RINGMASTER
Written by cousin D
These characters are not mine
Labyrinth crossover with sailor moon
In the dim, shadowy bar that was their usual retreat away from the dangerous life they lived, three men sat together and studied a table full of photographs. In a lazy, half-hearted manner, the men sifted through the photos one at a time, trying to decide which one to try. Photos would be examined, scrutinized, and then rejected. Once rejected, the whole process would be started again.
"This is getting old fast."
"Oh, be quite, Tiger."
"Come on, Fish, you know I'm right. We do this all the time and we never get any closer to finding Pegasus." Tiger Eye threw the photo he was holding onto the bar with an air of impatience and irritation. "Why are we doing this anyway?"
With lightening speed, the third person at the table, a man with shocking pink hair, lashed out and smacked Tiger. "Mind what you say and keep your big mouth shut, Tiger!" He snapped, his eyes darting around. The only other person in the quiet bar was the bartender, an almost humanoid creature that was keeping an eye on them from the other end of the bar. "Come here."
"What can I do for you, Hawk Eye?" The bartender asked as he came over.
"You can leave." Hawk Eye said with a polite smile. "We'll be here a long time tonight and don't want to keep you from your bed."
"Well, if you say so, Hawk Eye." He started to leave, but not before Hawk Eye seized him by the collar. "What...?"
"For your own sake," Hawk Eye pulled the bartender up closer until they were eye to eye. "You will breathe not a word of this conversation to anyone. And before you deny it, I know you've heard every word we've said."
"All right, all right! You don't have to be so melodramatic! My mouth's shut. But, I'll warn you, Hawk Eye." He shot a pointed look at Tiger Eye. "Have your boy keep his opinions to himself. I'll not go against you, but there are others around who aren't so faithful to old companions."
After the bartender had gone, Hawk glared at his youngest friend. "Tiger, what have I told you about keeping your opinions to yourself when we're in public?"
Tiger Eye pouted and glared at the photos in front of them. "I know. We're loyal. We do as we're told. But..." His angry looked fell away and he just look depressed. "Why? Why are we looking for this Pegasus? We don't need any kind of power. We've always had what we need."
The three men were about as different in appearance as could be.
The first man was Hawk Eye. He had short pink hair and was marked the obvious leader of the three by his attitude, though there was no one around to see. "We need a reason to go on. Why shouldn't we hunt Pegasus? What else have we got to do?" He picked up another photo, this one of a good looking man in a nice suit. He discarded the photo without even showing it to the others. "Without this...we're nothing."
"We could go shopping for some new music." Fish Eye suggested. "I haven't gotten any new music in ages! I don't even know what bands are hot on Earth." Fish Eye was a blue haired man, wearing a bizarre one piece suit with elegant, lady-like mannerisms who delicately sipped his drink while browsing through the photos.
Tiger Eye laughed. "Fish, you're always thinking about boys or music. Don't you think about anything else?"
"Sure, I think about how I could strangle you with your own whip." Fish Eye stuck his tongue out at Tiger Eye.
"That's enough." Hawk Eye said in a bored tone. "Whether we like this job or not, you can't endanger yourself by going against the boss, Tiger." He looked away, pretending to concentrate on the photo's again. "I won't lose you. I won't lose either of you."
There was a moment of awkward silence and none of them looked at each other. They really didn't like all this serious thinking. It just made them depressed.
"What about this one?" Tiger Eye suggested, holding up the picture of a young girl. In all honesty, he hadn't even looked at the photo. He'd picked it at random just to get the subject onto something more comfortable.
Hawk Eye and Fish Eye looked at the picture that their friend had chosen from the large selection. For the first time that night, neither one dismissed it at first glance.
"Who is she?" Fish Eye asked, curiously. Like his two friends, Fish Eye was beautiful, but he was actually so feminine looking that many people had mistaken him for a girl over the years. He leaned over Hawk Eye and looked at the photo of the girl in the photo. The girl was rather ordinary looking with dark hair and eyes. She was looking at the camera with a sad expression and almost looked as though she would cry. "Looks familiar, but I can't quite place where I've seen her before."
"She doesn't look like she has beautiful dreams." Hawk Eye commented doubtfully. "More like depressing gloom." He sipped his drink, but didn't take his eyes off the photo. As the sort-of leader of the trio, Hawk Eye liked to be sure of things before his friends got themselves into trouble. They weren't having much luck with finding Pegasus and the boss was getting impatient. He had to make sure they picked the right person. This girl certainly didn't look like she'd be hiding anything of beauty or magic within her. "Still, there's something about her." He admitted, finding himself drawn in by her sad eyes.
"I'm just curious how her picture got in with the other beautiful dreamers. That's all." Tiger Eye looked briefly at the dozens of smiling, cheerful people that all lay rejected on the table before them. She looked different, that was certain. Tiger Eye flipped the photo over and read the information on the back. "Her name is Sarah Williams."
"Right then." Hawk Eye smiled at Tiger Eye. "Go get her, Tiger."
"Me?" Tiger Eye asked. "Why me?"
"Because you found the picture, so you go get her."
"Awww, geeze." He looked at his yet-to-be drunk drink. "But..."
"No buts. We want to keep the boss happy. Besides, Fish got the last one."
"Nya, nya!" Fish Eye blew a raspberry at Tiger Eye, but stopped when Hawk Eye added,
"Don't get trounced by those little girls with the funny hair, like Fish did."
"Hey!" Fish protested, blushing.
Later-
Tiger Eye found the girl walking alone at dusk. She was pretty, in a plain, ordinary sort of way with straight dark hair and a pale complexion. Pretty, but not beautiful and dressed in very common clothes. Tiger Eye watched while the girl, Sarah Williams, took a slow, meandering stroll around the city until she reached the park. Once there, she sat down and tilted her head back, apparently staring at the stars as they appeared.
'She's kind of strange. What's she going to do, sit there all night?' Tiger Eye though, puzzled as he waited to see what he'd do. He knew he wasn't as smart as Hawk Eye or Fish Eye, but even he tried to think before he did anything.
There didn't seem to be any threat around. Night was quickly darkening the park and there was no one around. Not even any sounds of cars from the nearby streets. It was the perfect time. Tiger Eye looked again at his target from behind the tree and tried to ignore how much he felt like some common thug. Sarah was just closing her eyes, as if she were falling asleep now that the moon had risen and touched her face.
For a moment...just a moment...Tiger Eye froze. His hand on the handle of his whip, he could do nothing but stare at the girl's peaceful face awash in moonlight. It seemed such a pity to disturb her...
'What am I thinking?!' Tiger Eye shook his head to get rid of the absurd thoughts. 'What would Hawk say? We have to protect each other and if we don't find Pegasus soon, the boss is going to get angry and he'll...' Hawk Eye went cold at the thought of what Zerconia would do to them. 'I have to do this. She's just a human. She's not important.'
Without further hesitation, Tiger Eye drew out his whip and snapped it in the air over the girl's head.
Sarah-
It had been a long day. At least the night was starting out peacefully enough.
Sarah kept her thoughts as carefree as she possibly could, thinking about a new book she wanted to find, a present she had to find for Toby's forth birthday, and whether or not she should try to lose a few pounds. She tried not to think about the reason she was in Japan.
To put it bluntly, she was here as Toby's baby sitter. It was an old story, one that almost brought a smile to Sarah's face. It was baby sitting that had first given her access to the Labyrinth. Sometimes she might not like to admit it, but not all of Sarah's memories of the Labyrinth were of cleaners, fieries, or eternally smelly bogs.
There were memories of sweet Ludo and Hoggle doing his very best to be brave. There was Sir Didymus and his gallant manner, the crystal moon that hung over the land of the Labyrinth, the sweet smell of the grasses, and the beauty of the lavender sky at sunset.
Of course, there was also Jareth to remember.
Not for even one moment had Sarah doubted that she'd been in the Labyrinth or any of the memories she had of her time there. Every time she looked at her baby brother, Toby, Sarah knew that what she'd been through had been real. She knew that she loved Toby more than she loved her own life.
Sarah finally found a park bench and sat down, letting her head loll back so she could look up at the sky and the emerging stars. Like every night, the stars slowly came twinkling to life and Sarah suddenly realized something odd.
'I never thought of it before.' Sarah thought while picking out constellations in the Heaven above. 'The Labyrinth had no stars. It was like it was alone in a universe of it's own. I wonder...'
Painful snaps around Sarah's wrists and ankles suddenly brought her out of her thoughts and Sarah looked down to see that she'd been shackled and was dragged to a standing position. "Hey! What's going on?!" There was a man standing in front of her. Well, a boy, really. He looked younger than she was by a year or so and had the odd look of someone who wanted to be in a rock band of some kind. "Who are you?" Sarah shouted.
The blond haired boy laughed, but didn't answer, and snapped his whip.
Sarah felt a terrible sensation around her heart and a ripping. It felt like someone were stealing her soul. A mirror appeared in front of her chest and the boy smiled just as Sarah fainted.
Tiger Eye-
"Let's see what beautiful dreams you have, my dear." Tiger Eye sauntered over to the girl and stuck his head into the mirror that showed what was in her dearest dream. Normally, it would show a lover or something she wished to accomplish. In one rare person, somewhere in the world, there was a person who dreamed of Pegasus and that was the dreamer they had to find.
This girl was no ordinary dreamer. "What the...?" In the dream of this girl's heart was a gigantic maze. Made of hedges and stone walls with strange creatures living in every corner. Looking around, Tiger Eye thought at first that this must be it, the dream they were looking for. This was surely a dream of great power and there was magic enough to justify Pegasus' presence. He looked and looked, seeing fay, goblins, dwarves, trolls, ogres, and many creatures he'd never even thought could exist, but no Pegasus.
'There's enough madness at the circus!' Tiger Eye thought, trying to pull out of the dream convinced that it some craziness that he really didn't want to know about. He seemed to be stuck, though. His...his head wouldn't move out of the mirror entrance. Something had grabbed hold of him and Tiger Eye found himself being drawn to the center of the maze to a large, dark castle. His mind was brought into the castle and he saw a man, lounging on a stone throne. He was a thin, rakish looking man, all bone and sinew, with almost white hair that hung down his back and over his shoulders. He glared up at Tiger Eye, giving Tiger Eye no doubt that it was this man who'd brought him so far into the girl's dream.
"How dare you?" The thin man lunged at Tiger Eye with fury in his mismatched eyes and Tiger eye screamed in terror. With one last pull, Tiger Eye was finally able to pull away from the dream and out of the soul mirror.
Unfortunately, for him, the thin man followed him out into the real world. How he did it was impossible to know. The mirror was far to small for him to fit through, yet somehow he did it.
'No, no!' Tiger Eye thought, 'This isn't supposed to happen. It's impossible!' Tiger Eye stumbled away from the still shackled girl, his eyes completely focused on the man who'd come out of her dream mirror.
At that moment, Sarah woke and looked wearily up at the dream man. Still unfocused from the trauma, Sarah just looked at him.
Tiger Eye was vaguely aware that those Senshi girls had arrived, but he couldn't take his eyes off the thin man who stood so close to Sarah. 'This can't be happening! Where's Hawk? He'd know what to do? Should I run away? What if this guy is Pegasus in disguise? What do I do?'
"Stop!" One of the girls yelled, but Tiger Eye was to focused on the strange man to even look at them. They were the minor threat at the moment.
"Who are you?" Tiger Eye demanded, fear in his voice. He didn't like being afraid, Fish Eye always teased him, but he just couldn't help it.
The thin man glared at him and then smiled wickedly. In an imitation of Tiger Eye's usual routine when he looked at people's dreams the mystery man said,
"One." His voice snapped like a whip.
To Tiger Eye's shock, vines instantly grew from the ground and tangled around his legs and arms, holding him firmly in place. "What?" Tiger Eye almost felt like crying. This wasn't supposed to happen! This had never happened before. He desperately wanted Hawk Eye and tried to vanish back to the circus, but found that his magic wasn't working. "No, no, no, no!"
"Two." The man held out a hand and in it a crystal the size of a baseball appeared.
Tiger Eye struggled, trying to free himself to no avail.
"Three." The stranger threw the crystal at Tiger Eye with such great force that Tiger Eye thought it might go straight through him. He even stopped struggling when death seemed so close and unavoidable.
Tiger Eye screamed and the last thing he saw was a great flash of light. Two pair of hands seized his arms. Then nothing.
Jareth-
Jareth, King of the land of Labyrinth, looked at the burned spot of grass where his enemy had been with nothing but contempt. "That'll teach you."
The board that had trapped Sarah dissolved and she fell limply with the dream mirror still several inches in front of her chest. Just barely catching her before she hit the ground, Jareth held her possessively with a gentle smile. "Within you, Sarah. I live within you." He kissed her softly the cheek.
With infinite care, Jareth lowered Sarah to the ground, stood, and walked a few steps away. With the ease of something he'd done thousands of times before, Jareth changed his form into that of a white owl and flew into to the sky. The owl soared into the sky before it turned at a sharp angle and dove at Sarah. The owl dove into the mirror where he had come from and Sarah jerked, arching her back with a cry of surprise.
Senshi-
They watched as the girl woke up and shook her head, trying to clear fuzzy memories. She obviously didn't see the Senshi and stood up as if nothing had happened. Still looking dazed and confused, she wandered away, into the night.
The Senshi looked at each other, nervously. That little display just added a whole new spin into their all ready hectic lives. "Does anyone know what just happened?" Sailor Moon asked, hoping that her wise friend, Rei, would have some answers.
"We should follow her, to make sure she's all right." Sailor Mercury said. She was worried that after such a incident, the girl might be confused and disoriented.
With no other choice, the Senshi went to chase after the dark haired girl.
To be continued...
Cousin D: Hello Readers. I thought I'd work on this fic a little. I haven't done much on it lately and since I was just threatened with kidnapping if I didn't finish it, I thought maybe I should get some work done. :)
Hi, everyone who reviewed. I'm so glad you're all enjoying it. However, I just looked back at the original drafts and am vastly disappointed in what I've written. I like this version much better.
Written by cousin D
These characters are not mine
Labyrinth crossover with sailor moon
In the dim, shadowy bar that was their usual retreat away from the dangerous life they lived, three men sat together and studied a table full of photographs. In a lazy, half-hearted manner, the men sifted through the photos one at a time, trying to decide which one to try. Photos would be examined, scrutinized, and then rejected. Once rejected, the whole process would be started again.
"This is getting old fast."
"Oh, be quite, Tiger."
"Come on, Fish, you know I'm right. We do this all the time and we never get any closer to finding Pegasus." Tiger Eye threw the photo he was holding onto the bar with an air of impatience and irritation. "Why are we doing this anyway?"
With lightening speed, the third person at the table, a man with shocking pink hair, lashed out and smacked Tiger. "Mind what you say and keep your big mouth shut, Tiger!" He snapped, his eyes darting around. The only other person in the quiet bar was the bartender, an almost humanoid creature that was keeping an eye on them from the other end of the bar. "Come here."
"What can I do for you, Hawk Eye?" The bartender asked as he came over.
"You can leave." Hawk Eye said with a polite smile. "We'll be here a long time tonight and don't want to keep you from your bed."
"Well, if you say so, Hawk Eye." He started to leave, but not before Hawk Eye seized him by the collar. "What...?"
"For your own sake," Hawk Eye pulled the bartender up closer until they were eye to eye. "You will breathe not a word of this conversation to anyone. And before you deny it, I know you've heard every word we've said."
"All right, all right! You don't have to be so melodramatic! My mouth's shut. But, I'll warn you, Hawk Eye." He shot a pointed look at Tiger Eye. "Have your boy keep his opinions to himself. I'll not go against you, but there are others around who aren't so faithful to old companions."
After the bartender had gone, Hawk glared at his youngest friend. "Tiger, what have I told you about keeping your opinions to yourself when we're in public?"
Tiger Eye pouted and glared at the photos in front of them. "I know. We're loyal. We do as we're told. But..." His angry looked fell away and he just look depressed. "Why? Why are we looking for this Pegasus? We don't need any kind of power. We've always had what we need."
The three men were about as different in appearance as could be.
The first man was Hawk Eye. He had short pink hair and was marked the obvious leader of the three by his attitude, though there was no one around to see. "We need a reason to go on. Why shouldn't we hunt Pegasus? What else have we got to do?" He picked up another photo, this one of a good looking man in a nice suit. He discarded the photo without even showing it to the others. "Without this...we're nothing."
"We could go shopping for some new music." Fish Eye suggested. "I haven't gotten any new music in ages! I don't even know what bands are hot on Earth." Fish Eye was a blue haired man, wearing a bizarre one piece suit with elegant, lady-like mannerisms who delicately sipped his drink while browsing through the photos.
Tiger Eye laughed. "Fish, you're always thinking about boys or music. Don't you think about anything else?"
"Sure, I think about how I could strangle you with your own whip." Fish Eye stuck his tongue out at Tiger Eye.
"That's enough." Hawk Eye said in a bored tone. "Whether we like this job or not, you can't endanger yourself by going against the boss, Tiger." He looked away, pretending to concentrate on the photo's again. "I won't lose you. I won't lose either of you."
There was a moment of awkward silence and none of them looked at each other. They really didn't like all this serious thinking. It just made them depressed.
"What about this one?" Tiger Eye suggested, holding up the picture of a young girl. In all honesty, he hadn't even looked at the photo. He'd picked it at random just to get the subject onto something more comfortable.
Hawk Eye and Fish Eye looked at the picture that their friend had chosen from the large selection. For the first time that night, neither one dismissed it at first glance.
"Who is she?" Fish Eye asked, curiously. Like his two friends, Fish Eye was beautiful, but he was actually so feminine looking that many people had mistaken him for a girl over the years. He leaned over Hawk Eye and looked at the photo of the girl in the photo. The girl was rather ordinary looking with dark hair and eyes. She was looking at the camera with a sad expression and almost looked as though she would cry. "Looks familiar, but I can't quite place where I've seen her before."
"She doesn't look like she has beautiful dreams." Hawk Eye commented doubtfully. "More like depressing gloom." He sipped his drink, but didn't take his eyes off the photo. As the sort-of leader of the trio, Hawk Eye liked to be sure of things before his friends got themselves into trouble. They weren't having much luck with finding Pegasus and the boss was getting impatient. He had to make sure they picked the right person. This girl certainly didn't look like she'd be hiding anything of beauty or magic within her. "Still, there's something about her." He admitted, finding himself drawn in by her sad eyes.
"I'm just curious how her picture got in with the other beautiful dreamers. That's all." Tiger Eye looked briefly at the dozens of smiling, cheerful people that all lay rejected on the table before them. She looked different, that was certain. Tiger Eye flipped the photo over and read the information on the back. "Her name is Sarah Williams."
"Right then." Hawk Eye smiled at Tiger Eye. "Go get her, Tiger."
"Me?" Tiger Eye asked. "Why me?"
"Because you found the picture, so you go get her."
"Awww, geeze." He looked at his yet-to-be drunk drink. "But..."
"No buts. We want to keep the boss happy. Besides, Fish got the last one."
"Nya, nya!" Fish Eye blew a raspberry at Tiger Eye, but stopped when Hawk Eye added,
"Don't get trounced by those little girls with the funny hair, like Fish did."
"Hey!" Fish protested, blushing.
Later-
Tiger Eye found the girl walking alone at dusk. She was pretty, in a plain, ordinary sort of way with straight dark hair and a pale complexion. Pretty, but not beautiful and dressed in very common clothes. Tiger Eye watched while the girl, Sarah Williams, took a slow, meandering stroll around the city until she reached the park. Once there, she sat down and tilted her head back, apparently staring at the stars as they appeared.
'She's kind of strange. What's she going to do, sit there all night?' Tiger Eye though, puzzled as he waited to see what he'd do. He knew he wasn't as smart as Hawk Eye or Fish Eye, but even he tried to think before he did anything.
There didn't seem to be any threat around. Night was quickly darkening the park and there was no one around. Not even any sounds of cars from the nearby streets. It was the perfect time. Tiger Eye looked again at his target from behind the tree and tried to ignore how much he felt like some common thug. Sarah was just closing her eyes, as if she were falling asleep now that the moon had risen and touched her face.
For a moment...just a moment...Tiger Eye froze. His hand on the handle of his whip, he could do nothing but stare at the girl's peaceful face awash in moonlight. It seemed such a pity to disturb her...
'What am I thinking?!' Tiger Eye shook his head to get rid of the absurd thoughts. 'What would Hawk say? We have to protect each other and if we don't find Pegasus soon, the boss is going to get angry and he'll...' Hawk Eye went cold at the thought of what Zerconia would do to them. 'I have to do this. She's just a human. She's not important.'
Without further hesitation, Tiger Eye drew out his whip and snapped it in the air over the girl's head.
Sarah-
It had been a long day. At least the night was starting out peacefully enough.
Sarah kept her thoughts as carefree as she possibly could, thinking about a new book she wanted to find, a present she had to find for Toby's forth birthday, and whether or not she should try to lose a few pounds. She tried not to think about the reason she was in Japan.
To put it bluntly, she was here as Toby's baby sitter. It was an old story, one that almost brought a smile to Sarah's face. It was baby sitting that had first given her access to the Labyrinth. Sometimes she might not like to admit it, but not all of Sarah's memories of the Labyrinth were of cleaners, fieries, or eternally smelly bogs.
There were memories of sweet Ludo and Hoggle doing his very best to be brave. There was Sir Didymus and his gallant manner, the crystal moon that hung over the land of the Labyrinth, the sweet smell of the grasses, and the beauty of the lavender sky at sunset.
Of course, there was also Jareth to remember.
Not for even one moment had Sarah doubted that she'd been in the Labyrinth or any of the memories she had of her time there. Every time she looked at her baby brother, Toby, Sarah knew that what she'd been through had been real. She knew that she loved Toby more than she loved her own life.
Sarah finally found a park bench and sat down, letting her head loll back so she could look up at the sky and the emerging stars. Like every night, the stars slowly came twinkling to life and Sarah suddenly realized something odd.
'I never thought of it before.' Sarah thought while picking out constellations in the Heaven above. 'The Labyrinth had no stars. It was like it was alone in a universe of it's own. I wonder...'
Painful snaps around Sarah's wrists and ankles suddenly brought her out of her thoughts and Sarah looked down to see that she'd been shackled and was dragged to a standing position. "Hey! What's going on?!" There was a man standing in front of her. Well, a boy, really. He looked younger than she was by a year or so and had the odd look of someone who wanted to be in a rock band of some kind. "Who are you?" Sarah shouted.
The blond haired boy laughed, but didn't answer, and snapped his whip.
Sarah felt a terrible sensation around her heart and a ripping. It felt like someone were stealing her soul. A mirror appeared in front of her chest and the boy smiled just as Sarah fainted.
Tiger Eye-
"Let's see what beautiful dreams you have, my dear." Tiger Eye sauntered over to the girl and stuck his head into the mirror that showed what was in her dearest dream. Normally, it would show a lover or something she wished to accomplish. In one rare person, somewhere in the world, there was a person who dreamed of Pegasus and that was the dreamer they had to find.
This girl was no ordinary dreamer. "What the...?" In the dream of this girl's heart was a gigantic maze. Made of hedges and stone walls with strange creatures living in every corner. Looking around, Tiger Eye thought at first that this must be it, the dream they were looking for. This was surely a dream of great power and there was magic enough to justify Pegasus' presence. He looked and looked, seeing fay, goblins, dwarves, trolls, ogres, and many creatures he'd never even thought could exist, but no Pegasus.
'There's enough madness at the circus!' Tiger Eye thought, trying to pull out of the dream convinced that it some craziness that he really didn't want to know about. He seemed to be stuck, though. His...his head wouldn't move out of the mirror entrance. Something had grabbed hold of him and Tiger Eye found himself being drawn to the center of the maze to a large, dark castle. His mind was brought into the castle and he saw a man, lounging on a stone throne. He was a thin, rakish looking man, all bone and sinew, with almost white hair that hung down his back and over his shoulders. He glared up at Tiger Eye, giving Tiger Eye no doubt that it was this man who'd brought him so far into the girl's dream.
"How dare you?" The thin man lunged at Tiger Eye with fury in his mismatched eyes and Tiger eye screamed in terror. With one last pull, Tiger Eye was finally able to pull away from the dream and out of the soul mirror.
Unfortunately, for him, the thin man followed him out into the real world. How he did it was impossible to know. The mirror was far to small for him to fit through, yet somehow he did it.
'No, no!' Tiger Eye thought, 'This isn't supposed to happen. It's impossible!' Tiger Eye stumbled away from the still shackled girl, his eyes completely focused on the man who'd come out of her dream mirror.
At that moment, Sarah woke and looked wearily up at the dream man. Still unfocused from the trauma, Sarah just looked at him.
Tiger Eye was vaguely aware that those Senshi girls had arrived, but he couldn't take his eyes off the thin man who stood so close to Sarah. 'This can't be happening! Where's Hawk? He'd know what to do? Should I run away? What if this guy is Pegasus in disguise? What do I do?'
"Stop!" One of the girls yelled, but Tiger Eye was to focused on the strange man to even look at them. They were the minor threat at the moment.
"Who are you?" Tiger Eye demanded, fear in his voice. He didn't like being afraid, Fish Eye always teased him, but he just couldn't help it.
The thin man glared at him and then smiled wickedly. In an imitation of Tiger Eye's usual routine when he looked at people's dreams the mystery man said,
"One." His voice snapped like a whip.
To Tiger Eye's shock, vines instantly grew from the ground and tangled around his legs and arms, holding him firmly in place. "What?" Tiger Eye almost felt like crying. This wasn't supposed to happen! This had never happened before. He desperately wanted Hawk Eye and tried to vanish back to the circus, but found that his magic wasn't working. "No, no, no, no!"
"Two." The man held out a hand and in it a crystal the size of a baseball appeared.
Tiger Eye struggled, trying to free himself to no avail.
"Three." The stranger threw the crystal at Tiger Eye with such great force that Tiger Eye thought it might go straight through him. He even stopped struggling when death seemed so close and unavoidable.
Tiger Eye screamed and the last thing he saw was a great flash of light. Two pair of hands seized his arms. Then nothing.
Jareth-
Jareth, King of the land of Labyrinth, looked at the burned spot of grass where his enemy had been with nothing but contempt. "That'll teach you."
The board that had trapped Sarah dissolved and she fell limply with the dream mirror still several inches in front of her chest. Just barely catching her before she hit the ground, Jareth held her possessively with a gentle smile. "Within you, Sarah. I live within you." He kissed her softly the cheek.
With infinite care, Jareth lowered Sarah to the ground, stood, and walked a few steps away. With the ease of something he'd done thousands of times before, Jareth changed his form into that of a white owl and flew into to the sky. The owl soared into the sky before it turned at a sharp angle and dove at Sarah. The owl dove into the mirror where he had come from and Sarah jerked, arching her back with a cry of surprise.
Senshi-
They watched as the girl woke up and shook her head, trying to clear fuzzy memories. She obviously didn't see the Senshi and stood up as if nothing had happened. Still looking dazed and confused, she wandered away, into the night.
The Senshi looked at each other, nervously. That little display just added a whole new spin into their all ready hectic lives. "Does anyone know what just happened?" Sailor Moon asked, hoping that her wise friend, Rei, would have some answers.
"We should follow her, to make sure she's all right." Sailor Mercury said. She was worried that after such a incident, the girl might be confused and disoriented.
With no other choice, the Senshi went to chase after the dark haired girl.
To be continued...
Cousin D: Hello Readers. I thought I'd work on this fic a little. I haven't done much on it lately and since I was just threatened with kidnapping if I didn't finish it, I thought maybe I should get some work done. :)
Hi, everyone who reviewed. I'm so glad you're all enjoying it. However, I just looked back at the original drafts and am vastly disappointed in what I've written. I like this version much better.