All characters are owned by George Macdonald except whatever OC's that I manage to come up with, purely fan made and inspired after reading all the great PatG fanfics
The goblin that Angelica had run into didn't see any need to further terrorize the pitiful sun girl when he knew that there were 'bigger fish to fry.'
The goblin, also known a King Korumn, sun slayer, walked over to the troops, cloak streaming behind him and glared down at them, "Do you want to wake the entire castle with your bloody screaming, you useless, flee-bitten scuts," hissed Korumn. The three had quieted rather quickly as they saw the tall goblin hanging over him.
"Sorry Sire" whispered one as they all shakily got to their feet.
"Shut it," growled Korumn, "if you haven't already given away our position, anymore of your blithering will just further compromise us, so- shut it."
The goblins instinctively bit down on their tongues to stop each other from saying anything more to irritate the King goblin before them.
The three goblins that had been taken out by the sun girl winced with every step as they followed their leader, hardly making a sound as they endured the terrible pain. The Korumn rolled his eyes and began to head around the castle, not trusting the open door that the sun woman had left 'unlocked.'
"We aren't going inside the castle?" murmured one of the goblins, but Korumn wasn't listening to the question.
Instead he was listening to the sounds around him, both ears angling for the slightest movement.
It was too quiet in the open court yard, the sun people wouldn't have just left all this area open; surely they had to know the goblins were here by now.
There were a couple of quite cracks as stones rolled across the cobbled street.
"Damn" muttered the Korumn as he reeled around, cape flowing wildly and stared straight behind the group.
"Sire?" asked one of the three, however, suddenly the unsaid question was answered when the goblins heard the sound of thundering metal feet as they crashed upon the stone pathway.
It took all of a second to completely surround the goblins for these soldiers had heard them, soon after Angelica had come across them herself, and had positioned themselves specifically for intercepting the group.
The troupe of goblins were certainly smaller when compared to the large group of soldiers surrounding them in a tight circle, and as the well armed men in suits of armour folded in around the goblin party they withdrew their swords, pointing them into the chests of the goblins.
"Looks like we've caught a bunch of fairytale monsters" laughed one sun man as he came through the group to face the four goblins.
Korumn who was out in front watched the sun man with dangerous eyes.
The soldier had an air of superiority about him and it looked as if he was dressed in finer armour than the rest of the men in his group so it had to be some form of leader or possibly the royal guard... which meant the king wasn't very far away.
Korumn smiled a threatening grin, eyes shadowed by the dark and his golden eyes narrowed to form slits, "Is your king here to negotiate with us?" He chuckled and dared to take another step closer to army.
As Korumn approached the army a few men backed away, a few men raised their swords in defence, but the apparent general of the army stood his ground and didn't move a muscle, except he too had a malicious grin on his face.
"I don't think so, but when we're done cutting up your ugly hides you'll wish he had." The soldier raised his sword quickly but Korumn did nothing to defend himself, instead he stood there, still as a tree.
"What did I tell you?" shouted the soldier as he held his sword to the face of his captive, "nothing but goblins."
The soldier pressed the tip of his sword to Korumn's face and smiled. With one flick of his wrist, the soldier sliced open the cheek of the goblin king and it trickled red blood.
"Ugly bunch of freaks" spat the soldier, wiping the blood from his blade, "Now throw your swords down and plead for mercy."
Korumn had been very prepared for this, and drew out his sword and shouting loudly into the night sky.
The army was surprised by the battle cry, but they soon all drew out their swords, ready to charge the group, however around them a gathering of shouting erupted, most of it indiscernible.
The spindly creatures came out from behind walls and leapt over roves as they slid down and landed on the stone court yard.
It was an open space, the court yard, however now that the army of humans who had initially surrounded the small group of goblins were now themselves surrounded by an equally large pack of goblins, the court yard was very much filled.
The soldier that had cut Korumn's face gazed in perplexed horror as the green and grey bodies of the goblins came to surround his army of soldiers.
However, Korumn demanded his attention as it was this creature that lowered its sword to the sun man's exposed neck, leaning in towards the soldier and glaring out with golden slits.
"Now what was that you were saying about fairytale monsters" laughed the sun slayer as he pointed the sword directly at the soldier's neck line; the pack of raging goblins shouting for blood as the soldiers around the leader soldier prepared for the goblin to thrust his sword downwards.
However, before Korumn could strike the soldier down, another sun man came at him protecting the soldier with his own sword. There was a moment of utter silence; Korumn stared at the young sun man before him. This sun man was not wearing the outfit of a soldier; instead he was dressed in a loose linen shirt and black breaches.
This sun man glared at Korumn with intense rage.
"Another sun boy coming to die?" Korumn growled and leaned in to glower back at the sun man, forcing all his weight onto the sword.
"Not if I can help it." the sun man answered through gritted teeth and before Korumn could change his stance the sun man moved out from under him. Since Korumn had been practically leaning on the sun man's sword when the sun man moved out of the way he went crashing onto the stone floor.
The tension finally mounted between the two groups and as soon as the goblin king fell to the stone floor, fighting broke out rapidly. Scratching, clawing, swinging and stabbing, it went back and forth between the goblins and the sun soldiers.
However, it was the fight between the young sun man and Korumn that drove it all into play and they still were not done yet.
The young sun man that had caused the very large goblin to fall brought the cape that was tied around Korumn's neck over his head.
"Thank you your highness," replied the soldier breathlessly as he clutched the young man's arm thankfully, "I would have been as good as a stuck pig if you hadn't stepped in."
"Do not fear Sedaris, but I believe if we stay here much longer our goblin friend here will be ready to gut us both," Both sun men turned and stared at the figure thrashing on the ground trying to free itself from its own cape.
"I agree," the soldier laughed nervously and the two began to fight their way through the crowd, taking out the goblin soldiers left, right and centre.
In a fit of pure rage Korumn tore at the fabric that seemed to be covering him, lashing out with his long finger nails, ripping the edges of the fabric to pieces.
Rising from the carnage, Korumn realized that what had been covering him had been his own cape, his favourite cape.
"Son of a-" growled the goblin king as he clutched the torn cape that now hung limply around his shoulders, "sun-boy, you'll pay for that!" Roared Korumn, scanning the fighting group ahead of him for the sun man's face, but he had run-off to the middle of the fighting where he was currently fighting his way to the edge of the group.
"Coward," snarled the goblin as it looked around in disgust, "Now where did you get off to?"
One of the soldiers fighting decided that he would attack Korumn who was just standing in the midst of the fighting, still holding the torn cape. But instead, the goblin king just threw out his fist, hitting the soldier square in the jaw and sending him crashing down to the floor.
"Protect the king," shouted the soldier that had cut Korumn's cheek, he glared around the fighting crowd and turned to see the soldier as he seemed to call out to someone in the crowd.
Korumn took his eyes off the soldier that had cut his cheek and looked toward the person that the soldier was staring at, recognizing a familiar shape as it tried to hide among the shadows. "Why hello," smiled the Goblin King, "What do we have here?"
Alright, getting really close to the end of the pre-story part, I hope that's it's been interesting so far for everyone, I know I'm getting a kick out of writing it.