AN: I realized that in the last chapter I forgot to put up a disclaimer for the Phantom of the Opera. So I'm sorry if that upset some of you and I'm posting it now. I don't own the Phantom of the Opera. I'd be one of the happiest people in the world if I did. Also, once again so we're all clear on this, I still don't own the Labyrinth (drat) for if I did things would have ended differently. Of course if it did it wouldn't be so much fun to write fanfics about :P. I also changed my writing style a little. Nothing horribly dramatic but please forgive me and don't let it throws you off. Because I know it throws me off when I haven't written in a while. If it does please let me know. So I thank darklady26 and Prncssanime for reviewing and hope that the rest of you will also. I'm glad you like the story so far. Alright everyone here's chapter 2 for ya.

DarkLady26: I appreciate the review. I hope you enjoy this chapter too.

Prncssanime: I didn't mention how old she is. She's 19. I left it out because I was still in the process of deciding exactly how old I wanted her to be. Oh and incase you were wondering Kai is 26 and as I mentioned in the first chapter her little brother (who I decided to name Kenyon.) is 8.

She looked down upon the small insect startled.

"Did…did you just say hello?" She could have smacked herself for that one knowing full well what the response was going to be.

"No I said allo but that's close enough." Yeah she really should have been expecting that. She rubbed her face in her hands when she felt the beginning of a migraine. It was odd that she would be getting a migraine for this was just another of her dreams after all. She knew well where she was. It was the Labyrinth. The great twisting maze of her dreams, the home that she had never known. The fact that it was of her dreams could only stand to reason that this, itself, was a dream. Why else would she now be dressed in a white tank top and jeans instead of the frog pajama pants and white tee she had worn to bed.

"Are ya alright missy?" Only barely registering that the worm was still there she nodded.

"Yes I'm fine. Just thinking a few things over. Like how I'm going to get to the castle." She smiled at the worm knowing what to ask. "You wouldn't happen to know the way through this Labyrinth would you?"

"Me? No, I'm just a worm." She tried her best to look upset.

"Oh. I have to solve this Labyrinth, but there aren't any turns or openings or anything, it just goes on and on."

"It's full of openings, it's just you ain't seen'em."

"Where are they?" He was following the story and she new all the lines by heart. This wasn't going to be bad. All she had to do was follow her mother's lead. Of course Hoggle hadn't shown up. Then again she hadn't started at the beginning either. What if Hoggle wouldn't help her though? What if he couldn't help her? Then again it was only a dream. She laughed slightly.

"There's one right in front of you."

"No there isn't."

"Come inside and have a nice cup of tea."

"But there isn't an opening."

"Of course there is. Try walking through it, you'll see what I mean."

"What?"

"Go on then."

"That's just a wall. There's no way through."

"Things aren't always what they seem in this place, so you can't take anything for granted." She walked into the opening that she had known was there even though she had said that she didn't. She walked carefully though because even though she knew it was there she couldn't see it until she was in it. She started walking to the left.

"Hey! Hang on!"

"Thank you that was incredibly helpful."

"Don't go that way."

"What was that?"

"I said don't go that way. Never go that way." She was becoming frustrated. She would have to wake up for school soon. Her alarm should wake her at any minute. Deciding that the worm was just trying to be helpful and that she shouldn't take her frustrations out on the poor creature she decided to do something different.

"And why shouldn't I go that way?" The worm gave her an inquisitive look before he spoke up.

"If you keep on going down that way you'll go straight to that castle." She sighed.

"I'm sorry if this sounds rude but, that's where I wish to go. So if you say that this path will lead me there then this is the road I shall take." The worm looked rather startled but quickly recovered.

"Then go m'lady but remember, things aren't always what they seem in this place, so you can't take anything for granted." She nodded to the worm.

"Thank you. I will remember that and I thank you for your generosity and help." She then began her trek. After a few steps she came to a dead end and turned around only to run into another dead end. "Oh that's just not right."

"What's not right?" She turned around to see the guards in front of the doors.

"Not you guys. I took the other way. I should be heading to the castle." Krystal stopped to think about that for a moment. It had taken her mother longer to get here. That meant that she had gotten farther in the allotted time. Of course this was just a dream, and she wasn't running the Labyrinth to get back a wished child. She sighed then approached the guards, luckily they hadn't heard her comment. "This was a dead end a minute ago."

"No that's the dead end behind you." She sighed again. If she didn't wake up soon she would surely miss her first class. She was almost certain that she should have woken up by now.

Back at Krystal's house

Sarah had started to get worried. Her daughter's alarm had been going off for about 20 minutes now and she had yet to hear any noise from the room at all. She got up from the kitchen table, setting her coffee down, and headed for her daughter's room. When she had woken she had been struck by a horrible feeling of foreboding which only got stronger as she approached her daughter's room. Suddenly the alarm clock stopped making Sarah freeze. She took a breath. The only logical explanation would be that her daughter had shut it off after oversleeping slightly. The foreboding feeling still hadn't left Sarah but she decided to try and brush it off as she went to go check on her son. After making sure he was alright she began to head back down the stairs when her daughter's alarm started going off again. The sound filled her with dread as she carefully began to make her way up the stairs again and back to her daughter's room. Once again as she reached the door the alarm stopped going off. Letting out the breath that she didn't realize she was holding, Sarah gradually began to make her way back down the stairs again.

Inside the Castle

At the palace utter chaos ensued. The orc king was visiting with his heir, Soubias, and it had thrown the goblins into disarray. Jareth was royally pissed (no pun intended) that Lord Toubard had some completely unannounced and uninvited. It was a common known fact that goblins were terrified of orcs, ogres, and trolls. Visiting nobility from those kingdoms had been advised to send a warning of some kind ahead so that the castle could be evacuated of all goblins. This was the result of an occasion where no such warning had been issued. When Kai finally made his way to the throne room, upon his father's request, this is what met him. Jareth was draped across his throne as usual, the goblins were scrambling to race from the room nearly knocking Kai over in the process. Upon sensing Kai's arrival Jareth stood from his throne.

"What kept you?"

"The hordes of goblins fighting each other to flee your castle." They stood in silence for a moment as if gauging the situation.

"I assume that you have heard of the Orc King's arrival?"

"With all due respect Your Highness, who in your kingdom hasn't?" The last goblin had finally managed his way out of the room. Silence encompassed the room. Kai moved to stand closer to his father.

"Is he here for the same reason that the others were?" The Goblin King nodded slightly. "We finally get a moment of peace and then something happens and once again it's chaos in the goblin city." Jareth stood from his throne.

"Lord Toubard and Prince Soubias will be joining us for dinner I expect you to be on time and dressed appropriately. You're dismissed." Kai bowed and excited the room. He strolled down the hall towards the scrying room. Something else was upsetting the Labyrinth and he was going to find out what without alerting his father. He had a feeling he knew what was out there, but magic would help to confirm his suspicions. As he entered the room he noticed that there were a few servants still hanging around. Two of them were elves the others were dwarves. Most of which were cleaning the room because of the company. Not like the castle would get clean no matter how hard or often they scrubbed the floors and dusted the random objects.

"You're dismissed." The servants glanced up, bowed, and quickly made themselves scarce.

With Krystal

"Answer yes or no. Would he tell me that this door leads to the castle?"

"Uh…," The guards conversed with one another for a moment as Krystal waited impatiently. After all, the effect is ruined on someone who already knows what you're going to say.

"Yes?" See?

"Then the other door leads to the castle and this door leads to certain death."

"How do you know? He could be telling the truth."

"But then you wouldn't be. So if you told me he said yes, the answer is no."

"But, I could be telling the truth."

"Then he would be lying. So if you told me that he said yes, then the answer would still be no."

"Is that right?"

"I don't know. I've never understood it." Krystal steps up and pushes on the blue door.

"And thank goodness I finally do." Just because she had all the lines memorized didn't mean that she had actually understood it. As she stepped through the door the ground collapsed from under her feet just as she knew it would. She waited for the helping hands to stop her.

"Which way do you want to go?" At least she had avoided useless conversation.

"I want to go back up." Maybe not the best choice. After all she didn't know what was up there, but either way she figured it was better then the oubliette. The hands pulled her back to the surface. Once there she recollected her thoughts and stated down the hall again. It wasn't very long until she emerged into a meadow. Shading her eyes from the sun she glanced around trying to get her bearings. Never before had the story mentioned a meadow of any kind. Krystal knew that if she were to call for help it would draw the attention of the Goblin King. The brush rustled off to her right. She whirled around, frightened by the sudden intrusion. Standing not 3 feet from her was a unicorn. As she gazed at it in amazement she realized there were more. If she thought they wouldn't be frightened off she would have further inspected the clearing. In truth there were unicorns surrounding her. She remained completely still hoping not to startle the magnificent creatures. After several minutes the one that had caught her attention began to cautiously approach her again. When it got about a foot from her it stopped. She watched its nostrils flare as it tested her scent to verify if she was a friend or foe. After a moment Krystal slowly and carefully stretched out her hand towards the unicorn. It seemed startled by her action. She paused briefly before it relaxed once more. Her hand continued its path to the creature's snout only slower. All the while she continued to whisper comforting things to it such as: "It's okay." And "I'm not going to hurt you." The unicorn's head rose so it could look her in the eye.

"I promise I won't hurt you."

'We know that child.' Krystal screamed, lost her balance from the force she used to pull back her hand, and hit the ground so hard it knocked the air out of her. She could hear the unicorns laughing in her head and her face grew hot from embarrassment.

'I take it she's never met a unicorn before.'

'It would seem not.' Krystal's eyes grew wide as the other unicorn's advanced towards her.

"I'm not from around here."

'You smell of magic.'

"That maybe true but I'm from Aboveground."

'That would make you mortal. You are not mortal.'

"This is also true."

'So you admit you lied to us.'

"No I have not deceived you." The unicorns paused at this. Krystal knew they couldn't understand unless she explained. "I was born Aboveground but my parents are both Fae."

'That's impossible!'

'No immortal in their right mind would live up there.'

"Not even if they were mortal to begin with?" The creatures seemed to consider the question. Of course not many, even inside the goblin kingdom, had known of King Jareth and Lady Sarah's union. It seemed only polite to keep that secret. Only those that King Jareth knew well or deeply trusted had known of the marriage. If the horse-like creatures didn't know then they apparently did not need to know, and she wouldn't be the one to tell them. The unicorns talked amongst themselves while Krystal waited patiently. Once finished the original unicorn she had seen spoke.

'My name is Marik. Please let us know if there's anything we can do for you.'

"Well, I'm trying to get to the castle."

'Wish a away?'

"If only it were that simple, no, it's more of 'I don't know why I'm here'."

'You think his Majesty can help?'

"You see this isn't the first time something like this has happened so hopefully he can give me some answers." The circle conversed amongst themselves softly. They finally came to a decision to help Krystal, not necessarily to the castle, but in any other way that they could.

'How long has this been happening?'

"Ever since I was about 4. I've always had dreams of this place. I've met most of the inhabitants. I'm surprised I've never run into any of you. Anyway it happens almost every night."

'Have you ever questioned it before?'

"Even though it's always felt natural to be here I have questioned it. It's never lasted this long before though. I figure I'm still dreaming. I should wake up shortly." The unicorns glanced at one another. Krystal got the impression that they were about to tell her something she wasn't going to like so no one wanted to say anything. An elderly looking one came forward.

'Young one we need to inform you that, regrettably, you're not asleep.'

"Of course I am. I've never actually been here and I didn't wish anyone away…it's impossible."

'Nothing is impossible.'

'We believe that your magic brought you here.'

"But why?"

'Probably for the same reason you had those dreams when you were a kid.'

"The dreams didn't really have any meaning to them…did they?" One of the others spoke up.

'All dreams hold a meaning of some kind. A wish, a hidden desire, or even a foreboding event.'

'The point is yes. What did you dream of when you were younger?'

"I dreamt of the Labyrinth, as a whole, walking through it, meeting many creatures. I still keep in touch with some of them but they never seem to recognize me. It's probably because each time I see them I'm a different age so my appearance is different."

'Do you remember any of those of us you've met specifically?'

"Well…I recently met a man with a bird for a hat, there was Hoggle…I've also seen Sir Didymus and Ludo several times." More whispering. She was really starting to get upset about this. "Okay so anybody care to let me in on what's going on?" Once again it was the older one who spoke.

'Do you, per chance, know Lady Sarah?'

"I…do you mean know her personally or know of her from the stories of the Labyrinth and the rescue of her brother?"

'You know her PERSONALLY?'

"I didn't say that I was just wondering if you would clarify for me." Of course by now she knew they had picked up on her slip up. Unicorns were very intelligent creatures. They could sense if you were lying. At that moment Krystal knew that they could sense her unease. All she wanted to do was disappear and get away from their prodding eyes.

At Krystal's House

She landed on her bed with a small thump. The first thing she noticed upon impact was that her alarm was blaring in her ear. The next was that she was dressed and she didn't remember falling asleep in her clothes. The third and final thing was the incessant pounding on her door. Groaning she slipped from the bed to answer the door. When she opened it her mother's relieved face came into view. It quickly turned into a glare that had Krystal wishing she had staid in bed.

"Your alarm's been going off for over two hours now. Do you realize how late you are? What have you been doing in there this whole time?" Absently Krystal wondered what her mother would say if she answered that she hadn't been in her room at all but in the Labyrinth having a lovely chat with unicorns. Deciding that, that little subject would not go over well with her mom she quickly stuttered a lie.

"I got dressed this morning and felt dizzy. I've been sitting on my bed trying to regain my balance. I haven't been feeling real well. I'm sorry I didn't turn off my alarm…and that I worried you." To avoid the look she knew her mother must be giving her Krystal turned back into her bedroom to shut off the alarm.

"If you weren't feeling good you should have come downstairs and told me."

"Dizzy feeling, didn't want to fall down the stairs. That's why I haven't left my room. Little movements are okay but other then that…" The sentence was left to hang for effect. Sarah wasn't the only actress in the family and had yet to learn to see through her daughter's lies.

"Alright. Why don't you get back into your pajamas. I'll call the school and see if I can run by to pick up the things you missed." Krystal, happy for the distraction, let her mom do as she pleased. When Sarah left the room another figure entered.

"We were worried."

"I'm sorry."

"You're not really sick." The statement threw her for a loop.

"What?"

"You aren't really sick. You went to the Labyrinth." Taken aback by his words she could do little other then stare. Of course his next sentence brought her back. "Why didn't you take me with you?" Kenyon was about in tears. Krystal beckoned him over to the bed to join her. He did.

"It was not my choice to go…well at least not without you anyway."

"Uncle Toby will be here shortly. We can discuss this more then." With that the young boy exited the room as quickly and quietly as he had arrived. Sarah returned a moment after with a tray full of delicious smelling food. (AN: Yes I'm hungry as I'm writing this.) Krystal's stomach growled at the smell of bacon and eggs.

"I brought you some tea. It might help with the dizziness. I thought I told you to get into your pajamas." Pouting Krystal stood from the bed knowing the sooner she dressed the sooner she would get to eat. She frantically searched her room for the pajamas she had been wearing before her little trip to the Labyrinth. Realizing they weren't there she turned to her mother.

"I totally forgot that I put them away." Searching her drawer quickly she retrieved a white tank top and a pair of her old volleyball practice shorts. Quickly changing she walked back over to the bed and sat down. Her mother handed her tray to her exiting the room.

"If you need anything just yell. Your uncle will be here in a while. I'll send him up when he gets here." When her mother left Krystal felt bad for lying to her but she sure wasn't going to tell her the truth. She could just see how that conversation would go.

"Mom I'm not actually sick. I've been to the Labyrinth. I met up with a whole bunch of creatures. I've been going ever since I was little. Remember those pictures I used to draw? Yeah those were from my dreams of the Labyrinth. They are no longer dreams though. I'm actually visiting the Labyrinth and I ran into a pack of unicorns last night. They are trying to help me figure out what's going on. Oh and I've been in the palace. Kai and I are great friends. We met when I was seven. By the way I can do magic. Yeah that would really be a wonderful conversation." Krystal sighed and began to eat her breakfast. It was rather good to fill her empty stomach. She was sipping her tea when she heard a knock on the door downstairs. After a minute she heard someone running past her door followed by the scream of 'Uncle Toby'. She waited until she heard the footsteps heading up the stairs before removing the tray from her bed. Her uncle entered her room a moment later.

"I heard you were sick. Even though your brother says your not."

"I'd trust the little twerp on this one."

"Care to tell me what really happened then?"

"Sure. I was in the Labyrinth. I didn't just dream about it this time. I was actually there." Krystal watched as her uncle digested this new information. Suddenly her brother burst into the room.

"Kai's downstairs. Mom told me to come up here so he wouldn't see me. What's going on?"

"The unicorns are probably talking about the strange nobility that had been visiting the Underground from the Aboveground even though she has magic. I wonder if Kai will tell mom the truth." All three of the occupants grew quiet.

"Can't you use your magic to hear them?" Krystal nodded her head but looked slightly uncertain.

"I can but Kai will be able to tell. I'm not sure about mom so I'm not sure if we should risk it." Both males continued to pester her until she finally created a crystal that showed them the two figures down in the kitchen.

"Kai you know you're not supposed to come to the house unannounced like this."

"I'm sorry mother but the Underground is in need of your guidance once again. You see we've had quite a bit of visiting nobility recently and the palace hasn't been the same without you. It really needs a woman's touch."

"Why are the royals visiting now? Is you father holding balls again to try and find you a wife." Through the crystal they could see Kai's blush.

"No actually there are male suitors coming to court the goblin princess. Most recently the orc king and prince." Sarah paled at the mention of the orc king. She had, had a very horrifying experience with him when she had first gone back to the Underground. "When are you going to tell her mother?"

"She won't know. Neither will Kenyon. I want them to live normal lives. I want them to be normal."

"But they're not normal. You're trying to force them to be something that they aren't. With father not knowing that he has a daughter he runs the risk of starting a war between himself and the rest of the Underground. He can't keep the suitors away forever and you can't keep the truth from your kids forever."

"Kai Krystal already has dreams of the Labyrinth. She draws beautiful pictures of a place I'd rather forget. Kenyon tend to talk to himself late at night, then again I'm not sure that it really is himself that he's talking to. I want them to stay normal Kai. I don't want them to have obligations forced onto them. It wouldn't be right."

"Not telling them of their heritage and letting them decide what they want to do for themselves isn't right. Not telling father that he has more children isn't right." Kai sighed. "There is another reason I came to you though. It seems that the unicorns believe that they have met a creature of the Underground that resides Aboveground." Krystal winced. She knew where this conversation was going.

"How is that possible? Who is it?"

"I'm not sure yet so I'm trying to keep the unicorns quiet before word reaches the ears of the Goblin King and the lords of the neighboring lands. How are my siblings doing?"

"Krystals not feeling so well. She claims to be dizzy. Kenyon is healthy and as much of a handful as ever. I wonder about him sometimes though. He seems to be smarter then he lets on."

"That's common of children born in the Underground. The whole 'wise beyond their years' thing. I'm afraid I must bid you adieu mother. My assistance is needed back at the castle. I will report back when I have obtained more information."

"It was good to see you again Kai. Please come to your sister's play. She might not know you but I'd still appreciate it since she is you sister." Kai nodded then hugged his mother before disappearing. The trio watched as Sarah went over, opened the door, acted like she was saying goodbye, then closed it. Krystal dismissed the crystal with a wave of her hand and looked from her brother to uncle.

"Now what?"

"Well I'm going to take your brother downstairs. I suggest you get some rest." Krystal nodded her head watching her brother and uncle leave the room before lying down and making herself comfortable. In no time at all she was back asleep.

AN: Okay I'm really sorry for the delay but I've had a really bad case of writer's block and we've been vacationing. Though I don't have a job right now I'm finding precious little time to write my stories. But fear not good readers and faithful reviewers the next chapter will be sooner and possibly longer since I will be introducing a new character and going into some background of some of the characters already seen. Thanx for your patience.