"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little star, How I wonder where you are," I sanged as I walked through the trees of the swamp with my shield at the ready and my Flag unroped and blowing in the wind. The reason why I was singing is to try to get the person who was shooting's attention so the Sebrisha and Christopher can sneak and attack them.
Splash
"Jesus Christ why are there so many puddles," I yelled while nearly tripping face first into a tree, I was currently 100 meters from were Escalate said the enemy was, but for some reason I still couldn't see them yet. I hope their enemies, I.... I Can't wait to beat them into a bloody pulp.
Splash. Thump.
I headed towards the loud footsteps with a little pep in my step due to me barely being able to contain my excitement, and after a couple of seconds of walking, I finally spotted who was shooting the gun.
This guy was some sort of ghoul troll with glowing red eyes, and man was this big, I'm over feet tall right now I'm pretty sure I'm only reaching his hip, The was at least 15 tall with a very big gun pointed in the direction of the sleigh still firing only the weapon was out of ammo, it's like he doesn't even notice, Like he's possessed by something. He also had a gigantic tree on his shoulders for some reason, so my guess is this guy is either insane or possessed, alright let's try to talk first.... Darn.
"Hold your fire, we just want to talk," I said while waving my scythe in the air to get his attention, but the funny part is I didn't really need to do that because the troll already had his eye's fixed on me, or more specifically the flag. I was going to say something else, but the Ghoul troll quickly aims the gun directly at me and proceeded to hold down the trigger only for nothing to come out.
"You know you ran out of bullets 3 minutes ago right," I pointed out while getting ready to throw the Scythe at him, the troll examined the gun for a couple seconds, then proceeded to throw the gun down and let out a ground shaking roar.
"Alright," I laughed before I threw the scythe at the troll, The Ghoul Troll caught it, effortlessly. I quickly attempted to call the Scythe back, but the troll must have gorilla grip with a Bench press record of the weight of a train cause that scythe was not Budging. I quickly gave up and decided to charge at him, The Ghoul troll quickly picked up his tree and tried to flatten me, I rolled to the left to avoid the tree, then I jumped up at the ghoul to try to punch him in the face only for him let go of my Scythe and grab me by my chest with his massive arm.
I tried to bite down on his arm to break free from his grip but I'm pretty sure he didn't feel the bit. He then proceeded to throw my up in the air, put both hands on the tree that he dropped on the ground, got into a baters stance, and proceeded to hit me full force with a perfect form, everything went black as soon as he hit me. Once everything went black all the pain was gone, matter of fact I don't feel anything at all.
That was until I woke up in the exact bushes Christopher, Sebrisha, and Vinessa were hiding in, and all 3 of them looked just as shocked as I was.
"How on earth are you still alive right now," Vinessa said while looking over me.
"What do you mean," I asked while holding my head and sitting up.
"Your head literally exploded like firecracker when that Ghoul troll knocked you over here like Babe Ruth in baseball game," Christopher said while touching my head.
"Oh, well the good news is that the Ghoul troll is out of ammo, bad news is that ghoul troll knows how to fight," I said while getting up and getting back down in a crouching position.
"Did the Ghoul Troll see y'all yet due to him hitting me overhear," I asked as I peeked over the bush to see the Troll.
"No, matter of fact I don't even think the Ghoul Troll is even able to see us from this distance at all," Sebrisha said while pointing at the Troll who continuing to head in the direction of the sleigh.
"What do you mean," I asked.
"Well trolls are known for their terrible eyesight, so much so that anything over 100 meters might as well be nonexistent to them, so now we still have the element of Suprise," Vinessa Explained while pulling out her gun and aiming it at the ground.
"Alright, oh yeah don't turn back into your wendigo state," The RatKing said while hopping on to my shoulder, were does this guy even be coming from.
"A what state," I asked in confusion.
"A Wendigo"
"What the heck is a wendigo"
"A demonic Werewolf demon like Beasy with antlers on its head that looks like it crawled out of Hell," The RatKing explained, I wanted to debunk his logic, but a loud splash filled the air, I looked back at the troll and witnessed him falling into a small puddle, almost falling back and hitting his head on a nearby tree.
"Sebrisha you know those weird explosive mixture's we used on escalate," I asked Sebrisha while summoning back my Scythe that the Troll left on the ground.
"You mean the impact mixtures," Sebrisha answered while lifting up her bag.
"Yeah, how many do you have," I asked while standing up and putting my shield on my back.
"15," Sebrisha answered while opening her bag.
"Good, I'm going to need 5 of them right quick," I said as I looked down at the Creek.
12 Seconds Later
"Hey, we not done yet, come back here," I yelled as I ran to catch up to the Ghoul troll, I looked to my left to see everyone was getting into position.
The Ghoul troll turned around immediately and looked at my flag in confusion, Sebrisha was right, Trolls do have terrible eyesight Cause as soon as he turned around, he attempted to throw a large rock at me that he picked but missed by 4 whole yards, I didn't even move.
I then proceeded to look at all the Impact mixtures I had in my hand, look dead at the troll, and proceeded to throw all the mixtures in the air in the direction of the troll like its hot potato.
The multitude of explosions didn't send him flying backwards like it Escalate, but it did make him tumble back. I then proceeded to throw my Scythe at him before he could recover, but this time I aimed the scythe at his right leg so he wouldn't be able to catch it.
The scythe hit the ghoul directly in its leg which brought the troll all the way down, and before the troll could even recover Sebrisha showered him with magic shards that exploded once they hit him.
The Troll then let out another loud roar before throwing a large rock at Sebrisha, the rock hit Sebrisha in the shoulder which made her do a 360 spin before falling face first into the ground.
"Don't worry, I got you kid," Vinessa said before biting her bloody arm. I charged towards the troll while summoning back my scythe to my hand. The proceeded to throw another stone in my direction but I quickly grabbed the big shield from my back and blocked the rock.
The Troll then stood up and charged at me with his tree and went for ground sweep, I managed to that by Dolphine diving in a crater the impact mixtures made when I threw them at him.
The Troll tried to quickly reach down and grab me again, only for an arrow to hit him directly in the shoulder. The troll switched his view to Christopher who was standing behind a tree for cover, I took this opportunity to stand up, ran up to the troll then went for a chop on the troll's foot. The trolled let out a roar of pain before falling on its butt and attempting to grab me again. Only for Sebrisha to get back up with her plasma rifle and shoot the troll in his left eye, the recoil made her do another 360 spin before she fell back down.
"Okay what is your foot placement," I said as I dodged out of the way of the troll's giant hand before going for another slash for his other leg. But before I could, the troll rolled backwards then proceeded to stand all the way back up and proceeded to climb up the nearest tree like gorilla.
"What am I looking at right now," Christopher said as he looked up in confusion.
"It looks like he's climbing," I answered while getting my shield ready and running over to Christopher.
"Well duh, how are we going to get him down from there," Christopher said. But before I could him an answer, a large tree branch fell next us, we then both looked and noticed that the troll was ripping off large tree branch's and chucking it at all of us.
"Do you think you can hit him from here," I Yelled to Christopher I brought the giant shield over to him.
"These normal arrows might as well be ant bites to him, were going to need something bigger," Christopher answered as he got under the shield and started running towards the girls.
"Ya'll seeing this," Christopher laughed at he began running up the hill they were on.
"What the heck is that thing, I've never seen a troll that athletic in my life," Vinessa said as she shot her pistol at the troll, The shots made all our ear's ring so much so that I had to cover my ears if I didn't want to go deaf. After Vinessa got done firing off 8 shots at the troll, something finally dropped down.... It was another tree limb. I looked back up and saw that the troll used his tree he was still using as a weapon and used the tree to block the bullets.
SNAP
SNAP
I quickly looked around for what I that noise was, only for me to notice the tree the troll was holding onto slowly breaking at the base due to the troll's reckless movements. I looked over to Sebrisha who had noticed the same thing and proceeded to already reach in her bag to pull out a mixture.
"How long do you need," I asked while giving Christopher the shield and getting into a running a position.
"30 seconds to set everything up, that's all I need," she explained as she pulled out 4 mixtures and some duct tape. I then dashed away from the shield and ran to right side of the tree the troll was on to get his direction.
"Hey troll, catch," I yelled out while throwing the Scythe a little too far to the right, The was going to attempt to catch the Scythe but didn't due to the fact that the scythe wasn't going to hit him and he just let it fly past him.
The troll then grabbed another tree limb from another tree and threw it at me, but I managed to dodge it again and summoned back my Scythe which sliced the troll shoulder before flying back to me.
The troll nearly lost grip on the tree due to the cut, then proceeded to go wild and started ripping off tree limbs left and right and continued to throw everything at me. He threw so many at me that I was unable to dodge them all and got hit in my chest which knocked me to ground in the creek.
The Troll the lifted up his tree he was using as weapon and was preparing to throw it at me to finish me off, but before he could throw it, I pulled out my cross from my pocket.
"Blinding Faith," I yelled as I pointed the cross at the troll, The troll turned his head due to the sudden brightness. After 10 seconds of shaking his head, He finally recovered from the flash and was going to throw the tree, that was until.
BOOM
"Timber," Christopher as he was standing near the tree as it fell, Vinessa had to grab him by his arm to quickly get him to a safe distance. The troll felt the tree slowly falling and attempted to jump into another, but Sebrisha stopped him by shooting him with another explosive mixture which knocked his hand away and fall headfirst to the ground.
BOOM
The troll landed face first on a random stone and basically crated the ground as he crashed down, I quickly got up from being under the tree limb and got at the ready in case he decided to get back up, but he didn't, instead he lifted his head up to look at me with his glowing read, then before he collapsed back down both of his eye's went back to normal as they rolled to the back of head.
"Huh, I guess Jack and bean stalk was an educational book," I said while putting my Scythe and shield on my back. After that we all surrounded the unconscious troll and examined him to make sure he was unconscious, and now that I look at him is when I noticed that he wore some pretty worn-out gear. Even for a corpse in a swamp, it looks like it spent a long time in the water.
"Alright, so there's that, so what should we do next," Sebrisha asked as she closed her bag, and began to walk back towards the sleigh. Christopher then lifted his bow again and aimed it straight at the Ghoul troll's head.
"Whoa, whoa, what are you doing," I yelled while quickly knocking the bow out of the direction of the troll before he shot him.
"Taking care of him before he becomes a problem in the future," Christopher said while reaching on his back to receive another arrow.
"He's knocked out, and I doubt he'll remember much with head smacked against a boulder, let's just leave," I said while getting in between Christopher and the troll.
"Too much of a gamble, what if we try to leave and he follows us"
"Aren't we headed in the direction of ghoul town at the moment, there's no way the troll would be able to get into their, and also how do we know that this guy wasn't one of the residence in ghoul town, it would be really interesting to explain why we killed one of their people for self-defense as strangers," I explained while pointing at the ghoul, Christopher looked at the sky for a moment to think, and then proceeded to put his bow and arrows away.
I let out a sigh and began to walk back in the direction of the sleigh, after 4 minutes of walking in silence we finally made it back to the sleigh with Roby in the front holding onto the steering wheel, wait a minute when did the sleigh have a steering wheel. Sebrisha then walked from behind the sleigh wearing he full white owl outfit, and that's when I noticed the Merchants had left us.
"Where did the Merchants go," Vinessa asked as she looked inside the sleigh in confusion.
"They must have left a while ago since they left a note saying that they would get some guards to escort us to their town if we waited here," Sebrisha said while holding up a note with terrible handwriting. But before I could ask any more questions the sleigh began to start moving on its own its own and started driving around us in a circle.
"Success," Roby announced while hopping down from the wheel.
"Well, at least that eliminates traveling issues," Christopher laughed a little before walking to the sleigh.
"Hey, is that one their guards," Sebrisha asked while pointing behind us. We all looked back and saw a cloaked ghoul standing ominously in the shadow of the trees, and before we could even say anything he lifted up his cloak and revealed multiple different type of straws he had, from swirly straws to metal straws.
"W... Why do you have so many straws," I asked with a weird look, but instead of answering he flashed his hand at me in such a quick way that I could barely see it.
"Wrkkcdcj," I gargled, that's when I noticed the cuprisun straw that was thrown in my neck.