#…¡Throne Labyrinth!…

[bunbrii]

Ahhhh, as soon as I saw these outfits I wanted to sketch them!!! ◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜ I might make a full drawing, but I wanted to post right away! /

Ahhhh, apenas vi estos outfits quise dibujarlos!!! ◝(ᵔᗜᵔ)◜ Quizás haga un dibujo completo, pero quería publicarlo de inmediato.

Closeup + Crown Version / De cerca + Versíon Corona

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Throne Labyrinth by @groriatrevi10xx

Brittany belongs to @askkassandragf-v-2

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Also… / También…

Since I learned Brittany practiced dark magic, I had a theory that her arms would be black like Arma’s. Yay, I was right!!! ^-^ /

Desde que supe que Brittany practicaba magia oscura, tenía la teoría de que sus brazos serían negros como los de Arma. Hurra, tenía razón!!!

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[groriatrevi10xx]

G: Puedo apostar mi vida a que la Ex-Reina Scarlett habría amado mucho a su nieta y hubiera preferido que ella hubiera sido su Hija.../I can bet my life that Ex-Queen Scarlett would have loved her granddaughter very much and would have preferred her to have been her Daughter...

Aunque la razón obvia por la que la habría preferido como su Hija es porque ella realmente no destaca tanto como Umbra... Incluso si suena cruel.../Although the obvious reason he would have preferred her as his Daughter is because she doesn't really stand out as much as Umbra... Even if it sounds cruel...

{M: Aunque si hubiera amado a Brittany, porque sus actitudes son similares.../Although if he had loved Brittany, because their attitudes are similar...

Si Teagan supiera que su abuela era la “Reina de Corazones”, uff… Que escándalo…/If Teagan knew that her grandmother was the "Queen of Hearts", ugh... What a scandal...

Es demasiado ignorante para ver que no es la Hija original de Umbra y demasiado vaga para querer estudiar la Historia del mundo donde vive.../She is too ignorant to see that she is not the original Daughter of Umbra and too lazy to want to study the History of the world where she lives...

Pero bueno, así amamos a nuestra chica fresa... ✨/But hey, that's how we love our strawberry girl... ✨}

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@askkassandragf-v-2

[thatcatangelwriter]

annabeth doesn't talk about what luke said when he came to her house asking her to run away with him and no matter how hard the others try she won't say anything.

[geekynerfherder]

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The art of Rebekah Isaacs.

[the-common-cowgirl]

It’s Only Forever, Not Long at All…

Labyrinth AU Mini-Series. Each chapter based on the chronological soundtrack of the cult classic film, Labyrinth (1986).

Goblin King!Aemond Targaryen x Fem!Reader

Rating: Explicit - Warnings applied to each chapter

Summary: Your favorite teenage novel becomes your life as a silly mistake earns you a race against time to save your baby sister from the Goblin King, Aemond. As you race through his Labyrinth, he slowly grows enamored by you as he watches you through his crystal.

Chapter 1: Into the Labyrinth

Chapter 2: Magic Dance

Chapter 3: Sarah

Chapter 4: Chilly Down

Chapter 5: Hallucination

Chapter 6: As the World Falls Down

Chapter 7: The Goblin Battle

Chapter 8: Within You

Chapter 9: Thirteen O’Clock

Chapter 10: Home at Last

Epilogue: Underground

[bipolar-boygirl]

Previous post made me think about the fact that Jareth is a fucking owl and I just

THAT'S why the castle and the goblin city are crawling with chickens and there's straw everywhere, and there's those puppet birds nesting in the throne room. But that also opens more questions. Does he just like birds? Like did he choose to transform into an owl because he just thinks they're neat? Is the owl transformation something he has no control over and therefore feels kindred to birds in general?? Are they birds subjects??? So many possibilities oh my god

[mascamaiorum]

Knossos Palace / throne room

Ikana Castle

[0daughter-of-apollo0]

Welp, we learn new things everyday, don't we?

[jaronxlordashcombe]

YAY

I have finally gottening an Ao3 account cant wait to start posting!

[kurocookieemi]

Reciting the Riot Act (Lotus Princess x Throne Labyrinth)

Ren Hua: “you contemptuous pig! how dare you treat your own mother and the people who work under you so despicably! you need to be grateful that Queen Umbra decided to take you into her care, yet this is how you repay everything she has done for you?! shame on you! this despicable behavior is unbefitting of a princess, i would even go as far to say that you do not deserve to be a princess at all! you sicken me so much that i could upchuck all over you right this moment!”

so…. i completely redesigned Ren Hua in my AU that was inspired by Groria’s Throne Labyrinth. i decided to name the AU “Lotus Princess” since the lotus is one of RH’s many main motifs (even though she loves all other flowers as well). here i drew what it were to be like if Lotus Princess and Throne Labyrinth were to have a crossover, since unlike Brittany/Teagan, Ren Hua is a very kind princess who is very grateful that the royal family adopted her.

Ren Hua and Lotus Princess belong to me

Brittany/Teagan belongs to @askkassandragf-v-2

Throne Labyrinth belongs to @groriatrevi10xx

[bunbrii]

I was working on this earlier and didn’t want to scrap it, so so here it is… (ーー;) I guess it would be considered a “headcanon?” I didn’t rewrite anything I already wrote. /

Estuve trabajando en esto antes y no quería descartarlo, así que aquí está... (ーー;) Supongo que se consideraría un "headcanon?” No reescribí nada de lo que ya escribí.

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After seeing Groria’s latest post {Not her actual latest anymore}, I started to think about Princess Brittany’s reaction to their relationship I don’t think TL!Brittany would be homophobic like her other versions since she was raised by Umbra, and I think it would be cute if she supported the potential lovebirds. However… /

Después de ver la última publicación de Groria {Ya no es su última publicación}, comencé a pensar en la reacción de la princesa Bretaña ante su relación (?). ¡No creo, TL! Brittany sería homofóbica como sus otras versiones desde que fue criada por Umbra, y creo que sería lindo si apoyara a los posibles tortolitos. Sin embargo…

“Peyton, you’re supposed to be the brave loyal knight, stop freezing up! Just remember what we practiced!” / -Peyton, se supone que eres el valiente caballero leal, ¡deja de congelarte! ¡¡Solo recuerda lo que practicamos!

Brittany would try her best to assist Peyton romantic endeavors. However, with Brittany's ideas coming from her favorite stories, her advice can be a bit...iffy. / Brittany haría todo lo posible para ayudar a Peyton en sus esfuerzos románticos. Sin embargo, dado que las ideas de Brittany provienen de sus historias favoritas, su consejo puede ser un poco… cuestionable.

Throne Labyrinth -> @groriatrevi10xx

Brittany, Olivia, and Peyton -> @askkassandragf-v-2

Transcript Below / Transcripción a continuación

English

Brittany: Ok ok, let’s make this simple.

Brittany (Narrating): Now, let’s say you two are standing in the palace gardens…

Peyton: The flowers are beautiful today.

Olivia: Ah, yes they are…

Peyton: However…

Olivia: ?

Peyton: None compare to you, my Sweet Lavender~

Olivia: Oh Peyton!

Peyton (Dispersing the fantasy): That’s too much!

Español

Brittany: Ok, ok, hagamos esto simple.

Brittany (Narrando): Ahora, digamos que ustedes dos están en los jardines del palacio…

Peyton: Las flores están hermosas hoy.

Olivia: Ah, sí lo son…

Peyton: Sin embargo…

Olivia: ?

Peyton: Ninguna se compara con ti, mi dulce lavanda ~

Olivia: ¡Ay Peyton!

Peyton (dispersando la fantasía): ¡Eso es demasiado!

[groriatrevi10xx]

****Jardín de las cartas/Garden of Cards****

****País de las Maravillas/Wonderland****

-Blake Blac-

"La Reina Blanca/The White Queen"

"La Reina del Ajedrez/The Queen of Chess"

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Hace mucho tiempo, antes de que existiera el "Jardín de las Cartas"... Su nombre originalmente era "Jardín de la Soledad"... En el pasado, era un Jardín sin vida y opaco, donde los cristales robaban la luz y la belleza de todo.../Long ago, before the "Garden of Cards" existed... Its name was originally the "Garden of Solitude"... In the past, it was a lifeless and dull Garden, where crystals stole the light and beauty of everything...

Era un lugar sin vida y sin belleza, a pesar de los hermosos cristales que rodeaban el área, en lo más profundo del Jardín existía un Reino más oscuro, oculto de todos con una barrera que parecía indestructible... Hasta que ya no fue así, en el Pasado la Reina Brellatana se levantó entre todos y volvió a caer, para convertirse en cenizas de una leyenda sobre Brujas y Coronas malditas.../It was a place without life and without beauty, despite the beautiful crystals that surrounded the area, deep within the Garden there was a darker Kingdom, hidden from everyone with a barrier that seemed indestructible... Until it was no longer so, in the Past Queen Brellatana rose among everyone and fell again, to become ashes of a legend about Witches and cursed Crowns...

Y las cenizas volaron por todo el Jardín, esparciendo todo lo que quedaba de aquel lúgubre lugar.../And the ashes flew all over the Garden, scattering every bit of what was left of that gloomy place...

Los cristales se fueron rompiendo uno a uno, hasta que quedó el más extraño de todos... Uno pequeño, rojo, que había salido de la nada y era muy diferente a sus hermanos, brillaba con vida a diferencia de los demás... Tenía voluntad propia y un gran deseo de seguir existiendo.../The crystals broke one by one, until the strangest of all remained... A small, red one, which had come out of nowhere and was very different from its brothers, it shone with life unlike the others... It had a will of its own and a great desire to continue existing...

Nadie sabe cómo sucedió, nadie está vivo para verlo... Pero de ese pequeño cristal, surgió todo tipo de la mayor locura, que llenó de vida nuevamente el Jardín... "Todos podemos sonreír esta vez", pensó el cristal con misteriosa magia, incluso para él... "Un nuevo comienzo, resurgiremos de las cenizas"... Así el Jardín se llenó de vida, de una extraña magia que algunos podrían llamar locura.../No one knows how it happened, no one is alive to see it... But from that small crystal, came all kinds of the greatest madness, which filled the Garden with life again... "We can all smile this time," thought the crystal with mysterious magic, even for him... "A new beginning, we will rise from the ashes"... Thus the Garden was filled with life, with a strange magic that some might call madness...

“Habrá flores que bailen, que canten, árboles que den postres, caminos que se muevan, habrá muebles que hablen, que puedan moverse solos, tengo tantas ideas”… Fue lo último que dijo el cristal, antes de explotar y dar un nuevo comienzo… Aún nuevo Jardín y tal vez, un nuevo Reino con vida…/"There will be flowers that dance, that sing, trees that give desserts, paths that move, there will be furniture that talks, that can move by itself, I have so many ideas"... It was the last thing the crystal said, before exploding and giving a new beginning... Still a new Garden and perhaps, a new Kingdom with life...

Así nació el “Jardín de las Cartas”, con impenetrables muros dorados, un Jardín rodeado de locura, mientras las cartas se mueven y bromean de un lado a otro, o el Ajedrez lucha entre sí... Hay muchas locuras por ahí.../This is how the "Garden of Cards" was born, with impenetrable golden walls, a Garden surrounded by madness, while the cards move and joke back and forth, or Chess fights each other... There are many crazy things out there...

Con un nuevo Reino vivo, lleno de risas y locura, como el País de las Maravillas.../With a new Kingdom alive, full of laughter and madness, just like Wonderland...

Es una historia vaga, pero a ella le encanta... A Blake le encanta la historia, aunque no hay tantos detalles la ha memorizado... Mientras ve las piezas de ajedrez moverse, la chica frente a ella tiene un destino oscuro, le recuerda a Scarlett y Hela... Cómo las extraña, solían ser tan cercanas... Pero cada una había forjado un camino, ella había elegido el suyo al igual que ellas, aunque les había advertido.../It's a vague story, but she loves it... Blake loves history, although there aren't that many details she has memorized it... While she watches the chess pieces move, the girl in front of her has a dark destiny, it reminds her of Scarlett and Hela... How she misses them, they used to be so close... But each one had forged a path, she had chosen hers just like them, although she had warned them...

--¿Es usted pariente de la familia Benaroch?.../Are you related to the Benaroch family?...--

Teagan pregunta sin rodeos... Pero la mujer simplemente se ríe.../Teagan asks bluntly... But the Woman just laughs...

--¡Oh no!... Que horrible, yo no tengo nada que ver con ese apellido, pero sí con Scarlett, ella se casó con ese hombre y luego Hela igualmente se cambió el apellido... Ja, el apellido Blac ha quedado en las sombras, sólo yo lo poseo... Al menos.../Oh no!... How horrible, I have nothing to do with that surname, but I do with Scarlett, she married that man and then Hela changed her surname anyway... Ha, the surname Blac has been left in the shadows, only I possess it... At least...--

La princesa se queda en silencio.../The Princess falls silent...

--Si estás buscando el libro de Scarlett, no te diré dónde está Teagan.../If you're looking for Scarlett's book, I won't tell you where Teagan is...--

--¿C-Cómo sabes m-mi nombre?... No te lo he dicho.../H-How do you know m-my name?... I haven't told you...--

Pero la Reina del Ajedrez sólo sonríe, el destino lo deciden ellos mismos... Ella ha sido capaz de leer cada párrafo, a pesar de que Scarlett y Hela la han llamado loca varias veces.../But the Queen of Chess only smiles, the fates are decided by themselves... She has been able to read every paragraph, even though Scarlett and Hela have called her crazy several times...

--Brittany, vuelve a casa... Umbra debe estar preocupada, realmente no planeo decirte dónde está el Libro de Scarlett... Dime, ¿vale la pena perder todo lo que tienes?.../Brittany, come home... Umbra must be worried, I really don't plan on telling you where the Book of Scarlett is... Tell me, is this worth losing everything you have for?...--

Pero la niña no responde.../But the girl doesn't answer...

--Así sea, querida Blancanieves... Espero que no te arrepientas.../So be it, dear Snow White... I hope you don't regret it...--

Y el País de las Maravillas sigue sonriendo, mientras la Reina Blanca desaparece, perdiéndose en el Palacio de Ajedrez... Dejando a una Princesa sola, sola en soledad.../And Wonderland continues to smile, while the White Queen disappears, getting lost in the Chess Palace... Leaving a Princess alone, alone in solitude...

Tal vez ir a buscar al único pariente vivo de su abuela no había sido una buena idea, como había dicho su dama de compañía... Ahora el libro de la abuela y sus hechizos estaban cada vez más fuera de su alcance, como la Sombra que su Madre proyectaba hacia ella.../Maybe going to look for her Grandmother's only living relative had not been a good idea, as her Lady-in-Waiting had said... Now Grandmother's book and her spells were increasingly out of her reach, like the Shadow her Mother projected towards her...

Sólo podía sentir furia, ira... Rabia.../Could only feel fury, anger... Rage...

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G: Si te preguntas dónde está este Jardín, está en algún lugar de Hello Conde, solo diré que está ubicado en ese Au... ✨/If you are wondering where this Garden is, it is somewhere in Hello Conde, I will just say that it is located in that Au... ✨

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Blake: Es mía... {It's mine...}

Hello Conde {Au} es de {Hello Conde {Au} is from}: @vanetheglitchfox - @hello-conde

Teagan {Brittany} es de {Teagan {Brittany} is from}: @askkassandragf-v-2

[loveloki555]

Some stories stay with us forever

[geekynerfherder]

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The art of PJ McQuade.

[the-common-cowgirl]

It’s Only Forever, Not Long at All…

Chapter 1: Into the Labyrinth

Labyrinth AU Mini-Series. Each Chapter based on the chronological soundtrack of the cult classic film, Labyrinth (1986).

Goblin King!Aemond Targaryen x Fem!Reader

Rating: Ch. 1 is General

Summary: Life at home is not fair, your only escape is your beloved fairytale novel, The Labyrinth. However, everything is about to change when you make a heat-of-the-moment mistake, causing you to strike an unfair deal with the one and only, Goblin King.

Warnings: teenage angst

Word Count: 2960

A/N: I know chapter 1 doesn’t delve too far from the original story, however, it’s pivotal for the remainder of the story so I kept it closely canon and will start separating in chapter 2.

Series Masterlist

Thunder rumbles distantly as you make your way across the park. The skies are gloomy overhead but you pay no attention. No, your mind isn’t stuck in the present. It dances to a realm where a handsome king holds you in his arms as you stare deeply into his eyes: in love. You clutch the fairytale novel, The Labyrinth, close to your home-made, hand sewn corset you made all by yourself after becoming infatuated with this book nearly four years ago. Now at eighteen, your childish obsession has somewhat taken over your life.

Your bedroom was covered in “Labyrinth” memorabilia. You had learned to sew garments that fit the fantasy world you pictured in your mind, creating an extensive array of different pieces. Your step-mother had a music box crafted for your sixteenth birthday, as a way of trying to grow closer to you. It was a miniature version of yourself in a big, white, puffy fantasy wedding gown and hair done up in pearls and beads in an intricate way. You loved that version of you in that music box so much that you had set out to remake the gown, it had taken two years but it was nearly finished and you couldn’t wait to put it on.

Your stepmother’s attempt at becoming friendly with you had worked, until it didn't. She had merely suggested one night recently that you should pursue a degree in fashion after you graduated since you loved sewing garments so much. The suggestion infuriated you, for she had been so close to understanding what fueled your passion for creating things, yet so far. You only created and learned to sew because of your love of reading, specifically your love of this book. How could she be so blind to not see that? That night a verbal fight had ensued between your step-mother, father and yourself. A fight so bad, your step-mother picked up your baby sister, you baby half-sister, and left the room.

The residual feelings of unease still lingered in the home, weeks after the fight. Which led to now, in the park, you reciting the main character’s words to the Goblin King and the air around you as a way to escape your home-life and reality, if only for a short while.

“Give me the child. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is great,” your mind trails off as you try to remember the next line.

“Ugh,” you groan and hit the book in your hand to your head, maybe a little too hard as it stings slightly “ I can never remember that line!” It’s true, you couldn’t, but you were also in the middle of trying to memorize the entire book so you should’ve given yourself more grace. You open the book to the page and passage in which you are trying to recite. Reading the words on the page aloud to yourself, “You have no power over me.”

As suddenly as you read the line, a large, snowy white owl swoops overhead, capturing your attention to the sky and a single raindrop falls onto your cheek as you head is cast upward to the rapidly darkening sky.

Which reminds you that you probably need to be back home by now. Your father had asked you to babysit your sister so he and your step-mother could go to a local fundraising gala and socialize the night away. The rain starts to come down harder now and you make your way back toward your home, running over the park’s bridge, right by the gazebo. Then when you reach the street, the clouds let loose and the downpour begins. You’re showered with water as you spring down the street, across a neighbor’s backyard and when you finally reach the back porch of your home that you found refuge from the wet in, you realize that not only are your garment’s soaked, so is your favorite book.

Grumbling angrily to yourself as you step into the house, past the kitchen and dining room and into the receiving room as you head up the stairs. Your self pity is stopped abruptly in your tracks as your stepmother calls from the bottom of the stairs, appearing from thin air.

“You’re late,” she called and you turned around halfway up the steps, “and you’re drenched!” She shrieks and turns to your father who is just out of sight, “Paul! Please explain to your daughter about punctuality and being presentable!” Her hair is in an updo as she puts on her earring. Her dress is a beautiful pale, satin pink; she’s the epitome of punctual and presentable.

Your father appears from the other room, “Y/N, you were not supposed to leave the house without our permission. Do you not remember that you're grounded?” His voice is stern but softer than your step-mother’s.

“I’m eighteen dad, you can’t ground me!” You stomp, childishly on the stair you’re standing on above them, water droplets falling with your action.

Your father brings up his pointer finger in warning, “As long as you live under my roof, I can still ground you. Now,” he raises his finger and points above you to the second floor, “Please take good care of Sarah tonight.”

“She’s already down for the night,” your step-mother adds as your father walks into the other room, “But if she wakes, just-”

“I know, I know,” you cut her off, “rock her to sleep and sing her her favorite songs and while I’m at it, why don’t I just give her my favorite things?” You raise your arms in a dramatic shrug.

Your step-mother sighs and grabs the baluster of the staircase, “Y/N, please do not disrespect me,” she says with a soft-sternness too familiar to you from her mouth; a plea. “I’m trying Y/N, but you’re making it,” you roll your eyes and start to walk further up the stairs, “so hard!” Her last two words are yelled to you as you go to your room, slam the door, and fall face-first onto your bed trying to drown out her yelling from downstairs.

They make you angry, both of them. They didn’t understand you or your interests. But, your father at least had the good sense not to bug you about what he didn’t understand; she didn’t. She’d constantly ask you about the book, about your projects, about the different characters, all to only ask once more, as if she didn’t store away information so important to you in her mind. You’d assumed if she truly wanted to know you, she’d make an effort. The nicest thing she had done was getting you that music box but even then, she made it more about your hobby of sewing than your passion for the fantasy element.

After some time, you heard the front door slam and that seemed to wake Sarah. You took a deep sigh, internally cursing them for waking your sister, half-sister. Pulling yourself from the bed, you made your way across the hall in the direction of the screaming to your father and step-mother’s room where Sarah had been sleeping. As you opened the door, the screaming intensified and you covered your ears as you approached the crying toddler in her pink-striped pajamas. You picked the toddler up as she continued to scream, not soothed by your presence in the slightest. You bounced her trying to sing against her wails, pacing around the room hap-hazardly as Sarah’s screams only seemed to worsen. As you passed her cradle for the third time, you recognized a stuffed animal she had been sleeping with to soothe her; your stuffed animal toy. The one your mother had given you when you were a baby.

Of course they’d give Sarah your things, she was your replacement with your father’s new wife. She was their precious girl, you were just a product of his last marriage to them, an inconvenience. You thought bitterly about how your step-mother wanted you out of the house, away at university and out of her hair and then she could play “perfect” family with her perfect daughter and no more. Just the three of them, the way it was meant to be.

And in that moment, all your anger seemed to snap.

You raised Sarah up in the air, still screaming and recited the fateful words, the words no one should say, yet…you did.

“I can bear no longer!” Tears streamed down Sarah’s face, “I wish, I wish…Goblin King! Goblin King! Wherever you may be, take this child of mine far away from me!” The wind rattled against the windows, making your heart skip a beat, wondering if somehow this chant had in fact, worked. But when you looked outside, you had just realized the sky was dark and the sun had set. You turn your attention back to Sarah as she continues to scream. “Ugh, Sarah,” you were impatient but now more relaxed as you let off steam. Laying her down, still crying, you grabbed the stuffed animal from her crib as she reached for it and walked back to your room briskly, to where it belonged. As you made your way across the hall, back toward the room Sarah was in, you heard her screaming abruptly stop. Your hand lingered above the handle of the door, wary as to why Sarah had stopped crying.

Opening the door, you called out, “Sarah?” Looking at her crib, you could see movements beneath the blanket but you couldn’t see her face. As you neared the crib, it moved sporadically, not in the way Sarah would move if she had fallen asleep. “Sarah?” You reached for the blanket to pull it from her face to make certain she was alright but the blanket moved again and you heard mischievous laughing from beneath. Your heartbeat quickened as you snatched the blanket from the crib to reveal nothing; Sarah was not there.

Behind you, you heard shuffling along the floor, then laughing as you turned, seeing a figure go underneath the queen bed skirt. Bending down in search of Sarah, you lifted the bed skirt to see nothing. “Sarah?” Your heart beat was quickening as you looked for your baby sister. “Sarah, this is not funny.” Something touched your leg and you jumped, looking down to see nothing. Shuffling was heard across the room and laughing from three different places were heard. You looked all around you in a panic, shadowy figures that resembled cats were hiding and peeking out from all around the room. You screeched as the creatures slowly emerged.

Suddenly behind you, the windows burst open with a warm gust of air and you quickly turned to be flooded with the white feathers of an owl. Covering your face so to not get scratched you shouted in fear. Then, the air was gone, the noise was gone, it was still. Slowly lowering your arms from your face, you were met with a towering, silver haired figure in a long coat, tight pants, knee high boots and an eye-patch….staring at you with a mischievous glint in his remaining eye.

And you knew.

“You’re him aren't you? You’re the Goblin King!” You accused, stepping back in fright. “I want my sister back, please, if it’s all the same.”

The corners of his mouth quirked, “What’s said is said.” His stern voice held finality.

“But I didn’t mean it,” you pleaded.

His smile grew from your words, “Oh you didn’t?” Raising a single brow.

A creature, a goblin, ran from behind you, frightening you into another shriek, between your legs and behind the King who waved his hands in front of each other and procured a glass-looking ball from what seemed thin air, like a magic trick. “I’ve brought you,” the orb danced across his fingertips as he transferred it from one hand to the other, “a gift.”

You felt inclined to take a step toward him but refused that feeling, “What is it?”

“It’s a crystal, nothing more. But, if you turn it this way and look into it,” he turned the crystal closer toward you, “it will show you your dreams. But it is not a gift for an ordinary girl who takes care of a screaming baby.” He looked down to the crystal and his smile turned upside down as he looked up to you mischievously and threw the crystal at you, turning into a snake midair and landing on your chest. You screamed in terror as the snake fell to your feet and spun in tight circles, turning into a goblin and who laughed up at you.

When you raised your head to look at the king and you were suddenly in a new place, a realm of some sort, his realm. It was a dusty landscape and he stood above you, a warm wind blowing his silver locks across the tall black collar of his dust jacket. He raised a hand aside himself and procured an image of an ornate, golden grandfather clock whose hands spun sporadically. “You have twelve hours in which to solve the Labyrinth before your baby sister becomes one of us, forever.” He grinned devilishly, “At the center of the Labyrinth lies the Goblin City, and, my castle. You will find us there, waiting.” He pointed out beyond you.

You looked behind you to the massive maze in which you had to make it through in order to save your baby sister. At the center, far off in the distance, sitting atop a hill was a large castle: your destination.

“Turn back, turn back before it’s too late,” his voice rang behind you. As you turned you realized he had gotten closer, strangely close to you.

“I can’t,” you professed. “Don’t you know why I can't?”

He laughed deeply as he stepped backwards and began to disappear, “Such a pity.” His voice echoed around you, taunting you, encouraging you to fail.

You took a deep breath, stilling your mind and readied yourself for the task at hand. Turning, you set off and hurried down the hill to the tall, light dusty stone walls of the Labyrinth. Beginning your adventure into the world you had loved from pages for so long, that had now somehow, become your worst nightmare. You had to save your sister. You had to undo what you had caused. You had to solve the Labyrinth.

As you reached the towering walls you looked for an entrance into the maze and found there was none in sight, so you ran along the walls one way till you were nearly out of breath. Not seeing an end in sight, you turned and ran back the way you came and past that, until you were sorely out of breath. There was no entrance in sight, nothing but high stone walls that went on forever.

Feeling defeated and angry, you fell to the ground on your bottom, yelling, “It’s not fair!” Picking up a rock and throwing it to the wall without it to bounce back, rather, going through the wall. This puzzled you and you tilted your head.

“Life’s not fair,” a gravelly voice sounded behind you, causing you to startle. You saw a strange looking goblin walking about, spraying fairies and paying no mind to you.

“Hey! Don’t hurt them,” you reach out to scoop up an injured fairy that had been sprayed by this goblin. It looked at you with its little eyes and cute wings. You wondered why he had sprayed a thing so innocent and minding itself.

Then you felt a sharp sting in your hand and dropped the fairy, “Ow! It bit me!” Holding your hand to your mouth to stop the small pain.

“What did you expect a fairy to do?” He grogged and turned toward you as if we were dull.

“I don’t know…nice things like granting wishes?”

The goblin rolled his eyes, “Shows what you know, don’t it?” He returned to spraying the fairies but you had an idea.

Jumping up, “Hey, you live here don’t you? Why don’t you show me how to get into this place?” You put your hands on your hips with renewed hope.

The goblin and his sprayer turned, “Well, have you tried to get in?”

You furrowed your brow in confusion, “I’ve looked but there doesn't seem to be an entrance-”

“Just go through it,” he replied hastily, bored with your presence.

This puzzled you further. “Go through it?” You echoed and he merely nodded his head.

To get in you just walk in.” He spoke as if it were the plainest answer possible, the impossible.

Intrigued by his suggestion and oddly believing this goblin despite what help he offered to be very impossible, you decided to try it. So, you turned and walked to the stone wall with trepidation, hands raised. As you neared the wall, your hands slowly disappeared, then your arms, then you were on the other side of the wall, in the Labyrinth.

Elated, you returned back to the outside to thank this helpful goblin. “Wow, I just go through it!” He only rolled his eyes and returned to spraying the fairies. “Thank you, uh,” you hadn’t gotten his name.

“Hoggle,” he offered while paying you minimal attention.

“Thank you, Hoggle!” Excited, you slipped back into the maze. Turning around, you looked at the high walls before you and exhaled a deep sigh. Into the Labyrinth you went in search of your sister, to right your wrong, to defeat the Goblin King.

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