The terrain through the mountains was rocky, and rough on foot. With a horse it was twice as hard. But Jareth would rather take his time than risk the potion wearing off. He couldn't give her another dose for 24 hours and if she exerted herself too much too soon the potion would wear off way before then. It had been at least two hours since they set out.

"We are almost there Sarah," he told her.

"Good," she said, "My butt is starting to get sore."

After a few moments of thinking Sarah asked, "Jareth can you summon a backpack and my brother's bear Lancelot for me?"

"I could. Might I ask why you need them?"

"I think Lancelot might help me win Toby over, that's all."

"I see," he said. He simply formed a crystal and tossed it to Sarah on her horse. In midair it transformed into a camouflage backpack. Sarah caught it, opened it up and inside was Lancelot. "Thank you Jareth," she said as she slung the bag on her back.

Within fifteen minutes they were at the entrance of a cave. Jareth helped Sarah down off the horse and said, "Sarah when we go in there I need you to be as quite as you possibly can. We need her to think I am the only one here. I was thinking about turning you invisible but your body is under so much magical pressure as it is, I don't think you would be able to handle it," Jareth conjured a crystal and offered it to Sarah. "If anything should go wrong I want you to use this to get out. Do not hesitate, just go. Alright?"

Sarah nodded and accepted the crystal. She didn't know how to use it though and she wasn't going to tell Jareth that. She wasn't going anywhere. There was a fight to win and she was going to be there every step of the way.

They entered the cave, which was lit up, but Sarah could find no source for the light. She knew that was Cassandra's doing. They walked deeper and deeper into the cave. Jareth started to hear clamoring up ahead. When they got a little closer he could make out Toby's voice.

"I'm hungry Sarah," Toby said, "What's for dinner?"

"Well, you are a little boy aren't you? Don't you eat worms? There are plenty about," Cassandra said in all seriousness.

"Very funny. Can we go get cheeseburgers?"

"How many times do I have to tell you little brat, we can't leave here?"

Jareth could tell that they were just around the next bend. He turned to Sarah and mouthed, "Stay here for now." She nodded.

Jareth kept walking forward. Before him now was an open cavern. Cassandra stood just a few yards away and down a slight incline. She was leaning against stalagmite thinking. Toby was playing by himself on the floor nearby.

"CASSANDRA!" He yelled, his voice booming off the cave walls.

"Jareth!" Cassandra looked shocked. She took hold of Toby's shoulder. Jareth could tell she was trying to transport out of there but the force-field Didymus made was preventing her from doing so.

"Very good Jareth, you found us," she said as she pulled Toby in front of her. "What are you going to do now? Kill me in front of my baby brother?"

"I'll take care of Jerry, Sarah!" Toby said. He was about to run towards Jareth but Cassandra pulled him right back in front of her. Knowing full well Toby was the only reason Jareth hadn't attacked yet.

"You are using a child to defend yourself?" Jareth asked egging Cassandra on. "You really must be weak."

"Me weak? I am ten times stronger than you!"

"Oh sure, so why are you hiding here then?" Jareth asked. Cassandra didn't say anything. "You are hiding in a cave while I live in a castle. I think that proves my point. You must be the most pathetic being I know," Jareth yelled down at her.

"Pathetic? PATHETIC! I'll show YOU that I, Cassandra am greater then you will every be!" She tossed Toby aside and raised her hand up. Out of the palm of her hand shot a stream of red hot flames. Fortunately they missed Jareth by two feet.

"Like I said, Pathetic! Do you want to see real greatness?" Jareth raised his hands and forced them back down. All the stalactites, except for the ones around Toby, who was lying on the floor a few feet away from Cassandra, came crashing down. Cassandra, however, formed a protective shield around herself just before one was about to impale her head. The fight was on.

With all the loud cracks and booms, Sarah took this as her signal to step in. She crawled to the entrance of the cavern, and climbed as quietly as she could down the slope, almost getting hit a couple times by one of Cassandra's stray lighting bolts. When she got down she looked for Toby. He was now huddled behind a huge stalagmite.

While Cassandra was trying to hurl icicles at Jareth's head, Sarah ran for Toby.

"Are you alright?" she asked.

Toby looked up at her and said, "It's you!"

"Yes it is me, Toby. Your big sister Sarah," she said.

"Sarah said you would say that."

"What are you talking about? I'm Sarah, Toby."

"No you are not. Sarah told me that Jerry might show up to hurt her. She told me he might bring someone who looked like her. That's you!"

At that moment there was a loud crack. Cassandra had just hit Jareth in the shoulder with what appeared to be a purple firework. From Jareth's shoulder to his neck were huge scorch marks. To him it felt like his whole body was on fire.

"Give up yet?" Cassandra yelled with her face and body all cut up and profusely bleeding. She couldn't tell she was truly hurt though because all of her attention was focused on her magic.

"Never!" cried Jareth who was aware of the fact he had burns and bruises all over his body.

Toby was now fishing in his pockets for something, "Sarah said if I met you, I had to hurt you with this," he then pulled out a gold amulet from his back pocket.

"You don't want to hurt me, I am your sister," Sarah said.

Toby stood up and yelled, "No you're not." He held the amulet out and lasers started heading toward Sarah. One struck her on the arm while she managed to dodge some of the others. Jareth saw what was going on out of the corner of his eye. Very quickly he formed a crystal and threw it at Sarah.

"That was horrible," Cassandra said, "That crystal missed me by a mile."

Toby was doing the best he could to hit Sarah. The crystal that Jareth threw turned into a huge shield that Sarah was now using.

"Toby! Stop I am your sister!"

"No you are not," Toby said, "She is."

"If she is your sister, how come you never knew she had magic powers?"

Toby was firing now with more accuracy, "She had to keep them secret she said."

"She is lying to you Toby! How can I make that clear to you?"

"You're the liar, not Sarah!"

Sarah was trying to think of someway to prove what she was saying, "Toby, you wished me away because I told you to stop seeing your friend Jerry."

"Jerry is not my friend. He's hurting my sister."

"She is not your sister Toby, I am!"

Toby kept firing at her with more force than before. It was getting harder for Sarah to stand the blows were so strong against the shield.

"You are evil! EVIL!" Toby screamed.

Sarah was close to tears. She felt like she would never get through to her baby brother. "Toe! Toe! Please stop!"

And at that, he stopped and stared at Sarah, "Only my sister calls me that," he said. He looked from where Cassandra was standing and back at Sarah. She could tell he was confused.

Sarah quickly reached into her backpack and pulled out Lancelot. Toby's eyes widened, "Like I said before Toe, I am your sister."

Jareth sent a wind that knocked Cassandra against the cave wall. Cassandra struck back by sending a swarm of bats with razor sharp wings toward Jareth. Jareth quickly created another wind to force the bats back at her. Cassandra tried her best to put up a barrier but a few of the bats got through. The wing from a bat managed to cut one of her limbs off before she lit them all on fire. Again she did not notice it or feel any pain. All of her attention was on Jareth and her magic.

Cassandra sent lightening bolts strait for Jareth's stomach. It knocked him right off of his feet and sent tremors through his body.

Even with the pain and shock running through him Jareth got up as quickly as he could and shot huge glass shards towards Cassandra. They were moving so fast Cassandra had no time to come up with a defense. They forced her back and nailed her to the wall. It was at that moment that she felt all of the pain from her injuries. She let out the most painful scream ever recorded in history.

Cassandra looked up at Jareth and said, "I must warn you Jareth, one more blow might kill me along with part of your precious Sarah. Give your powers to me and I swear I shall return Sarah's life. Face the facts Jareth, there is no way you can win." Blood began tostreamfrom her mouth.

"Face the facts," Sarah said as she and Toby climbed up and stood next to Jareth, "You've already lost."

"I haven't lost!" she looked at Toby and back at Sarah, "Good for you, you managed to get your stupid brother to recognize you. Really I don't care. I still hold your life and all the cards, so long as I have this!" Cassandra said as she tried to bring her hand with the ring on it in front of her. That's when she noticed her arm was missing. She looked around for it and drew it to her. She laughed, "See, I've still got the ring."

"I don't see a ring," Jareth said, "Do you see a ring Sarah?"

"No, not on that hand I don't," Sarah stated.

Cassandra looked down at the hand in disbelief. Jareth could see the terror in her eyes.

Sarah then smiled, "But I do see the ring Toby has. See while you were fighting, my supposedly 'stupid brother' went and got it for me. Thank you Toby," she said as he handed her the ring. Sarah put it on. The moment the ring touched Sarah's skin a charge was emitted from Cassandra's body and went right through Sarah. Her life had returned to her.

"You wench," Cassandra sounded noticeably weaker.

Sarah, who felt ten times stronger, simply said something someone once told her when she was in a similar situation, "Oh dear, name calling is not polite. I don't expect you to apologize considering the condition you are in."

Cassandra turned her attention to Jareth and pleaded, "Jareth please have pity on me."

"I do Cassandra," he said.

"You do? Oh thank heavens!"

"I pity you for the pain you are about to feel," Jareth said as he sent another wave of glass shards hurling towards her, cutting her into tiny pieces. Sarah turned away and shielded Toby's eyes. Jareth withdrew the shards causing all the part of her body to scatter on the floor.

From where they were standing he could tell the pieces were still moving, trying to regroup. Jareth lit them on fire and collected the charred remains in a crystal as fast as he could.

Jareth held the now darkened crystal in his hand.

"Is she still alive?" Toby asked. His eye covered by Sarah's hands.

"Technically yes," Jareth said, "But I have no doubt she has the power to come back."

Toby started to cry, "I'm sorry Sarah! I'm sorry I hurt you!"

Sarah knelt down next to him, "Its okay Toby. You didn't know any better. I forgive you." She held him in her arms.

Jareth looked at the little boy. He knew that Toby would probably feel guilty for the rest of his life. "Toby," Jareth said, "If you want, I can make you forget this ever happened. Would you like that?"

Toby rubbed his nose with his hand and whimpered, "Yes."

Jareth handed the darkened crystal to Sarah. He picked the little boy up and cradled him in his arms. He placed one hand on Toby's forehead and closed his eyes. A few seconds later it looked as if Toby simply had fallen asleep.

"Will he be alright?" Sarah asked.

"Yes, he probably won't wake up until tomorrow."

"What do you plan on doing with this?" Sarah asked signaling to the crystal she had in her hands.

"I plan on making sure no one can find it. That's for sure."

"Good. How are you holding up? Are you sure you can carry him?" Sarah asked. Jareth's injuries were numerous and she could tell he was still shocked from the lightening.

"I'm fine," he said.

They walked out of the cave in silence. There really wasn't much to be said.They placed the sleeping Toby on the back of the horse and started the long walk back to the castle.

A/N: So yeah my computer crashed and I was not too happy about that so basically that is why I have not updated. Thank you for all your reviews. SnapeMoment don't be too hard on Severin. Yelling seems to be in her nature. Hope to hear from you all soon. I will have the final chapter up in a few days... I plan on editing some of it.