Labyrinth Retold [Jareth x OC] [PARODY] 1

[Please for the love of what little dignity I possess, read the description. XD]

Once upon a time (great opening, huh?), there lived a happy, intelligent young woman of twenty-six named Lea Silvers, the third eldest of eight siblings. After finally finishing her college degree, she worked as an author and illustrator with two illustrated novels and a graphic novel already published. She lived in a snug, homely apartment right next to two of her siblings, her older brother and his family, and her second younger sister. As a side job, she worked in her father's company at the front desk.

Her father was a very successful businessman, working as vice president of a real estate company. Her biological mother, a faithful housewife, perished when she was very young, but her father happily remarried a few years afterwards. Despite her active imagination and consistent reading of fairytales, she loved her stepmother. Beautiful, gentle, and even humorous, she adored her husband and cherished the children. Adding to the the five children, the two parents bore three more to the family; now, the family consisted of two older brothers, then Lea, then two younger sisters. Next came a brother, another sister, and the littlest brother. All lived in the same town and literally very close to one another. Their most recent only aged at three. Despite what most think, all the siblings grew closer and closer every year. Their friends, in fact, loved to refer to them as the "Braidy Bunch.” Being an author and introvert (which, as you may know, is not the best combination for social situations), she often stared into oblivion, conjuring up new tales and stories to tell. But, when not lost in thought, she served as the "guardian" of her sisters and brothers. She loved them very dearly. If someone hurt one them in any manner, Lea would jump down their throat in a heartbeat.

To continue, one rainy evening, Lea carefully scrutinized a book she read, simply titled Labyrinth. A perplexed expression in her icy blue eyes peered through her foggy glasses. She solemnly shook her head with an amused smile, a quick breath of air escaping her nose. Suddenly, when the seventh hour renounced itself across the countryside, her floppy-eared lemon beagle, barked along with it. She realized with embarrassment that she was late! Falling flat on her face, the brunette scrambled to her feet and dashed back to her house. Of course, it then started to rain.

Go figure.

Lea and her companion, Peter Pan, got in just in time before it started pouring. They were greeted by her lovely, blonde stepmother.

"Well, hello there," she said with a wink, "finally decided to leave outer space?”

Lea grinned and laughed sheepishly, outer space, of course, referring to the chaos that was her mind. Snatching a towel, she scooped up her beagle in it.

"You are an hour late, you know."

She scratched the back of her head, biting her lip.

Her mother sighed with a chuckle. "You know that your father and I go out pretty rarely, and we only asked you to babysit if it won't interfere with your plans."

"Oh no. I don't have anything going on. I was just reading, and well," she grinned again. "No, it's fine! Go out and have fun! I even invited Aria to come and help."

"You sure? 'Cause if you have a date, you can just tell me."

She forced out a shaky laugh. "Certainly! It's your anniversary, right?"

Her dark-haired father, dressed in very sharp attire, came down the stairs and welcomed his daughter. Before he could catch her in an embrace, he noted her muddy condition and laughed alongside his wife.

“Yeah, yeah, laugh it up,” she shook her head with a smirk.

"Well, we've already fed Trevor and put him to bed," he explained, "You should be fine for the evening."

"Alright! Thanks!" she hugged them both, before sending them off.

After promptly drying herself off, Lea placed on some fresh clothes; a purple tank top, a long brown sweater, jeans, and boots. She then flipped on “Abbey Road” to listen to while preparing dinner.

The door opened. "Hey, Lea! You here?"

"Yeah! I'm making some soup!"

Her younger sister entered, with heavy make up and a raincoat. Upon hearing the glorious tune of “Come Together,” she bobbed her head to the beat.

Lea smirked. "So where were you? I said six thirty, you know."

She flung her flaming red curls. "The theatre held out practice longer than they claimed," she rolled her silvery eyes and took off her coat, revealing her lovely coral dress. "SO glad to be here."

"How's the musical coming along?"

"Well, the idiot playing the Phantom failed to show up AGAIN. So, I had to work with the understudy, Simon. He wasn't that terrible though. In fact, he was quite good."

"Oh, that's nice."

"Yeah, I guess so," her expression indicated that she no longer waned to discuss it.

The lovely, talented Aria was both a singer and a dancer. Because of her short stature, petite figure, no one was sure if she would ever amount to anything, despite her talents, the world of the theatre being as cruel as it was. But, both her parents and all her siblings believed in her, and with determination, she pushed herself to the top. Now, she had been accepted into a production of the famous "The Phantom of the Opera", which would move to Broadway in a few weeks. She, as the expression states, and as her brothers liked to say, "blew people's minds."

Not the most elegant of phrases, but it certainly matched her bombastic personality and voice.

"So, what did you do today?" Aria asked, stretching her limbs.

"Just finished a book," replied Lea, leaving the kitchen and walking into the living room.

"Which one?" she flopped on the leather couch.

"It's called Labyrinth. My friend, Sarah recommended it to me a couple of weeks ago. She's obsessed with it," she took the book from the counter and showed it to her.

"Was it alright?" Aria smirked; she knew how critical her elder sister could be of modern books and simply waited for her huge list of criticisms soon to follow

"Wellllll," she bit her lip and tossed it to Aria, "it was clever, interesting, pretty unique. It was just...really weird."

She flipped through the pages. "Not very long."

"Nope, I finished it in one day," she sauntered around the room, shoulders slightly slump, upper back contracted. "The main girl reminded me a lot of Sarah."

Aria laughed. "How so? Was she ultra-high maintenance?"

She widened her eyes and nodded. "The girl was such a rat at the beginning! She got all mad at her baby brother for the worst possible thing in the whole world-CRYING."

"Oh my, how so very awful.”

"Apparently, the," she posed, arms thrown in the air, chin raised high and proud. "the 'king of the goblins' liked her and gave her 'maaaagical poweeerrrs.' "

"Oooooo! Scaaaarrry!" she flitted her fingers about.

"His goblin minions would come to her if she needed help."

"What? That's it?"

"Yep," she rolled her eyes.

"What lame magic powers!"

"Yeah. I know. Anyway, then when her brother was, remember, doing the worst thing ever, CRYING."

"Yes, yes. I remember," Aria chuckled.

"She held him in the air," for this scene, she snatched a pillow and dramatically held it in the air, "and cried," she sniffled in an exaggerated manner, long and drawn out.

Aria's wobbled from side to side on the couch, her laughter practically suffocating her.

"I WISH THE GOBLINS WOULD COME AND TAKE YOU AWAY RIGHT NOW! Waaaaahhhh!" Lea realized how silly she looked with the pillow but continued her monologue. "YES! Please! Take this pillow! I hate it! Its colors are horrid!”

Aria rolled on the couch, completely hysterical.

Suddenly, the cries of their baby brother caught their attention.

"Great job, sis," Aria stuck her tongue out at her.

"Yeah, yeah, I'll go get him," with that, she sprinted up the stairs, "You check on the soup!"

“No problem!” echoed through the vicinity as she disappeared up the stairwell.