"With dreams to be a king, first one should be a man" -Manowar 'Warriors of the World Unite'

I did a bad thing, I misspelled Sarah's name so I'm fixing it now. Thx to DJinn I fixed those mistakes so please forgive me.

Disclaimers (the worst of it all) - I sadly don't own the Labyrinth aka Jareth nor Sara. I do own Kira, and James Lee. Nor do I own the rights to Manowar's Warriors of the World Unite song. I'm just toying with things I will never have.

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"Don't mess with me," Kira hissed through clenched teeth at the blond standing before her. Melissa seemed to think it was funny to mock and provoke her inner demon. It would only get her burned.

"Why what are you going to do? Turn your little dark group on me? Oh I'm so scared." She spat sarcastically.

"No," a wicked grin took over her features. Her hands rolled together, palms rubbing together with the back of her hand facing Melissa. A black onyx orb appeared out of thin air, her gift since childhood. "I'm going to do much worse." She twirled it on her left hand as her right reaches in her pocket for her lighter.

Melissa rolled her eyes at the 'tricks', not really paying any attention. It was cheap magic tricks and lots of practice. *Like she could do anything other than magic tricks,* she thought coldly.

"Oh I'll do more than mere magic tricks," she laughed coldly as she let the orb rest on her thumb, forefinger, and middle finger. "I'll do much more than magic tricks," she clicked the cheap black lighter on and lit the orb from in between her fingers. The flames attached themselves to the ball, licking at her fingers but never scorched the exterior of her black leather gloves. Releasing the switch, the flames stayed like a second skin to it. Towards the skies the flames reach from their origin, the black orb was still visible through the wall of flame.

Everyone stared at her, not believing it. Then to add to their amazement, she let the burning sphere float in the air without her fingers holding it up. "I don't do parlor tricks and I don't tolerate airhead blonds like you." Kira hissed as she threw the ball of fire at Melissa without touching anything but the air.

Melissa shrieked as it drew closer, not expecting it to come flying at her. She barely had time to duck. It whizzed over her head and past everyone else, shooting upwards as it did so. It shimmered in the sunlight before it exploded into little flames and sprinkled the earth with ashes of the once beautiful orb.

"Don't mess with me again or I will let it hit you." She turned on her heels and stalked off, not caring that everyone was stunned with her performance.

Those tricks weren't parlor tricks she could really create crystals out of thin air and make it do what she wanted it to do. She had learned of her gift when she was an infant, though the crystals were much smaller and clear until she grew tired of it and fixed it so they were black. This is one of her many *intriguing* traits.

Other than the fact that she can call on crystals and control them, she could read minds. Kira also was different looking from all the other people. Her hair was the purest black like her crystals with silvery white strands threaded all throughout her hair. Her irises were like her crystals and the pigment of her eyes were of pure silver with streaks of white and black. She was thin, well shaped, and proportioned to perfection, not so easily covered up with clothing but possible to some extent.

But her mother, Sarah 'Williams' Lee, never noticed anything abnormal with her daughter. She passed the eyes and hair color as some genetic 'problem' and bragged that her daughter had her figure. It was laughable to Kira. Her mother was small and strait, no real curves on her.

Kira hated her mother, with good reasons too. Sarah was a drama queen, always exaggerating over one thing or another, a boss when need not be, selfish, critic, and harsh to her only child. Some being harsh and bossy is expected from a mother but to the extent Sara goes to pushes all boundaries.

Her father, James Lee, was a whipped follower, no other way to say it other than a big stupid jock. He was tall, light brown hair and brown eyed and muscular beyond belief. He was too muscular for his own good! It was sickening for Kira to even be around her father when he wore a short sleeve shirt it made her want to hurl. But he justified his muscles being almost as thick as his neck with him being a wrestler on the side. What made even sicker was how her mother treated her father and how he followed every order to the letter. Basically her home life sucked beyond belief.

She had barely got inside the door when her mother's shrill yet soft voice called from the living room. "Kira, so glad you're home." *Yea right, what do you want now,* Kira thought inside her head. "You need to take the garbage out and clean the guest room for me. I'm not feeling too well. You understand right?" she sat there in front of the TV, eating what appeared to have been a cake piece.

"No I can't I have homework to do," she shouted as she made her way up the stairs. No way was she going near that pigsty her mother called a guest room. Her mother hadn't cleaned up after her party friend crashed there over a month ago and Kira was sure there was something growing in those pizza boxes.

"You can do your homework later I said do it now." She shouted.

"No." Kira shouted from down the hallway and slammed her door to emphasize her meaning. Her mother was fine and she knew it. She just didn't want to do anything for herself like always.

Angry footsteps came up the stairs, making their way towards her door. Kira bolted the door from the inside, keeping all unwanted visitors out. Banging came a few seconds later followed by the profuse rattling of the door knob.

"Open up this door right now young lady!" Sarah shouted through the door to where her daughter's dwelling place lay. Shaking the door knob and vainly willing it to open, Sarah grew so frustrated she hit the door hard, regretting her action with the throbbing pain.

"You should save your energy for cleaning up Mocha's mess in the guest room." Kira walked over to the sound system in her room and flipped through different radio stations until she found a song she liked then cranked it up until she couldn't hear the banging of her mother anymore.

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Here I see you stand from all around the world

Waiting in a line to hear the battle cry

All are gathered here, victory is near

The sound will fill the hall, bringing power to us all

We alone are fighting for metal that is true

We own the right to live the fight, we're here for all of you

Now swear the blood upon your steel will never dry

Stand and fight together beneath the battle sky

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She particularly liked this song by Manowar because it reminded her of knights and swords and fiction stories. It always calmed her down reading a fiction book with characters fighting for what they believed or had to believe in. And the places such battles took place reminded her of her favorite book, The Labyrinth.

Thinking of that book brought up memories that made her blood boil with rage. Kira was reading it for the millionth time when her mother walked in. Sarah had almost had a heart attack when she saw her reading out of the little leather bound book that used to be her favorite. Sarah ripped it away from the young child and tossed it in a skillet on the open flame of the stove. It caught fire before the child's teary eyes, burning her passion for the story book character Jareth. She begged her mother not to do it but she still did it and rubbed her face in the ashes. Needless to say, she was never caught reading again.

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Brothers everywhere - raise your hands into the air

We're warriors, warriors of the world

Like thunder from the sky - sworn to fight and die

We're warriors, warriors of the world

Many stand against us, but they will never win

We said we would return and here we are again

To bring them all destruction, suffering and pain

We are the hammer of the gods, we are thunder, wind and rain.

There they wait in fear with swords in feeble hands

With dreams to be a king, first one should be a man

I call about and charge them all with a life that is a lie

And in their final hour they shall confess before they die

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With her mind set, she willed a crystal into her palm. It came as it always did, ready to be dispensed with a purpose. Kira had never tried to create a solid object out of nothing. Shutting her eyes, her mind remembered the book with its red cover and golden letters with the worn yellow pages and black inked words that were burned into her memory.

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Brothers everywhere - raise your hands into the air

We're warriors, warriors of the world

Like thunder from the sky - sworn to fight and die

We're warriors, warriors of the world

If I should fall in battle, my brothers who fight by my side

Gather my horse and weapons, tell my family how I died

Until then I will be strong, I will fight for all that is real

All who stand in my way will die by steel

Brothers everywhere - raise your hands into the air

We're warriors, warriors of the world

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Suddenly the weight of the orb became heavier and less round. Before she knew it, she peeked and there sat her childhood favorite book. She clutched the book to her chest and fell back on her bed. It had taken a little more out of her to do something like that but it was a minute wave of energy loss. She shut her eyes and drifted asleep with the words of the song still throbbing in her ears.

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Brothers everywhere - raise your hands into the air

We're warriors, warriors of the world

Like thunder from the sky - sworn to fight and die

We're warriors, warriors of the world

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So what'd ya think? I hope someone will review it! To clear anything up Kira produced crystals as an infant but they were clear crystals like Jareth's. What with her being into the color black she changed her crystal color to black. And then I read Death by Bambi Tapes's 'Whatever Happened to Happily Ever After?' and she called the black orbs onyx so as I tribute to her story I used that too. THIS IS A TRIBUTE TO THE STORY BECAUSE I LOVE THAT STORY! PLEASE DON'T BE MAD AT ME!

Oh and Sarah doesn't know Kira can produce crystals. And I don't hate Sarah I just needed an excuse. You'll see later.