The woman stepped up to the tower, gliding her long black corset dress along with er. It had long bell sleeves and was feathery like. She lifted her arms up like she was being measured for a dress and the crows around her picked her up and carried her up the twelve flights to the only opining in the entire tower. A single window. Her stepmother had been imprisoned there by Jareth's mother, the queen before Jareth was handed the thrown. Her stepmother had been practicing dark magic to get the thrown herself. Now she was old and had long white hair. She has been alive for over ten thousand years.

The tower was old and dusty, everything was covered in cobwebs except for the huge mirror on the north wall. The woman walked over to the cobwebbed covered bed where her stepmother lay looking dead. She had not moved from that spot for a two thousand years. The woman got down on to her knee's and bowed her head.

"Stepmother, I need your are not going as planned. Jareth is going to let a girl, a lowly human, to take MY thrown." There was the sound of a cough, dry and full of dust and dirt and then a voice raspy, and weak.

"Fret not, my..beautiful child. You will be the queen! Kill the girl."

"But how? Jareth will be watching her all the time. I will never get her alone!"

"Create a distraction for your half brother."

"Yes but, how do I kill her, I can not do it directly, he has spies."

"How did I kill Snow White?" The old woman lifted her hand and dropped a lush, blood red apple into the younger woman's hand. The red poison dripped onto her pale hand.

"Morhanna,you will be the fairest of them all." Morhanna bowed again and smirked.

"Thank you stepmother." And then she walked over to the window and let the crows lift her down and used magic to get home to her ruined castle.


Tara came to a small path that led to a small village. She walked through and a little girl around the age of ten came up to her. The girl had golden curls that just touched her shoulders and a pink and cream colored dress.

"Are you Tara?" She asked. "Tara the traveler?"

"Um, yea?" The girl grinned.

"My name is Silla. I am here to help you."

"Well, I certainly hope you will be more help than the last two." The little girl giggled.

"Fallow me!" She led me to the town square where people were bustling about, shouting at each other, selling goods, and some teenage girls danced around. She took me over to a sign that said 'Peeps' and there was a girl on the porch sweeping that looked just like Silla.

"That is my little sister, Sally. But don't be fooled by her charm, she is a mean girl." Silla whispered. We moved on to where there was an old man yelling out something about a competition.

"There, that is what you need."

"What?" I looked to see her pointing to a large mirror with a brown wood frame.

"Um...okay?"

"But you have to compete for it. That mirror is your way to the Castle."

"Okay."

"Silla, what are you doing?Get away from her!" We turned to see Sally glaring at us. She got all up in my face and then signed a paper.

"You have to sign." Silla whispered to me. I stepped forward to sign and Sally grabbed my arm.

"Don't you dare." She growled. I smirked and signed.

"Oh well, you won't win. I'm turning eighteen."

"What? You going to sleep with the whole town?" She gasped in horror and stomped away.

"Don't let her bother you. Come on, we have to get you ready." Silla grabbed my hand and took me to a small store. There was a line of dresses that she took me to. We went through them all before I pulled out a blue and white dress.

"How is this?" I asked and Silla gasped.

"Perfect!" Silla paid for it and I got changed into it. Silla got me a beautiful white lamb and the neighbors let me borrow their sheep dog if I promised to beet Sally Peep.


"Alright! We have three contestants! We will be judging you on your skills will points up to ten! For the first event you will sing and dance to your favorite Sheep song! Young miss Maryanne, will you start us up please?" A dark haired girl with a gold/orange dress got up and started singing ba ba black sheep. I turned to Silla.

"Silla, what sheep songs do you know?"

"I don't know, pick a song and add sheep words to it!"Next was Sally Peep singing Little Bow Peep. Then it was my turn. I stood there a few awkward moments before I started singing my favorite song with sheep words added to it.

"Buddy you're a young ewe
Look at you
playing in the field
Gonna be a big ram
someday
You got wool on your face
You big disgrace
Waving your fleece all over the place
Singing we will, we will
shear you " I sighed as everyone was looking at me with 'What the hell' faces on before they started the we will rock you beat and started singing with me.

"We will, we will
shear you!"

The next thing we did was stand in line and the judge looked at them.

"Well, three beautiful Shepardess' and three beautiful lambs."

"I'll have to give Maryanne nine out of ten!" People clapped. "And I'll have to give Peep ten out of ten!" People cheered, Sally smirked, and I frowned."But I'll have to give ten out of ten as well!"

"WHAT? You can't giver her ten out of ten I win! Give me the prize!" Sally cried getting red in the face,

"A tie? We can't have a tie!" Someone shouted.

"Give the prize to my girl." Someone threatened the judge.

"How about you keep the trophy and I take the mirror?" I suggested.

"They're BOTH mine." Sally growled.

"ENOUGH!" The judge bellowed. "This is a shepardess competition! You will each be given fifty seconds to guide your sheep into the pen using only your Shepard skills and a sheep dog!Fair enough?" There was a chorus of yea's and then it began. Sally got hers into the pen in forty eight seconds. Then it was my turn.

"Come on! Come on lamb! Come on!" I whistled and the lamb stayed put. "Come on lamb!" I heard someone say 'ROOKIE!' and then a black and white sheep dog started to chase the dumb lamb into the pen.

"Pen's closed!" I shouted once I locked the lamb in. My score was forty six seconds. I had won!


"Alright, all you have to do is turn it on and walk through." Silla explained.

"How do I turn it on?" I asked as I felt around the edges. The I turned a something and the mirror's glass surface turned to a rippling water like thing.

"Now walk through." Silla said. I hugged her and then stepped through the mirror and the next thing I knew, I was back in a forest.

So, how was this chapter? I was jumpy about this story so I decided to update again. Please review, no one likes a silent reader!