"Do you know about the Labyrinth?" asked Sydney.
"Yes, its my favorite book, this should be easy." She answered. But when they reached the wall they couldn't find a way in. they decided to split up and try to find a door. The sun, which had just gone down back home, was barely starting to rise here. Sydney walked along for only a few moments when she heard Sarah calling her back. She ran up to her. "Look I've found someone."
"Oh, it's her too" said a strange voice.
Looking over Sidney saw the strangest looking dwarf she had ever seen. He had tanned and wrinkled skin, his head was much to big for his body as was his hands. He had a large nose, and ears, and beady eyes. He picked up an old-fashioned bug sprayer and limped over to the Labyrinth wall. The girl's attention was brought to the wall and they saw tiny fairies fluttering along the wall.
"Oh, how sweet." Whispered Sarah, and right before her eyes the dwarf sprayed one. The tiny fairy immediately fell to the ground where the dwarf kicked some dirt on it.
Sarah gasped and rushed over to it and pick it up." Oh you poor thing- OW!" she dropped the fairy and Sidney ran over to her. "It bit me" she said amazed. Sidney took her hand and saw teeny tiny teeth marks.
"Well what do you expect fairies to do?" laughed the dwarf. As he sprayed another "Fifty-eight" he counted as he did.
"I thought they did nice things like.like granting wishes."
"Ha! Shows what you know don't it."
"You horrible." Said Sydney The dwarf tuned around. "No I'm not, I'm Hoggle." He said tapping himself on the chest. "Who are you?" "I'm Sarah.this is Sydney" Sarah replied.
"That's what I thought." Said Hoggle indifferently.
"Why are you spraying the fairies?" Sydney asked.
"Because, they fly around the whole place throwing fairy dust everywhere. You think they where trying to lively the place up. They breed as fast as I can spray." Sydney looked around and sure enough, on the walls was tiny glittering specks. "But the Goblin King had glitter all over the place when he came to see us."
"That's different." Hoggle said
"How so?" asked Sarah.
"It just is."
"Do you know a way into this Labyrinth?" asked Sarah as they followed Hoggle.
"Maybe" he said slyly. He limped up to another fairy, "Fifty.nine" he said as he sprayed it.
"Well where is it?" Sarah continued.
"Where is what?"
"The door"
"What door?"
"Its no use asking you anything." Sarah said angrily.
"Not if you ask the right questions.sixty ha!"
Sydney felt they were wasting time and rushed up to Sarah. " How do we get into the Labyrinth.?"
"Ahh," Hoggle said slowly turning to face them, "Now that's more like it. You gets in thought there." And right behind the girls a giant door appeared and it swung open ominously. The girls turned and slowly stepped into the Labyrinth. They looked down one side then the other. It seemed to be one long set of walls stretching out in front of them.
"Cozy isn't it?" said Hoggle suddenly as he limped into the Labyrinth laughing. He stood in front of them. " Now would you go left.or right? he said tuning his head in each direction.
Sarah looked down both ways again.
"They both looked the same." She said.
"Well your not going to get very far." Sneered Hoggle.
"Which way would you go?" asked Sydney.
"Me? I wouldn't go ether way"
"If that's all the help your going to be then you can just leave." Sarah told him curtly.
"You know what your problem is? You take to many things for granted. Take this Labyrinth for instance, even if you do find your way to the center, you'll never get out." He said as he limped back out the door. Sarah turned.
"Thanks for nothing Hoggwart."
"Oh, its Hoggle! And don't say I didn't warn you." He said as the doors slammed shut. Disappearing as they did so.
Sydney looked down one side, it was clear and clean, the other side was dirty, full of dead leaved and fallen trees and strange plants with eyes. Sarah looked to, they were both thinking the same thing. The nicer side would be better to go though, but that was the oldest trick in the book. So the worse side would be the better side, or would they want the girls to think that and if so, which side was the right side.
"Well I think we should split up." Said Sarah, "that way well have a better chance of finding the right path."
Sydney didn't want to go all alone but thought Sarah was right.
'I'll go this way" Sarah said turning to the dirty path.
"Fine I'll go down this one. Good luck." Sydney called out.
"You too" Sarah said after her, and they turned and started walking.
Sydney was walking for a few minutes, and not once did she come to a turn or corner. Looking behind her she could hardly see Sarah anymore, she was a tiny figure in the distance. She soon began to grow worried, what if she couldn't find her way out of this straight path? What if she was here for quite a while? A quick look at her watch said that half an hour had already past.
Sydney put her hand on the wall and ran it across the stone. It was solid rock nothing strange about it, except that when she took her hand away it was covered in Fairy glitter. She tried to wipe it away but only succeed in covering her other hand in it. She wiped them on her jeans and proceeded to cover then in the dust. Finally she gave up on it and continued walking, but panic had already set in and she started running.
She was so desperate to find an opening that she was not paying any attention to the ground. So she did not see a stone jut up suddenly, and she tripped over it. Sydney gasped and flailed her arms reaching to steady herself on the wall, but when her hands hit the wall she wasn't expecting to go right though the wall. She hit the ground on the other side of the wall with a thud, knocking the air from her. Stunned she laid there coughing, then she sat up quickly and looked around. She was in a different part of the Labyrinth; this part had tunes and corners everywhere.
"What the hell?" she whispered to herself, standing up and dusting the Fairy dust off her. She walked over to where she had been, that's when she realized that there had been openings the whole time. She couldn't see them because of an illusion, they all look to be solid wall. Sighing she went thought the opening. 'I wonder just how many of them I past already, stupid maze.' She thought. She had wasted so much time she might as well have stood in one spot for half an hour.
With this new knowledge she had no trouble finding her way around now. And she swiftly made her way around. Suddenly she heard music playing, looking around she found it came from toward the castle, which loomed only slightly closer than when she first started. Well they could throw a party while they were wandering the Labyrinth, they obviously didn't believe that they could come close to reaching the center. Sydney decided to ignore the music when she heard the Goblin King's voice. He was singing, it was faint but Sydney could hear it easily in the silent maze.
The news of a new baby spread like fire and goblins arrived to see him. Jareth sat at his throne, lost in thought, taping his short crystal handled whip. He never really used the whip, it was more for show. How was he to persuade the girls to give in? They could still have everything; it was better that than being forced to stay in the Labyrinth.
The goblins were running around screaming and laughing, chasing each other and the flock of chickens one of them had let in. They asked him for a song to celebrate the new brother they would have. But Jareth had refused wanting to continue his thinking, and now they were as rowdy as ever, along with the child crying in the center of all the activity. The disorienting noise caused Jareth to give in and he began a song dedicated to the new baby.
Sydney strained a little to hear the words to the song. "Slime and snails or puppy dog tails, thunder or lighting, and baby said,"
"Dance magic, dance," "Dance magic, dance, put that baby spell on me, slap that baby make him free." The goblins sang along with him gleefully.
Sydney couldn't make reason of the words, but it sounded like they where having a good time. A flare of hatred went though her, how could they not be worried, Maybe it was only a distraction. She had already lost precious minutes standing and listening to the song. She tried to ignore it and she trudged onward.
Sarah was having an equally difficult time herself, though she was twice as far as Sydney was. She had heard Toby crying moments before the song had started and now she could hear the King's perfect yet annoying voice. She had a revelation when she found out she went in a complete circle, she pulled a tube of lipstick from her pocket and drew arrows on the ground, showing what direction she was headed. She applauded herself on her clever trick, but what she didn't know was that she was being followed by smaller goblins, and they changed her marks to point in a different direction, or flipped the stones to hide them completely.
Jareth had got into the spirit of the party and was enjoying himself. He bounced the tiny child on his knee. "In nine hours and twenty-three minutes, you'll be mine" he said gleefully. He handed the now laughing child to a large goblin and continued his song. "I saw my baby, trying hard as babe could try. What could I do? My baby's fun had gone, and left my baby blue, nobody knew, What kind of magic spell to use."
'Slime or snail or puppy dog tails, thunder or lightning?' "and baby said".. "Jump magic, jump."
Minutes later the song had ended and the catchy tune was gone. Sydney was grateful for she had found herself starting to sing along with the King. She had been distracted by the song and was wandering around in a circle, but she realized this and scolded herself. She then found herself at a dead end, but when she turned to go in a different direction she found a wall had moved to box her in.
"What" she shouted. "If this place can change they there isn't anyway anyone could find their way to the center.now what an I suppose to do?" she looked around at the four walls.
"Greetings!"
Sydney jumped at the sound and spun around. Sitting on top of the Labyrinth wall was a round puff of fur with wings and eyes. Sydney pointed to herself " Ya I'm talking to you!" it chirped.
"Hi, um. do you know how I could get out of here?" she asked it. Shifting on her feet, it felt strange talking to a ball of fur.
" Pick one, pick one!" it chirped as is hoped on the wall. "Pick one?" Sydney didn't understand. She stepped closer, then she suddenly notice two carvings on the wall one looked like waves of water, the other looked like sand dunes.
"Yes, pick one, to a new path it will link. Pick one, pick one, to swim or to sink?"
'Great it rhymes' "Don't you mean to sink or swim?" She asked the bird..thing. It didn't answer. "Well sinking doesn't sound to great, swimming is much better.but" this Labyrinth had already proved that nothing is how it seems and before she could change her mind she said, "Sink, I chose sink."
The little bird flew off the wall and hovered in front of her. it's tiny wings didn't seem like they could hold it up, but they did. The sound of grinding rock was heard behind the wall. Sydney guessed that it was changing to the one she picked.
Suddenly the wall vanished and a wave of sand spilled in and knocked Sydney off her feet. She recovered quickly and looked down the new maze, it looked the same as before only the ground was covered in perfect white sand.
"A warning for you that you should heed, a quicker way to the castle this maze will lead!" the bird said.
"Why would that be a warning?" Sydney asked it. The bird puffed up, angry that it had been interrupted.
"This maze is not long, you'll fly though it quick as a blink. But stay still to long my dear, and you'll sink!"
"All right, all I have to do is get to the end of the maze and not linger in one spot and I'll be fine?" she was skeptical that there was no catch.
"Ya!" the bird chirped. Sydney shrugged her shoulders.
"Well it's not like I have any chose do I?" she stepped into the maze and her shoes immediately started to be covered in sand. She hopped easily out of the sand and as soon as she landed her shoes started sinking again. She had to do a sort of marching in place to keep from sinking.
Looking around she saw only three directions she could go in. The wall reappeared behind her to create a dead end. She thought a moment before choosing the path to the right of her. She trudged thought the thick sand and when she came to the end of that path she saw three more paths.
Back on the other side of the Labyrinth Sarah was having her own problems.
"I always tell the truth." The blue guard said. "No he doesn't, I do" argued the Red Guard. "Ohh what a lie." Countered the blue guard again.
Sidney tramped back to where she started, the path that lead to the three new paths all lead to dead ends. And when she returned to the center the wall moved behind her to form a dead end. So now it looked exactly like when she first started.
"No!..not fair, I could choose the same one over and over again." She was growing tired of the constant marching she had to do to keep out of the sand.the sand! Suddenly Sydney scanned the ground and saw small indentions where she had walked, like footprints. They lead off to the path in the center, which was the path she was just on. So now she walked over to the left path and continued down that.
"Clever girl." Jareth muttered to himself as he and half a dozen other goblins around him gazed into a crystal ball. He just witnessed Sydney's strategy of using her footprints as markers, and he was very impressed by it.
"She's smart but she's slow." Said a squeaky voiced goblin beside him.
"Yes," he softly agreed, "But she may just very well out wit her way straight here." Jareth threw the crystal in the air knowing that it would never hit the ground, and created another out of the air. Sarah's image came into view, and Jareth grew upset.
"Where is she, where is she?" the goblins chanted, then fell into silence to allow their King to tell them.
"She's in the oubliette." He said softly. The crowd of goblins burst into laughter, but no sooner did they when Jareth shouted at them to be quiet. "She should not have gotten this far, she should have given up by now." She had traveled an amazing amount of distance though the Labyrinth and had hit an oubliette. He had anticipated her success and had commanded the dwarf Hog.whatever, to find her and lead her back to the start of the maze.
"She'll never give up." Said a small goblin by his knee.
"Oh, wont she? She'll soon give up when Hoggle takes her back to the beginning and she realizes she has to start all over again." He laughed out loud. "Well.." he said looking around him at the goblins as the stayed silent. Suddenly they to burst into laughter, then he joined them. He threw the crystal in the air.
"Yes, its my favorite book, this should be easy." She answered. But when they reached the wall they couldn't find a way in. they decided to split up and try to find a door. The sun, which had just gone down back home, was barely starting to rise here. Sydney walked along for only a few moments when she heard Sarah calling her back. She ran up to her. "Look I've found someone."
"Oh, it's her too" said a strange voice.
Looking over Sidney saw the strangest looking dwarf she had ever seen. He had tanned and wrinkled skin, his head was much to big for his body as was his hands. He had a large nose, and ears, and beady eyes. He picked up an old-fashioned bug sprayer and limped over to the Labyrinth wall. The girl's attention was brought to the wall and they saw tiny fairies fluttering along the wall.
"Oh, how sweet." Whispered Sarah, and right before her eyes the dwarf sprayed one. The tiny fairy immediately fell to the ground where the dwarf kicked some dirt on it.
Sarah gasped and rushed over to it and pick it up." Oh you poor thing- OW!" she dropped the fairy and Sidney ran over to her. "It bit me" she said amazed. Sidney took her hand and saw teeny tiny teeth marks.
"Well what do you expect fairies to do?" laughed the dwarf. As he sprayed another "Fifty-eight" he counted as he did.
"I thought they did nice things like.like granting wishes."
"Ha! Shows what you know don't it."
"You horrible." Said Sydney The dwarf tuned around. "No I'm not, I'm Hoggle." He said tapping himself on the chest. "Who are you?" "I'm Sarah.this is Sydney" Sarah replied.
"That's what I thought." Said Hoggle indifferently.
"Why are you spraying the fairies?" Sydney asked.
"Because, they fly around the whole place throwing fairy dust everywhere. You think they where trying to lively the place up. They breed as fast as I can spray." Sydney looked around and sure enough, on the walls was tiny glittering specks. "But the Goblin King had glitter all over the place when he came to see us."
"That's different." Hoggle said
"How so?" asked Sarah.
"It just is."
"Do you know a way into this Labyrinth?" asked Sarah as they followed Hoggle.
"Maybe" he said slyly. He limped up to another fairy, "Fifty.nine" he said as he sprayed it.
"Well where is it?" Sarah continued.
"Where is what?"
"The door"
"What door?"
"Its no use asking you anything." Sarah said angrily.
"Not if you ask the right questions.sixty ha!"
Sydney felt they were wasting time and rushed up to Sarah. " How do we get into the Labyrinth.?"
"Ahh," Hoggle said slowly turning to face them, "Now that's more like it. You gets in thought there." And right behind the girls a giant door appeared and it swung open ominously. The girls turned and slowly stepped into the Labyrinth. They looked down one side then the other. It seemed to be one long set of walls stretching out in front of them.
"Cozy isn't it?" said Hoggle suddenly as he limped into the Labyrinth laughing. He stood in front of them. " Now would you go left.or right? he said tuning his head in each direction.
Sarah looked down both ways again.
"They both looked the same." She said.
"Well your not going to get very far." Sneered Hoggle.
"Which way would you go?" asked Sydney.
"Me? I wouldn't go ether way"
"If that's all the help your going to be then you can just leave." Sarah told him curtly.
"You know what your problem is? You take to many things for granted. Take this Labyrinth for instance, even if you do find your way to the center, you'll never get out." He said as he limped back out the door. Sarah turned.
"Thanks for nothing Hoggwart."
"Oh, its Hoggle! And don't say I didn't warn you." He said as the doors slammed shut. Disappearing as they did so.
Sydney looked down one side, it was clear and clean, the other side was dirty, full of dead leaved and fallen trees and strange plants with eyes. Sarah looked to, they were both thinking the same thing. The nicer side would be better to go though, but that was the oldest trick in the book. So the worse side would be the better side, or would they want the girls to think that and if so, which side was the right side.
"Well I think we should split up." Said Sarah, "that way well have a better chance of finding the right path."
Sydney didn't want to go all alone but thought Sarah was right.
'I'll go this way" Sarah said turning to the dirty path.
"Fine I'll go down this one. Good luck." Sydney called out.
"You too" Sarah said after her, and they turned and started walking.
Sydney was walking for a few minutes, and not once did she come to a turn or corner. Looking behind her she could hardly see Sarah anymore, she was a tiny figure in the distance. She soon began to grow worried, what if she couldn't find her way out of this straight path? What if she was here for quite a while? A quick look at her watch said that half an hour had already past.
Sydney put her hand on the wall and ran it across the stone. It was solid rock nothing strange about it, except that when she took her hand away it was covered in Fairy glitter. She tried to wipe it away but only succeed in covering her other hand in it. She wiped them on her jeans and proceeded to cover then in the dust. Finally she gave up on it and continued walking, but panic had already set in and she started running.
She was so desperate to find an opening that she was not paying any attention to the ground. So she did not see a stone jut up suddenly, and she tripped over it. Sydney gasped and flailed her arms reaching to steady herself on the wall, but when her hands hit the wall she wasn't expecting to go right though the wall. She hit the ground on the other side of the wall with a thud, knocking the air from her. Stunned she laid there coughing, then she sat up quickly and looked around. She was in a different part of the Labyrinth; this part had tunes and corners everywhere.
"What the hell?" she whispered to herself, standing up and dusting the Fairy dust off her. She walked over to where she had been, that's when she realized that there had been openings the whole time. She couldn't see them because of an illusion, they all look to be solid wall. Sighing she went thought the opening. 'I wonder just how many of them I past already, stupid maze.' She thought. She had wasted so much time she might as well have stood in one spot for half an hour.
With this new knowledge she had no trouble finding her way around now. And she swiftly made her way around. Suddenly she heard music playing, looking around she found it came from toward the castle, which loomed only slightly closer than when she first started. Well they could throw a party while they were wandering the Labyrinth, they obviously didn't believe that they could come close to reaching the center. Sydney decided to ignore the music when she heard the Goblin King's voice. He was singing, it was faint but Sydney could hear it easily in the silent maze.
The news of a new baby spread like fire and goblins arrived to see him. Jareth sat at his throne, lost in thought, taping his short crystal handled whip. He never really used the whip, it was more for show. How was he to persuade the girls to give in? They could still have everything; it was better that than being forced to stay in the Labyrinth.
The goblins were running around screaming and laughing, chasing each other and the flock of chickens one of them had let in. They asked him for a song to celebrate the new brother they would have. But Jareth had refused wanting to continue his thinking, and now they were as rowdy as ever, along with the child crying in the center of all the activity. The disorienting noise caused Jareth to give in and he began a song dedicated to the new baby.
Sydney strained a little to hear the words to the song. "Slime and snails or puppy dog tails, thunder or lighting, and baby said,"
"Dance magic, dance," "Dance magic, dance, put that baby spell on me, slap that baby make him free." The goblins sang along with him gleefully.
Sydney couldn't make reason of the words, but it sounded like they where having a good time. A flare of hatred went though her, how could they not be worried, Maybe it was only a distraction. She had already lost precious minutes standing and listening to the song. She tried to ignore it and she trudged onward.
Sarah was having an equally difficult time herself, though she was twice as far as Sydney was. She had heard Toby crying moments before the song had started and now she could hear the King's perfect yet annoying voice. She had a revelation when she found out she went in a complete circle, she pulled a tube of lipstick from her pocket and drew arrows on the ground, showing what direction she was headed. She applauded herself on her clever trick, but what she didn't know was that she was being followed by smaller goblins, and they changed her marks to point in a different direction, or flipped the stones to hide them completely.
Jareth had got into the spirit of the party and was enjoying himself. He bounced the tiny child on his knee. "In nine hours and twenty-three minutes, you'll be mine" he said gleefully. He handed the now laughing child to a large goblin and continued his song. "I saw my baby, trying hard as babe could try. What could I do? My baby's fun had gone, and left my baby blue, nobody knew, What kind of magic spell to use."
'Slime or snail or puppy dog tails, thunder or lightning?' "and baby said".. "Jump magic, jump."
Minutes later the song had ended and the catchy tune was gone. Sydney was grateful for she had found herself starting to sing along with the King. She had been distracted by the song and was wandering around in a circle, but she realized this and scolded herself. She then found herself at a dead end, but when she turned to go in a different direction she found a wall had moved to box her in.
"What" she shouted. "If this place can change they there isn't anyway anyone could find their way to the center.now what an I suppose to do?" she looked around at the four walls.
"Greetings!"
Sydney jumped at the sound and spun around. Sitting on top of the Labyrinth wall was a round puff of fur with wings and eyes. Sydney pointed to herself " Ya I'm talking to you!" it chirped.
"Hi, um. do you know how I could get out of here?" she asked it. Shifting on her feet, it felt strange talking to a ball of fur.
" Pick one, pick one!" it chirped as is hoped on the wall. "Pick one?" Sydney didn't understand. She stepped closer, then she suddenly notice two carvings on the wall one looked like waves of water, the other looked like sand dunes.
"Yes, pick one, to a new path it will link. Pick one, pick one, to swim or to sink?"
'Great it rhymes' "Don't you mean to sink or swim?" She asked the bird..thing. It didn't answer. "Well sinking doesn't sound to great, swimming is much better.but" this Labyrinth had already proved that nothing is how it seems and before she could change her mind she said, "Sink, I chose sink."
The little bird flew off the wall and hovered in front of her. it's tiny wings didn't seem like they could hold it up, but they did. The sound of grinding rock was heard behind the wall. Sydney guessed that it was changing to the one she picked.
Suddenly the wall vanished and a wave of sand spilled in and knocked Sydney off her feet. She recovered quickly and looked down the new maze, it looked the same as before only the ground was covered in perfect white sand.
"A warning for you that you should heed, a quicker way to the castle this maze will lead!" the bird said.
"Why would that be a warning?" Sydney asked it. The bird puffed up, angry that it had been interrupted.
"This maze is not long, you'll fly though it quick as a blink. But stay still to long my dear, and you'll sink!"
"All right, all I have to do is get to the end of the maze and not linger in one spot and I'll be fine?" she was skeptical that there was no catch.
"Ya!" the bird chirped. Sydney shrugged her shoulders.
"Well it's not like I have any chose do I?" she stepped into the maze and her shoes immediately started to be covered in sand. She hopped easily out of the sand and as soon as she landed her shoes started sinking again. She had to do a sort of marching in place to keep from sinking.
Looking around she saw only three directions she could go in. The wall reappeared behind her to create a dead end. She thought a moment before choosing the path to the right of her. She trudged thought the thick sand and when she came to the end of that path she saw three more paths.
Back on the other side of the Labyrinth Sarah was having her own problems.
"I always tell the truth." The blue guard said. "No he doesn't, I do" argued the Red Guard. "Ohh what a lie." Countered the blue guard again.
Sidney tramped back to where she started, the path that lead to the three new paths all lead to dead ends. And when she returned to the center the wall moved behind her to form a dead end. So now it looked exactly like when she first started.
"No!..not fair, I could choose the same one over and over again." She was growing tired of the constant marching she had to do to keep out of the sand.the sand! Suddenly Sydney scanned the ground and saw small indentions where she had walked, like footprints. They lead off to the path in the center, which was the path she was just on. So now she walked over to the left path and continued down that.
"Clever girl." Jareth muttered to himself as he and half a dozen other goblins around him gazed into a crystal ball. He just witnessed Sydney's strategy of using her footprints as markers, and he was very impressed by it.
"She's smart but she's slow." Said a squeaky voiced goblin beside him.
"Yes," he softly agreed, "But she may just very well out wit her way straight here." Jareth threw the crystal in the air knowing that it would never hit the ground, and created another out of the air. Sarah's image came into view, and Jareth grew upset.
"Where is she, where is she?" the goblins chanted, then fell into silence to allow their King to tell them.
"She's in the oubliette." He said softly. The crowd of goblins burst into laughter, but no sooner did they when Jareth shouted at them to be quiet. "She should not have gotten this far, she should have given up by now." She had traveled an amazing amount of distance though the Labyrinth and had hit an oubliette. He had anticipated her success and had commanded the dwarf Hog.whatever, to find her and lead her back to the start of the maze.
"She'll never give up." Said a small goblin by his knee.
"Oh, wont she? She'll soon give up when Hoggle takes her back to the beginning and she realizes she has to start all over again." He laughed out loud. "Well.." he said looking around him at the goblins as the stayed silent. Suddenly they to burst into laughter, then he joined them. He threw the crystal in the air.