Chapter 000: Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered
Once upon a time on a bright spring morning a beautiful basket was left at the front door of a small house. In it a baby lay sleeping, wrapped in sparkling blue and silver blankets. On the blankets stood a name in curly letters: Silea
At seven o'clock the occupants of the house woke up and started their morning routine. A kind and loving man opened the front door and saw the sleeping little girl. The man picked her up gently and went back indoors softly calling his wife. She liked the child right away and started fussing over the girl. The gentle woman had suffered from a nasty disease and had led to her becoming unable to bear children. She carefully looked at the little girl she was now holding in her arms. The girl was a beautiful child, almost perfect even, except for her slightly pointed ears maybe, but those gave her a heavenly look.
The man and woman adopted the girl and named her Silea. Unfortunately, another child lived in the house. She had previously been the only daughter in the little family and had been spoilt rotten by her mother, after her mother learnt she wasn't able to carry more children. That was the reason the daughter was very jealous of Silea, because she didn't got all of her mother's attention anymore and also because she had to baby sit the 'little brat', when their parents went out.
Silea was almost like an angel, in both looks and behaviour. But when their parents went out and Silea was alone with her sister, she became more like a little devil, as if she sensed her big sister hated her. She would scream and cry all the time, until their parents came back and she would be like an angel again.
One day Silea was crying again and her sister lost her temper big time. She started to pound on the walls, started to scream like she was being killed and started to kick things around the room. She kicked the walls, the wardrobe, the cradle, she kicked Silea's old basket and then she finally came to her senses again.
She looked around, frightened by the results of her own actions, and started to clean up the mess. When she got to the upside-down basket, the pillows fell out of the basket and a small red book fell on top of them. She became curious and picked the intriguing book up.
It was called "The Labyrinth". She suddenly noticed that Silea started crying again. She thought Silea's parents might have read the book to Silea, before the gave her up. Silea might calm down, if she'd read it to her, she figured. So she started reading the book to Silea. It was a fairytale about a girl and the Goblin King. Miraculously Silea indeed stopped crying, she seemed to be listening very thoughtfully to the story.
After almost an hour of reading her sister became tired of reading the story. She stopped and Silea's eyes started to water. She walked to the door. Before flipping off the light switch, she sighed and said dejectedly: "I wish the goblins would come and take you away, right now." Silea cries abruptly stopped and her sister stopped dead in her tracks sensing something wasn't right.
She turned around and searched frantically for the light switch, while trying to distinguish something in the dark. She found it, but it stayed dark. She finally managed to see in the dark and saw someone holding her sister and if the hair was something to go by, it was the Goblin King.
Her sister got the offer to run the labyrinth for Silea. She couldn't stay home and explain where Silea disappeared to, her parents would think she was crazy or something like that, so she chose to run the labyrinth.
Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, (untold and unnumbered because you can't tell about non-existing problems, can you?) she had walked her way to the castle beyond the Goblin City. She hadn't had any problems with the goblin army, even they ran away shrieking and yelling for their lives. However, when she entered the castle, she was very pissed off and very smelly. While the labyrinth strangely had let through unharmed, it did push her into the bog and now she was covered in slime up to her waist.
She said the words to win and the Goblin King checked the clock: right on time. He smirked cruelly at Silea's sister and told her about the everlasting stench. Then he looked at the little Silea and suddenly noticed that her ears were a little pointy. He smirked and sent them both home swiftly, before his castle would stink forever.
Silea was in her cradle again, now sleeping soundly and smiling at last night's memories. Her sister appeared in Silea's room and immediately ran as fast as she could to the bathroom. She kept washing herself over and over again. She stopped deep in the night, when she realised it really wouldn't come off, and she cried herself to sleep.
The next day she woke up very early, because of the horrible stench, and cursed the day Silea came to them once again. She quickly and quietly dressed herself, wanting to get out of her room into the fresh air. She didn't notice a white barn owl sitting on a branch in front of her window.
She wrote a note for her parents and went outside. There was a very strong wind outside, blowing the stench a little bit away. She started walking with her eyes cast down and was deep in thought. She was walking on the sidewalk and a car came screeching round the corner. A sudden gust of wind made the car lose control and it crashed into her. She was flattened between the car and the wall. She died with her ribcage crushed and her stomach pierced by car parts. Nobody saw the white barn owl fly away.
After the funeral her parents hid of all her stuff and photos. It was just their way of dealing with it, trying to forget. They promised each other they would never tell Silea. She should never have to bear the pain of losing a sister ever and know was adopted and her sister not, she wouldn't remember it anyway and she wouldn't need to.
A half year later, in September, they adopted another child, a little boy. They called him Brody. He and his sister grew up happily together, they occasionally argued but it didn't happen very often. Silea became a beautiful and happy young girl.
[A/N: First, please review, first fanfic and first story in English ever (I'm Dutch, if you wanted to now). Second, if you wondered, whether Jareth killed the sister or not, I believe he didn't. After all it was a car accident, so I actually killed her (as writer of the story), but bad people may die and she would have had a bad live anyway, remember the smell ;). Needed to do that by the way, always threats and now actually someone really smelling bad for the rest of her (short) life :P.
A/N 2: I hadn't updated for a long time and finally wanted to write something again. So I started to reread the story for details I had forgotten and saw it could be a LOT better. So I will rewrite the first chapters, before I will continue the rest of the story. I will not change a lot in the plot, only the words that tell the story. Thank you for reading and reviewing.