Disclaimer – Look in the previous chapters.

A/N – If you think J-lea is a bit harsh in this chapter it is because she is frustrated with the labyrinth, pissed off at Elektra, has been reminded of her stepfather, and she is confused about her feelings for Jareth. So saying she is pissed off would be a slight understatement.

Rated T For Language

Chapter 4 – Overtaking Frustrations.

IN THE CASTLE

Jareth was furious. He knew that J-lea had the scars, after all, he had watched as she had got them. As she was beaten by her stepfather. Those scars reminded him of the fact that he had just watched and had not done anything to help her.

Jareth conjured ten crystals and threw them all at the wall opposite him, watching as they shattered into tiny pieces. He heard wails of a baby and rolled his eyes. Kiara was at it again. He had left her in the nursery so that she would be well cared for without him having to constantly look after her.

Jareth made another crystal and looked into it. It showed J-lea resting her head on the wall for a minute before she composed herself and started walking down the tunnel.

Jareth felt frustration welling up again and he threw the crystal at the wall and wearily put his head in his hands.

IN THE LABYRINTH

J-lea was walking down the tunnel and she was noticing it was getting progressively darker when she noticed a small slither of light peeping through the wall on her right.

J-lea walked over to the wall. She rested her hands on it and looked along at the light peeping through. The wall didn't feel solid like it should, it felt… hollow. She couldn't explain how she knew this, she just… did.

J-lea put her fingers to where the light was and tried to slide the wall over but it wouldn't budge.

"Alright, if it won't slide, then it will fall," said J-lea. The late teen put her hands to the hollow wall and pushed. There was some movement there but it was as if something was behind it, holding it up.

A sudden grinding sound took J-lea attention away from the wall.

It was the cleaners.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me! 'Dis is bullshit," shouted J-lea as she kicked the hollow wall, trying to bring it down. She kicked it twice more before fell. When it came down, J-lea saw three waist height goblins scurrying back. J-lea gave them an 'Oh My God' look before she glanced at the ladder. It seemed that the goblins got what she wanted and they went to stop her from getting to the ladder but she pushed one out of the way, span around to miss another and jumped onto the ladder and started to climb up it. However, the last goblin wasn't having any of it. It grabbed J-lea's leg, it's sharp fingers clawing at her leg and slashing gashes into it.

J-lea gasped in pain.

'That little bugger' J-lea thought before she shook her leg so that the goblin was hardly holding on. The goblin looked up at her with a pleading expression but J-lea just grinned evilly at it. J-lea swung her leg up so that the goblin flew up as well. As it was coming back down, J-lea swung her other leg and delivered it a kick to its gut, which sent it flying into the cleaner, which was just making it's way past.

The other goblins, which had been climbing up the ladder to reach her, looked in the direction their fallen comrade had went and gulped before climbing back down. J-lea grinned, showing her canines before starting to climb up the ladder again, ignoring the pain in her leg.

After what seemed like hours because of the gashes on her leg, which were bleeding like the River Nile, J-lea finally reached the top of the ladder and climbed out. She looked around. She saw instead of stonewalls, massive hedges growing out of the pristine stone floor.

Carefully, the teen jumped off the… thing she was on and winced as she landed. J-lea lifted up the tattered remains of the leg of her combats to show five large slashes on her leg, blood running from each.

"Not good," J-lea sighed, "They're going to scar"

J-lea stood up and looked around again. J-lea saw a few openings and randomly picked one and started walking.

"This shit is ridiculous," grumbled J-lea, "I don't even know how long I have left!"

Before the last word was out of her mouth, a thirteen-hour clock appeared in front of her. J-lea had to quickly do the limbo to avoid nutting it. After she had safely stopped herself from giving herself a concussion, she backtracked and looked at the clock. It showed that 3 hours and 32 minutes had passed since she entered the labyrinth.

'Not too shabby' thought J-lea, 'I'm doing better than Sarah at least, and I didn't get a time penalty. Ha Sarah! Beat that'

'Okay, I really need to stop talking to myself, in my head as well. Okay, it's official. I'm going insane' J-lea thought.

Suddenly J-lea saw a big orange furry thing above the hedge.

'Oh no. I'm not going to run into Ludo. I can't be arsed with his poor excuse for a brain' thought J-lea.

She quietly crept up to the hedge and tried to guess where he was going when she saw an opening with a bit of orange fluff coming round its corner.

"Ah! Shit" she said before she ran away and round another corner before going through another opening before she was tripped up by something.

"Ah ha!" cried a little fox thing that looked suspiciously like Sir Didymus, "Stop you knave"

J-lea raised an eyebrow and picked herself, and what was left of her pride, up off the floor. Didymus watched as she stood up and towered over him, being nearly three times his size. The Knight had his 'weapon' held out in front of him and he hit J-lea over her injured leg.

J-lea hissed in pain and grabbed hold of the stick come sword and lifted it up with Sir Didymus hanging on. J-lea lifted it so that she was face to face with Didymus.

"Don't. Do. That. Ever. Again. Savvy!" J-lea said hissed through clenched teeth before she pulled the sword out of the knight's grasp and smacked him over the head with it. She dropped the weapon when she saw Ludo come around the corner and saw what was going on.

J-lea suddenly realised, when she saw the rage on Ludo's face, that the big furry critter was just slow not stupid. The fact was cemented into her brain when the big oaf started lumbering after her shouting "Hurt brother".

J-lea sighed in annoyance before she turned and ran. Looking forward, J-lea saw a corner that she could make use of so she ran towards it. J-lea leapt off of the floor towards the wall, pushed herself off towards the other side of the wall and swung her leg around to kick Ludo in the head.

Ludo crumpled to the ground unconscious and J-lea landed softly on the floor next to him. She faintly heard sounds of "Ambrosius" 1. Figuring that Sir Didymus was calling his 'noble steed' J-lea thought it wise to get away from the scene.

The teen turned and saw two doors. Each with a knocker on them.

J-lea walked up to them and thought for a moment. On one hand, she knew where one of the doors led to and how to get out of there. On the other, did she really want to encounter the firies?

J-lea sighed. This was getting ridiculous.

J-lea was snapped out of her musings by a shout of "Charge, Ambrosius" followed by what only could be described as a battle cry.

J-lea rolled her eyes before knocking on the same door that Sarah had, jumping through it and closing it behind her. She gave a satisfied smirk when she heard something collide with the door on the other side.

However, when she looked at the wood in front of her, J-lea was wondering if it would have been better had she taken the other door.

J-lea reached into her back pocket and took out her keys. She had discovered that she had them when she had taken a trip over Sir Didymus and landed on the keys when she landed on her arse. Her backside was still aching from where the points had dug in.

J-lea took off her small torch key ring seeing as it was dark, put her keys back in her pocket and turned the torch on. She shone it at the trees and braced herself.

This was the part of the film she hated and now she had no choice but to brave it herself.

Such a pity.

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