Rosakara- bows, thankyou sweetz

BOWIEgirl-update update! Here you go hun!

Eleanora Rose- I know the whole dolphin thing was a lil iffy for me, but I wanted to get the trio in this differently than their norm selves. Sorry Jareth isn't really in this chapter, but he should be in next chappy….its building up to it

Lounging-pixie- Thankyou! And yep, the dolphins ive actually mentioned in this fic I do swim with (obviously they aren't the laby trio lol) but cuz I live in front of the beach, they often come up to me when I'm snorkeling myself. They are a really friendly pack, often come up to tourists and everything too!

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Theshadowcat- ooooohh Sarah is gonna save jareth..maybe herself aswell, but not in this chapter, its building up to it'

Solea- yum! Eats cookies up! Thanxyou, I wanted to do something a lil different, I just hope people like it!

Kiea- thankyou  Will do

Moonjava- Thankyou! You are one very dedicated reviewer….. and I think that's great! gives moonjava a free ticket to the Labyrinth

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Last Chapter…..

All known logic went out the window, her heart won over her head, if her friends existed, he did, and that meant one thing, she was going to find him. Deep in her soul she knew this was coming and instead of turning away like her once immature self, she welcomed it. Self-assuring, she tightened her grip on her friends.

Immediately, Sarah was submerged into the water at an inhumanly speed.

Darkness all of a sudden surrounded her.

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As soon as she had been submerged into the darkness of the underwater world, Sarah felt herself being pushed up into a semi-light place, just as fast onto a solid surface thank the gods, and a place where she could actually breathe. Being human, one did not take oxygen nor terra firma for granted.

Coughing and spluttering, eyes still shut, she noticed exactly what she had been pushed up onto with her hands, it was a sort of rocky, but smooth platform ledge, just above the water. It was slightly slimy to the feel, but at least it was a solid substance at least for her to balance herself up and onto.

She wiped her closed eyes from the salty sea residue as best as she could with her already wet hands, pushing back dark, wet strands of hair out of her eyes and off her face and took in her new surroundings. Her mouth opened slightly in confusion and awe as she noted she probably wasn't in the labyrinth, but in a type of underwater cavern perhaps, obviously given the oxygen pocket and the fact she could see a dark opening in the deeper pool before her, obviously where it led back out to the sea.

The cavern itself was quite beautiful though, with the rocky walls glistening as if one had sprayed glitter all over them, a lot like the walls of the labyrinth despite not being actually there, the aqua tones from the pool of water reflecting the glittery substance, giving the atmosphere a sort of tranquil yet magical feel.

It may have been a beautiful cavern, but Sarah couldn't help but start to feel a little panic at that moment, for her friends where no-where to be seen when she thought they had been right behind her and really, she had no idea where she actually was. She could have been a few meters off the beach given the time it took to get there, or then again, given her new magical out look on life, she could have been in a different world all together.

She peered back into the shallow pool before her, hoping the trio would submerge themselves, and not leave her here alone.

"Hoggle….Ludo….Didymus…."

Sarah looked worriedly to the water and around her. The only way her friends could possibly appear, would be from the pool of water given the fact they were now different creatures all together, and the fact she could not see any other opening in the cavern she was in.

Silence was her answer.

"Come on guys, this isn't funny anymore.. what's going on"

Not that it was funny in the first place.

She panicked again, swallowing hard.

Then all of a sudden she nearly got the fright of her life as behind her, she heard a rattling of keys or some sort. She noticed there was a smoother side to the rock wall surface, that could have been a door she didn't see before. But there was no handle, lock or anything, just a small, flat looking arched door type shape in the rocks wall. Frowning in confusion looking back into the water before her, thinking that was her most logical answer for where they would most certainly appear from, not from actual ground, she looked back at the so-called door.

It started to shake a bit and she could swear she could hear muffled grunts behind it.

"….bloody…door"

Yep, that definitely was Hoggle.

She lifted her hand to her brow in recognition of the flashback, and this oh so familiar scene.

Don't act like you know so much, this is an oubliette

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A place to forget about People!

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Wrong door, happens all the time

What was this then, an oubliette, an underwater oubliette?

Maybe she was in the Labyrinth.

All of a sudden the door burst open, nearly knocking her back into the pool if it weren't for two big furry paws grabbing hold of her and pulling her back, further onto a part of the rocky platform she didn't realize existed in her first initial daze of where she was.

She turned and smiled greatly at the dwarf, the fox and the beast standing from the door way to the small oubliette/cavern.

"Sarah"

Hoggle looked up to her, hugging her tight, almost childlike although he was old enough to be her grandfather 10 times over.

"Sawah" Ludo, the giant that saved her from falling back into the pool picked her and Hoggle up by accident into a big bear hug.

As he plopped her back down on the slimy platform, Sir Didymus dipped his hat to her.

"My Lady" And with that Sarah, not so lady-like, grabbed him and gave him a huge hug.

As the dark haired beauty put the elegant fox back down, she stared at the three of them.

On with the barrage of questions

"Do you know how much I've missed you guys? Why didn't you come back when I wished for all those times? I didn't know whether you were real or not in the end…….I mean why now?…why come back now, and why did you come to me as creatures of the sea, dolphins none the less?" Sarah gasped for a long awaited breath.

Whilst doing so she noted the three forlorn faces as she questioned them, then looked around her again.

"…And why plop me into an oubliette for that matter…" She finished off. She would ask why they were their real 'selves'after.

Hoggle at last spoke up with confusion written over his face.

"Sarah, firstly, you ain't in no oubliette, don't you know we are still in your world…?"

Sarah ran her hand down the rocky wall collecting some of that glittery substance she was admiring before and looked up a Hoggle.

"Hoggle, no I don't know, apart from the fact it smells like the sea and I'm sitting on a rock…I have no idea whatsoever" She turned back to examining the walls substance.

"After what's happened to me, in fact over the past few days…no make that years.. I don't know what's going on anymore, and I most definitely don't now where I am now"

Hoggle turned to look at his friends, seeing their concern and confusion matched with his and then turned back to Sarah.

"Sarah, I should begin by asking……have you been back to the Labyrinth ever since you got Toby back?"

Sarah looked down from her hands to the glistening pool of water, frowning.

"No, I haven't" She stared emptily at her hands in her lap.

Not that I didn't want to after I had finally come to terms with what Jareth was actually offering me.

The dwarf sat down next to Sarah now to look her over more carefully.

"Sarah, we are here like this because we believe perhaps it is what you wanted us to be, but we thinks it may be more now than just you….."

"Whatever do you mean Hoggle?" Sarah asked in confusion

"Sarah we never went back to the Labyrinth when you saw us last, we have remained everywhere and no-where until one day we appeared as these other creatures…" Like most of the time, Sarah was confused by his words but obviously that last part he was referring to the dolphins.

"All we know is that you willed it to be so and here we are"

"Oh man, I don't understand any of this, Im just a human being, how can I be responsible for anything…" She told the three, bordering on unbelieving slashed between knowing things were not always what they seemed.

"Yes, but my lady must not worry herself over this now, for a much greater problem exists……..we do not know what has become of thoust Labyrinth, for we have not returned there" Didymus explained placing a paw on Sarah shoulder.

"Ludo like swimming" The beast smiled but then looked sad again.

"But Ludo scared….scared for Jaweth" Sir Didymus and Hoggle nodded sadly with Ludo's comment.

Sarah frowned and looked up at all three.

"You are scared about Jareth, but wasn't he ….the bad guy" Her heart was screaming at her how wrong she was, but she knew she had to ask.

"Sarah, Jareth was playing a part.." Hoggle started

"…..A part in which he was to be the villain and I the heroine" The female answered for him gaining and equal confused stare from her friends.

"Guys, I'm 30 now, I know now that Jareth was just doing what I wanted him to do, I was a selfish little brat and ever since I've figured that out I've wanted so badly to talk to him, to apologize….but never can I reach him"

"Then its worse then we figured" The dwarf reached in the back of his pocket pulling out something that barely fit in his hands, yet fit perfectly enough to conceal them for now from Sarah's eyes.

"What have you got there Hoggle?" Sounded from Sarah's lips, she knew this was probably not going to be a good thing whatever it was.

Especially not if it means Jareth is hurt, or worse….she couldn't, nor wouldn't, let herself think about it.

As Hoggle opened his palms to reveal what was hidden, Sarah felt tears threatening, her heart was about to explode from pain, and she was gasping inwardly.

There, sat Jareth's amulet/medallion he had always worn, what represented him in Sarah's eyes, something that she would always associate with him. And it sat there, still covered with bits of sea weed, old and rusted looking.

"No…" She got to her feet even though she could barely stand straight in the small cavern.

"He can't be dead, I know it, I can feel it….I can feel him" She let out a whimper and it was clear by her pained expression she was in fear.

Hoggle and Didymus guided her to sit back down before she bumped her head or slipped on the rocky surface which wouldn't do anyone good right now.

Hoggle then placed a re-assuring palm on her shoulder.

"Sarah, he ain't dead, we would be sure of it too if he were for we still have a certain connection with the Labyrinth, even though we haven't been back there…..but we don't know if he will be able to last much longer, alive or not, Ludo just found this the other day imbedded in some coral"

"Hence why it was imperative for us to contact you now before its too late fair maiden, we do not know whether the amulet means anything, but it is surely not a good thing it has been discarded from him, just like that"

"Sawah must go save Jaweth"

Sarah scratched her head thinking.

"I must confess, I have had my own bad feelings about Jareth lately"

"But why bring me here to tell me this, why not the Labyrinth, to Jareth….seeming you guys still have connections with it like you said"

Hoggle sighed. "Sarah we said we have a connection with the Labyrinth, didn't mean we can go their ourselves no more, and especially not take someone with us"

"This doesn't make sense Hoggle…if we can't do anything then why are you telling me all this" Feeling hopeless was something Sarah never liked feeling, she always knew there was a logical explanation for this, or for that, whether it was magic or real. There was always something to be done, or a way around it.

Right now she was feeling utterly hopeless.

"Sarah, what Hoggle is saying is that we cannot take you to the Labyrinth, for we cannot go back ourselves, but we can show you how to get back" The fox paused..

"We will take you to the beginning of the path……" Didymus gave her a small smile of hope.

"The path?" Sarah frowned, but then slowly coming to understanding.

Deep down inside, Sarah heard the ghostly words of a song once sung to her echoing through her being, she knew then of what her friends were going to speak of.

Now, she waited on baited breath to hear it out loud….

Hoggle looked at her understanding, and acknowledged her answer.

"The path between the stars"

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I hope you liked it, I know there are some things I will have to clarify a bit more now in the next chapter – like why Sarah was taken to the underwater cavern etc, so don't worry I wont leave all that out. As for Jareth, he should be in the next chapter too.

I am so sorry it took me so long to update!

Ive had so much homework, its bogged (bog tsk tsk) me down, but holidays are coming up after next week and we all know what that means...more updates!

Take care all till then!

Jaz