Hunting a Dragon

8

 You ditched your skateboard and opened the door and ran up the stairs. You then slid through the hallway but into a wall.

"Oh, that's gotta hurt." You heard Jim say as pictures fell on you. You made sure none of them were broken before getting up and ran to the door to see Jim, normal size with Toby sitting on the floor.

"Oh thanks the heaven's your okay." You said and walked in. "So, where's the gnome?" You asked, Toby and Jim scooted apart from each other to show the gnome sitting on a couch. You laid on your stomach between the boys to watch.

"I thought he was attacking me, but all he wanted was a home. Look! even found a friend." Jim said as the gnome strummed a beat with a guitar to a doll. This cause Toby to sigh as you quietly watched.

"He has the mind of a vermin but the soul of an artist." Toby said, you smirked.

"What do we do now?" You asked.

"Blinky said we needed to 'take care of him." Jim said as he slid his finger across his throat, Toby looked sad as you finally understood why he called you the other night. "but what if we, like, take care of him?" Jim said, Toby looked just as hopeful as you did. "I know it's not exactly the second rule to Trollhunting, but for this one, maybe we do it our own way." Jim said as the gnome got off the couch and tried to turn on the fake TV. He banged it when it didn't work and returned to the couch.

"Without the murdering." You said, Jim looked at you as you made a hm noise. "I like the sound of that." You said simply.

"We can keep him?" Toby asked as he sat up and put his hand on Jim's shoulder. "Jim, I already have a name, Gnome Chompsky." Toby said and wiped his hand into the air.

"Chompsky?" Jim asked as he sat up.

"I like it." Jim and you said, you looked at each other for a moment and laughed, unaware of the looks Toby was giving you two.

"Pretty good for a first mission." Jim said as you all got up and he closed the door house cover. "Two crises averted. It's not like you get to rehearse these things." Jim said with a smirk, but then he gasped. "Oh no! Rehearsal!" Jim yelled and ran out the room.

"Should we follow him?" Toby asked, you sighed and just sat against his bed.

"You can, I'll just stay here." You said as Toby got up. He looked at you as you just stared at the ground.

"Is the reason you don't wanna go because Claire will be there?" Toby asked.

"It's not gonna happen Toby. So just drop it." You said and hugged your legs. He looked at you sadly before running down the stairs. You sighed and hid your face in your arms. You then felt something touch you, you moved your head to see the gnome smiling at you sadly. "Love must be easy for you, huh?" She asked it, he smiled and walked back into the house.

Later...

You were in the backyard of Stricklers house, swinging on an old swing that wrapped around a branch of a giant oak tree. You sighed sadly, until you heard whispering. You stood up and grabbed a giant stick.

"Your sure this is Strickler's place? It's so big!" Someone whispered yelled, some one familiar. You blinked for a minute before sighing.

"Toby? Is that you?" You asked and set the stick on the ground. Jim's head popped above the fence.

"We wanna show you someone." Jim said as you walked over to the fence.

"Why now?" You whispered as you tried to climb over the fence. "It's almost the middle of the night." You said as you hopped over the fence and saw Toby holding up Jim.

"Then why are you up?" Toby asked as Jim jumped off him. You didn't answer and sighed.

"Fine, who are we meeting?" You asked as you folded your arms.

"Blinky and Arrrgh." Jim said, you raised a brow. "They um, might be trolls." He said, your eyes widened.

"Yeah no." You said and  tried to climb the fence.

"But Y/n! Their really cool!" Toby said, you balled your hands and punched the fence.

"What part of NO, don't you get?!" You yelled and turned to face them, fear filled your eyes. Jim sighed and folded his arms as you bit your lip.

"I promised I wouldn't hurt. The same goes for Blinky and Arrrgh, their the only ones who believed I can be the troll hunter. They've even be training me." Jim said, you didn't budge. But you looked at him and sighed.

"FIIIINNNNEEE!" You groaned, they smiled and led you to a bridge. "Your positive they won't hurt me?" You asked as you three slid down the canals.

"100%" Jim said, you hid behind him as you all walked, Toby took a picture before you noticed. "Blinky? Arrrgh? We brought her!" Jim yelled, two figures walked out of the shadows. One was tall, had blue stone skin, four arms, small horns, six eyes and wore overalls. The other had gray stone skin, green hair and walked around like a gorilla.

"Great Gronka Morga! Is this the maiden Y/n we've heard so much about?" The taller one said, you hid behind Jim. "I must say, you surely seem afraid. I am Blinkgus Galadrigal, also known as Blinky." The taller one said, the bigger one waved his hand at you.

"I'm Aarrrgghh. With three R's" Aarrrgghh said, Jim looked at you but only saw pure terror. Toby then walked over to Aarrrgghh with a bag and pulled out some VHS tapes.

"Here you go big guy." Toby said as he tossed some into Aarrrgghh's mouth.

"Aarrrgghh is a pacifist, I am no more then a teacher who can not fight." Blinky assured you, Jim looked at you again as you slowly came out from behind him.

"S-so your n-not g-gonna hurt m-me?" You asked, they only smiled at you.

"See?" Jim said as he folded his arms with a smirk. "I told you they wouldn't want to hurt you." Jim said, you sighed and walked over to Blinky.

"I'm Y/n L/n, nice to meet you." You said and held out your had. Blinky used two hands to shake yours, this caused you to laugh a little.