The Labyrinth
Summary-
What if Sarah never called Jareth to take Toby away, what if it was her stepmother but Sarah had to go after Toby. And what if Sarah fell in love with Jareth during the Labyrinth, would Sarah be able to finish the Labyrinth and save Toby? Will Jareth let her? Will her heart let her?
Chapter two-
I was walking down the long corridor of the Labyrinth, the same one I had started on about ten minutes ago, "What do they mean "Labyrinth"? There aren't any turns or corners or anything. This just goes on and on." I leaned up against the wall and looked at my still bleeding finger that was starting to hurt, I ripped off a piece of my shirt and bandaged my finger. I then looked back down the corridor and got the feeling that there was more than what I was seeing, I just wasn't allowing myself to see it for some reason. "Maybe it doesn't. Maybe I'm just taking for granted that it does." I said then pushed off the wall and started running down the corridor. When I got tired I leaned up against the wall and slid down. "What am I missing?" I asked myself still getting that feeling.,
"'Ello." I heard a small voice say. I looked to my right and saw a little worm right next to me. I looked around to make sure that the worm was the only thing that could have talked.
"Did you just say hello?" I asked.
"No, I said 'Ello, but that is close enough." The worm said and I smiled at him.
"You're a worm, aren't you?" I asked and it nodded.
"Yeah, that's right." It said.
"Do you know the way through this Labyrinth?" I asked hopping he would.
"Me? No, I'm just a worm." He said.
"Oh." I said sadly.
"Come inside and meet the Mrs." He said and I looked behind him and saw a small hole in the wall with a little light coming out of it.
"No, thank you. But I have to solve this Labyrinth. There aren't any turns or openings, it just goes on and on." I said and I heard the worm give a little laugh.
"It's full of opening, it's just you ain't seen 'em." He said, I knew there was something I wasn't seeing, that was probably what it was.
"Where are they?" I asked and the Worm nodded his head over to the wall in front of us.
"There's one right in front you." He said and I looked at the wall and noticed that he was right, it was just made to look like one wall.
"I see it!" I cried and jumped up I walked up to the wall then looked right and left and saw the rest of the Labyrinth.
"Things aren't always what they seem in this place, so you can't take anything for granted." The worm said and I turned to go right. "Hey! Hang on!" The worm yelled suddenly scared. I backed up and looked at him.
"What was that?" I asked.
"Don't go that way! Never go that way!" The worm yelled and I turned and went the other way.
"Oh! Thanks!" I said. After I got through the few turns I was met will I heard a baby crying and looked up over the walls and saw the Goblin King's beautiful castle. "Hang on Toby, I'm coming."
~The Castle My POV~
Jareth was sitting on his throne in a room full of noisy goblins, in the middle of the room was a screaming baby. Jareth sighed and rubbed his forehead as he felt a headache coming on. His mind went back to Sarah, that stubborn yet beautiful girl, why had she insisted on him accepting her damn challenge! Why couldn't she just take his hint that it was to dangerous and that she would get hurt!
Jareth had been watching her ever since she was born, he had watch her grow up into the beautiful woman that she was today. He cared for her deeply, and would do anything to help her, but this was one thing he could not help her with. He growled in anger at her stubbornness and looked around the room. He had to figure out how to calm Toby down. He got off his throne and walked up towards a goblin that was near the baby.
"You remind me of the babe." He said confusing the goblin.
"What babe?" the goblin asked.
"The babe with the power." Jareth said dropping the goblin.
"What power?" Another goblin asked.
"The power of voodoo." Jareth said smirking and the goblins realized he was about to sing.
"Who do?" all of the goblins asked wanting to hear their king sing.
"You do." Jareth said.
"Do what?" The goblins asked.
"Remind me of the babe." Jareth said and the goblins laughed. "QUIET!" he yelled and the goblins instantly stopped laughing. "A goblin babe." Jareth said then laughed, "Well?" He asked when no one else laughed.
"I saw my baby, crying hard as babe could cry. What could I do? My baby's love had gone, and left my baby blue. Nobody knew what kind of magic spell to use." Jareth sang gaining Toby's attention.
"Slime or snails." A goblin sang.
"Or a puppy dog's tail." A second one sang.
"Thunder or lightning." A third one said.
"Then baby said." Jareth sang pointing to Toby who didn't say anything.
"Dance magic dance. Dance magic dance. Dance magic dance. Put that baby spell on me. Jump magic jump. Jump magic jump. Jump magic jump. Put that magic jump on me." Jareth said picking up Toby and throwing him in the air and catching him again, Toby giggled and Jareth smiled at him.
"Slap that baby." A goblin sang
"Make him free!" A second one said.
~Back with Sarah~
Sarah sighed as she found herself getting lost in the Labyrinth, Toby's crying had stopped and that worried her. She had to find a way to mark where she had been and not, she dug through her pockets hopping to find something. She pulled out some lipstick from when she was trying to figure out what her make-up should look like during the play and smiled. "This will work." She said then bent down and quickly marked which direction she was heading. When her back was turned a goblin popped out form under the block she marked.
"Hey what's going on? It's a writing on the fragging walk walk. Your mother is a fraggin' ardvark!" It cried when it saw the marking on the block, it shook a little fist at her before flipping it over and hopping back into it's hole.
~The Castle~
Jareth was holding Toby and bouncing him on his knee while holding a crystal ball in front of them and watched how Sarah was doing. He glared at the goblin as he changed another one of her markings. He glanced up at the clock and sighed. "In 9 hours, and 23 minutes, you'll be mine." He said before going back to watch the crystal.
~Sarah~
Sarah sighed as she tired to mark another block and noticed she was running out of lip stick, she unscrewed some more and finished her marking. She stood and walked around a corner, two goblins popped out from under the block. "You got it?" One asked.
"I got it." The other said.
"Good" The first said.
"Shhh!" The second said, they hid back in their hole just as Sarah turned around from a dead end. She looked at her marking and saw it had been changed.
"Oh no! Someone has been changing my marks." Sarah said then looked around and saw no one she turned to try and find another way to go and noticed that the dead end now had two doors with guards standing in front of them. She walked closer to the guards, "What the-? But this was a dead end just a second ago."
"No, that's the dead end behind you." A guard said popping up, up-side down, from behind the shield. Sarah turned and saw he was right.
"It keeps changing! What am I to do?" Sarah asked.
"Try one of these doors." Another up-side down guard said.
"One One of them leads to the castle at the center of the Labyrinth, and the other one leads to…" The first up-side down guard started.
"Ba ba ba bum!" One of the right-side up guards said.
". . . Certain death!" the second up-side down guard said.
"Oooooh!" All of the guards said.
"Which one is which?" Sarah asked.
"We can't tell you." The first up-side down guard said.
"Why not?" Sarah asked.
"Uh, I, uh, we don't know." The up-side down guard said.
"But they do." The other up-side down guard said looking up at the two right-side up guards.
"Oh, then I'll asked them." Sarah said.
"Uh, you can't ask us….you can only ask one of us." The second right-side up guard said.
"It's in the rules. And you should know that one of us always tells the truth, and one of us always lies. That's a rule too, he" the first right-side up guard pointed to the other, "Always lies."
"I do not! I tell the truth!" The second right-side up guard said.
"Oh what a lie!" The first right-side up guard said and they laughed.
"He's the liar." The second right-side up guard said. Sarah walked up to him.
"Alright, answer yes or no. Would he," she pointed over to the other guard "Tell me that this door leads to the castle?"
"Uh," The guard looked down at the up-side down guard connected to him. "What do you think? Really?" He looked up at Sarah, "Yes."
"Then the other door leads to the castle and this door leads to certain death." Sarah said.
"How do you know, he could be telling the truth." The guard said.
"But then you wouldn't be. So if you said yes, the answer is no." Sarah said smiling.
"But, I could be telling the truth." The same guard said.
"Then he would be lying. So if you told me that he said yes, the answer would still be no." Sarah said kind of confusing herself.
"Is that right?" The guard asked the other.
"I don't know. I've never understood it." The other said. Sarah sighed and just took a guess, hopefully she would be right. She took three step through the door and fell through a trap door.
"Ahhhhh!" She yelled before the hands that were along the tunnel she was falling down caught her.
"Ow! Help!" Sarah yelled.
"What do you mean "Help"? We are helping. We're helping hands." The hands said forming a mouth.
"But you're hurting me." Sarah said.
"Would you like us to let go?" The hands said and they let her go.
"NO!" Sarah yelled trying to grab a hold of some of the hands there. The hands laughed and caught her again.
"Well then, come on, we haven't got all day. Which way?" The hands asked.
"Which way?" Sarah asked.
"Up, or down?" The hands asked.
"Oh." Sarah said then thought about it.
"Come on! Come on! We haven't got all day. Well it's a big decision to make. Which way do you want to go, hmmm? Yes, which way?" The hands said as if they were having a discussion with each other while also making fun of her.
"Well, since I'm pointed that way, I guess I'll go down." Sarah said felling as if she should go down there.
"She chose down. She chose down?" The hands asked.
"Wait? Was I wrong?" Sarah asked
"Too late now." The hands said laughing then let her go. She fell down into a dark room.
"Ahhhh! AAH!" She screamed on her way down.