Into the Labyrinth

By: TheMadHatterandMarchHare

Summary: Step inside a world where imagination soars, goblins are a man's best friend, and where everything is not what it seems.

A/N: Hello again! I'm having so much fun writing this and thank you for the reviews! I hope you enjoy this chapter!!

Disclaimers: I do not and will not ever own Tin Man, Labyrinth, Wyatt Cain or Jareth. Darn…

Previously: "Oh no! Az and mother are going to kill me!" DG yelled as she ran out of the library toward her sister's chambers with the book in hand.

'Well Az will probably kill me gently after mother has finished me off brutally.'Was DG's last thought as she ran full speed to her destination making two guards fall on the floor as hurricane DG came by.

"SORRY! CAN'T STOP, GOTTA RUN!" yelled DG at the guards, who were groaning and holding their heads from being knocked to the floor by a very late princess.

Little did she know that a white owl had been watching her all day through a window….


Chapter 2: Make a Wish

"Where have you been sweetheart!" yelled Lavender Eyes in her stunning dress as DG came barging into Az's room taking deep breaths. DG had just made it to the room and her mother was the only waiting for her. Lavender Eyes had explained that everyone including the Royal Guards had been out looking for her for the past hour. DG cringed as she dropped the book she was carrying in Az's bed.

"I'm SO sorry! I've been in the library all day! I didn't realize what time it was until I saw the clock" said DG. Oh no. She noticed how her mother's face had narrowed when she told her she had been in the library. She was pretty sure that her mother knew she had ditched her lessons that day.

The Queen was about to open her mouth, when the door opened and in came the whole gang. Glitch, Az, Ahamo, and Tutor were dressed in elegant clothing while Cain was wearing his regular attire. Glitch was carrying little Toby who was sleeping in his father's arms.

"Little Sister!" shrieked Az as she ran up to DG and gave her a big hug. "Where were you? We thought you had been kidnapped or something! We thought that no one would be able to take care of Toby! I want an explanation right now!" She looked at the clock and realized that she had no time for an explanation, so she said "Well, no time for an explantion now, we have to go soon, we-" Lavender Eyes held up a hand which had silenced her eldest daughter.

"We have plenty of time, sweetie." Said Lavender Eyes when she gazed at Az softly but quickly hardened when her eyes landed on the youngest princess. DG gulped rather loudly. "Why weren't you with Tutor today?" she asked with an icy tone.

DG looked at Cain for support but he merely shrugged. She didn't want to bring up the subject on why she spent the whole day in the library. Besides, she knew that if she told them her problems about babysitting Toby and what not they would think she was being childish. Plus, fighting with her parents before an important meeting with the council wasn't in her agenda today. She looked at her mother.

"You wouldn't understand" said DG. Ahamo was about to reach for his daughter but she shrugged him off. "It's nothing, just go right now, and leave me alone with Toby." Lavender Eyes was about to protest but DG beat her to it.

"I just didn't feel like going to my lessons today okay? Sometimes, I'd like it if I could get some peace and quiet without being interrupted to do other things!" she snapped. "Just go, you guys are going to be late." She thought maybe they wouldn't go to the meeting and they would tell DG that she shouldn't have to baby sit Toby, but instead they just grabbed their belongings, placed Toby in his crib, hugged and kissed DG good bye and left. Cain stayed behind and turned his eyes to the princess.

"Well that didn't turn out as I had planned" said DG while Cain let out a small laugh. He walked over to her and stood in her front of her. She glared at him fiercely. "I know we are not in the best terms right now and I know you're upset because of all the attention that has been on Toby lately." She still glared at him and he chuckled. "Let's make a deal that I might regret later. Take care of Toby and follow whatever other things you have to do today and tomorrow, I promise to take you to Finaqua."

DG looked up at him in shock. Wyatt Cain was willing to take her out of the castle's safe walls? The Wyatt Cain? The sharp bodyguard and ex tin man? Wyatt was the type of bodyguard who would watch you like a hawk and if you ever stepped at least a foot outside he would drag you back in immediately going on one of his rants about how she could have been killed. She looked at his eyes. His eyes held a hopeful look and another look that DG couldn't understand.

She laughed. She couldn't be mad at Cain for more than a few hours and he couldn't be mad at her for that long either. A day out of the palace was music to her ears. Of course she wouldn't say no to this once in a lifetime chance! She nodded furiously at him. "You better keep your promise, tin man or I will make sure that Wyatt Jr. does not see another day."

He cringed while she laughed. "You really know how to wound a man's pride" he said while she smiled. He looked around to make sure no one was watching and gave the princess a hug and kissed her forehead. "Don't get in to much trouble while I'm not around. Not that many people can handle your spunk, kid." He said and she stuck her tongue out at him. Another one of those other side traditions that he did not understand. He let go of her and started walking out of the room." Have fun at the meeting!" she yelled as Cain waved at her and closed the door.

Now she was all alone and with nothing to do, she decided to retire to her bedroom. Just as she was about to reach for the door, Toby began to cry. Maybe if I don't move, he'll stop crying DG thought but after waiting for a few minutes, his crying didn't stop. He had thrown something out of his crib and DG went to go pick it up. She stopped when she looked at what Toby had thrown. It was Lancelot!

Lancelot was a brown regular teddy bear that her robomom had given her on her 11th birthday. She had named him Lancelot because she was obsessed with the tales of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table at that age. Plus, the bear did look like Lancelot, in her opinion anyway. After things had settled down in the O.Z, she had asked her mom to make her a travel storm so she could go back to Kansas and bring some things back and her mom had let her go back. She had brought a few things back which included her most prized possession: a musical box that held a ballerina dancing with the soft tune of the music. She had found it in a small shop and immediately fell in love with it. She felt really drawn to it and she would remember how before starting the day she would listen to it and it would make her feel, magical.

Sure, she's 23 years old and too old for a music box and teddy bear, but she had a very special place in her heart for both of these childish items. All her life she has believed in fantasy and she had one of the biggest imaginations in the world, according to most people. It was just a wonderful feeling to believe in something that was so out of this world. Only Az knew about Lancelot and the music box. She knew that if she told Cain about it she would never hear the end of it.

"So that's where you have been!" said DG as she grabbed him and hugged him tightly. Lancelot had been taken from under her pillow a few weeks ago and she immediately started panicking. She asked Az if she had anything to do with it but she looked at the wall behind her and said she didn't know.

"Wait a minute.." DG said. How in the world did Lancelot end up in Toby's crib? Only Az knew about him and she had been acting suspicious whenever she would bring up Lancelot. Then, it all clicked in her mind.

Azkadellia had taken Lancelot from DG's room and had given it to Toby!

DG was shocked and angry. How dare she! She knew how much it meant to her and now she went behind her back and taken one of the things she cherished the most. Az would never have done that if it wasn't for her precious Toby. She glared immensely at the crying baby boy in front of her.

It wasn't fair!

Toby was crying and DG was glaring at him. He wanted her to comfort him after he has completely brainwashed her family? Toby this, Toby that, she was getting sick and tired of hearing about Toby all the time!

The weather seemed to be agreeing with her as rain and thunder were heard throughout the walls of the room.

"What do you want?" snapped DG at the crying baby who was crying and staring at DG. "I'm not picking you up!" She went to the bed in Az's chambers and laid down. She noticed the book in the bed and it was taunting her. She would like to get away from it all but no she couldn't. Toby's crying was starting to give her a headache. When Toby cried, he would usually calm down if you told him a story. She stared at the cover of the book and thought about all the main characters in the story and immediately an idea formed in her head. Maybe she could scare the little brat, with a goblin bedtime story? She smirked and looked at Toby. "Fine! You want to hear a story? Well here it is!" DG yelled she got up and went up to Toby's crib.

"Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young girl whose sister and mother always made her stay home with the baby. And the baby was a spoiled child, and wanted everything to himself, and the young girl was practically a slave."

She walked toward the huge mirror in the wall and just stared at her reflection.

"But what no one knew was that the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl, and he had given her certain powers. So one night, when the baby had been particularly cruel to her, she called on the goblins for help!"

Inside Azkadellia's and Glitch's closet were a few unique characters sleeping. They had scaly grayish skin and could only be described in one word: Goblins. One of them woke up after he heard the young girl tell her story to the baby. He thought that today would be a boring day but maybe it would change tonight? He decided he couldn't keep all the fun out so he woke all of his friends up. "WAKE UP" he yelled while the others whined. He quickly silenced them and said "Listen!"

She walked back towards Toby very slowly and eerily, to make sure that she would be able to scare him.

"Say the right words," the goblins said, "and we'll take the baby to the castle, and you will be free!" But the girl knew that the Goblin King would keep the baby in his castle for ever and ever and ever, and turn it into a goblin! And so the girl suffered in silence. Until one day, when she was tired from a day of baby sitting the precious baby, and she was hurt by the neglect of her family and friends, and she could no longer stand it..."

Toby didn't seem to be scared by her though as he continued to cry. DG rolled her eyes "Alright already!" she said and she grabbed Toby and started bouncing him up and down in hopes that he would calm down. It didn't work. "Stop crying Toby!" she said but Toby wouldn't stop. She made him look at her and decided to continue her story "I'll say the words, if you don't stop it!" He just looked at her. "No, I don't think I'm allowed to say them, but hey, I never follow the rules!"

All the goblins in the closet gasped when she said that.

DG looked at Toby and started saying "I wish, I wish…"

The goblins were getting eager! "She's going to say it!" some shouted while others just kept on saying "Listen!" One of the slower goblins didn't really know what was happening and said "Say what?" All of the goblins immediately said "SHUT UP!" to the poor goblin who really had no clue on what was happening. The goblin who woke all of them up said "LISTEN! She's going to say the words!"

DG held Toby away from her and yelled "I can bear it no longer! Goblin King! Goblin King! Wherever you may be take this child of mine far away from me!"

All the goblins groaned when they heard her say that. "That's not it! Where did she get that rubbish? It doesn't even start with "I wish!" remarked one of the angrier goblins.

It didn't affect Toby one bit and the Goblin King didn't show up like she thought he might. "Oh Toby stop it! Ooh! I wish I did know what to say to make the goblins take you away!" she said.

The goblins looked at her in shock. She didn't know the words? "I wish the goblins would come and take you away right now! That's not hard is it!" one yelled while the others agreed with him.

DG had a far away look in her face and started saying "I wish, I wish.."

The goblins curiosity got a hold of them again and they were hoping she was going to say the right words. "Did she say it?" the slower one piped up and was quickly met with the words "SHUT UP!" from around the closet.

DG just stared at Toby for a while and decided that she needed to leave the room to blow off some steam if she was going to spend the majority of the night with him. She walked toward his crib, laid his crying self down, tucked him in and started walking out the door.

She stopped by the door ready to turn off the lights but seeing that Toby was still crying she decided to say something. "I wish the goblins would come and take you away..right now" and with that she turned off the lights and walked to her room.

Before she even took 3 steps out, she felt a cold fear creep through her. The hall had gotten really quiet and dark. The hall was too quiet in her opinion.

Toby!

She quickly went inside the room Toby was in and realized that she couldn't hear Toby cry from his crib. "Toby?" she whispered and then tried to turn on the light but it didn't do anything. The lights weren't working.

"Toby why aren't you crying?" DG said as she slowly neared his crib. She heard and saw movement in Toby's crib and she jumped. Her palms were sweaty and she was scared and praying that Toby was the one in the crib. When she reached the crib, she slowly grabbed Toby's blankets and pulled them. She gasped.

Toby was gone.

She stared hearing movement all around the room. She turned to her right and she could have sworn she saw figures moving. She looked at her sister's bed and saw movement as well. What was going on?!

The thunder boomed and roared outside and she saw a white snowy owl trying to get inside the room. She tried calling for one of the guards but she couldn't find her voice anywhere. She was staring at the owl curiously. All the movement in the bedroom didn't matter anymore, all her attention was mainly on the owl who was battling his way to get inside the bedroom. He won the battle as the window opened and in came the owl.

DG shrieked as the owl flied towards her, she was trying to hit the owl so it wouldn't harm her but it wasn't working. She covered her face in case it wanted to scratch it. In the end however, the owl flew toward the window but it changed shape.

DG slowly took her arms out of her face and noticed that the owl that was by the window before was replaced by a handsome blonde man.

"Hello DG" he said as he smirked at her.


A/N: Well what do you think? I've been in a writing mood for a while so I'm hoping that I can update on a weekly basis instead of a monthly basis. I hope that this chapter was really well and I appreciate reviews and constructive criticism.

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