Title: Surrender Your Heart
By: Alias: Chica
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"This is the portal to all of your deepest darkest desires. The pillar of all your dreams, your lust, your longing....and if you take it....your paradise will become a reality." And then he had vanished.
As the girl placed one finger on the crystal it shattered as delicately as a bubble might and the trance dissolved with it.
Suddenly the forest around her had become eerily silent and the sounds of playful faeries, the wind in the willows, the cheerful song of the birds had gone. The sunlight on the young woman's back had become colder and almost nonexistent.
Lily had a horrible feeling inside her that made her want to scream for her beloved to come and rescue her from the familiar instinct that she had done something terrible.
Turning and readying herself to run, Lily found herself face to face with the aristocratic and ever-smiling goblin king. She recoiled, and the fear in her eyes just made Jareth grin wider.
He held contact with their eyes and stepped forward, holding out yet another crystal ball that he twirled and tossed effortlessly in his hands.
"Lily...You have been ignorant in your choice, haven't you?"
Shaking, Lily bit her lip, speechless.
"Although...." Jareth stopped and held out the crystal to Lily once more, "Ignorance is bliss." He turned his back to the young maiden, throwing the crystal off into the forest, although it was a forest no longer but an orange wasteland that surrounded the very center of the complex maze before them. The Labyrinth.
"This is just a dream," Lily thought, "I'm back in the forest with Jack and this is all a dream. I'm sleeping."
"It's more real than you can imagine, Lily." He turned to face her again, looking into her eyes with the same enchanting elegance that lured so many girls into the Labyrinth.
"Jack will come for me." She bit back her frustration and confronted Jareth with a determination that he had found in Sarah.
"Let's make this interesting, hm?" Jareth rested his hands on his sides.
"I will give your beloved Jack 13 hours to rescue you from my Labyrinth and provide you with a chance to live happily ever after. But this is not all...I am not one to stand for losing my battles and I have yet to claim what is already mine...her name is Sarah."
The goblin king whispered her name softly, his smile fading slowly and his heartache was apparent to Lily, whom in all of her innocence and soul that she had always come to understand the emotions of others, always wanting to help.
Jareth on the other hand had never been so and took advantage of this attribute in Lily, having no intention on telling her of Sarah's harsh feelings toward him.
Lily paused, a soft wave of sympathy coming over her and she stepped bravely forward, to look over the hill next to the goblin king.
Jareth smiled slyly to himself, she was falling perfectly into his plan. He looked up at Lily with pleading eyes, wiping the malevolent smile off of his face and spoke gently now.
"I will send help with you, generously offering the one and only woman that had ever solved my labyrinth and stolen my heart...If Jack and Sarah work together, Sarah being kind and caring as you, Lily, then you will be rescued and I will be reunited with my deepest desire also...will you help relieve me of this burden on my heart?"
Lily smiled, 'He's no more harmless than Jack, and so in love with this girl.'
She nodded accordingly and Jareth pursed his lips together, trying extremely hard not to express just how proud and arrogant he really was but smirking wickedly on the inside.
'Sarah will be mine...I will have her...forever.'
Stepping back slowly, he took Lily's hand and kissed it lightly as he started to fade away, "The Labyrinth is built on the soul of it's occupants, on their strength and their courage and you have no idea how much this means to me, just how much of a happy end this will become..."
With that Lily and Jareth disappeared as Jareth had came and they were off to the castle beyond the goblin city, at the very center of the maze called simply, in a shadow of its complexity, The Labyrinth.
A bewildered Sarah stood on the edge of the sandy hill where Lily and Jareth had stood only moments ago. Unknowingly, Lily had wished Sarah and Jack into the Labyrinth once she had accepted the goblin king's proposition.
"The Labyrinth?" Sarah whispered to herself, the memory of her escape only a few months ago still fresh in her mind. The sight of the maze below, the smell of the dusty air, and the feeling that your heart had been emptied and that you were simply in a dream world, dancing on the edge of insanity.
"Why am I here?" She asked herself, not paying any attention whatsoever to the young man that stood behind her, ever more frightened that he had no idea where Lily had gone and his surroundings where not familiar to him in any way.
"Where are you Jareth!?!" Sarah screamed out into the open.
Jack slowly approached her and tapped her lightly on her shoulder, jumping back slightly as she spun around to face him.
"I-I'm sorry...I didn't mean to scare you...Where...where is this?"
Sarah didn't know what to think. If the infamous goblin king who had been known for his disguises and for clouding one's vision of what was real happened to be nowhere in sight, then who might this stranger be? Who indeed?