Chapter 9: Repeated Comfort

"This is really nice room!" Troy exclaimed as he entered Priscilla's room, though he already had seen it earlier.

"Thanks." Priscilla said, and climbed onto her bed. Her bed was one of those beds with curtains around the front, and of course, they were pink. Her bed sheets were themed with flaming arrows, and her pillow was shaped like a giant arrow. Troy looked around the room and saw a chair that looked like a folded up bow in half. He grabbed it, and then moved it towards Priscilla's bed, and then sat down on the bow shaped chair.

"Was the story to a point where you nearly got killed, oops I shouldn't have said that!" Priscilla stuttered.

"Actually I think it was to a point where I almost got killed!" Troy said, surprising Priscilla a bit. "When I went to sleep, I had these dream where I was brawling a couple of ninjas."

"Cool." Priscilla commented.

"And I guess the point of the dream was to sort of protect me, and I was kind of sleep-fighting whatever the intruder was."

"Whoa. I never knew there was something like that!" Priscilla said, kind of surprised.

"Anyways, I battled intruder, and eventually kicked him out of the window, and he fell all the way down into the moat. I guess I took safety precautions seriously, so I quickly alerted Konah, but he didn't need to be alerted. He was already up. That was when I discovered out his moat control system chamber." Troy explained.

"Yeah, that room is nice," Priscilla said. "I go there sometimes just because I like the sound of the water gushing."

"Yep, the water sounds peaceful," Troy agreed. "With just a few activations of buttons and levers, he took out the intruder, and what turns out to be another person helping him. The chamber was actually one of the most fun and entertaining places ever!"

"Of course! *Chuckles* Konah uses every single thing to his advantage, including water." Priscilla said, smiling a bit.

"Yeah!" Troy exclaimed.

"Anything else you did?"

"Yes! Before I went to sleep every day, I would go pray to the universe, just because it pays great respect and safety!" Troy proudly said.

"Huh?" Priscilla stammered, confused.

"You see, it's a longer story, and sometimes I don't like praying. But I still do it every time. In fact, I had a feeling the universe provided me a dream just to help protect me against that knife wielding intruder! If I didn't pray, I would've probably suffered worse…" Troy said.

"I didn't even know that. That was quite a story!" Priscilla exclaimed.

"Yeah, it is. Well, I have to *Yawn* go to sleep now." Troy said, tired up from all that talking. He then started to walk out of the room when he heard a voice behind him.

"Goodnight Troy."

"Goodnight Priscilla."

Troy quietly closed the door behind him and walked back to his bedroom. As he opened the bedroom, he was stumbling all over the place, but forced himself to look out the window.

"Once again Medallion, thank you!"

Troy then walked back onto his bed, with just enough energy left to climb into bed, cover his chest and below with the blanket, and dozed off.

(THE NEXT DAY)

Troy could see the bedroom ceiling above him; it happened so quickly, that it nearly made Troy jerk out of bed in a hurry.

"That's was close!" Troy said, sighed and then walked over and walked over to the closet. For some reason his outfit looked clean and washed, and it still felt warm. Troy was puzzled but still put it on anyways.

His outfit consisted of leather pants, black boots, and a standard tunic.

Troy felt full of energy once he finished washing his face and brushing his teeth, but forced himself not to use too much of it. He will need all of his energy to come in the next of the arena duels.

"Alright! It's breakfast time!" Troy exclaimed as he sat down in the dining table, with Konah and Perry there as usual.

"Good morning Troy. Hope you had a good sleep!" Perry politely greeted him.

"Thanks, Good Morning, and yes, I did have a good sleep!" Troy exclaimed.

"How did the bedtime story go?" Konah questioned Troy.

"It was great; your daughter has a really cool room!" Troy commented.

"Well *Chuckles* my daughter wanted a bedroom like that. She kept telling me to buy chairs shaped out of bows, and have curtains for the bed, so I decided why not? So I used some of my precious gold to buy things, because I guess I could help out my family a bit! Heh heh!" Konah said, smiling.

After Qanah and Priscilla arrived, the breakfast was served, which was some royal scrambled eggs, P.E.K.K.A pancakes (Cooked by a P.E.K.K.A of course), and more cranberries and berry drinks. The pancakes tasted super good to Troy, so he took two more extra ones. After breakfast was finished, Konah gave everyone another seven minute break before he would gather all of them outside in the castle drawbridge.

(7 MINUTES LATER AT THE DRAWBRIDGE)

"Okay everyone; are we ready for the next battle?" Konah shouted to everyone.

"YES!" Everyone shouted.

"Then let's go!" Konah shouted. And everyone cheered, and then started walking towards the familiar red arch, blue arch Royal Arena. As soon as they reached Royal Arena, they could see another red king mounted up on the opposite tower. Troy smirked at the King, thinking he would just be another easier enemy.

"Are we ready everyone?" Konah said, while he mounted up his King Tower.

"Yes!" Everyone shouted again.

"Oh ho no, you'll never get pass me! It's a dream to get to Legendary Arena, and my legendries will help accomplish that goal!" The other king shouted back.

The bleachers were starting to get filled up fast, and soon the whole arena was echoing with loud shouts of the spectators.

"Very well! Let us begin!" Konah shouted.

"I wish you good luck!" The other king shouted. "You will need it, in order to face me, Daj!"

"Thank you!" Konah shouted back.

Daj quickly spawned what looked like to be a wizard that looked zapped up, with his zigzagged shaped mustache, and also two barbarians with Viking shaped hats.

"Shoot!" Perry said. "Those barbarians are super quick!"

He was right. The two barbarians charged fast towards the arena tower, but not until Troy jumped into the way. Troy quickly slammed his foot to the first barbarian and ducked the second's barbarian's jab. But then barely had enough time to roll away as the second barbarian tried to downward thrust Troy down to the ground.

"Watch it!" Perry warned Troy. "That Electro Wizard deals devastating damage with its spark powers!"

"Your right about that one heh!" The electro wizard snickered and then shot a bolt of electricity to Troy.

"AH!" Troy shouted as the bolt barely collided into him. Unfortunately, Troy slammed himself straight into the second barbarian killing him but just about nearly broke his own arm as well. Troy's arm smashed straight onto the barbarian's sword handle and that sword handle was like heavy steel.

"Whoa ho!" The electro wizard mocked Troy. And shot two more sparks at Troy. Troy rolled forward but then could see a cannonball slam onto the electro wizard.

"WAHHHHHHHHH!" The electro wizard shouted and then quickly disappeared into the moat.

Troy could see a purple haired woman spawn, and then could see her summon three skeletons from the ground.

"Do you think that your injury from that Elite Barbarian's sword stop you from destroying that witch?" Priscilla said, hoping the answer would be yes.

"Of course not!" Troy said, and quickly ran forward with all his might and head-butted all three skeletons at once.

Konah and Daj quickly ignored Troy's fight and then started placing other troops on the other side of the bridge. The witch sighed at Troy and shot blue beams at Troy. Those beams were zooming quickly, and Troy barely had time to even dodge them. Once one of those beams hit him, his vision blurred a little bit. He started stumbling all over the place.

"Ahwhoawhoah!" Troy said, as he could see the whole world spinning before his eyes.

All of a sudden, to make matters worse, he could see the dirt underneath him erupt out and a man wearing a helmet with a candle and a shovel appeared. He appeared to be some kind of miner. The witch chuckled and summoned more skeletons. The Miner attempted to smack Troy with the shovel, but Troy just had enough energy to block it. The miner attempted again two more times, and Troy still managed to successfully block it.

"Hmph!" The miner said in a fury and dug back into the ground, then erupted out smashing Troy high in the air. Soon Troy could see the world upside down, but he lashed out hoping his right fist could find a target. He could hear an "Umph!" and saw the Miner on the ground wheezing for breath. Troy saw the shovel near him, and he quickly dived for it, and then rolled once he grabbed it successfully dodging five more of the witch's beams.

The Miner saw Troy and ran towards him, trying to grab the shovel away from him. Troy ducked down and threw the miner over him. The miner screamed in terror as he nearly performed a front flip and landed on his back. Troy raised the shovel in the air and whammed it against the miner's torso. Troy quickly looked away as elixir splashed onto him, and could see nine more skeletons appear in a line running towards him with their weak looking swords.

"Now let's get a taste of your team's own medicine!" Troy shouted and charged towards the skeletons. He jumped into the air, and smacked four skeletons away to the right with the shovel. Then blocked two skeleton's sword hits with the shovel and then twisted around and spin kicked a skeleton breaking it into bone pieces.

"Gah!" The witch screamed and started to raise more skeletons when Troy quickly threw the shovel towards her face in a rage. The shovel slammed against the witch's face knocking her out cold instantly. Troy could see a skeleton with a bomb appear behind the knocked out witch.

"A bomber." Troy inferred by that and could see his vision return back to normal. The bomber threw a bomb at Troy, and Troy snickered. He jumped back as the bomb collided onto the ground, however the skeletons were following Troy so the bomb destroyed the rest of the skeletons. The bomber's jaw opened in surprise and didn't see his next bomb about to explode. Soon the bomb exploded on the bomb, and elixir was in the air and splattered all over on the ground.

"Now to the witch!" Troy said, and jumped straight in the air towards the Witch. The witch finally regained consciousness back, but could see a foot slammed onto her face again. The witch was sent flying backwards and landed in the golden bridge. The witch pulled herself up from the bridge's railing and tried to shoot more beams at Troy. Troy was ready and ran in a zigzag pattern dodging all the beams. Finally Troy front punched the Witch in the face, and then slammed her down into the moat.

"Yes!" Troy said excited that he saved himself so boldly.

Just then, Troy could see a volley of arrows thunder towards him, and saw that Daj had a princess of his own as well!

"WHAT?!" Troy shouted in disbelief.

Troy jumped onto the moat and then quickly climbed back up. The princess aimed and shot five more arrows at Troy, and Troy quickly cart-wheeled to the right.

"If only I had the Medallion!" Troy said, and was ashamed that he didn't take good care of them.

Then all of a sudden, he could see a purple creature that was carrying a giant looking boulder. The purple creature smiled at Troy and rolled a boulder towards Troy.

Troy quickly side-kicked the boulder, but it was much too strong. It knocked Troy down but just about nearly ran him over. Troy's vision blurred worse than ever now, and a flaming arrow just about nearly hit him. Then Troy could see a mirror of the boulder creature appear but this time, it wasn't in his vision. It was real! Then, all that Troy could see next was four more boulders head towards him, and the world spinning rapidly. Then, it was all black.

When Troy awoke again, he could see Hana and more healers shoot healing beams into his sore arm.

"Aah! Here we go again!" Troy said and sighed a bit. At least the massage was fine as usual.

"You idiot." Troy heard Priscilla said to him. Priscilla was standing by the doorway.

"Well I could use a bit of explaining!" Troy replied.

"Dad lost against Daj, but at least you're still okay. But you nearly got killed out there!" Priscilla said, particularly annoyed by Troy's carelessness, but still is fond that he takes giant risks.

"Sorry." Troy sighed.

"Then I guess I'll see you later!" Priscilla said smiling a bit. Then she left Troy there, with the great massaging beams Hana provided Troy.

"Thanks for those healing beams Hana." Troy thanked Hana. Then went downstairs to look for Konah.

"I wonder if Konah knows what it is like to lose!" Troy said to himself, and looked around for Konah. He finally saw him in the throne room and walked to him.

"Hey Konah." Troy said to him.

"Greetings Troy. How did the heal go?" Konah questioned Troy.

"It was fine thanks!" Troy exclaimed. "How did you think about losing?"

"Well, I lose some of the time. But it's fine! It turns out that Daj was a too hard opponent, it actually fell down from Frozen Peak." Konah explained.

"You're not mad or anything?" Troy stammered.

"Of course not!" Konah said.

"That's good to know." Troy said, relieved.

"Anyways, we are going to another battle in twenty minutes, do you want to wait this one out?" Konah questioned Troy.

Troy thought for a moment and remembered Priscilla's words.

"I will use my energy to help you get trophies!" Troy nobly said. "I'll help you out on this battle!"

"Wow! You truly are a big help!" Konah exclaimed to Troy.

"Yeah, just doing what is necessary!" Troy proudly said.

"Well then, just make sure you're prepared!" Konah said.

"Okay! I'll think of a strategy plan! Thanks Konah!" Troy thanked him, and then left to think of a plan. This time, a plan that will ensure that he will be safe, but still help out the next arena duel!