Heart Of Ice
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Original - Misc › -Slash - Male/Male
Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
22
Views:
6,557
Reviews:
27
Recommended:
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Currently Reading:
1
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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The Author holds exclusive rights to this work. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited.
Chapter Nine: The Castle Beyond The Goblin City
Title: Heart Of Ice: Chapter Nine: The Castle Beyond The Goblin City
Author: Allison Wonderland
Rating: PG this chapter, NC-17 overall.
Summary: Avery sees the castle beyond the goblin city.
Warning(s): Language, homosexuality.
Disclaimer: Technically, this is a rewrite of the movie Labyrinth. However, how much it resembles the movie remains to be seen. I do not own/am not associated with Labyrinth or anything related to it. However, all of the characters and some of the ideas in this story are mine.
Note(s): This should be a short chapter too.
~*~
“Do you still want to look for him?” Fabian asked from just behind Avery’s left shoulder.
“I…” No, he did not want to look for his sister. Not there and not anywhere. What he wanted was to go back upstairs, get into bed, and forget this had ever happened. “I’m afraid I have to.” It seemed Avery was afraid of everything tonight. “Is that…” What was that line from the Labyrinth book? Oh. Right. “Is that the castle beyond the Goblin City?”
When Fabian did not answer Avery turned around. He gasped. Like his back yard the entire house had disappeared. They were standing on a hilltop in the desert; the lone tree still the only other living thing around. Between the hilltop and the castle was a wide valley, so deeply in shadow in the pre-dawn light that it was impossible to see what might lay there. Fabian still stood there in the same place watching Avery. His hair and cape remained unmoving even though a light breeze ruffled Avery’s hair and clothing. He brushed his hair back as the Goblin King spoke. “Turn back, Avery,” he said. “Turn back while you still can.”
“I can’t,” Avery whined. “Don’t you see that I can’t?” He looked at the castle. The valley – though he had no idea what might lay there – was not that wide. Surely he could get to the castle before something too bad happened to Jilly?
Fabian shook his head and when he spoke again his voice was low and gentle as though he actually meant the words he said, “What a pity.”
Avery turned his attention back to the castle. It seemed like it was quite a ways away but not really that far. It all depended on what was in the valley between the hilltop and the castle. If there was water there his quest to find Jilly was over. Avery was more afraid of water than he was of the dark. And what if the darkness in the valley was permanent? It seemed likely, considering what he had already experienced and how awful the Labyrinth book had described the Goblin King’s kindom as being. And if it was eternally dark in the valley, well his quest was over in that case too. “It doesn’t look that far,” he said, trying to convince himself of that too. He could hear the doubt in his own voice and knew Fabian probably could too.
“It’s farther than you think,” Fabian informed him. “And time is short.” He pointed to the tree. The hands on the strange clock there had moved. Instead of both hands pointing to the thirteen, the small hand was now pointing to the thirteen while the longer hand was pointing to the two. Ten minutes had passed since they had first come to this place. Ten minutes during which Avery had not been searching for his sister. He smiled and this time his smile seemed cruel. “You have thirteen hours in which to solve the labyrinth before your baby sister becomes one of us…”
“Us?” Avery asked, confused. What exactly was an ‘us’? Then he remembered the story he had been telling Jilly earlier. For the boy knew that the king of the goblins would keep the baby in his castle forever and ever and turn it into a goblin… Jilly already had the personality of a repulsive little goblin. All she needed was the body to go with it. But he could not think like that. He had to save his sister.
“Forever,” Fabian finished. And he faded from sight before Avery could even think to stop him.
Left alone on the desert hilltop Avery sighed. “Well,” he told himself. “It can’t be that far. It doesn’t look that hard.” But his voice sounded unconvincing even to himself.
Author: Allison Wonderland
Rating: PG this chapter, NC-17 overall.
Summary: Avery sees the castle beyond the goblin city.
Warning(s): Language, homosexuality.
Disclaimer: Technically, this is a rewrite of the movie Labyrinth. However, how much it resembles the movie remains to be seen. I do not own/am not associated with Labyrinth or anything related to it. However, all of the characters and some of the ideas in this story are mine.
Note(s): This should be a short chapter too.
~*~
“Do you still want to look for him?” Fabian asked from just behind Avery’s left shoulder.
“I…” No, he did not want to look for his sister. Not there and not anywhere. What he wanted was to go back upstairs, get into bed, and forget this had ever happened. “I’m afraid I have to.” It seemed Avery was afraid of everything tonight. “Is that…” What was that line from the Labyrinth book? Oh. Right. “Is that the castle beyond the Goblin City?”
When Fabian did not answer Avery turned around. He gasped. Like his back yard the entire house had disappeared. They were standing on a hilltop in the desert; the lone tree still the only other living thing around. Between the hilltop and the castle was a wide valley, so deeply in shadow in the pre-dawn light that it was impossible to see what might lay there. Fabian still stood there in the same place watching Avery. His hair and cape remained unmoving even though a light breeze ruffled Avery’s hair and clothing. He brushed his hair back as the Goblin King spoke. “Turn back, Avery,” he said. “Turn back while you still can.”
“I can’t,” Avery whined. “Don’t you see that I can’t?” He looked at the castle. The valley – though he had no idea what might lay there – was not that wide. Surely he could get to the castle before something too bad happened to Jilly?
Fabian shook his head and when he spoke again his voice was low and gentle as though he actually meant the words he said, “What a pity.”
Avery turned his attention back to the castle. It seemed like it was quite a ways away but not really that far. It all depended on what was in the valley between the hilltop and the castle. If there was water there his quest to find Jilly was over. Avery was more afraid of water than he was of the dark. And what if the darkness in the valley was permanent? It seemed likely, considering what he had already experienced and how awful the Labyrinth book had described the Goblin King’s kindom as being. And if it was eternally dark in the valley, well his quest was over in that case too. “It doesn’t look that far,” he said, trying to convince himself of that too. He could hear the doubt in his own voice and knew Fabian probably could too.
“It’s farther than you think,” Fabian informed him. “And time is short.” He pointed to the tree. The hands on the strange clock there had moved. Instead of both hands pointing to the thirteen, the small hand was now pointing to the thirteen while the longer hand was pointing to the two. Ten minutes had passed since they had first come to this place. Ten minutes during which Avery had not been searching for his sister. He smiled and this time his smile seemed cruel. “You have thirteen hours in which to solve the labyrinth before your baby sister becomes one of us…”
“Us?” Avery asked, confused. What exactly was an ‘us’? Then he remembered the story he had been telling Jilly earlier. For the boy knew that the king of the goblins would keep the baby in his castle forever and ever and turn it into a goblin… Jilly already had the personality of a repulsive little goblin. All she needed was the body to go with it. But he could not think like that. He had to save his sister.
“Forever,” Fabian finished. And he faded from sight before Avery could even think to stop him.
Left alone on the desert hilltop Avery sighed. “Well,” he told himself. “It can’t be that far. It doesn’t look that hard.” But his voice sounded unconvincing even to himself.