Why a Goblin?

Well, this is awkward, here I am standing in front of two surprised Goblins, speaking my own version of a sophisticated Goblin language, I’m not speaking english per se.. Yet my thoughts are definitely all in English yet I’m speaking something…different? I don’t understand what's going on at all so let's just chalk it up to reincarnation foolishness..yup works for me. Anyway, I’ve been trying to talk to these guys but completely failing to get them to understand me. At the very least they didn’t immediately attack me, nor were they being very aggressive with me.

In fact, the Goblin who was constantly repeating “Goblin...Leave” actually seemed happy to see me. Maybe all Goblins are actually all friendly to each other? Is it because I’m a Royal? Seems like green means good around here haha! Now everything would be all great and dandy if we could actually communicate! We’ve been going back and forth for a while now! I don't even know what I’m trying to tell them anymore!!’

Jaba is the strongest Goblin in the small tribe he calls home, and with the Goblins and most monsters valuing power above all else, he is also the sole Leader of his tribe of Goblins. So when he heard all of the noise coming from the entrance that led into the dangerous cavern while walking nearby, he quickly made his way over. Once he reached the exit, he was a little surprised to find a third Goblin with the two he expected to see, one who was thought to be missing for over a week and even assumed to be dead all arguing with each other.

After a couple more seconds annoyingly passed with me trying to communicate with these Goblins to no avail, I then saw a slightly bigger Goblin approaching us from a distance, the signature potbelly that I expected him to have seemed a lot smaller on him, and his skin looked a lot more vibrant than ours, is he a maybe a sort of evolved Goblin? Is the king around here..Is he my Goblin dad….? No.. I don’t like how that sounds..

Anyway I wonder if his form is something I can look forward to becoming? Ah, the path is clear, or should I say green! Er erm... Back to the matter at hand, maybe I can try talking to this Goblin? I do think I can speak but I realized it may actually be coming out as gibberish to the other Goblins, but maybe he can understand the general idea of my gibberish like how I do with them? Well let's hope so.

Jaba made his way over to the three Goblins, and when he got close enough he put his hand up indicating for them to be quiet. He knew that all the Goblins weaker than himself couldn’t communicate with each other, but they could understand him, and he could understand them. He didn’t know how this worked, but it didn’t matter to him.’

“What’s...going...on?” said Jaba

“Goblin...return,” said one of the Goblins that Jaba was familiar with. While the other one he was familiar with just stayed silent. It was then that the missing Goblin gave Jaba a surprise.

“Ah yes, my fellow green one, are you in charge here? I’ve just returned to be with my brethren, though I don’t have any memories of when I used to be here,” said Rick, who turned out to be a missing Goblin from the tribe.

Jaba was very shocked at how many words the Goblin said. He was sure that this Goblin was weaker than him, so how can he talk so much better than him? Does that mean he is stronger? Is he going to challenge him to be the new Leader? It was these thoughts that kept running through Jaba’s mind as he answered the returned Goblin.

“Jaba...Leader...you...weaker,” said Jaba, with a sort of questioning gaze.

“So your name’s Jaba? Nice to meet you, Leader, I’m Rick, and sorry to make a request so soon, but is there any way you can help me with some food? A Goblin is starving here.” Rick quickly responded

Again, Jaba was shocked, the strange Goblin who called himself Rick didn’t issue a challenge to be Leader, instead, he asked for food. Although this was surprising for Jaba, he was a simple Goblin. If this Goblin accepted him as the Leader, then it was his job to take care of him.

“Come...village...food,” said Jaba as he walked away without really waiting for a response from any of the three Goblins.

Yessir! I MET A GOBLIN WHO CAN UNDERSTAND ME!! This is great, I was getting really tired of talking to these two bricks. I’ll never discriminate against my fellow Goblins, but dammit I don’t think I can put up with trying to talk to walls for another second. Either way I made real progress here, this Goblin by the name of Jaba, seems to be some sort of Leader and he agreed to point me towards some food back at his village it seems. Wait, isn’t this gonna be my village as well? My very own Goblin home with my fellow gang green members, is this what it feels like for a child to be adopted? Hopefully, there's a lot of us, and many more Goblins who can communicate as Jaba could. Jaba also mentioned I was weak for some reason, I wonder why.

Ah wait, could this be one of those things where strength means everything?

I guess that makes sense considering we're monsters after all. Ah! Jaba’s leaving, so I quickly followed behind, while noticing the two bricks I was talking to before didn’t follow us but stayed behind. Are they guarding the exit? There was nothing in the cavern though? Guess maybe I can ask Jaba about that later, let's just focus on eating for now. Can’t put my best foot forward for Goblin kind on an empty stomach now, can I. With that being said, what does a typical Goblin eat? In the books I read in my past life, I think for the most part it was just raw meat...sigh...I don’t think I’m looking forward to my next meal.

Well, what did I expect? I’m a Goblin after all. Seeing that there’s nothing I can do about it, let's just assume the worst and maybe they’ll surprise me with filet mignon or something. I know that's a longshot by all means, but can’t a Goblin dream? Either way, I’ll eat anything at this point, which makes me wonder why it's taking so long to get there and why this tunnel is so long. Before I could decide whether to ask Jaba how far we were, I finally saw the opening and we walked out into another open cavern similar to the one I initially found myself in, though a lot smaller. Now my future home is in full view.

What the hell is this?