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His Champion's Journey	By : Jetredgirl Category: G through L > Labyrinth Views: 4626 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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The next morning Jareth and Sarah stood calmly side by side, resigned to their fate, waiting for the council members to arrive. Jorwyn and Penelope had come at dawn to see if they were there, and were relieved to find them eating breakfast with Hoggle.
"Would you like me to bring you fresh clothes?" Jorwyn asked them as he looked them up and down.
Jareth stood and the brothers shook hands formally. "You cannot. It is not allowed to accept any help from any of my kin. You know this."
"Too bad. You look rather...primitive, brother." Jorwyn observed.
Jareth gave him a grin. "Yes, I suppose I do. In any case. We will make do. It is only 13 hours more."
So now they stood. Sarah moved close to Jareth as she became nervous. He reached over and grabbed her hand. With his other he urged her to meet his eyes, and spoke softly so no one else could hear. "We will win. Champion. Recall what we spoke of before. I believe in you. All you have to do it believe in me. I trust you. Trust me. Remember this as well. Nothing is ever what it seems in The Labyrinth. Do not trust anyone, or anything but me."
With a flash of light, The 3 council leaders were there in the clearing. Jareth and Sarah turned back to face them, Jareth squeezing Sarah's hand in assurance.
The Magistrate spoke. "Good, very good. Goblin King. I see you both made it this far. Though decidedly the worse for wear. Then again, that is the point is it not?"
Jareth inclined his head at the robed man.
"For this last trial, you can only take with you what you have on your person. No packs. You may each have a flask of water. Your Majesty, you may carry your short dagger, but not your longsword. Understood? Jorwyn, remember you are not allowed to aid Jareth in any way."
They agreed. Hoggle had provided them with the water flasks given to him to give to them by the council when they arrived. Which they both had attached to their waists.
The councilman stepped to the doors of ThE Labyrinth, speaking in rhyme in their language.
He stepped back.
The doors creaked open.
The Goblin King and his Champion stepped forward to the opening, waiting for the signal.
"By your leave, Goblin King." They bowed and gestured.
Jareth and Sarah stepped into the doors and they slammed shut behind them.
She looked at him and gave him a nervous smile. "Here we go."
The game was on.
The two set off along the outside path, looking for the first available opening.
"Should we go that way?" Sarah said pointing the direction she had went before.
"No. This is the short path that used to go straight to the castle. I'm certain it does not today, but I am taking it in hope it will still be shorter."
Sarah's mouth dropped open. "It went straight to the castle? That little worm!" She said, teeth clenched.
"Who?" Jareth asked distractedly.
"The worm..the one that lives in the wall? He told me to go the other way!"
Jareth laughed. "Of course he did. He's a worm, love. He has no need of castles."
Sarah shook her head. Figures.
Jareth was running his hand along the wall. After a few minutes his hand hit air.
"Ah. Here we are." He beckoned Sarah to follow him though the opening.
Sarah noticed he sounded rather chipper, even excited. "you don't seem too worried about this."
"Though I'm certain the maze will do it's best to foil us. I know it very well. It is impossible to memorize since it shifts, but I have spent almost a thousand years walking these paths. As long as we remain true to our purpose, and remember anything we see here is a trick, we will be fine. It is sentient and can read our deepest fears and desires. It will throw all of it in front of our faces to keep us from winning." He explained, peeking around corners and leading them through archways as he spoke.
"So if I see a giant spider it's probably an illusion?" She surmised.
"In all likelihood," He agreed. "Though, there are creatures here I do not even know about, so tread carefully. Don't take chances."
Sarah gulped. She hoped she wouldn't have a nervous breakdown if that happened. She made a mental checklist of all of her fears over her lifetime.
The wound their way through the stone walls. Often if they tried to go back in another direction, they would find themselves blocked by another wall. So far it had been fairly quiet, except for the occasional buzzing fairy or scuttling brownie.
Jareth observed the fascination of the little fairies with Sarah. They seemed to be incredibly interested in her, watching and flying around her, giggling and shooting off into the air.
He pointed it out and she shrugged.
"I know. Weird right? The first thing that that happened to me when I was here 13 years ago is a fairy bit me.
Jareth stopped. "A fairy bit you?" He asked, "Did it draw blood?"
Sarah shrugged. "Maybe a little, I don't really remember. It was just a scratch. Why?"
"Nothing. Never mind." He answered, but his mind was racing. If Sarah was infused with even one drop of fairy DNA outside the Labyrinth...
He shook it off. There was nothing he could do about that. She didn't even seem to know if blood was drawn and Sarah already expressed her desire to go home. It didn't matter. He was better off not even mentioning it, not daring to hope anything would come of it.
She stopped suddenly and grabbed his arm. "Did you hear something?"
He tilted his head. "I am not certain. What did you hear? What direction?"
"Rumbling. like a distant earthquake." She replied. She pointed ahead. "It sounded like it was coming this way."
"Thunder, maybe?" Jareth wondered. Scanning the sky he saw nothing but blue. That didn't mean anything though. The Labyrinth could have rain pounding down on them within seconds if it chose.
"We cannot stand here all day, Sarah, let's go." He said, moving forward.
They got a few steps further when the rumbling got loud enough that stopped and looked at each other.
A few seconds later shaking began, dust and bits of stone shaking loose.
Jareth pushed Sarah against a wall, shielding her.
"What the hell is it?" She yelled loud enough to hear over the noise.
"Sarah...you wouldn't, perhaps, have a fear of the cleaners would you?" Jareth asked her.
"What?! I thought those were in the tunnels!" She replied.
Jareth pulled her with him as he began to run. "Apparently the Labyrinth has the power to move them up here if it needs to."
He looked around to see where it was coming from and prepared to go in another direction.
"Sarah looked behind them and screamed. "There it is!"
In the time it took to blink the monstrous machine was not 10 feet behind them as they stood in a archway to a cross section. All the walled closed except two. One left, one right.
In a panic Sarah went left to avoid the claws coming at her. Letting go of Jareth's hand.
Immediately a wall appeared between them, the cleaners on the other side of the wall with The goblin King.
"Shit! Jareth!" Sarah pounded on the wall, but it would not give, all she could hear was the receding noise of the cleaners as it most likely chased Jareth away from her.
The Labyrinth had deliberately separated them, Sarah knew. It knew they were stronger together, so it did what it had to do to beat them both.
Sarah felt much like she had 13 years earlier. Frustrated and alone. "It's not fair!" She sputtered, stomping down the path. "Fine. You want to play? Let's play. I've beat you before and I'll do it again!" She knew she sounded a bit childish but she didn't care.
There was nothing to do but keep pushing ahead, so she did.

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Jareth dodged the machine and found an opening, taking it, the thing passed him and in a few seconds, completely disappeared.
He stood fora few minutes, catching his breath.
He glared at the wall in front of him. "Blasted Maze. When I get my magic back...I am your king! How dare you! Fuck!" He railed at The Labyrinth's purposeful effort to separate the two.
The archway closed, so he could only go forward now.
"Stay true, Sarah." He whispered as he crept forward.

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As Sarah expected the first thing The Labyrinth threw at her was reached into her mind throw everything it could find at her.
For the first couple of hours the damn things large and small were everywhere. She had no idea how to tell if they were illusions or not so tread carefully. The first few times they did cause her to flee in a different direction, but she found if she stopped, closed her eyes and took deep breaths, letting her fright lessen, she would open her eyes to find the illusion gone.
Only once did the spider remain, and assessing the threat was real, she was able to get away.
Eventually, she noticed, the sightings got less and less. She was expecting them so the maze changed tactics.
Sarah rounded a corner and came upon a familiar sight. The Ruse. The two doors with their doubled head guards. She remember well where they led. The tunnels.
"Well hello little lady." The top blue head said merrily. "Come to try your luck again?"
"You remember me?" Sarah was mildly surprised.
"Of course!" Said the bottom red. "You are the Champion after all!"
"I suppose. The doors lead to the same place they led to before?"
"Now you know the game." The top red tsked her. "You know one of us tell the truth and one of us lies. Choose your door, take your chances."
"You know, I don't believe even you know which one of you is telling the truth." She answered smartly. "I think that was one possibility I didn't consider the last time. "
"Don't know, even if we did, only one of us would say it was the truth." Bottom blue said.
Top blue snickered. "Now are you going to choose or stand there? We haven't got all day you know."
Sarah put her hands on her hips and glared at them as they chortled at her.
"Really now. What exactly, do you have to do? Rush off to a party? Attend a ball? Exactly how would that work? Two doors dancing together?" She raised her brow.
"It seems the little lady has been taking lesson from the king." Top red said to the rest. The all nodded in agreement.
"So, does one door leads to the castle and the other to certain death..like before?" She was getting impatient too. Time was ticking.
"Oh no. Both doors lead to certain death now." said bottom red, laughing behind his hand.
"Well that doesn't make sense. What would be the point of that?"
Top blue spoke again. "Don't believe him, he always lies."
They 4 heads then proceeded to argue among themselves for several minutes.
"Stop it!" Sarah demanded. They shut up and stared at her. "You don't seem to understand. This isn't about saving a baby. Well it is, kind of, but really it's about saving YOUR king! Quit fooling around!"
The whispered among themselves again.
"Apologies little lady. Just doing our job. The riddle stands, as we know no other way to be."
"I understand that, but could you at least give me a little cooperation here?" Sarah asked them. "Alright. I chose right last time. This time I'll choose left."
She pushed open the door and went through, slamming it behind her.
Top red shook his head. "The king has got his hands full with that one."
The other three agreed.
Once through the door, Sarah watched where she stepped carefully. She did not want to fall into the tunnels again.
The walls here were different than she had ever seen. They were much like vines twisted together tightly. Covered in small colorful flowers. After almost being killed by flowers days before, she tried to avoid coming too close.
Tiny fairies danced in the wind around her, giggling and seemingly daring each other to fly up and touch her, then speed away.
"What in the world?" She said to no one. A group of them were beckoning her to follow them.
Since she really did not know where she was going, she thought maybe they were trying to show her the way.
She followed little beings, around the walls and through arches.
They burst through a tight space between two hedges and were in an open field.
Sarah took it all in. The field was as green as she had ever seen grass to be. There were flowers and butterflies, mushrooms and trees. And fairies. Everywhere where fairies. Urging her into their midst.
They were speaking but she could not understand them. One came to her and sprinkled her dust, similar to the horn dust she had gotten from the unicorn.
"Come come play...come Sarah..come play..dance dance dance, dance with us...be with us..we welcome you, fly with us..." The voices sang to her. Now she could understand them.
She was drawn in like a moth to a flame. Her conscious mind seemed to be fading away...
Glee overtook her and she danced. She twirled and dipped, jumped and played.
After a while, she stopped for a moment. "What was I doing? I was looking for something wasn't I?"
She asked the fairies.
"No worry here..just play..stay with us...be one of us.." They answered in small sweet tones, dancing with her, giggling, and she giggled too. Why would she be looking for anything? Everything she needed was here.
So she just kept on dancing.
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