Chapter 8

Victoria wasnt the only one getting worried. Sarah was begining to feel panicked, contained, and utterly stressed. She ripped off a piece of her shirt and stuffed it in her mouth to stop the bleeding from the hole where her tooth once was. She walked around the Oubliette over and over again, so many times in fact that it was starting to make Ludo dizzy just watching her. She leaned against the wall and looked up into the ceiling.

"There's no way out....or, or.." she spit out the cloth and stuck her finger into the space to put preassure on the spot. "or maybe i'm just taking it for granted there isn't!"

"No way out!" Ludo grunted. Sarah rolled her eyes. She sucked on her finger as she walked around again. She remembered the first time she was stuck in the Oubliette. Hoggle had taken a board and pressed it up to the wall. She closed her eyes and a wave of memory came back to her.

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~FLASHBACK!!~

"Can't get everything right the first time." Hoggle laughed as he opened the door again. This time it revealed a passage way out. "Ah, here we go."

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Sarah looked around around. She could barely see anything in the dim light of her prison, but could just make out the shape of a board on the ground. She walked over to it and pushed it up against the wall.

"What is Sarah doing?" Ludo asked.

"Sarah, oOomf!" She grunted as she pushed against the wall. "Is saving our asses that's what she's doing." She opened the 'door' and shrieked in happiness.

"It worked!" She gasp jumping up and down.

"It worked!" Ludo cried too. The two danced around for a little bit in thier joy. Finally Sarah stopped and looked at Ludo.

"Okay, let's go save Victoria." and she ran out, Ludo following her clumsily.

They ran past the false alarms, totaly ignoring their bogus warnings about going the wrong way, which they weren't. Sarah found the ladder she had climbed up last time, and practicaly flew up. She emerged not out of the vase, like last time, but out of a hole in the junkyard.

"Hey, this didn't come out here last time!" Sarah said scratching her head. Ludo pulled himself out of the hole and looked around.

"Hmmm." Muttered Ludo.

"Well, this is better y'anno. 'Cuz, now we're closer to the goblin city, and you know what's beyond the goblin city...."

"Jareth!" Ludo cried. Sarah nodded and they started off towards the city.

"Where is she?" Victoria said scanning the horizon. She had just looked into Jareth's Crystal and saw that her mother had emerged from a hole in the Junkyard.

"Probably in a time trap." Yawned Jareth looking at the clock. Sarah's time was slipping away; in just a few hours she would be his. He smirked.

"Don't be counting your chickens just yet!" Snapped Victoria watching him with narrowed eyes.

"Oh come now, you act like I kidnapped you or somthing. You brought this on yourself. You summoned ME remember?"

"Yes." groaned Victoria.

"And WHY did you do that?" Asked Jareth mockingly.

"Because-"

"Because.."

"Because when I read that book, i wanted to be a part of it. With the handsome King of the Goblins, ruling as his Queen."

Jareth's ego swelled.

"But i was sadly disapointed, when i found out that there was no handsome King of the Goblins."

Ptzzzzzz it deflated.

"What!?" Asked Jareth.

"There is no handsome King of the Goblins. Just YOU."

"Just me?! Well i'll just have you know that i'm wanted by PLENTY of goblins!"

"Yeah, GOBLINS!! Not real people."

"How DARE you?!"

"I do dare!" Victoria snapped looking out the window. She had spent so much time at it that she decided she would ask Jareth if she could take it with her when she left.



This is pretty short i know, but...i just wanna get chapters out cuz i've been writing really slow...and not cuz im grounded...it's because my heart is broken in two and i just can't write as fast as i can so bear with me peez.

Thank U Bunches 'n Bunches,

Anne Parkington