Midnight

33 - Fight Angor Rot

Blake wakes up in an uncomfortable position on the couch. She tries to get up but it was difficult for her to sit upright, but she was able to get up on her own with some support by gripping tightly onto the couch and pull herself up.

"Oh, you're awake," Skyler says. Blake looks into the kitchen across the room and saw her cooking food.

"Yeah, with a terrible pain in my neck, how long have I been asleep?" Blake questions.

"Long enough, the people at Trollmarket are getting ready to fight Angor Rot. I think--" Before Skyler could say anything else, Blake cuts her off.

"What?! Then I should be there to help,"

"No, you're still in pain,"

"I'm not in any sort of pain, I'll be fine!" Blake grabs her amulet and heads out towards Trollmarket as she quickly as she can.

Skyler can hear her sister's motorcycle engine starting up and faded away in the distance, she shakes her head, "she didn't even eat her breakfast,"

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Blake made it to the entrance of Trollmarket, she leaves her motorcycle near the entrance and in the shadow. She grabs her horngazel and opened it. Blake ran down the gemstone staircase. Once she got there, she looked around for Jim.

"Ah, Master Blake!" Blinky happily called out for Blake, "glad you made it, Angor--"

"Yeah, yeah, Angor Rot is going to ambush Trollmarket. Where's Jim?" Blake questioned. Blinky told her that he was in the library where Chompsky was. Blake thanked him and quickly ran over there.

"He also included a list," Toby says. Blake sighs and enters the library as she was leaning against the wall.

"Tobias, Claire, Barbara, Blinkous, Blake, Skyler, Ash, Iris--" NotEnrique was listing out the names of the ones Jim knew until Blake cut them off.

"No! No, no, no! He's not going to kill my family!" Blake roars.

"Blake, you're okay!"

"Yeah, I'm okay," Blake huffs, "what I want to know why my family is listed!"

"We don't know, but we knew what we were getting into. After we find the last stone, we'll find my brother and end this once and for all," Claire says.

They look back at NotEnrique and Chompsky and noticed that he kept listing out the names of people that Jim knew. Blake kept listening to the names of the people that Gunmar was going to kill. To her, it sounded like he was going to kill the whole town.

"It's like you said, we shouldn't be focused on the fight tomorrow but the fight today," Claire quotes Jim.

"It's too bad we've been wasting our time collecting stones to kill Gunmar and not Angor Rot," Jim says.

"Or so you think. Maybe you do have a stone. Angor's eye," Mr. Strickler says while walking into the library. Jim was astonished that he can use Angor's eye for his amulet. Toby was excited that Jim was going to level up, like what an RPG character would do. Jim wanted Mr. Strickler's assistance to help him cut it properly. Mr. Strickler gladly accepted and went to the Hearstone and got it cleaved.

While they were doing that every troll in Trollmarket was still getting ready for the fight that was coming.

The trolls of trollmarket were nearly getting done with their re-enforcements. Jim and Mr. Strickler went to the Gyre Station. Mr. Strickler decided to give Jim Gunmar's eye he held onto it for so long in case his pupil had to do a hard bargain of protecting him.