Chapter 8

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The rehearsal was just over and Jim had seen himself as he stood staring at a curtain. He quickly snapped out off it when Eli called for him again. Jim went to Eli but not before he looked twice to see it wasn't real. He and the rest of the students that were left went through some of the script a little more before he too left the gym hall, leaving only Eli and miss Janeth. As he exited the hall, someone was staring at him from the lockers.

"Palchuck!" someone called from a far, "Who are yoou looking at?"

"Oh coach, it's no one" Coach looked over his shoulder to see Jim getting on his bike

"Why are you spying on Lake?"

"Like I said it's nothing. And I wasn't spying I was…" just then Eli came out as he greeted miss Janeth, "I was waiting for Eli. Eli! Eli!"

As Eli looked around to see who was calling him, he saw Steve calling him over. He reluctantly walked over as he saw coach was there as well. As he approached, Steve put his arm around him

"Hey coach, hey steve. You called for me?"

"Yeah I was just telling coach here that I was waiting for you so we can discuss our project"

"Project?" As Eli said that Steve tightened his grip a bit, "Ah yes our… History… yes History project"

"Yeah, so can you go on without me? I'll just take the bus home"

Coach looked at the boys as they put up an innocent smile, "Ok, but don't be late. You know how your mother gets when your late" the coach walked off towards the parking lot as the boys watch him till he was out of earshot range

"Ok, I'm so confused right now" Eli said as he shoved steve's arm off of him, "I know you don't care about projects and I know you would want to hang out with me but what confuses me the most is that The coach is your DAD?!"

"Hey shut it dweep. If anyone finds out, you be living in a locker permanently"

"Ok I won't tell anyone. So what do you want with me?"

"I need to talk to you about… those things you talked about the other day"

"What things? I talk about a lot of stuff"

"The things you talked about… the ones with monsters with… what was it… stone for skin I think"

"Yes I saw them but no one believes me"

Steve pulled Eli close "I believe"
"What? Why do 'you' believe me?"

"I saw one of them"

"You saw one? How did it happen?"

"It happened yesterday. I was on my way home with coach and I asked him to stop so I can buy some hotdogs and then I saw it. It was Big, with red eyes and it was hiding in the shadows. I ran back to coach but he wasn't in the car so I ran. I ended up in an alleyway. As I was hiding I saw Jim also run into another alleyway and the same monster following him. But after that I heard a large clash."

"What? A clash? Was it fighting Jim?"

"No Jim got away but someone else was fighting it. And he was winning the fight like it was nothing"

"How is that even possible? Was he human?"

"He looked human. He had armour and a red scarf covering his face."

"Do you suspect it could be Jim?"

"I don't think so. Jim was running away for his life. But this knight had strength equal to the monster. How is that possible?"

"I think the impossible just became real"

"So do you maybe have an idea of what we should do? Should we tell others? Should we tell the government?"

"No! I have a feeling the government might already know about them, but are letting them roam free"

"So what? We just keep quiet?"

"No we gather evidence"

"Ok, I'll come to your house tomorrow"

"What! Why?"

"To gather evidence of course"

"Ok fine but come after 10, I'll be done with my chores by then"

"You still do chores? HA! Dweep"

"Hey you said you weren't going to pick on me"

"Who said that?"

"I know about the bet between you and Jim"

"How?"

"Thomas is telling everyone about how Jim beat you in a bet and you became afraid of him after that. And that the bet was for you to leave Jim's friends alone"

"What?! He was beaten too along with me"

"He said it was only you"

"That lair. I'll get him on Monday"

As the boys were talking, a car horn sounded in the distance.

"Oh it's my mom. I'll see you tomorrow. Can't believe I said that"

As Eli ran off, both Steve and Eli felt a strange familiarity with each other, as if they were long lost best friends.

Trollmarket

As Jim walked through the crowds of trolls, he could hear their excitement.

"I can't wait to see the poor fleshbag be squashed like berry"

"I think it'll be more enjoyable then when Jon the Squeamish was killed by Algod the Big" the 3 trolls laughed as they walked toward the forge

Jim quietly followed as other trolls gave him the stink eye. Jim entered and went straight to Blinky and Arrrgh as they were talking some motivation to Toby.

"You got his master Tobias"

"Really? You think so?"

"Yeah we can see your victory already. Right, Arrrgh?"

"Yes. You will win this"

"Thanks Big guy. That means a lot coming from you"

"Am I late? Did you already win?" Jim asked from behind Arrrgh

"Jimbo! You came"

"Always Bud. So are you ready to do this?"

"HA! Nope"

As the four still talked to each other, the crowd suddenly went louder and louder. Vendel could be seen walking to the centre.

"My dear trolls! Today we see the mettle of our new trollhunter, as he goes against our most powerful troll in trollmarket! Now on our left we welcome the trollhunter known as Tobias!"

The crowd booed as Toby walked up to the centre "Oh come on. I'm not that bad"

"And our challenger! The stone crusher! The Battle ball! The Warrior among Warriors! The son of out previous trollhunter! DRAAL!"

"That's a waay better intro then mine. That's cheating" as Toby finished his sentence a huge thud came from behind, hit the ground causing dust to explode up.

"Yeah! Lets do this" Draal shouted as he hyped himself up for the battle.

"Begin!" Vendel sounded from the edge of the forge, as he pressed a button on the wall

"How'd he get there so fast?!" Toby asked but was quickly caught off guard by Draal.

Draal came rolling in hard but Toby luvky reacted just by a split second. Toby rolled out of the way.

"OH NO! HELP!" Toby yelled as he tried to run away from Draal, but before he could get far, the ground started to split.

Back at the other side of the forge, Jim and the others watched on in suspense as Toby ran screaming and trying to avoid falling off the splitting arena while also trying to run away from Draal. "Tobes! You have to face your fear and fight him!"

"Easy for you to say jimbo!"

"I know its hard but if you don't do it now then Bular won't think twice on killing you! So you have to fight the fear now and stand your ground!"

As those words echoed to Toby, he could feel his fear making him shake as he ran. Toby suddenly stopped. 'Jimbo is only human and doesn't have an amulet to protect him and he sacrificed himself twice to save me. He faced his fear, I CAN DO IT TOO'

Just then a the arena started to flip on its sides and Draal lost sight of Toby. "Where'd he go" as he was jumping from piece to piece he tried to smell Toby, "I can smell your fear, fleshbag!"

Just as the tiles flipped upright again Draal could get a feeling to dodge. As he rolled out the way he heard a clashing sound from behind where he was. "So you finally decide to fight. I can see you shaking, fleshbag" Toby grabbed his sword tighter to stop the shaking.

"I will not lose" Toby shouted as he charged.

"Then I shall grant you a speedy death" Draal charged as well. Draal was confident and went for a left punch but was surprised as Toby ducked and delivered a kick to his knee, bring him to the same height as Toby. Just then Draal felt a sense of fear as he saw Toby swinging the blade towards him. As the blade approached him, he came to think of a few trolls flashing through his mind, but by a stroke of luck, the arena started to spin, knocking both of the away from each other. Draal repositioned and regained his composure. He stared Toby down as Toby still slid across the tiles. But not for long, Toby jammed his blade into the ground to stop his motion. The two opponents stared at each other. Toby still felt his fear as was shaking, but he wasn't alone, as Draal dug his fingers into the ground to stop his shaking.

A moment of silence fell into the crowd as the two stared at each other, both waiting for a chance to strike. Gears sounded as to indicate the tiles were about to shift again but they also served as a bell to of a starting round. The two simultaneously charged as the crowd started to shouted louder and louder, this time it wasn't just a cheer for Draal but a cheer for both other opponents.

Draal's sprint started to turn into a running resembling a bear charging it's prey but didn't stop either, he ran with the sword on his side. Draal turned into a rolling rock as he increased his speed. As the two was about to clash, Toby spun and threw his sword into the ground at an angle and started to slid towards it. Draal was to fast to stop and rolled over it, as it launched him, just then the gears sounded again and the tile lifted vertically again and Draal smashed into it. Toby grabbed hold of his sword, looking at the abyss below. Pure shock ran over his face as he realized the if his sword wasn't there he would have fallen off.

Draal was clinging on the edge as he lucky dug his fingers into the tiles before the could slide off.

The gears sounds after a few moments silence, the crowd couldn't see any of the two and was wait to see if any of them survived. Cheers erupted as both could be seen rising with the tiles. This time the tiles went back to horizontal view but on different levels. Draal didn't waste any time this time around and jumped from tile to tile approaching Toby fast. Toby was still trying to find his footing as a shadow grew from above. "You Damn Fleshbag" As Draal hit a burst of blue light shielded Toby but it still caused him to fall to his knees. As Draal prepared for another strike, Toby rolled from under him and swung his sword upwards. Draal dodged backwards, stumbling. Toby took the opportunity and struck downwards. As the sword came down Draal quickly kicked Toby's leg, causing his swing to miss. Draal quickly got rolling but in the opposite direction from Toby, causing the crowd to boo him. But he was building up momentum. Another gear sound game from the tiles as the tiles started to spin again but not as fast as before. The tiles each went different directions and Toby lost sight of Draal. As he took up a defensive stance and tried to look for Draal, the gears sounded again and the tiles suddenly came to a stop and just as Toby looked up a shadow was forming from above as Draal was fast approaching him. A huge dust enveloped the arena, and no one could see anything. "I never expected the human boy to be this well-bred in fighting." Vendel said as he approached from behind Arrrgh and the others who were also waiting to see what had happened. "He went toe-to-toe with one of our strongest trolls in Trollmarket and made Draal use all of his strength and still Draal couldn't beat him."

"Vendel? What are you doing here? Should you be watching from the top of the stands?" Blinky asked

"It's fine. I wanted a closer look. And by the looks of it the battle might be almost done"

As Vendel said those words the dust cleared and Draal was hanging from the edge of a tile. "Let me go!" Toby was holding Draal so he won't fall

"No! If I let you go you'll die!"

"That's the point of this battle"

"No! I will not let you die! I will not let anyone die!" Toby pulled Draal and his armor started to glow and he managed to pull Draal from the edge.

The gears sounded again but this time they didn't sound like before, they sounded like they were powering down.

Vendel could be seen at the start button of the arena. After the arena completely shut down, Vendel approached the centre, "We have a winner! Tobias the Human Trollhunter!"

The crowd was stunned for a few moments until a single Human voice started to cheer as loud as he can, "YEAH! Tobes! You did it!"

Blinky and Arrrgh joined and soon another troll joined and another until the whole arena was cheering. Ass the trolls cheered Draal walked out of the arena with a few trolls booing him for his loss.

"Hey why are they booing him?"

"It's because he lost his honor. If a troll losses and is not killed in battle, they lose the respect of the other trolls"

"But that no cool…" Toby tried to go after Draal but stop when Jim gave him a reassuring look

"Don't worry Tobes, I think he'll be ok. In fact I don't think this will be the last time we see him"

Tobes wanted to ask what he meant but just decided to let it be. He kind of got used to Jim saying weird stuff this week.

As trolls cheered Toby and the boys celebrated, another troll was getting ready to meet a few wizards, to get revenge…

Some where in the deep forest

"So you called us here to meet a lowly troll?" A voice asked as a figure floated into view. The ground and plants nearby froze solid

"This better be good, Arthur" another voice called but this one burned the grounds and plants as it approached

The troll usually didn't feel fear but yesterday and today was the first times he had felt it this much.

"It is in regard to our plan. I believe I found us a competent ally" Arthur spoke as he leaned against a tree

"Competent? What can he provide us?" the fiery one asked

The troll stepped forward, "We are building a bridge to unleash my father, Gunmar"

"Uh yes, the Killahead bridge. Gunmar could be useful to us as well"

"We also have a secret order that controls the human affairs from the shadows, called The Jenus Order"

"I see, but that is not needed. If we want something we can just take it. We don't a little shadow order to help us" The icy one snapped

"Wait Skrael, it might come in handy along the line." The fiery one turned at the troll, "Bular was it? You and Arthur will help each other and await our instructions" a ball of fire turned around the fiery one and it vanished, the same as with the icy one.

The knight started to walk off towards the town

"Where are you going?"

"You wanted revenge against the boy, right?"

"Yes, but you still haven't told me who the kid behind the armor is"

"I will keep that little secret to myself for now, but I will tell you in due time"

"That was not the deal, knight…" Arthur grabbed the troll by the neck and slammed it through two trees before it slammed against a rock. As the troll rebound against the rock Arthur pinned it against the rock with his forearm.

"You will not question me, Troll" Arthur's eyes glowed as the troll tried to hold the arm away

Arthur released the troll and started to walk off, "Follow me and you shall have your revenge. We will go look for the boy now and kill him"

The troll go to his feet and growled but obeyed, 'I will kill you too knight, mark my words' he thought as he followed.

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