Note: First off, I'd like to say whoo, first Glee/Labyrinth story on FF! Awesome! Next I want to say that Kurt is going to be the main character, the Sarah if you will. This will eventually be Jareth/Kurt with a possible Finn/Kurt thrown in a bit because I like it. Oh also this will have spoilers for episodes as they come out and Quinn had her baby. I'll try not to have it be the movie with Kurt dropped in as Sarah, so there will be original characters and new things though naturally some things will be the same. Oh, by the way Rachel has the book, that's how she knows who Jareth is. Enjoy the story!

DEFYING THE STARS

Mr. Schue and Ms. Sylvester were fighting. Again. It was more like nose to nose screaming, really. The thirteen students sitting not ten feet away were not bothered by the sight. Even Jesse was unfazed and he'd only been in New Directions a few weeks. It was no surprise to see the two arguing over something, this time about auditorium use. Apparently Sue had monopolized the auditorium and Will was trying to get time for practice. They were nearing blows soon.

"This is madness, Sue!"

"What's madness is the amount of product in your hair."

"ENOUGH ABOUT THE HAIR! This is about the auditorium, not my hair!"

"It's chilly outside, and my internationally known Cheerios need to keep their muscles warm or they'll pull something."

"It's 78 degrees outside! The sun is beaming Sue!"

They continued screaming and arguing, paying no mind to the students watching the scene. None of them were paying attention anyway. Artie and Tina were making eyes at each other, Quinn was staring off into space, occasionally bringing her hand to her now flat stomach before dropping it when she realized there was no bump, Puck's arm around her shoulders as he sighed in boredom. Brittany and Santana were giggling madly in the back, so who knows what they were doing, Matt and Mike were writing playing on hand held game systems, Mike killing Matt spectacularly. Jesse and Rachel were the only ones really watching Sue and Will, looking between them like a tennis match, Finn was throwing a balled up piece of paper in the air and catching it and Kurt and Mercedes were texting, despite being a foot away from each other.

This gets old quick.

I no. Mr. S and Ms. Sylvester fight like old married peeps.

We should've skipped, there's a shoe sale at the mall right now, 75% off until 5:30.

Boy, theres a sale n u didnt tell me? We could b shoppin instead of listenin 2 this crazy?

Kurt gave Mercedes a look and she rolled her eyes before shutting her phone and stuffing it in her pocket, crossing her arms over her chest petulantly. Kurt gave a sigh before recrossing his legs and leaning back, staring blandly at the arguing teachers.

Apparently Rachel could stand for it no longer, as she had leaped from her seat, knocking Jesse's arm from her shoulders. She looked at Sue and Will who had stopped arguing and were staring at her with repulsion and confusion respectively.

"Goblin King, Goblin King! Take Ms. Sylvester far away from me!" She looked around at everyone staring at her and rephrased. "Us!" They all stared at her as if she were crazy for a moment before Sue and Will started arguing again. Rachel sat with a huff and Jesse patted her shoulder lightly as she crossed her arms over her chest and frowned.

Mr. Schue had gotten sick of the hair jokes and turned it back around, insulting her hair. Sue stood there fuming before she turned on her heel and raged out the door and down the hall. Kurt leaned over to Mercedes and jokingly whispered.

"I wish the goblins would come and take her away, right now." Immediately after, Sue could no longer be heard. Normally they could hear her for a long way off, even if she went into another room and shut the door. Will looked slightly concerned and stepped out into the hall, walking down the hall and looking in windows. A crash of lightning and the rumble of thunder made everyone jump and look out the window.

"Wasn't it, like, sunny just now?" Brittany voiced the same question everyone else was wondering and suddenly there was a flailing owl outside one of the windows. Brittany cooed and jumped up, ignoring Santana's angry shout to not let the thing in and opened the window wide. Brittany cried out in shock as it flew past her and over everyone's heads, making them shriek and duck, covering their heads with their hands.

When Kurt heard no more flapping of wings, he gingerly opened his eyes, still covering his head with his hands and they widened at the black boots he saw. Slowly he looked up, bringing his hands down from his head as his eyes went from black boots to black pants, a black long sleeved shirt and a blue and black high collared cape. Blond hair reached past the person's shoulders as it layered around his face. He had the most peculiar eyes, one was blue and the other one was dilated and darker, with eyeshadow below oddly shaped eyebrows. The man (if it was a man, considering it was just in owl form a moment ago) smirked at Kurt and the countertenor remembered himself, resting his clasped hand on one knee, looking up expectantly.

"This is new, normally it's babies or small children wished away, not a fully grown woman." Kurt's eyes widened at the English accent and Rachel jumped in, holding her hand out.

"Hello, Jareth! I'm Rachel Berry. I welcome you to the Aboveground!" She had a big grin on her face and Jareth eyed her before looking back at Kurt.

"Is she always like this?"

"Unfortunately, yes." Jareth raised an eyebrow at her before going back to business, turning to Kurt. Her face fell until it was a scowl and she glared at Kurt a moment before stomping out of the room in a snit, Jesse chasing after her. Kurt grimaced, "Sorry, she's a diva. What were you saying?" It would be a lie for Kurt to say he did not appreciate the vision before him. Jareth was completely gorgeous, anyone with eyes could see that, and he was only talking to Kurt! If Kurt was struck dead in the next moment he would die happy. Well maybe if Finn kissed him he would die happy, but he would die pleased, that's for sure.

"You will have to run my labyrinth to get your teacher back." There were several groans, all which were the same of 'I don't wanna run a labyrinth to get Ms. Sylvester back'.

"Where is she?"

"In my castle, beyond the Goblin City." Jareth pointed a gloved hand out the door and instead of seeing Mr. Towers' English Lit class, it showed a huge labyrinth with a castle towering in the center. Sue's voice drifted back, still raging over what Will said.

"You have thirteen hours in which to complete my labyrinth, or your teacher will stay here forever."

"Oh hell no. There's no way my main man is going anywhere without me, got it?" Mercedes stood, giving Jareth the Diva Hand, the other on her hip. Artie and Tina immediately agreed and Brittany wound her arm through Kurt's, smiling at her friend, going too. Santana groaned and stood by Brittany, weight on one leg with her arms crossed over her chest, not willing to let Brittany go somewhere she could end up in trouble and not be able to get out of. Quinn jumped up, willing to go. She and Kurt had become close after the baby was born, and she didn't want her friend to go on an adventure of this proportion without her. Mike and Matt shrugged and joined the growing group of people going, sticking hands in their pockets. Finn looked between Jareth and Kurt, not liking the look he was giving the shorter teen. Finn stood and walked over behind Kurt, staring down Jareth. He was a bit intimidating, but as with almost everyone else Finn was taller. The blond raised an eyebrow but said nothing, turning his attention back to Kurt.

At that moment Jesse reappeared with Rachel, both arguing avidly as he practically dragged her into the room. Rachel still looked angry at being ignored, but Jesse gave an apologetic smile to the rest of the club before joining the group of people, though Rachel tried to protest. Puck groaned before standing next to Quinn, smirking when Quinn shot him a happy smile.

"All of you will join Kurt through my labyrinth?" With the various agreements, he stood to the side, gesturing for the thirteen students to go through the door first. As they all filed out, Jareth shut the door behind him and the school disappeared. "Thirteen hours to solve the labyrinth or your teacher becomes a goblin, forever. Such a pity." The thirteen teenagers stared at the place Jareth disappeared from, blinking in surprise.

"Is anyone feeling Ms. Sylvester might be better as a goblin?"Artie piped up and there were murmurs of agreement, but they moved on nonetheless, searching for the entrance. Ten minutes later and no entrance to speak of, the gleeks were already getting frustrated.

"How are we supposed to even start? There's no door!" Mercedes put one hand on her hip, glaring at the bricks.

"Look, there's a person, let's ask." Kurt pointed toward a quite short man with white hair facing away. He strode forward quickly and then gasped when a pretty little fairy flew by and then was sprayed by the short man. It gave out a cry as it fell, crumpling into a tiny heap. Kurt pushed past the man and scooped up the fairy before turning and realizing the short man wasn't a man at all, he was a dwarf.

"How vile, trying to kill a fai-ow!" Mercedes and Quinn rushed over, examining his hand as he stared down at the fairy he had dropped in shock, it grinned evilly, revealing a set of long needle-like teeth before flitting away. "It bit me!" A small bruise formed on his finger and he shook it slightly to ease the sting.

"What do you expect fairies to do?" The dwarf turned and sprayed another fairy, laughing at it's pitiful squeal before kicking dirt over it.

"I thought they did nice things." Brittany spoke, looking at the hurt fairy on the ground, pinky entwined with Santana's.

"Yeah like grant wishes and stuff." Finn offered, remembering from various Disney movies from when he was little. When Puck turned to look at him he shrugged, and it seemed to placate the other teen.

"Yeah well shows what you know, don't it? Fifty eight!"

"You're horrible."

"No I ain't, I'm Hoggle. Who are you?"

"Kurt." Hoggle eyed the other twelve teens before motioning to them.

"And who are they?" Kurt turned slightly, as if he didn't know it was the glee club.

"Mercedes, Tina, Artie, Quinn, Puck, Santana, Brittany, Finn, Mike, Matt, Jesse and Rachel." Kurt pointed to each person before turning back to face Hoggle again. "Do you know where the door to the Labyrinth is?"

"Maybe."

"Well where is it, we ain't got all day." Mercedes stepped forward and Hoggle moved forward, spraying more fairies.

"Where is what?"

"The door!"

"What door?"

"Ugh! You are the most maddeningly unhelpful person I've ever talked to, and I've talked to Rachel Berry." Kurt ignored Rachel's insulted shout, crossing his arms over his chest and leaning on one leg. "It's hopeless asking you anything."

"Not if you ask the right questions." Kurt felt like throwing the dwarf into the pond they passed, following him as he sprayed fairies.

"How do we get into the labyrinth?" Kurt was already at the end of his short fuse, and they hadn't even started the labyrinth yet.

"Now that's more like it! You get in there." Hoggle pointed a knobby finger between Brittany and Finn where a door opened the gleeks were pretty positive was not a door previously. Kurt walked between them, biting his lip as he passed Finn. He wasn't being very subtle about his crush on the quarterback, but Finn really wasn't the brightest bulb in the box. He had practically told Finn when Mr. Schue had them do ballads, but Finn only had an adorably cute confused look on his face before Mercedes interrupted to sing to Quinn and Finn. The others followed in, looking left and right.

"Now, which way will you go, left or right?"

"They both look exactly the same." Hoggle snorted, shaking his head.

"Well you aren't gonna get very far."

"Well which way would you go?" Kurt looked down at Hoggle, ready to just get started already.

"I wouldn't do either."

"If that's all the help you'll be, you can just go." Quinn made a shooing motion with her hand and Hoggle growled.

"You know your problem? You all take too much for granted!"

"Yeah well thanks for nothing, Huddle." Mercedes turned on her heel and looped her arm through Kurt's as they all started walking away.

"Grrrr it's HOGGLE! And don't say I didn't warn you!" The dwarf turned around and staked back through the doors, slamming them after him.

"Well, which way should we go? They both look the same, what is the difference?" Quinn looked down the right and then turned to look down the left, raising her hands in a shrug when she could see no turns.

"Maybe we should split up and stuff?" Finn suggested and Mercedes shot that idea down right quick.

"Uh uh! No way are we splittin' up! Haven't you ever been to the movies? When they split up is when they all start dying."

"Mercedes don't be ridiculous." Kurt put a hand on Mercedes' arm before addressing his fellow glee clubbers. "But she is right. Even if we do split up, how will we get back in touch with each other? We should just stick together." Everyone nodded and decided to just go right. There were things laying on the path, heavy tree roots, branches, leaves and broken cobblestones. Tina was having the worst time trying to push Artie's chair. The two were lagging slightly behind the others but Mike or Matt would look back to make sure they weren't too far behind, occasionally helping Tina.

After about thirty minutes of walking forward with no turns in sight, Santana gave a gusty sigh leaning against the brick wall. Brittany leaned next to her with a smile and Quinn turned to her ex fellow Cheerios with a raised eyebrow.

"How is this a labyrinth, there aren't turns or corners at all. It just goes on and on." Brittany patted Santana's shoulder and Rachel stepped forward, a bright look on her face.

"Maybe it doesn't! He said our weakness was taking things for granted, right? Maybe we are taking it for granted that it goes forever!" With that, she broke out into a run, the other twelve looking at each other before Jesse ran off after her. Quinn shrugged and started jogging, pulling Kurt with her despite his protests. They all started off after Rachel for about five minutes, until Kurt got a stitch in his side and had to stop. Santana hit a wall, giving a shriek of irritation. Brittany rubbed Santana's now sore hand between her two paler ones, talking quietly to the darker girl. Finn went to lean against the wall, not winded since he was used to running for football, but when he expected brick wall he met nothing. He flailed his arms around as he fell, exposing the fact that there was an entrance hidden in plain sight. Everyone's eyes widened as the quarterback scrambled to his feet.

"I know you don't hear this much, Finn, but you are a genius." Kurt gave Finn a fleeting hug before tentatively holding his hands palms forward to not run into the wall. He turned right with a grin, motioning for the others to follow. As they continued the path they were immediately met with a turn. They all smiled to each other, finally getting started on the maze. No one noticed the mischievous sets of blue and green eyes staring down at them from the edge of the wall five feet up.

A/N: Sweet, first chapter up and running! Tell me what you think! Next chapter will be up as soon as I can write it, though I have this and another story to write at the same time but it will certainly be sometime in May. Until next time!