Labyrinth II
Disclaimer:I don't own the labyrinth movie rights and am not involved in anything legally binding that would cause me to be in trouble. Story I wrote about it is the only thing that I do own.
Anger Clouded Judgement
Sara awoke to the sweet scent of flowers. She turned on her side and looked upon a vase full of fresh, red roses.
"Jareth..." She smiled as she sat up and sniffed her roses. There was a note next to them, telling her to meet him down stairs and to also look in the closet for any clothes she might need. So Sara got out of bed, and checked out what Jareth could possibly have for her in his wardrobe.
She found dozens of sparkly dresses, all too classy for the trip they would have today, so she picked up her, now dry, pants and shirt and dressed comfortably. Now fully clothed, Sara went downstairs and found her Goblin King cooking breakfast for them.
"Good morning, princess." Jareth smiled as he watched her approach. "Hungry?" He asked.
"Maybe just a little." She told him, watching as he dished out some scrambled eggs, bacon, and toast. "Have any fruit?" She asked him. Jareth turned to the cupboard and magically brought out a fruit basket; filled with apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries, and grapes. Placing the basket in the middle of the table, Jareth watched as Sara hungrily ate at the assorted fruit and didn't even bother with the eggs or bacon.
"After you're done, I have a little present for you." Jareth told her, as he too sat down and ate an apple.
Sara looked up from her fruit and searched Jareth's eyes; wondering what he had in store for her. She ate quickly, and when they were both finished, he led her out of the castle and into a new building Sara had never seen before.
It was almost like a barn, but fancier. The stalls with in the structure were all empty, and Sara began to think that maybe he was just joking about the whole present business, until they reached the last stall.
"What...Is it?" She asked him, her eyes as big as dinner plates. She had never seen an animal like this before. Standing before them was a horse like creature, but with black tiger stripes up it's legs and over it's withers. It had cloven hooves, a lions tail, and cat eyes. It also seemed to have wings, but not the beautiful, white Pegasus like ones you'd expect. But scaly, dragon wings that, if extended all the way, measured 15 feet across. The body was a dappled color, sort of pretty, if you didn't take in the 'Jeepers Creepers' like wings. While Sara was taking in all this, Jareth was walking around the animal, talking to it and petting it here and there, just like it were a cute little puppy.
"He's one of a kind, and he's all yours. You get to name him, Sara." Jareth told her, coming around the creature, back to her side. "What do you think of him?"
Sara stood there and tried looking at the positive side of the animal, and with a lot of 'looking beyond what you see' she threw out how frightening the animal could be and accepted the fact that he had not harmed anyone yet. So that was good, right? She stepped forward and reached out her hand to stroke his muzzle, the creature met her half way and before she knew it, Sara had a new friend.
"I think I'll call him, Gremlin." She said, looking back at Jareth, "What do you think?"
"Perfect." He answered, "Now how bout a ride?" He asked, already opening the stall door and lifting her onto the animal. Quickly jumping on behind her, the creature now know as 'Gremlin' raced out of the and expanded his wings. Running at incredible speed, he jumped into the air, before Sara knew it, she was flying.
Soaring over the vast labyrinth, Sara felt herself become slightly sick when she looked down. Jareth would hold on tighter to her waist and make her feel more secure, leaving her feeling of dread to float away with the wind. While flying, Sara yelled over she shoulder and asked Jareth when they were to venture to the Keeper of Death's domain. He answered her by bringing up another subject, making her feel ticked off. Why was he stalling? Sara wondered as they continued their ride upon Gremlin.
When their ride was over, it was getting late, and Jareth was trying to lead her off to some other place when she put her foot down.
"Why can't we just go now?" She asked, glaring at him suspiciously.
"I...Suppose we could go, now." He told her, sounding uneasy. "You can only travel to this other world when our world is covered in darkness."
Sara trusted him, so she let him lead her back to the castle where she got a big surprise...
"I won't open it." Sara told Jareth, as she looked at the small, black box sitting on the table.
"Why not?" Asked the annoyed king.
"Because, I know what's in it and I don't want anything to do with that." She said, crossing her arms and glaring into his eyes.
"Damn your stubbornness!" Yelled Jareth as he picked up the box and opened it himself.
"It's not a ring?" She said, sounding amazed.
"No! At least, not yet." He smirked as he slipped out the silver chain and showed her the delicate, black stone attached to the necklace. "It's something I've been waiting to give you for some time..." He smiled as he placed it around her slender neck.
"It's pretty." She told him, looking down at the secretive looking stone. 'Wonder what hidden powers this has...' She thought as she played with the stone in her hands.
"Any how, are you ready for our journey?" He asked.
Sara looked back up at her goblin king and nodded her head, "Been ready." She told him.
Jareth stepped forward, wrapped his arms around Sara, and before she knew it, they were engulfed in complete darkness.
They were still in a fog of darkness when they arrived to their destination. "It's just how this place is." Jareth told her. As he led her by the hand, seeming to know where he was going, it began to rain.
"Lovely." Grumbled Sara as they dredged onward, "How are we going to find him?" She asked.
"We have to go to the Keeper and find out where she has placed his soul." Jareth replied.
As they walked along, Sara noticed white, floating round things. She didn't need to ask what they were, she already knew they were souls. As she continued onward, with Jareth still firmly holding her hand, she began to feel smothered.
"I can walk with out you holding my hand." She told him, trying to let go.
"You can't even see in this darkness, besides, there are not just souls in this place. Some things that are out here even you wouldn't want to tango with." Jareth told her.
"Like what?" Sara persisted, trying to get her hand free from his grasp.
Jareth stopped abruptly, and let go of her hand. "Go find out for yourself." He told her, annoyed out of his mind with her constant bickering with him. If she really thought she was able to go on her own, he'd let her have a go at it. Then maybe she'd realize how dangerous this world really was.
So, with her hand free, Sara walked by her self onward. It only took her about five steps before she realized she didn't have a clue where to go, it was still overpoweringly dark. "Jareth?" She called, hoping he was still near by. When she didn't get an answer back, she got a determined look upon her face and trudged onward. Ten steps later, she fell into a hole. A very deep one at that. It took her quite a while to crawl out of it, in the mud and filth. When she made it out, and was up and walking around again, she ran into something furry.
"Hello?" He called, and was answered with a pair of orange eyes and sharp teeth looking hungrily at her. Sara then began to run away from the creature like a chicken with its head cut off. She could feel the monsters breath against the back of her neck, as she let out a cry of fright. She heard a loud thump, and noticed that the monster was no longer chasing her. Stopping, she turned back to see where it had gone and noticed it had fallen into the same hole she had been stuck in.
"Serves you right!" She called to it as it jumped up and down, trying to escape the hole, making her flinch. With that monster taken care of, Sara went along her way again when she bumped into something more frightful than the first creature.
This one had long fangs, black holes in its head where eyes should have been, and razor sharp claws. It grabbed her by the shoulders, lifted her off the ground, and was about to sink it's teeth into her neck when a loud crack was heard and the monster thus let go of her and fell to the ground. Sara also landed in the mud as she looked up to a shadowy figure looking down on her.
"A little girl like you should stay with her boyfriend." The thing told her.
"He is not my boyfriend!" She yelled as the thing pulled her up by the hair and made her stand.
"Funny, that's not what all the rumors are saying." The shadowed creature told her as he grabbed her by the arm and started to drag her off.
"Where are you taking me?" Sara demanded, thrashing and growling the whole way.
"You are a pain in the ass." The shadow stated as he watched her throw herself to the ground. He just grabbed a clump of her hair and started dragging her that way towards his destination.
Sara began to cry out in pain as she yelled at him again, with more gusto than before, "Where are you taking me?!"
The creature looked down at the girl and gave a toothy grin, "To the Keeper of Death, isn't that what you're here for?"
Sara frowned at this and felt hot tears hit her face as he continued to drag her harshly through the muck and mud by her hair. 'Why did he let me leave his side?' Sara thought sadly as the strange monster continued his way towards the Keeper's castle.
"She'll come crawling back any minute now." Smirked the oh-so-confident Goblin King. So he stood there, in the rain, waiting. And waiting some more. After thirty minutes of this waiting business, he was really getting pissed. "What if she's already made it to the castle with out me? Wouldn't she just be so damn pleased with herself!" Jareth said to himself, picturing Sara and the keeper having a nice cup of tea, waiting for Jareth's arrival. "Well that's it!" Jareth stated, having enough. "I'm going to find that girl and give her a piece of my mind!" With that said, he walked on, careful not to fall in the huge hole, with the pissed off monster in it. Wait!...Jareth back pedaled and looked closely at the hole and the monster down below.
"Is the castle left or right?" He called down at the angry creature, "Oh! Never mind! I remember!" He stated as he continued his way, never noticing Sara's footprints. He made his way along the path for quite some time, until he noticed a dismembered monster right in front of his way. "Wonder what happened to him." Said the Goblin King as he walked around it and continued his way towards the castle.
Like Sara before him, had been lost in the labyrinth, Jareth now found himself lost in the world of the dead. "Not a nice predicament." He sighed as he turned around and headed in a new direction. "Castle has to be somewhere around here..." He mused, going along his merry way. He hit another dead end when he turned around to see a cloaked figure.
"Lost your way?" It laughed at the king.
Jareth smirked at the thing, "Course not, I'm Jareth the flipping Goblin King, I don't get lost." He stated, though the word 'flipping' was not exactly what he said.
The cloaked figure laughed openly at the king as it said in deep tones, "Just as stubborn as that girl."
Jareth was now in 'Mamma Bear' mode when he heard this thing talk of his Sara, "Where is she?" He demanded, taking out a crystal ball.
"What are you going to do? Give me a black eye or a bloody nose with that silly thing?" The shadow laughed as Jareth grew quite red in the face. He hated being laughed at. That was usually his job, to laugh at people.
"How about something a little more, dangerous?" The shadow grinned as it pulled out a black orb, "A little, black magic." Then, both threw their orbs at one another. Jareth's was full of white lightening (A big upgrade from sparkly confetti), and struck the creature on the side of the face. While the black orb emptied out black flames, catching the fashionably dresses goblin king's jacket on fire. Quickly ripping it off him, Jareth watched with sadness as his jacket burned to a crisp.
"What, was my favorite jacket." He seethed as he pointed at the taken aback creature, "You're mine now!" Jareth spoke, getting an evil expression upon his face. "Try this little slice!" He roared as he threw a 'special' crystal ball at the shadow, who had been too busy laughing at Jareth to realize what had just happened to him. The creature was now trapped inside the crystal.
"Tell me where you sent her?!" Jareth demanded, shaking the crystal like a snow globe, making the shadow figure float around like mad.
"Castle! Rasa's castle! Last time I saw her, Rasa had her all to herself!" Came the squeaky little voice of the shadow.
"Tell me where the castle is!" Jareth yelled, shaking the crystal again.
"To the left! There's a trap door! Go through it and it will lead you to the castle!" Squeaked the now sick to his stomach shadow.
Jareth pocketed the crystal, and headed for the trap door. Rasa may have been stronger than him before, but this stealing of his girl meant war! Jareth just hoped he'd reach Sara in time, before something even he couldn't fix happened...
VashandNaomiForever: Thanks for reviewing! It's been a while since I have been really active with this story, so here I am again! Hope this chapter works for you all, more on its way, wonder what's going to happen?...Please keep reviewing! I love to hear what you think of it! Thanks again! You guys are the best! V.N.F.