Troll-Hunter
November 28, 2023 at 8:23 PM
The purple cat found the right cafe, walked around behind it and knocked on the back entrance. Precisely with her foot, since her hands were busy holding the chipmunk, who was still unconscious. One of the cooks opened the door.
β What do you need? β he asked her.
β Please help her! She needs help. β Blaze answers, showing Sally.
The cook recognized her and called Chief Mephiles. He came out and when he saw Sally he was scared. He takes his daughter in his arms and carries him with him to the second floor. Blaze runs after him, and the cook tried to stop her.
β Stop! Where are you going? You can't come here! This is the restaurant kitchen and our boss's home. Do you have an invitation? If not, then you have no right to be here.
β Let her come with me. She still helped get my daughter back. β the boss explained and went up to Sallyβs bedroom and put her in bed. β What is your name?
β Blaze. I am a princess from the planet Solaris.
β Princess Blaze?... Fairy of Firelight? β Mephiles asked.
β Yes, but how do you know?
β My wife and I are also wizards. True, our Sally is not like us. She doesn't have any magic at all.
β No, she has magic. β said the cat.
β What? β the father did not understand.
β She met me in the park and saved me from a big, ugly green were-hedgehog. He attacked me, and your daughter came running and saved me. I thought that this monster would swat me like a fly, but she used her power, transformed into a fairy and defeated him. True, she spent all her strength and lost consciousness.
β How did you find out that she lives here with us? β Sonia ran into the room, also running up to Sally.
β She had her passport in her boot. That's how I found your address. β the cat answers.
β It's clear. Now let's examine it. β says the hedgehog and extends her hands, responding with pink rays from her hands. A pink aura appeared around Sally, and her mother hummed a couple of times. Then she removed her magic. β She is alive and unharmed, but exhausted. She needs to rest now.
The princess breathed a sigh of relief.
β Glory to Sao! I was already afraid that she could no longer be saved. I didnβt even have time to thank her for her help.
β What are you talking about? β asks Sonia. β Thank you for not abandoning our daughter and returning her to us. It is we who should thank you. Ask for whatever you want!
Blaze's stomach immediately began to growl from hunger.
β Understood. You are hungry.
β Exit through the back entrance and enter us through the main doors of the restaurant and our waiters will quickly serve you. β Mephiles says and extends his hands, responding to Sally with a red aura.
β What are you doing with her? β the cat didnβt understand and was a little afraid for the chipmunk.
β Do not be afraid! Just in case, I heal her wounds and scars with bruises if she is injured. I also want to feel her strength inside her. β the hedgehog assured and he healed her wounds. He also grew back the quickly bitten pieces of her hair on her head so that they were whole again. After the treatment, he felt the power of the dragonβs fire inside her, which was resting and being replenished little by little. β This is incredible! This didn't happen before. I have checked her body several times before and have never felt any strength in her. I thought she was ordinary and mortal. Were her powers just now manifesting when she turned sixteen? Why does everything always and unexpectedly appear only when a person turns sixteen? β then he stops lighting it and approaches the princess. β Let me examine you too? - he asked permission and the cat nodded in agreement. A red aura enveloped her and Mephiles examined her body. β The bones of the ribs are a little damaged, but so far theyβre holding together. I'll fix it now... Done!
Blaze felt herself and felt fine. I didn't feel any pain.
β Yes. It doesn't hurt me at all anymore. Thank you very much.
β Nonsense! I can treat anything. Even cancer at the very last stage. Except that unfortunately I canβt raise people from the dead.
β It doesn't matter! Your power is very useful. I even envy you. I wish I had the same one! β the princess thought out loud.
β Unfortunately, my power is very rare and not everyone can be born with it. My strength is one quadrillion compared to the strength of a dragon's fire. And the power of dragon fire that Sally possesses... The most rare and almost impossible to be born with. She was lucky only in this regard. β the hedgehog answers and looks at his daughter, sighing heavily. β She must survive!
β He will survive. Our daughter is very strong, both physically and magically. Don `t doubt. β his wife reassured him, taking him by the shoulders, and then they kissed.
β Thereβs just one thing I didnβt understand... Why is your daughter a chipmunk if youβre a hedgehog?β Is your Sally not your own daughter?
β Unfortunately yes. She is adopted. By the way, she knows about this. She has known about this for a long time, and every year on her birthday we tell her the story of how she came into our family. β Mephiles explained. β Everything was fifteen years ago. Back then, I first worked in an ambulance, and my wife worked in the police and caught criminals. We didnβt have a restaurant then. We were only dreaming about him then, and he would appear with us in Sallyβs fifth year. After that, we quit our jobs and started our own business. Fifteen years ago there was a fire in the same warehouse as the slaughterhouse. She first appeared there. My wife and I found her inside some kind of protective field and the fire didnβt even touch her. We then thought that perhaps one of the fairies or magicians protected her with the help of such a shield from fire. But now it seems to us that perhaps it was her own strength that protected her from the fire.
Mephiles paused, and Sonia herself continued:
β We thought that someone had lost her and put up flyers announcing that we had found a lost baby who was one year old. I easily determined that she was one year old and when her birthday was, using my powers, by examining her inside. But unfortunately or fortunately, Sallyβs real parents were never found. Maybe they died, or maybe they themselves miscarried and abandoned their daughterβs happiness, deciding that she was mortal without her powers or too dangerous with such power? In any case, Mephiles and I then decided that she could stay to live with us. Moreover, he and I ourselves have long wanted to have a child.
β And she knows all this truth? β Blaze asked.
β Certainly. β Mephiles confirmed. β For the first time, she was really sad at first, but then she came to terms with it a long time ago and accepted it all as it is. She knows that she has us, who truly loves her and will always protect her from troubles.
Grabbing the princess lightly by the shoulders, they went down the stairs together, deciding to leave Sally alone in the room and in silence. At this time she already felt a little better and even smiled in her sleep. She dreamed of the same past, how her adoptive parents found her in that hot warehouse, saved her and took her to their home.
***
Scourge the Hedgehog walked through a dark dimension with mists mixed with black smoke and looked for a troll hunter. When he found him, he with a dark silhouette came out to him. Outwardly, he was a dark green, two-meter tall man with muscles and armor made of stone. On the shoulders were iron shields with spikes and human skulls. The hands were clawed and huge, like boxing gloves. The legs, in turn, were two-seam with three bends and looked like the hooves of a minotaur. There were stone slippers on the feet, a loincloth made of wood with a human skull between the legs, and the shape of the head resembled a banana with long green hair. His nose was large and resembled the snout of a wild boar. His teeth were fangs and resembled sabers. A couple of them stuck out from the outside of the mouth, like a saber-toothed tiger. He came out of the fog and appeared to be a werehog. β What do you want, overgrown porcupine? - the monster said rudely. β Troll, you are somehow unhospitable and rude. I came to you on business. β I donβt care! Tell me, what's wrong? β he continued to be rude, and Scourge was not offended by his rudeness. β Iβm telling you, I have something to do with you. We need to find one girl on one planet. β he answers the troll and takes a piece of Sallyβs hair from his pocket and gives it to the troll. β These are pieces of her hair. Can you smell her scent from them and find her by following the scent trail? β Do you think I look like a bloodhound, some kind of dog? β He asked the werehog rudely and took the girlβs hair. β Give it to me! If I were a dog, everyone would call me that β a dog, not a troll! β Whatever you say, banana. β the hedgehog joked, looking at the shape of the trollβs head. The same one showed his fist and was rude to him again: β You yourself are a ambal! A black mist envelops them both and they disappear. Then they also appear in smoke on the same planet Taraban in the same park where werehog then lost to Sally in battle. They moved there not alone, but together with eight more rabbit-mosquito monsters. The troll hunter sniffed the ends of the chipmunk's hair and smelled the girl's scent. β I smell this reptile. What a disgusting smell it has. Does she wash herself every day? Smells like a dog pile! Ugh! β He said rudely, holding his nose. However, he had to endure this clean and wonderful smell of cleanliness, which seemed disgusting to him. Sniffing, he pointed to the exit from the forest. β Let's go there! β Okay, lead us! β Don't tell me, fat man! β the monster was rude to him again and went first. β Maybe stop being rude to me? I'm not being rude to you, am I? β werehog asked, following the troll, along with his mini-monsters. β Shut up!***
Evening was coming and the star had almost gone beyond the horizon. The chipmunk got enough sleep and got out of bed. β So it was a dream? β she asked herself out loud. She got out of bed and looked out the window. β Oh no! Did I sleep almost all day? Is it already sunset? Crap! β she got scared and kicked the book that she had been reading late that night. β Itβs all you!... I shouldnβt have read you until late! I should have gone to bed earlier! After that, she quickly went down the stairs to the kitchen. All the chefs had already gone home after finishing their work day, and the restaurant was already closed, since the last client had long left, and Blaze was not just a client, but a guest. They sat on a bench with mom and dad to easily tie their shoelaces. Mephiles and Sonia showed the princess an album with photographs of their family along with Sally. β "No. It was clearly not a dream!β β Sally thought when she saw Blaze, whom she had saved in the park. They only noticed her now. β Thank Chaos, you're alive, Sally! β Sonia says, hugging her daughter. β Princess Blaze told us that you saved her from a werehog in the park. This is true? β Yes. Stop! Is she a princess? β Certainly. Didn't I tell you? β the cat asked. Sally shook her head. β Then let me introduce myself to you! Princess Blaze the Cat. Princess of the planet Solaris and the light of fire. β So you are a real fairy?... And me too? β asks Sally. β That's not all. Did you know that your parents are magical too? β Blaze asked. β No. What is this, a joke? β Sally didnβt believe it. β It's true, Sally. β Mephiles answers. β Sonia can check people for diseases or injuries, as well as life expectancy, how long he lives. And I can find injuries, wounds and diseases, and I can easily treat them. Forgive us for hiding this from you. We thought that if you found out that we have magical powers, you would have complexes and not even talk to us? β What are you doing, mom, dad? I still love you. And I wouldnβt care even if I were mortal, unlike you two. β Well. I see you have found a good language with each other. β the cat answers. β Sally, since you also now know that you are a fairy and not a mortal, would you like to go with me to the Tibidoy fairy school tomorrow morning? β Tibidoya? β asks Sally, for this is the first time she has heard about this. β This is a school of magic. Not only fairies, but also magicians are taught there. β Mephiles explained. β We didnβt tell you about it before because we thought you were mortal then and decided not to enroll you there. β Sonia finished. β But now that we know that you also have powers, I think we can call headmistress Maria Robotnik. β Headmistress Maria Robotnik? β Sally didnβt understand. β This is the headmistress of the Tibidoya school. She is the head of this school. β the cat answers. β Didnβt you know about all this? β No, I even thought that fairies, magicians and other things did not exist at all. Although secretly I still believed that they might exist somewhere. β Sally explained. β And you were not mistaken. After all, we really exist. And considering that you yourself are a fairy, then think for yourself! If fairies, magicians and magic did not exist, would you really exist? β the princess asked with a sly smile, hinting at something. Sally guessed the whole thing and replied: β Logical! β You go upstairs for now and get to know each other better, but for now I have to contact someone. β Mephiles suggested to both girls, after which they walked up the stairs to Sally's room. At this time, the father took the phone and dialed the desired phone number. β Hello, Miss Robotnik. This is Mephiles Demonhegehog. You won't believe it, but our mortal daughter has finally awakened her fairy powers. We would like to enroll her in your school for tomorrow.***
β This is your room, right? Wow! Did you draw all this? β the cat looked at the children's drawings on the walls. β Yes. β Incredible! Sorry, I'm just very curious. β No, no, Blaze, it's okay. Although I donβt even know if I should be proud now of what happened in the park and that first I saved you, and then you saved me? β Of course, be proud! Why shouldn't you be proud? Magic in the world is part of life and powers like yours are normal. The chipmunk found her old album with drawings from under the bed and showed it to the cat. β Tell me, is your world like this? The princess took the album and looked at the various drawings with celestial islands and houses, as well as the fairies themselves with wings on their backs. β Yes. Almost, but everything there is much more beautiful and completely different. You still lied a little about us. What do you like to call it?... Stereotypical! β Alas, stereotypes have always existed and will always exist. Everyone and everyone has them. For example, I heard somewhere that there is one distant planet in one yellow star system, where there is one country that the whole world has visited a long time ago and knows that there is summer there and everyone is adequate. But at the same time, on that planet, the whole world still has a stereotype that there supposedly is snowfall and winter even in the summer, unlike the rest of the world. The star seemed to be called the Sun, if I'm not mistaken. β explained the chipmunk. β I just didnβt understand one thing. I did everything as you told me and turned into a fairy. Just before I lost consciousness, it was as if I had become even stronger and gained so much power in myself that I was able to defeat this big guy. Although before that he himself almost defeated me. How did I do this? It's all about the dragon's fire, Sally. You have not just the power of a fairy, but the rarest gift in the entire universe, which not every chosen one masters. You donβt even realize how much stronger you can be than you think. You've just exhausted yourself too much. The main thing is to train gradually and in future, when you get tired, you wonβt lose consciousness. In the meantime, don't waste too much energy. They say it can be fatal in rare cases to fairies and magicians. You can fall asleep forever and never wake up again, like Sleeping Beauty. β Blaze explained. β Are you sure? β Certainly. Sometimes fear and other strong feelings can not only awaken strength in any fairy and magician, but also strengthen it. In fact, you always had them. You just didnβt know about them yourself. For example, I first learned about my powers when I was eleven years old, although they have been with me since birth. You just need to concentrate properly and with your energy you can do anything. β Is it true? β Certainly. Here look! β the princess creates a luminous ring in the air with her right index finger. It began to move around the room. β Try shooting a fireball into the ring without looking! Sally closed her eyes and hummed a little and tried to concentrate on her strength. She reincarnated as a fairy again wearing the same outfit. Then she seemed to feel where that very ring was at the moment and, without looking, pointed her index finger to where it would be later. She shot a fireball and it hit the ring and disappeared with it. β Well done! Do you see? You immediately grasp everything on the fly. β Well, thatβs easy as it is. But if only something more complicated! β suggested the chipmunk. The cat scratched its chin smiling and came up with a more difficult problem. She took a bunch of pencils from the cup and combined them together to form a large pencil. β Try to turn this pencil back into a bunch of little ones! The chipmunk tried to do this and strained a little because she couldnβt do it. The pencil only caught fire slightly, because Sally was not concentrating and was even a little angry, not controlling her powers. Then she despaired and gave up. β No. Does not exceed. β she said, sitting down on the bed. β Don't despair, Sally! β the cat took pity on her, put out the fire and turned it into a pile of pencils, returning them to the cup on the desktop. Then she sat down next to the chipmunk. β It doesnβt always work out the first time. But you will learn over time when you go with me to the palace of Tibidoy and study there with me. There they will teach you how to control your powers. I'm sure you'll make a good fairy. β Where is this same Tibidoya? β Sally asked, and Blaise answered: β On the distant and magical planet Trafix. This planet is beyond time and space. Sally thought for a moment and stood up. β Okay. What about the university on the colony of the planet Taraban? Everything just happened and changed so quickly. β Well, you still have time to think about it until tomorrow. I'm sure. β the princess answers, putting her hand on the girlβs shoulder. β Moreover, your parents Mephiles and Sonia have probably already decided to contact Tibidoya and enroll you there, which means you probably wonβt have any other choice. And all I have to do is choose whether to go there with you or without you. The chipmunk scratched the back of her head and said: β Fine, I agree. They shake hands. Suddenly they heard the sound of a pogrom from below.***
Downstairs at this time, through the back entrance, knocking down the door itself, the troll himself burst in and said in a terrible voice: β He-e-ere-e-es troll-hu-u-unte-e-er! He slips through the door sideways, and Scourge, along with the rabbit and mosquitoes, comes in after him. Mephiles and Sonia saw him and were outraged. β HEY, WHO CALLED YOU HERE??? GET OUT OF HERE!!! β Mephiles shouted. β We are looking for one reptile that left this pile of fur. β the troll answers, showing the ends of Sally's hair. β Ah! So it was you who wanted to kill our daughter? β Sonia got angry. β GET OUT OF HERE, MANIACS!!! β Mephiles shouted and stretched out his hand, shooting red mist in the shape of a ball, which flew towards werehog and pushed him against the wall. He hit himself and fell to the floor, almost losing consciousness. β Why are you standing there, insatiable vampires? Grab them! β the troll orders the mini-monsters, pointing his finger at the hedgehogs and they rushed to attack. Two of them tried to attack and jump on the hedgehog, but she moved aside and opened the door of one of the drawers on the wall. The monsters crashed into the door as if they were against a wall and fell. β I will teach you how to mess around in our kitchen of our restaurant. β she said and took out a can of corn from that same drawer. β The pests broke into our place in the middle of the night, when we were already closed, and even knocked down our doors. β she began throwing cans at the monsters and the troll, which the latter fought off with his hands. β Well, wait, Iβll knock down those doors for you! β when the troll almost came close, she did not throw the next can, but only hit it on the banana-shaped head, causing him a concussion, and then continued to throw herself at him. The troll began to move back, also defending itself from the jars. β Here, get it! Get it, get it! It is for you! Not enough for you? I still have a lot in store for you. β she says, opening the next shelf and starting to throw cans of coffee. One of them even hit the troll on the wooden loincloth. The troll grabbed the sore spot in pain and then hit it on the head with a can. β Get it, get it, the banana is not ripe! Would you like to treat yourself to some peaches? β she asks him, taking out a huge can of peach preserves and throwing it right at the troll. The can hit him in the head. β You're wearing peaches! Mephiles at this time took a mop and fought off the rest of the mosquito rabbits who tried to pounce on him and grab him. He wielded a mop like a real fighter with a bamboo stick. When the monsters became powerless and he was able to fight them off, Scourge himself approached him. Mephiles tried to hit him with a stick, but werehog grabbed the chef's stick and tore it out of his hands. Then the green hedgehog grabbed the black-gray one by the throat and hit him in the face with his left fist as hard as he could. Only from such a blow he did not pass out, but only moved his face to the side. He bulged his eyes and at the same time pursed his lips in surprise. Mephiles then made a stern look and slowly turned to the surprised werehog. β This is a blow? β he asked him, collected more red waves with energy in the form of red mist into his right fist, and then punched werehog in the stomach with all his strength. Werehog was thrown back and his back crashed against the wall, falling onto the gas stove. Turning his gaze to his fist, he shook it slightly, and then looked again at the green hedgehog and replied: β Now thatβs a blow! Sonia at that time took a jar of sugar cubes from the table and threw it at the troll, who almost approached her. β Here! Get it! β she said, and then she took the frying pan in her right hand and swung it, simultaneously hitting the rabbit-mosquito who was trying to attack her from behind and hitting the banana-shaped troll's head with the frying pan itself. When hit by a frying pan, the troll moved back and fell on the floor with his butt. β It is for you! β after that, she takes an empty large saucepan, puts it on the trollβs head and begins to drum on it with spoons in both hands, causing pain and noise in the trollβs ears. At the same time, she also hummed mockingly: β Glory, glory, Barinov. Glory like Kamolov! Share quickly, pasta from Kitanamaly! β then she hits the pan with a frying pan and the troll gets a noise in his ears mixed with ringing. And the hedgehog continued to drum with spoons. β Enough! Stop it! Hurt! Hu-u-urt! β the troll begged for mercy. Mephiles approached werehog and, laughing to the side, turned on the stove to full. The green hedgehogβs fifth point caught fire and the last one, his eyes bulging, screamed heart-rendingly from the burns: β A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A!!! β With this cry, he ran out of the stove and ran to the kitchen sink filled with warm water. Having buried his ass there, he put out the fire and breathed a sigh of relief. - Oh, Chaos! Yeees! Sally and Blaze immediately came down the stairs. Blaze also managed to transform into a fairy. β What's going on here? β the chipmunk asked sternly, seeing the troll and that same werehog hedgehog. β You again? Was one time in the park not enough for you then? β Yeah! Itβs you that we need too. Scourge replies, pointing his finger at her. β Yes, that's her. I recognized her by that disgusting dog smell... β HEY!!! β Sally interrupted the troll. β Don't snap! And I don't stink at all. I washed myself in the morning. Which means I smell nice, okay? β This is a troll-hunter, Sally, they cannot stand the smells of cleanliness and any smell, even the most pleasant one, is considered to them as the most disgusting and dirty. β Sonia explained, distracted from the troll, who stood up, took the frying pan with his hands and also hit the hedgehog on the head, knocking her out. β NO!!! β the chipmunk shouted, stretching out her hand and trying to help, but Blaze grabbed her by the shoulders and didnβt let her go. β Take it, cruella! Oh, my poor ears will ache because of tomorrow. β he says and put the frying pan away. β Better leave here on good terms. β Sally replies and shoots a fireball at the troll. β No, stop! β Blaze didnβt have time to stop her. The fireball hit the troll, but did not cause any damage. He stood calmly in place as if nothing had happened. Sally shot a fireball again, but even that only evaporated upon touching him. He stood there gloomily and asked: β You are stupid fairies, you donβt learn anything. β I don't understand. Why doesn't he fall or push away? β asks the chipmunk, and the cat explains to her: β Because it's a troll hunter. Troll hunters are always invulnerable to the magic of fairies and mages. They can only be defeated by physical force and direct contact. β How dare you talk about me like that, flea? β he said rudely to the cat, stretched out his arms and stood with his belly in front of them. β Look at me! Who do you think I am? Sally looked him up and down and answered slyly: β Fat guy with a banana head! Blaze covered her mouth, laughing to the side, and the monster was indignant and shouted: β NO!!! I'M A TROLL!!! Well, I mean, GRAB YOUR TORCHES AND SAVE YOURSELF WHO YOU CAN!!! While the troll was chatting, Blaze took a kitchen knife and threw it like a throwing knife. It pierced his right hoof and the Troll screamed heart-rendingly at the ceiling, his eyes bulging in pain. Scourge was still dealing with Mephiles at this time, managing to pin him to the wall and starting to hit him in the stomach. But for him all this was like pellets for an elephant. He only collected more red energy with a haze in both hands and shot a powerful ball of energy at werehog, forcing him to fly away and push the troll himself to the ground in one go. She fell right onto the banana head's face. β These are your teeth. β the hedgehog smiled, looking at the saber-tooth. He pushed him away from him, getting up, and said rudely: β Get off my face, idiot! β I ask you not to express yourself and behave decently! β Blaze asked and, together with Sally, they directed magic at the pots and pans, which began to fly towards the troll and hit him around. He could not stand such bullying and decided to leave the kitchen, escaping through the back entrance. β STOP, COWARD, WHERE ARE YOU??? β werehog shouted to him. β Now itβs your turn, big guy. β says the cat. She and Chipmunk combine their powers together and shoot a huge glowing ball at him, which covers Scourge in soot and burnt fur. Then he runs away. β TROLL, WAIT FOR ME!!! β Get out! And don't ever come back here again, you hooligan. β Sonia swears. β We will come back and take revenge on you for this, nasty sorcerers! Damn you! β the troll cursed them, showing his fist and ran on, followed by Scourge. Sonia then used her magic to envelop the broken door in pink magic, lift it up and fix it in a couple of seconds. Then she closed it. The adoptive parents and the daughter and the princess immediately laughed at this story that happened tonight. β Next time, warn me in advance that the next enemy is invulnerable to magic. Are there any other creatures that are immune to magic besides that banana-headed goblin? Mephiles laughed and said: β It was a troll, Sally! Goblins are similar to trolls, but they are more similar in body structure to humans, dwarf like gnomes and dwarves, and they also have long noses like crows and pointed ears like elves. And trolls are ugly, big and fat. The shape of their heads takes on completely different appearances depending on how and when it was born, and they most often live in swamps, fog or caves. They are very angry and rude. They are always rude when they talk, especially they take rudeness addressed to them as compliments. Sonia also joined the conversation: β Also, in addition to trolls, those who do not believe in magic are invulnerable to magic, including people, dinosaurs, Rumpelstiltskin, who, according to legend, lived next to Tibidoya for many years and from that he long ago developed immunity to magic. And also... No one else. Everyone else is quite vulnerable to magic. Even you and me. β Well, this is already clear about us. β Blaze waved her hand. β Now what? β Let's go to bed! As my father said, any morning is always smarter than the evening. β Mephiles suggested. β Let's go, Blaze. I will help you get settled in your room. β Thank you, Sally. If you want, I can go to bed even on the sofa, on the floor or on the rug. β No! You are a princess and our guest after all. I will not allow our royal guest to sleep in uncomfortable conditions. I'll think of something quickly. And I didnβt have to think about it. Sally immediately came up with the idea of dividing the bed, or rather making a copy of it from one to two. Blaze helped her with this and now there were two beds in Sally's bedroom. The chipmunk went to sleep in one, and the cat went to sleep in the other. After that, they were tired, transformed back and without changing clothes, covered themselves with blankets, wished each other good night and fell asleep.
