Chapter 6

"Oh, no!" Jareth moaned.

"What?" Sarah and Shenya asked at the same time.

"My mother's coming for a visit!" Jareth wailed.

"I'm sure she's not that bad," Sarah started before Shenya cut her off.

"Not that bad? Not that bad! Aunt Navine is the worst peron alive! She's rude, and she complains about everything! The world is ending!" Shenya shouted. Sarah rolled her eyes.

"Queen Navine is coming! Clean this place! I want it spotless!" Jareth started ordering the goblins about as Shenya went to get dresses out of storage and down to the seamstress to be made into the latest fashions.

Sarah watched in amusment as havoc rained down upon the goblin city, the castle, and its inhabitants. She went to her children and took them with her into the Labyrinth to see her friends, leaving a note as Jareth panicked when she didn't. He had been on edge ever since Shenya had been taken three months ago.

Shenya sat in her room, escaping the chaos and reflecting of the past three months. Something that came to her every month hadn't come since before she was taken. A mage cast a spell on her, though she didn't know what variety. She had been raped repeatedly. That all boiled down to one conclusion.

Somebody help me, I'm pregnant!' Shenya concluded.

She hadn't been getting fatter as she thought she had, she had been getting a baby! And she suspected now that the "cold" she had been having was in reality morning sickness. She put her head down on the cool surface of her vanity. She needed to enlist help, but who could she trust?

Certainly not any of the servants. They would tell Jareth in a heartbeat. She was almost confined to the castle as it was. If Jareth found out, she could expect to be in bed for the next six months or so.

No one else in the royal family. Same problem. Although Sarah could help, Jareth would eventually get it out of her. Sarah couldn't keep long-term secrets. Which left Sarah's friends.

Sir Didymus could keep a secret, and Hoggle could, too, unless there was jewelry to be bribed with. And Ludo, poor beast, couldn't really understand any of this.

So Shenya left a note, and went off to find the trio.

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Shumack ran to escape the cleaners. He had been trapped in this oubliette for who knew how long. Shenya had told Jareth the story of how she was taken, and Shumack, not understanding anything, fell down at the king's feet for mercy after he had betrayed them. The goblin would have gotten off free if he hadn't confessed. No one else knew about the betrayal.

Shumack tripped and fell, and stared up as the cleaners descended upon him. . . And passed right through him. It was simply a hologram.

Shumack had run into two other holograms, but most of it was real he knew. Which was why he never let his guard down. You never let your guard down in front of Jareth. Or even away from him. You never knew when he was watching you.

Shumack walked for a while, grabbed some berries, and hungerily stuffed them into his month. He didn't care whether they were poison or not. But in the Labyrinth, everything had a risk of being poison.

Shumack continued wandering the oubliette for all eternity.

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A/N: I'm sorry it's so short, but no ideas were forthcoming. A new contest by the way.

What should the next punishment be that Shumack has to deal with? I'll make it good, I promise.

A) Cleaners again

B) Boot Camp

C) Bath, need I say more?

D) Bog of Stench, please be more imaginative.

E) Attacked by someone who has to run the Labyrinth

or

F) Taken home by someone who want a pet goblin. Mostly little girls in pink with tea parties.

It's your choice. But I garuntee, the laughs are only beginning.

Replies:

Draco's Daughter- Here your chance. Just vote nd I'll put you in.

MorganLeFay99- I'm not sure. Just vote.

normal?- how can he be imprisoned for life when he has already died ten deaths? Though I am inclined to agree.

Wings- But I LIKE Shumack. He hasn't really hurt anyone. . He was just in on it.