Chapter 10 – Dying Again

"Hello Jareth, I see that the labyrinth is dying again. I guess your spells didn't work," Broderick said with large smirk.

"Broderick, did you say anything to Kiara to make her leave the labyrinth?" Jareth asked using all of his willpower to keep himself standing.

"Who is Kiara?"

"My fairy," he answered getting annoyed already with his brother.

Broderick smirked, "Oh, so your little servant girl ran away. I certainly didn't speak to her, really Jareth I thought you knew me better than that. Why do you care anyway, the underground is full of fairies. I am sure you can find a much better behaved one."

Jareth glared at his brother and wondered if he was telling the truth. "Give me the moonstone. It looks like I will need it after all."

"I'll make you a deal; I will give you the moonstone if you give me the labyrinth."

"What? You can't be serious," Jareth looked at him in disbelief. He thought he knew his brother well, but he never expected him to sink to this level.

With a laugh Broderick held the moonstone out just out of Jareth's reach. "Do you want to die or will you give me the labyrinth?"

"I guess I'll die," Jareth said and turned to leave the room. He soon found himself back at Kiara's cottage. It was the only place he felt he could die in peace. His brother would most likely leave him alone in there and Tia would never go into a servant's home. He needed to see Kiara again and talk to her face to face. He debated trying the mirror, but he was sure that it wouldn't work the other way around.

Kiara continued to watch over Jareth hoping that he would change his mind so that she could go back to him without Broderick destroying the moonstone. The time passed surprisingly quickly and she saw that like herself Jareth hadn't eaten anything in at least two days. She wasn't eating because she was so depressed that she didn't bother getting out of bed. Jareth didn't eat because he physically couldn't get off of the couch.

Kiara knew she had to do something before it was too late. "Hoggle, Didymus, Rabz, any available goblins," she called into the vanity mirror.

Hoggle appeared first, "Girlie, what is going on around here and why are you aboveground?" Kiara turned around to see her room full of goblins that were actually being quiet and ready to hear what she called them up for.

"Listen guys, Broderick stole the moonstone from me and now he is waiting for Jareth to either die or give him the labyrinth," Kiara explained.

"That's why he took the moonstone?" Hoggle asked and nodded to himself. He should have suspected that something big would have gone wrong.

Kiara nodded, "He will destroy it if I enter the labyrinth before he gets control. I need you guys to help steal it back from him."

"His magic is really powerful," one of the goblins said and the rest agreed with him.

"Do you really want the next rulers of the labyrinth to be Queen Vivian and King Broderick? They will banish all of the goblins and I doubt the rest of you will enjoy whatever they will do with you."

Didymus finally spoke up, "My lady, you are still our queen and we will do as you command. We will fight to death to do your bidding." Hoggle looked scared to death, but the goblins started getting excited to have a little fun. They all headed back through the mirror and Kiara watched in her crystal ball as she waited for the goblins to get a hold of the stone. She just hoped that none of those goblins were the spies.

The goblins came through for her and started creating chaos in the throne room. They jumped all around their almost new king spilling ale and who knows what else all over him. One finally got the chance and easily snatched the stone away. Broderick was just about to smack the goblin into the wall when Kiara quickly sent herself into the labyrinth with a shield around her. She was actually surprised when it worked, she wasn't very good at shields and she very rarely ever teleported where she meant to. She held on tightly to the moonstone and ran towards her cottage with Broderick following.

A few seconds of running and Kiara took off into the air. Her wing was hurt from Broderick pulling at it, but it would fly. Broderick changed into a falcon, but was nowhere near as fast as a fairy. Kiara made it back to the cottage and sat down right next to Jareth.

"Kiara?" Jareth mumbled. She could see that he was barely hanging on, "I need to talk to you."

"I know, but first I need your help," Kiara said and she tried to push magic into Jareth as quickly as possible." She just finished when Broderick blew up the front door.

Jareth shook his head trying to clear it and looked at his brother. He could feel the pure fear coming from Kiara as she clutched something tightly in her hands. "Would someone like to tell me what is going on?"

Broderick waved his hand throwing Jareth into the wall and easily picked up Kiara by the shoulders. "Listen fairy, this wasn't the deal now give that stone back." Jareth tried to focus his eyes onto what was happening, but was starting to get really dizzy. He stood up and held his hand against the wall to support him.

Kiara looked at Jareth hoping that he would be able to help her, but it looked like she was on her own. "No, the moonstone is mine, you said that Jareth would live. If I didn't give him magic right then he probably would be dead already."

The next thing Kiara knew is that she was thrown at the wall and landed next to Jareth; her eyes were closed and she wasn't moving. Jareth was able to see that clearly and this time he let his temper snap. He was suddenly filled with extra energy and the skies turned completely black. "That is my fairy you just hurt, now you are going to get it." Jareth sent a powerful beam of magic at his brother which threw him back breaking all of the furniture he landed on.

Broderick got up laughing, "Go on big brother and keep hitting me with magic. Soon you will have nothing left and this kingdom will be mine."

Jareth realized he was right and stopped, "Fine then, I am banishing you from my labyrinth. Now disappear." He twitched his hand and last bit of magic that Kiara gave him was gone.

Broderick was still laughing as his body disappeared from the labyrinth, "As soon as you die Jareth this land will belong to me and Vivian." The laughter echoed in the cottage a few seconds after the image was gone.

Kiara was coming back around as Jareth collapsed on the floor. He was struggling to stay awake and felt around for Kiara's hand. She held onto it and started crying once again, "Jareth I am so sorry, this wasn't supposed to happen."

"Kiara, I didn't want you to leave," Jareth said between tortured breaths, "I don't…"

"I know, I know; you don't hate me," Kiara said with a small laugh, "Jareth, take me back as your queen. I want to come home to the labyrinth."

Jareth smirked a little bit as he fell back into Kiara's arms, "Even as my servant girl?"

Kiara almost laughed hearing Jareth trying to tease her. It was the Jareth that she loved to be around, "I'll be a good servant girl this time. Tell me how to undo this."

"I don't know. It's too late."