A/N: Merry Christmas...well early Christmas for people over in the America's.
Phobos wandered through the streets of the nameless town as he searched for any sign of Delnid. The only reason he was able to get into the town was because he burrowed beneath the wall. Phobos wandered through the alleys he barely knew, when he came across a poster hanging from a wall. Using his non existent eyes, Phobos read the poster, it stated that Phobos was to be captured and there was even a bounty on his head. Phobos ripped the poster off of the wall with his mouth and swallowed the paper. After an hour of searching, he gave up and headed towards the wall. Once Phobos was back at the Inn, he was approached by a Cactus, a hood covered their head. The Cactus asked.
"Are you Phobos?" The Chomper lied and shock his giant head. Before he could react, the Cactus held a knife to his throat and they whispered. "You're coming with me Chomper, you're worth enough for me to retire." Phobos couldn't break the grip of the Cactus and he was dragged outside. The Cactus threw Phobos onto the street and pulled out a piece of parchment. Before Phobos could run away or fight back, the Cactus read what was on the parchment, aloud.
"Accipite hinc Auch." Phobos felt a strange sensation over throw his senses and he found himself no longer outside the Inn but in a cell in the catacombs of a castle.
The decaying corpse was slammed against the wooden palisade that surrounded the camp, the leader, a giant brute who used a brutal dual-handed hammer in battle, was mad as he yelled.
"YOU FAILED TO KILL IT AND NOW IT WILL RETURN WITH MORE OF THEM! THEY WILL STOP OUR PLAN BEFORE WE CAN PUT IT INTO ACTION YOU IDIOT!" The brute slammed his fist into the head of the cowering, undead archer who whimpered.
"I'll...f-fix this-" The brute cut off the archer by yelling again.
"HOW CAN YOU FIX THIS!" The archer smiled deviously as he coughed up some blood and said.
"If they come b-back...I'll have an ambush w-waiting for them." The brute smiled deviously as well and said.
"Very well then. But if you fail, it WILL be the last time you ever live." The archer nodded weakly before gathering some other zombies and a few of the skeletons. After they got together, they headed into the forest and prepared to ambush any plants that dared to search the forest.
Delnid awoke the following morning with a serve pain in the back of his head. Delnid tried to ignore it as he got out of the bed and practiced with his sword against the dummy. After a few minutes, he gave up practicing against the dummy and prepared to get his grass kicked by Clockwork. He put on his belt, sheathed his sword, grabbed his shield and put on his helmet before he set off towards the practice field. Halfway towards the field, Delnid was approached by a flustered looking Sunflower who asked.
"Can you help me? I've lost my spell book and I can't find it anywhere." Delnid nodded in shock and the Sunflower grabbed his pod with her equivalent of a hand. She dragged Delnid with her back towards her room and when they were in her room she says.
"Alright, you have a look around for it, I'll be right back." She quickly runs out of the room and Delnid is left alone in the room in shock. After the shock wore off, Delnid spent ten minutes looking for the book before he found it under the Sunflower's messy bed. After he found the book, Delnid placed it on the bed and set off to the practice field. When he reached the field, he finds Clockwork is there waiting, as well as the Sunflower. As Delnid approached the two plants, the Sunflower asks.
"Did you find my spell book?" Delnid nodded and said.
"I did, it's sitting on your bed. But I can't help but ask, why are you here?" Clockwork answered, which surprised Delnid.
"I wanted to see if you would disregard your obligations to help someone." Delnid stepped back in shock and said.
"I-I'm sorry, I thought if I helped her out, it would be a good enough excuse." Clockwork chuckled and said.
"It's fine. I'm glad you helped her out rather than come straight here." Delnid nodded slowly and the Sunflower said.
"Well, I have a class to get to, so goodbye. Thank you for helping me out...Delnid." The Sunflower ran off back towards the castle, Delnid watching her in astonishment. As soon as she was out of sight, Clockwork raps the back of Delnid's helmet with the blade of his sword and said.
"Since you're here, we should begin." Clockwork took up a battle stance and Delnid repeated the process. The two Peashooters went at each other for over two hours, Delnid was unable to best the elder Peashooter who seemed to constantly beat Delnid. During their final duel, Delnid brings up what he had seen the day before hand.
"Yesterday, I saw something." Clockwork chuckled as he placed his sword to Delnid's throat and says.
"Dead. That would make sense, you have eyes after all and I think that's enough for today." Before Clockwork could walk back to the castle, Delnid grabs his shoulder and says.
"What I saw was a human...but at the same time they were...unnatural." Clockwork raised his visor, gave Delnid a quizzical look and asked.
"How so?" Delnid looked down and said quietly.
"They had green skin that was decaying and-" Clockwork cut Delnid off by saying.
"Take me to where you saw them. This could be catastrophic if what you say is true." Delnid nodded and he headed down towards the stream that flowed at the bottom of the hill and beside the forest. The two crossed the stream and headed into the forest. The two plants walked for ten minutes before they found a rudimentary wooden palisade, the sound of many voices coming from the other side of the wall. Clockwork and Delnid looked through the small gaps, Clockwork whispered to Delnid.
"We need to report this to the mistress', this is a dangerous matter and needs to be dealt with." While Clockwork backed away from the wall, Delnid continued to stare through the gap, the sight of the green skinned humans and the skeletons were entrancing. Clockwork pulled his squire from the wall and signaled him to follow. Delnid followed Clockwork back towards the castle when an arrow flew out of the trees and Clockwork barely caught it with his shield. Suddenly the forest was alive with battle-cries as zombies and skeletons charged the two plants. Clockwork threw Delnid forward and took up a battle stance. Delnid righted himself and unsheathed his sword. Delnid charged towards the back of his mentor and quickly took out a skeleton with his shield before they could attack Clockwork. Delnid turned and made sure that Clockwork couldn't get flanked. After a few minutes, it looked like the zombies were going to lose, when an arrow bounced off of Delnid's helmet, this caused the Peashooter to stumble. A zombie took advantage of Delnid's moment of openness and slammed their mace against the Peashooters helmet a few times, the force behind the blows were enough to vanquish them. Delnid groaned as he collapsed and passed out. Clockwork slew another zombie before he sprinted to his downed squire. He picked up Delnid and, using his hyper ability, returned to the castle.