Alright, I'll start, now...
The guards continued to let out giggles, as Sarah and I debated what to do.
"Well, let's just...ask them, you know, uh...a question?" I said, softly turning to her. She nodded, and stepped forward.
"He's the liar." The guard called out, laughter following. I stepped forward standing next to Sarah, resting a hand on my hip.
"All right. Answer yes or no." I said.
"Would he tell me that this door leads to the castle?" Sarah said, pointing at the blue guard. The red guard, stared at the other for a moment, then said, after a quick whisper to his bottom half. He let out a unconfident.
"Yes."
"Then the other door leads to the castle...and this door leads to."
I gulped.
"Certain death." I finished for her.
The guards let out another round of, "Oh's."
"How do you know? He could be telling the truth?" The guard questioned, as I glanced at the artwork decorating the doors, they were guarding.
"But then you wouldn't be." I said, turning my gaze back to him. "So if you told me that he said yes, I know the answer is still no."
Sarah nodded, smiling.
"But I could be telling the truth."
"But then he would be lying." Sarah said, the grin on her face widening. "So if you told me that he said yes, I know the answer is still be no."
"Wait a minute. Is that right?" The red guard questioned the blue guard.
"I don't know. I've never understood it."
The guards started to laugh, as I smiled at Sarah.
"No, it's right. We've figured it out." I said, spinning around in a pirouette. All nervous energy, evaporated.
"We could never do it before," Sarah said, as she grabbed my wrist pulling me up to the door. We both rested our palms on the wood, and I looked at it.
"But, I think we're getting smarter. This is a piece of cake!"
As we pushed the door, open. I was a bit surprised when the floor dissappeared beneath our feet. so I reach out, and grabbed Sarah's arm, and with a sigh said.
"We picked the wrong door,"
I toke notice to that fact that instead of cold stones, and spiderwebs. Many hands coated the walls. I reached out, grabbing onto a pair, as did Sarah.
"Stop it! Help," Sarah cried, as I looked over at her. The hands, held our bodys above whatever was below us. My hands were shaking as I grabbed onto the hands.
"Whoa,"
"What do you mean, "help"? We are helping." A voice called out.
"We're helping hands." Another replied. I stared, and noticed the hands were making faces, and actually talking. I grinned.
"That's so cool. Helping hands." I said with a of the hands moved to make a grinning face, that winked at my comment.
"You're hurting." Sarah muttered, as she turned to look at me.
"Well, stop squirming," I mumbled.
"Would you like us to let go?" A voice called out, venom dripping from every word. Sarah, cried out as did I, as the hands released us, and my knee went slamming into Sarah's.
"Ouch! Sorry,"
"Well then, come on, which way?" A voice, much deeper said.
"Which way?" Sarah asked, her voice soft.
"Up or down?" Another said, near my elbow.
"Um," I said, looking at Sarah, who looked equally as confused.
"Come on, Come on."
"We haven't got all day."
"Well, it's a big decision for them."
"Which way do you want to go?"
"Yes, which way?"
The voices were rushing at us so fast, I couldn't make out all the words.
"Well, since we are pointed that way, I guess we should go down." Sarah said, looking to me. I nodded, with a shrug.
"They chose down!"
"They chose down?"
The hands, started to laugh, as each and everyone of them let go. My hands reached for theirs, as I called out.
"Was that wrong?"
"To late now." One called, a laugh soon following.
As we continued to fall, my eyes closed tightly together, and I bit my lip. Trying to hold back the cry of fear that was nuzzled in my throat. Slowly our feet it solid ground, and the small door we had fallen into, slammed shut. I stood up, and looked around the small, dark room.
"Who's there?" Sarah called out, as she soon grabbed my hand. I squeezed it, just as a match was struck, and moved to light a large dust covered candle.
"Me," A familiar voice, called out. His signature chuckle following.
"It's you.," I muttered, and pulled away from Sarah to get a better look at the dwarf. "Hoggle,"
"Yes, well...I knew you two were gonna get into trouble as soon as I met you." He said, walking up to us. "So, I've come to give you a hand."
Sarah looked around, just as I had before. The light had illuminated the small cavern. The walls were coated in the same glitter, and it was a dingy place. Filled with junk, and a lot of dust.
"Ah. You're looking around now, aren't you?" Hoggle asked, "I suppose you noticed there ain't no the hole. This is an oubliette. The labyrinth's full of them."
I cocked my head to the side.
"We're in a what?"
"Really?" Sarah said, ignoring my confusion. "How do you know that?"
"Don't sound so smart." He said, glancing from me to give me a strange look. "You don't know what an oubliette is."
"Do you?" I said, giving him a look right back. Hoggle squared his shoulders, and nodded.
"Yes, it's a place you put people to forget about them," He said harshley.
"No one would forget about me," I muttered.
"Now, what you've gotta do is get out of here. And it so happens that I know a shortcut, out of the whole labyrinth from here."
I jumped as Sarah and I both said.
"No, we're not giving up now!"
"We've gotten so far!" I said, with a pout.
"No, we're doing...ok." Sarah said, taking a seat on a small rock. I continued to pace around the room, nearly tripping on a pile of junk in the corner.
"Ofcourse ya'll are. But it gets a lot worse from here on in." Hoggle said, resting a hand on Sarah's shoulder.
"Why are you so concerned about us?" Sarah said, turning to face him. I looked over, and stared.
"Well, well..." He paused, stepping away from her. "I just am, that's all. Nice, young girls. Terrible, black oubliette."
"He likes jewelry, don't you?" I said, walking up to him. My hand going to my neck to touch the small locket, resting agianst my breastplate.
"Why?" He said, jumping to look at me.
"If you help us solve the labyrinth, we'll both give you something. I'll give you...this." I pulled the locket off, and held it out to him. Sarah, toke off a small bracelet around her wrist.
"You like it, don't you?" Sarah said, grinning at me, as Hoggle's eyes toke in our treasures.
"So-so." He said, turning slightly. His eyes still glancing to the jewelry.
"Hm...Ok." I reached up to put the locket back on, when he reached out to grab my arm.
"Tell you what, give me the bracelet and the locket and I'll show you the way out of the labyrinth."
"You were going to do that anyway!" Sarah said, glaring down at the dwarf.
"Yes, well...that would make it a particularly nice gesture on your part."
"No, I'll tell you what," I said getting down to eye level with Hoggle. "If you won't take us to the center, take us as far as you can, and then we'll do it on our own."
I held out the locket, and Sarah held out the bracelet. Hoggle stared.
"What is that anyway?"
Sarah glanced up at me, then muttered.
"Plastic."
"I don't promise nothing, but...I'll take you as far as I can. Then you're on your own, right?" He said, eyes gleaming.
"Right," Sarah said with a smile.
"Right." Hoggle repeated back, taking the bracelet and sliding it onto his wrist. He slowly stared at the locket.
"Here, I'll help." I placed the small oval locket, and chain around his neck, the smooth metal rested agaisnt his vest.
Hoggle grinned, and stepped away from us both, to walk to the pile of junk in the corner. He pulled a old burlap cloth off the pile, and lifted up a piece of wood, pressing it against the wall of the oubliette.
"Ah, here we go." He muttered, as he opened the door. An assortment of strange objects falling out at his feet. "Damn, Broom closet. Well, can't be right all the time." He said, as I giggled softly.
He opened the door again, and light flooded out.
"Ah, this is it. Come on then."
We walked out the door, and slowly started down a path. Little did we know, that what we would be meeting at the other side of the path, would not be happy.
(Now, I'm going to try to do a Jareth part. Please don't hate me, if it sucks.)
Jareth stared into the crystal he had balancing on his finger.
"Their in the oubliette." He muttered, slowly scowling at the crystal. Anne glanced around the small cave, her sapphire eyes, slowly shifted back to Sarah, who was nervously doing the same. The goblins let out a loud roar, of cackling laughter, as he slowly turned to them and barked.
"Shut up! They should not have gotten as far as the oubliette. They should of given up by now."
A small goblin to his right, croaked out.
"They'll never give up."
Jareth turned to look down at the small creature. His mixmatched eyes, roamed over his disgusting face.
"Won't they? The dwarf's about to lead them back to the beginning. They'll soon give up when they realize they have to start all over."
Jareth let out a cold laugh, and turned to his minions.
"Well, laugh."
The goblins, obeyed, laughing loudly. Jareth joined in and tossed the crystal into the air, Sarah's face dissappearing for a moment. Catching it in his gloved hand, he slowly stared at Anne. She was pacing around the oubliette as Hoggle began to talk to them.
"We're in a what?" She said, slowly turning to face the small dwarf. Confusion marked clearly across her fair features. Jareth slide his free hand under his chin, and watched the conversation. He was starting to zone out a bit, still staring at the three when something he heard, make his ears perk up.
"I don't promise nothing, but...I'll take you as far as I can. Then you're on your own, right?"
Jareth turned to glare at the crystal.
"Oh, he thinks he can be sneaky does he." He muttered, slowly standing and pulling on his jacket. "Well, he's got another thing coming."
Jareth threw the crystal high in the air, and vanished. Quickly reappearing at the crossroads. He found the beggars costume, and threw it on.
"Try to get past me," He mumbled pulling it on, completely hiding his appearance. He waited, until he heard the sound of the false alarms, and that's when he sent the crystal to slide between Anne's feet, and past Sarah and Hoggle.
"Come hither, hither, pretty Flies." Jareth said softly, as the girls came around the corner and right into the Goblin King's view.
***
Alright, so...I'm done.
I promised an update. So, here you go! :D
I hope ya'll like it, I was super tired and just...hope that it didn't suck. The fun parts are about to come up, like...the cleaners, (though those aren't fun,) and the ball, (Anne will be there!) and um...those dancing people that take off their heads. So, please stay tuned.
I hope, hope, hope, that I will have time to update this next week...but I'm not sure. So, please forgive me if I can't.
:D
Well, thanks for reading, and being so frickin awesome! :)
LOVE you guys! -Klancy
