Through the Looking Glass

A Labyrinth fan fick by Kagome

Chapter 1:A Strange Encounter

No one noticed the large snow white owl flying high agents the gray clouds. No one saw him except one girl who was desperately trying to keep up with her best friend.

"Inu, look!" I exclaimed. "I think the Goblin King has come to watch us," I giggled. Anyone who would happen to see us would think that I am nothing more than a child, ten at the most, even though I look like a fully developed woman. I come a cross as young, incident even, only because I do my best to keep it that way, and I still love fantasy with all my hart. The truth is that I am nearly 18 and one of the most mature and responsible persons in town.

"Kago, that might very well be true, I just hope he doesn't take all the fun out of being in the Bosque and go tell our parents that were not following the paths like they tell us to," Inu laughed. "Come on, I bet you can't catch me even if you tried." He ran off into the woods, heading for the river.

Inu is tall, muscular and rather attractive. He has the general bad boy attitude, but would 'protect' me when I need protection. Even though he is younger than me I treat him like a big brother and in turn I'm his 'little' sister. He's also bi. Some people think that's disgusting, but I could care less. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

I ran after him as fast as I could, man could he run. I ran faster and faster still, laughing in pure bliss as he got closer. I didn't see the tree root sticking up out of the ground in time to jump over it. The hard packed earth rose up fast to meet me. I twisted and let the right side of my body take the brunt of the impact. I let out a yelp of pain when I finally hit the ground. In an instant Inu was there next to be, helping me up.

"Kagom, your not hurting are you? Here, let me help you up. You sure were going faster than you ever have before." He smiled at me, doing his best not the hurt my pride. I'm a very prideful person, I can't stand people seeing me in pain or giving off a sine of weakness.

I flinched as I tried to stand, without success I might add. I could tell I was going to be bruised by morning.

"ARG! That hurts, I'm sorry Inuyasha-san but I think I bruised my muscles. Stupid tree root reached out and tripped me, what have I ever done to the tree to deserve it reaching out and tripping me?" I was getting close to whimpering. A single tear escaped my eye and slid down my cheek. Inu wiped the tear away and picked me up. I never let him do this and I wasn't letting him this time. "Inu put me down! I can walk its just a little pain. I'll get over it soon. Please put me down." I pleaded.

"Not this time Lilly. You hurt yourself badly, you might have broken something. We'll meet the others and then I'm taking you home and making sure that you rest. You need to heal properly this time." He said, gibing me a stern look.

I knew that there was no way I could talk him out of it, he had used my name instead of my nick name. I sighed and through my arm around this neck, I was giving up before I could get in trouble. He smiled and walked off, heading to the rive with me in his arms.

I looked up at his face and noticed he didn't have that cocky smile on his face. I started thinking about how much he has helped me. I trust him with my very life, which is a very BIG deal. I don't normally trust anyone as all.

We had met at a church retreat and he had gotten me to come out of my shell. He helped me get back into society. I had not interacted with anyone since elementary. I was tired of getting picked on. I was white in a Hispanic state, 'nofe said. I became on of the biggest loners in school, a lone wolf. Most people would have thought I would have resorted to drudges, sex and alcohol, or try to kill myself from lack of human contact. But my will to live and be pure was strong. I immersed myself in books. Fantasy became my reality and it didn't take me long to find The Labyrinth and fall in love with it. The Underground was the perfect place for me.

But some how Inu had drawn me out of it. He introduced me to his friends and his pack. He didn't act like I was a weird loner or anything. He trusted me with his secretes.

I laid my head agents his chest, being lulled into sleep by his constant foot fall. I was amazed that he and the rest of the pack stayed my friends even though I had dropped out of High School and gotten my GED and started collage. All the other 'friends' I had made had dropped me like a hot potato.

Inu stopped suddenly and set me down on the ground. I thought I was getting to heavy for him, which made me feel even worse. He just looked down at me and said, "You should eat more. You're seriously under wait. Stop trying to starve yourself into perfection, we have enofe of those bitches running around." He looked at me sternly, and I couldn't help but smile. He looked just like a big brother at that moment, and sounded like one too. I just shook my head and he gave up, for the moment. "Can you walk now? We're almost at the meeting place and I know you have a tendency to be embarrassed when you're being carried."

"Nope, can't walk yet, sorry. I need to work on being more humble anyways." I said, smiling up at him. I know he likes it when I let him carry me so I would let him, just this once.

He smiled at me. "You do know you're not invincible, don't you? You need to start taking better care of yourself." He scolded as he picked me back up and headed off.

"Your mean I'm not invincible?" I asked, teasing him. He just laughed.

We finally arrived at our meeting place. It was a clearing in the woods, by the Rio Grande. It looked like any other clearing, logs, leafs and twigs littered the ground. In the center of the clearing was a shallow hole in which evidence of a fire was in.

The rest of the pack wasn't there yet which worried me, they are always on time. A melody suddenly made itself clear. I tried to listen more closely to it, but a tornado of glitter caught my attention. The melody suddenly increased in volume. It sounded dangerous yet had a gentle counter melody. I flung an arm up to cover mine and Inus' eyes as the glitter fell, Inu tightened his grip on me. As I lowered my arm I gasped at what I saw.

Standing in front of us was the Goblin King! He looked exactly like he did in the movie. Shoulder length blond hair that was spiked on top. He had one blue eye and one hazel. He wore his costume tights and a poets shirt and high heeled boots. He also had on a cape made of some light materiel. My eyes went wide in wonder and I know that my mouth must have been hanging opened. I looked up at Inu and saw him checking out the Goblin King. If I wasn't so amazed I would have laughed.

"Sorry, but you can't get him. He's the Goblin King." I murmured to him. I took a deep breath and tried to stand, but Inu would have none of it. He just held me tighter, which I was grateful for but I really needed to stand up. "Let me go, I need to stand up." I hissed in his ear and he let me down, to my surprise.

I took in a sharp breath and used Inus' arm to steady myself. I was trying to think of something to say to the King when he spoke.

"The Labyrinth will not let me go back until I heal you, Lady Lilly. It seems that you are its savor." He said, giving me a cocky smile and before I could do anything the conjured a crystal and through it at me. I unintentionally flinched, expecting the crystal to hit me. Instead I felt a warm sensation in the right side of my body and all the pain was gone. I looked up only to find that he had diapered in a storm of glitter and he had taken the melody with him. In his place was the rest of the pack.

We all looked at each other in wonder and asked the same question with out eyes. What had just happened? He had called me the Labyrinths savor. What is that suppose to mean? Is the Labyrinth in trouble? I wanted to find out the answers but decided not to summon him now; it would just bring more questions.

"Um… Let's start the pack meeting." I said, taking charge. It was my job after all, being the Alfa female. Out pack functioned like a real wolf pack, so it is generally easy to pick out who has power and stuff.

"We have that upcoming anime convention; if we want to go we have to start saving money and making costumes now." Inu started. He's the Alfa male. And no we are not going out its just the way things worked out. We can't have to Alfa males, it would be to confusing.

Authors note: Ok what do you guys think so far? Nick and I have been working on this for a long time. Nick would love it if you reviewed.

Nick: If you guys don't review I'll be forced to tickle my athoris to death.

Um… guys please don't let him kill me! I never thought he would try to tickle me to death and he's dead serious about his threats!