Labyrinth II: Jareth’s Revenge

Toby's Strange Adventure.

AKA Labyrinth II: Jareth's Revenge





Author notes: Hey there! Sorry for not updating in so long. I got caught up in other things… ^^;;

Life sucks sometimes, eh?



Anyway Did anybody get to get the Manga/Comic official story of the Labyrinth? It follows up on the movie where they left off things. =D Jareth’s just as hunky as ever in it! And Toby’s sooo cute in it. Sarah really let herself go though… O_o;;



Anyway, it inspired me again to keep on writing this story.

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Last we saw our hero:



"But...." Toby protested, "I haven't even reached to the center yet!"



Hoggle looked up, somewhat sad. "Sorry... as much as I like Sarah, I don't want to end up a blind gnome! Having one of me eyes gorged out was painful enough. I'm sure she'll understand. Goodbye."



With that, He scurried off.



"Oh great...Now what do I do?" Toby sighed, as he looked around the dark hallway.…

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“You’ve got to be kidding me! This place… it actually existed? But…I thought it was just a hallicaution I had.” Sarah gaped at the messy ballroom.



“What are you yammering about this time?” Gavin looked at her, eyebrows raised.



“Oh, that’s just the last time I was here…The Goblin king and I…” Sarah trailed off, then shook her head, blushing.



Gavin stared at her as if she grew a second head, then shook his head. “Okay, whatever. The Goblin King’s planning to throw a party for the nobles sometimes soon, so it’s your job to clean up all this by yourself. Any questions?”



“What am I supposed to clean with?” Sarah looked around, seeing no cleaning tools.



Gavin smirked. “Well…how you do it is up to it. Good luck, you really need it. Cleaning a ballroom that belongs to the goblin king is the most difficult room to clean in the whole castle. The very reason why the other maids here won’t even touch it.”



“Great.” Sarah sarcastically replied, putting her hands on her hips in frustration. “The job that not even the goblins wants. I can’t wait to start.”



Gavin pretended not to notice the sarcasm as he grinned brilliantly at Sarah. “Ah, You’re learning’ fast! With that right attitude, you might even earn a promotion! Now I’ll leave ya to your cleaning.” He turned and walked towards the exit. He then turned around and gave Sarah one last tip: “But remember if you don’t do it correctly there can be consequences.”



Before Sarah could even ask him what he meant by that, Gavin was gone.



Sarah sighed, and decided to start off things by picking up all the scattered objects on the ground. ‘Please, let Toby win. I don’t want to be the Goblin King’s personal slave forever…’ she thought as she continued to pick up the various objects.



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Toby turned around a corner and came face to face with an ugly stone…face.



“Turn around while you can!!” It screamed at him.

Toby jumped back, startled. He was about turn around and run away, when he suddenly realized that Sarah had told him something about “False Alarms” in her story.



Deciding to test that theory that they were the mentioned ‘False Alarms’, he walked back up to the face and talked to it. “You should really say something new you know. The whole doom and gloom thing is getting seriously old, you know.”



The face blinks. “Oh, you’ve been around here before? I’m sorry, I’m just doing my job.”



Toby grins. “No problem, buddy.” With that he walked on though, ignoring the rest of the False Alarms.



At this point Toby was getting confident again that he could really beat the labyrinth. After all, he was doing some of the same things that his sister did.



He ran down some hall, and found the way to the surface. He got out of the pot-slash-secret exit, only to accidentally bump into a creature.



It was a strange looking creature, alright. He appeared to be a old man with a bird growing out of his head. On second look, the bird was really more of a hat. The old man appeared to be half asleep, leaning against a wall.



“Err…hello?” Toby nervously said, not sure if the creature was friend or foe.



The old man stood up straight with a start, blinking. “Eh? What is it?”

The bird just looked bored, looking down at the old man. To Toby’s surprise, the bird spoke!

“Eh, it’s just yet other person going though the Labyrinth.” The bird answered the old man.



The old man then looked up at Toby. “Ah, is that so?”



Toby smiled. The old man looked just like somebody who could help him!

“Excuse me…” He politely asked. “Can you tell me how to go to the center of the labyrinth?”



The bird shrieked. “Oh no!! Don’t start it! You don’t know what you’re dealing with!”

But it was too late, the old man’s gears were already turning. “Labyrinth, you say. To get though a Labyrinth, one must know what it is. It is…Complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost. Second definition: A complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium…”



“Oh no….” The bird moaned, “Look what you did!!”



Toby just looked at the pair in confusion. “What did I do?”



The old man droned on: “Also called a maze. Definition of Maze: Complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost. Also, Something jumbled or confused. Related items: Labyrinth of Minos. A vast labyrinth built in Crete by Daedalus at the command of Minos in order to contain the Minotaur…”



Toby then realized that the old man was basically useless at the moment, and he started backing away slowly from the pair. He inched out of sight, and then made a mad dash for any visible exit before the old man could even notice that he was gone.



The bird on his head groaned. “Man, I miss days when you weren’t so senile. Please, please go back to sleep…” The bird kept on pleading with the old man but to no avail, for he was already on a roll.



Toby felt somewhat guilty for leaving them like that, but he felt that he had no choice. After all, he didn’t know how much time he had left and he sure wasn’t going to waste a single minute of his time here.

He was so caught up in escaping the pair that he didn’t really watch where he was going.



He ran headfirst into somebody’s chest. A certain somebody’s chest that just happened to be dressed in a poet’s shirt.



He slowly looked up, and sure enough it was the Goblin King!



Jareth stared down at Toby with that same amused smirk. He made a grand gesture with his hands and arms out stretched, as he asked: “So… enjoying your time in my Labyrinth?”



Toby decided then that he should try to brazen it out. “I don't have time for any games. I want Sarah, and I want her now!”



Jareth threw his head back as he laughed. “Ah, Such a adorable little imp you are, just like old times. Did anybody ever tell you how much you sound like your dear sister when you act like it’s so simple and easy?”



Toby growled. He hated it when people talked down to him, and even more when it was a certain somebody that had kidnapped his sister. “Where…is…she?” He asked in what he hoped was a menacing tone.



The Goblin king grinned at Toby’s tough guy act. He answered, “Ah, you would had made such a fine heir…such a natural at commanding others. Such a pity that last time turned out differently than I would had liked. As for your sister…she’s in my castle, and seems to be enjoying herself immensely.”



Toby eyed him warily. “You.. Haven’t hurt her, have you?”

The king ambles toward Toby, with a mock hurt look on his face. “Now, what do you take me for? I may be the king of Goblins…but I’m certainly no savage. I always treat all my guests with the respect that they deserve…” He then smirks. “In fact, our darling Sarah seems to be enjoying herself so much, I’m considering turning her into my personal slave forever.”



Toby’s temper was fully blown upon hearing this. “Don’t mess around with me! And don’t be so bloody sure of yourself you… you… jerk!”



The king laughed again. “Well…considering the fact that you haven’t gotten very far, and that the time is running out… why shouldn’t I be sure about the future?”



Toby paled slightly. “How much time do I have left?”



The king stepped back, content now that he had succeeded in making Toby lose some of his confident side. as he disappeared into thin air, his words hung in the air. “You have 10 hours left.”



‘Shit, shit, shit!’ Toby mentally cursed. He wondered if his sister was alright…

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Sarah’s knees and elbows were already blistering. Some of the blisters actually had burst, leaving her with knees and elbows that looked a little too raw for their own good.

She wasn’t simply this used to working so hard. She was making such a effort in removing the dirt from the floor yet she didn’t seem to be going anywhere.



In fact, she could easily swear that the ballroom seemed to be working against her every time she even made an improvement in the room. The room had an eerie feeling about it, with all the cow-webs that hung from the ceiling and the faint strange sounds that seemed to come from the other side of the mirrors. Sometimes the strange sounds sounded like sinister-sounding laughter.



It was hard to believe that it was the exact same room that she had danced in with the Goblin King. She paused to take in the room once again, lost in thought.



Come to think of it, she wasn’t sure what was reality or fiction anymore. Take this room for instance. She always thought that part of her adventure in the labyrinth was just a hallicuation by a bad pear. Yet this ballroom bore a striking resemble to the one in her “hallicuation” no matter how run down it was.

Was that evidence that it had been real? After all, as the whole motto of the labyrinth was: “Nothing is as it seems.”



But if it was real, then that would mean that the Goblin king himself actually pretty much confessed his love for her in a song.



A faint blush spread over her cheeks, as she became lost in the memory of his arms wrapped around her.



She then mentally slapped herself. What was she doing? She was mooning over the king like some lovestruck teenager! She wasn’t supposed to be acting like this….she wasn’t a teenager anymore, for Pete’s sake!



Anyway… even if THAT was real, there was no way that his so-called “love” had been genuine. It was just his way of attempting to make her lose at the labyrinth so that he would keep her brother! And it was a good thing that she didn’t fall for it neither! She wasn’t some silly female that would be easily seduced by pretty lies.



There, that was more like it… now she was feeling more normal now that she was back to hating the king just like she should be…

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Okay, end of Chapter three for now!

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