Ok then, a dwarf is running towards me, and I have a staff in my hand, where as he has a big axe. Oh great my extra large stick verses his big axe, oh well, what’s the worse that can happen, oh hang on I asked myself that before, dam same answer, I could die! No time to play the coward now I thought, as I stood ready for his attack. Funny, I thought, I have never actual fought anyone properly (except that zombie in episode 0) but I seem to have a fair idea of what to do. I shrugged it off, putting it down to watching to much violence on the telly. As he approach I swung the staff catching him across the skull. While he was dazed by my late attack, I quickly got in a one two across the body, finishing off with a dazzling display of courage by taking out his legs. After the fall he was obviously dead, and I basked in my own triumph. Hmm I thought, maybe this big ole stick isn’t as bad as I thought. I looked up to see the others finishing off there own little (no pun intended) pests. “Good work Rocko” said Cora “I saw you with that dwarf, it seems your quite good at this fighting lark after all”. As I was about to thank her Foz butted in. “He just got a few lucky blows in, that’s all, wait until we are finished with these easy ones, then we’ll see who can really fight”. Since we only had a couple of minor injures, we continued on.

After a while of more fighting, and sleeping to regain energy, (learn something everyday, I had a deep cut on my arm, but it was gone when I woke up!) we came to a large gateway. It took both Foz and Cloud to open it. I peered inside but it was in total darkness. Cora and Fozwaved her arms, chanted a bit, and made some colorful flashes, and one by one, we were all started to glow. “Well that brightened up my day” I said and chuckled to myself, the others didn’t find it as amusing. We continued in, through one more door, and then the dwarfs returned, here we go again I thought.

We rushed in through the door panting. There was a loud bang as Zordell quickly closed the door and locked it. I slumped against the floor, still out of breath. “Where on mud did that last couple come from” exclaimed Cloud as he rested on his pick. “I have no idea but a few more and we could have been done for!” added Zordell. “Don’t be such wimps you lot, we survived didn’t we” argued Foz. “I told you we should have rested after that last lot but ohh no you know best don’t you”. They picked up their weapons and started walking towards each other. “Stop it you two” shouted Cloud, as I got up and took Cora to one side while Zordell took Foz to another, “we have enough to fight without fighting each other”. “Lets just get some rest and finish them off afterwards ok” I said trying to be assertive and yet none provoking. “Fine” said Cora. “Agreed” said Foz.

“Right” said Foz “here’s where the real fight starts, the guards, lets see if new boy is up to the fight”. Cora was about to say something, but I butted in saying “im ready when you are”. So in we strolled, as we spotted three dwarf guards playing strip poker at a table. I tried to think of something witty to say before we attacked, but seeing one guard in his boxers would be enough to put anyone off thinking straight. We dispensed with these and continued on. We delt with another set of guards, these at least were all fully clothed, and we started on our third. As the dwarf I and zordell was fighting hit the floor I turned to see how the others were doing. Cora and Cloud were on the other side of the room, and had things under control, but Foz wasn’t doing so well. Somehow this one dwarf had got the uperhand, and Fozs dagger. Foz fell to his knees as the dwarf gave him an uppercut to the face. The guard lifted his dagger and prepared to strike down on Foz. I looked over to see Cloud and Cora running over, but they were to far away, I turned to Zordell but her leg was badly injured in the last fight, I had to do something! Thinking fast I threw my staff across the room knocking the dagger out of the guards hands. I quickly followed this by a doing a flying kick at the dwarfs head. He must have been near death because this finished him off straight away. I landed hard on the floor. Cora came rushing over to me, and Zordell hobbled over to Foz. “Are you ok” asked Cora and Zordell in unison, “I’ll live” replied myself and Foz. Cloud just stood there in the middle looking at Foz. “Isn’t there something you would like to say to Rocko, hmm Foz” asked Cloud. “Yer” replied Foz “land on your bloody feet next time, you can do serious damage landing like that, and thanks”. “That’s ok” I replied. “What happened Foz” asked Cora. “That, that, THING. nicked my wafer didn’t he, the cheek of it!” I quietly asked cloud what was so special about a wafer, and apparently it gives you some stamina back, weird. On that note we all and got some well deserved rest.

We planed our next attack carefully. Cora and foz were both muse’s (or so that is what they called themselves, it seems to mean they both have magic abilities) and so would attack the king dwarf, while myself Cloud and Zordell would attack the Queen. To make things dramatic I tried to kick down the door before we went in, but I just kind of bounced off it. That is when Foz produced a key and opened the door. We both smirked and went in. The fight on the queen was going well. All three of us took some damage, but nothing we couldn’t deal with. Unfortunately my last blow finally broke my staff. We turned to see how Foz and Cora were doing. Things were not so good though. The king dwarf had just eaten one of those wafer things, and Cora was down on the floor slowly getting up. Foz was up and fighting the king, but even he wasn’t doing that well. The king dwarf gave a swift kick to Foz sending him flying across the room, but not before Fozs dagger was snatched out of his hands. As The king turned he saw Cora finally up with her axe high in the air about to bring it down, but the king was to fast and stabbed the dagger hard into Coras chest. Cora fell to the ground with a thud. Her axe fell out of her hands. It seemed like the whole world went quiet. I was suddenly filled with rage. This, creature has killed Cora, he must pay. I grabbed Cora’s axe and flung myself at the king. My whole world focus on this one fight. All I could think about was how he had killed Cora, and how he must pay for this. The king was caught off guard, and it only took a few blows with the axe to kill him, but I just kept on slashing away even after he had fell to the floor. When I realized he had finally died, I dropped the axe, and fell to my knees by Coras side. I checked for a pulse, but it had gone, she was dead, and there was nothing I could do to bring her back. As she laid there she faded away in the earth below, and then there was nothing, only sorrow, the others gathered around me.

Excuse me as I wipe a tear from my eye. Cora is dead it seems. Is this the end of Rocko, will he now become a hermit and live his life out in the hills? Are there anymore dwarfs to finish off? And where can I get one of those wafers from? Find out next week in the on going adventures of......

ROCKO’S (not so modern) MUD LIFE!