CHAPTER 2

Even though Sarah had been in the Labyrinth before, she knew that it changed constantly, so she wouldn't recognize it.

"Uh, now let me see, hm, which door sh-" She stopped, looked around, and automatically knew that there was something wrong with where Jareth had placed her. "HEY!" There are no doors! Wait a second, this seems familiar, didn't something like this happen to me three years ago when I first came to the Labyrinth when I had to save Toby?

She couldn't remember. Was her memory fading? Or was she just thinking of one of the many dreams she has of the place where her loved one lived? She finally yelled. "I don't care how much you hate these three words, but it's not fair!" She slunk down under a tree, her mind racing.

"Yello!"

Sarah shot up with lightning speed and looked around. No one.

"Silly girl. Over here, on the lowest branch on my tree. Turn 'round!"

Sarah turned around. There, on the lowest branch, where she was told to look, sat a small, fuzzy, green, worm. "Yello. You wouldn't be Miss Sarah Williams, would you?"

A faint memory of another worm popped into her head. She snapped out of it and realized that the small green worm asked her a question. Hm, a worm? What? Oh, yes, I'm Sarah Williams. Do I know you? What's your name?"

"No, but my cousin, Saphrizel, the blue worm at the beginning of the Labyrinth does. And to answer your question, my name is Emizel."

The blue worm, she thought to herself. Then the full memory came back to her, she know of the blue worm Emizel spoke of, though she didn't know he had a name. "Yes, I know the worm you speak of. He's the one who always say 'ello', right?"

"Yes, that would be him." Emizel just smiled. He saw Sarah look around a bit before asking, "Sarah, are you looking for something? You seem confused."

"Oh, yes, actually two things actually, Emiesle."

"And what would those two things be Miss?" He asked, even though Emizel knew what she was looking for. She needed a door, a way out, and the gem that Jareth gave him for her.

"I'm looking for a door or a way out, as well as five gems. You wouldn't by any chance know where I can find them, at least one if not both, would you?"

Emizel smiled kindly. "Well, right here, next to my tree, is a door that will take you out of this part or the area. And, five gems you say? Well, Jareth gave me one to hold for you, a green one."

"Oh thank you Emiesle, thank you! May I have it, please?" Sarah was exctied to hear that she was one step closer to the one man she loved so much.

"One condition Miss Sarah. Remember that me name is Emizel, and not Emiesle, Emizel."

"Haha, right, Emizel! I'll remember that. Thank you so very much for your help, maybe I'll see you again. Good bye Emizel!"

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Jareth sat in his throne with only three of the five gems that Sarah had to find. He had sent his goblins out to the Goblin City; with only a few loyal creatures left roaming in other parts of his castle. He sat there watching Sarah in his glass ball he used to watch and observe his Labyrinth and castle.

"Ratims, come here."

From outside his door, a small, young, pretty, fairy-like goblin came into his throne room. Bowing slightly, not daring to look upon his two different colored eyes, so as to try and not let him know a secret she held, she came to his call.

"Yes, Sire?"

"Sarah's got the green gem already, next she should find the red one. I'd give it to you to hide with the rest of them, but she'll get it from her ring she gave that birdbrain three years ago. I don't think she's figured out the Labyrinth yet."

"What do you mean, Sire?"

"I mean, my dear Rat, that it is said that the Labyrinth changes. I don't think that she realized that it doesn't change. But, because she thinks it does, it seems different to her. This is fun. Here take these gems. Black goes into the statues eye, purple goes to the birds, and blue goes-" He stopped, then said, "You chose where the blue goes."

Ratims accepted the gems, and, with a small bow, turned to leave. Right before she walked out the door, Jareth called her back.

"Oh, and give her this." He tossed Ratims a silver bracelet with five slots in it. "Tell her she can put the gems in that."

"Yes Sire." Ratims walked out just as a tall, pale, lady with a long, black dress came walking in. The dress had a long slit in the skirt part that started a few inches down from her theigh. Half way down her sleeves, the cloth of her dress split so that the bottom half hung loosely from the top half. She had long, dark brown, almost black, hair with deep ruby red lips. Jareth turned to her.

"Hi Honey."