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Chapter Seven "Double Dream"

The training had begun the moment Lydia had stepped foot into the Library. And Jareth, being who he was, was a little too hard on her.

"Jareth, it isn't working" Lydia in a very annoyed tone. Within minutes of started the training a very large migraine began to seep into her head. And now the pain was on the border of unbearable.

"I said relax and be patent," Jareth replied just as annoyed or even more so.

"How can I relax, with you barking at me all the time, on what I should do. Not including this headache, I feel like Zeus having his head speared by Athena." She looked at him and he seemed to relax and looking at her as if saying, 'I relaxed now it's your turn.'

"Lay back," Jareth said as he maneuvered to behind her on the pillow setting that he had prepared for her training.

"As in lay back on you," Lydia said suspiciously.

"Yes on me. And no I am not trying to take advantage of you. I am trying to help you relax." He then smiled that chesire cat smile of his that would make any woman strip down and be his for the taking. "My dear that is what your mind is on, no wonder you can't relax. And if that's the case I will ask you more than just to lay back."

Lydia whirled around and glared at him. Furious with him for being himself, and herself for wanting to take his offer. So she did something to break the tension and to make herself feel better; she threw the nearest pillow at him.

He dodged it easily, "I am only joking. We both agreed to be friends. So trust me."

She looked at him skeptically and leaned into him. He put his finger upon her temples and made circler moments. She could feel the magic radiating of them and into her head; soothing it. But what she was most aware of was his body heat, Radiating off of him just like his magic. She cursed inwardly thinking, ' I should not be reacting like this. I have been around men more than women and none of them made feel like this. Yeah sure his looks were far surpassing theirs. OK!! FOCUS!! I have other things to worry about. After this I am going to work on my martial arts training.'

"Better?" Jareth said questioning. Now maneuvering to sit in front of her.

"Yeah, Lets give this one more try." What they had been working on was too first: drive her dream aura so to speak from her body and second: to enter a special crystal Jareth had conjured.

"Now relax. And remember that the aura is weightless and your body is the confinement." Jareth said in a very monotone voice.

"mm," was all Lydia could reply as her body fell back onto the pillows.

She saw a light, not the one we believe we see when we die. It was something else, which was not the feeling she was receiving. But she had the urge to reach it to be able to hold it and touch it. She reached for it but she felt restraints as if being held back by an unknown force. She struggled and struggled but the restraints did slacken. They light got brighter and brighter beckoning for her to come to it.

Then it exploded in an even brighter white light.

Now standing in front of her was her very self. She was bathed in the light. It stared at her in a harsh look that a mother would give her child. It felt like forever till it spoke. And when it spoke it spoke in her own voice but it had an otherworldly sound to it.

"You are your own restraint, let go of physical and let out just your emotion and mind."

"Who are you?" Lydia replied.

"I am you. I am your hidden self. The aura that has kept itself hidden till now. Once you let go of your restraints your gift will awaken. Yourself and I will become one."

"Will I loose myself if you awaken?"

"Like I said I am you, you will not change. Now break through!"

The restraints were now pulling Lydia back away from her supposedly hidden aura. The more she fought the more it pulled her back. She yelled to herself, "help me please. If you are me you will do so."

"I can not, I can do nothing this is your trial. The trial that you must do before you reach me. And it can only be accomplished once. That is why your gift is so rare, so many have failed."

She struggled harder and once again was pulled back, "If you are me then how do you know all this?"

"I do not know, it is not the purpose of the inner self to know why, we just know."

Now annoyed, she relaxed to think. With that the restraints slackened. She then knew how to get free herself. She had to relax both in her body and in mind. In a way it was like meditation.

She was going to pass this trial.

Now to Jareth

Jareth on the other hand had no clue what was going on within Lydia mind. All he got of the situation was the facial expressions that had been spread upon Lydia face while asleep. And the perspiration on her forehead in which he wiped of with a wet cloth.

His mind had also been wondering in other forms of thought then what was going on currently. He kept thinking how good it felt for her to be in his arms and how oddly familiar it felt. It was if he had been holding her all his life, but he knew that couldn't be they have barely known each other for twenty-six hours. He knew she felt the attraction as well, that much was obvious on how her body reacted to him. He looked down at Lydia and noticed that she had become completely relaxed.

'Not to long now, she may not be able to enter the crystal today, but as long as she can fell the separation between body and mind we have progressed nicely,' as the thought ended the conjured dream crystal on the pillar that it was placed began to glow blue. In which meant she had completed both task. Which meant she separated her dream conscious from her body and had entered into the crystal.

Jareth smiled that evil Goblin king smile that gave him that him inferior regal look. He knew that his goals were not far off.

The crystals blue glow began to fade. And Lydia eyes opened. Jareth looked down at her and said, "Well done."

She sat up weakly, "Thanks, can I have my dinner served in my room and much later? I am pooped." And with that she collapsed back on to the pillows asleep.

Jareth picked her up and transported them to her bedchamber.

Once she was prepared and tucked in to her bed. He transported himself to his office where Dayan awaited.

"Sire how did today's training go?" Dayan asked, while also finishing some paperwork in front of him.

"Very well. Surprisingly well in fact." Jareth replied with a very distant voice. He walked toward the office window that had the perfect view of the Labyrinth. Contemplating everything that had conspired today in the library.

Dayan looked up at his king and asked, "Sire anything wrong?"

Jareth looked back at Dayan and stated, "I am going to take a flight over the Labyrinth tonight." And with that he was gone in his owl form; flying across the Labyrinth. Dayan went back to his paperwork, curious to know what caused such a reaction from his king.

The Dream

She was running and running, and the running never seemed to end. As far as she could see there was darkness. As she was running to her left was a mirror, a mirror that also never seem to end. It was as if she her destination was to find where the mirror stopped. Yet she never seemed to find the end. So the running went ever further on. The running seemed to stop

But for some reason she did stop and looked into the mirror. But as she walked closer to the mirror to gaze upon herself she soon realized that there was no mirror. But her reflection was still there. But it was different than any other reflection she had yet to come across. It had menacing aura around it, but not only was it menacing it seemed sad, lonely perhaps. She looked upon the reflection with wonder. Than it gave an evil smirk. And stepped over the ledge that where the mirror should have been. Her reflection walked up to her and pushed her and Lydia feel to the cold ground.

The reflection then knelt done to look within Lydia's eyes. And said with Lydia's own voice, "So, let it begin."

Lydia shot out of bed drenched in sweat. She looked outside her window to find it was barely sunrise. Her mind worried to what the dream had meant, worried to what was coming. The dream had been so different to her training yesterday; she had actually recognized her inner self. But this dream was entirely different. The reflection was not her. She neither recognized it, nor did seem familiar in the way it had been speaking to inner self. It was familiar in another way but Lydia could not place where the feeling resides.

She looked outside again and across the Labyrinth. As she looked out onto the Labyrinth the wind came through into her room. And she felt comforted; that no matter what happen things will eventually turn out fine. It was if the Labyrinth had offered her comfort. Comfort that she had willingly taken.

In another place far from the Goblin Kingdom

"My Lord it seems that she has appeared. The time has come to awaken them," said a woman with a evil smirk as she gazed upon her lord.

Her Lord now looked on her with an intense glare. "Are you sure of this?"

"Who would no better than me my lord? It seems that she and I are connected just like you predicted."

"Explain."

"We had a shared a inner dream. It also seems that it reacted to her powers being awakened." Her Lord nodded in acceptance. He then looked back at her in thought.

"My dear I will leave everything to you."

"I would be honored my lord." His beautiful eyes now looked on her in desire. When he looked at her like that she knew she would not be getting any sleep tonight.

"Come here."