Again thanx for he review Moonjava, and Prinsess of Rivendell too ofcourse. It took quite a long while before this chap came, but I had a terrible writersblock. My thousend apolosies for that.


Chapter 6. 'Back to the Labyrinth'

Sarah sat behind her make up table. Furiously, she combed her hair. Her face looked angry. It was so unfair! She never did anything right, whatever she tried it was always wrong!

Karen had been yelling at Sarah again. This time for the most idiotic reason Sarah had ever heard of. Sarah had a tiring day and when dinner was served, she had looked lazy at her food. Karen then nearly went berserk! She had yelled that Sarah was a good for nothing because she had been staring uninterested at her dinner. Sarah tried to explain but it made Karen even more mad.

"Making up excuses! Why don't you just tell the truth? But no, you probably think you are too good for it don't you? Lazy child. All you can do is telling Toby nonsense about Labyrinths and 'Goblins'. Useless git," Karen had yelled. Sarah then had run to her room, crying. Sarah fell silent. She could hear mumbling downstairs. Probably dad trying to convince Karen that Sarah didn't mean to insult her. Sarah sighed. No use dad. She won't believe you anyway. Sarah stared at her reflection in the mirror. She saw her own face, red of anger, and the room behind her. It was a messy room which looked like there were too much stuff for one room. On the wall hung posters of Fantasy creatures and the collection of teddy bears, of which one was missing. The floor was covered with cloths and other junk. Her bed was as she left it in the morning: messy, and her pillow laid somewhere in a corner. The only clean and tidy spot on the entire room was the make-up table. On that, there was a collection of Sarah's most beloved objects. One was a little music box with a princess in a beautiful white dress. There was a doll of a fox, strangely dressed and a little red book, entitled "Labyrinth". The only normal thing on the overfull little desk was a photograph of Sarah's family. It stood there for little Toby and her father, but the fake smile of Karen was there as well. Karen's face immediately brought Sarah back to senses. Sarah pulled a nasty face at the picture and stared at the mirror again. Suddenly, her face was replace by the face of Hoggle.

"Hoggle?" said Sarah unbelieving. She blinked her eyes to make sure she wasn't dreaming, but Hoggle's face was still there. Then it disappeared and reappeared behind her, together with sir Didymus and Ludo. Sarah smiled.

"Hoggle! You come at a great time. Karen has been angry again and I…" Sarah stopped abruptly when she saw the faces of her friends. "What's wrong?" she asked. Hoggle looked sad at her.

"Sarah. Something terrible has happen in the Goblin City," Hoggle said.

"What is it then?" Sarah asked a little shocked.

"It's Jareth. He…he's been kidnapped Sarah," Hoggle said sadly. Sarah did not believe her ears. Jareth? Kidnapped? Sarah knew Jareth as a proud and fearless man. How was it possible that he was kidnapped? She thought it hard to imagine that the King of the Goblin City was taken away for some reason.

"What has happen?" she asked her friends.

"We don't really know," Hoggle answered. He told her what had happen only such a short time ago. About the letter, the maiden, and last of all about the Goblins in the Throne Room. "He said that Jareth had been kidnapped by Istosar Samuel, a boy who wanted to take revenge to his parents by practising dark arts. His parents didn't want to run the Labyrinth for him. Jareth stopped the boy and turned him into a Goblin. But then Samuel wanted revenge to Jareth. But he disappeared and wasn't seen ever since. But now he is back," Hoggle concluded his story. Sarah was silent. She hated Jareth for what he had done to her, but she grieved for his disappearance. An image of Jareth, tied up, wounded, struggling for his life, came in Sarah's thoughts. Blood was dripping down from his mouth and his eyes were closed of pain. She tried to put the thought out of her head but it kept hunting her mind.

"Sawah?" Ludo grumbled. He walked over to her and gave her a clumsy hug.

"Sarah? Are you alright?" Hoggle asked concerned. He laid his hand on hers. Sarah looked at her friends.

"Hoggle. Can you take me to the Goblin City?" Sarah asked suddenly. Hoggle nodded confused.

"Actually only Jareth is allowed to do that, but since he…I think he will allow this exception," Hoggle said quickly. Sarah nodded.

"Then take me to the city. I want to search for Jareth," Sarah said resolute. Hoggle wanted to make an objecting comment, but he decided that it wouldn't help anyway.

"My dearest lady. I shall come with thou and search for yon King," sir Didymus said.

"Ludo help Sawah too," Ludo grumbled. Hoggle shrugged.

"I'll guess I will have to come as well," he mumbled. Sarah hugged him.

"Let's go then," Hoggle said. Together they walked to the mirror.

"Hold on tight. I'm not as good as Jareth is," Hoggle said. He grabbed her hand and with a great flash they were gone.

The door of Sarah's room flew open.

"If I have to call you again I…" Karen abruptly stopped. "Sarah?" She looked around, but Sarah has gone.

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Jareth flew over the widely spread Labyrinth. His eyes searched for any trace of Sarah, or Kranlar. At the thought of Kranlar, Jareth let out a hoot. He hated him, ever from the beginning on. The Goblin had always been a trouble in Jareth's hands. But now he was even worst then ever. Jareth let out another loud hoot. He noticed that he was tired, and landed in the Labyrinth. He changed back into his human form. Jareth leaned back against the wall of the maze. His breath was heavy. The soft breeze that blew though the maze made Jareth's fair hair flutter in the blue sky, and he closed his grey eyes for a moment to catch his breath again. All morning he had been flying over the Labyrinth, but not a sight of Sarah, nor Kranlar. His hearth was weary, and he began to loose hope in his quest. Jareth sighed deep. He had waited for Sarah so long, but now, she was in the hands of Kranlar. Jareth didn't know what Kranlar's purpose was, but he knew that Sarah had to be helped.

After a short break, Jareth changed back into his owl form again. He flew up, but was suddenly stopped by some sort of roof. With a loud hoot, Jareth tried to fly around it, but again he bumped against some sort of glass roof. Jareth landed, and became a human again. There was clearly a sort of net over the Labyrinth, which allowed Jareth to enter, but not to return.

"What is this?" he mumbled, frowning at the sky.

"A magical roof of course. Never seen one?" a voice said from behind. Other voices laughed.