HOGGLE:
Chapter 7: Sarah discover Jareth´s little secret, will be now a chance for her to escape?
Sarah smoothed the skirt of her royal blue brocade garment, the style was Renaissance. It was the same dress of her dream. She was minding that everything that had happened to her until now was exactly like her dream. And most important of all, minding if Jareth would kiss her. "Since when do you dream these things girl? He is the bad guy. . . well, may by not so bad and he's so handsome" her inner voice had not left her even a moment in the whole day As she approached the nearest door, Sarah noticed that a strange blue light was being emitted from the crack beneath it
"Don't even think about it!" Sarah heard her inner voice say, but before she knew it, her hand was tentatively gripping the heavy metal doorknob.
"Ok, if it doesn't open, you are turning right around and pretending that you never saw it!" The knob turned easily, allowing more light to fall onto Sarah's frozen form.
"You are not going in there! . . . You are not going in there!" Sarah pushed the door open all the way, blue light flooding the hallway around her. "You are just as stubborn as him! Don't start whining when something happens" Sarah held her breath and stepped inside.
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Jareth was King of the Castle, and he would tolerate no will that was not his own, if he manage to discover what he was doing it would be his end. Then he stopped. A more potent emotion than fear was working on him, he wasn't alone anymore. "No I'm not. I'm not doing nothing wrong" He galloped towards the door straight into a pair of knees.
"Hoggle" Sarah said relieved "What are you doing here?" "Ah ..." Hoggle was staring at Sarah's feet "I was. preparing myself for your coronation?" He wished the future Queen of the Goblins would kick him, or do anything, anything but smile at him like that. He could not lie to her.
"Oh" was her response, then she sat next to him without mattering that her gown could get dirty "at least you will be with me"
He looked at her one more time, she was breathtaking in the bride dress, though now he was sure that his friend did not know this detail. " I thought that you wanted this, that it was one of your dreams", "It is" Sarah said, simply. Hoggle cocked his gnomish head and looked at her from under one bushy eyebrow "I was so scare about losing of all you, I always wanted to live here, be a princess.but I miss my brother and I never said goodbye to my father, there were things I wanted to do before disappearing here, all is lost now"
Hoggle was vacillating in hogglish dilemma. His hand was in the pouch that hung from his belt, fingering the crystal from which the blue light come "Take this Sarah, this would return you aboveground" he said, and then held out his hand. In it Sarah saw the most perfect of Jareth's spheres, it was glowing.
"But how can this be possible?" Sarah took of his hands the beaming ball " Jareth made a deal, it was your brother the wished one, he exchanged him for you, this had never happened, so there are no rules, you are free." "Hoggle, do you understand what this means? I can go home, I don't need to solve the labyrinth, I can escape him ... why didn't you tell me before?"
"When you defeated him he forgave us because he said that you would come back." Then he spent a little while scratching his backside "And the day that I found you in the oubliette he announced his wedding, when we discovered that he spoke of you, he threatened us with hurting you if we told you his secret. He said that with you the labyrinth would be complete, and that always we might see you."
Sarah did not speak "Sarah we want you to be happy though you have to be far from us. Not, you neither say it, nor think it, with you far from his scope we'll be ok"
"I'll call," she whispered. "Everyday, because I always need you; promise me that you'll answer, " She paused, and added, still in a whisper, "Please"
"Cursed you Sarah, don't cry or you'll make me too, now go" She held out her arms. "Thank you, Hoggle." She caught hold of him and leaned over toward his face.
And she kissed him, and the earth moved beneath them. again.
***********
Hoggle shut his eyes and said with a puckered mouth, "Urrrggh!" Sarah's reaction was quite similar. All her attention was concentrated on her sense of smell
"Urrrrggggh!" Hoggle groaned " The bog of eternal stench!"
It was darkish khaki in colour. All across its surface, bubbles of fetid air, having forced their way up through the viscous sludge, were gently popping. As they popped they cast a little spray of filth in a ring around them, and it took several minutes for the droplets to settle back again.
She recalled her last visit.the kiss! "Oh my God, I don't believe his treat still works" The noise was indescribably disgusting " His.. majesty ... " he gasped. "It's ... a . very" he swallowed, ". . . jealous fae" Sarah covered her nose trying to avoid the smell
"I wish that Jareth was breathing this air instead us, and that we have the clean one ... I'm sure he would faint, he deserves it for creating something like this; I am going to get sick" Hoggle ran in her help when suddenly he noticed that the smell had gone "Fresh air" He looked at Sarah with wide eyes.
"Smmelllll good" They listened a voice after them. A belligerent little figure came running out from behind the beast that had just spoken "Of what speakest thou my brother?" The air," the fox pronounced, "is sweet and fragrant as always"
He was wearing a smart jerkin, cut in the military style, and a cap with a plume in it. His moustache was white and aristocratically long. Sarah smiled warmly. "Didymus!"
"Well met Milady" He bowed briskly from the waist. "Sir Didymus is my name, and who shall be thou fair maiden" Sarah advance a step in order that Didymus could see her with clarity " Don't you recognize me? "
The beast lift her in a great embrace. It was Ludo. "Sarah - - friend" "You can put me down now, Ludo," she said gratefully. "My lady Sarah is that you?", "of course is she" Hoggle scold "Greetings Sir Hoggle, we had missed your company"
While Hoggle was reporting of their situation and everything that had happened, Ludo was thinking how good it was to breathe sweet air, Sarah at his side shared these thoughts, but mostly she was preoccupied with the way to follow, it was the fireys or Agnes, the junk Lady
"Have no fear, sweet madam," Sir Didymus reassured her "We are to yours service, we would fight for your return home" He looked around and barked out, "Ambrosius! My noble steed, Lady Sarah is in need of our help"
The Knight executed a gallant reverence her yielding her the lead.
"Thank you, noble sir," Sarah said smiling
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He got up, moaning softly. Something had happened. Something . When he remembered he stopped. Sarah. She had discovered his secret, the labyrinth already had started obeying her and it seems that her first wish was made for him. He crossed the space among the room of the throne and top camera; he opened the door at one stroke and crossed the dark chamber in big steps, until he reached the shaded opening to the other side.
" Sarah? " He waited for a moment, then he shouted again " Sarah! "
Nothing at all. The palace was empty. The idea made Jareth blink. "She has to be in the maze, but where" he knew that she would be upset, but to manage to escape towards the labyrinth? To try to hide from him, in his own labyrinth? He summoned a crystal. " Show her to me "
AN: Sorry guys for the long pause in the story; my computer is gone so you will have to wait a little more for next chapters; I promise that I won´t stop posting, I´ll find some way. Review (you know you want it ;) )
Chapter 7: Sarah discover Jareth´s little secret, will be now a chance for her to escape?
Sarah smoothed the skirt of her royal blue brocade garment, the style was Renaissance. It was the same dress of her dream. She was minding that everything that had happened to her until now was exactly like her dream. And most important of all, minding if Jareth would kiss her. "Since when do you dream these things girl? He is the bad guy. . . well, may by not so bad and he's so handsome" her inner voice had not left her even a moment in the whole day As she approached the nearest door, Sarah noticed that a strange blue light was being emitted from the crack beneath it
"Don't even think about it!" Sarah heard her inner voice say, but before she knew it, her hand was tentatively gripping the heavy metal doorknob.
"Ok, if it doesn't open, you are turning right around and pretending that you never saw it!" The knob turned easily, allowing more light to fall onto Sarah's frozen form.
"You are not going in there! . . . You are not going in there!" Sarah pushed the door open all the way, blue light flooding the hallway around her. "You are just as stubborn as him! Don't start whining when something happens" Sarah held her breath and stepped inside.
*************
Jareth was King of the Castle, and he would tolerate no will that was not his own, if he manage to discover what he was doing it would be his end. Then he stopped. A more potent emotion than fear was working on him, he wasn't alone anymore. "No I'm not. I'm not doing nothing wrong" He galloped towards the door straight into a pair of knees.
"Hoggle" Sarah said relieved "What are you doing here?" "Ah ..." Hoggle was staring at Sarah's feet "I was. preparing myself for your coronation?" He wished the future Queen of the Goblins would kick him, or do anything, anything but smile at him like that. He could not lie to her.
"Oh" was her response, then she sat next to him without mattering that her gown could get dirty "at least you will be with me"
He looked at her one more time, she was breathtaking in the bride dress, though now he was sure that his friend did not know this detail. " I thought that you wanted this, that it was one of your dreams", "It is" Sarah said, simply. Hoggle cocked his gnomish head and looked at her from under one bushy eyebrow "I was so scare about losing of all you, I always wanted to live here, be a princess.but I miss my brother and I never said goodbye to my father, there were things I wanted to do before disappearing here, all is lost now"
Hoggle was vacillating in hogglish dilemma. His hand was in the pouch that hung from his belt, fingering the crystal from which the blue light come "Take this Sarah, this would return you aboveground" he said, and then held out his hand. In it Sarah saw the most perfect of Jareth's spheres, it was glowing.
"But how can this be possible?" Sarah took of his hands the beaming ball " Jareth made a deal, it was your brother the wished one, he exchanged him for you, this had never happened, so there are no rules, you are free." "Hoggle, do you understand what this means? I can go home, I don't need to solve the labyrinth, I can escape him ... why didn't you tell me before?"
"When you defeated him he forgave us because he said that you would come back." Then he spent a little while scratching his backside "And the day that I found you in the oubliette he announced his wedding, when we discovered that he spoke of you, he threatened us with hurting you if we told you his secret. He said that with you the labyrinth would be complete, and that always we might see you."
Sarah did not speak "Sarah we want you to be happy though you have to be far from us. Not, you neither say it, nor think it, with you far from his scope we'll be ok"
"I'll call," she whispered. "Everyday, because I always need you; promise me that you'll answer, " She paused, and added, still in a whisper, "Please"
"Cursed you Sarah, don't cry or you'll make me too, now go" She held out her arms. "Thank you, Hoggle." She caught hold of him and leaned over toward his face.
And she kissed him, and the earth moved beneath them. again.
***********
Hoggle shut his eyes and said with a puckered mouth, "Urrrggh!" Sarah's reaction was quite similar. All her attention was concentrated on her sense of smell
"Urrrrggggh!" Hoggle groaned " The bog of eternal stench!"
It was darkish khaki in colour. All across its surface, bubbles of fetid air, having forced their way up through the viscous sludge, were gently popping. As they popped they cast a little spray of filth in a ring around them, and it took several minutes for the droplets to settle back again.
She recalled her last visit.the kiss! "Oh my God, I don't believe his treat still works" The noise was indescribably disgusting " His.. majesty ... " he gasped. "It's ... a . very" he swallowed, ". . . jealous fae" Sarah covered her nose trying to avoid the smell
"I wish that Jareth was breathing this air instead us, and that we have the clean one ... I'm sure he would faint, he deserves it for creating something like this; I am going to get sick" Hoggle ran in her help when suddenly he noticed that the smell had gone "Fresh air" He looked at Sarah with wide eyes.
"Smmelllll good" They listened a voice after them. A belligerent little figure came running out from behind the beast that had just spoken "Of what speakest thou my brother?" The air," the fox pronounced, "is sweet and fragrant as always"
He was wearing a smart jerkin, cut in the military style, and a cap with a plume in it. His moustache was white and aristocratically long. Sarah smiled warmly. "Didymus!"
"Well met Milady" He bowed briskly from the waist. "Sir Didymus is my name, and who shall be thou fair maiden" Sarah advance a step in order that Didymus could see her with clarity " Don't you recognize me? "
The beast lift her in a great embrace. It was Ludo. "Sarah - - friend" "You can put me down now, Ludo," she said gratefully. "My lady Sarah is that you?", "of course is she" Hoggle scold "Greetings Sir Hoggle, we had missed your company"
While Hoggle was reporting of their situation and everything that had happened, Ludo was thinking how good it was to breathe sweet air, Sarah at his side shared these thoughts, but mostly she was preoccupied with the way to follow, it was the fireys or Agnes, the junk Lady
"Have no fear, sweet madam," Sir Didymus reassured her "We are to yours service, we would fight for your return home" He looked around and barked out, "Ambrosius! My noble steed, Lady Sarah is in need of our help"
The Knight executed a gallant reverence her yielding her the lead.
"Thank you, noble sir," Sarah said smiling
*********
He got up, moaning softly. Something had happened. Something . When he remembered he stopped. Sarah. She had discovered his secret, the labyrinth already had started obeying her and it seems that her first wish was made for him. He crossed the space among the room of the throne and top camera; he opened the door at one stroke and crossed the dark chamber in big steps, until he reached the shaded opening to the other side.
" Sarah? " He waited for a moment, then he shouted again " Sarah! "
Nothing at all. The palace was empty. The idea made Jareth blink. "She has to be in the maze, but where" he knew that she would be upset, but to manage to escape towards the labyrinth? To try to hide from him, in his own labyrinth? He summoned a crystal. " Show her to me "
AN: Sorry guys for the long pause in the story; my computer is gone so you will have to wait a little more for next chapters; I promise that I won´t stop posting, I´ll find some way. Review (you know you want it ;) )
