AN- Wow. It's been a while, hasn't it? Sorry about the long wait between updates in this story people. I've benn really busy with school stuff. Yeah, yeah. Lousy excuse, I know, but hey, it works for other people! Anyways... When we last left off, Labrynia was starting to become a mortal place, with everything magical becoming...well, unmagical. Mennwhile, Toby had disappeared andMegera had just gotten taken away by someone to somewhere. Now that that's all out of the way, on to the chapter!

When Megera awoke, the first thing that she noticed was that she was still somewhere dark. The next thing was that it smelled dank, dusty and unkept. The third thing she noticed was that she wasn't alone when a hand touched her shoulder. Leaping up, she yelled out in momentary fear.

"Calm down. I'm not going to hurt you Megera," said the person the had belonged to. Realization dawned upon her as she reconized the owner of the voice.

"Toby?" she asked, not daring herself to believe it could be true.

"Yeah Megera, it's me."

She threw himself into her arms in an awkard hug. Stifling her sobs of relief as best she could, she got out, "What...what happened to us?"

Patting her back, he replied,"I don't really know. I was in my room sleeping a few nights ago and I heard a noise outside. I got up and made my way over to the window to see if I could see anything. The light of the full moon revealed nothing though. So I turned back around and then everything went dark. It was like I was hit over the head with something. When I woke up, here I was, alone until a few hours ago when you appeared."

"I'm just glad that you're OK. Jareth is in a right royal uproar about you disappearing. He actually called me and Lyss to him to see if we knew whereyou were. Everything is so screwed up there," she told him.

"How?"

"Everything at the borders is being turned human. Little by little, Labrynia is becoming a mortal realm. Magic is disappearing from it, and everything's changing!" she exclaimed. "Everything's changing," she whispered out again.

"Shh. It's OK Megera. We'll figure out a way of this place and..."

"And what?" she exclaimed at the top of her voice. Quickly rising, she began to shout again. "What are we going to do? The things that killed our parents all those years ago are back, and they're taking over Labrynia. They're destroying the very essance of magic there! We all know what's going to happen when it reaches the Goblin City! Jareth and you and me and Lyss can't survive without magic! We'll all be killed! We need to stop this thing right now, only we don't know who's leading it, or even what the thing is! The only way we might be able to tell is with magic, and with magic being destroyed, there's no way we can tell. I..." She was suddenly cut off mid-rant as Toby placed his lips upon hers and kissed her soundly.

"I didn't know how else to get you to stop," he admitted when they had broken apart with a grin on his face. "I know all of that Megera. You forget that I'm part goblin too, remember?" He pushed a strand of her brown hair out of the way of her blue eyes. "But we can't do anything about it from here."

Swallowing her fears, she nodded. "You're right first things first- getting out of here."

He nodded his ascention. "Then, we can worry about Labrynia."