Hey!

My normal terrain is Phantom of the Opera, but I have recently fallen in love with Labyrinth. So, here's a fic I've been writing for a few days now (It takes a while for me to get a chapter written).

For those of you who've read my POTO fanfic, you probably know who all my characters are, in all but name. I was originally going to put our real names, but then I remembered that my name is Sarah. (No joke.)

NAMES AND DESCRIPTIONS!!!

Me ~ Kari (pronounced like Carrie) ~ Mousy brown hair, dark green eyes

Haliey ~ Leia (pronounced like Princess Leia, obviously) ~ Blonde hair, blue eyes

Alyssa ~ Tara ~ Blonde hair, hazel eyes

Cassie ~ Lily ~ Dark brown hair (with slight purple highlights), blue eyes

Arianna ~ Jordyn ~ Light brown hair, brownish-green eyes

I think that's it. For now. *cue ominous music*

For the record, we're all 16in this, except for Leia, who's 17. Because she's soooo special.

Oh, and the first two lines of this chapter are pretty much word for word of a conversation I had earlier today.

Disclaimer!!! I own nothing but my OC's. But how I wish I owned Jareth...

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Kari ran into her room, green eyes sparkling with excitement, grinning broadly and crying out in triumph, "Finally! I got my dad to buy it!"

Jordyn jumped up off the bed excitedly, light brown hair bobbing around comically. "You finally got Phantom of the Opera?"

"No. They didn't have it at Wal-Mart. But look what I did get!" She held up the twentieth anniversary DVD of Labyrinth, giggling excitedly. "Let's watch it!"

Lily stood up. "I call popcorn duty!" She ran off to the kitchen.

Tara sat up lazily. Rubbing her hazel eyes, she asked, "Did I miss anything?"

"You were asleep?"

"Well, I actually paid attention in Calculus today-"

"Shut up! It's starting!"

The Tri-Star logo of a pegasus came up on the screen, followed by the first few notes of a David Bowie song.

Lily ran back in, bowl of popcorn in her hands, balancing a six-pack of Mountain Dew on top. "What's happened so far?"

"Well, there's some random owl flying around," came the sarcastic voice of Leia. "Not much else. Unless you count the fact that there are Muppets in this."

"Muppets?" Lily asked. She turned to Tara, and they cried out in unison, "KERMIT!!!"

A loud thump issued from the other side of the wall, followed by muffled cursing. Kari snickered. "Sounds like Dad's watching football again."

The girls watched the movie intently. All, except for Leia, who kept making snide comment about the special effects, or how tight Jareth's pants were.

About halfway through the movie, Leia broke what was considered to be the biggest rule of the Girl Code; never compare your friend's personality with that of a movie character's, especailly if it's when they're bitching.

After Sarah had said "It's not fair!" for about the tenth time, Leia laughed. "Wow, Kari. She's starting to sound like you!"

Kari had been having a hard time restraining herself from slapping Leia from the start, but this was the last straw. "I wish the goblins would come take you away! Right now!" she yelled at her "friend".

As soon as she'd finished, the lights went out. Kari rolled her eyes. "Okay, Tara. You've had your fun. Turn the lights back on."

"Why do you always blame things on me? I didn't do anything!"

Kari's eyes widened in the dark. "Leia?" she called shakily. No answer.

The window blew open, and an owl flew in. Tara screamed and began beating it with the now empty popcorn bowl. "Freaky stalker owl!"

As Jareth changed back into his human form, Tara continued beating him. He grabbed the bowl from her hands. "Do you mind?" She let out an uncharacteristic squeak and ran and hid behind Kari with the other remaining girls.

Kari gulped. "Um, hiya, Mr. Goblin King, sir," she managed to choke out.

Jareth smiled. "Hello, Kari."

She squeaked. Fudgemuffins! He knows my name!

Jareth rolled his eyes at the silence. "Pity. Sarah was much more talkative." He suddenly made one of those cool crystal things appear and casually rolled it around. "I assume you girls know the drill. I either give you your dreams-" He tossed the crystal to his other hand. "- or you have thirteen hours to rescue your friend."

While he'd been saying this, the house had disappeated, and been replaced by a hillside, overlooking the Labyrinth.

Kari hadn't noticed. She been staring transfixed at the crystal. So shiny... Focus! She shook herself. "I'm sorry Mr.- um, Jareth, but I'm afraid we have to rescue Leia." She turned to her remaining friends. "Of course, I'm only speaking for myself."

"Right. Like I got anything better to do."

"You really think I'd miss this?"

"Sure, but I'm hungry. Is there any food in that place?" Lily caught herself. "Other than peaches."

Jareth smiled sadly. "Very well. You have thirteen hours to beat my Labyrinth. You win, and you take home Leia. You lose," He smirked, his grey-blue eyes glinting mischeviously at Kari. "Well, let's discuss that later." And with that, he disappeared.

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Jareth reappeared in his throne room, tossing the crystal from hand to hand. He looked at it. It still showed and image of the girls standing on the hillside. Tara and Lily were chatting animatedly about goblins and Jordyn was taking a closer look at some sort of plant. Kari stood there, green eyes that reminded him so much of Sarah flitting around nervously, as if expecting something to jump out at her.

The Kings thoughts were interrupted by a loud chattering.

"...and that's why my parents won't get me a dog. I mean, it's not like I meant for all my goldfish to die! It just happened!" Leia had evidently been giving the goblins her life story in his absence.

Jareth plopped on his throne, intent on watching the girls' progress through his scrying crystal, but he kept getting interrupted by Leia.

Gods, he thought. Does she ever shut up? He finally spoke up. "I can see why Kari wished you away."

Leia stopped her useless speech to glare at him. "Why thank you. That makes me feel so much better."

"Any time," he replied with a sarcastic smirk.

"Something gives me the feeling that that smirk is going to bother me."

"That's the plan."

Leia pouted. "That movie did a pretty fair job of portraying you. It even got the tight pants."

Jareth glanced down at his breeches. "Um, thank you?"

She grinned. "No problem. Ooh! Question!"

"What?" Jareth snarled. He was getting tired of this quickly.

"Did you really sing 'Dance Magic' ?"

"Leave. Now."

Leia shrugged. "Whatever. You'll miss me." She flipped her shoulder-length blonde hair and skipped out, intent on exploring the castle.

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"I'm bored."

"I'm tired."

"I'm hungry."

Kari rolled her eyes at her friends' complaining. "Honestly! We've only been here for twenty minutes!"

"Still!"

Tara began jumping up and down, her hand raised as if she wanted the teacher to call on her.

"Yes?"

"You know that story from the beginning of the movie?"

"What of it?"

"I think I know what's going on. I just need to hear it again."

Kari raised an eyebrow. "Allrighty then. Here goes:

"Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess. Her mother left when she was very young, and the king remarried, producing a son.

"The princess was always forced to stay home with the baby. She was practically a slave.

"But, the Goblin King had fallen in love with the princess, and had given her certain powers.

" 'Say your right words,' the goblins said. 'and-' "

"That's it!" Tara interrupted.

"What's it?"

"Repeat that last part!"

Kari and the others looked bewildered. " 'Say your right words,' the goblins- ' "

"No! Before that!"

" 'But, the Goblin King had fallen in love with the princess and had given her certain powers.' ...?" She made the quotation into a question.

"There you have it!"

"I still don't-"

"You're the one who wished Leia away right?"

"Don't remind me."

" 'Certain powers' ! And how'd you get them?"

"I don't know!"

" ' The Goblin King had fallen in love with the princess' !"

Kari gaped open mouthed, then passed out.

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Well, that was fun. Yes, I did indeed say "Fudgemuffins". My friends and I come up with extremely strange ways to keep us from swearing...

The reason for the T rating is possible future language. There's none in this chapter, but, knowing Tara and Lily, there will be.

Next chapter, there shall be romance. If only a little. See if you can guess who.

Until next time,

Her Highness Sarah of Brookfield-Shire