My door opened and I opened my eyes the littlest bit. I saw a huge figure that was clearly neither my mom nor my dad. I sat up abruptly and inched back in my bed. The huge, monstrous thing came toward me. It grabbed my arms and I couldn't move.

"I'm gonna make a puppet out of you girlie," he said menacingly. His voice sounded like broken glass.

He carried me out of my room, and as soon as he stepped through the door, my house had transformed.

"Please be a dream! Pleaseeee be a dream!" I whispered to myself. There was no way out. The monster threw me down into a cell. Hard.

I stood up so quickly that I saw stars before my eyes. I blinked them away quickly and focused on the monster.

"If you behave, maybe I'll be nice," he stated, "but, if you try to get out, you won't be able to," he finished.

The cell door closed and he stood outside. I pinched myself as hard as I could. It hurt. A lot. I leaned against the wall and sank to the floor. My head in my hands, crying. Then, I had an idea. I looked around quickly for something I could use to escape. Anything. I noticed a silver knife in the corner of my eye. Huh. I thought to myself. That wasn't there before. Either way, I decided to go for it, knowing that it could be a trap.

I pretended to stretch out on the floor and I grabbed the knife and slipped it in my shirt sleeve. Then, I got up and politely asked the guard if I could use the bathroom. He agreed and he followed close behind me poking me with a sword-looking thing. I walked and waited until we turned a corner. That's when I turned abruptly and showed the knife with the slender sliver blade. His eyes widened for a fraction of a second as I almost lunged toward him. I almost fell on my face when I saw my mom.

No. I thought. It can't be. A shape shifter?

What am I supposed to do now? I asked myself. I knew it wasn't really her, but I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, the knife almost burned my hand. I hadn't realized it was getting hotter by the second until now. As soon as it hit the ground, it changed into a giant purple octopus. I fell onto my back trying to dodge the huge tentacles. It charged at the monster who had shifted out of my mom's state of appearance. How is this possible? An octopus fighting a demon monster thing?