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"Oh, no! What will we do now!?!" Yea asked as fear became more obvious in her voice.
Zima shivered as the trolls made an awful roar. "We need to turn around quick!" Zima whispered "We can't beat a troll! Not to mention that there are two of them!" Zima said turning to find another path. Before she could fully turn, she realized one of the trolls had seen her. She looked around her to see the trolls were beginning to surround the baby selesties. She made sure that Yea was on her back firmly before she said "I'm going to run on three, one....two... three!" Zima took off as fast as she could but was forced to stop....

"Help!" Yea yelled as she was snatched by one of the trolls.
Zima had no idea what to do, so since she felt threatened, she did what any Vulnxy would do, she bit the troll.
"Argggg!" the troll yelled as it shook Zima off. She flew off of it's foot and against a tree. Her vision became blurry but she was able to see what happened before she fell unconscious, a dark figure attacking the trolls and saving Yea. After the trolls ran away, she felt herself get lifted off of the ground and heard Yea saying "Zima, the hunter, he is...." just before yea could finish, Zima passed out.

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The pair observed the trolls. They were less than 10 meters away. The trolls skin looked rough and was covered in scars. The scars appeared old and it was clear to the pair that these trolls had survived many battles. Both trolls were carrying clubs, one of them held it in their left hand and the other in its right. They were grunting and observing the area as if they were looking for something.

"Zima, we better move, we can't take down two trolls. They're bigger and stronger than us!" Yae whispered urgently.
"Definitely, lets go." Zima replied quickly.

The pair began to back up out of the bushes as quietly as possible to avoid attention. The silence was broken by a resounding snap. Zima's head whipped towards the sound, she had stepped on a branch which caused it to break. Zima froze and looked at Yae with horror. She glanced back to where the trolls were and she was confronted with piercing red eyes.

"Run!" Yae yelled in fear.

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Alarmed, Zima stepped back. She hadn't seen them before, but she heard of them. Huge beasts with large tusks and huge clubs, prepared to kill and eat anything in their way. However, maybe they could sneak around them.
"Yae, I'm going to sneak around them. You could stay behind if you'd like..." Zima said biting her lip. She really would rather have her newfound friend by her side as she went deeper into the cove- but she'd understand if Yae wanted to stay behind.
Yae flattened herself on the back of Zima's fur, and clutched on tightly. "No, I'm staying with you. These guys are nothing compared to us!"
Zima smiled, "thanks" she whispered, and then leaped forward.
She tried to keep behind the large rocks that would obscure the Troll's view, and moved as quietly as possible. Her cat movements made it easy to slip through the small spaces and reach the other side without being caught. Once she was at the other end of the cave she let a sigh of relief.
"I SMELL CAT!" A voice bellowed. "CAT IS HERE. LOOK AT CAT!"
Zima froze, and slowly turned around. A huge troll had spotted them!
Go! Run! She screamed at her self internally. Say something! Go! Just go! but she couldn't. She was frozen if place. Too scared to do anything.
"Zima?" Yae whispered from her back. "Do something!"

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Zima had heard of trolls. They said they would stink, but they didn't say like a big pile of garbage left to rot. They supposed to be great hunters, Zima didn't want to figure that out. "So," Yae whispered, "Are we running, fleeing, or not moving until they smell us?" Zima shook herself a tiny bit then and nodded. She let Yae climb onto her shoulder. "We're running to the cave entrance." she said. Yae groaned and pointed to the trolls. Zima looked the trolls hadn't moved, so why ... Oh. That's where the cave was. "Thanks Yae, I wouldn't have figured that out. Thanks." Zima said sincerely. She looked back at the cave, but when Yae didn't answer Zima started to freak out. "Yae, Yae? This isn't funny. Please answer me. You can't play tricks in a time like this!" She said, voice hitching higher and higher, and spun around. Right into another troll. Zima stood rooted to the spot, the trolls ruby red eyes burning into her. "We want cat! It bellowed. Cat is good." There was a sigh from the tree and it answered. "No, you can't have cat. It's not healthy for you." The troll said it again. There was a rustle, and a tom Vulnyx about her age fell from the tree. Zima took in a short breath. Could this be the Hunter. "We have to go to dad first." Before Zima could process this, the troll grabbed her around the neck and held her in the air. "We want Cat! Cat is reward!"

To be continued however this turns out. Thanks for reading. :)
Word count is 258, sorry. I might of gotten carried away.

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=68054&page=8#80 Author: Faiona Time Posted: 11/2/2018 at 4:00 AM Day 4 Prompt Sorry for the delay for this entry, there wasn't that many submissions for this day so I was wanting to wait as long as possible for further entries. Thanks again to all participants! I'm still greatly enjoying reading through everyone's submissions. :) Please put the word Troll at the top of the post so I know that you are replying to the current version of the story. Click to View to Full Story By Griffinlokison Zima had never been to the Enigmatic Grotto before and with good reason, too. The stories around the place were enough to keep even a full grown Vulnyx away. She squared her tiny shoulders and padded over to her caterpillar friend to help her onto her furry back knowing it would make it easier for the baby Lunemara. She knew the journey would be difficult. What she hoped to avoid was a fight with some unknown creature. Zima didn't want to think about that right now, though. She wanted to focus so she could do a better job of helping Zuri. "Yae, tell me more about this Hunter. You seem to know more about him." "Well, it's been said that he's very fierce, but loyal to those who earn his trust." "Sounds like me." "He's not a Sylesti you'd think would be a Hunter." "What is he?" "No one knows." The journey continued for a very long time. The shadows grew longer, the trees took on scary shapes. Suddenly, a hideous odor hit the little Vulnyx in the face and nearly knocked her off her feet. She shook her head as she sneezed. "What's wrong?" Yae asked. Zima shrugged and crept towards the bushes up ahead. She peered out and froze. Yae's breath hitched in her throat as one word passed her lips. "Trolls."

The troll was like "How'd ya like to come down to the basement and have yourself a big bowl of Zima soup?" Sorry I Had to all I could hear was Herbert from Family Guy when I read that story. lol

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"Do you think they can hear us?" Zima asked. Her fur stood on end, catching in the branches of the bush. There were two of them, chewing on the remains of a meal.

"I've heard they are very dumb and very slow. Maybe we can try to outrun them?" Yae said. Zima shook her head. Even if they were slow, they were much bigger than them. It would only take a single stride or the trolls to catch up. If they caught them, they could easily crunch both Zima and Yae between two fingers.

"Maybe we could sneak around the edge of the clearing?"

"Who there?!" One troll billowed out. The ground shook with his deep voice.His companion started to look around, swinging a branch at the bushes around the clearing.

"I am the voice in your head, and you better listen to me!" Zima said in the most commanding tone she could muster.

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Zima and Yae crouched stiff with fright as the trolls moved towards them. One have a gutteral sounding gurgle and sniffed the air turning in thier direction. A sudden sweep of a gigantic club nearly hit them as it swept the bushes aside. Zima glanced up in terror. Yae screamed from her back. "Run!"

Galvanized into action Zima shot off into the undergrowth, with a pack of trolls in hot pursuit. The little vulnyx zigzaged through the undergrowth in a desperate attempt to escaped, but every direction she turned there seemed to be more trolls. Suddenly there was a dark shape in the shadows and a soft breathless voice whispered, "This way." Zima darted after the figure desperate to escape the trolls. She followed whatever it was down a dark tunnel in the ground. At the bottom of the burrow Zima sank the the ground gasping for breath. She felt Yae stir as she looked up and gasped. "Who are you?"

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Zima froze in her steps, trembling from her whiskers to her paws. She and Yae watched with wide eyes as the trolls tossed a few mushrooms into an overboiling pot.
We can try to go around them. Yae whispered in Zimas ear, who began backing up ever so slowly. One step at a time, Zima placed each paw down into the fallen leaves as slow and quiet as she could. But then she heard a sickening SNAP!
Zima gasped, her eyes darting up only to lock with the glare of a massive, hairy, smelly troll.
Run!! Yae yelped, and Zima forced her fear-frozen legs to dash through the underbrush. Adrenaline pulsed through her as she struggled to outrun the three trolls, their heavy clubs swinging above her grazed the tip of her mane.
We shouldve took the long way! Zima cried out.

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The smell fills Zima's nostrils and makes her want to cough. She can't tell if anything else is nearby with the stench in her nose.
"There's three, I think," Yae says in a quiet voice. "I don't think they've seen us, maybe we can still get around them."
"Right. Okay, we'll do that," Zima says. She moves to the right, trying to stay close to the ground and not step on anything.
One step. Two steps. A couple more steps. A pause. Did they hear that leaf crunch? Zima's tail flicks.
"I'm still watching them. You're doing great." Yae strokes her fur as much as she can.
She nods, not daring to speak, and continues forward.
One more step. Two more steps. They're half-way around now. Zima knows that Yae is still watching the trolls. She focuses on the ground. Almost there.
Suddenly there's a loud crashing sound. Zima freezes. Her fur stands on end. Pupils widen. "Zuri" she whimpers. She has to save her. Yae is still on her back. Were they seen? Why doesn't she say anything? Then she hears it.
"They've seen us." Yae pulls her fur. "Run!"
Zima's feet fly across the ground. Leaves scatter from her path. There's a bellow behind her. The stench grows worse. She has to run faster.
Faster. Faster. Faster. She gasps. Her feet sting. Running faster than she ever has before. She becomes aware of her new friend's heartbeat pounding against her back. Her's pounds a matching rhythm.
Will they make it?