Karl Dies in this Book: Chapter 10

Apparently when you shoot the embodiement of the Greek sun God in the head he explodes in a blinding flash of light. Who knew right? Luckily my propensity for blinking when I fired the 4570 saved me from probable permanent blindness but I still felt it through my eyelids and spent a good fem minutes blinking away stars.
Karl was fine because he ran out the front door lest I actually shoot him the second time. So here I was deaf, blind, and still a little drunk with the cops most definitely on the way. My house destroyed. Even in a trailer park all the shooting and destruction would have attracted attention.
That was when the little, green troll who ruined my life showed up. At the same time sirens and screeching tires announced the arrival of the police.
He smiled a little smile, waved and calmly strode out the door.
"This isn't the trailer you're looking for." The first thing I heard as my hearing returned to normal.
This was followed by the sound of departing police cars and then silence. I had been sitting on the floor until this point, stunned by the sun God explosion. Karl was standing next to be looking concerned but as the burlap wearing, pointy eared, little bastard strode back inside I was up and stomping towards him.
"You fucked up my..." I didn't finish the sentence because he tapped my leg with his stick and I found myself on my back, on the floor.
Hey, that's where my axe went.
The Freyr had embedded itself in the ceiling. I looked over to find Billy Dee Yoda sitting on my desk, chuckling at me.
"Karl, kill him."
"Fuck that, I don't wanna end up like you."
"Goddamn it, Karl."
"That was some crazy shit, I thought you guys were done for. Good thing, Karl showed up when he did." He winked much like he blinked, long and slow.
"Come to think of it, why did you show up Karl?" My limbs were frozen, and I still needed to wash giant ball sweat off my head.
"You texted me, saying there would be pizza, where is the pizza anyways?"
"What? I didn't and there's no..." I was once again cut off when a Skip the Dishes driver stepped through the hole there my door was carrying several pizzas.
"Don't worry my man, I got this." The little guy waved to the delivery person who put the pizzas on the floor and left, "now, if I let you up you promise not to kill me?"
"whatever, then maybe you can, explain why a sun God just trashed my house and tried to kill me."
I suddenly regained control of my limbs, Karl had found some plates that weren't smashed so the three of us sat on my living room floor and ate pizza. The pizza was actually pretty good and by my third slice my head was starting to clear.
"So why was the Colussus of Rhodes trying to kill me and my house?"
"Did you think all the Fears were going to be shadowy figures hiding in the dark?" This came out between chews of a comically big peice of pizza.
"Well, you're the one going on about the light versus the darkness?"
"I just like the Star Wars theme, humans have as much to fear in the day as they do at night now. The Colussus was the fear of being yourself and the fear of being exposed."
"Poignant." I sighed taking another bite, "so, what next?"
"Well I think it's time for you to leave."
"Leave?"
"You didn't think the ultimate battle of light versus dark was going to happen exclusively in your home town did you?"
"Well kind of, gas is expensive."
"You need to find the others because the dark side is growing, and they are gunning for you and without help you're done for." His three fingered hand daintily wiped sauce from his chin.
"Well, first I need a shower, I have colussus sweat in my hair."
"Hurry up then. Pack everything you think you'll need, then unpack and pack it again."
"I'm already packed." Karl had eaten an entire pizza to himself and was now smoking in my house.
"Why are you already packed?"
"You said we were going on a trip, I got excited."
I glared over at Billy and stood up, "give me thirty minutes and we'll hit the road."