Chapter 19: The Communication for Action

Troy walked up the stairs calmly, but his heart was pounding super-fast! He actually won and successfully knocked out The Pummel!

"I can't believe it! I actually beat him!" Troy said as he finally finished his share of the flight of stairs and was now facing Amondo, who was still facing the arena in disgust. Jayle was the first to turn around to see Troy.

"Hey Troy! Didn't you know that you were one of the very few who could defeat The Pummel?" Jayle exclaimed excitedly.

"Really? Geez, I didn't even know that! Wow!" Troy said, scratching the back of his hair sheepishly.

Amondo whipped around furiously.

"You! How did you?!" he shouted with fury in him.

"Well… I guess you can't judge a book by its cover!" Troy laughed.

"Hmph!" Amondo breathed out furiously back. All of a sudden, his angered frown turns into a slight smile. "Very well done Troy. You didn't escape!"

"Of course!" Troy said, with a bit of regret in him. "You probably have spear goblins guarding all entrances and exits!"

"That's right!" Amondo laughed.

"Well… I don't know what to say. What's the next Pummel?" Troy jeered him.

"How about it's you?!" Amondo shouted angrily at him.

"Nah! I think that will have a very little pay of gold!" Troy mocked him again. But really, Troy didn't want to whack and punch more prisoners.

"Fine then!" Amondo said quietly, and raised his hand as a signal. Two more goblin guards carrying spears walked over towards Troy. All four of Troy's prisoners sighed and then walked first back into the dark corridor.

"One more thing." Troy said to Amondo before being escorted away.

"Oh yes? What could it be?"

"You mistake I had three prison mates instead of four!" Troy laughed.

"Hmph!" Amondo muttered.

Once Troy, the last person to get in the cell was of course, in the cell, one of the two spear goblins quickly fumbled with the wooden keys before finally locking the cell up. Then they left snickering, but that spear goblin was just a little bit embarrassed as he walked away.

"Did you expect me to beat The Pummel?" Troy questioned his prison mates.

"No! Of course not!" said Jayle, astonished.

"Yeah! I mean, don't you know HOW strong he is?" Rae exclaimed.

"Yeah-AH!" Troy stuttered when a slight pain jolted in his back. "He nearly killed me just as you said!"

"He kinda looked like he killed you with that triple toss move he always does to finish off his opponents." Gota said quietly.

"Hey! Rude!" Tala exclaimed back at her.

"Well… didn't I looked like I was going to lose consciousness?" Troy tried to reason out.

"I guess I could agree to that." Tala and Rae said at the exact same time.

"Whatever." Gota breathed out furiously.

"I don't think both The Pummel and Amondo is going to be really happy with you know. You know… some of our prisoners get tortured?" Jayle said with a slight fright in her voice.

"I knew that was gonna happen!" Troy said angrily. He patted all of his pockets just to be sure. Unfortunately, that little sparkly orb like thingy Priscilla supplied him with was gone too! Just then, a few seconds later, an idea popped in his mind.

"Hey, wait a second!" Troy said, realizing something. "Did Amondo ever take anything from me before I was escorted?"

"Yeah I think so!" Jayle said.

"We were looking in our jail bar window, and we could see Amondo take what looked like to be some gray spherical like objects from you. They also took something golden and sparkly as well!" Tala explained.

"Did Amondo say anything while he was taking them out?" Troy asked.

"Yes." Rae said.

(FLASHBACK)

Troy still had his eyes closed, standing up, and there were two armed spear goblins grabbing him by the wrist. They were just in front of the jail corridor when Amondo walked right in.

"Glad that punch was enough eh?" Amondo chuckled.

"Yeah!" one of the spear goblins snickered.

"What did you find in him?" Amondo asked.

"Let's see… uh we found some smoke bombs." The other goblin said, using one of his hands with the one symbol. "And we found what looked like to be a golden orb!" the goblin finished, with his hands with the number two symbol.

"Perfect! May you please hand it over to me?" Amondo exclaimed, holding his hand out.

"Certainly!" One of the goblins said, and pulled out from Troy's pocked a golden orb.

"This will be a good display in my new shelf! I can already imagine what the description it will be: A Stolen Orb from a Cocky intruder!" Amondo said, snatching the golden orb from the goblin.

"That's a great title. He He!" Both of the goblins snickered, and then pushed Troy forward, just a few seconds before he finally regained consciousness.

(END FLASHBACK)

"Wow." Troy gasped.

"Amondo has his own room quarters. It's probably going to be located there." Rae finished explaining.

"Wait… THEN THAT MEANS THAT I CAN'T GET THE HELP I NEED!" Troy shouted angrily, and jumped once in a fury.

"So immature." Gota muttered.

"Calm down Troy! I'm sure you'll find a way out!" Tala sighed.

"It doesn't matter. We are never getting out!" Gota shouted.

Troy sighed and sat down on his bunk. He began to think of all the kinds of ways they could bust out. Maybe sharp spear to cut, or maybe a large gush of water.

"Wait a second! I think I can somehow clog the toilet and I can crawl through the sewage pipes!" Troy said excitedly.

"Yuck! I'm not going to go with you then!" Gota shrieked.

"Same here. Except, this place is so barred and isolated, I think you could be our only chance of escape!" Jayle said. Tala and Rae both nodded their heads in agreement.

"Alright! Let's wait for darkness to fall!" Troy exclaimed excitedly.

(6 HOURS LATER)

Troy opened his eyes and quickly climbed down from his bunk silently. He couldn't wait to try out possibly, his own plan to escape!

"Okay! Let's do it!" Troy whispered to his cell mates.

Rae, Tala, and Jayle quickly grabbed the pillows available and stuffed it down the toilet, trying their best to fill it all up.

"I am so dumb! I should have done these months ago!" Rae whispered.

"I know right?!" Jayle agreed.

Gota just stood there, with a look of disbelief on her face.

"Let's hope this works!" Troy said quietly. He took a deep breath and then flushed the toilet. It at once started sucking in the pillows the best it could, but with no luck. Then it started erupting violently and shaking.

"You know it will cause quite a large noise?!" Gota whispered urgently to them.

"I know! That's why we will…" Jayle said excitedly.

Just as the toilet practically burst open, Jayle and Rae ran over to the bunk beds and tipped them over, hoping to muffle up the noise.

"QUIET WITH NIGHT BRAWLING!" A voice of a goblin shouted from a far distance.

"Okay!" Tala shouted, as Troy quickly crawled inside the now broken toilet. When he reached under, he could see purple stained water all over the ground, covering up all the way nearly to his neck.

"Yeck!" Rae exclaimed as she crawled inside the toilet. Jayle and Tala followed, and covered their mouths with their hands to prevent themselves from vomiting.

"We'll just have to resist what we see and inhale!" Troy said, trying hard to breathe as little as he could. There were a few corners and turns along the way. There were also small wasps all over the "Ceilings" of the giant pipe they were in.

"When will we get through this?!" Jayle complained. "I can't stand this anymore longer!

"I know! Agh! But we still have to get through this!" Troy said, but then gulped when he could hear a flush of water nearby. Slowly, the rest of the teenagers gulped too.

"RUN!" They exclaimed in a frantically and crawled as fast as they can, make random turns around pipes, before finally come up an air vent.

"Huh? An air vent connecting right to the stadium's sewage system? Troy said with a question tone in his voice.

"Are you gonna check it out? Tala asked.

"Sure! I'll go check!" Troy said and crawled a bit closer. The air vent was now just above him now. Troy gulped and then pushed upwards with all his strength. No luck and a noise of CLANG sounded.

"Come on!" Troy said with determination as he repeatedly started trying to push upwards. No luck.

"You can do it! Think outside the box!" Jayle exclaimed to him with determination in her voice. Troy gulped when an idea got in his mind.

"In case I lose consciousness, you girls help me out!" Troy said frightened, and slowly lay down on the slimly purple sewage water and started pushing upwards with his feet.

"Uggh! I think I'm going to faint!" Rae and Tala said dizzily.

Troy closed his eyes, dared not to breath, and didn't open his mouth and kept it shut. He kept pushing upwards, and finally, just as he was about to give up, his last kick finally broke it open. It broke open with so much force that in nearly looked like it thundered upwards towards the ceiling.

"Finally!" Troy thought and quickly crawled up the vent.

"Whew! That was a relief!" Jayle said.

Troy's back part of the chainmail was covered with elixir sewage, and he quickly looked around the room. It was covered with all kinds of cleaning supplies, and a wooden half broken sign was next to where the air vent WAS, with the text:

Air Vent for sewage cleaning purposes

WARNING: Use it at your own risk! (Not recommended if you have a sensitive nose)

"Wow." Jayle said as she was the last person to finally climb up. Troy spotted a metal door just a few feet away from him from the right corner, and Troy quickly walked towards it.

"Can someone give me two drain cleaner containers?" Troy asked. He knew what he was doing, from a past experience. It all started when he was playing around in the kitchen when he was super little.

"Okay? Here are two drain cleaners." Rae handed them over, looking quite puzzled. One of the containers had a green label, and the other had a red and black.

"Perfect! Now if I just…" Troy started opening them up. "Uh… who's brave enough?"

"Brave enough? That would be me!" Tala exclaimed proudly.

"Okay, here, hold this container." Troy handed over the green one.

"Sure." She said as she took it. Once Troy opened the cap off his container, he took a deep breath.

"When I say go, splash some of the container's contents into the door hinge!" Troy said with a small tone of fright in his voice.

"Okay?" Tala said as she splashed that liquid dangerous water towards the door. Troy did the same, and after that there was an explosion that followed.

"AHHH!" Tala shrieked as she jumped backwards.

"*Covered his ears* I told you if you were brave enough!" Troy said, quite annoyed.

"I was! Never mind!" Tala screamed.

The door practically exploded off its hinges and shattered into medium sized pieces.

"Okay, hide!" Troy yelped as he quickly dove under a cleaning cart.

"Hurry!" Jayle exclaimed as she dove behind a small wooden table. Rae got inside a closet, and Tala was the last person to find a hiding spot. She couldn't find any good ones, so she just dove under another cleaning cart by Troy.

"You could have been more creative in finding hiding spots!" Troy muttered.

"I should!" Tala exclaimed which caught Troy by surprise.

"How did she hear that?!" Troy said quietly.

At once Amondo came rushing into the room, and then quickly backed off, waving off the flame with his hands.

"Augh! Just another of those stupid chemical reactions stuff going on!" He gagged and then ran off, with a water bucket in his hands. He quickly threw it at the fire, and it took it out immediately. "Just a few foam was enough!" he laughed and then quickly took out a very sharp looking iron sword from his belt.

"Don't make any noise!" Troy quietly whispered to Tala.

"Who's there!" Amondo shouted as he slowly walked around each spot of the room, examining its surroundings. He walked over to the wooden table, no luck.

"Don't make me come out for yo-" Amondo started when he saw the air vent's entrance opened up. "Hey!"

Amondo walked over to it, and peered inside. Nothing there. He took the entrance vent cover and sealed it up into place. Then he started towards the closet.

"Oh man!" Troy whispered helplessly.

Amondo opened the closet door, but was met with a kick to the face!

"What the-" Amondo said when he all of a sudden, fell half inside the air vent, his entire body weight smashing the once closed air vent door back down. Only his legs were sticking out. "ARGG!"

"Go!" Troy shouted as he jerked open the closet door and racing out the door. Rae, Tala, and Jayle followed, at that was Troy's problem. The whole place was dark.

"Anyone got a torch?" Troy said to his team.

"No, but I think there is something glowing past that door over there!" Jayle pointed to the left. There was a door about a few meters away from them. It looked suspicious, considering there was only one thin hallway leading to it.

"Wait a second." Troy stopped Rae and Tala from proceeding forward.

Troy quickly took one step forward and then stuck his hand forward inside the hallway, and then jerked back. A single poison tipped arrow thundered towards the wall, where his hand was.

"Looks like, this is booby trapped!" Troy said frantically.

"What can we do?" Rae asked.

"Hmm… I don't know to be honest with you. So far we have gotten probably, I don't know! Barely anywhere!" Troy sighed.

"Don't give up now!" Tala exclaimed and moved forward.

"Wait!" Troy began, but it was too late. Tala quickly moved into the hallway, and then dropped down to her crawling stance. The arrows whizzed past herself, but didn't touch her.

"Hey! That's a good idea!" Jayle said and crawled too.

"You could be right!" Troy and Rae exclaimed, and then followed her. Tala finished first, then Jayle, and then Troy. Rae was just about to be finished when an arrow streaked forward and got her hair!

"AOUCH!" she shouted.

"Rae!" Troy and Jayle exclaimed and then quickly pulled her out. When Rae finally caught her breath, she quickly removed the poison tipped arrow from her hair.

"Now that it's over, I think it's time we get through this door!" Troy muttered as he failed to open it by its knob.

"By kicking it?" Rae guessed.

"Sure! Why not?" Jayle and Troy said as they backed off.

"On three…"

"Two…"

"One…"

"Go!" They all shouted as they charged forward, jumped high in the air and side kicked the door with all their might. All four of them landed down on the floor in pain, but could see the door the same.

"Let's hope there is something useful here!" Troy exclaimed excitedly as quickly moved forward. There were shelves all over the place on the walls, but there was something that stood out beside all of those tattered trophies, spearheads and swords.

"It's the orb gem that Priscilla was talking about!" Troy yelled as he quickly grabbed it off the shelve.

"Sounds like a princess name!" Tala exclaimed as they followed Troy.

"She is!" Troy replied back as he could see at the end of his room what he was looking for. There was what looked like to be a sparkling golden bowl like emblem pedestal!

"Why did she give you it?" Jayle asked.

"Just as a little help on this journey! Troy proudly said back as he walked towards the emblem pedestal.

"Wow, she really wants you to be safe in this journey!" Rae laughed.

"Do you think she likes you?" Jayle snickered to Troy.

"WHAT?! No, no, no, I don't think so!" Troy said, feeling his face turn pink with all that extreme blushes too hard to hide.

"I think she does!" Tala and Rae laughed.

"Okay, I would prefer not to talk about this!" Troy said, annoyed and embarrassed as he placed down the gem on the pedestal.

(AT KONAH'S CASTLE)

Konah and everyone else who lived at the castle were in a pretty good mood. They beated a very tough opponent king, which they had received a Magical Chest as a reward. In fact, Konah was still holding it, excitedly waiting for it to open.

"Don't you think you have better things to carry other than that?" Priscilla questioned him.

"Oh yes, of course!" Konah said proudly as he moved towards the elixir storage room. "It will probably be safer there!"

"I think it will!" Perry said while walking by.

All of a sudden, the three of them heard what sounded like a magical spell being casted.

"I think Troy is sending us some kind of message!" Priscilla exclaimed and quickly ran in the direction the sound was in.

"I'll go check!" Perry agreed and followed his sister.

"Okay! Let me just put the magical chest in the elixir storage room and I'll be on my way!" Konah finished and started towards the elixir storage room.

When Priscilla and Perry arrived, they could see Troy along with three other girls looking at them frantically.

"Hey Troy! Didn't know you were very attractive at Goblin Stadium!" Perry joked.

"Listen, I don't have much time now. I and these girls have been taken prisoner and we barely escaped, almost. Can you please help us out?!"

"Okay, will do!" Priscilla exclaimed nobly and rushed to find her father.

"And what happened to you?!" Perry laughed.

"Wow… he's so handsome and dreamy!" Rae said. Jayle was desperately trying to straighten her hair.

"Wait, are you talking to me or to Perry?" Troy asked.

"Is that your name? Perry?" Tala said, her voice shaking a bit.

"Yes, of course!" Perry smiled.

"AH!" Rae and Jayle screamed excitedly and fell backwards.

"Looks, like I am not the only one who is attractive!" Troy laughed at Perry.

Perry raised an eyebrow.

"Do you think I find this surprising?" he grinned.

Priscilla quickly rushed to meet Konah, who was just about to walk out of the elixir storage room.

"Father! Troy is in deep trouble!" Priscilla exclaimed frantically.

"What is his situation?" Konah said.

"He is taken prisoner in goblin stadium and back-up is on the way to capture them! He just escaped but didn't make it outside yet!"

"You are certainly right! I'll round up some troops that will hopefully just be enough to take out the back-up goblins!" Konah said nobly.

"Great, but please hurry!" Priscilla frantically shouted, as she quickly ran to the back of the castle to alert everyone there. Konah could already see the moat control system chamber nearby, so he quickly got in through the trapdoor and activated his microphone.

"ATTENTION EVERYONE! OUR ADVENTUROR FRIEND IS IN DEEP TROUBLE AND I WANT 300 Barbarians, 150 Wizards, 120 Archers, 80 Hog Riders, and 40 princes all meet me at the drawbridge please!" Konah shouted into the microphone, and then repeated what he just said. Then he quickly climbed back up and headed towards the drawbridge. Priscilla finally alerted everyone at the back of the castle and then ran over to where Perry was, still chatting with Troy.

"Perry! Let's go rescue Troy and the other girls!" Priscilla shouted as she ran past the room.

"Got it!" Perry shouted, and then quickly said a short "Hang in there" before leaving.

While Konah was running, he could already see other troops he had requested run towards the drawbridge. It was like a stampede running towards battle, and ultimately ready to win it and cause the other a defeat.

"Let's just hope he will get to us just in time!" Troy said, clenching his hands together.

"Don't worry! I think we'll be fine!" Tala recovered. "Besides, maybe Amondo will forget about the booby trapped he set!"

"Well, yeah I guess you are right about that one!" Troy said, and then quickly ran over to check. No Amondo yet.

"Are we clear?" Both Jayle and Rae recovered.

"Yeah, the coast is clear for now!" Troy gasped and then quickly dived down on the floor, straight into a mental prayer.

"Come on Medallion! You have to help me out on this one! I know you are away from me, but I know that you are still inside of me, not in physical form." Troy begged, and closed his eyes for a long time. Fists clenching, eyes closed, teeth gritting, and completely focused completely on the same question. Weill Konah, Priscilla, and Perry reach Goblin Stadium with their army just in time?

"Are you okay?" Tala questioned him.

"Yeah, I will be fine!" Troy said as he quickly broke his few seconds of complete concentration. "Let's just hope they will reach us just in time!"