The Goblin Princess

Chapter 4

Lightening flashed outside the window, thunder clashed in the sky. A scream filled the air. Little Veena hid under her bed, praying that the evil lady didn't come and get her.

She heard her door slam open and footsteps enter her room. She hugged her stuffed green tiger tighter.

"Veena!"

She lessened her death grip on the stuffed animal and slowly crawled out from under the bed. "Here, Daddy."

She saw the worry disappear from his face. "What's wrong? Another nightmare?"

Veena shook her head, "No, I don't like the storm."

Nodding, he walked over to her. "I understand., come here,Precious."

She walked over him, and he picked her up.

"Let's go see what's in the Kitchens. We'll just wait till the storm passes."

Veena held onto her friend as her father carried her downstairs. Hopefully, the storm wouldn't lasts too much longer.

Chapter 4

Two weeks later, outside of Castle Greyskull, dark storm clouds loomed unbeknownst to those inside. Holding her staff, Veena stood near the center of the Throne room aiming a fire ball with her empty hand at a makeshift dummy set up in the center of the room. She had already missed the dummy six times.

Holding the her own staff, the Sorceress stood near the wall behind her. "Relax, Veena. You are thinking too hard."

Veena sighed as she raised the fire in her hand. "I'm trying to, but it's not easy."

"I know, but keep trying. It'll come to you."

Looking at the dummy, Veena took a deep breath. After a few moments she threw the ball and missed. Frowning, Veena waved her hand causing the resulting fire on the floor to extinguished. She still couldn't believe that the fire would just burn on the stone of the throne room, but after having things magical happen in the castle, she could only put it up to magic.

Smiling weakly the Sorceress walked over to her, "Take a break. You have been working hard all day."

Nodding, Veena lowered her hand. "Sounds good to me." She then walked over to the side and leaned her staff against the wall.

Walking out of the throne room, Veena headed up towards her room. She needed to be by herself. Why couldn't she hit the dummy with the fireball? Until now she hadn't any problems with any of the other magic. Of course, this was the first time she was trying to do physical magic, well throwing something she had conjured. The fire ball always versed to one side or the other. Maybe this wasn't her type.

Reaching her door, Veena pushed it opened. No doubt the castle's invisible maids or what over keep the castle clean had already come and gone. Seeing her room nice and clean, Veena walked in and sat down in the arm chair by the window.

Outside thunder boomed causing Veena to jump a little. She had never done well with storms. There was something about them that made her feel as if something bad was abut to happen. Veena hugged herself as lightening flashed in the sky. Maybe she could talk the Sorceress into canceling the magic lessons for the rest of the day.

Veena glanced out the window, maybe just maybe, she could get the storm to go away. Closing her eyes Veena visualized a nice sunny day. Soon, she could hear the thunder grow more distant. Slowly, Veena opened her eyes and looked outside, to find a nice sunny day outside her window.

Suddenly, her door flew open and the Sorceress flew in. "Veena, what did you do?"

Veena smiled weakly. "I, ah, made the storm go away." Appearently, that wasn't a good thing.