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"Once upon a time... there was a beautiful young girl whose step-mother always made her stay home with the baby. The baby was a spoiled child, and wanted everything to himself, and the young girl was practically a slave. But what no one knew is that the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl, and he had given her special powers. So one night, when the baby had been particularly cruel to her, she called on the goblins for help..."

Sarah tossed and turned in bed, dreaming of the night her baby brother was stolen from her oh so many years ago.

"Give me the child."

"Sarah, beware. I have been generous 'till now but I can be cruel."

"Generous? What have you done that is generous?"

"Everything! Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me and I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down and I have done it all for you! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations. Isn't that generous?"

The woman's eyebrows furrowed in irritation. Soon she found herself mumbling the same incantation at the same point in her dream...

"Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is great..."

She stoppedwhat were those last words!

"You have no power over me!"

Sarah bolted up just as a strike of thunder made its way to her ears, lights outside coming and going in less than a second.

Again.

She had that dream, no, nightmare again.

With a hesitant sigh of relief, Sarah fell back to her soft pillow, rubbing her hands over her whole face. She was sick of that memory.

For five days now, five days, she had the same dream, the same exact memory coming to mind. She hated it. She buried that night away, deep within her conscience, for reasons. So, why was it started to come back to her.

Dear Sarah had been busy.

It was her second year of collage, training to be a history teacher. A history teacher. Of all the tings she could've chosen to do with the rest of her life, se was going to be a damn history teacher.

How utterly boring.

Truthfully, when she was fifteen, she wanted to be an actress, and if she didn't make it, she planned on becoming a writer...

But what happened?

OH, the Goblin King just had to intrude on her life, damaging her sanity and staling her brother, forcing her to run a very confusing labyrinth, and then returning her home, making her eyes see images of dwarfs and little red thingys in her mirror for a long time, making her parents send her to a shrink for three years.

Yes, he ruined her life. The whole experience ruined her life and she would never forgive him for it.

However, there was one thing that she was happy about.

He would never return.

She smiled up at the ceiling. He would never come back to screw up the only things she had left. With that last thought, she turned on her side and rested her mind, falling back into the darkness of sleep.


Meanwhile, in the Underground, Jareth hovered in the air as if he was sitting on his throne, a young teenage girl on her knees and begging...

"Please, I didn't really think anything would happen! Give her back!"

Jareth sighed, rolling his eyes at the girls antics. "I'm afraid the only way to get your younger sister back is if you run my labyrinth."

"Your labyrinth?"

With a wave of his hand, him and this young girl appeared at the entrance of the maze. "If you can make it to my castle within thirteen hours, you can take back little Nina and return home. However, if you don't, she will become a goblin and you will have no memory of her at all."

She stood there, thinking a moment before nodding her head wearily. "Yes, I'll do it."

Jareth shrugged and set the clock, "As you wish." With that, he disappeared, leaving the young one to the game.

Once back he was greeted with his goblins scaring the hell out of a small child about the age of four. She sat in the center of his throne room curled into a little ball, crying her eyes out as the goblins around her laughed and pinched her arms.

Jareth slapped his small leather stick against his leg, causing his minions to stop their actions, leaving the only noise in the room the sound of Nina's crying.

"Leave." Was his only order and every single goblin scurried from the room. He sighed, walking to the small girl and picking her up from the floor, holding the small girl against him. He sat on his throne and comforted the child, all the while feeling a very angry feeling rise within him.

He was angry at himself.

Look at him! He was comforting a child that was wished away! The Jareth he was supposed to be would have sat there and laughed at the girl, still allowing the goblins to torture her and scare her out of her wits!

He blamed Sarah.

She had made him soft. His love for her made him weak. And since the great Goblin King had two sides, it wasn't evening out.

His generous side was out of proportion to his cruel one.

And that caused him to have a never-ending feud. inside. So now, he was confused as well as broken.

Damn that girl.

He looked at the child, who had now fallen asleep. How sweet...a mortal child sleeping in the Goblin Kings arms. If any of his goblins saw him now, oh how they would laugh!

He hoped his business would finish soon though, he had another place to be later. He was much overdue for an appointment with another mortal woman. Except this one was much more...needed.


Jareth's last victim now roamed the labyrinth, twisting and turning and making herself dizzy. A while back, she found herself getting lost in a long, dark tunnel and now, she was still sitting in it, lost and alone, covered in dirt.

She grabbed her head in her hands and began to weep. Why was this happening to her! What did she ever do!

She was babysitting Nina and after getting off the phone for a very long period of time, she realized she had lost the girl. When she found her sister, she was in HER room cutting up HER clothes with scissors!

She remembered a play she was studying in her English class and recited the words out of anger.

Of course she didn't think anything would happen! It was a story, nothing more!

'Come to me...'

Suddenly, she stopped. Did she just hear a voice?

'Come to me, please...'

Blinking back her tears, she stood and looked down the tunnel. Was there someone else here? Slowly, she continued to walk down it, a light now emitting from the end. But as soon as she reached the light, she found that she had fallen through a trap door in the ground.

She was now trapped in an oubliette.

However, she wasn't alone.

Trying to gaze through the darkness, she saw nothing, but as she walked around, her hands out and feeling, she bumped into something hard.

Something shut tight.

Suddenly, torches all around the small room lit one at a time in a circle on the wall. Looking at where she was, she noticed there was no way out, however she also noticed that she had run into was a crypt.

A big, stone crypt.

She gulped and stepped back. Now what! She was stuck in here with a dead person, who she didn't doubt would come up from the dead and eat her...or something...

She backed herself up into a corner, away from the millennium old coffin and stared at it.

Then the whisper came again.

Her green eyes widened as she realized that the voice was coming from inside the stone.

'Let me out.'

She stood there still, her eyes fixed on the object.

'If you free me, I shall return you and your sister home. Quickly!'

That seemed to catch her attention. In a flash, the small teenager began to strain to push the top off, and when it was finally cracked open, it seemed to do the rest all on it's own.

The girl screamed at what she saw and fell to the floor, a dark shadow hovering over her and the sound of a woman's malicious laugh.


Cliffy, live with it...

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Okay, that's it for now, I must retire to bed. I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Leave a review behind please! G'night ladies and gents!