Chapter 7: Dark Ambush

Troy was just finished up with eating his dinner and taking a shower. That dinner was one of the best meals he ate before. He had more cranberries, some juicy brisket beef, some more berry juice, some juicy buttery dinner rolls, and some caramel apples for dessert.

"Now that was a delicious dinner!" Troy muttered to himself as he quickly dressed up into his pajamas.

Well, he did load up with a box when he arrived. But it looked so normal for someone traveling.

In the box were some pajamas, which were embarrassingly looking almost similar to that of motley.

He quickly climbed into his bed, but then had an idea. He quickly crept over to his door and opened it. He carefully looked around the castle once we reached the staircase. It was all so good and really luxury and Troy knew that Konah paid lots of gold for a castle like this to be built!

"How much gold does he even have?" Troy said to himself, but he didn't think about it further. Don't ask him HOW, but he actually managed to find Priscilla's bedroom straight off the bat one shot! As Troy opened the door a bit, he could see Priscilla, sleeping soundly away.

"Wow, *Chuckles* she looks so peaceful!" Troy whispered, and decided to stare anymore longer, and besides, who knows who might come finding Troy a bit inside Priscilla's bedroom!

"Sweet dreams Priscilla." Troy softly said, and then quietly closed the door. He breathed out a sign of relief, even though he didn't really need to do that, he was sure pleased and satisfied with himself! Troy quietly walked over to his bedroom, which only took a few seconds, and was relieved when he opened the door. "Looks like we need to do gratitude of thanks!" Troy said, and walked over to the window and looked straight up at the sky. The stars were twinkling brightly, and the moon was shining calmly.

Troy sighed. "Maien, thank you for helping me do all of this help, true I do not really like doing this a lot, but I say this to you in honor for everyone! True. I may have lost you. But deep inside, I know that you are still with me. I just need not to waste more time." Troy nodded to himself and then quickly climbed onto his bed, and then calmly and peacefully dozed off.

A few yards away from the back of the castle entrance, there were two shadows behind some trees, and they looked like they could raise up a big siege against the castle!

"So what's the plan?" One of the voices asked the other voice, which obviously meant that those people in the shadows were speaking to each other.

"It's going to be pretty simple, so ya gotta listen up!" The other voice replied back, with a mean eastern kind of voice.

"Then why don't you tell me it!" the other voice retorted back.

"OKAY Fred!" The other voice shouted in disgust. "What we are going to do is enter the castle. The drawbridge is right now blocking the doorway since it was been raised up, so we will have to have to lasso our way!"

"So that explains why you have a rope Jimmy." Fred quietly said.

"Of course! And that's why we are also wearing these black suits to blend in with the-"

"Darkness!" Fred finished up.

"Exactly! Now let's get this on with!" Jimmy said confidently.

Jimmy quickly swung the rope a bunch of times and then threw it with all his might. The rope landed on a red arch, and Jimmy cheered quietly.

"All right! Now hang on to me as we smash through the drawbridge!" Jimmy laughed.

"But won't that make some noise?" Fred anxiously replied back.

"Hmm, you sure got a point!"

"So what do we do now?!"

"I'll tell ya what, why don't you just quietly climb down once you swing into the arch, *Hands a pocketknife* use this pocketknife to cut open the drawbridge, and bingo! I'll be watching you just in case you get charged out by some defenders, don't worry, I have a bow and seven arrows!"

"Only seven arrows?" Fred said, a bit afraid.

"Relax! I know you are capable of getting deep in the shadows, just try your best!" Jimmy said, really confident.

"I sure hope I know what I'm doing!" Fred said. Jimmy let go of the rope, and Fred jumped onto it.

"WHOA!" Fred shouted as he was pulled towards the arch.

"There we go!" Jimmy cheered Fred on, but it was muffled. Jimmy and Fred were also wearing black hoods and large bands that covered up their mouth, and the bands were connected to their seat.

Fred quickly landed on the arch, with a quick, "Ummmpph!" but could still continue. Fred quickly started climbing down towards the drawbridge, snatched the pocketknife from his pocket, and cut a large square slit in the drawbridge. It instantly fell down onto the inside of the castle, and not making much of a noise.

"Right!" Fred said to himself. "Now to take down that wretched Troy!"

"Now all I have to do is wait and see what will happen now!" Jimmy said with confidence, and then hid behind the tree. He took out his bow and pointed it towards the cut slit of the drawbridge, and got an arrow notched ready just in case. The whole point of Jimmy and Fred's mission to this castle was to take down Troy, because of Troy's annoyance to the opponent kings when Konah and his team battled them. Apparently, Jimmy and Fred were sent by an ally, who was one of the troll's in which Troy, Konah, and his whole team fought against last battle.

"Alright. According to plan, let's transition to the boss's favorite phase!" Fred whispered and cackled quietly, as he walked up the stairs. He could sense Troy in the guest room, as he walked down the guest room hallway.

"Troy just got to be in the last room, that's the only possible way!" Fred said confidently, and quietly opened the door to that room. Troy was there, sleeping soundly as usual.

"Heh ha! Now it's time!" Fred said, and took out a bigger knife. It was a fat knife, a few centimeters wide, but was really short in length. But even so, that could cut through helpless flesh with ease!

Fred moved himself towards Troy, but Troy kept on tossing and turning in his sleep. Apparently as well, Troy was dreaming about something.

Troy looked all around him, and could see hordes and hordes and hordes of men looking like tough ninjas. Troy quickly got into his fighting stance, and then one of the ninjas ran forward.

"Yaaahhh!" The ninja ran forward with a short knife in his hands, and Troy quickly ducked out of the way, jumped forward, and back-punched the ninja in the process.

"YAAOFWAA!" The ninja exclaimed in pain, and Troy started fighting all of the ninjas that looked determined to take him down.

Just then, Troy quickly rolled out of bed just as Fred was about to land a kill jab to the chest.

"What?!" Fred exclaimed in astonishment.

Troy's eyes were still closed, but he was in his fighting stance, like the one in his dream.

"Don't wake up! Oh well, you're not gonna last long!" Fred sneered confidently.

Fred lunged his knife forward, and Troy ducked. After that Troy twisted around and landed a high tornado kick to the face. Troy twisted around again the opposite way and landed a super hard hook punch in the face again!

"OOF!" Fred shouted and he stumbled backwards a bit but nearly fell down. Troy landed a front kick on Fred's chest, putting all of his weight for maximum impact. Fred fell down to the ground and rolled backwards one time.

"Time for some tackle time!" Fred thought, and laughed about that new idea.

Fred ran towards Troy and tried to tackle him, but Troy quickly dropped down really low and threw Fred over him.

"Aaahhh!" Fred yelled in pain as he landed on his back. As Fred try to get back up, Troy quickly leg-sweeped him, but since Fred was on the ground, that sweep actually hit him in the face!

"Aauugg! I can't stand all this hits to the face!" Fred complained, and Troy walked backwards and calmly shifted back to his fighting stance. Fred ran towards Troy with the knife in his hands at full power, Troy jerked to the left and ducked another jab. He kicked upwards, and then tried to punch Fred back down to the ground. Fred jumped backwards, but then Troy quickly threw his whole body forward and landed a front flip on his side, and on the last seconds of the flips, Troy's right leg smashed against Fred's neck.

"OOOAWAH!" Fred screamed in pain, and for some reason, Troy and everyone in the castle was STILL sleeping!

Fred sliced back and forth rapidly, and Troy ducked and jumped all of these vicious hits. Troy finally rolled backwards and as Fred flung himself forward, Troy did the same thing, but since Fred's knife was in front of him, Troy quickly turned it away from him.

"Wha-?" Fred was shocked in surprise but Troy was ready. Fred collided into a really straight head-butt from Troy and fell back down again on the floor with a thump.

"You are so going down!" Fred exclaimed and slashed upwards at Troy. Troy however rolled forward, and for a single second Troy was behind Fred. Then Troy lashed out with all his strength smashing Fred in the back.

"Whoaaa!" Fred shouted in pain and stumbled towards the open window. Fred turned around and saw Troy walking towards him slowly.

Troy could see the lead ninja staggering all over the place. He chuckled and stopped in front of him.

"It hurts doesn't it?" Troy said.

"No, it will hurt for you!" The ninja shouted and rushed towards Troy with a sharp bamboo lance.

"Hmm, I guess we are still in a brawl?" Troy mocked, as he ducked another hook slash to the head from the ninja, ducked down and then landed a stomp kick on the ninja's head.

"OWWYAH!" The lead ninja screamed in pain as he stumbled backwards and fell down unconscious beaten and bruised up pretty bad.

Fred stumbled backwards and could already feel the next thing he knew. He could feel his entire body being flung off from the edge of the window and down below.

"AHHHH!" Fred shouted. Fred could see some kind of liquid below him, but he was upside down and plummeting towards it. No doubt, it was the castle moat. As Fred landed, there was a super large SPLASH and the pain was pretty brutal. Fred landed in the water head-first. Fred screamed in pain as he quickly swam up to the surface, and now he could already see Jimmy a long distance away from him.

Troy was now awake now, and was shocked to see what looked like to be someone in black clothing swimming in the moat.

"Really? You really have to swim at a time like this?!" Troy exclaimed, and then quickly ran out his bedroom door.

"I have to go retreat to Jimmy!" Fred said, but since he was bruised up pretty bad, it was really difficult for him to swim.

Fred was making his way towards Jimmy, but he didn't realize Troy quickly running to Konah's bedroom. When Troy arrived at Konah's room, he was surprised to see him awake and just about coming outside.

"Troy, I swore I just heard some splashing and someone saying something down at the castle moat!" Konah exclaimed to Troy.

"Yeah, I think I just kicked someone out of my bedroom window!" Troy replied back.

"Well that was good; I don't think I was expecting any visitors, especially at a time like this!" Konah said, and rushed out down the stairs.

"Where are you going?" Troy called to Konah.

"I'm going to my moat control system!" Konah quickly called back. "You come get Perry, and you two follow me!"

"All right then!" Troy said. "Where is it then?"

"It's downstairs, almost like a basement, the entrance is below the healing center, and however there is a trap-door like entrance there!" Konah explained.

"Nice to know that! I'll meet you there with Perry!" Troy replied frantically back, as he quickly bolted towards Perry's room in a rush; he seemed to almost smash the floor under his feet.

"Great! Hurry though before that person escapes and climbs out of the moat!" Konah frantically finished shouting before he headed to his moat control system, and in seconds he was down the trapdoor.

"I'll hurry!" Troy said nobly and ran to Perry's bedroom. It was a race against time before Fred escapes with Jimmy!