"Do you really need that?" the dwarf asked pointing to the young woman's axe.

"It's better off that I do. I don't think I can hold my own without it." May moved away the hair in her eye. She looked down at her hand to see it coated in blood. She rubbed her nose and felt the pain surge through. She had broken it and it was bleed heavily.

"Don't go on." May turned to see a giant face made of rock.

"Go back while you still can." Another rock boomed.

"This is not the way!"

"Head me and go no further!"

"Beware, beware…"

The two ignored the warning calls of the old rocks and continued their path.

"He's trying to change the story…" May mumbled as Hoggle lead them into another path.

"what was that?" Hoggle asked as he didn't hear her.

"Nothing important…" She said while placing the axe through her belt loop.

"Soon it will be too late!" echoed another giant rock.

"Pay no attention to them." Hoggle said attempting to lighten the dark aura that surrounded the young woman. "They only bother you when you're on the right track."

"Beware the path you take will lead to your destruction."

As Hoggle walked a crystal ball rolled between his legs and gently knocked into the pail of an old beggar.

"Hoggle." May whispered into his ear while placing her hand on his shoulder. "We must avoid him…"

"No need to be so afraid of creatures like him, he's just like you or me." Hoggle went to move closer to the beggar when May through the axe, embedding itself in the wall above the beggar's head.

"My, my, my, what do we have here?" the beggar said as if the axe never existed.

"N-nothing." Hoggle stammered as he connecting the dots.

"Nothing?" the beggar whispered, "Nothing?!" he removed his disguise and revealed himself as Jareth.

"Your Majesty, what a-a nice… surprise." Hoggle said while slowly backing away.

"Hello Haggle." The king returned.

"His name is Hoggle, and you know it. Aren't you tired of all this repetition?" May said while placing her hand on her hip and her on her shoulder. Jareth looked at the beaten girl, bruises on her arms and chest, blood pouring down her face, and yet she still could give him that cocky little smile of hers.

"Huggle, are you helping this girl?" He spoke as if he had ignored her.

"in what sense…" Hoggle said trying to regain face in the eye of his King.

"In the sense that you are leading her to the castle!" Jareth growing impatient got louder with each word.

"No, I was taking her back to the beginning, your majesty.." Jareth turned to see how May would react, however to his disapproval she just stood there as if that was what she wanted him to say. Or more so how she expected his answer to be. "I just told her that I would…"

"If you betray me I will be forced to send you head first into the bog of Eternal Stench."

"Please, sir don't send me there!" Hoggle graveled at the feet of the powerful king. Jareth kicked him aside allowing him to beg at a distance and turned over to May. She looked at him with her emerald eyes and seemed as though she was staring through him. Her bloody hair was still done up ever so messily with the weak elastic band. Only after a second of noticing the woman's hair the elastic band broke and snapped his hand. If he didn't know any better he would have claimed that she did it on purpose. As the band snapped the king, May smiled a genuine smile that was accompanied by a small laugh. Such a sweet sound coming from such a bitter looking person gave the other two a small jolt.

"So how are you enjoying my labyrinth?" Jareth pinned her against wall.

"It's just like you said…" Her sweet voice carried on through her words. She lifted her hands and placed them around his neck, the way the lovers tend to do. She pulled herself off of the wall and close to Jareth. Her face rubbed up against his and whispered in his ear, "It's a fucking nightmare." She moved quickly and turned while the king's guard was down so that it was him pinned against the brick wall.

"But that doesn't mean that I plan on losing though." She turned quickly to remove the axe from the wall, however it was gone.

"Looking for this?" Turning her attention back to Jareth she saw the King spinning the heavy axe like a baton.

"Give it." The king smiled at the desperate girl.

"Gladly." Though this was technically what she wanted May couldn't help but stand frozen as the sharp object hurdled towards her. Her eyes watered as it got closer so she closed them to not give the ignorant bastard the satisfaction, however when she opened them the axe was gone and a harmless scarf had replaced it.

"Did you honestly think, I would kill you like that?" Jareth's stamina returned as he found that she could fear him. "Though it would be fitting since you tried the same fate on me." The dwarf who had been silent for a lengthy amount of time finally opened his mouth.

"You really tried to kill him?" he looked at May like she had betrayed him.

"You were there!" May scream. Why was it that Hoggle was forgetting things that happened only hours before.

"I was not."

"You were close by at the very least. Anyways I told you that I would kill him if he hurt my kids."

Oh right the kids, Jareth thought as he was being ignored. Those two were most likely destroying his castle by now. Wait I'm being ignored by her so that she can conversate with a dwarf?!

"Silence! You think you can win without that axe of yours?" Jareth moved closer and closer to May, with every step he took forward, May took one back till she was up against a gate. She looked over at the frighten dwarf then back at Jareth.

"You're changing the story!"

"And what if I am?" He placed one hand on the gate behind her.

"Its… Its not fair!"

"Who said I play fair?" He put his other hand on the other side of her.

Feeling trapped May did the first thing that came to mind. It was raw and it might complicate future confrontations with him, but it was line that she needed to cross in order to stand a chance. She reached out and grabbed the sides of the King's head and forcibly placed her lips on his. The cold girl felt warm to the king as her tongue entered his mouth. Her plan had worked, Jareth was stunned by her action. May slowly released him and freed herself from her entrapped situation.

"Consider that your kiss of death." She yelled as she broke down the weak wall that the ladder hide behind.

"Come on Heggle!"

"It's Hoggle!" the dwarf cried as he followed the rash girl out of the oubliette.

The Goblin King stood paralyzed still trying to compute on what had just happened. He glanced over at where she had escaped and bit his lip. The taste of her blood mixed with watermelon flavored lipstick lingered on his tongue.

"And she's says, I'm changing the story."

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