Chapter 3

The rain had stopped when Sarah left the building. But instead it had been replaced by lightning with following thunder and strong winds.
Sarah hurried to the car and drove home in a haste.

As she pulled into the driveway infront of the house, all the windows were dark. The only light was from the lamp over the front door on the porch.

Quickly Sarah ran to the house and locked up the door before she went in.

"Hello? Toby?" she called as she shut the door and locked it again. She didn't get an answer.

He's probably sleeping.

She turned on the lights and threw her jacket on the sofa.
On the table next to the stairs by the phone she found a note. It was from Michael.

'Hi darling.
Sorry about going away before you got home. It sounded pretty bad when they called from the hospital.
See you when we come back.
Love
Dad
PS: Toby's already sleeping, so you can just study and check in on him every now and then. Thanks again.
D.S'

With a sigh she went to the kitchen and got a fruit and a bottle of water before she started to walk up the stairs.

Suddenly a lightning struck nearby and everything went black. Startled Sarah ran the rest of the stairs to the lightswitch and turned it on and off a couple of times. When nothing happened she moaned tiredly and went for Tobys room to see if he was okey.

This is just my luck…

She quietly opened his door and stack her head in.
"Toby?" she whispered, but got no answer. She smiled for herself and was just going to close the door when her whole body froze. There was someone in the room!
It was quiet steps, but she could definitely hear them. She held her breath and listnened more carefully. She was wrong. There were several steps! Walking quietly at the same time.

Terrified, she clutched the apple in her hand, ready to throw it on the intruders and took a deep breath, bracing herself, before she quietly opened the door again and went in.

The apple fell from her hand the second she entered the room.
Toby was sound asleep in his bed. Sorrounded by goblins! Their yellow eyes watched Toby eagerly.

"Say it! It's not difficult, just say the words!" one of them whispered in a small voice.

"Has he said it yet?" the bigger of them asked in a clumsy loud voice.

"Sjyss!!" all the goblins said angrily. The bigger quickly put his hands over his mouth, realizing his mistake.

Toby moved in his sleep. All the little goblins held their breath, fearing he would wake up.

"Sawah…" he mumbled in his sleep.

The goblins laughed quietly. "This is it!"

"Goblin king…I wish..." he started to mumble. "I wish the goblins would come and… take… away… right n-"

"Toby!" Sarah screamed and sprinted to Tobys bed and pulled him away from the goblins, into her arms. She held him tightly against her chest and backed slowly towards the door. But it was too late.

"Now…" Toby whispered before he tiredly opened his eyes.

"Sawah?" he asked confused, but Sarah didn't respond.

Instead, she was watching the goblins who started to walk towards them.

"You heard the boy." one of them growled with a big grin on her face.

Suddenly the big windows across the room flew open and a white owl flew into the room. But as the lightning struck the owl grew. Changed form untill Jareth was standing by the windows, one hand at his side.

"Hello Sarah." he said softly, the corners of his mouth curved to a small amused smile. His long hair blew over his shoulders from behind, as well as his black and darkblue robe.

Sarah stared at him with shock and held Toby closer.

"No..!"

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End of chapter three! ^^ I hope you liked it! I sure enjoyed writing it.
I'm working on chapter four at the moment. Don't know when it'll be ready.
But I promise you that I'll put it here as soon as it's done.

Thank you for reading and don't forget to comment! =''D