FW: FANFIC: Labyrinth of Illusions Ch7-8
Amethyst
Subject: [labyfic] Now the real Ch 7 of LOI
From: "Kitty, the Night Owl" <kit...@gte.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 19:11:00 -0400
I don't believe I did that! I sent chapter 7 of Illusions of Reality and
not Labyrinth of Illusions!!! AGHHHHHH Here's the correct chapter 7,
really, it is.
So sorry.
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Labyrinth of Illusions
Chapter Seven
"I think I know the answer," Sarah said with surprise. She leaned to
Jareth and whispered it in his ear.
He smiled and said, "My thoughts exactly."
Sarah turned to the Prophets and pointing to the one on the left she
said, "You are Diplomacy, and," she pointed to the middle Prophet, "you
are Falsehood, and," to the one of the right she said, "you are Truth."
The three prophets looked at each other in awe and amazement as they
melted back into the pool. The water began to swirl counter-clockwise,
faster and faster, then it slowly drained out of the pool. What
remained was a hole, and in the hole was a circular staircase, leading
back the way they had come.
They descended the stairs, since that was the only way out, and wondered
what they would find below the surface this time.
This time they emerged into a lush jungle, alive with the sounds of
birds, insects and other living creatures.
A path was at their feet and they followed, going deeper and deeper into
the jungle. Behind them, an orange cat followed silently in the trees.
The air in the jungle was hot and humid. It wasn't long before Sarah
had to stop and rest. They sat down and Sarah laid her head on Jareth's
shoulder and soon fell asleep. The orange cat sat hidden in a tree
across from them, her green eyes staring at them through the foliage.
Jareth shifted slightly and lowered Sarah's head onto his lap and
watched her sleep.
In the castle, Edric was watching them in a crystal ball. Murla stood
at his side and stared blankly into space.
"They will never make it on time at that pace!" he said, delighted.
Murla slowly focused her eyes on the crystal ball. Something deep within
her stirred, trying to awaken. Sarah and Jareth, she thought numbly. A
wave of fear swept through her and she gave Edric a panicked look.
He frowned at her and said, "Do not fight it, Murla. I am a generous man
when pleased. Defy me and my cruelty has no limits."
For some reason, his spell was not working on this young woman. He
wasn't sure why, but no matter what he did, she still was able to
resist. As a D'vri she shouldn't have much magic at all, he thought.
The D'vri discourage their children from using it and by the time they
are adults they no longer have the ability to use the power they were
born with. But Murla seemed different; she seemed to have enough magic
to resist his spell. Bridget made that mistake once, he thought dryly,
but only once. He laughed and thought, how fitting that she conceived
Jareth as punishment for trying to escape that first night.
Murla heard and understood Edric's threat and stopped trying to break
free from his spell. She stared blankly at the wall and succumbed to
his magic.
Jareth heard a rustle in the tree and looked up to find a pair of green
eyes observing him with mild curiosity.
"Hello there," he said quietly.
The cat gracefully jumped out of the tree and sauntered over to Jareth,
rubbing affectionately against his leg. A large amount of hair stuck to
his pants and he tried to brush it off without disturbing Sarah.
The cat rubbed her head against his hand, then turned and ran off into
the jungle. Jareth looked down to find a very small mirror in his
palm. He closed his fingers around it and waited for Sarah to wake up
from her nap.
Once Sarah was awake, Jareth discreetly hid the mirror in his pants
pocket. Chatelle had risked her life by entering the Labyrinth and
giving Jareth one of her prized mirrors. If his father found out he
would he be enraged and would surely punish Chatelle.
To: Fanfic - Labyrinth <labyrint...@issl.atl.hp.com>
Subject: [labyfic] LOI Ch 8
From: "Kitty, the Night Owl" <kit...@gte.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 19:15:10 -0400
Labyrinth of Illusions
Chapter Eight
Sarah and Jareth followed the path until it disappeared into the lush
jungle plants that surround them. Then the trees and plants seemed to
melt, morphing into an endless hallway with doors on both sides.
They both began trying to open the doors, one by one. They pushed and
pushed but the doors were unmovable. They bore no knobs, knockers,
peepholes, hinges or locks. And yet there they were, set into the
arched, stone depressions that lined the endless hall.
"Well?" Sarah said. "He's your father, what's the deal here." She sat
down against a door and stared up at Jareth. He leaned against the
opposite door and Sarah cried out in surprise as her door moved. Jareth
released his weight from the opposite door as Sarah stood up. They stuck
their heads around the edge of the door, trying to see beyond it.
On the other side of the door was a black nothingness, thick as
molasses. Sarah thrust her hand into the darkness and quickly pulled it
back, feeling chilled to the bone. As they strained to make out
something in the blackness the door gave an ear-splitting crackle as the
rotted wood gave way. With a shriek, Sarah tumbled into the darkness.
She felt Jareth grab her dress, then nothing. The thick, suffocating
blanket of dark wrapped around her. Her last thought before losing
consciousness was of the time when she was four and fell into a lake.
Sarah slowly opened her eyes, then closed them and groaned. A loud
rushing noise assaulted her ears making her head throb. She tried to
open her eyes again but they wouldn't obey her command. Trying to sit up
was out of the question. A wave of nausea swept over her and she rolled
onto her side. To late, she realized her mistake as she felt the edge of
the rocky ground beneath her crumble and break away, falling into a
large abyss.
Jareth sat up and breathed deeply with his eyes still closed. He
recognized the wail of the rushing air across the great cavern. His eyes
shot open as he realized that they were on the very edge of the Terrible
Howling Gulf. Before him he saw the bottomless Pit of Grief and Sarah,
who was about to roll of the edge. He lunged forward and grabbed her as
the eroded rock gave way. She huddled in his trembling arms as they
listened to the falling rock bounce off the sides of the endless pit,
until they could no longer hear the echoes.
The wind across the gulf made an unsettling wail. If they listened hard
enough they could almost hear voices coming from the cavern below. The
Voices cried out in grief and sorrow then rose on the winds to be swept
across the barren land.
Jareth stood up and led Sarah off the cliff. Before them stretched an
endless wasteland, as far as the eye could see.
"Where are we?" Sarah asked.
"The Wastes of Wandering," he solemnly replied. A place where even
goblins fear to tread, he silently added.
Above them the sky glowed with an orange fire and the air was hot and
dry. The red soil beneath their feet crunched like snow as they trekked
across the endless plain. Not a sign of life was visible. No plants grew
in the parched ground, no animals scurried beneath their feet, and not a
bird dotted the sky. Sarah looked back and was surprised to see the
Terrible Howling Gulf far off in the distance even though they had only
been walking for several minutes.
The sky turned from deep orange to bronze, then black as the sun went
down, leaving them in darkness. Stars lit up the night sky, stars that
were at once alien and familiar to Sarah. In her short time Underground
she had spent many evenings gazing into the sky as she did now. Jareth
knew she was searching for the sense of security one gets from looking
up each night and seeing the same, familiar constellations. The stars
here were his, the ones he'd known all his life, but for Sarah they were
out of place, wrong, and she scanned the sky, as she did almost every
night, trying to find her place in the universe she once thought she
understood.
Before her eyes a shadow loomed above them, so quietly and quickly that
it's significance didn't register in her brain until a heartbeat after
it appeared.
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