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As much as I would love to own Labyrinth, I don't. Such a pity..
This is a repost. My other one didn't have the POV changes which made everything confusing J
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This tunnel went on forever. I had finally gotten past those guards, annoying as it was. I finally just told them to open one of the doors, but they told me "I had to choose one." So I chose the one on the left. I watched the door open, my heart beating too fast to tell, and I stepped forward. Leaving the laughing guards behind as the door slammed shut. Even though the cave like walls were completely closed off, I felt a few chilling breezes that sent shivers down my spine.
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(Yeah I know, super short Kaitlyn POV but I couldn't have her walk forever :P)
My eyes were parched, as I had not blinked in what seemed like a really long time. My knuckles were turning white from clutching the crystal so hard, I thought it would shatterany moment now. "What's done has been done. I am, sorry my dear Sarah." I rapidly turned my head, and I felt a muscle in my back seize up. Jareth had moved from his strange position on the floor to right behind me, I could feel his breath down my back. I stood up slowly and glared at Jareth with a forced under bite. I was so hot it felt like I had landed face-first onto a frying pan.
I didn't even know what to say, my words raged inside of me, threatening to come out with added use of saucy language. I marched behind the chair to where Jareth was standing, and pressed my forehead to his. His ears were now in perfect grabbing distance. "So you really think you can play that little game? Huh JARETH?" I screamed at the top of my lungs. His face twitched and twisted into a sad scowl. "I'm very sorry, my dear Sarah. She chose her fate, I did not." he looked down. Whoa. He looked down. That is so weird. His hair was now all over my forehead.I grabbed his ear once again and yanked it upwards, forcing him to look me in the eye. "You do something about this, Jareth or I will.." I thought about the words I would choose. I had to think of something fast that would frighten him. "I will seriously.." My words trailed off.
I let go of his now-red ear and looked at the crystal. Kaitlyn was still walking. I hopelessly murmured under my breath at the crystal. Oh I WISH we could do something to help you.. "We? Did you just say.. We? My dear Sarah?" I forced my eyes away from the crystal and onto Jareth. "If you call me "My dear Sarah" ONE MORE TIME-"
"Now now, Sarah. You have already done what needs to be done here." He crossed his stupid arms again.
"What is THAT supposed to mean! Oh JARETH!" He waited for me to say more. Then it hit me. "I WISH YOU WOULD.." I stopped. How could I really trust him? He took Toby, he could very well take Kaitlyn as well. I looked at the crystal, then to Jareth, the crystal.. Jareth.. "Okay Jareth. I'll trust you on this. But if you do anything OTHER than my words, I will seriously rebuild our final meeting, but you wont fall off the stairs this time.. I will SHOVE you off!" I hissed. He had a strange look frozen on his face.
What was I saying?
I closed my eyes. "I WISH-"
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(Jareth will have 0's to show when the POV is his. He wont have a POV in many chapters, so don't get confused.)
She had been staring at that crystal for more than 30 minutes. Her eyes lost that shine that they normally had. I had been sitting on the floor for that time, I can't believe I actually let her sit in my throne..
I was quite amused at her reactions to the crystals showings, but I truly felt sorry for her. I finally got up, and materialized behind my throne. She looked up at me too quickly and I heard a distinct crack come from her back. I winced.
Her face was a dark cranberry color, like the lipstick she was wearing the first time we had met. She was using word lashing out at me like a cobra, fast and poisonous. I had never seen my dear Sarah like this, it hurt me. She had been silently wishing in her thoughts, but never a word of it spoke. By the expressions on her color altering face, I could tell she was having a war within her wits. I could nearly heard the cries that illuminated from her mind. Just then, a particularly snoopy goblin fell through the door, obviously he had been leaning on it, listening to our conversation. "WHAT IS it, Sqig?" I bellowed at him in a menacing tone. I was annoyed. Sarah was still mesmerized by the crystal and didn't seem to notice anything.
"EE! Wel, Ehe, Kingy! Sqig is my name! You were correct! YAY!"
Ugh, goblins were so DISGUSTING.
"WHY are you here? SQIG!" I shouted again. This time, even louder. I was actually impressed, though, that he used the word "Correct."
"I uh, wel, Kingy.. I ee, I tell you now that the-" He was soon airborne. A boot and a bog will surely teach him. Then again, goblins are too stupid and revolting to learn anything.
"I wish.." I snapped right back from my thoughts. I heard Sarah.
She claimed her trust, and wished me away.
Did this tunnel ever end? I glanced at my watch, I had been walking for an hour. I looked back to where I had come from. The closed door looked to be about 5 feet away. "DAMN!" I shouted and pounding my fists on the walls. I was mad, I was MAD! I was just ready to give up on the whole thing. Who cares if I ran out of time and became a goblin, what did I have to lose? Who CARES?
Goblin.. Who cares if I became a.. Goblin? My mind was fogged. Like in a dream, when you are trying to get what's happening, but some sort of filmy veil is covering your eyes.
I saw images of dancing people, dancing red things, dancing.. I couldn't remember.
Then they started singing. Chilly down with..-You remind me of the babe..-There's such a sad love..
It all continued. I found myself singing along to the songs that were playing in my mind. I don't know what it was, I still couldn't remember. Then the final song was played. "Everything I've done I've done for YOU." The last word echoed off the walls, sending a wave of power through the air which blew back my hair. I stumbled forward and ran. What were all these things? I was so confused. I ran and ran, then I stopped. Before me, lay another door. It was made of wood, and rather shabby. My legs were shaking, and I started towards the door. Suddenly, the floor gave way beneath me. I screamed and clawed frantically at anything I could hold on too. I suddenly stopped falling, I had grabbed something. I looked up. I saw a gloved hand, grasping my wrist.
"Everything I've done I've done for YOU." The voice sang it exactly like my mind. Jareths' face appeared at the opening of the place where I had fallen. "I move the stars for no one." He kept singing. Not bothering to pull me up.
My hand was slipping, he just looked at me. "Your eyes can be so cruel."
I looked at him with wild eyes. I had remembered.
"Just as I can be so cruel." He stood up, letting my hand slip.
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The crystal shattered. I had thrown it against the wall, too angry and sad to keep watching. The image of Kaitlyn still remained in the broken glass. How could he do this. How.. Could he do this..
Jareth.. I shouldn't even call him that. That.. THING appeared next to me again. I looked up at him, my eyes were probably red and puffy, but I didn't care. "Why." Was all I merely said. I didn't have the strength to say anything else.
"My dear Sarah.." He started.
I glared at him with a look that said "I really want to kill you right now."
"Don't call me that.. Do you know what you've done?" I didn't look at him when I spoke.
"You say that so often. And yes, I know what I have done."
"WHAT DID YOU DO!" I screamed.
"I did something that was against my law. I did something that I have never done before in all my time with the Labyrinth. I moved the STARS for you, my dear Sarah, can't you see it?" He replied darkly.
"All you did was take away the last." I cried. "How is that moving the stars for me?"
"Look, Sarah." He pulled out another crystal.
Kaitlyn was at the two door knockers, just before the Firey forest. She was sleeping.
I looked in amazement. I wondered if the image was real, and not just Jareth playing a cruel joke on me. "What did you do?" I asked again.
"I already answered that." He replied again.
I stood up, I had the mindset to give Jareth a hug, but that would just be to weird.. After all, most of this was his fault. And I was still mad at him.
So I gave him a gratitude punch in the arm instead.
"My dear Sarah, why must you assault me? You've seen what I have done!" He coward, confused.
I half-laughed. "In aboveground, we do that to say thanks." I added: "Sometimes."
I didn't want him to show up aboveground and punching everyone.
"You mortals have such strange ways of doing things.." He replied, a ghost of a smile flickered across his still confused face.
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I was falling. Falling into blackness. The next thing I knew I laying on another tile floor and staring up at the strange face carved into a rock.
I slowly got up. My neck felt like a dictionary had dropped on it. After all, stone is not the most ideal sleeping spot. I suddenly remembered what I had just gone through. My skin still had the Goosebumps from the chilling air. I thought about everything. Sarah.. Jareth.. The Labyrinth.. Everything fell into place. The peach! I had eaten the peach! Sarah had WARNED me about peaches! Agh.
I stood up, my legs were so sore I nearly fell down. My hand caught the ring of a incredibly ugly door knocker.
Whew! Long chapter J Quite dramatic for my tastes, but oh well. Hope you guys like it!
