A/N: Yeah, I know, it's been a long time since I've done anything on I wonder if anyone still remembers me? So yeah, another Labyrinth fanfiction. I'm not sure if it'll be Jareth/Sarah or not. I know, blasphemy! I am still true to the Jareth/Sarah pairing, they are still the most amazing couple ever in my mind, haha, but for what I want to do in this fic, I think I need them to be apart. Anyway, enough blabber.

Disclaimer: I don't own Labyrinth, it belongs to the Jim Henson company. I make no profit off this work.

KINDRED SPIRTIT: PROLOGUE

"Damn," Jareth collapsed on his bed. He was far more drained than even he had anticipated.

The ancient bonds of his kingdom were breaking a little more everyday, human children were no longer believing in the fairy tale worlds, and as a result, they were falling apart. To keep everything in the Underground thriving, he had to bond his entire kingdom, his very soul, to the soul of a young believer, someone who would always have enough faith. Faith in the labyrinth, faith in it's creatures, and faith in him.

He had desperately hoped that the woman he loved, Sarah, would be that person. Sarah would keep her friends and the pieces of the labyrinth she had encountered alive, but he had seen it in her eyes as she spoke her parting words, there was no room in her heart for a man like Jareth. She could never keep within her the soul of a man who she could not understand.

It was a painful thing to realize, to know that she would not love him, could not even keep him safe. It was a pain he would have to deal with another time though. The need for this young dreamer was urgent. The moment Jareth recuperated enough, he'd have to search the human world for a girl who he could live within.