Alien King

Chapter 1

Author's Note:

This is a story that I've co-authored with a friend of mine (her name is sarahlet2999 and you better go and check her out!) We've written the entire thing and are just editing the final touches. 

Please enjoy this extremely AU Labyrinth fanfic.

carlysullivan9

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Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN JARETH OR THE MOVIE LABYRINTH. My friend and I just own this idea. This very cool idea (all of Sarah's idea actually) for those of you with doubts! 

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"I knew I should have gotten fuel before I left." Jareth muttered as he crawled, almost completely unscratched, from the wreckage of his small ship. It laid in a self-made hole in the middle of some kind of park, locked in the dark of night with only one full moon shining dangerously close to the surface.

"Where am I...?" He brushed off his clothes off and turned around in circles, trying to place the planet on which he found himself stranded, communication devices smashed in the landing. Returning his gaze to the ship, he used his elegant calf-high boot to kick at a twisted bit of metal before groaning.

"At least a month's work. At least." Groaning frustratedly, he tossed a crystal at his ship, forming a protective seal around it as well as concealing it from those with harmful intentions. With his battered black cloak fluttering behind him, he set off down a path. "If I am fortunate, the life on this planet shall be intelligent."

Once away from the shelter of the trees and bushes of the park, a cold wind howled through the empty streets running through a rundown section of town. Jareth tugged his cloak tighter around him, warding off the cold of the planet and muttered under his breath, "What some people will call home."

As he hurried down the path, he saw a girl approaching him, her well-worn cloak wrapped tightly around her. An inhabitant! By her appearance, one resembling himself, he eliminated all but four of the planets in the solar neighborhood. Once she had walked within a few yards of him, he addressed her in his native tongue, commonly used as a trade language among the planets.

The girl, a pretty redhead with blue eyes, eyed his suspiciously and muttered something under her breath before taking a step back from him.

"Come again?" She asked, brushing a lock of hair from her face and revealing smudge marks over her cheeks and forehead with a dab on her chin. Bags hung under her eyes and her nose was crooked, having broken and healed wrong at some point in her life.

"Forgive me, Miss. I merely wished to inquire where I am." He shifted his language into perfect English, pleased with limiting his new 'home' down to two possible options. Running a hand through his untamed mullet, he smiled at her, revealing slightly crooked teeth. She responded with a half smile and shrugged.

"Downtown Austin." She answered. "You new around here or somethin'?"

"You could say that." He replied after a short pause. His lessons in geography had been exceptionally thorough but, now he regretted forgetting details that didn't apply to his home planet. "Where might...Austin be?"

The girl scrunched her eyebrows and shifted from one foot to another.

"...In Texas." She replied slowly as if she was speaking to a toddler. "Yeah, you definitely ain't from 'round here."

"A state in America..." He muttered to himself, bits and pieces of his education surfacing from the depths of his mind."Earth! Excellent."

"No!" She stated sarcastically. "We're on Jupiter."