Impending Battle
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing from Jim Henson's Labyrinth. All other characters and story line are my own.
A Battle Won
...but not the war.
A white owl sat on a perch, staring coldly into an upper story window of an old Victorian house. The windows were illuminating a scene that made his blood scream for revenge. How dare she defy him! How dare his subjects associate themselves with that mortal! She, she who turned them all into her friends, he sneered. Every single subject that was ordered to hinder her process (save for the Helping Hands who couldn't come for obvious reasons) was Aboveground celebrating with her. This was clear grounds for treason, he thought as he suddenly took flight in the night sky.
"We will meet again, Miss Sarah Williams. Mark my words: we will meet again," Jareth vowed as he flew through the veils between the worlds towards his now dilapidated castle.
Soon after returning home, Sarah and her Underground friends partied for a time and enjoyed everyone's company. Their arrival was the evidence she needed to convince herself that the Labyrinth was real indeed. But their fun and games were soon cut short. She and Sir Didymus was playing a game of "Scrabble" when suddenly, the room went quiet. Looking up, she saw that Hoggle was suddenly very pale and Sarah rushed to his side.
"Hoggle! What's wrong?" asked Sarah, wondering if he was ill and looking anxiously around at all the faces in the room that were filled with fear. But Hoggle did not answer and started to shake down to his boots.
"My Lady," said Sir Didymus, "it appears that we all are being summoned by the king." Slowly and reluctantly, the various citizens from the Underground started to disappear leaving her three companions: Hoggle, Sir Didymus and Ludo.
"No!" shouted Sarah as she reached out to her friends and wrapped them in a death-defying hug. "Why? Why do you have to go?" asked Sarah still clutching her friends. "Will he hurt you?"
"That is unknown to us, fair maiden," said the chivalrous fox, "But ho! What a quest this was!" Stepping out of her grasp and sobering for a bit, he continued, "One should not fear danger, my lady, for meetings such as these all end sometime. Each of us fulfilled our duty and now we embark on another journey" And with that, the gallent fox bowed, and disappeared.
Ludo too, then stepped away from Sarah's embrace and waved a sad goodbye. As he disappeared, Sarah heard his final words: "Sawah, friend."
The last to go or course was her first friend in the Labyrinth, Hoggle.
Shaking himself, Hoggle patted Sarah on her shoulder as she started to weep. "Now, now missy, this ain't no time to cry. Yous gotta be strong, see? Yous the first to get to the center of the Labyrinth and it cost Jareth his pride. We knews the consequences goin' in and we chose. Of course there's a possibility that he won't do nothing so don't worry, ya hear?"
Steeling herself, Sarah nodded and let her friend go. And with a gruff nod, he too, disappeared.
After that fateful night, Sarah Williams knew that it was only a matter of time. Her friends never returned her calls when she tried many nights later. This led her to conclude that either the portal was closed to them or something happened. Sarah sighed. Another confrontation was now inevitable with the defeated the Goblin King, that she was sure of. But the big question was when. Time was plainly of the essence in a world that never tolled the hour of the remaining falling sands. Her only choice in the matter was to prepare herself and if need be, to protect her baby brother for the rest of his days. How she was going to do this, Sarah wasn't exactly sure, but she was resolved to find a way.
"When there's a Will, there's a way" quoted Sarah, grinned wryly at the motto her dad always spouted when the goings got tough.
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing from Jim Henson's Labyrinth. All other characters and story line are my own.
A Battle Won
...but not the war.
A white owl sat on a perch, staring coldly into an upper story window of an old Victorian house. The windows were illuminating a scene that made his blood scream for revenge. How dare she defy him! How dare his subjects associate themselves with that mortal! She, she who turned them all into her friends, he sneered. Every single subject that was ordered to hinder her process (save for the Helping Hands who couldn't come for obvious reasons) was Aboveground celebrating with her. This was clear grounds for treason, he thought as he suddenly took flight in the night sky.
"We will meet again, Miss Sarah Williams. Mark my words: we will meet again," Jareth vowed as he flew through the veils between the worlds towards his now dilapidated castle.
Soon after returning home, Sarah and her Underground friends partied for a time and enjoyed everyone's company. Their arrival was the evidence she needed to convince herself that the Labyrinth was real indeed. But their fun and games were soon cut short. She and Sir Didymus was playing a game of "Scrabble" when suddenly, the room went quiet. Looking up, she saw that Hoggle was suddenly very pale and Sarah rushed to his side.
"Hoggle! What's wrong?" asked Sarah, wondering if he was ill and looking anxiously around at all the faces in the room that were filled with fear. But Hoggle did not answer and started to shake down to his boots.
"My Lady," said Sir Didymus, "it appears that we all are being summoned by the king." Slowly and reluctantly, the various citizens from the Underground started to disappear leaving her three companions: Hoggle, Sir Didymus and Ludo.
"No!" shouted Sarah as she reached out to her friends and wrapped them in a death-defying hug. "Why? Why do you have to go?" asked Sarah still clutching her friends. "Will he hurt you?"
"That is unknown to us, fair maiden," said the chivalrous fox, "But ho! What a quest this was!" Stepping out of her grasp and sobering for a bit, he continued, "One should not fear danger, my lady, for meetings such as these all end sometime. Each of us fulfilled our duty and now we embark on another journey" And with that, the gallent fox bowed, and disappeared.
Ludo too, then stepped away from Sarah's embrace and waved a sad goodbye. As he disappeared, Sarah heard his final words: "Sawah, friend."
The last to go or course was her first friend in the Labyrinth, Hoggle.
Shaking himself, Hoggle patted Sarah on her shoulder as she started to weep. "Now, now missy, this ain't no time to cry. Yous gotta be strong, see? Yous the first to get to the center of the Labyrinth and it cost Jareth his pride. We knews the consequences goin' in and we chose. Of course there's a possibility that he won't do nothing so don't worry, ya hear?"
Steeling herself, Sarah nodded and let her friend go. And with a gruff nod, he too, disappeared.
After that fateful night, Sarah Williams knew that it was only a matter of time. Her friends never returned her calls when she tried many nights later. This led her to conclude that either the portal was closed to them or something happened. Sarah sighed. Another confrontation was now inevitable with the defeated the Goblin King, that she was sure of. But the big question was when. Time was plainly of the essence in a world that never tolled the hour of the remaining falling sands. Her only choice in the matter was to prepare herself and if need be, to protect her baby brother for the rest of his days. How she was going to do this, Sarah wasn't exactly sure, but she was resolved to find a way.
"When there's a Will, there's a way" quoted Sarah, grinned wryly at the motto her dad always spouted when the goings got tough.
