Grandma and I quickly barged through the basement door. Hearing the large, overweight Goblin King of Everybody stomp on his black combat boots in through our kitchen. As he tried opening the basement door, Grandma and I went through, recently.
But Grandma quickly locked the door behind her, fast. Pounding his fists angrily at the basement door, with his yellow golden scepter, the Goblin King of Everybody shouted angrily at us to demand we open the basement door to let him in.
"I'm sorry, Grandma, about all of this," I confessed. We had our backs pressed against the basement door. As the Goblin King of Everybody tried pounding his fists angrily on the door. Begging us in a loud, whiny voice to let us in.
"It's okay, dear," Grandma said, trying to ignore the Goblin King of Everybody from pounding his fists with force against the basement door, behind us. "I should have believed you about the fairy goblins, being real," she said.
I shook my head sadly. Trying to ignore, the pounding threat against the basement door, behind our backs. "It doesn't matter what you believe, Grandma. You should be careful what to believe about them. Because they have magical powers to do anything to grown-ups. Who don't like to pretend anymore," I said.
Grandma sighed and shook her head, sadly. "It's not that I don't pretend to make-believe anymore, dear," Grandma said, "It's just I believe in something else," she said.
Grandma and I screamed and jumped with fright as the basement door, finally crashed open. Sending both us spiraling down the flight of steps. "You're both not going to get away with me, this time," we heard the Goblin King of Everybody yell at us, from the top of the stairs. He started to slowly walk down the steps. Coming after us, I knew Grandma and I didn't not have anything to defend us with his threat.
Finally, Grandma and I collided on the basement floor with a hard thud. Struggling to gain consciousness, I turned and looked up at the basement steps. I couldn't see him clearly. Because my vision was blurry. But the mysterious man before us, was making his way down the basement steps. Coming to get us, slowly toward our doom.
I started to rise to my feet, shakily. I quickly helped Grandma to her feet. She was also feeling woozy as she shook her head, trying to keep a headache from pounding her head, even worse.
"You don't need me anymore, Goblin King," I said, suddenly trying to grab his attention. He just let out a big, hearty laugh. "I'm serious. I'm getting older. And just because I like to pretend in make-believe all the time with my friends, doesn't make you real to me, anymore," I continued.
"Silence!" the Goblin King of Everybody yelled and waved his glowing scepter in the air in front of himself. Making Grandma and I get knocked to the basement floor with a powerful gust of wind. "You are never too old to make-believe with me, love," said the Goblin King of Everybody, excitedly.
I didn't know how to explain to the fairy goblin king how I was to keep him promises about believing in something I'm slowly growing out of. Because I'm getting older and mature, I no longer have time to believe in having an imitative power to make imaginary creatures to be real in my life, anymore.
The Goblin King of Everybody held out his black leather gloved hand for me to take. As he reached the bottom of the basement stairs. I looked him and didn't know to do. Gazing at his eyes, I couldn't look away! His eyes were glowing and I couldn't stop starring at him.
"Take me hand, Emma Heart," said the Goblin King of Everybody in a soothing, robust voice. "We're going away to have fun at my castle in the fairy goblin kingdom. There's so much to do to get ready for every boy and girl ready to believe in the fairy goblins. It won't be a matter of time, before my shadowy monster children will come out of the darkness of the sewer tunnels, to capture all the innocent young mortals in Supernaturalville. To gain me power and imagination beyond their wildest dreams come true," the Goblin King of Everybody said, smiling. Still holding out his black leather gloved hand for me to take.
Looking at his black leather gloved hand, I was still skeptical about going away with him. "I just don't know if I should..." I said, my voice trailed off. I felt a lump form in my throat. As I struggled to swallow it down my pipe.
I turned and look back up into the Goblin King of Everybody's eyes. They were glowing and he had the most, ridiculous smile on his handsome face! I felt my heart feel all fluttery for him. For a brief moment, I almost thought the Goblin King of Everybody was handsome!
Smiling, he said to me, "You won't regret coming away to be with me in my fairy goblin kingdom," he walked down the rest of the steps in our basement. "You have no choice, Emma. Or I'll turn you to stone. And keep you prisoner in my dungeon with the other goblin kids who don't want to believe in me," the Goblin King of Everybody said.
Grandma gasped and turned to look at me. "Do what he says, Emma, dear," she said. "I can't have him turning you to solid rock. I don't want you to have to suffer from the consequences of losing your ability to make-believe with the fairy goblin king. Who wants your imagination to stop believing in him," Grandma said, honestly.
I was so nervous to be with the Goblin King of Everybody. I don't know what kind of plans he had an opportunity he had to be with me. "You don't have anything to worry about, Mrs. Treat," the Goblin King of Everybody said. "Your granddaughter will be in good hands with me," he continued, smiling and giving her wink at Grandma.
"I don't know about you, Goblin King of Everybody," Grandma said. "Will you do everything in your power to protect my granddaughter from the shadow puppet monsters who want her make-believe imagination to make them unbelievable, anymore?" Grandma asked.
"Yes," he promised. "The shadow puppet monsters are no longer going to be a threat to Emma Heart's imagination. I'm going to make sure they don't interfere with our lives. When we are together, finally," he said.
I turned my attention to my Grandma, with a worried expression on my face. "I don't want to be with this man, Grandma!" I cried, tears swelling up on my face. Grandma looked sincere and placed a comforting hand on my right shoulder. "I'm just not good at romance," I continued, honestly.
Grandma turned to look at the Goblin King of Everybody who was pretending he wasn't paying attention to us. "He's not a very bad looking man, Emma Heart," Grandma said. "I won't always be around anymore, to take care of you. You know that, right?" Grandma asked.
I nod and sobbed. "It's just I'm afraid he might beat me at night, before bedtime. He doesn't want to me to love him whenever he wants it. I don't do well with pain, Grandma. And can survive on my own in an apartment by myself. If the Goblin King of Everybody decides to get physical with me," I said.
Grandma turned to look back at the Goblin King of Everybody who was looking away with us. His head in the air, whistling. "Goblin King, do you promise, never to hurt Emma Heart any way, no matter what you both are going through, together? And keep each other safe in sickness and in health? For as long as you both shall live?" Grandma asked him, politely.
Nodding, the Goblin King of Everybody agreed and smiled, showing his pearling white teeth. Then, he made a bouquet of yellow and pink flowers appear magically from behind his back in his hands, to me to take.
Smiling, I took the beautiful bouquet of assorted flowers from the handsome man and sniffed them. "Okay, let's go have a good life, together," I told the Goblin King of Everybody.
"Yes!" the Goblin King of Everybody jumped up and pumped his fists in the air, with triumphant victory. "We'll have fun at my fairy goblin kingdom, you and I, Emma Heart! I promise to always treat you like royalty and never disappoint you into false beliefs," he said.
Grandma stood up off the basement floor. She kindly helped me to my feet too. Turning to look at the Goblin King of Everybody, she frowned and stared hard at him with a blank expression on her face. "Why don't I trust you, Goblin King?" Grandma asked.
Suddenly, the Goblin King of Everybody frowned and turned serious. "You have no choice but to bless me with your granddaughter, Emma Heart to be my fairy princess! She has it in her royal blood to be in my life. So we can have fun with the imagination of so many children in Supernaturalville who want to believe in things that aren't real, to protect them at night from the diabolical shadow monsters and fairy goblins roaming the streets and sewer tunnels," he said.
"I believe you are keeping her secrets from the horrible shadow puppet monsters who want to keep Emma Heart's imagination from believing as she gets older with you," Grandma said. "Aren't you worried the shadow puppet monsters are dangerous and not to do anything to threaten their attention to be believable to the imagination of ever making-believing anymore with the young children in Supernaturalville?" Grandma asked. She quickly wrapped me in a tight, bear hug.
That's when we all stopped and jumped with fright! We turned and looked up the basement stairs. The door crashed open! As the two goblin kids, Harold and Gretchen who had been turned to stone earlier, was real again. As a flying shadow puppet monster carried them in the air by it's claws. It's wings were flapping furiously in the air.
As the shadow puppet monster whipped it's tail around me. Knocking Grandma out of the way, as the shadow puppet monster took me against my will out of the basement window with a crash.
Leaving the Goblin King of Everybody left alone in the basement with my Grandma out cold on the floor. Nothing I could do, but scream. As the flying shadow puppet monster carried me out of the basement window... Into the foggy, stormy night. Never to be seen again...