The protector Of The Champion

Chapter 25

 

Jareth, his mother, sister, Sarah, Mac, Amilee and goblins were in the throne room, holding swords and other weapons. The goblins and Sarah’s friends, were pacing back and forth, mac and Amilee were guarding the door.

Jareth was pacing back in forth in front of his chair where Sarah sat with a sword laying over her lap in case she needed it, his mother sitting on the step holding a sword with her granddaughter Olivia sitting next to her she was scared, she didn’t know what to expect, Jolene had her arm around Olivia trying to comfort her.

Tiana stood next to her brother watching him pace, she knew that Jareth didn’t like to fight unless he really had too, and this time he did, he had to protect his family.

Jareth would stop pacing and look at Sarah every so often to make sure she was okay, she would give him and encouraging smile and he would return it, he knew she was afraid but she fought hard to show it, he continued to pace again.

 

“Are you sure something is going to happen?” Mac asked looking at Jareth.

Jareth stopped and looked at him. “I don’t think anything is going to happen, but I believe in being prepared.”

Jareth started to pace again, and then they heard a crash. They all turned to look at the window behind Jareth’s chair, and they saw a big crow fly in and land in the middle of the floor in the room; they all stared at it. They watched as it turned into Zora.

“Zora,” Jareth growled angrily.

Zora just smiled wickedly at him, then brought her fingers to her mouth and whistled. The door busted open, and King Quinn came in followed by King Kieran, Amber, Marion and the gremlins.

They all raised their swords to them. “How did you get back to this castle?” Jareth asked curiously.

King Quinn walked to Jareth and stood next to Zora “it was all Zora, she is brilliant” he said as he kissed her on the cheek, Zora beamed with pride.

“What do you want?” Jolene asked as she stood next to her son.

Kieran walked up to them. “For you, to pay for what you did to me.”

“What about what you did to my family?” she argued.

Kieran looked at her angrily. “They deserved it. I now am with the family I belong with.”

As he said that Amber and Marion walked up to him, Kieran kissed Amber on the cheek.

“I thought she was dead,” Jolene said in shock.

“No my dear, I was waiting for my time to get rid of you and make my Amber queen,” Kieran said.

“I thought you loved me,” Jolene said sadly.

Kieran snorted. “Loved you? No…I was just jealous that my friend Andrew went with royalty and I wondered what made him so special and I killed him. It had nothing to do with love. I was and always have been in love with my Amber”

Jolene raised her sword at him and said through her teeth. “You bastard!”

Tiana stood there angry and upset that her father would say that to her mother, she also had her sword pointed at him, while she was standing in front of Olivia and Sarah.

King Quinn looked bored with all the talking he wanted action so he yelled “ATTACK!!!”

The Gremlins attacked the goblins and other creatures there, Mac and Amilee went after King Quinn and Zora, Jolene fought Amber, and Tiana went after Marion, while Jareth and Kieran fought. Sarah and Olivia stayed on the chair together, Sarah held her sword tightly.

Sarah and Olivia heard swords hitting each other, they heard Ludo moaning and rocks falling they saw blood flying, eventually Sarah and Olivia couldn’t handle it anymore, Sarah pushed her sword aside and brought Olivia onto her lap, Olivia buried her head into Sarah’s shoulder and cried, Sarah closed her eyes and burying her head into Olivia’s hair.

When everything grew quiet that was in Sarah and Olivia lifted their heads and looked around, they saw the walls of the throne room have crumpled because of Ludo and was even crushing some Gremlins and a couple of goblins of course by mistake, but everyone was on the ground, not moving.

Sarah and Olivia stood up and looked around afraid, they didn’t know if they all didn’t make it, or they were just to hurt to move.

“I’m going to look for my mother,” Olivia said to Sarah.

“Be careful,” Sarah told her.

Olivia bent down and picked up a sword off the floor and smiled at Sarah. Sarah smiled back and then realized that she had no weapon to protect herself with and she just hoped that everyone evil was dead.

She started to hear movement and jumped, she nervous of every sound she heard. Then someone grabbed her and roughly pushed her against the wall, nearly making her lose her breath.

She looked up and noticed it was King Quinn in front of her his face was bloody, he could barely stand, she noticed with all those sword marks there would be no way that he would survive.

He then reached up with his hand and wrapped it around her throat, and he squeezed tightly. Sarah couldn’t breathe. She tried to use both her hands to peel him off her, but it was no use, because he wouldn’t budge, and then right before her eyes she watched as he got his head cut off.

She turned her head away and gagged at the sight as she watched all the blood gush out of his neck as he fell to the ground dead. She started to cough and then she turned her head thinking that Olivia saved her, but she saw Jareth standing in front of her.

He had a black eye that was closed, his nose and lip was bleeding and he was holding his side with one hand and a sword in the other.

Then Jareth looked at her trying to smile through the pain, and then he fell forward. Sarah caught him but still they both fell to the ground he laid down on her lap and cried while Sarah ran her hands through his hair and cried with him.

Sarah raised her head to look around. She saw Olivia helping her mother Tiana to walk and then over to a place to sit down, she noticed her friends were helping to free people and goblins that got caught under the rocks, she was happy they survived.

Sarah also noticed Mac was holding Amilee and crying and realized that she must be dead. She noticed that Zora was also dead. Jolene, Amber, Marion and Kieran, they all had swords sticking in them and they weren’t moving.

Jareth looked up at Sarah sadly. “my family is dead”

Sarah looks at him mournfully. “No, my dear, they are not all dead.”

He looks at her confused so she explained, “Tiana, Olivia and I survived.”

He looked around the room, and he saw Tiana sitting on the steps in front of his chair, while Olivia is cleaning her mother’s face with a cloth getting the blood off.

Jareth smiled then he looked at Sarah. “But my mother is gone.”

Sarah nodded her head sadly. “Yes, but you know your mother would not want you to mourn for her, she would want you to celebrate her.”

Jareth smiled at her. “You’re right.” Then he started looking her in a way that was making Sarah uncomfortable. “What would I do without you?” he asked her.

Sarah laughed. “Probably die.”

He grabbed her and started kissing her.