All right time to move on. As I said when I ended the last chapter I decided to take some time off Fanfiction. But I think I've kept you waiting long enough, so let's move on with the story. In this chapter it'll bring in King Adgar's mother. But why does she come? Let's move on and see.
A week later, after the incident at the party that night, repairs were made to all the damage the goblins and the ogre had done, and the whole castle had been back in shape.
Though still, Daniel was even more concerned now, because he'd learned that the goblins were coming from the same place that the dark wolf and the ogre did. They were embodiments of darkness, and he wondered: Could it be true? Could the champion of darkness really be on the verge of returning?
The king had sent a letter a few days after the incident had happened to his mother, asking her to come and bring him something. A few days after he sent the letter, it was early in the afternoon. The sun was shining brightly, not a cloud in the sky, and from the fjords, a light brown ship was heading for the Arendelle docks.
The king and queen, along with Elsa, Anna and Kristoff were all down at the docks, waiting for the ship to dock.
When it finally did, a few men wearing long sleeved blue shirts, with dark gray pants and black boots had started to lower a plank of wood onto the dock, and then a woman wearing a dress with a midnight blue gown, a dark gray top, who had silver hair tied in a bun on top of her head and a few wrinkles on her skin, with sapphire blue eyes started to walk down, carrying a dark brown, wooden cane.
She looked down to the king first and smiled at him. "Ah, Adgar, my son!" she walked down as fast as she could.
"Hello, Mother," King Adgar walked to her and she threw her arms around him and pulled him in for a hug.
"Oh, how I missed you! When you died I couldn't stand the idea of never seeing my son again." She then looked to Queen Idun and Elsa and Anna. "Idun, how's my daughter in law?" She walked up to her and hugged her.
"It's been going as well as I can make it, but with a kingdom to run and two daughters to look after, it can get challenging," Idun replied.
The King's mother went over to Elsa and Anna and hugged them both. "How are you girls?"
"We're good, Nana," Anna replied.
"Since Anna and I had finally gotten to be together, things couldn't be better for us," Elsa chimed in.
Then she looked to see Kristoff behind Anna. "Is this the man, Anna."
"Yes. Nana, this is Kristoff. Kristoff, this is our grandmother."
"You said he was a mountain man, so I expected him to be a dirty man. But he's quite handsome. I think you chose the right one, Anna."
"I think we're making good progress," Anna responded.
Then she turned back to the king. "So, tell me. I must know. How is it you're here after being sunken in your ship?"
"That's another reason I'm glad you came. There's someone we'd like you to meet. Come with us to the castle."
"Boys, get my luggage to the castle, I'm going with my son," the king's mother said back to her men.
"Yes, Ma'am," one of the men said grabbing her luggage.
And they all strolled through town, going back to the castle, escorted by four guards, two in front and two behind.
"So who is this person you want me to meet," the king's mother asked her son.
"You remember how I told you there have been many attacks from horrid creatures, and strange monsters going on here?"
"Yes."
"Well, this young man, he's young, but he's the bravest man I've ever met. He's been protecting us. He's very strong, and he's far from home, but he's the one who brought Idun and me back to life. He's magical."
"Magical?" his mother asked confused.
"Yes. He holds this book of magic powers that are capable of doing amazing things. He can turn his body into smoke, turn any object into solid gold, he can even lift massive weighted objects and jump great distances."
"Really? He sounds wonderful."
"He is. All of us are fascinated with him here. Except Idun. She's tried to hurt him."
They reached the open gates and walked to the castle.
As they walked along, they'd all heard a slow, mellow tune being played from a flute and all stopped.
"What is that wonderful sound?" asked the king's mother. She looked all around and listened in for the music, then looked up and saw Daniel sitting on the roof, with his eyes closed, and he was playing a long, silver flute. "Who is that young man?"
Everyone looked and saw him sitting there.
"That would be him," King Adgar answered.
Up on the roof, Daniel just sat there playing his flute. He stopped to take a breather and opened his eyes, to see them all standing down there. "Sorry. Was I disturbing you?" He asked and put the flute in his pocket.
"Not at all. It was actually wonderful music," King Adgar replied. "Come down here a minute, son."
He stood up and walked down the roof. When he was near the edge he did a front flip and started to descend to the ground, until he landed on his feet behind them all.
"Daniel, this is my mother, Margaret," King Adgar walked to him with his mother next to him. "Mother, this is our friend, Daniel J Simmons."
Margaret the king's mother walked to Daniel. "Well, he seems like a nice young man. He looks like such a gentleman. But what's with the black glove?" She asked gesturing to Daniel's gloved arm.
"He doesn't like to talk about it, Mother," King Adgar chimed in.
"His arm is made of metal," Queen Idun gave her the answer.
"Idun!" King Adgar raised his voice.
"If she's gonna be staying here for the next few weeks she may as well know."
"Idun, that's ridiculous. How can someone-"
"It's true," Daniel cut her off.
"Pardon?" Margaret asked looking back to Daniel.
Daniel pulled the glove off, revealing his dirty gray iron arm.
"How is this even possible?"
"I lost my left arm in a battle a few years back," he answered.
"With his magic, he created a new one," King Adgar took over.
"Ah. It's one of the strangest things I've ever seen, but you know what they say: Nobody's perfect."
"By the way, Mother. Did you bring it?" King Adgar asked his mother.
She looked behind her and saw her men carrying her luggage and walked over to one of them who had flattened black hair, and she took a brown, wooden box from him.
She walked back over to King Adgar and gave him the box. "As you requested."
King Adgar set the box on the ground and kneeled down to open it. Inside there was a suit of armor that had a chrome armored vest, with dark gray sleeves, a pair of pants with black leggings, similar to the ones Daniel had on his armor, but were slightly thinner. Dark gray gloves that looked almost black, and a dark blue cape. "Father's armor." He turned back to Daniel. "My father was a brave soldier. He fought many great wars against vandals and crooks, protecting the innocent. But almost 10 years ago, he was killed. There were many silent and sneaky soldiers in that war he fought, and one got the drop on him." King Adgar looked down to the armor and sighed. "He didn't make it. In his will, he left me his armor. I never thought I'd have to use it, but with all these attacks, I think you're gonna need help, son."
"I appreciate your concerns, but I don't want you to risk your life to try to protect me from those creatures."
"It's the least the we can do. After all, you've protected us from everything that's threatened us and the citizens."
"'We'?" Daniel asked.
"The guards have offered to help fight. Plus there have been men throughout the town who have also volunteered to help."
"Well, I really do appreciate all your concerns, but the last thing I want is for all these people to get hurt going up against those goblins. They may be weak and stupid, but they're more dangerous than you know. I don't think you want to know what they do."
"What do they do?" asked King Adgar.
"All right I'll tell you, but you're not gonna like the sound of it. They not only like to pillage places and kill, they kidnap people, they skin them alive, they cut them up and let them die slowly and very painfully. They eat the flesh of anything, even each other. Yeah, they're cannibals. They're vicious monsters. You think I want to have anyone to go through that?"
"I know you're trying to protect us, son. But if things keep getting worse than they already are, then I'm afraid that we'll all be goners. The guards and men have made up their minds. They want to help, and we're gonna let them. The guards are gonna train the town's men to fight, so they can defend themselves against those goblins. We're all willing to suffer any consequences, no matter how bad it seems."
"All right. Just promise me one things."
"What is it?"
"Leave all the other monsters to me. I'm the only one who can handle anything other than goblins."
"Fair enough. Come, Mother. I'll show you to your room."
The king and queen, his mother, Elsa, Anna and Kristoff then all walked to the castle's entrance doors.
Daniel turned his back and went off into the opposite direction, outside the gates, and he sat on the ledge of the stone bridge right in front of the gates, and continued to play his flute.
Daniel had sat there, playing his flute for at least 5 hours. He paid no attention to anything, he kept his eyes closed and played slow, mellow tune.
He just sat there, playing his music, but then someone cleared their throat, getting his attention.
He stopped playing, opened his eyes and looked to see Queen Idun, standing there with a slightly stern look on her face.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"I came out here for a little fresh air, but you playing caught my attention. You've been out here for up to five hours."
"I'm aware of that. I've got nothing to do. When I'm not occupied and have nothing to do, I find I place to be along and play this," he held up his flute.
"Where did you get that, if I might ask. Would you be willing to let me know about this?"
"This is something else I came here with. My dad gave it to me, just before I left home, along with the locket."
"I was browsing through the castle and saw some things you had in your room. Like a bunch of old newspapers, a wooden mallet with red stains, and a set of knives and blades. You want to explain why you have those items?"
"The newspapers are what I read on most mornings and nights, the wooden mallet is to mash the grapes and cherries into my dad's wine, and the blades I keep with to help fight against the goblins, because I wanna be as defensive against them as possible."
"Really? How about this?" Queen Idun held out a piece of folded paper, then unfolded it to reveal a strange text.
"That's just another one of my spells. My personal favorite. It let's you turn seeds into plants in just seconds, which I mostly use for the wine. I have to get all those red grapes and cherries somewhere. It saves me the trouble from just having to buy them."
"We may have put some of the past with you and me behind us, but don't think that means I trust you. I still get the feeling you're up to something else."
"I still don't see what you're concerned about. I've done nothing but good things for all these people, and you still think I'm some kind of criminal? Give it up, you're not gonna be able to prove me a criminal, because I've done nothing bad."
"How do I know that? How do I know you're not doing all these things because you're trying to cover up something you may have done in the past?"
"That's it. This conversation is over."
"It most certainly is not over. I'm still talking to you."
"Well, I'm done talking to you," he said pulling his flute back out.
"Now you listen here, if I find out you're lying to me about any of this, you'll be hung for your crimes, then beheaded."
"What? I can't hear you over my music," he ignored her and began playing.
Queen Idun angrily walked up to him. "Give me that!" She snatched his flute. "No one wants to hear you playing this." And she threw it off the bridge, and into the water."
"No! My flute!" Daniel said disappointedly. "That was a very expensive item!" He snapped at Idun.
"You can turn objects into gold, can't you? Buy yourself another one," Queen Idun replied without care.
"A new one? I don't think so. That flute you just chucked into the water was my dad's prized possession. He had that years before I was born. He had to sell more than 500 bottles of his wine to make enough money to buy it. He worked so hard for it. He had to save up all his hard earned money for 5 years. Now you've made it so that hard earned money went to waste, so thanks a lot." He groaned angrily and stormed off.
The queen stayed where she was and then looked back to the circles made in the water where she threw the flute. She sighed and had a slight look of guilt on her face.
Back inside the castle, Daniel had gone in with angry look on his face, and King Adgar, Elsa and his mother Margaret had decided to talk with him in the library. He told them what had happened.
"She did what?!" King Adgar angrily asked.
"Threw my flute in the water! And she was basically at it again, trying to accuse me of doing something bad, because she went through my stuff, and found some of my thins she thought were supposed to be murder weapons."
The doors of the library opened and the four all looked to see Queen Idun.
King Adgar arose from his chair. "How could you? I thought I told you to keep your hands off of his things!"
"I was trying to talk with him, and he wasn't listening to me!" Queen Idun snapped and glared towards Daniel.
"You still think he's a criminal? When is this whole feud going to end, Idun? When are you gonna stop trying to blame and accuse him for things he hasn't done?!"
"When he starts coming clean. I keep telling you he's hiding something! He has had me concerned since day one we've known him. He has a book of magic spells, he travels far from home, and those goblins keep attacking whenever he's around. He do we know he's not bringing them in to make himself look like a hero?"
"What?!" Daniel snapped and got up from his seat. "You think I'm the one responsible for those monsters? I want nothing to do with those beasts. I don't want to see them, I don't want them around, I don't even want them to exist."
"You may have forgotten, Idun, but they've tried to kill him just like they've tried to kill us."
"If he is their commander, then he must have ordered them to look like they were trying to kill him, but really he let them win."
"Oh, really," Daniel walked up. "If I were their commander, do you think I'd have them do this to me?!" He pulled off his glove and showed her his iron arm.
King Adgar looked to Daniel's arm, then back to Queen Idun. "Well? Do you think he'd let them cut off his arm, were he their commander?"
"What are you saying?" she asked both Daniel and King Adgar.
"I'm saying, that I'm not a criminal. I've used these magical powers and my abilities to help and protect people ever since I left home."
"Sure you did. Liar," Queen Idun said to him.
Daniel looked straight at her in shock because she didn't believe him. He turned his back and walked up to his robe, which was sitting on the back of a chair, near the window. He reached into the folds of his robe and pulled out a bunch of papers, then walked back towards the table.
"And what are those?" Queen Idun asked.
"Take a look," Daniel said and he slammed the papers down on the table.
The king and queen walked over to the table and looked through the newspapers.
"What are these?" asked King Adgar. "'Trail Blazer saves innocent from monsters.' 'Trail Blazer provides mounds of gold to the homeless.'"
"That was what people called me in the places I visited. I around at least 20 different places. I'd encountered goblins everywhere I went. They attacked the homeless and innocent. But for some reason, each time an attack happened, I was there to help. I stopped the goblins from killing people, and I brought food and gold to hundreds of poor people. I don't know who was the goblins' commander, but I knew it wasn't good. Though most goblins are weak, there was one who was stronger than all others combine: The general."
"If they have a general, then wouldn't he be the one commanding them?" asked King Adgar.
"I wish he were. But he himself told me there was another," Daniel replied.
"He told you?" Elsa stepped up. "You saw him?"
"Not only that. I fought against him. But he was more rough and more vicious than any other goblin, and was hard even for me to handle. I should know."
Daniel opened up his shirt, and showed his left chest. There was a big, swollen red and purple scar, which covered around most of his chest under his neck.
"What happened?" King Adgar asked again.
Daniel closed his shirt back up, then he closed his eyes and put his crossed hands in front of his face. He opened his electric blue, glowing eyes and that light shined in the whole room, like all the other times.
"What is he doing?" King Adgar's mother asked.
"He's showing us a scene from his past," King Adgar answered.
The blue light became a mist and it showed the past. Daniel, at the age of 19, was in the center of a destroyed and burned up town, like the village that had been destroyed by that cloaked figure. He was wearing his armor, and wielding his sword, and in front of him, were a big group of goblins, all wielding swords and axes.
Daniel raised his sword and stared into the bloodshot red eyes of the goblins. "Bring it on."
Five of them all charged at once, raising their weapons and yelling loudly.
Daniel stood still, waiting for them to reach him, and when they were close enough, he swiftly swung his sword, cutting all their heads off at once.
"Always thinking you got the drop on me, are you? Well, then you creeps are even more stupid than I thought," he said to the remaining goblins, pointing his sword at them.
All the others began to run at him, raising their weapons and yelling, and at the same time, Daniel ran towards them, and clashed with them. He engaged in an epic battle.
He began killing them all one by one, by stabbing them, striking them in their throats and on the chest areas. Cutting their heads off, and swiftly moving to make them strike each other. He would use his left arm to stop any attack he could that he couldn't with his weapon.
He jumped up as one tried to slam an ax on him, and landed on its shoulders. Daniel then pulled a knife off his belt, and stuck it in the goblin's head, on which he stood.
The fight with all those goblins had gone on in the same process for at least 15 minutes, but when it ended, all the goblins had laid dead all around him.
"Never mess with someone like me. I'm too tough for you. You think you're strong enough to beat me? Huh?!" Daniel exclaimed to all their dead bodies.
Then another voice came from behind him. "They might be. But I'm not." Said that dreaded voice.
Daniel turned around and looked behind him, to see another goblin that was 5 times bigger than all others. It had even more pale gray skin, so it almost looked white with scars and cuts all over its face and arms, it wore a dark gray, sleeveless armored vest, which was covered with scratches, and broken blades stuck to it, dim green leggings covering most of its legs, big boots with skull buckles on front of them, and it wielded a big, dirty gray rusted hammer with a sharp, pointy tip at the end of the hilt.
"And you are?" Daniel asked.
"I am the goblin's general. I give all the commands when it comes to pillaging and terrorizing."
"You may be bigger than any other goblin I've faced, but you're no less ugly. In fact, you're probably more ugly than all others."
The general growled at him. "You're coming with me, one way or another." It raised its hammer.
"Over my dead body," Daniel raised his sword in defense.
The general cracked a grin with its serrated teeth. "That's the idea. This is gonna be fun."
"You can say that again, creep."
Daniel yelled and ran to the goblin general, raising his sword.
As he reached the general, it took a step forward, and with its muscular right arm, it knocked Daniel away, making him fall to the ground.
"I told you, I'm stronger than those other minions. If you come with me willingly, I might just have the boss take it easy on you."
"The boss? Then you're not the one in charge."
"No. No, I'm not. My master is the most powerful being in the world, and when he's at full strength, he will conquer the world!"
"Not if I stop him!" Daniel got up and ran to the general again, but when he reached him, the general knocked him back down again.
"Give up, weakling. You cannot defeat me. I am much too strong for you."
"Never. I will fight, and I will not give in."
"Have it your way!" the general yelled and raised its hammer, then walked to Daniel.
The general came close to slamming down his hammer on Daniel, but Daniel dodge rolled out of the way just in time, and the general hit the ground, making a big hole.
Daniel got to his feet and was behind the general, so he tried to take a strike at him, but the general was quick, and was able to turn to face him in time. He then swung his hammer at Daniel again, but Daniel jumped out of the way, just before it could hit him smack in the face.
He hit the ground, but did a rolling move and got back to his feet.
The general charged at him wielding its hammer, then took another swing, but Daniel ducked out of the way, and got to the general's right, and there he got a chance to strike its right arm.
The general roared as he was struck, then with his right arm, he knocked Daniel to the ground once more and he dropped his sword the second he was hit.
Daniel landed next to the dead body of one of the goblins and saw it had a rusted knife in its belt, which gave him an idea.
The general slowly walked up to Daniel. "I don't care what the boss says. I have had it with you, you runt. You die now." He raised his hammer.
And that's when Daniel made his move. Just before the general could bring the hammer down, Daniel picked up the dagger, then threw it at the general. The blade flew up and slashed the general right in his left eye.
The general yelled loudly in pain, and covered his left eye with his left hand.
Daniel then quickly got to his feet, and grabbed one of the goblins' swords, then ran to the general.
The general had looked to Daniel, and with his hammer still in his left hand, he slammed it into the left side of Daniel's chest, in the spot where he showed them his scar.
Daniel had flown through the air and roughly hit the ground. He held his chest in pain after he landed.
"That's it. I'm done tolerating with you, maggot. You will die now."
The general walked up to him still covering his left eye and wielding his hammer.
Daniel just lay flat on his back, looking to the general frightened at the moment, and tried to figure out what he'd do next. Then he looked to his right and saw his sword.
He thought quickly as the general reached him and raised its hammer once more.
As the general tried to slam it down, Daniel doge rolled again, making the general miss.
Daniel went for his sword and as quick as he could ran to the general.
The general was about to swing his hammer again, but Daniel got his chance and ever so swiftly, he swung his sword, cutting off the general's right arm.
The general dropped to his knees, screaming in pain.
Daniel tried to take another swing at the general, but the pain in his chest became too much and he also dropped to the ground.
The general arose to its feet and limped away.
"And if I ever see you again, I will finish what I started," Daniel said to the general's back.
After that the whole illusion turned back to blue light, and it all faded away.
"I learned two important things that day. One: I was always moving too quick at things, and learned to slow down when necessary. And two: The goblin general is a tough one, and I need to be careful with the opponent's I face." Then Daniel looked back to Queen Idun. "So, do you still think I'm some kind of criminal?" He asked her.
"I don't know what to think. All this is putting so much pressure on my life and I can't think straight anymore," Queen Idun replied and she turned and left the library.
King Adgar came up from behind Daniel and put his hand on his right shoulder. "I think those were really important lessons you learned that day. And I'm sure Idun will come to her senses sooner or later, and she'll learn to appreciate you like we do, son."
"Thank you, King Adgar," Daniel thanked him.
Elsa then came and stood next to her father. "We all appreciate the things you've done for us. I'm sure deep down, my mother also appreciates them too. She just doesn't know it yet because of all the pressure on her life."
"You're right. I know she does, somewhere down there."
All right. I'm ending it there. Hope you liked this chapter. But I'm gonna be honest, this just came to me as I was typing it up. So it'll probably be a little while before I put up the next chapter, because I need to think on what I'm gonna add in next. If you have any ideas, please feel free to let me know in your reviews. Until next time, please read, review and enjoy.