Okay, So this is a Labyrinth story.
Enjoy!
-Annie
Change For The Better
Chapter One
Andy
It was a gray day. The sky was clay like, clouds twisted and turned churning up a terrible storm in there great bellies. Thunder sounded somewhere in the distance like the clapping of a furious being in rage. Lightning struck far off in the mountains touching down from the sky to the ground.
Andromeda Williams sat cross legged on the early morning grass watching the sky with a nonchalant look on her face. Her grandmother strolled up behind her gracefully but witheringly. Her white old woman hands rested gently on Andromeda's shoulders. Andromeda felt them shake lightly from paulsy.
Andromeda sighed deeply, looked at the grave in front of her for a long time, and stood.
"My dear," Her grandmother began, but was stopped with a look of pure sadness set on her young face. "I'm so sorry." She finished.
Andromeda shrugged. She didn't cry. She didn't sob. She didn't moan, or whine. She just watched, and sulked. Her parents, Tonnie and Jareth Williams died not 2 weeks before. Why the funeral was so far away from the death she couldn't say. They left there daughter of seventeen alone in the world 3 months before she was to be an legal adult.
"Come, sweet heart, it is getting quite late, we have to go." Andromeda fixed her dress with a sigh, the fabric ran smoothly down her body just like it had on her mother.
She fallowed her grandmother to the old van in the corner of the funeral parking lot. Before sliding into the passenger seat, she looked once more at the 2 headstones standing side by side in silence.
Jareth Hoggle Williams
Loving Fater and Husband with a beautiful imagination.
1975-2010
Tonitia Samantha (Rednall) Williams
Loving Mother and Wife who loved the unknown
1980-2010
Andromeda dried herself off in her bathroom, from her well deserved shower. Since her parents had died she went to live with her grandmother Sandra Williams.
Andromeda looked in the mirror. She was told many times and many before that she looked so much like her father, who looked so much like her grandmother. She had long raven black hair and emerald green eyes as bright as diamonds. She had fair skin, and a thin body.
Andromeda went out into her room to change into a black Iron Maiden t-shirt and a pair of black skinny's. She was putting in her earrings when her grandmother called to her from the living room.
Andromeda took the box of studs and walked into the living room.
"Yes? Grandmama?" She sat in front of Sandra's old wicker rocking chair. In her hand's Sandra held a present.
"I have something for you." Andromeda worked a stud into her cartilidge and shoved the back on and continued on all the way to her earlobe.
"Oh, Grandmama, my birthday isn't until months away." She answered with lipth as she put in her lipring, wincing slightly.
"I think you could use a good story now."
"Alright then, just let me finish with my metal." Sandra waited patiantly for her granddaughter to poke and prod in her skin.
"Why do you have all those?" Sandra groaned for the millionth time.
"I like them." Sandra stared as a nose stud wen't in.
When Andromeda was done she took the present from her and peeled back the paper.
It was a read leather bound book with a buckle on the side. It smelt of must and pine.
The Labyrinth.
Andromeda ran her fingers gently over the book and stopped just at the buckle. Her hand twitched slightly.
She suddenly thrust it into her grandmother's arms.
"I can't take this Granny, it's your favorite." Sandra would not take it back.
"You know the story as well as I do and you love it as much. I think it's time it be given to you." Andromeda looked back down at the book. A beautifully bound book, of a wonderous tale. A tale of a beautiful young girl and a handsome Goblin King. Andromeda attacked Sandra with emotion.
"Thank you, Grandmama!" Sandra was hugged tightly and kissed lightly on the cheek.
"Don't thank me yet." Sandra mumbled once Andromeda was up the stairs.
"Don't thank me yet."
Andromeda had stayed up half the night reading the fairytale, she loved the well worn crinkled pages of the book, the smell, the feel beneath her fingers. She loved it.
She finished it at about 1 am. When she was finished and she sat in her bed looking out into the night through her open. She felt a sneaking suspicioun like she was being watched. She choose to ignore and pulled the covers up to her chin, turned off the light and went to sleep.
"Andromeda, dear, will you come down her for a second?" Sandra called from the kitchen. Andromeda came down the stairs pulling a shirt on over her bra. It was early in the morning, and Andromeda had just gotten out of the shower.
"Yes?"
"How would you like to read to me later?" Andromeda wasn't surprised at the strange request. She had a beautiful reading voice and read out loud alot. She smiled.
"Sure."
"Good. Here's some tea, go upstairs and read your book, I can see you are dying to." Sandra smiled and thrust a mug of hot tea into Andromeda's hands.
"Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young girl whose stepmother always made her stay home with the baby. And the baby was a spoiled child, and wanted everything to himself, and the young girl was practically a slave. But what no one knew is that the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the the girl, and he had given her certain powers. So one night, when the baby had been particularly cruel to her, she called on the goblins for help!"
Andromeda stopped for breath.
Sandra smiled over her knitting at her granddaughter. It was late 10:00 around that time. It was pounding rain outside, and the thunder beat on the old house.
Andromeda cleared her throat and began again.
"Say the right words the goblins said, and we'll take the baby to the castle, and you will be free! But the girl knew, that the Goblin King would keep the baby in his castle for ever and ever and ever, and turn it into a goblin! And so the girl suffered in silence. Until one day, when she was tired from a day of housework, and she was hurt by the harsh words of her stepmother, and she could no longer stand it... "
The thunder grew louder.
"I can bear it no longer! Goblin King! Goblin King! Wherever you may be take this child of mine far away from me!" Andromeda said very loudly and enthusiastically.
Sandra sighed and shook her head.
The thunder stopped.
"That's not it! It doesn't even start with I wish." Sandra said smiling remembering her own mistake. Andromeda rolled her eyes and tched at her grandmother.
"Well EXCUSE ME for trying to liven it up a little, nit picky." Sandra chuckled good heartedly.
"I wish the goblins would come and take you away...right...now." Andromeda gasped a huge barn owl had burst through the open window.
It fluttered around frantically, and finally transformed into a very pissed man.
His mixed matched eyes shown anger.
"SARA!" He stalked over to Sandra glared down at her charmingly.
"Hello again, Jareth."
Andromeda looked between the two and in the midst of this she realized they were no longer in the living room. They were in front of a door, a huge stone door in the middle of the day, outside.
They were in front of the Labyrinth.
"Shit."
Hope you like it so far! Promise the next one will be up soon! Promise it will BE ALOT BETTER!
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- love Annie