This is a work of fan fiction based on Jim Henson's Labyrinth, I claim no ownership on his original story or characters. The content of this work is of my invention, not attached to Labyrinth, and is in no way used for personal profit. Thank you I forgot to mention. I had previously uploaded this story (the first 2 chapters actually), but deeply disappointed with it, I decided to delete it and start again. I made some changes and resuscitated it.

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Chapter 1: Memories

Eight Years had passed since Sarah Williams had fought to find the goblin kingdom, to get the child which was stolen from her. It had been eight years since her Dream.

Toby tiptoed in the kitchen desperately trying not to wake his older sister, whom only returned home from college during the holidays or when he needed somebody to watch over him, and his babysitter, Millie, couldn't be reached. He pushed thick blonde strands out of his face with the back of his hand as he cleaned up the mango juice he'd spilled.

Only two rooms away, Sarah woke abruptly from her dreams, with momentary pain as the book she had been reading collapsed on her face.

She took her phone from her pocket in a swift movement to check the time. It's already past noon. Sarah had a text from her roommate, Cassie, and about 20 text messages from Hunter, without counting his numerous voice mails. She put her bare feet on the floor; and made her way to the kitchen, a jolt went up her spine when the cold tiles made contact with her.

"Sarah, you're awake!" Toby said frantically."I was just making breakfast for us."

"Us? Tobe, there's only one bowl of cereal on that table, plus, its 1:30, I don't think that breakfast is the word we should be using right now." She said as she wiped off the rest of the sticky residue on the ivory colored floor. Toby smiled and started to speak with his mouth full of fruit loops. "Sarah, remember that you have to take us to the park at two thirty. Oh! And mommy called in the morning, she said that dad and her were gonna come back like at midnight."

Sarah's dad and stepmom had been away for two days, attending Aunt Jennifer's wedding. "Yea I know, that's when they usually come back from trips…and who do you mean by us, you and I?"

Toby slurped the remainders from his superhero plate."Nope, mom gave me permission to invite Walker over, remember?" what he said was true, unfortunately. Toby had met Walker on the first week of kindergarten, and they'd been inseparable ever since. He would stay over at the Williams' house every week for years. He wasn't a bad kid, but he was talented at making Sarah lose her patience.

Once they were done with their food Sarah followed her little brother into his room. To Sarah's surprise, his entire bedroom was decorated in birds. Figurines, drawings, posters, and his comforter had two large falcons embroidered on it. There was one type of bird in particular that dominated Toby's room. Owls.