Week 2 Story: The Orange Goblin

The Bermuda Triangle, a place notorious for plane and ship disappearances
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

There was an orange goblin that lived in Palm Beach, Florida who was very rich, but very mean. This orange goblin would use his money to pay other goblins to do his dirty work. His goblins would do anything their goblin boss told him, even if it was the kick people out of their homes or to steal their money.

The orange goblin spent most of his time bossing his goblin employees around, but when he wasn't doing that he liked to play golf and buy real estate to create golf courses. He hoped that one day he would be able to take away enough people's homes, money and land that he could turn the entire United States into a golf course, thus forcing those who had once lived there to flee the country. Once he had turned the entire country into a golf course, he would build walls around the entire border of the United States so that he could rule his golf course with only his closest goblin friends.

One day, he declared his plan to the country. "I will kick everyone out of the country and turn everything into a golf course. I have my goblin friends to help me and I won't be stopped!" Some citizens, like the mermaids of the country, swam away to the Bahamas or Cuba. Other creatures like centaurs ran all the way to the tip of South America, but the fairies of the country would not put up with the orange goblins nonsense and they planned to trick him with their wit, for it was common knowledge that the orange goblin was not too bright.

The fairies teamed up and decided on a plan. After many months of discussion, they finally settled on the perfect plan. They would tell the orange goblin that there was an island off the coast of Florida that had the most lush rolling hills and the brightest sunny weather. "It would be great for a golf course!" they would say to the orange goblin.

One day one of the fairies told the orange goblin of the rolling green hills that were off the coast of Florida. When he heard about this place, he demanded to know of its exact location, so the fairy handed a map over. The orange goblin looked at the map and decided to send one of his goblin employees to check out the area.

The fairy flew back to her friends and told them what had happened. "Our plan has failed she said," for the fairies had hoped that the orange goblin would follow their map and fly straight into the Bermuda triangle, never to return again. "This is even better!" another fairy exclaimed, "the orange goblin is very paranoid and thinks everyone is out to get him. If we send each of his goblin employees into the Bermuda Triangle, never to return, the orange goblin will think that they are creating a gold course without him!"

And that is exactly what the fairies did. After all of the orange goblin's employees had been lost in the Bermuda Triangle and not returned to tell their boss about the land, they convinced him that is was because they were conspiring without him. Never wanting to be overpowered, the orange goblin flew his own plane to the magical land that the fairies had told him about. He never returned to the United States. And group by group the magical creatures that had once lived in the United States returned to live in harmony.

Author Note and Bibliography: The story that I was inspired from was Goblin City from The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India by W. H. D. Rouse. In this story, sailors are shipwrecked on an island of female goblins who marry them and then plot to eat them. When one of the sailors finds out about the plan, he speaks with a fairy who creates a plan to save them. The fairy sends a horse with wings to rescue them and carry to safety. In my story I included fairies who also plot to save those around them from the goblins. I also chose to rework the ship wreck from Goblin City into a plane crash in the Bermuda Triangle.