AN: I OWN NOTHING OF THE SCOOBY DOO FRANCHISE!!!!
Chapter Ten,
Melinda held her position of shock with one hand still on the side of Harry's cheek, eyes focusing on the deadly crescent shaped cut running down Harry's face, fresh blood still eminating from it's depths. Harry raised a shaky hand and placed it around Melinda's slightly trembling one. He forced a smile and Melinda locked her ever-lasting mysterious gaze on his bright green eyes.
"Harry... how?" Melinda asked, a little hurt in her voice though Harry could not place why. He took a trembling breath and revisited the cave with Melinda and how he had been taken here by the mysterious figures who had grabbed him. Upon arriving here, he was locked in a dark room, apparently alone. That was until he heard the scurrying of quick legs and glow of saphire eyes. The creature came closer too him, the eyes remaining steady, glowing orbs. It held a glowing round object in it's hand, a sphere-like object.
The animal came closer and the object glowed brighter, illuminting the face of the creature, who was now but feet away from Harry. Though Harry's vision was impaired, he was able to make out the features of the creature. It had the face of a fox, but was completely black, it wore a shawl, but crawled about the floor, it's talons clacking against the stone surface. It smiled slyly and handed Harry the orb. The orb began to shift the glowing colours on it's insides to show the image of a young girl that Harry did not recognize. She had long brunette hair and mystical green eyes. She wore a purple pleated skirt and a bright-blue sweater. On her feet she wore blue ankle-socks and a pair of black mary-jane shoes. Around her neck was a heart-shaped locket, an ingraved letter 'E' on the front. She was a beautiful child, small and thin, though there was an air of elegance and maturity about her that just made her seem, older. She wore a small pair of square glasses over her eyes and held a small object in her small hands. Upon closer examination, Harry saw that the object was a small, white flower. The child looked up and stared in Harry's direction from her place in the orb, though it was impossible for her to see him. A puzzled look came over her face, and her image dissolved away.
Allou and Arya both held stern eyes as they stared towards the forbidding forests depths. Arya broke the apparent silence.
'Well, I may not be of this century, I do know a thing or two about the Labryinth.' Everyone looked to Arya who held her stern gaze on the forest. 'Jareth create that labryinth to isolate himself out of fear that he would lose everything he had to a foolish heart, leaving him to drown in the wallows of his own self-pity. He drove away his family, his friends, even his subjects, leaving him to live with those insufferable goblins that he created. He was a fool once for falling in love with that mortal child Sarah. He knows this. If he has drawn Melinda into his territory, it is not to wish her well, it is to use her for his own personal gain, to regain the power that he has told himself was lost when Sarah departed his realm with her child half-brother.' Everyone else by then had joined Arya in gazing at the woods, as if expecting a solution to come to them in the form of a woodland creature, or a spirit perhaps.
"Well, standing here and doing nothing will gain us nothing." Athena broke the formation by stepping towards the woods. "One strategy failed, but that does not mean that we may simply give up and allow our limbs to grow limp. After all, the ocean does not cry over the loss of one droplet." The other Olympians looked to each other in confirmation and nodded. Going together they stood by Athena and held their chosen weapons tightly, determination clear in their eyes.
What happened next, no one was expecting. Shaggy walked over and joined the Olympians.
"Like, I don't know about you guys, but Melinda and Madelyn are in there. So I'm going to do what I do best. I'm going to eat a Scooby Snack, and then I'm gonna save my friends."