Chapter 16: Stadium Sprint
Troy hurried across the green landscape quickly as he could, and he could already see a wooden-like drawbridge a few meters away from him. Troy quickly breathed in for some more air, however his speed jolted his diaphragm and lungs that he couldn't even get the oxygen he needed!
"*Gasp* I have to hurry *Gasp* up!" Troy said, and was very aware of more build-up of the Spear Goblin horde behind him.
"Get him! Get that pesky little intruder!" a few goblins shouted while running.
Troy took another deep breathe, and successfully since he could fill the air rush and purify his screaming lungs for air. Troy started running some more, but now could see the drawbridge just a few more feet now away from him.
"Finally! Now I'll I have to do is-" Troy said excitedly when all of a sudden, another Spear Goblin just appeared from the walls of the bridge!
"Heh ha!" the goblin snickered, as he pulled out a sharp pointed spear.
Troy finally arrived at the bridge, and the Spear Goblin felt no need to throw the spear. He thrusted forward, and Troy ducked it swiftly.
The Spear Goblin tried to downward slam Troy with the side of the spear point, and Troy quickly rolled forward, jumped high and back-kicked the Spear Goblin in the process.
"Gah!" The goblin shouted.
Troy quickly spun around and whacked the spear away from the Spear Goblin, using the entire strength of his foot. Then he dropped lower and performed a leg-sweep after that. "OOF!" the goblin shouted when he landed.
Troy quickly jerked away and kept on running, but as he glanced behind himself for just a second, he could see the Spear Goblin get back up and grab another spear that was tossed by another goblin from the stampeding crowds.
"I can't believe it!" Troy said with an angry surprise.
Troy bolted towards the only thing in front of him, it was a wooden ladder, in fact the same one from the dream he had last night! Troy was confused for a moment, but could see that there was no goblins patrolling it. At least, that was one thing thing that was kinda different from his dream.
"Come on! He's getting away!" Troy could hear the goblin stampede growing larger and larger. Troy turned around again and could see about thirty one goblins already, and they were just about to launch another volley of spears. Troy quickly moved a bit to the left and the volley of spears barely missed him. Out of the corner of Troy's eye, he could even see some goblins running across the bleachers towards him! At least they were not within a couple of yards away from the meter. Troy knew he had almost no time left to spare, so he quickly jumped up and grabbed hold of the rungs of the ladder. He climbed up as quickly as he could, and nearly fell off at the sudden sound of a spear that landed just centimeters away from his hand.
"Finally! I'm safe at least for a few seconds!" Troy exclaimed, as he reached the top, grabbed hold of the top of the ladder, and hauled it over towards the mob of goblins. It thundered and came crashing down. A few goblins scattered, but the ladder managed to pin down seven goblins. They all exploded into lavish amounts of elixir.
"Pick up the ladder!" one of the goblins who weren't knocked down shouted.
Four of the goblins rushed forward to position the ladder back, and Troy was already rushing up the bleachers. He still was carrying the Tiara he managed to grasp onto luckily.
"Calm yourself down. All you have to do is jump over the top of the bleachers, and quickly run back to Mini Balloon!" Troy said to himself.
Troy could hear the goblin shouts getting louder, and turned around. In fact, that seemed kind of strange to him. How can those pesky little goblins climb up the ladder so swiftly? The other goblins running across the bleachers quickly answered his question. Troy was nearly to the middle row when he could hear knifes wielding in front of him. When Troy jerked around, he could see three goblins in front of him, wielding vine-notched knives and wearing these strange looking wooden masks.
"We finally managed to pin you down! Now we will pin you down!" the first goblin shouted.
It was just a few silence for a split second.
"That doesn't even make any sense you puny masked goblin!" the middle goblin shouted with a more stern and tough voice.
"This is great!" Troy said to himself.
Troy lashed out and landed a Claw Fist on the middle goblin, and before the other goblins had a time to react, he jumped a medium height and landed four punches on the third goblin while he was in mid-air.
"AAH OOF!" Both goblins shouted.
"Okay… what just happened?" the first goblin said, blinking behind his mask.
"I'll answer your question!" Troy said as fast as he could, and quickly grabbed the goblin's wrist and knife, and then hauled him around counterclockwise towards the goblin crowd just a few bleachers below.
"Hey-whoaOOF!" the goblin shouted as he pummeled into the goblin crowd, smashing three other goblins with him on his way down the bleachers.
"Finally! Now let's get out of here!" Troy shouted, and then continued up the long flight of stairs.
The Goblin Crowd was getting bigger and bigger, and Troy could see about forty of them just from the front to the middle!
"AH!" Troy was startled by the size. More spears were being thrown towards him, and Troy had no choice, but to quickly duck for a few seconds underneath a bleacher, and then he continued his search.
"HEY! I HAVE AN IDEA!" The gate goblin shouted. "We throw our spears to stall him!"
"That's a great idea! Let's do it!" Another front row goblin shouted back.
Just then there were multiple spears being thrown at Troy simultaneously, and in was, in fact, almost impossible to dodge them all.
"Whoa! There are just too much!" Troy shouted when he was just six bleachers up from the top.
Troy quickly started covering his head with his arms and hands, and all of a sudden, he could hear a large blasting noise.
BAM!
A cannonball was just fired to him, and it was speeding rapidly! "Oh man!" Troy shouted.
Troy barely had time to dodge it, and could already vaguely hear Konah's voice, saying that goblins there fire muskets as well.
"Keep on firing!" said an unfamiliar goblin voice.
More cannonballs bounced and thundered towards Troy, and all though he couldn't see where the musket goblins were, he could still see the goblin crowd.
"How do you expect me to go through all this Konah?!" shouted Troy.
Just then, as Troy finished saying that, he tripped on the top fourth bleacher.
"WHhoooaaaoof!" Troy exclaimed in surprise, but then quickly bolted back up. Unfortunately, one of the cannonballs fired at him collided onto his back! "AH!" Troy screamed from the pain. Troy was sent, hurling and landing onto the second bleacher. He quickly looked up. There was a medium sized wall separating the bleachers and a pathway around the entire stadium. There were also three doors on each one half of the stadium, which were put into the wall.
"GARG! We got him cornered now!" shouted the goblin crowd with glee.
Troy jumped up into the pathway, and then ran towards the middle door.
"Think again goblins! I'm not so sure about that!" Troy turned around and shouted. He was excited, and he managed to get away!
All of a sudden, he could feel himself bump into someone, and when he turned around, he could see a large man with a yellow mustache in front of him.
"Uh...hello?" Troy said, but as he tried to go, the man quickly stepped in front of him, blocking his path. "Hey!" Troy shouted.
"It's good to see you Troy." the man said with a deep voice with an edge to it.
"How did you-" Troy started, but before he even knew it, the man quickly pulled his arm backward, and thrust punched him hard in the face.
"AOOF!" Troy yelled, as he stumbled backwards and fell backwards over the first bleacher. He could barely see the goblin crowds stop and watch and taunt him down as he was barreling and tumbling, bleacher after bleacher, towards the ground.
The bleachers in the stadium were divided into three parts, and each part had a mini wall that blocked some spectators from falling into the next row. Troy was quickly smashed with the strong force of gravity through the top mini wall and somehow was twisted around. He landed hard on the second bleacher on his stomach and unconscious. The goblin crowd and the goblins still in the bleachers cheered, and the man walked down the stairs, smirking at Troy.
"I hardly doubt you would underestimate me, just because of my appearance!" he chuckled.
Troy did manage to quietly say a few moaning sounds, and barely managed to lift up his arms, which were stretched out in front of him, facing the ground.
Sorry for the very super late update everyone, just understand my school issues. Also, the number of words this time is very short, and you probably already known that the sprint wouldn't last very long with Troy's cockiness!