Heir to the Labyrinth

Chapter Five

We all walked into my room and sat down on the floor, Aztore in front of Luca and me.

"Alright Aztore, what's the big secret?" Luca asked. Aztore sighed and looked off out the window.

"Okay, well you know that I was turned into this creature, I was once Fae. Actually, I was much more than that. I was the long-lost Fae Prince. Jareth was once the other Fae Prince, but he gave up that title for Goblin King. We were brothers, best friends, until that fateful day..." Aztore sighed again and continued, "Jareth was around ten and I was maybe nine, we were outside running around our world, Faeria, when Jareth found these pearls. Not just normal pearls, mind you, glowing blue pearls that could turn you into absolutely anything! We had heard of them from our mother and father once, they said the pearls were lost relics of the Fae Royal Family. So, as we were children, we attempted to use them. I accidentally turned Jareth into a goblin, and he purposely turned me into the creature I am today. He eventually turned back, but he put a spell on me to make sure I stay this way. He's the only one who can change me back, which is why I accompanied you here. He didn't want you to know about his past, he was a goblin for a few years and became the Goblin King that way. He also did a lot of bad in those goblin years. He can still turn into a goblin now, the pearl hasn't completely worn off, and that's that," Aztore finished.

I sat there in shock. Holy crap! I turned to Luca to see he had the same expression. "Are you serious? That's crazy! Why won't he just turn you back?" I asked, flailing my arms around frantically.

"Yeah, that's pretty ridiculous," Luca also responded.

Aztore just sighed, and walked over to the window and stared out at the labyrinth.

All of a sudden, I heard two little British voices emerging from my pocket. "Ello?" "Ello?"

Holy crap, I forgot about Willum and Elsa! The two British worms popped of my pocket.

"Ello, Emilia! We wanted to say that we have a little room in here that we would like to go to, over there," Willum said, going over to a little set of French doors with Elsa right behind him. Since when was that there...?

"Anyway, so Aztore, since I'm Jareth's kid, can't I turn you back?" I asked him curiously. I mean, maybe I could!

Az, which I decided to call him from now on, sighed and shook his head, "I don't think so, but maybe we could try, you never know". He turned to me and jerked his head towards another door I never noticed and walked over to it. "The library is down this way, there's many spell books in there. They could help us," He told me.

I nodded and walked over to the door with Luca. We all busted in, ran for the shelves, well I did. Az and Luca just walked in calmly.

"Let's do this!" I exclaimed, grabbing a huge book from the closest shelf and plopping myself down on a conveniently placed chair. I began to read the large book and the first spell I saw was a spell to make someone blue. That could come in handy...

The next few had to do with making potions and didn't pertain to Az's issue. I sighed, this is gonna take forever! I glanced at Luca to find him staring at the pages of his book, and Az attempting to do the same, but turning pages is hard for a wolf-creature... I looked back at my book and kept turning pages for what seemed forever until I heard "Aha!" from Luca. I jumped up and ran to him, "Did you find it?!"

He looked at me and blinked, "No, but I found a spell to make food! How cool is that?" He grinned widely. I smacked my hand to my forehead and went back to my seat with a sigh. Dang it! I thought he had it. Now we have to keep looking...

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"Emilia? Hey, Emilia?" A male voice interrupted my dreams of me painting unicorns in a field of dandelions.

"Huh? What?" I questioned, sitting up slowly. I fell asleep! Gosh darn it! Luca was next to me holding a book and looking concerned. Aztore was next to him with the same expression.

"We found the spell in a book hidden behind that painting of the castle. Are you too tired to do the spell? You were asleep for three hours," Luca said, holding up a book. What?! They found it while I slept? Why didn't the wake me up? Ah well, I guess its good we found it anyway.

"Yeah I can do the spell, I'm not that tired," I replied with a nod, getting up from my spot on the chair and stretched. "Kay, let's do the spell!" I grabbed the book from Luca and read the words in my head. "Okay, 'take this creature and make his features human again'!" I shouted, concentrating extremely hard with my eyes closed. I heard a strange noise coming from in front of me and snapped my eyes open. Az was being lifted in the air by green dust-looking stuff. I gasped along with Luca as he slowly morphed into a human.

His hair became short and blonde, his skin tan, and his eyes the same bright green. He wore a white button-up shirt with a black vest over, black tights, and black boots. He looked around Jareth's age, and his clothes were pretty similar to Jareth's as well. Once he came down, we realized he still had bright orange wolf ears and a tail.

"Uh, I don't think it totally worked," Luca pointed out the obvious. Az just grinned and hugged me tightly.

"I'm human again! Well, mostly," He said whiled hugging me. I smiled and hugged him back.

"No problem, Az! This is great! Let's go shove this in Jareth's face! Then see if my mom is awake where my Uncle Toby is... Hey, can I call you Uncle Az?" I asked.

Az smiled, and nodded his head. We all walked out into my room and then to the throne room, where Jareth sat on his throne with my mother scolding him from hers.

"You can't just ignore your brother and keep him a wolf!" She said to him with an angry look on her face. I snickered, drawing attention from Mom, Jareth, and all the goblins in the room.

"Emilia Echo Williams, where in the world have you been?" Mom asked, running over to me. She hugged me tightly and glanced at Luca and Uncle Az. "Who are they? Wait, you must be Luca and who are you?" She questioned Uncle Az.

Uncle Az smiled and bowed towards Mom, "I am Aztore Zervas, it's a pleasure to meet you, milady". My mom looked confused and Jareth jumped up. He ran over here and grabbed Uncle Az by his shirt.

"How did you become human? How? And why are you with Emilia still?" He shouted. Uncle Az's eyes widened.

"Hey! Leave him alone! I made him human again! And I like him more than I like you!" I shouted, running back to my room with tears in my eyes. Why is he so mean? What did I just do? Oh no!

I heard a knocking at my door and Luca came in. He came and sat on my bed. "You okay?" He asked. I just nodded. Then he pulled me over to him and hugged me. "It's alright, Jareth didn't look mad, just upset". My eyes widened, from the closeness of Luca and the idea of Jareth being upset about something.

"I'm not apologizing; he has no right to be mad at Uncle Aztore at all!" I exclaimed.

"I don't blame you, I wouldn't apologize either, but don't stay cooped up in here, okay? I'm gonna be in the room next to your on the left. There's a door right there to get to me. Good night, Emilia," He said, patting my head and giving me one last hug before escaping through another door I never noticed. Well that was one eventful day

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I woke up to the sound of birds outside of my window. I sat up and yawned, then remembered what happened yesterday and sighed. What the beluga bears am I gonna do? I got up, not bothering to get dressed, and went down stairs to eat breakfast. Now I have to face Jareth. Yay.

ZydrateUser says... I DID IT! WOO! FINALLY! Sorry for the looooonnnggg wait, but here it is! And it's pretty crappy! WOO!