Here you go folks! The poem in here is Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost. (What can I say? He does good work.) Enjoy!
-TiskTask
Allie stopped when the landscape around them changed from hegde walls to a forest. It was winter here and she could not help but look around in awe at the beauty of it. "Durk, where are we?" He stopped and dismounted. His mount shook its head and moaned softly, as if in warning. "We are still in the Labyrinth little prisoner… It is cold." He said. He sat down and started covering himself in the snowy leafs. She sighed. "What are you doing?" With out looking up the goblin answered. "It is cold…I cover myself in leafs to get warm. Then I sleep…when I wake up it will be warm."
She stifled a yawn. "Look I'm cold and tired too, but we've got to keep going! We've got to…got to…" Allie trailed off and sat down next to him when she realized she couldn't remember what they had to do. Something about a deal or a promise. She thought. "These woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep." She recited. She yawed and laid her head back against a tree, no longer caring about the cold. "And miles to go before I sleep," She struggled to remain awake, but it was a losing battle. "And miles to go before I sleep."
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She was dreaming, she was sure of it. She was in a bed, looking up at a ceiling covered with stars, but she was sure, that moments, before she had been in a wood looking up at tree branches. She moaned out loud, like she did when ever her dreams angered or confused her.
Her door burst open wide and a woman with long brown hair walked in and sat on the bed. She was very pretty and seemed familiar, though Allie was sure she had never seen her before…In fact she couldn't remember seeing any one before. "What's the matter Allie? Did you have a bad dream?" The lady asked. Allie tried to concentrate. "Yes… it was about a, a king and my mother… Sarah?" The lady laughed. "That's me silly; it couldn't have been much of a nightmare with me in it!" The woman jumped up. "Now come on I've made you breakfast! It's your favorite, waffles!"
The woman's happy manor infected Allie, and she smiled. Why worry about a silly dream when there were home cooked waffles! She laughed and ran down stairs, chasing after her mother. She stopped when she got to the dining room. There was a man sitting there, he looked like the king in her dream…but no. His blond hair was much shorter and his eyes were both blue.
He looked up from the paper he was reading, and smiled at her. The blissful mood returned and she banished the dream completely from her mind. After eating her waffles her father drove her to school. As she was getting out of the car he promised to take her out to dinner that night because it was her birthday.
Allie's first class was English and her teacher was Mister Jareth. All of her class mates agreed his class was the hardest because he asked strange questions that no one knew the answer to. As the bell rung, their teacher walked into the class. He looked a lot like her dad, only with longer hair and mismatched eyes.
"Today class we will be defining words." He said. There were many groans at this and Allie's happened to be the loudest. His strange eyes flicked to hers and he frowned in disapproval. "Do you have a problem with that Miss Alexandra Williams?" He asked with a slight sneer, as if she were not worthy of his time. She instantly disliked him and sneered right back. "It's Allie, and no I do not have a problem with that." She stressed the that so he would know it was him she had a problem with.
He seemed unaffected by her attitude and where another teacher would have sent her to the principal's office, he merely resumed the class. "Well then, perhaps you would like to go first." He said. "What is a Labyrinth?" Allie began to panic when she realized that she did not know and she dug around in her bag for her book. "Well? What is the answer, Miss Alexandra?" He asked impatiently.
"Patience is a virtue." She snapped at him as she pulled out her book. Its title was strange. The Diary of Sarah Williams: the Labyrinth, it said. She wasted no time worrying about it and opened the book. She read the bold words written on the page. "Corridors doubling, winding, and colliding into one another…Looking like thousands of fingerprints laying side by side, over lapping one another…one can not tell if it just happened or if it had all been planned out…"
Allie looked up at the man, suddenly confused. "Who are you really?" Jareth smirked and answered, "Why I am your teacher and you are my pupil…No matter what you believe." He laughed and all the children around her did as well, only they were no longer children, but goblins. She looked back at him, studying him carefully. "You're the Goblin King, aren't you?" She said. He threw back his head and laughed, only to her, it sounded like a long and painful moan.
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Allie was jerked out of sleep, by a loud moan. Durk's mount stopped the dreadful noise it was making as soon as she sat up. The air around them had become warm and the forest was no longer covered in snow. Durk sat up and smiled. "See, Durk knows." He said getting up, not bothering to brush himself off. "Now I take little prisoner to the castle."