Chapter 20: Stampeding to the Stadium
"Do you still think Amondo is gonna come after us?" Rae said fearfully to Troy. Troy gulped.
"I'm pretty sure he's gonna come all right!" Troy exasperatedly said.
"Then we have to be ready!" Jayle said.
"Of course!" Tala and Troy said at the same time.
"But we can't find anything else here that will help us!" Rae exclaimed angrily.
"Yeah. You're right!" Troy realized. "There's gotta be some way we can stall Amondo from coming here!"
"The fire was out. I don't think Amondo will get roasted up anytime soon!" Jayle sighed.
"Maybe he will get knocked out by the disgusting sewage elixir!" Troy hopefully said.
"That could actually be a something!" Tala and Rae said hopefully.
"Let's just hope that it is powerful enough!" Troy said, looking out beyond the exit door, which was the entrance door as well.
(AT KONAH'S CASTLE)
"Everyone! Are we all ready?" Konah shouted to his army.
"YES!" They all shouted, and raised whatever weapons they were carrying in the air.
"The dangerous journey to there is just too great. I will all let you know that I just gave Perry a chest full of 36 healing spells. Use them all wisely!" Konah said with pride.
"Of course we know what we are doing!" James laughed.
"Yes, I hope you are!" Konah exclaimed. "For Troy!"
"For Troy! Let's go tear up Goblin Stadium!" Perry shouted high in the air. Everyone cheered and they started their way towards the Stadium. Anyone who didn't have any tool or animal of transport were inside balloons that housed up to three people.
"You know what the plan is right?" Perry said as his pony galloped across the grass, with his sister riding behind him.
"Yeah. We first destroy any of the goblins guarding the stadium; we rescue Troy and the others!" Priscilla said back, very confident.
"Finally you remembered something!" Perry teased her back.
"Hey!" she shouted and nearly pushed him playfully off the pony.
(AT THE GOBLIN STADIUM JAIL BLOCK)
"Now what?" Tala questioned Troy.
"Yeah, now what? Do we just have to wait?" Jayle added.
"I guess." Troy said slowly. "Gota was sure acting stupid when she decided to stay back. We are almost about to get out of here!"
"Yeah, I know." Rae sighed. "She always doesn't trust anyone."
"That's a big problem!" Troy exclaimed. "In your life, you have to trust at least a few people!"
"I think I trusted enough people already!" a voice sounded from the entrance door.
"Huh?" All three of them turned around. Gota was standing there smiling.
"Did you even notice the booby traps?" Troy asked.
"Yeah. It was way too suspicious. That's how dumb those goblins act." Gota laughed.
"Oh well then. Glad you could join us!" Jayle exclaimed. Gota snickered at that.
"So now what do we do?" Rae asked.
"Yeah, we had that same question over and over again!" Tala sighed.
"If I were you, I'd wait until Amondo comes looking for us. Then we'll deal with him!" Gota suggested.
"Hey, that sounds like a very good idea!" Troy said excitedly.
"But do you even know where Amondo is?" Rae asked Gota.
"Of course! He's strangling and struggling to get out of the vent to the sewers!" Gota laughed more harder. "What a clumsy guy."
"Um, I actually was the one who forced him inside." Rae said quietly. Gota's smile faded away quickly.
"Oh." She said.
"I'm afraid Amondo probably will arrive before Priscilla and Perry arrive!" Tala said, quite alarmed.
"Yeah. I guess that means we are going to have to get ready for what is to come!" Troy said, and then walked past the emblem pedestal. There was a giant window that acted like the wall. It was made out of glass of course, with wooden panes all over it, but no severe cracks on it.
"Do you think word as already got to the goblins?" Jayle asked, her voice shaking.
"I don't think so. The news has probably been kept quiet enough, and only Amondo by far knows that we have escaped our cells!" Troy replied.
"That's good to know! If there are multitudes of goblins after us, we can be presumed to already be killed!" Gota smiled again.
"Yeah, that's right." Troy said at a low voice, staring at Gota. He haven't seen her happy like this before.
"Like I said, hopefully Amondo is going to forget all about the booby traps set on his way!" Tala snickered.
"Let's not forget though, that he put those traps there on his own. Also, I don't think we done anything that much to damage some of his memory." Troy sighed, and then looked out the window. The lilypad with the Tiara still stood there, and Troy was very tempted to smash out of the window. He stepped closer.
"Don't Troy! Look what's below the window!" Jayle shrieked.
"Okay, okay!" Troy laughed, but when he looked below, he gulped. There was some more of the wooden bleachers down there, and he wasn't going to jump down from just a high distance. Especially since it was the last object that knocked him our recently!
"I guess we'll have to wait!" Troy said, as he quickly scampered away from the window, since he just saw one of the spear goblin guards turn from his post to look where Troy was. No luck.
"I hope your friends sure brought some spells handy!" Gota sighed to Troy.
"I have a feeling they do!" Troy said, smiling back and then sneaked up to look at the window again. At the entrance, there was some kind of archer like post standing guard, housing a single goblin. There were two of those on both sides of the entrance.
"Looks intimidating doesn't it?" Gota said to Troy.
"Yeah! Seriously!" Troy grumbled.
(WITH KONAH'S ARMY)
The balloons housing the troops were flying relatively at a slow pace, but are going at the same speed. Not too fast, and not to slow. Perry's pony and the other princes were charging through the ground first. The Hog Riders followed them up, the riders all charging furiously gripping their hammers as if it was their last.
"Can't Polance gallop any faster?" Priscilla said, with a very slight tone of complaining.
"Of course!" Perry shouted proudly. But you don't want me to do it!"
"Why not?" Priscilla said, with the wind blowing past her face and crown.
"Don't you remember?" Perry laughed.
"Hmm…" Priscilla thought.
(FLASHBACK)
Priscilla was about 7 years old, and her brother was about 14 years old. They were both on their way to Builder's Workshop; to get some needed iron and steel. They are currently across the plains of Spell Valley, that dark turquoise looking ground.
"Do you even thing about what's below that purplish river?" Priscilla questioned her brother, just as they were passing by the arena.
"I think so, but I don't want to know." Perry muttered.
"Do you want to jump in it?" Priscilla laughed.
"No!" Perry said, shocked.
Since Priscilla said that, it made Perry want to slow down his pony a bit. Priscilla got a bit annoyed by that.
"*Sigh* can't you let Polance go any faster?" Priscilla said, nudging Perry's back armor with her bow.
"I don't think that's a really good idea." Perry said, as his pony was probably going as fast as five miles per hour.
"Come on!" Priscilla said. "We're going to be late!"
"Late? Dad never told us that we had limited time!" Perry exclaimed.
"Yeah but, you know. I'm used to all this-" Priscilla began when Perry quickly nudged Polance to move forward. Polance all of a sudden jerked forward with such sudden momentum at a very fast speed it nearly whipped Priscilla forward into Perry!
"WHOOAAHHHH!" she screamed.
"What did I say?!" Perry laughed as he kept Polance galloping as quickly, about 52 miles per hour.
"HUH…AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Priscilla started screaming again.
"AH! Stop with that screamin-" Perry began, and started to cup his ears when he realized how fast the pony was going. Now, Perry wasn't very good with balancing in general, so he fell off the pony to the right with no sweat.
"AH!" he shouted as he landed on the ground, and rolled a bit.
"Perry!" Priscilla shrieked when she tried to reach out but was too late. She sacrificed her own balanced instead, which wasn't the best idea. She fell off the pony too, the same way her brother did. Priscilla and Perry kept on rolling, more slowly until they got back up.
"Now you know why-AH! I don't like speeding up Polance!" Perry practically screamed.
"Ow! Okay, sorry!" Priscilla stammered, and then sighed.
Perry stormed back to Polance and then mounted on him. Priscilla mounted up too, not saying a single thing. They both rode in silence for a while, until Perry finally was the first to break the silence.
"Look, I'm sorry for my harshness." Perry's voice softened a bit. "But you have to understand that this is my pony and I want him to go at a speed suitable for such situations!"
"And I'm sorry too." Priscilla sighed back.
"Yeah. Now how about we go and get the iron and steel we need?" Perry said, as he motioned Polance with his foot to move forward. This time, at three miles per hour.
(END FLASHBACK)
"Okay… now that you mentioned it…" Priscilla's voice trailed off.
"I just mentioned it, and that is not something I will allow myself to do!" Perry exclaimed.
"Okay, okay! I just wish I still had Pora." Priscilla sighed again. "Pora… she was a wonderful pony wasn't she Perry?
"But that can't be a reality now can it?" Perry replied. "After that battle with…"
"Don't talk about that!" Priscilla's voice slightly became shrill, as if it reminded her of bad memories.
"The main point is that you gotta be honest! Would you walk instead of ride Polance?"
"No!" Priscilla was shocked and alarmed. "I wouldn't do that!
"I know you wouldn't. That's why I have to make sure that you are not in great danger!" Perry explained.
"But Troy is in deep trouble! We have to get to him fast!" Priscilla tried to give out a reason.
"Oh? I guess I'll put an exception on this. But remember that this is only a compromise!" Perry grumbled and motioned Polance again with one of his armor shoes.
"Are you kidding me?!" Polance whined. "My hooves are not being active!"
"Then start galloping off your sleeping hooves!" Perry commanded and tapped a bit harder.
"Hmph!" Polance jeered, and then burst forward into fourteen miles per hour.
"Now that's my pony!" Perry said and then gripped hold of his lance even harder. He could see Goblin Stadium looming up just a few minutes later.
"There it is!" Priscilla shouted.
"Okay! Everyone, start at a faster pace!" Perry shouted. At once, the balloons started moving faster, the Hog Riders clenched their teeth as their hogs burst a tremendous speed increase of extra twenty miles, and the balloons started rising at a steady pace.
"Polance! Get ready!" Perry shouted. Polance growled at the sight of Goblin Stadium.
"I was born ready! Dun duh duh dun!" Polance clenched his teeth and then charged towards it his fastest.
"WHOA!" Perry and Priscilla shouted. Polance barely went over 59 miles per hour!
"Hold on!" Perry shouted, Priscilla leaned forward and grabbed and holded on Polance's back with all her might. Perry grabbed hold of Polance's mane with all of his might. "Now let's thunder through this stadium!" Perry shouted. Priscilla clenched her teeth in agreement. Normally Pora would go her highest speed around twenty two miles. Just then an idea formed in Priscilla's mind.
"Hey Perry! Remember that Royale stampede song we sing?" Priscilla asked.
"Yeah, wait a second! Now's the time!" Perry shouted, so everyone in the stampede army could hear.
(AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE OF GOBLIN STADIUM)
One of the goblins standing at his wooden post was just about to doze off when he all of a sudden felt the ground rumbling just a tiny bit. When he opened his eyes a little bit more, he could see a blurry stampede around a hundred meters away.
"Hey… wait a second." He said, as he grabbed a spear from his pack.
"Garg?" One of the goblins standing at the other wooden post mumbled.
"GAR! It's one of those stampede raids!" The goblin cackled and then nudged the other goblin with his spear.
"Earg, okay then!" The other goblin shouted, and then pulled out a spear from his bag and shouted, "GUARDS!"
With that being said, more goblins rushed into the stadium from doors, and even from windows! They all climbed up on the posts, or they stayed below, with their spears pointed at the entrance. There were about 68 spear goblins all ready for a throw down. Perry, Priscilla, and Konah's army all rumbled across the dark green grass plains, and avoiding the forest.
"Ready?" Perry asked.
"Yep!" Priscilla exclaimed back.
Konah's Battle Song (To The Tune of "The Gallant Knight")
Perry: We are here
Priscilla: And we will cheer
Perry and Priscilla: For all of Clash Ro-yale!
Hog Riders: And all those safe, in their towers
Barbarians: They will experience our pow'r!
Perry and Priscilla: Let's sound our Battle Cry and vict'ry will soon be nigh!
Konah's Army: Fast we will stampede across the green land, our victory is at hand, yes, our victory is at hand.
Priscilla: Enemies come, at every pass but none can slow us down!
Perry: Standing strong against enemies, it's help from our crowns!
Priscilla and Perry: Let's sound our Battle Cry and vict'ry will soon by nigh!
Konah's Army: Fast we will stampede across the green land, our victory is at hand, yes, our victory is at hand.
Priscilla: Some have said, that Clash Royale, is mere stuff of legend
Perry: But we Royales, will be destined…
Princes: And we will charge for glory!
Perry and Priscilla: Let's sound our Battle Cry and vict'ry will soon by nigh!
Konah's Army: Fast we will stampede across the green land, our victory is at hand, yes, our victory is at hand.
Perry: Fast we will stampede across the green laaaanddd…
Priscilla: Our vic-tor-yyyyyyyyyy is nigh!
With that, they all were just a few feet away from the stadium. They all raised their sword with pride. All the goblins crowding around the entrance stood with awe. A single goblin out of all those was dancing.
"Charge!" Perry and Priscilla shouted. All the princes and Hog Riders shouted and rushed forward. The archers were following right behind them, but they were of course, blocked by the barbarians.
"Attack!" The spear goblins shouted, and started throwing their spears.
Meanwhile, back inside Amondo's office, Troy and all four of his cell mates were staring right outside the window.
"Looks like we are finally escaping!" Gota laughed.
"Yeah. It couldn't have been without Troy!" Jayle exclaimed back.
"Of course! He has good friends!" Rae said.
Just then, all of a sudden, Amondo barged straight into the room, looking like he hadn't been more furious, infuriated, and raged ever in his entire lifetime. His face was dripping with sewage elixir.
"I'm afraid that will all end here!" He shouted, as he took out the same sword he just wielded earlier.
Troy gulped.
"It's too late! There are four of us, and one of you! You're outnumbered!" Troy exclaimed.
"But there is one sword, and you all don't wield anything!" Amondo laughed. "And I happen to have that very sword!"
Troy breathed out furiously. All of a sudden, there were Perry's glorious shouts that were echoing all around the stadium. Of course, they were all followed by, "HOG RIDDEEEERRR!"
"Get behind me!" Troy said, as he walked forward towards the emblem pedestal. Amondo was on the other side.
"That was very nice of you, Haw! Standing up for girls that is!" Amondo laughed harder.
"We'll see about-" Troy was just about to finish his sentence, when all of a sudden; a few goblins were smashed in the air, splatted on the window, and slid back down.
"What in the world?!" Amondo looked past Troy, and Troy knew his one and only chance was coming!
"Hai-yah!" Troy shouted, as he twisted around and performed a nice spin kick, knocking the sword out of Amondo's hand.
"WHAT THE-" Amondo said in surprise when Troy jumped up and tackled him down to the ground. They rolled and tussled on each other, until Amondo was the one who was on top of Troy. Amondo punched Troy in the face, and just as he was about to do it again, Troy knee kicked him nearly in the shin.
"GAH!" Amondo screamed in pain, as he fell backwards, and rolled over.
"Troy rolled in Amondo's direction, and when Amondo tried to get back up, Troy raised up both of his legs and slammed Amondo back down to the ground. Amondo winced in pain.
"ARH!" he shouted as he finally broke free and scrambled back up. Troy rolled backwards and raised his two fists, urging Amondo to come forward.
"You ain't seen nothin yet!" Amondo shouted as he yanked off the black cloak he was wearing. Yes, he was wearing a black cloak or clothing the whole time, except with no hood. All of a sudden, Amondo was wearing gray and reddish armor, which resembled: a Vicious Knight.
"A Knight?! You are a Knight who turned out to be the leader of Goblin Stadium's security!"
"Do not be mistaken by my look! You will feel my wrath, and then you will face the fear of the stab I will soon give to you!" Amondo said, with a fierce and determined tone in his voice. Troy gulped, because of Amondo's bravery.
"It's on!" Troy said, as he stepped forward, faking a kick. Amondo fell for it. Amondo quickly picked up the sword as he dived and rolled. Troy just about managed to kick him in the torso as he finished his roll, which made Amondo cough violently for a short period of time.
"Sorry!" Troy yelped as he then pushed Amondo forward, and stuck his toe in the way, so Amondo could trip. Amondo fell forward and nearly slammed his face against the wall. Troy lunged himself at him, but Amondo got support from the wall and forced Troy backward with his back.
"AH!" Troy yelped as he landed down on the ground on his back.
Amondo quickly snatched up the sword and then ambled towards Troy, who just barely managed to get back up. Troy ducked Amondo's hook sword slash, and then tackled Amondo again down to the ground. Troy was now the one on top of Amondo, so he kept on punching his face over and over again. Amondo coughed some more, but managed to roll away somehow. Amondo got back up and then slashed the sword in the air two times in fury.
"I'm done with you now!" he rasped.
Amondo then spun around in a circle once and as he finished, a red shockwave beam circled and shot out in all directions.
"Get down!" Troy shouted, and ducked down. Luckily, the rest of his "Friends" had very quick reactions that time around, and ducked as well. Amondo breathed out furiously and rushed towards Troy again. Troy quickly spun around and landed a spin kick on Amondo again, knocking the sword away from him, this time, it clattered onto a trophy case.
"You little-" Amondo began. Troy clenched his fists and then lashed out, striking a great Eagle Claw again Amondo, using the front of his palm as extra weight. Amondo shouted in pain. Troy then got down a little bit on his legs and landed a Leopard Punch to add to his combo. Troy then blocked two more alternative hand punches from Amondo, rolled over to the left, jumped up, and back-kicked Amondo towards the Emblem Pedestal.
"Hai!" Troy exclaimed with relief.
Amondo slided across the floor with such force that when he hit the base of the pedestal, he was pushed back by the force and was like in a snow-angel pose.
"Ahof!" Amondo mumbled in pain and struggled again to stand up.
"You know this can all be stopped right?!" Troy tried to reason out.
"Of course, but of course, I have this healing potion handy!" Amondo laughed, whipped out another yellow filled bottle, and drank every last of it.
"Uh…oh." Troy said and rushed forward to intercept the healing effect.
Amondo snickered, quickly hopped over a few feet and then landed a front kick towards the wall, but Troy ran over it, so he tripped and fell down, on his face!
"UAH!" Troy shouted.
"There are some limits to fighting against me! I'm afraid we are not going to have such a fair fight, are we?" Amondo taunted Troy.
"You're right!" Troy said as he pushed himself up. "That's really not fair."
"Now let's stop talking and get on with It-" Amondo started when Troy lunged forward, attempting to hook punch Amondo in the face.
"Not gonna happen!" Amondo laughed as he jumped backwards, dropped down, kicked upward with his left leg, causing Troy to loose mobility from the air, and fall straight down again.
"OW!" Troy screamed.
"Now how about we end this all with another punch?" Amondo asked, and grabbed Troy up by the outfit.
"Hey Amondo! Look who you are going to have to fight first!" Jayle shouted.
Amondo looked up, but in surprise, he saw a fist hit him straight in the forehead. Amondo was sent back a few feet, but staggered back up in disbelief.
"You!" Amondo shouted.
Jayle was standing just a few feet away, and Rae and Tala were next to her. Gota crossed her arms together.
"What do you think we should do now?" Rae asked.
"How about a…." Jayle taunted, as she, Rae, and Tala rushed towards Amondo. Gota helped Troy back up.
"Wait…" Amondo said, but before he could react, the three teens started whapping and slapping and punching and doing all of that stuff that well, a normal teenager girl would do when she really wants to fight!
"AOOFFHAAHWAIT!" Amondo stammered in pain, but it was no use.
"Yeah girls! Show him how girls beat the heck out of tough people!" Troy shouted in encouragement.
"Yeah! Unfortunately my hands aren't made for punching!" Gota shouted, but picked up some trophies. The three girls finally were grasping hold of Amondo, free of any weapons so he couldn't do any harm and was now in the hands of them.
"NO! Not my prized collection of trophies!" Amondo screamed in horror.
Gota picked up a trophy with the sculpture of a beach ball, threw it down to the floor smashing it instantly, and laughed.
"That's my trophy from a beach ball contest of successfully spiking a ball from five feet!" Amondo shouted. Troy sighed at that. Volleyball, surfing, canoeing, all those things in the tropics was all the good sports he missed.
"And what's this?" Gota smirked, as she grabbed what looked like to be a scroll sculpture trophy.
"That's the trophy I earned for learning how to write my name on a scroll with a sword!" Amondo shouted in anguish.
"Learning to write with a sword huh? That's interesting!" Troy laughed.
Gota looked at another trophy from the shelve. And then she grabbed it and looked at it, astonished, but smirked.
"A trophy for successfully tearing a sword apart with your teeth? HAHAH!" Gota mocked Amondo.
"It's the truth!" Amondo shouted.
Gota jumped high in the air and threw the trophy down to the ground with such force that it smashed apart in all directions.
"NOOOO!" Amondo shouted.
Troy walked over and then landed some punches on Amondo's hand, so he could numb it later when Amondo does get free.
"YOW! Stop, it hurts!" Amondo pleaded.
"Sorry." Troy said casually, and then nodded to Jayle, Rae, and Tala. They all pushed Amondo forward with such force that Amondo stumbled upon the emblem pedestal, tripped over the top of it, and fell down on his back.
"OAG!" Amondo shouted, got up to rub his back, but his hand was so numb that there was no chance he could relieve himself a bit.
"How about we destroy, ALL THESE TROPHIES?!" Gota smirked and then cleared out all the trophies running down.
"NO WAY!" Amondo shouted in disbelief once the last of the trophies was broken. That last trophy was for wearing the most comfortable underwear while guarding! Somehow, who knows what Amondo has been wearing as underwear! Only Amondo knows, and somehow people could trust him.
Amondo finally got back up and turned around. Troy jumped up on the pedestal already and front kicked Amondo towards the glass window. Amondo toppled down and got back up. He lashed out a hook punch, and Troy ducked down, and Amondo then tried the other way.
"Not going to happen!" Troy said with pride as he lashed a tiger claw fist, knocking Amondo back even more. Troy finally spun around violently and relatively quickly, and then landed a super swift spinning back kick. Amondo was sent propelled backwards, and smashed through the glass window and tumbled down the bleachers below.
"OOF OUNG AHHRH!" Amondo shouted between falls as he kept on tumbling down and down and down below the bleachers, smashing onto a bleacher row wall, landed on a bleacher back first this time, and groaned in pain.
"Yeah!" Troy shouted, pumping up his fist in the air.
"That's a relief!" Rae and Tala said.
"Yeah." Jayle said.
"Now let's go hurry up some we can get out of here!" Gota shouted as she ran down the exit door. Everyone else followed her.
Whoa, almost a month without a chapter! I think I'll have to raise just a bit more suspension for this one! If you don't know what "The Gallant Knight" is, try going to this link, watch?v=si2E-1JRjqM memorize how it goes, then go back here and try to sing along the lyrics featured here which took quite a long time to make out. Thanks again for catching up to my stories, and like I said, I'll try to type fast!