her hands on me to push me back I felt my heart begin to speed up rapidly. It was a miracle that she never noticed. But when the beggar costume I'd used burst into flames when she was yelling at me I got the fright of my life.
"That seems to happen a lot around you." Hoggle said dryly to her. Those words put me in mind of a young dragon who's just learning to control their powers. I looked at her surprised. As I looked into her blue eyes (which were, as usual ringed in black with a small amount of red above the top black line) I noticed something that wasn't normal. Her iris had spread so that it covered the white of her eye and the pupil had become a black slit. She had the eyes of a Dragon! (Picture on profile) I realised that at that moment I needed to talk to Eirianwen Frith.
Iola
Hoggle lead me to a collapsed part of the wall and stopped.
"It's still here." He sighed nostalgically.
"What's still here?" I asked softly.
"When my best friend, Sarah, ran the Labyrinth we ended up getting chased by the Cleaners down here and we managed to get this section of the wall collapsed to escape them." He explained, tears starting to well up in his eyes. I pulled a handkerchief out of my pocket and wordlessly handed it to Hoggle who mopped up his tears.
"Keep it, I have more at home." I smiled as he tried to hand it back to me.
We climbed up the ladder that was there, avoiding the missing rungs, and exited from a sort of vase in a hedge maze. Before we could say anything an old man with a chicken for a hat walked over to a stone chair and sat in it.
"Excuse me!" I called as I strode over to him, he looked up.
"A young girl! And who's this?" He asked as he focused on Hoggle and I.
"My friend. Listen, we need to get through the Labyrinth. Can you help?" I asked.
"He travels fastest who travels alone." The old man said, looking pointedly at Hoggle.
"But 'Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.'" I snorted at the 'wise-man'.
"Please, leave a contribution in the little box." The chicken said as Hoggle and I turned to leave.
"Fine." I said, dropping a small gold and amethyst brooch (Picture on profile) into the box. I'd always hated that thing but for some reason tad insisted that I kept it on me. After I'd taken it off, for some reason I felt stronger. We started to walk away.
"Why did you say that I'm your friend?" Hoggle asked suddenly.
"Because you are, you're the only one who's actually being nice to me." I smiled at him. He smiled back at me. Suddenly there was a roaring of pain. I kept my hand on Hoggle and dragged him towards the sound. There was a red shaggy creature tied upside down and being tortured by little goblins with small bald moles with big teeth.
"Ludo!" Hoggle gasped.
"You know him?" I asked, turning to look at Hoggle.
"He helped Sarah too." He said simple. I was curious about why Sarah made Hoggle so sad but I could sense that he didn't want to talk about it. I spotted a rock on the ground and picked it up.
"I hope I actually hit my target." I whispered. Normally I can't throw for toffee, and normally it doesn't really matter. But now I had to help someone by throwing something. Luck was on my side and I hit one of the goblins, knocking him out. The otherrs stopped what they were doing and picked up their fallen comrade before running off with him and his little bald mole thing. I ran over to Ludo with Hoggle.
"Hoggle!" Ludo said.
"That's right, Iola and I are going to help you." He replied as I undid the rope. Unfortunately Ludo dropped and landed on Hoggle. He did get off quite quickly.
"Ola fwend?" Ludo asked.
"That's right. I smiled.
Seth
I finally found Eirianwen Frith. She was sat with my mother having tea.
"Hello Seth, how's the runner doing?" Mother asked, smiling.
"Well actually I wanted to talk to Eirian about her." I replied.
"What's up?" Eirianwen asked.
"Did you know that the runner this time is as least half Dragon?" I sighed.
"What?" Both mother and Eirianween gasped.
"Yes, she has Dragon eyes and apparently things keep setting on fire when she gets annoyed." I explained.
"What does she look like?" Eirian asked. I quickly conjured up a crystal and showed her Iola.
"Fy merch!" She gasped.
"What?" I asked, not sure I'd understood her.
"That's my daughter!" She said slowly.