Jareth walked out majesticly from the low archway as his eyes met with Sarah's.
"Give me the child,"
"Sarah, beware," The goblin king warned. "I have been generous up to now...I can be cruel..."
"Generous?" Sarah could laugh. "What have you done that's generous?"
"Everything!" Jareth raised his voice a little while he encircled the petite girl with the determine and confident Nile-green eyes. "Everything that you want, I have done!" "You asked that the child be taken from you, I took him, you tower before me, I was frightened, I have reordered time, turn the world upside down," "and I have done it all for you!" he finally paused.
"I am exhausted from living up to your expectations...isn't that generous?" He finished, finally getting to a stop.
Sarah stared at him, "Through dangers untold, and hardships unnumbered," she started, "I have fought my way to the castle beyond the goblin city," "for my will is as strong as yours, and my king-"
"Wait!" The goblin king interrupted, "look Sarah, look what I'm offering you," he held out his hand, plucking out a crystal orb from thin air "your dreams!"
But Sarah continued on with her far away gaze, muttering on, her brown hair waved as she walked forward to face the now retreating Jareth. "And my kingdom as great,"
"I ask for so little," Jareth backed away "Just let me rule you, and you can have everything you want!"
"My kingdom as great..." it was then Sarah's shoulder slumped as she cursed under her breath. "Damn! I can never remember that line!"
Seeing his chance, Jareth continued on. "Just fear me...love me," he offered the girl, "and I will be your slave!"
"My kingdom as great...my kingdom as great..." and then it hit her.
"You have no power over me!"
"JARETH!" Kate screamed, jolting up from her pillows and dreams finding herself in her room, her anime posters stare back at her from every angle of the wall, her toys and dolls gaze at her curiously while she turned her nightstand lights on. Midnight. The clock in front of her read.
Her collections of novels and magazine peeked out from their shelves as she got off and opened her windows.
The night air seeped into her room accompanied by music and the loud bangs of fire crackers as the night sky was lit in a brilliant glow.
It is 2011.
And soon, it is time for Kate to return back to school, as a 15 year old, and also another year of dreadful bullies and accusations to live through. She thought of her previous years as she nudged the little figurine by her windowsill.
People think her as different. Though there is, in fact nothing extraordinary about Kate, but perhaps everyone just thinks that an orphan is fun to tease. Let's put all the blame on her! After all...who cares?
Kate slammed her windows shut, feeling depressed about the new school year.
She fantasized about Jareth, the man from a movie "Labyrinth" she was so obsessed with, a movie that so often repeat in her dreams.
She look up at her ceiling, searching. "He's real…" she mumbled more like a question then a statement, getting up from her windowsill, facing the glass panels instead.
She did this countless times before, merely satisfying her own thirst of her obsession...so...why does it feel so different this time?
"I wish that the goblins will come and take ME away from here!," She shut her eyes "I wish that I will be taken away to the goblin king, Jareth, to his castle!" She called, a little louder. "Away from this misery!"
"...right now..."
A ghastly wind shocked her eyes opened, her windows slammed and trembled, flinging wide, as a huge tornado-like wind enveloped Kate, while she could only scream and dodge, finally falling unconscious.