The Dumbass Crew in Labyrinth

Chapter 1: Guess Who's Back...Back Again...

It was a nice quiet day until three girls fell from the sky...

"You think by the third time that somebody would have figured this out and do a like-fazing thingy!" Megan said as she landed on the sandy ground beside us.

"Now you know they can't do that, cause if they did, the Star Trek people would be having a field-day suing people." I said looking at our surroundings.

"Where is everybody?" Megan asked as she was getting up, and dusting her pants off. We looked like we were in the middle of a desert. The sands looked dark orange and the sun looked as though it were always setting. Overall, it was an odd place and I couldn't help but think that somewhere, I've seen this place before but knew I couldn't have been there because I'd never been to a desert before.

"More importantly, where the hell are we?" Shavai asked looking around from her place on the ground. I at the time, was contemplating why the hell I couldn't get up when it finally came to me.

"Shavai?"

"Hmm?"

"Get off me."

To get readers up to speed, we're the Dumbass Crew (D.A.C. for censorship). The DAC is our version for females of the popular MTV show, Jackass. It's made up of me and my two best friends, Megan and Shavai. And then there's Darcie (my little sister) and her two friends Whitney and Katie. We do everything together, from playing pranks, dropping objects from high altitude parking garages onto passing cars, to jumping into pools with benches (and everything inbetween). Point is, we've been through everything. Well, almost. But that almost was erased when I hosted a slumber party for my 15th birhtday party. We watched Titanic and when everyone else was sleeping, I made a wish that we could go back to Titanic and change the ending. That wish ended up being one of the worst mistakes I'd ever made and we've been paying for it eversince going from movie to movie, changing some things around. So far, we've been to Titanic and just got transferred from the first Harry Potter movie, were once again, we almost got killed.

So basically it all comes down to this: in a nutshell, we've been going from movie to movie and actually have been changing things. Sometimes they work out for the best and sometimes we really screw up and end up dying. Our first movie we screwed up was a perfect case of that. But here we were now... where ever here was.

"I don't know about you guys, but I'm having a definite case of deja-vu here." I said as I admired the site. I knew somewhere in my mind I had seen it before, I was so sure of it. The orange sand, the few trees scattered across the barren land. Then I decided to finally turn around and look the other way immediately I knew where we were.

"Shavai?" I called without looking back at her, she turned back to where I was facing.

"Oh my God..." From the forelorn tone in her voice, I knew that she recognized it too. Shavai called without looking back.

"Megan?" She turned to where Shavai and I found ourselves mesmerized.

"Oh no." She whispered looking on the site. I knew now that she knew, as well. We looked upon a large maze, that was made small by the distance we were from it. We saw the castle at the center and it suddenly hit me. I knew suddenly where the others were. I turned back the other way to run into someone's chest. And almost immediately I knew where we were. The man had 80s style long, blonde, teased hair with unearthly eyeshadow in light blue up to the brow bone and the dark brown that traced his upper lids like liner went up to meet where the rest of his eyebrows should've been. It was Jareth, our antagonist. But back to what's important.

I hadn't expected him to be there when I turned around, so understandably I screamed at him. He never blinked, instead he asked a question.

"Do you always scream at your aquaintances?" He was arrogant and standing with his hands on his hips. Really sexy. Megan decided to try and take a shot at a comeback.

"You always pop out of nowhere like you own the place?" Megan finished her sentence and placed her hands on her hips in response to his posture. Shavai and I slapped our foreheads and Jareth looked like he was about to slap her.

"Meggy-bear, he DOES own the place!" Shavai said looking at her as though she said the worst comeback in the world- which she did. I looked around us and didn't see Sarah anywhere. Maybe we were in her place, I couldn't stop myself from asking.

"Where's my sister and her friends?" I looked at him glaring, hoping to get a message across of 'you give me what I want and I won't hurt you'.

"They're there- in my castle." He pointed to the castle at the center of the Labyrinth. "Do you still want to look for them?" I felt like I was possessed, I started saying the lines in the movie.

"Doesn't look that far." I commented looking at it as though it were nothing more than a lame maze you'd see on a kid's menu at some resteraunt. He crossed from where he was to right over my left shoulder. He was so close I could feel his breath on my neck and it gave me goosebumps.

"It's farther than you think- time is short." He said and started walking backwards by the bare tree that stood alone and crooked with it's naked branches that held onto a strange clock with 13 hours on its face that was not originally there. He circled his finger and the clock's hands moved to show the time we had.

"You have 13 hours in which to solve the Labyrinth before your friends become one of us, forever. Such a pity." With that he was gone. I could still feel his breath on my skin. I wanted him back.

"I am so gonna screw him." I said aloud, where anyone could hear me.

"Go for it. He's not my type anyway- he wears more make up than I do!" Megan said, laughing about it and thinking hard. "Besides, it's David Bowie."

"Not nessacarily." I said grinning widely.

"Fine, you can have him." Shavai said shrugging it off. "But I want details!"

We all thought for a few moments about what he had said to us. Darcie, Katie, and Whitney taken. We looked at each other contemplating their and our fates with him- and laughed.

"Oh my god! He kidnapped Darcie!" Megan laughed out, falling to the ground.

"He's in for more trouble than they're worth!" I said, joining Megan on the ground.

"Seriously, we should just sit here waiting for the goblins to come stampeding by- screaming they're running from the devil." Shavai said.

"But Delaney," Megan tried to reason with me with a few moments already gone. "She is your sister."

"So what? all I have to do is listen to my mom bitch at me for a couple of years and then I'll have my own room!" I said smiling to myself, thinking of the joys.

"Yeah, but I know you don't want Sherie bitching at you, too." She added, Shavai's laughter was fading in the background as she wiped a tear from her eye.

"True, but knowing Whitney's mother, she'd thank me."