All characters are owned by George Macdonald except whatever OC's that I manage to come up with, purely fan made and inspired after reading all the great PatG fanfics
Not inspired by the song disturbia, though I suppose it could have been
"Oh Lootie" the princess questioned, "do you think the mountain is flat on top."
"Why do you ask little Princess?"
"No reason, Lootie," the princess muttered, praying that it was so she could stand upon it and reach to the stars with her tiny open palms.
Irenie pranced around the lush green hills while her nurse maid Lootie followed haggardly after her, once in a while calling the princess back to stop her from running too far away. Irenie had noticed how Lootie absolutely refused to let the princess do any investigating on her own and it was absolutely stunting Irenie's excitement. If she was never allowed to let her curiosity wonder the wide open hills and the thick rural forests what fun was there in being outside?
They had been out since morning, hiking and hiking since the Princess had been promised by her father that she could. And yet had no fun at all; the little Princess wanted adventure, not restricted boredom.
Turnip mewed in her hands, wishing to venture of on his own as well, he was a basic grey kitten, sweet and basically a ball of fluff that purred.
She patted his head comfortingly, knowing she felt the same and began to think up a plot to get them both out into the open world.
So the little princess made up her mind to run and hide from her dear nurse Lootie, just this one time so that she may have an adventure for once. She was sure that her nurse wouldn't mind all that much, after all she would be back before Lootie worried about little Princess Irenie for even a second.
"Lootie, may I pick some pansies?" The nurse thought upon it; she would be able to catch her breath while the princess took to collecting her favourite flower underneath the willow trees that grew plentiful in this area and the Princess did enjoy those flowers dearly, especially when she could bring them back and show them to the King, the tiniest grin always shinning on her sweet face when she offered them up for inspecting.
"Why... of course you may my darling princess, for your father, the King, perhaps?"Irenie nodded ecstatically, and whipped around so that she bolted right underneath the trees where she had spotted a few of the pansies, thick and colourful. Turnip had jumped from her arms and rather than spend his time in the unforgiving stench of the flowers he curled up into a soft grey ball.
"Be careful my Princess," Lootie shouted after her and the Princess gave a wave of acknowledgement and once again continued on her path away from the watchful eyes of her nurse
"That girl will wear me down," the nurse smiled woefully to herself, if only she could keep a firmer hand upon the young Princess but she was so weak-kneed whenever the Princess wanted something and after all she was just a girl, what with her mother dead and her father gone most of the time.
They were a good ways away from the cliff, it was still bright out and the sun flickered evenly and Irenie had headed away from the cliff anyway.
Princess Irenie was out of her sight, she knew not to go far, she would stay close so her nanny could find her, "Irenie," she called out in spite of her reassuring thoughts, "Princess Irenie?" she called once more, hoping she was not out of her mind to be the slightest bit worried.
Lootie looked over a tree, hoping she could see the princess, turnip seemed to be awake now, looking around for his mistress and mewing softly.
"Irenie," Lootie called out sternly this time.
A flash of pink shimmered behind the bushes and Irenie giggled slightly to hear her nurse so frustrated with her, she had hardly ever done something so reckless in her life before. Turnip heard her giggles and pranced towards her, Lootie did not take notice of the kitten, but if she had she might have found Irenie before the Princess went on the biggest journey of her young life.
"No come on out, I know you're here somewhere." She fumed but Irenie stayed where she was and she seemed resigned to the fact that the princess would not come yet. "Oh alright, I'll just have to wait."
Lootie sat down underneath the long spread out branches of a great green tree, shaded by the leaves. "Oh she's a lovely girl, really regal," Lootie murmured to herself, pondering slightly, Irenie, just a few meters away played with Turnip, who had taken an interest in a caterpillar moving through the holes in a bent tree root. "Well she would be wouldn't she, what with her being a princess."
"No turnip," Irenie whispered, still keeping a watchful eye over her pet despite being on her own herself, "Don't!" she grabbed him away from the tree root, and began to scorn Turnip, "You mustn't do that. You know what Lootie's like, she's always worried about... strange things..."
Almost on a different tangent, Lootie muttered to herself, "strange things... you never know what might happen." Irenie watched Lootie as she yawned and began to drift off to sleep, "Now... her father said 'watch over her,' it's getting late... I must find..." and Lootie began to snore loudly.
"Oh- good I think she's asleep," Irenie piped up and began heading off, away from Lootie, towards the forests covering the hillside of the mountain. "Come on Turnip," she let the kitten down and walked on with him a slight bit ahead of her step.
Turnip was a relatively loyal cat and he took effort to make sure his mistress was always taken care of, nevertheless he was just a kitten and often got himself mixed up in situations that he shouldn't have.
Chasing after a butterfly, Turnip pounced again and again, leading both him and his mistress further and further into the forbidden wild.
They were both out discovering, and before Turnip could pounce on a mole hill nearby Irenie called to him, "Turnip, I found him." Turnip eagerly followed his mistress's voice to where she sat crouched over another mole hill, made from pebble and dirt.
"Come on Mr. Mole, we won't hurt you silly," Irenie might not have hurt whatever creature would have come out of that hole but Turnip on the other hand readied his claws to pounce on whatever came out. Both Turnip and Irenie's eyes lit up in excitement, Irenie's sparkled with excitement, blue as ever and Turnip glared dangerously at the whole, shoulder's trembling with excitement. The pebbles began to shake, perhaps this was the mole and they waited, excitement climbing, both of them leaning closer and closer. Turnip raised his paw, ready to strike, pebbles rustled, then from the depths of some hellish nightmare, a grey green hand thrust up from the shadows of the ground and grabbed Turnip by the tail causing the poor cat to screech as he was slowly drug down the hole.
"Turnip!" Irenie cried out faintly, mostly due to the horrific clawed hand that had thrust up from the ground and hanged their dream into a nightmare. Turnip mewed again ion fear, is claws grasping at the pebbles still as he was drug by his tail. "Oh Turnip." She cried out again, summoning up the rest of her courage and grabbed poor Turnip before he could be totally lost to the beneath. The kitten mewed pitifully as his tail was yanked from the spindly fingers.
Irenie began to run, Turnip clutched tightly in her hands, but more of the hills began to pop up from the ground startling Irenie, "No!"
The darkness seemed to be eclipsing them quickly and Irenie ran once more, two other hills popped up on her left and then five more to the left so that she was forced deeper into the forest. Back and forth she ran, every once in a while, a pair of yellow eyes would peer at her from the bushes and push her in another direction, suddenly the nightmare was revealed and a giant bluish green cat with devil horns hissed at her, screeching clawing out at her. He was about twice as big as Turnip.
Irenie shrieked and turned to another horrifying creature, a bird with a jagged beak and bat wings, spread out wide, rearing up on its legs and screeching like a bat. All sorts of monsters began to surface, chasing her and moving her towards the centre of the forest, "Lootie," Irenie called, "Lootie!" but her nurse was very much asleep and could not hear the Princess' screams.
She began to head lower and lower, sliding down into an underground ditch of sorts, tree roots clinging to the rocks forming the walls of the cave. She grabbed for a branch but it ripped from the dirt wall and she fell to her feat, surrounded in a strange dark world.
Everything was so dark.
"Where are we?" she cried desperately, looking around but finding no one.
There were weird shaped branches, club like rocks, it looked like she was underground, in a hole, but she could still see the place where she had fallen down. Turnip mewed pitifully, "I wish Lootie were here," Irene whispered squeezing him tightly and trying to see in the darkness now surrounding her.
There was a rough low growl coming from behind her "Hello," she hoped against logic that it could be someone to help her, "who is it?"
A dragon, a black beast like lizard from hell snapped at her, it's eyes rolling, the spine like ridge arched and it growled ferociously again.
She ran as fast she could to the rock ledge were she had fallen down from, lifting herself up, her legs squirming to pull herself forward, and just managing to pull herself up onto the rock as she felt the hot breath of the beast beating on her neck.
She escaped before the creature could drag her back down but not before it sunk its claws through the fabric of her dress. "My dress," Irene shouted, but she turned angrily on the creature, looked as if she threatened to kick it right in the face, thought better of it and pulled away in stead, "Let go!" she yelled, pulling away and releasing herself from its grasp. Irenie swore she heard deep menacing laughter echo behind her but it was drowned out by the rising noise of the things chasing her.
She ran quickly through the forest, Turnip still cradled in her hands, but she could hear the strange sounds coming from the creatures leaping through the trees above her head.
She looked up to the stars, praying hoping that they would offer her some sort of guidance, that her mother would tell her what to do, that she would protect her from these monsters.
She looked over her shoulder for one moment to see how close the creatures were but she tripped and fell to the ground beneath an old tree surrounded by rocks.
Irenie looked around hopelessly at the large numbers of the strange monsters before her, it was so dark, she was all alone with only her cat as comfort, "oh Turnip."
The monsters terrified her, she wondered why they were after her, why they couldn't just leave her alone but what caused her to cry was that she had still not made it to the top of the mountain to see the stars she had ached to touch ever since her father told her about her mother's stars.
Irenie succumb to the fear, braced herself against the rock and began to cry into her arm, the creatures slowly coming closer to her.
However they would not yet attack her, they waited for some sort of signal from the bright yellow eyes standing beside the tree that had gone unseen by both Irenie and Turnip.
It's been a long time, sorry for not posting in a while, I've been looking at my other fanfic because I had been neglecting it, but then I was neglecting this one so I had to go back... it's a big vicious circle of neglect :P
oh well... I took most of the audio from The Princess and the Goblin the movie and tried my best to explain it. And mysterious eyes? and depp laughter echoing after her? hmmm that doesn't sound as if it was in the movie XP no, no it was not in the movie but I am going to be adding my little parts to the scenes that come directly from the movie or the book
I hope it doesn't get confusing or anything for someone whose seen the original