Hey guys chapter 1 is up and ready!
I don’t own Labyrinth or the characters and any characters not from Labyrinth are completely made up unless I’ve stated otherwise yadayadayada…
Hope you review and tell me what you think of this first actual chapter!
Thanks guys!
Chapter 1 – The Challenge
‘Ugh! You win again Lucy!’ the boy Lucy was playing chess with got up and walked away letting the next child in line sit down to play the champion of chess in the nursery.
‘She always wins!’ another kid shouted.
‘Yeah! She wins everything. It’s not fair!’ another exclaimed as everyone started to riot and yell about how she always beat them at everything. This made the babies start crying and the goblin nannies started to run round frantic trying to calm everyone down.
‘What about when Louie beat me?’ she yelled over the commotion. ‘You know, at checkers.’ She exclaimed trying to convince them she wasn’t winning all the games they played.
‘He cheated! He started swapping the pieces and adding more in and you let him get away with it!’ Conny yelled out.
‘She’s right Lucy I did’ Louie said with a laugh. The rioting started again with all the children asking how she does it and what her secrets where.
Truth be told, she didn’t know. She’d been in the nursery for fifteen years and stopped wondering if she would be adopted and just wondered how she would survive since she can’t stay in the nursery once she turned eighteen.
‘What’s the commotion?’ a familiar voice boomed through the room.
All the children stopped yelling at Lucia and started yelling at the joy that King Jareth had visited them. They were all trying to climb on to him and get his attention.
‘It’s Lucy! She always wins everything and it’s not fair!’ yelled Tom.
‘Oh really well I bet I could beat her at anything.’ Jareth replied, with a glint in his eyes. Lucy was astonished knowing how fond he was of games and that he never loses. ‘You pick the game precious and then we will sort out the rewards.’ He told her smiling.
‘What? That is preposterous! There is no way I would verse you at a game. It is un heard of!’ she told him hoping he would forget it.
He walked up to her and leaned in close to whisper, ‘so was the goblin kings nursery and orphanage before you came here but you seem to be changing all the rules.’
She thought about it hard and realised that the only thing she could ever want in the world was laid in front of her. She knew it was a long shot but she had to try. ‘Okay. I will verse you in a game.’
