Chapter one: Dreams of Gnomics and Luckdragons
It was a silent night in early April, in New York City as everyone slept. In a small house, Karin, a grown-up girl of ten years, flung her arms wildly, and murmurred,"Papa, Papa, where am I?" In the dream, she was a cooing infant inside what appeared to be a chamber of soft white stone with exquisite details. A young woman, possibly in her late teens wearing the Auryn, smiled and nodded, "Welcome, Karin Bux." Suddenly a rasping voice called out, "The Heir to the Auryn must die!" Then everything turned blood red, and her parents disappeared and a glowing skull, still having half-rotting flesh on it, appeared. She SCREAMED!!! Mr. Coreander ran in, "Karin, are you okay?" She gulped, "It was the skull nightmare again, Grampa." Mr. Coreander smiled, "You've been reading The Two Towers too much lately. Try to read something else, all right?"
She nodded, and he left. Karin immediately turned on her bedside lamp, and looked up her favorite movie villain, Darth Vader. She quietly hummed the Imperial March, as read about the fearsome Sith Lord. The Auryn hung down on his picture. Karin put down the book, and examined the Auryn. She had had it all her life. She traced the ornately interwoven snakes with her fingers. Grampa said it had been her father's when he had been her age. She turned it over, turned out the light, and stared at the moon shining in through her window. It seemed to glow on nights when it was cool and clear outside. She soon fell asleep and dreamed again. This time it was not a nightmare. Rather, she saw an Indian boy about her own age talking to a dog like dragon. It said it was a luckdragon, and its name was Falkor. The boy introduced himself as Atreyu. Karin shuddered. Atreyu and Falkor sounded so familiar, as if they were part of some dream so long ago. Then, Atreyu, walked over to a small cave, where he met two gnomes. They were the Gnomics. Karin smiled. They were familiar too. then, her alarm clock went off. She sat up and walked over to the built in bench that was beneath a window and sighed. "Who were they, and why did seem familiar," she thought. Soon, the answer would come.