The team was sitting by the fire, but it wasn't just Inuyasha, Kagome, Sango, Kilala, Mirkou, and Shippo. There sitting by another fire a few feet away was Sesshomaru, Rin, Kohaku, Ah-Un and Jaken. Koga and his wolves were sitting a couple feet by a fire too. Lord Inutashio, Lady Izayoi, and Lady Inukimi were by another fire. This time Kikyo and Ayame is here too.

Characters: Sango is the princess. Curdie is Mirkou. Lootie is Kagome. The King is Inutashio. Grandmother is Kikyo.

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Once Upon A Time...

There was a princess named Sango. When her mother fell ill, Princess Sango was sent to be brought up by country people in a large, castle-like house on the side of a mountain. Now eight, she lives with her nursemaid Kagome, and her father visits occasionally.

Sango is not allowed outside at night because of the goblins that live inside the mountains. The goblins are night creatures and have hidden themselves away because of some unknown political disagreement with a previous king; Inutashio. The goblins' life underground has altered their appearance to look unusually grotesque, but they've become more intelligent. They are resentful toward humans, especially those of the royal line. The goblins torture anyone with the misfortune of meeting them.

One day the princess gets lost in the castle. She climbs a tall tower and follows a humming sound into a room. There, she sees an old woman with long white hair sitting at a spinning wheel. The woman tells Sango that she is her great-great-grandmother; Kikyo and that Sango is her namesake. She lives off of pigeons' eggs and spins spiderwebs brought by the pigeons. Snago tells Kagome about her grandmother, but Kagome doesn't believe her. The next day, Sango goes in search of her grandmother but isn't able to find her and assumes she was dreaming.

A few days after she meets her grandmother; Kikyo, Sango and Kagome go for a walk. The two wander too far, and darkness begins to fall. Just as a group of goblins begins harassing them from the shadows, Mirkou, a young miner, comes upon the pair. He scares the goblins away by singing loudly, and Sango promises him a kiss at a later date.

The next night, Mirkou decides to stay in the mines, earning extra wages to buy a red petticoat for his mother. Mirkou overhears a family of goblins talking about how they have very sensitive feet. He follows them to the goblin palace where he learns about the goblins' plan to flood the mine and drown the miners.

A season or so passes, and the princess gets a prick on her thumb from an old brooch. Her sore quickly becomes infected, and Kagome puts her to bed. Sango wakes up in the night and wanders again to Kikyo's tower. Kikyo heals her with an ointment and Sango falls asleep in Kikyo's bed. Sango wakes in her own bed, having promised to go back to the tower Friday night.

That Friday night, a goblin creature climbs into Sango's window, and she runs out of the house into the night. No longer pursued, she turns and sees Kikyo light in the tower window and follows it home. Sango's grandmother; Kikyo gives her a ring with an invisible thread made from a spider's web.

The goblins catch Mirkou sneaking into their cavern, and Mirkou is successful at warding most of them off by stomping on their feet. The goblin queen, however, is wearing stone shoes and manages to capture and imprison him. Mirkou is left to starve in the goblin prison, but Sango is led to him by her magic thread, and she rescues him. Mirkou manages to steal one of the goblin queen's shoes on their way out.

Following the thread, Mirkou and Irene head up to the grandmother's room. Mirkou can't see Sango's grandmother; Kikyo and is cross with Sango for what he thinks is a cruel joke. The grandmother explains that Mirkou isn't able to believe yet and therefore can't see her.

When Mirkou arrives home, he tells the whole story to his parents. His mother relates a story from her childhood when a great white pigeon rescued her from a group of goblins. She implies that the royal line has some magical powers and that Sango may have been telling the truth.

On another fact-finding mission, Mirkou learns that the goblins plan to dig a tunnel into the castle to capture Princess Sango. Upon her capture, they plan to marry her to Harelip, the goblin prince.

Mirkou regularly visits the palace grounds at night to see how far the goblins have progressed on their tunnel. On one such night, the palace guards shoot Mirkou with an arrow and throw him into the castle prison. There, he develops a fever and Sango's grandmother; Kikyo heals and releases him.

The goblins carry out their plan while Mirkou is in the castle. Mirkou stomps on the goblins' feet and encourages the staff to follow suit, causing the goblins to flee. The castle staff believes that the goblins seized Irene, but Mirkou finds her magic thread and follows it all the way back to his family's house.

Meanwhile, the goblins flood the mines. The miners have blocked their tunnels, unbeknownst to the goblins, and the water floods the goblin caverns and comes up under the castle and floods it as well. Mirkou gets Sango, Inutashio, and his staff away safely. The king offers Mirkou a position as a bodyguard, but Mirkou wants to stay with his parents and instead asks for a new red petticoat for his mother. Most of the goblins have drowned, and they no longer pose a threat.

AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

THE END

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