A/N: Hiya I'm back with chapter nine! This will be a very long chapter, as
I need to finish up some of my earlier ideas ((i.e.: Jareth's plan, Leia
going over to Mandi's)).
Mandi grinned. She could smell the air getting worse every second and that ment the bog of eternal stench was near. All she had to do to save one of her nieces was to get there without getting hurt. That had been a hard task so far but she had succeeded so far.
The first danger had been a crumbling wall that almost fell on her. The gray-green moss covered stones had started to crumble down towards her when she had stepped close to them. She had just gotten out of the large stones' path just in time.
The second danger had been a path through the forest where she had seen these wild creatures dancing around a fire. She had been forced through the mencising shadows to make it past the creatures. They hadn't seen her luckily and she had thanked the gods and goddesses for that.
The third and last danger so far was a room full of mirrors where she had seen herself dressed in different clothing and also as different things but by walking close and touching one she found that she could go through them. She only went through the ones with her normal image though and not the others which seemed to call to her.
And now finally and at last she was almost there. Soon one of the two little girls would be safe. Which one would she pick, both lives were so young and untouched and both had futures in front of them then it came to her. An offer that the great King could not turn from, one he would accept above all else. Inside a part of herself died and a part was reborn like the ancient fire bird of the past. But first she had to get to the bog without harm, which was a challenge within it's self.
Mandi sighed loudly as she smell got worse. She had to keep going closer to the stench to save one girl. She pulled the collar of her shirt over her nose to try to keep the terrible stench away.
"Who should I choose? Well between the two I have little choice," Mandi said. "Well I guess Alisa would be an easier loss... what with her being so much younger and all. But then Matty can be such a spoiled little girl sometimes... well I guess I'll have to save Matty now and let Alisa be part of my plan which I hope Jareth doesn't refuse."
With her mind decided Mandi pushed ahead through the forested area she was in. the trees stretched upward into the heaven-like sky. The underbrush was a lot on the small almost invisible path through the woods that lead to the bog of eternal stench where Mandi had to go.
Jareth couldn't help but watch the one mortal woman to ever defy him walk through his labyrinth. Her hip-length blond hair flowing out with each step as she walked towards the bog of eternal stench where she was headed so she could save one of the two children. He wondered which one she'd chosen and he wished he could hear what she was thinking but unfortunately she had a strong will and wouldn't make it easy for him to get into her mind.
He kept her from getting seriously hurt but she wouldn't even get partly hurt. She was very good at sensing trouble like when the wall had fallen she had moved quickly out of the way of even the smallest pebble.
"Master." A beautiful female voice called
"Yes Kimm?" Jareth asked throwing the crystal.
Kimm walked into the room and looked at him. Her shoulder length black hair fell in gentle waves against her tan skin. She was about 5'10 and she wore a gold dress that made him cringe.
It was a slave's dress that showed a lot of her pale legs. He almost wished that this girl infront of him was Mandi ... but that was only a fantasy of his. Mandi would never call him master no matter what and he loved that part of her.
Kimm on the other hand simply threw herself at him daily. Her efforts were wasted on him but no matter how badly he treated her she always came bugging him again for his love and she had almost gotten it too but then Mandi had appeared into the picture and Jareth obsessed over the blond girl.
"The girl is at the bog of eternal stench master. I thought you said she'd never get there safely?" Kimm told him after pausing to stare at him for five minutes
"She shouldn't have but Mandi is different from all of the other airheaded girls who have ran my labyrinth. She's stronger and it will be fun to see who she's decided to choose of the two young girls... I must go now and see her!" He said grinning like a cat who's about to catch a mouse.
Mandi looked around the horrible smelling bog and wondered where Jareth was.
"Jareth you better get your ass here soon." Mandi said
Jareth appeared infront of her. "Hello Mandi have you made your choice of who you want to save now yet?"
"Yes. I chose Matty. How will I know she's safe from you?" she replied
"She will be given to one of my slaves to take care of until you have finished my labyrinth. You only have four hours left my love so you better hurry." He told her
"What? Four hours? That's it? What happened to the rest of my time? And for the last time you don't own me!" She asked him
"Why your lucky I even let you still have four. Your time should've run out while you were looking for the bog. I'm being very nice to you so you should say 'thank you' at the least." He told her
"Thank you? For what? Trying to get me killed? For trying to make me give you one of the girls to keep forever?" she asked him. "But I will thank you for the extra time because of it I will beat you in this little game of yours!"
He laughed at her. "Oh so you think so do you Mandi? I think you are mistaken dear girl I will win. I have never been defeated!"
"But in the movie Sarah defeats you Jareth and if she can I will!" was her reply.
"Mandi remember that is a movie and this is real. In movies the heroine always succeeds but in real life she will not triumph over the villan. I'm exactly what you want me to be and nothing more." He told her. "I have frozen time for you and even re-ordered it!"
"Matty better be safe Jareth because if she isn't I will kill you... but first I'll torture you until you beg me to kill you." She told him harshly.
"Mandi my dearest love I would never hurt the child. She is a very nice young girl and as long as she behaves she will be fine. But you my dearest need to defeat my labyrinth... or try to if you want the other child back." He told her
"I'm not your love and I will defeat you Jareth or I will find another way to get Alisa!" she told him. 'If I don't defeat him that's when my plan comes into play... I hope he likes what I offer him but with the way he's been acting I'm not too sure...'
"Well My love." Mandi gasped in furry. He had done that just because he knew it bothered her. "You better hurry to find your way. You only have three hours and fifty-five minutes left." With that he disappeared in a puff of golden glitter.
"Well I guess I better hurry and find my way to him before my time runs out..." She sighed lightly.
"Lady Mandi!" Daimon yelled to her.
"Daimon!" Mandi yelled seeing her wolf-like friend running to her. "It's good to see you again."
"We must get you to the castle to defeat that evil man and get those children of yours back. They must miss you horribly." Daimon said to her. Mandi sighed.
"I honestly doubt they miss me. All they seem to live for is to get me into trouble..." Mandi told him letting herself trail off.
"Maybe that is how they show you their love." He told her.
"If it is then that's really weird..." She said. "Well we better get walking... we have very little time left to get there. And Daimon no more short cuts okay?"
"Whatever you wish lady Mandi." He replied.
"Good now let's go." She said as she started to walk.
Mandi tried to remember how Sarah had gotten to the Goblin City but then remembered her ballroom dream. After it she had appeared there and Mandi's adventure was way different from Sarah's. She sighed in frustration.
"Lady Mandi I wish I could tell you the way to the Goblin City but I don't know it... I'm sorry." Daimon said.
"Don't be sorry Daimon you've done nothing wrong. We'll just have to find our way through by guessing..." she told him. "Now come on we better get going." She started walking towards the bridge.
"That bridge doesn't look very sturdy to me Lady Mandi. I should cross it first to make sure it's safe for you." Daimon said getting infront of Mandi. She followed him slowly and as she followed she sunk back into thought.
'Why does Jareth keep calling me "his"? I've told him I hate it but he won't listen to me. What should I do to make him stop? I don't belong to him...' she thought.
After about twenty minutes of thoughts like these Mandi still didn't know what she was going to do about Jareth calling her 'his'.
She suddenly heard Daimon yelling at her. What he was yelling she didn't know but she noticed the calls came from behind her. When she snapped out of her daze from thinking she saw she was very near falling off of a cliff and she looked down to see some very big sharp rocks at the bottom. She tried to turn but fell down into the pit.
Kelsearie was one of the mutant faeries. Maeries they called themselves. They were very little like the faeries they had started as but evolution had changed them, blessed them as some said. There were very few Maeries left in this world and others because their wings were very good for potions and things like that.
"Poppa there's a human laying on the rocks. She fell down from atop of them and now she's hurt. I think she's the one the king is so in love with..." Kelsearie told her father who was one of the elders.
"Well child I guess you must go speak to the king and tell him that she's hurt now shouldn't you?" the elder maerie asked
"Yes poppa I should... will you watch over her until I get the king?" She asked
"Of course my child now go. This young woman's life depends on your speed in getting the king." He told her. "Now fly fast!" the younger maerie flew up into the sky as fast as she could. A life depended on her.
Jareth was awoken by a knocking noise on his window. At first he ignored it but then he got annoyed and went over to it. He saw a young maerie standing infront of him just outside the window. He opened it and asked her "How may I help you? I was trying to sleep you know."
"I believe that girl who is running your labyrinth is in trouble..." She told him.
"Well my little friend lets find out." Jareth turned. The air felt cool on his bare chest and he looked around his room.
It was a very big room and in the middle was a bed. The bed was a deep mahogany coloured wood that looked good with the deep red sheets and the forest green walls. There was also a dresser that was the same wood as the bed. The dresser had six drawers in it and next to it on the wall there was a mirror. A gold border surrounded the mirror. Jareth looked around this almost bare room to the door. There were three doors in his room but this one lead to his closet. He went over and opened the door and pulled out the green shirt from earlier. He never wore a shirt to bed only a pair of loose fitting pants. He pulled the shirt over the tight muscles of his chest and went to the door closest to the closet, which was the door to the hall. He went into the hall and into the thrown room.
Mandi felt something wet all over her back and wondered what it was. She was too tired to lift her arms to find out. She wanted to sleep but there was a little voice in her ear telling her to stay awake so she did. Suddenly she heard a deep husky voice whisper "oh Mandi my love what have you done to yourself this time?" the whisper came from above her somewhere.
She felt herself being lifted up then let herself slip into darkness.
A/N: Well that's my LOONNGG chappy 9 hope you all like.
Mandi grinned. She could smell the air getting worse every second and that ment the bog of eternal stench was near. All she had to do to save one of her nieces was to get there without getting hurt. That had been a hard task so far but she had succeeded so far.
The first danger had been a crumbling wall that almost fell on her. The gray-green moss covered stones had started to crumble down towards her when she had stepped close to them. She had just gotten out of the large stones' path just in time.
The second danger had been a path through the forest where she had seen these wild creatures dancing around a fire. She had been forced through the mencising shadows to make it past the creatures. They hadn't seen her luckily and she had thanked the gods and goddesses for that.
The third and last danger so far was a room full of mirrors where she had seen herself dressed in different clothing and also as different things but by walking close and touching one she found that she could go through them. She only went through the ones with her normal image though and not the others which seemed to call to her.
And now finally and at last she was almost there. Soon one of the two little girls would be safe. Which one would she pick, both lives were so young and untouched and both had futures in front of them then it came to her. An offer that the great King could not turn from, one he would accept above all else. Inside a part of herself died and a part was reborn like the ancient fire bird of the past. But first she had to get to the bog without harm, which was a challenge within it's self.
Mandi sighed loudly as she smell got worse. She had to keep going closer to the stench to save one girl. She pulled the collar of her shirt over her nose to try to keep the terrible stench away.
"Who should I choose? Well between the two I have little choice," Mandi said. "Well I guess Alisa would be an easier loss... what with her being so much younger and all. But then Matty can be such a spoiled little girl sometimes... well I guess I'll have to save Matty now and let Alisa be part of my plan which I hope Jareth doesn't refuse."
With her mind decided Mandi pushed ahead through the forested area she was in. the trees stretched upward into the heaven-like sky. The underbrush was a lot on the small almost invisible path through the woods that lead to the bog of eternal stench where Mandi had to go.
Jareth couldn't help but watch the one mortal woman to ever defy him walk through his labyrinth. Her hip-length blond hair flowing out with each step as she walked towards the bog of eternal stench where she was headed so she could save one of the two children. He wondered which one she'd chosen and he wished he could hear what she was thinking but unfortunately she had a strong will and wouldn't make it easy for him to get into her mind.
He kept her from getting seriously hurt but she wouldn't even get partly hurt. She was very good at sensing trouble like when the wall had fallen she had moved quickly out of the way of even the smallest pebble.
"Master." A beautiful female voice called
"Yes Kimm?" Jareth asked throwing the crystal.
Kimm walked into the room and looked at him. Her shoulder length black hair fell in gentle waves against her tan skin. She was about 5'10 and she wore a gold dress that made him cringe.
It was a slave's dress that showed a lot of her pale legs. He almost wished that this girl infront of him was Mandi ... but that was only a fantasy of his. Mandi would never call him master no matter what and he loved that part of her.
Kimm on the other hand simply threw herself at him daily. Her efforts were wasted on him but no matter how badly he treated her she always came bugging him again for his love and she had almost gotten it too but then Mandi had appeared into the picture and Jareth obsessed over the blond girl.
"The girl is at the bog of eternal stench master. I thought you said she'd never get there safely?" Kimm told him after pausing to stare at him for five minutes
"She shouldn't have but Mandi is different from all of the other airheaded girls who have ran my labyrinth. She's stronger and it will be fun to see who she's decided to choose of the two young girls... I must go now and see her!" He said grinning like a cat who's about to catch a mouse.
Mandi looked around the horrible smelling bog and wondered where Jareth was.
"Jareth you better get your ass here soon." Mandi said
Jareth appeared infront of her. "Hello Mandi have you made your choice of who you want to save now yet?"
"Yes. I chose Matty. How will I know she's safe from you?" she replied
"She will be given to one of my slaves to take care of until you have finished my labyrinth. You only have four hours left my love so you better hurry." He told her
"What? Four hours? That's it? What happened to the rest of my time? And for the last time you don't own me!" She asked him
"Why your lucky I even let you still have four. Your time should've run out while you were looking for the bog. I'm being very nice to you so you should say 'thank you' at the least." He told her
"Thank you? For what? Trying to get me killed? For trying to make me give you one of the girls to keep forever?" she asked him. "But I will thank you for the extra time because of it I will beat you in this little game of yours!"
He laughed at her. "Oh so you think so do you Mandi? I think you are mistaken dear girl I will win. I have never been defeated!"
"But in the movie Sarah defeats you Jareth and if she can I will!" was her reply.
"Mandi remember that is a movie and this is real. In movies the heroine always succeeds but in real life she will not triumph over the villan. I'm exactly what you want me to be and nothing more." He told her. "I have frozen time for you and even re-ordered it!"
"Matty better be safe Jareth because if she isn't I will kill you... but first I'll torture you until you beg me to kill you." She told him harshly.
"Mandi my dearest love I would never hurt the child. She is a very nice young girl and as long as she behaves she will be fine. But you my dearest need to defeat my labyrinth... or try to if you want the other child back." He told her
"I'm not your love and I will defeat you Jareth or I will find another way to get Alisa!" she told him. 'If I don't defeat him that's when my plan comes into play... I hope he likes what I offer him but with the way he's been acting I'm not too sure...'
"Well My love." Mandi gasped in furry. He had done that just because he knew it bothered her. "You better hurry to find your way. You only have three hours and fifty-five minutes left." With that he disappeared in a puff of golden glitter.
"Well I guess I better hurry and find my way to him before my time runs out..." She sighed lightly.
"Lady Mandi!" Daimon yelled to her.
"Daimon!" Mandi yelled seeing her wolf-like friend running to her. "It's good to see you again."
"We must get you to the castle to defeat that evil man and get those children of yours back. They must miss you horribly." Daimon said to her. Mandi sighed.
"I honestly doubt they miss me. All they seem to live for is to get me into trouble..." Mandi told him letting herself trail off.
"Maybe that is how they show you their love." He told her.
"If it is then that's really weird..." She said. "Well we better get walking... we have very little time left to get there. And Daimon no more short cuts okay?"
"Whatever you wish lady Mandi." He replied.
"Good now let's go." She said as she started to walk.
Mandi tried to remember how Sarah had gotten to the Goblin City but then remembered her ballroom dream. After it she had appeared there and Mandi's adventure was way different from Sarah's. She sighed in frustration.
"Lady Mandi I wish I could tell you the way to the Goblin City but I don't know it... I'm sorry." Daimon said.
"Don't be sorry Daimon you've done nothing wrong. We'll just have to find our way through by guessing..." she told him. "Now come on we better get going." She started walking towards the bridge.
"That bridge doesn't look very sturdy to me Lady Mandi. I should cross it first to make sure it's safe for you." Daimon said getting infront of Mandi. She followed him slowly and as she followed she sunk back into thought.
'Why does Jareth keep calling me "his"? I've told him I hate it but he won't listen to me. What should I do to make him stop? I don't belong to him...' she thought.
After about twenty minutes of thoughts like these Mandi still didn't know what she was going to do about Jareth calling her 'his'.
She suddenly heard Daimon yelling at her. What he was yelling she didn't know but she noticed the calls came from behind her. When she snapped out of her daze from thinking she saw she was very near falling off of a cliff and she looked down to see some very big sharp rocks at the bottom. She tried to turn but fell down into the pit.
Kelsearie was one of the mutant faeries. Maeries they called themselves. They were very little like the faeries they had started as but evolution had changed them, blessed them as some said. There were very few Maeries left in this world and others because their wings were very good for potions and things like that.
"Poppa there's a human laying on the rocks. She fell down from atop of them and now she's hurt. I think she's the one the king is so in love with..." Kelsearie told her father who was one of the elders.
"Well child I guess you must go speak to the king and tell him that she's hurt now shouldn't you?" the elder maerie asked
"Yes poppa I should... will you watch over her until I get the king?" She asked
"Of course my child now go. This young woman's life depends on your speed in getting the king." He told her. "Now fly fast!" the younger maerie flew up into the sky as fast as she could. A life depended on her.
Jareth was awoken by a knocking noise on his window. At first he ignored it but then he got annoyed and went over to it. He saw a young maerie standing infront of him just outside the window. He opened it and asked her "How may I help you? I was trying to sleep you know."
"I believe that girl who is running your labyrinth is in trouble..." She told him.
"Well my little friend lets find out." Jareth turned. The air felt cool on his bare chest and he looked around his room.
It was a very big room and in the middle was a bed. The bed was a deep mahogany coloured wood that looked good with the deep red sheets and the forest green walls. There was also a dresser that was the same wood as the bed. The dresser had six drawers in it and next to it on the wall there was a mirror. A gold border surrounded the mirror. Jareth looked around this almost bare room to the door. There were three doors in his room but this one lead to his closet. He went over and opened the door and pulled out the green shirt from earlier. He never wore a shirt to bed only a pair of loose fitting pants. He pulled the shirt over the tight muscles of his chest and went to the door closest to the closet, which was the door to the hall. He went into the hall and into the thrown room.
Mandi felt something wet all over her back and wondered what it was. She was too tired to lift her arms to find out. She wanted to sleep but there was a little voice in her ear telling her to stay awake so she did. Suddenly she heard a deep husky voice whisper "oh Mandi my love what have you done to yourself this time?" the whisper came from above her somewhere.
She felt herself being lifted up then let herself slip into darkness.
A/N: Well that's my LOONNGG chappy 9 hope you all like.