The Two Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia Book One: Just the Beginning

Chapter 6: Waka Chaka

A delivery truck pulled up in front of a house. The driver slammed open the door, not caring if it hit anything. He was too caught up in his music, he strummed on an invisible air guitar as he went to the back of the truck. He pulled open the trunk door and removed a package. Suddenly, he dropped the package and started to do another air guitar. When he was done he picked the package back up and brought it to the front porch of the house.

A strange creature ran from the underbrush of the woods across the street. It ran to the back of the truck and looked at it curiously. The creature had long arms and legs, cat-like ears, and bright yellow eyes. On the sides of its head, it looked like it had grown side-burns from its fur. It looked around the truck for any signs of the man and turned back towards the forest, grumbling in some strange language. It made a beckoning motion with its hands and countless others flooded from the dark woods. Three of them jumped inside of the back of the truck and the last one stayed on the ground, looking out for the delivery boy.

The boy rang the doorbell just as the creatures kept rummaging through all of the packages in the back of the truck. One of them found a marker and drew a mustache on itself, grumbling in awe. When no one came to the door, the delivery guy grabbed a sticky note and wrote something on it before he stuck it onto the door. Then he started to walk back to the truck, the box still tucked under his arm.

The creature that was still standing guard noticed this and started to frantically speak to the other creatures in their language. The three inside of the truck started trying to push a box out of the truck right as the delivery guy pushed his box back into the truck. Three of the creatures were hiding behind the box that they had pushed out and landed next to the delivery boy's feet. Their companion was still inside the back of the truck, they called for him frantically but he was trapped when the delivery guy slammed the back shut.

The truck started revving up and backed out of the driveway. Somehow the creature that was trapped managed to pull the back door open. But the truck hit a pothole and he fell out of the truck, getting squished by one of the wheels as he fell. All that was left of him when the other creatures ran up was a slimy green puddle of goo and the marker he'd used to draw on himself.

The marker rolled towards one of the other creatures and he picked it up. He glared after the retreated truck and drew a mustache onto himself.

"Waka Chaka..." He growled and the others repeated, "Waka Chaka!"

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Jim and I were training in the forge with Blinky, Lyonna, and Arrrgh. Fire blew towards me and I easily evaded it by somersaulting away. Jim dodged his own blast before arrows started to shoot at both of us and we had to deflect them with our swords.

"Always be afraid!" Blinky reminded us as he walked past, "Fear heightens your senses, fear keeps us alive." Jim stood up and leaned against his sword thinking we were done. Only to be hit by one of the arrows I deflected, knocking him over.

"Arrogance gets you killed." Blinky hissed at him as I straightened up, breathing heavily.

"Yeah..." Jim nodded, "I'll have to remember that."

Blinky ignored his statement and helped Jim up, "Draal, however, does not fear you. That will be his weakness, but not you. You'll be wetting your armor, and that will be your strength."

More arrows shot at us, catching me off guard. I backed out of the path quickly but that didn't stop the arrowhead from cutting through a few strands of my hair in its path. Jim thankfully deflected his arrows as did I after I got back on my game.

"Yeah! Lookin' good Jimbo!" Toby encouraged us, "Feel the burn, RaeRae!" He started to tap furiously on his watch.

"If they're getting fit, I'm getting fit." Toby said in determination as he showed Arrrgh his watch, "Don't wanna be too big."