Chapter 13: A Cocky Guard
Troy and the wizard went a bit deeper into the forest, and Troy couldn't help the urge but ask the wizard a question that seemed not necessary.
"Where do those knockout people go then?" Troy asked the wizard.
The wizard stared at Troy and sighed.
"Balloons patrol the area and pick up anyone they see is knocked out." The wizard said.
"What's with that sigh?" Troy questioned him back.
"When you get knocked out, you are out for the rest of the game, and you can't even watch the rest of the game from the balloons!" The wizard said angrily. "Can't they take a hint that this game is one of the greatest in the realm?"
"I guess you got a point…" Troy's voice trailed off as he stepped through some scrunched leaves. He looked up in the sky; it was probably late afternoon now. Time goes by quickly!
"Anyways, I think this is a good spot." The wizard said, as he pointed towards a giant boulder but also had two taller and skinner boulder's covering it a bit.
"That looks good." Troy commented to that remark.
"Okay, I'll go patrol deeper into the forest just in case anyone tries to sneak up; you plant the flag next to the boulders and fend off close ranged attackers!" The wizard said, and was about to leave when Troy tapped him on the shoulder.
"Good luck, but what is your name?" Troy asked the wizard.
"Oh yes, the name is James." The wizard replied back.
"Thanks… James. I'll be just fine with the flag!" Troy boasted.
"I'm sure you will. I'll be back in three minutes! Here's the flag as well!" James said, and handed the flag to Troy, and then walked off more deeper into the forest.
"Pssh! He can leave me alone for twenty five minutes and I'll still be fine!" Troy muttered.
Troy looked around him as he planted the flag down, which was wedged up near the two boulders and the big one. The flag looked rather simple. It was basically a blue flag with a crown that looked similar to that Konah wears, but still it was a good classic!
"This is going to be a good game!" Troy said to himself and chuckled. Troy looked around for a few more seconds but still no luck. Troy was really impatient, but the chilly air made it sort of easier to wait, since Troy tried to keep a little bit more a little bit of the time. All of a sudden, Troy was startled by the sound of the crunching of fallen leaves, and could see a barbarian looking around with his sword, but got closer to the boulder each time.
"I don't think he sees me." Troy said to himself.
Troy still had his sword wielded up, so he crept on top of the boulder and waited but soon regretted it. Once the barbarian saw the boulder, he smirked.
"HEY! I found the flag!" The barbarian shouted.
"Nooo!" Troy shouted as he jumped down and tackled the barbarian down to the ground.
"OOF!" The barbarian said, surprised, but soon both him and Troy were back up.
The barbarian had more faster impulses this time around, and tried to slash at Troy's face. Troy ducked the slash and quickly lashed out with the handle of his sword, bringing the barbarian back down to the ground. The barbarian shouted more in surprise, but rolled backwards once in the process.
"Yahhh!" Troy shouted, and tried to keep his voice quiet as he can, but he learned that shouting gives you a boost in energy.
Troy ran towards the barbarian and tried to slash him in the torso with the side of his sword, however the barbarian quickly jumped backwards and then lashed forward with the front of his sword attempting to hit Troy in the chest, sort of like the fencing technique.
"Whoa!" Troy shouted in surprise, as he quickly jumped backwards, nearly getting hit by it. Troy rolled forward and then slashed upwards at the barbarian blinding his vision a bit.
"Yaaaoohharg!" The barbarian sputtered as he fought for consciousness when Troy quickly ran forwards and smashed the barbarian on top of the head with the top side of his sword, not the sharp part. The barbarian fell down, successfully knocked out and smashed his back on some more fallen leaves, making a giant scrunching sound.
"Whew! That was close!" Troy said, but then could hear a reload sound. Troy gulped and looked the left of him. There were two musketeers, a woman wielding a giant axe, and three knights all determined to take him down.
"Uh…heh heh!" Troy stammered, because he knew he couldn't fight them all. Troy quickly ran back towards the flag and was just a few feet away when he tripped on some leaves couldn't roll forward in the process.
"AH!" Troy said, but soon after could hear the whoosh of flame soar over his head. It flashed by quickly, so Troy looked behind him and could see one knight soaring high in the air and slammed onto a tree, which knocked him out in the process. Troy looked forward and could see James casting up another fireball.
"That was a relief!" Troy muttered as he scrambled back up and turned around. The musketeers, knight, and woman with axe was still running toward Troy and James. After all, they were only a few feet away.
"You sure did attract a big gang!" James exclaimed as he fired another of his fireballs smashing the woman with the axe. The woman with the axe fell backwards and skidded backwards on her back. But then quickly got back up to continue the chase.
"Do we have anyone within a small radius of this area come help us?" Troy said desperately, hoping the answer would be yes.
"Yes, but it is not much." James replied as he fired another fireball at the musketeers, but missed.
Then two archers and a musketeer, all of them wearing blue jerseys ran from behind the boulder and started firing their ammunition: Arrows and Cannonballs.
"All right then, but I don't think my fists can go any longer now." Troy said quietly, rubbing his throbbing right hand. He didn't realize how hard the punches he landed on the barbarian dealt so much damage to his hands, but they did.
Then to make matters even worse, three more barbarians wearing red jerseys came from the opposite end of the forest. Troy gulped as he climbed up on the boulders, kind of ashamed he couldn't help. Troy all of a sudden had a memory that hit him from the past, he could still remember it, but could it really motivate him? Troy shook it out of his mind and jumped down from the boulder. The two musketeers fired cannonballs at the archers. One of them dodged while the other one got shot. The shot archer was sent flying backwards with the cannonball and skidded across the grass, confirming it a knockout.
"I'm getting more help!" Troy shouted to James, since Troy jumped down from the opposite end of boulder. James nodded as he casted up another fireball and made it slam against the woman with the axe, but this time the woman blocked it with her axe. The gang was getting closer now, and Troy quickly ran deeper into the forest.
(30 SECONDS LATER)
Troy had just alerted two more wizards and one of those women wielding those giant axes, whose name Troy learned was called the Valkyrie. Troy and the three of them ran back towards the flag, but that was the problem. They didn't even know where they were running to. Troy forgot the way back, so now they were lost in the jungle.
"Now what do we do?" One of the wizard's complained.
"Um… we… uh, hey!" Troy said when he could see a nearby red jersey worn wizard about to cast a fireball into the other wizard from a few feet away.
The wizards turned around and were startled by the wizard that they casted up a fireball and threw it at the wizard, so fast it seemed like for only a split second. Since there were two fireballs being thrown at the one wizard, one of the fireballs canceled out the devastating looking fireball while the other colliding into the wizard.
"WHOA!" The wizard shouted in surprise as he was toppled backwards and rolled down a small nearby hill. Troy and the others ran after the wizard, but as they reached the top of the hill, they could see a balloon pick up the knocked out wizard.
"That's one teammate short of the red team's." The Valkyrie smirked.
"Yeah." Troy said quietly, but gasped. He could see the familiar two boulders and giant boulder a distance away. He couldn't believe it! The wizard sort of led him to the direction and destination he needed for!
"Hey!" That's the place!" Troy pointed to the boulders and ran down the hill, with the wizards and Valkyrie following him. As soon as he reached the place it was a terrifying sight. The archers and musketeer were nowhere to be found, and James was busy fire punching up a knight down to the ground. Still a nearby musketeers was about to shoot James.
"Fireball her!" Troy shouted at the two wizards. It only took wizard for that task however, but both wizards fired anyways. However, the extra fireball collided onto the remaining group of barbarians, which were only two.
"Great bonus!" Troy muttered.
Then Troy and his group ran towards the opposing gang, and a knight yanked up the flag from the ground. Troy could also see the red jersey Valkyrie running towards him, hoping she could score a knockout. Troy signaled his gang's Valkyrie, and then ran towards the Knight who was trying to run away with the flag.
"You won't get away with this!" Troy shouted as he kept on pursuit of the Knight. The Knight was kind of fast though, and he led Troy through vines and logs, through giant branches and even a creek! More chilly air and leaves brushed up against Troy's face, but he persisted to keep on chasing the knight. Just then, he realized something. In order to win this game, you would need to attach the flag on top of your team's flag which means… The knight was leading Troy to his team's camp!
"This is going to be easy!" Troy said to himself, his fist was not throbbing anymore, just a little bit though. The knight snickered from the sight of Troy still following him, and he led Troy to a little thicket next to a nearby river, and there were five knights standing guard next to their flag, which was the complete opposite of the blue flag. It was red with a crown that the opponent king from arenas wore.
"Hey! I have an enemy pursuing me, I could sure use some help here!" The Knight shouted at the guards.
Troy smacked himself on the forehead and quickly grabbed a nearby bowl looking bark off a nearby tree. The Knight was getting closer to the flag, so Troy scooped up some water and splashed it near the knight's leather looking shoes. The Knight slipped and fell down, but the guards were already running towards the knight to take the flag from him.
"Not a chance!" Troy said with determination as he ran towards the knight guards. One of the guards was about to take the flag from the knight when Troy quickly front kicked him in the face. The knight fell backwards, but the knight which Troy slipped grabbed Troy's shoe and hauled him backwards. Troy shouted in surprise and then quickly ducked the knight's jab, since the knight swiftly got back up. The flag was on the ground, but the guards didn't see it.
Moreover, they were probably more interested in taking this close ranged adventurer. The knight tried to hook slash Troy to the face and Troy quickly jumped down, then jumped back up, twisted around, and performed a nice back-kick to the knight's face. The knight stumbled backwards in surprise, but then Troy quickly knocked him out with his sword.
"One down, five to go!" Troy muttered.
Two knights were the first to arrive towards Troy. Troy blocked the first six simultaneously attacks from the knights and then stomp kicked a knight away. Then rolled diagonally to the left. As the knight turned, Troy jumped high in the air and double kicked the knight in the face.
"UNG!" The knight winced in pain. The knight fell backwards and the other knight tried to jump on Troy. Troy twisted himself and landed a good spin-kick to the knight, who was in mid-air. The knight sputtered in pain as he fell backwards and colliding into the third knight. The fourth and fifth knight jumped high in the air with more complex slashes, and Troy quickly tried punching them away. The first and second knight was staggering all over the place. The third knight was probably the most sensitive one. It was already knocked out.
"Attack!" The fourth knight shouted at the other guards, and soon there were four guards at Troy. Troy quickly rapid punched the second knight away, then quickly slided between the third and fourth knight and jumped back up, dodging the fifth knight's next sword jab. Troy clenched his fists and arms into a baseball bat like shape and then whacked the knight's head over him as he landed back down.
"GAH!" The knight shouted.
The fifth knight fell forward and stumbled backwards. The third and fourth charged towards Troy, and were really focused now. Troy tried to spin-kick the third knight away, but the third knight dodged and the fourth knight quickly punched Troy in the face. Troy then tried to tornado kick the fourth knight, but the fourth knight was ready, and once Troy finished his kick, the third knight quickly front kicked Troy in the torso. Troy fell backwards on and skidded across the ground on his back. He got back up but was breathing hard now.
"This is one ignorant teen here!" The third knight said.
"You got that right! I'm already exasperated! The fourth knight said in a fury.
Troy could see the fourth knight running towards him with his sword moved to it's side and ready to slash Troy in the chest. Troy rolled forwards, but this time the fourth knight kicked him, and it was timed perfectly. The fourth knight's foot landed on Troy's back, so Troy soared backwards and he slammed himself onto a tree.
"Ooof!" Troy said, and his vision was getting blurry and the world was spinning around him. The third and fourth knight ran towards him, and he couldn't comprehend what would happen next, but he could see flaming arrows in the background for seem reason. Then a few seconds later, everything blacked out.
(LATER)
When Troy woke back up, he was lying on a white and yellow table. There were two healers shooting healing beams into him, giving him soothing relief. However he was outside and there were other tables with other people on them. Some of the people were even the very exact ones which Troy knocked out!
"What is this… place?" Troy said slowly.
"You are still outside, but you are just outside of the forest." One of the healers answered.
"But what kind of forest?" Troy asked the healers.
"Outside the Forest Flag's Forest you idiot!" Troy heard a familiar voice.
Troy got down from the table and looked where the voice came from. It was pretty easy who it was.
"Priscilla?! You didn't tell me you were playing the game!" Troy said in disbelief.
"I was. I just didn't tell you." Priscilla smirked. Priscilla was wearing a red jersey, which surprised Troy even more. "Anyways, you probably already know that the red team won this time."
"I knew that!" Troy said, slightly feeling awkward.
"And you were kind of an easy target." Priscilla added.
"Wait, you were the won who shot me and knocked me out?!" Troy gasped.
"Of course you idiot!" Priscilla laughed.
"I can't believe it." Troy stood their embarrassed and blushing. Seriously!
"Anyways, are you going to play another round?" Priscilla asked Troy.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! I think that will be enough for me today!" Troy said.
"Really? It was only one match!" Priscilla exclaimed.
"Yes, but I didn't realize how fun and hurting this game can be!" Troy said. "I think I will play this game later."
"And how soon is later?" Priscilla asked Troy.
"A few days from now!" Troy said. "Besides, I need to come up with strategies and resist my cockiness."
"Yeah *Chuckles* you really need to improve on resisting your cockiness!" Priscilla laughed.
"Hey!" Troy said, slightly blushing. However, it was really easy to cover that this time.
"Okay, so what do you think you are going to do next?" Priscilla questioned Troy.
"That's my problem! I don't know what to do!" Troy said, sort of frustrated that he has a scarce amount of things he could do, in his opinion.
"Royal Forest Flags is still open for playing you know!" Priscilla said, with a little bit of a changed tone in her voice at the end of her sentence.
"Um… no thanks!" Troy stuttered. Priscilla's voice tone reminded Troy of his sister, and Troy still thought of where his sister was. He shivered at the thought.
"What's with the shivers?" Priscilla asked Troy, and smirked.
"Um, it's nothing." Troy said quietly.
"Okay… then! I'll be playing another round of Royal Forest Flags if you want to play again!" Priscilla said, and then ran off into her team. She was now playing in the blue team. Troy sighed, and quickly removed his armor and deposited his sword.
"Now what should I do? I still have to come up with a way to get there!" Troy said to himself.
Troy looked around him though. Everyone looked like they were having a great time and it seemed like it could never end any time soon.
"Well… I guess I could stay here for a few more days!" Troy decided, but also thought of a few more weeks or even a few more months. Come to think of it, Konah never mentioned anything to Troy about, if he was going to move out or anything like that. It was like, a newly welcomed member to the castle!
"Maybe I should just stick around and get to know the places and arenas better!" Troy said to himself.
Troy thought that was a great idea, and decided to talk to Konah about it. Troy arrived back at the castle, and then soon found Konah polishing off his throne. Konah noticed Troy, who was standing at the entrance.
"Hello Troy! Anything you wanted to talk about?" Konah asked Troy.
"Well… I guess I could probably know places and arenas better in the world of Clash! Just to get to know things better!" Troy said. Really, he just needed to get familiar with the things that he may encounter. After all, this was his first full scale adventure quest.
"Sounds like a good idea. Hmm… well, just recently, a friend of mine was with another allied King, and they were battling against two other kings at Goblin Stadium. When they left, one of his daughter's tiara disappeared, nowhere in sight. Do you think you could retrieve it?"
"Yes!" Troy said, but knew he would always have to get prepared.
"Well then, let me warn you that there are some goblins at Goblin Stadium who are hostile to outsiders of their stadium like you. But if you are well-prepared, you should handle the situation just fine!" Konah said.
"Okay, I might as well get prepared!" Troy said. "Thanks!"
"Yes, come back and talk to me when you think you are well-prepared!" Konah said.
"I will!" Troy said, as he walked back and began his preparations. He was soon going to find out and experience a popular place in the world of Clash Royale some time later! Troy couldn't wait!
Alright! We have a super whopping total of 3,394 words! I actually typed all of this around 1 hours and 32 minutes, so yeah, despite my stress, I decided to work extra hard, so I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and the upcoming ones!