Chapter 1: Return again

Once upon a time there was a beautiful young girl whose cousin lived in her house. And the cousin was a spoilt, needy child who wanted everything for herself. But what no one knew is that the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl and he had given her special powers. So after a day's hard work and dealing with the incessant demands of her cousin, the girl called on the goblins for help.

"Say your right words," The goblins said. "And we'll take your cousin away and turn it into a goblin. And you will be free." But the girl knew that the king of the goblins wouldn't be satisfied with just that, so he gave her one other gift.

So one stormy evening, the young girl's cousin approached her, glaring daggers. The cousin gave the girl a shove making the girl stumble back only to regain a stronger stance.

"Why don't you just disappear!?" the cousin hollered.

"I'll say the words and it'll be over…" the girl spoke just over a whisper, emotions erased from her face. "I'll say the words…"

"What words!? Nothing you can say will scare me!" The cousin sneered at the young girl, laughing at the ridicule, the girl taking a bracing step.

"Goblin King, Goblin King! Wherever you may be! Take this cousin of mine far away from me!" The girl glanced back at her pathetic excuse for a cousin. She had her eyes screwed shut, waiting fro something to happen. The cousin cracked one eye open.

"HA! Is that the best you can do?!" This whole time the young girl had her hands behind her back ever so casually.

"No. I'm only just beginning." The girl held out her hand with a small clear orb sitting snugly in her palm.

"What is that?" The cousin asked skeptically, cautiously stepping closer to examine it.

"It's a crystal, nothing more. But if you turn it this way, and look into it, it will show you MY dreams."

"Your dreams? What makes your dreams so special?"

"He gave it to me because of my dreams. Dreams you will never be capable of having." still holding the crystal in hand, she began to roll it around her hands as if looking for any imperfections. "You know what?" she said purposefully leaving tension in the air. "Non-dreamers slowly die, from the inside out. But unlike you, you will get a chance to live forever with nothing but a single dream to remind you of this day. The day you were cast away, like you have done to so many others in your life. You grow tired of one toy only to throw it away to find a new one." The young girl finally looked up into the eyes of her cousin, and saw fear playing across her features. "Now tonight, you will join that pile of discarded toys, once and for all." The young girl raised her hand up to the ceiling, the crystal in hand glittering with every thunder clap.

"I wish that the goblins would come take you away, right… NOW!" at the last word the girl through the crystal to the floor between their feet, shattering the delicate orb. At that instance, the young girl looked over at the nearest window to see a white barn owl sitting on the sill.

The cousin frozen to the spot surrounded by shards of glass, and watched the girl let the owl hop onto the floor in front of her. The young girl got on her knees and bowed. When she looked up, she heard her cousin gasp, scared of the sudden sight.

"Welcome back, Goblin King."