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'Jim...please don't leave me. You cant.'
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After we got everyone into the school who hadn't yet thought to hide (people are so stupid)—Claire, Toby and I made our way back towards where Jim was currently fighting with Angor Rot and Gunmar.
I wanted to help Jim so badly, but I knew he had it handled—way more handled then I expected. Jim was easily holding his own against the two crazy trolls, and with the rest of us fighting the Gumm-Gumms, it finally felt like this battle was going our way.
I yell as I surround a Gumm-Gumm in F/c energy, holding it in the air and throwing it into a portal Claire opened up.
"Did you get everyone to safety?" Blinky asks in a rush, looking around at the chaos frantically.
"Yep. All the stranded people were brought to the school." I tell him, slightly panting from all the running around and magic I've used today.
"They should be well protected." Claire smirks, thinking of the teachers who seemed to all be sharing one brain cell today (and that braincell was their fight or flight...they definitely chose fight).
"Wait, why's the eclipse here?" Toby asks, pointing towards the large orange ball in the sky. "Wasn't Merlin supposed to have his magic back by now?"
"Gods, where is that stupid old man." I snarl as I throw a blast at an upcoming Gumm-Gumm.
I then look around at my surroundings and realise I can't spot Jim anymore.
"Where'd Jim go?" I ask in a fluster, wildly looking around in an attempt to spot my (hopefully alive) boyfriend.
I watch as the group start to look around, and that's when I realise that we've all lost him.
I let out a shaky breath before I go sprinting down the street without question, knowing that the rest of the group would be following behind me.
As I run I start to hear the faint sound of screaming, and I know exactly who's voice that was.
"Jim!" I yell as I run down a street and pause as I spot Gunmar on the roof of a building.
Jim was on the edge of the roof laying flat on his back—screaming as Gunmar holds his bewitched blade close to his face, yellow wisps surrounding Jim.
He was trying to control Jim's mind, just like the rest of the trolls from Trollmarket.
"Jim!" I yell towards him, feeling completely useless from so far below.
"We're too late" Toby pants as we all stand still in the street.
"No...Claire, portal me!" I yell and the girl doesn't hesitate to open a portal that I jump into without a thought.
On the other side of the portal, I fall slightly before landing on Gunmars shoulders—said troll yelling out in anger as he moves his blade away from Jim, attempting to grab me off his shoulders, but I hold onto his horns tightly with a slight scream as he attempts to fling me off.
It looked like one of those bull fights where the bull would attempt to fling the rider off its back.
"Stay away from him, you two horned freak!" I yell as I hold onto his two horns tightly, dodging his sword as he swings it around wildly.
"Y/n!" Jim yells in horror, his armour starting to glow a bright red as he tightly holds his sword.
I keep my tight hold on Gunmars horns as he wildly swings his sword, attempting to hit me but failing—quite miserably, may I add.
I let out a shaky breath before letting go of his horns and holding my hands tightly to his forehead and letting my F/c energy flow down from my hands, and around his body, slowing down the crazy trolls movements enough for Jim to let out a loud yell—and swing!
It was silent for a moment. I use that silence and let myself drop off Gunmars shoulders, landing quite roughly onto the roof with my armour making a clang!
Jim quickly rushed to my side and pulled me further away from Gunmar as the troll slowly turns to us.
"No..." He mutters in shock, the area where he was sliced by Jim's sword glowing a bright yellow. "It cannot be!"
I pant heavily as I watch Gunmars slice get bigger and bigger, and I realise that Jim's done it.
"It is." Jim pants, a deadly glare on his face as he looks to the troll who's been tormenting this world for centuries.
Gunmars slice then glows brighter as he lets out a loud howl of pain, his back arching as he takes steps closer towards the edge.
Jim quickly holds up his shield and pulls me into him, covering us from the huge blast that emits from Gunmar as the troll continues to scream and howl in pain.
With the blast came red lightning that electrocutes all the Gumm-Gumm's, instantly shattering them into stone.
Jim slowly lowers the shield and I look forward to see Gunmars body now completely turned to stone—now just sitting at the edge of the roof (practically waiting for someone to push him off).
"For Draal." Jim grunts, the two of us sharing a look before simultaneously kicking his statue backwards, watching as it falls before shattering on the ground infront of Toby, Claire and Blinky.
I stare at the shattered stone on the ground before letting out a small giggle that soon turns into laughter. I look to Jim who watches me with an amused face, before I happily throw my arms around him.
"Oo, careful. Sunburn" Jim jokes, but doesn't pull away in the slightest.
"Another good job to you, Trollhunter." I laugh, softly punching his shoulder (even though it won't hurt him in the slightest anymore).
"Same goes for you, Trollhunter" Jim chuckles before looking down at the group. "Hold on."
I don't hesitate to hold onto the boy tighter as he jumps off the roof, dropping down to the ground infront of Toby, Claire and Blinky.
"I could get used to that." I chuckle, letting go of Jim and slightly stepping back as he sends me a playful smirk.
"You did it, Jimbo!" Toby cheers, giving Jim a playful shove as I high five Claire. "Daylight went supernova!"
So that's what his armour was doing when it glowed red. I was a bit too preoccupied to even process what was happening.
I then look over to Blinky who's looking down at Gunmars remains with a bittersweet look upon his face.
I look to Jim with a sad smile before we both make our way over to Blinky.
"At long last, after centuries, Gunmars war is at an end." Blinky says with a hand to his chest—before wrapping an arm around Jim's shoulder and ruffling up my hair, causing me to groan and readjust my headpiece. "And you, my dear boy, all of you, have ended it."
"Happy to help." I mutter, still attempting to fix up my hair causing Jim to playfully roll his eyes at me.
"Um, not to be a total buzzkill, but why is the night still all eclipsey?" Toby asks awkwardly as he gestures to the still dark yellow sky.
My eyebrows scrunch together as I look around, realising the boy is right. I don't get to think more on it though, because the slight panting of a familiar troll gains everyone's attention.
"Ah! Wingman!" Toby yells happily to the distressed troll running towards us.
"Where's Merlin?" Jim asks worriedly, noticing the absence of the annoying old man.
"In trouble. Morgana." Aaarrrgghh grunts, pointing towards the sky—and that's when I spot the familiar looking witch.
I glance to Claire, noticing the hardened look on her face at the sight of the woman who possessed her and haunted her dreams.
"But, Merlin's plan..." Blinky mutters as the witch gets closer and closer, her haunting laugh getting louder and louder.
"Not work." Aaarrrgghh grunts.
"Of course it didn't." I mutter to myself.
And here I thought that our plan would actually work. How stupid of me! When do our plans ever work? Never!
"Don't despair, weak ones. Your lives will soon be over." Morgana cackles in her usual peppy voice.
"Ugh, she's-" I start to grumble, but Toby cuts me off.
"Beautiful." Toby whispers in a daze, gaining two deadpan looks from Claire and I, causing him to awkwardly clear his throat. "But totally evil! Yeah, yeah. We have to stop her!"
"Idiot." Claire and I grumble together.
"Without Merlin, how can we stop her?" Blinky asks fearfully as Morgana gets closer towards us.
She raises her hands that are surrounded by yellow wisps, and swipes them to the side—all the debris and stone around us instantly moving to the sides.
"Merlin's champion, I have so looked forward to properly meeting you...and then killing you." Morgana says with a cackle, rubbing her hands together before swiping them to the side.
All of us—except Jim—get swiped to the side roughly. Aaarrrgghh and Blinky go flying into the stone debris and Claire, Toby and I go flying into a red car before landing roughly on the ground with grunts of pain.
"That wasn't very nice." I grumble to myself as I attempt to push myself up, failing as I miserably flop to the ground.
Getting thrown into a car bloody hurts.
I manage to lift my head up and watch as Morgana tangles her magic around Jim, holding him up in the air before moving him to stop right in front of her.
"Good evening." She says to him with a fake smile. "And...good night."
She flicks her hand to the side and Jim goes flying into the air, and completely out of sight.
"Jim!" I manage to yell, adrenaline pumping through me as I pull myself up, rushing to Claire and Toby and helping them stand as well.
"We need to stop her." Blinky says as we watch Morgana fly towards where she threw Jim.
"Claire." I say as I look to her, the girl simply nodding her head before opening a portal, all of us charging through without a second thought.
We come out of the portal and find ourselves on the Canals bridge. Why do we always end up on the Canals bridge?
I don't have time to think about it as I watch Morgana throw spell after spell at Jim, one hitting him and causing him to go flying off the bridge.
I run towards the railing of the bridge and quickly raise my hands and surround him in my powers, smiling in success as I levitate him towards me.
"Gotcha!" I smile as I lower Jim to the ground infront of me, quickly kneeling down next to him.
"What?" Morgana gasps as she looks towards me with a glare. "You again!"
"Yes, her again!" Blinky yells loudly before I can even open my mouth, dwarkstones in all four of his hands. "She's mighty annoying, but her intelligence peaks those on average, including yours, you vile troglodyte!"
Awww...I think?
I watch Blinky in awe as he throws all four of the dwarkstones at Morgana, the women barely dodging the explosions before Aaarrrgghh grabs her legs and pulls her to the ground where he punches her body deeper into the stone bridge.
I quickly look away from the fighting and focus back on Jim.
Shit, he's unconscious.
"Jim." I mumble as I carefully tap his face, getting no response that only furthers my worry.
Stones start flying towards us and I quickly use my powers to swat them away, before I tangle my F/c energy around Jim once more and move him away from the danger.
"Come on, come on, wake up." I mutter desperately as I cup his face in my hands, moving his face around in an attempt to wake him. "Come on Jim, your starting to worry me..."
I swat his face a few more times, and Jim's eyes finally start to open. He groans as his eyes drowsily catch mine.
"Hey there, Trollhunter, glad you could join us." I mutter to him, the fighting getting louder in the back as I glance back to see Aaarrrgghh crashing into a nearby car and Claire portalling around Morgana. "Okay, they need me. Just stay here."
I point a finger at him in a stern manner, but deep down I know he won't stay—even if he's barely conscious.
I watch as Claire whacks Morgana with her staff mid air, before getting whacked to the ground in retaliation.
"Claire, portal me!" I yell to her, the girl quickly nodding her head and opening a portal that I jump into.
I appear above Morgana and yell as I wrap her body in F/c energy, quickly swiping her to the ground where she clangs to the ground with a large bang!
I land on my feet in a slight pose before I quickly dodge a knife she throws at me, only narrowly missing me and swiping my unprotected cheek.
"Insolent things!" Morgana yells as she uses her powers to raise me into the air, only to pummel me back into the ground like I did to her (only I swear it hurt me more).
"Ow." I grumble, letting out a staggered cough as I push myself back to my feet, watching as Aaarrrgghh also gets thrown into the ground.
"You are like gnats to me!" Morgana cackles, sending blast after blast at a screaming Blinky who's attempting to outrun the scary sorceress.
"Aw geez lady, pick a metaphor!" Toby yells as he jumps out of a portal made by Claire, whacking Morgana quickly before portalling away.
Jim seemed to have regained his head as he also joined the fight, all of us ganging up on Morgana at once after Blinky threw a Dwärkstone at her.
Claire portals herself, Toby and I around her, each of us whacking her with our weapons or powers, Aaarrrgghh attempts to punch her while Jim swipes at her with his sword, Blinky even jumping in with his dwarkstones that definitely pack a punch.
And then she loses it.
"Enough!" She screams, circling her hands into a ball, creating a huge blast of yellow energy that pushes us all back and wraps us up in chains made of her powers—all except Jim who held his sword infront of him as protection.
I struggle against the glowing yellow chains, watching as Morgana pants and slightly slumps her shoulders.
Shes tired and weak, but we're all chained up except for Jim...figures.
Morgana slightly smirks before sending another blast of yellow chains at Jim who quickly knocks it away, failing at the second and third blast and finding his arms held to the side above him. Morgana them blasts him again and holds him up in the sky all wrapped up in her glowing chains as the rest of us watch helplessly.
"I showed your friends mercy, Trollhunter." Morgana says as Jim attempts to swipe his sword at the magic holding him up, grunting and panting in frustration and helplessness. "So they can watch you die."
She flicks her hand and Jim goes flying to the ground, then flung to the side, and to the other side, his yells doing nothing but pleasing the sorceress more.
I struggle desperately as I watch her raise Jim once more, high into the sky before plummeting the boy downwards and practically knocking him unconscious.
"Jim!" I yell as I watch his body lazily droop in the air as Morgana moves him towards her. "Stop! Please!"
"Keep going, did you say?" Morgana asks me with a smirk, flicking her wrist and using the energy wrapped around him to electrocute Jim, who screams in pain.
I don't know how long she would've done this, but a yell from behind her stops her torture.
"Pale lady!" The voice yells, the figure walking forward slowly.
I narrow my gaze at the figure before gasping as I recognise who it is.
Angor Rot.
"My champion." Morgana gasps, swiftly turning around to face the troll. "On time for the grand finale. Here. For your efforts, I give you the honour of finishing him."
I watch with tears in my eyes as she moves out of the way to reveal Jim to the mad troll. Angor Rot smiles widely as he looks to Jim, and I can't bring myself to look away as I watch Angor Rot run in a full sprint towards him, his poison knife in hand.
He's gonna die. He's gonna die and I can't do anything. I struggle more in my chains, looking to my other chained up friends who all watch in fear and misery at what's to come to Jim.
The closer he gets, the more Jim struggles in his chains. Angor Rot is soon a metre away from Jim and swipes his knife. I let out a desperate scream as everyone yells out for the boy, but we all stop and gasp in surprise as the knife barely misses Jim, and instead Angor Rot reels back the knife and punches Morgana into the bridge railing.
I could almost sob in relief.
"Witch! I am no one's pawn!" Angor Rot yells angrily towards her, his body standing infront of Jim's.
"You! What did you tell him?" Morgana yells towards Jim furiously.
She angrily swipes her hand and Jim's body gets released from her powers, but is flung harshly into a wall where he collapses to the ground, just behind where we're all chained up.
"The boy reminded me who I fight for." Angor Rot tells Morgana.
"You fight for me!" Morgana yells in anger.
The two start to fight, but all I can properly focus on is Jim's collapsed body slightly behind me. I train my neck back as far as I can as I watch his chest for any sign of life.
"Jim!" I yell to the boy, and I watch as his body slightly moves, before Jim slowly raises his head. "Jim, come on, wake up!"
This is the second time in less than an hour that I'm trying to wake up an unconscious Jim. This cannot be good for the boy.
Jim's eyes catch mine before he looks to the fight going on between Angor Rot and Morgana. He looks back to me and I slightly nod at him, and that seems to be all he needs as he quickly stands up and charges towards the two.
Jim swings his sword while Angor Rot holds Morgana in a chokehold in front of his body. Jim's sword goes straight through Morgana, but also straight through Angor Rot.
It was silent for a moment—Jim let's go off his sword that's stabbed between our two enemies, and watches as Angor Rot forces a smile to him.
"Well played, Hunter." Angor Rot mutters with a dazed look on his face, his arms still wrapped around a slightly panting Morgana.
"You think that you can kill me?" Morgana pants as her magic starts to surround the sword in her. "I am not troll. I cant be killed!"
She pulls Jim's sword out and levitates it infront of her with a crazed smile on her face.
"Daylight!" Jim yells to his sword, just as Morgana shatters it into pieces.
We're fucked.
"Die, Trollhunters!" Morgana yells as she creates a giant ball of energy and directs it at us.
It felt like I was watching everything in slow motion. The blast slowly leaving Morgana's hands as the sorceress smiles crazily—the blast perfectly inlined with me.
And then a figure moves from beside us.
"No!" Jim yells as he jumps infront of my body with his arms wide open—and I watch with a horrified face as the blast hits him directly in the chest.
I let out an agonising scream.
"Jim!" I cry as I watch his body collapse in front of me. "Jim! No, please no..."
I struggle in my binds as tears flow down my face, Morgana cackling infront of us as I stare at my lifeless boyfriend in front of me.
This can't be happening, not Jim.
"Trollhunter, the staff!" Angor Rot yells to Claire.
"Huh?" Claire mumbles before looking down and seeing her staff on the ground infront of her.
Claire quickly chants the incantation and her staff flies into her hand and a portal opens up which she dives into.
I look away from Jim's body and watch as Claire appears infront of Angor Rot and Morgana. She opens a portal behind them and uses her staffs magic to push them back.
"Hahaha! The eternal night, is here!" Morgana cackles, not at all phased by Claire's attempt to push them back into the portal.
I watch the large tornado in the sky grow bigger, and watch uselessly as Claire pushes further, slightly losing her stance as she begins to slip forward.
Behind Morgana, Angor Rot shatters into stone as Morgana finally frees herself from his grip.
"Angor!" Toby yells out, although I personally don't feel that upset about it.
"Die, witch!" Claire screams before launching herself forward and pushing herself and Morgana into the portal.
"Claire!" I cry loudly, watching as the portal closes up behind my best friend.
It was silent as I feel myself drop to the ground, the chains disappearing from around us.
I look around for a sign of Claire opening a portal, but find nothing.
"Oh, no." Toby whimpers as he looks around.
"Claire!" Blinky cries as he looks around in hopes of seeing the girl somewhere.
I let out a pathetic sob as I turn and look to Toby. Both of us wearing looks of shock and sadness, but we look away at the sound of Blinky gasping.
A small split of a portal opens up, it soon getting bigger before Claire's face pops up. The girl grunts as she attempts to pull herself forward, and I don't waste a second before I run towards the girl.
"Claire! Your hand!" I cry towards her.
Claire yells and holds out one hand which I grab, Blinky grabbing the other as we attempt to pull the girl forward.
Morgana's chains are wrapped around the girls waist and are attempting to pull her back, and I realise we won't be able to pull her forward with just our strength.
I let go of Claire's hand, gaining a gasp from the girl, but I quickly surround her body in F/c energy and pull.
"Get off my friend, you witch!" I yell into the portal as I struggle to pull Claire out.
In retaliation of my comment, more whips of chains come flying forward and wrap around Claire, only causing me to groan in frustration.
"Toby!" Claire yells to the boy behind us. "Destroy the staff!"
Claire throws the staff forward, a long yellow chain chasing after it but just missing as it falls into Aaarrrgghh's hands.
"Wingman!" Aaarrrgghh yells to the boy as he holds the staff up for the boy.
"Right behind you!" Toby yells as he leaps into the air, his warhammer in hand, before he brings it down onto the staff.
A huge explosion of purple follows that sends Toby and Aaarrrgghh flying. Morgana's wails reach my ears and I take that moment to scream and pull Claire forward. Claire's body crashes into mine before the portal closes with Morgana's screams following, before silence.
I pull my body into a sitting position and look down to my side to find Claire groaning as she pulls herself up as well.
Aaarrrgghh, Blinky and Toby quickly join us, and we all look up to find small yellow wisps flying in the air.
They look like fireflies. Or that one scene in Guardians of the Galaxy where groot created these small lights to light the way.
"Are you alright?" I whisper to Claire as I pant heavily next to her.
"I'm good." Claire pants as she gives me her best smile.
"Morgana's magic has finally been defeated. Thanks to you, Claire." Blinky tells the girl as I slowly stand up and spot the familiar body I've been dreading to look for.
I let out a shaky breath before slowly walking towards him.
"No, thanks to all of us." Claire says with a smile before she notices my absence. "Y/n?"
Everyone turns and finds me standing numbly infront of Jim's body, before I finally collapse on my knees—turning his body over with shaking hands.
"Jim!"
"Oh no!"
I hear them all rush over but it sounds like ringing in my ears as I look to Jim's lifeless face.
Tears start to flow heavily down my face as I brush Jim's messy hair away from his face.
"Jim...come on. Wake up" I whisper as I slightly shake his body, getting no response.
I cup his face in my hand and slightly rub my thumb over his cheek. I watch a tear fall from my face, and slowly more continued to fall before I let out a desperate sob.
"Jim...please don't leave me. You cant." I cry to him as I hug his body tightly, the sniffles and sobs from everyone behind me only worsening my state. "Jim, please!"
I look at his unfamiliar face, but I only see Jim. My Jim. He's always been Jim. The Jim I loved and created so many memories with.
I should've hugged him tighter the last time I was with him. Maybe I should've been nicer? Made less jokes in special moments? Did I ruin every last memory with him by being me?
"I will never forgive you if you don't wake up right now!" I cry desperately as I softly tap his face in a useless attempt to wake him. "Blinky, do something!"
I look back and catch the eyes of the heartbroken troll, his tears freely falling down his face as he looks away from my desperate eyes.
I let out a shaky breath as I look back to Jim, all of it feeling to painful to deal with.
"You can't die on me like this Jim." I cry as I tightly hug him. "I love you"
I lean my forehead against his chest and continue to freely sob against him—My heart breaking the more I think about a life without Jim.
He was my person. And I've just lost him.
"To be or not to be..." I mutter to myself, quietly against Jim's chest.
I guess it's not to be.
"That is the question." I hear a raspy voice mutter into my ear.
My body immediately flings back in fright, a small screech leaving my mouth as I stare at Jim's body.
"He talked!" I yell as I point to Jim's still body.
"Y/n...he's gone." Toby whispers with tears flowing down his face.
"He talked!" I yell again, still in complete disbelief and not entirely sure if im hearing things or not.
"Y/n..." Claire mutters to me as she slowly places a hand on my shoulder, but I shake her off and move closer to Jim's body.
I slowly lean my face closer to his, my eyes narrowed as I watch him closely, and that's when I saw his lips tilt up in the slightest of smiles...and I lost it.
"You complete idiot, Jim Lake!" I yell as I punch his shoulder furiously (I think it hurt me more than him).
The others immediately yell out (probably because they think I'm punching the dead body of my boyfriend) but freeze as Jim lets out a small chuckle.
"I thought you were dead! You were dead!" I yell at him, my voice raspy from crying and tears freely falling down my red splotchy face.
"It's okay. I'm alive now." Jim mutters as his eyes finally open and look to my watery ones.
"Don't ever do that again!" I yell as I punch his shoulder again—before grabbing his face in my hands and bringing his lips to mine in a desperate kiss.
"I should die more often" Jim mumbles as we pull away, and I can only let out a small choked sob before I pull him into a tight hug.
My arms tightly wrap around his neck as I curl my body around his. His arms tightly hug my waist as I lean my head against his shoulder.
The sound of the others cheering at Jim not dying rings through my ears as I slowly pull away and smile widely at the boy.
"Please tell me you didn't listen to us all crying for your own amusement." I mumble to him, Jim just shaking his head with a laugh.
"No, I was very much unconscious until you mumbled Shakespeare in my ear." Jim mutters to me as I let out a choked up laugh.
Despite knowing that Jim's alive, tears still fall down my face.
"You can stop crying now, I'm alive." Jim mutters to me, rubbing his thumb over my cheek in an attempt to wipe away some of my tears, but more just replace the spot he wiped away.
"Jim, you've gone unconscious three times in the last hour! My heart can't take this! I'm an emotional person." I exclaim to him with tears still falling down my face.
"Not my fault people always want to kill me." Jim jokes, causing my eyes to water even more as I let out another pathetic sob, clearly catching the boy off guard.
He decides to just hug me tighter.
Our reunion is broken up by the loud crackling coming from the sky. A poof of green smoke appears and in it, was none other than Merlin.
Of course, he gets here when all the fighting is done. Typical.
He chants loudly and the large tornado of smoke in the sky turns green before disappearing, leaving Arcadia in its normal sunny state.
We did it.
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Authors note:
Holy shit this was a long chapter, but I just couldn't find a good spot to end it and I didn't want to stop it at a cliffhanger (I've done enough of those)
Last episode is almost over, and we all know how it ends 🥲
It's fine though, because the gang is all back together in wizards!!! Well, most of them :)
Also I tried to incorporate Y/n as much as I could, but sometimes it's hard in big battle scenes between certain people yknow?
Hope I did it justice, LOL
And god Y/n went through it this chapter. Poor girl has watched her boyfriend almost die more times than I can count during this story. Thought it made sense for her to break down into tears, she's not completely heartless after all :D
Now I only have one more chapter to post...I'm not ready
Make sure to comment and vote! Hope you enjoyed this chapter!