Disclaimer: I do not own Labyrinth, just this particular made up 'sequel'.
A/N: Enjoy!
A bitter ache filled the Goblin King's heart as he stared at the party going on in Sarah Williams's bedroom.
No one noticed his absence…especially her.
So she needs ALL of us, does she? And yet she doesn't realize that one of 'us' is missing?! Is THIS my reward? For all that I've done for her?! To be nothing but a worthless SHADOW?!
He had half a mind to sentence every last goblin, Firey, and self-centered teenager in that room to the Bog of Eternal Stench, but the sight of her smiling face kept him still.
His dark owl-eyes blinked sadly at the girl as she mingled with his jubilant subjects.
Oh Sarah. My precious Sarah. Why?
As the festivities continued, there was a sudden sharp electric jolt through Jareth's body. His head whipped to the left for a fraction of a second before he spread his wings and took off into the sky.
That came from the Labyrinth! What's happening?
Jareth flew towards the moon until the light engulfed him. When it cleared, he was soaring over the desolate Underground. As the Labyrinth came into focus, he almost plummeted to the ground at what he saw.
An enormous, jagged fissure had split the entire structure in two, and a silvery cloud was rising from its depths. A fluttery, tittering, cloud.
Oh no!
Thinking fast, Jareth willed himself to take his true form, only to gape in horror as his feathered body remained unchanged. As several more attempts proved futile, all the Goblin King had time to do was utter a desperate screech as a mass of tiny winged bodies closed in on him.
Just as Hoggle was about to add the word 'tranquil' to Sir Didymus's 'quest', his eyes flew open wide and he abruptly leapt to his feet, scattering the Scrabble tiles all over the crowded floor.
"Quiet!" He shouted over the celebration. "SHUT UP!"
It took a short while, but the noise gradually died down and everyone turned to give the dwarf their attention.
"Hoggle?" Sarah whispered. "What's wro-?"
The dwarf quickly shushed her and addressed the goblin crowd.
"Do you all feel that?" He asked in a quiet voice.
Sarah watched as all of the goblins and Firery's looked at each other and then around the room nervously, as if they could hear something she couldn't. They began to shiver and flinch and she felt a pool of anxiety bubble in her stomach.
"Guys, what is it?" She demanded, glancing between Hoggle, Sir Didymus and Ludo.
"Something terrible, my lady." Didymus stated ominously. "We must all return to the Labyrinth, at once."
"What?" Sarah tilted her head in confusion. "Why?"
"I am not quite sure, my lady." The fox knight admitted. "But I believe that the king had been captured."
Jareth? He's in trouble? Sarah was surprised at the spike of fear that raced up her spine.
The goblins around her started to whimper.
"C-captured?" She stammered. "What are you talking about? How is that even possible?"
"Kingy in danger!" A goblin sobbed.
"Something bad!" Another yelled.
"Want kingy!"
"Beware! Beware!" The Fireys chanted.
"BE QUIET YOU IDIOTS!" Hoggle snapped, effectively silencing the room again. "Now c'mon! We've got to go back home and find out what's happened. Let's go!"
In two's and three's the goblins and Firey's disappeared in puffs of glitter.
"Wait!" Sarah exclaimed, grabbing hold of Hoggle and Ludo's arms before they too could vanish along with Sir Didymus. "Take me with you!"
"Absolutely not, Sarah!" Hoggle grumbled. "You just got through the Labyrinth, we ain't sending ya back! Besides, it's too dangerous!"
"I'm afraid, my lady, that Sir Hoggle is quite right." Didymus agreed with a firm nod. "It would be much safer and far more sensible for you to remain here."
"But I could help!" Sarah protested. "I've already beaten the Labyrinth once, and if anything happened to you guys when I could've done something…"
"DON'T WANT SAWA HURT!" Ludo moaned.
"Come on, you guys!" She pleaded. "I want to save Jareth!"
Three pairs of eyes peered at her in bewilderment.
"You do?" Hoggle muttered, quirking a suspicious, bushy eyebrow. "Why? I thought you didn't like the rat."
Sarah's face felt hot.
"I don't! I just…w-well, uh…what about you?" She spluttered defensively. "Since when are you guys so loyal?"
"Jareth is our king, Lady Sarah." Sir Didymus explained simply. "He protects us and provides for us. We don't have to like him, but we must respect him."
Sarah swallowed the lump in her throat and clenched her fists.
"Okay, let's just get one thing straight," she huffed fighting to hide the heavy blush on her cheeks, "I-I don't care about that jerk you call the Goblin King! I just care about you guys and whether or not you're safe. Now I'm going back to the Labyrinth with you, and I don't want to hear any more about it!"
After a stunned pause, the magical trio collectively sighed in resignation and vanished in a sparkly swirl, stubborn human in tow.
In a heartbeat, the shimmering dust settled, and Sarah's jaw dropped at the chaos around her.
They were in the Junkyard section of the Labyrinth. Goblins, Fireys, chickens and pigs were running and screaming in every direction. Thorny vines slithered all over the ground and surrounding garbage piles, and something was buzzing overhead like angry bees.
"GET DOWN!" Hoggle shrieked.
Immediately dropping to the dirt, Sarah peeked up to see swarms of little humanoid creatures chasing the goblins. Creatures with shiny wings and long white hair.
Wait a minute…aren't those…fairies? What the hell's going on?!
"Sir Hoggle!" Sarah heard the fox knight call out over the bedlam. "What is this?! Where did all these blasted insects come from?!"
"I dunno!" Hoggle's loud reply came from somewhere behind her. "Where the devil is that rat, Jareth?!"
"LUDO SCARED!" The monster bellowed.
Sarah was about to open her mouth to try and comfort her giant friend, when there was a harsh yank on the back of her shirt and she felt herself being dragged across the turf, away from her friends.
"SARAH!" She heard Hoggle roar. "Let her go, ya filthy pests!"
"Fear not, my lady! I shall save thee!"
Sarah struggled as hard as she could, but there were way too many of them. The fairies covered her arms and legs and hoisted her up into the air.
Looking down, she saw her three friends and the rest of the numerous Labyrinth inhabitants being assaulted and carried off by the fairies, one by one. They seemed to be taking them all in the same direction. As the castle beyond the Goblin City came closer and closer, Sarah could see that the entire Labyrinth was overrun with the vines and fairies, and that they coming from a large crack slicing through the middle of the land.
That wasn't there before. She thought as her eyes traced its crooked pattern.
A bead of sweat dripped down the back of her neck.
Jareth, you'd better be alright.
"Ouch! Quit shovin' ya big ox!" Hoggle grunted, elbowing Ludo in the shin.
The four companions had been standing in the center of the throne room for about twenty minutes. The barbed vines had grown in through the doors and windows and now covered almost the entire surface area of the room. One vine was currently coiled around Sarah and her friends, making any and all movement extremely uncomfortable, to say the least.
Sarah's eyes flickered along the walls. The fairies crawled along the spiny foliage like spiders.
What do they want with us? She wondered apprehensively. Where did they take the other goblins?
As soon as they'd reached the castle, she and her friends had been flown in through one of the throne room windows. The rest of the goblins were taken through the main doors. All was silent now, except for the occasional pained yelp from Hoggle and the constant twitching of fairy wings.
Just as Sarah was about to see if she could get one of the fairies to talk to her, there was a bright flash of light that made her jump in fright. The thorns scraped her legs, but she barely felt the sting.
Floating before them was a…human-sized fairy.
She was thin and had silvery wings, like the rest of her species, though she appeared to be an adult. Her ivory hair had hunter-green streaks in it and was pulled back in an elegant half-ponytail style that fell about her shoulders in delicate waves, showing off her pointy ears. Her skin was chalky and smooth, and she wore a short, frayed burgundy dress that matched the color of her eyes and lips. She was barefoot, with dark green nails on her toes and fingers. Her facial features were pixie-like, and her eyes were smothered in heavy black make-up.
"Mya." Hoggle breathed in terror.
Sarah felt Sir Didymus and Ludo stiffen beside her. Her gut wrenched when the fairy's lips pulled back into a smile, revealing rows of green-tinted fangs.
"Oh my!" The fairy called Mya chirped in a sickeningly sweet voice. "Look at what my lovely children have brought me! The Labyrinth's Champion and the three little fools who helped her! How wonderful!"
She clapped her hands gleefully.
"What's the meanin' of this, Mya?!" Hoggle snarled. "What are you doin' here? What have you done with Jareth?"
"None of your business, dwarf!" She giggled, flicking Hoggle's nose with her pointer finger. "And you will remember to address me with some respect!"
"Who-who are you?" Sarah croaked, managing to find the will to speak.
"That is Mya. The Queen of all fairies, my lady." Sir Didymus answered tightly.
"Hey, no fair!" Mya whined like a petulant child. "She was talking to me!"
With a flick of her wings, another vine rose up from the floor and twisted around Sir Didymus's mouth.
"And I'm not just the Queen of all fairies!" She continued. "I'm also the Goblin Queen now!"
All the color drained from Sarah's face.
Jareth! He isn't…is he? …No…please…no…
"Ha!" Hoggle scoffed. "You're outta yer mind! Jareth is the king!"
"GOBLIN KING!" Ludo growled.
"Not anymore!" Mya countered in a sing-song voice.
Hoggle bit his lip but raised his chin defiantly.
"Oh yeah? Prove it!"
The fairy queen only stuck her tongue out at him.
"Please," Sarah begged, feeling very desperate, "where is he?"
Whoa, deja-vu.
Mya beamed and stroked Sarah's hair. The touch made the girl's skin crawl.
"I like you," the fairy gushed, "you're polite!"
There was another burst of light and Sarah heard the rattling of something metal. When her vision cleared, she saw Mya holding a chain, the end of which was shackled around the foot of a helplessly flapping barn owl.
Sarah and her friends gasped in shock.
"Doesn't look like a much of a king to me!" Mya snickered, roughly shaking the chain. "I'm going to be a much better ruler than him! All of you silly goblins will be my slaves! And if you don't do what I say, I'll have my babies poison you! Won't that be fun?"
"Jareth!" Sarah wailed at the bird. "For God's sake, do something! Summon a crystal! Re-order time! What's the matter with you!?"
"Hush, Sarah!" Hoggle scolded. "Obviously he can't, or else he would've by now."
"Yep!" Mya joyfully concurred. "Poor wittle Jaweth has wost all his magic!" She cooed in a baby voice.
"But how?!" The dwarf ground through clenched teeth. "Your magic ain't strong enough to do that to him!"
"Nope," Mya shrugged, before her face shifted into a cruel feminine grin, "but the Labyrinth's is! Didn't you see when you were outside? The Labyrinth is broken! That's how my adorable children and I were able to escape to the surface. Jareth here, was too weak to fight us off in this form, but he just couldn't change into anything else. He has no more magic! Don't know why, but I don't really care."
She proudly approached the throne.
"I'm the queen now, and you will all obey me!" She boasted as she lowered herself into the seat…
And bounced right out of it.
"What the-?" Mya hissed and moved to sit down again. The invisible force knocked her away from the chair a second time. "What's wrong with this stupid thing? Why can't I sit down?!"
Hoggle smirked at her.
"Apparently, the Labyrinth's not as broken as you think it is."
The fairy crossed her arms over her chest and glared at the dwarf.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"For someone who claims to be our new queen," Hoggle sneered, "you've got a lot to learn about how we operate around here. Everything's a game to the Labyrinth, which means, if you want somethin' from it, you gotta earn it!"
"So," Mya considered in that sugary lilt, as she bared her teeth at the owl, "if I kill the king, I earn the crown?"
Sarah heart skipped a beat.
"No!" Hoggle quickly amended with a frown. "That'd be cheatin'! You have to make a challenge! You have to give us a fair chance! You have to give us thirteen hours! The Labyrinth will keep on rejecting you if you don't!"
"Oh really?" Mya challenged. "Tell me, what's to stop me from turning that dumb chair onto firewood and forcing all you maggots to do my bidding?"
Right on cue, the whole room quaked, knocking a handful of startled fairies from the wall.
"You were sayin'?" The dwarf chuckled once the tremor passed.
For a moment, it looked like Mya was about to argue, but she eventually rolled her eyes in defeat.
"Humph! Fine! You have thirteen hours to find a way to fix the Labyrinth and give Jareth his powers back." She beat her wings again, and the vines receded.
"Vile wench." Sir Didymus mumbled, rubbing his sore jaw.
"However," The Fairy Queen added proudly, "if you fail to beat me before time runs out, Jareth will die!"
"What?!" Sarah cried out in panic. "That's not fair!"
"And he'll change into another cute animal as each hour goes by!" Mya went on, completely ignoring the human. "Good luck!"
A final bright explosion enveloped the group. Mya's mocking, high-pitched laughter rang in Sarah's ears.
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