Chapter 13

Everyone was getting ready to go, the wheelbarrow was full of smelly herbs as David called them, if Lucas fixed it enough he could hear a faint sound coming from the herbs that sounded like breathing.

"Am I doing the right thing?" [Thought] Lucas thought doubtfully.

Lucas thought about all the pros and cons of letting the story take its course, but after sighing a little he made a decision.

"I'll leave some, but not all, maybe I'll help with Marra's situation, but I have to think if I get involved in Nisse's situation even if everything is solved the city was terrified by the black dog, and Tontu came to die with us, soon coming out of his thoughts Lucas went to Hilda who was hammering a last stake into the ground.

"So, what do you think of the pendal scouts?" Lucas asked, smiling.

"Yes, I'm loving it," Hilda replied happily.

Lucas said that seeing her happy brought a smile to his face. Soon they all started to go with Lucas pushing the cart, but he soon stopped when he saw a Ghost catching his eye.

"Guys" Lucas calls out.

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Hilda asks intrigued.

"Tell your mom I'll be home late," Lucas says as he begins to follow Ghost.

The three of them could only watch as Lucas left, Frida and David were completely at a loss, while Hilda looked worried but took a deep breath and looked at the two of them.

"It's all right, he can be looked after," Hilda reassured them.

Then the three of them started walking back, with David pushing the baby carriage. Hilda looked around once more before continuing with her hand on her heart.

"I hope you'll be safe" [Thought] Hilda thought, easing her worry.

Lucas was running after Ghost until he saw Rebecca leaning against the wall. Seeing this, he stopped running and began to approach her slowly, she looked in his direction as Ghost climbed onto her shoulder.

"So why did you call me here?" Lucas asks, totally confused by the situation.

"I wanted to know if you were in the Sparrow Scouts," Rebecca replies intrigued.

"No, that's not for me," Lucas replies honestly.

"Oh, so you're not going to stay with Hilda on your scout adventures?" Rebecca asks again, now even more intrigued.

"Oh no, you've got it wrong, I'm still going on adventures, but not as a scout," Lucas replied, laughing a little.

That answer left Rebecca speechless, but she found the idea interesting.

"Maybe I could take part in being her friend too" [Thought] Rebecca thought.

"I'll just say, I'm not at all excited about school," Lucas said, not at all excited.

"It's not so bad, you can make new friends" Rebecca argued back.

"You don't need any more friends, I'm fine with that" Lucas shot back.

After some time talking about the day and what school was going to be like, Lucas said goodbye and started heading home. The sun was already setting far away from the city and a large rock began to crack just as the sun disappeared, revealing the three-headed troll.

After stretching to get the rest of the stones out, he concentrated to continue, feeling the vibrations.

"It's very close now/We have to prepare for everything/I agree," the being said to himself.

Lucas arrived home to the good smell of fresh food, and inside she saw a mother and daughter waiting for her at the table, a scene that filled her heart with joy.

"Sorry I took so long," Lucas said honestly.

"I'm glad you're here, I'm starving," Hilda said, smiling at the joke.

"Sorry again, Rebecca wanted to talk to me about something," Lucas smiled.

"I hope it's not another fight," Johanna said in a motherly tone.

"Don't worry, I'll stay away from fighting for a while," Lucas reassured her.

"That's good, I don't know if my heart can take seeing you in pain anymore" Johanna said with concern in her voice.

Lucas sees her and hugs her "I'm sorry, but I have to get stronger".

Johanna hugs him back and says, "I know, it still hurts".

Hilda ended up in the hug too, not wanting Lucas to hurt her any more, even though he was protecting them.

Lucas realized at that moment that the two of them were already seeing him as family, making it his instinct to protect her from everything.

After all, the troll finally found the strong one of the vibrations in front of him was the being looking at him with nothing but pure hatred, growling like a furious animal and with smoke coming out of its mouth.

"What is this being / We don't know / But we have to stop it" The troll made up his mind.

Being able to think too much, the troll had to dodge a ball of fire he saw coming towards him, looking at the being again he saw it about to take a bite, without thinking he punched it hard in the face, making it fall to the side but quickly get up letting out an extremely loud roar.

Rooooooaaaaar!

The troll could feel the heat coming from the creature's mouth. On closer inspection, he saw that it looked like a carnotaur with a velociraptor, its body was gray with tiger stripes and it wore a kind of carapace on its head that looked like a skull mixed with a triceratops and a rhinoceros.

"We'll have to fight/I guess so/We'll go all out" The troll was preparing to fight.

The two beings prepared to fight, knowing that one of them wasn't going to come back. Soon, the being unleashed another fireball, but the troll was ready. With one movement of his body, he erected a stone wall. When the fire hit him, it caused a gigantic explosion with a lot of smoke.

Without thinking much, the troll begins to hit the creature hard on the head, delivering blow after blow to make it fall. Tired of this, the being opens its mouth and sends a puff of fire at the troll, but it doesn't seem to affect it.

"He's tougher than the others, I need more heat" [Thought] the creature thought angrily.

"He's tough/Stronger/Much tougher" the troll spoke in his own language.

Some of the trees were already burning and this illuminated the place. The animals ran away frightened.

"Damn it/That'll burn down the whole forest/We have to stop it" The troll worried about the trees;

Then he made a kind of movement with his feet that made the earth move away from the good trees so that they wouldn't be burned.

"He's bent the earth, shit he's getting more dangerous by the moment" [Thought] The being thought, getting worried.

The being draws in as much air as possible and clenches its jaw tightly, allowing the heat to rise. Without thinking too much, the troll attacks him again with its fists, but this time it sees the being move away and hit him with its tail, but the troll catches it and throws it away, the troll realized that the fire was no longer red, but blue, and this worried him even more, realizing that where the heat hit, it seemed that the ground had almost been washed away.

"That's bad/If that doesn't happen/That'll be the end of us," the troll said, thinking of a solution.

The two faced each other again, the troll made another movement with his feet, turning the ground into sand, running up to the being, sliding to get there faster, the being observing this jumped back and began to open his mouth.

Everything seemed to be in slow motion between him opening his mouth, the troll criss-crossed the sand with a sword which he stuck in his quill, but then he let go of the sword and spun around, making the rest of the sand create a dome around him. With the pain of the sword, the being closed his mouth tightly, but then he opened it, releasing a storm of blue fire which covered the whole area in front of the being, turning everything into ash and lava on the ground, this went on for two whole minutes.

When the fire stopped he could see that everything in front of him within a radius of 12 kilometers was in flames and magma, the dome that the troll had created had melted but he realized that the magma was still flowing down a kind of hole.

"Damn it, he got away, I'm too frank after that" [Thought] The being thought looking all around.

Soon behind him the ground explodes sending rocks everywhere, he turns to look but is soon met with an extremely powerful punch to the face sending him crashing to the magma floor in front of him, becoming a little disoriented but he gets up with difficulty, spitting out a bit of blood with three teeth, turning to the troll extremely angry, he sees his fist covered with an inner layer of rock but also notices that it looked like on his right side cracks and slight darkening of the rock body.

"Looks like he's been hurt too" [Thought] The being thought looking at his body.

"That was horrible / We almost died / Asking for my sight" The two heads looked at the one on the right and saw that his eyes and the top of his skull were extremely dark and burnt.

The two of them turned to face the troll and clenched their fists together, showing that they were not going to back down.

"This isn't worth it, I know it'll come back someday and I'll be ready then" [Thought] The being thought growling.

The troll, seeing this, let out a triple sigh and ended up sitting on the ground extremely tired.

"That's good/He's gone/We're going home" The troll breathes.

Soon he too began to walk home, but at that moment, unbeknownst to both of them, they were thinking the same thing: "I need to get stronger".