The Lowly Gate's Guard

Ch. 24: Green Mouth (2)

The plan was a simple one, at least it would be after they found where the Goblin Glutton was. They would make it so its attention was fully focused on Dean. All he needed to do was fight it for three minutes, he didn't even need to kill or hit the thing. Just keep it busy and distracted. Avery was the only one who knew what a Goblin Glutton was. Dean and Mary had never seen or heard of a Goblin Glutton before. Dean hadn't got far enough in his studies yet and Mary was a normal civilian. She had no dreams of becoming a hunter and watching over low ranked gates was easy pay for someone who retired years before. Though they had never heard of this monster before, with how Avery was describing it made it seem like a tremendous task to even harm the thing.

"So that's the plan?" Dean asked, he was hunched over and inspecting the rough plan layout that Avery drew in the red dirt. Avery may be a good shot with the bow but boy were her art skills worse than a child's.

"That's the plan." She was squatting down, she used the stick she drew with and pointed it at a drawing of a large simple goblin and what seemed to be a drawing of Dean. The lines of the sketched out characters in the red dirt were rough and wobbly.

Dean took a closer look at the depiction of him, touched his forehead and looked to Mary. "Is my forehead really that big?" Mary held in a laugh but her face was evident of the struggle.

"Yep." Avery replied as if it was a matter of fact. Mary covered her smiling lips behind a fist and turned her back to Dean, trying not to show him how amusing the drawing was. The drawing of him in the dirt was eighty percent forehead, Dean's forehead was averagely sized but the drawing couldn't help but make the old lady laugh. If she was able to have kids, she wished it would be someone like Dean and Avery. If only her husband could have met the two, she was sure he would have got on well with Dean.

[LittleMoon is amused]
[LittleMoon wishes to capture Avery's drawing]
[LittleMoon has gifted you 50 Points]

"Yeah yeah, laugh it up." Dean sulked. The drawing of Avery far in the back was much more detailed and prettier than herself. She wasn't average looking, she had a cute charm to her but it looked like the depiction of her was a chibi out of a shoujo manga. All sparkle eyed and such. Dean couldn't help but imagine this 'LittleMoon' laughing until tears rolled down her cheeks and showing her friends the photo on her phone. He didn't know what she looked like but he felt they were a female with that name. Avery joined in with Mary with the laughing, it was a good thing that they lightened the mood up after the bad news. Strategy and skill are useful but low morale could make both of them useless.

...

Back at the goblin fort there was mayhem. Two goblins were shouting at a group of ten who were quickly grabbing food rations from their food storage. One of the yelling goblins called out: "Before it eats us, grab it all quickly!" His green skin looked ill with worry. The other goblin next to him shouted: "Hurry! Faster!" The ten goblins were sweating profusely as they was pulling down ominous meats hung out to dry, and the fruits and vegetables that had been stored in wooden boxes. "Bring the box, we don't have enough time!" Two goblins pushed the one who was pulling fruit from the wooden box, it seemed a lot smaller in comparison to the other two. The both of them picked up the box and left the food storage. The Goblin who was pushed to the ground scrapped his legs. The small goblin wept, he was far from being an adult, he was only five years old. Four more years and he would be an adult. The goblin who was telling them to hurry over came to the young goblin's side and helped him up "Tak, don't cry." The small goblin shoved him aside and got to his feet, "Alu, let's run. We can flee and he'll starve." 'Tak, you know what happened last time. He'll call us back if we leave and then we'll be his supper." Tak looked out to the entrance, "If we got further away we could-" "Tak, enough. We got faraway, we wouldn't make it."