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It's Only Forever part 2
She couldn't believe her eyes. Was she really in the place she dreamed of? She wiped her eyes on the back on her sleeves. The tears were still pouring from her eyes.
"Oh, come now. It's not good to cry in a wonderful place as this."
Sarah jumped at the voice and turned around quickly only to see green sparkles floating to the ground.
"You have to be faster than that to catch me, deary."
Sarah turned to her right and saw a woman. A woman with wings, and eyelashes that were reaching her her chin that were bright orange on both the top and bottom lines. Her hair was brown with orange, light yellow and green highlights. And her outfit was a green, cut up dress that dropped to her knees.
"Allow me to properly introduce myself. My name is Jaive. I'm what you mortals call an 'earth fairy'." Jaive walked around Sarah never taking her eyes off her for a second.
"Now," she said as she stopped "I know that your name is Sarah. I know that you've been to the Labyrinth before, and I know why. What I don't know, is why you've come back now."
Sarah told her what's been happening in her life and what happened today, but Jaive stared at her unconcerned about her problems. She cut her off from speaking.
"Do you know how much you hurt Jareth? He probably doesn't even wanna talk to you after what you put him through." Sarah just about lost her temper with all that's happened to her and now she had to put up with this.
"Don't remind me!" Sarah said her heart felt like it was gonna break right in two at the mention of that name. The fact was she really loved Jareth. She only refused his offer because she wanted to save Toby. Now she was cursing herself for being so foolish, she never meant to hurt him.
"I feel bad enough, Jaive! And no matter what you do, you can't stop me from seeing him." Jaive's eyes narrowed and gave Sarah such a look that Sarah thought there were lazors burning into her stomach.
"There's a lot I can do to stop you. But Jareth will not permit me. Instead I'm going to give you a challenge. And if you do succeed you may speak to Jareth again." Jaive had a smirk on her face as she continued her charactoristic stare.
"If you fail, well...we'll speak of the consequences later should the need arise. Do you accept this challenge?" Jaive stood and offered a hand, her smirk made her look even more devious than before.
Sarah shook Jaive's hand. It was strangely soft and warm as if she had the skin of a baby.
Sarah quickly broke the handshake 'She could've taken my arm off.' Sarah thought to herself. Not long after Jaive continued the conversation.
"You will have to make it through the Labyrinth. But not only will you have to find your way but you must locate my 3 sisters and get their names. Their names will be the keys to the castle gate. When you arrive I will meet you there, and ask you for them." Jaive thought she hadn't made it difficult enough.
"Oh yes, I did leave something out didn't I? You have 13 hours just as before and your only source of help will be from a goblin I have chosen for you. She will meet you when you have gone half-way." Jaive moved towards Sarah
"By the way, the one thing you must remember is this: when the toller needs admission you better pay the cost, without their information, all will be lost." Then as quickly as she came, she was gone. Jaive was nowhere in sight, but her green sparkles shimmered on the ground. Sarah looked around.
'This has to be a joke.' Sarah thought to herself as she began walking 'Where's that damn door? What did she mean toller? And why the hell does everybody leave sparkles behind whenever they decide to dissappear?'
Sarah walked along outside the Labyrinth watching as the fairies flew by. she was careful not to get too close to any fairy that happened to fly by. She remembered how Hoggle limped and sprayed any fairy he saw. She smiled realizing now that he had good intention and reason. She got an empty feeling she felt as she walked.
She missed Ludo, Hoggle, and Sir Didymus. She even missed the fireys. They weren't all that bad and now looking back, they just seemed to be funny. She turned suddenly seeing the doors had opened and she made her way inside to find the same path she'd seen last time she had to go here. She looked around and it appeared nothing had changed and every twig, sparkle and group of eyeballs were in their places.
She wanted to see the worm again. Just to say hello and she wanted to stay and chat and meet the misses. But, she didn't have time. As always, time was her enemy. She ran her hands along on the walls looking for a space that had no wall. When she finally found one, she took one look back and proceeded forward. 30 minutes had past just to find a hole in the wall. Sarah already assumed she wouldn't make it, but her determination to see Jareth kept her going. When she turned the corner, she ran into an unknown place.
It looked like a swamp. With tall cat tails, fox glove flowers, and reeds, it could've passed for a swamp. The trees all looked like regular weeping willows and cherry trees, but the leaves and blossoms were pink, lavender, or a off white. Sarah walked up to the pond and was shocked to see you could see right to the bottom. She looked around. The grass was soft green and had the scent of pine. It was the kind of place that made her feel very sleepy.
'Snap out of it, Sarah' She said to herself. 'Sarah, you can't stop for a nap in this place. It's too perfect.' Sarah walked to the pond and began looking for a way around, but it was so big, so it'd probably take too long to walk all the way around. Sarah started to walk from one stone to the next, then to the next one, and so on. It seemed easy enough.
'Maybe it really is this easy.' Sarah thought to herself. But she neglected to remember in the Labyrinth, nothing is ever what it seems. And taking something for granted, just might cost you your life.
Just as she got to a stone in the middle of the pond, something moved on the shore. Sarah shot around as fast as she could, only to see something had entered the water. She heard a light splash and look to the right of where she started to look. The water was rippling and air bubbles floated to the surface. Immediatley the movie Jaws ran through her mind and she was afraid to move for a moment. When she thought the coast was clear she began trying to convince herself to move.
"Come on Sarah. Don't be a baby. It was probably just a rock or something. You're almost there, get it together." Sarah shook it off, took one more look around and put her foot forward.
But Just before her foot reached the next rock, something pulled her backwards and before she knew it, under she went. The water stung her eyes and was very cold, she fought for dear life as she realized screaming would just waste what little air she had left. She was thankful her mother taught her to swim just then. She kicked and punched at anything around her, trying to free herself and punch as fast as she could. She was about 7 feet under and she had gotten loose of whatever that thing was. She began swimming to the top as fast as she could, then without warning, it grabbed her again and pulled her under.
Over taken by the shock she screamed. She kicked feircer, wiggled her legs and used her hands to try to swim upwards. The water began to get into her lungs and she coughed. She stopped, blinked and a drowsy feeling began to make her let go and stop fighting. She thought 'Oh my God. I'm going to die in the Labyrinth. And no one will ever know what happened.' She blinked a few times under the water and her body went limp and numb. And she just gave up. The thing continued pulling her down and her eyes closed. Silently she reached the bottom and began to fall into a deep sleep...
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