It was always a cold nothingness in the between of the worlds. Nothing existed there, nothing visible to a traveler's eye. The black stretched on and on in an unfathomable darkness, chilling the bones with coldness never before felt. It was indeed, the great nothingness.
Sarah wandering through the Great Nothing grasped at every memory she had ever had of Jareth. The way his multi-tones eyes would glint mischievously or the way he would snap at someone because they were being pert. It was her only chance of finding him.
Suddenly she passed into the hall of doors, where one would find their venture. They all looked the same, nothing giving away at which was which, or whose was whose. All of the doors were black outlined with silver, like stars. Sarah walked the length of the hall (well half of what SHE thought was the length) and became frustrated, bellowing loudly. She could not, for the life of her, tell which one was Jareth's door, his door to nightmares. Her yell was oddly muffled.
There was no sign at all that one of these doors led to Jareth. Sarah toppled to the ground, angry. Tears of angry fire trailed down her cheeks. She wouldn't give up.
Sarah felt a slight pulsing on her hand, oddly warm in the overwhelming nothingness of the inbetween. She glanced down and saw that the ring was glowing. Her eyes widened.
She again got the urge to walk the doors. She headed down the vast hallway that stretched on and on and as she walked the ring grew warmer. The farther down the hall she walked, the hotter the ring grew, until at one door it was like fire on her skin, burning a welt into her finger. Sarah screamed and fell into the door. It flew open.
It was a room, of course. But a whole world in a single room.
Sarah looked around and noticed that in each way a different area was visible. Each was different. One was dark, like the blackest night. The next was bright like pure sunlight and the middle one was flickering, like fire wickedly burning up the side of a building.
Time to choose, thought Sarah to herself.
She chose the middle path, simply because it looked all the more difficult. And she was right. There was fire burning, hot and malicious down the sides of the blackened path. It stayed in that area, not progressing and not retreating. It was almost eerie.
As Sarah walked into the infinite nothing, she noticed a forest rising large and gloomy ahead of her. It looked almost…evil. She thought. The tree tops were nearly black green and the rest was hidden in shadow.
A scream ripped through the infinite calm.
Sarah began to run.
The path seemed to never end, stretching on and on and the forest never coming closer, and then, as if she blinked, she was there. Within the first meter of it. The light of the tunnel of trees shone dimly behind her.
Light shone around her, cold and unfulfilling. The smell was dank, like rotting leaves. Things scuttled around, and calls of animals, shrill and haunting rang out.
So this is the realm of nightmares.
She slowed as something lurked on the path before her. It was large, and mountainous. It took up the whole of the path and more, stretching to both sides.
Great just what I need, a roadblock.
As she approached she raised the shields she had been practicing. They could deflect minor charms and such; she wasn't strong enough for major ones.
It was a dog. A very large one.
Oh bugger. She thought.
Now what?
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I'm so sorry guys that I haven't updated in so long, but I've been going through a really hard time. My mother got really really sick from her cancer and died on June 3rd. so I haven't really been feeling up for much. This is all I could get out for now. So sorry, I promise I will try my best.