I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING INVOLVING THE LABYRINTH! THE ONLY THING I CLAIM AS MINE IS MY ORIGINAL CHARACTER- SAM- WHO IS MODIFIED A LITTLE FOR EACH FANFICTION FOR WHAT BEST FITS WITH THE STORYLINE!

LABYRINTH

INTRODUCTION

Two little girls wandered the strange labyrinth together, unsure of where to turn next. One girl had long, red hair, green eyes and was seven years old, the other had short, brown hair, hazel eyes, and was only five. The older girl was named Marie and is the reason they were in the whole mess. Her older cousin had read her a book called The Labyrinth, and Marie had loved it. What she hadn't realized was that it wasn't a fictional story. It was instead a story about an actual realm that existed outside the one we all know; a realm full of goblins and other strange creatures all ruled over by one man- a king named Jareth. He was rather frightening in Marie's opinion. The younger girl was Marie's best friend who lived two doors down- Sam.

Sam had been over for a slumber party when Marie's younger sister ran in and broke a new toy Marie had JUST gotten while she and Sam were playing with it. Furious at her little sister for always breaking her toys, Marie said the words she had recently heard from her cousin's book.

"I WISH THE GOBLINS WOULD COME TAKE YOU AWAY RIGHT NOW!" Marie shouted as she pushed her sister from the room, unaware of what was about to happen.

Marie didn't realize that by saying those words, a very real man with very real goblins had been invited to take the younger sister and the man NEVER passed up the opportunity to take a child to add to his legion of goblins. Marie also hadn't realized that the only way to get her sister back, was to solve the man's labyrinth. She was positive it was all just a made-up story.

Sam, on the other hand, believed in magic and goblins and the sort. She had also heard the tale of The Labyrinth, though her babysitter had told her the story, not Marie's cousin. Sam believed that the Goblin King did exist, and WOULD take a child if it was wished away. So, when Marie shouted the words that would invite the man to take the younger sister, Sam gasped.

"Why would you say that?!" Sam asked. "Now the Goblin King will take her away and you'll have to solve his labyrinth to get her back!"

"That's not true, Sam," Marie said. "It's all make believe."

"It is not! You're gonna wish you hadn't made that wish!"

"Sam, it's just a- "

Marie was cut off as a loud crash of thunder roared through the sky and her window flew open. The girls screamed and ducked as a barn owl flew through the window towards them. When they looked up, a man stood by the window.

He was tall, his hair was blonde and was short and spiky on top but the bottom layers were long and fell just past is shoulders. He wore a black shirt with a black armor chest plate that had a few gold embellishments, tight black pant, black riding boots that went up to just below his knees, and a cape that was black but the inside was a bluish purple. Sam recognized him from a drawing in her babysitter's book. He smirked slightly at the two young girls.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" He asked the girls, his voice sounded British and was low. "It's not every day people so young wish away their siblings and have to endure my labyrinth."

Sam looked at Marie.

"Told you that he was real and you shouldn't have said those words!" Sam said.

"It was some stupid story my cousin told me, how was I supposed to know it wasn't made up?!"

"So, one of you believes in magic and the other- who's not much older- doesn't," The man stated. "And yet the one who doesn't believe is the one who wished away their sibling. This is a rather interesting turn of events."

"Give me my sister back," Marie said. "My parents will ground me forever if they find out I wished her away and it came true."

"I'm sorry, Marie, but that's not how it works. You wished her away, I simply did what I was asked to do. But look at what I'm offering you." He holds a crystal ball up so Marie can see it. "Your dreams. No more broken toys or having to share a room with your sister. Everything to yourself like it was before she was born."

"I can't. My parents will ground me FOREVER if she stays with you."

"Then you'll have to solve the labyrinth and get to my castle to save her. Since you're so young, I will allow your friend to join you and help you find your way, but you only get 13 hours to try and get to the castle- just like everyone else who comes here to save a brother or sister. I can't make an exception to that rule.

Also, if you don't make it to the castle in time, your brother becomes one of us forever. Such a pity."

Suddenly, the man vanished. Sam and Marie noticed that they weren't in Marie's room anymore, but rather they were standing on a hill just a few yards from a HUGE maze.

The girls looked at each other.

"We better get started," Sam said as she stared to walk towards the labyrinth. "We only have 13 hours and we're little so it'll take us longer than it would a grown up."

"So was that really…?" Marie asked, following Sam down the hill.

"Jareth, the Goblin King," Sam said with a nod. "And he's taller than I thought he'd be. Makes him look scarier."

"Where's the entrance to this stupid thing?"

"Did you not pay attention to the story? We have to ask the person named Hoggle."