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Chapter 10: Changes

The next morning, Towy made doubly sure the magic maple bark in his pocket
was working. Then he left for Reny the Witch's house.
When he got there, he knocked on the door as usual. He got a terrible
surprise when the door opened this time.
The witch looked different, but now it was much more than just her eyes.
She was shorter. It wasn't just that she had shrunk, it was more like she
had shriveled up. Most of her hair had fallen out, and what was left was
coarse and tangled. Her nose was at least twice as long as it had been
before, and was twisted and bent. Her teeth were also much longer than they
used to be, and were gray and jagged. And her skin had a greenish-gray tone
to it.
"It is nearly too late," she said to him, in a voice so inhuman it gave him
shivers. "Come inside. We must work quickly."
She led him into the house, pulling him in with a hand as rough as
sandpaper.
"What happened to you?" Towy asked her. "You look completely different." He
added that so that Bax would know what was happening, since he was listening
but couldn't see anything there.
"It's from the fairy magic wearing off," she answered. But Towy knew that
could not be doing that to her.
"That's impossible," Towy said. Then he realized he shouldn't have said
that.
The witch looked at him with her blazing red eyes. "What do you know of
fairy magic?" she asked him angrily. "There is something you're hiding from
me. Tell me!"
Towy backed away from her. She was even scarier angry.
"It is from the magic wearing off!" she insisted. "I am returning to my
true form. My name is not really Reny. My real name is Yner. I am Queen Yner,
Queen of the Goblins! I was using fairy magic to disguise myself as a human,
until the time was right to lead my people back, to make slaves of the humans
and rule."
"So that's why you have a pet skunk," Towy said, trying to be brave even
though he couldn't stop shaking.
"Yes," she replied. "I could not get rid of my goblin odor, and skunk smell
is the only thing that can hide it. How do you know so much about me?"
Yner hopped over to Towy and grabbed him. She shook him to try to make him
answer. Her nails dug into his arms. One of them scratched him. Then Yner
dropped him. She held up the hand, and watched as some normal skin color
returned to it.
"Your blood has magic in it!" she cried out. She turned him over, and tore
off the back of his shirt, exposing the bandages on his back. "You are a
fairy!" she screamed with a voice so horrible Towy almost fainted. She ripped
the bandages from Towy's back. Towy managed to get away from her, and backed
against a wall. He could feel the yellow liquid coming out his back, making
him weaker and weaker.
Yner smiled, her mouth watering. "Now I have a chance of becoming Reny
again, before it is too late and I can never change like that again. Once I'm
completely in goblin form, I can never change again. Stay still!"
Towy ran out of that room into the closest room, leaving a yellow trail on
the floor as he ran.
That was the room with the skunk. Yner came in and locked the door, and he
was trapped.
Towy climbed up on the skunk's cage, trying to get away from her. There was
nowhere else he could go.
"Come down!" Yner demanded. "Come here! You are mine now."
Towy sat down on top of the cage. There was nowhere else he could go. He
could feel the yellow liquid pouring down his back now.
The yellow liquid ran all the way down his back, and started dripping onto
the skunk in the cage under him. Then something started happening to the
skunk.
The cage burst open. Towy was tossed off it, and hit the floor. He could
hear Yner scream. He lifted himself up as much as he could with the little
bit of strength he had left, and looked over at the skunk.
The skunk grew rapidly bigger and bigger, changing as it did. It began to
take on the shape of a man, a very large man. A few seconds later, and Towy
recognized the man from his statue at Dawnhill: it was Dunerre Goblinslayer,
the Berserker!
Yner was trying to unlock the door as fast as she could. Dunerre stamped
over to her, with footsteps that shook the floor. He pushed her away from the
door, and broke off the doorknob.
"Get away from me!" Yner said. "I'll change you back into a skunk!"
"You can't do that this time," Dunerre said, in a voice strong but full of
goodness. "You took me by surprise that time. It won't happen again." Dunerre
slammed his fist into a table, shattering it. He grabbed a leg from it to use
as a club.
Yner grabbed Towy and held his neck against her mouth. "Take one step
closer, and I'll bite this fairy's head off!" she said, filled with a deadly
mixture of hate and fear.
Dunerre froze. He knew she meant it, and he knew that she knew that he
wouldn't risk a fairy's life.
Towy was too weak and scared to move. The goblin queen's hot, stinking
breath was stinging his neck.
Suddenly, Dunerre threw the table leg at Yner! Towy used the last bit of
strength he had, to aim it and make it fly perfectly straight. Before Yner
knew what happened, it struck her right in the middle of her forehead. Yner
screamed, and fell over. She was dead. Her body began to dissolve and smoke.
Dunerre picked up Towy. "You're safe now," he said, in a soft, gentle
voice. He held his hand tightly against the opening in Towy's back, stopping
the flow of yellow liquid, bringing back a little strength to Towy. Towy held
onto Dunerre's hairy shirt tightly as Dunerre led him back to Trisha's
house.
As they walked away, they could see the smoke as Yner's melting body had
set the house on fire.
Trisha and her mother bandaged Towy's back, while Dunerre told them all
that had happened, how Towy had helped him kill the goblin queen.
A few hours later, Dunerre took Towy back to Dawnhill in triumph. Towy rode
on Dunerre's mighty shoulders.
They were welcomed back as heroes, with cheers and songs and the greatest
fair Dawnhill had ever seen.
On the statue of Dunerre the Berserker at Dawnhill was added a statue of
Towy the Hero, riding upon his shoulders.

The End


I hoped you like my hella long story, I got really bored one night sat down and typed up a story. it took me like 2 weeks but I just finished so enjoy