"Well, well, well. You have completed my Labyrinth. Congratulations." The Goblin King was at the door way.
"Well, I have completed the Labyrinth, Sarah must be returned back home right now." I say standing my ground as the Goblin King was walking towards me.
"Very well, I will hold my end of the bargain."
He dropped the crystal a d let it shatter into thousands of pieces, almost a dust. Normal crystal wouldn't turn into dust like that would it? It was heart breaking to watch as my dreams were not going to become real but a pile of dust. It's all worth it, I think to myself, Sarah will become a great writer and have a wonderful life.
"As a gesture of good faith, send me back with her so I know that she has returned safely."
"You truly do not trust me, I wonder why that is."
"After reading of Sarah's experiences one would have to know better than to trust you. That peach you gave me was a good example of that and put the guard out the front to sleep in seconds."
"Very well, you may accompany Sarah back to the Aboveground. Follow me." With that, Jareth walked out of the room and I followed him, we walked for a short amount of time before we reached a door. The Goblin King opened the door which was followed by a book thrown in his direction; he caught it with superhuman reflexes.
"I have a guest for you Sarah." I walked passed Jareth and into the room to see an angry Sarah.
"Hi Sarah, I completed the Labyrinth so you can go home now." I said walking over to the bookcase to return the book.
"No, I'm not letting you. We are going back together or I'm staying too." She said walking over to me to give me a hug.
"A trade is a trade." The Goblin King said.
I glared at him; he did not say the right thing at the right time. He shouldn't be here, Sarah was unhappy enough about my completion of the Labyrinth and his presence was not making her feel better.
"Maybe you should go." I said in the direction of the Goblin King.
"Very well, this crystal will take you back home when you drop it. I will arrive an hour after you have said goodbye to retrieve you." He said walking over to me and placing a crystal in my hand and he left out the door.
"Come on Sarah, let's go home." She was still hugging me and I dropped the crystal.
The room faded away from us and we found ourselves in Sarah's room once again as if no time had passed at all. Sarah was still hugging me; this is not going to be easy to get her to let me go back. What will happen? Will people just forget I existed or will I be another one of those missing children cases?
"I'm not letting you go back to the Labyrinth." Sarah said tightening her grip around me.
"Come on Sarah, let go of me. I made a deal and I have to go through with it, when the Goblin King comes back he is either going to pull you off me or take both of us back together and that would just give him what he wants. Please, don't let me running the Labyrinth for your freedom be in vain." She let go of me and her eyes were red from the tears, I walked back over to her and gave her another hug in a motherly way.
"Don't cry, please don't cry. This is harder on me then it is on you. Hey, I'll talk to Hoggle and see if he can get me to go with him next time you call him okay? It's not like I'm leaving you forever, I'll find a way to still see you. Could you do one thing for me? Please tell my grandparents that I'm sorry, I don't know whether I'm going to be erased from everyone's memories or become a missing children case. Can you do something for me? Please tell my grandparents that I'm sorry, I don't know whether I'm going to be erased from everyone's memories or become a missing children case. If I end up a missing children case just give them closure."
"Okay, but promise that you will go with Hoggle when I call him." I could see it in her eyes that this was affecting her greatly.
"Goblin King is going to be here soon to take me away so..." I didn't get to finish my sentence before the goblin king arrived, who knew an hour could fly by so quickly when you were trying to pry your friend off you?
"Well, I should go. This isn't good bye, I will see you again." with that said, I walked over to the goblin king. He put his hand on my shoulder and dropped a crystal in the space between us.
Within seconds we were back in the Goblin castle throne room.
"I suppose you gave questions?" he said sitting on his throne.
"You're not going to turn me into a goblin are you?" I ask.
"Where would you get an idea like that?" he stared at me with a quizzical expression.
"When you took Sarah's brother you said you would turn him into a goblin."
"I never said such a thing. I said he would become one of us forever."
"So I'm going to stay human?"
"Depending on whether the labyrinth decides to turn you into a Fae or not, but for now you will stay human."
"What happens in my world? Will people forget I existed or what?"
"For the moment your grandparents and all your friends except Sarah believe you are on a study abroad program for the next 3 years, in that time they will slowly forget you existed."
"Why won't Sarah forget me?"
"Because she ran the Labyrinth before and won, thus winning her memories even though she had outside help and didn't run the real labyrinth. Because of that, I cannot erase her memories of you without erasing her memories of the Labyrinth and that would go against the rules. Now, you must be tired. Gimp will escort you to your chambers." a small goblin about Hoggle's height walked up next to me.
"Follow me my lady." Gimp said walking out of the room.
We walked for what felt like ages but I soon noticed we were not too far from where Sarah's room was. Gimp stopped and opened up an oak door to a beautiful champagne white room with cream marble floors. The bed was a dark brown canopy bed and had emerald colored sheets with gold accents with curtains to match. There was a desk on the right of the floor length curtains, dark brown wood to match the bed with a beautiful gold tray of food on it. There were two doors, both on the other side of the room.
"Which door is the bathroom Gimp?" I asked.
"The one furthest from the main door to the hallway, the one on the left." he said walking over to the bathroom door.
"Will that be all?"
"Yes, thank you." After that, Gimp left and I went to the bathroom.
The bathroom was similar to the bedroom, cream marbled floors, a gold sink in a cream marble vanity and green towels. The bath tub was gold as well surrounded by marble coming up on all sides as a ledge. The vanity had a huge mirror behind it and next to the sink there was a toothbrush and tooth paste as well as a bottle of perfume that i kept in my bathroom back home, it was my favorite. After doing what I had to in the bathroom I walked back out to see a nightgown out on the bed, it was a long floor length dress with spaghetti straps and a relatively conservative v-cut.
"Aren't you going to eat?" I hear someone say and I turned to the door to see the Goblin King standing there.
"How can I trust that you haven't drugged it?" I ask, after all I barely know him other than what Sarah has told me about him.
"If you cannot trust me, then why didn't you run away when you had the chance?"
"Because you would find me and it would be a waste of my time and yours."
"You have to eat something and it's just pasta." I hate to think it, but he was right. I would have to eat sometime meaning I would have to trust him. What the hell, it's just pasta; so long as it's not peach I think I'm good.
"No peach?" he laughed and walked over to the plate of pasta, picked up a fork and took a piece.
"Convinced?" he said hand the fork over to me.
"Fine." I started eating and noticed he was still there.
"Don't you have kingly duties to attend to goblin king?"
"Must you refer to me as 'Goblin King'? I have a name, or you could at least call me 'your highness'."
"Fat chance, Sarah forgot to mention your name."
"Jareth. Yes, your right I do have 'kingly' duties to attend to but I wanted to make sure you would eat first. It wouldn't look good of you got sick from not eating now wouldn't it?" he said as he left, closing the door behind him.
The pasta was really good, way better than any pasta I had at home. I finished the whole bowl and returned to the bathroom to have a bath. If I wasn't feeling so tired I would have stayed in the bath for ages, the water never seemed to cool down and was a perfect temperature. After what felt like an eternity I dried myself off and wrapped the towel around myself to walk back out into my room. I quickly walked over to the bed and got changed into the nightgown, checking the door to make sure of no more unwanted visitors. I returned the towel to the bathroom and hopped into bed. I was welcomed by a long slumber.
-Lady wakes up from a long sleep, she is wearing her pjs and is still looking rather tired. She leaves her room and notices there are no goblins swarming around her to get her attention-
Lady: Something isn't right.
-Lady goes down stairs to find something that will wake her up, she chooses coffee then walks back upstairs, she notices what looks like finger painting on the wall next to her room-
Goobluns huv gun thwoo Pruncusis uv tha Faez pluc, and a picture of a cookie was painted on the side.
Lady: Ah, the goblins decided to take a day off. Maybe I can start to work on that new fan fiction I was thinking about.
Gk: Maybe I can compose more songs; it would be nice to have some quiet.
Lady: You didn't leave to supervise your minions? I mean goblins?
Gk: No, I guess we get to spend the whole day together, without the Goblins. You might learn that I am not a vile creature that movie portrays me as. What I do is purely for the sake of my Labyrinth, I do not have any other choice.
Lady: I'm beginning to think wishing the Goblins back is a good idea, new fan fiction forsaken. But then I guess that means I still have to deal with you.
Gk: Your words hurt. Maybe you could teach me of your world's things, like the 'magical window' I believe the goblins called it.
Lady: The t.v? Rocky Horror is sounding good right now.
Gk: Hm?
Lady: Fine. I'll show you around, just look human. You can compose songs, quietly and at lunch I will take you out to my city.
Gk: We have a deal, so long as the Goblins stay away till after lunch. If they come back before then, I'll banish them. (Thought, not said). Then perhaps I can show you around the Goblin City.
Lady: Do not push your luck. –Turns to audience- So, opinions, criticism? Just want to plain tell me you don't like the story? Go ahead, the review button is waiting (although, if you are going to tell me you don't like the story please explain why. I'll see what I can do about it :) )
I've been contemplating a one shot or two for this story and I do have a good portion of it all planned out. There is just one scene which I'm a little fuzzy on the ratings on, but don't worry it should be fine.
Sorry this is so late, I almost missed the bus this morning so I had to post it this afternoon. Ah the life of a teen.
Please comment, rate and review! I might either send the goblins to Disneyland or give them cotton candy, comment for your preference.