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Authors note: This has nothing to do with my last two stories even though I've reused my own characters. Hope you like it.

"Her Divine Grace, Lavena, Spirit and Essence of the Labyrinth of the Goblin Kingdom."

Her title would always be one that would turn heads, just as her beauty would. With her white blond hair and violet eyes she was a rarity but combine that with her power of a Goddess and she became one of a kind.

Walking into the High Court of the High King, King Mabon and his wife High Queen Cordelia, Lavena held her head high while whispers floated over the room. Men leered at her curvy form, women glared at her natural grace and any children in the room stared in wonder.

The room held for Court was a very large domed room, it had it's one and only entrance, which Lavena had not long walked through and at it's opposite end were the High King and Queens thrones that were raised by two very short flights of steps. Around the room, following the dome walls, was one flight of steps and at the top were chairs placed in pairs for Kings and their Queens of the different realms. Lavena, being who she was, was allowed to climb the first flight without express permission from their Highnesses. Once at the base of the second flight, she curtsied then straighten and smiled her her friends.

"To what do we owe the pleasure, Spirit of the Labyrinth?" High King Mabon's voice rang clearly in the chamber of the High Court and silenced all whispers.

"Your Highness the pleasure is all mine," Lavena said with a smile. "As I have the extreme pleasure of informing you that after over three millennia I at last have a Champion of my Labyrinth."

If the High King or Queen could command silence with their voices, then the utter lack of sound that followed Lavena's announcement could only be called 'the death of sound'. She fought hard to keep a grin from spreading on her lips at the reaction from the Courtiers.

"Are you sure?" High King Mabon asked.

"Very sure, your Highness." Lavena answered. "Her name is Sarah Williams and she is fifteen years old. Last night she wished away her younger brother but after realising her mistake, took up the Goblin King's challenge to run my Labyrinth and won her brother back by beating me and the High Prince and Goblin King, King Jareth."

"My goodness, she is so young," High Queen Cordelia commented. "I take it she is now back in the Aboveground with her family?"

"Yes, your Highness but that is where my good news ends. Just before Sarah left I looked into her future and saw that in only six Aboveground months her father and step mother will die in an accident." Gasps were audible from around the room, such was the fragile life of a human. "Sarah and her brother, Toby, will be all alone in their world and will struggle to survive. I come to beg a favour of you both for young Sarah and little Toby."

"Ask your favour, Spirit of the Labyrinth," Mabon's voice was grave with this news, but would help the Champion of the Labyrinth if he could.

"I beg that when the parents have passed on, you take Sarah and Toby as your wards," protests of agreement and disagreement began to echo around the High Court chambers. The High King raised his hand to silence them all.

"Give me one good reason why I should," he said, not wanting to say no but not wanting weeks worth of headaches from the Courtiers. Humans weren't much liked in the Underground, only the children wished were treasured.

"May I approach your Highnesses?" Curiosity graced the High King and Queen's faces at the request.

Nodding their heads in agreement, Lavena climbed the last flight of steps, bent close to the Royals and whispered her reason. The Courtiers watched the expressions of their Monarchs as the Spirit whispered to them. When she had finished the High King threw back his head and laughed whole heartedly while the Queen smiled a secret smile.

"Very well, I will gladly take The Champion of the Labyrinth, Lady Sarah and her brother Master Toby as my wards when their parents pass on. In addition to this favour, Lady Sarah will become a lady-in-waiting to my Queen." Shocked silence followed.

What in the Underground had Lavena said to persuade the High King and Queen to take on two humans? The Courtiers would find out, but only after the Champion and her brother arrived. In the mean time rumours spread like wildfire through the Underground of the Lady Sarah and her adventure through the Labyrinth.