Sarah's Return to the Labyrinth

Sarah tells Tina about meeting Ludo and Sir Diddimus.

"Hoggle asked me why I had told the goblin that he was my friend. I told him that it was because he was my friend."

I scoffed slightly" Some friend."I replied sarcastically.

"I'm going to tell you what I told him. He may not be a good friend but currently he was the only friend I had in this strange place. He pondered over the word and said friend. I like that and that he hadn't be anyone's friend before. Suddenly we heard a loud roar coming from directly in front of us. He heard the roar and said goodbye and started to rush off. He told me to keep his jewels. I ran after him and asked him if he was my friend or not. He replied no. That he wasn't anyone's friend and that He looks after himself just like everyone else and that Hoggle was Hoggle's friend. Then he ran off. I called after him Hoggle you coward! But he didn't care he was already long gone.

I then headed toward the roar and said to myself that I wasn't afraid and I reminded myself that things weren't always what they seemed. I turned the corner to see this giant yeti like creature hanging upside down being tortured by some mini goblins with creature on sticks and the creatures on the sticks kept biting the poor creature.

"Awe the poor thing. Being picked on just because of his size now that's really not fair. That's just plain mean." I replied a starting to feel angry.

"Your right it was mean. I threw rocks at the goblins and they became completely confused and wound up having their sticks bite each other. They couldn't figure out what was going on so they retreated. The strange creature started thrashing about as I approached and I scolded him telling him to cut it out. I asked him if that was anyway to treat someone who was trying to help him. I asked him if he wanted down. He replied in a sweet voice Ludo down. He seemed like such a nice beast and so I decided to help him down and hoped that he was what he seemed to be. After untying him and helping him up he said only one word."

"What was that?"

"He said the word friend questioningly. I confirmed his question and told him my name and he repeated it. Sarah friend he said excitedly. I got him to calm down for a minute and asked him if he knew how to get to the castle. Unfortunately he didn't but i didn't mind. I wondered if anyone knew how to get through the labyrinth."

"Hoggle who wasn't too far away muttered to himself get through the labyrinth get through the labyrinth and then he came to the conclusion that I'd never get through the labyrinth. Suddenly I noticed two doors with strange knockers. One had a face with a ring in his mouth the other had a face with rings through his ears. The knocker with the ring in his ears told me that it was very rude to stare. I apologized and said that I was wondering which door to take. The one with the ring in his mouth muttered something to me but I couldn't understand him with the ring in his mouth. After removing the ring and giving it to Ludo he told me that it was useless asking the knocker with the ring in the ears anything because he was deaf."

"I asked him where the doors lead and he said he didn't know they were just the knockers. I asked how to get through the doors and he replied knock and the door will be opened. I decided to go through the door that I was talking to so I took the ring from Ludo who had put it in his mouth and went to put it back in the knockers mouth. He refused to open his mouth so I held his nose till he has no choice but to open his mouth."

"The door lead to a forest and Ludo told me he was scared. I took his hand and we started waking and suddenly Ludo just up and disappeared. I called for him and when I couldn't find him I called for Hoggle to help hoping he would hear me."

"Did he?" Yes but little did I know that Jareth was once again bullying Hoggle. Then i ran into some very strange creatures who called themselves the fire gang. They could make fire using their finger tips. They started sing and dancing around me. They also had the ability to take their body parts off and toss them around. It was rather creepy and then they tried to take off my head. They were surprised when it didn't come off and decided to take it off for me."

"What did you do?" Tina asked.

"I took their heads and threw them as far as I could. I ran away as fast as I could but the heads caught up with me. They started saying it was agents the rules to take off their heads and started suggesting that they could take off other parts of my body instead. I told them to leave me alone but they wouldn't listen. They just kept listing body parts they were going to try to take off. Suddenly a rope was dropped down from the wall and I spotted Hoggle."

"I was so grateful that he had come back to help me that wanted to give him a kiss. He started fighting no don't kiss me but I didn't listen and pecked him on the cheek. The next thing we knew we found ourselves hanging off a cliff dangling above the bog of eternal stench. Hoggle was about to fall and i pulled him back up. What did you have to go and do that for he asked me irritatedly."

"What rescue him?"

"That's what I thought too but no he wanted to know why I had kissed him. I told him not to be so hard on himself because I knew that he had come back to help me and that he was my friend. He denied it saying was not did not and that he had only come back for his property and to give me something. As I asked him what it was we fell to the ground bumping into Ludo."

"The closer we were to the bog the worse it smelled. I spotted a bridge and lead them towards it. Hoggle reminded us to watch where we stepped or we'd smell bad forever. When we got to the bridge we were blocked by a fox creature who called himself sir didimus. He was rather cute but he refused to allow us to pass. He and Ludo fought and eventually he decided to yeild to Ludo and asked him to become his brother. As we started to cross the bridge he blocked our way once more. I decided to approach the problem logically and asked Sir Diddimus what it was that he had sworn. He replied that he swore that no one would pass without his permission."

"Eventual he gave us permission to pass and as I was crossing the bridge it fell apart and I was dangling by a tree branch over the bog of stench. I called to Hoggle for help and he came back and looked at me wondering what he could do. Ludo stood at the edge of where the beige had once been and howling. Soon rocks appeared out of the bog to form a path."