The Reign Underground

Alright readers here is a new story for you-This story is about Jareth's past. It's major flashbacky but it should be before Sarah if anything Sarah should be at the age of nine or so during the few runners that Jareth faces at when this story is taken place. You will learn more about his family and other faes. Now this plot bunny came to me to fix what I needed to and make sure Sarah does not make an official appearance unless she's a babe or child. I own nothing but Jareth's parents his half-brother, and Lyle and the runners you see in this story-I have written four chapters-maybe five if I can come up with something more with Jareth's parents.

Enjoy

Jareth, at the time he met Sarah Williams was at the age of Fae adulthood. Oh he had been there for a quite awhile; leaning his responsibility, as the King of Goblins, the man of dreams and nightmares.

But what of the days before Sarah wished her brother away? What of the babe who sucked his mother's breast, who looked to King before him?

Did he own a pet? Did he have friends at all?

Let us enter his mind, where maybe we could find some answers.

Jareth relaxed on his throne playing with a crystal. Tossing it in the air and catching it as it slowly fell down before it hit his lap. He spins it a few times before letting it disappear. He was going to visit his beloved today, but he felt as if today he should just think.

Jareth just wanted to think of the time before his mark on the land.

Jareth wanted to look back at time when he didn't have to sit around and wait for wishers, a time when he pulled the pranks on his subjects and not the other way around. Oh he still had his fun, but they were too afraid of him now to even think twice to prank him. After all Jareth's terms of revenge were as follows-you end the game and they won't pester you for twelve hours. It was just the start of the goblins short lasting fear of him so he closed his eyes and fell asleep to the sounds of clucking and the gibberish of whatever lay on the grounds of his throne room.

Oh yes, he thought, back to a time when he didn't even need his magick to charm a lady fae into his arms at dances, maybe one or two afterwards for teen like acts. He thought back to a time when he was young again.

Chapter 1 Prince of Goblins

The woman with hair as clean as a gold coin, as long as the rivers by the caves that held the castles royal secrets; was screaming. She was giving birth to the King's son this very morning. The King came as soon as he heard her wails of pain. He left the child he was teasing to get lost again in his labyrinth.

Diana is the woman's name, as she screeches. The King's name is Kalen as he goes to comfort his wife. The midwives and goblin maids give her the child after a few minutes. She calms down and asks-almost orders to have her son in her arms. The boy is placed in her cradled arms, he had a head of hair already the color of his father's of course, but he owns his mother's mismatched eyes.

"He's beautiful" she whispers calming the boy's cry.

"What's his name, beloved?" asks the king looking over at his son. How can a fae king look so calm so early in life? Maybe, Kalen thinks, because the boy is not king-but a child. The boy has come to this world innocently and will cause the goblins mastiff first before they repay him with their own. He smiles when the little fae gurgles and is placed at his mother's breast and then starts sucking for milk.

"Jareth" she says smiling first at her son and then at her husband.

"Jareth, you wish to name the next king of these miscreants 'gentle'?" he almost growls but smiles as she does. She always made him smile. Kalen would lose his cool and then there she be laughing or scolding and it would just bring a smile to his face.

"Yes, Kalen. It'll fit him perfectly later on in his life." She nods approvingly at her thoughts. This is her son, if his name was opposite of his future actions then it also would fit him even more.

"Diana, you are beautiful" the king kisses her cheek as Jareth lets off her breasts. Diana gives him to his father. The baby blinks for a few minutes, whimpers little and then his cuddled into the warm embrace of his father.

Kalen can't stop from smiling as the blanketed babe, cuddles into his white Victorian shirt and black velvet vest. He could spend hours just gazing at his son, feeling as a father should. This was his own child; he had no need to steal them from the humans-that took a lot of his magick even to transform them into goblin babes. But once his son started to grab at his long blonde hair, it was time that Kalen gave Jareth back to Diana. But he knew that was a loving gesture from his boy, who would have the same golden locks of his parents in time.

The king tricked young girls giving them what they wanted only for them to be running back asking for whomever he took, back. It was a chase in the Labyrinth. The Labyrinth itself protected Jareth and his mother because no one could stop the queen wanting to go and travel and let her son see his world. Once when Diana was feeding Jareth, a boy had passed them looking toward the castle in the west. He caught sight of her in the corner of his eye and turned to her. The Labyrinth made a change to hide her and Jareth.

Diana smirked. "You know I could have tricked him" she says to Kalen who stood before her. "Ah but give away the allusion of it being I and goblins. No my sweet queen I think not." he had said to her, taking his son in his arms letting the boy gurgle a happy cry.

The queen then had her turn at taunting the humans. She had Kalen giving dances and lost hopes winning the babe in the end. And the babe was either sent away to the Fae villages to become a fae or changed into a goblin babe as the legend says.

Diana dressed her son like her husband did; the puffy shirt and the tights. Even once in awhile he tried to run away naked cause he hated them. But it was useless for the baby because the goblins and midwives would get in his way before he ever reached his father. In pure baby nudity other then the puffy shirt that would sag at his shoulders.

The days of the new born prince passed slowly. But surely they passed with ease. King Kalen had to watch where his son played. Making sure the goblins didn't test him into something foolish or dangerous. He also allowed his son to play with the captives.

Yes, the king was not cruel to the children he claimed. He noticed the look in his son's eyes when he and his mother passed in the great hall. Jareth would look at the children, tilt his small head and smile at them. Kalen thought that Jareth wanted to be friendly to them, have playmates. So he let the boy play. Kalen soon found that Jareth liked that a lot, it depended on the wish away age of the child if it was one his age then Diana would look over them as Kalen want to play with the runner. If the child was older say five, Diana still looked over them but let the child entertain her son.

When Jareth came to an age of learning, still a baby in the world of his people, one child looked like him. This child looked so much like Jareth, that the king wondered what Jareth wanted if the runner lost. The small boy just now a year younger then the fae prince had the same hair and eyes. He is sweet for being a one year old with a fae toddler. The teenager who had wished this child away had lost, and could not bear to even look at the child when she was sent back to her home.

So Kalen took the abandoned child into his arms, setting him in his left arm as he took Jareth's hand in his right. He went to sit on his throne next to his wife.

"What shall we do with this one Diana?" he asked the queen as Jareth climbed into her lap. "Jareth, what do you think?" she asked pointing to the baby. Now Jareth was the age two and as a new toddler-acted that way as well. He laughed at the stupid goblins and pulled a few more pony tails then a child of the above world would do. He is a fae of course. But within the hours he had spent with the babe. He had grown to like him a lot. And in that was saying plenty for the prince.

"Arrow brother!" Jareth said at to his mother, who had a small smile on her face in agreement with her son. Kalen smiled as well to hear such a statement from the boy.

"Of course he overheard me talk to that human." The king laughed with a proud smile, it was a strange name for a child, Arrow but it fit for what he knew this little one would become to his son.

Opening his eyes, he found his brother leaning over his throne and smiling down at him. "Hello big brother" Arrow smirked his arms crossed letting his chin rest there and one of his feet in the air.

"Arrow, I thought you were treating Lyle to lunch today?"

"And I thought you'd be fooling around." Arrow said as Jareth sat up to face him. "I'm being kind." Jareth yawned as his brother sat on the arm of the throne.

"Kind you? That's a laugh" Arrow pulled a small goblin from his leg and turned him away.

"Yeah well I could have not called you 'brother' when you got here." Jareth smirked as the half fae half human frowned. "Low Jareth, that is very low."

"Whatever. I still care about you." Jareth smiled wishing he could messy with his brother's locks of hair. But grinning like the cruel goblin king he was at the younger sibling was good enough.

"Aw!" a voice light like the wind cooed.

"Lyle out!" Jareth shouted.

"No way, I was invited! Oh by the way you're about to be called away in 3, 2…"

"I wish the Goblins would come and take you away right now!" the voice of a young teenage boy yelled the goblins giggled one slowly disappearing after each other going after the voice.

"1 see you later" Jareth groaned and turned into an owl disappearing before the others goblins popping in and out from the wisher's home.

"So Lyle where were we?" Arrow asked sitting where Jareth once was. Lyle moved on top of him. "I think we were going to make out on anything that belonged to your brother." She laughed kissing Arrow's nose.

Jareth was not happy. He wanted to sleep, he wanted to be by himself dream of his past in the daylight hour. But as king he had to take the child of the wish away, the human boy was in his parent's room looking down at the girly crib.

His little sister was just gone.

"Ah little Leroy, what a nice change I have been getting to many baby boys in my castle"

"You're…you're…" Leroy stuttered looking at the Goblin King in shock.

"The Goblin King, yes and I have come to give you your dreams without the child."

"My parents would know that Kitty is missing…I need her back" he said.

"Is that so?" Jareth sighed it was the same thing all over again. He waved his arm to from the window, and there appeared his home in front of Leroy.

"Kitty is waiting for you in the center, if you can make it within 13 hours."

"That's impossible" Leroy said in a fearful whisper.

"Think before you wish then!" Jareth laughed fading away.

Lyle held the girl in her arms. "She is so cute!" "Lyle we're still on his throne" Arrow hissed trying to figure a way off before his brother would appear and take Kitty in his arms just to look at her.

"What why, the goblins gave her to me, and I don't want to move."

"Arrow off my throne now!" the voice of the fearful goblin king was furious and tried. But the anger was not to be missed. Lyle jumped almost dropping the little girl as she moved so that Arrow could disappear.

"Lyle I want you to go distract the boy, Arrow come back here I just wanted you off not gone!" Jareth yelled.

"Yes your majesty!" Lyle gave him the girl and left the castle. "Ah Kitty what shall I show you, the garden or the bog?" Kitty looked at Jareth quizzically before reaching to touch his long locks. Jareth smirked; she was a very sweet girl. "But after I take another nap, must have a plan to trick that brother of yours."

He set the girl on the ground as the goblins surrounded her. He sat across his throne closing his eyes once more. Thoughts of the perfect queen entered his mind before dreamless sleep.

This is the first story, behind it all before Sarah came into Jareth's life, there will hints at her existence and purpose but it is mainly about Jareth's past with half brother Arrow and his parents and Arrow's love Lyle

Editing this story but I only have four chapters that I will post before I continue trying to figure out what else I can do