Revisiting
the Enchanted Land
By
Lady1Venus
Disclaimer/Author’s Notes:
You all know the previous notes in chapter 1-5, so I’m not going to continue
repeating myself.
Gatekeepers
Icewind
reappeared in darkened room. In all
corners of the room were torch holders.
Walking over to one of them, he lifted his horn to the holder and the
whole room was finally in a golden light.
He was in a temple made of gold.
When he was finally adjusted to the light, he continued to where two
empty thrones were.
“It
is I, Icewind, my lord. Queen Hellaka,
keeper of dreams needs your help.”
The
temple went dark but soon all the torches in the temple were lit, and on the
thrones sat, the gatekeepers.
The
male keeper, clearly the lord, was human looking except his color of skin was a
light green. His clothes were of silver
armor with a blue cape flowing in behind.
His hair was long and white with a crown made of gold and sapphire
jewels.
The
female keeper, clearly the lord’s beloved, also had green skin but her clothes
was a gown made of gold silk with a white nylon train which was clasped to her
arms and the back of the dress. Her hair was also long and white with a grown
made of gold and diamond jewels.
“What
does Keeper of Dreams want with us?” asked the female keeper.
“Milady,
Portarel,” Icewind said, bowing his head.
“Queen Hellaka’s sister, Leetris, has taken over the whole Underground
and she wishes to destroy King Jareth, her half brother.”
“How
did Leetris get her hands on the kingdom?” Kekchole demanded.
“After
the young girl Sarah defeated the Labyrinth, King Jareth’s guard was down.
Leetris found out about this and attacked Jareth before he could come up with a
counter attack. Just recently, Queen
Hellaka was able to get Sarah to help Jareth escaped. Together they can win back the kingdom but they will need help.”
“What
kind of help?” Portarel asked.
“My
queen needs to reveal herself sooner than expected and she needs your help into
allowing her to be seen,” Icewind stated.
“I
see,” Kekchole said.
“My
lord,” Portarel said turning to her king.
“It sounds like if Queen Hellaka uses her powers, her sister would be
able to find her.”
“I
have to agree,” Kekchole said turning to his beloved. Hellaka doesn’t usually wake us unless it’s very important. And if Hellaka was to be captured by her
sister, Leetris would be able to find us and destroy us.”
“My
Lord,” Icewind said. The two keepers
looked back to the unicorn. “Queen
Hellaka was captured by Leetris but she was able to block her mind from her
sister but if she was to be captured again.
You would be destroyed or at least put under her power.”
“What
do you mean?” Kekchole said.
“After
Leetris took over the Underground. She
enslaved all the inhabitants of the Labyrinth and used her mind control to use
them against the King and now Sarah too.
Queen Hellaka was also captured.
Three of the mindless minions were Sarah’s good friends.”
“Sarah,”
Portarel said. “She’s the first to ever
defeat the Labyrinth. That would mean
that Leetris would want her as well.”
“Yes,”
Icewind said.
“Icewind,
does Leetris know what Sarah looks like?” Kekchole said.
“No. I have been spying on her and she’s now
infuriated that King Jareth escaped and she wants to find Sarah before Sarah
and Jareth can become friends.”
“I
would take it that they are already on the verge of becoming friends?” Portarel
asked.
“Yes. But Hellaka wishes to get them even
closer. If they can actually admit
their feelings towards each other, there would be no way Leetris could destroy
them,” Icewind said.
“Do
they have feelings for each other?” Kekchole asked.
“Yes,
but they are in denial. In fact they
are together right now. Sarah is trying
to come up with a solution about Jareth because she has to get to school and
she knows he’s in danger, if he leaves her.
“My
queen also believes that, they should delay their return to the Underground
until they can work together as a team without argument.”
“That
would be the best tactic,” Kekchole said.
“They need to be friends before trying to get back the kingdom. We’ll help as much as we can.”
“Thank
you,” Icewind said.
“In
the meantime, watch over the two carefully and we’ll set up the appointed time
for Hellaka to reveal herself to them.
Now head back to the dream realm and wait. We’ll arrive to you soon to speak of the plans.”
“Yes,
my lord.” Icewind turned and walked out
of the temple.
“My
lord, what are we going to do to help?”
“Leetris
has been wanting the kingdom for a long time but she is going to soon learn
that taking things by force is not the answer.
My love, we are going to go to the above as regular humans and help the
young couple beat the evil queen.”
“What
about Hellaka?”
“The
day Hellaka reveals herself, we’ll reveal ourselves as humans.”
Lord
Kekchole stood up from his throne and walked towards the entrance of the
temple. He turned back to his Lady and
held out his hand. “It is high time we
start helping the Underground more. Let
us go and start preparing.”
Lady
Portarel stood up and walked to her lord and grasped his hand. With his hand he waved it around the two of
them and disappeared. When they were
gone the temple went completely black.
(I’m
so sorry for taking so long again. I’ve been in a writers block and have so
many fics to write that I’m going around in circles. Plus also the fact the damn computer I’m using all the time keeps
freezing on me because of the type of Windows it has.)