Chapter 21: A Terrifying Interpretation
Three Goblins carrying knives rushed toward Perry and Priscilla, and of course Polance. They were right now near the middle of the river of the stadium, and so far they looked like they were going to win. Perry smiled at the goblins and shoved forward his lance; smashing the goblins and making them tumble straight into the river. The barbarians were all over the place, wrecking and destroying lots of goblins wielding spears, and it seemed like everything was going fine. The Hog Riders were jumping over the river and whacking Goblins from their posts off into the ground.
"Hey! We are doing great!" Perry shouted.
"Yeah…" Priscilla sighed.
"What's the matter now?" Perry said.
"Don't you remember? We are supposed to free Troy! Once we get him out, we don't have to risk more elixir of the troops getting killed!" Priscilla explained.
"Hmm…" Perry said as he looked around. About one third of the barbarians were already destroyed, but barely any Hog Riders and Princes were killed.
"Perry, look out!" Priscilla shouted in alarm.
"Huh?" Perry turned around and to his alarm, a cannonball from a musket thundered straight towards Polance! "Evade it Polance!"
Polance tried to escape, but got hit straight in the face.
"UMPH!" he shouted in pain as he was sent backwards with Perry and Priscilla riding on him.
"AHH!" Perry and Priscilla shouted in mid-air. When Polance landed, Perry and Priscilla tumbled off it.
"Oooohhh why do I see s-st-tars?" Polance said dizzily.
Perry rolled up and pushed Polance to a safe place in the shadows of the bleachers as safety.
"You just sit tight there, you hear me?" Perry comforted Polance urgently, and then rolled over, dodging another spear, and it landed on the bleacher just above Polance.
"Take that Goblin!" Priscilla shouted and ducked a Goblin's sword jab, and then front kicked him forward. Priscilla ran and jumped on his stomach, and then she rolled after she landed. After she finished her roll, she saw three more goblins rush towards her. She shot them all again after she quickly notched more arrows up.
"Bulls-Eye!" she said with satisfaction.
A few more minutes passed of just complete fighting and goblin clashing. It seemed like there was an endless amount of goblins rushing out of the doors really quickly. Later, even the Goblin King was there!
"What is the meaning of this?!" he yelled.
"The meaning of this you say? It's that you captured one of our friends that is!" Perry shouted back.
"I did eh? Who was it?" The Goblin King shouted back.
"Our friend Troy!" Priscilla yelled back.
The Goblin King sneered but backed off a bit.
"Alright then!" he said with satisfaction as he took his tooth chain hanging around in his neck. He blew the tooth and it sounded like a whistle.
"What was that?!" A few barbarians shouted.
"It's for my Goblin Warriors! Very well equipped don't you think eh?" The Goblin King snickered.
Within seconds, Goblins wearing masks, wore leather armor, and had iron tipped spears.
"Everyone! Get ready!" Perry yelled.
The archers immediately finished off the remaining spear goblins attacking them and fired the arrows at the Goblin Warriors. They were very tough than they looked however. More than six arrows at least were enough to take out one Goblin Warrior.
"That's a mere waste of arrows you dumb archers!" The Goblin King laughed. The archers looked annoyed, and smiled. The Barbarians then got in their way and slashed on the Goblin Warriors. Barbarians in Konah's army weren't expecting any warriors like this, but they seem to fight equal like them.
"Keep firing!" Priscilla commanded as she shot down three more spear goblins that were standing and ready to shoot down from the second level of bleachers. They all shouted in pain, and two of them twisted around and tumbled downwards at the same time.
Perry turned around and smashed his lance against another goblin, winding him backwards and stumbling him down to the ground.
"Smash them down!" some more goblins shouted as they jumped down from some bleachers. About eighteen goblins stabbed seven hog riders and ten barbarians down to the ground.
"Got any more back-up?" Perry shouted to some wizards.
"We are running out! We only have about sixty five wizards left!"
"Only sixty five?!" Perry shouted back.
"Yeah!" They shouted.
"How is it even possible that they know the exact amount of wizards they have left remaining?" Perry muttered.
Priscilla dodged two more spears and then whacked another spear goblin down with her bow. Three more goblins ran up from behind her, so she had to rolled forward and shoot up close range. That nearly sparked some serious fire in the grass.
"Got any extra arrows left?" Perry teased his sister.
"Yeah! More than the energy your lance has!" Priscilla countered back.
"How much then?" Perry inquired, as he ducked a Goblin's knife hook slash to the face, and then punched the goblin in the face, and then twisted around and smacked him the lance.
"I'm only estimating okay?!" Priscilla shouted back frantically, and then looked back in her back for just one second. "Probably about 51 left!"
"Fifty One huh?" Perry laughed.
"Yeah…" Priscilla then could see two spear goblins duck upwards from bleachers to throw more spears at her. She shot two more arrows at the goblins, and got both of them precisely in the chest. "Make that forty nine!"
"I got more energy than that!" Perry shouted and he yelled forward with a battle shout and clobbered down six goblins with his lance. The lance was of course, sideways.
"Well, your energy is sure gonna drain faster than mine!" Priscilla laughed.
"You just watch!" Perry shouted back, as he tripped a spear goblin with his lance.
"I don't need to watch, it's going to be pretty obvious!" Priscilla smirked.
Perry shook his head, and then immediately spotted the Goblin King just a few yards away, smashing away three Barbarians and One archer with a giant wooden spiked club.
"Now here's someone who could meet my match!" Perry taunted the Goblin King. The Goblin King snorted back.
"You have even fought me yet!" He laughed.
"Will do then!" Perry nodded and rushed over with his lance all charged up. The Goblin King stepped back and blocked Perry's thrust hit to the torso, and then blocked a few more of Perry's hits to the face when Perry was in mid-air.
"Ignorant!" Perry shouted and he kicked forward. The Goblin King blocked the kick with the base of his club and then shoved Perry's foot backwards, causing him to nearly fall down, but made him back off a bit.
"You-" Perry began with the Goblin King smashed Perry in the chest with the spiked club extra hard.
"WHOAUAGH!" Perry shouted as he was landed on the air and bounced on the ground a few times.
"PERRY!" Priscilla shouted in horror.
Perry slowly got back up and gave thumbs up, saying, "I'm okay!"
"Good." Priscilla muttered as Perry spinned around knocking eight goblins around him in a fury. They all fell back and were finished off by some nearby Hog Riders.
(INSIDE THE GOBLIN STADIUM JAIL BLOCK)
Gota was leading everyone while they rushed through some more corridors. It seemed like they were never getting out in the maze.
"Where are we even going now?" Rae asked.
"I dunno." Troy muttered back.
Troy barely knew all the corridors in the Goblin Stadium Jail Block, but he could still memorize a few of them when he was being escorted and back from fighting The Pummel.
"Hey! Wait a second…" Troy started.
Ahead of him was a very familiar hallway. In fact, it leaded him outside just a few hours ago!
"This way!" Troy shouted to everyone, especially Gota since she was leading the way.
"You sure?" Gota questioned him.
"Let's go anyways! You make all the bad choices!" Rae, Tala, and Jayle exclaimed at her.
"Okay then!" Gota sighed. She looked at Troy. "Let's go your way."
"Thanks." Troy said as he bolted towards the hallway, with the four girls running beside him. As soon as he reached it, he looked left. Nothing but darkness there. But when he looked to the right, there was some light coming out!
"This way!" Troy said quietly as he sprinted down to the right of the hallway.
"Hey! You are on to something now!" Jayle exclaimed.
"Yep." Troy said, as he leaded them to many corridors. This time, towards the light. Soon, after just a few more heart-pounding seconds of running, they came across one of the other entrances leading to the outside of Goblin Stadium.
"This is it!" Troy said, as he ran forward.
"Do you think we should help out?" Gota asked him.
"Well, I guess so!" Troy said.
As soon as they got out, they could see chaos a rising.
"Finish off any Goblins!" Troy commanded. "That way, it's easier!"
"Got it!" Gota shouted, and ran in the direction towards the Goblin King.
Troy looked around finding anyone to fight his size. He finally saw a Goblin Warrior running towards a Wizard, who was casting up a fireball at some spear goblins at the opposite direction.
"Rae, Tala, Jayle, find someone your size!" Troy said quickly, and ran off to fight to Goblin Warrior.
The Goblin Warrior saw Troy and slashed at Troy. Troy ducked, and then punched upwards, and lunged himself forward at the same time. He also landed three rapid punches to the Warrior's stomach, and then rolled backwards when the Warrior tried to stab him downwards.
"Whoa!" Troy shouted as he got back up, so fast, too fast. He nearly fell over. He quickly leaned backwards, then shot himself forwards, landing a head butt to the Warrior's mask, knocking him out instantly.
Meanwhile, a security goblin was watching every single thing down below at the stadium from an observation platform. He couldn't believe what he seen.
"We could sure use arg! Some help here!" he muttered and rushed down to Amondo's office. He took out a green gem like, almost the same shape as the one that Priscilla gave to Troy. He placed it on the pedestal, and it soon formed an image of another goblin.
(AT JUNGLE ARENA)
Everything was so peaceful, in Goblin style, or maybe everything was more normal. That would have been more appropriate. Another security Goblin was in alarm of another Security Goblin. From the look on his face, it wasn't what he was expecting.
"Garg's going on?" The security Goblin asked the other Security Goblin who communicated to him.
"Our stadium is under attack. We need some back-up."
"Sure thing! I'll get you all prepared and will send your attackers running for the hills!" the security Goblin nodded and ran off.
Soon, there was a giant tree with a super large base. The security Goblin pulled out some conga drums and beat on them to make some kind of warning tune. Within a few seconds, Dart Goblins, Spear Goblins, Goblins, and Goblin Warriors all gathered around the base of the tree.
"OK guys! Some friends in Goblin Stadium will need our help. Are we ready?" he shouted.
"Yeah!" They all shouted, or cackled.
"Great! I want you all to board balloons consisting of three goblins, two spear goblins, and one dart goblin. Okay?"
"YES!" They all shouted.
"Good. Now git!" he shouted.
The entire gathered goblin nodded and ran off to some nearby Balloons in some trees. They looked like they were about finished pumping up.
"GO, GO, GO!" They kept shouting and chanting as they boarded the balloons relatively quickly. The first balloon rose up from the ground a few seconds later. Soon, multitudes of balloons appeared.
The Goblin King of Jungle Arena was glaring out of his giant castle, which was made by jungle planks, and it was actually built into the biggest tree there was in the entire arena.
"Garvat, I inquire you go help out those goblins defending Goblin Stadium too." He muttered.
"Yes King Garextex." Garvat nodded, bowed down, and then left.
Garvat was wearing full iron armor, and it was actually made out of the materials of an Executer's Axe, and Garvat was also armed with a sword that had a wooden handle with gems imprinted on it, and the sword was just like the armor. The only thing was that his helmet was like that of a Prince's.
Garvat owned a very big balloon, or to be more appropriate by the way it looked, it was actually a giant airship blimp. He called it the GAOG though. It stood for the Goblin Airship of Gargantuaness. It was green and black striped, had six cannons on each side, and it was big enough to fit fifty goblins inside. That would be very cramped up though.
"Dart Goblins! If you do not find a Balloon to board, follow me!" he shouted as he patted his sword by his side just in case. Of course, he was army leader of Garextex's army.
About thirty seven Dart Goblins boarded the GAOG, and soon, it was the last thing to leave, on its way to save Goblin Stadium from utter destruction.
(AT GOBLIN STADIUM)
Troy quickly smashed two Goblin Warriors by colliding them apart, by of course, pushing them forward to one another, causing them to be knocked out.
"What else you have to fight?" Troy shouted as he dodged a vicious spear to the face.
"UH…I…NEED…OKAY I REALLY NEED HELP!" Jayle screamed at the top of her lungs. Troy turned around and saw a Goblin smiling and slashing the air with his knife very close to Jayle, who was backing off slowly.
"Hey Goblin!" Troy shouted. The Goblin turned to face Troy, and as soon as that happened, Jayle on impulse hit the Goblin on the face with a side punch. The Goblin twisted around and fell down on the grass.
"Thanks!" She said.
"Behind you!" Rae shouted to Tala.
Tala looked behind and jumped out of the way of a spear goblin. Then she jumped on top of him, pinning him down to the ground.
"Nice!" Rae said, and Tala forced the Goblin with the spear up. Rae punched the Goblin in the stomach four times, before washing that fist in the water.
"Hey. Aren't those balloons coming to help us?" Troy shouted to Priscilla as she finished shooting down a musket Goblin from the outer doors. Priscilla turned around and her face got into another angry glare.
"No! Those are the alliance's balloons coming to help the other goblins!" Priscilla shouted.
"Well let me at them!" Perry said, very prideful.
"Go ahead!" Priscilla smirked. Perry looked ahead at the balloons and his teeth clenched with rage.
"Archers! Fire!" Priscilla commanded.
The archers saw the balloons and immediately started firing at them. The Dart Goblins in the balloons spit out darts back. It penetrated through almost anything, and soon, the barbarians were decreasing rapidly in numbers.
"Everyone! Drain every last bit of it!" Perry shouted ran over to Polance and took a chest filled with heal spells. He threw two that was just enough to cover the entire army, including Troy. Troy felt an instant soothing feeling to him, surging through his veins.
"Where's the Goblin King?" Troy asked.
"I don't know, wait, there he is!" Perry pointed; he could see two wizards throwing fireballs at the Goblin King who kept on deflecting them. Soon, the GAOG soon arrived, but it was propelled by the jungle plank made propellers which made it faster that the balloons.
"Launch them!" Garvat shouted.
At once, the balloons dropped down wooden logs with spikes on them. They all seemed to say, "LOG!" as they dropped down. They proved to be very deadly, and flatted a bunch of Barbarians and Princes.
"Watch it Perry!" Priscilla shouted at her brother. Perry looked upwards at a log dropped down towards him.
"No one can stand against my lance!" Perry shouted and jumped out of the way and then stopped the log from rolling with his lance.
"LOG!" the Log shouted again and lashed out at Perry.
"WHOA!" he shouted as he just managed to duck in time. The log went rolling until it smashed into pieces at some bleachers.
Troy was on the ground and kicked upwards at a Goblin Warrior's face, blinding him backwards. Troy then jumped back up and threw himself forward with a punch to the Goblin Warrior's face, knocking him out slowly. Another Goblin Warrior was behind Troy and tried to slash at Troy. Somehow he missed but it made quite a terrifying sound.
"Whoa!" Troy shouted as he twisted around and got his hands on the ground. He kicked again upwards with one foot and the other one down, dealing quite significant damage to the face.
"OAH!" The Goblin Warrior exclaimed in pain. Troy ducked his sword jab to the head, punched the Goblin Warrior in the stomach, and then with the same fist into an uppercut, knocking out the Goblin Warrior, this time, more faster.
"LOG!" screeched another Log, and went thundering towards…
"PRISCILLA!" Troy screamed as he quickly sprinted towards her, who just about finished shooting down five spear goblins, very accurately.
"Huh?" Priscilla turned to face Troy when he immediately tackled her out of the way of the thundering Log. It bounced harmless off the ground where Priscilla once stood. While Troy and Priscilla were…together, holding each other in mid-air, it seemed like everything was going in slow motion. Then they landed together on the ground and kept rolling. When they finished rolling, Troy was on top of Priscilla. Priscilla and Troy just stared at each other. Troy felt a very hot blushing feeling go over him.
"HEY!" Perry screamed in fury.
Troy gulped and helped Priscilla back up, and then they both turned towards Perry.
"This isn't what it looks like!" Troy shouted.
"Oh yes it is! Priscilla, you should be ashamed at what you done!" Perry shouted.
"No, no, that wasn't what he was doing! He was just saving me from the-"
"I don't care! Father is going to be sure furious with what you have done!" Perry continued.
"But-" Troy began.
"Nonsense! Now get away from her!" Perry said and pointed his lance at Troy. Troy stared at Perry with disbelief.
"But all of this is not true-" Troy began again.
"QUIET!" Perry shouted.
"How about you all be quiet?!" Gota screamed. She snatched the crown from the Goblin King, who was knocked down to the ground from a Wizard's fireball.
"No!" The Goblin King shouted in disbelief as he saw his crown snatched from him.
"Now, I WILL BE THE QUEEN OF GOBLIN STADIUM! HA HA HA!" Gota screamed and laugh. At once, green and a bit of purple powers soaked through Gota herself from the crown. The King felt helpless.
"Gota! You can't be serious!" Rae and Tala shouted in disbelief.
"Oh she's serious alright!" Troy muttered angrily.
"AUG! That's not the least of my worries!" Perry shouted and twirled his lance furiously very quickly.
Gota jumped in the air and formed a giant green orb above her hands. The orb produced spears that immediately thundered towards Konah's army.
"GOTA!" Jayle shouted. She picked up a spear from the ground and hurled it with all her might straight at one of the balloons. It missed by about a meter and thundered straight towards Troy. Troy saw it and clenched his teeth.
"HAIYAH!" Troy yelled as he flipped backwards and kicked the spear upwards. He landed back down on his back, but the spear was enough to pop the balloon. It went crashing down to the ground in a BOOM.
"Whew!" Rae said.
Gota hurled three spears in three front directions towards Perry. Perry ducked down and commanded three archers to fire. The arrows bounced off Gota's spear shield.
"Nice try, I'm invincible!" she screamed again.
"You are?" Perry asked and smirked. "You don't know that."
Perry ran in a zigzag pattern, towards Gota, dodging and rolling all the spears. Priscilla looked up and saw three more balloons head towards the remaining Princes. She shot two of them down on one shot, and then finished off the last one.
"Gotcha!" she said.
"Fireball!" shouted James as he threw a fireball towards three Goblin Warriors, knocking them down astonishingly in one blow.
"Nice one James!" a barbarian exclaimed as he tripped a Goblin down to the ground and then stabbed him.
"LOG!" six more logs rained down on the ground, it finished off almost all of Konah's army. There were only 38 Barbarians, 51 Archers, 6 Wizards, 4 Princes, and 22 Hog Riders.
Perry ducked a green fireball casted down from Gota as she started hurling more.
"What in the world is she?" James said to Troy after he ran and rolled downwards on a spear.
"I can tell you who she is! She betrayed us!" Troy replied angrily back.
"You know the reason why?" Gota laughed. "To take over Goblin Stadium that's what!"
"I can't let you do that!" The Goblin King roared and tried to whack Gota from behind with his spiked club. Gota smiled and blocked the hit with a spear wall, which was a bunch of fat spears that rose from the earth bundled together.
"ARG!" he shouted as he toppled backwards.
Perry snuck around the King Tower that Gota was standing on. He breathed out furiously.
"Troy needs to know how people act!" he mumbled.
"Troy! Get ready to be speared!" Gota laughed and summoned a giant spear from the air. Troy stared at the spear in his fighting stance. All of a sudden, Perry snuck up being Gota and clobbered her down with his lance.
"AH!" she exclaimed in pain. She fell forwards and got back up. Then after that, she turned around and wielded dual spears from thin air.
"You'll be sorry!" She laughed.
"We'll see about who's sorry." Perry said furiously and jabbed his lance forward. Gota ducked and then barely missed Perry's torso. Perry punched her in the face, twisted around, and slammed his lance on her torso.
"AOF!" she shouted, as she was winded backwards.
"But maybe I should be sorry for this. Maybe not, because you are a fool! Taking something that you are not supposed to obtain!" Perry shouted and jumped high in the air. Gota blocked a bunch of Perry's lance attacks in mid-air, and managed to push him and his lance backwards with her spears.
"SPEAR TORNADO!" she shouted as she spun around with the dual spears in her hands. She released her spear energy generated which formed a whirlwind of spears towards Perry.
"Gob-Darn it." He muttered and then got under cover of some nearby Goblin Barrels located at the back. They weren't filled with goblins luckily.
"Hmph!" Gota shouted as she ran towards Perry.
"WAI-AH!" Perry screamed as he pushed all of the four barrels in front of him with his lance. They barreled towards Gota toppling her down. She fell forward and face-planted in front of Perry.
"Ugh!" she said as she struggled to get back up.
"Now is your time." He said as he kicked her forward. She fell backwards on to the King Tower's platform.
"AH!" she shouted.
Perry jumped towards her, and she quickly rolled away as Perry's lance smashed onto the wooden platform. Then Perry spun around and smashed Gota's legs. She tripped and shouted in pain. When she rolled unexpectedly backwards and up, she nearly fell off the King Tower. She was arm circling frightfully because she was losing her balance.
"Now!" Perry said to himself as he shot forwards and whacked Gota in the face. She shrieked and fell backwards, landed down on the ground and managed to lift herself a foot from the ground. She got back up but then saw the Goblin King already smashed her in the stomach with his spiked club! Yes, he was very quick, too quick that he didn't hit Gota with the spiky part.
"Ack!" she screamed and fell backwards.
"I'll take that now, fool!" The Goblin King exclaimed with pride and snatched the crown away from Gota. At once power started draining out of Gota and back to its original owner.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Gota shouted.
Gota moved backwards on the ground in horror as the Goblin King now summoned a spear that looked like any goblin would like to get. A move that only the original owner would be empowered by. The Goblin King pointed his spear at Gota.
"Lock her up in my torture chamber!" He shouted.
Four security goblins grabbed Gota and dragged her backwards.
"Let me go!" she shouted and twisted around to break free. No luck. Soon, she was dragged in through the doors and disappeared.
Only twenty two barbarians, James, twenty seven archers, barely any princes left, and eight Hog Riders.
"ALL OF THIS IS UNDER CONTROL NOW YOU HEAR ME!" The Goblin King shouted at the GAOG housing a bunch of spear goblins, dart goblins, and few goblins, and Garvat.
"You sure?" Garvat shouted back.
"I'm sure!" The Goblin King shouted.
"Much obliged coming here!" Garvat nodded, and his balloon army started turning back.
"My thanks goes to you." The Goblin King rasped at Perry, Priscilla, Troy, and the rest of Konah's army.
"Yeah." Perry nodded back, but then shot an angry glance at Troy.
"For your deed, I shall spare you and your army's lives. Now go while you can now." The Goblin King replied back. "Or you shall taste this club and spear, and it will be your last sensation."
"Will do." Perry muttered.
"Oh yes, and can you do a favor?" The Goblin King snickered.
"Sure, take these Heal Spells for you're knocked out and shot Goblins." Priscilla huffed and threw the rest of the heal spells but one to the Goblin King.
"Thank you." The Goblin King nodded.
As soon as Konah's army, Perry, Priscilla, Troy, Jayle, Rae, and Tala left the arena doors, Perry still glared at Troy angrily.
"Well, we will be going now. Thanks for helping us Troy!" Jayle thanked him.
"No problem." Troy sighed.
"Yeah, you're the best!" Rae squealed.
"Remember us who you helped! Tala said as she left with Rae and Jayle in the opposite direction of where Troy, Priscilla, Perry, and Konah's army was going.
"So how are you going to explain all of this to Peroy?" Perry exploded at Priscilla on the way back. They were riding on Polance, who got fed the last healing potion. Troy was walking beside him.
"Who's Peroy?" Troy asked slowly.
"*Sigh* The Prince who I…I…" she stuttered, with a red hot feeling going over her.
"You like?!" Troy blurted out.
"YES, YES!" Priscilla blurted out back, her eyes getting watery. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you."
"You should have." Troy said, with a firm tone on his voice.
"You can already pack your stuff when we get back!" Perry shouted.
"What?! But…" Troy began.
"Don't you dare take advantage of us!" Perry shouted. "You ruined the back part of the chainmail anyways!"
"Perry-" Priscilla began.
"BE QUIET!" Perry screamed. "I'm done with all of this nonsense. You are leaving Troy, and that's final!
"*Sigh* Where do you suggest I go!" Troy asked angrily.
"I don't know. Anywhere but my father's castle!" Perry exclaimed furiously.
"Can I at least have my Mini Balloon?" Troy asked.
"NO!" Perry said again.
"But my legs are getting cramps!" Troy complained.
"You can hitch a ride on Polance. It will be your last ride anyways!" Perry smiled angrily. "Our troops will scout and take the Mini Balloon.
Troy climbed on Polance, who whined because of the extra weight.
"Settle down Polance! It's just this one time!" Perry comforted his Pony.
"I'm sorry Troy." Priscilla started sobbing again.
"Whatever. You should have told me!" Troy waved his arms in the air in frustration. "You should have told me!"
Troy couldn't believe what happened. It was just a matter of time all of this kept on going, until finally, finally, Konah's castle loomed up on the midnight horizon.
"You'll depart next morning." Perry said angrily to Troy.
"Okay." Troy said with a sad and angry tone in his voice.
Troy wished the night could go longer, but could go shorter as well. He had mixed feelings. What had just happened in one night?