"Sir Hoggle, were you successful?" Asked Sir Didymus.
"I think I got through!" Shouted the dwarf, jumping excitedly making his bag of jewels jingle.
"Yay! Sawah help us?" Asked the large, shaggy haired Ludo.
"Yes, my friend. She will save us. We just have to wait for her to find it." Said Hoggle and he walked over to the window.
Outside the city was gloomy and the sky was black. Hoggle sighed as he thought to himself, what was happening to his home? It used to be a golden sight to see, with a grand Labyrinth as its center piece. The pride of his world but a few years after Sarah left it started to decay. At first everyone asked King Jareth what was happening but he refused to see anyone and locked himself away in the castle. He had changed since his defeat by the young mortal girl, he became more withdrawn from the public eye. He even stopped singing and dancing, which he loved to do, he stopped his favorite pass time, sending unruly goblins to the Bog of Eternal Stench and now he has disappeared altogether from this world.
With the King gone the Labyrinth lost its power and now the ground shakes, the sky has gone dark, and a new presence has set in. This new entity was far more menacing, slowly the goblins turned more vicious than they had ever been. The Underground was falling apart and it was now up to Hoggle and his friends to find a way to save his home. Sarah was the first thing he thought of, she would know what to do, and only she could get them the Goblin King. It took a lot to find the necessary items and magical elements to even get this close to the world above ground. King Jareth was the only one capable of contacting the other world with the talisman that he always wore as the gateway between this world and the next. When Jareth disappeared the only thing anyone was able to find was his necklace. Hoggle quickly fell into action and used fairy magics to send it to Sarah. Hopefully it's in her room now.
Sarah pulled into the drive way and cut the engine. The door opened as she approached, her step mother stood in the arch way. "Sarah? What are you doing home? Is something wrong?" She asked.
Sarah put on a smile. "I missed being home. Besides I have no classes to the next few days. Everyone is getting ready for the play." Sarah lied, well half truth, she did have a few days off of classes but she is still needed to do a lot of work at the theater before opening night. She pushed the thought aside it is more important that she be here. She gave her mother a light hug as she passed and went into the dining room to see her dad and little Toby. He giggled with delight at his sisters appearance and jumped into her arms. "Big sister! Missed you so so much. Guess what, guess what!" He jumped up and down. She patted his head.
"What?" She asked with a wink. He led her to his room and shoved a million pictures and drawings in her face. He told her how his first day at school went and all the friends he's made since. She laughed at it all and sifted through all the drawings. Many of them were from school and lots of his drawings depicted many goblins, fairies, and gnomes.
Sarah sighed, she had told her stories to him many times over the years and he loved them but she had almost forgotten most if it. "Well at least someone will still know what happened." She put down the papers as he shoved a new one in front of her. This one had Toby playing in the park with a man pushing him on the swing. "Who is he?" She asked. "He's my new best friend Sarah. His name is David and he likes the stories I tell him about the goblins. He lives in a house by the park and sometimes he plays with me." Sarah didn't have a chance to ask anything more about him when Toby moved on to other things, like his new toys. She spent a little while playing with him and chatting with her parents but all she really wanted to do was get to her room and find out what was going on with the Underground. Still it would look suspicious if she didn't spend time with her family first. She hadn't seen them in a few weeks.
It was twilight by the time she excused herself to her room for the night. "It was a tiring trip and I'm really sleepy. Goodnight everyone."
She opened up her door and saw familiar surroundings. Her room remained mostly the same as always but no toys except those precious few remained. She saw Lancelot on the bed and hugged it tight. Then she headed to her desk and saw the small red book beside her bookend of a special dwarf but it was her jewelery box that caught her eye, it had a golden necklace draped over it. She picked it up and looked at it. It was familiar but she couldn't see the face of its wearer.
"Sarah?"
The sound broke her from her thoughts with a fright, it came from the mirror and she looked in. It was her friend. "Hoggle! What is going on?"
When she looked at him, her mind that once was fogged was now flooded with his memory.
"Hoggle, I think there is something wrong with me. I can't seem to remember anything about your world and what I do remember I can barely hold on to."
Hoggle huffed. "I feared as much, Sarah. Something is trying to erase the connections between our worlds. The Underground is falling apart, I figured that the more corrupt it got the more of its memories would be lost. Sarah you must hold on to those memories. We need you to help us or the Labyrinth is going to crumble and with it our world."
Sarah looked down at the desk and thought about the Labyrinth, I remember that I ran it. It was a challenge I had to do to get my baby brother back. Then she remembered a name. "Jareth..." She said under her breath. Hoggle looked at her. "Yes Sarah. The Goblin King of Underground."
Sarah shut her eyes and focused. "I remember I wished away Toby and Jareth took him to his castle. I had to run the Labyrinth to get him back. Oh Hoggle, it's hard to remember, I don't even remember what anyone looks like." Pleaded Sarah.
"Sarah my world is fading and it's because King Jareth has vanished. We need him here, his power is what sustains our world and without him we are doomed."
Sarah listened to every word. "But Hoggle what can I do? I don't know where he is."
"We believe he might be in your world. Before he vanished, we knew his powers were waning. If he lost his powers, we think that he would become human and banished from the Underground. Sarah we need you to find him for us and get him to come back."
Sarah looked at her friend with determination. "Okay, I'll try but I don't know what he looks like."
Hoggle clapped with joy, "It won't matter if you don't. The necklace, Sarah, the necklace was his and it would be drawn to him. Human or not it will start to glow brighter and brighter when it gets near him." Sarah touched it gently, "Hoggle how do I get him back if I do find him?"
"The necklace will work in his possession. You need to hurry Sarah, there isn't much time. There is a darkness here that is growing more powerful by the day. I'm afraid that soon it will consume us. We need his power to banish it away."
Sarah smiled at him, "I'll do my best to find him, I promise." Then Hoggle stopped her, "Sarah one last thing. He might not remember anything. Banishment means having to forget who you were in the land."
Sarah sighed and put her head on the desk. "That's just great. What do I do about that?"
Hoggle shrugged, "I don't know. You will have to find some way to get him to remember. Take care Sarah, I hope to see you soon." Then his image vanished in the mirrors reflection.
