"This is it." He states. "After we cross the yard and make it through the forest we'll be at the camp." Stephano says not turning around, Pewdie isn't listening though, he has his left hand on his stomach and his eyes closed.
"S-sir?" Stephano turns slightly hearing Mr. Chair acknowledge their Swedish king.
"What is this, do you have a stomachache?" Stephanos voice is laced with worry, Pewdie shakes his head letting his blond bangs fall in front of his face.
"Nah, I'm just really hungry." Stephano blows air out his nose and smirks.
"It's about that time, huh? We have plenty of food back at the camp, you may eat there." He turns back and opens the door, Stephano drops the lantern causing it to shatter at his feet, his mouth drops open and his eyes go wide as he begins to tremble.
"Stephano?" Piggeh walks to his golden friend and places his and on his shoulder giving him a small shake. "Hey bro, wh-what's wro...awwwww..."
That's when he sees it, the jawless monsters, thousands of them slowly making their way to the castle. In the distance he can see at least ten Barrel clones, men with brown hair cut in the shape of a bowl, their brown eyes are being shielded by sunglasses that are tinted dark brown at he top but fades to light brown at he bottom. They're wearing light brown undershirt with a dark brown vest covering the middle, they have brown bell bottom pants that have black stripes going down the sides. All of them have a cigarette half burned hanging out their mouths as they guide the monsters to the castle with AK-47s, Stephano regains his cool and draws his sword.
"No matter what happens," He starts not even looking at Piggeh. "stay with Pewdie, protect him if I can't get them all."
"Ya can't, there's way too many, Stephano, you'll die!" Piggeh pleas trying to change the young warriors mind. "We can find another way out, lets just go back and search."
"Do as I say!"
He shouts not caring if he alerts the monsters, he knows that the camp has traps surrounding it and the only safe route is to follow the cuts Stephano made on several trees so they wouldn't get lost on the way back. There must have been a silent alarm or a Barrel spy to alert them that intruders were trying to steal the king, seeing Stephano start to lose his mind Piggeh bites his lip and moves back to Pewdie and Mr. Chair.
"Uh... bro?" Stephano grits his teeth and looks back at Piggeh. "Just promise me ya wont die, man." He smiles at the pink haired teen his eyes full of sadness.
"Piggeh..." He turns back to the door getting ready to charge. "you know I hate making promises I can't keep."
He charges for the monsters jumping off the middle step and landing in the crowd, he starts slashing at the monsters cutting them down like they're nothing. Stephano dodges several attacks from the monsters, some narrow others cut his golden fabric almost slicing his yellow skin. Even though many of their claws pierce his skin he continues hacking and slashing the monsters as if he doesn't even feel it. The Barrel clones had run off the moment Stephano started to fight preferring others to do their dirty work for them. Soon Stephano had reduced the monsters from thousands to hundreds from hundreds to only ten, he's beaten, tired, his robes are torn and stained with blood both his and the monsters.
Pewdie watches with both Mr. Chair and Piggeh in front of him, but then he sees something in the trees, dressed all in gray he's never forget her. He nudges Piggeh and nods toward the trees causing the pink haired teen to look up, he sees Jennifer aiming an arrow at Stephano, he calls his name as Steohano kills the last monster but it's too late. By the time Stephano looks in the direction of the sound of the wind whistling past the arrow it's too close for him to dodge. The arrow rips right through Stephano's chest like it's paper causing him to drop his sword, stumble backwards, and fall hitting the ground with a loud thud. Perplexed by what just happened Piggeh abandons Pewdie rushing to his brother like friend, before dropping to his knees Piggeh looks to see that Jennifer had disappeared. He lifts the upper half of Stephano's body, he looks at Piggeh with his yellow eyes half closed.
"F-fool... I thought I told... t-told..." Stephano doesn't finish his sentence as he starts coughing and gasping for air, blood comes out with every painful cough splattering onto Piggeh's bare chest. "I-is Felix okay?" He asks using Pewdie's real name.
"H-he's fine." His voice quivers as tears brim his eyes, he lies Stephano flat on his back as he digs in his pocket and pulls out the half empty health potion. He forces the arrow out causing Stephano to shout in pain. He puts the vial up to Stephano's lips. "Drink, come on you have to."
"It... wont... help..." His voice is so weak Piggeh can hardly hear it. "priced... lung..." He mumbles spitting up more blood.
"Try... please Stephano just try..."
Piggeh says letting tears spill freely down his cheeks, Stephano parts his lips letting Piggeh tilt the rest of the blue liquid into his mouth. Soon after swallowing a wave of pain mixed with loss of blood makes Stephano pass out, Piggeh slips his left arm under Stephano's knees and his right arm under his back before lifting him up.
"Don't worry, buddy, you'll be fine." He whispers.
"H-hey..." Mr. Chair picks up the stone tipped arrow and pulls a small piece of paper off of it, the paper was tied with a small piece of string, Pewdie looks over Mr. Chair's shoulder and reads the note aloud.
"'I'm sorry'."
Everyone is silent until Piggeh bites his lip and starts walking to the camp, no one speaks, the woods are deadly silent as they make their way to the camp except the crunching of leaves beneath their feet or Stephano occasionally coughing up more blood, not as much as before the potion though. Stephano moans in agony as the potion works trying to fix his severely damaged body, when they make it to the camp they see a teen maybe a few months older than Stephano shouting at several men and women. The teen is dressed in camo pants, a camo hat, and a black sleeveless shirt.
"General Bro!" Piggeh yells making the blue eyed, pure blond haired, male turn around.
"Vhat iz it, comrade Piggeh?" He jogs over seeing Stephano, his hard face twists with concern and his eyes shine with worry before the German teen regains his composer. "Vhat iz thiz, vhat happened?" Stphano's normally golden skin is now a pale yellow, his golden robes are tethered and bloody, blood drips from his mouth to his ear. "Private Cole, Private Baily! Get over 'ere!" Two men around their twenties jog over to the group, one of the men is tan with brown eyes and short brown hair. The other one is paler with dark brown hair and brown eyes, both of them wearing the same military attire.
"Yes, sir?" They ask simultaneously as they salute.
"At eaze," General Bro says making the two relax causing their right arms to fall to their sides. "Private Cole, I need you to go prepare your medical zuppliez." He says addressing the Italian male, he then turns to the paler Irish male. "Private Baily you vill ve azzizting him in ze zurgery." He then turns to Piggeh, a dark glint in his eyes. "Take him to ze medical tent." Piggeh nods before walking to the large whitish tent with the other two.