Sarah woke up late her parents let her have a small party for her birthday and she fell asleep pretty late. She opened her eyes, eleven o'clock she had two hours before her meeting at the park.
The last letter arrived three days ago setting the date and place of her meeting with Orpheus. Confident she bolted out of bed spending a little too long deciding what she would wear finally choosing a denim skirt and a white shirt. It took her half an hour to shower and dress, and about the same time to decide how she will do her hair, finally opting for leaving them loose. Fortunately the jewelry was easy to pick, Orpheus locket and Jenny's bracelet. At the end she had spent an insane amount of time to look more or less the same, but that's most of the fun with first dates.
After checking herself a dozen times in the mirror, she walked to the park, scanning anxiously the area for her date. Calm down Sarah, be cool, and breathe.
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A buzzing feeling jolted Doraemoon out of her book, the bracelet was activating, quickly she locked her door and wove a complex locking spell on the room Sillia was in. Already the mortal could be seen trapped between two worlds. She sat on her bed unsure of what to do; her whole fate was in jeopardy in the hands of her sister and the goblin king.
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Sarah was standing frozen; a minute ago she was in the park waiting for her admirer and the next thing she knew she was looking through a window with an amazing view of the labyrinth.
If Jareth was Orpheus Jenny would never stop gloating.
She turned surveying the room, a bedroom, and her eyes landed on a dark-haired woman.
The woman was wearing a form-fitting floor length dress with a cut letting her leg show, strange thing her obviously deep cleavage was covered with some patch of black lace that seemed a little too modest for the dress, raising her eyes to her face Sarah was met with bright red eyes, she looked around the room some more making sure Jareth wasn't here before addressing the woman.
"What am I doing here? Take me back, I already beat the labyrinth." She mentally patted herself on the back for keeping her calm.
"It seems my sister is planning to use you to woo the goblin king" the woman let out a sad chuckle.
"What? Why? I haven't talked to him in ages, and who is this sister you talk about, do I even know her?" Sarah was starting to sound a little hysteric.
"Sit down and breathe" the woman pointed a chair nearby; when Sarah was seated and more calm she spoke again. «My name is Doraemoon princess of the earth forest, like my sister Sillia. Sillia is trying to seduce the goblin king; she wants to be the
next goblin queen. She brought you here to use you as leverage to achieve this." The princess was eerily calm.
"But, why? As I said I haven't seen or spoken to the king since I beat the labyrinth, I doubt he cares enough about me to be forced into a weeding for my sake"
"I don't think he does either, but Sillia is convinced that the king is your admirer"
"Well she isn't the only one, back home…"
"I know, Sarah, you have been transported her by an artifact that needs to be touched to work, …, your bracelet is what transported you here."
The princess spoke quietly, the harsh truth slowly sinking in her head, jenny had doomed her, Jenny that she has known for ten years, that she shared her most precious secret with, Jenny who apologized and promised her that she was leaving her alone with Jareth had betrayed her, thrown her to face danger without a second glance, lied to her.
Sarah felt something broke at the sight of the bracelet before she let it fall on the floor, her oldest friendship was broken for good, of course she wouldn't cut Jenny from her life but she knew that she would never be able to trust her again. She held back a sob.
"And Orpheus … the letters were they…" she couldn't finish the phrase after Jenny's betrayal the idea of her first crush being a mockery was too much to bear.
"He is real so are his letters as far as I know"
Sarah sighed in relief, he's real she closed her eyes and took a deep breath, he's real.
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Doraemoon eyed the mortal, while the mystery behind the letters unraveled in front of her, so Jareth was only helping Orpheus, Sillia's plan was about to backfire violently, but, if she saved her from that. Jareth had a history of cruel punishment especially if one threaten is family and, if she was to save her sister, she would finally redeem herself. After that, Sillia could tell everything she wanted to their parents, her father was a man of honor, he would forgive her if she saved her sister. Things were starting to look brighter.
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Sillia just left him alone with his brother when he felt the pull of an intruder in his castle and not any intruder his champion Sarah. Orpheus appeared shortly after.
"Jareth, what is happening, I was waiting for Sarah when I felt her presence being pulled to your castle."
"It seems the princess Doraemoon is trying to use my champion against me, her sister warned me but, I didn't think that she was stupid enough to put her plan in action. Quick she has Sarah in her room" he rushed to the door to find it locked, that only add to his anger.
"NOBODY LOCK ME IN MY CASTLE AND LIVE TO TELLS THE TALE"
Under his fingers the door started to hiss and shake, and then shattered. On the other side they found princess Sillia screaming at a door to open.
Opening his senses, he felt the spell woven around the room, locking the blind princess. Why would she lock her sister out instead of me?
