Disclaimer: I do not own Jareth, the Labyrinth, or any of its inhabitants. I do own anything/ anyone/ anyplace that I created in this fanfic… which I also own… XP nah!
Seiko Miwarui is owned by Dark Angel Millenia. Holice Silverfang is owned by Fay Carmichael 21.
Summary: War is brewing in the Underground and it seems as though Sarah's favorite Goblin King is in the center of it. Alliances are being formed quickly but also broken just as fast. Tension rises in the continuation of Heal Me, Hurt Me!
Warning: Jareth is totally out of character. So is Sarah.
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Last Time:
"But the mountains are still icy there!"
"Which means the enemy can't follow us! If we go south they'll have better footing."
Jareth sighed heavily and rubbed his forehead. "All right… let's recount supplies once more then call it a day. We've been arguing since lunch and I don't think-"
"Hey Jareth!"
He turned with another sigh. "Sarah. Now's not a-" His heart leapt into his throat, eyes widening and paling dangerously as Sarah trotted in, an incubo right behind her.
She grinned brilliantly. "Can I keep it?"
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Heal Me, Hurt Me – Part II
By: Kadasa Mori
Chapter 5 (January 25th)
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Sighing heavily, the Goblin King of the Labyrinth watched as two of his council members bickered back and forth angrily. They'd been arguing for two hours now and it was starting to give him a headache. Toroku and Taka need to chill out. He frowned as that thought went through his head. I've been spending far too much time with Sarah…
A sudden sense of dread filled his veins and he held back a visible shudder. Half of him wanted to leap out of his chair and find the brunette quickly but the other half told him she'd probably broken something and was trying to hide it from him, like last week with the vase. He'd felt uneasy and hurried to locate her, only to come across the brunette trying to hide the shattered vase beneath a chair in the hallway. She'd just laughed nervously and took off.
Then it had happened again later that evening. He'd been lounging in front of the fire, enjoying a quiet evening to himself when dread clutched at his heart. He leapt to his feet and appeared beside Sarah. The brunette shrieked and he turned bright red, disappearing as she flung a shampoo bottle at his head, towel grabbed and wrapped around her body. When he'd asked if she were alright, she'd screamed something about slipping out of the tub before yelling a few choice words that made him turn redder and disappear quickly.
Sure enough, the dread wore off rather quickly and he sighed at the thought of having to fix something else sharp and breakable. Taka let out a particularly loud shout of aggravation and he turned back to the scene at hand, Sarah forgotten for the moment.
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The brunette, meanwhile, was actually quite frightened as a rather familiar dark shadow approached her, mind racing back to the pain she'd felt the last time she'd seen an incubo.
Are you Sarah Williams? its voice echoed through her head. She swallowed then slowly nodded. It straightened, just staring at her before it reached a clawed hand out. Perfect…
Sarah flinched, eyes shutting tightly. I'm gonna die… Jareth, I'm sorry I yelled at you at lunch and made a mess out of my muffin! Riley, I'll tell Toby you're doing well and that Emmy loves you! And… wait… She peered open and eye and found the incubo staring at her.
Do you fear me so much little human?
She blinked then nodded slowly. "One of your little friends tried to eat my brain a little while ago and seeing how I rather like my brain, I was quite offended by that act."
It let out a bark of laughter through her brain. My friends do not prey on humans such as you. Only the ones that deserve it.
"And… I don't?"
No.
Sarah scowled. "Then why did an incubo attack me?!"
That was one who'd been under the darkness' control.
"Aren't you all creatures of the darkness?"
We were created from darkness but not all of us have the darkness ruling our every thought and action. I am one of the lucky few who survive in light instead of dark.
"Uh huh… do you know who Jareth is?"
I do.
"He's gonna freak if he sees you."
Well then let's go introduce him to me.
She sighed. "I'm torn between amusement and guilt. He's scared of you guys but I wanna play a prank… isn't that awful?"
Yes but you have to introduce me sometime. Might as well be right now.
She nodded then frowned and looked around. "Well… here we reach a problem. I'm hopelessly lost."
It's not a problem. She floated up a bit then pointed. The castle is that way.
"But this is a maze with dead ends and stuff."
I'll guide you through. Now move before I decide that I am quite bored and your brain is nearby.
Sarah squeaked and raced in the direction of the castle. As the incubo pointed her the right way, she looked up. The incubo was a lot different than the last she'd seen. The other was skinny and spiny, black flames flickering about its shadowy body angrily, eyes narrow and blood red, a vicious grin on its face. This incubo was… pudgy-ish. She had thin blue eyes but they were calm instead of vicious. Her hair swirled about the top of her head, bottom half of her body like a ghost. She still had that shadowy effect to her, but it was more of a comfortable shadow instead of a dangerous one.
"So… got a name I can call you?"
Malandra.
"Malandra? It's pretty." When the incubo didn't respond Sarah frowned slightly. "So what's Malandra mean?"
It's a mix of Malinda, meaning dark or black serpent, and Sandra, meaning defender of mankind.
Sarah scrunched her nose in confusion. "You're not very… serpent-y." Malandra visibly sighed though she really had no mouth. "I wonder what Sarah means. I hope it means the awesomest person ever! Wouldn't that be awesome! It'd be like announcing every time I meet someone that I am the most awesomest person in the entire planet-nay universe!!" She paused then shrugged. "But the defender of mankind sounds neat-o too…"
You like to talk, don't you?
"Well you don't talk so I have to make up two parts of the conversation."
Hm… turn to your right. Sarah did so and squealed as she saw the entrance.
"Thanks Mally!"
Malandra stopped dead and turned to her with a dark look. What?
"Mally! Malandra is far too many syllables! Such as Cleopatra is Cleo, Elena is Ellie, Anor is… well Anor is only two syllables so his name stays the same. But if it's more than two syllables then you get a nickname! Mally!" The incubo just stared at her then turned and shook her head, floating towards the castle. They made it to Jareth's study in only a few minutes and surprisingly didn't run into anyone on the way (luckily because Sarah would've had a hard time keeping them from screaming).
"But the mountains are still icy there!"
"Which means the enemy can't follow us! If we go south they'll have better footing."
Malandra turned to Sarah. Tell them that the mountains have been overrun and that I would like to speak to Sir Jareth in private.
She nodded and turned as she heard Jareth sighed heavily. "All right… let's recount supplies once more then call it a day. We've been arguing since lunch and I don't think-"
She threw open the doors and trotted in, Malandra following behind her. "Hey Jareth!"
He turned with another sigh. "Sarah. Now's not a-" He stiffened, eyes widening and paling dangerously as he spotted them.
She grinned brilliantly. "Can I keep it?" The room burst into an uproar, Jareth just staring at her. Sarah waited for a few moments then inhaled sharply. "OI!" It quieted.
"Sarah… what are you doing?" Jareth asked, eyes flickering between them.
"And why is an incubo following you?" Jason yelped.
"Her name is Malandra." Sarah chirped. "We just met a few minutes ago." The incubo was looking around the room. Her eyes landed on something beyond the table and she floated towards it, landing beside the vase on the fireplace Glorificus had placed the non-breakable spell on. Ghostly fingers traced the air around the vase. "She says that the mountains have been overrun?" Sarah shrugged. "Whatever that means." The shadow then flew to
a chair in front of the fireplace, sitting down and staring at the flames. "She also requests a private meeting with Sir Jareth."
The council turned to Jareth who nodded once. "I believe we were finished for the day. I will call each of you later." Slowly, they walked out, casting glances back at the shadow sitting in front of the flames.
Sarah grinned and shot Malandra a peace sign. "Everyone's out Mally! Private meeting to commence now!"
Private means without everyone else. That means you need to leave as well dear Sarah.
Sarah blinked in surprise then pouted. With a 'hmph!' she turned on her heel and stomped off. At the door she glanced back at Jareth. Once he gave her a slight nod she turned and closed the door behind her. Skipping down the hall, she waved to Evie as she passed by the library, the dark haired girl waving back and turning to Ashley as the little girl chattered away. As she crossed the entryway to the kitchen, headed towards the kitchen to, of course cause mayhem as usual, someone called her. Turning, she blinked then grinned widely. "Daederath!"
He smiled in return. "Hello Sarah."
"What's happening?"
He blinked. "We're… greeting each other?"
Sarah laughed. "I mean, what's up? What's new? How's life?"
"Silly mortal. Just ask how I've been instead of using slang."
"But I like using slang."
"Well I don't. Besides, I want to introduce you to some people." He turned and motioned to a pair of women standing a few feet away. The one of the left was tall and skinny, black leather vest, pants and high heeled boots. Down both arms, shoulder to wrist, was an intricate tattoo pattern, nails filed to look sharper than normal. Her features were sharp, like a humanoid cat, with light honey brown eyes, black cat ears hidden in her nearly thigh length black hair, a black white-tipped tail like a dog or fox waving behind her. But what really caught Sarah's attention were the two black wings on her back.
The woman on the right, while looking as human as Sarah, had an animalistic aura that signified almost instantaneously that she wasn't mortal. She had shoulder length black hair, eyes a deep green. A black choker adorned her neck, a pearl earring in each ear. She wore a white sweater with a wide neck and a tan pattern around each wrist, pants matching her eyes, the bottoms hidden in her knee high black boots. Black fingerless gloves were just visible beneath the brim of the sleeves of her sweater. She looked short next to the taller one but was still a few inches taller than Sarah.
"Sarah. I'm pleased to introduce you to Seiko Miwarui," he motioned to the cat-bird humanoid, "and this is Holice Silverfang." He motioned to the other girl.
Sarah dipped her head in greeting. "Nice to meet the both of you." They nodded their return greetings.
"Seiko is the leader of a land called 'Misfit Demons.'"
Sarah raised an eyebrow. "Like Misfit Toys?"
He frowned in confusion. "I'm not sure I follow…"
"It's all the toys in the world that are abandoned because they don't work or aren't right."
"Well that's literally what her lands are, all the creatures in the Underground that don't have a place to call home because of tainted blood."
Sarah wrinkled her nose. "Tainted blood?"
Daederath sighed. "Some fae don't think they're as equal because they're mixed blood, really mixed blood or mutts. Like aboveground where someone could be German, or German and Italian, or German, Italian, French, Russian, American… you get the idea."
"Gotcha."
"Holice is the princess of the Western Mountain Woods and Shifter Druid."
"Shifter druid?"
"Just another name for the Were."
Holice had her head cocked. "You smell like-"
"Sarah." Sarah screamed, leaping forward and bouncing into Daederath, who caught her before she could fall. Jareth raised an eyebrow. "All right?"
"Fine." She pouted. "Why'd you have to scare me?"
"Because it's oh-so much fun." He turned to the vampire who was trying to detach the brunette from his attire. "Daederath. If you could bring Princess Holice and Lady Seiko to my office and wait there for us?"
Daederath nodded and poked Sarah's side. She yelped and jumped away. He turned and held out his hands. "Ladies? If you would?" Holice and Seiko each took a hand and he stepped back into the shadows, pulling them with him.
Once they disappeared, Sarah turned to Jareth. "Well…?"
"What Malandra says may be true… Seiko would probably know so I'll ask her and see what she says. If she tells me what Malandra has said, then she's free to go." Sarah nodded. "But no interfering Sarah. And I will still not fully trust the incubo even if her words are true."
"I'm not asking you to Jareth. Just take her words into consideration, kay?"
Jareth nodded then sighed. "How do you get me into such situations?"
She just grinned and hooked an arm around his. "It's just too much fun to pass up." He rolled his eyes and they reappeared outside his office. "Where is she by the way?"
"I told her to wait in the council's meeting chamber down the hall." He opened the doors and stepped in, Daederath seated by the fireplace, Holice and Seiko seated on one side of the table, Jareth sitting opposite the winged cat and Sarah across from the Were princess.
Sarah tried to hide a yawn after twenty minutes of formal "my lands are good" "we export this stuff" "we need this stuff" "we're joining the war" and so on.
"We would like to get troops in," Jareth suddenly announced, Sarah sitting up quickly to pay attention. "There's two options; one, through the valley pass or two, over the mountains."
"The mountains have been overrun," Seiko announced, stretching her wings and tattooed arms. "Can't go through there."
"YES!" Sarah shouted, leaping to her feet. Seiko's ears flattened against her heads in surprise, staring at her, Holice's eyes wide. Sarah pointed to Jareth. "Malandra is free!" She spun on her heel, racing out. "MALLY! MALLY YOU! ARE! FREEEEEEEE!!"
Jareth sighed heavily and pinched the bridge of his nose. "What… the hell?" Seiko asked.
"Sarah's new pet…"
Does she always yell so loudly? Jareth nodded wearily at the incubo that floated in.
"I-i-it's an i-i-incubo!" Holice stuttered, flying backwards out of her seat, Seiko frozen.
"Mally!" Sarah cried happily. "There you are! Seiko told us that the mountains were overrun and since you told us that hours ago, you're free!!"
Wondrous… Do you have a level of speaking lower than screaming?
"What?"
"Stop yelling Sarah…" Jareth groaned.
"Why is there an incubo in here, Goblin King?!" Holice shrieked.
Seiko leaned forward. "What'd she called you?... Mally?"
Malandra visibly sighed. Please don't call me that. My name is Malandra.
"Bah!" Sarah chirped. "Don't listen to her. She's just irritable its past her bedtime. This is Mally. We met earlier today!"
Sarah. I now understand why my cousins devour people's minds…
Sarah grinned brilliantly at her and Seiko leaned back, cocking her head. "Malandra is a mouthful… Mally is a somewhat pretty nickname however…" Sarah shot the cat-bird a thumbs up.
Holice frowned. "So… you won't hurt us?"
"Nope! Mally's a good incubo. She lives in light instead of shadow." Sarah blinked and looked at Daederath who hadn't moved during the entire thing, looking entirely at ease. "Why aren't you wigging out?"
He raised an eyebrow at her word selection, but brushed it off quickly. "I'm also a creature of darkness Sarah so we are one in the same. She cannot harm my kind and I cannot do anything to her so there's no reason to fear one another."
Sarah frowned then glanced at Malandra who'd taken a seat in the air, lounging and looking quite at ease as well. "So you're like… cousins?"
Malandra sighed again and Daederath rolled his eyes. "No. We're different species."
"Oh…"
Seiko leaned towards Jareth. "Kinda slow isn't she?"
"You have no idea."
Sarah spun around to Daederath. "I have a question."
"Yes Sarah?"
"Are you guys staying for dinner?"
Daederath looked to Jareth who shrugged then he turned back to Sarah. "Would you like us to?"
"Yup!"
"Then I suppose we'll stay."
"Yay! I'll go tell the cook that we'll need more plates-eep!" Jareth grabbed the back of her shirt quickly and held her in place.
"You will do no such thing. He's ready to kill you if you play another prank and I will not lose the best chef I've had in years to you Sarah."
The brunette pouted. "But… but… but…"
"If you give him another week or two, maybe he'll have calmed down from your last prank. Until then, you aren't allowed in the kitchen while he's there."
Sarah pouted and flopped back into her seat. "Fine…"
Jareth turned to the visitors. "I'll be back momentarily. Please make sure she stays here." They nodded and he vanished. Once they were sure he was gone, Seiko turned to Sarah.
"So what'd you do?"
Sarah grinned. "Well… one time we dropped a fake spider on his head." Holice winced. "Another time, I think the most recent, we dropped pop rocks in the soup and it exploded in his face. Uh… we've started numerous food fights in the kitchen, blew up a cake, made a picture out of dinner."
"I can see why he won't let you down there anymore," Holice murmured. Sarah smirked victoriously.
Sarah… I don't believe I feel safe anymore staying in Goblin Castle with you…
Sarah turned to the incubo with a pout. "Aw… Mally… that ain't nice."
Daederath sighed from the fireplace. "Sarah… Malandra is a creature of shadow. You can not give her a name such as Mally."
Sarah shot him a scowl. "Unless you'd like to be referred to as Daisy for the rest of existence, I don't believe you should say anything else."
Daederath blinked in surprise then glared darkly. A gloved hand slapped around her mouth. "And unless you'd like to be bitten and sucked dry, you should stop threatening vampires," Jareth announced. She pouted and he turned to his company. "I hope she didn't annoy you too much. Dinner is ready." He hooked his arm around her neck and dragged her from the room.
They stood, heading for the dining room. Seiko stepped up beside Daederath and glanced at him. He didn't even have to look over to note the smirk. "You even think about breathing word of that nickname to Westlyn and I will have to harm you." She didn't reply but the smirk didn't leave.
"So!" Holice jumped as Sarah popped up beside her then looked back at Jareth in confusion as to how the brunette had gotten free from his grasp. Sarah grinned. "What do I smell like?"
The werewolf blinked in confusion then recalled their earlier conversation. "Peaches." Sarah made a face and Holice frowned. "Is something wrong with that?"
"Yes… the last peach I had was drugged."
"It was not Sarah." Jareth sighed, sitting beside Sarah, the brunette across from the werewolf.
"Yes it was."
"No it wasn't."
"Yes it was!" she shrieked. "You drugged me! I was only 15!"
Holice snorted, covering it up by dabbing at her mouth with her napkin. Daederath smirked. "Goblin King. How dare you hit on someone hundreds of years younger than yourself?"
"And underage," Seiko added, grinning wickedly.
Jareth shot them a dark glare. Sarah opened her mouth to tease him but didn't have the chance as arms wrapped around her face. Jason sighed, hugging her head as her muffled shrieking was heard. "Sarah! Kira is being mean!" Jareth smirked at the brunette furiously trying to remove the arms around her face.
"I am not!" Kira argued as she also appeared in the room.
"You are too!!"
"Kira! You jerk!" Kara shouted as she walked into the room.
"What'd I do?!" she cried. "First Jason and now you?!"
"Kara… what happened to your hair?" Jareth asked.
Kara snarled. "My sister decided to put blue dye in my shampoo! That's why I'm angry at you, you jerk!"
"And that's why I'm angry at you!" Jason cried and released Sarah who gulped air as the arms retreated. "Why would you ruin such gorgeous hair as Kara's?!"
She looked across the table at the amused faces and reached forward, grabbing Holice's sleeve. "Take me with you! Please!"
Holice glanced between the sisters and Lord of Sunshine arguing, Jareth watching in amusement and the girl grasping at her sleeve. "No thanks. I really don't want them following after you to annoy me about giving you back."
"Smart girl," Daederath murmured as Sarah was dragged into the argument.
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To all Heal Me, Hurt Me Readers and Reviewers,
Whew. That took awhile.
Hey everybody! As usual I'm procrastinating for my finals tomorrow and decided "hey! Let's update Heal Me, Hurt Me! Yay!" So here's the update! A month later!
TT.TT I'm sorry…
But school is over this week and I'll be back to updating faster! … hopefully…
And yay for two other characters, both of which do not belong to myself, and one that does and the random appearing and disappearing of peoples. I realized at the end of the chapter that Mally kinda disappeared between the nicknames and dinner. (shrugs)
So yeah, till next time and I apologize again for a long wait!
Kadasa Mori
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"Sarah?" She turned to look back at him. "I don't want you leaving the castle for a few days without someone with you."
Subtitle: Jareth Language – You're under house arrest unless I'm with you.
She instantly bristled angrily. "I can take care of myself Jareth."
"Don't argue Sarah. I'm just-"
"Argue?! I've got free will Jareth! I can do what I want!"
"Unless I tell you to do otherwise!" he snapped.
"What is wrong with you?!" Sarah cried in frustration.
He growled. "What's wrong with you?!"
"Me?! There's nothing wrong with me! You're the one going all vicious on everyone! I'm trying to keep it together!"
"Nice job trying to do that!"