Disclaimer: I don't own anything Labyrinth related. Even though I really like Jareth, I own nothing. Such a pity.
Well hello there everybody! I know that this chapter is ridiculously short, but I felt that it needed to end where it does...so I guess just deal with it ;) Onto shoutouts!
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Chapter 2: What's said is said...
Jumping up from where she was crouched, Sarah sprung towards the window. Toxic fumes were quickly filling the room, covering everything with a hazy smog that made it difficult to even see her own hands.
Knowing that if she inhaled anymore smoke, she would become unconscious, her hands fumbled with the window's latch. Fingers going numb from the sheer lack of oxygen, her eyesight grew dimmer until, at last, she heard a quiet click. Forcefully sliding open the paned glass, Sarah sucked in the brisk night air with a gasp.
Frantically, she stared out at the open field surrounding her secluded house. Anything had to be better than getting burnt alive. Judging the distance between her window and the quivering blades of grass, brazenly she flung one leg over the sill.
Preparing to jump to the hard ground below, she halted as a swirling black mist formed underneath the ledge. A black and menacing figure shaped itself out of the fog and began rising. Her insides clenched in fear as she saw the form tilt its' head to make eye contact.
Scrambling back over the edge and into her furnace of a room, Sarah slammed her window shut. Hopefully, she would just die of smoke inhalation, because right now, looking at that, the flames looked pretty inviting.
Large twisted claws scraped down the other side of the thin glass, and unwittingly she focused on the creature behind it. Lidless, obsidian orbs for eyes glared murderously through the pane, and in them, Sarah saw her horrified expression reflected from their inky depths.
Stifling a shriek as its' grotesque mouth wrenched into a mirthless smile, she retreated from the window as fast as her legs could carry her.
Spinning around to face her door, a solitary tear streaked down her soot-blackened cheek. Either she was be consumed by the blazing inferno beyond her room, or be snatched up by the creature lurking outside. Happy freaking Birthday Sarah.
Knowing that the wooden barrier couldn't hold up much longer under the constant barrage of flames, Sarah backed herself against her old bookcase and grabbed hold of some weathered spines as her last resort for defense.
Cracking from across the room told her that her door was breaking. Soon, it would all be over. Tears freely dripping from her eyelashes, she watched as slowly, her door collapsed and disintegrated.
Unnatural movement from outside caught Sarah's attention. It seemed that she wasn't the only one that had noticed her door's distress.
Deformed claws splayed across the length of the pane, the figure stared hungrily at Sarah. His demented features gleamed in horrifying jubilation. Lifting the corner of his mouth into a smirk, Sarah watched in abject horror as his form faded into the darkness. All that was now visible through the scratched glass were the soft twinkling stars framed against the moonless sky.
Whipping her head back towards the hallway, mere seconds passed before the same malicious form materialized at the heart of the conflagration. Impossibly wide and inhuman eyes bored into Sarah's, and right then and there she decided that whatever happened next, no sound of defeat would escape her lips.
Completely black, with ever shifting angles, the demon crept closer, all the while staring at her with those lidless, glistening, obsidian orbs.
Sparing a glance at the books she had blindly grasped, hope and a tiny amount of trepidation kindled in her emerald eyes.
For in her right hand, sat an old, red book with golden lettering scrawled across the front cover.
While she gazed at her favorite book, dead, ragged laughter dripping with malice echoed from where her door used to be, grating on her ears and growing louder as it filled every crevice of the smoggy room.
Bringing her head back up to face the nightmarish figure that stalked ever closer to her, she noted a peculiar flicker in its' eyes. Recognizing the strange look as one of victory, Sarah felt dread pierce her stomach for a moment before meeting that horrid look with one of her own.
Confident that her plan would work, triumph shone from her emerald eyes as she uttered twelve words that would irrevocably alter the rest of her life.
"I wish the goblins would come and take me away. Right now."
The unsettling laughter transformed into wild snarls as the creature heard her wish. It rushed from the blazing doorframe with inhuman speed, its' wicked claws outstretched. But too late.
In a flurry of glitter and goblins, Sarah disappeared, leaving the demented figure slashing through nothing but empty air.
As promised, here's the brownie mix! So I feel like my villain's pretty creepy..do you? And what do you guys think of me bringing in Jareth (sigh) for chapter 3? I would ask penny for your thoughts, but lucky for you, reviewing is incredibly cheap. In fact, it's FREE! So please please PLEASE review and let me know what you all thought! ;D