I couldn't imagine what I was actually becoming! I watched myself in the reflection of a glass mirror on the wall in the tree fort I was in. My face turned green, and I was covered in hard scales all over my face. I sprouted two sharp, devil horns from my forehead...
Just when I thought I was done with the transformation, it didn't stop there! Something poked in the back of my pants. I turned around to look down the side of my back. I then let out a startled gasp of shock! I watched as a long, scaly-green tail poked out of my bottom pants!
"What is happening to me?" I yelled angrily at the top of my lungs. But it seemed I wasn't speaking English anymore. I had some kind of strange monster language I wasn't familiar with.
The goblin kid was laughing and pointing at me, getting hysterical. I knew how much I was not looking my best. I wanted to hide under the lab experiment table in the tree fort and disappear from everybody.
"You look great, kid!" the goblin boy rasped, excitedly. He handed me a small mirror to look at myself in the reflection. As soon as I saw my lizard transformation, I screamed in a high-pitched voice.
Making the mirror crack at the top of the sides of the portable mirror, the goblin boy held. "I don't feel so good," I muttered in my lizard voice. I wanted to get away from the part of the woods we were in. It was getting late. And I knew I would never find my way home in the dark. I couldn't let everybody see I'm some kind of freak! I started crying. "This is so horrible! I never should have gone to the Halloween party without knowing there could be consequences with those cursed Halloween costumes," I complained.
My heart was pounding. I wanted nothing more than to do than climb down the tree fort and run away. I don't know if I could go back to my apartment. Because I wouldn't be recognizable.
What do I do to keep myself from feeling unhappy? I didn't want to feel ignored. Or out of control of my human nature to be something different, I was never comfortable becoming.
"Why do you want me to be a monster, goblin king?" I asked the creature, sadly. I don't think he was paying attention to me. He was busy mixing potions from the experiment lab table. He was acting like some kind of mad scientist.
I forgot I couldn't speak English. I had to find a way to get this crazy monster boy to understand me. But he was busy flipping through old leather hardback books with magic spells in them. Putting different ingredients into a black cauldron on the table. Making smoke erupt from the pot.
"Okay, kid," the goblin boy turned to my attention. "I'm almost done making a pendant to help you control your Halloween costume from becoming permanent after Halloween ends," he explained. I couldn't believe it! He was trying to help us from not getting cursed at the Halloween party!
I smiled and jumped up and down with victory! As I was dancing around with joy, my long, scaly green lizard tail had knocked over some potion bottles on the ground. Making smoke sizzle and start to make the tree fort start to creak and break.
"Save yourself!" shouted the goblin boy, angrily. He quickly reached his pudgy, green hand into the black cauldron and pulled out a sparkling, golden purple necklace.
I tried to pick up the spilled contents with the magic potion liquids from the floor. But I wasn't fast enough! What I didn't realize was, we both turned and heard shouting cries coming from down below the tree fort we were trapped inside of.
Turning to look out the window, where smoke was billowing out of it, we turned and saw my friends from work, and the kids at the party from the Alive at Midnight Mansion.
I couldn't tell what was wrong or what was making them upset. But they were even more afraid of the goblin boy, who held out the glowing purple pendant to their attention.
"Everybody! I've got good news!" explained the goblin boy, excitedly. "I have something that might save us all from--" he got cut off. I accidentally bumped my tail against the back side of his head. He let out a cry of defeat and dropped the glowing necklace out the side of the tree fort window.
We watched from below the tree fort window. As the glowing necklace slowly started sinking underneath some muddy quicksand. There was nothing to do but scream.