Take What Comes
Chap 1: Seeing Is Believing
Disclaimer:
ToDifferentToBeReal- The characters Jareth, Sarah, Toby, Hoggle, Ludo, Didymus, etc. belong to the Jim Henson company, therefore I claim no rights. Most goblins, however belong to me, though the design for DÅSHEL was taken from the 'Inside the Labyrinth' documentary on the DVD, my sister saw him and said that she had to have him in the story.
Jareth- Done?
ToDifferent- No! Obviously the characters Jena, Jody, Hannah, Erin, and Marissa belong to me because they were based off of people that I live with most days of the week, at school, home where ever, so if anyone else claims them, THEIR NUTS! Gerard and any other characters along the way(I'll make mention as they show up) belong to me, also.
Jareth- Now?
ToDifferent- Yes, I'm done! Here's the story!
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Summary: JS Two friends wish each other to the Underground, the rules say that they can't run the Labyrinth so Jena, one of the two friends, asks her sister to run the Labyrinth for them. When she loses, all 3 must stay in the Underground forever. They become servants at the castle, because of these 3 humans things begin to change around the castle, things change for Jareth. Will these changes be for the best or for the worst? (This has got to be one of the worst summaries I've ever written, so just read the story, I suck at summaries anyway)
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Jena growled, glaring with open hostility at her friend, who was standing across the room from her with a quite similar look on her face. "How? How can you be like that?"
Jody laughed, "What do you mean how can I be like that? Be like what, per say? I'm not doing anything that should upset you."
"You've got everything you could ever want! We're one of the most famous bands of our time! Your vocals as well as mine are instantly recognized everywhere! You've got a man who loves you so much he's wrapped around your damn finger, but no you don't want him! How can you ask for more?" Jena scowled.
"They think I'm good enough to go solo, Jena?" Jody smiled, "How can you deny me that?"
"You'd abandon us, the band, me for that? You'd abandon us to go solo?" Jena's tone was calm, almost hurt, but her expression was rock hard.
Jody opened her mouth but closed it as if to think, "I…"
"You have to think about it?!" Jena bellowed.
"Yes," Jody said.
Jena sneered, "You're immediate answer should be 'no'! It's good to know who my friends are, Jody! I didn't know you could be such a twisted bitch, but go ahead you'll be easily replaced, there are plenty of people better than you." She whipped around and grabbing her guitar, she began to tune the instrument, though it didn't need it.
Erin and Marissa, the other 2 band members, looked on in awe, "Damn I knew Jena could be cruel, and I definitely knew she could be vicious, almost inhuman, but when she's adamant about something she won't let it go." Marissa whispered to Erin.
"Ever," Erin whispered in response, then she stood and slid toward the door, "Well, good rehearsal, guys." Jena's glare was turned on Erin, "Jena maybe you should just let her go solo, you just said we could replace her."
"If you're going to agree with her then get out!" Jena snarled, pointing to the door.
Erin jumped, whimpering, "Very well, we'll be leaving." The two girls sped from the room.
"You're being completely uncooperative," Jody was examining her fingernails; "If the goblins were real I'd wish you away to them."
Suddenly, Jena set her guitar back down and was immediately in Jody's face, "You of all people should know how very real they are!"
"Why exactly should I know?" Jody asked, flinching. "We've never had any contact with such creatures, I bet you believe in the Underground, too! None of it is real!"
"No wonder you're so pigheaded! Saying such asinine things, you've lost your belief in magic," Jena said.
"You think it's all so real? Fine! I wish the goblins would come and take you away, right now!" Jody growled.
In the next second Jena had yelled back, without thinking, "Well I wish the goblins would come take you away, right now!" Jena gasped and slapped a hand over her mouth, immediately backing away from Jody. "Oh no," She whimpered.
"You real believe don't you? You really think the-" A loud clap of thunder cut Jody off, there a bright flash of lightning outside and the power went out. Abruptly, inhuman giggling, chuckling and cackling sounded all around them. Shadows could be seen scampering back and forth around the studio, knocking over the instruments, hopping into and out of the piano, over the keys of the piano leaving trails of scrambled notes sounding through the room. "What's going on?" Jody said whipping in every direction trying to catch sight of the shadows.
"Oh shit!" Jena grabbed her head in her hands.
"Jena, if this is all some sick joke, you'd better stop it now!" Jody screamed, panicking.
Jena glanced at Jody, "No joke, Jody," She smiled, "this is all real!"
Jody didn't say anything; she stood frozen in her spot glancing at the one window in the studio, which stood across from the sound booth. From the look on the young woman's face Jena didn't even have to look to know why she was so scared.
Jena sighed, turning around, "Hello, Your Majesty."
Jareth raised a brow at the young woman before him, "Most people in these situations don't willingly address me that way until months or even years after they've been taken to the Underground. Are you not afraid of me?"
"I am not such a person, Your Majesty," She pinched the bridge of her nose. "Not much scares me, so no I'm not scared of you."
"Quite obviously, your friend however is," Jareth gestured to Jody.
"Yes," Jena nodded, "She lost belief in any sort of magic long ago, so I'd imagine she would be that type of person."
Jody seemed to find her voice at this moment, "It's the King of the Goblins, Jena!"
"Yes, Jody," Jena sighed, "His Majesty, Jareth King of the Goblins. Did I not tell you he was real? The goblins scampering around behind seem to be real enough, too. Dear god, please do stop!" Jena glared at the insufferable creatures, "You're ruining the instruments!" To even her surprise they stopped, she blinked, "Has anyone ever done that before?"
"No but I have to admit you seem to be a unique case," Jareth cocked his head to the side, "Unique, indeed."
"I have a few questions, would you mind answering them, Your Majesty?" Jena glanced at him.
"Depends, I might be generous," He smirked.
"We are adults, well almost, we're 19, far from children, I thought that you stole…took unwanted children," Jena said.
"Unwanted people," Jareth made a gesture dismissing it. "Is that it?"
Jena shook her head, "One more, we have no one to run the Labyrinth for us, what will you do?"
"This situation seems quiet unique. I've never had 2 people wished away at the exact same time," He said.
"Actually, I wished her away like 2 seconds after she wished me away," Jena drawled, then her eyes widened and she added, "Your Majesty."
"Either way," Jareth responded.
"I suppose it wouldn't help to say I didn't mean it, it just slipped out," Jena shrugged, "What's said is said. I believe that was supposed to be your line."
He blinked, "Yes well, I must inquire why did the 2 of you wish each other away simultaneously? No siblings to wish away?"
"Oh I have siblings. I don't really mind my younger sister, but my little brother is already enough of a goblin." Jena chuckled.
"On the contrary, I don't change people into-" He was cut off.
"Goblins, I know, Your Majesty." Jena said. "To answer you question we got into a fight because she's so damned greedy."
"HEY!" Jody yelled, finally talking, she hadn't really been listening so she looked at Jareth and spoke, "I didn't really mean it! Neither of us did! I don't want to run the Labyrinth!"
"You can't run the Labyrinth," Jareth said, "You're required to stay in the throne room, it's the rules. And if you both can't find someone to run the Labyrinth for the both of you, then you just go to the Underground and never come back! No if's, an's, or but's about it."
"So then," Jena tapped her chin, pausing.
"How can you remain so calm?!" Jody shrieked.
"I just can," Jena continued, "Who will run the Labyrinth for us?"
"Jena!" A shout came from outside the door.
Jena glanced at Jareth and raised a brow, "Well I suppose to find someone else to run the Labyrinth then you couldn't stop time." She turned toward the door, "In here, Hannah!"
Hannah burst into the room panting, "That power went out and scared me." She was the spitting image of Jena, except for a few differences. Hannah was of a more willowy build and she was a tad bit shorted than Jena. The teen had dark brown hair that contrasted with Jena's dyed red hair. Their facial structures were a bit different, too. These differences were hard to tell in the dark but still there.
Suddenly, Hannah tripped over something and tumbled to the floor with a crash. "Ow!" She sat up and glanced at what she'd tripped over. She gasped, breaking out in a wide grin, "GOBLIN!" She picked up the goblin and practically strangled it in a crashing hug.
"My younger sister, Hannah, Your Majesty," Jena indicated the girl, "She's 2 ½ years younger than me, at the moment she is 17. She's extremely daffy, a total…" She paused and glanced at Jareth's blonde hair, "Never mind, people say we're exceptionally alike but several differences are obvious, though in fact she is a lot like me in interests and certain things. For some reason she looks up to me but I can't seem to figure out why."
Hannah had finished crushing the goblin and she looked up to see the 3 other people in the room staring at her, "What?" Then she gasped, "Hey, Your Majesty!"
"Told you," Jena said as Jareth raised both brows and looked at her.
"Jena did you summon, the Goblin King?" Hannah asked looking at her sister.
"Yes, Hannah, I did." Jena rolled her eyes. "Could you do me a huge favor?"
"Sure!" Hannah grinned.
"Could you run the Labyrinth for Jody and I?" Jena glanced at her sister, no expression upon her face.
"You mean I can go to the Underground?"
"Yes," Jena nodded.
"What are the rules?" Hannah looked at Jareth.
"Excuse me?" He asked.
"The rules, Your Majesty. If I win, this happens and if you win, that happens. What happens?" Hannah smiled.
"If you beat the Labyrinth and get to the castle you get to bring both your sister and her friend back, seeing as I don't think you'll win and I don't want to spend a full day on this, having you run the Labyrinth twice." Jareth said, "If I win, I keep the 2 young women and you can't leave either."
"What will happen to us, will we become goblins?" Hannah frowned.
"I won't do anything to you, the magic of the Underground shapes you, if it shapes you into a goblin than so be it. I, however, have not the slightest clue what the magic will do to any of you; it is most of the time different with everyone. Other than that you will most likely become servants or commoners." Jareth explained.
"Can I lose on purpose?" Hannah asked.
Jareth looked at Jena, wondering why the woman's sister had asked such a question, and she shrugged, "Honestly, I don't care which world I end up in for the rest of my existence, the Underground seems preferable to me though. I've already had my 15 minutes of fame here and my family won't miss me. Hannah obviously wants to be in the Underground but Jody probably wants to come home."
Jareth smirked, "Well, either way, no you can't lose on purpose. Try you hardest!"
"Yes, Your Majesty," Hannah grinned and jumped up from the floor. "When do we start?"
"Now!" With a sweeping gesture the walls faded around then and Hannah was left standing on a hill, the Labyrinth spread out before her. "You have 13 hours!" echoed in her ears.
"Alright, then," Hannah smiled, "13 hours." She glanced down at the goblin that she still hadn't let go of. "So will you travel the Labyrinth with me or should I let you go about your own business?"
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Jena sighed when they appeared suddenly in the throne room. She highly doubted that her sister would finish the Labyrinth. She did trust that the younger girl would try hard and get quite far but she would not finish. Jena knew that she'd be in the Underground for the rest of her existence.
Glancing around, she took in her surroundings. Jareth lounged in his throne, while she and Jody were merely sitting in the middle of the room. The room was lavishly decorated with tapestries and banners, a large portrait of Jareth stood above the throne itself. It would've been a beautiful room if the goblins surrounding them weren't making a mess of everything; it appeared that the creatures had even let the livestock into the room.
"You know I don't expect anything really, so it isn't necessary to fool me in anyway. I would like to see what the place actually looks like, Your Majesty," Jena glanced at Jareth.
"She expects chaos and a villain for a king," He gestured to Jody.
"So?" She frowned, "Why make a mess that will have to be cleaned later? Just because she expects it?" Jena rolled her eyes.
"Don't forget your place," He commanded.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty," Jena responded, "But I don't have a place, I am not yet your subject. My sister has yet to lose."
"You may as well get used to your place now, because you will be my subject. Your sister will lose," He said.
"I know that, Your Majesty," She sighed, "I've already accepted it."
The goblins around them were becoming increasingly annoying; all of this was just because Jody expected it! Her friend was a foolish woman. Jody was looking around in panic as if every creature around her would no doubt hurt her in some way. Jena doubted that any of the creatures, least of all Jareth, would harm her but that didn't me she wouldn't. Tired of it all, she raised her hand and struck the girl and a rather loud crack resounded across the room.
Jody looked at her, shocked, "Why did you do that?"
"You are being quite foolish, none of the goblin will hurt you and neither will His Majesty!" Jena shouted, "The only reason all the goblins are here is because you expect them, don't expect just take what comes! Nothing is ever as it seems, so don't take it for granted! If you hadn't stopped believing we probably wouldn't be here, but you'd better get used to being here because we're probably not leaving, but feel lucky that you have a friend here with you!"
Jody stared at her, silent. After a brief moment, she nodded.
"Good! Now, you guys!" She turned to the goblins, "Out! We don't need you here!" She sent a cold glare to every one of them and, after a quick glance a Jareth, they all fled. The chickens didn't budge but seeing as they weren't being very rowdy she let them be.
"You're not getting rid of the chickens?" Jareth asked.
"I will when I know where the chicken coop is and I can leave the throne room to make sure they get there, Your Majesty," She sat down in the middle of the room as she said this, "When they're gone this room will look very pretty." She looked at Jody one more time, "If you don't expect then you know that what you get is real."
"It's hard not to expect anything," Jody answered.
"Take things in stride, the goblins were frightening because you expected it. While they are mischievous, they are not actually the way that many people perceive them to be." Jena pointed out.
"Then what are they like?" Jody asked.
"You'll have to figure that out yourself," Jena said.
"How can you possibly know so much about the Underground?" Jareth questioned.
"I read a lot, my sister does as well, and she knows quite a bit of the stuff I do. It is hard to sift out the facts but I manage some how. Did you know that the goblins frequent the Aboveground?" Jena raised a brow.
"And you can see them?" Jareth asked.
"Hannah, too, they've been coming more, I'm guessing that it's since…" She paused glancing at Jareth.
"Since?" He questioned.
"Since Sarah beat the Labyrinth, Your Majesty," Jena didn't know how he'd react so she just watched.
Anger briefly flashed across his face and he scowled, "Yes, well…How old were you when that happened?"
"12, Your Majesty, she should be 22 now," She observed.
"I know that!" He glared at her.
"Of course, Your Majesty," She went silent, waiting.
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The little goblin nodded, but didn't clarify which of the 2 choices he was agreeing to.
"Which one?" Hannah furrowed her brows.
He blinked his large eyes and held up 1 finger.
"The first one? You'll go through the Labyrinth with me?" She grinned.
He nodded again.
"Can't you talk?"
"I can," He said, "I just don't know what t'say."
"My name is Hannah," She smiled.
"I know your name," He stated, proudly, "The red haired lady said it."
"Oh, my sister," Hannah nodded, "What's your name?"
"I'm DÅSHEL," He affirmed, smiling. Hannah took the time, now, to look the small creature over. He looked something like a fluffy lizard, with a beak-like muzzle. His tail twitched around behind his long legs. He had 3 claw-like fingers on all four of his appendages; one of these fingers was somewhat like a thumb. On top of his head was a small metal helmet, which made it appear as if he had horns.
"Well then, DÅSHEL, shall we be off?" When the goblin nodded, she looked at her surrounds, completely, for the first time. She paused and for a moment her mouth dropped at what she saw. They stood on a grassy hill, several trees and bushes that were very much alive sat around them. She smiled; somewhere in the back of her mind she'd always known that the Underground wasn't an ugly world.
She found a path down the hill and it led her to just in front of the Labyrinth. There was a pond that she glanced at briefly and was surprised to see some fish in it. Now she hoped that Hoggle didn't really pee in it like in the movie, he'd kill the fish. As if the dwarf had sensed her thoughts he came into view, tending the plants along the brick wall, Hannah however didn't notice him at first.
She spotted the door and walked up to it, looking at the greenery along the walls. Once she reached the door of the Labyrinth she pushed, it didn't budge. She frowned and tried again, it still didn't move. She growled and banged on it several times, "Hello? Open up!"
"Will you stop that?" Hoggle rasped from behind her.
She spun around, "Oh! Hoggle!"
He frowned, "Do I know you?"
"No, no, but I know you," She said, "Can you let me in?"
"I wouldn't go in there if I were you! You won't ever get back out," He shook is head.
"Do you tell that to everyone?" She cocked a brow.
"Most everyone, but that's because it's true. Even Sarah never got out of this place," Hoggle explained, beginning to tend the plants again.
Hannah looked at DÅSHEL, who was now perched on her shoulder, but he said nothing, "Can you open the doors for me? I have to get my sister and Jody."
"Two people?" He furrowed his brows.
She nodded, "It's a long story, but I don't believe I will beat the Labyrinth or ever get out. I still have to get to them though."
"Even though you know that you won't win, you're running the Labyrinth?" Hoggle clarified.
"Yup," She smiled, "I don't mind if I get stuck in the Underground for the rest of my life or, if the magic makes me immortal, the rest of my existence."
Hoggle stared at her for a second and then he made a large sweeping gesture with both arms and the doors behind them flung open, "There you go, Miss."
"Hannah," She told him, "Thank you." She waved as she went into the Labyrinth and the doors swung closed behind her. She looked down the path in both directions, it did look as if it went on forever but there were trees growing close to the walls and vines growing up the walls. "Well, which way?"
"I don't know," The goblin shrugged.
"Alright," She stepped into the middle of the path way, "Hold on tight," She told DÅSHEL as she place one hand over her already closed eyes and then spun several times in a circle. She stopped abruptly and opened her eyes, staring down the long path. She glanced at the door, which was now to her right, "Right it is," She stared heading down the path, glancing briefly at the strange plant with eyes on it as the eyes followed her. She moved to the inner wall and ran her hand along it, looking for openings.
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It had been several hours already and Jena was bored out of her mind. At the moment she laid on the floor, in the middle of the room, on her stomach, her chin resting on her arms. A while ago, Jareth had had to go and confront her sister, who had apparently been on the right track to the castle. They had watched in the crystal as Hannah confronted the worm and when he told her to go in the other direction she'd questioned the blue creature. He told her exactly why so she went toward the castle. Jareth had immediately left, Jena had known he would, even she didn't want her sister to finish the Labyrinth that fast, it would be no fun, and she really didn't want to go back to the Aboveground anyway.
Jena sighed," So…" She trailed off.
Jody gave her a weird look and Jareth didn't even momentary look at her. Jena almost wished the goblins were back in here; at least then there would be something to distract her.
"Wanna play cards, Your Majesty?" She asked aloud.
Jody looked at her like she was insane, then asked if she was.
"No, I'm not insane!" Jena barked, she looked at Jareth, who had given her a look that said she had to be cracked. "Even you look bored, so I decided that we should occupy our time somehow. Please, Your Majesty? Can we play cards? Rummy? Texas Hold 'em? Black Jack? Or even Go Fish?"
Jareth chuckled, "You play cards, I have to keep an eye on your sister."
"She's not gonna do anything interesting," Jena huffed, "She won't get here before the times up."
"Either way," He said.
"We need a deck of cards, Your Majesty," Jena stated.
He snapped his fingers and a table with a deck of cards on it appeared in front of her.
"Thanks!" Jena smiled, sitting up.
"I wanna play rummy," Jody stated, sitting across from Jena.
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Hannah sighed; she knew that she should have just listened to the worm. It was obvious that Jareth wouldn't let anyone go that way no matter what, so she'd known he would interfere.
She'd already passed the helping hands and before them the stupid red and blue guys, whom she hadn't even listened to she'd just picked a door. Knowing that going down would send her into an oubliette she went up. Going up seemed to lead her right past the oubliette and the tunnels. She'd seen the Wiseman, and his wisecracking bird hat, sleeping in his chair and she'd just passed right by him. She'd gone through the hedge maze, which had been in bloom with beautiful white flowers, had it been another time she would have stopped to look at them. Passing the hedge maze had led her to the knockers. Knocking with the deaf one had dropped her right into an oubliette, and she was there now.
"Damn it!" She stood in the middle of the pitch-black oubliette. She could feel DÅSHEL clutching to her shoulder, "I'll get us out of here DÅSHEL," She assured him, "Where you put people to forget about them, huh? Well I won't just be forgotten down here, Your Majesty! Even if I spend the rest of my 13 hours down here, you'd better come get me!"
She could almost here his chuckle ringing in here ears, she sighed. "Time to find a way out of her." She edged her way toward the wall, slowly. When she reached its rough surface she ran her hand along the uneven, jagged stone. She walked slowly along the wall, searching. "I know it's gotta be here!" She murmured, "Right about now I wish I had some magic."
She kicked something on the ground and she cried out in relief, hopefully it was what she thought it was. Crouching down, she moved the blanket that was covering the sought out wooden board. She lifted the board and shoved it against the wall. She felt along the edges and found a sort of knob, as she turned the knob it clicked several times. The 'door' swung open and light poured down through the passage.
She ran up the corridor and a horrendous smell hit her like a ton of bricks. She stopped dead in her tracks, The Bog of Eternal Stench. Bracing herself, she stepped out into the light and looked around at the bog. It, amazingly, wasn't a dead, nasty looking place. There were trees, bushes and grass ground around the bog. Foliage that she'd never seen before, that was obviously unique to this place, she figured it was the bog. Even though it smelled quite horrible, it didn't look that way it was incredibly pretty in its own right.
She spotted the bridge and made her way toward it, her time was very short. Just as she reached the bridge, which she notice had been rebuilt, a fox-like creature jumped in front of her.
"Halt!" He yelled as another creature, this on very large and hulking, appeared.
"Sir Didymus! Ludo!" She cried out in surprise, when they gave her confused looks she said, "No, you don't know me, but I do know you."
"Very well, but thou shalt not pass," Didymus stated.
"Can I please?" She begged, "I'm almost out of time anyway! I won't even make it past the goblin city, especially if I don't go now. I'm not going to win! I know that but I want to get to the goblin city!"
"You may not cross this bridge, I have sworn not to let anyone cross-" He was cut off.
"I know, I know," She said, "Can I have your permission? In fact, I could just use that rock path across the water down there," She pointed, "I wouldn't be crossing the bridge then."
Didymus thought about that for a moment and he stepped aside, "You may cross."
She didn't even glance at the bridge; she went straight to the rock path and ran across it. It was only a few minutes before she was surrounded by junk. She was at the scrap heap. She glanced straight ahead; the Goblin City was not far. She ran forward twisting and turning around piles of junk, dodging goblins with heaps of trash piled on their backs. She kept her eyes on the city the whole time, glancing every now and again at where she was going. It didn't take her as long as she thought it would to get to the city but as she snuck to the entrance, knocking the guard out, and pushed open the door, slipping through, she was happy it hadn't taken her that long, for her time was almost up, she had mere minutes left. The next set of doors started to close but she quickly slipped through them and into the city. DÅSHEL clutched her shoulder tightly the whole time.
She could see the castle; the main street of the city was empty making it a clear shot. Before she bolted, she briefly wondered why there was no one around. She barely took in the fact that the city actually looked semi-neat. The buildings were well made and didn't look as if they were about to collapse. Beyond those acknowledgments, she merely ran toward the castle.
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"She's here?" Jena glanced at the clock.
"She actually made it this far!" Jareth laughed, "No further I'm afraid, my army will stop her." Jena opened her mouth but before she could even ask he turned to her and said, "No they are not the incompetent army that faced Sarah! They are actually trained, quiet well, your sister doesn't stand a chance."
"That's good to know," She murmured sarcastically. "How'd Sarah beat you anyway obviously you didn't have to live up to her expectation, you didn't have to let her win, Your Majesty."
Jareth glared at her, "There are plausible reasons as to why she won!"
"Of course, Your Majesty," She bowed her head, "I'll have to remind you to tell me those reasons."
Jareth snorted, "I haven't decided whether I should tell you or not."
"It's your decision, Your Majesty," She clarified.
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Hannah had just left the city, the castle was right in front of her. All that remained was a fairly short stretched of road over a hill. But when she'd climbed to the top of the small hill she looked upon the small army it had hidden. This was no clumsy army that had not the slightest clue how to fight. They were organized and stood in sound formation. The infantry stood ready to attack, archers were lined on top of the castle walls.
She froze, not daring to move any further. She wasn't going to make it to the castle, she'd already known this but she'd been so close.
"Archers!" Ever archer set an arrow to the bow and sat at ready. "Fire!"
Her eyes widened and she hit the deck at the last second, but none of the arrows came near her. They all hit the ground and stock out, in a semi-straight line. They'd been akin to warning shots.
"Infantry, march!" She sat up and watched as her defeat strode in time toward her. She put up no fight for she knew she was beaten. She knew this wasn't the whole army, just a small amount of soldiers; the whole army would've been over kill. Then again this many people, all facing just one young woman who controlled no magic of any kind, was over kill as it was.
She soon found her self with her hands tied behind her back and her ankles tied together. Her legs were curled under her and she sat on the ground looking around at the armored goblins. Suddenly, the crowd parted and let a man walk toward her. He looked almost human as he walked through the crowd, but looks could be deceiving.
As he got closer she noticed features that were similar to Jareth's. This man had the same mismatched eyes as said king, one blue and one brown. His eyebrows swept up to an odd angle, like the king's. This man's skin was pale but not quite as pale as Jareth's. There was strange discoloration above his eyes and along his nose, also. But the similarities stopped there. This man had dirty blonde hair, it wasn't quite long but could be called such, it wasn't really wild either more shaggy than anything. He was very handsome, even beautiful, he was obviously fae.
This man wore only a chain linked vest as armor, he knew even this wasn't necessary, and held his helmet in one hand. Under the chain vest her wore a white poet's shirt that was worn closed all the way, at the moment. He also wore dark breeches, tight breeches she noted, and knee-high boots. Change the hair color, take away the helmet and vest, open the shirt, and add one amulet and he'd look just like Jareth. The air he carried himself with told her that he was high-ranking or important in some way.
'But he's sooo cute,' She thought, 'No, he's HOT!'
"Well, you know when to fight and when not to," He smirked, stopping in front of her.
"I already knew that I was going to lose, but I was just so close," She pouted.
"Very close indeed," He nodded, "However your time is up, and you've been captured."
She rolled her eyes, "Whatever will you do with me now?"
He laughed, "Right now?" He watched her for a moment, "I shall introduce myself."
"Very well," She murmured, raking her eyes along his body from head to toe before she dragged them up to his face.
He gave her a knowing look, smirking, she knew she'd been caught, "I am Prince Gerard, garrison commander."
"I do believe you know who I am," She stated, glancing at DÅSHEL, who now sat on the ground beside her.
"Yes I do," He smiled.
"Gerard is a fairly normal name, I've heard it in the Aboveground," She frowned.
"Then that would make it unusual here, I didn't name myself you know," He grinned.
She snorted, then she froze, he'd said that he was Prince Gerard, "Prince?"
"Yes," He chuckled, "Now it's time that I take you to my brother, he'll be waiting."
"Brother?!" Her eyes grew wide.
He laughed as he scooped her up and threw her over his shoulder before disappearing.
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ToDifferentToBeReal- 'sighs' It all seems so cliché to me. It is all cliché. Yes I gave Jareth a brother, but I have my reasons. Their parents were King and Queen and I thought that most of the time royal couples have more than one child, so Jareth has a younger brother.
Jareth- You really couldn't come up with a better name than Gerard? Something more unique?
ToDifferent- Stop saying unique I used it to many times in this chapter. I like the name Gerard thank you! I think it's…unique. 'cringes'
Jareth- You think it is, I don't.
ToDifferent- That's to bad, Your Majesty! So anyway, all the people in this story are characters, they are based off of really people but there are many differences. Jena is me (Jenavieve is my actual name Jena for short), and I do have friends named Jody, Erin and Marissa, and I'd like to be in a band, but all the characters are older than we actually are and I do have a sister who is 2 ½ years younger than me and we do look a lot alike, so other people say. Right now it may seem like the character who is me is going to be Jareth's new love interest (as the contest said) but that is wrong my character is just smart and uses logic a lot. This is a Jareth/Sarah fanfiction so it would be impossible for Jena and Jareth to get together. Besides I hate it when people put their OCs with the actual characters. I'm all for OC/OC but any other couple with an OC I hate, Jareth/OC, Sarah/OC, no, I hate 'em (just my opinion mind you). That is why there will be 3 OC/OC, couples in here XD!
Sarah- When do I come in?
ToDifferent- You've got a while to wait.
Sarah- 'sighs' Do you know how long?
ToDifferent- 'grins' Nope!
Sarah- You're mean!
ToDifferent- Yes I am! I also wanted to mention that yes I know I skipped several legs of journey through the Labyrinth but I felt that they were unnecessary and I also didn't know how to fit them in, beside every journey to the Labyrinth has to be different. I mentioned some of the parts I left out, too. I left out the hall of false alarms, the tunnels, and the Fiery Forest, also Jareth didn't give her a peach, and she was traveling alone, except for DÅSHEL who never left her. Well, that's it.