Swift and Tantrum left the group taking a long way around. Ducking between trees and houses they noticed a small patrol of goblins.
Swift and Tantrum snuck their way in front of the patrol and waited to ambush them. Tantrum crouched down ready to pounce while Swift had his sword at the ready. He could hear the goblins chatting about something but doesn't understand the goblin language. There were about 5 goblins walking towards them. 4 of them had very crude swords while the middle one had a shield and a club. That was his first target.
As the group got close enough to ambush, Swift unleashed his fury. Tantrum pounce towards the center of the group tackling the shielded goblin. With a swift mistook Swift swung his sword decapitating the front left one. While Tantrum pinned the goblin he used Sonic Slash with his teeth biting into its neck. Blood shot out covering half his face and the bushes around. Tantrum spun around slamming its tail into the remaining goblins knocking them down. Swift jumped off kicking one in the face while thrusting his sword into another's ones chest. Tantrum took an opening to pin another one down and start to eat it alive, taking bites out of its belly. The scream of the goblin drew more attention to them. Tantrum bit the neck silencing it while Swift took his sword slicing the throat of the last one getting up.
They could hear something else moving towards them. Jumping onto Tantrums back they both took off running. Running towards the back entrance they hide in a bush and waited. A single monster showed up by the dead goblins.
Goblin Berserker Hunter lv 22
Str 65 Dex 20 Con 80 Int 10 Mnd 1 Lck 2
A nearly 9 foot tall goblin berserker with wood and metal wrist armor and a large metal bat. It slowly reached down touching the ground. It rubbed its finger in the ground pulling it up to its face. Taking a long sniff it closed its eyes and focused on the scent. It immediately opened its eyes staring at Tantrum and Swift. It gave off a creepy smile saying "I found you" and started rushing the two of them.
Tantrum rushed out of the bush while Swift send a Wind Blade at the creature. Using its armor to block the attack it took its huge metal bat swinging it into Tantrum. Both Swift and Tantrum were sent flying into a tree taking damage. Tantrum took the worst of it and was knocked unconscious but still alive. Swift pulled himself out from underneath Tantrum. The goblin hunter closed in taking a swing at Swift. Barely able to get out he parried the swing as it came too close for comfort.
Smash
The metal bat slammed into the tree above his head sending bark fling. Luckily or him the bat was stuck half way in the tree. Taking this opportunity Swift to tackle the berserker. He quickly leaned back, pressed his feet against the tree, activated his Swift as the Wind skill and lunged at the monster. It was trying to pull its bat out the tree and was surprised by the strength Swift had. Aimed at his stomach Swift thrusted his sword forward knocking the berserker down pinning it with its sword. Swift quickly got up but was slapped away by the berserker. He flew and hit a tree before picking himself up while grabbing one of the swords the goblins had. The berserker pulled the sword out of its own belly causing blood to spill out. I started to scream more and slash wildly with its sword. Swift was barely able to parry the sword away. The goblin sword was so brittle he could start to hear it crack with each hit.
Clang clang clang
The sound of swords clashing together rang throughout the woods. The monster grew more and more furious as it couldn't kill this creature that dared to stab it.
Swift looked at his sword and noticed a ton of cracks along it about to break. As the Berserker was about to swing it suddenly stoped and howled in pain. It looked down and saw Tantrum biting at its ankle showing bone. It was about to swing the sword down on the nape of the DinoGators neck. Swift saw his opening and lunged forward again stabbing the creature in the neck. Both of them fell to the ground. Swift broke the sword in half leaving the blade in the neck. The creature held its neck trying to stop the bleeding to no avail. It tried to cry out in desperation but couldn't make a sound. Swift could only hear it gurgle with its last few breaths.
Swift collected himself and pulled out a minor healing potion Grimm made and drank one and gave one to Tantrum to drink. The born now had 3/4ths of their health. He wiped the blood off his sword, climbed back onto Tantrum and road off to the fort.
They reached the back entrance after a couple minutes and noticed no guards were around.
[They must have great distraction. I shouldn't let this go to waste.]
Swift and Tantrum snuck in without any trouble. Inside it was extremely dark with a torch on the end of every other shelf. The ground was covered in straw, dirt and what looked like wood shavings. The two crouched down as they walked aisle to aisle. On the other side of some aisles were huge piles of wood shavings and hay. It almost resembled beds or something the goblins would sleep on.
Bbbrrrrroooollll
Swift could hear an almost liquid sound. To him it more sounded like solid objects sliding out of a water slide. He slowly peered through the flaps in a doorway to see into the main room.
All the shelves were knocked down or completely destroyed. Some of the shelves were turned into giant bone fires. The roof had many holes that allowed the smoke to travel out. Underneath the holes were shapes shaped into bowls that collected water that dripped from the roof. In the center he could see a very large goblin brood mother. She was throwing up baby goblins. Occasionally there would be one twice the size as normal, a baby goblin berserker. There were nearly two dozen babies sitting in front of her.
One of them started to walk towards the water bowl and had a minor limp. The other goblins noticed and started to look worried over this limping goblin. A couple of them started to slowly walk over and help the limping goblin to the water.
[If they weren't monsters I might think this is kinda cute]
The limping goblin started to cup it hands to drink some water. One of the other babies brought over a small broken cup. It scooped it into the water handing it to the limp one. It took a sip and burped happily after. It turned around and slid down. It sat on the ground with its back against the bowl. The other babies were all surrounding this limp one watching it. As it set the cup down, the others acted. Each and everyone of them immediately shown their sharp jagged teeth and bounced on the limp one. Taking hand fulls off leash and eating. One of the babies at the far end of the group tried to push its way to through the crowd. The BroodMother quickly grabbed this unfed baby gulping it down in a single bite.
Swift was disgusted and quickly moved with Tantrum. Both of them sent out a Wind Blade towards the crowd of goblins. The blade went through killing them all with the two slashes. The BroodMother grabbed the piles of dead goblins. It started to cry louder and louder. As Swift and Tantrum turned to look this thing in the eyes the BroodMother was filled with anger and sorrow. He realized the situation he was in and immediately started running towards the entrance of the fort while being chased.
Running passed different bed piles and water bowls he quickly made his way to the entrance. As he got a couple of yards away the goblin shaman stepped in.
[I'm not sure if this is good luck or bad]
He took his sword in both hands and swung at the shaman cutting its head off. Tantrum plowed through the shaman knocking it over sending the head out the door with jim quickly behind it.
Outside he saw Grimm and Power close to the entrance, Nitro was pierced through by a stone spike, and Lazy was running towards the group being chased.
"Get back! It's coming" he yelled to the two of them!
Shortly behind him the goblin BroodMother broke through the entrance sending stone, metal and wood flying in every direction.
Grimm, Power, Swift and Tantrum were at the front of the bus. Lazy was at the back with Hellacious and RifterMax closing in on him.