Chapter 11 The Snake
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Labyrinth or the characters.
a/n: Thanks to my beta Talim Sparrow.
Jareth was walking in one of the gardens in the Labyrinth when he noticed a snake crawling nearby. He likes snakes and they do not scare him either for he had one when he was young for a pet. He thought it would be cool to have one for a pet, but Sarah did not like snakes; She was very scared of them. This gave him an idea for a prank with a rubber snake.
He was going to make it animated. It would have the ability to chase a person who screamed. He would put this snake in their bedroom So when Sarah went into the bedroom and saw the snake she would scream and run. Then the snake would start to chase after her.
Jareth went and put the snake in their bedroom and waited for the action to happen. It happened as he thought it would, for Sarah was screaming and running from the snake. When she saw Jareth she ran to hide behind him. The rubber snake stopped in front of Jareth.
Jareth picked up the rubber snake and said to Sarah, "Are you afraid of a rubber snake Sarah."
Then Sarah realized that Jareth had pranked her. She hit Jareth on the shoulder. Jareth rubbed his shoulder for it was sore now.
Then she said to him, "You snake prankster. I will get even with you Jareth."
Sarah stormed out of the throne room in anger.
Later that day Sarah got an idea to get back at Jareth. She then went back to the throne room. Sarah saw that the goblins were in the throne room too. It would make the prank work. For there had to be some goblins, but all of them were there.
Jareth was talking to his goblins about something. Sarah went behind him and started to mimic Jareth actions while he was talking. He did not know that Sarah was behind him.
The goblins could not figure out what Sarah was doing. Some of the goblins started to giggle. It was funny to them even if they could not understand what was going on. After a while Jareth asked the goblins why they were giggling about. They told him, so he turned around and found that Sarah was behind him mimicking his actions.
"Sarah why are you behind me mimicking my actions. You are distracting my goblins. They already have a short attention span. What you are doing is making it worst."
Sarah stuck out her tongue and said to him, "I just pranked you back Jareth."
Sarah then disappeared from the throne room. Jareth realized what had happened. Sarah had gotten even with him, and embarrassed him in front of his goblins. He would deal with her at a later time. So he continued with his talk with his goblins.
A/N: The ideas for these pranks came from goblinphantomgirl and Satan'sPixie.