It had been a nerve wrecking limit pushing experience but here they were. The first day on the river bank Sarah had wanted nothing but to hurry up with their rest and get back on board so they could get a move on. Now that she knew the direction Jareth and the Enchantress were going she would catch up to them quicker. Grench had to knock her out with a sleepless rest spell to allow everyone the necessary rest. When Sarah awoke at dusk she was furious but everyone was ready to go and so they traveled under the cover of darkness once more and again they made great timing. They were only half a day away from ending this crazy chase.
The Enchantress wanted to run away she could feel something in the air and it made her skin crawl. She had rarely felt such uncontrolled raw power and the few times she had heard about it only ended in catastrophe. It was too late to go now though, they had stopped to make camp as soon as the first signs of dusk began to appear. Now it was to dark to move. She had another quick trick left up her sleeve she was going to use to occupy Jareth and weave him into a sleeping spell. The Enchantress directed her staff to pick up instruments and begin to play. Jareth had been staring at the fire and poking at the logs uninterestedly but now that the music played he looked up. The Enchantress was walking around the campsite and pouring a mixture of herbs and sand in order to form a barrier between what was coming and her captive.
Jareth began to hum to the music and the Enchantress began to move faster, if Jareth sang it would be over. His singing would break any enchantment she had laid down in order to prevent his aides from reaching him and him finding out the truth. She rushed over and began to dance for him and Jareth stopped humming but unknown to both of them, it had been too late.
Sarah and the rest of her Labyrinth companions had heard the first couple of chords of Jareth's hum and now Sarah's necklace was shining bright on her chest. The glow dimmed and Hoggle's voice came through, "Sarah! Sarah! Yous got him?!" Sarah gave the reigns to Grench and she brought her necklace to eye level, "No I don't have him yet Hoggle but I will shortly, be ready." Hoggle nodded and he kept quiet but the connection that Sarah had formed with her mirrors was going to be the key to getting Jareth home.
Grench pulled the horses to an abrupt stop and pointed towards the rising smoke that was reaching for the sky in the nearby distance. Grench turned to Sarah who pointed towards the side of the rode. Once there they removed the harness from the horses and placed saddles on them instead. The attack was set to start soon before they lost the element of surprise. Sarah once more donned Jareth's armor and Grench rode with her. Skrit the Fire Gang members and a couple of the other goblins joined Sarah and Grench. Those that stayed behind were given their orders.
"Grench make a fog to hide our approach." Sarah then turned to Skrit, "Skrit take a couple of your friends and scare up the night life and have them rush the camp, and I want to see what were up against." Skrit nodded and ran off into the distance with wild calls that startled everything in his wake. The Fire Gang members were behind them rounding the nightlife and directing them towards the camp. Sarah mounted a horse and placed Grench in front of her, "I want that wall down before she knows what's coming Grench." "Easier said than done, Skrit will need to clear it from the inside." Sarah nodded and rode calling Skrit back to her, "Burrow around the camp where you can see the barrier that Grench will highlight if the ground underneath is disturbed the barrier will fall and tell the fire gang to set it ablaze." Skrit ran off to catch up with his comrades and do as he was told, kingy would be home tonight.
The Enchantress heard the night come to life and it sent chills up her spine. They were here, how had they caught up with her more important how had they found her. The animals from the brush began to fly towards the camp but they felt more than saw the barrier and flew or ran around it to avoid hitting it. She began to chant in order to increase its potency when she felt it falter and opened her eyes just in time to see it crumble into pockets that were opening underneath it. For every hole that opened a fire began and before she could get her ingredients to reinforce her barriers two horses rode hard into her camp.
Sarah jumped of from behind Grench and yanked Jareth up from where he was sleeping, "Skrit! NOW!!!" At the moment of Sarah's yell Skrit and the goblins ran into the camp with weapons drawn, the Fire Gang began to set fire to everything they touched. The Enchantress and her men were confused long enough to allow Sarah the time to place Jareth over the second horse and she jumped behind Grench once more and began to ride the horses hard back the way she came.
The Fire Gang, the goblins and Skrit all left right after Sarah disappeared with kingy. They knew to lead the Enchantress and her men away from where Sarah went off too so they made horse galloping noises in many places in the dark in order to confuse their pursuers.
The Enchantress was having a hard time locating Jareth now that his subjects had him again. Their loyalty to him was clouding her abilities, the only way she would be able to get him back was if he invited her back in but that would prove impossible once he saw who was inside his armor. There was no denying it; the girl had come for him. She had been the raw power she had felt earlier and now she knew why Jareth had coveted the girl, the question now was would the girl want him.
When Sarah arrived back at their camp the make shift pool had been set. "Hoggle! I need you!" Hoggles face appeared in the pool and Sarah pushed Jareth in first. "Grab him Ludo! Grab him!" Ludo reached into the pool without getting in and pulled the king out. "Come on! Come on! Quickly!" Sarah began to wave all her companions in Grench, Zurita and her were the last, "You remember what to do?" Zurita nodded as Grench and Sarah dived into the pool. "They turned in time to see Zurita break the glass vial left in her care and watch the contents spill into the makeshift pool. Sarah had taken several vials filled with bog water as a defense against possible attackers but also so that Zurita would be alb to destroy the pool after they had used it. Zurita knew her way home now they just had to hope she would make it back safe and sound.