Affection of one

Chapter 1

She dreamt she sat on a rocking chair near her doorstep, rocking back and forth with no care in the world. Enjoying the sight before her. The children. Her children were playing on the courtyard hide and seek. It was as if it was so real. But was it real?

A smile tugged on her lips. Her cerulean blue eyes paced through the scenery. Blossoms falling from trees and bushes. It was a dance with the wind, during a summer day. Everything seemed at peace. Even the birds were flapping in great pleasure, bathing in the sun light. The cheers of her children took her attention again. Their delighted faces and smiles carved in her mind, never forgetting this moment. 'Is this paradise?' She thought for a moment.

Until blood appeared as if from nowhere, splattered through the courtyard and let her children sank in the sea of blood. Her children shouted, asked for help, trying to get out. Tears streamed out of their eyes, looking so scared at their mother. Their hands reaked out for the help of their mother. But it was too late. The sea of blood swallowed them.

Horrified, she tried to get out of the rocking chair, screaming for her children. But somehow she couldn't get off the chair. Blinking, she saw the chair changing in a chair of swords and blades piercing in her flesh. The barbs and swords bit into her flesh as she tried to move her body. Blood ran down her legs, stained it red. The more she tried to move the more the chair engulfed her, tearing parts of flesh from her breast and back cutting through her arms and legs. At the end she looked like a bloody creature, all while she heard her children screaming in terror.

The cries echoed in her ears when she felt a light touch on her head and woke her up.

For a heartbeat she thought that hand was another sword and she cried out suddenly, but it was only a goblin. The hand of the goblin shivered, because of her actions. With wide open eyes she stared at the goblin. A strand of her golden blonde, body-lenght hair landed on her face. She breathed heavily, even her heartbeat rate was high. "Naruko! Are you alright?" the goblin said with his raspy voice. The voice brought her back to reality. She knew to whom it belonged. It was Craft, her longtime friend and helper. When she was young she always played with Craft and other goblins. She knew from the start that the humans were strange creatures to her and that they wouldn't get along. But she had a thing for foreigner. Strange, but they were much funnier and much more interesting."You started to scream in agony. Yelling at I don't know what!"

'So it was a dream?' She thought. She looked down at her hands, turning them over to make sure she had all her fingers in the right places. When she ran her hand down her back, she felt goosebumps all over her skin. There was no cuts, no blood, nor a chair of swords and blades. She sighed in relief...'it was only a bad dream...my children... The floating blood, the chair of swords...'she sodemly thought,'but was this a dream or the future?'

She stared at her surroundings alert-eyed. She layed on the grass in the middle of the scenery. She felt the wind on her skin, making more goosebumps. Trees loomed over her letting their shadow fall on her, even if it was night. Through the branches the stars glimmered high in the sky. It was a typical nightfall were stars shine far away up in the sky.

The goblin stood next to her, giving her worried looks. He held her in case she will scream in fear. Craft stroke her back gently in slow moves. It was clear he wasn't certain what he should do with her in time of fear. His forest green eyes, that always held a gently touch, since their childhood, observed her tremulous.

"I'm alright... I just had a fearfull nightmare...", she muttered in a slim voice. Suddenly she felt a sharp pain roaling down her hole body. She gripped Craft's hands, clenching them with her hole strenght. "Naruko! Deep breath! Just hold on we bring you in the house." The pain was unbearable. It was like tearing her apart until she was on the verge of fainting. With a few gasps she looked up to the sky, before her sight turned black.