Heir to the Labyrinth

Chapter Three

“Ludo!” Mom yelled and ran towards an orange beast. I smiled broadly. Ludo is AWESOME! I heard mom explaining to Ludo who I was, who Uncle Toby was, and why we were here.

I smiled when he came over and rushed to greet him. “Hi! I’m Emilia!” I told him. Ludo came up and grabbed me into a giant bear hug.

“Emmy friend! Emmy friend!” He shouted. I giggled and hugged him back the best that I could. Ludo eventually put me back down and patted Uncle Toby’s head.

“Friends back! Ludo happy!” Ludo shouted. I giggled again and heard a faint chuckle in the back of my mind. I thought for a second. How come I can hear my father’s random noises? Whatever, I’ll figure it out.

Our now larger group continued on with our journey until we met the Firey Forest (I’m not sure what’s it’s called, so for now its that). I saw from the corner of my eyes a gulping mother.

“Mom, you sure you wanna go in there?” I asked her concerned.

“Yeah, it’s fine. There isn’t another way,” She replied.

I nodded quickly and we cautiously went into the forest. We started to hear music in the distance and I saw mom gulp once more.

As we descended forward, an orange creature ran across our path. A Firey, perhaps. The music got louder and louder until we saw nearly twenty Firey-things dancing around a fire. They eventually spotted us as we tried to sneak by.

“Can you take off your head??” “Ya, take off your head!” They screeched at us.

We all made a run for it towards the Bog of Eternal Stench. We made it eventually and Hoggle found a rope. I climbed up and fell down in the other side and everyone else followed, except for Ludo, who ran through the wall.

“Oh my, it’s worst than I expected!” I shouted once we were over there.

“It’s worse then I remember!” Mom shouted. Hoggle nodded and we all went on. Toby wrinkled his nose and let out a sound of disgust. I giggled slightly and started to skip in front of everyone.

“DANCE MAGIC DANCE!” I started to sing.

“Who goes there?” I heard a small voice speak from the bridge. Hey, the bridge was rebuilt! That’s a good thing, Ludo won’t have to call the rocks. Although, that would be quite interesting.

Anyhoo, a small dog-like creature ran over to us from his station on the bridge. “Hoggle? Ludo? Who are these other people?” Sir Didymus glanced at mom, Uncle Toby, and me.

Hoggle smiled, a rare thing actually, and turned to introduce us. “The woman is Sarah, the young lady is her and Jareth’s daughter Emilia, and the man is Toby, Sarah’s brother.” He told the dog-like creature.

Sir Didymus bowed politely and spoke, “It is an honor to meet thou. I am Sir Didymus.”

I waved excitedly at him and said, “Hiya!”

Sir Didymus made a face that looked like he was smiling. “Where art thou going? I shall accompany you,” He asked us.

Hoggle stepped forward a bit and replied, “We’re going the same way Sarah did years ago to see everybody again.”

Sir Didymus nodded and called out, “AMBROSIUS! COME HERE!” I got slightly excited, that dog-steed-thingy was AWESOME!

“Alrighty, let’s go!” I called out to the group as Ambrosius came trotting over and Sir Didymus sat upon him. We all walked over the bridge, Mom a bit hesitant.

Once we were over the bridge, Hoggle told us to be careful of the hole. I had absolutely no idea what he meant.

“Ah! Help! Toby! Ludo!” My mom yelled up ahead, we ran towards her calls and saw a large hole in the ground. Would you look at that, he was right.

Mom clung to the side like her life depended on it. Well, I’m sure it does. I ran forward and tried to pull her up, which ended with both of us falling down the hole. I screamed and screamed until we hit a pile of… trash? I think it is trash! It’s that dump from the movie where the Junk Lady lived!

I got up and brushed off my jeans. I turned to my mother who was unconscious, it seems she hit her head on a large table. Holy David Copperfield, what do I do? I started pacing on the garbage. I got it!

I lifted up my mom and leaned her on my shoulders. I started to walk past the tall mountains of trash that loomed over me like Mount Everest.

I sighed and looked at my appearance in a broken mirror, I looked horrible. My blonde hair was a wreck, and there was dirt on my face. I hoisted mom up so she was easier to carry and went on.

I walked for at least twenty minutes until I heard a voice. “Who’s that?” I breathed out.

“Hello? Is anyone there?” I heard a masculine voice call in the distant. My eyes lit up.

“Hello! I’m here! Over here!” I shouted back happily.

A boy, probably my age, came out from behind one of the mountains (which definitely didn‘t have a luxurious mountain spa). He had dark brown hair and green eyes. Oh my cheese doodles, he’s attractive! The mystery boy flashed me an amazing smile and walked closer.

“Hey, I’m Luca, do you know where we are?” The sexy man asked me. I froze; he doesn’t know where we are?

“Uh, hi, I’m Emilia… You seriously don’t know where we are?” I answered him with a question.

He chuckled a sexy chuckle, “No, I don’t. One moment I’m at my house, and the next I’m in a dump. Do you know where we are? Let me help you with her.” Luca grabbed my mom from my shoulders.

“I know you won’t believe it, but we’re in the Underground. From a movi-”

“Labyrinth! I was thinking that, but I knew it would never happen. This is really cool, I love that movie! What are you doing here?”

I gaped at Luca, this sexy man likes Labyrinth? I realized he asked me a question. “Oh, uh, I’m Jareth and Sarah’s daughter, hehe.”

His eyes widened. “Really? That’s awesome! Do you know how to get out of here?”

I grinned widely, regaining my composure. “Yep! You know it! Come on, we walk this way!”

Luca and I started walking in the direction I pointed to, the direction I could see the Goblin City. Beyond that I could see the castle. I was almost back.

(Sorry it's been so long! And that it's short! Message me for pictures of Luca!!! xD)