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WickedGame - I know. I'm jealous that J-lea kissed him as well. I mean come on, I'm jealous of my own character.

From last time

When she opened her eyes, she was no longer in the ballroom, in Jareth's arms.

She was in the junkyard.

About to hit over the head with a wooden pole.

'Fucking great' thought J-lea.

Chapter 6 – Junk and Goblins.

J-lea rolled out of the way before the pole hit her and she stood up. The Junk Lady was angry about something. She swung the pole at J-lea again but the teen just caught it in her hand and raised an eyebrow, ignoring the pain from her cut hands.

"And what, pray tell, are you hitting me for?"

"You were lying on my junk," said the Junk Lady. J-lea raised her other eyebrow in slight disbelief.

"Did it ever occur to you that hitting me over the head could have killed me? And you see if I had died, I wouldn't be able to move seeing as I was, in fact, dead. Did you ever think of just shaking me to get me to wake up?" asked J-lea. Seeing the Lady's blank face, "Obviously not"

"What's your name?" asked the Junk Lady.

"J-lea" the teen answered shortly, "Yours?"

"Most just call me the Junk Lady, but me name is Nagy," answered the Junk Lady.

"Right", muttered J-lea in acknowledgement as she looked at the tranquilliser dart still sticking out of her arm. It was primitive that was for sure. She pulled it sharply and looked at it. It was mostly made of wood but was metal at the tip.

'If I get an infection from this, I'll slap Jareth. Even though that ball was worth it' thought J-lea as she looked at the point of entry on her arm. It was red and starting to bruise.

J-lea sighed and rubbed it as she looked at Nagy.

"No, no, nothing there" she was muttering. Nagy looked up at J-lea.

"I have some place to show, dear" said the Junk Lady. J-lea raised an eyebrow. It was obvious that she thought that J-lea remembered nothing.

"Alright" replied J-lea. What did she have to lose? She had plenty of time left anyway. Hopefully.

Nagy turned away and started to walk and J-lea was about to follow when she tried something out.

"How long do I have left?" she asked the air quietly. The thirteen-hour clock appeared and she had 2 hours and 8 minutes left to solve the Labyrinth. J-lea grinned before she followed Nagy, who was holding a flap of a tent open.

"In you go, dear. Take a look," prompted the lady.

J-lea looked at her before cautiously approaching. She lifted the other side of the opening and peeked in. She looked at Nagy for a second before she carefully went in.

It was her room. Nearly exactly as she had left it.

Her 'Labyrinth' nook was on her bedside table, her drawing of Jareth was on the wall near her bed. J-lea noticed some photos on her dressing table that were not normally there. She picked one of them up and tears came to her eyes. It was a picture of her, her mother and Elektra all smiling. J-lea looked at herself. She looked so… carefree. A tear fell as she put the picture down. The 17 year old in that picture wasn't her. It was just what she should have been like if her life was different and it only served to remind her of what her life could have been like but wasn't.

J-lea sighed.

Nagy choose that moment to come in.

"Oh yes, yes dear, there are some nice things here. Look, look, your own Labyrinth maze. Remember when you made that, dear?" she said as she bustled around, "And your drawings, you'll want them too"

Nagy gave J-lea the drawings. She remembered when she made them. She had still been in secondary school and she had done them for her GCSE. She had got a grade A for them. J-lea smiled at them memory.

Nagy kept coming with J-lea's things. Some of them J-lea had forgotten about. But when Nagy brought her the teddy bear that no longer existed, J-lea couldn't take it any longer.

"Nagy, Nagy, stop" the Junk Lady looked at her, "I remember everything, alright? I remember that I am here to get my baby stepsister back, and I remember that I'm supposed to be going to the castle. So just stop it. All of these things are junk apart from my 'Labyrinth' book and that picture of Jareth"

Nagy seemed defeated and she stopped bustling around but J-lea wasn't finished.

"Besides, that girl in the photo? She isn't me. She is what I could have been, but I don't want to be her. I am who I am and I'm proud of that. So, if you please, I will be going now. I need to get to the castle" And with that, J-lea walked out of the replica of her room and ran up a pile of junk and looked around. She could see the castle so she started walking towards it. It wasn't easy with all the things on the floor. She slipped on more that on occasion, but it didn't matter. She was so close.

IN THE CASTLE

Jareth was sat on his throne, thinking on how J-lea was woken up from the ballroom. His lips still tingled slightly from their kiss. He was brought out of his musing when a goblin came rushing into the room.

"Sire" the goblin cried, "The girl, the girl who was hit by the dart" Jareth's attention snapped to the goblin.

"What of her?" he asked.

"She's near the gates," informed the goblin. Jareth glanced at the clock.

"Call out the guards! Slow her down" Jareth ordered. Her had the perfect family to send Kiara to. It would be the perfect punishment for them and J-lea could not ruin this.

BACK TO J-LEA

J-lea was crouched on a pile of junk, her dark clothing helping her to blend in slightly. She was watching the guard at the gate. He was alert and cautious and J-lea knew he had seen her. She just needed to sneak up on him as he had lost track of her some time ago.

'There!' she thought as the guard turned and paced away from her.

J-lea jumped over the top of the pile and silently slid down the other side before running around yet another pile, all the while keeping an eye on the guard. She was now close enough for her plan to work.

J-lea picked up a small piece of junk and tossed it to the other side of the junkyard to distract the guard. She then took up another piece and threw it at the guard. It hit him on the head with a 'clonk' and he fell down, unconscious. J-lea grinned and made her way over to the gate, staying alert just in case.

When she reached the gates she crept up to the guard.

"Unlucky for you, mate" she said quietly as she grinned down at his prone form. She searched his persons to see if there was anything useful that she could use. She was sure there was about to be a confrontation so she needed to be prepared. She was a goblin sword, which was short enough to be a long dagger to her. She tucked it in a belt hole and opened the outer doors and looked around.

After three steps the giant doors started to close.

"Shit" said J-lea as she ran to the doors. As she reached them she dived through but span in the air so she landed on her back. She quickly pulled her feet up, just in time to stop them being crushed.

As she got up, a few minutes later, J-lea realised that the city was a lot different to what the movie had portrayed. The housed were all shapes and sizes. There were goblin-sized houses (naturally, it being a Goblin City) and they were human sized houses.

However, one thing was the same.

It was deserted.

'It's too quiet here. Something is going to happen' J-lea thought as she reached the path up to the castle.

J-lea heard the sound of soldiers marching and she looked up the lanes, which were starting to fill up with goblin guards.

'Not good', thought J-lea. Looking at the swords and spears that the guards where carrying, she added, 'Fuck the big guns this time, I'm calling out the tanks'

J-lea backed up slightly, just before the leader cried, "Charge!"

J-lea turned and ran. Later she would chastise herself for exposing her back but now that thought had left her mind. She ducked into an alley and saw a bench. She quietly snapped the leg off and pulled the dagger out. She watched as a line of guards all ran past her hiding place with out so much as a glance in her direction.

'How thick can you get?' J-lea thought to herself. She waited until they had all passed before creeping out and going up the lane. Another line of goblins went across the lane, from alley to alley. However, this time, the end goblin had enough brainpower to look down the alley, right at her.

J-lea saw that it was about to shout something so she whacked him over the head with the wooden pole and span kicked him, sending him flying.

'I knew those secret kick boxing lessons would come in handy. Not exactly what I had in mind though' J-lea thought as she walked back up the lane, towards the castle.

As she reached the end of the lane, she realised too late that a cannon was pointed right at her. She had enough time to dodge the cannon ball but not the debris. Stone and metal came flying at her.

A brick hit her on the arm and a sharp metal object flew past her stomach, making a shallow flesh wound. As she put a hand to it, she was glad that it hadn't imbedded itself into her side.

When J-lea looked up, she could see the goblin had picked up some of the metal debris and was preparing to throw it at her. J-lea ran at the guard, dodging from side to side as it threw the metal at her. Just before she reached him, she jumped into the air. The last thing said goblin saw before he was knocked out was a foot flying towards him. The goblin fell backwards and J-lea landed a metre in front of his head, carried by the momentum of the kick.

J-lea got up and ran towards the castle steps. She had just reached them when a guard stepped in front of her, blocking her path. She immediately stopped and raised the dagger and the wooden pole.

The goblin dived at her and swung his sword, but J-lea blocked. He swung again, and again J-lea blocked. However, she wasn't quick enough to blow the third blow and the goblin succeeded in slicing her arm. J-lea gasped and the goblin grinned in satisfaction, slightly distracted by his success. J-lea took this chance to attack and rained blows on him until she caught him on the arm with the sword and swept his feet from under him with the wooden pole.

J-lea quickly placed a knee on his chest and pointed the tip of the sword to his throat.

"Do you yield?" she hissed at the fallen guard. It nodded fearfully and J-lea smirked at it coldly, "Smart choice"

J-lea then hit it over the head with the hilt of the dagger, knocking him out. She then ran up to the castle before any more goblins could appear.

J-lea lent against the castle doors with her right, uninjured arm, and pushed. The doors opened slowly and as soon as she was in, she closed them behind her.

Checking herself over, J-lea noticed that her top's left sleeve was in tatter so she tore in off before dropping it, the dagger, and the wooden pole on the floor.

J-lea ran through the halls and into the throne room. There were three non-military goblins there, squabbling about something. They stopped when they saw her and formed a line, blocking off her path.

"Do you really think you can stop me?" asked J-lea. They were only knee height, "I mean, seriously?"

The goblins looked at each other then ran at her. J-lea jumped over one of them and picked up a random cup off the floor and threw it at a goblin's head.

'Bulls eye' she thought as the goblin fell down. J-lea saw some sort of metal pole next to her foot as the other two goblins ran at her again. She quickly flicked it up and swung it at them like a baseball bat. They both flew several metres back, the wind knocked out of them as she dropped the pole.

She ran to the stairs before turning around and looking at the clock. She had 42 minutes left.

J-lea grinned and ran up the stairs, not knowing what was going to happen next.

I may not update for a while as chapter 7 and I are having some 'problems'.

I will update as soon as I can though.