Hi you guys please read and review negative comments are welcome it helps me become a better writer. This is my first fanfic so enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own labyrinth or any of its characters. They belong to the brilliant minds at Jim henson company.

Sarah sat on her bed reading her favorite book when she heard a strange noise. She looked up and realized someone was trying to contact her through her mirror.

"Hoggle?" Sarah asked. It had been months since she had spoken with any of her friends in the labyrinth. She stepped toward the mirror and saw the face of her dear friend.

"Who else would ya think it would be? The tooth fairy?" Hoggle said rolling his eyes and they thought goblins were stupid.

"What's been happening in the underground? Is everyone all right?"

"Didymus, Ludo and me is fine Sarah. Can't say much for the king though."

"Did you have to bring himup? Just thinking about him is making my skin crawl. I want to get Toby, run and hide, just from talking about him." Sarah said shuddering.

"I have to bring him up to answer your first question. Something is really wrong here in the underground. There is some kind of dark magic taking over parts of the different kingdoms. No one knows who is causing it, but many people have disappeared in the last couple of months. He has gone to meet with the other Fae leaders to see what course of action they are going to take. The other goblins and me are guarding the castle while the king is away."

"Do you know anything about the meeting yet any news as what is to happen?" Sarah asked leaning toward the mirror.

"I will learn more when he comes back, which should be soon. I've got to go Eap is looking for me and I need to go back to protecting the gate there is something in the labyrinth and it's trying to get in. Be careful Sarah. Whoever is doing this may come looking for you. Be cautious, I would hate it if you got hurt. Take care." Hoggle said his image vanishing.

Sarah sighed, walked over to her bed, sat down and started to think. It had been two years since she had run the labyrinth and she had grown up from the experience to an extent… she still read and lost her mind in those "fairy tales", but she had learned a lot from her time in the labyrinth. "Nothing is as it seems, Life is never fair, it just is, and take nothing for granted.

I wonder what's really going on in the underground. She had a feeling Hoggle was hiding something big from her, and what did he mean that they might come for her. She wasn't anyone special. Sure she made it through the labyrinth but other runners have done it before too.

Sarah sighed again. Why was it that whenever she thought about the underground or a certain somebody inhabiting it, she could never think clearly? Her mind was already a mess with unanswered questions.

"Sarah go to bed! It's nearly two in the morning. Just because you're a senior doesn't mean you can slack off. You do have school tomorrow." Karen called up to her.

Sarah groaned, shut off the light and went to sleep. That's when the nightmares started.

A pair of mismatched eyes stared at her, a sneer on the goblin kings face. She was shackled to the wall and couldn't get loose no matter how hard she tried. He paced the floor with his riding crop in hand. His face filled with rage as he lashed out. She winced as the riding crop struck her face.

"You are going to wish you had never have heard about this place. How dare you reject me after everything I did for you." He said slapping her. "You think this is over, this is just the beginning." He screeched as he turned into a white barn owl and dove at her talons stretched. Then her alarm went off.

Sarah woke up with her blanket twisted around her. She never told anyone, but she was truly afraid of … him. The entire time she met him in the labyrinth she was afraid. She just put on a good front.

"It was only a nightmare. He can't come back. You said the words, you're safe" she told herself. There was only one time she wasn't afraid of him when they were in the ballroom… She shook her head it was her dream he didn't really care for her she was just dreaming, believing that it was true, but it wasn't it, was just another of his mind games.

She looked out the window and flinched. A barn owl was staring at her through her window. Her heart skipped a beat as it flew away. Was she safe?