Book 6, Chp 1: To Catch A Wizard
Blinky: Gather around and allow me to tell you the story of stories, the final adventure, the tale of it all. It begins, like all great stories do, a long, long time ago…as a war between mankind and magic raged. A conflict between humans, allied with good-hearted, peace-seeking trolls, and the relentless evil trolls who would see them destroyed. Warriors known as the earthbenders, have been defending humanity from the evil trolls until one day the mightiest wizard of all, Merlin Ambrosius, sought to maintain the balance by forging a powerful weapon, the Trollhunter Amulet. Millennia passed, and trollkind settled in the shadows, beneath the human world, in the quiet hamlet of Arcadia Oaks. In this very land, the Trollhunter, Kanjigar, was felled in battle by an evil troll. And for the first time since its creation, Merlin’s amulet called to a human. At first glance, an unremarkable one.
Jim: My name is James Lake, Jr. It’s not easy being the Trollhunter. It’s even harder being the first human Trollhunter. Fortunately, I had my friends to help. Friends from Arcadia. And a little further away. When I said friends, I might have been exaggerating. Although we saved Arcadia and the world numerous times…
Blinky: The Trollhunter could not save himself. Tragically, Master Jim was felled by dark magic. The Trollhunter Amulet was destroyed. Malevolent wizards known as the Arcane Order saw to that. Then, much to everyone’s surprise, one of the Arcane Order turned to the side of good.
Jim: The other two are on the hunt for her. You see, they wanna use something called the Genesis Seals to…Well, I don’t know what the seals do, but- Ow!
YN: (Smack his head.) Weren't you listening at all!? Obviously they want to recreate the world by destroying it and start a new.
Jim: Okay, okay! But the point is, the world has never been in greater danger, or needed the Trollhunter more. But without the Amulet, am I still the Trollhunter?
YN: One thing for sure. We must prepare ourselves. Our time grows near....
3rd POV
Its been few weeks since Douxie and Nari left the trollhunters to hide from the arcane order. Now that the order have the Genesis seals, its only matter of time before the world is about to end. Fortunately they need Nari to begin and the only ones who stand in their way are the alliance of Trollhunters. Right now, Douxie and Nari are in a Metro City subway train in New York where Nari is humming and holding a plant and Douxies is holding a bird in the cage.
Speaker: [This train is scheduled for maintenance. The next train will be arriving shortly.]
Douxie, being worried, still have concern of whether this is safe or not since nowhere is safe anymore.
Douxie: This is a bad idea.
Douxie is about to leave, but Nari comfort him.
Nari: No. No more running, Douxie.
Douxie: (Sigh.) No more running.
Douxie sits back down and started to feel a small cold coming in the train.
Douxie: Can you feel it too, Nari?
Nari notice it when the flower closes.
Nari: They’re here.
The ice begins to spread from one side while the other side begins to heat up as the lights turns off.
Douxie: Here we go.
They both head to the next cart where its freezing and then they hear a familiar voice.
???: Nari...
Soon Skrael reveal himself from the foggy cold.
Skrael: We have tracked you down and we are bringing you back.
Douxie: Causa crepitus!
Douxie summons his staff and uses his magic to throw subway chairs at Skrael to block him before Bellroc arrives from the other side of the cart.
Bellroc: Nari, you’ve been a naughty girl. You are coming back with us.
Douxie does the same thing to Bellroc, but she just melts it through as Skrael breaks throw as well.
Bellroc: (Growls.) You cannot hide from us forever.
Douxie: Who said we were hiding?
A shadow portal appear and it was Jim who arrived with a serrator on his hand.
Bellroc: Trollhunter.
She blast fire at him until YN arrive and blocks it with his armor since it can resist the heat.
Bellroc: Earths champion.
YN: Not hunting trolls anymore.
Jim: Now we hunt wizards.
Jim and YN fight off Bellroc while the rest fight off Skrael as Claire just arrive through her shadow portal.
Douxie: Cutting it a bit close.
Claire: You try opening a shadow portal on a subway going 55 miles an hour.
Nari uses her magic plant against Skrael. YN blocks Bellroc flames while Jim finds an opening to attack until Bellroc blocks it with her staff. She uses her fire magic to spread it on the floor as YN picks up Jim and notice the bird in the cage is about to catch fire before he picks up the cage.
YN: You okay?
Archie: Well, that- (Turns back to cat.) -was close.
YN cover Jim and Archie from the fire blast.
Claire: Go. Remember the plan.
Archie: Got it.
YN grabs the cat and throws him over Bellroc before Archie turns into a dragon and fly's to the front of the train to have it open for Toby enter as Aarg is hanging on the front.
Toby: Thanks, Archie.
Aarg: Mm, cat.
Toby: Later. We’ve gotta stop this train.
Archie: What do you mean, later?
Toby: Stink-Man, Creepslayer, this is Warhammer. On track to stop the wagon. Do you copy?
On the surface, we see a taco truck in the alley where Stuart, Steve, and Krel are in.
Stuart: Stink-Man reads you. And recalls asking for a less offensive codename. (To Steve and Krel.) Power her up. They’re about to be right under us.
Krel and Steve are preparing the device that's in the truck.
Krel: Akiridion technology. When they stop below us, trifurcate radiation will nullify all magic. That should put a stop to the wizards.
Steve: Uh, radiation? This is… This is safe, right?
Stuart: .....Yeah, safe-ish. (To Toby.) When you approach us, hit the brakes.
Toby: [Got it.]
Back in the train, Aarg prepares to pull the brakes until Toby stops him.
Toby: Whoa, wingman, don’t be that guy who underestimates his strength, breaks the thing, and makes the situation worse. I’ll do it. [laughs]
Toby pulls the lever but it seems to be stuck and he struggles to pull it until he accidentally breaks it.
Toby: (Gasps.) I made the situation worse.
Back in the taco truck, Stuart uses his phone to keep track on the train that is getting close to their position.
Stuart: They’re almost under us.
Steve: I’m ready.
Stuart: On my count. Five, four, three, two, one!
They subway car rumbling but realize its not stopping at all.
Steve: Whoa, they didn’t even slow down!
Stuart: I know.
Stuart start the engine and puts on the seatbelt.
Stuart: We’ll have to do it on the move!
He drives the taco truck and speeds up to catch up to the train despite the vehicles are in the way. Back in the train, the team try to keep the order occupied.
YN: What's taking so long!? The train should've stopped by now!
Claire: Why didn’t we stop?
Jim: We haven’t slowed down at all!
Bellroc blasted fire at them but YN blocks it to protect Jim.
YN: My armor can't hold it for too long!
The train exit and arrives to the surface where the taco truck is right next to them.
Stuart: We’re next to them.
The taco truck then drop down to the road where the train is above them now.
Stuart: And now they’re above us. Quick, open the taco hatch.
Krel: Got it.
Krel redirect the device to aim it above while Steve open the hatch as Stuart is driving underneath the train while passing through the cars in the way.
Stuart: We’re under them. Now.
They fire up the device and it release a beam hitting them all in the train from underneath.
With that, the wizards are unable to use their magic in the beam.
Claire: It’s working. Their magic’s gone.
The trollhunters now fight them with close combat.
Krel: Watch it!
Stuart notice a road work ahead and immediately stops which the beam is now gone where the order have their magic back.
YN: Ah, pebbles...
Bellroc blasted a powerful flames where it knock YN out and on the trains rooftop as he grabs on the edge where he sees the team from the window.
YN: Well, things are getting smooth here now!
Jim: The train is going to fast. See if you can slow it down!
YN: I'll do what I can.
YN climbs his way up and runs to the back of the train and grabs his chains before jumping off and chain the back to pull it while using his earthbending on his feet.
YN: Jesus Christ! Its like pulling a giant bull!
Bellroc knocks Jim to the rooftop before joining him as Jim attacks.
Unfortunately, she blast another flame where Jim uses the serrator to block until the impact knocks him back where he accidentally drop the serrator and it got destroyed on the street.
Jim: No!
Jim has nothing but his fist against her, but Bellroc still has the upper hand even without her magic.
Bellroc: And now… it is time for the once-mighty Trollhunter to die.
Bellroc grabs him by the throat.
Bellroc: Without your amulet, you are nothing but a frightened little boy.
She toss him out of the train, but thankfully Claire uses her magic to teleport Jim to the taco truck.
Steve: Jim!
Stuart immediately warns the others in the train by the phone.
Stuart: Trollhunter is down. Trollhunter is down!
Steve: He should’ve never gone without armor!
Stuart: You follow a leader through the highs and the lows. This is what low looks like.
Toby: Archie, tell Claire.
Archie: Got it.
Archie fly his way to the team where they're still holding off the order.
Archie: Jim’s been hurt.
Claire: Tell them to keep him safe.
YN: [Keeping him safe is one thing, but I could use an extra to keep us safe!]
Aarg: Slow down!
Aarg stomps on the the ground to try to slow down the train.
Toby: Can you stop it?
Aarg: Too fast.
Toby then notice the curve of the train tracks up ahead.
Toby: We’ll never make that turn. We need to work together!
YN: [Well feel free to tag along!]
Toby uses his hammer to help them slowing down the train.
The three of them give everything they got to slow down the train while Archie notice it as well.
Archie: Uh, you might want to know, we’re all going to die!
Douxie notice it as well when he saw it through the window before the train jumps out of the tracks.
Douxie: Oh, no.
Douxie wasted no time to look for a spell to save them.
Douxie: Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!
Once he find the right spell, he immediately cast more train tracks to keep the train from killing the civilians. Once it safely hits the ground while its still moving fast, YN uses his earthbending to slow down the train where Aarg is still at the front and is about to hit the building until it slows down and successfully stops.
They got off the train as the civilians pull out their phones and start recording.
YN: You guys okay?
Aarg: Dizzy.
Toby: You and me both.
Civilian: Check out those costumes.
The civilians begin to record and taking pictures from their phones.
Douxie: Where’s Nari?
Douxie then finds Claire came out of the train while holding Nari.
Claire: Douxie.
Suddenly an explosion appear near them where Bellroc reveal herself before Skrael freezes the ones with the muscles.
YN: (Shivers.) C-can't move...!
Skrael: Nari.
Claire: No, you can’t have her!
Scrael: And who’s going to stop us?
Skrael blasted them with ice before Bellroc pulls Nari with her magic. Nari uses her plant to pull her away from Bellroc, but it wasn't enough before Douxie grabs and pulls Nari from Bellroc.
Douxie: I’ve got you! Claire, can you get her out of here?
Claire try using her magic but she was out of magic energy.
Claire: I’m trying.
She continues to do so while the civilians are getting closer and uses their phones.
Claire: Hey, get back. Everyone, back up! You’re not helping! Back up!
The crowd ignores her, thinking that its a play until they screaming when the fire surrounded them.
YN: Oh so now you're all freaking out!?
Bellroc: Let go, or the humans perish.
Skrael: And so do your friends.
Skrael uses his ice magic on the heavys.
Toby: Hang in there, buddy.
Douxie: Come on! Come on! Come on!
Archie: Douxie, you have let go!
Douxie: We can’t let them take Nari. Come on. Come on.
The wizard then gets an idea that may save Nari but not himself.
Douxie: But they can take me.
Douxie uses his magic one more time but fails when he let her go and he collapse. With that, the arcane order leaves with Nari before the officers arrives as the civilians are safe before YN manage to breaks out of the ice.
Toby: Could've done that earlier!
YN: I can't lava bend with metal faster than stone.
Claire approaches to Douxie.
Claire: Douxie, I couldn’t protect Nari. I’m sorry.
Douxie picks up the plant and giggles as Nari voice. Revealing that they switched bodies.
Douxie(Nari): (Smiles.) Yes, you did.
Claire: They switched places?
Toby: Awesomesauce!
YN: Then if that's Nari, then that means they've taken-
Officer: Put your hands up now!
They were now surrounded by the police and the reporter.
Officer2: You’re under arrest.
Not only they failed to stop the arcane order, they're also under arrest.
Aarg: Uh-oh.
YN: (Sigh.) Worst thing about this, they're not gonna believe us at all...
Claire: Definitely not....
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