Legends of the Terralands

Episode 7

A few days passed, and Giggles returned from his long grueling journey. He had a bruised black eye, blue beaten blemishes, and battered body parts that looked like they would take a while to heal, except it wasn't the only thing to heal from. He saw his beautiful cow farm completely ruined, without any knowledge of who did it. So, he decided to ask his only neighbor: me.

Giggles looked so distraught about losing his farm, I couldn't imagine how furious he could be if he knew I did it. I can almost imagine him stabbing me and beheading me with his wonderful swords, leaving a very gruesome mindset for me in the end.

I had no choice but to lie to his face. I told him that I passed by the castle during a journey and saw a despairer destroy his cows and crops. I would have tried to stop them but they hit me with chemicals that made me slower than usual. Giggles didn't seem so mad since he knew that I, nor he couldn't do anything about it. He went home upset, mumbling how bored and hungry he will be while he's trying to restore his farm.

I couldn't let the poor survivor starve, so I brought him some cooked up meat from some animals I killed during a cave search yesterday. I didn't find a cave, but I had a fair amount of food to take home as a reward for exploring. My soul felt crushed that a friend of mine had to suffer for my awful mistake. I started to flashback to when I bothered Tempest back before, but I had different matters on my mind: getting back at Frosty.

Giggles was glad I could help in this tragic event, he didn't have anyone to contact, and it would take too long for him to repair everything before he starves. I wanted to continue supporting him, but I had to excuse myself, I couldn't let this situation go. I told him that I had to go to the arena for a special event I signed up for. Despite that being very unrealistic in this case, he understood and continued his farming.

Murdering a troll isn't easy, I felt that they're crafty, and have too many materials to possibly become invincible. Of course, I had to get help, I used the PM to contact Cyan and told him the situation. He told me to go to "slash warp history", he said that from there, I could learn about some of the most tragic events in the Terralands, and see if Frosty comes across these events.

At the History Hall in the 'Horrible Events' section, very cataclysmic events occurred, from horrible raids that resulted in expulsion from towns and regions, to massive bombings to towns and stadiums. Frosty was nowhere to be seen on the list of caught offenders, leaving me distraught. Before I could leave the History Hall, I saw a Hall of Fame room, with a big painting that has a humanoid seagull holding an axe. The name was listed as "Frosty Skies: Master Fighter of the Battle Arena." The name struck my head as hard as a brick, as I reimagined Frosty beforehand, she had a human face with a purple ponytail and was in a business suit. Just as the realization came to me, a fiery arrow zipped past my head and hit just below the painting.

A humanoid seagull was holding a bow and ready to fire another arrow at me, but paused to speak to me. In a maturely feminine tone, she chuckled and said: "SQUAWK! So you were thinking about me huh?" She approached slowly. "I'm not stupid. I know Giggles came back to the mess you made for me. You want to avenge his tragedy on me right? SQUAWK!" She kept a psychotic expression on her face, almost like that of a killer on nauseating chemicals.

I could tell she was going to mercilessly kill me, until Cyan warped to me to figure out what was going on, he managed to shield me from an arrow with his sword. He snapped back in disgust, "Wow, that is low Frosty, you're going to kill him for learning about you?" Frosty speechlessly pulled out her sword and started to go for Cyan, but he could only block the attack. I could tell that by the weakness in his knees and arms, that Frosty would destroy him. I pulled out my sword and tried to stab Frosty in the stomach. I only managed to lightly poke her before she released a loud, ear-splitting- "SQUUUWAAAAAAK!" She backed off and ran away, only to warp away around the corner as we chased her down the hall. Me and Cyan went back to my home to discuss. The final statement being that we had to leave her alone, she was too powerful and crazy for our own good.

But that night, Frosty's encounter kept me from sleeping for the night, leaving me to battle monsters endlessly to get stronger. By midnight, I thought about the only way to meet Frosty again, by using the PM, except there was one problem though, even if I can contact the person, they don't have to respond to their PM, and flat out ignore me, but I tried anyways, despite having very little hope in success. Frosty responded back to my surprise, and asked me to meet her. So, I warped to her and kept a prepared position. "Oh stop the readiness Saph." She said, "I'm not going to hurt you."

Frosty teleported me to a kingdom of resources, which just so happened to be her home. It was like an item museum in construction: plants of all types, chests of foods of all types, what I believed to be the largest farm in the world, and plentiful resources of everything, even the wings Frosty gave me, the entire place was a beautiful mess. "SQUAWK! So," Frosty said at a sudden, "I saw your battle at the arena with Cyan the other day." I took a blank moment to flash back at the awful loss I took from Cyan, it was pretty shameful of a fight. Frosty continued, " I really like how, interesting your swordplay is, you're really agile out on the field." I began to leave a confident smirk on my face knowing that a master of battling likes my skills. "I want to train you for a little bit, to make you stronger. SQUAWK! Just so you can explore a little more."

Frosty handed me a wooden battle-axe. I was confused, axes are great for chopping trees, but it's hard to swing them in battle. She set a dummy with metal iron armor on, and told me to strike the abdomen, where the armor was the strongest at. I argued, trying to tell her that it would be too strong but she squawked loudly at me, prompting me not to talk back. I put in all of my might as I started to swing the axe, driving it into the middle of the armored dummy. The chop caused the armor to be split in half, and then, it completely broke, shattering itself to the floor. Frosty giggled and hugged me as tight as a bear, as I began to learn how to master using the axe. Frosty taught me that the axe can do massive damage on armor, and are in fact the strongest handheld weapons on the battlefield, however, they are the hardest to hit with. Battle-axes require careful timing and precision, and Frosty is the master of the axes.

As a part of my training, Frosty got into the most toughest armor possible and wielded a powerful sword against me, she was going to teach me timing with my agility. With every stab I backed and jumped out the way, for every swing, I slid past her, for every low sweep, I jumped aimlessly, and for every high sweep, I rolled. With enough timing and just enough swings, Frosty's armor was almost broken. Then Frosty pulled out a very strong and sharp axe, and started dual wielding me, I almost died to the misses I made and the hits I took, I almost lost an arm trying to fight an axed maniac,. Eventually, I did it, with one swing on the last of my wooden axe, I chopped Frosty's armor. It crackled up and fell to the ground, Frosty looked in surprise and left a face expression so large that a seagull would actually drop it's fish to see. She hugged the absolute hell out of me and cheered how well I destroyed her armor, but she stopped hugging to give me one more task.

Frosty replied in a sternish tone, "SQUAWK! You must head to the Ruined Pantheon Arena and get 15 Valor Tokens, I'll trade them for this." In her hand, out of random, was a small, powered, button, I was concerned, but she explained, "This is the Grasshopper, it grants you great flying abilities, and since you have those wings, you can make great use out of it. SQUAWK!" The deal was settled, but I grew really tired from all of the training, and decided to go home afterwards. Frosty was upset I couldn't do it sooner, but despite how much she squawked for me to it, I warped home before she forced me. At home, the house was quiet, so was the outside, the perfect way to sleep at night. In my bed, I was thinking about the arena Frosty told me about, it left mysteries in my mind. I didn't know what I would face in the "Ruined Pantheon" but I had to shrug it off and sleep.

Soon… Tomorrow could be different...