Chapter 4
Accessing File: The Triumbric Stones
The Troll Gunmar the Black was a vicious and cruel Troll who was impossible to kill. He has clashed with past Trollhunters and none of them could kill him even with the Sword of Daylight. However throughout Gunmar's life three stones were created at transcendent points of his life. The Birthstone, a fragment of the corrupted Heartstone Gunmar was born from during the first wars between humans and Trolls, hidden in the realm of Volcanic trolls below Argentina or more precise the stomach of the giant Troll Gatto. When placed in the Amulet of Daylight this stone allows the wearer to summon two boomerang daggers that can combine into one. The Killstone, a remnant of Gunmar's first kill, hidden in the swamps of the Quagawumps in Florida whose king was Gunmar's first kill. When placed in the Amulet the stone gives the Trollhunter the ability to summon a large warrior's shield. The third stone is the Eye of Gunmar, which represented Gunmar's first injury. The Gumm-Gumms were once unorganized tribes of barbaric trolls led by Orlagk, the Oppressor until Gunmar challenged him for the right to rule. They fought for weeks until it ended with Orlagk's death and Gunmar loosing his right eye. This stone was hidden with the Krubera Trolls who lived in the deepest caverns of the Earth. When the Eye of Gunmar is placed in the Amulet it lets the wearer summon a helmet that blocks out mental attacks very useful to protect the wearer from the Decimaar blade. The troll scholar, the Dishonorable Bodus discovered that when the stones are brought together they can create a weapon that can kill Gunmar however Bodus and his disciples were killed by Gumm-Gumms when this truth was discovered. Luckily Bodus left behind a message in one of his books to help others find the Triumbric Stones.
"In darkest tide, when Daylight darest wane, the Myrddin Wylt obscured a shadow's bane.
Three elemental forces thou must seek. In marshlands, caverns deep, and mountains peak.
Where worthy perish, ye shall prevail in night and Eclipse all quarry with thy might."
With all three stones the Trollhunter can summon forth the Eclipse Armor and weaponry which is black with red trimmings, the inverse of the regular armor and weaponry, and the Amulet is placed in reverse with the side that resembles a clock no longer being in the front and the back facing forward. To summon the armor they must say this incantation, "For the doom of Gunmar, Eclipse is mine to command." With the current Trollhunter's transformation into a half-troll the armor is now stuck to him permanently.
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After receiving the message the group drove to the village and what they found was unexpected the bandits leading Grimm, Goblins, and Stalklings, but they weren't trying to capture everyone they were killing most of them and only taking a few.
"Defend the village," Roland told the group. "Nier if we can get a few of the bandits to run away tag one of them with your tracker."
Nier nodded to Roland and made his way into the fight to find four Beowolves staring him down. They charge at him but they find themselves blocked by a purple wall that looks like a half circle with symbols in it. This is one of the spells Nier learned from the Grimoire Weiss known as sealed verses, Dark Wall. Nier than draws his odachi sword, drops the barrier, and slashes all four wolf Grimm at once. As they turn into smoke a Stalkling swoops through it to grab him but Nier evades it and slashes it's side. The Stalkling screeches in pain, then it uses it's mouth to grab Nier's sword and fling it into a nearby building. Nier then uses another one of spells, Dark Hand, two large shadowy black and red hands appears from behind Nier catching the Stalkling's attention and he then punches the Troll with them sending it into the wall. Nier picks up his sword and sees the Stalkling petrify, evidently the blows it took was enough to kill it.
Meanwhile Roland and Jake were trying to rescue people, while they were helping a Huntsman to his feet Roland sees three armored bandits and two Ursai head for them.
"This shouldn't take long," Roland said as he pointed one of his revolves. He carried two revolvers, the Sandalwood Guns, the metal was a blued steel and Sandalwood grips. He fires a round and it goes through the eye of one bandit, makes it out the back of his head, and through his helmet. The bullet then bounces off the weapon of another bandit (The bullet wasn't heading for the weapon only the weapon) and goes through the side of the third bandit's head causing him to fire his shotgun and kill the Ursa in front of him. Roland's bullet then ricochets off a wall and then the brick ground allowing it to go through the head of the second Ursa and then hit the chest of the second bandit.
"Where the Sam hill did you learn to do that?" asked the Huntsman.
Then suddenly a web gets stuck to the Huntsman from a darkened house and he's dragged into it screaming until a loud crunch was heard. After seeing this Roland automatically knew what or rather who it was.
"He's here Jake," Roland said. "My son is here."
"Are you sure Roland?" Jake asked his adoptive father. "Do you think Mordred is responsible for these attacks?"
"My family has seen Trolls before but Mordred has never heard the old stories before," Roland said raising his revolvers. "But either way I can't let him to continue this madness. Go help the others Jake I need to put down son."
Jake leaves Roland to face his own son and finds Claire and McCree fighting off reptilian Grimm known as Creeps and a horde of Goblins. Goblins are small creatures, their bodies are as durable as a frog and they act like street vandals. They have pointy ears, side-burns, eyes that have red irises and black sclera, and their skin is either green, blue, or white. White skinned Goblins are known as Blood Goblins because they are more savage, luckily none of them were attacking the village. Jake shoots a Goblin that tried to jump onto McCree's head causing it to explode into green goo and then shoots an approaching Creep.
"You guys alright," Jake asked as he punched a lunging Goblin.
"I've been better," McCree said as he reloaded his revolver Peacekeeper. He then activated something on it that made a red-screen appear above it and once he targeted six Beowolves with it the screen disappeared. "It's a high noon." As soon as he says this he pulls the trigger releasing six bullets that each hit the head of their target. "The Grimm are one thing but these Goblins just keep coming," McCree said as he reloaded his gun.
Claire slashes an approaching Creep with two cutlasses she received from Blinky before she left with Jim and sees a Goblin with a sharpie that draws a mustache on it's own face and then she sees an approaching Beowolf.
"I have an idea guys but I'll need you to let me handle it," Claire said as McCree and Jake nod yes.
Claire then uses a cutlass to knock a penny into the Goblin with the drawn on mustache getting it and some other Goblins to charge at her. Once the Goblins and the Beowolf got close enough she disappears right in front of them but the Beowolf and tried to lung at her but with it's target gone it ended up killing the mustache drawn Goblin with it's claws. The Goblins gasp at this and one of them finds the sharpie and uses it to draw a mustache on it's face. "WAKA CHAKA," the Goblin yelled getting the attention of the other Goblins as they all attack the Beowolf. This causes some of the Grimm to attack the Goblins as well.
"What in God's name just happened?" McCree asked as both him and Jake were shocked at what transpired.
"That would be Goblin vengeance," Claire said appearing next to them. "Goblins don't take too kindly to loosing one of their own so by getting them mad at one of the Grimm I changed their target."
Jake looked around the area and noticed something. "Where's Jim?"
"He's fighting off a large group of Grimm and monsters at the plaza," McCree responded.
"Won't he need our help?" Jake asked.
"Don't worry Jim can handle himself," Claire.
Meanwhile in the village plaza.
When Jim, Claire, and McCree came to the plaza it was flooded with enemies. Jim told them to leave the plaza to him as he could handle so many opponents and he wasn't lying.
SLASH!
Jim has cut a Beowolf in half with the Sword of Eclipse. The dead Grimm is surrounded in red energy and disappears in a flash of light. While Grimm dissipate when they die when a non-Troll is cut in half by the Sword of Daylight or the Sword of Eclipse they swell with energy and disappear in a flash light. Jim looks around the plaza to see dozens of dissipating Grimm that weren't cut in half, Goblin goo, petrified Stalklings, and dead bandits. Like fighting off Gumm-Gumms back in Arcadia only this time Jim didn't accidentally get buried in a pile of Troll corpses. Jim has Merlin's half-troll formula to thank for this feat as it has made him incredibly strong as he can throw Trolls that are much larger them (and they are made of stone and that makes them even more heavy), greater speed, and made him much more durable (Jim once took a hit from his Troll friend AAARRRGGHH! that sent him throw a fence and he didn't feel a thing).
CRASH!
Jim turns around to see a Beringel has landed in the center of the plaza, it's a type of Grimm that resembles a Gorilla. This Berigngel had the same features as all other Grimm black skin, bone-like plates covering it's body at certain places like armor. But this Beringel seems to have "burnt" skin, with an internal red glow visible from within, and is missing it's left eye. The Grimm was about the size of a Troll like Gunmar's son Bular.
"You might actually be challenge," Jim said as he activated his Aura causing a red energy field to appear on him for a few seconds. Due to his Troll physiology he didn't need his Aura for most fights as having it on would just be a waste because of his great durability to withstand most attacks. So he decided to only use his Aura for when he finds himself in a situation were Troll durability isn't enough.
Jim and the gorilla Grimm both charge each other the Beringel tries to punch Jim but he jumps over the monster and slashes it's back with the Eclipse blade. The Grimm grunts in pain and then jumps onto the roof of a church in the plaza and starts throwing the roof tiles at the Trollhunter. Jim manages to block the attacks with his sword but then sees that the Beringel has jumped in the air and slams into the ground right in front of the half-troll. Jim is sent flying through three buildings until he stops inside of a fourth building.
"Okay I that I might've felt," Jim said as he got up and pulled out his smart phone to see his Aura level. Jim's Aura has currently fallen to sixty percent. The Trollhunter puts the phone away as soon as he sees the Berigingel charging for him through the trail of destruction. Jim puts his sword on his back and has his hands at his sides and then two hook daggers come out from his armor and into his hands. He puts them together into their boomerang dagger form and throws it at the Grimm. The Beringel knocks it aside causing it to separate but it was no ordinary weapon the gorilla had seen. The daggers were connected to Jim's hands by motioning his hands the daggers are flown backward and strike the sides of the Beringel's head. One of these strikes made it loose it's right eye causing it to scream in pain. Once Jim got his daggers back he switched to his sword and charged at the Grimm while it was confused and once he got close...SLASH! He chopped off the Beringel's head causing the Grimm to surge with red energy and disappear in a flash of light.
Jim breathes with a sigh of relief as he makes his sword disappear when he sees a little girl huddled in the corner of one of the houses he crashed through.
"Are you alright?" he asks the child while approaching her but she moves away from him.
"It's okay I'm here to help," Jim said as he held out his right hand to the child. She was about to grab Jim's hand when suddenly...
"WAKA CHAKA," a Goblin screamed as it jumped unto Jim's face pulls off the little creature and tosses aside and when he looks at the girl she shrieks in terror. The goblin pulled off Jim's glamour mask revealing his true half-Troll form.
"Don't be scared I'm not going to hurt you," Jim said as he tried to approach the girl be she moved away from him and when moved right in front of the hole in the house she was grabbed by an armored hand. Jim sees that a bandit holding the girl mount a Stalkling fly away.
"NO!" Jim screamed in frustration. He then turns around to see the Goblin that pulled off his glamour mask. Jim then picks up the Goblin with his right hand. Growling at the Goblin he squeezes it so hard that it explodes into green goo.
Meanwhile in the darkened house.
Roland followed the Huntsman into the house and what he saw would horrify those who had never seen what he has. Blood was splattered everywhere and bones dripping with blood and still possessing bits of flesh littered the ground. Roland heard the sound of a beast eating flesh but he knew that this was no ordinary monster.
"Mordred come out!" Roland shouted.
He sound of consumption stopped and out from the shadows came a black spider with a red symbol resembling a face on it's back. This spider was the size of a fully grown man it possessed eight orange eyes and blood was dripping from it's mouth. Then suddenly an orange light envelops it and it turns into a 26-year old man with black hair, glowing orange eyes, gray skin, red tattoos that say red, crimson, and king in several languages, black pants, he was bare-chested, and was wearing two grey gloves. At his sides were two revolvers like Roland's and on his belt are containers of bullets. This man was Mordred Deschain and he seemed to be eating something or rather someone.
"It's been fourteen years father," Mordred said with hate as he wiped the blood of the Huntsman he ate from his mouth.
"You should eating everything around you boy," Roland said as he kept his guns pointed at his son. "You're bound to catch some sort of disease."
"I did after I killed some crazy old man ate him and his horse," Mordred said. "The horse was infected with something but luckily I made a new friend who cured me and in gratitude I'm helping my friend achieve their master plan."
"Tell me their plan and I might consider sparing your life," Roland said.
Mordred chuckles and says, "And here's my counter offer."
Mordred kicks a femur bone at Roland but he moves out of the way and the two begin shooting at each other. The father and son were able to dodge most of the shots from each other but a few manage to strike the other lowering their Aura. They were both depleting the ammo in their guns at fast rates but they both reloaded at blinding speed. Mordred had switched his ammo to air dust and he shot the ceiling destroying the roof of the house and jumped through it and landed on in the street where he sees Nier and Jim (Who is wearing his glamour mask again) chasing bandits with captured villagers. Roland comes out of the building and yells to them.
"Don't let him get away!"
They see Mordred and Jim charges at him. Mordred shoots at Jim and the Trollhunter materializes his shield to block the shot but since it was air dust it sent him flying back. Nier activates his semblance creating a shadowy clone of himself that he named Shadowlord. The clone attacks Mordred with it's sword but Mordred turns into his spider form to better maneuver the sword slashes. While this is going on Nier is readying a Sealed verse called Dark Lance, one by one he makes several red and black lances until he has eight the maximum number the spell could create and then he releases them at high speed. Mordred sees the spears and he kocks Shadowlord into the oncoming projectiles and knocks the Shadowlord into the. The clone gets destroyed by two of the lances while Mordred tries to dodge the rest but is hit by one of them that sends him crashing into a wall. Dust clouds is kicked up covering the spot where Roland's son crashed into and web is shot out from it latches onto Nier's sword. The sword is pulled out of his hands and Mordred returns to his human form and catches it with his right hand and has a gun in his left hand.
Roland starts firing ice dust bullets at Mordred and Jim returns to the battle throwing the Sword of Eclipse at him. Mordred jumps out of the bullets way and deflects the Eclipse blade with the odachi and runs away. Jim uses his amulets magic to make the Eclipse blade to materialize back in his hands and chases after Mordred with Roland and Nier.
As Mordred is giving chase he hears gunfire and dodges several bullets that came from McCree and Jake. Mordred sees the two but quickly realizes some is about to strike him and blocks and attack from Claire who has used her semblance to try and strike him. He kicks her back and tries to shoot her but she teleports away. Now with six pursuers Mordred keeps running until he rejoins with the rest of his forces who have gathered with their captives. The pursuers make to the bandits location and have their weapons ready.
Mordred sees Jake standing next to Roland and says, "Is that your replacement for me father?"
"Roland is he your son?" Jim asked.
"Yes, meet Mordred Deschain," Roland said. "He's been walking a dark path ever since he killed his mother Susannah and ran away."
"Do yourself the trouble and surrender boy," said McCree.
"Here's my counter offer," Mordred says as he pulls a walkie talkie and says into it. "Now."
Shadows rise from Mordred's group and envelops the group making the captured villagers scream and then they were gone leaving the heroes in shock.
"Please tell me you placed a tracker on them?" Claire asked Nier.
"Don't worry I managed to tag one of the bandits," Nier said. "But all of the other villagers are dead."
True to his words three-fourths of the villagers were killed the rest were captured.
"This isn't how they attacked the other villages," Claire said. "So why change their tactics?"
"I managed to use my telepathy semblance on Mordred and what I learned isn't good," Jake said. "The person behind all of this is named Umbra they're using the villagers for an experiment and they're running out of ingredients for it."
"Capture test subjects and kill any witnesses," McCree said. "This Umbra must be getting desperate which is good and bad."
Claire sees Jim take off his glamour mask and look into a mirror.
"Is something wrong Jim?" Claire asked.
"I could've saved I person Claire," Jim said. "But a Goblin took my mask off and I frightened a little girl I was trying to save which led to her being captured."
Claire puts her hand on Jim's shoulder and says, "It'll be alright we'll get her and the other villagers back."
"I hope so," Jim says.
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Unknown location.
Umbra is waiting in a room and Mordred walks into it.
"They placed a tracker on one of your soldiers," Mordred said. "Looks like we'll be using this place to trap them."
"Indeed," Umbra says. "I'll be waiting in the facility call me if something happens."
"Understood," Mordred said.
Name: Jesse McCree
Species: Human
Aura: Blue
Semblance: Echo
Description: Allows the user to see echo's of the past but the user must focus on a specific point such as when it occurred.
Weapon-Peacekeeper: A revolver with a special feature to track his when he fires. A few minutes is required to charge up this feature.
Name: Jim lake, Jr.
Species: Human/Troll
Aura: Red
Semblance: unknown.
Weapon: Jim's weapons include the Sword of Eclipse, the boomerage daggers, and a shield. These weapons are connected to his amulets magic and can be returned to his hand at just a thought.
Name: Claire Nunez
Species: Human
Aura: Purple
Semblance: Teleport
Description: Allows the user to teleport a short distance as long as the location is within their line of sight.
Weapon: Dual cutlasses.
Name: Roland Deschain
Species: Human
Aura: Brown
Semblance: unknown
Weapon-Sandalwood Guns: Twin revolvers.
Name: Nier
Species: Human
Aura: White
Semblance: Gestalt
Description: Allows him to create a shadowy clone of himself that follows his commands and is capable of making it's own decisions in combat.
Weapon(s): Has been known to carry multiple sword with him and is capable of performing magic.
Name: Jake Chambers
Species: Human
Aura: Yellow
Semblance: Telepathy
Description: Allows him to read the minds of others and communicate with them telepathically.
Weapon-Ruger SR1911: A semiautomatic pistol.
Name: Mordred Deschain
Species: Human
Aura: Red
Semblance: Were-spider
Description: Allows the user transform into a gigantic spider and is capable of doing what a spider can.
Weapon-Sandalwood Guns: Twin revolvers.
