Dungeons And Dragons

By Rebecca Lakey (A.K.A.:Alicorn)

Author's Note: This is my true first completely self made Labyrinth

story (meaning I didn't take any parts from the movie and even when I did, surrounded them with a different plot so that it added to the richness of the story.) Just so you know, this story has nothing to do with the famous RPG game of the same name. (It is in no way an angst story ether, just so you know) It is an AU story, so the characters are somewhat different,

You will not find Sarah to be the same person she was in the movie nor Jareth to be the same king.

Fantasy is real here, and the adventure is great.

The whole idea for this story came to me when I asked myself the eternal question:

"What if Sarah had taken the crystal the first time it was offered to her?"

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Wish I May, Wish I Might...

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The lamp light bounced off the golden color, making it reflect off her face like a mirror of a castle's greatest riches.

Sarah sewed determinedly on the bridle with it's thick covering of gold foil.

She was making it for her favorite of all her neighbors horses, Meadowlark, so she would look extra special for the fair that was being held that night.

"Aaaaaeh!" Toby screamed in the crib beside where she sat on her parents bed.

Sarah smiled over her needle work

"Yes, Toby I guess we're on our own tonight...again."

Truth be known, Sarah wanted to scream just as badly, especially tonight.

There father was almost never home from his demanding job

(Sarah could hardly remember where he worked anymore) and a couple months after adopting Toby, her mother took a part acting in a county wide tour of a nationally known musical production.

They still got a letter from her every week or so but in Sarah's eyes, that was no excuse for not being there for Toby and her.

"I use to wish to be an actor like Mom one day Toby but now I'm not so sure..."

She tied a knot into the end of the thread .

"There, finished!" She said, holding out the bridle proudly

"AAAUAH!" Toby screamed louder and Sarah could take it no longer.

"Okay, okay!" She went over and picked him up bouncing him up and down gently and thinking

"Okay...a story! You like stories don't you? They always make me feel better."

Toby paused in the middle of crying and his blue eyes widened.

(Maybe we do have something in common) Sarah thought

" Once upon a time there was a beautiful young woman whose mother always made her stay with the baby. The girl and baby wanted nothing for themselfs but a few kind words from their parents, and the young woman was practically a mother herself of the baby at fifteen.

But what no one knew was this: the King of the Goblins had fallen in love with her, and given her certain powers."

"One night," Sarah continued,

"When she and the baby had been particularly lonely, the girl called on the goblins to help her.

And they said to her, 'Say your right words, and we'll take you away to the Goblin City, and then you'll be free of the nasty world you live in

.' Those were their words to her. "

"But the girl knew," she went on,

"That the King of the Goblins in his castle would use up a great deal of power to weave the spell to send her and the baby away forever and ever to him.

And in the downfall of this power his land would turn to a dismal place under the ruling of monsters.

And so she and the baby suffered in silence, through many a long month ... until one night, worn

out by a day of being mad at the world, and hurt beyond measure by the harsh, ungrateful actions

for her parents toward them, she could bear it no longer..."

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The Goblin king was bored.

Not a normal passing boredom, but one that seemed to sallow his whole spirit and leave it gasping for air.

The kind sighed and the lines on his face reflected his displeasure.

While his looked seventeen, the Goblin King was in fact very much an immoral and nearly as sick of that as well.

"I have all the power my pitiful subjects could ever dream of, yet IT MEANS NOTHING!!"

He bellowed, sending the goblins around him flying with an unseen wave of energy.

When did it happen?

He wondered often now

When did his ruling become more of a title than an action?

He remembered a time, long ago, when so many humans lived in fear of his race that his subjects were free to live under every cottage staircase, crawling out in the midnight hours to bear babies away to the Goblin Castle. His title alone had been a curse on knights lips, and his power the very thing that lead to their falling in battle.

(But now? Now my power is read of in children's fairy tale books and LAUGHED AT!

A huge joke to them which don't even know or care if I am real!)

The Goblin King got up and straightened his gentleman like attire, beginning to pace.

"There has to be a way to show my power as lord of this land once and for all to all the unbelievers here."

He thought out loud and grinned

"Once I have done that here, and the story is recorded in one of their pitiful little human books... I stall go to the human world fully and be able to win back it's fear...all I need is a chance."

A whole troop of tiny goblins suddenly poured into the throne room from between the giant doors, all babbling at the same time.

"Time soon!" "Time now!"

"Said soon!" "Said now!"

"Words!" The smallest among them peeped

The whole group seemed to agree on this.

"Yeah! Words, words, words, words, words, words WORDS!"

The king rased an eyebrow.

"Err? What are you all on about? And how dare you come into my presence without knocking?!"

"Very sorry!" "Sorry master!"

"Sorry more!" "Sorry lord!"

"We heard a human!" The smallest quailed "She's going to say the words!"

The king stood proudly for the first time in months and picked up his cape from where it lay on his throne.

"Why didn't you idiots say so?!? You have such an annoying habit of never getting to the point!"

He whipped past the goblins in an elegant huff that nearly knocked them other.

"Do we?" "Maybe?"

"Nay, we couldn't" "Yes, we must."

"King was joking!"

"Yeah, joke, joke, joke, joke,joke,joke, JOKE!"

The goblins laughed and trailed far behind the newly re-spirited king on his way to the mirror room.

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Sarah's face was lined with tear streaks even before she had finished the story she had been telling Toby. She wasn't sure weather it was because she knew the story she had made up for him wasn't true, or that their parents could be so mean that so much of it was true. How much longer would they have to suffer being over looked? Evil or otherwise, she wished with all her heart there was such a goblin king would come to take she and Toby away. Nothing could hurt this much.

She held Toby close and whispered

"I can bear it no longer...Goblin King, Goblin King, wherever you may be...

Come and fly us far across the sea!"

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The crowd of goblins, golems, and trolls gathered around one of the many viewing spheres in the mirror room groaned.

"Where'd she learn such a stupid poem?"

"Yeah, the king would be really mad if he knew what those humans are teaching their young ones to call upon him these days."

"Where is the king?"

"Don't know, he took one look at that girl here and flew off!"

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"I wish the goblins would come take us away right now Toby." Sarah sobbed

" I wish my story was real."

Suddenly, all the lights in the house went out with a howl of wind.

Sarah groaned as the rain outside sounded like it was coming down in buckets.

"Great, just great, looks like no fair for us ether today..."

Sarah placed Toby back in his crib and rubbed her shoulders as she reached out to close the large window.

"But your story is real my lady." Came a voice from behind her.

Sarah froze.

"Who..who are you?" She managed to speak not daring to turn around.

"I might ask you the same thing."

"M..my name is Sarah." She breathed

"Pleased to meet you Sarah...and do turn around, I'm not here to harm you."

Sarah turned slowly and fearfully wanting and at the same time not wanting to see......

a white owl?

"I am Jareth." The owl spoke

Suddenly it's small figure burst outward in every direction with a flash of blinding light and sparkling feathers.

"The Goblin King."

The lights all came back on.

Sarah felt her jaw drop.

The boy she laid eyes on here could not be more than a few years older than herself.

His hair framed his face in a rebellious fashion that set off his bi-colored eyes.

The clothing he wore however looked to reflect the look of choice for a fashionable lord of ages pass: a fine black poet's shirt covered with a vest of velvet, tan colored legging, and a flowing black traveling cape of heavy delicate fur.

Not that it mattered to Sarah if he was in tune with the times or not.

He was real.

And that meant...

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Jareth watched as the human girl called Sarah's face lit up like a Christmas tree.

He nearly smiled but stopped himself just in the nick of time.

(What's the matter with me?)

He thought playing around with the warm feeling that he had had in his thoughts since the first time he saw Sarah's face in one of his crystals. Now that feeling seemed mirrored by a strange hollow beat in his magic amplfing amulet.

(She's supposed to cower in fear at the meer sight of me, not be HAPPY.)

He saw the girl head right over to the babies crib and laughed to himself, pushing away the strange warmth.

(Now she will fear me, now she will hate me without measure. Her precious child taken away...)

"Toby...Toby?"

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"Toby?" Sarah called to the baby and screamed as a goblin popped up in his place.

She spun around , both startled and a little cheery.

"Oh, so you already took him did you?" She said calmly

The Goblin King's face looked puzzled but then snapped back to its earlier mask.

"Yes, and you will never see him again outside my realm." He managed

"That is fine with me, " Sarah spoke back and tears welled up in her eyes

"Because he deserves to grow up in a place of love far away from here, this world is so heartless."

If she had looked up just then, Sarah was not sure what she would read in the goblin king's face nor did she ask for it.

It seemed an eternity of her sorrow before she heard his words.

"Tears...aren't for the believing heart Sarah."

She looked up, puffy eyed.

In his hand the young man held out a crystal sphere, round and clear that seemed to glow with a light from nowhere she could see deep within.

"Believe, and this crystal will someday glow bright as the sun."

Sarah held out her hand and noticed how much larger and stronger the King's looked next to her's.

(I'm weak) She thought (My tear's are weak...)

Sarah gazed into the crystal and felt it's cool weight in her palm.

"Please...I want to go where Toby is." Sarah spoke , looking up sharply

"You can never hope to win him back from me" Jareth said, all trace of his moment of gentleness gone.

"No, and I don't plan to. I want to go to where he is..to stay there. I'm sick of this world!"

She said, this time trying with all her might to read his face beyond it's cold mask.

What she did get both mocked her and left her a little angry.

The Goblin King laughed.

Deep and long, like he had just heard her say the greatest joke ever made.

"What's so funny?!" Sarah said

"Nothing, nothing at all, my lady! Yes, yes this will be great, it's never been tried before! Thank you so much for your willness! They will fear me yet!"

"Huh? Fear you? Never tried before?!" Sarah started to back away from king clutching the crystal in one hand and reaching behind her to keep him away with a big heavy...bridle?

Sarah swore at herself for not owning any weighted and breakable pottery.

Jareth laughed harder.

"Alright my little filly, time to go!"

Sarah screamed as the king's cape seemed to wrap itself around her body of it's own will and throw her up into the wind.

That would be the last time in her life she ever saw her own world....

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An evil chatter of giggles arose from the depths of a midnight black darkness as the light that had burned there, ice cold, and white with purity, for countless centuries...went out.

"Such a fool to fall in love.." A deep female voice echoed "Such a fool to drain one's power.."

The giggles came again

"Yes my hatchlings, now is our time..." A pair of huge ruby colored eyes glared out of the darkness. "Now starts our rule FOREVER MORE!"

Around the outside of the cave of darkness the whole forest blazed afire....

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Be kind, for I burn easy.
I do not own Labyrinth, it meerly lives in it's own crystal of time and copyright away from my fandom hands. The seed of an idea that makes this story it's own living tale is mine however.