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
Earlier that night, underneath the vast rock that was the mountain, it was just coming around to be the Goblin's morning and the crown prince, Froglip, was asleep in bed, however this had not lasted long.
There was a ringing of voices and shouting that caused him to stir slightly in his sleep, twisting and turning in his covers.
Froglip got out of bed slowly rubbing a hand over his face and his eyes. He had had a terrible nights sleep due to rampant white ghosts running through his mind; ever since meeting the sun boy in the cave and running from the ghost he had been experiencing terrible visions of it, each one beginning and ending the same. Anyhow, he really didn't care to sleep any longer.
It was relatively early in the night but he had heard something.
Or, at least, he thought he had...
Froglip's ears picked up on something again, it sounded like muffled screaming.
"What is going on here?" he growled and headed down the long tunnel. At the present moment Froglip was only concerned with finding the noise that woke him up but it appeared as if the screaming had been stifled.
Then the muffled screaming started up again.
What was that damn infernal racket? Froglip growled and whirled around trying to find what it was that was bothering him...heaven help the individual who was making that noise if he ever found them.
Despite the tortures he was concocting in his mind for the individual, the screaming truly sounded frightened and he wanted to find what it was now.
His mother was sitting in the large golden chair, he tiptoed past her without so much as making a sound and then through another adjacent tunnel heading up to the top soil.
Froglip shifted the translucent marble blocking the door of the cave.
With little effort, lifted the slab of rock and slammed it against the entrance to the door.
He followed the noise of screaming all the way to the kennels where the goblin beasts were held. the screaming had stopped up until the point where he heard of of the beasts growling and saw a flash of pink.
He heard screaming again but this time it was very close, he saw one of the beasts go after the pink blur and saw that it was actually a small sun girl dressed in frilly pink garments.
He laughed to himself when he saw how she ran from the Goblin pet, the thing was practically harmless but she was screaming her head off.
He waited a moment while she scrambled up the rock but the the creature got its claws caught in her dress. The girl turned around, at first scared but that disappeared and she glared down at the creature.
Froglip was well in the shadows so she would not be able to see him but he laughed loudly at the girl's sudden boldness, letting it echo menacingly after her.
Perhaps his day was going to be interesting after all.
Frightening this sun girl would be much more entertaining than receiving more lectures from his strict teachers.
Or avoiding his elder half-brother; Froglip wasn't quite in the mood to contend with him today.
Besides the sun girl was just asking to be frightened when she had wandered so willingly into his presence.
He leapt over the pour beast who was hissing with fright after it saw the demonic Goblin Prince.
Ignoring the beast, he scaled the wall of rock easily where the little pink girl had had so much trouble with it. He landed upon the soft grassy floor, the full moon bathing him in a pale glow as it bathed his dark features.
He leapt forwards into a bound as he trailed the girl, careful not to stub his toes on the roots of trees or rocks.
It wasn't long before he caught up to her and watched as other Goblin pets began to surround her.
Froglip wasn't a fan of these goblin pets though he did have a certain fondness for the cat since it had a cruel disposition almost equal to his own.
But chasing the girl he saw her looking up into the branches and he followed her gaze; was it the trees and the goblins she was looking towards? No, it seemed, she was following the stars, looking upon them as if they were to help her.
Suddenly, the girl tripped upon an exposed root and fell, landing at the base of another great tree surrounded by rocks. Froglip stopped in the chase, slightly annoyed that it was over so quickly, but when he thought she would continue the little sun girl buried her head in her arms and began to sob.
Froglip was watching from behind her, hidden slightly by the tree as the goblin pets began to circle in on her, though he was not going to allow them to mess with his fun this day, he was to eager to let them play with the sun girl.
Froglip, confident that she was not going to look up, moved around the tree and the folders encircling it, and walked towards her.
'Pathetic' he thought to himself disgustedly, 'absolutely pathetic, why she didn't even try to fight back just cry, what soft creatures these sun people are.'
Froglip didn't really know what he was going to do, everyone of his goblin people knew he could have ripped her shoulder out of the socket but it wasn't so much fun that way. Besides that, though the Goblin Prince rarely felt any pity for anything and he certainly felt nothing for this pink pitiful excuse for a girl.
But he had never seen anything so delicate and while a part of him raged to destroy her, as his mother had taught him, the other smaller half of himself wanted to know what was wrong and why she was crying.
Though he rejected this notion as simple curiosity, after he found out what bothered this girl he could do with her as he pleased. After all she was in his forest, on his mountain, Froglip knew he had every right to torture the girl, it was only fair for all the ghastly things the humans had done to is people. It was only justice he was evoking when he got back at one of the sun creatures.
Still, he approached her with interest and almost laid a had on her shoulder when something howled and startled him from behind, causing him to stub his toe and on a tree stump on his way down to the ground.
Upon regaining his composure after nursing his injured foot Froglip turned around to glare at the individual only to find a scrawny kitten, most likely belonging to the sun girl.
It hissed in return but the dark blue goblin cat hissed in return and nearly scratched the kittens face off but the kitten was fast to react and avoided the jagged claws.
Froglip smirked, again noting that he liked this goblin pet best. However while Froglip was still interested in the pink being, now more than ever and he again went towards it, he was stopped dead in his tracks by a faint but painful sound ringing through his ears.
It was singing and it was coming closer; the other goblin pets began to wince and whine about the sound as well but Froglip was absolutely in pain and as he writhed in the sound of the music, he tripped and fell down the relatively large hill behind the tree, rendering himself unconscious as he hit his head upon a relatively solid rock at the base of the hill.
He woke a few minutes after, still feeling the painful effects of the fall and the singing still echoing in his ears and his mind.
The Goblin Prince rose from his position and scrambled back up the hill glaring around at his surroundings, and finally spotting the girl and… and the sun boy!
Oh Froglip would have it in for him, he glared and began to follow at a distance, slowly approaching the castle as they two sun people walked along the path, unknowingly being followed by the dark prince Froglip.
As he was following them, little parts of the conversation caught his ear until he finally heard something interesting.
So the little sun girl was a princess… well that did change a few things from Froglip's point of view.
This is where we left Irenie and Curdie.
"Take care of yourself, Irenie," the young boy the princess now knew as Curdie smiled at her and waved a goodbye as he jogged back into the underbrush.
Irenie folded her hands lightly over her chest and felt her heart flutter softly at the sound of his voice. "He was so kind to me Turnip," she thought happily even though the kitten had already headed back to the castle without her, " I-I think I'm… in love."
The prince of goblins, who had been listening, laughed loudly at the sentimental mush of the weakling sun girl, causing the poor Irenie, who had already experienced so much fear than night, to jump up and look wildly around
"How th'weet. Perhaps you can watch while I wring hi'th neck." Froglip lisped, slightly spitting as he spoke from behind the princess.
Irene turned and gasped
"Hello printhe'th," spat the young goblin prince as he leaned casually on the trunk of a great maple.
"W-who are you?" the little princess asked, a bit of fright in her trembling voice as she determined to sound brave.
The goblin smiled wickedly and jumped from his standing spot and landing to the side of the mountain cliff on two feet in crouched position, slowly rising to his full height and looking down upon the small sun girl.
"What'th the matter? Th'cared?" The princess backed away from him as he was determined to loom over her like a monster; even at a young age the prince took after his father and he was at least five foot seven and only twelve years of age.
"No," the princess barked, her hands growing clammy, "you're a goblin aren't you?"
"I am Prin'th Froglip." Shouted the prince loudly as he took another couple of steps towards the princess, but she too backed away, her eyes wide with fright.
"You're- you're a... Goblin Prince?" Irene stuttered at first but then she sounded a bit surprised.
Froglip stared at her as if it had been an insult, "Ye'th of cour'th." He snarled but little princess Irene just looked up at him in surprise; she didn't even notice that the Goblin Prince was slowly coming closer and closer.
"You're not as ugly as I thought you'd be." Irene murmured softly, though this may have been more of a compliment at Irenie's end rather than an insult the Goblin Prince nashed his teeth took a step forward to Irenie.
"Ha, but it'th you who i'th the ugly one prin'theth," Froglip smiled wickedly and Irenie looked upon him with shock. Ever since birth people had only ever called her beautiful, she was not accustom to being called 'ugly' and certainly not by something so miss-shappened, malformed and deranged as the goblin prince standing before her.
"I beg your pardon," the Princess started up with an angry scowl eclipsing her beautiful face.
"You may beg," the Prince turned his head and motioned for her to bow to him.
"Why you are- the- most-!" and with that Irenie froze into a stupor, overcome by all her negative emotions towards the cruel ugly creature that she knew as the Goblin Prince.
There was a dazed look in her eyes, she seemed to have lost every emotion as she stared at the Prince of the Goblins, her eyes empty and blank as if they were just threatening to explode. The Prince backed away slightly but it didn't really matter for just as Goblin Prince was caught off guard Irenie opened her mouth and began reciting one of her favourite lullabies that her father often sang to her before she went to bed.
Froglip pressed both his hands to cover his ears as the music leaked into them.
"Th'top that right now!" Froglip raged but Irene just sang louder and louder, each note like a stab to the ear drum for the prince.
What she didn't realize was that as Froglip began taking a step towards her, and she was taking a step back to avoid him, Irenie had run out of room on the cliff and instead of stepping on the ground her heal went through air and she fell backwards.
Now the Goblin Prince saw the Sun Princess fall, even before she had known it herself and had leapt to the edge of the cliff.
Irene fell head first over the cliff so that's when the Goblin Prince grabbed for her; it was just her ankle he could manage to grasp. With a sudden jerk the princess stopped falling to the ground and was instead held up by the last person she expected to save her, unfortunately, at this moment her skirt fell over head exposing her undergarments.
Realizing that even though she had been saved, her underwear was now exposed she wriggled and looked upwards.
"Don't look," she screeched and Froglip flinched from sharp shriek but failed to drop her.
"Would you prefer I drop you?" came the cold reply as Froglip steadied himself and began to pull Irene back onto the cliff who was overcome by fear and became as stiff as a bored, failing to move a single bit.
Froglip hoisted her up with both arms so they came to a steady stop a few feet away from the edge of the cliff where they had just been moments before.
Froglip let go of her ankles and brushed himself off, sneering as he did so since he had gotten dirt al over his favourite cape.
Irenie just sat there at first but slowly, if not shakily, got to her feet and stared up at the prince with wide eyes.
"What are you th'taring at?"
Irenie smirked slightly at the prince of goblins and his erratic mood swings; one minute he was saving her life and the next he was back to being angry and threatening.
"I was just about to sing another song." The little Princess chirped up, mostly to tease the Prince.
"Don't you dare," glared the Goblin Prince, but Irenie didn't see the need anyhow, despite the terms that they had been on only a few seconds ago, Irenie was calm, a little unnerved and repulsed by her saviour, but calm.
Froglip on the other hand was utterly disgusted with himself for saving the weak puny minded simpleton when he very well could have let her fallen to her death, but then if she died that way, he would not be able to torture her which would be oh so much fun for him, especially on a day as boring as this.
"You're lucky printhe'th, moth't Goblin'th would have left you there." He smirked down at Irene but this only caused her to veer back slightly.
"Um- yes, I should thank you for saving my life." She whispered and thought ironically of the kiss she had just offered Curdie a moment earlier. 'No, not that' she told herself as her face flushed red. Froglip raised an eyebrow and looked down at the princess curiously, "So—thank you—very much."
"Well you did offer that boy a ki'th," Smiled Froglip, enjoying the look of utter repulsion and fear eclipse Irene's face at the very notion of his comment.
"I-I," Irenie could hardly hold in her sickened feeling and stared once more at the Goblin Prince.
"Don't throw a fit your highne'th I have no inten'thion of ki'thing you." Froglip sneered at Irenie.
Honestly a Goblin Prince of his stature wanting a kiss from a lowly sun girl; how desperate did she think he was?
Froglip's sneer turned into a frightening smile. "But I have been meaning to find my'thelf a queen and when we're all the way out here, why—all I'd have to do i'th drag you down to my kingdom." His face was half-illuminated by the moon in such a way that his glowing gold eyes pierced the night and the darkness shadowed his face in a menacing fashion.
'Oh God,' Irenie froze where she was, 'Oh God, I should have listened to Papa.'
Froglip just smiled and slightly chuckled.
It had been a joke, which he had vaguely disguised as a threat but the Goblin Prince, as you will find out if you have not done so already, wasn't very good at bantering and most of these joke-comments were interpreted as threats.
Irenie took it the way most people would and she backed away, a shadow of fear passed over her eyes and she stared up at the looming Goblin still standing before her.
Slightly annoyed by Irene's frightened look Froglip looked down upon her with a frustrated expression, "What'th wrong with y-" he began to lisp but Irene had already began to raise her foot off of the ground in an effort to defend herself. Before Froglip even knew what hit him, Irenie had stomped forcefully down, slightly crushing the Goblin Prince's sensitive foot beneath the heal of her dainty pink slipper.
Froglip stared at her, his lips beginning to purse and his face beginning to turn a bluish red as he held his breath, Irenie stared at him with a shocked expression as her heal was still embedded in the Prince's foot.
Without another word passing between the two, Irenie ran away and Froglip, who had been completely thrown off guard by the quick reaction of the princess, fell backwards.
It didn't take long for the unbelievable pain surging through most of his being to cause the stunned Goblin Prince to let out a howl of horrific proportions.
Irenie turned away from the sight and ran down the stone cliff, hoping that the howling nightmare behind her didn't decide to come after her.
Eva: thanks, sorry it took so long to update, I didn't actually think anyone would interested in this story XD
Ooo, that musta hurt 8* oh I'm so nasty to my characters, I really am XD Well this chapter was named discord in honour of Froglip, the Goblin Prince of chaos himself, it's really quite a fun song which is why I picked it for this meeting. Here's some of the lyrics, Discord by The Living Tombstone-Remix
I'm not a fan of puppeteers,
but I have a nagging fear that some else is pulling all the strings
something terrible is going down
through the entire town
wreaking anarchy and all it brings
I can't sit idly, no, I can't move at all
I curse the name, the one behind it all...
Discord, I'm howlin' at the moon
And sleepin' in the middle of a summer afternoon
Discord, whatever did we do
To make you take our world away?
Discord, are we your prey alone,
Or are we just a stepping stone for taking back the throne?
Discord, we won't take it anymore
So take your tyranny away!