Nicole

I was running as fast as I could. I kept running until my sides hurt. "GET AWAY FROM ME!" I screamed. The reply was a laugh. It was a child's laugh but it was still spooky. I looked to my right and saw Dipper standing there dazed. "Dipper what are you doing?" I ran over to him. His face was filled with fear as I walked toward him. "Ge-e-et aw-w-w-way from me, you monster!" Dipper said walking backward, not talking his eyes off me. "Dipper? What's going on?" I asked stepping forward. I looked behind me and saw... it. A figure just stood there and I knew I had to fear it, yet I didn't know why it was so fearful. "This is the new you, Nicole powerful indeed, maybe too powerful. You can crush this boy like a bug. He's worthless to you. You can crush the Pines family. They know too much about us and the other monsters." The figure told me. "No! You can't make me!" I screamed and looked at Dipper. He only looked at me with fear. "Why? He doesn't care about you at all. All he sees you as is another monster he as to run from." The figure replied. I turned to Dipper and felt tears run down my face. "That's all he thinks of me? Nothing more or less? A monster. I'M NOT A MONSTER! I'M NOT! I'M NOT GOING TO HURT YOU OR ANYONE! DIPPER YOU BELIEVE ME? DIPPER?" I started sobbing. The figure laughed and said "Why don't you crush him? You know you can." Dipper looked at me with total fear as he fell to his knees and begged for mercy. I saw tears form in his eyes. "Dipper!" I screamed as I sat up in bed. Bed? I looked around and saw it wasn't the Mystery Shack I was in, but a very fancy room. I saw a figure sitting in a chair in the corner of the room. I stood up and walked toward the figure in the chair. It was Dipper. He was sleeping. He looked very young while he slept. For some reason I felt I had to lift up his bangs. I slowly took off his hat and lifted his bangs. I smiled as I saw a birthmark. It was the Big Dipper! I carefully put back his hair in place and put his hat on his head. I shook his shoulders and whispered "Dipper, wake up." Dipper mumbled "5 more minutes mom." "Dipper!" I said shaking him. Just as he was waking up he sneezed. "Bless you." I said. "What? No 'aw you sneeze like a kitten!'" I shook my head no. "Miss Nicole, you're up!" Amelia's aunt ran in and hugged me. "You gave us quite a scare!" "Can I talk to you about my staying at the castle?" I asked. She nodded and I went on "Well, as you know, I'm pretty sure no one in my family is a wizard so I can't go to them to help me with my wizard studies." Amelia walked in while I was talking and said '' But you're staying with us! Why would you need your family to teach you when our royal teachers can teach you?" "That's the thing! I've been thinking it over and I want to stay at the Mystery Shack. About the teacher part, I thought that Amelia could teach me." Amelia and her aunt stared at each other for a few seconds but Amelia looked at me and smiled "I think that would be awesome, aunt Elizabeth." Her name's Elizabeth? I thought but dismissed it. "If that's going to happen, then Amelia's going to have to visit the castle ALONE once every two weeks. She has to be a normal kid while staying with you. And lastly, you can never tell Amelia's or Nicole's or any wizards secrets except to family. Agreed?" Aunt Elizabeth asked sticking out her hand to me. I shook it and said in a solemn voice, "Agreed."

A few hours later Amelia had her bag packed full of spell books, her wand, her diary, and some notes. Aunt Elizabeth walked up to Amelia and hugged her and whispered something in her ear. Amelia nodded and then Aunt Elizabeth hugged me and whispered in my ear "Nicole, you will be a beautiful and powerful wizard." I thanked her. She didn't hug Dipper but just waved. We ran through the busy town as I heard screams of "That's the wizard who was raised by humans!" ''Isn't that the princess?'' "Who's that cutie?" "Where are they going?" People tried to stop us but we didn't stop until we got to the gate. Dipper gasped out of breath and Amelia said she was fine. I heard another yell of "Look! It's the cutie, the princess, and the wizard that lives with the humans!" We ran into the woods outside the gates until Dipper fell to the ground gasping. "How-*gasp*- do you-*gasp* like your mob of-*gasp*- fangirls?" I asked laughing at the same time making my breathing worse. Dipper just glared at me as he gasped for air. Amelia started laughing and telling us we sounded like fish on land. ''Why aren't-*gasp*- gasping?" Amelia laughed and told us she put on a running spell just before we left. "Did you think-*gasp*- that we would like-*gasp*-one?" I asked. Amelia shrugged and said "Let me teach you the spell!" Amelia said and told me to say the spell. (Amelia told me that humans can't read nor hear nor understand what our spells are so I'm not going to try to tell you the spell.) I said the spell holding my wand and as I said the spell my wrist started to burn and I began screaming. I looked at my wrist and my birthmark wasn't a circle anymore. It was a triangle with an eye in the middle.