The Coup of Triskelle

Chapter One
Triskelle ran through the hall of Castle Fullmoon, to his bedroom. His bedroom, had a balcony that hung over the main gate of the Castle, and was on the third floor, so he could synchronize with the view of the area. He burst through the doors, and ran out to the balcony. Looking down, he almost lost his breath.

Thousands of Snoss soldiers were in the city. Why were they attacking? What did they want? How did they get in? They had slipped into Freezeland's borders unnoticed, under the radar. Aparently they had already took the rest of the country, and took out Freezelandian radio towers, internet, and telephone towers, so there could be no communication. Where were the armies? Frostborough was probobly the only city untaken yet.

Freezeland had just barely started to recover from a civil war, which left the country in shambles. The army barely had a garrison, and most of the buildings had to be rebuilt. Swiss Ninja was no fool. He knew the country was weak, so he took advantage. Triskelle knew that he was no at good terms with the Vikings, but this? This was horrid! They were once friends, why would he do this! Perhaps he had finally changed into the one that he was destined to become...

Triskelle turned around, and grabbed his amulet. He was going to go down and fight for his Kingdom, his penguins. Suddenly, he heard a loud THUD, THUD THUD, and then CRASH. He looked down, and the gate had been broken. The castle has been breached! The first thing he thought of was Lasaralyn, who was in the nursery with their two chicks. He ran down the hall to the stairs, where he went down to the second floor to the nursery.

"Lasaralyn, Lasaralyn!" He yelled.

"What is it, sweetie?" She asked, looking up from a rocking chair. She was holding their two chicks, who were sleeping in her arms. It made him want to cry.

"We've been invaded."

"By whom, I might ask?"

"The Snoss. Look, dear, you don't have much time. Here, take my amulet. Take my dagger, and go to our bedroom. Take what provisions and supplies you need,and go out through the secret exit under the Castle in the Cellar. Warn the other keepers, and hide my amulet in the bottom of the Jadis river." He said.

"And what will you do?"

"I will stay and fight. A good captain always goes down with his ship, yes?"

"But, Triskelle!"

"Don't worry about me. Have hope; I will be fine."

He kissed her, and their chicks and they ran out of the room. The chicks were still sleeping, thank goodness. They parted ways at the staircase, and both had tears in their eyes.

"Do not tarry. GO!" Triskelle yelled, choking back tears he ran down the stairs, and took a sword from off of a wall mount. He summoned the guards. The guards wore Mhacan Steel, the strongest and finest metal made by High Penguin flippers, though they were not very well ready to fight an army of hundreds of Snoss soldiers.

Chapter Two
As Snoss soldiers stormed into the main hall, they waited in the Throne room. Some guards pointed their bows, some held up their spears, all pointed to the large, opulent gate made of marble. There were only about a hundred guards, but then there were the servants that were able to wield a weapon, so all in all there were about one hundred and fifty penguins in the throne room, ready to fight.

Triskelle stood in front. He cleared his throat and turned to the garrisson.

"Ahem. As you may know, we may be the last remaining pocket of resistance in the country. But, have hope; for even if we fail today, our legacy will continue forevermore! Always remember, whatever comes through that door, to have hope! Now, patriots of Freezeland, we raise up our swords, and fight!"

The soldiers cheered. The gates flew open, and troops came charging through. The Freezelandians yelled battle cries, and ran out to meet them. Swords and knicles met, and many were hit with snowballs so hard that it rendered them unconcious. Triskelle cut down about thirty troops all by himself.

The battle raged on for quite some time. Despite hundreds of Snoss soldiers and War Bots filling the room, the Freezelandians fought bravely and despite their wounds, continued to do battle. Many suffered horrible wounds, and those who didn't were arrested. Finally, there were only three penguins on the resistance side left in the throne room. Triskelle, Elyon Tyn, Head of the Guards, and Elessar, keeper of the ice amulet (even though Lasaralyn had his amulet at the time, and she had left). They were all arrested and tied to a pole in Hemlock Park Arena.

Chapter Three
Triskelle managed to send out a telekinetic signal, an ability that is rarely used by High Penguins, because it is very hard to do. He sent out a message to all the High Penguin Knights. All he could do is take his own advice and have hope.

About an hour of being chained to a pole in a heavily guarded arena, once one of the funnest places in the city, help finally arrived. The head of the High Penguin Knights, Cema Korun waddled into the centre of the arena, with hundreds of soldiers watching him. For some reason, they didn't attack. He set the three captives go, and then the soldiers started shooting at him.

After striking down a few soldiers, he gave each of the three a sword. "The party's over." He said, as two hundred and eleven more knights appeared.

They were outnumbered fifty to one. Reinforcements arrived from the castle. They didn't want Triskelle to escape. The knights fought most of them off, though they suffered heavy casualties. Out of the originial 212, only 30 remained. Triskelle, Elessar, and Cema decided that they must surrender. Triskelle allowed himself to be arrested in place of the rest of the knights.

Chapter Four
Triskelle was marched back to the palace. Just to humiliate him, he was forced to watch the Freezelandian flag be changed to the Snoss flag. As he walked down Castle Fullmoon's walkway, Snoss troops booed. He was brought to the broom closet, the door was unlocked, and he was thrown in.

In the closet, there was a small slit in the door, where he could look out, and a barred window. Someone came in once a day and gave him an energy bar and a bucket of water.

Chapter Five
One morning, he was invited for breakfast with Griffpa, "governor" of Nieu Freezeland.

"Please sit at the table while the door is opened, Triskelle," Griffpa said. The smell of breakfasts overwhelmed him, and he sat with his back to the window, because he didn't want to see what he had done ot the city.

Griffpa sat facing him. He tossed him a cloth serviette and made a show of tucking over him tie and spreading it to cover the expanse of his belly and chest. Triskelle opened his serviette and laid it in his lap as a servant set the heaping tray before him.

The servant put a stack of pancakes in front of Griffpa. A pitcher of syrup. A plate of toast with butter and jam. A large coffee mug, into which he poured steaming black coffee, and he left the pot there too. A massive plate of scrambled eggs with bacon and sausage links. He set his silver on either side of the giant plate. And there he sat, only silver before him and a serviette in his lap. The servant left the room and locked the door.

Griffpa rubbed his flippers, grinning. "I hardly know where to begin! This all looks great!" He said. He pulled each plate a little close, then picked up his knife and fork and began manipulating the eggs into a huge first bite.

"I'm sorry," he said. "Where are my manners? Is it not your custom to express your thankfulness before you eat? I'm so glad I am governor, that I can have all this food and eat it too!" He shoveled bits of food into his mouth.

He sat there, knifing, forking, spooning, smacking his beak, chugging coffee, and grinning. "Sure you don't want some? Huh? Oh that's right, you haven't been cooperative yet. I could give you some if you told me where the amulets are. You sure you don't want some? It's good. Oh well, it's your call."