Labyrinth: An Owl's Story

Chapter 4

Sarah was waiting for Pip and Sissy to come with her cloths. She was still wearing her pajamas when Trevor, her best archer in the Elf Kingdoms, arrived to check on her for the morning. He always checked on her and loved it too.

"Pip! Sissy! Where is my dress?" Sarah called out to the two little fairies.

"Coming Queen Sarah!" in came the two little fairies, who had small dresses made of petal, and were caring with them a beautiful white and blue dress, made of petals, just like the fairies, but in different colors. "We have your dress with us now." The two fairies gave Sarah her dress then bowed in delight.

"Thank you Pip, thank you Sissy," Sarah smiled at the two fairies as they flew out of the room.

Before Sarah found out she was a princess then turned into a queen, she had wished her new little sister away, whose name was Alexia, sometimes called Alex. She had wished her sister just so she could be with her true love, Jareth, but had not found her. But this time, she wandered through another kingdom by mistake. She was in the fiery forest when this had happened, and had been chased again by the fireys that lived there in the fiery forest. She found her way to the Elf Kingdoms and was told a secret.

She was the princess of this land, just like the princess of the story book Labyrinth. She had told them she could not become the princess that was promised and she had to find her way through the Labyrinth to get back her little sister, and also to find Jareth, who she did not know was flying around with a head ache and almost screeching his head off as an owl. But the goblins had sent a letter saying she had to stay there because her little sister was back home. Also that she was not allowed to leave because she was the princess that was promised. She checked with a crystal given by one of the elves and sure enough, Alexia was at home, sleeping. There was also a note saying that Sarah was old enough to be on her own, and that she was in Africa now.

"Oh," Sarah returned from her thoughts. "I just remembered, I made some new cute little dresses for you both." Sarah always loved to be around the fairies, they made her feel happy.

"Thank you miss, but we need to get down to the other fairies and help them cook up your food for this afternoon," Pip said, looking at her sister.

"Alright, you may," Sarah said with delight.

The two fairies left the room and Sarah got on her dress for the day...

In the aboveground (Where the owls were)

"I told you to grab a snack before we left!" Toby told Shebaan as he looked back at her.

"I got one!" she said to him, her eyes full of anger.

"Yes, but was it big enough?" Jareth asked her, looking down as he flew above her.

"It was... well, it was a-"

"It was a tiny bird! The smallest you could find!" Racco screeched at Shebaan.

"How did you find that out?" Shebaan exclaimed to Racco, also asking it loudly.

"I watched you when you went out hunting!" Racco puffed up his feathers, making himself look bigger than before. Sometimes, when owls are scared or being threatened, other times just proud, they puff up their feathers and make themselves look bigger than they really are, just to make sure that no one will try to hurt them because they look to big to fight.

"YOU WHAT!" all the owls screeched at the same time.

"NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO WATCH ANYONE ELSE HUNT! REMEMBER RACCO!" Jareth yelled, scaring all the birds around and making them scream 'MOMMY! MOMMY!' or as it always seemed.

Racco looked surprised, but mad at the same time. He knew he had done something wrong, and even at first he wanted to break the rules.

"You are out of this group Racco! And I hope this is the last time we see you!" Jareth hissed at Racco, hissing even louder when he puffed his feathers in his hissing form, like most owls do when they are annoyed by someone or are going to attack, but are just giving a warning.

Racco looked around at the group then flew off say a few last words. "I never liked this group anyways; it was always just full of chinks owls."

He flew off into the night, hoping not to see them again.... or as it seemed...

At the Goblin City (Where Sarah is.)

Sarah looked out the window in her carriage. She was on her way to the goblin city to pay another visit to Jareth, also to her best friends Hoggle, Ludo, and of course, Sir Didamous. She missed them terribly and could not sleep because she had not seen them since the night of the party.

As she looked out, she saw that she was entering the goblin city. But what she really noticed was that no one or nothing was there. It was quiet, to quiet. 'Hmm,' she thought, almost saying it out loud.

"Whoa!" the driver ordered the horse to slow down not only using his voice, but by pulling not too hard, back on the reins.

The driver got down from his place and opened the door for Sarah.

"Thank you Hamish, can you please wait until I say for you to get my bags?" Sarah told the driver who is named Hamish. "I need to make sure Jareth is in his castle, or if his goblins are anywhere around."

"Yes Your Highness," He answered back to her.

Sarah walked towards the castle in the middle of the city. She saw no goblins, none at all. But then, something caught her eyes. She walked over to what looked like a dead goblin. She gasped when she saw that this goblin was not the only goblin that was dead. There were many, almost all of the goblins in the city.

Her heart skipped a beat. What had happened to all these goblins? Sarah shook her head, thinking she was just seeing things. But when she looked up again, all the goblins were still there. She screamed in terror, rushing back to Hamish and leaping up onto where he sat.

"Your Highness!" he gasped, eyes full of shock. "What is wrong?"

The young queen gulped for air. "Goblins, laying everywhere, dead!"

Hamish leaped off the bench from which he sat on. He trotted around the horses and grabbed a bow from below the carriage. As fast as a bullet, he pulled out an arrow and flung it into place on the arrow shaft. He then slowly walked forward, stretching his neck to see around the city gates.

"Where are they?" he whispered to his queen. "Where did you see the dead goblins?"

"Behind the yellow house in front of the stairs that lead up to Jereth's castle."

Hamish slowly walked up to the yellow house. He looked behind the corner of the tall brick wall, relaxing when he only saw dead goblins, and no lives ones that were bloodthirsty to kill.

"My queen," he said to Sarah. "Your words are true. All the goblins are dead. None are alive enough to kill anyone."

Sarah nodded as she got down from the bench. She walked past Hamish and held the side rail as she stepped up onto the stairs. The small steps wound up to the castle doors which were shut tight, for when Sarah tried to open them, she only fell back to the ground.

"Hamish," she called to the archer elf. "Do you mind helping me open these doors?"

Hamish bowed his head and walked up the wounded stairs. He put his hands around the large wooden handle and tugged. The large pale doors opened slowly with a loud creaking sound. As soon as the elf opened the door, Sarah rushed inside and flung the door to the throne room open. She looked around. Feathers lay everywhere, along with a few pellets here and there.

"So this is what destroyed the goblins," she whispered under her breath.