Chapter 29: Explosions Galore
"That was some good food for thought." Troy said as he finished brushing his teeth a few minutes later after the dinner. He couldn't believe the great hospitality King Jekazar and his family provided him!
Troy walked over to his bed, in his pajamas and glanced out of the window. The moon shined brightly than ever, and Troy was glad. He could still remember memories of what it's like to leave Konah's castle, and still remember exactly what happened on that dreadful night, but he was just glad that he at least he was treated with respect and King Jekazar's castle, which made him feel good.
"Ah…. A nice warm bed." Troy said as he pulled the blankets up nearly to his neck and breathed out a sigh of relief.
Troy then closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Really, the warm blanket emitted such a warm heat, it made him feel a bit dizzy.
Soon, it felt like just a few minutes passed as Troy finally went to sleep. The next morning, when he woke up, he yawned and stretched. He then glanced out of the window.
"Another usual day in the realm of who-knows-what's-out-there." Troy sighed as he got out of bed and went to go brush his teeth.
A few minutes later after he was finished, he walked down the staircase and immediately, really fast, he could smell the scent of a good tasting breakfast. He went over to the dining room and could see Kalit there only, setting up the plates.
"Good Morning Kalit." Troy smiled.
Kalit looked up and nodded. "Good Morning Troy. How did you sleep?"
"I slept very good, thanks." Troy nodded.
"Well that was good to know." Kalit nodded. "Please, take any seat, except the head of the table chairs that is." He laughed.
"I wouldn't even do that!" Troy smirked as he got into a chair right next to what looked like to be Jekazar's seat. He noticed that all the other chairs were made out of gold and silver, but his chair, and Quaboa's chair, were made out of platinum and what looked like to be some very smoothen fine silver.
A few minutes later, Jekazar arrived into the dining room with a pleasant smile on his face as usual.
"Good Morning Troy, you are up early." Jekazar stated.
"Yeah, I always liked the feeling where you feel refreshed and good after a sleep. You know that kind of feeling?" Troy asked.
"Well certainly!" Jekazar nodded. "A duel in the arena is sure to make any King tired after a whole bunch of the racket and exhaustion they are going through."
"Yep!" Troy agreed.
Troy watched as a few more people walked inside, and Troy knew that it was probably just King Jekazar's cycle customs for who gets to eat at the Royal Dining Room. He knew for sure that those new troops get their lucky day. He could also see the 7 other princes arriving, each with their own personality that makes them who they are.
"So Jekazar, do you know by any chance, a King named Konah?" Troy asked.
"I've heard of Konah." Jekazar nodded. "He wields the Legendary Sword of Clash, and he has a really good family. Kentar has been talking about it to me."
"Do you believe him?" Troy asked.
"Of course." Jekazar nodded. "Kentar has been my friend for many years.
"I've been to Konah's castle actually." Troy nodded. "You were right about believing him; he does wield the Legendary Sword of Clash."
"Really!" Jekazar beamed. "How did you know that? I've heard that Konah keeps the secret of his wielding of the sword, much unknown to outside visitors."
"I think he trusted me like a friend." Troy said, but then his voice got a bit darker. "Except when he kicked me out."
All of a sudden, trumpets sounded once again, and of course, Quaboa arrived to the opposite head of the table with some more guards.
"Good Morning every one of you!" she exclaimed with pride.
"Good Morning Queen Quaboa." Everyone said, as they bowed down. Troy was among those who did that. After just a brief prayer of thanks to Supercell, and after everyone finally said "Amen", they all started digging in the breakfast that was served in the table a few minutes ago. The breakfast was fried omelets, Royal Waffles, Crown Toast; Flatbread drizzled in sweet sauce, regular looking pancakes, cranberries, and fresh strawberries and blueberries.
"Gee, that sure is a lot of variation!" Troy commented, as he started to get 2 omelets, 3 Crown Waffles, a bit of Flatbread, some cranberries, and a giant spoonful of strawberries and blueberries, that still had water droplets coated on the out layer of them.
"It sure is." Kalit nodded.
"Troy, why were you kicked out of Konah's castle?" Jekazar asked, with a very concerned tone.
"It's because of that…that Perry." Troy said in a hoarse tone.
"Perry? He is Konah's son right?" Kalit asked.
"That's right Kalit. It all started when I was sent on a mission to Goblin Stadium, just to retrieve some lilypads. But then I was caught and put into jail. Perry, his sister Priscilla, and a large army of troops stormed into the stadium, and freed me, but at costs so hard to pay back."
"What costs, and how hard do you mean?" Kalit said, very confused.
"I should've realized that the Goblin Stadium doesn't defend itself alone. It has Jungle Arena as allies, and they soon attacked and helped later, and they had these balloons that dropped these large looking logs with spikes attached to them."
"Those are called 'The Log' just so you know." Kalit nodded. "Those tough looking rolling pieces of nature can destroy any small unit it touches!"
"Yep, including Priscilla, which I tackled her out of the way of a log that was about to kill her, but when we both landed in a way that looked so… strange, Perry immediately thought it was an act of infatuation.
"Ah… now I understand." Jekazar nodded.
"Yeah. Perry then convinced Konah that I was doing something ridiculously wrong, and he kicked me out, well, in a nice manner at least."
"I see…" Kalit said, pausing between mouthfuls of food.
"I then journeyed over to nowhere, but a bunch of useful kings gave me very useful items and vehicles along the way, and then I journeyed up to Frozen Peaks. I then could see Kentar and his team participating in a duel, and when one of his daughter's Phoebe, was about to get blasted away by a wizard's fireball, I jumped in the action bravely and saved her." Troy said, blushing a bit. Sometimes, he liked it when his pride just does all the work for him.
"And so, Kentar decided you deserve a bit of a reward, and offered you to stay at his castle for a few days or so?" Kalit inferred.
"Yep!" Troy said. "I then met Azore Zakat, and I actually made him shun against evil, for the first time he ever did in his life."
"I've heard legends about that young man." Jekazar murmured. "And you managed without getting yourself seriously hurt?"
"Well, apart from a wound that he gave me from his sword, nothing much serious." Troy smiled.
"That was good that was just a wound. Azore Zakat is capable of more powerful moves. He just doesn't show those moves all at once." Kalit said.
"Really?" Troy exclaimed. He had seen Azore Zakat's powers at barely the minimum, and he was glad Azore turned to the good side.
"His power is from the Potion of Mightiness, what did you expect?" Kalit replied.
"I forgot all about that." Troy said.
"Well, today, we are not going to any arena duel today, I just need my troops to get a little bit of rest." Jekazar smiled.
"What about the balloons?" Troy asked.
"Ah, the balloons! Yep, after breakfast is over, I will get a balloon ready for you to get back to Kentar's castle." Jekazar replied.
"Thanks." Troy nodded.
A few minutes after breakfast was over, Jekazar led Troy to the highest, 8th floor and up there, Troy could see crates filled with fireworks, some sandbags, and a bunch of balloons with skeletons on them, either fixing the basket of the balloon, or pushing it towards a big door at the way end of the floor.
"So… what do we do now?" Troy asked.
Jekazar pointed towards the door. As soon at a skeleton with a balloon was near it, the door opened by itself automatically, revealing some kind of runaway, only it blended in with the castle, so it looked perfectly normal if you were to look at it from the outside.
"Ah, so this is where I ride, right?" Troy realized.
"Yep! The skeleton you will be riding with, will drop you off at the castle, and then come back-", Jekazar said when all of a sudden, a large explosion could be heard outside the castle!
"Something's happening!" Troy gulped.
Jekazar and Troy ran over to the edge of the runaway that had a roof in it that looked really high and was arched. When they got to the edge of the runaway, they could see a grueling looking army charging towards the drawbridge.
"Enemy troops." Jekazar muttered. "Come with me." With that, Troy and he went downstairs, while the skeletons at the top started throwing bombs and fireworks at the frontlines, which were six lines of Elite Barbarians.
While Jekazar and Troy were carefully running down the stairs, Jekazar commanded nearby troops who were walking to join in on the fight.
"Troy, see if you can do anything to stop this army, I will be right back." Jekazar said and rushed towards his throne room.
"Wait, Jekazar!" Troy said, but it was too late.
Troy gulped. A bunch of troops were rushing towards the entrance of the castle, and Troy could immediately know that he wasn't fighting this grueling looking army alone. That gave him a bit of strength and courage.
"I'm right with you guys!" Troy exclaimed as he ran towards the drawbridge.
When he got to the drawbridge, the enemy troops didn't look like they would advance to the beginning of the drawbridge, as there were a huge pack of armored Knights and Dark Princes on their ponies all whacking away out the army. Troy looked around him. Behind the frontlines of the Elite Barbarians were some Bombers, a few wizards, and what looked like to be some Bomb Towers, on platforms that had wheels in them!
"There's just gotta be something that I can help with." Troy said as he heard another violet explosion.
Of the Elite Barbarians punched a Dark Prince in the helmet so hard, the Dark Prince fell backwards, knocked out. The Elite Barbarian scrambled over him, and headed towards Troy.
"Is this all I can do to help?" Troy said to himself.
Troy got into his fighting stance smoothly. The Elite Barbarian tried to hook slash him, and then down slash him, but Troy bravely dodged by ducking the hook slash, and threw himself diagonally to the right, jumped up, and back-kicked the Elite Barbarian.
"Aoh!" The Elite Barbarian said as he rolled forwards. He turned around, but Troy was already attacking, lunged forwards and landed a front side kick on him. The Elite Barbarian stumbled and nearly fell off the drawbridge.
"So close." Troy said in excitement, as he jumped up, spinned around, and attacked with a spinning hook kick. The Elite Barbarian ducked and slashed forward.
"Huah!" Troy said as he pushed the sword to the right, ducked again from another slash, and then blocked a punch from him with his right elbow. Then swiftly moved his elbow up close and elbow-jabbed the Elite Barbarian. It was pretty clear that the Elite Barbarian was going to stumble right into the moat, but Troy wanted more.
"HAUG!" Troy shouted as jumped up in the air and punched the Elite Barbarian in the neck. The Elite Barbarian fell into the moat with a great splash, and was nowhere to be found as he sank beneath.
"Good kick!" said a voice nearby as Kalit and his 7 brothers rushed out from the entrance of the castle, all wielding lances. Soon, Palena and her other sisters were out there with their bows.
"This should be easy… right?" Paloma asked.
"Yeah. Just shoot their bombs and they will…" Penelope snickered, and her sisters snickered too.
"You can taste the lance for your breakfast if you haven't eaten yet!" Pesmeke shouted in a tough looking voice as he smashed six Elite Barbarians with his lance, of course, swinging it sideways. The Elite Barbarians fell backwards and hit two Wizards who were covering them with their fireballs.
More explosions were heard, and the three princesses giggled as they shot their flaming arrows at the Bomb Towers on wheels.
"Bulls-Eye." Penelope said as she shot a Bomb an Enemy Bomber was carrying on a Bomb Tower. It exploded with a BANG! The whole tower collapsed to pieces after that, and soon, a bunch of Bombers tripped on them, their bombs rolling forward and blowing up some more of the Elite Barbarians.
Troy punched down another Elite Barbarian, and could hear a sword slash behind him. Troy immediately rolled forward, and turned around. An Elite Barbarian was already charging straight at him, when Troy ducked down a bit and punched him in the stomach, and then dropped down to the ground, raised his right leg up, and hit the Barbarian's right foot as hard as he could with his right foot's ankle.
"Ahhhhaarrg!" The Barbarian shouted in agony as he clenched his right foot, which was barely protected by his sandals, and Troy got back up slowly, grabbed him in the back of his helmet, and slammed him towards the ground. The Elite Barbarian rolled slowly, groaning in pain.
All of a sudden, Troy saw Jekazar wheel out what looked like to be an intimidating firework launcher.
"So that's what you have been up too!" Troy breathed out a sign of relief, as he jumped away from three bombs being hurled at him, blowing up with a BANG.
"Yep. This firework launcher is called the 'Jekazoom' and has been passed down from my family for many generations!" Jekazar nodded. "I still vow to protect it from harm, so please be careful with it! I will check up with the skeletons up top with their balloons." Jekazar said as he quickly ran away.
"All right then. It's just you and me now." Troy said to the machine. It had a giant firework already loaded up, from its complex looking; harden ropes, which were strapped onto some hard looking glowing looking platinum.
"You're gonna need something to light up the rocket!" Kalit shouted to Troy as he ducked a bomb and forced his lance into a nearby Bomber, destroying him very quickly.
"Got it!" Troy said. He could see a few pieces of matches next to the Jekazoom. He wondered if Jekazar forgot to give them to him, and he dropped them.
"Let's do this!" Troy excitedly said as he picked up the pieces of matches, eight to be exact, and lit the rocket with the match. The rocket started sizzling in place, and started to blast off towards the sky with great force.
"Whoa!" Troy shouted in awe. The rocket soon zoomed back down and strike a large group of Elite Barbarians, and they all fell backwards, or were sent flying forwards, crashing onto the ground, where they were finished off by Jekazar's men.
"Let's do another one!" Troy said as he turned to find another rocket already loaded up!
"What?" Troy said, confused and surprised. He didn't mind, and he just focused on stopping the army. He lit another rocket, as it zoomed high in the air, and then smashed against a Bomb Tower. The Bomb Tower exploded into large pieces of wood, and the platform with wheels shaking violently, and the wheels shaking off the hinges it had been attached too on the platform.
Troy observed carefully at the Jekazoom. A rocket then appeared right out of thin air and inserted itself onto the Jekazoom!
"How is this possible?!" Troy said, in disbelief.
"After this battle is over, I will tell you!" Kalit shouted as he blocked three Elite Barbarians with his lance, but they were all pushing him backwards with their sword. Kalit's armored shoes were all grinding against the ground, when he finally jumped backwards, and then whacked the middle Elite Barbarian, and then grabbed the two other Elite Barbarians and smashed them against each other.
What looked like to be a man wearing colorful leather looking armor soon walked out of the forest and looked at Jekazar's castle in disbelief.
"My army is failing me, yet again!" he shouted in anger. He was right. There were barely any more Elite Barbarians, no Bombers, no Wizards, and a few Bomb Towers left, and some of their platforms had fallen right out, leaving them with no way of transport.
"Retreat!" he shouted as another firework slammed onto some more Bomb Towers. The Bombers in the remaining Bomb Towers, or what was left of it, jumped out and made a run for it back into the forest. Some Bombers were too quick; they made a bone-cracking crunch as they slammed on the ground. The Elite Barbarians shouted for their lives as they followed the leader, who ran back into the forest.
"We won!" Kalit shouted. All of the remaining fighters cheered and raised their weapons in the air. Troy smiled and gently patted the Jekazoom's rocket.
"Hey Kalit! It's great we won, and it couldn't have been without the Jekazoom!" Troy smiled.
"Yeah, that's for sure!" Kalit said as the remaining defenders walked back into the castle. "Before you leave, I can tell you how the Jekazoom gets all of this insanely cool power!"
"That would be cool to know!" Troy said back. He couldn't wait for an explanation at why this machine was so powerful, and he was really excited.
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