Title: Surrender Your Heart
By: Alias: Chica
Disclaimer: Dis-fricken-claimer! Grooowweeeelll! If you keep reading these I will have to suspend you head first into the bog of eternal stench...before you can blink o.O
Author's Notes: SPICEH!!!!!!!! At the end that is, mwhahaahMWAHAHAHA!
Chapter 6: What Women Want
---The Swamp---
Wolf laughed out loud, pausing as he slapped a hand over his mouth but failed to halt his
laughter as he burst into a fit of giggles.
Lily stared at the fire in front of them, situating herself better on the sitting log and smiled
widely, humming to herself and enjoying la la land as she placed the tin mug on the
ground beside the pond from whence the liquid inside it came.
"You know something Wolf?" She crossed her arms and leaned to the left, resting her
head on Wolf's shoulder.
Wolf picked at the firewood, "Yes, Lily, Lily old buddy old chum, Lileh my friiieeend?"
He sing-songed back, taking another drink from his mug and setting it down next to
Lily's.
"I-I respect you....You are a nice person and I respect you...for that." She smiled
stupidly, picking up the mug and taking a few sips.
"Hey...You're not supposed to be drinking that, didn't you hear what they said?"
"Well, you're one to talk," she said, giggling profusely and gesturing toward his cup of
swamp water.
"Ohhh...hehe..." He scratched his ear and hummed softly, then looked to Lily again as
his eyes flashed amber yellow...
"You know what?"
"What is that?"
"You are a beautiful person. N-not just on the inside, but on the outside and I looove
you, you angel you, heheHEHE."
"Now, I don't think I've had enough swamp water to allow that kind of talk."
Wolf let out a soft whimper like a puppy, pouting to Lily.
She laughed, looking down and covering her mouth.
"I swear, you are such like a lil puppy I never had. I assume you're going to lick me now
and beg?"
Just when Wolf was about to give that a rather vulgar remark, he blinked, tilting his head
to the side and glancing around as if searching for something.
"Do you hear that?"
Lily straightened up, listening intently to the surrounding area but only hear the low
moans of animals and the hooting of a white snowy owl that flew past them overhead.
Lily gave the owl a wary glance and looked back to Wolf, "Hear what?"
"Some one is...singing."
Lily blinked, giving Wolf a look like he had recently broken out of an insane asylum.
Then she heard the faintest soft humming just before it was taken by a swift breeze.
'Ohhh thinking about our younger years....it was only you and me....we were young and
wild and free...'
"This has got to be Sarah." Wolf said, scratching his ear again.
Lily looked to Wolf questioningly, "Sarah? What has she got to do with this?"
"Well...the labyrinth changes along with the people in it, you see. It's constantly creating
new challenges based on its occupants' weaknesses and strengths....It's unbelievably
hard to beat...and I think that Sarah is channeling something from her world. She didn't
come from the 10 kingdoms you know..."
Lily nodded, listening carefully once more and not even paying attention as to how it was
that Wolf even knew about Sarah.
Then they heard the singing again, but a little louder now...
'Nooow nothing can take you away from me....We've been down that road before...but
that's over now...You keep me comin' back for more...'
They both spun around to the source of the melody and their jaws both dropped, staring,
dumbfounded.
Still staring oblivious to anything else, they tilted their heads to the side, to make sure
that they hadn't gone insane. Wouldn't you if you were gazing directly upon-
"Singing mushrooms?" Lily said as Wolf flinched slightly.
---The Doorman's Cave---
Sarah quickly picked herself up, getting back to her feet, eyes still wide as her face came
inches from the shining blades of the cleaners.
She jumped back, clinging to Jack's arm as he led her behind him.
"Ohhh, not again! Con-fraggeda!!" A sharp and shrill voice came from behind the
cleaners as a goblin with a metal helmet covering his features stepped out from behind it
after swinging his leg over what appeared to be a small bicycle. The bicycle had one front
wheel and two tiny back ones that were connected to many gears and shifts on the back
of the huge gong-shaped shield to which torture devices of all kinds were attached to.
Jack blinked and glanced back too see if everyone was okay. Oona tilted her head to the
side, studying the creature as it repeated curses under its breath.
The goblin jumped up and down for a moment as al watched it, wide eyed. He shook his
fist at the cleaners and hit the small contraption in front of the bicycle that appeared to be
the engine, resulting in a huge puff of smoke billowing out from it.
"CON FRAGGIDA!!" The goblin repeated, turning to them and lowering his fists, finally
acknowledging their presence.
"Stay back!" Jack warned the creature as it stepped forward.
The goblin blinked and chuckled for a moment, "I'm not going to hurt youz!" It replied,
flipping open the knight-like visor on its helmet to reveal two shining black eyes, goblin
eyes, but kind ones nevertheless.
Sarah looked it up and down, then swallowed the lump in her throat. The goblin didn't look like it could hurt her even if it tried, but she was still a little shaken from the close encounter with the cleaners moments before.
She steadied her voice, looking down at him, "You...aren't going to tell Jareth? You're not tricking us are you?"
"SHHH!"
The goblin interrupted her, glancing to the sides warily.
"Honestly, girl, have you ever known a time when saying 'he who must NOT be
named's' name has brought upon you anything good?!"
"But...aren't you one of Ja-...the goblin king's servants? One of his goblins? You
know," Sarah looked extremely confused, but the goblin looked at her as a 1st grader
might look at a calculus question, mouth dropped, eye twitching.
"Hell no! What did you expect?! It's more than likely that everyone you will meet inside
the labyrinth, that it's at the castle or the goblin city will be a rouge. Most creatures are
held here against their will as prisoners and forced to do the dirty work so that the goblin
king can sit on his ass all day while I am up here having to clear out this baka tunnel
13/7!"
Sarah smiled lightly.
"So you're stuck in here too?" Oona looked to the goblin.
"You're a clever one!" He said sarcastically, to which Oona sent a look of daggers.
"Er...What's your name?" Sarah inquired, hoping to interrupt it before Oona did some
major damage to the smart-assed goblin.
"What's it to you?"
"Well, we can't really go around saying, 'hey you' all the time."
The goblin smirked, although the three of them couldn't see it.
"Arigon..."
"Do you know the way to the castle at the center of the labyrinth, we need to save some
one who was captured and taken there." Jack spoke up as Oona still eyed the goblin
suspiciously.
"Nope."
The trio sighed.
"But I do know a way out of this tunnel."
They all looked back up, beaming at him.
---The Swamp---
"Yea, that's right." Said one of the mushrooms.
Each fungus had a special character to their face. It reminded Wolf of the hands in all the
oubliettes of the labyrinth, for he knew it well indeed. They each had red tops with white
spots on them, looking rather delicious to cook in with an omelette.
"Youz guyz got a problem with that? Cause we can slice you! We'll-" Interrupted
another rather scratchily, sounding much like a mob boss. It was only to be interrupted by
another mushroom, "He means to say, wouldn't you go for some fried mushroom- cabobs
right about now?"
All the other mushrooms 'yea'd in agreement, trying to coax Lily and Wolf into eating
them a little too obviously.
"Ohhh no! No no no no no." Wolf waved his finger at them like he was scolding a child,
"We are not going to eat you, we heard the pixies loud and clear."
"Oh come on, we're harmless! We're tasty and harmless!"
Lily blinked, "Now now, we have to listen to the nice pixies or they might throw us to the
eeevil witch!" She waved her fingers as if telling a ghost story at
the...talking mushrooms.
"Oh please! PLEEEAAASE! We're sooo deicious, promise we won't do a thing to ya."
"Thas' ri'! Wouldn't you love us with some creamy cheese? Eh? Ehhhh?"
A small dish of fondue style cheese appeared in front of them as they blinked.
Wolf licked his lips, looking up at the mushrooms, "Well, you see I'm not really into the
whole non-meat diet...I'm...a avid carnivore." A smirk crossed his face for a moment as
he eyed the mushrooms.
"Ohhh, well then you might want to have a mushroom and cheese and...bacon
omelette?"
Wolf glanced down to find a tray of bacon sliced up before him and cooked rare.
"Huff puff," he whimpered softly, saying it with a hint of pleasure. Heaven was a wolf
and his meat.
Lily smiled also, "Hm...omelette de fromage..." She looked up at Wolf, biting her lip
with that innocent and playful look in her eyes.
Wolf glanced over at her and they both looked back at the mushrooms, saying at the same
exact time, "Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to have a bite!"
Looking to each other, they giggled and started plucking mushrooms from the ground.
Grabbing two sticks off of the ground and shedding them of extra small limbs, Wolf
speared the mushrooms with them and gave one to Lily as the heated them over the fire,
holding the cheese over also so that it could melt more.
As soon as the food was done Lily and Wolf munched down on the omelettes they had
prepared, feeling their eyelids get heavier slowly.
The mushrooms sang the song softly as Lily and Wolf laid back, starting to drift to sleep.
"Baby you're all that I want...when you're lyin' here in my arms....I'm findin' it hard to
believe....we're in heaven..."
Just as their eyes closed completely a dark figure approached them from the cottage...
---The Tunnel---
Sarah, Jack, and Arigon walked down the tunnel followed by a hovering, smaller version
of Oona instead of her 'ball of light' regular appearance.
Arigon stopped and the followers came to a halt behind him, looking up in the direction
that he had at the ceiling of the tunnel where a circular opening was covered by a twisting
steel handle door of the same shape.
"There, now if some one could give me a lift we should be near the orchard by now..."
Just as Jack was stepping forward to give the goblin a boost to the opening, everyone
froze at the sight of a crystal ball rolling down the tunnel ground.
The only words Arigon could udder were, "Oh shit..."
The four of them watched as the crystal stopped, shattering like a bubble as it hit the side
of an outstretched black leather boot.
A smile graced the goblin king's lips as her stepped forward from the darkness of the
tunnel and toward Sarah who backed slightly behind Jack.
Jareth chuckled lightly and took Sarah by the arms, spinning her around and into his
grasp, then pushed her back against a wall with one had by her head just as he had done
the year before and looked into her eyes.
"Sarah. You have indeed defied me." He said with a wry smile. The sound of his voice
made her shudder as he bore holes into her head, staring at the way he was.
Sarah refused to give him any sign that she was afraid of him and stared blankly, almost
looking through him.
"You're just a spoiled sport now aren't you?" She spat at him, only making him grin
wider, quite like the cat who ate the canary.
"I'm not one for losing...not my game in my labyrinth...not you..."
"You never lost me Jareth..."
His smile almost faded and he was, by some miracle, speechless for a moment.
"I was never yours..." Sarah finished, rather proud of herself with the look on the goblin
king's face that assured her she had pissed him off.
He leaned in closer to her, his lips inches away from her ear as he turned, leaning closer
still, and whispered to her, "You are mine...and you cannot change that fact...you cannot
steal what is rightfully mine...surrender your heart to me Sarah and I can give you
everything..."
Sarah's knees weakened as she felt his hot breath on her neck...she knew that she wanted
him more than anything...but then again, it's not having what you want, it's wanting
what you already have. She knew well also that she could have him...by any means what
'have him' suggests...she could be happy...but she was not ready to surrender herself
that easily.
"H-human hearts d-don't work that way, Jareth..." Sarah said, stumbling over her words
and turning her gaze away from him.
He scowled and took her chin with his hand, gently forcing her to look him in the eyes.
"What do you want, Sarah?"
Her lips parted, noticing her heavy breathing as she could hear her heart pounding in her
chest, her cheeks burning red as he stepped back and brushed against her, fading away.
What did she want?
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Author's Notes: Hehe...I promised spiceh...and I delivered!
By: Alias: Chica
Disclaimer: Dis-fricken-claimer! Grooowweeeelll! If you keep reading these I will have to suspend you head first into the bog of eternal stench...before you can blink o.O
Author's Notes: SPICEH!!!!!!!! At the end that is, mwhahaahMWAHAHAHA!
Chapter 6: What Women Want
---The Swamp---
Wolf laughed out loud, pausing as he slapped a hand over his mouth but failed to halt his
laughter as he burst into a fit of giggles.
Lily stared at the fire in front of them, situating herself better on the sitting log and smiled
widely, humming to herself and enjoying la la land as she placed the tin mug on the
ground beside the pond from whence the liquid inside it came.
"You know something Wolf?" She crossed her arms and leaned to the left, resting her
head on Wolf's shoulder.
Wolf picked at the firewood, "Yes, Lily, Lily old buddy old chum, Lileh my friiieeend?"
He sing-songed back, taking another drink from his mug and setting it down next to
Lily's.
"I-I respect you....You are a nice person and I respect you...for that." She smiled
stupidly, picking up the mug and taking a few sips.
"Hey...You're not supposed to be drinking that, didn't you hear what they said?"
"Well, you're one to talk," she said, giggling profusely and gesturing toward his cup of
swamp water.
"Ohhh...hehe..." He scratched his ear and hummed softly, then looked to Lily again as
his eyes flashed amber yellow...
"You know what?"
"What is that?"
"You are a beautiful person. N-not just on the inside, but on the outside and I looove
you, you angel you, heheHEHE."
"Now, I don't think I've had enough swamp water to allow that kind of talk."
Wolf let out a soft whimper like a puppy, pouting to Lily.
She laughed, looking down and covering her mouth.
"I swear, you are such like a lil puppy I never had. I assume you're going to lick me now
and beg?"
Just when Wolf was about to give that a rather vulgar remark, he blinked, tilting his head
to the side and glancing around as if searching for something.
"Do you hear that?"
Lily straightened up, listening intently to the surrounding area but only hear the low
moans of animals and the hooting of a white snowy owl that flew past them overhead.
Lily gave the owl a wary glance and looked back to Wolf, "Hear what?"
"Some one is...singing."
Lily blinked, giving Wolf a look like he had recently broken out of an insane asylum.
Then she heard the faintest soft humming just before it was taken by a swift breeze.
'Ohhh thinking about our younger years....it was only you and me....we were young and
wild and free...'
"This has got to be Sarah." Wolf said, scratching his ear again.
Lily looked to Wolf questioningly, "Sarah? What has she got to do with this?"
"Well...the labyrinth changes along with the people in it, you see. It's constantly creating
new challenges based on its occupants' weaknesses and strengths....It's unbelievably
hard to beat...and I think that Sarah is channeling something from her world. She didn't
come from the 10 kingdoms you know..."
Lily nodded, listening carefully once more and not even paying attention as to how it was
that Wolf even knew about Sarah.
Then they heard the singing again, but a little louder now...
'Nooow nothing can take you away from me....We've been down that road before...but
that's over now...You keep me comin' back for more...'
They both spun around to the source of the melody and their jaws both dropped, staring,
dumbfounded.
Still staring oblivious to anything else, they tilted their heads to the side, to make sure
that they hadn't gone insane. Wouldn't you if you were gazing directly upon-
"Singing mushrooms?" Lily said as Wolf flinched slightly.
---The Doorman's Cave---
Sarah quickly picked herself up, getting back to her feet, eyes still wide as her face came
inches from the shining blades of the cleaners.
She jumped back, clinging to Jack's arm as he led her behind him.
"Ohhh, not again! Con-fraggeda!!" A sharp and shrill voice came from behind the
cleaners as a goblin with a metal helmet covering his features stepped out from behind it
after swinging his leg over what appeared to be a small bicycle. The bicycle had one front
wheel and two tiny back ones that were connected to many gears and shifts on the back
of the huge gong-shaped shield to which torture devices of all kinds were attached to.
Jack blinked and glanced back too see if everyone was okay. Oona tilted her head to the
side, studying the creature as it repeated curses under its breath.
The goblin jumped up and down for a moment as al watched it, wide eyed. He shook his
fist at the cleaners and hit the small contraption in front of the bicycle that appeared to be
the engine, resulting in a huge puff of smoke billowing out from it.
"CON FRAGGIDA!!" The goblin repeated, turning to them and lowering his fists, finally
acknowledging their presence.
"Stay back!" Jack warned the creature as it stepped forward.
The goblin blinked and chuckled for a moment, "I'm not going to hurt youz!" It replied,
flipping open the knight-like visor on its helmet to reveal two shining black eyes, goblin
eyes, but kind ones nevertheless.
Sarah looked it up and down, then swallowed the lump in her throat. The goblin didn't look like it could hurt her even if it tried, but she was still a little shaken from the close encounter with the cleaners moments before.
She steadied her voice, looking down at him, "You...aren't going to tell Jareth? You're not tricking us are you?"
"SHHH!"
The goblin interrupted her, glancing to the sides warily.
"Honestly, girl, have you ever known a time when saying 'he who must NOT be
named's' name has brought upon you anything good?!"
"But...aren't you one of Ja-...the goblin king's servants? One of his goblins? You
know," Sarah looked extremely confused, but the goblin looked at her as a 1st grader
might look at a calculus question, mouth dropped, eye twitching.
"Hell no! What did you expect?! It's more than likely that everyone you will meet inside
the labyrinth, that it's at the castle or the goblin city will be a rouge. Most creatures are
held here against their will as prisoners and forced to do the dirty work so that the goblin
king can sit on his ass all day while I am up here having to clear out this baka tunnel
13/7!"
Sarah smiled lightly.
"So you're stuck in here too?" Oona looked to the goblin.
"You're a clever one!" He said sarcastically, to which Oona sent a look of daggers.
"Er...What's your name?" Sarah inquired, hoping to interrupt it before Oona did some
major damage to the smart-assed goblin.
"What's it to you?"
"Well, we can't really go around saying, 'hey you' all the time."
The goblin smirked, although the three of them couldn't see it.
"Arigon..."
"Do you know the way to the castle at the center of the labyrinth, we need to save some
one who was captured and taken there." Jack spoke up as Oona still eyed the goblin
suspiciously.
"Nope."
The trio sighed.
"But I do know a way out of this tunnel."
They all looked back up, beaming at him.
---The Swamp---
"Yea, that's right." Said one of the mushrooms.
Each fungus had a special character to their face. It reminded Wolf of the hands in all the
oubliettes of the labyrinth, for he knew it well indeed. They each had red tops with white
spots on them, looking rather delicious to cook in with an omelette.
"Youz guyz got a problem with that? Cause we can slice you! We'll-" Interrupted
another rather scratchily, sounding much like a mob boss. It was only to be interrupted by
another mushroom, "He means to say, wouldn't you go for some fried mushroom- cabobs
right about now?"
All the other mushrooms 'yea'd in agreement, trying to coax Lily and Wolf into eating
them a little too obviously.
"Ohhh no! No no no no no." Wolf waved his finger at them like he was scolding a child,
"We are not going to eat you, we heard the pixies loud and clear."
"Oh come on, we're harmless! We're tasty and harmless!"
Lily blinked, "Now now, we have to listen to the nice pixies or they might throw us to the
eeevil witch!" She waved her fingers as if telling a ghost story at
the...talking mushrooms.
"Oh please! PLEEEAAASE! We're sooo deicious, promise we won't do a thing to ya."
"Thas' ri'! Wouldn't you love us with some creamy cheese? Eh? Ehhhh?"
A small dish of fondue style cheese appeared in front of them as they blinked.
Wolf licked his lips, looking up at the mushrooms, "Well, you see I'm not really into the
whole non-meat diet...I'm...a avid carnivore." A smirk crossed his face for a moment as
he eyed the mushrooms.
"Ohhh, well then you might want to have a mushroom and cheese and...bacon
omelette?"
Wolf glanced down to find a tray of bacon sliced up before him and cooked rare.
"Huff puff," he whimpered softly, saying it with a hint of pleasure. Heaven was a wolf
and his meat.
Lily smiled also, "Hm...omelette de fromage..." She looked up at Wolf, biting her lip
with that innocent and playful look in her eyes.
Wolf glanced over at her and they both looked back at the mushrooms, saying at the same
exact time, "Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to have a bite!"
Looking to each other, they giggled and started plucking mushrooms from the ground.
Grabbing two sticks off of the ground and shedding them of extra small limbs, Wolf
speared the mushrooms with them and gave one to Lily as the heated them over the fire,
holding the cheese over also so that it could melt more.
As soon as the food was done Lily and Wolf munched down on the omelettes they had
prepared, feeling their eyelids get heavier slowly.
The mushrooms sang the song softly as Lily and Wolf laid back, starting to drift to sleep.
"Baby you're all that I want...when you're lyin' here in my arms....I'm findin' it hard to
believe....we're in heaven..."
Just as their eyes closed completely a dark figure approached them from the cottage...
---The Tunnel---
Sarah, Jack, and Arigon walked down the tunnel followed by a hovering, smaller version
of Oona instead of her 'ball of light' regular appearance.
Arigon stopped and the followers came to a halt behind him, looking up in the direction
that he had at the ceiling of the tunnel where a circular opening was covered by a twisting
steel handle door of the same shape.
"There, now if some one could give me a lift we should be near the orchard by now..."
Just as Jack was stepping forward to give the goblin a boost to the opening, everyone
froze at the sight of a crystal ball rolling down the tunnel ground.
The only words Arigon could udder were, "Oh shit..."
The four of them watched as the crystal stopped, shattering like a bubble as it hit the side
of an outstretched black leather boot.
A smile graced the goblin king's lips as her stepped forward from the darkness of the
tunnel and toward Sarah who backed slightly behind Jack.
Jareth chuckled lightly and took Sarah by the arms, spinning her around and into his
grasp, then pushed her back against a wall with one had by her head just as he had done
the year before and looked into her eyes.
"Sarah. You have indeed defied me." He said with a wry smile. The sound of his voice
made her shudder as he bore holes into her head, staring at the way he was.
Sarah refused to give him any sign that she was afraid of him and stared blankly, almost
looking through him.
"You're just a spoiled sport now aren't you?" She spat at him, only making him grin
wider, quite like the cat who ate the canary.
"I'm not one for losing...not my game in my labyrinth...not you..."
"You never lost me Jareth..."
His smile almost faded and he was, by some miracle, speechless for a moment.
"I was never yours..." Sarah finished, rather proud of herself with the look on the goblin
king's face that assured her she had pissed him off.
He leaned in closer to her, his lips inches away from her ear as he turned, leaning closer
still, and whispered to her, "You are mine...and you cannot change that fact...you cannot
steal what is rightfully mine...surrender your heart to me Sarah and I can give you
everything..."
Sarah's knees weakened as she felt his hot breath on her neck...she knew that she wanted
him more than anything...but then again, it's not having what you want, it's wanting
what you already have. She knew well also that she could have him...by any means what
'have him' suggests...she could be happy...but she was not ready to surrender herself
that easily.
"H-human hearts d-don't work that way, Jareth..." Sarah said, stumbling over her words
and turning her gaze away from him.
He scowled and took her chin with his hand, gently forcing her to look him in the eyes.
"What do you want, Sarah?"
Her lips parted, noticing her heavy breathing as she could hear her heart pounding in her
chest, her cheeks burning red as he stepped back and brushed against her, fading away.
What did she want?
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Author's Notes: Hehe...I promised spiceh...and I delivered!