Disclaimer: I do not own the movie "Labyrinth". It belongs to its respective owners, along with all creatures inside of it. I do however claim ownership to all new creatures and characters I introduce in this story (outside of the terms Fae and Underground and the concepts of unicorns, elves, Pegasi, fairies, and of course, mortals. Yes, those all belong to their respective owners), and the idea behind this story.I do not wish to profit from this story. It is SOLELY for entertainment purposes. :)
A/N: So, what is this? This is my own Labyrinth Fanfiction, which I've worked really hard on for the past few weeks. The story itself focuses on events directly following Sarah completing the Labyrinth. I should make it clear now that all I know of the world of the Labyrinth outside of my own imagination is solely based on the movie, so if I get any information that would be considered wrong in light of the comics or any other storyline published by the franchise that is not included in the movie starring David Bowie, please do not be too critical of those mistakes. This is merely a creation of my imagination. A "what if", if you will. It is primarily centered around Jareth the Goblin King and one of my brainchildren that I've created for the story. A warning to readers: In this story Jareth is NOT a villain. This is mainly because I never was really scared of him when I watched the movie when I was little (aside from throwing that snake) and so I never have considered him a true villain but merely a love struck antagonist.
This is the first part of the Prologue to the story. Why a Prologue and why two parts? A Prologue is here because I feel that to start the actual story at the spot I have selected, the reader needs to know facts about all the Kingdoms (Yes, there is more than just the Underground (where Jareth is) involved here) I have created and that are involved in the story. And in this part, "The Origin of the Six Kingdoms", the process by which each Kingdom was brought into existence is laid out in the best way I could provide for the reader. The reason why I will have two parts to my Prologue is simply because of its length. I tried to keep all the necessary information in one Prologue, and that made the Prologue itself too long. So please, enjoy.
And I'm sorry for this super long author's note. I just wanted to clarify some things. ;)
New Beginnings
Prologue Part 1:
"The Origin of the Six Kingdoms"
The world is full of opposing forces balancing one another out. In order for there to exist an element of beauty, there must be an element of monstrosity. In order to have a sense of being powerful, there must also be a sense of being powerless. In order to acknowledge justice, there must also be injustice to compare it to. And in order for there to be good in the world, there must also be bad. It was with this idea that the original six kingdoms were created. And within these six kingdoms of Arisolt, Netherworld, Latvania, Bosnia, Underground, and Aboveground, there exists three pairs. These three pairs of kingdoms were designed to bring a sense of balance to the known universe and each kingdom was to be protected and inhabited by its own beings that were to do all they could to ensure that balance.
The first of the six kingdoms to be created was the kingdom of Arisolt, or the land of the angels. Existing in the heavens on beautiful pink and golden colored clouds, this land was full of surreal and kind beings of great power and authority. Each and every angel was known to be of exorbitant beauty and virtue, with long, flowing hair, gorgeous wings, and bright beautiful eyes. The ruler of this fine land, Queen Charisse, had long golden hair as radiant as the sun, with eyes that held all of the colors of the rainbow. With a heart of gold, she aided her fellow angels in constructing beautiful homes of marble and gold on each cloud, ending with the construction of her own beautiful castle of epic proportions within which the descendants of her line would reside. The angels not only tended to their homes of their realm, but also to the various creatures of their realm. These included swans large enough to pull the queen's ornate royal carriage to her destinations, and for other angels to be able to tame and ride themselves. Doves and various other birds flitted in and out of the windows of the homes of the clouds, singing their sweet songs and spreading joy and peace wherever they went. All of the angels performed services for the world below, such as allowing sweet, life-giving rain to fall from their clouds and for beautiful rainbows to shoot across the sky. The angels themselves enjoyed a carefree and beautiful life of parties and banquets, drinking luscious golden "nectar" derived from golden beams of sunlight. It was under Queen Charisse that the angels vowed to maintain a sense of peace in the world below. And they certainly needed to, for almost directly after their world was created, the horrid kingdom of the Netherworld would arise.
As the kingdom of Arisolt had been created, the world beneath it was flat and barren, with no life whatsoever. That all changed when in the center of that world, an enormous explosion occurred, as a large and deadly volcano sprang up from the earth with a cloud of ash and rivers of flowing lava that lasted for weeks on end. The eruption was so great that large mountain ridges were formed throughout the land, stretching across it like ugly scars. Once the volcano had calmed and become less active and as the ash cleared the angels looked down upon the kingdom of the Netherworld. It was a dark kingdom, residing within the volcano itself, and was full of deadly, grotesque demons of many shapes and forms. They lived in ashy huts on black stone ledges that ran along the inner sides of the volcano itself. In the center of the volcano's boiling lava lake on a stone island sat an enormous castle full of ugly twists and turns, many of which formed screaming faces of agony. Within this castle, the great King Adish resided. With great black horns set on his head and a body at least five mortal yards tall, he was an imposing figure, with claws for hands and dark hooves for feet. The demon was the color of the lava that the Netherworld surrounded, with yellow eyes full of greed. His most dangerous feature was the long viper's head he had for a tail, which was known for snapping about as it sought new prey to harm. His demon kingdom greatly respected their much larger ruler and tended to the various creatures of the land. The most popular of these creatures were massive, horrific dragons upon which all the demons rode. Other creatures the demons provided for included the giant, black fire scorpions that crawled along the crevices of the volcano, the venom in their tails rivaling the king's own in power. The prey of the dragons and scorpions mostly consisted of the large dark bats that flew through the air of the volcano, which was of an exceedingly high temperature at all times due to its molten core. The demons themselves drank from the lava, drawing immense power from the fiery substance while they used the stone of their very home to create massive weapons such as axes and swords and shields, all black in color. The demons themselves were driven by power and bloodlust, and only sought to conquer and control the world about them, draining it of its life and power and using it to increase their own. It was these creatures that the angels set about to control, to confine their horrific greed to their ashen volcanic home.
The next kingdom to be created was that of Bosnia, nestled deep within the mountains created by the Netherworld's volcanic eruption. Coming out of the caves of Bosnia was a new breed of creature, known as the Fae. These creatures were a mix between elf and mortal, and had immense strength and power. The Fae thrived upon the five energy streams within their bodies. The five streams, which include a DNA-analogous Progenitous stream, a body-regulating Corporis stream, a healing Senatare stream, and two energy-providing Navitus streams which power the other three, enable a Fae to have faster healing abilities than mortals and to also have the ability to use magic, which they may express in various ways. These ways include through weaponry, meditation, or raw magical power. All of these characteristics lead many Fae to live a far longer life than mortals, and they are able to stop the growth of their physical appearance at any time they wish and continue living in that form. The Fae themselves were created to both rule and care for all the animals in the lands they settled within, and that was precisely what the Bosnian Fae planned on doing.
Out of the caves of their mountains came various animals of mixed breeds. The most popular creatures include the Wolbats, the Bolfs, and the Taurvids. The Wolbats were massive creatures that had the bodies of wolves, but the feeding tendencies and wings of bats. These creatures also were known for their excellent hearing and high pitched shrieks used to temporarily destroy the hearing of their foes. Many of them dwelt in caves and fed upon small animals found there, but one could also find them prowling higher up in the mountains, often in packs of ten or more to take down larger prey. The Bolfs consisted of a mix between a wild dog and a boar. These creatures had the body of a stocky dog, the tail of a boar, and the head of a dog with large tusks jutting out on either side of their muzzle. These were known for residing mainly in the valleys of the mountains, although some could be found just a little further up the mountainsides. The final beasts, the Taurvids, were a mix between a massive bull and an eagle, having massive wings akin to that of an eagle and the rugged body of a bull. To this day, the females remain slightly smaller than the males and have smaller horns, but are without a doubt just as deadly. The Taurvids graze and reside solely on the flat valley floors of the mountains. Also scattering the mountainous landscape could be found vultures of varying sizes, some reaching the size of a full mortal man. The land was also scattered with massive rats and wild cats.
It was to these savage animals and the savage terrain of the mountains that the Bosnian Fae adapted. Although many Fae originally were quite beautiful, the Bosnians quickly gave up their exquisite appearances as they fought off various wild creatures. These Fae would move on to either slaughter or tame the animals for everyday use. They built various separated villages throughout the land they had claimed as theirs, all consisting of rugged homes built of stone and decorated with the pelts of the animals each family had taken down in hunts. The creation of villages was certainly a first compared to the angels and demons, who lived in more centralized communities.
The Bosnians greatly celebrated brute force and strength in combat, and it was through this celebration that they selected their leader and king. After a long competition against various others of his Bosnian brethren, the Fae King Favios was selected to rule the land. Each year, he would compete with other males who desired his status, and the winner of each would either remain as king or become king on the spot. In celebration of their King, all villages contributed to building a massive castle of many levels into the mountainside of the largest mountain of the land. This was a castle built out of rugged stone, and the inside was layered in pelts and various pieces of armor that the king had already obtained or had been given as tributes to him. As time passed, the barbaric Fae kingdom closed itself off and paid no attention to the outside kingdoms as it sought successful self-sustenance. The Fae took up farming in terrain that would allow it and began to use the Taurvids as pack animals and the Bolfs as pets. The areas closer to some vents on the side of the Netherworld's volcano were taken advantage of to create extremely intricate and powerful armor to be used by the Bosnian warriors in combat. Over time, villages that specialized in one area of life began to trade with villages that specialized in another area, and the kingdom's economy began to thrive. However, some Fae were still unhappy with the rugged Bosnian lifestyle, which was full of debauchery and violence and adultery as is the barbaric way, and decided to slowly disband from the kingdom. The Bosnian King Favios would have no such thing occur without punishment, and in no time had sent his own personal guard of warriors with their Bolfs and Taurvids after the rebelling Fae, chasing them far away from what he considered was the Bosnian border, over a large mountain range, and into a land even more barren than they'd ever seen.
All seemed lost for the banished Fae. For the first winter in the new barren land, many children died and the food the group of Fae had managed to grab as they fled soon became scarce. Many in the group began to wish to disband further and try to survive on their own. Knowing that this would only cause further death, a middle aged Fae woman by the name of Mirabella invented a solution to their problem. Being of exquisite beauty with her white skin and hair that caused her sapphire blue eyes to shine, the woman gathered all of the Fae together and declared that they need not worry. She declared that if they banded their magic together in a circle of unity, connecting all of their energy streams as one, they could try to call upon the earth itself to provide a life giving spring that would cause the land to flourish and grow. Despite many Fae doubting such an ability, in that in Bosnia magic was greatly discouraged if not for warfare, they all joined hands. As each Fae in the small circle closed their eyes and concentrated all of their spirit on the center of the circle, calling for the life giving water the beautiful Mirabella spoke of, they entered into a two day period of constant concentration, urging their merged energy streams to call forth the power they so desperately needed. Finally, on the second day, their answer came in the form of a tall shoot of crystalline substance. Before their eyes, a spring of water flew up from the cracked earth to shower all of the Fae present with its life giving liquid. All those touched with the water felt instantly rejuvenated, and the spring continued to spread out over the land.
In no time, grass began to grow from the previously barren ground along with various plants providing great amounts of fruit and gorgeous flowers. Water from the stream soon flowed over rolling green hills in the form of a long crystalline river of beauty before separating into separate rivers as it made its way over the land. As the Fae stood silently watching all the transformations take place, massive trees shot up from the earth, immediately taking root and producing fruit and flowers as well. In addition to the food and blossoms, the trees provided animals to roam over the new land. Out of the grains of wood came pure white equine animals with golden horns on their heads. These creatures would later become the unicorns spoken of in many mortal fairy tales. In addition, elven creatures that were one with the tree spirits began to emerge from the woods. With a great burst of falling leaves, great white Pegasi flew from the tree tops to soar through the air. From burrows that formed in the ground came smaller woodland creatures, such as chipmunks, squirrels, and rabbits. From nests that formed in the trees came beautiful birds of every color to fill the air with song. In this manner, the beautiful land of Latvania transformed around the Fae.
Over the years, the Latvanians used their powers to build beautiful towns and cities across their land, with a massive castle with many towers and stained glass windows standing tall above the trees and set farthest away from the Bosnian border in a beautiful clearing. The Gleaming white Castle consisted marble and silver and had a blue hue about it, revealing the intense magic held within the stones. Around the castle was lush forest in the front. Behind it, massive stables for the royal family's tamed Pegasi and Unicorns stood beside massive buildings that made up the castle's servants' quarters. Mirabella was elected to become Queen of the vast land, with a silver crown of blue sapphires that matched her eyes made by elven hands, since the elves and the Fae lived joyously together, with the latter watching over the first. An elegant and magical cave was created to protect the magical stream that began the land of Latvania. It soon became tradition for anyone of the royal line to drink from the stream to promote prosperity in the new generation's reign. Latvania grew into a thriving kingdom with far better resources than that of its Bosnian brother. Agriculture flourished as the Fae used Unicorns and Pegasi in their verdant fields, and the towns were always full of singing and dancing created by the elves and the Fae. Because of the deep love for music shared between the two races, great festivals were frequently held in various Latvanian villages. Throughout such festivities, the Fairies, who appeared later as they were born from beautiful white roses in the Latvanian Castle Gardens, began to become a common occurrence, their great glowing light shining throughout the night. Although the Latvanian forces, armed with elven weaponry and riding Unicorns and Pegasi in elven armor, frequently went to war against their Bosnian counterparts, the great kingdom of Latvania grew into a thriving place where reality was a dream and dreams were made a reality. Further south from the Bosnian and Latvanian kingdoms, with a northwestern border to Bosnia and a northeastern border to Latvania at the tapering end of a mountain range separating the barbaric from the beauty, a new nation was forming. That nation was the Kingdom of the Underground.
The Underground Kingdom began as a simple barren wasteland with a tumultuous sea to its Southern borders, with the Southwestern border having dangerous cliffs upon which the large waves crashed and the Southeastern border consisting of grainy boulder strewn beaches. No vegetation had touched the Underground save for a few scraggly trees. No valleys or mountains marked the wasteland, and no living thing inhabited the land. The Bosnians felt no need to go to such a land, with mountain ranges keeping their land separated from it, and the Latvanians' rolling green hills and forests stopped short of the wasteland on their border, the mystical stream having failed to reach that far. For years as the other two Fae kingdoms slowly rose up as individual lands, the Underground sat dormant. It was as the Latvanians were at a rise in their self-sustaining economy that the first sign of real life occurred in the Underground. One dark night, a massive stone castle with massive wrought iron and wooden doors and windows covered by massive satin curtains sprang up in the center of the land, reaching tall and high to the sky above it from its cloud of dust below. As the structure stood tall above the earth, locked up and unoccupied, the land about it began to transform, as a great stone Labyrinth of many twists and turns began to rise up from the cracked lifeless ground, quickly surrounding the castle.
From their clouds above, the Angels of Arisolt watched on as the Labyrinth seemed to move of its own accord like a great massive snake with its pathways ever changing around the castle. The structure itself even seemed to hum. It was clear to all that the strangest thing had occurred in all of the Kingdoms: a structure was in fact alive. Indeed, the entire Labyrinth and the Castle it guarded was proven to be a living thing and out of its various hideaways came goblins and creatures of varying sizes, shapes, and capabilities. Some, known as the Fieries, caused many of the other beings to marvel at them, as they were able to detach every part of their body in their lively dances. But the greatest and most interesting part of the Labyrinth was the goblins. Of various forms and attitudes, the smaller creatures quickly dispersed throughout their Labyrinth, forming a great city within an open area closest to the great Castle, which was soon known as the Goblin City. Others took it upon themselves to take care of the Labyrinth in order to maintain it. The Labyrinth rewarded the goblins in that it housed them and provided them with nutrition. It did so by providing various fruit bearing plants to the creatures, as well as smaller animals that the goblins could hunt.
Over time, many curious Bosnian warriors decided to inspect this new structure. Using their Taurvids, the barbarians easily arrived at the Underground's castle. Upon inspection, they came to find that it was surrounded by a magical shield of sorts. No Fae could enter the building. The Bosnians were persistent however, and even curious Latvanian warriors wondered about the structure. The two forces inspected every inch of the outside walls of the castle as they tried to find a weakness that they could exploit to enter inside. In response to this, the goblins shrank back, wary of those who had invaded their land, despite the Latvanians' claims that they were only inspecting the castle with no hope to take over the Underground. As time passed, the Labyrinth seemed to grow disturbed itself at such violation, and the shield that had surrounded the castle soon surrounded the air above the Labyrinth and its outermost walls. As the Latvanians and Bosnians alike stood outside of the powerful shield the Labyrinth's message was made clear: the structure was shielding itself from future invasion by shutting the Fae out.
Curious about this strange "creature" which, while maintaining the appearance of a great stone structure seemed to have a mind of its own, the Angels, including Queen Charisse, flew down to the outside of the Labyrinth, as did the Bosnian King Favios and the Latvanian Queen Mirabella. For days the Fae rulers touched the golden shield that had formed a humming barricade around the Labyrinth's stone walls, attempting to penetrate it with their magic, only to be firmly withheld from going further. Their forces surrounded the circular structure, as they sought a way inside. But it wasn't until one day that they finally found out what the Labyrinth wished, as stone words were etched onto two massive stone doors with large chains used to pull them open in the center of a section of wall. Written in ancient Fae writing, the message declared:
We will only allow you one more chance to enter into our Labyrinth and claim our Castle.
A Fae Must Solve our Massive Labyrinth Within Thirteen Hours' Time.
Only then may they open the Castle Doors and take hold of the Land we reside in as our Ruler.
There Are But Only Three Rules To Our Challenge:
First, each Fae may have only one chance to Complete Our Challenge. If Repeated Chances are Attempted, The Fae will be incinerated upon re-entry to our Paths.
Second, each Fae must only enter one at a Time.
Third, NO Fae is to harm any creature within our walls.
If any of these rules are violated, the Fae responsible will be incinerated immediately.
In that instant, the massive stone doors to the Labyrinth swung open, the shield parting ever so slightly for them to do so, and a great misty fog flew out to the Fae standing there. The Angels decided to leave the Fae to the Labyrinth themselves, and exited for their homeland. Mirabella and Favios both had great needs at their homelands and left as well, bidding any Fae who dared accept the thing's challenge good luck. For moments the Fae assembled there gazed at the open doorway. Then, a Bosnian Fae stepped forward and entered the Labyrinth. As soon as he was inside, the doors clanged shut loudly behind him and the male, who was by far the second greatest warrior of all of his land, began to move about the structure. Upon entering, he met the odd creatures that existed within the Labyrinth, including small lichen with moving eyes that watched him as he went, goblins who presented him with various riddles as he tried to find his way, and shafts of gross hands that would claim to help him as they hindered his journey. In Thirteen hours' time, the Fae was pointed the way out of the Labyrinth, and, honoring the rules already put in place by the thing itself, exited and went to his homeland. And so the great challenge that was the Labyrinth began.
For years, Fae from both Latvania and Bosnia attempted to complete the Labyrinth. None succeeded. Some simply gave up and declared that they wished to leave the Labyrinth. The structure then quite calmly showed them a clear way out, honoring their request. Others refused to give up, only to be shown the way out after the thirteen hours were over. Those who tried to stay were incinerated on the spot. Some of those who made it out were perfectly fine and went about their lives, declaring the Labyrinth a sick joke put on by the goblins within its walls and that no one could ever solve such an ever changing maze. Others declared the Labyrinth a great marvel and were in awe of the magnificent creature. They went with their heads held high declaring that they were proud to at least go up against it. Others still weren't so lucky. They were driven mad by the ever changing structure until finally they crawled out, raving of dangerous creatures and bogs that forever stunk. Mostly, their jargon was incoherent. As time passed, fewer and fewer Fae attempted to solve the Labyrinth. The structure went for months at a time without a runner. Many Fae passed it off that no one could ever possibly defeat it. Others simply didn't want to take the time, whether it would provide them with a kingdom of their own or not. Still, others yearned and aspired to solve the great structure. This led a certain Latvanian Fae, Ajavet, to ride his unicorn out to the gates one fateful day.
A Fae peasant who worked on a farm in Latvania that grew beautiful fruit, Ajavet was a lover of games and riddles which the elves and fairies would pose to him in good fun. To him, the Labyrinth was the greatest puzzle of all. He knew not if he could win against the great, proud beast, but he knew that he would certainly love to try his hand at it. The Labyrinth, which enjoyed a good spot of fun and games itself, instantly recognized the kindred spirit within Ajavet as he stood, smiling calmly with his raven hair whipping in the wind and his green eyes alight with an inner fire before the gates. As was expected, the great structure swung open its doors, inviting him into its foggy, hazy inner pathways. Ajavet smiled, but did not enter at that moment. In a loud voice, he introduced himself, "MY NAME IS AJAVET OF LATVANIA, OH GREAT LABYRINTH! Now, let us have fun! Let me try to run your winding, legendary maze! And please! Throw at me everything you've got!" The Labyrinth almost seemed to croon to him in response to his declaration, agreeing to his challenge. This Fae spoke not of victory, but of the wondrous game that the Labyrinth yearned to create. And so, the beast and Fae began their trials.
With a grin on his face and a forehead creased with concentration, Ajavet spent all thirteen hours within the winding maze, laughing at certain parts he found funny, such as the Fieries and their ancient dance, and marveling at walls that seemed to give way to new pathways. All the while, he applauded the great Labyrinth for its magnificence. As the last hour struck, he stood, staring, up at the large castle doors, lined in the gold shield. Turning, he gazed out at the various goblins that had gathered in the city square to look up at him in marveling awe. As a clock deep in the castle struck the thirteenth hour, a sudden flow of energy flew out from the ground beneath him and encased him. Suddenly, he and the Labyrinth were one, as he felt its power tingling through him and he knew everything regarding it. He knew how it swore to protect in any way possible the standing Fae King and Queen that would rule the land. How it and its creatures would obey any order given by said royalty. How he had succeeded in the Labyrinth's challenge. How a simple peasant from Latvania with a love for games had become The Goblin King of the Underground.
Turning to the two doors as the goblins and other creatures cheered him onward, the Fae gripped the wrought iron handles of the castle firmly in his hands, breathing hard in his excitement, and, for the first time, a Fae entered into the Goblin Castle. It was an ornate castle, with beautiful chandeliers and a gorgeous, wide throne room that had an air of playfulness about it. The long, winding halls and chambers of the structure stretched out before Ajavet, who, in the beginning, had in fact had nothing. The king made his way through out his new castle, until finally he came to a room that was without a doubt his private quarters. The two large alabaster doors were inlaid with gold and appeared to look like a Labyrinth's outline themselves. Gripping the golden handles firmly, he opened the doors and entered in, gazing around at the massive bedchamber. On the bed sat a black cape with armor cuffs at the tops of the shoulders with the Fae symbol for Victory set to go over the chest of the wearer.
Over the next few years, groups of Latvanian Fae migrated over to the Underground. While the glamor of their old world was left behind, these Fae instantly fell in love with the land which, since the Labyrinth was coupled with a Fae King itself, was slowly yielding fields upon fields of crops and large forests of its own, though they only came second to Latvania's lush vegetation. Towns began to be set up and some goblins moved from the Labyrinth to inhabit the towns along with their Fae protectors, and the Underground flourished with agriculture and trade with Ajavet at its head. The Latvanians brought with them their own unicorns to aid in various tasks and gave the trade amongst the towns a great jump start with the efficient form of transportation and communication between locations due to the swiftness of such creatures. Ajavet himself brought various fairies that he'd danced with as a child to live along the borders of the Labyrinth, adding to its magnificence and forming gardens around its walls where they would sing their beautiful songs. In no time, the Underground and its inhabitants, which included the occasional crow along with the goblins and other creatures, was thriving alongside all the other Fae Kingdoms. Furthermore, the tradition began that any Fae of the Underground Royal Family would have to run the Labyrinth successfully to become King or Queen of the land, in honor of the Labyrinth's initial challenge to the Fae.
The final Kingdom was that of the Aboveground, or the land of the mortals. In sharp contrast to the Underground, the Aboveground was inhabited by humans and various animals of different kinds long before the Underground had its first Fae king. Set an entire Dimension above the other kingdoms, hence its name, the Aboveground was a brighter form of the Underground. While it had kings and queens and various other governments akin to that of the Fae Kingdoms, it was decidedly more cheery than the Underground, producing far more pleasant looking creatures as far as the mortals were concerned and far better vegetation. In exchange for such blessings, the inhabitants of that world were beneath the Fae in power but above the elves and goblins. They were mortals, with no magical qualities whatsoever. Despite such differences between the two lands, goblins, fairies, unicorns, and Fae alike enjoyed spending time with the mortals, entering through rifts of the dimensional barrier they shared with their counterpart. Soon, mortals became familiar with the goblin and fairy beings of the Fae world, existing happily along with the mystical beings.
The Fae, seeing great possibility in the draft horses of the Aboveground in their own fields, soon began to form trades including the exchanging of various Fae cloths and items for the creatures which they then brought to the Underground and bred with their own unicorns. Furthermore, the Underground also offered a service to the mortals. If a mortal child should be a hindrance in the Aboveground, a mortal that had authority over the child could wish for the goblins to come and take the child away at that instant using the phrase "I wish the goblins would come and take you away right now" and the Goblin King would have no choice but to send his goblin guard to fetch the child and take it to the Underground to be raised by the goblins and Fae. Unfortunately, it soon became apparent that many mortals may not mean to send their young wards away and only would say the mystical words in spite and anger. Because of this, the Faes offered a challenge to each sender. If they could defeat the Labyrinth in thirteen hours' time, as Ajavet originally did, they could have the child returned to them, safe and sound. Through the close relationship formed between the Underground and Aboveground, over time the unicorns, fairies, goblins, and Fae alike became favorites of legends told by mortals, and, named in honor of the fairies that crossed over through the rifts, "fairy tales" were begun to portray the adventures of Aboveground humans with the creatures of the Underground.
A/N: So how was it? I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it. The Second Half of the Prologue, which focuses primarily on the History of the Six Kingdoms from the Underground's creation onward and is a general outline of events leading up to the movie (which, remember, my story is a "what if" follow up to).
As is assumed always, I seek no profit from making this. This is solely for the entertainment of others and a way for my ideas to be written down on paper. I do hope you enjoyed it, and please, please review!
Also, I do plan on working on my Phantom Stallion story more as well. It's just taken me a little while to work on the next chapter of it.