Disclaimer: (Dreams of owning the rights to the labyrinth and being on my honeymoon with David Bowie) Susan! My mother yells, "Get out of bed this instant and get ready for school" I grumble, and gather the strength to get my self out of bed just to realize I own nothing of the Labyrinth and never will. Sigh….

A/N: As it is four in the morning I thought id take advantage of my delusional state and write another chapter. No time is better for writing than when you cant think straight. Makes the creative juices flow!

Underground

As soon as hoggle said "Its time for you to return." Sarah began to panic. Go back? To a place that shouldn't exist? To…Him…the man with the beautifully mismatched eyes? No, that was not a good way to think about him.

"Hoggle, im not sure I can help! Even if I could, why me! Im not the only one who had solved the labyrinth, I know I can't be. What makes me so special?

Hoggle pause for a moment, choosing his words carefully. "You see Sarah, the underground is fueled by imagination,. It is the fantasy realm to the entire universe. Every creature imagined, ends up there. But still, it is a real place. It exists, and only a special few can enter it. Those with the power of imagination have a gift they cannot even begin to believe. I chose you because…well…remember, you said you were my friend. Don't you remember when you said that?"

It pained her to hear him say that to her. She remembered how happy he was when she said she was his friend. He had never been anyone friend before. Now she had to live up to that promise.

"Im just not sure Hoggle. I mean, I don't think my imagination works any more."

"Please, you must help me save the Goblin city and Jared!"

"I though no one like him? That he was a bad ruler and all that jazz?" inquired Sarah.

"Jared is our king, he is not a bad ruler, just confused and lonely. He has a kingdom to rule and no one to share life with."

The words "You have no power over me" still haunted her. She heard herself say those words so many times in her dreams. But she couldn't very well let Toby stay there now could she. Not to mention he had been mean and arrogant to her. And yet, she had felt something for that man that had no one. Who was alone in the world. It was silly but she often thought maybe he could have loved her.  No how could she think he could possibly love her? She had been a child when she went there, nothing more. She had wished Toby away and he did his job. The other stuff was just his attempts to make her fail at her quest.

"How do we even get into the Underground from here? If you have to use you imagination, it might not even work. Im an adult now, im a bit rusty at imagine things."

"I believe in you Sarah and that is all that matter. All you have to do to get into the underground is believe in it. That's the key, believing."

"Aright, Ill help you Hoggle." She stood up. She was helping Hoggle, but some of her was helping Jared. "Now how exactly and I supposed to do this?"

"Just remember you time in the underground and think about being there. You must think of nothing else but how you want to be there or it won't work."

Sarah closed her eyes and began to remember, really remember. About the Bog of Eternal stench and how bad it smelled. The way Pluto called on the rocks to save her, and most of all, the goblin king. The way he made her feel. The room began to bluer and spin. It was working. Sarah did have some imagination left and she was on her way to the Goblin city.

The Goblin city was also where Jared was locked in a stone prison. He could think but neither speak nor move. It was a fate worse than death and would be a hard spell to break.

The man called Inato stood beside him looking into a crystal at the end of his staff, which let him see Sarah and Hoggle.

"I guess you think she might save you, Hum? You do don't you." He smiled looking at the statue of Jared sitting in the throne. "I don't doubt her skill, it's her heart that will get you killed. You will do anything to keep her safe as she would you though she dose not realize this yet and I will use that to my advantage."

He walked close to the statue. "Do you not think I know you can still work small magic from inside there? Im not stupid Jared. Iv been planning this victory for a long time. And I want her to be involved. The girl you lost. And don't think I didn't know Hoggle was going to the Aboveground to get her. I did and I let it happen because I need Sarah for something very special that I think you might enjoy. Now let the games being, she's on her way…."

E/N: Ta-da! And that's what happened to Jared. He got turned to stone. I know, not to grand, but it is now 5 in the morning and I though it was a good chapter. Now I may wake up in the wee hours of like 3pm or something like that, stumble to my computer and re-read this and scream "What was I thinking!" and rush to rewrite. Feel free to comment and tell me what I did right and what I did wrong. Thank you and god night!