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Chapter 11: Defending One's Home

Finn POV

After the wedding things were finally starting to settle down. I was still angry at being told that I'm a bad leader because I gave the people of OOO a place to start anew and not have to constantly deal with the same old problems. I was even angrier at myself for not being unable to talk to Flame Princess. I just couldn't talk to her without all those dam emotions clouding my judgment and most likely making me do something stupid again in front of her. Love, anger, sorrow, hope, etc. all came to me whenever thought of her or was near her. The love I had for her, the anger at not being understood by her, the sorrow of how things ended between us, the hope that we can get back together, and more. Yet in the end I knew that I just needed to move on somehow. She was with Cinnamon Bun and ruled her own Kingdom, so she had no time for me. Besides I also had my own Kingdom now with people who actually appreciated the things I did and understood me. No more constantly being asked to do things that no normal person would even think of asking. No normal person asks someone to be their pretend lover just so they can keep their Kingdom. What kind of person asks something so selfish and what a fool I was to do it. Luckily my train of anger building was interrupted by one of my guards running in.

He came in practically screaming and looking like something horrible had just happened to him. "My King," he said in a horrified voice. "We are under attack by some sort of creatures that we have never seen before."

That caused me to instantly jump from my throne and run out to see who dared attack us. Right when I saw what was attacking us I knew we had a series problem. It was the Goo Monsters, what in the world were they doing here I thought and how did they even find this place. Whatever the reason I knew that they posed a serious threat. The threat wasn't that they wielded powerful weapons or were smart. It was that like the candy zombies, whoever they bit became one of them. Right away I knew what needed to be done. I called for a retreat of all of my people who had a physical fleshy form. I had anyone of my people who were either literally made of rock or air or something like that stay and fight. I knew their forms would make them immune to the Goo Monsters infectious bite. The battle was quick and easy afterwards as they were crushed, burned, blown away, and more. Unexpectedly though the remaining Goo Monsters retreated. The fact that they even had the brains to know when to retreat disturbed me. Still better to worry about that later.

Looking around I was saddened at all the damage that they had done. Many homes and places were destroyed and I even saw some of my own people had just been either killed or gooafied. This made me angry that I had failed to protect my Kingdom from an attack. After all the ways I had to defend from the kingdoms of OOO I never even thought to prepare for something like this. Why didn't I prepare for the unexpected? Cursing myself I fell to the ground and slammed my fist into a damaged building for failing my people. All of a sudden I felt a hand on my shoulder.

"Don't be angry Finn. This isn't your fault," said Simon."

"But it is Simon. It is my responsibility to protect my people from something like this and I wasn't prepared for it."

"Finn," he said sternly. "How could you have known that something like this would happen? There was no way you could have seen this coming. So stop beating yourself up for something that you could not control. Besides the best thing to do now is to not focus on how things could have been different, but on how things can be different next time."

Looking up at him I thought of what he had just said. His words spoke truth and I knew he was right. My people would be better off with me thinking on what to do next rather than dwelling on the past. Standing up I finally stopped kicking myself.

"Thank you Simon. I needed that."

"I'm your advisor after all, so it's my job to knock some sense into you."

"Indeed it is," I said laughing. "Indeed it is."

A week later

Things were getting a lot worse and fast. The Goo Monsters kept coming back to attack the kingdom and each time they somehow became stronger. At first they showed some new ability that allowed them to hurl some sort of acidic goo at us from their mouths. It was an excruciating death that had the acid eat away at anyone's flesh and to make things worse it somehow changed to where it could even hurt those like my elemental people. The only good thing I could see from such an attack was that it was meant to kill, not to infect, thus it didn't turn anyone hit by it into another sick Goo Monster. The monsters had also changed to the point that if they wanted to, they could now even turn my elemental people or those like them into a type of Goo Monster as well. Yet the worst part was that during their tenth attack on us they had done it in a coordinated assault. How they had gained this level of intelligence was unknown, but we knew that it was practically a death sentence.

"My King, they have returned," cried a sentry as he rung the alarm for battle.

I could hear the horrible noises that The Goo Monsters made when they were approaching and knew it was time for battle. At that I charged out of the gate with my soldiers and fought to protect our homes. I went out with quick slash attacks against the monsters and made sure to dodge any attack they threw at me. My people were doing well for themselves as well. We had range attacks in the back lines letting loose a rain of projectiles from magic to arrows to even huge boulders. Our front line was made up of some of the best melee fighters I had ever seen. They fought with well-coordinated defenses and attacks. Many of them went with simply shield bashing the Goo Monsters down and then letting the rock elementals step on them. It was an effective if not brutal strategy. Yet others simply went with the good old fashion slice and dice. Some even just used their natural abilities like the air elementals to blow the creatures into one another, thus hurting their formation. Simon and Betty had even joined the battle. Simon was using his ice powers to freeze them while Betty would come up and shatter them.

I could see that the battle was going well this time as we pushed the enemy back, which was until I saw the second wave. The second wave looked to be endless as far as I could see and I knew that at this rate we would be overwhelmed. I quickly called for a retreat seeing that we couldn't stay just to die like this. We had a better chance in the safety of the kingdoms gates then out here. As I stood at the gates seeing people in I saw a guard come running towards me. He quickly pushed me out of the way of a shot of acid that was coming towards me that I had not seen. At that point I could only watch in horror as he took the blunt of the attack and was slowly being consumed by the acid. His screams of pure white hot agony left me paralyzed in fear that Simon had to drag me into the safety of the gates. As I heard them battering at the gates I knew that we were done for. As soon as they got through they would kill us all. At that I prayed to Glob for a miracle. As if answering my call for help the attack suddenly stopped. Slowly I called for the opening of the gates to see what had happened and I couldn't even believe what I had seen.

Another chapter with some action. Right here is where we get a nice turning point in the story. The Goo Monsters are a big threat here and things are gonna get even more fun. Well my friends, hope you enjoyed this. Like always tell me how you feel and keep the ball rolling with your ideas.