Disclaimer: See part one for disclaimers and dedications.

Lisa cradled the owl in her arms as Goldy raced to the place where Medicus, the medical unicorn, spent the night, Jamie flying beside them as fast as his wings could take him. She knew Janis Thorn's poison will cause paralysis and then death if not treated. Medicus had found a cure for it, and not a moment too soon. Now he always kept a supply of it in his cart.

"Just hang on," she told the owl. "We're almost there." She silently gave thanks that Goldy could run forever if he wanted to.

Lisa could hear the owl's heart slow down, its eyes closing. She had to hurry; she dug her heels into Goldy, urging him to go faster. "Jamie, catch up when you can!" she shouted.

Goldy took a deep breath and widened his stride, going faster and faster. The trees whizzed by so fast they were a blur. The owl jerked in her arms, like a spasm.

They reached Medicus's place in no time. The white unicorn was sleeping in a bed of leaves; his cart was in the corner.

Lisa jumped down off of Goldy and screeched, "Medicus!"

The unicorn whinnied in surprise, jumping to his feet.

"Medicus, I need the cure for Janis Thorn's poison. Now!"

Medicus shook the sleep out of his head and went to his cart. He looked at the patient in Lisa's arms and levitated out a bowl of off-white cream. Lisa dipped her fingers into the stuff and rubbed it into the gash in the owl's chest. The wound closed up, but there was a scar exposed by missing feathers. The owl, though, started to breathe easier and opened its eyes. To Lisa's surprise, one was blue and one was brown.

"Hi," she said to it, softly. "You're safe now."

The owl blinked and hooted in pain. His wing was stuck at an odd angle and throbbing. She growled. "I think his wing is broken. Damn that unicorn." She looked up. "Medicus?"

The unicorn yawned and came closer to examine the owl. He nodded to indicate that, yes, the wing was broken. He went through his cart again, levitating out a long cloth soaked in some sort of blue liquid. "I'll help you make sure the bones are straight, and you wrap it around the break." Medicus said, speaking the basic unicorn language of Alnilam, which nearly everyone on the planet, Lisa included, understood; even Goldy, who wasn't from Alnilam.

Lisa did as she was told. The owl jerked again as she straightened the bones under Medicus' instructions and wrapped the cloth around the wing. "Sorry," she said. When she got it wrapped tight, she let Medicus examine him to make sure nothing else was wrong, and when there wasn't, she said, "Goldy, let's get it to my place. I'll find a place for it to sleep. Thanks, Medicus. You can go back to bed now."

Jamie flew through the clearing, exhausted, and landed on Goldy's back. Medicus nodded to Lisa and yawned again, then lay down in his bed. Lisa climbed back onto Goldy, keeping Jamie in front of her and he ran at an easy canter first toward their picnic site to gather their stuff, then to the house.

Lisa's house did not look large from the outside, but once you walked in, you wonder how so many rooms fit. The main reason there was so much space was because of the unicorns that were almost constantly in and out. The house was big enough to accommodate their size if a group of them had to be inside at the same time.

Once you walked up the front porch past the swing and walked inside, you're in the living room, which is between the kitchen on the right and the dining room on the left. The living room contains a big screen television to which was hooked every gaming system ever made (and I mean every, from Atari to X-Box), plus three VCRs (VHS, Super VHS, and Beta), a laserdisc player, a DVD player, and CD changer/stereo. Next to the television is a very, very tall display case holding every video game ever made (still in cases and in mint condition) with a built-in cabinet for the playable copies of the games. A door off to the side led to Lisa's library, which was full to the ceiling with books, DVDs, CDs, laserdiscs, and videos.

Straight down from the living room was what Lisa liked to call the "Hall O' Rooms". It's a long hallway with doors all along it. Through the doors are bedrooms with their own bathroom. Lisa's room is the first door on the right; the others are unoccupied. They were all identical (except Lisa's was slightly larger), containing a bed, dresser, closet, and, as stated before, private bathroom with all the necessities therein.

The dining room and kitchen were nothing to write home about. They held the essentials and were in easy view of the TV. There was also a door leading to the outside. Behind the house was what could only be described as a habitat. It was for Lisa's Pokémon to live outside their PokéBalls, free.

The most interesting feature of the house was the wall-pulley system. Each of the rooms in the Hall O' Rooms faced the outside and, down just above the floor on the inside and outside, was a little lever. When stepped on, the outside wall would slide up and into a recess in the ceiling, giving the unicorns direct access to those rooms; very handy if Medicus, the medical unicorn, needed to see a patient in those rooms since his cart didn't go up the porch step very well.

Lisa set the owl gently on her couch when she got there, then went to look for something it could sleep in. Jamie flew into Lisa's bedroom to rest his wings. Lisa suddenly "heard" Goldy's voice in her head. He sounded alarmed.

~Lisa!~

She came running back only to find the owl had turned into a man. He was dressed in tights and an open-necked shirt. His blond hair was long and wild. Underneath a grand pendant around his neck, there was a mark or scar on his chest where Janis Thorn had slashed him, and his arm was bent from the cloth wrapped around it. He looked like he was asleep.

Jamie came flying in. What's happened? he asked in mind-speech. He had sensed Goldy's alarm.

Lisa spoke telepathically, so not to wake up her…guest. The owl turned into a man. She decided there was only one way, short of waking him or waiting until he'd woken, to find out who we was. She opened her mind, concentrated, and searched his.

Jareth. Goblin King. Labyrinth.

He's the Goblin King! Lisa said excitedly. She'd heard about him, of course, and had seen the Earth movie, but never actually expected to meet him! Strange how he looked a little like David Bowie. I wonder why he was watching us.

~Isn't it obvious?~ Goldy said. ~He probably took an interest in you. Everyone does.~ There was a hint of sadness in his voice that Lisa wouldn't or couldn't catch.

He had a point. The list of Lisa's guys was endless. Who would complain if the Goblin King were to be added? Although, Lisa hadn't fallen in love quite yet. If Lisa remembered the story right, he had fallen in love with a human girl named Sarah. Okay, so she had spurned him, so maybe Lisa had a chance if it did happen. It wasn't as if she were helpless. Lisa had powers of her own.

Lisa decided to let Jareth sleep. She even stayed by his side all night. Goldy spent the night lying beside Lisa, but because he, too, had heard of the Goblin King and what he was capable of. He wasn't going to let him hurt Lisa. Jamie slept on a chair where he could keep an eye on everyone in the room. He wasn't about to let anything happen to Lisa, either.

Lisa herself was flattered that her two friends would go to these lengths to protect her. She settled on a cushy chair for the night.

***

Lisa hadn't even realized she had fallen asleep until she felt something softly pushing at her hand. It was Goldy, nudging her with his velvety nose. He gestured with his horn at the sleeping Jareth on the couch. Lisa looked over, and saw that he was waking up.

She immediately got to her feet and went to him, watching him.

Jareth's mismatched eyes opened and focused on Lisa. His brow furrowed in confusion, then he winced in pain and clutched his broken arm.

"Oh!" said Lisa. "I forgot! This medicine was made for birds. It won't work on you." She moved to unwrap the cloth from his arm, but he twisted out of her reach.

"Now, really, Jareth, you're acting like a child." Lisa said, crossing her arms and acting a lot more overconfident than normal.

He considered, then stopped squirming. As Lisa un-bandaged his arm, he asked simply, "Why?"

"Why what? Why am I helping you?"

He chuckled. "Yes, although that wasn't what I was going for. Why won't it work?"

Lisa removed the bandage. His arm was red where the break was. "Medicus made this with medicine for birds. You were an owl before, remember? I have the one for humanoids. Stay there."

She disappeared down the hall and returned a minute later carrying another medicine-soaked cloth. This time, it was green. "Will you let me wrap it?" she asked him.

He nodded.

She hoped the broken bones had started to kit already as she wrapped his arm. "I'm helping you because I have a weakness. It's called compassion. If I had let Janis Thorn's poison set in, it would've killed you quicker than you could say, 'dance magic'."

He looked up sharply at her, wondering how she could know about that.

Lisa smiled. "Guess that really happened." She went over to the cabinet and took something out. A DVD movie. She brought it to him and held it out he could see the cover. "This movie was made about you, by Jim Henson."

Jareth took the DVD in his hands and studied the cover, which showed the goblins, the Escher Room, Sarah, and…himself. The title Labyrinth was printed at the top and the caption, "Where Everything Seems Possible And Nothing Is What It Seems" at the bottom. He flipped the case over in his hands to look at the back, then turned it again. He stared at the representation of himself.

"Uncanny, ain't it?" Lisa questioned, taking the movie back from him and putting it away. "Just between you and me and my 'bodyguards' over there…" she jerked her thumb to her right, where the golden unicorn and the black flit were staring at him, "I think you're better looking in person."

He glanced up and her and she just shrugged.

~Why are you here?~ Goldy suddenly asked, surprising Lisa. He was always so quiet and polite. His horn shimmered, almost as if he wanted to use it.

Lisa started at the unicorn, astonished by his change of attitude.

"It…" Jareth began, trying to sit up a little but being stopped by a spasm of pain in his arm. "It wasn't by choice, really," he said, grunting a little. "I was flying over the forest and spotted a mist between the trees. I went to investigate and found myself here. I narrowly missed being attacked by one of his kind," he nodded in Goldy's direction, "with a horn that looked halfway made of wood."

"Woodhorn," said Lisa. "You found a Gate."

But you were following us, Jamie said. That surprised Lisa more. Jamie usually always kept quiet.

"That's enough," Lisa said before Jareth could answer. "Leave him alone. Other than that," she gestured to Jareth's broken arm, "there's no harm done."

End part two.