Chapter 4

"Are you fucking shitting me?" Alexis let out a noise of exasperation and pressed the heel of her hand to her forehead. "This has to be a goddamn conspiracy or something."

Alexis had been walking along the outermost wall of the labyrinth for what seemed like ages without a single sign of an entrance and quite frankly she was feeling rather hopeless. With a groan of frustration, Alexis slid down the wall and placed her head on her knees.

"This is impossible!" She knocked her head back against the wall.

"Nothing's impossible." The new voice caused Alexis to jump. She looked up to see a stout man-like creature. Probably another of Jareth's goblins, or so Alexis surmised.

"E-excuse me?" Alexis mumbled, eyes trained intently at the newcomer.

"Excuse you." the goblin gruffly replied, before spraying a flying creature with what Alexis presumed to be some form of pesticide. Alexis quirked her lips up into a smirk. She had made that exact joke several times and it was amusing to be on the receiving end of it. Shaking her head slightly, Alexis lept to her feet, padding slowly after the goblin.

"Um hey. Could you possibly help me? I'm sort of in need of an entrance to that hellhole." Alexis gestured at the wall next to them.

The goblin snorted as he sprayed another of those flying creatures. "I could possibly help you." He stated simply, walking further down the wall, spraying as he went.

Alexis followed silently for a moment. "Well?"

"Well what?" The goblin responded, not even sparing the girl who was becoming increasingly more frustrated as their conversation carried on.

"Well can you help me or not?" Alexis's once polite tone had slowly dissolved into an annoyed one.

"I already said I could didn't I?" Alexis smacked her hand to her forehead.

"Oh, my god. You know what. Nevermind!" Alexis promptly turned to the wall and found a bit particularly covered in thick ivy. She cracked her neck and fingers before grabbing onto some ivy and beginning to climb.

"H-hey! You can't do that!" The goblin called from the base of the wall.

"Yeah, who the fuck says?" The goblin sputtered as Alexis continued the climb, finally making it to the top. As she stood she took in the vast expanse of the labyrinth laying out before her. "Oh man this is going to be such a bitch." She muttered, before turning to the goblin outside the wall. "Thanks for nothing man!" She waved and walked along the wall.

The goblin followed along the base. "You really shouldn't be up there, that's cheating."

"Hardly! I'm being innovative. Who said you can't think outside of the box here huh?" Alexis looked at the labyrinth mapping out a couple possible routes in her head. "Besides, I'm getting down now so chillax dude." And with that, Alexis shuffled her way to the edge of the wall, hanging from the top, before dropping the remaining distance to the ground. The drop jarred her ankles, causing her to hiss in pain. "Sonofa bitch!"

Groaning loudly, Alexis peered around the corridor she was now in. Endless. Both ways. Alexis paused, brow furrowing in confusion. "But… I could have sworn there was a passage right here!" Alexis stepped up to the wall, pressing her fingers against it. Or, she would have, had there been a wall. Instead, her fingers passed right through. "The… fuck?" Alexis stepped forward and then backwards. "Jareth you sly motherfucker!" She snorted and stepped back through the wall, following the path she had mapped out in her head previously.

Alexis stood just outside of the maze, bent over with her hands on her knees, panting loudly. "Who's bright idea was it to fucking run?" She snorted and ran a hand through her bright hair, now damp with sweat. "Ungh, gross." She screwed up her face slightly as she observed her wet hand. "Ugh what I'd give for some water right now."

Alexis stood straight, peering around her. Behind her lay the first part of the labyrinth, the one she had foolishly decided to run through. Her reasoning, the thought that she would forget the path she had mapped out in her head, had seemed sound before she actually decided to run it. Oh well. Before Alexis was an entirely different kind of setting.

"Really? A forest is hardly a labyrinth. Why is this here Jareth? Speaking of labyrinths. Arent labyrinths underground mazes? I see sky jareth. This is a glorified maze. We need to have a serious vocab conversation later." She snorted at the thought of the two chit chatting about mundane things like word choice.

Perhaps talking shit to the guy in control as I traverse his maze isn't the best idea, she pondered. Alexis shrugged and plodded forward into the forest. "That's most certainly going to come back and bite me on the ass."

Alexis hummed quietly under her breath as she moved further and further into the forest. She quieted her humming after a few moments, however, and listened intently. Not too far in the distance she could hear the babbling of a brook and soft voices giggling quietly. Eyes narrowing, Alexis weighed her options. On one hand, water, on the other hand, who knows how friendly the owners of those voices are. After a moment of deliberation, Alexis decided to go for it. She promised herself to remain on her guard.

As she got closer to the brook the voices were becoming clearer, however still soft. Biting down any foreboding feelings, Alexis broke out of the tree line into sight of the brook.

The soft voices continued on in a gentle murmur as she took in the brook, well more accurately she took in its occupants. Women. Five of them. They all had long flowing hair, varying in colour. Oh but that wasn't the most interesting part. Oh no. Because they were naked. Like buck ass naked. Alexis blinked slowly. Like super naked. And they were all stunningly beautiful.

"Um… Hello?" Alexis tentatively called out to the women, whose murmuring stopped as they turned to look at her.

"Hello." One softly called out to her as the others giggled behind their hands. Alexis cleared her throat and stepped cautiously closer.

"Uh hi. So… mind if i just scooch on by. Just need a drink. Sorry to disturb your… bathing." Alexis bit her lip and pointedly looked towards the water.

"Oh please." One of the melodic voices chimed. "You're welcome to our waters. Stay as long as you like." All of the women nodded their consent.

"Uh right thanks." Alexis nodded her head in their direction and moved to the water, some feet away from the ladies. As she knelt by the water she watched them from the corner of her eye. They had continued their soft conversation, although one still had her gaze trained on Alexis. Alexis suppressed her urge to bolt and examined herself in the reflective water. Luckily her time in the labyrinth -maze- hadn't been too detrimental to her appearance. Not that she cared really, but being next to such beautiful people tended to make one at least a bit self conscious, no matter how great their self esteem was. Alexis dipped a hand into the water and ran it through her hair. In the waves of the brook, the blues and greens and purples seemed at home.

Alexis looked up at a giggle to see the lady who had been staring at her less than a foot away. Alexis blushed at the eyeful of boob she got, looking up into the eyes of the gorgeous woman. "Uh… hi? C-can I help you…?" The woman simply giggled again and reached out to touch Alexis's hair.

"Beautiful…" Alexis could barely hear the silk like words over the babble of the brook.

"O-oh thanks. It's really easy to do you jus-" Alexis stopped mid sentence as the woman's hand trailed down from her hair to her cheek and rested there. By now her entire face was aflame in a blush.

Alexis swallowed thickly as the woman's face came closer and closer. Her eyes fluttered as her breaths became shallow. When the woman's lips were a hair's length away from hers, Alexis pulled sharply back. She stumbled back away from the edge of the brook eyes wide.

The woman pouted and reached out toward her. Alexis pressed her hand to her chest and exhaled. "I-I'm sorry I'm flattered really and if it was under any other circumstances I would absolutely love to lock lips, however I have two kids waiting for me and they're probably terrified right now. Really, I'd love to. Also, I'm like ninety-eight percent sure you're a trap, so there's that." Alexis scooched back farther and stood, backing away from the brook.

She heard a noise of protest from the woman and steeled herself, turning away and quickly strided through the forest, away from the brook.

When she felt that she was a safe enough distance from the brook, she leant against a tree and fanned herself. "Oh god that was hot. Damnit Jareth! I don't need that right now." She grumbled some choice words and pushed herself off of the tree. With a deep sigh she continued on through the forest.

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