So recently I've been watching Jim Henson's the Labyrinth and reading it's sequel Return to the Labyrinth and the prequel Labyrinth: Coronation and this popped into my head. This won't be exactly like the franchise but the list below will give you an idea on what roles the characters will fill. They won't be exactly like those characters and they'll have their original personalities.
Juvia Lockser - Sarah Williams
Gray Fullbuster - Jareth
Natsu Dragneel - Toby Williams
Lucy Heartfilia - Moppet
Gajeel Redfox - Hoggle
Happy - Sir Didymus
Elfman Struass - Ludo
Erza Scarlet - Hana
Jellal Fernandes - Sir Skubbin
Frosch - The worm
Alok - The Owl King
Briar - Mizumi
I recommend watching the Labyrinth and reading it's sequel and prequel otherwise you'll have a hard time understanding this to understand this.
Hello reader, I see it is this story that you've chosen to read. I must say that I'm very grateful to you for choosing this story because I'm the one who wrote it and I can assure that every word written in this story is true though if you choose not to believe the events that had taken place in this story then that is your choice but this story is very real and I know because I played a big part in it. My name Is Natsu Dragneel and this is the story of me, my sister, and our adventure in a world called the Labyrinth.
Before I begin this story I suppose I should tell you a little about myself and my sister. I was born to Igneel and Grandeeney Dragneel, Dad was a business man who worked in advertising and Mom was a typical house wife. They were good parents and they took care of me but things weren't really interesting for us then my sister came into our lives.
Juvia was her name, Juvia Lockser and even though we don't share the same blood she'll always be my sister. Her father was a writer and her mother was an actress, she loved watching her perform on stage. She and her father attended almost every show her mother was in and sometimes she would go backstage and play dress up with some of the costumes. She wanted to be an actress too and her mother often talked about mentoring her in acting but unfortunately that was never going to happen.
It started one cold night in January, Juvia and her family were driving home from another one of her mother's shows but they were driving in icy weather and their car skidded off the road, tumbling down into a rocky ravine. Her parents were killed but she received only a cut on the forehead. Mom and Mrs. Lockser had been friends since high school, Juvia didn't have any living relatives, and Mom had always dreamed having a little girl so she adopted her into our family.
At first all Juvia could do was just sit around quietly, looking emotionless but then again wouldn't you be the same way if you were six and had lost your entire family? Then she started just staying in the room we gave her, playing with her toys and reading her books. She would occasionally speak to me but we didn't really bond until that time she caught a fever a month after she arrived, she had to stay in bed all day which was boring so I decided to entertain her by putting on little shows with her toys. She laughed at my shows and that was the first time she had laughed since the accident. Three weeks later when I broke my leg skate boarding and was bed ridden for six weeks she read me stories. By the time my leg had recovered the two of us had become as thick as thieves.
Life was simple for us when we were children. We just went to school, did our chores, and spent the rest of the day playing games. Juvia was always so very imaginative and she had an extreme love of fantasy and theatrics. She would write plays and we would perform them for our parents, other times she would make up stories and tell them to us. As for me I was more into sports and while she never was a big fan of them she would always go outside to play football, basket ball, or soccer with me and Dad. Of course she stunk but we didn't care we were having fun. Yes childhood was great but when we became teenagers that's when things really got hard.
As expected puberty sucked for both of us but the results were worth it. I became extraordinarily handsome, the ladies adored me but they didn't really show their adoration that much. But despite my boyish good looks I had trouble in high school, I struggled in my classes and I couldn't get good grades. It's not like I didn't try I just couldn't understand the lessons. Juvia had her share of trials too, she did well in her classes and got way better grades than me but she had trouble socializing with our class mates. The other girls always made fun of her and would spread the nastiest rumors about her for no reason at all but if you ask me they did it because they were jealous of her. My sister is a very beautiful girl, much prettier than those mean little witches who bullied her. I swear if they weren't chicks I would've beaten them up.
But our high school life only plays a small part in this story. This story is mostly about us and our adventure in the Labyrinth. What is the Labyrinth you ask? Well at first I thought it was just a story but I later found out that it was all too real and we found ourselves getting very involved with two of it's main characters. The Goblin King and his sister.
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Juvia walked up the porch of her house and went inside where she found her adopted mother Grandeeney in the kitchen cooking dinner like always.
"Is that you Juvia dear?" The white haired woman in her late thirties asked while stirring a pot that was cooking on the stove.
"Yes Mom." The sixteen year old girl with blue hair answered.
"Where's your brother?"
"Football practice."
"I see. Did you have a good day at school?"
The answer to that was a no. At lunch nobody would let her sit at their table so she had to sit over by the garbage cans then later when she tried to audition for the part of Juliet in the school's upcoming play, she blew her chance when one of the other girls auditioning tripped her on purpose. And to top it all off another rumor had been started about her. This one said that she was an escapee from a psychiatric ward, now anyone who didn't know her would probably think that she was a schizophrenic or something.
"School was great." She always lied to her parents about what really happened at school because she didn't want them to worry about her so much.
"Natsu told me this morning that you were going to audition for the school play. How did that go?"
"Oh I changed my mind. I didn't want to be in the play."
"But you love the theater."
"I know but...I'm...I'm just not ready to perform in front of a live audience yet."
"Okay."
Two hours later Natsu came home from football practice and Igneel came home from work, just in time for dinner. All four of them sat down at the table to eat and discuss things.
"I saw your report card today Natsu." Said the thirty something red haired man who was known as Igneel. "Why are you getting a D in English? You told me that you would do better."
"I am doing better, last time it was an F." The salmon haired teenager said to his father.
"It's not funny Natsu. If you keep getting grades like this I'm going to have to ask your coach cut you from football this year."
"Dad it's not my fault. I try but I just can't understand it."
"What is it that you can't understand?"
"I don't know and my teacher, Mr. Zero, I swear he's out to get me."
"Oh darling don't be so paranoid." Grandeeney said.
"I could tutor you Natsu." Juvia suggested. "I do really well in English."
"Thanks sis but I don't think I'll pass Mr. Zero's class even if I do get extra help."
"Speaking of help, Juvia can you do me a favor?" Grandeeney asked.
"What is it?"
"I told Mrs. Fullbuster that tomorrow I would help her clean out her attic but I forgot that tomorrow happens to be my dentist appointment so could you be a dear and help her out?"
"I guess, you know we've lived next to Mr. and Mrs. Fullbuster for years and I've never even spoken to them."
"That because they're freaks." Natsu said.
"Natsu!" Igneel scolded.
"It's true Dad! They never leave their house, they don't talk to anyone, and they always look so disturbed. I bet they're psycho killers or something."
"Now that's enough!" Grandeeney said. "I've spoken to Mrs. Fullbuster plenty of times and she's a very lovely woman. She and her husband, they're not weird they're just sad."
"Sad?"
"Yes. Something happened to them a long time ago, something that happened before we moved here and they still haven't recovered from it."
"What happened to them?" Juvia asked.
"No one knows. They don't talk about it but they are decent people and as neighbors we should be polite and considerate. That includes you young man."
"Yes Mother." Natsu said.
After dinner Juvia helped her mother do the dishes then went upstairs to her room. In her bedroom she sat down at her desk and began working on her homework. When her homework was done she went over to her shelf full of books that told stories of fantasy and make believe. She picked one off of the shelf, one that she ha read many times before, then sat on her bed to read it again. When she finished her story she put the book back on the shelf where she had found it and got ready for bed. Before going to sleep she pulled out a box from under her bed which contained her three most prized possessions. A picture frame that contained a photograph of her with her birth parents when she was six, two gifts that she had received from each of her birth parents on her sixth birthday. From her father a honey colored teddy bear with a red velvet ribbon tied around it's neck and from her mother a small a music box which was of a gazebo that contained a tiny figure in white dress that twirled with the song once the music box was winded up. She always pulled these out whenever she had a bad day because they reminded her that life wasn't always hard and that things would get better someday. She then put her things away and went to sleep.