Disclaimer: I do not own the characters from the movie Labrynth. Except for Lyss and Megera.
I wrote this story for my friend BlackWingedAngel16 (I am not giving out her name). She will most likely be writing part two of this story.
This is a one shot story.
Labrynia-The Other Path
Part 1
"Do you have any clue where we are?"
"None what so ever." Megera told Lyss.
"I think we're going in circles. This wall looks familiar." Lyss said to no one in particular.
"Lyss, all the walls in this place look the same." Megera said, slightly annoyed.
"In the movie they don't."
"Well you have a point there, but this is the movie Labrynth. This is the real thing. This is Labrynia, and we gotta get to the center to warn the King of the impending attack of the warlocks!"
"I have the feeling that Jareth has enough magic to know of it already. I mean he can turn in to a frickin owl!" Lyss almost shouted.
"I didn't say he didn't know, but the coven told us we had to go..."
"...and they have the final say in all guests. Yeah, yeah Megera. I know that, but still, it sucks."
"Especially getting through the Labrynth." Megera sighed. She was echoed by Lyss and with out a word, both knew that the other felt the same. Soon the twosome reached a dead end. Turning to face each other, a wide grin broke out on Lyss' face, mirrored by Megera. With out a word, they both turned around, and then turned back to the direction they were just facing. Now, there was no longer a brick wall in front of them. That was behind them. Facing them, were two doors, and their guardians.
"The guardian on the right was blue, the other, red. Both had two heads, one underneath the other, and were dressed in corresponding armor.
"Which door Lyss?" Megera asked slyly.
Lyss smiled and asked, "We following the movie or not?"
"What do you think?" Lyss walked up to the door on the right and waited for the guardians to say their lines.
"One of these doors leads to the castle, the other, to certain doom. Ba-ba-ba-ba."
Lyss feigned shock and said, "Oh no, however will I choose?"
"We should let you know now though, one of us always lies and the other always tells the truth. He's the one who lies!" said the right guardian.
"I choose..." Lyss started.
"But wait! You can ask one question to get you on your way." said the same one again.
"I'll trust to chance. But thanks anyways." Lyss said. The guardians looked crestfallen, but held their peace. Lyss turned to Megera and the two talked about which door to choose.
"We know where the door on the right leads, but what about the one on the left?" asked Lyss.
"I don't know. We could say 'up' on the right instead of 'down' too." Megera responded thoughtfully.
"What if we take left? I mean, the bridge across the Bog of Eternal Stench is out, so we won't be able to cross it."
"Yeah and there's no way we climb that wall with out help. We're taking left?" Megera asked.
"Or are we saying 'up.'"
Megera looked at the doors and pointed alternately at each door while she said, "Einey, Meiny, Miney, Moe, which way do we go?" She ended up pointing to the right. Turning to Lyss, she said, "Guess we say up."
"Guess so." She went to the right door and said, "This one." The guardian moved to the side and the girls walked through.
Right after entering, they found themselves falling into a hole. However, before they could go very far, they found that multiple hands were holding onto them.
A few of the hands formed a face and talked to the girls. "Up or down?"
They both looked at each other and smiled. "Up." They both said. Again, the hands were passing them to each other, but this time, they were going back up from where they came from.
A few minutes later, they were back at the top and the pit gone, as was the door they had just come through. Now, there was a large sign there instead.
"Welcome to the Hallway of Doors. Only one door leads directly to the castle. The others can lead anywhere in Labrynia, including back to the entrance, or to the Bog of Eternal Stench. Be forewarned though. You can only open a maximum of three doors. Regardless of where it leads, the third door opened is where you will go."
Now what do we do?" Lyss asked Megera.
"I dunno you're the movie expert." she laughed. Lyss reread the sign again and again. Finally she spoke.
"Well, it doesn't say two people can each open three doors, or if it's three doors total. I'm assuming that it is three each, so we technically get four chances to find the castle."
"Why not five or six?" Megera asked confused.
"Because on our third guess, we get chucked in and we don't want to split up. So, which door would be to the castle?"
"I know Jareth wants people to have a hard time getting through, so try looking for the fanciest door first." Megera said.
"Why that one? Won't Jareth expecting that we go for that one? How 'bout the shabbiest door?"
"But knowing Jareth, he'll know that's what we'll think. So he'll it the fancy door."
"But what if he thinks that what we'll think, so it's actually the worst door?" Lyss asked innocently.
"Stop it! You're giving me a headache! Let's just open both and see where they lead." Megera said and Lyss agreed. Walking down the hall they saw doors made of straw, brick, rock, wood, glass, and everything in between; including tin foil. Eventually, they came to the end of the hallway and saw a blank door that was falling off its hinges and one that was made of gold. The gold one was adorned with an embellished owl, with ruby eyes and other precious stones scattered about it.
"Well I think we found the fanciest door." Lyss whispered. Looking at it, Megera replied, "What gave that away?" she turned to the blank door. "I'll open this one and you can open the other. Sound good?"
"Yeah." Lyss went over to the gold door and took hold of the door knob while Megera did the same with the blank door. "On three." she said. "One...two...three!" she pulled open the door and saw blackness. She turned to Megera. "What you got?"
"Give me a minute, my door is loading." she said.
"What?" Lyss asked confused.
"I'm serious. There's blackness, but it's lightening up. Take a look at yours." Not believing her, Lyss did so, to her surprise, Megera was right. The blackness was getting lighter. Soon, she saw where it leads. Her door opened in to the room of a thousand stairs in the castle. Recognizing it from the final scene in the movie. She turned to Megera and said, "Found door into the castle, you?"
"Me, too." Megera replied.
"Where does yours lead? Mine shows the room with all the stairs."
"How is that possible?"
"Wha...excuse me?"
"Mine leads there too."
"Huh?" Lyss said. "I would say, 'that's not fair,' but nothing here is fair. So, whose door do we take, mine or yours."
"Let's trust to the goddess. Do you have a pencil?"
"Um, yeah, I think I do." Lyss said. She rummaged around in her pocket of her hoody until she came across something thin and relatively smooth. Pulling it out, she found that it was a bright blue gel pen. Giving it to Megera, she asked, "This work?"
"Yeah, it'll be fine." Taking it, she put it on the ground and spun it around. While the pen was spinning, she said, "Which way do we go? This is what I'd like to know. Spinning pen, point the way and this is the way we will stay."
"Lyss arched an eyebrow. "Spell casting for a direction? Won't that count as personal gain?"
"Nah, ultimately we're helping Jareth, not us." looking down, Megera saw it was slowing. "Here we go. The moment of truth." The girls looked down at the pen. When it stopped spinning, they lifted their gaze to follow where they point was, well, pointing.
"We're looking at a wall." Megera said puzzled.
"Maybe not. Follow me." Lyss said walking in the direction indicated by the pen, she walked up to the wall. There was a moment of resistance, and then her hand went through. Keeping her eyes closed, she reached back with other hand and said, "Megera take my hand and close your eyes. I'll pull you through."
She felt Megera's hand close around her own and they walked through the wall, their eyes snapped open and there they stood, facing the Goblin King.
Clapping, he rose from his throne. "Very nice. You are the only people to ever enter that way. My congrats to you."
Megera turned to Lyss. "That's Jareth?"
She shook her head. "I don't think so. He doesn't look the same."
The Goblin King smiled. "You're right, I'm not Jareth. The name's Toby."
Lyss got real defensive then. "What did you do with Jareth? Where is he?"
Toby laughed mirthlessly. "He's been over thrown. I've taken over and thrown him in to the Bog of Eternal Stench."
Megera came forward and said boldly. "We must see him. You will take us too him."
"Umm, no." said Toby.
"This Toby we don't trust. While find Jareth we must. Take us to him now. So we no longer wear a frown." the girls said in unison. An instant later, they found themselves on the half broken rock bridge in the Bog of Eternal Stench.
Looking around they saw a white-haired figure sitting with his back against the stone wall. His head hung down between his knees and his fingers were laced together on top of his head.
Lyss pointed to the figure dressed in all black and said, "That's Jareth." 'Man, he's cute.' she thought.
"That's Jareth?" Megera disbelieving her.
"Yeah, let's go see if we can help." Lyss said. She carefully jumped from rock to rock and made her way over to the former King.
"Majesty?" Lyss said as she approached him. Jareth looked up and saw Megera and Lyss standing there. "What is it?"
"Majesty, I am Lyss and this is Megera. We're from the Coven of..."
"I know who you are." Jareth interrupted. "My question is why you came here." Megera stepped forward to explain.
"There is a large group of warlocks in our dimension threatening to enter this one. The coven sent us to warn you."
"Me or the Goblin King?" Jareth spat out like it was poison.
"They specifically said 'Jareth, the Goblin King.'" said Lyss quickly, kneeling beside him. 'Oh, major cute.' she thought. Jareth looked at her and she felt nervous as if he could read her mind. He looked away and sighed. He stood up quickly followed by Lyss.
Looking her straight in the eyes, he said, "So you did not tell..."
"Toby? No." Lyss finished.
Jareth sighed. "Well, I don't know what I can do about it. I'm not the king anymore, so I can't rally the goblins to help defend Labrynia. Only Toby can." He spat out the name.
"Curious question here?" Megera said. Jareth directed his attention and she continued. "How did Toby get to be Goblin King? Don't you have to be part goblin?"
"He is." Lyss said quietly. Megera stared at her.
"Lyss is right. I took Toby away from his sister. She got him back, but not before he was in Labrynia for thirteen hours. Any human becomes part goblin after thirteen hours, so this is my fault."
"Jareth, do you want to become Goblin King again?" Megera asked.
"I would love to be." he responded.
"Can you still travel between dimensions?" she continued.
"Yes, but I don't see how..."
"Open away to ours." Lyss said, seeing where Megera was going. "We'll get the Coven to restore you to the throne."
For the first time since they had seen, Jareth smiled. He went through the steps of opening a way, but when the time came, nothing happened. "Toby must have the power now too."
"What do you mean?" asked Lyss.
"Ever since he's banished me, he's been stealing my powers. Now I only have the ability to choose the right paths and to turn into an owl." He smiled grimly. "At least, those are skills, so he can't take them away."
Megera turned to Lyss. "Should we help him? We don't have the Coven's permission if we do."
Lyss turned to face Megera. "Screw the Coven. We've got to do this for everyone's sake." She said sharply. "Jareth, we'll help you. We don't have much power, but by the goddess, we'll do whatever we can."
"Thank you. We must hurry though. Soon, every Goblin will be completely under Toby's control and then he'll be able to change the Labrynth so that I don't even know the right path."
He started sprinting across the bog and the girls were hard pressed to keep with him.
Soon they were at the Gates to the Goblin City. Jareth led them into, in and through the city. A while later he stopped. "Here's the way in." He said.
"But it's a rock. Shouldn't we use the door?" Megera asked.
"This is my own entrance that only I know about." He put his hand on the rock. "Besides, what's the only thing you have to remember here?"
"Nothing is what it seems...Hey!" Megera said as the rock disappeared.
"They all entered into a tunnel that was lit by torches. Jareth grabbed one and held it in front of him. It was a good thing he did too, because a few yards later, the torches stopped. Jareth led them around many turns and paths until they came to a well lit, circular room. Extinguishing the torch, Jareth motioned for the girls to go to the large table in the center.
"It's a model of the Labrynth!" Lyss and Megera gasped.
"My own private one. I control what happens to each of the walls and what the goblins do from here. Or rather I did."
"And you shall again." Megera said. "But first, we need to get to the throne room."
Jareth pointed to a wooden door. "Take those stairs. They will lead you directly to the throne room."
"What are you going to do?" Megera asked.
"Remake the Labrynth." Jareth said smiling. Nodding, Lyss ran over to the door and opened it wide. She ran up the stairs, closely followed by Megera. Lyss was counting the steps for reference, but lost count at 584.
Soon after that though, they arrived at the throne room where Toby was waiting for them.
"So, did you find Jareth?" He sneered.
"Yes, they did?" came a voice from behind him. Toby turned around and saw Jareth standing there.
"You made a mistake coming back here old man. I got control of the goblins now, not you. They'll be here in an instant if I call them."
Go ahead." Jareth challenged.
"Toby called forth the Goblins of the Labrynth, but none came. "Where are they?" he shouted.
"Lost." hissed a voice from the darkness behind the throne chair.
"Who's there?" Toby asked in a shaky voice.
"Your worst nightmare." it said.
Megera turned to Lyss and said quietly, "Isn't that a little clichéd?"
"Shut up it's the best I could come up with!" Lyss turned her attention back to the creature and made it glide out into the open. The shadow came towards Toby and enveloped him in blackness.
"Give the throne back to the rightful King and his powers as well. Otherwise, this is all you will ever see. "It whispered in his ear.
"Alright! I'll do it!" he whimpered.
The shadow lifted and disappeared, leaving a trembling Toby in its wake. He walked over to Jareth and kneeled before him. "My lord." he said.
Megera and Lyss followed suit. "My lord." They murmured. Smiling, Jareth took the throne again.
"Rise, Megera and Lyss. You are my equals in power. You shall forever be welcomed here in Labrynia."
"Thank you Jareth. Now remember about the warlock attack." Lyss said.
Jareth clapped his hands. Then, he said, "It is done. The barriers are sealed from the warlocks."
"Great." Megera said. "Then we'll see you around then?"
"Of course you will." Jareth said. "Please, use the portal to go to your home dimension."
Lyss and Megera turned around and saw a hole leading to the meeting room at the Coven's building. Megera took a step through it and disappeared. Lyss followed her but before she stepped inside the portal, she took off the Trinity off around her neck and tossed it to Jareth. "If you ever need me, use this. "She said. She went to take a step, but stopped when she heard Jareth say her name inside her head.
"Lyss. I can read minds and there might be some affections between us." she turned to him and smiled. With out saying a word he winked. She turned and stepped through the portal and was gone.
"That was so cool!" Megera told Lyss when she came through the portal. "What was that shadow thing?"
"A glamour I made. Come on. Let's go tell the Coven about our success."
"Wait a minute though. How did you know so much about that world? And why did it take you so long to come back into our world?" Lyss turned to Megera.
"I don't know the answer to the first question and never mind about the second. I will tell you at the right time." Megera simply agreed and didn't push the topic any further.
The two friends walked out of the room, talking about their adventures in Labrynia, unaware that they were under the protective watch of the Goblin King.
So how do you like it? Part Two will be coming out soon followed by a part Three.
What's going to happen to Megera and Lyss? Will Lyss and the Goblin King get together? Will Megera finally find out why Lyss knew so much about Labrynia when she doesn't even remember being there? And who's watching Megera? Find out in part two Labrynia-Stolen Secrets