Heart Of Ice

Title: Heart Of Ice: Chapter Five: I Wish The Goblins Would Come And Take You Away…Right Now
Author: Allison Wonderland
Rating: PG this chapter, NC-17 overall.
Summary: Avery finally says the right words and Fabian comes to take Jilly away.
Warning(s): Language
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.

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It was storming in the kingdom of Llabreth just as it was storming it Avery’s world. Lightening flashed and thunder crashed as the rain poured down. The Goblin King and his subjects watching the boy in the crystal orb all shook their heads, disappointed.

“That’s not it!” a particularly fearsome looking green skinned goblin in a horned Viking helmet growled.

It seemed the king agreed with him. Fabian rolled his eyes. “Where did he learn that rubbish?” he asked no one in particular. He had thought the boy had something of a brain in his head. After all, he would need all of his wits about him to make it through Fabian’s labyrinth in the thirteen hours allotted. “It doesn’t even start with ‘I wish’.” Surely the boy – Avery – knew that in order to wish one’s unwanted sibling away one had to use the words ‘I wish’. Had reading the book Fabian had taken such trouble to deliver into his hands taught him nothing?

The goblins surrounding their king began to mutter among themselves about ‘I wish’ and ‘what is he saying’ and who was going to be the next to be kicked and who had really caught the chicken earlier. But that was all he could hear.

“Quiet!” he snapped loudly.

The goblins went silent.

When he could hear the boy in the crystal orb clearly once more Fabian turned his attention back to the task at hand.

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Still holding Jilly in his arms, Avery cuddled her close. Her screams had only gotten louder since her half brother had tried to give her away to the Goblin King. Avery would not have thought it possible and was once again close to tears himself. He hated his little sister sometimes. If not for Jilly he could have been reading himself to sleep in bed right now. He turned the baby away from himself so if she threw up it would not be going on him and bounced her gently. It neither stopped her screaming nor caused it to grow louder. He sighed, completely exhausted. “Oh, Jilly. Just stop it,” he begged, all signs of acting and his usual drama queen personality gone now. “Fucking monster,” he muttered. Normally Avery tried to refrain from cursing because he was convinced that doing so made him sound trashy. Besides, when he became a famous actor with his own television show and several movies and maybe even his own clothing or fragrance line, he wanted to be known for his accomplishments, not his foul mouth. But there was a time and a place for everything and now seemed like the perfect time. “Just stop it! Stop it! Stop it!” Fighting back yet another sob himself, Avery put the baby back in the crib.

In no time at all, before he could even cover his sister with the blankets, Jilly was on her feet, hanging on to the bars, and screeching again.

“Oh, stop it, Jilly!” The sob Avery was trying to suppress worked its way out. “I wish I did know what to say to make the goblins take you away.” He sniffled and wiped the back of his hand across his eyes.

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“I wish the goblins would come and take you away right now, that’s not hard is it?” Fabian asked his subjects, frustrated. Really, the boy was stupid!

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“I wish…” Avery muttered. “I wish…” The words had been in the Labyrinth book. But what were they? At the time he had not been paying attention to that particular speech because he had been trying to memorize the one from the end of the book, the one that began with ‘give me the child.’

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The Goblin King sat up straighter in his chair, preparing to give the order for his minions to retrieve the child. This was what he had waited four hundred years for. This was what he had wasted so much time stealing children and sending other boys through his labyrinth for. In a little more than thirteen hours – if the boy would just hurry up and wish the baby away – his heart would be unfrozen and Quiana’s curse lifted.

“Did he say it?” the same stupid goblin asked brightly.

Once again Fabian sent the same particularly stupid goblin flying across the room to splat against the wall where it left a trail of green slime as it slid down to the floor. It shook itself and ran off in pursuit of a passing chicken. “Shut up,” he ordered the rest of them even though none of the rest of the goblins had said a word.

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Jilly had stopped crying, purely from exhaustion. Avery placed his little sister back in the crib and gently covered her with her pink blanket. There was no way he wanted her to wake up now. He tiptoed across the room to the door and shut it behind him as he stepped out into the hall. A strange draft caused the door to slam and Jilly let out another shriek. It was almost enough to make Avery start crying again. This time he chose to ignore the baby’s screams. He would go back to his bedroom, curl up with a book, and turn his IPod on as loud as it would go. But he had suddenly remembered another speech from the Labyrinth book.

“I wish the goblins would come and take you away,” Avery muttered as he opened the door to his own bedroom.

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The Goblin King and his minions waited with baited breath for the boy to finish the command.

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“Right now.” Avery slammed his bedroom door behind him.

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A smile, albeit a cruel one, crossed Fabian’s face. “Minions!” he barked. “Retrieve the child. I will deal with the boy.” It was the way it happened every time but every time he had to remind his minions of the way things worked. Goblins rushed this way and that as Fabian hurried out of his throne room to his bedchamber. He could look perfectly kingly and be on time or he could be pretty and fashionably late.

“And I’d rather be pretty,” he muttered to himself as he glanced one last time at the crystal orb and the boy in it who would soon be his.

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I was gonna reply to all my reviews (seriously, I love you people!) by doing an LJ post but then I realized my LJ is friends only. So...

L.S. - Sarah annoyed me too. I thought of Octopi because it's such an unusual animal.

peach like prince - Thanks. The next few chapters should be pretty short so I'll probably be writing about one a day.

cobraqueen - You can not watch Labyrinth too much. It just isn't possible. Yes, I plan on changing a lot of things once Avery actually gets in the labyrinth. I just can't really say what because it would totally give away the ending.

BennyPeace - Thanks! Updates are coming soon. How soon depends on the length of the chapter.

Blooded-Tear - Thanks so much! Labyrinth is so the best movie ever!