Chapter One: Sarah's Beginnings
Sarah Williams had always been an ordinary girl, much to her mother's disappointment.
She had no great claim on beauty, her intelligence was quite average, rarely achieving an A in any of her subjects.
But her sense of humour bypassed all who knew her, they were never to know her kind or odd remark was a sarcastic comment on their behalf.
She spent much of her childhood despairing of her immature girl classmates, their sole problem in their short existence was boys, if a girl was bitchy, or what to wear on a Friday night.
Sarah was tired of the superficial needs and wants of teenagers. This resulted in her being a 'one woman island', rarely letting anyone inside her bubble.
When her father remarried Karen, a woman Sarah liked to mock daily, she withdrew from her world even more then she did previously.
Filled with her childish dislike of her stepmother who now commanded all of her father's attention, Sarah designed her own world.
Where she was the heroine of a great escapade, she played the classic damsel in the distress perfectly.
Then her baby brother half-brother was born, his tendency to keep the household up during the little hours in the night, did not win favour with Sarah.
Her mother, her real mother the famous actress was increasingly forgetting her teenage daughter, much to Sarah's distress, her mother had forgot her 15th birthday and cancelled meeting her daughter in favour of a television interview.
In which the fact that she had a daughter half the age she claimed to be was not mentioned.
Sarah, she felt, was being ostracised by her family, Toby now was her father's first priority. Who gave up worrying about his passionate daughter when Karen suggested teenage hormones and monthly cycles.
Truthfully, his work ate up a lot of his time and he wasn't home till late, his only free time was on the weekend in which he and his wife spent together.
Attending function after function of his clients, leaving his teenage daughter in charge of his infant son.
It came to one of those evenings, when Sarah was late on a Friday night to babysit the toddling Toby.
She indulged in a minor outburst in the face of her stepmother before slamming her bedroom door; the sound was received with satisfaction.
Her anger however did not fade. A few weeks ago, in the park she found a second hand book with a red cover.
She left it on a bench, thinking someone would come back for it. However each day for a week the book lied desolate without an owner to claim.
Sarah was curious, it had rained for three days and yet the book was not ruined. So she took it home. Sarah was a reader, that's where her world stemmed from.
This book was titled 'The Labyrinth,' and soon Sarah would not be seen without it. The Labyrinth contents told of a young girl the Goblin King fancied and gave her certain powers.
The girl rescued her little brother from the Underground, much to the Kings bemusement and won her right of Champion.
Sarah often played the young heroine in the park, after school, oblivious to the young mothers with their babies watching her with amusement.
That night, after her father and Stepmother left for some dinner party of her father's clients, Toby was teething. Teething is usually a very vocal ordeal as the toddler yelled his frustration of his sore gums.
Sarah was still a naïve girl, despite her world-weariness of teenagers of her gender, she didn't know quite a lot about babies in general. Nor could she sympathize with her step-brothers painful milestone.
So her self-interested behaviour did not soothe the distraught babe, and rather ….. she wished him away to the Goblin King himself.
Not meaning to of course, but that was when Sarah knew that words contained power that many aren't aware of, even the cleverest of novelists.
She was given the task to defeat King Jareth's Labyrinth, a maze of adventures to win back her baby brother or else he'd be made into a goblin. During these short hours, Sarah made unorthodox friends for a girl her age or a person In general.
A gruff Dwarf named Hoggle, his name it seems difficult to remember by the King and Sarah at first, a large slow lovely troll Ludo and a fiery fox terrier knight Sir Didymus and his sheepdog steed Ambrosias.
With these remarkable friends Sarah fought through the Labyrinth and defeated the Goblin Kind.
Albeit a ballroom dance which Sarah struggled to forget, where her memories were distorted and her feelings vulnerable. For a moment she believed she was in love with the despicable King, but then her memories and sense of self was discovered, the notion was instantly dismissed.
King Jareth thought highly of himself and dressed in clothing Sarah fought not to make of, in fear of his ability of reducing the time limit.
Sarah noticed his tendency to burst out in song whenever he felt like it, his crystal balls were always rolling about and disappearing in dramatic puffs of glitter.
Her opinion of said Goblin King was a frivolous man whose boredom resulted in tormenting teenage girls while wearing tight, tight pants.
This small escapade made Sarah grow up, her stepmother was not the mean uncaring witch she appeared to be before but a woman who does not know how to relate to her husband's teenage daughter.
Her father was no longer the selfish man who did not take interest in his daughter, but a tired Dad who was settling back into 'babymode.' Toby, Sarah found, adored her. He loved her; she was his first word, which amused the William's greatly.
Her family life was improving; she often went on shopping trips with her step-mother and confided in her.
Her friends from the Underground made an almost daily appearance in her life. Sarah realised her outlook in life before was immature and rather childish. However, Sarah was aware of other worlds. Her being in the Labyrinth and its Champion, granted her several powers.
This is where her real journey begins.
As her search for unimaginable worlds begins, her adventures fuelled Sarah's inspiration as a writer.
As each land is discovered, she produces another world famous book. But to explain this, reader's, we must start after the Labyrinth, when Sarah was aware of her powers. She first stumbled into a land not unlike the Underground, however readers you can imagine, that things don't just work that way.
Sarah's new discovered worlds weren't just floating around, but different Kingdoms of the Underground. Her escapades of course were known well, by the Goblin King.
A few weeks after the stint in the underground, Sarah and her family went for a trip to visit her Grandma, a smiling elderly lady who adored Sarah and Sarah adored her.
It was during her wanderings in the small forest near her grandmother's house, she stumbled over her first world, which resulted in the birth of her first award winning novel at the age of sixteen. This is where it begins, so readers read on.
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