Disclaimer: I do not own Jareth, or the Labyrinth.
"How do we get across?" Natalie asked.
The bird hopped off of her shoulder and expanded. Natalie watched as it swelled, to a size large enough to carry her. Natalie stared up at it. It jumped into the air, beat its wings, and picked her up in its talons.
Natalie knelt in the little cage made of the bird's claws and held on. The bird flew, higher and higher, up towards the great domed ceiling. Then it circled down, landing in front of Jareth.
Natalie darted away from the bird, running back to the ditch. "Dan! Lene! Susan!" she shouted. "Can you get across?" She peered across the ditch.
Magdalene simply glided through. As she approached, Natalie could see that she was standing on the Star, the thing that had told her what to do in the graph room. Dan arrived a minute later, riding on a horse. He dismounted, and the horse shrunk down, into a chess knight.
Natalie looked up. Susan was riding on a dragon. A bright red, scaly, long-winged dragon. It swooped in for a landing, and Susan swung off of its neck. The dragon then shrank down, to the size of a small lizard, and crawled into Susan's pocket.
Magdalene and Natalie took Susan's hands. Natalie held out a hand to Dan, and led them across the room, to Jareth.
"You made it," he said.
"Yes, we did," Magdalene said.
"Make your wish, then."
Magdalene frowned. "What exactly will you do?"
"I will make her sleep unaging, until such time as she can be healed. Then I will awaken her and arrange for her to be healed. That is all I will promise you."
Natalie looked down at Susan. "Are you sure you want to do this, sweetheart?" she asked her little sister.
Susan nodded. "I want to be well," she said.
"You may never see any of us again."
Susan swallowed. "I'm scared," she whispered. "But I don't want to die"
Magdalene stroked her hair. "Do you want me to say it?" she asked gently.
"Yeah."
Magdalene stood up straight, looked straight at Jareth, and said, "I wish you would come and take my sister Susan away, right now."
Jareth stepped forwards and picked Susan up. He turned and walked away. Magdalene, Natalie, and Dan found themselves back in their living room again.
Susan was gone.
"What are we going to tell Mom and Dad?" Natalie asked.
"We aren't going to tell them anything. We watched the movie and all went to sleep early, and we're just as surprised as they are that Susan's gone. There's nothing we can tell them that would be believed."
Dan nodded. "She's right. There's no way that they'd believe that we wished for the King of the Goblins to come and take Susan to somewhere that they could cure her cancer-and had our wish granted."
