The Trouble With Daughters

The Trouble With Daughters

Once upon a time, far off in the realm of magic and fantasy, there lived a king. A Goblin King to be exact. This Goblin king ruled over all the Goblin kingdom. At the heart of this kingdom was a labyrinth.

The labyrinth was unlike any seen in the mortal realm. This was because it was magical, of course seeing as it was located in a magic land how could it not be?

Now this labyrinth has a special purpose, as does the King. The mortal realm had since the dawn of time had evil and dreadful people, being as they were so dreadful most had a hatred for children. It was this reason both the labyrinth and its king had a purpose. They were to take away any child willingly wished away to them and should the horrid and dreadful people want them back they were to be tested.

Of course not every person who wished away a child was really all that horrid or evil, many were simply misguided. One such person had gone by the name of Sarah Williams.

Sarah had unknowingly wished away her baby step-brother one stormy night. After realizing her mistake she pleaded with the Goblin King to give him back. But as the rules of the game stated only she could win the boy back. And so the girl ran the labyrinth.

The King put many traps in her way, hoping she would falter. For you see this particular game had been different than any played before in the Goblin Kingdom. For the mighty Goblin King, Jareth, had fallen in love with the distressed young maiden.

But the king had been foolish, in his love for the mortal girl he gave her powers. Powers that not only allowed her to call to him directly, but powers that she had been able to utilize in the labyrinth.

And so it happened, Sarah defeated the Goblin King and won back her baby brother Toby. Returning back to the mortal realm, known as the Aboveground, Sarah unknowingly sent the now distressed king into a depression.

For ten years the Goblin King sulked over his lost love. Little did he know during the same ten years the mortal girl Sarah lamented over the same matter.

It hadn't been long after her victory that the girl realized what she had done, for she had also fallen in love. And so the two drowned in their woes till the day Sarah's young brother spoke his fateful words.

The girl was whisked away to the magic realm, the Underground. Now after a period of yelling and screaming, on both parts, the two finally confessed their love for the other. It was this that led into what this story is really about.

After being wed and a few good nights in bed Sarah, now Goblin Queen, became pregnant. The child would be a girl, a daughter and princess of the Goblin Kingdom.

King Jareth had been ecstatic and eagerly awaited the birth of his little girl. Though had he known how things would go it has been noted he would have fled the Underground.

Robin grew up as most princesses Underground, she had everything her heart desired which included having her father wrapped tightly around her finger. She grew to be beautiful, the prize of the Goblin Kingdom.

Life was good for the Goblin Royal family, at least until Princess Robin had turned twenty. The age where most fae acted out. And this is where we start our tale, in the throne room of the Castle Beyond the Goblin City.

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Robin sat on her father's throne, one leg thrown over the arm much as her father did. She sighed heavily as she looked into the crystal in her hand. She was bored, utterly, totally and completely bored. She needed something to do. And she needed something exciting. All her father ever allowed her was to take her horse Jupiter out to the river. She had of course grown tired of horseback ridding long ago. Though it seemed, just as her father, she still found joy in wearing the attire. A particular habit that the Queen hated.

Why couldn't she wear dresses like a real lady? Her mother used to say. But Robin was stubborn just like both of her parents. She refused to dress like a Princess, to go to Court or balls. All she wanted was some real adventure. Ones like her father used to tell her when she was little.

Her father never let her go out into the labyrinth when there was a player, nor would he allow her to watch from a crystal. Though little did he know that for the past five years Robin had become strong enough in her magic to conjure her own crystal to watch, and watch undetected.

"What are you doing young lady? You should be at your dance lessons right now!" Jareth stood before his throne, his hands on his hips. He loved his daughter very much, but sometimes she could be a pain in the rear end.

"They were cancelled. Lady Eilen fell and hurt her ankle." Jareth bit back a remark, he could just imagine how that happened. People seemed to get hurt a lot when Robin didn't want to do something. His daughter was lucky she never tried anything on him.

"Ah I see, how about going and starting on your reading early?" The sound that came from the Princess was one that Jareth had heard all to often, and not to mention a sound that spelled doom for all the castle. Princess Robin was bored and annoyed.