ch. 1
Sarah looked up from her book. It was very nice out
today. The sun was
shining and the birds were singing in the park where
she sat. Only 3
days ago did she return from the Labyrinth and her
quest. The dreams
of that still haunted her. The pictures in her mind of
him.....ok
Sarah. there you go again. Pull yourself together.
Sarah felt
something brush up against her ear and when she
turned, all that was
left was a box and a white feather. Where did this
come from? sarah
picked up the box. She undid the blue ribbon and
opened the red box.
Sarah's eyes widened. IT was a beautiful ring. It had
5 stones total.
There were 4 diamonds. 2 on each side of the big
center stone. A star
Ruby. The star shone in the sun. It was the most
beautiful ring she'd
ever seen. She slipped in on her finger. There was a
small note on the
bottom of the box.
"The star of light is the eye of truth and the key to
all doors."
Thats it? What was that supposed to mean. Hmm, oh
well. It was then
Sarah noticed the white feather. An owl's feather.
Jareth? It couldnt
be. Nah. She stuffed the note in her pocket and went
back to reading.
5 years later.........
Ms. Williams, will you be staying with us long?"
"No, just today and tommorrow. We have a business
meeting in town."
"lovely Ms Williams. Your room is 316. Thank you. Have
a pleasant stay."
"Thanks."
Sarah signed her bill and handed it to the clerk at
the desk.
"Thanks again. By the way, that is a beautiful ring Ms
Williams."
Sarah looked down at her ruby star ring
"Why thank you."
With that Sarah travelled to the elevator to her room.
The doors opened and Sarah walked inside. There was a
crowd of people
waiting for the elevator, but they didnt get on.
"Arent you all getting on?"
"We'll catch the next one." they said in unison.
What strange people.
"Alright."
The doors closed and Sarah got an uneasy
feeling.Something wasnt
right. Then the elevator stopped. oh no. Dont tell me
Im stuck in this
thing.
Sarah sighed heavily. Why me?
Sarah must have said it out loud, because she got an
answer.
"Because, you were always diffrent. many things were
meant for you but
they always seemed to slip through your fingers. Now
is the chance to
remedy that."
Sarah looked around confusedly.
"Who are you?"
The woman appeared in front of Sarah.
"I am Sarena. That is all you need to know. I am
here to help not
only you but to help my son. Since your destiny wasnt
fulfilled,
neither was my son's and his lands and I tire of
seeing it waste away.
I want it all to live and only you can stop it."
Before Sarah could ask anything, they were gone in a
flash of light.
Ch.2
Sarah opened her eyes as they appeared wherever they
were.She saw it as
a desolate and dying place. No green could be found,
only browns and
greys. Walls were falling apart and birds cawed
overhead.Sarah then
remembered her question.
"Wait wait! I can only stop what?"
"It all from dying."
"What is "it"?"
"Look around you. Where do you think you are?"
Sarah looked. I mean really looked. She stood on
tiptoe and looked over
the dead bushes.
"I dont know."
"Here does this help?"
Sarah began to feel weightless and began to float into
the air.
"Whoa!"
Sarena floated with her and they stopped high
enough to see the
entire place.
"Oh my........"
"Yes, dear Sarah."
"Its the Labyrinth."
Sarena nodded her head.
"How?Why? What happened to it?"
"Its dying."
"I can see that.But why?"
"You Sarah. Ever since you left it all started wasting
away. Something
went wrong. The time continuum sped up so rapidly
after you left that
no one could stop it all. Something didnt happen that
was supposed
to.After the rapid fast forward of time everything
forze and the
Underground has been forzen in time like this.Whatever
you did or didnt
do ,rather,caused time to go haywire."
"How?"
"I dont know.I do know that your destiny lies here,
and whatever you
didnt fulfill caused time here to jumble and then rip
itself from the
rest of the time continuum."
"Can it be fixed?"
"Yes. You have to find your mistake and fix it,
otherwise the Labyrinth
and the underground is lost."
"How can I fix it? What did I do wrong?"
"I dont know. You have to find that out on your own."
"But, once I found out, how do I go back and fix it?"
"Here..."
Sarena threw Sarah a crystal.
"You get 2 chances Sarah. After that, the Labyrinth
stays the same."
"What do I do?"
"The crystal will take you back when you're ready."
Sarena then began to glow with light.
"Where do I start?"
"Look whithin the light and it will show you the truth
which you seek!"
Then she burned bright and faded into light.
ch3.
Sarah walked through the rubble that once was the
magnificent
Labyrinth. All this happened because of something I
didnt do....but
what could it be? She had so many questions, but the
answers to them
she didnt have. She sat in the nearest corner and
sighed. SHe didnt
know where to start. A single tear slipped from her
eye and she caught
it with her hand. It fell onto her ring and the star
in the ruby flared
to life, illuminating everything around her. Startled,
Sarah tried to
take the ring off, but found it wouldnt move.
"Saaaarahhh...."
It was a whisper.
"Whos there? I hear you....What do you want...."
"I wannttttt ttooo heeelppp yoouuuu......"
"Help me? Help me do what...where are you, show
yourself!"
"Imm allll arouunnnd yoooouu"
Sarah began to turn in circles, as if to talk to all
of "it"
"What are you?"
"Im aaa whiissper, nothiing morrre."
"A whisper? A whisper of what?"
"Immm a whiissper of liight"
"Well, how can you help me?"
"I caaan sshhoww you thingssss frommm mmyy pointttt
ooffff
vviieew..hooww I sssee themmmm aaas theyyy
happennnnn..."
"But how does that help me?"
"Youuu haave to fiind the misssstake you maade
rigght?I caaan taake
yooou baack aaand ssssshowww yyyouuu thheee thhings
tthatt happeneddd
bbbbuuutt tttooo wwhheere yyyouu cann waatch
yoooursellfff aaand maaybe
yyooulll nootice whhhat wwenntt wronnggg.."
"Why would you do that? How can you do that? Where did
you come from?"
"YOouure ringgg....iiiss tthee rrinng offf ligght, off
whicch I wwasss
bornn...whisspers offf truuth arre borrn frommm the
ligght...likkee the
liighht youuur rinngg produceddd whhennn you
crrried.Yoouur rinngg is
magicallll...iiittt willl hellp you withhh the
truthhh..I ammm
desesstined too helpp you forr I wasss bornn outt offf
your
lighhhttt..."
"I understand....I think...."
"Shhalll we ggggoo?"
"Why not..I have to start somewhere....maybe I will
find what I did
wrong......I just need a new perspective on
things....."
Then she dissapeared.
ch 4.
Sarah reappeared in a strange bedroom. Is was very
grey in the room. The furniture looked dusty and
covered in cobwebs. In the middle of the room was a
big oak bed with what once must have been a beautiful
canopy. But now it was torn and whisps of the opaque
material blew in the wind. She moved closer and
realized there was a person in the bed as well. She
pulled back some of the material and almost cried at
what she saw. The great goblin king reduced to mere
bones and skin. His breathing was very shallow and he
seemed to be in a strange sleep. A movement next to
the bed startled her.
"Who is it?"
"Hello Sarah."
"Hoggle?"
"Yes its me."He chuckled."I havent seen you in some
time Sarah."
She bowed her head.
"I know."She looked up again."What happened to him
Hoggle? Whats going on?"
Hoggle sighed heavily.
"It all happened not long after you left.Jareth said
something about him losing the game and compromising
the magic. I dont know. I really didnt understand it.
I asked him about it and all he could tell me was that
he lost the game and lost his destiny at the same
time. Then Empress Sarah came..."
"Empress sarah?"
"Oh, shes the ruler of the crystalline realm. I tell
you more about her later. Anyway, she came to collect
something and Jareth refused you see. He said he
couldnt give up on destiny and he couldnt give up
something else, but I couldnt hear him. As soon as he
said all of that, Empress Sarah returned to her
kingdom and hasnt been able to leave it since. Then it
all started to happen."
"The Labyrinth began to die?"
"Yes. Everything happened so fast. ITs like time sped
up. Jareth acted like he knew it was coming. He didnt
even try to stop it. Slowly things began to die and
deteriorate and along with it Jareth did as well. when
it all first started I heard him mumbling to himself
about living forever with what he had left. That was
just before he fell into slumber. Im guessing all he
thought he had left were his dreams."
"I see. Is there anything else?"
Then she remembered her whisper.
"Whisper are you there?"
"Yessssss."
"can you tell me anything else about whats going on?"
"I oonnnlly knnnowwww whaaattt Iii have seeeen. I cann
takkke yyoouu tttooo seee Emmpresssss Ssssarahhh."
"Yes please, take me there. Ill return soon Hoggle."
He nodded and began to look after Jareth again. Even
though he had been so cruel to him, he know it was how
he had to be in the role Sarah made for him.He was
after all his King and he had to look after him.
Sarah again dissapeared.
ch. 5
When Sarah again could make out her surroundings she
saw a magnificent throne room with a sleeping Queen
upon it. She began to walk closer but was stopped by a
man.
"May I help you, and how did you get in here?"
"Im Sarah. I need to some quesitons answered and I
believe she knows some of the answers."
"I see. My name is Gabriel.Let me see if she'll see
you."
He walked over to the sleeping form and with the
softest gaze she had even seen looked at her. He then
tapped her shoulder and awoke her.
"Im sorry my Empress. There is a Sarah here to see
you. She says she needs to ask you some questions."
"Sarah? Here? In MY castle?"
She got up in an angry start.
She looked over at Sarah.
"YOU!? How dare you think you can come into my home!"
Sarah was taken aback.
"Im sorry. What did I do?"
Empress Sarah chuckled.
"What did you do....well for one you took him away
from me. He could have loved me if he didnt love you
so much. He forfeited the game and changed everything
for you, not caring what it brought. Its brought his
destruction as well as the return of the evil."
"What? Im confused. Are we talking about Jareth?"
"No, we're talking about Elvis. YES! Jareth. "
"I have to say I dont know what you are talking
about."
Empress Sarah then stopped to think.
"You really dont know do you?"
"No. I dont."
"Im sorry. Ive been just a wreck since Jareth refused
me, causing me to lose my dreams and my bet with
destiny. But that my dear is another story. Look, to
put it in a nutshell for you. Jareth is forever living
in his dreams where he fulfills his destiny. When you
left the Labyrinth and defeated him it sent him into
seep sorrow. Why, I cant tell you. Thats part of your
journey. Im sure Sarena visited you and sent you
here."
"Yes she did. Who is she?"
"Who is Sarena. Lets ask What she is. She is the
greatest and most powerful being to live. She is
Jareth's mother.She lives in the Garden that I tend.
It used to be hers. There is where all magic begins
and ends. Back when you were transversing the
Labyrinth, I came to collect on something but he
refused and chose his destiny instead. Then you
defeated him and left. Afterwards it all started. YOu
didnt do something. I dont know what, but you didnt"
"Thats what Sarena told me. She said I had two chances
to go back and fix it before it was too late."
"Yes, you have to hurry. Before it gets here."
"Before what gets here?"
"She didnt tell you?"
"No, she didnt."
"The evil is back. Sarena and myself imprisoned it
centuries ago, but it escaped it the rip in time and
it is returning. Sarena's magic isnt at it fullest
with a part of her magic dying so she isnt strong
enough right now to stop it. If you restore Jareth and
his kingdom and magic in time we can stop it again.
Its all up to you now Sarah. Go, your time already
grows short."
Sarah breathed in heavily.
"Alright Whisper. take me back."
"Aaas youuu wissssh."
Then they were gone again, this time into the past.
ch 6
Sarah reappeared in the pathways of the Labyrinth.
*Alright Sarah. Think. What did you do wrong or not
do. Something......argh I don't know!*
Sarah looked around for something, any clue. Then, she
saw herself running down the corridor.
"Thats me."
"Yessss, youu arrre waatchhhing yourssssssselff
complllete yourrrr lasssst jjjourney."
Sarah watched in remembrance of her journey through
the Labyrinth. She watched as she slammed into the
wall and sank to the ground on the other side.
"This is where I met the worm."
Then she saw a little blue worm with a red scarf come
out of a hole in the wall. She saw herself talk to the
worm and walk through the wall.
"No no! Don't got that way! Never go that way!"
"Thanks."
Sarah stared as she heard the next words that came
from the worm's mouth.
"If sheda kept on goin' down that way, sheda gone
straight to that castle."
With a nod he retreated into his hole.
"I cant believe it! I had been going the right way
from the start! I had been going the right way until
Hoggle came along, I had been going the right way
until I had listened to others besides myself. Maybe
thats it.Wait, but if thats not it......."
Sarah sighed in frustration.
"Whisper, what can I do? How do I know what I did
wrong?"
"I caaaant heelp youuu. I caaaaan jussssst sssshow
you."
Sarah thought hard. What else could there be?
"Whisper, I want to use my first try."
Then a crystal appeared in Sarah's hand. She thought
about the changes she wanted to make and the crystal
burned bright blue.Everything lit up and then Sarah
was overcome with a severe burning sensation.
Her entire body started to burn from her fingers up
her arm and throughout every part of her. She fell to
her knees and the crystal dropped from her hand and
shattered. Even after the light was gone Sarah still
burned.
"whisper...what...happened.."Sarah gasped.
"Youuuu chosssssse wroooooong."
Tears flowed from Sarah's eyes.
"Help me whisper. I still dont understand. I have one
more chance and I dont even have a clue as to what I
didnt do."
"Asssssssk the riiiiight quessssssstionsssss."
*Hoggle once said that*
Sarah got to her feet, still feeling the aftershocks
of the burning.
"Alright Whisper...show what what you saw...show me
what you think was important....what did you see that
I didnt?"
Then Sarah saw blackness.
When her surroundings became clear again she saw the
ballroom and a confused herself looking for something.
"what was I looking for?"
Sarah was thinking out loud but the whisper answered
her.
"Jussssst watch."
Then he caught the faintest glimpse of the goblin king
in his former state and her heart leapt. He was
absolutely gorgeous.But then in a flash and twirl of
skirts he had disappeared. She followed through the
people with her eyes and found him again just as
herself did. How she wanted to be herself right now,
which sounded really strange to Sarah when said. That
had been her once. Then a familiar song was heard and
Sarah listened since she hadnt really listened the
first time. The words he sang sung out to her heart.
"There's such a sad love
Deep in your eyes
A kind of pale jewel
Opened and closed within your eyes
Ill place the sky
Within your eyes....."
Sarah sighed and began to sway.
"As the pain sweeps through makes no sense for you
Every thrill he's caused wasn't too much fun at all
But Ill be there for you
As the world falls down..."
The song kept on and Sarah watched herself dance with
the magnificent Goblin King. She saw the way he looked
at her and wondered why she hadn't noticed his
wonderful eyes before.
"As the world falls down..
Falling.....
Falling....
Falling....
falling in love."
Those words hit her like a slap in the face. It was
here. Here was where she made her mistake. She hadnt
realized the extent of what the song meant. Then she
saw herself pull away from him and run.
"No Sarah, what are you doing stop!"
She watched herself break the bubble and the world
fall down.The look on Jareth's face when she tore away
tore at her heart. Such despair.
Then it went black again.
Sarah appeared in the Escher Room watching the
showdown between herself and Jareth. His feathery
cloak billowing in the unseen wind, he looked the
figure of power. Sarah stared as she saw herself,
stubborn and defiant as ever break the goblin king's
heart a little at a time. She remembered what he had
said before this part.
"I cant live within you."
No he couldn't. Then she returned her thoughts to the
at hand.
"Fear me,love me, do as I say and I will be your
slave."
Sarah wanted to run to him and tell him she would.
"Whisper, I want to make my last choice."
"Bee carefullllllll Ssssssssarah."
*wait. If I change the fact that Ill tell him I love
him, I still cant not save Toby. So i cant wish that.
And I cant wish to never have wished Toby away at all
because I will never have met him or loved him.*
She was on the brink of understanding something when
the room began to shake.
"Whisper, whats going on."
"theee eeeeeeeeevil isssssss nearinnnnnnnnng."
Then the whole room shook violently and winds were
everywhere. The escher scene was gone replaced by
nothingness.
"whisper!!"sarah screamed out.
"Send me to Sarena's garden!!"
Then Sarah was overcome with warmth and opened her
eyes to a beautiful garden.
"Sarena!"
Then Sarena appeared in her human form.
"Sarah. what are you doing here? The evil draws very
near."
"I know what I have to do.Its not about the past. even
if I told Jareth I loved him I still would have left
him to save Toby. Its about now. Its about our
destinys. This is happening so we can fulfill ours.
that why Jareth is in his sleep.This is my destiny.
Hoggle said Jareth said he was going where he could
forever live his destiny.Only in his dreams could he
do that. But If I make his dreams reality then we can
be together and everything can be fixed. We were meant
to be together and this is how everything was supposed
to happen.It was destined to be this way. Something
bigger is going on here than we know."
Sarena nodded.
"You have become wise Sarah. I knew you would figure
it out."
"You knew all of this?"
"Of course. I am the beginning and the end here.I
know everything. But as you said it was destined for
you to find out on your own.Now I know why he loves
you so much. Now go and save him. Time is very short.
Empress Sarah and I will try to hold off the evil as
long as possible.Hurry."
"I will. Alright whisper...to the castle."
Then she was gone.
ch.7
Sarah reappeared in the castle throne room and ran up
the stairs to Jareth's bedroom. She pushed back the
mesh canopy and gazed at Jareth.
"I want my final chance whisper."
Then the crystal appeared in her hand. She turned it
over in her hands, seemingly ,for a moment, mesmerized
by the power it contained.
"My final wish is to go inside your dreams and unlock
them and set your mind free to be here with me."
In a flash Sarah was transported into the crystal and
it hovered in the air for a few seconds before
shattering itself all over Jareth covering him with a
silvery blue glitter.
Hoggle awoke just in time to see Sarah dissapear,
leaving him to wonder what happened.
Sarah found herself in a great hall filled with
flowers of every type and color.She heard a piano in
the distance and followed its sound. In the corner of
the hall was a black grand piano but no one was
playing it. It played all on its own. She called out
for Jareth.
"Jareth? Where are you?"
*think sarah. Where would he be?*
She walked on through the big double doors and
recognized the throne room. Her instincts made her
ascend the stairs and find her way to the door to the
Goblin King's bedroom. She turned the knob and to her
dismay found it locked. She tried to push it and
jiggle the lock but nothing helped.There was a
crystalline jewel above the handle and she even tried
pushing that. But, nothing worked.
*He must be in here*
"Jareth! Are you in there? Please answer me!"
Sarah thought she heard something move inside.
*Think Sarah.*
She fidgeted with her hands and felt her ring.
*The ring.*
She remembered back to what the note had said.
"The star of light is the eye of truth and the key to
all doors."
*The key to all doors....*
Sarah took off her ring and shined it into the light.
The light reflected off of the stone and the ruby star
appeared in the ring. The star shined bright and cast
its light onto the crystalline jewel on the door and
Sarah heard a click.
"Yes!"
Sarah placed the ring back on her finger and pushed
through the door.
"Jareth!"
Sarah found Jareth looking out the window.
"I was beginning to think you wouldnt come."he said
softly.
Sarah sighed. He looked as she had remembered him.
"So Sarah, why did you come?"
"To save the labyrinth of course. And the rest of the
realms."
"Is that all?"
"Of course. Did you think I came for something else?"
"No, of course not."
"Let me ask you something. Why did you put yourself
here? Why the ring? Why all of it?"
"If you dont know, Im not going to tell you."
Sarah turned around. Damn him and his stupid pride.
She tried to hold back her tears.
"Maybe ,Jareth, I just want to hear you say it."
Jareth looked away from her and they had their backs
to each other.
"Maybe. And maybe Im afraid. Maybe I want you to say
it."
Sarah couldnt stop the tears then. She turned around
and began to speak as camly as she could.
"Jareth, maybe, no not maybe. Our destinys are so
similar, no are the same. This truth, this light, has
made me realize something that is very important. You
are my light and my truth in the darkness. This ring,
is like a symbol of you. You are my shining
star..."She choked on her tears then.
"..and I love you..."
Jareth turned to face her and saw the streaks of water
on her face and moved to wipe them away with his
ungloved finger.
"Sarah, I love you so much. I really re-ordered time
this time for you. I almost destroyed everything. But
I had faith in you.Its looks like the roles are
reversed this time around. This time you were there
for me as the world fell down. "
He caressed her face with his cheek.
"Jareth. There isnt much time. Some evil, its back and
about to destroy everything. Back in reality you're
dying so part of Sarena's magic is dying and she cant
stop the evil in that state."
Jareth nodded.
"Alright. Lets go."
They waited and nothing happened.
"Wait Jareth. Something still isnt right. We should
have been automatically transported back. We havent,
as you can see."
Jareth pondered.
"I dont know. Whats left? What are we missing?"
Back in the labyrinth......
A dark black cloud fell over the labyrinth and the
surrounding realms. Sarena and Empress Sarah stood,
hand interlocked, trying to hold it back. But, Sarena
wasnt quite strong enough yet.
"What's happening? Jareth should be well by now."
"I dont know", said Sarena.
"We cant do this alone much longer Sarena."
"I know, I know."
The white cloud faught against the black, the black
gaining a milimeter every second.
Inside Jareth's dreams everything began to shake.
"What do we do?"
Sarah thought.
"Wait. In every happy fairytle ending there is
something that breaks the spell. We're just gonna have
to hope I pick the right ending."
Jareth was about to question her logic but was
silenced with a passionate kiss upon his mouth. His
mouth melted to hers and they were covered in a white
light.
At that moment Sarena felt a surge and became
magna-illuminated. Empress Sarah felt a surge and the
white engulfed the black completely. There was twice
as much power now. Where that second set of energy was
from, Empress Sarah didnt know but intended to find
out when this was all over.
The blackness was vanquished and Sarena floated down
from the air to rest.
"SHe did it. and just in time."
"Sarena, what was the second set of energy?"
"Sarah."
"Sarah? How?"
"If you remember, Jareth had given her powers before.
She just never really realized it. She was blind to
it. But, Jareth was her light and their union released
her powers."
"Wow. I never thought she was that important."
"To him, she is the reason for breathing."
When they finally stopped kissing, Sarah gasped for
breath.
"What a fairytale ending. To be in the embrace of a
handsome goblin king and kissed until she had no more
air to breathe yet she could still want more.You're
pretty good at this."
"Well, years of pent of yearning can cause one to be
that way. But let me tell you a secret."
Sarah nodded and then Jareth whispered into her ear.
"Lets just say thats just the tip of the iceberg my
beloved."
Sarah giggled as Jareth kissed her neck.
"I cant wait."
She began to kiss his neck when Jareth stopped her.
"ah ah ah! this just inst right."
Sarah frowned.
"What do you mean?"
"Well. I havent asked you yet."
"Asked me what?"
Jareth pulled a crystal out of the air and held it in
his hand.
With a twirl of his wrist the crystal transformed into
a diamond ring.
"My beloved Sarah, will you be my queen?"
Sarah hugged him with all of her might and kissed him
with all the passion she felt.
"Ill take that as a yes."
Sarah kissed him again as he slipped the ring on her
finger and clasped his hand in hers.
"Goooodbyeeeee Sssssarahhh." The whisper was just
that, a whisper to Sarah's ears.
She smiled and looked into Jareth's eyes.
"Jareth, did I ever tell you had beautiful eyes?"
"Did I ever tell you you are just plain beautiful?"
They kissed again and laughed, running after each
other.
The labyrinth and the lands back to normal, everything
seemed alright. Sarena returned to her garden and
Empress Sarah returned to her kingdom. Everything was
as it should be in the Underground. For now.