Fireworks

Muki let out a heavy sigh as she sat in the back seat of her car. "This is just lovely. Our city's about to be the grounds for their dispute," she scowled as she stared at footage of Shuzu and Durell staring each other down.

A few minutes after the Evendale group returned with eventide elves in tow, the elves had naturally began wandering around the city, bumping into Durell and some dwarves that were still present.

"No. No disputes like this here. There are rules to follow," Rosa scowled as she stepped in between the two.

"Why should I listen to you?" Durell scowled as he readied his axe.

"Borferd was able to last the whole plane ride back without getting rowdy."

"You think I'm like that idiot!? Elves are incompatible with us!"

"So says you. But while we disagree on the little things, why start up trouble when there doesn't need to be any?" DaVinci asked.

"Hmm, but fighting's just fun. Just look at all these savage things being said online," Shuzu snickered as she stared at her phone.

Rosa let out a sigh as she gazed up at the sky. After 70 long hours, the sun was finally beginning to set, but that meant goblins would be out again soon.

"Durell, what's the status of the train to Buvaria?" she asked.

Durell relaxed his stance, stating that work had progressed well with the dwarves managing to build a tunnel about 20 miles down from the southern edge of the town.

"So they won't be able to make it back before night."

"Worried about us and our city? Goblins never breach it," Durell scoffed.

"The same for Evendale. It's too cold for them there," Shuzu snickered.

"That's good. I was worried about your hometowns. But now you're both stuck here..."

"You think some goblins bother me? It's been ages since I swung my axe!"

"And I might as well uphold my image as queen and kill a few goblins for the road," Shuzu nodded as she continued to keep her eyes glued to her screen.

"Us dwarves will kill more goblins than you."

"Nope, we got better magic."

"How about we award the winner with a prize, either booze or mobile game vouchers. Oh, but only if you follow the rules and don't in-fight with anyone," Rosa proposed.

Both Durell and Shuzu instantly agreed to the proposal.

"You've gotten much bolder," Sana nodded as she patted Rosa on the shoulder.

"It just came naturally-"

"But remember your position. You can't just offer them a reward on the city's behalf."

Rosa instantly began to tear up and go pale.

"It's fine, it's fine. Don't scare the poor girl for thinking proactively," Machiko laughed as she arrived with Ikebukuro.

Ikebukuro went pale as she noticed Shuzu and the other eventide elves, but Shuzu didn't seem to recognize her or if she did, care about her in the slightest as she merely gave her an unamused glace before returning her attention to her phone.

"Us humans have no idea what grudges you've got going on with each other, but now, we're all in this together. If you want to fight for us, we'll gladly reward you, but if not, sit back and relax. We have a plan in mind that'll make those goblins never wanna invade us again," Machiko grinned.

"And speaking of bygones being bygones, Shuzu, are you forgetting something?" Mizata angrily smiled.

"If you remember it, do it on my behalf. I'm trying to get this combo," Shuzu snarled as she played a game on her phone.

"You always were like this. Durell, as apology for my prior offense, Evendale would like to present you with a feast of meat from the great sky puma."

"Puma meat!? Well that's way better than those lousy beauty stones. Where is it? I want some booze with it!" Durell declared.

"How about we save it until the goblin raid is over. It'll taste even better after success," Machiko smiled.

"But the night'll last 12 hours your metrics."

"We'll send them all packing in the first hour, no, the first 10 minutes!"

...

As the sun finally set, goblins began to crawl out of their caves and mount their gobbarks, preparing to raid Ohana. From his perch on a nearby tree, Piranharoo sat with Bisento, watching the goblins fly out.

"Try not to slice em all. They clear out the city, that's less work for us."

"My hatred for goblins runs too deep for your orders to stop me," Bisento glared.

"Then you sit down n' enjoy the barbie," Piranharoo snickered as he held up a skewer of meat.

Bisento shot him a glare before turning her attention back towards the city. Now that the skies were dark, it was hard to make out the massive flock of gobbarks and goblins surrounding all sides of the city, but to the city, that was of little concern.

A single light fired up towards the goblins on the east side, catching their attention. Their eyes followed the blast of light as it flew closer and closer, then suddenly...

BOOM!

The gobbarks all began to freak out and retreat, with those that had been close to the blast disintegrating on the spot.

"Looks like it's a hit. Start the fireworks show!" Machiko ordered through her walkie talkie.

Streams of fireworks blasted up from all sides of the city, flooding the sky with a beautiful fireworks show. For the goblins caught in the middle, this was complete hell. Their gobbarks either fled as far as they could or disintegrated on the spot, sending all the goblins they had been carrying hurdling towards the ground. Some goblins survived the initial fall, but before they could get their footing, bullets ripped through them as soldiers clad in American military uniforms swarmed them.

It didn't take more than 5 minutes before all the goblins were either dead or fleeing. All denizens of this world stared in shock as the battle was televised before them on a giant screen.

"I didn't even get to swing my axe, or even step out of the city," Durell trembled.

"That stuff in the sky... It's loud, pretty, and sends goblins packing... what is it?" Shuzu asked.

"We call them fireworks. They're used for celebrations," Rosa smiled.

Outside the city, Bisento and Piranharoo stared in horror as they watched the goblins flee. "You kidding me? They sent the goblins packing that fast!? Hougen's not gonna like this," Piranharoo scowled as he leaped into the air towards the looming mountain in the west.

Bisento began trembling and gritting her teeth as she gripped her sword tightly. "Damn those humans! They were hiding such firepower from us this whole time!? And sister lost herself to them knowing the fact!? I'll kill them... I'll kill every single human!" 

...

In a cave located at the top of the large mountain to the west of the town, Piranharoo slowly hopped in until he reached a throne room of sorts. There sat a large man with spiky stone hair and a handle bar mustache clad in tight black pants and wrestling boots. This was the infamous warlock, Hougen the fulguriter.

Belts of stone and jewel adorned the walls of his room, but the most noteworthy sight was a small TV set situated in front of a stone throne. No one knows where exactly it came from, only that one day 1,000 years or so ago, Hougen found it and brought it to his cave. The TV was clearly not of this world, yet also bore magical properties of being indestructible, never running out of power, and playing nothing but TV wrestling reruns from 1980 to 2010. Yet these very reruns were what helped craft Hougen into the beast he was now.

"YEAH BROTHER! Shave Vance McMahstor's head, brother! Humiliate him, brother!" Hougen cheered as he watched a man get shaved bald on the TV.

"That episode's on again? Feels like it comes on every muth," Piranharoo growled as he hopped over.

"It's a classic, brother. My view back outside?"

"About that... The goblins got repelled in just 5 munuts."

"WHAT!? 5 MUNUTS, BROTHER!?" Hougen fumed as he blasted out of his seat and stormed out to his veranda.

Clamping his hands around his eyes like binoculars, Hougen used magic to zoom in his vision, his temper worsening as he saw all celebrations from the humans and no sign of goblins or deadly critters anywhere.

"Brother fuckers! I'll body slam em strike of sunrise, oh yeah!" Hougen fumed as he whipped out a sapphire kebab and chomped it in a single bite.