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Daughter of the Labyrinth
Chapter 2-Her World Comes Crashing Down
A girl newly turn eighteen laid on an ebony shire curtain king sized canopy bed deep in concentration in the middle of the night drawing. Her emerald-blue eyes starred intently at the sketched pad before her as her long jet black mane of hair framed her heart shaped face with it's delicate wave. Her agile fingers of her right hand held a pencil while in the left she spun three crystal spheres she had long ago bought. All the while she softly was singing along with a musical figure that spun in her mother-of-pearl ball gown.
There's such a sad love
Deep in your eyes
A kind of pale jewel
Open and closed within your eyes
I will place the sky
Within your eyes
A loud wall shacking crack rippled through the night notifying the single person within the mansion's walls at the appending storm. The storm as wicked as it was didn't even faze the teenager, black glad girl. Merely raising her intense jeweled gaze to the balcony window doors to chest if it was locked; it was. Turning back to the gracefully and perfected sketch of a barn owl the girl came face to face with a black coated face with one icy blue eye, and one darker, an odd brown near black for a feline to have.
"What do think Jareth?" chimed the young raven haired girl.
The lean and athletic young adult cat starred at the up held picture only to stick out his course red tongue to lick his mouth and whispers. Soft bell like laughter came from the young girl only to be interrupted by another wild electric flash and a bone shattering crack once again rattling the walls and windows of the mansion. And once again the jewel eyed girl didn't flinch. She enjoyed such fearsome storms. The emerald eyed girl ignored the angry flashes of light and the whistle of the unforgiving night wind, as she kept singing and playing with the midnight cat rolling about her bed.
There's such a fooled heart
Beating so fast
In search of new dreams
A love that will last
Within your heart
I place the moon within your heart
Finally a flash so bright and blinding, the teen gave a squeak as a shudder rippled down her back at the whip crack of thunder rang in her sensitive ears. Then the crashing wind came again, relentless and harsh against the balcony doors, to shack them as if someone wanted desperately in. As she leapt to her feet keep the door closed the instantly the light went out.
"What the…? We have a backup generator; this shouldn't happen" she said striding over to the light switch only to find that it didn't work. "Damn it!"
"Meow…" called out Jareth as he leapt onto his long time companion's shoulder with sharp razor claws.
The young girl smiled scratching the feline under his chin. "It's alright Jare; just the wind" but stubborn wind blew at the doors once more shacking them ruthlessly gaining the girl and feline's attention.
She rushed to the balcony doors holding them closed the best she could with a cat's claws digging into her bare back and shoulder. But the struggle to keep the clattering doors was disturbed by evil, gleeful high scratchy laughter; the raven haired girl spun planting her back against the doors behind her.
"W-Who's there?!"
Nothing answered; nothing moved in the shadowed room that light up with the quick strikes of lightning outside.
Against her back the doors rattled with haunting life like there truly was someone or something that wanted in and wouldn't be denied that privilege. Slightly panicky now the young woman spun to face the door to keep the lock secure, but she was a split second to late.
With bone crushing force nearly ripping the doors from their hinges but succeeding in shattering the windows as the teenage girl and pet were flung back sprawled across the carpet floor in a disarray of limbs, shire cotton nightgown and sparkling shards of glass. Pushing her hands beneath her she rouse lightly while still lying on her hip as the glass cut into her palms and naked legs. Moaning in slight pain, laughter again rang out driving a shiver up the girl's back.
Looking up she gasped eyes flung wide in shock. There blocking her from her bedroom door was none other then a group of the ugliest and most frightening goblins she thought ever lived. They had distorted faces with beady red or black evil and cruel eyes.
"Ahh!" she gasped scrambling away from them and toward the balcony door to hear an ear splitting screech. "What the hell"she cried out spinning around where she still kneeled.
There perched on the railing was a black feathered barn owl by the body structure with frightening sinister blood red eyes with ebony pupils. The girl sucked in a shallow breath as it launched itself at her. Throwing her exposed arms to save her face she felt razor like claws slicing open her skin as she cried out in pain.
Then it stopped with a flutter of a breeze; it was eerily silent.
Slowly lowering her wounded arms and raising her icy emerald eye she gasped aloud. There, towering over her was a man; a gorgeous man that drove shivers of dread and uncertainty up her spin causing her whole body to quiver.
He appeared to be mid-twenties to early thirties. He wore a out of date waist long hiar swirling around him in a black man that seemed to radiate darkness rather then reflected it with its silken shine. The pale face was handsome in a eerie sense and the perfect refined with strong cheek bones, straight nose, fine lips , but it was his eyes that made her shudder in fear for the first time in her life. This man's eyes were cold and hard as diamonds in a million shades of gold. It drove shivers up her back as she took in the strange black leathery armor covering the whole of his body, with ridding boots and gloves crossed over his chest, and swirling around him in a soft wisp of wind was glitter.
She finally overcame her fear and spoke. "Who are you?"
He sneered down at the young lady and watched her shiver. He dropped his arms to his stoic side then swiftly kneeled before her watching the blue-green eyed girl draw back. He smirked. "I'm your worst nightmare."
The raven haired girl saw the slightly pointed teeth forming into fangs. She couldn't contain the shiver that took over her whole body. "Give me a name" she snapped with determination.
The eerie shadow-man narrowed his fearsome gold eyes and borrowed deep into the girl's eye before him. He didn't answer as eh gripped her wrist and hauled her to her feet still sneering.
"I give orders girl, not take them" he snapped golden eyes becoming an arctic storm of frigid lacking of emotion.
The stubborn girl snarled. "I asked you a question jerk! And you are in my bedroom and I demand answers, and I suggest you give'em if you don't want you eyes clawed out!!"
Gasps from the goblins rang out as some whispered under their breath but were shocked soon into silence.
"Retched girl" the dark majestic man yelled making her flinch not expecting the next attack to come.
Nearly unbearable head splitting pain throbbed in her head as a ringing sound sang in her ears. Lifting a hand to her right cheek she winced; she had just been struck for the first time in her lonely life. Emerald-blue eyes were lifted up at the ebony haired man in a caution and pent-up rage.
"I suggest you watch your tongue little one, 'cause you just might loose it" he said lining down his face mere inches from her own; she drew back. "You are coming with me weather you like it or not."
"Make me asshole" she screeched an from the shadows the fateful feline Jareth leapt at the face of the mystery man.
Swiftly as if he was swatting a insect the dark man flicked aside the cat as if it's attack was a pathetic attack from a toddler. But the raven haired girl grew furious and before the man's attention was drawn back to her she flung out a fist and punched him across the cheek.
The young livid girl snarled. "TOUCH MY CAT AGAIN AND I'L BRAK THAT PERFECT LITTLE NOST OF YOURS!!!!"
Striding away from the taken aback the teen picked up her unconscious feline friend in her arms; she instantly regretted turning her back on her attacker.
"AHHHH!" she cried out as the man she had punched grabbed a handful of her silken tresses to life her off the ground so her toes just skimmed over the plushy carpet. "Let go of me!!"
"You will pay for striking my person" he said behind her a growl in his throat as his fury flowed off of him like the darkness did.
"Well your person makes a good punching bag" she yelled between her cries of pain as the cruel arrogant man tugged on her hair more as she clutched her cat to her chest.
He growled loudly in her ear as fear shook the girl. "Insolent wench!!"
The young misfortunate girl was about to answer when between her pain and squinted eyes watched as her room bleed away to be replaced by a hilly landscape with tall grasses swaying peacefully in the night breeze. The whole hillside was cast in silvery moonlight that hung above in the indigo heavens.
The girl couldn't stop the sudden intake of breath to express her awe. But the peace was short lived as another brutal tug caused her to hiss in agony as she tried undoing the hand that restrained her with digging her newly painted ebony nails into his gloved hand with the hope of causing pain. Another painful warning tug caused her to halt her actions and grow painfully still.
"Let me go freak" she snapped under her breath.
The frightening man tugged again putting a small twist into it as he lifted the light weight girl right of the ground so her face was right next to his as he tilted it to the side when he faced her. He grinned evilly at the pained expression playing across the poor teenage girl's face. "I advise you keep silent woman!"
She flinched but fell silent. "Someone save me from this nightmare!!!" she screamed in her head.
A sinister laugh rang out over the hillside chilling the girl to the bone in the clutches of the shadow-man. She looked around but found no one through her pain filled emerald-blue orbs. Then it rang out again, the laughter. The feeling of her captor tense and grow livid, the very sound of the taunting laughter. She hoped this new man wasn't as cruel and violent.
"I believe the young girl asked to be released" chimed a voice through the air that was creepily beautiful and comforting.
The man in black leather armor narrowed his eyes. "Why don't you come out dear little brother of mine?"
The captive girl blinked for a mere second and between the time she had closed her eyes to when they opened, a new stoic figure stood before her.
"Ahh!" she inhaled in a gasp.
There standing as still as stone made from only magical essence, with his silvery-blonde hiar spiked on top while becoming long on the way down to his strong shoulders. He's strong facial features beyond beautiful, was gorgeous and closing matching that of her captor, but with less frightening brutality. He wore a cream poet shirt that showed off his chest and the necklace he wore. Over the shirt he wore a black leather trench coat with a high collar up to his ears. Covering his strong legs were slimming britches with shinning ebony riding boots reaching to his knees. This man's very presence demanded respect and submission to his fascinating yet deadly power that crackled in the air like an electric charge.
"A fearsome storm ready to let loose his power and fury to anything that stands in his way" the emerald eyes girl thought comparing the new majestic man to a destructive storm.
Yet it was not his striking posture or gorgeous face that had taken her breath away; no it wasn't that. Starring at her intently the other man's grasping hands she starred back captivated. No longer feeling the pain in her skull from the strong tugs or the cuts on her arms; all she saw were strong, enchanting, unforgettable eyes of arctic ice and the black of oblivion's nothingness. This misfortunate girl found herself no longer so. Here standing before her starring at her seeming just as captivated as she, was the legendary man she had so long had wished to be real. She would recognize this mystic creature of the Underground anywhere.
"Jareth" she breathed hugging the still unconscious feline in her protective embrace.
The Goblin King said nothing, but merely every so slightly nodded trailing his miss-matched eyes to the dark man and captor of the distressed young woman. As their eyes met the King of the Goblins grinned evilly.
"What a pleasant surprise Zaynon; you should have told me you were coming."
Zaynon as the dark figure's name was snarled and pulled the silken mane of the girl once more to hear her muffled cry of pain. "Don't be so high and mighty Jareth; quit the act! You knowingly transported us here." Zaynon the darker of the two men grinned as a thought came to mind. "You were watching again, don't deny it! That's how you knew. Tell me, how is your precious Sarah; married is she not? Poor little Jareth, forgotten by a mere mortal woman…how pathetic!"
Jareth hardened his glare as it turned into something that could strip away armor and steel. "You watched as well Zaynon; don't tell me you weren't interested either? You've watched just as much as I have."
The golden gaze of Zaynon fell to the girl in his clutches as he nuzzled her soft, pale and exposed neck inhaling intently while a single amber orb was fixed on the Goblin King who stiffened balling his fists.
Zaynon let his lids fall in amusement as he let his lips slide against the girl's velvet skin; he felt her whole body shutter and he smirked with a sinister objective. He turned to look back at his brother who was rigid with self control. "You were always fun to tease little brother. True I have been watching her yes, but with you…you have grown attached, have you not?"
"Be gone Zaynon, you know very well you are not welcome in my realm. Release the girl and leave." Jareth watched with a warrior's gaze starring down his enemy.
The dark ebony haired man seethed throwing up his gloved hand to point at the Goblin King. "This Kingdome is rightfully mine; I am the eldest!!!"
Jareth exhaled feeling no threat. "You were unfit Zaynon. Look at the Kingdom you rule now; nothing but chaos, war and decay. The title of Lord of Darkness is even wasted on you."
The eldest brother became livid hellfire burning deep in the molten gold of his eyes. The raven haired girl grew nervous beneath his iron clad grip waiting for another painful tug, but none came. Whipping his deadly stare to the girl he held he snarled then with inhuman strength flung the already battered teenager away where she landed five feet away fro her captor still clutching her precious feline friend.
Zaynon was indeed livid clenching his fists at his sides. "Beware Jareth, she has the power and nothing will stop me from having it!"
Jareth unfazed starred back unblinking. "I will, big brother."
The Lord of Darkness was gone with a wave f his hand and a dark ebony suffocating cloud leaving a certain girl to have a coughing fit.
Eyes shut tightly against the throbbing agony in her head, arms and legs she never noticed that Jareth the Goblin King now kneeled before her slight concern ridding on his serene face. It wasn't till the coughing and heaves for breath stopped did the fae king speck and it took the girl's breath away once again as her head shot up to gaze upon the flawless mysterious face.
"Are you alright Jaden" it was all he asked holding out a hand for her to take and help her to her feet.
Her eyes flew open further at the provided hand then looked up at his face as the sound of her name leaving this magical being's lips. He's eyes captured her with its blue and black stare. So she did what most girls would do in such an occasion when being talked to the hottest guy in the school.
She fainted as the darkness swam up to greet her as the final words of the music sang silently in her foggy exhausted mind.
As the pain sweeps through
Makes no sense to you
Every thrill is gone
Wasn't much fun at all
But I'll be there for you-uu-u
As the world falls down
As the world falls down…
A/N: so ppl like it interesting hah? Jareth's as a pissed off older brother…who know! XD guess ur still wondering what secrets are behind Jaden…but I ain't gonna tell yea…I just hope u like this chapter…I know I got ppl saying to update soon as possible and I thank those that reviewed…I love reviews!!!
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