The Labyrinth
Summary-
What if Sarah never called Jareth to take Toby away, what if it was her stepmother but Sarah had to go after Toby. And what if Sarah fell in love with Jareth during the Labyrinth, would Sarah be able to finish the Labyrinth and save Toby? Will Jareth let her? Will her heart let her?
Chapter one-
I was in the park trying to learn my lines for the play 'The Labyrinth' that we were putting on at school, I had gotten the part of the heroin. I was in my costume that I had made for the part, and I felt really pretty in it. I stretched and looked over my lines again, hoping that I would be able to remember them this time. I slipped the book back into my back pocket and looked up the hill where my trusty sheep dog was sitting on a bolder. I closed my eyes and got in character, I then ran up the hill and stopped just in front of the bolder.
"Through dangers untold, and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the goblin city to take back the child you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great…" I stopped talking as my mind was drawing a blank on the next line. "For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great. . ." I tried again hoping it would come to me, when it didn't I sighed and took out my script and opened it to the page and read the words. "'You have no power over me.' Why can I never remember that line?" I asked myself. Just then thunder rolled across the sky, I looked up at the sky and saw a beautiful white owl perched on a tree limb. I stared into the mixed matched eyes of the owl, one was brown and one was blue.
My dog barked and startled me as another round of thunder sounded. "Oh, Merlin." I said smiling at my dog who wagged his tail at his name, the clock bells went off and I spun around and gasped. "Oh no, it's 7 already! We have to get home or Karen will have my head!" I cried then took off running, "Come on Merlin!" I called over my shoulder. Merlin jumped off the boulder and ran after me as it started pouring. When we got home I see Karen staring on the porch glaring at me.
"It's about damn time you got home." She snapped and I bowed my head.
"I'm sorry, I lost track of time." I said.
"You always seem to 'just loose track of time'." Karen said, "Well, come on in." she said then stepped out of the way. I started up the stairs with Merlin still following me. "Not the dog!" she screeched and I stopped and looked at Merlin.
"But its pouring!" I said.
"I don't care! I don't want that filthy dog in my clean house!" she said and I sighed biting back the urge to roll my eyes.
"Go into the garage Merlin." I said and he gave me a begging look, "Please just go into the garage." he turned and walking into the garage. I looked up at Karen wondering why she was being extra bitchy before walking into the house soaking wet, the first thing I heard when I walked in was Toby crying and instantly had my answer.
"Oh, Sarah. There you are." My father said, "We were worried."
"You are an hour late, and now we are late." Karen said and I sighed.
"I said I was sorry, I lost track of time." I said.
"Me and your father rarely go out-" Karen started.
"You go out every weekend!" I blurted out without thinking and Karen glared at me.
"Let me finish!" she snapped at me and I shut my mouth, Toby was still screaming. "We only ask you to baby sit since you never have anything to do like a normal teenager would." She suddenly turned to look at my dad and Toby, "Can't you shut him up! He is giving me a head ache! I wish those goblins I keep hearing you talk about," She said looking at me, "Would come and take him away right now!" Karen screamed then stormed out of the room. I looked at my father who looked like he was trying to find something to say, I walked up to him and took Toby.
"Go, I'll take care of Toby." I said, he smiled a relieved smile.
"We'll be home a little after midnight, and please make sure Toby isn't crying when we get home, we wouldn't want to give Karen another headache." he said then walked after Karen. I looked at Toby who was still crying and bounced him on my hip as another round of thunder sounded and I sighed. If this storm went on through out the night there would be no way that I could get Toby to go to sleep. I realized that I was getting Toby wet and sighed.
"Lets go get changed and put you to bed." I said walking up the stairs into her parent's room and put Toby in his crib before kissing him on the head. I walked out of the room, leaving the light on since I would be back to read him a story after I got changed. I walked into my room and quickly changed into some dry clothes when I noticed something strange, Toby had stopped crying. I ran out of my room and into my parent's room seeing that the lights were out. For a second I entertained the thought that the storm had knocked the power out before the fact that the hallway light was still on killed that thought. I cautiously walked into the room and tried to turn the light on but the switch was already up.
I ran over to Toby's crib and saw something under the blankets, I reached for the blanket hopping that Toby was under it. I gripped the blanket and pulled it out of the crib, but nothing was under it. I hear some snickering and turned to try to find the source. I see nothing, but things kept moving out of the corner of my eyes so I kept turning to see if I could see anything.
I jump and scream when the white owl from the part flies into the closed balcony doors trying to get in. Something brushes against my back, I turn to try and see what it was but I saw nothing. I was really freaking out, I was about to cry. Suddenly the balcony doors fly open, I cover my eyes from the wind and rain. When I open them a handsome man with spiky blond hair is standing in front of me, his eyes are what really caught my eyes, they were the same as the owls.
"Who are you?" I ask before the answer pops into my head, "You're him aren't you? You're the Goblin King!" I said and he smirks but says nothing. Why was he here? Where was Toby? Had he taken Toby? But why? Just then I remember why Karen said she wanted the goblins to take Toby away.
"I want my brother back!" I said but knew he wouldn't just hand him over to me, I was really going to become the Heroin in the Labyrinth.
"What said is said." the Goblin King said, I knew he was talking about what Karen said, Karen should be here demanding Toby back. Karen should be the one about to run the Labyrinth not I!
"But I didn't-" I started to try and explain but the Goblin King interrupted me.
"You may not have been the one to say the words, but you are the one who want the baby back." The Goblin King said.
"Where is he?" I asked.
"You know very well where he is." The Goblin King said and he was right, I did know where he was, he was in the Goblin King's castle which was in the middle of the Labyrinth, beyond the Goblin City.
"Please bring him back, please." I pleaded, his eyes softened for a second before hardening again, he knew exactly what I was doing. I was trying to start the challenge of the Labyrinth, his duty was to accept the challenge.
"Sarah," He started his voice cold, but had a hidden warmth to it, "Go back to your room, play with your toys and costume, learn your lines. Forget about the baby." he said shocking me, he was not suppose to try and stop me.
"I-I can't." I said, I couldn't leave Toby there to become a Goblin, Karen would kill me if I let her precious baby stay in the Underworld where she had sent him.
"I've brought you a gift." The Goblin King said making a beautiful crystal ball appear in his hand.
"What is it?" I asked instantly drawn to it.
"It's a crystal, nothing more." He said then turned the crystal to the right a little and I saw my self dancing in a beautiful ball gown with a man in a mask, "But if you turn it this way, and look into it, it will show you your dreams. But this isn't a gift for an ordinary girl who takes care of a screaming baby. Do you want it?" Of course I wanted it. "Then forget the baby." He said just as I was about to reach for it. Toby appeared in my mind and I knew I couldn't forget about him, I put my arm down and away from the crystal.
"I can't. Can't you see that I can't" I said and closed my eyes taking in a deep breath before taking on the character of the Heroin of the Labyrinth, "I appreciate what you're offering, but I want my brother back. He must be so scared." I said and the Goblin King's eyes hardened even more, and I could see he was trying everything he could to get me to not take on the challenge of the Labyrinth.
"Sarah," He said, his voice hard and cold, it made me shiver in fear. The crystal that he was holding turned into a snake and I gasped, "Do not defy me." He threw the snake at me and I screamed. I threw the snake onto the ground in between us, the snake turned into a goblin holding some fabric that looked like the snake skin, it laughed at me. I heard more laughter behind me, I turned to look but there was nothing there. "You are no match for me." The Goblin King said and I turned back to face him.
"I need my brother back." I said and the Goblin King sighed and I knew that he had no other choice but to accept the challenge, he turned and I noticed we were now at the edge of the Labyrinth, fear and adrenaline was running through my veins. I see a beautiful castle in the middle of the Labyrinth, I felt drawn to it.
"He is there in my castle."The Goblin King said, sounding as if he really didn't want to say those words, but since they were part of him accepting the challenge he had to say it.
"Is that the castle beyond the Goblin City?" I asked the castle taking my breath away.
"Turn back Sarah, turn back before it's to late." He whispered in my ear, worry evident in his voice, and I almost did turn back. He had one more line to say before it was to late for me to turn back, but I couldn't turn back, no matter how much I wanted to.
"I can't, don't you understand that I can't" I said and he sighed in annoyance.
"What a pity." He muttered, I had a feeling I wasn't suppose to hear that so I just went with one of my lines in the play.
"It doesn't look that far." I said even though I knew it was, but I had to get him to finish accepting the challenge.
"It's further than you think, and time is short." He waved his hand and a beautiful clock with 13 hours on it appeared. "You have 13 hours in which to solve the Labyrinth before your baby brother becomes one of us, forever. Such a pity." He said finishing accepting the challenge and fading out, the look in his eyes made me want to cry, he was scared for me. I didn't even know this man, but he was scared for my safety. I looked over at the Labyrinth and sighed as I thought about what I had just done, I had entered in the challenge to complete the Labyrinth in 13 hours, it would be a miracle if I did it.
"Well, there's no turning back. Hang on Toby, I'm coming." I muttered then started down the hill and toward the entrance of the Labyrinth. When I got there I saw a dwarf peeing in a pond, I stop and turn around for a second embarrassed. I turned back around and cleared my throat.
"Oh! Excuse me!" The dwarf said then turned around, "Oh it's you." he said and confused me for a second before I realized that everyone here would know that I accepted the Labyrinth challenge. He picked up a bug spray and sprayed a beautiful fairie, I gasped when it fell from the sky.
"How could you!" I cried and rushed over to it and pick it up. "You're horrible!" I said and the dwarf turned around and looked at me.
"No I ain't, I'm Hoggle." He said distracting me from the fairie.
"Ow!" I said dropping the fairie after it bit me, taking a nice drink of my blood. "It bit me!" I cried and Hoggle laughed.
"Well, what did you expect?" He asked, I kept quiet not really knowing what to expect.
"I'm Sarah." I said remembering he told me his name, but I never told him mine.
"That's what I thought." Hoggle said turning to spray two more fairies, I stood up holding my bleeding finger.
"Do you know where the door to the Labyrinth is?" I asked.
"Maybe." He said spraying another fairie.
"Where is it?" I asked.
"Where is what?" Hoggle asked.
"The door." I said knowing this was getting us know where.
"What door?" Hoggle asked spraying another fairie.
"It's hopeless asking you anything!" I said taking a line from they play.
"Not if you ask the right questions." Hoggle said and looked as it he were waiting for me to say my next line.
"How do I get into the Labyrinth?" I asked and he turned to look at me with a smile.
"Ah! Now that's more like it. You gets in….there." He said pointing to a door that I knew wasn't there before, it opens and we just stare at it."You really going in there, are you?" He asked, I took a deep breath and nodded.
"I have to." I said as we both took a step towards the door. I stepped into the Labyrinth, I looked both way wondering which way to go. The left looked like it was used more often then the right, I should probably go right since it was best to take the path lest taken, or so I believed.
"Cozy isn't it?" Hoggle asked startling me, he laughed then stood in front of me. "Now, would you go left, or right?" he asked.
"They both look the same to me." I said, and they kind of did look the same.
"Well, you're not going to get very far." Hoggle said and I sighed then looked at him and got back into my character, this was good practice for the play.
"Which way would you go?" I asked.
"Me? I wouldn't go either way." He said and I sighed trying to stay in character.
"If that's all the help you're gonna be, you can just leave." I said in character, Hoggle huffed at me.
"You know your problem? You take too much for granted. Take this Labyrinth, even if you reach the center, you'll never get out again, Jareth will make sure of it." Hoggle said and I sighed knowing he was right.
"I-" I stared almost braking character, "That's your opinion." I said getting back in character. Hoggle narrowed his eyes at me then turned and started to leave the Labyrinth.
"Well it's a lot better than yours!" He said.
"Thanks for nothing Howart!" I called purposefully messing up his name, since that is what my character would have done.
"Oh! It's Hoggle! And don't say I didn't warn you. Yeah." He said slamming the doors behind him. I sighed, I was alone once more. If this was how my character in the play acts then she was just a spoiled brat, maybe I should start acting as myself and not her. I turned to the right and started the Labyrinth, knowing that the Goblin King was watching me.