Chapter 24: Another Tour
"P-P-Peroy?" Troy stuttered. He couldn't believe it.
"That's his name?" Troy asked again.
"Why, yes of course!" Kentar nodded. "Quite an interesting name, does it not?"
"Er…yeah!" Troy stammered. "It's an interesting name!"
Troy and Kentar walked some more. The breeze started warming up again as they slowly descended down from that steep looking mountain. As hard as it is to climb UP it, it wasn't hard to climb DOWN from it.
"I have so many questions for your castle!" Troy sighed.
"Ah yes. A newcomer means new questions await in the future! What questions do you have in your mind right now?"
"Well… I mostly have some about Peroy." Troy nodded.
"Ah yes of course!" Kentar nodded. "What questions do you have about him?"
"Well… uh, how old is he?" Troy decided to go simple first before turning those sharp corners of his question.
"Peroy is twenty three years old." Kentar replied back.
"Twenty Three years old huh?" Troy thought again.
"Yep. Just a bit younger than Perry!" Kentar nodded.
"Yeah." Troy tried to keep his neutral tone going, but it was real hard.
"Any other questions you have?" Kentar asked Troy.
"Uh yeah, I have some more." Troy continued, trying to keep getting in and in.
"Is Peroy a good person to be around with?"
"Of course! I said that so many times, and that's how nice he is!" Kentar nodded. "You don't know how glad I am to have a son like him!"
"Yeah. You are very lucky!" Troy nodded.
"Anything else?" Kentar asked Troy.
"Uh…one more." Troy gulped.
"Go ahead." Kentar smiled. He seemed like a friendly king, just like Konah.
"Do some people know that Peroy is a fun guy?" Troy asked nervously.
"Yep!" Kentar nodded. "Lots of people know he is a very well-known Prince. I'd say he is very high ranked in be popular in my castle."
"Wow." Troy smiled a bit. Troy was kind of glad for a second that Peroy is a nice prince, to be around with. He was sort of glad Priscilla has a crush on Peroy. Then Priscilla would at least have a really nice person to keep thinking about.
Troy, Kentar, and the rest of his team walked some more, talking about other stuff they wanted to talk about, like the duel very recently, just a few minutes ago. Once Troy headed down the mountain in just a few more steps down, the air all of a sudden, got a bit warmer, and it was now easier to breathe.
"Say Kentar, how do you and your team of Royales travel up this steep looking mountain?" Troy asked.
"Oh, it's pretty easy." Kentar smirked briefly.
"How?" Troy asked.
Kentar patted Troy on the back and then looked forward, with that kind of expression when you are trying to explain something.
"When you are a King you need to duel to get trophies. That's the principle in Clash Royale. There are spring traps and majestic portals that will lift us up this Snowy Mountain."
"Portals?!" Troy said, astounded by that.
"Yep." Kentar proudly agreed. "If you enter a duel, these portals can be accessed in front of where the arena is hard to get to."
"So at the base of the mountain?" Troy inferred.
"That's right!" Kentar nodded.
"Well…" Troy said sheepishly, while scratching the back of his hair. "The way I got here was from a spring trap."
"A spring trap huh?" Kentar pondered. "I hope that didn't release you too high!"
"It did." Troy slightly smiled in embarrassment. "Luckily, a very generous King traded me a Balloon, which was given off by another King, for a Heal Spell."
"That was a smart move Troy!" Kentar nodded.
"Well, I had to feel a bit of pain, but still, at least the outcomes came out equal!" Troy exclaimed.
Kentar laughed. "You're a tough one."
Before they even knew it, there was Kentar's castle, In front of Troy. It surprisingly looked almost exactly like Konah's. Troy couldn't even tell one detail, big to small, about what was different.
"So where do I stay and bunk?" Troy asked, as they walked past the drawbridge. The air started getting warmer emotionally as they finally got inside past the golden drawbridge.
"You can choose, any Guest Room you'd like. However, I'd recommend the last Guest Room. In my opinion, that is the best!" Kentar explained.
Troy smiled and did a sigh. Kentar almost sounded like his close friend Konah. Troy didn't want to remember those memories yet.
"Thanks! I might as well go there!" Troy nodded.
When Troy headed up the staircases, almost everyone was staring at him. Troy noticed that and then remembered. He remembered to introduce himself of course!
"Oh, uh hi! My name is Troy." Troy stuttered nervously and smiled.
"Hello Troy." The people who looked at Troy nodded.
Troy walked forward a bit in a hurry and breathed out a sigh of relief.
"That was close!" Troy breathed out. Troy was kinda shy around new people, but luckily, not too shy. He was overflowed with a wave of memories when he was much more younger, and how he used to cower around people only he was familiar with.
By the time Troy finished remembering that in his mind, he was already standing outside of his guest room.
"Wow." Troy said, astonished.
It looked even more fancier and more magnificent like that Konah's best guest room. The Bed was a lot more bigger, there were more cooler looking drapes on the bed, and the window view was probably one of the best views Troy had seen before.
"This is so cool!" Troy exclaimed excitedly as he kept on walking around the room.
Troy then looked back at his book. It still looked clean and new and fresh as always. Troy didn't know how fresh, but he or sure knew that Priscilla took real good care of that!
"I guess you can wait here." Troy said to the book as he set it down carefully on top of the bed. With that, he left the guest room and started to look around the castle, just to be a little more familiar.
Troy walked down the grand stair case, and could also see a royal grandfather clock hanging above one of the main walls adjacent to where the grand stair case then breaks off into two paths.
"Two Thirty Five huh?" Troy said to himself. "That was a lot of time walking!"
"You walked all the way from Konah's castle to Frozen Peak?" another voice came from behind Troy.
"Huh?" Troy looked behind him. There was a rather, handsome looking prince looking at the clock too. "Oh, er… well I just took a bit rest from walking by a spring trap and a balloon."
"Nice. At least you weren't too tired!" The Prince nodded.
There was just a bit of silence for the next few seconds, but then all of a sudden, the Prince looked embarrassed.
"Oh, I might as well introduce myself to you. My name is Peroy." The prince said, as held out his hand to Troy in a handshake.
"My name is Troy." Troy said, his voice kind of neutral, but excited like a bit. "I heard a lot about you."
"You did huh?" Peroy smiled. "That's good Troy. Now you have a bit of beginning knowledge about me."
"Yeah." Troy said his voice kind of getting darker, but not too dark to notice.
Peroy then smiled again. It seemed like he could make someone, not matter what they are or where they came from, days more brighter than ever.
Troy knew that Peroy already had Priscilla way before Troy even entered the era, so he decided to just play passive for a while.
It was just more silence for a while, but soon, Peroy showed an apologetic looking face.
"Forgive me Troy, for I lack in starting conversations. So I hear you are from Konah's castle, right?" Peroy asked.
"That's right!" Troy nodded.
"I am really sorry that you were kicked out too." Peroy said, with a pity look on his face.
"Oh yeah, nothing much about that." Troy said glumly, but it was really hard to control the rage inside of him. "Why doesn't Priscilla just tell me? Surely I would have understood!" Troy said to himself.
"Well, I'll be going now." Peroy nodded as he walked off. "It was nice knowing you Troy."
"Yeah, and it was nice knowing you too!" Troy called back.
All of a sudden, Troy heard another sound from a distance. Yes, the same kind of sound you would expect when you heard someone communicating through an emblem pedestal.
"Hmm." Troy said as he followed the sound.
Peroy also headed towards the sound, and as he entered the room where an emblem pedestal was located, he lightly closed the door behind him.
"Not too hard huh?" Troy said to himself.
Troy then began to start listening to all the sound behind that door.
"I just should have told Troy!" a voice that sounded like Priscilla said, with a tone of sadness in her. "It was all my fault!"
"Calm down Priscilla. It's not your fault." Peroy replied back. "Besides, Perry just got a little bit raged by that, that's all."
"But why didn't I tell him? If I told him, I think he would know!" Priscilla sobbed again.
"It's okay Priscilla." Peroy said, in a very calm and smooth voice. "It's not your fault. It's not your fault." He kept on repeating for help of calming down.
Troy looked down on the ground, with a bit of calmness over him for some reason. Maybe, it was HIS fault. He should have not let pride take over him.
Troy couldn't bear no more. He quickly walked away as fast and quiet as he could, so he couldn't hear any more of the wails of sorrow of Priscilla.
As Troy walked out into the drawbridge, he looked up at the sky like he could see it give answers.
"Just be calm and have peace." Troy said, as he closed his eyes, and extended his arms and let them feel the wind.
All of a sudden, just a few seconds later, there was shouting in the castle.
"Huh?" Troy stopped and turned around. More talking followed, a messenger's voice, Kentar's voice, more stern.
Troy went over to Kentar's throne, and there 2 messengers talking to Kentar, who was on his throne, his face, with a bit of alert.
"Is there a problem Kentar?" Troy asked him as he walked forward.
"Yes Troy." Kentar nodded. "We have seen more sightings of Azore Zakat."
"Azore Zakat?" Who's he?" Troy asked.
A messenger looked at Troy, with a frightened look on his face. "He is said to be one of the most dangerous journeyers in the entire realm. There was a legend about him also."
"A legend?" Troy asked.
"A legend all right." The other Messenger nodded. "As a boy, Azore longed to have more power than he could possibly have, since; his family were usually threatened very frequently. It doesn't say why, but Azore wanted to put a stop to this. So Azore journeyed over to the Volcano of Aptitude and for some strange reason, managed to obtain the Potion of Mightiness.
"The potion of mightiness?" Troy asked.
"That's correct." Kentar nodded. "Legends also say that this potion must be kept well-guarded, and that also the one chosen to wield the Legendary Sword of Clash shall be the one to consume it."
"But if Azore Zakat stole it," Troy gulped. "Will it have a bad side effect?"
"Yes, I am afraid." Kentar said with a fearful tone in his voice. "Because Azore consumed the Potion of Mightiness, it turned him into someone with extraordinary powers, and he in fact, has powers far more than just what a hero has."
"Are you sure that's a bad side effect?" Troy asked.
"No." Kentar said. "That's just the good part of it. "Now, because of the potion, it now turned him into a half mortal."
"Barely a regular human anymore." One of the messengers added.
"So what are we supposed to do?" Troy gulped.
"We have to stop him from his chaos. He has been causing trouble throughout all the arenas."
"But who will stop him?" Troy asked.
At that, there was just a few silence for a while.
"Very few people are brave enough to take him on." Kentar gulped. "He is a very powerful young man, and he will literally destroy anything that gets in his way."
All of a sudden, after Troy heard that, he laughed.
"He can't stop me!" Troy laughed foolishly. "I can stop him, like I stopped that Wizard who nearly blasted Phoebe away!"
"Are you sure?" Kentar asked.
"I am sure!" Troy said, with pride. "This time, my pride will help me this time! I will help you, just like I helped Konah!"
"And end up with something catastrophic like last time when you journeyed to Goblin Stadium?" Peroy walked in.
Troy glanced at him for a split second.
"Nah, I don't think something bad could really happen!" Troy laughed.
"Very well Troy." Kentar nodded. "Good luck."
(10 MINUTES LATER)
Troy walked past the Castle Drawbridge straight into the forest, with Kentar, the messengers, and a few of his people waving at Troy.
"Have a safe trip Troy!" Peroy called back.
"I will, and that's for sure!" Troy called back, as he tensed up his fists. Nothing bad could really happen right? To find out, Troy would experience it.