All Faerie Tales Have a Happy Ending
Disclaimer: Anna, Jeffery, Myst, Gavin, Mackery, Jiggle, are characters from mine own imagination. So is the name Jigglian(his mother's name was Jillian and his father Jiggle so...) Everything else don't belong to me.
Summary: Grr....I suck big time at these...everyone cept King Jiggle go on a quest to find the Dwarf King's lost son. Along the way, they meet up with new friends, and get caught up in something much darker.
Prologue:
He sat on the beach running his hands through the fine white sands and looking out over the calm blue see. The sun was high in the sky and its warmth radiated about him, but he didn't feel it. All he felt was the chill from the wound in his shoulder, and the darkness that had never quite left his heart. It wasn't an evil darkness, just a shadow. He heaved a heavy sigh. He had thought that in coming to this place, he would heal, but, though it did not grow worse, he still was plagued.
How long he sat there he did not know. Time was meaningless in this place. The only clue that he had been gone for a while was the shadow that fell across him. He looked up at the figure standing behind him.
"Why?" he asked in a pained tone.
His old friend said nothing at first as he sat on the ground beside him. Then, "It was not destroyed. I do not know how or why...but that is the only explanation for this continued illness of yours."
His lips twisted. "Then I failed. All that for nothing. Well there is nothing for it but to go after it again." He stood up with that purpose in mind.
"Ah," his friend said with a smile, "I knew that would be your decision. Still, I cannot let you go unaided, as it is in a place that is hard to get to, and is unfriendly to those without magic. So I give you this. Now be on your way."
He accepted the gleaming object with a protest on his lips, but the old wizard was already gone. He looked around and realized that he was standing in the middle of a dark forest instead of on the beach...
Chapter One
Two weeks. It had taken two very long and harrowing weeks, but she had finally done it. Of course she had needed everybody's help to do it. Anna was one of the most stubborn people Sarah had ever come across, but she had convinced her to come along with them on the quest. She grinned at her accomplishment. Actually, it had been Myst's wanting to go that had finally convinced the former Fairy Godmother. That and having Dad and Karen come out to run the kingdom while she was gone.
The next morning, Sarah woke up to find Jareth smiling down at her wickedly. "You know darling," he whispered, "We are going to have a whole tent to ourselves while we're gone. We can think of this as our honeymoon."
She grinned back and kissed him. "Hmm...I can't wait. But for now, we have to get up." She rolled out of the bed before he could stop her and was dressed. She smiled over at his pouty expression, but did not take pity on him. After all, the best way to handle a spoiled child was to ignore him.
He stepped back, pouting again for a moment, but then grinned. "I haven't a clue, Sarah, though I do believe it had something to do with your being fifteen and imagining me to be a monster. Mental representations of things and people can be very persuasive and powerful."
She rolled her eyes. "Thank you Dr. Freud for that scintillating tidbit of information." She smiled. "Now, lets go before Jeff decides to come looking for us again. Honestly I think I'm going to have to put him on a leash." She opened the door, and sure enough, there was Jeffery sitting on his haunches (it was rather humorous considering he was in his human form) and looking up at her with a horrified expression.
"Y... you wouldn't...would you?" he asked.
Sarah snorted. "Jeffery, you aren't even supposed to be here. You're 'supposed' to be in the Fairy Kingdom awaiting Jareth's and my return. And keeping Anna from bailing on us."
She stepped past him in annoyance into the filthy corridor of Jareth's castle. 'Hmm....I think it needs some spring cleaning here,' she thought.
"Don't even think it!" Jareth growled, "I do have a reputation to uphold you know. And those silly mortals can always tell when dinginess is fake or not."
Jeffery laughed at this. "Oh please, you just don't want to be drafted into helping," he snorted, "Good luck. Her Majesty'll tell Anna who, let me tell you, will leave no nook uncovered, no cranny undiscovered, and 'you' will most certainly be pressed into service. Along with me and everyone who has a spare hand."
Sarah just shook her head in amusement as the two of them started a battle of who was going to have to clean the most. Then she calmly conjured a crystal and threw it at the both of them making the disappear before conjuring another one and disappearing herself.
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Anna looked at herself in the mirror, still not used to seeing her real self after the image of the kindly old woman she had grown accustomed to seeing for thousands of years. She could of course change back, but had decided against it. She enjoyed the surprised looks she still got from people. It was almost like when she was younger, after she had lost all that weight. A sad, haunted look came into the eyes of the image, and she quickly looked away. She didn't belong there. 'you do not belong here either,' a soft voice inside her head said.
"Oh go away Myst," she snapped, "I really am not in the mood to speak with you right now. After you practically blackmailed me into coming along on this stupid quest. Not that it's stupid for the royals, but that it is stupid for me to be coming along. I'm not at all the adventurous type." She winced as she spoke the blatant lie, hoping he had gone away like she had fist suggested. No such luck.
'Anna, Anna, Anna...you are the most adventurous person I know. We used to go on many adventures together.'
"Yes, and each time we got into major trouble." She was grinning as she said this. "Remember that time we went to Paris?"
'Hmm...yes...you insulted the Cardinal and he nearly had you beheaded...'
"He insulted me first!" Her smile faded. "I know one adventure that got us into more than major trouble. It landed us here. Thanks to that stupid, vapid, arrogant, idiotic, vain, yes I know I'm being repetitive, but I've got the right to be, Prince Galen of the Land of Sapphire. If we ever get back to Jewel I am so going to ignore him."
'It was meant to be,' was Myst's cryptic but predictable response.
"Hmph...if you mean that I'm going to find my true love...well that's just impossible. Now go on. Her Majesty and that silly husband of hers will be here soon, along with the other two and King Jiggle. Poor old man. To lose his wife then his son one right after the other. I do hope we find him."
Right as she said those last words, an odd chill wound it's way through her body and she shivered. 'That was not...normal,' Myst announced, 'I do not know whether or not it was bad or good. Either way I think that this quest will be more than any of us expect.' With that ominous pronouncement resounding through her mind, she made her way out of her room and down the many corridors to the main entrance hall where she greeted young Prince Gavin.
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