The protector Of The Champion

Chapter 15

 

Jareth was lounging in his chair in the throne room, thinking of Sarah while keeping his eyes on his goblins while they play with each other.

He got out of his daze when he heard a crow at the window squawking at him, Jareth turned his head to look at the window, he saw a large crow holding a piece of paper towards him in his talons.

Jareth got up slowly walking over to the bird not wanting to spook it, he recognized the bird as Harker’s pet, he took the note from the bird quickly and it flew away.

Jareth opened the note and read it out loud.

 

Goblin King,

I have your precious Champion, she will die tonight if you don’t rescue her, come alone and no harm will come to her.

Harker

 

Jareth crumbled up the paper in his hand angrily, the goblins could sense when he is mad and they stopped what they were doing looking at him.

He turned to look at his goblins upset “bring me Mac” he ordered as he pointed to one goblin who ran as fast as his little legs would carry him.

Jareth started to pace, the Goblins hid from him not wanting to get under his wrath, they knew better than to miss with their king when he was angry.

Moments later

Mac walked in “Jareth, you wanted to see me?”

Jareth turned and looked at him “get the army ready, we are going to King Quinn’s castle and saving Sarah”

“He has Sarah” he said in a disbelieving tone, he couldn’t believe that Sarah got taken right under their noses.

Jareth didn’t reply he just glared at Mac “yes sire, I will do as you ordered”

Mac left the throne room to gather the army.

 

Mac walked into his bedroom where princess Amilee is in bed sitting up watching him with a sheet wrapped around her, Mac was putting an armor vest over his shirt and she was watching him confused he looked upset.

“Is everything okay?” she asked her gentle voice making him stop and stare at her.

Mac turned to face her “Sarah got taken by Harker, we are going to save her”

She looked at him scared “is there anything I can do?”

“Just stay here and don’t leave this room” he told her as he finished his vest then he bent down and kissed her on the forehead and quickly left the room.

Amilee sat there afraid for Sarah, she is her friend and she knew that Harker would kill her in a heartbeat, she got out of bed and wrapped the sheet around herself she had to do something.

 

 

Sarah opened her eyes looking around, she felt groggy and her head hurt and she also noticed she was lying on a stone floor.

“Your finally up, I see” a female voice said

Sarah slowly raised her head off the floor to look at her “Zora?”

“That’s right dear” she said as she smiled wickedly at her

“Where am I?” Sarah asked as she slowly got up

“You are in a dungeon in King Quinn’s castle” Zora said

Sarah was standing in front of Zora separated by bars between them.

“The king knows I’m here?”

“No, of course not. If he knew he would make Harker give you back, he doesn’t play dirty like that.” Zora told her

“Jareth will come here with an army to save me” Sarah said

“If he does he’s stupid, Harker told him to come alone” Zora said

Sarah looked down trying to fight her tears; she didn’t want anything to happen to Jareth or his army because of her. She looked back up at Zora.

“What will happen to me?” she asked scared

Zora got really close to the cage and whispered evilly “Harker plans to kill you right in front of your precious goblin king”

Zora moved back a cruel smile on her lips, Sarah looked at her afraid. Zora started to laugh wickedly and walked away.

 

Sarah sunk to the floor of the cage, she was scared she didn’t want to die; she didn’t want Jareth or her friends to die.

 

Amilee walked into her father’s throne room “father, you have to do something about Harker”

King Quinn looked up at his daughter the scary creepy gremlins were around his feet growling at her their red eyes glowing in the dim throne room, they have always frightened her.

He sighed loudly “what has he done now?”

“He kidnapped Sarah” she told her father

He stood up not saying anything, his face showed no emotion, he then smiled wickedly “good for him”

“Father” she whined

He looked at her coldly “you chose your side my daughter you chose to be on the enemy side, now be gone before I have you be killed”

He sat back down on his throne, Amilee looked at her father and knew that he was cruel but he never threatened to kill her before yes he did lock her up but never said he would kill her until now.

She looked at him sadly and decided to try to find Sarah and help her escape somehow.

 

Sarah paced back and forth in the cage, waiting to be saved pr wait for them to let her and maybe she could try to escape.

Harker and Zora returned to the dungeon not knowing that in the shadows the princess is watching and waiting for her moment to strike, she took out her dagger from the case she put down the front of her dress and holding it out.

“It’s time for you to come out now” Harker said viciously

Sarah backed away from the cage door,  Zora opened the door with a sword pointing at Sarah, Harker grabbed her, Sarah started to struggle in his arms, Harker did the only thing he could think of to stop her to struggle and that was to slap her hard in the face with his bare hand.

Sarah stopped struggling for a moment to cup her stingy cheek, but continued to struggle in his arms but not as much.

Amilee heard a noise behind her and prayed that the disgusting gremlins didn’t follow her into the dungeon, she quickly turned around her dagger in front of her, but to her surprise Mac was standing behind her he put his finger to his lips telling her to be quiet.

“What are you doing here?” He whispered

“The same thing you’re doing here saving Sarah” she whispered back

Amilee turned around with Mac behind her watching the scene before them and ready to jump out if needed.

 

Jareth came from behind him with an army of goblins plus Sarah’s friends.

“Let her go” Jareth ordered

“Not until she’s dead” Harker said

“You will not kill her” Jareth said

“Would you like to make a bet on that” Zora said

Jareth shook his head laughing then turned serious looking at Zora “what did he promise you Zora, that he would kill Sarah then me and then King Quinn then you two would become King and Queen and take over the Underground”

Zora looked at Harker then at Jareth and replied simply “yes”

Jareth laughed again, his laughter was making Zora angry and Harker uncomfortable “he will kill you before he lets you be his queen; he wants the underground for himself”

Zora looked at Jareth contemplating what he said then she looked at Harker then he said “he’s right I probably will kill you before I take over the underground”

Zora got really angry then Harker added “instead of killing Sarah I think I will make her my queen after I kill Jareth of course”

Jareth growled and Sarah said “over my dead body”

Zora looked down at her sword then looked up at Sarah and growled “that can be arranged”

Harker and Sarah both looked at Zora, she then charged them with her sword and she was aiming for Sarah’s heart, Sarah did the only thing she could think of and quickly moved out of the way and the sword pierced Harker through the heart killing him instantly.

Jareth quickly grabbed Sarah he kissed her forehead and hugged her quickly then he gently pushed her towards Ludo who wrapped his big arms around her shielding her from them.

Amilee and Mac came out of the shadows on the other side of Zora, Amilee had her dagger raised at her and Mac had his sword raised at her, waiting for her to make a move.

Zora looked shocked and surprised that she killed Harker she has never killed anyone before.

They all heard growling and hissing noises they looked around in the shadows they saw red glowing eyes staring at them, they all got their swords up. Zora started to go towards Jareth and his army while Jareth’s army went after the gremlins, Mac and Amilee tried to help Jareth fight Zora while Sarah just stood there not sure what to do, finally she decided to grab a sword she found on the floor figuring it had to belong to Harker and she started to fight the gremlins and trying to save as many goblins as she could.

Then they all heard really loud clapping and the fighting ended, they looked and saw King Quinn standing before them and a couple of gremlins that survived were standing next to him they only went up to his knees.

“What is going on here?” he said his voice filled with rage

“I killed Harker” Zora said sadly

King Quinn looked down at Harker’s dead body “that is a shame”

Everyone heard him and could tell he really had no feelings about his death almost in the way he sounded like he was pleased he was dead.

King Quinn looked at everyone “you had your fun and killed some of my pets, now be gone all of you”

Everyone left leaving King Quinn and Zora there to clean up the mess they left and to take care of Harker’s and the gremlins dead bodies.

They all appeared back at Jareth’s castle in the throne room.

Jareth appeared to be upset, Sarah walked over to him, she gently touched his shoulder “are you okay?”

He looked at her not saying anything but pulled her into a hug, held her tightly and laid his head on top of hers “you almost died tonight and I lost some of my goblins”

“I’m so sorry, I tried to help them all I couldn’t” Sarah told him sadly with tears in her eyes

“I know you did Sarah and I am very grateful to you for it” Jareth tells her

The king and queen appeared in throne room “Jareth” his mother called

Jareth let go of Sarah and walked over to his mother “what happened?”

“Harker and Zora kidnapped Sarah, we went to rescue her and Zora killed Harker” Jareth said

“Okay, your father’s guard went to go get them and arrest them for all the crimes they did” his mother told him

“What’s going to happen to them?” Jareth asked curious

“That depends on their crimes” she told him

Jareth turned his head to look at Sarah sadly, his mother watched him “since Harker is dead and King Quinn and Zora are being charged for their crimes, Sarah has no reason to stay”

Jareth replied as he was looking at Sarah “I guess not”

“You love her don’t you?” she asked

Jareth lowered his head looking at the ground “it’s better if she goes back home”

“Jareth darling you don’t believe that” she said sadly

“I do” he told her and walked away

She watched her son walk away with a heavy heart.

The queen walked up to Amilee and said “with your father is being arrested for his crimes, you can take his place as queen of the gremlins”

Amilee looked at her disgusted “no thank you, I would rather just stay a princess, those things are gross”

The queen laughed and walked up to Sarah “are you okay dear?”

“I’m fine” she replied sadly

“Since you’re not in any danger I can return you back home” the queen said

Sarah started to look around for Jareth, she didn’t see him “I’m sorry dear he left he didn’t want to watch you leave”

Tears started to come down her eyes, she thought he loved her but after all this and after everything they went through he wanted her to leave never to see him again.

Sarah wiped her eyes and looked at her defiantly and trying to be brave “okay send me back”

 

Jareth was in his study staring down at his desk at the clutter all over it he took his hands and pushed everything off of it and on to the floor it clashed to the floor in a heap. He shook his head looking down at the mess.

“You’re stupid” a deep male voice said

Jareth looked up and saw his step-father standing in the doorway “excuse me”

King Kieran walked in “I think you are stupid for letting Sarah go out of your life”

Jareth sighed “I thought you didn’t like her because she is mortal”

“I don’t, but I thought about if that was your mother, what I would do and I wouldn’t let her walk out of my life never to be seen again” he told him

Jareth looked at him and couldn’t believe the man that acted like he hated Jareth his whole life was actually giving him advice “what do you think I should do?”

 

“Marry the girl Jareth” the king told him

Jareth looked surprise at him that he would mention that after telling Jareth not to before.

The King sighed in annoyance “I think she will make a good queen she cares about the people here and your subjects can you say that about any  other woman that you ever had a relationship with was like that”

“No” he told him

“Go get her” the king told him

Jareth quickly walked out of the room, the king stayed there smiling happily.

 

Sarah was saying all her goodbye’s to her friends she kind of felt like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz and she then turned to Jareth’s mother and said “I am ready”

The queen conjured up a crystal ball “WAIT!!!” a voice yelled

The crystal ball in the queen’s hand disappeared Jareth grabbed Sarah’s hands and pulled her gently away from his mother.

Sarah looked at him puzzled “don’t leave me please”

Sarah looked up at him sadly “I thought you wanted me to go”

“I thought that was what was best for you” he told her

“Then why are you changing your mind?” she asked

“Because I love you, I’ve always have” he said

She smiled at him through her tears he returned her smile and said “please Sarah stay and marry me”

Sarah looked surprised and replied “what no fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave”

Jareth laughed “I can say that if you want”

Sarah shook her head “no I like the way you just asked me better”

“I should have said that last time” he said

“Yes you should have” she told him

“What would your answer have been then?” he asked

“The same as it is now” she said

“And what is that” he asks

“Yes” she replied

Everyone in the room cheered and clapped happily, Jareth grabbed Sarah pulling her in his arms and kissing her.