Labyrinth Fan Fiction ❯ Retold ❯ Chapter 1 ( Chapter 1 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

A/N An adult retelling of the original story. Thank you Anij for the nagging thought stuck in my mind forcing me to either write or go mad.




The owl perched surpisingly close to the girl. Eyes focused as if taking in her every movement. A passerby might have noticed this and had a fleeting lucid moment and recognized the intent gaze before dismissing it as impossible, but there were none. She always found the most isolated section of the park for her whimsical day dreaming, not wishing for cold reality to interfere in any way. It suited him just fine. This oh, so not ordinary bird of prey was quite contented having her to himself. For she did belong to him, unbeknownst to her. This beautiful and passionate creature, stuck upon the cusp of childhood dreams and womanly curves. She ran towards the bird, too self involved to ponder his lack of reaction, too arrogant to wonder why he didn't startle. He held perfectly still with anticipation as she addressed him yet again, allowing him to intertain the idea that she knew how he watched her. He raked his eyes over her heaving breast, took note of the ripe pink lips and sat there.. biding time till he could claim her as his own.She looked otherwordly in the white princess costume, a ring of flowers in her hair. He would own her for forever, not long at all.

"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 you have stolen.My will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom as great!.." shit "my will is as strong as yours, my kingdom as great..." Sarah mumbled as she flipped through the small red book she had hidden up her sleeve. "You have no power over me. Damn why can I never remember that line"

The owl flinched.

The chiming of the clock from the city center inturpted the girl's fantasy , bringing reality crashing down around her. "Shit I'm late!"
Sarah grabbed a near by dog and rushed out of the park at a break neck speed, too distracted to notice a snowy white owl keeping pace from above. Please let dad be home already, Karen can't do anything if dad is home. Please God don't let me be home alone with her after being late. She ran haphazardly through the streets taking no note of the rolling thunder, hardly acknowledging the flash of lightening. The sky opened and the rain poured.

Sarah reached home to find her dear step mother waiting at the front door. The flash of fury in her eyes belying the concern in her voice. "Well get inside before you catch a cold. No! Not you." Karen pointed at the soaked who trembled beside the girl. Condern for the dog pushed Sarah to a rare show of defiance. " But its freezing and he is soaking wet!" Sarah knew her dad must be home when Karen let her lead poor merlin to the garage to stay warm.

The older woman assumed a put upon air and pretended hurt, once againplaying victim to her husbands ears against the "petulant child" that she claimed Sarah was."Now Sarah you know we expected you home by 6. We rarely go out and when we do we ..."

"Rarely?! You go out EVERY weekend." Sarah could hardly believe herself, standing up to Karen like this. she would assuredly pay for it later.. when her father wasn't a witness.

"When we do we expect you to show some responsibility and be home as promised to take care of your brother. If you had plans you should have told us. I would have been more then happy to hear that you wanted to go out with friends.. or even if there was a boy." God she always managed to twist things around untill Sarah ended up looking ungrateful. With a defeated sigh Sarah turned to go up to her room.

"Sarah where you, we were worried?" Sarah's father said as he came out carrying Toby. Sarah could swear that even the one year old was glaring at her with reproach.

"I just can't do anything right can I?" She slammed her door and sat at an old vanity table. It was littered with pictures and news clippings. A young beautiful woman , looking alot like the child smiled back. "Mom what am i going to do?" Karen's voice carried up the stairs. " She casts me as an evil stepmother no matter what I do" The faked hurt set Sarah's teeth on edge.She took out a tuber of lip stick and tried to pretend she was some where else, some one else.

The firm knock on her door startled her out of her reverie. "Sarah? Can i talk to you?" her dad's asked through the door.

"There's nothing to talk about, you better hurry you'll be late"

"Ok, well Toby is down for a nap and the numbers are by the phone."

"Oh my God he really wanted tot alk to me, practically beat down the door." She waited untill she heard the car pull away then reached for her only comfort, a ratty stuffed bear that her mother had given her years ago. He wasn't there. "Lancelot!" she knew what had happened. Karen. Anything Sarah had the remotely connected to her real mother was target to Karen's abuse. Sarah ran across the hall into her brother's room startling him awake with the flung open door. She saw her dearest possession tossed carelessly on the floor and snapped. She ranted at the crying infant. "SHUT UP! Just shut up!" She yanks him roughly from the crib and holds him up into the air, resisting the urge to hurt him. Forcing herself to place the child back in his crib, narrowly escaping the road paved by Karen's abuse, she decides to hurt with words that a child can't understand. "You want a story? How about this one! Once upon a time there was a beautiful girl whose evil step mother hurt and abused her. Forced the girl to do all the house work and take care of her baby brother. They gave the baby everything and the girl got nothing. Little did they know that the Mighty Goblin King was in love with the girl and he had given her certain powers." God how she wished some one loved her .. she wished she were beautiful." Then one day after her cruel stepmothers harsh words and the baby's constant crying she could take it no longer! Say your right words my dear, the Goblin King sneered at her. Finnally the girl cried out, "goblin king goblin kind where ever you may be, take this child far, far away from me!"

The owl perched outside of the window had once again adopted a strange stillness as soon as the girls story had begun. He let out a disapponted breath that he realised not that he was holding. What was this rubbish? Those were not the right words. Still he had better keep a few goblins close if she was going to present him an oppurtunity to possess her he would sure as hell take it.

With an air of defeat Sarah started to walk out of the room leaving the sobbing infant. "I wish did know the words." She reached up and flipped out the light. "I wish the goblins would come and take you away, right now."

The whole house went silent and dark. It were as if time had stood still for one instant. Even the raging storm outside seemed to pause and hold its breath, as if the fates themselves had stopped and took notice of that one moment. An icy feeling started in her chest and settled in the pit of her stomach. Why was Toby not crying? She tried to flip the light switch back on. Nothing, the room was bathed in shadows, illuminated soley by moon light filtered in through the sheer curtians. Suddenly there was a scuttling sound, as if dozens of tiny feet were scampering across the floor. She whirled around and the room as empty. Slowly she crept to the crib and pulled back the blanket. Oh my God where is the baby?

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A/N This will proably be the only chapter this close to the movie. This is an ADULT version, I fully intend on including Non-con and some violence in future chapters. Of my two short storied I have yet to decide with universe this one will take place in so there is a strong possibilty of character death as well but I'm not sure yet. If this offends you stop now before its too late.