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And from the depths of the cave, the reinforcements came!

...it was one goblin. Pot-bellied, with thin arms and a strangely unblemished, arrow-straight nose. A clean loincloth covered up the small creature's unmentionables, and the way it sprang about was peculiarly disgusting, but on the other hand...

Danny the Hero was glad.

Honestly, he was still feeling kinda nervous about the whole dungeon thing. Sure, he had beaten the floating ghost (by just walking away from it) and that big snake lady that kept trying to hug him in weird ways (by making her run away), but those didn't count as victories. He heard from Big Rico that you grew stronger by [i]killing[/i] monsters, not beating them! And while there was no way he could actually beat the flying dress man and he wasn't totally sure about actually having to bash the snake lady's skull in when her face looked kinda similar to Sister Lyria, a goblin? A goblin that just kept making weird goblin-ly noises that sounded both super stupid and inappropriately arrogant?

That, he could do.

Heck, there were two of them, even! He almost forgot about the baby goblin that the snake lady dropped! So did that make the other goblin their brother then? Their father? Was that why it was dancing around and shouting what were probably goblin slurs while occasionally flexing? Danny looked at the sleeping goblin with a face that somewhat reminded him of Mark's baby sister, feeling slightly conflicted. He could probably do it, right? His grip tightened on Excaliboard. He could definitely do it! The Hero of the Frontier would never hesitate! The only good goblin was one that never left their stinkin' hole!

[b]"TAKE THIS! POWER SMASH!!"

"GOBO GOBO GOBO GRUHLIN! (Whoa whoa whoa STOP!)"[/b]

At three times the speed of sound, Zogi quit his Distraction Dance, which he had done solely to buy time for the proper reinforcements (octopus face and shadow-shrimp-with-hand-wings) to arrive, and tackled the hero right around the waist. Wood struck stone instead of Zoppy, eliciting only a vague grunt of approval from the grunt. Then, in typical goblin fashion, he bit the boy, as hard as he could!

Who knew what it did though. If a giant snake could hardly do anything, little ol' Zogi wasn't going to do any better. After the surprise round faded, the hero threw the goblin off of him, stomped his boot against his rotund body, and swung his wooden sword down in a mightily devastating blow, causing all 5000 GIQ worth of brain matter to splatter against the dungeon floor.

A flash of light shown from within the hero's body, as celestial trumpets blared out a cheery tune.
[center][h2]HERO HAS LEVELED UP![/h2]
[h2]RESPAWN TIMER: 299s REMAINING![/h2][/center]