Chapter 23: New Acquaintances
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Troy screamed as he was launched high in the air from the spring pad. When he was around forty feet above from the ground, he looked down. Everything started getting to shrink faster and faster, and soon, the air started getting colder too. Troy looked above him. He could see some trees right in front of him!
"AH!" Troy shouted in surprise.
Troy smashed straight through the trees, but for some reason was still soaring high in the air, still grasping on to Priscilla's book and the healing spell.
"Whoa!" Troy exclaimed to himself as he started seeing Frozen Peak getting closer and closer. The air was getting colder than ever now, and in fact, it started to get harder to breathe.
A bunch of snowflakes started falling a few seconds later, but Troy was still going at full speed. Troy could see some large rocks over him, and then could see the arena of Frozen Peaks. Well, the top part of it anyways. The top part was composed to wooden like roofs in blue and red colors.
"Wow." Troy said. All of a sudden, he could feel his speed getting slower and slower, but he finally had enough height to land. Troy though, got a little higher than he was supposed to, to land comfortable on the ground.
"WHA AH!" Troy shouted.
Troy was about twenty three feet above from land, but soon, he started dropping towards the snowy filled land. Troy landed, but it was too much for his hard feet to bear.
"OOF!" Troy tripped and rolled on the snowy terrain, but managed to get back up a few seconds later. He was so tired and exhausted as he got up, so he glanced at his healing spell.
"Now's the time for it!" Troy said to himself, and unscrewed the tan colored cap off the healing spell's bottle. He started chugging it down really fast through his esophagus, but it left a refreshing like taste in his mouth. It felt for some reason, comfortable and a bit sour in his mouth, but that sour was sweet.
"Ahhh!" Troy sighed.
Troy settled the bottle down near some rocks and carried on. He saw the arena that looked like it was having another duel inside of their since, Troy could hear a bunch of battle noises in there.
"Let's see what's in there." He muttered to himself.
Troy walked forward towards the arena, and could hear a splash of water. As Troy entered the arena, he could see an Ice Block that looked like it was the one that made the splashing noise recently, since it was just a few feet away in the water from the mountain that had Ice Blocks on it. The Blue King was placing down troops very furiously, and so was his princesses, except, they were shooting arrows instead of placing down troops.
"I might as well get a good look at what's going on!" Troy decided.
Troy ran towards the right arena tower of the Blue King's and could see a better view of everything. Right now, there was a Red Knight slashing at a Blue Prince, but the Blue Prince also had some Blue Archers by his side shooting at the Knight.
"Take this!" The Red King shouted and place down a Bowler. The Bowler carried a giant Boulder and was slowly but surely carrying it towards the Blue Prince.
"Umph!" The Bowler said as he rolled it towards the Blue Prince.
"OOF!" The Blue Prince shouted as he was knocked off his Pony, and bursted into elixir.
"Yeah!" The Bowler shouted.
The Archers quickly shot down the Prince and then started shooting at the Bowler, who smiled since he blocked the arrows with a new boulder.
"Not going to help!" he laughed as he bowled the boulder knocking down the archers with no problem.
"YES!" The Red King screamed and then placed down a Giant Skeleton right in front of the Bowler, with just enough space to wedge him in.
"Hehahahah!" The Giant Skeleton roared from his vocal cordless throat.
"Inferno Dragon!" The Blue King shouted as he summoned, obviously, and Inferno Dragon.
"Roawl!" The Dragon roared and started focusing a fiery beam of fire towards the Giant Skeleton. The Giant Skeleton tried to hit him with his hand in the air, but the Dragon quickly swooped down and used both of his legs to kick the Giant Skeleton's face.
"Umh!" The Giant Skeleton exclaimed in pain.
The Giant Skeleton exploded into what looked like to be a dozen galloons of elixir, but as it spattered all over the place in the cold snowy like ground, it seemed to disappear very rapidly. The Bomb slammed on the ground and was starting to fuse up.
"Hurry!" The Blue King shouted.
The Inferno Dragon started flying away from the Bomb, which wasn't easy, since it was wearing a heavy helmet. But it was enough to escape the blast.
"Hmph!" The Red King said furiously. He spawned down a Musketeer to shoot down the Inferno Dragon.
"Archers now!" The Blue King commanded as he placed down archers that were spawned in 2.
They immediately started scampering towards the Musketeer, who was getting scorched up by the Inferno Dragon's fiery mouth.
"I think we've got this." One of the archers smirked as she finished off the Musketeer with a single arrow.
"Now on to the Tower." The other archer nodded.
The archers continued moving towards the tower, or to be more relevant, scampering towards the tower. The Princess immediately finished shooting down the Inferno Dragon and sighed.
"Again?" she said and shot more arrows at the archers, who aimed more precise than her.
"Yes!" The archers both said as they saw the tower smash into more stone and bits. They could hear the Princess shouting while that was happening.
"NO!" The Red King roared as he slammed down the lever activating his cannon. He finally managed to remove the archers from the arena with help of his cannonballs, but he smirked after that.
"Now, it's time for some total destruction now!" he shouted as he summoned a gigantic cart that looked like it had a yellow and red coil in the front charging up electricity, this time, on the opposite side of his King Tower.
"AG!" The Blue King face palmed himself, in the forehead. He could hear his right side crown tower Princess gulp.
"Don't worry Phoebe I got something!" The Blue King shouted.
"We'll see about that!" The Red King laughed and spawned another of those Hog Riders in front of the electricity like cart.
"Club time!" The Blue King nodded as he placed down a Dark Prince in the back of the Hog Rider.
"GRR YAARRGGG!" The Dark Prince yelled as he clobbered down the Hog Rider off his Hog.
"Whoa!" The Hog Rider yelled as he quickly rolled away.
"It's hammer time!" The Hog Rider exclaimed and lashed his hammer towards the Dark Prince. The Dark Prince blocked that hit with his shield, but then had to use that shield even more, since the Hog Rider striked back with a flurry of more hits.
"HEI!" Phoebe yelled as she shot three arrows at the hog by itself.
"OOF!" The Hog yelled before splashing into elixir.
"Huh?" The Hog Rider turned to where that anguished cry was, and the Dark Prince smiled underneath his bucket like hat.
"HEIM!" He yelled as he hook slashed the Hog Rider in the face.
"OAH!" The Hog Rider yelled as he twisted around and burst into more elixir.
BAZAP!
The Dark Prince's shield was blasted away with great force that it headed straight for Phoebe!
"AH!" she said when she saw it flying towards her. Luckily, she was one of those people who flinch on stimulus and reactions, and she merely had been able to duck just in time.
The Dark Prince whipped around with his Pony and charged straight for the gigantic cart. The Gigantic electricity like cart started recharging its power again; however, it looked like it was going to take more than just a few seconds.
"CHA!" The Dark Prince shouted under his bucket like helmet as he smashed the Electricity Cart's red and yellow coil.
WHINK!
The Dark Prince kept on hitting the cart's coil violently, and the Red King was not particularly amused by that.
"HURRY UP AND CHARGE UP SPARKY!" he shouted in anguish and an impatient tone in that voice.
"So that's what a Sparky is." Troy muttered to himself.
All of this new knowledge about troops coming to him almost every day kept reminding him of something. Maybe why he was here? For some reason, Troy didn't want to leave this era yet.
"All of this is just too confusing." Troy sighed. As soon as he said that, the Sparky and the Dark Prince was both destroyed, or killed since they destroyed each other at the exact same time.
All of a sudden, the crowd started shouting even louder whatever words they were saying. It was now Double Elixir Generation. Troy inferred by that.
"Get ready to be swarmed!" The Red King shouted, as he placed down a Witch and an army of skeletons.
"Not much time left!" The Blue King exclaimed as he quickly fired a Zap like spell to hit the army of skeletons, who were in front or surrounding the Witch. Since the Blue King did it very quickly, it was very inaccurate, so it took out only 7 out of the 16 skeletons in the entire army.
"HA!" The Red King laughed as he took out a turquoise colored spell and pointed it towards the Witch and the army. All of a sudden, they got a bit wider for a split second but then to Troy's astonishment, they were duplicates! The 7 skeletons turned 14, and the Witch and her skeletons summoned were doubled.
"No way!" The Blue King looked astonished.
The other Princess in the left arena tower looked wide eyed, and tried to shoot all the way from there. No luck, because her arrows fell one tile too short.
"Phoebe! Shoot as fast as you can!" The Blue King commanded.
"I'm trying!" Phoebe said between shooting arrows.
"Phoebe's tower is going to be crushed! I have to do something!" Troy said to himself.
The Skeleton army was decreasing rapidly in numbers, with the help of the Blue King's cannon.
"Luckily I have this!" The Blue King cried out as he took out a mirror. All of a sudden, a picture of that Zap Spell appeared. The Blue King hurled it down towards the skeleton army, more accurately this time, taking out the entire rest of the army.
"And this too!" The Red King laughed as he placed down a Wizard. The Wizard was accompanying helping with the Witch, who was busy shooting those destructo beams at Phoebe's tower.
"There is no need to fireball this!" The Wizard laughed as he ran towards Phoebe's tower. "Cover me!"
The Witch nodded as she slammed her staff down to the ground, creating three more skeletons. The Wizard kept dodging any of those stray arrows being shot at him, and soon, he thrown a fireball straight to the ground, giving him a jump boost to the air. Just as Phoebe killed the Witch with more arrows.
"Prepare to die!" The Wizard laughed.
"Not yet I'm about!" Phoebe gasped for breathe from all those arrows as she reached in her arrow bag for some more. To her alarm, there were nothing left.
"What?" Phoebe gulped as she looked in her arrow bag. Nothing there.
"Yeah! Good thing I got magic in my hands!" The Wizard laughed as he started casting up a fireball. The Blue King stood in anger. He turned his cannon to the Wizard, but Troy was already on a roll.
"I'm not going to let another repeat happen!" Troy shouted as he jumped up from the ground onto one of the side walls of Phoebe's tower. He leaped from that angle to the outer blue arena walls, and kept on wall jumping up until he got to the top.
"Huh?" Phoebe turned to face Troy. Troy blocked the fireball with his foot, which was a big risk he took.
"YOWCH!" Troy screamed in surprised.
Troy kept trying to douse out the flame from his shoe, but kept on trying to kick it out in the process. Somehow all those eighteen kicks he was trying to douse out the flame were all targeting the Wizard! The Wizard kept shouting in pain, and once the flame was out, the Wizard was nearly teetering over the edge.
"Whoa!" The Wizard said, nearly balancing over the edge.
"HAI-YAH!" Troy shouted as he put his right foot in front of his left foot and galloped for a spilt second before slamming his right foot on the Wizard's chest. The Wizard shouted in surprise, fell down back down to the snowy ground, and splashed into elixir.
"NO!" The Red King screamed.
"THREE…TWO…ONE!" The crowd shouted, as the same blue balloon that was flying overhead started flipping down those papers with numbers.
"ONE CROWN TO ZERO!" The stadium crowd shouted.
Phoebe still stared at Troy, who was panting because of that tired work of a wall jump, especially since he was STILL holding Priscilla's book!
While the stadium was wrapping up from the exciting duel, the crowds and fans were leaving, and after that Blue King snatched two trophies away from the Red King, the Blue King stood in front of Troy, who was in front of his King Tower.
"You saved one of my daughters. Thank you." The Blue King nodded.
"Yeah, no problem." Troy sighed, with a disappointed face. What was it like any other hour? Journeying to random kings, giving him all things that would help him on his journey? Oh well, Troy learned to not be too greedy.
"My daughter whom you saved who have suffered worse if you weren't there to help out. My cannon was much too slow at the time. Why does your heart hang so low?"
Troy stared at the book and showed it to the Blue King.
"This was the last thing I received when I left Konah's castle."
"Konah? Did you say Konah?" The Blue King said, with is eyes wide open.
"Uh yes." Troy replied back.
"I am one of his deep close friends!" The Blue King nodded. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Kentar."
"And my name is Troy." Troy nodded back too.
"Now, you said that you were sadly kicked out of Konah's castle huh? I understand that. Just a few hours ago, Konah contacted me through an emblem pedestal, saying that you were kicked out.
"What he said was true." Troy said.
"I know it's true." Kentar nodded.
"Now, there is one thing I know that Konah didn't say. I know you saved Priscilla at the cost of her life. Perry thought you were doing something more terrifying than just saving her, and yes, there was more arguing to follow."
"I can't believe Perry is actually that arrogant!" Troy muttered, with his teeth clenched and his fists clenched too.
"You know what? Ever since you saved Phoebe's life, I reckon you deserve some paying attention to! You can stay at my castle for a few days or weeks if you like."
That was it! Troy's blessing had immediately come to him! That was something Troy wanted all these hours.
"Thank you Kentar for your hospitality!" Troy said gratefully and with relief.
"Yep. You will meet some new people that I think you will have a good time with!" Kentar said.
"Really? Could you tell me a few of their names?" Troy said excitedly.
"Oh sure!" Kentar beamed. "You already know my Right Arena Tower Princess, Phoebe. Then My Left Arena Tower Princess's name is Pella.
"Nice name!" Troy commented back.
"Yes. Why don't we talk some more on the way home?" Kentar said as he directed Troy towards the exit of the arena, where his whole team was waiting.
"Good idea!" Troy said.
On the way back, Kentar talked more about his family and friends to Troy.
"Once you meet the Queen, her name is Qusha." Kentar explained some more. "She is a true beauty."
"What about your son?" Troy asked.
"Oh my son!" Kentar nodded. "Yes, he couldn't make it to the arena duel today because his pony was sick, but his pony, whose name is Polaty, is able to recover soon.
"Wow." Troy said in astonishment. "That pony sure heals up fast! You have a healing center right?"
"Yes." Kentar nodded.
"So what's your son's name?" Troy asked excitedly as they continued walking.
"You'll enjoy being around with my son!" Kentar nodded. "He is such a fun guy. His name is Peroy."
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