The Labyrinth Re-Traveled

Author's note: Okay, it's official; I'm getting obsessed...if I wasn't already. (Ponders) Anyway, I just wanted to make sure that your read the right chapter four. The one that says 'Fuck off' at the end is the right one, so if you read that one your good. If you read the one that says 'Just like old times' at the end I would suggest that you go back and read it cuz I added onto it...yeah...so, hmmm...im sorry this chapter took a long time to write, but I wasn't allowed on the comp for a while, and when I finally COULD go online, the website was being a butt!! ::wails:: anyway, if this fic is posted, it obviously means that Fanfiction.net is up and running again. Enjoy ^_^


As Sarah neared the Labyrinth she could hear Jareth's voice overhead.
"You have 10 hours to complete the Labyrinth, before you are mine. Oh don't act surprised, as you so kindly told me before, you are no longer a child, and you don't need me to give you more time to solve something that is a 'piece of cake.'"
"That's not fair." Grumbled Sarah as she got to the outside wall. She looked around for the door, traveling partially down its length until she found the familiar green wooden door.
"Well, that was easy!" Smiled Sarah as she pushed up against it. She dug her feet into the ground as she pushed and pushed, but the door wouldn't budge. She pushed harder but that just made her shoulder ache. She brushed her hair out of her eyes and leaned against the door. How had she gotten in before? Ah, yes, now she remembered. That was when she had first met Hoggle, an ill-tempered spineless goblin, who was fumigating the population of faeries that lives in the plants along the wall. After talking to him for a while, he had opened the door for her and THAT'S how she had gotten in. But now, as she looked around, she didn't see hide or hair of the little bugger.
"Hoggle!" She cried looking around.
"Eh?" Came a voice. She turned around and saw the short goblin walking towards her in that funny way only he did. His eyes looked as shiny as the bag of jewels hanging at his belt and his goblin face was split up into a wide grin.
"Hoggle!!" Sarah cried happily. She ran over to him and hugged him tightly, "How are you?"
"I'm pretty good, how have YOU been? It's been quite a while since I've seen you last.
"Indeed it has!"
"Come to my house and meet the family. They be just dying to meet you."
"Oh Hoggle, I wish I could but I can't! It's my daughter, Jareth's got her and I got to save her!"
"Jareth, that no good dirty thief...why I autta...of course I'll help you Sarah."
"Thank you so much! We only have 10 hours so we need to hurry."
"Of course!" Hoggle said, opening the door with a wave of his hand and walking through the door way


In the Castle....

Jareth gazed fondly at Sarah in his crystal. He couldn't take his eyes off her auburn tresses, her deep hazel eyes that just swallowed him. She was like an angle, and angle that would love nothing more than to witness his destruction, but an angle none the less.
"M'lord." Came a timid voice from he door. "M'lord, The little Sarah wishes to see you."
Jareth looked up sharply at the goblin standing in the doorway.
"Very well, bring her in." he said waving his hand at the goblin. A second later Victoria stormed into the throne room, undisturbed at all by the goblins that littered the floor. They all started to chatter as she walked in and dozens of fingers pointed in her direction.
"Do you not have anything BETTER to do than gossip ALL DAY?" Snapped Jareth at the goblins. The chatter ended almost instantly and Jareth returned his gaze back on Victoria.
"Jareth!" She hissed, "I want to go home!! NOW!"
"Oh Victoria, it's not that simple." He reached over and brushed the hair out of her face and looked into her eyes. They were just like her mother's.
"Your eyes can be so cruel." He whispered.
"YOU can be so cruel!" Snapped Victoria.
"Don't play that game with me! I have had enough of your sarcastic remarks! You know just as well as I do that it's not as simple as letting you go! Your mother has made a deal with me."
"What kind of deal?" Victoria asked, narrowing her eyes.
"That if she could make it to you in 10 hours, you would both be free to go. But if she didn't, she'd take your place and rule as my queen."
The goblins around the floor burst into fits of laughter.
"Quiet!" Cried Jareth.
"Oh my god!" Victoria cried completely ignoring the goblins and clasping her hand to her mouth. "What have I done?" She sat on the floor and began to cry.
Jareth pinched the bridge of his nose and squeezed his eyes shut.
"Child, please stifle yourself. I've had enough tears for today!"
Victoria glared at him. She stood up, brushed of her pants, whipped her eyes on her sleeve and walked to the window.
"My mother is out there? How will she ever get here in time?!"
"She has done it before." Jareth said, walking up behind her.
"What?!" Victoria gasped looking at Jareth with astonished eyes.
"Oh yes, I must tell you the story some time, maybe tonight over supper."
"What-what will happen to me if my mother fails at the Labyrinth?"
"Why you are sent home of course." Jareth replied placing his hand on her shoulder.
"And what am I to tell my father?!" Vicky cried pushing his hand off.
"You'll think of something, you wanted to come. I could have kidnapped you, I could have MADE you come, but you wanted to. I would have thought you would be prepared for something like this."
"Oh god, what have I gotten myself into?" she said miserably, leaning against the window frame and looking out onto the vast twists and turns of the Labyrinth.
"Try not to think of it. Have a peach." Jareth hissed, grinning maliciously and offering her a small velvety peach.


"OoOo, I hate this place!" Sarah cried as she and Hoggle ran into yet another dead end. She turned and gave Hoggle an exasperated look.
"I have to make it to the castle!" She cried.
"Don't worry sarah, we'll get there in time." Hoggle patted her arm reassuringly and pulling her down a different path. Suddenly an all-too-familiar tinkling sound came speeding to their ears. The pair turned to see Jareth's crystal rolling behind them.
"Uh oh!" Sarah uttered as the crystal sped past them and hit the all. The glass orb rolled up the wall and ricocheted back at them. Sarah reached out her hand and grabbed it before it hit her face. Hoggle gave one frightened look at the crystal, turned and ran.
"Hoggle!!" Sarah screamed as she watched him disappear around the corner. She looked at the crystal in her hand and darted after him. When she also had turned the corner she chucked the crystal as hard as she could at his back. It hit his spine with a dull thud as he was sent to the ground.
"Hoggle you haven't changed a bit." Snapped Sarah, "How am I supposed to save my daughter on my own!? You said you would help me and now you're going to let a power hungry, Spandex wearing egotistical, mismatched eye FREAK stop you? Thanks for nothing, Hogwart."
"Hog-gle!" corrected Hoggle glaring at Sarah. She turned on her heel and continued down the path.
"You have 9 more hours my darling." Jareth's voice wafted from the crystal.
"Go to HELL!" Sarah shrieked as she broke into a run.
"Sarah wait!" came Hoggle's helpless plea. But Sarah didn't wait. All she could think about was Victoria. She needed to save her. She needed to get Victoria and she needed to get away from Jareth.
"Oh but there is no getting away from Me." Came Jareth's voice as the snowy owl swooped down at her. She screamed shrilly covering her ducked head with her arms as she continued to run. She could hear his malicious cackle, Victoria screaming, goblin's laughing, and a clock ticking all at once. It made a swarming mass of confusion that made her head spin. She felt dizzy, drunk almost and she leaned on the wall to clear her head. The lichen looked stared at her with clear blue eyes.
"What are you looking at?" she mumbled.
"Sarah?" Came a deep voice. Was it the lichen? Sarah turned her head and squinted at the big orange fuzzy object in front of her. She shook her head to clear it, and Ludo came into focus.
"Ludo!" she muttered feverishly. She stood up and wobbled drunkenly towards him. She was quickly engulfed in an enormous sea of orangish brown fur and hair as he hugged her.
"Sarah back!" he cried happily in is un-intellectual voice. "Ludo missed Sarah!"
"Sarah missed Ludo!" She sighed happily. Her head had stopped swirling and she could think once again.
"Why Sarah back?" Ludo asked.
"Jareth stole my daughter! I need to get her back!"
Ludo's eyes narrowed as soon as Jareth's name was said. He looked towards the castle and shook his fist angrily.
"C'mon Ludo. We can get through this together; you won't bail on me like Hoggle did." Sarah smiled at Ludo and the two made their way down the path.


Victoria looked at the clock on the wall. 9 hours and 23 minutes until her mother was doomed to a life of fucking Jareth and being served by goblins. She shuddered just thinking about it.



Okay you guys! THAT WAS A LONG CHAPTER! Im so tired!! ::snore:: okay, ne way, please write reviews telling me how this is cuz I wanna know how im doin...tx! MWAHS! ~A.P~