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Alexandria Faith Jones was sitting on her bed reading from a puzzle book looking bored. "These are all too easy," she muttered to herself, "turn eleven sticks into nine without removing any from the group, I mean come on, just position them so they spell out the word nine. Connect the nine dots with four consecutive lines that don't bend, shit these riddles and puzzles could be solved by a kindergartener." She threw the book onto her desk and walked out of her room, intent on heading into the game room to play a few hours of Zelda: Link to the past. However when she entered the game room she discovered her favorite game missing and her twin brother Anthony smirking at her.

"Damn it Tony, where the hell is my game?" she demanded of her brother.

"Somewhere," he replied cryptically, "give me twenty bucks and I'll get it for you."

"Give it back or I'll snap all your Halogames in half," she threatened as she grabbed the games from their resting place.

"You wouldn't dare," he growled as he jumped up and stalked towards her.

"Try me," she said as she clutched the games to her chest and bolted from the room slamming the door behind her to aide in getting further from her brother before he got out of the game room.

"Get back here," Tony screamed as he too ran from the room to give chase.

"You two better not be fighting again, you are 15 years old. Act like it," their step-mother hollered down to them before adding, "your father and I are going out for the night we'll be back by 9:30 tomorrow morning. I want the house clean and to see the two of you getting along." With that said they heard the front door slam shut and the sound of the truck driving away.

"There's money for pizza on the table," their father added before the distinct sound of the front door closing reached their ears.

"Ha, Mom and Dad are gone so I'm in charge I'm older, so I demand that you give me back my games." Tony said sharply.

"You are barely three minutes older than me, so that doesn't count. You will give me back my game and I shall return yours to you." Alexandria responded.

"Alex just give me my fucking games right now. Or else"

"Or you'll what? Ruin my life. You already have."

"Oh, I assure you I can make things much worse for you than they already are. You seem to forget, I'm the one everybody likes."

"You know what they only like you so much because you'll spend money on them, if you stopped you would lose all your friends."

"You're wrong."

"Am I?"

"Even if they are false at least I know how to get people to like me, all anyone thinks about you is that you're a stuck-up sarcastic know it all bitch."

"Better than being thought of as a rich doormat"

Both Tony and Alex were getting more and more frustrated with each other and before they knew it they both screamed, "I WISH THE GOBLINS WOULD JUST TAKE YOU AWAY, RIGHT NOW." There was a sudden blinding flash of glittery light and the room was empty and silent.

Alexandria appeared in a grassy field, she was grateful that she had thought to put on a sweater when she got home now because the air was slightly cold and the light breeze was making it worse. She also was happy that she had all her hair tucked under a ball cap, she remembered a story her brother was reading once about the Goblin King and how he sometimes stole teen girls to woo them as his bride. She could see how easy it would be for him, he appeared to be attractive in that dangerous and mysterious sort of way based of what the books claimed he looked like.

After a moment she thought she kept hearing a noise behind her she whipped around and came face to chest with the Goblin King himself. "Do you want your twin back? All you have to do is run my labyrinth and get to the castle beyond the goblin city in thirteen hours," he said as he threw a crystal at her, "the other has already entered, he seems concerned. My guess is that you are the younger of the two is that correct?"

Alexandria nodded before her gaze returned to the crystal orb on the ground, "You need to pick it up, it shall take you to your starting point," the Goblin King stated once he realized that Alexandria seemed not to know what to do with it.

A few minutes earlier

Anthony landed in a heap on a sandy beach. "Alex, Alex where are you?" he hollered.

"I thought you didn't want your twin anymore, you did wish him away," drawled a voice.

"Damn it you stupid Goblin King give me back my Alex." Anthony demanded.

"Run my labyrinth and get to the castle, you have thirteen hours before you twin is mine forever." the Goblin King said as he threw a crystal at Anthony who caught it and was transported to a long lane with stone walls that appeared to be roughly ten feet high.

"Don't worry Alex, I'll save you and get us both out of here." Anthony said as he began walking down the lane, looking along the bottom of the walls for any spot that looked like it lead to a turn.

back with Alexandria

"Don't worry Tony; I'll get us out of here" Alex said as she began to walk along with her fingertips dragging along the wall, searching for any place where she had an option other than going straight. Before long she had made several turns and felt like she was getting somewhere, she didn't want to get too cocky though, she knew that this labyrinth was more than likely more dangerous and complex than she had so far discovered.

In the castle

"Goblin King has TWO runners right now?" a goblin asked the man sitting on the throne.

"Yes, yes, yes, I know it's strange and new and you want ale to celebrate," he said irritably as he used a crystal to conjure up a new keg of ale. For some reason he felt like he should have asked more questions of the younger runner, he had a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach that this 'Alex' was more important than he was thinking the runner was.

"Keep them separate, we can't let them team up to beat my labyrinth," Jareth said to a few crystals before he sent them floating away.

Alexandria

"Okay so now the maze is plants, that's got to be good right?" Alex said to herself as she began wandering through the maze, subtly marking the path she took. Originally she had been marking stones on the ground but she quickly noticed that they were being changed when she had her back turned to them. A short while later she heard what to her sounded like a wounded animal growling, she ran around the corner and saw a furry creature suspended from his ankles and being attacked my strange hairless creatures tied to sticks and being wielded by what she assumed were goblins.

She ran up to them and kicked two before grabbing one of the sticks and using it on the goblins, "You don't like it do you, then leave this poor thing alone you stupid monsters," she snarled as they ran away in fear. "Don't worry, I'll get you down in a second" she said to the furry thing before she slowly loosened the rope and gently lowered the beast enough that it was lying on the stones.

"What's your name?" she asked it.

"Name Ludo. You name?" the creature now known as Ludo asked.

"Alex" she responded.

Jareth

"Such a feminine voice," Jareth sighed, "I wonder. Is it possible they are fraternal and this one is female?" He stood and walked out onto the balcony, "should I just bring her here and make her wait for her brother? Should I bring him here and force her to stay by using her brother as collateral?"

Alexandria

"Okay Ludo, there you go. Now you are free to go back home," Alex said softly.

"No, Ludo go with Alex," Ludo responded in his deep voice.

"Ludo can't, Alex wants Ludo safe. Safest place for Ludo is home," Alex explained softly, as though explaining to a small child why it couldn't do something the adults were doing.

"Alex want Ludo safe?"

"Yes, Alex wants Ludo safe."

Ludo smiled and walked away, his huge feet making surprisingly little sound.

A/N: There we go chapter one in my Labyrinth fan-fiction, I'm still not sure what role Sarah will play in this story or if she'll even be in it at all. Comments and suggestions are much appreciated. Should I stick to one person each chapter or do you like the jumping from person to person format?