Author's Note: Thanks to all reviewers! Sorry for the late update, school, rehearsals, fencing practice, and my grandfather's recent illness have all kept me away. Things seem to be settling down now, though, unless our car breaks down. . . Anyway, this started out as a long chapter, but I just wanted to hurry up and post it, so I broke it in two, and now half of the next chapter is written. I'll probably post it around Friday. Let me know if there are any errors, and please read and review. My reviewers are the only ones who keep me from giving up on fan fiction, and just sticking to my own stories at home. Review!

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Jesse had never been as stunned as when he caught sight of the Goblin King standing in Anthony's dark bedroom. He hadn't been able to stay stunned long though, and now there was only one thought on his mind: Anthony. But he couldn't get out of this one corridor. He had been walking for thirty precious minutes, and he still couldn't find any openings. Maybe he should have started in the other direction. Maybe there weren't any openings in this part of the labyrinth.

He was just considering climbing the walls to try to see his way ahead, when something suddenly didn't feel right. Chills ran up and down his spine, the same sort of feeling he got whenever his little sister Erin was hiding around a corner, planning to jump out on him. He ignored it for about three steps, and then stopped. It's just your imagination, he told himself, but it didn't feel that way. With a sigh, he turned around. There was nothing there, just the long, eerie corridor.

He had gone another three steps, when that creepy feeling came back. Only this time, Jesse could have sworn that he heard just the faintest noise, as well. His skin began to crawl slightly, and then, quickly, he whirled around. Just as he did so, he caught the faintest glimpse of something, a figure that quickly seemed to vanish into the wall.

In the split second where Jesse didn't believe his eyes, he paused, and then, doing his best to act nonchalant, turned back around and kept walking, as calmly as he could. He waited until he heard the noises again, slower and more cautious this time, and then whirled back around mid-step.

For one split second, he faced a girl who looked about his age, her eyes widened with shock that matched his, and then she took off running. Without even thinking, Jesse ran after her. Whatever she was doing here, she might know how to find the Goblin King's castle, or at the very least, where to find some turns. And if not, it wasn't as if he had been getting somewhere on his own.

But the girl was very fast, and as he watched, she seemed to vanish into the side of the corridor. Jesse barely had time to skid to a stop behind her, nearly smashing into the wall. Jesse stared at it, blinking while he caught his breath. She had just run into it, and disappeared, as if it had swallowed her up. A sneaking suspicion grew in the back of his mind, and he slowly leaned towards the wall, expecting to feel his nose against the cold stone at any moment. Instead, he stuck his head into an alley, that seemed to run parallel to the one he had been pacing for the last half an hour.

Still slightly shocked, Jesse stepped into the alley, looking around for the girl. He couldn't see her, but he could have sworn that he could hear her footsteps echoing around the corner. Jesse ran after her, pausing every minute or so, to listen for her footsteps. Wherever she had led him, it was finally starting to look like a Labyrinth, there were plenty of turns and doors. He could stop, and try to figure his own way around, but at best he would just be guessing, and as far as he could see, this girl seemed to know what she was doing.

Just as Jesse was thinking that, the footsteps stopped.

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