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“Once upon a time” is a funny thing. Unless you specifically say what time it was, it could have been any time. But anyway…

Once upon a time, the Troll tribes lived all over. One tribe known as Pop Trolls lived in a happy tree in the middle of a happy forest. You could tell they were happy because they were always smiling and singing. It seemed their carefree days would go on forever. Then giant people known as Bergens came down from the North. Any happiness they had was stamped out by generations of tragedy and displacement. They coveted the troll’s happiness, and what followed was not good. The Pop Trolls’ happiness was a great thing, but it could not protect them from being eaten. Nothing could protect them. It seemed they were on their own to defy their cruel fate.

But one night, just a month before the Bergens’ horrible holiday, a stranger came into town. A white-skinned man dressed all in black, with wisps of smoke coming off the top of his head. He stood tall and thin by Bergen standards, and his footsteps made no sound. He walked right up to the metal cage built around the Troll Tree, and without any effort, phased through the bars to the inside. He walked right up to the royal pod where the Pop King lived and whispered into it. “I want to help you.”

The king (whose name was Peppy) had been watching his twin daughters play. Poppy, the pink-haired older twin, pinned down Viva, the yellow-haired younger twin, and peppered her face with kisses. The three of them were startled when a strange new voice spoke to them from outside. They saw the giant man peeking through their door, then they saw the man turn into smoke and reappear before them, Troll-sized inside the pod. The man introduced himself as Famin Fortune. He claimed he had heard about their troubles and was moved with sympathy. He also claimed to work great miracles. King Peppy asked for proof of this power, so Mr. Fortune once again turned into smoke and went through other pods, alerting the trolls that lived in them.

Finally, he came upon the orphanage, in which there was a little Troll boy named Branch. Poor little Branch had been through so much pain he had lost his color and turned grey. As a wisp of smoke, Mr. Fortune picked him up and took him outside. There, all the Pop trolls watched as Mister Famin Fortune rematerialized and pressed his thumbs against the little grey boys’ eyelids. The grey faded away, revealing Branchs’ true-blue skin and hair. The other trolls cheered “It’s a miracle! It’s a miracle!” Branch himself stared at his healed body in shock.

Famin Fortune looked up at King Peppy in his pod with his daughters. “This is a small taste of my power. I can give you so much more if you would trust me.” King Peppy looked at the little blue boy, then at his cheering citizens, then at his daughters smiling at the crowd. Then he called down to Famin Fortune “We accept your help!”

A month later, on the morning of the day the Bergens called Trollstice, King Gristle and the Royal Chef were surprised to find the Troll Tree deserted, and their precious Trolls had run away. When they tried to go after them, big scary shadow monsters sprang up and scared them. The Trolls themselves ran underground through the root tunnels. Smoke tendrils pulled them along, protecting and guiding them.

When they finally came out the other side however, it seemed that several children were missing including the miraculous Branch and tiny Princess Poppy. The trolls wanted to go back inside the tunnels to look for them, but Famin Fortune told them “No. It’s too dangerous.” He promised to find the missing children himself, while the tribe traveled far North to safety.
King Peppy asked Famin Fortune how they could repay him for all he did. He said all he wanted to do was remain their protector. He also told King Peppy that no matter what, they must avoid contact with any other kind of Troll.

King Peppy said to him; “I’ve heard of other Trolls that live differently from us. I used to hope they might come to rescue us.”

“Rescue you?” Famin Fortune shook his head. “I hate to be the one to tell you this but…”

According to Famin, the story was this: The six most numerous tribes once lived in Harmony each practicing their own kind of music. But the other tribes grew jealous of the Pop Trolls popularity. So they, along with a mysterious sub-tribe, drove out the Pop Trolls, and when that wasn’t enough, they sought out the dreaded Bergens, and pointed them in the Troll Trees’ direction.

“So you see,” Mister Fortine concluded, “Those different Trolls are your true enemies. And if they learn you’re still alive, they’ll attack you all over again.”

This made King Peppy and his remaining daughter Viva very sad. But they accepted what Mister Fortune said as the truth.

They went as far north as they could go to the ruins of the old Bergen kingdom. Famin Fortune told King Peppy they could rebuild their civilization here, all they had to do was combine his magic with that of their sacred Pop String. Peppy agreed. Famin Fortune plucked the pink string with his long black fingernail. A fountain of pink light shot out, forming a giant dome the size of a Bergen castle. It was transparent on the inside, yet dark red on the outside. And Mister Fortune assured the Pop Trolls that only they could get in and out without his help. He also promised to on day find their missing children, including the Crown Princess, and bring them back.

And so, the Pop Troll Tribe were once again content and carefree. They resumed their happy music and made up new holidays to celebrate throughout the year. And they made a point of hugging each other once an hour, to remind themselves how good it feels to be alive.

And they lived happily ever after.

But not really.

Because 20 years to the day of the escape, something happened that turned everything on its’ head.

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Once upon a time, the Platinum trolls lived in prosperity, far away from the problems of the world, clad in extravagant medieval style fashion and hairstyles, adorned with fancy prints, ornate patterns, and outlandish headwear. These were ruled by Queen Celestia, who had once been the royal consort before the king died. Now she was the sole ruler. One day she went traveling on the back of her solion Solaris, with her three-year-old granddaughter Rosetta strapped to her chest. She is wearing a silver gown with gold trim and paned upper sleeves that reveal a white chemise underneath with a matching attifet headdress while the baby troll has rose pink skin and platinum blonde hair, tied in pigtails with a gold headband adorned with a bright pink rose. As for the lion, it has champagne fur with a pastel yellow underbelly, paws, and muzzle, a long tail with a long, golden yellow tuft to match its mane, which shone like the sun.

She was going to visit her home tribe, but when she got there, they were gone, replaced by a town of gloomy Bergens. She stayed hidden from them, and wandered the woods for a sign of what happened.

She heard a faint crying in the distance. She had Solaris track the sound to a hollow tree stump in which ten very young troll children were huddled together. There were twin infant girls, pink and blue, conjoined by their hair and sucking on binkies, a chubby dark blue toddler cuddling a tiny yellow baby, a red girl rocking back and forth, a silver baby glitter troll sucking their thumb, a purple girl with long legs all tangled together, a green fuzzling fast asleep, and in the middle, there was a blue sniffing five-year-old boy clutching a pink baby girl.

“Oh my…” Celestia got off Solaris and walked over to them, baby Rose still strapped to her chest.

“Hello,” she said, “Who are you?” They didn’t answer. She tried a different question. “How did you get here?” They edged away. “Where are your parents?”

“The Smoke man said he’d help us escape the Bergens.” The sniffling blue boy finally spoke. “We were all running in the tunnel, but when we came out, there weren’t any grown-ups. We’ve been waiting for two days, but they still…” his tiny voice trailed off and he started crying again.

Celestia knelt down. “My lion can help find them.” She turned to Solaris and told him to pick up the scent. Then she introduced herself. “My name is Celestia and this is my precious granddaughter, Princess Rosetta but I call her Rose,” she said as she held the baby’s tiny hand and made it wave at them.

“Hiiiiiiiiiii,” Rose sang at them.

The boy held up the baby girl. “This is Princess Poppy,” The baby girl giggled and waved.

Princess Rose giggled too as Queen Celestia smiled. “Another princess? That’s wonderful! And what is your name?”

“I’m Branch.”

“Nice to meet you, Branch.”

Solaris came back, holding a tiny troll egg in his mouth. He set it gently down. Princess Poppy happily reached for it. “Eeeeeeeeegg!”

Queen Celestia held out her hand out to the children as she asked them. “Until we find your families, you can come live with us in our home. Sound okay?”

Branch looked at Princess Poppy, then at the other kids, all younger than him, then he took the Queen’s hand. “Okay.”

And so, the Queen came home with twelve little trollings. The egg soon hatched, and out came a long-necked Funk Troll with pink fur and thick blue hair. They named him Cooper. The other Platinum nobles chipped in to help raise the royal wards, including Celestia’s daughters the royal duchesses, and Sir Cygnus of the royal army, who personally took care of Branch.

DJ Suki the red troll was apparently from a long line of Disk Jockeys. So the royal Duchesses gave her lessons in being a troubadour.

The glitter troll everyone thought was a girl turned out to be a boy, and he named himself Guy Diamond. He was so popular with the artists that he would model for them as their muse. As a child, he loved running back and forth in the hallways, spreading his glitter everywhere. He kept the maids very busy.

Biggie the blue troll got a job in the stables, taking care of the lions and horses and many other critters. He turned out to have a glow-worm in his hair. He named it Mr. Dinkles.

The twins Satin and Chenille were trained as seamstresses. They came up with beautiful designs that everybody loved. Little green Fuzzbert trained to be a healer with the medicine men.

Smidge the yellow girl was small but strong. She trained with the royal guard to be a personal protector. Legsly the purple troll didn’t have the Pop Troll ability to extend her hair, but she could extend her legs as much as she wanted. She and Cooper were trained in the palace bakery.

Whenever they could, the Pop children would take time off and hang out with Princess Rose. Even Branch, who was focused on his training as a page, would sometimes come out and watch them dance and sing. Despite being seemingly cured of his grey depression, he was still very shy and serious compared to the average Pop Troll. Needless to say, he was the Platinum nobles’ favorite.

Since Poppy was considered a princess like Rose, she was given special education alongside her, learning almost everything about Trolls and Troll history. (But there were some things they did tell her, for fear the truth would be too painful.)

When Princess Poppy was five and Princess Rose was seven, they snuck out of their bedrooms and went down the stairs to watch the grownups in the Annual Celestial Ball. The two princesses watched the grownups dance the Starlight Waltz, a very special dance to special music.

Rose:
It's so rare to find a friend like you

Poppy:
Somehow when you're around the sky is always blue

Rose:
The way we talk
The things you say

Poppy:
The way you make it all okay

Rose:
And how you know
All of my jokes
But you laugh anyway

Both:
If I could wish for one thing
I'd take the smile that you bring
Wherever you go in this world I'll come along
Together we dream the same dream
Forever I'm here for you, you're here for me
Oh whoa-oh
Two voices, one song

When Princess Poppy was ten and Princess Rose was twelve, they started combat training. While music came easily to trolls, fighting did not, so they made a point to practice a lot. Princess Poppy, now wearing a flower crown, and a short, blue overdress with paned sleeves that reveal the chemise at the elbows and shoulders, and the long skirt under her overdress, and Princess Rose, who was wearing a green, white, and gold tunic over a puff sleeved shirt, her tiara, green pants, gold tail rings, gold leg warmers, and her hair tied in a low, loose ponytail with small braids, were sitting on a balcony together, watching the knights train. Poppy waved eagerly at Branch, who is wearing his leaf vest, and a green tunic overneath the chainmail and dark gray tights with gray legwarmers and bracers, when he noticed, covered his face and scurried away embarrassed.

Rose:
Now every day is something new

Both:
And any path we take I'm looking forward too
The way we try and never quit
The way that all the pieces fit
The way we know the parts by heart
And sing out loud…

When Princess Poppy was fourteen and Princess Rose was sixteen, they both had their first heartbreak. The fourteen year old Princess Poppy, who is wearing a blue Juliet sleeved dress with a matching flower crown, had her love letter was rejected by a boy from a noble family that she gave it to. Princess Rose, now wearing a five pointed version of her tiara, a purple colored gown with double puff sleeves, a gold choker, purple earrings, tail rings, and her hair and rainbow braid hanging down along her back from a long, purple hennin, went on a trip to meet the Jazz tribe, and had a whirlwind romance that ended in her being dumped. The two princesses both comforted each other.

If I could wish for one thing
I take the smile that you bring
Wherever you go in this world I'll come along
Together we dream the same dream
Forever I'm here for you, you're here for me
Oh ooh oh two voices one song

And anywhere you are you know I'll be around
And when you call my name I'll listen for the sound

When Princess Poppy turned twenty, she was wearing a blue gown with a square collar, paned shoulders, long, flared outer sleeves, and pastel blue inner sleeves when she asked Squire Branch on a date. He said yes. Twenty-two-year-old Princess Rose, who is wearing an aqua floor-length dress with a gold collar, long, flared outer sleeves, tight, powder blue inner sleeves, and a gold five-pointed tiara, cheered them on.

Rose:
If I could wish for one thing
I take the smile that you bring

Poppy:
Wherever you go in this world I'll come along

Both:
Together we dream the same dream
Forever I'm here for you, you're here for me
Oh ooh oh two voices one song

They danced together on the roof, Princess Poppy now twenty-one, wearing a flower crown with an ornate blue corset top with blue panniers, and a light blue and teal short skirt with lime, dark blue, light blue, and emerald green legwarmers, and Princess Rose twenty-three, who is wearing a vibrant blue dress with midnight blue flower prints, a hi-lo skirt, light, grayish blue puff sleeves and gold trim, reddish pink colored leggings and orange legwarmers with a matching choker. She still retains her tiara, tail rings, and hoop earrings. Both of them uses their long hair as streamers.

If I could wish for one thing
I take the smile that you bring
With you by my side I can go on
Now I have all that I need
And the sweetest sound will always be
Oh ooh oh two voices one song
Oh ooh oh two voices one song
Oh ooh oh two voices one song

They finished the song with a pose, holding hands and balancing on one foot. They smiled sweetly at each other. Then Branch called up to them from the ground.

“Girls! Come on! It’s time for the exhibition fight!” He shouted. He is now dressed on a pale blue collared shirt, green ornate doublet, his leaf vest, lime green belts, brown trousers, and his usual gray legwarmers.

“COMING!” The two princesses called down to him.

Today was almost twenty years since Queen Celestia found the Pop children, now called the Snack Pack. And now Sir Branch and Princess Rose were going to show off their fighting skills.

They were in the royal training room. Queen Celestia, Sir Cygnus, Rose’s aunts, some nobles, the royal guard, and the Snack Pack all sat around the edges, while Branch and Rose stood facing each other in the center. DJ Suki is dressed in a cream collared shirt with puffed long sleeves and light yellow cuffs, a blue doublet vest with spotted pattern and a purple trim, a pink belt and orange colored pants with blue and purple trim while Smidge wore a pink bow on her hair and a bright pink layers of tunic with short sleeves, turtleneck, chainmail and gray bracers and legwarmers with a blue belt. Cooper kept his green cap but Guy Diamond is wearing an ornate vista blue colored doublet with slashed shoulders, a savoy blue belt and white, and a ruffled short shirt with a collar underneath. Satin and Chenille wore matching sage colored underbust corsets with flouncy lavender peplums and floor length skirts with cherry blossom patterns but the sleeves of their misty rose blouses set them apart, with Satin wearing short puff sleeves and Chenille wears long sleeves. Legsly wears a short-sleeved green dress with a drop-shaped keyhole and a lemon yellow apron over a matching chemise with short sleeves and a yellowish green long-sleeved top with flower prints while Biggie wears a purple tunic over a light purple top, a matching belt and grayish purple tights.

They both held wooden practice swords and wore light armor. Branch moved first, thrusting towards Rose. She dodged him, and slashed her sword sideways towards his midsection. They both attacked and dodged with finesse. At one point Branch disarmed Rose and sent her sword flying away. Everybody gasped.

“Oh my god!” Smidge whispered.

Rose without hesitating, somersaulted away to the wall where the weapons were hanging. She took a polearm and brandished it at Branch. Branch used his hair to twist and breakdance his way to the wall across from Rose.

They fought their way to a stalemate, holding their weapons at each others’ throats. Queen Celestia clapped for them to stop. “Bravo,” she said, “very well done.” She stood up, and the two trolls ceased their fighting. The other spectators stood up in respect.

Queen Celestia made a loud announcement; “Who better to guard the Crown of Harmony, then our future queen Rosetta?” The duchesses and royal guard all clapped.

“And who better to guard my castle than our adopted son Branch?”

Princess Poppy and the Snack Pack cheered. Branch bowed his head in modesty.

The queen held up her hands for silence. “I know it’s been a tough few years, what with the slew of refuges and reports of dangerous creatures out there in the wilds…” (she gave a quick glance at the Snack Pack as she said this) “But I have faith in the next generation. Tonight, I will name Princess Rosetta my official heir, and have a great ball in her honor!” Everybody cheered.

Later, the princesses met up again, in the royal gardens. Rose had a surprise for Poppy.

“I know it’s a few days early, but Happy Adoptiversary.” Princess Rose said as she handed Poppy a wrapped-up present. Poppy unwrapped it and saw a crown made of blue flowers. “Now you can be a queen too!”

“Thank You!” Princess Poppy gushed. “I Love It!” She immediately took the crown and set it on her head in front of her ponytail. “You’re The Best!” Poppy gripped Rose on a tight Pop hug. “I’m gonna wear it to the ball tonight. It’ll be my big debut.”

“Good to hear. I’d rather make a debut with a crown than with one of those stupid suitors Grandmama wants me to meet.”

In the olden days, it was tradition for a Platinum ruler to marry someone from one of the other six main tribes. But contact with the other tribes had been cut off many years ago. So now Rose had to make do with members of the Platinum nobility.

“I’m glad I’m not Queen of the Platinums,” said Princess Poppy. “All I’m in charge of is the Snack Pack and they’re a massive hairful. I couldn’t manage a whole kingdom.”

“I don’t think I can manage it either,” Princess Rose admitted. “It’s so much responsibility. My ancestors were all such big successes, I don’t know how I can measure up.”

“I don’t know what my ancestors were like, but I know what it’s like to be responsible for someone…”

Poppy:
If they like to have their breakfast hot
I would have to give them pay!
Biggie has to fetch the eggs himself
And the barn's a mile away!
It's cold and wet and still I get
An omelet on my plate,
But in my head I'm back in bed
Snuggled up and sleeping late!

“How about you? What’s it like in the royal suite?”

Rose:
If I want some eggs I ring the bell
And the maid comes running in,
And she serves them on a silver tray
And she brings a cookie tin!
And while I eat, she rubs my feet
And strolling minstrels play
But I'd rather be in my library reading science books all day!

“You’d rather read than eat?” Princess Poppy asked.

“I’d bring the breakfast with me,” said Princess Rose, “But we’re not allowed to have food in the library.”

Poppy:
I'm just like you...

Rose:
You are?

Poppy:
You're just like me.
There's somewhere else we'd rather be.
Somewhere that's ours,
Somewhere that dreams come true,
Yes, I am a girl like you!

You'd never think that it was so,
But when I've met you and I know.
It's plain as day, sure as the sky is blue
That I am a girl like you!

“Guess what, Satin and Chenille got a license to open their own dress shop.”

“I love Satin and Chenille's Dresses!” Princess Rose said.

“They made the one you're going to wear!” Princess Poppy said.

“They made it? I can’t wait to see it!” Princess Rose squealed. “The design looks so complicated!”

“Oh, but it isn't really…,” Princess Poppy smirked.

Poppy:
Satin choose a fabric from the rack
And they pin the pattern down,
And they stitch it in the front and back
And it turns into a gown!

Rose:
I’ll wear the gown, without my crown
And dance around my room

Both:
And imagine life without the strife
Of an unfamiliar groom!

“Is it so bad,” Princess Poppy asked, “Having an arranged marriage?”

“It is if you have to meet my suitors,” Princess Rose grumbled.

“I guess we can’t all have a boyfriend like Branch,” Princess Poppy smirked.

Rose:
I'm just like you!

Poppy:
I think that's true!

Rose:
You're just like me,

Poppy:
Yes I can see!

Both:
We take responsibility!

Rose:
We carry through...

Poppy:
We carry through...

Both:
Do what we need to do,
Yes, I am a girl like you!

Poppy:
I'm just like you…

Rose:
I'm just like you…

Poppy:
You're just like me…

Rose:
You're just like me…

Both:
It's something anyone can see!

Poppy:
A heart that beats…

Rose:
A heart that beats…

Both:
A voice that speaks the truth!
Yes, I am a girl like you!

They twirled around like ballerinas. Posing on point. Then once again, they were called away from each other, Princess Poppy to meet with the Snack Pack, Princess Rose to meet with her suitors.

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The first was literally named Dullbore, and he kept droning on about his so-called accomplishments.

“The rock unicorn was no match for me. For I Dullbore, fear nothing. The rock unicorn charged me. But was I afraid? Not Dullbore! I drew my sword, performed a great flourish and smote the creature where it stood!”

“I thought you said it was charging at you.”

“Well, yes it was. But once it saw me perform my flourish, it stopped in its’ tracks in fear.”

“So you killed an animal that was scared of you?”

“Well…”

“NEXT!”

The second was even worse.

“Your hair and face are like nothing to be seen. Your skin is like delicious candy. One look at you reduces me to my most animal instincts. For you I’ve cultivated this most magnificent of flowers.” He offered her a hydrangea branch she recognized from the castle garden.

“Did you really cultivate that or did you pick it on your way over?”

He tried to deflect the question.

“I obviously can’t trust you.” Rose told him.

“I can’t help it. When I see you I”-

“You can help it you just won’t. NEXT!”

The third one tried to serenade her while playing the triangle.

“Do Or Die says, do or die says, do or die says IIIIIIIIII!”

“Definitely die.” Princess Rose deadpanned.

“Come on all my friends say I’m a catch! I just need a chance!”

“Or new friends. NEXT!”

The fourth suitor was obviously too young for her, and she was surprised he had been allowed in.

“I know you have a lot of options, and the honor you do me here flatters, um... my honor.”

She asked where his parents were. He panicked and left.

“Are we done?” Rose asked her chaperone. He sighed. “Sure…”

Meanwhile, Princess Poppy and Branch were interviewing new residents. Many trolls of all kinds had come over the years, telling stories of troll-eating monsters and walking shadows that sucked out your soul. Today, they talked to a married trio of Reggaeton Trolls and K-Pop quintuplets. Both groups mentioned a mysterious forest far to the east. But nobody had met any Pop Trolls.

“Say Branch, you’re older than me. Not old-old, but older, do you remember anything from the Troll Tree?”

“Not much.” Branch answered bluntly.

“Come on, tell me something!”

“I don’t like to think about it.”

“Pleeeeeeeeease?”

“Fine. There was, were… a lot of bands.”

“Oooo! Bands! How exciting!”

“Yeah.”

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That night, at the grand ball, Queen Celestia presented Princess Rose with the Platinum Tribes’ oldest relic; The Crown of Harmony, which glowed when placed on the rightful ruler. The princess appeared in a vibrant blue and pastel pink ballgown with bright blue flower prints, gold trim, Juliet sleeves, a high collar, and a golden bow at the center. She accessorizes with a gold choker, matching earrings with pearls and turquoise, and a matching hennin with a pink veil. She still retains her tiara and tail rings but her hair is fixed in a large braid.

“IT’S ROSE!” Biggie shouted from the crowd. “I KNOW HER!” The Snack Pack quickly shushed him, and many Platinum nobles gave him the stink eye.

The Platinum Capital shone like a beacon in the darkness. From out of the darkness, someone tall and thin strode towards the light.

At the ball, Princess Rose admired the portraits of former kings and queens, her beloved ancestors. The earliest ruler had been King Cygnus, after whom Sir Cygnus was named. Sir Cygnus himself was dancing with Queen Celestia, and Branch, who is wearing his leaf vest with a matching light grayish blue doublet with paned bishop sleeves, brown pants, and gray legwarmers, was dancing with Princess Poppy, who is dressed in her new flower crown and a blue gown with a square neckline, panned style shoulders with bishop sleeves, and wrist ruffles that match her hennin, which has a teal veil.

Suddenly, all the candles sputtered at once, creating a big puff of smoke. The candles went back to normal, but the smoke cloud formed a solid figure before clearing. There stood a white-skinned man in black clothing, as tall as the ballroom ceiling, with wisps of smoke coming out of his head.

He smiled down at the trolls, at the Snack Pack especially. “There you are!”

The trolls looked up at him in shock. Cooper pooped out cupcakes in terror.

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Once upon a time, when Branch was ten, Sir Cygnus made him a page in the Royal Platinum Army. Sir Cygnus was an old troll, but still very strong, and had a big scar on the left side of his face. On Branch’s first night watch, Sir Cygnus stood up with him and told him the story of where the scar came from.

“It was about ten years before your lot came to live with us. Our capital was attacked by a mad jinn that tried to make off with our Queen Celi.”

“What’s a jinn?” The shy boy asked him.

“They’re a race of spirit people who live way down south, or they did before they disappeared. They’re like ghosts, yet alive,” he answered. “They can walk through walls and teleport through puffs of smoke. What’s more, they can live for a hundred years. Anyway this jinn came to our home demanding our best singer. And our best singer was the queen. When she wouldn’t come willingly, he lashed out at our home with fire and magic. The army tried to fight him off, but he confused them with horrible visions, making us think the world was upside down. The citizens had to flee, the king and queen with them.”

“What did you do?” He asked him.

“It was in that darkest hour, I saw an opening! All jinn have a core; like a heart and brain merged together, and I could see his glowing inside him as he wreaked havoc. I went to the highest point I could reach, and got his attention yelling; ‘GO BACK TO THE SHADOWS FROM WHENCE YOU CAME!”

“That’s a good line,” Branch said.

“Thanks,” Sir Cygnus chuckled. “I came up with it on the spot.”

“He looked up at me, I launched myself at him. He drew up a wall of fire. And the next thing I knew, I was waking up in an infirmary. Apparently I nicked his core when I hit him. We had to evacuate the old capital. The mad jinn had slunk off after I wounded him. We haven’t seen him since then, but if he ever comes back, I’ll be ready for him.”

Young Branch puffed out his thin chest. “I’ll be ready too!”

Sir Cygnus chuckled again, and poked Branch in his belly. “That’s the spirit kiddo!”

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That was then this was now.

Branch, along with everyone else, was looking at the tall, sinister man staring down at them all. Recognition flickered in his mind. This was the man from all those years ago! “Mister… Fortune…” The name rose to his lips. Mister Fortune looked right at him and reached for him but Princess Poppy attacked the man with her hair. The royal guard took up arms.

Sir Cygnus unsheathed his sword and pointed it at the jinn. The same jinn who attacked the Platinum Tribe all those years ago. Branch couldn’t process it; how could the person who cured his greyness be the same creature that injured his mentor?

The old knight charged Famin Fortune with his sword. Famin evaporated just as the sword was about to make contact. He reappeared right behind the Snack Pack. “My long-lost pop stars,” he whispered while reaching for them again. They panicked and scattered, Poppy pulling Branch by the hand, DJ Suki with the twins, Biggi with Smidge and Fuzzbert in his arms, Legsly scooping up Guy Diamond, and Cooper running away with his pop girlfriend Justina.

Famin Fortune searched for them in the crowd like a Bergen searching for a bug in the grass. He kept spotting them and grabbing them, once, twice, three times, but each time he ended up grabbing a suitor instead. He looked closely at each screaming man, then shrugged and slipped him into his coat. Sir Cygnus kept attacking him, but Famin would evaporate out of the way each time. Princess Rose tried to attack him too, but her aunts held her back.

“Stand back,” Queen Celestia shouted as everyone backed against the walls. Then holding the crown, she sang an operatic aria that formed glowing ripples and blasted the intruder in his face. It worked, but the blast's force blasted her backward through the wall.

“To be continued,” Famin Fortune said, giving the Snack Pack one last glance. Then he evaporated into black smoke and flew away. Princess Rose ran after him, getting as far as the wall before she lost him.

“YOUR HIGHNESS! COME QUICK! QUEEN CELESTIA IS HURT!” Her chancellor told her the news.

Princess Rose ran back to the castle. Queen Celestia was taken to her bedroom and the doctors rushed to bandage her body.

“Oh Grandma!” Princess Rose sobbed and rushed to her side. The duchesses also sat by the bed, crying. From all over, the other trolls came running too. Princess Poppy checked on random guests making sure they were okay. Cooper and Biggie sat in a corner. Guy Diamond was being tended to by his many boyfriends. Sir Cygnus sat with Branch. On the word, they rushed to her side with Poppy.

Queen Celestia gripped Princess Rose's hand. “Go,” she whispered weakly.

“What?” Princess Rose blubbered. Poppy came in, followed by the Snack Pack. Branch held back, stunned by the painful scene. It brought back painful memories.

“You must go.. find the tribes… bring them back together,” she said. “You’re the queen now.”

“No grandma, don’t talk like that,” Princess Rose wiped her eyes. “You’re going to be fine.”

Amidst all the chaos going around the castle, the bedroom was quiet and tense.

Celestia held up the crown. “This will lead you to the others. I’ve been collecting reports from the outside. Most evacuees have been coming from the north. That’s where they are, your people…” she looked at Princess Poppy, “and mine.”

“Your people?” Princess Poppy asked, her voice breaking.

“I came from the Pop tribe before the Bergens came, I competed with trolls from other tribes to marry your grandfather.”

Princess Rose cried, unable to speak but Celestia handed her the crown. “Play the Starlight Waltz and the gems will lead you to the other leaders.”

“No,” Princess Rose insisted. “I can’t leave you.”

“There’s nowhere you can go that I can’t follow,” Celestia kissed the kneeling woman’s forehead. “It is the others who need you now.”

Queen Celestia took a shuddering last breath and closed her eyes. Sir Cygnus and the aunts all knelt down in reverence. The new queen, Rose slowly got up, and went to Branch. “We have to get ready to leave soon as possible.” Branch nodded, dazed. Queen Rose hugged him tightly. Surprisingly, he hugged her back.

Queen Rose went to her bedroom and looked at the desk. There was a music box and a sheet of song lyrics. She took some deep breaths, and put on the crown. The eight gems in the crown; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, and white, all glowed softly.

She went to the window and vocalized a tune. Dozens of jewel beetles came. Each took a gem from the crown and flew off. Queen Rose removed the white gem herself, and stuck it in her hair.

Princess Poppy was in her room, furiously packing. A jewel beetle came straight to her with the pink gem and handed it to her. She looked at it in shock. Branch sat on the floor, knees held to his chest. All that training, and he couldn’t do anything.

Tresillo and his wives Marimba and Tambora, were among the worried crowd gathering at the castle. A jewel beetle flew down to him and dropped the green gem in his hand. The other five jewel beetles flew off in different directions, one south to the badlands, one eastwards to the sea, two more to the north direction, and one to the desert.

The next day was a hastily prepared funeral as everybody, now wearing black mourning clothes were crying over the death of the queen. The queen was dead. Long live the Queen. Cooper brought his pop girlfriend Justina. They kept wiping their eyes with their hair. Guy Diamond spent time with his lovers, and came to the funeral with an egg.

Everyone had a bag packed. Queen Rose, who is now wearing an ornate hot pink corset with gold laces and a white and gold breastplate covered in diamond patterns and an oval shaped diamond at the center overneath a baby pink blouse with Juliet sleeves and gold bracers, a matching open front skirt, a pink choker, bright purple tights, and gold legwarmers with her signature tiara, hoop earrings, and tail rings, had her solion, Majesty, the son of Solaris, saddled and ready for them outside the castle walls. A row of swag stags, armadillo buses, rock unicorns, and caterbuses were lined up behind her and the Snack Pack, now wearing their signature outfits stood beside her.

She made an announcement. “My eldest aunt will be in charge until I return. We will go out to find the missing tribes and reunite them with our people.”

The people clapped politely. That was Queen Rose’s first speech. It felt terrifying.

They left quickly. Queen Rose kept the music box in her hair. She got on Majesty’s back with her best buddies following her on their rides. Princess Poppy hitched on a pop unicorn, Branch got on an umbrigis, and the rest of the snack pack took the Caterbus with Biggie driving the wheel. They set out in line.

Queen Rose:
Here we are now
Everything is about to change
We face tomorrow as we say goodbye to yesterday
A chapter ending but the story's only just begun
A page is turning for everyone

So I'm moving on
Letting go
Holding on to tomorrow
I've always got the memories while I'm finding out who I'm gonna be
We might be apart but I hope you always know
You'll be with me wherever I go
Wherever I go

So excited I can barely even catch my breath
We have each other to lean on for the road ahead
This happy ending is the start of all our dreams
And I know your heart is with me

So I'm moving on
Letting go
Holding on to tomorrow
I've always got the memories while I'm finding out who I'm gonna be
We might be apart but I hope you always know
You'll be with me wherever I go

Its time to show the world we've got something to say
A song to sing out loud we'll never fade away
I know I'll miss you but we'll meet again someday
We'll never fade away

So I'm moving on
Letting go
Holding on to tomorrow
I've always got the memories while I'm finding out who I'm gonna be
We might be apart but I hope you always know
You'll be with me

So I'm moving on
Letting go
Holding on to tomorrow
I've always got the memories while I'm finding out who I'm gonna be
We might be apart but I hope you always know
You'll be with me wherever I go

Wherever I, wherever I go

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, two years after the Pop Trolls escaped from BergenTown, the exiled Royal Chef was out in the woods. She was, as she always was, searching for the little creatures that were her ticket to the good life. She was about to set out camp when a stranger approached her. He was thin, tall, and pale, with black hair and fancy black clothes. He told her that if she gave up her search for the Pop Trolls, he would help her find a great variety of Trolls for her and her fellow Bergens.

“Tell me,” he said, “Do you like Classical Music?”

He showed her the mountains where Symphoyville lay. Then with his help, she caught some of the flying yellow trolls in a net. She “taste-tested” one when she got back to camp, and felt a surge of euphoria rush through her blood vessels. The man, whose name was Famin Fortune, told her he knew an even better way to extract happiness from Trolls.

She was going to BergenTown with her discovery, but on the way, she came across other Bergens wandering in the wilds. So consumed by misery were they, that they abandoned their homes and families.

The Chef thought to herself. “Why should I go back to that ungrateful kingdom when I can build my kingdom out here?”

And so she and the wandering Bergens built their town on the other side of the forest. Every few weeks, they’d go out to the mountains or the coast or the desert, or even to the badlands where the volcanoes stood. And Famin Fortune came through with his promise. He extracted not just the Trolls’ happiness, but their love, passion, courage, talent, and their very essence itself. It became the main ingredient in Chef’s new elixir, filling whoever drank some with a vitality that lasted for days. Trollstice was now once a month. The Bergens of the newly named Chefstown would spend the day laying about, pouring drops of the black iridescent liquid on their tongues with bottles. Their fashion that they wear is mostly colored black and dark green.

As for BergenTown, the Bergens who wore Viking inspired clothing, still lived there seemed destined for unhappiness, until something strange happened. With so many citizens gone, they all had to pull double duty to eke out their meager existence. One day, they all needed a drink. Some folks had brewed a beverage from the flowers that bloomed on the Troll Tree. Everybody stood around the tree and made a toast. Among them were Prince Gristle Jr and Bridget the scullery maid, both age six. Prince Gristle, a green Bergen, dressed in a red tunic with white trim, blue pants, brown boots, and a red fur cape, tripped and spilled his drink, and Bridget, without being told, or asked, gave him her cup. He felt a new sensation come over him at her kindness. She felt a similar sensation at doing something for the Prince. That sensation became a smile, a giggle, a laugh. And instead of saying “Thank you” and “You’re welcome” they just smiled at each other, holding the cup between them.

Everybody was watching them, but no one knew how to explain it. The two children looked happy without eating a troll. Such a thing was impossible for them, and yet…

“Junior?” King Gristle Senior asked as he put his hand on his tiny son’s shoulder who, startled, pulled away from Bridget.

“How are you feeling right now?” he asked him.

The prince, Gristle Junior, couldn't describe it. This was so different from the anticipation he felt on Trollstice morning. It was so peaceful, yet exciting. He said that to his father.

“And you,” The king turned to Bridget. “How are you feeling?”

“Umm, good,” Bridget answered. “Good, Like I want to jump around and wave my arms in a crazy dance.”

“By Jove,” said a Bergen in a green tunic, teal trousers, and brown boots, named Bibbly, “That’s exactly what happiness feels like!”

It seemed a miracle had come to the Bergens in BergenTown. One that would take eighteen more years to fully understand.

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It was an average day in the Pop Dome. The trolls were singing and working under the supervision of King Peppy. Princess Viva was patrolling the inner border on top of her flyer bug. She looks identical to Poppy but she has a slight dark shade of pink, makeup around her eyes and frizzy yellow locks. She, like everyone else, was wearing a white toga. Ten years ago, on the first anniversary of their big escape, Famin gave them all a gift of new clothes. They wore them to show their gratitude towards him, and he was so pleased that he got them more sets. Now, the togas were all that they wore. He also built a wellness center on the edge of the village. It had a spa and sauna, which they were instructed to use once a month.

Viva was riding her flyer bug, chipper as ever. An older troll named Sky Toronto admired her. “You remind me of my friend Bastion. He was such a good troll.”

“I remember that he married my neighbor, Jasmine,” Another troll named Mags Gumdrop chimed in.

“They disappeared before you and Princess Poppy were hatched, taken by Bergens no doubt.” Dr. Moonbloom shook her head in sadness.

A gong in the middle of the village sounded, and Famin Fortune arrived in a puff of smoke. He looked just the way he did when he first came to them so long ago.

“Greetings my precious ones!” He announced. “I have wonderful news! The long lost children have been found, all grown up and healthy.”

Everybody cheered.

“But I have some bad news. It seems they have been raised in a hostile environment and are now turned against their kind.”

Viva and Peppy both gasped.

Viva called up to him. “Did you see Poppy? Is she…?”

“She is healthy and beautiful. When I saw her, it was overwhelming. But when I reached for her, she and the others ran from me. I can only assume those other trolls poisoned their minds against us.”

The trolls all started murmuring among themselves in concern. Famin held his hand out to silence them. “But not to worry. I will personally bring them back. In the meantime, continue as normal, and remember your appointments in the Wellness Center. Courtesy of the village guru Creek.”

The crowd applauded. He bowed elegantly and vanished. Creek himself came over to Viva. He had lavender skin, teal hair that faded to green at the tip, and a pinkish-orange nose. “My lovely fiancé, it’s your appointment at the center. Allow me to escort you.”

Famin had chosen Creek to be Viva’s fiance. He was very involved with the village acts and Viva wasn’t so excited about the union. Famin was a great guy but he didn’t seem to be a good match-maker.

“I always fall asleep in that place,” Viva said. “I feel sore afterward.”

“That’s a sign that it’s working!” Creek assured her.

She sat in the sauna. Creek splashed some essential oils on the hot coals.

The steam made her light-headed. She laid down on her bench.

Creek left the room and went upstairs to the space directly above it. From here you could see the diamond panels that surrounded the sauna. He pulled on a pull-rope and a colorful mist came from Viva’s body. He stored it in another diamond container. He knew more than any other troll in the village. He knew the truth about the center, the world outside, and Famin. That made him special because he loved being special.

What he didn’t know was that Viva wasn’t fully asleep. She stretched, eyelids fluttering, her mind floating between dream and awake. A painful sensation woke her up; it was like needles sticking her all over and sucking something out of her. She gasped, wide awake, and sat up. What was that?

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Dear Diary,

Our road to uniting the troll tribes is harsh but filled with hope. It’s our first time leaving our comfort zone and entering the unknown. I miss having royal feasts and the lavish meals I had with my aunts but I was able to adapt thanks to Branch. We were able to know what fruits and plants were edible, how to set up camp, light the fire, and how to survive. I don’t know if I can unite the troll tribes by myself but with my friends by my side, it will turn out well. Right now, we’re heading for the hard rock tribe’s territory. I remember my family tree well, my great-grandmother Gloreth was one of them before she married my great-grandfather. So did many other consorts and my 20th great grandma Queen Odette’s dad, Jett.

I don’t know about the outcome but I know that this mission must be completed if we want to be united as one.

It turns out that Queen Rose is chronicling her travels in a diary while resting inside the caterbus with Majesty. She, Branch, and Princess Poppy, with all of their critters, decided to take a break from leading the group while they traveled.

“Majesty’s legs are sore so he needs a break,” Queen Rose said. “At least I can write the details about our quest.”

“Good for you.” Branch said as he brushed down his umbrigis. He is a large tiger-like creature with black stripes on a dark blue body. He named him Sylvan.

Princess Poppy was feeding her pop unicorn whom she named Fauna. Despite the recent tragedy, she was still her chipper, hopeful self.

“So, what do you think the Rock Trolls are like?” she asked her.

“Well, for starters they go by “Hard Rock” nowadays,” the queen said.

Princess Poppy put her fists on her hips. “Hard Rock? That’s redundant.”

“Well, don’t tell them that, they're also very aggressive,” She warned her.

Fuzzbert toddled up and babbled something to Princess Poppy. “Good point Fuzzbert. We should prepare a nice introduction song for them. I’ll get my mandolin!”

The queen stopped the princess's hand before she could begin playing. “Let’s not do that!” she said.

“Why not?” asked Princess Poppy, “Trolls connect best through music.”

“Yes but these trolls… they’ve been on their own for a long time like you guys were, so they're probably not familiar with Pop songs. It might freak them out,” Queen Rose said.

“Oh…” she nodded sagely. “I see…”

“Do you?” Branch asked, coming up behind Queen Rose, “Because you have that confused look on your face.”

“I’m so excited! “Biggie squealed, “We're finally going to meet our long-lost families!”

“I wonder what they’re like,” DJ Suki said out loud.

“I bet they’re awesome!” Cooper laughed and danced in place while Rose smiled at him.

“Actually Cooper, your family might be with the Funk Trolls,” she said.

“OOOOOO! Funk Trolls. I like that name! It sounds so cool and funky!” He laughed and ran around in happy circles.

“Calm down, we'll be meeting them when we finish meeting the hard rockers, then the country trolls, and the classical trolls,” Queen Rose said with a giggle.

“And the Techno Trolls,” Branch reminded her.

“Right! Them too,” She added. Cooper sat down, all frazzled.

“EVERYBODY LOOK!” Guy Diamond ran over. “MY EGG IS HATCHING!”

“I’m not the youngest anymore!” Cooper stood back up.

“We’ll make the baby clothes!” the twins squealed.

“Dibs on Godmother!” Princess Poppy raised her hand.

The egg bounced up, breaking apart to reveal a baby glitter troll, the spitting image of Guy himself. Everybody cooed and awwwed.

“What should I name him?” Guy Diamond asked. Queen Rose and Princess Poppy thought hard.

“How about…. Tiny Diamond?” They suggested it at once.”

Guy Diamond clapped. “Perfect!”

Tiny Diamond burst into song, and landed in his father’s hands. “Welcome to the world Tiny!” Princess Poppy exclaimed.

“Thanks Aunt Poppy,” the new baby said with a hip hop voice as he patted his fathers’ face.

“So, what’s going on here?” Queen Rose smiled. “You were born during a big historic event. We’re on a journey to bring the troll tribes back together after hundreds of years apart.”

“Ooo! Exciting! What a time to be alive.”

After some more rest, they set out again, and they soon reached the badlands. On the horizon was a smoking mountain. That was Volcano Rock City, home of the Hard Rock Trolls. As they got closer, they saw something moving around the base of the volcano. Branch was the first troll to see what it was.

A group of Bergens.

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Once Upon A Time, Volcano Rock City was the strongest fortress in all trolldom. That strength had been tested several times over the years by the Bergens constant attacks. The Hard Rock Trolls threw everything they had at them, but they kept coming, stealing some trolls every time. Today Volcano Rock City, again. And the Hard Rock Trolls were holding their own, again. The half-feral Bergens clawed at the volcano base and were repelled away by a sound blast.

From the balcony, Queen Barb instructed her soldiers to attack without mercy, so they set out wearing black armor and armed with weapons that ranged from polearms to heavy ones like maces and greatswords.

“Okay.” Queen Rose said as she took her Claymore sword and shield from her hair and strapped the scabbard around her waist like a belt before pulling out the sword from it. “This is unexpected, but we can handle it. Guy Diamond, you and Fuzzbert stay on the bus with Tiny, while everybody else will ride out with me, Branch, and Poppy.”

In a minute, she pointed her sword at each troll. “Poppy, you ready?”

“Ready!” Princess Poppy said, taking out her twin swords and holding one of them up.

Then, Queen Rose points to Biggie. “Biggie, are you ready?”

“Ready!” Biggie had tucked Mr. Dinkles into his hair, and gets out his bow and arrow quiver.

“DJ Suki, are you ready?” Queen Rose shouted.

“Ready!” DJ Suki held up her halberd. Satin had two swords, Chenille had a crossbow, Smidge had a mace that was twice her size, Legsly had a battle hammer, and Cooper had a lance. Then Queen Rose turned to Branch.

“Branch,” she asked. “are you ready?”

But Branch hadn’t moved. He’d just been staring at the Bergens in shock. “Branch?” Princess Poppy put a hand on his shoulder. “Are you alright?”

“Oh I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine,” He stammered. “I just didn’t expect us to be running into the monsters that terrorized our people so soon on our journey.”

“Do you want to hang back with us?” Guy Diamond asked. Fuzzbert held out his med kit with the tip of his hair.

“No! No, I can do this,” He reached into his hair and pulled out a battleaxe, and his bow and arrows. He strapped the axe to his back and steeled himself. “Let’s do this.”

Soon, they all rode into battle. Queen Rose got the Bergens’ attention by shouting “Hey! Down here!”

They turned around, and Queen Rose launched herself from Majesty's back and stabbed one right in the eye. Then she leaped from head to head, slashing and stabbing every Bergens’ face. Princess Poppy ran to the top of Fauna’s head, where a Bergen reached down to grab her. Then she ran up the Bergen's arm and cut her cheek with her sword.

Branch fired arrows from Sylvans’ back. Riding with him were the twins and Smidge on a wagon pulled by his umbrigis. The twins used their hair to slingshot Smidge into battle. Smidge bashed a bunch of Bergen heads with her mace before landing on Fauna.

DJ Suki ran to the ground and used her halberd to cut the Bergen ankles. Cooper rode on Fauna and used his lance like a jouster. Biggie stayed on top of the catterbus to protect Guy, Tiny, and Fuzzbert. He nervously aimed his arrow. “Oh, I don’t believe in violence. I don't believe in violence…” He shot the arrow, and it hit a Bergen that Princess Poppy was fighting in the chest.

“Nice one Bigs!” she said as she gave him a thumbs up.

“Oh wow,” He cocked his head in wonder.

The Rock Trolls watched the battle from their balcony. This was surprisingly impressive.

From the top of a Bergens’ head, Queen Rose gave the signal to Princess Poppy. She scraped her hair against the ground to light it on fire. She jumped on one of the bergens and burned her with her hair. Queen Rose jumped off the Bergen and tripped him with her hair whip while Poppy continued to burn the other Bergens with her hair until they drove them away. Branch noticed one of them had a familiar face as the bergens ran away from Volcano Rock City and into the horizon in defeat.

“WOO-HOO!” Cooper yelled, “OUR FIRST BATTLE, AND WE WON!” DJ Suki shouted as she hoisted Legsly on her shoulders in celebration. Poppy put out her hair fire and ran over to Branch. They hugged and kissed each other. “We did it!” Poppy cried. “I knew we could do it!”

“Y-yeah…” Branch gasped as he took a shaky breath as he came down from the adrenaline rush. “We, we did do it,” He glanced over at a dead Bergen and winced.

The catterbus skittered over to the main group. Guy Diamond had been covering Tiny Diamonds’ eyes during the fight alongside Fuzzbert and the other animals inside as well. Tiny Diamond didn’t know what was going on, but he was excited.

A loud thumping came from the volcano. The Hard Rock soldiers were banging their weapons on the ground, beckoning the party to approach them. Everyone sheathed their weapons and straightened themselves up. Then they went to the volcano with Queen Rose in the lead, and everyone huddled behind her but soon, they stopped in front of the door of the fortress.

“Okay, guys. Remember to stay close, be on your best behavior, and let me do the talking,” She instructed.

A lilac-colored male troll landed on the ground in front of the door of the fortress, wearing a black beanie that covered his eyes, a denim vest with armor pieces, a white, sleeveless tunic, black pants, a quiver of arrows holding his bow strapped on the belt, and a drumstick in each hand. He shouted to the group.

“BEHOLD QUEEN BARB OF THE HARD ROCK TROLLS!!!” He made way for the doors to open. A muddy red-colored female troll with a red mohawk, wearing a white cloak, a maroon colored gown with a slit, spiked armor shoulder pads, a black leather bustier, and fishnet stockings stepped out of it.

“And who,” she asked, “Are you?”

“I’m Queen Rose of the Platinum Tribe, I came to seek your audience,” Rose said.

“And we just saved your lives and you’re welcome,” Branch said sarcastically.

“Hey! We had it handled!” Barb snapped. “Anyway, what do you want?”

Right to the point, Queen Rose told her about her quest. “We know this isn’t your first Bergen attack. We’ve been attacked too, so I am here to recruit all the tribes to band together and fight our common enemy.”

Queen Barb scoffed. “HA! Good luck with that! I tried to contact them months ago and they never responded but you helped us fight off the Bergs, so you can stay for the night.”

They entered the fortress and there, they were amazed by the sight of the interior.

“So this is where Gloreth used to live before she got married to my great-grandfather,” Queen Rose gasped.

“Did she say her great grandma is Gloreth?” Riff asked her.

“Yeah, why?” Branch responded.

“She is known around here even after she was married off,” Queen Barb smirked. “I didn’t know you’re related to her.”

“She’s the Queen consort to my great-grandfather,” Queen Rose answered. “Their marriage is a happy one, unlike most of the royal marriages in my family.”

“Fascinating ” Queen Barb said as they kept walking.

As they entered the city, they saw so many Rock Trolls. They looked a lot like the Pop and Platinum Trolls, except they had claws, colored sclera, bat ears, and in some cases batlike noses. Their clothes have sharp simplistic lines and angles. The soldiers were play-fighting all over. Some trolls were lying around, half-asleep.

Inside the volcano was like inside a castle with blacksmiths, shoemakers, apothecaries, and even dragon stables. The homes resembled stage speakers and amps.

As they passed by the shops and buildings, they stopped to see a rock concert. There, Queen Rose caught sight of a rock troll playing a rock song with his band. He had china rose skin, marian blue nose, wild midnight blue hair, palatinate eyes, and light violet-colored sclera, wearing a black vest with armor, armbands, studded wristbands, and black leather pants.

Step inside
Walk this way
You and me babe
Hey hey!

Love is like a bomb, baby, c'mon get it on
Livin' like a lover with a radar phone
Lookin' like a tramp, like a video vamp
Demolition woman, can I be your man? (Your man)

Razzle and a dazzle and a flash a little light
Television lover, baby, go all night
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little miss ah innocent sugar me, yeah
Yeah, c'mon

Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon, fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
I can't get enough
I'm hot, sticky sweet
From my head to my feet, yeah

He was the most handsome Troll that Queen Rose had ever seen. She could not take her eyes off his performance. A shiver of exhilaration ran up her tail. She felt weightless and breathless and hot all at once.

Listen
Red light, yellow light, green light, go!
Crazy little woman in a one man show
Mirror queen, mannequin, rhythm of love
Sweet dream, saccharine, loosen up (loosen up)
Loosen up

You gotta squeeze a little, squeeze a little, tease a little more
Easy operator come a knockin' on my door
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little miss innocent sugar me, yeah, yeah
Give a little more

Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon, fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
Ooh, I can't get enough
I'm hot, sticky sweet
From my head to my feet, yeah

All around the courtyard, Rock Trolls were dancing around in erratic ways.

You got the peaches, I got the cream
Sweet to taste, saccharine
‘Cause I'm hot (hot), say what, sticky sweet
From my head (head), my head, to my feet

Do you take sugar? One lump or two?
Take the bottle (take the bottle), shake it up (shake it up)
Break the bubble (break it up), break it up

Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon fire me up

Pour your sugar on me
Oh, I can't get enough
Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
Get it, come get it
Pour your sugar on me (ooh)
Pour some sugar on me
Yeah, sugar me

“Who is that troll?” Queen Rose wondered to herself as they went around.

In the throne room, Branch noticed an old troll in a wheelchair being tended to by servants. He wondered if he was one of Barb’s relatives.

“The reason we came here is because I am on a quest to unite all of the troll tribes to fight against some smoke monster called a jinn who is attacking all of the troll tribes, along with his own army of Bergens,” Queen Rose said.

“So if you guys are uniting all of the troll tribes on your own, you want my army to join in?” Queen Barb asked her.

Yes, your Highness but without your help, the Troll Kingdom will be annihilated,” Queen Rose continued.

“What makes you think you're worthy of fighting alongside the greatest army in the world?” She scoffed at her.

“Because we have heart, music, and harmony, but with your strength... we can win,” Princess Poppy added.

“Okay, fine,” she said sarcastically

“That's it?” Princess Poppy asked confusingly.

“No, that's not it. The answer is no!” Queen Barb shouted.

“If the Troll Kingdom falls, all of the kingdoms will fall!” Queen Rose continued to reason but Branch cut her off when he stepped in.

“We're not leavin'... without YOUR ARMY!” Branch shouted.

All right, tough guy... You want my army so badly? Defeat one of my best trolls in the reckoning arena!” Queen Barb responded.

“Give us a second,” Queen Rose said before turning to Branch and Princess Poppy. “This is a really, really bad idea!”

“Well, do you have another way to find the pop trolls?” Princess Poppy added.

“You know, the Rock Trolls weren’t serious about the Bergens,” Branch told the two. “Let me do the talking.”

“Are you two done whispering? It's a little rude,” Queen Barb smirked at them before they stopped whispering and turned to her. “Tell ya what; have one of your guys fight one of my guys, and we’ll see how serious you are about this.”

“You have a deal. I'll fight one of your best trolls and WIN!” Branch said.

“I'm sure you will,” Queen Barb said as she left the place.

Soon, all of the hard rock trolls are gathered in a fighting pit. While Queen Rose and Princess Poppy sat in Queen Barb’s royal box at the arena, the rest of the Snack Pack were in a viewing box below theirs. Branch waited for his opponent with his axe. Doors on the other side threw open and out came Demo. He was a plus-sized, muddy blue troll who was twice Branch's size with a goatee, and his hair was styled in a sunburst. He is wearing a white vest, purple and black armor, wine-colored pants, a black studded belt, and black ear studs. He flipped and twirled his glaive around while the crowd whooped with joy.

“Yeah! Give it up!” he shouted as he looked at the Snack Pack and pointed finger-guns right at DJ Suki. “Hey, how’s it going?”

“Oooh, DJ Suki got herself a suitor!” Guy Diamond teased her.

“Okay,” Barb announced, “First to pin down his opponent loses. To make these last more than ten seconds, I had some hiding places set up around you. Now GO!”

Branch and Demo rushed at each other. Branch put all his strength into his first swing. Demo blocked it with his glaive, and sent Branch flying backwards, all the way to the wall. Branch hit the wall so hard that he made a dent.

Queen Rose and Princess Poppy both cringed in sympathy. Queen Barb sat back in her chair. “Guess you’re not getting my army.”

Branch unscrewed himself from the dent and dropped to the ground. He wobbled on his feet, dizzy and sore. Then he launched himself at Demo once again.

“So, you seem pretty in the know, Do you have any idea where the Pop Tribe might be?” Princess Poppy asked her.

Queen Barb huffed. “Don’t know, don’t care, we have our own problems down here.” She did a double-take on Princess Poppy. “You’re the chick who lit her hair on fire?”

“Yeah,” she answered.

“Nice, I like you Pinkie,” Queen Barb smirked.

Branch kept swinging at Demo with his ax, and Demo kept knocking Branch back like he was nothing. Eventually, Branch caught his breath behind a wooden board. Demo found him out and flipped the board like a seesaw. Branch was launched into the air against his will. He saw Princess Poppy waving her arms and calling out to him. “Heyyy…” He waved his hand and smiled punch-drunk.

“Do YoUr SpiNNiNg MoVe!” Her voice sounded distorted to him, but he understood her.

He gripped his axe and spun it like a staff. His entire body spun like a drill towards Demo.

Demo raised his glaive to defend himself, but the wind generated by Branch blew him away. Demo landed on his back. Branch standing before his chest, pointing his axeblade at him.

Princess Poppy and Queen Rose stood up and cheered. Queen Barb stared at the fighters slack-jawed.

“He Won!” The Snack Pack cheered.

“I don’t know what’s happening but I love it!” Tiny Diamond stated.

After the duel was over, the Hard Rock Trolls gathered in the castle for a celebratory feast. They had lots of spicy food and strong fermented drinks. Queen Barb and her family sat on one side of a long table while Queen Rose and the Snack Pack sat on the other side.

Queen Rose and Princess Poppy enjoyed the new food they tried, as did Branch and DJ Suki. The Fashion Twins picked at their meal. Biggie took a bite and immediately started coughing. Cooper took a bite and breathed out smoke. Smidge, Fuzzbert, and Legsly mostly focused on the drinks. Guy Diamond brought food from the caterbus for him and Tiny.

“Reminds me of the ruby chili cook-off back in my homeland,” Queen Rose said. “I started small until I got used to it.”

“I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it,” Biggie said before taking a bite of fruit.

“These trolls are scary.” Guy Diamond stated as he watched a table of Hard Rockers gobble down their food like wild animals.

“These trolls are awesome!” stated Tiny Diamond, who didn’t know any better.

Partway through the meal, Queen Barb whistled to get everyone's attention.

“Now that these trolls have proven themselves worthy, do any of you want to volunteer to go with them?” Queen Barb asked them.

“I’ll go with my band!” The blue-haired singer from earlier stood up and raised his hand. “My greatsword and I are at your service.” He smiled at Queen Rose, who grinned in delight.

“I’ll go too!” Demo stood up from his table. “You guys have my glaive!”

“And my katana!” A short, purple-haired troll named Val Thundershock held up her weapon. She is a light blue-skinned Rock Troll with purple hair, several white streaks, and red eyes. Her hair is styled into two pigtails with red skull-shaped hairbands, and she has purple lipstick. She has a purple hoop earring on her left ear, and two red and blue colors on her right, as well as purple studs. She wears a purple skirt, matching arm sleeves, a black vest-like bodice with leather straps and a red heart and crossbones buckle, spiked armor, and a black studded belt. She also has black studded bracelets, blue fingerless gloves, a black armband on her left upper arm, and a purple and red leg warmer on her left leg.

“And my flail!” a tall troll named Blaze Powerchord swung said flail around his head. He is a muddy purple Rock Troll with purple hair with blue streaks, a goatee, and a brownish-red nose. He wears a dark red tank top, black pants, a grey belt with a skull buckle, studded bracelets, a grey armband on his left arm, spiked armor pieces, and a hoop earring and stud on each ear.

“Okay! Eight volunteers! Looks good!” Queen Barb said. She gave Queen Rose a thumbs up.“These guys will look out for ya on the road.”

“It would be an honor,” she responded.

After dinner, the Snack Pack were shown their rooms for the night. Hard Rock bedrooms were sparse compared to Platinum bedrooms, with leather furniture and skull-shaped candles.

Princess Poppy and Branch were given their room. She personally tended to Branch as a reward for his heroic acts.

In the room that she shared with her brother Riff, Queen Barb took a guitar case out from under her bed. Inside it was an ornate electric guitar designed to look like magma and the head designed to look like a skull. It had only one string, glowing blood red in the darkness. Barb stared at the string for a long time, her face giving away no emotion.

One night, Queen Rose couldn't sleep well so she removed the music box from her hair. It's a small, white, round, hinged trinket box with gold details and flowers in the colors of the rainbow around it, a red flowering quince, a vermillion cosmo, an orange sunflower, a marigold, a yellow lily, lime-colored hellebore, a green chrysanthemum, a cyan delphinium, a blue lotus, an indigo bellflower, a purple violet flower, a violet anemone, and a pink peony with a rose in the front and the lid has a sun carving surrounded by seven star shaped gems of the same colors. She played it by pressing the rose in the middle, revealing a hidden crank, and wound it up. Soon, the lid opened, revealing a background painting of the troll tree in the night sky with stars and miniature golden sculptures of two trolls dancing on a painted platform, twirling to the song. The female troll is wearing a crown of flowers, a gown with an off shoulder neckline, puff sleeves and bands, and her hair is fixed in a long braid with two small braids decorating the sides of her face. The male troll has straight hair pointing upward, wearing a crown of leaves, long sleeved shirt with long, puff sleeves, Spanish breeches, and tights.

“I know that song,” She heard a voice somewhere. Queen Rose opened her door and saw the old troll in a wheelchair, smiling half-asleep.

“Pardon me, I was getting a midnight juice box, and I heard that song playing,” he said.

“How did you know it?” Queen Rose asked.

“Oh, it’s a well-known song,” he answered, “It's been passed down through all the royal families. The elders foretold that it was a prophetic song for our future reunion.”

“Reunion?” Queen Rose cocked her head.

“Don’t you know the words?” he asked her with a smirk.

“I only know the lullaby that grandma used to sing to me, but I didn't know there's a prophecy hidden in the lyrics,” she answered.

“Lyrics like prophecies, often have strange meanings to interpret. Think carefully,” he said. “By the way, do you know that your tribe has the ancient call to battle?”

“You mean this?” Queen Rose asked as took something out of her hair. It was a silver-colored triton shell that gives off a glossy, rainbow chrome effect which changes depending on the lighting with rainbow-colored stripes. She remembered when she first saw it.

“That’s pretty,” A young Princess Rose admired the horn hanging on the wall. Queen Celestia picked it up.

“This is an heirloom from long ago, back when the tribes all lived together. It was a wedding gift from the Techno Elder Cetus to the young Platinum Elder, Nut when she married his daughter. Their grandchild Amun is the grandfather of Cygnus the first king,” Queen Celestia told her.

“Oooh!” she gasped.

“He said if we ever needed help, we could blow on the horn, and everyone would hear,” she added. 

Princess Poppy and Princess Rose played with it near the dungeons when they were kids as Queen Celestia let them practice it in secluded areas so they didn’t attract anyone.

“That’s a very important relic,” The old troll said. “Don’t ever lose it, or that music box.”

“I won’t,” Queen Rose assured him. “By the way, what’s your name?”

“I didn’t tell you? I must’ve forgotten. I’m Barbara’s father, King Thrash. Former King technically. I had to retire when my legs went bad.”

“Well,” Queen Rose shook his hand. “It’s nice to meet you. Thanks for talking to me.”

“Anytime my dear, anytime,” He smiled at her, then wheeled away.

On the next day, the Snack Pack and their new allies are ready to continue their journey.

“Queen Rose, good luck on your journey,” Queen Barb said to Queen Rose. “When you’re ready, sound the ancient call to battle.”

“I will,” Queen Rose said to Queen Barb as they clasped hands.

Princess Poppy watched them in admiration. She wished she could do cool diplomatic stuff like that.

As the Snack Pack saddled on their critters, the Hard Rockers got on their mounts. Val and Demo rode dragons (which look like Monstrous Nightmares from HTTYD), and Billy Reverb, the singer, rode a majestic Rock Unicorn. Blaze Powerchord drove a creature called an angler bus, a huge fish that looked like a flying purse.

The Snack Pack waved goodbye to their new friends and took off to continue their journey with their new allies.

Chapter Text

Once Upon A Time, before Famin Fortune arrived in BergenTown, before the Pop Trolls’ big escape, before Queen Celestia adopted the Snack Pack, there was a boy band called BroZone.

BroZone was popular. SUPER popular. Trolls flocked to see their concerts, collected their albums, lined up to get their autographs, and memorized the lyrics to their catchy songs. Everyone loved their catchy tunes, their tight harmonies, and their smooth dance moves. Trolls just couldn’t get enough of BroZone.

One night, the five members, all actual brothers, held a big concert in the Troll Tree arena to kick off their Perfect Family Harmony Tour. The concert… did not go well. According to the band’s manager/grandmother, the brothers had decided to take a break from performing and go their separate ways for a while. All of them, except the youngest brother, who was only six months old.

The four older brothers, green-haired John Dory, purple-haired Spruce, yellow-haired Clay, and pink-haired Floyd, left under the cover of night. These turned out to be scenes being looked at by Famin Fortune through a crystal ball.

Famin sat in a private sealed room he kept to himself. He tapped on some symbols etched into the glass and the scene changed. He now looked at the older versions of the five brothers. Branch was traveling with the Snack Pack. They’d find the Tribe soon enough. Even though Famin couldn’t retrieve them at the ball, they would still be his in time.

As for the others, they were scattered all over. John Dory had been trapped by the Bergens and escaped, and now he was wandering the wilderness like a madman. Spruce sailed to some rinky-dink island, changed his name, had a family, and got fat. Clay, who had once been labeled “The Fun Guy” of the group, was holed up in some glorified refugee camp working as an accountant. And Floyd was living in the wall of some big person’s house. Famin couldn’t tell which house no matter what he typed into the ball.

None of them were impressive to look at. But according to the older trolls Famin had spoken to, they had the best voices in the tribe. Famin needed special voices for his plan, and now that Queen Celestia was already gone, these boys just might do.

He stood up and stretched his arms. Then he clapped his hands together and melted into a black shadow that slithered under the locked door. He’d left the crystal ball still on, and inside it was the scene of the “glorified refugee camp Clay was living in.

ZOOM IN

Before their precious Pop Trolls escaped them, the Bergens, in their constant happiness high, set about expanding their town with a pleasure district. The first and only construction to be completed was the Hole In Fun golf course. In the years following the Pop Troll escape, the construction site was abandoned, as was Hole In Fun. That made it the perfect hiding place.

A tall, blue-skinned troll with a stocky appearance and icy blue hair, wearing a dark blue tunic overneath a white long sleeved shirt, midnight blue tights, black legwarmers, and a majestic purple cloak/mantle/draped cloth fastened with a familiar family crest stood at the gateway of one of the attractions that he made as a home. A pastel purple troll with long, bright purple hair with pink highlights, tied in the same braided hairstyle as one of the trolls in Rose’s music box stood beside him. She is dressed in a dark green gown with flowy sleeves.

They were Regent Bastion and Regent Jasmine. They lead the hidden village of trolls (known as Putt-Putt Village) with the help of their three children; Linden, Aurora, and Twilight. Their son, Linden was out patrolling the border fence, while the twin girls Aurora and Twilight farmed some land that used to be putting green. Of all the Trolls that lived in Putt-Putt Village, most of them were Classical Trolls who fled their mountain homeland. There were also trolls from the sub-tribes such as Jazz, Polka, and Mariachi Trolls. There was also one Pop Troll who kept to himself in the admissions building.

“Clay, we got new arrivals in the Putt-Putt Village!” a male voice shouted out.

“Coming, sir!” Another male voice answered from the admissions building.

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Dear Diary,

The Hard Rock Trolls are quite easy to win, thanks to my skills in foreign affairs after years of training with my grandma but we couldn’t find the Country Trolls. Things aren’t easy for us because they have been gone for years. I bet they’re moving from one place to another so I hope we find them first before those bergens come for them. I heard they have disappeared as well from their home because of the attacks.

“Where are we?” Princess Poppy asked Queen Rose as she was writing in her diary.

“We found Lonesome Flats but they weren't there,” she answered.

“Did they get caught or eaten by the bergens?” Branch wondered.

“From what I heard is that they left their homeland,” Queen Rose answered. “Now, they're traveling all over the place as nomads.”

The Snack Pack and their Hard Rock allies had made it to the desert. It spread before them like a big patchwork quilt.

“I’m tired just looking at it.” Princess Poppy said to Queen Rose.

“Don’t worry,” Queen Rose said, “We have plenty of water and provisions to last until we find the Country Trolls.”

They set out, wandering in the desert but after a while, they stopped for a break under the shade of a cliff.

Poppy looked over at Val. “So, you ever met a Country Troll before?”

“Nah, but I hear they’re real drips,” Val answered.

“I hear they’re so superstitious because they think singing about something happy will curse the harvest or whatever,” Blaze chimed in.

Princess Poppy chuckled. “They sound like a bunch of—”

“HEY!” They heard a voice behind them. They turned around to see a country troll emerge from the cave. She had turquoise skin, blue hair stuck in big curls, a green hooded cloak, and a yellow dress with panned sleeves that reveal parts of her chemise and it is covered in succulent prints. She also held a very sharp-looking pitchfork. “I heard that!”

Before anyone could respond, she threw her pitchfork like a spear at the group. It went past their heads and hit the wall of the cliff. They turned around and saw it hit a scorpion in the thorax, pinning it to the cliff.

“Thanks for the heads up,” Queen Rose thanked the troll.

“You’re welcome,” The troll said as she marched right through the group and pulled the pitchfork out. The scorpion fell with a disgusting squelching sound. She turned back around to look at them. “And what are you folks doing out here?”

“We could ask the same of you,” Branch told her. “You’re all by yourself.”

“Am I?” The troll smirked as she stuck her fingers in her mouth and whistled loudly. The group heard a low rumbling. A herd of buffalo came stampeding towards the cliff. Then there was a loud yodeling sound, and the herd halted at once in front of the group.

“I’ve never seen any buffalos around here before,” Queen Rose gasped.

“The name’s Dewdrop by the way,” The troll said. “Daughter of Dewfall.”

Someone leaped down from one of the buffaloes. It was a two-legged troll wearing a cream-colored hood and a red handkerchief tied around his nose and mouth. There were shields strapped to both his arms and one of them fell off as he landed on the ground in a crouching position. Dewdrop, who had been scowling up until now, smiled and ran up to him. “Hickory!” She cried out and embraced him. He gave her a warm embrace in return.

He pulled down his hood and mask to reveal a lime yellow ruggedly handsome face covered in stubble. Branch and Princess Poppy both felt their hearts flutter at the sight of him.

“I am Queen Rose of the Platinum Tribe,” Queen Rose introduced herself stoically.

“Platinum huh? Very nice,” he said.

Branch shyly walked up, holding his shield. “Uhh, you dropped this," he handed it to him. Hickory gratefully took it. “Aren’t you all popping outta’ the woodwork?”

Queen Rose approached the two of them.

“We need to speak to the Country Leader, can you take us to them?” she asked her.

“We don’t normally trust newcomers around here,” Dewdrop said as she eyed the Rockers. “Especially ones who think we’re superstitious drips.”

“That’s okay!” Princess Poppy interjected. “We can win your people’s trust!

“We’ll wow them with a great display of song and dance!” Cooper agreed.

“Aw, man!” Queen Rose nodded out of disappointment.

The Snack Pack (except for Branch and Queen Rose) were all posing together. Princess Poppy on Biggie’s shoulders, holding sparklers crossed over her chest, Smidge on top of her ponytail, who in turn held Fuzzbert. The twins on either side of Biggie, their hair forming a rainbow. Guy Diamond and DJ Suki stood on top of the rainbow, holding hands, with Cooper posing on top of their shoulders, with Tiny Diamond on his back. All ten of them were grinning ear to ear, ready to burst into song at any moment.

Dewdrop blinked, then turned to Queen Rose. “Maybe you should go first.”

“I’ve known one song,” Queen Rose sighed as she took out an acoustic guitar and started singing.

I remember tears streaming down your face
When I said I'll never let you go
When all those shadows almost killed your light
I remember you said don't leave me here alone
But all that's dead and gone and passed tonight

Just close your eyes, the sun is going down
You'll be alright, no one can hurt you now
Come morning light, you and I'll be safe and sound

Don't you dare look out your window, darling, everything's on fire
The war outside our door keeps raging on
Hold onto this lullaby even when the music's gone, gone

Just close your eyes, the sun is going down
You'll be alright, no one can hurt you now
Come morning light, you and I'll be safe and sound

Ooh (ooh)
Ooh (ooh)
Oh whoa (oh whoa)
Oh whoa (oh whoa)
Ooh (ooh)
Ooh (ooh)
Oh whoa
Oh whoa

Just close your eyes
You'll be alright
Come morning light
You and I'll be safe and sound

Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh

“That’s good,” Dewdrop said, impressed, “How’d you know that song?”

“I found it in the royal archives.” Queen Rose said humbly. “So, can we meet your leader?”

Hickory and Dewdrop looked at each other.

“I’m game if you are,” Hickory told her.

Dewdrop shrugged. “Fine, we'll take you to the Mayor but ya’ll gotta keep your mounts,” she said as she gestured to the many animals they’d been riding. “away from our cattle. You can keep the scorpion meat though.”

“That’s edible?” asked Princess Poppy, still posing on Biggie’s shoulders.

“It is if you take out the stinger,” she said.

“Maybe I could use the stinger for something, maybe as a weapon,” Queen Rose said as she took the stinger out. “This can be used as a spearhead.”

“Snazzy,” said Dewdrop. “I like the way you think.”

As they traveled, Princess Poppy chatted up Hickory.

“Are you and Dewdrop both Country Trolls?” She asked.

“Nah,” he said, “Me n’ my brother are Yodelers, the Country Tribe let us travel with them since neither of our peoples has a home n’ there's safety in numbers.”

Princess Poppy nodded along. “That’s nice, I’ve never heard of yodeling before but I bet it’s fun.”

“Oh, it’s the best,” He patted her arm. “I’ll give ya a performance later after we set up camp.”

They soon came upon the Country Trolls traveling in a big convoy. Some were herding animals, some were pulling wagons, and some were playing gentle music. They were wearing tartan sashes and scarves over their tunics, cloaks, and tights while the females wore long-sleeved dresses with capes.

“MAYOR DELTA DAWN!” Dewdrop screamed at the female orange troll at the front of the convoy. She is wearing a teal colored overdress with paned sleeves that show off her white chemise at the shoulders. “WE BROUGHT SOME FOLKS TO MEET YA!”

Delta Dawn motioned for them to come closer. A short, yellow Troll with a red beard and long hair was sitting on her back. They introduced themselves.

“Morning,” She tipped her hat to Queen Rose as she approached. “I’m Mayor Delta Dawn, and this here’s Dickory.” The little man nodded in greeting.

“I found them by the cliffs!” Dewdrop shouted from her buffalo mount.

“Mayor Delta Dawn, I'm Queen Rosetta of the Platinum Tribe,” Queen Rose said.

“Nice to meet ya.” Mayor Delta Dawn shook her hand. “And who’s your entourage?”

“They’re my friends and allies.” Queen Rose told her. The Snack Pack smiled and waved vigorously. The Rockers waved too, but with much less enthusiasm.

“Any friend of the Platinums is a friend of mine.” Delta Dawn said.

“So, where are we going?” Princess Poppy asked her.

“We’re going to look for a land to hide from those troll eating monsters,” she answered.

“That makes sense,” Branch groaned.

“What are superstitious drips?” Queen Rose asked Delta Dawn.

“AW!” Delta Dawn groaned, “Who called us that?”

“I heard it from my allies here,” Queen Rose answered as she gave Blaze Powerchord a side-eye.

Blaze and the other Rockers looked away in embarrassment. Branch, Hickory, Dewdrop, and Princess Poppy all snickered behind their hands.

“And what would a bunch of Rockers, Pops, and Platinums want with us so-called drips?” Delta Dawn asked them.

“The reason that I am here is because we are on a quest to reunite all of the troll tribes to fight the smoke monster and his minions,” Queen Rose said. “The reason you are all looking for a place to hide is because of them and the only way to break this cycle is to band together and fight back.”

“Aww! That’s very sweet of you honey,” Delta Dawn said as she patted her head. “If you can get the others in on that, you can count us in as well.”

“ALRIGHT!” Branch and Princess Poppy shouted as they high-fived.

“Nice Job!” Billy Reverb called out.

They helped the Country Trolls set up yurts to spend them night in. Everything had horseshoes decorated in it and each of them had a distinctive cowboy theme. While dinner was prepared, they sat around big campfires. Dewdrop and Hickory sat with the Snack Pack while Queen Rose sat with Delta Dawn and Dickory. Delta Dawn was playing her banjo and singing a melancholy song.

I don't know why I keep on believing you need me
When you've proved so many times that it ain't true
And I can't find one good reason for staying
Maybe by leaving would be the best for you

But these rose-colored glasses
That I'm looking through
Show only the beauty
'Cause they hide all the truth

“This song is so sad,” Princess Poppy said, “Is it somebody’s funeral?”

“Nah,” said Dewdrop, “She just really likes that song.”

And they let me hold on to the good times, good lines
The ones I used to hear when I held you
And they keep me from feeling so cheated, defeated
When reflections in your eyes show me a fool

These rose-colored glasses
That I'm looking through
Show only the beauty
'Cause they hide all the truth

“This is my kind of place,” Branch said to Hickory.

“Glad you think so,” Hickory said as he put his hand on top of Branch’s hand.

So I just keep on hopin', believing
That maybe by counting the many times, I've tried
You'll believe me when I say, "I love you"
And I'll lay these rose-colored glasses aside

These rose-colored glasses
That I'm looking through
Show only the beauty
'Cause they hide all the truth

At the end of the song, Princess Poppy noticed one of Delta’s banjo strings was glowing bright orange.

“What is that?” she asked.

Delta Dawn immediately tried to cover her banjo strings with her arms.

“What is what?” She tried to act nonchalant.

“That’s the Country String,” Queen Rose said. “I read it in the library books.”

“The… Country String?” Princess Poppy looked utterly confused.

“Oh boy, ya didn’t tell them did ya?” Delta Dawn asked her as she shook her head in sympathy.

“The older Platinum Trolls didn't tell anything about it to my friends here but me,” Queen Rose said. “I dunno why they only tell me alone.”

“Interesting,” Delta Dawn looked back and forth between the two female trolls but said nothing more.

“I heard you guys left Lonesome Flats after the same Bergens attacked it,” Queen Rose said. “Have you noticed some defects like lava effects and glowing eyes?”

“How’d you know about that?” Dickory asked her.

“I noticed a pattern, from Tresillo and Wani’s testimonies and the time when we fought the Bergens in Volcano Rock City,” she answered.

“MMMMmmmm,” Dickory made a growling sound, like a paranoid cat. Delta patted his ponytail and told Queen Rose. “We never encountered any Bergens until they started attacking us. So, we figured that was just what they normally looked like.”

“There might be a possibility that there are normal ones, not like the ones who attacked you or Volcano Rock City,” Princess Poppy said.

“Attacking Trolls is normal for Bergens,” An orange troll with brown hair said as he walked up to them. “You need some of us to join ya.”

“Are you volunteering to join us?” Queen Rose asked him.

“Let’s do this democratically,” Delta Dawn said before turning to her people. “Who wants to go with them?”

In response, multiple country trolls raise their hands.

“Okay, this is very difficult, I’ll just select a few,” Delta Dawn said before she picked her selections. “I’ll choose Gust Tumbleweed and Holly Darlin’.”

“Okay, do you guys have weapon mastery?” Queen Rose interviewed them.

“Of course we do,” Holly Darlin’ held up a pike. “I have this!”

“And I have this!” Gust said as he held up a horseman’s pick.

“We’ll go too!” Dewdrop and Hickory held up their weapons, which were a pitchfork and a mace respectively.

“Alright, welcome to the team!” Queen Rose shouted as a welcome gesture.

During the dinner, Queen Rose watched Billy and his band practice their songs. Dickory the Yodeler sat down beside her.

“New love is a great feeling it is,” The little troll looked back over his shoulder at Delta Dawn, who looked back at him in turn and blew a kiss. He caught it and stuck it on his cheek.

“You and the mayor? When did that happen?” Queen Rose asked him.

“Three years ago when we joined the wagon train, we… how do young people say it? We clicked, like you and your Billy, ” Dickory said.

“Oh yeah, we clicked, but the differences don’t bother you?” she wondered.

“They did at first, but we learned to appreciate them. Besides, we make beautiful music together,” he told her.

“That’s nice,” said the queen thoughtfully. She looked up at the sky with her knees pulled up to her chest and her tail wrapped around her. “That’s really nice.”

Then, Queen Rose went somewhere to be alone and secretly took out the music box and wound it up. The same music played as she thought of Queen Celestia in the night. Dewdrop approached her and asked if there was something wrong.

“I couldn’t stop thinking about my grandma and her death,” Queen Rose answered. “She sacrificed herself to save my tribe when the smoke monster attacked us but I want to give him a scar or something.”

“Sounds like you’ve reached the Anger stage of grieving,” Dewdrop said. “I went through the same thing when my daddy got eaten. I spent a month jabbing at everything with my pitchfork. That’s how I got so good at it. You wanna go jab at something?”

“I’d love to,” Queen Rose said.

The two trolls started to do target practice with Queen Rose using her sword to slice and dice the dummies while Dewdrop jabbed them with her pitchfork.

“Check this out,” Dewdrop used her pitchfork to stab a dummy and somersault over it. The young queen did the same with her sword. They spent an hour copying each other’s moves until they were both worn out.

“Dang!” Dewdrop gasped as she lay sprawled on the ground, feet in the air, showing off the four-legged knickers she wore under her dress. “The stories about you Platinum folks did not lie. You really are the best of the best.”

“Thanks,” Queen Rose said as she sat on the ground stretching. “You’re not so bad yourself.”

“Feeling better?” Dewdrop asked.

“A little bit. But I still can’t wait to have my vengeance on that monster,” She answered.

Meanwhile, Branch and Princess Poppy went with Hickory to watch him yodel. He had a great falsetto.

“You’re not how I imagined Pop Trolls, you’ve got this Platinum Elegance,” He told them.

Princess Poppy flushed and complimented him. “Well, we grew up with the Platinum Tribe but we held on to our heritage. Pop Trolls Stick Together! But I do wish I knew more about my people.

“I know how that feels, Dickory and I are all that’s left of the Yodelers, everything I know about them, I learned from him. And now we’re both paired with Country girls, so I don’t know what our future is,” he said.

He stared into space for ten seconds, then snapped back to normal.
“But here I am going on and we were talking about you,” he said.

“I have a question.” Branch raised his hand. “How long have you and Dewdrop been… you know?”

“Not long.” Hickory sat in between them. “I’m the first male she’s ever dated, so she’s pretty tentative about the whole thing. Even said we could have an open Relationship.”

Branch gulped. “An open relationship?”

Hickory looked down, suddenly embarrassed, “I’ve said too much. Forget I said anything.” He started to get up, “You too have a nice thing going and I shouldn’t–” Both Princess Poppy and Branch took his hands and sat him back down.

“Oh no,” said Princess Poppy, “We’re glad you brought it up. We’ve been pretty tentative ourselves.”

“Mostly me,” Branch admitted.

“And if everyone here is consenting, I don’t see any reason… why… we can't…” she said.

As soon as bedtime came, they rested for the rest of the night and the three of them spent the night in each others’ arms.

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The next day, they helped the Country Tribe find a new hideout in a cactus patch, and in return, they escorted the Snack Pack to the other end of the desert.

“The last place that anyone saw a Classical was way out here,” Holly Darlin’ said.

“How did you know?” Queen Rose asked them.

“We like to keep an eye out,” she answered.

During their rest, Gust Tumbleweed and Val Thundershock went scouting together and saw Bridget there. She is a portly, lavender-skinned Bergen with a unibrow and two pastel pink braids. She wears a pink long-sleeved kirtle under a long, white pinafore with two straps held by two brooches.

“Just back away…” Gust whispered as they both tensed up. “Real slow like…”

Then Bridget saw them. “Oh my…” she gasped.

“RUN!!!” They screamed as they both ran for cover.

Everyone scattered but Queen Rose and the Snack Pack ran up to the tree.

“Wait!” Bridget cried as she went after them. Majesty, Sylvan, and the other critters all stopped her from getting closer.

“She doesn’t look how you guys described,” Princess Poppy said. “Maybe she’s a nice Bergen.”

“There’s no such thing as a nice Bergen!” Branch snapped. “They’re all ruthless, unfeeling, bloodthirsty monsters!”

“Excuse me!” Bridget yelled up to them, “No we’re not.”

“Are you sure?” Queen Rose asked her. “Majesty, sense anything evil in her.”

Majesty went close to Bridget and sniffed her hand. Then, he noticed that she didn’t smell like smoke or smoldering lava.

“What did he see?” Princess Poppy asked her.

“Majesty sensed that this Bergen doesn’t have the glowy eyes or the lava effect,” she answered.

“So?” Branch asked as he withdrew his weapon. “Doesn’t mean she’s not dangerous!”

“Yes, there’s no signs of corruption on her,” Queen Rose explained. “But what are you doing here?”

“The truth is, I am looking for some edible mushrooms to add to King Gristle’s pizza,” Bridget answered.

“A likely story!” Holly spoke up with authority. “If all you want is mushrooms, you can find them anywhere in the woods!”

“So which one are you looking for?” Queen Rose asked her.

“Don’t ask her that!” Biggie hissed, clutching his beloved Mr. Dinkles to his chest.

Queen Rose ignored him and hopped down to a lower branch.

“I’m looking for the rare but edible golden umbrella mushrooms to add on the pizza,” she answered.

“Golden umbrella mushrooms?” Princess Poppy gasped.

“Yes, I remember seeing them as a child but I forgot,” she explained.

“From what I learned is that golden umbrella mushrooms look like umbrellas at the cap and they’re golden yellow but beware of the fool’s gold mushroom, the cap lacks the umbrella shape and it is poisonous,” Queen Rose said. “We use fool’s gold mushrooms for potions.”

“You’re not seriously helping her?” Dewdrop asked from her hiding place.

“I seriously am,” Queen Rose stated. Then she leaped down and landed on Bridget’s head.

“I’ll help you find those golden umbrella mushrooms.” She leaned over and looked at Bridget upside down.

“Oh thank you!” Bridget said as she beamed at the tiny upside-down troll.

All the other trolls watching facepalmed, except for Princess Poppy who crept closer to get a better look at the interaction.

“Are you one of King Gristle’s servants?” Queen Rose asked Bridget.

“I used to be,” said Bridget, “but I was kind of promoted to friend.”

“What do you mean kind of?” the troll queen asked her.

“We found a new way to be happy, and when that happened, the old King Gristle said I could be his son’s special companion,” she answered.

“A new way to be happy?” Princess Poppy gasped as she swung over through the treetops and hung by her hair next to Queen Rose and Bridget.

“Oh yeah, We found it by drinking nectar from the Troll Tree,” she explained.

“The Tree?” Princess Poppy gasped.

“My late grandma told me that she used to live in the troll tree before she was married off to my late grandpa,” Queen Rose said.

“So your grandma was in the troll tree before we came along,” Bridget asked her.

“Yeah,” the queen responded. “But do the flowers affect you?”

“I don’t know how it works, but we’ve been happy every day since we drank it,” she said.

“So, you haven’t been hunting for trolls?” Queen Rose asked.

“Oh no, not at all, you’re the first trolls I’ve ever seen since the Last Trollstice!” she answered.

As they searched, Princess Poppy thought she heard the voice of a man muttering to himself and a panting nearby. Soon, they found the mushrooms. Bridget set Queen Rose on the ground and helped her dig the mushrooms from the ground.

“So, I guess this is where I have to go back home,” she said.

“Well, it was so great to meet you,” Queen Rose told her.

“When will I be of service to you guys in return?” Bridget asked her.

“When the time is right, but now, tell them about the corrupted bergens,” Princess Poppy said as they parted ways with Bridget and got back to their team.

As soon as they returned, Branch and the Snack Pack walked over to them. He was looking angry.

“That was a really dumb move!” Branch yelled at Queen Rose. “She could have killed you!”

“But she didn’t,” Queen Rose responded. “She’s different from the other Bergens we faced.”

“Just because she isn’t corrupted doesn't mean she’s not a monster,” Branch retorted. “The Bergens that imprisoned our tribe weren’t corrupted. Neither were the ones that chased away the Country and Classical Tribes. And neither was the one that–”

Before Branch could finish his tirade, something jumped out of the bushes. It was a white-faced armadillo van with blue facepaint. Before anyone could react, it grabbed Branch, Queen Rose, and Princess Poppy in its mouth and sped away, leaving the rest of the allies dumbfounded. Soon, they started chasing the armadillo van through the forest until they found a treehouse nearby.

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, somewhere in the woods, a group of goblin-like species with green skin, fanged teeth, an animal-like nose, a tail, and a fin on their head that imitates a mohawk, were running around, causing trouble in their wake. They were known as the Party Crashers, a species that lived off the work of others. Ever since the Bergens started chasing Trolls off their lands, the Party Crashers had been looting the abandoned communities. Right now their leader Bash, was wearing a Country Troll belt as a sash. These guys were truly living the life.

Suddenly, a shadow slithered up in front of the group, and reformed into Famin Fortune who was now Party Crasher size. He walked right up to Bash.

“Hello boys,” he greeted them, “I see you’ve had a busy day.”

“What, this? This is just some stuff we… borrowed,” Bash chuckled and turned to the others. “Right guys?” The other Party Crashers snickered.

“I’m not interested in your nicked knick-knacks.” Famin told them, “Your burgled baubles bore me.” He held up an old BroZone poster. “There are some Pop Trolls missing from my collection, and I need your multitude of eyes to help me find them.”

“Oh yeah?” Bash laughed. “And what’s in it for us?”

Famin leaned over him, seeming to grow taller. “That’s a fair question,” He said, and without warning he grabbed Bash and flew him straight up into the air.

“Let’s discuss it.” He said as he let go of Bash, who immediately started falling.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHH!” Bash screamed and babbled gibberish as he fell. Famin floated casually beside him.

“I certainly see your point, but what can I possibly do for you in return? Hmmm…” He pretended to ponder the question.

“SAVE ME! SAVE ME!” Bash pleaded.

“Hmm, well that’s a thought yeah.”

“HELP ME! HELP ME! HELP ME!”

“But is it enough? I don’t want to feel like I’m cheating you.”

Bash cried as he clasped his hands together. “We’ll do it! We’ll do it! Just save me please!”
The ground was coming alarmingly close.

“SAVE MEEEEEEE!!!!!”

Right as he was about to land splat on the ground, Famin caught him by the tail.

“Alright, you’ve twisted my arm,” He said as he dropped Bash unceremoniously. “Deal.”

Famin landed gracefully on his feet. “Now then,” he addressed the gang of terrified Party Crashers. “Any more questions?” He looked directly at a Crasher named Archer, who looked away from him in fear and slinked off.

“No? Good,” He handed out some maps. “You will spread out, and find them all by the end of the week, or it’s flying lessons for everyone! GO!”

He lunged at them, scaring them into running away. Then he pressed his fingers together.

“Bring me my perfect singers.”

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The rest of the Snack Pack and their allies approached the treehouse as they saw the armadillo van run up the tree trunk.

The van scuttled into the treehouse and spat out the three trolls onto the wood floor. They laid there groaning, all covered in glitter.

“For the record, I blame you for this," Branch said to Queen Rose.

“How is this my fault?” Queen Rose asked angrily.

“If it weren't for the two of you aiding that Bergen, this thing would have found us, right Poppy?” He looked at his girlfriend to back him up, but Princess Poppy was staring at their surroundings.

It was like a thief’s hideout with boards nailed up everywhere, jars of supplies tucked into nooks, and maps pinned to the wall. And all over the floor were written words like RUN and HE’S COMING.

“IIIIIII, don’t think we should stay he–

“AAAAAHHHHH!” Somebody leapt out of the hole in front of Queen Rose! It was a blue Pop Troll with tangled green hair, wearing threadbare trousers and a shredded vest. Queen Rose couldn’t see much of his face because he wore cracked ski goggles over his eyes. He squatted in front of them on all fours like a critter.

“We’re here to save ya!” Billy Reverb shouted as he led the other trolls to rescue them. They stood in the doorway, holding their weapons.

The wild Troll ignored them and started sniffing the trio in front of him. Then he stood up and examined Queen Rose's hair. Billy Reverb raised his greatsword…

“Don’t hurt him!” Queen Rose said as she held up her hand.The wild troll was playing with her sidelocks. Then he laughed and jumped up and down. “Rhonda, We HAve Guests!” He shouted happily to his van.

Then he scurried around, giggling maniacally. The other trolls all watched him with great concern.

“I’m still worried,” Billy whispered, “but now for a different reason.” He slowly lowered his greatsword. The Troll went around grabbing random food items and setting them in the middle of the floor.

“It’s been so long since we’ve had guests, Rhonda. All we have are giants and smoke, but now we have guests! I’m so excited,” he said.

The trio watched him as he set up a dinner party in the middle of the floor. To Branch, he almost seemed familiar.

Billy and the Snack Pack tentatively stepped inside the ramshackle treehouse. Cooper and Legsly came closer and watched the troll open up jars of berries and veggies and dump them on wooden plates.

“Food is ready!” He proclaimed and offered Queen Rose a plate of blackberries all stuck together by their own syrup.

“Ugh, what a slob!” Queen Rose said out of disgust.

“Let me handle this,” Legsly said as she took a kitchen knife and some kitchen items. Then she knelt in front of the food pile and selected some food items. The others watched as she chopped and added ingredients into a big bowl.

“Try this,” she said as she popped a bite into the strange troll’s wide-open mouth.

“Mmmmm!” He smiled blissfully.

They all sat down to eat. The strange wild troll cuddled with Rhonda as they both shoveled food into their mouths.

“So, what’s your name?” Branch asked him in between bites.

“Oh right. You’re supposed to give those out.” He thought hard. “I am…” He hesitated. “My name is… um…”

“Oh dear.” Princess Poppy looked at him in sympathy.

“JD! That’s my name! I’m JD!” he said as he stuck out his hand for Branch to shake. Branch just looked at him uncomfortable.

“How long have you been out here JD?” Queen Rose asked. JD blinked a few times before answering.

“I have no idea. Ever since those giants started showing up,” he answered.

“He must mean the Bergens,” Biggie whispered to Cooper.

Before they could get anything else out of him, there was a loud thump outside. They rushed to the doorway and saw a group of Party Crashers wearing white masks. Two of them were caught in a rope trap while the others were pointing weapons at the unicorns.

“What the Fluff are those!” Dewdrop yelled.

“Scary lizard people!” Cooper squeaked in terror.

A female Party Crasher named Pow took out a bullhorn and spoke up at them.

“Attention: you’re all coming with us!”

“In your dreams,” Queen Rose said and she spat at them, which splatted the female party crasher’s eye.

“Yeegugh!” Pow groaned. She took off her mask and furiously wiped her eyes. Then she screamed. “THAT’S IT! Now You’re Gonna Get It!” Then the Party Crashers started climbing up the tree but the Snack Pack and their allies armed themselves with their weapons and fought back. The Party Crashers have a fair number of them fighting but the Snack Pack and their friends and animals were greater in numbers.

“Oh hair, I miss this!” Rose said as she slammed her shield at the short, stouter party crasher named Smack and gave him a broken jaw.

“I always wanted to do this!” Hickory said as he hit his mace at the muscular party crasher, named Slamm-Oh, breaking his bones.

Dewdrop had some of her hair tied onto her pitchfork so whenever she flung it at a Party Crasher, she could retract it back to her. “Yippee-Ki-Yay Mother Pluckers!” She shouted.

Princess Poppy and Branch choreographed fighting moves together while fighting the party crashers with their weapons. Billy Reverb and Queen Rose did a flamenco routine while fighting the Party Crashers.

You are the sun
You are the only one
You are so cool
You are so rock and roll

Be my, be my
Be my little rock and roll queen
Be my, be my
Be my little rock and roll queen
Be my, be my
Be my little rock and roll queen
Be my, be my
Be my little rock and roll queen

You are the sun
You are the only one
You are so cool
You are so rock and roll

Be my, be my
Be my little rock and roll queen
Be my, be my
Be my little rock and roll queen
Be my, be my
Be my little rock and roll queen
Be my, be my
Be my little rock and roll queen

JD was surprisingly calm about the whole thing. He just got up and pulled on some hidden levers in the corners of his home, and traps activated all around the tree. Any uninjured Party Crasher was caught up in a net or a snare. Pretty soon, all the enemies were defeated.

“Ha!” Queen Rose laughed as she raised her sword to the sky in victory. “How do you like that?”

“Woo-Hoo!” Billy shouted as he and his bandmates all did the Rock Salute.

“We did it!” Branch shouted. He and Princess Poppy hugged each other tightly. Then he looked over at JD and gave him the thumbs up. JD awkwardly gave a thumbs up in return. Branch eyed him with curiosity. Could he really be…?

“Retreat!” Bash shouted as he and the Party Crashers ran off into the woods.

Then, Queen Rose noticed the BroZone poster on the ground, which the Party Crashers left behind. “What’s this?” she asked out loud.

“Are these……” Princess Poppy gasped.

“I remember seeing this in my old room,” Queen Rose said. “Grandma found these when she went back to the troll tree alone and collected them when it was abandoned.”

“Why would she go there alone?” Dewdrop asked.

“Grandma wanted to see the pop trolls again, she tried to find them first when I was with her as a three year old but she found the Snack Pack instead. She went to the troll tree herself to see if they were there but when she got to the tree, it was abandoned,” she answered. “She was able to save their old scrapbooks and records, including this poster and kept them herself, she must’ve missed them and never saw them again so something like this is what is left as the reminder of her own tribe ever since she was chosen to marry my grandfather.”

“Whoa…” Billy gasped as he had to sit down after hearing all that.

“It was an age-old tradition for heirs to marry the selected troll in order not to cause a huge mistake in the family tree that will cause a permanent stain,” she said.

“Your family is very clever,” a voice rang out to them.

“Who said that?” Princess Poppy gasped.

“Twas I” A dark green figure said as she floated down from the canopy. She has pastel green hair with lavender streaks, pupiless eyes, a glittery starry effect all over her body, and pointed ears with a different mouth shape. “I am Amalthea.”

“Nice to meet you, where are your people?” Queen Rose asked her.

“What are you?” Branch asked in shock.

“I am a space troll, the Platinum royal family often seek our advice when needed,” Amalthea answered.

“You never told us about this before.” Princess Poppy said, still staring at their new visitor.

“They're very secretive and they were also evading the bergens so they don't show up more often to anyone else,” Queen Rose informed them.

“I’ve come to share something very valuable with you,” Amalthea said. “It concerns the prophecy spoken about in your music box.”

“I heard the word back then with King Thrash, and I don’t understand what the music box has to do with it,” she explained.

“What prophecy?” Branch asked.

“King Thrash told me that the song in the music box, the Starlight Waltz, is actually talking about a prophecy,” Queen Rose looked at him.

Branch looked back at JD, who was staring into space, then he looked back at Queen Rose.

“Can I borrow your music box?” Branch asked her.

“Sure,” she answered as she took the music box from her hair. Amalthaea looked at the music box and examined it while Princess Poppy looked at the poster that Queen Rose gave her.

“Huh, the smallest one looks a lot like Branch,” She said.

Val made herself comfortable on the floor. “This is getting interesting,” she said.

As they were talking, Legsly absently slurped up more food from her bowl. Princess Poppy noticed that Branch was thinking about something.

“Whatcha doing?” Princess Poppy whispered to Branch.

“I’m testing something,” he whispered back and he turned to Queen Rose. “Can you help me figure out where can I turn this on?”

“Here,” Queen Rose answered as she pressed the rose in the front and it revealed the crank.

“Thanks,” he thanked her.

Then, Branch cranked up the music box and played it to JD.

“Does this song mean anything to you?” he asked him.

“It’s…” JD wavered where he stood. “It’s doing something to me.”

“I didn’t introduce myself earlier, my name is Branch,” He made JD look him in the eye. “Does that name mean anything to you?”

“It’s familiar…” JD gasped as he started to cringe away.

“How about John Dory huh? Or maybe…” He glanced at all the others watching them. Then he leaned closer and mumbled in the wild Troll’s ear, “Bitty B?”

That did it. The troll’s eyes dilated incredibly large. He changed so abruptly there was almost a popping sound effect. And then he really looked at Branch.

“BRANCH!” He cried as he pounced on the smaller troll in a tackle-hug. “Oh Branch, you’re alive!”

The others watched in shock. “You know each other?” Cooper asked.

“He’s my oldest brother,” Branch admitted. “We were in the band BroZone together..”

“You have a brother?” cried Princess Poppy.

“You were in BroZone?” Queen Rose gasped.

“Oh my God!” Smidge cried out.

“Small world,” Hickory smiled.

“Awww!” Amalthea pressed her hand to her chest.

“Oh Snap!” came a deep voice. Everyone looked at Mr. Dinkles, the gloworm, who had actually spoken out loud! Biggie brought him up to his face and stared at him.

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“So, where do we go next?” Princess Poppy asked Queen Rose, who was checking out the horizon at the beach.

“Do you guys know this?” Queen Rose asked her as she showed the picture of an island.

“That’s Vacay Island!” John Dory gasped.

“How did you have this?” Princess Poppy asked him.

“I stole it from the Bergens when I was captured,” John Dory answered.

“You were captured?” Branch asked him.

“Yeah, they spent two months “studying me” or something. Most of it’s a blur actually until Rhonda helped me escape,” he answered.

“That made you go mad for years until you heard the song,” Amalthea added.

“Say, what made you drawn to the Starlight Waltz?” Princess Poppy asked her best friend.

“When I listen to the song, I often wonder if there is a way that one can bring someone back to life,” Queen Rose said but everybody was in shock when they heard what she said.

“Rose, don't you know that trying to bring someone back from the dead is a taboo,” Amalthea said.

“A taboo, I was thinking about it because after grandma died, I couldn't stop thinking about her,” she said.

“You don’t know that doing a resurrection ritual is a taboo because when someone returns from the dead, they won’t be the same because they would eat anyone who is alive to sustain themselves,” Amalthea said.

“How do you know that?” Queen Rose asked.

“There is a ritual that can bring someone back from the dead but…” she stammered. “It is forbidden.”

“She's right, all of the tribes have laws against it,” Val added. “You don’t know how one troll paid the price for attempting the ritual.”

“OOOOOOO! Scary!” Biggie shivered.

“Should we keep looking for the Classical Trolls?” Holly wondered out loud.

“We’ve come this far,” said Branch. “We might as well see if those Vacay people know where the Techno Trolls are.”

“But how will we get to Vacay Island?” Princess Poppy asked them.

“Our critters can fly,” Val said as she petted her dragon.

“And our angler bus has plenty of room for everybody,” Billy Reverb added.

“Thank you guys, I know we can count on you,” Queen Rose thanked them. “Vacay Island, here we come!”

The trolls, along with the animals and the wagons got inside the angler bus and it started to fly with the dragons over the ocean to get to their destination.

Chapter Text

The Snack Pack and their allies journeyed through the ocean for a few hours until they arrived on an island where they saw some humanoids with slim limbs and small noses, their bodies were colored in two or three colors with their hair and body being two different colors. They have horizontal stripes and braided hair that make them distinctive. The dragons and the angler bus landed on the beach and they got off with their animals until they were greeted by one of the inhabitants. Most of them are fishing or harvesting coconuts while the others are weaving baskets from the leaves of the plants that they harvested or going in and out of their wooden huts but he noticed them arriving and waved to them. He is a tall, laidback humanoid with orange-yellow yarn hair with pale pink skin.

“Welcome strangers to Vacay Island,” he greeted.

“Thank you sir, we’re here because we are looking for the Techno Tribe because I want to talk to their king,” Queen Rose said.

“The Techno tribe? They’re in the cantina over there, they’re having a rave today,” he said as he brought them to the restaurant where they saw the Techno Trolls partying inside as the vacaytioners were serving food to them.

“Wow!” Princess Poppy gasped as she looked around. “This place is beautiful!” The Techno Trolls were fishlike, with fin-like legs, neon colors, a pixelized heart on their chests, and long stringy hair, wearing seafaring medieval outfits with accessories made out of pearls, seashells, and corals , dancing to the beat of the music with some of the vacaytioners. On top of the cantina’s bar, there was a dark blue troll with rainbow color patterns on his arms, a glowing pink heart on his chest, blue, purple, and pink colored rectangular patterns on his fins, green eyes with black pupils, and neon green hair decorated with purple beads, wearing a neon blue vest overneath a white long sleeved shirt, purple belts with one of them worn as a sash, and dark blue pants. He and three other Trolls were floating in a dance and singing a strange song.

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, trash it, change it, mail, upgrade it
Charge it, point it, zoom it, press it, snap it, work it, quick erase it
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it, load it, check it, quick rewrite it
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it, rip it

Technologic
Technologic
Technologic

Lock it, fill it, call it, find it, view it, code it, jam, unlock it
Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it, cross it, crack it, switch, update it
Name it, read it, tune it, print it, scan it, send it, fax, rename it
Touch it, touch it, touch it, touch it

Technologic

Technologic
Daft remix
Jaxx remix
Technologic

Technologic
Technologic
Technologic
Technologic

Technologic
Technologic
Technologic
Technologic
Technologic

They all bowed after they finished. Everybody was so tired from dancing that the vacaytioners working at the cantina would come and serve them food. One of the techno trolls, a dark pink skinned troll with purple hair and yellow eyes, blue eyelashes, blue and yellow patterns on her arms, and matching pearls on her fins, wearing a pink corset with a pale pink off shoulder top underneath and a neon pink skirt.

“King Trollex,” she called out, “There are some trolls here to see you.”

The dark blue troll floated over to the group, his eyes filled with curiosity. “Oh my, who are you guys?”

“I’m Queen Rose of the Platinum Tribe,” Queen Rose introduced herself. “I’m on a quest to unite the tribe to fight our common enemy. Have you encountered any Bergens? Like the ones with lava effects?”

“Is that what those creatures are called? Yeah, they used to attack our reef every few months. That’s why we migrated here, where the Vacaytioners took us in.” He said as he looked her up and down. “How do you plan to fight them?”

“All of the troll tribes and your new friends here should unite to battle them because they’re the same creatures that attack us, but I have to find out what their Achilles heel is and take advantage of it,” she said.

“Unite all the tribes huh?” King Trollex wondered as he looked at the Snack Pack, plus the Rockers and Country Trolls, and said, “I don’t know about that, we don’t really interact with other genres, plus the Vacaytioners aren’t exactly the fighting type.”

“Make love not war!” A random Vacaytioner called out.

“Not all of you can fight but you could try doing support roles like healing or tending to the sick,” the queen explained. “Plus, I can’t stand idly by while all of the troll tribes are subjected to this kind of tragedy.”

“Your whole tribe’s been doing just that for twenty years,” The dark pink-skinned techno troll, Bliss Marina said with hands on her hips. “Why is now so different?”

“I have noticed a pattern in the attacks on the other troll tribes,” she answered. “Corrupted Bergens we’re attacking your lands, the party Crashers are raiding your homes, and a lot of trolls including all of you lost their kingdoms because of them.”

Soon, a yellow Vacaytioner with stripes that fade to orange, red hoops, and red hair tied in a bun, rushed to the cantina with her children. They were also Vacaytioners like her but they have troll ears and their hair is pointed upward.

“Somebody help! The lizard people kidnapped my husband!” She cried.

“Oh no, did the Party Crashers sneak into the island?” Queen Rose asked her.

“I don’t know, I don’t know what those are!” The woman blubbered.

“Where are they located?” Princess Poppy asked.

The vacaytioner led the party to a place where they found a blue skinned troll with a heavyset body and purple hair, wearing a white shirt with a black vest, beige pants, and a puka shell necklace being bound and gagged.

“Let’s get ‘em!’ Val said as she lunged forward, but Queen Rose held her back.

“No Val, the best way to rescue him is to be stealthy,” she said. “The Party Crashers are there.”

“Excuse me, are you trying to rescue our neighbor?” A dark purple-skinned Techno Troll with hair of various pink tones held in a neon blue topknot said. His eyes and freckles are also pink. He has a pale blue unibrow, a green pixelated heart on the chest, pale blue square patterns and a pink outline on his fins and green and pink arm patterns. He is wearing a whitish purple shirt, a vest, deep purple pants, pink belts, armor that were made out of seashells, and he is holding a trident.

“Of course! He’s a troll like us, that means we’re there for each other,” Queen Rose said.

“Sure, I’m Synth,” he introduced himself.

“I’m Laguna Tidepool and I can’t resist studying you guys,” a purple-skinned Techno Troll with dark blue hair, neon blue eyes and a teal heart, and 2 short green and blue arm patterns said. She wears black round glasses, a white puff sleeve blouse, a dark purple corset, matching pants and a green tie in the lower part of her hair. She also has a necklace and a bracelet on her left wrist, both made of purple-pink pearls but she is armed with a sickle that has a grappling hook chain at the end of the hilt.

“Uh, thanks,” Branch said as he shook her hand. “Do you know that troll?”

“His name is Bruce, he runs a restaurant with his family on the beach,” The techno troll, named Synth answered.

“You mean the cantina that you had raves in?” Queen Rose asked Synth.

“Yeah,” the purple techno troll named Laguna Tidepool answered.

“Here’s the plan, me, Synth, Laguna, Billy Reverb, Amalthea, and Branch will go and rescue him while the rest of you, create a distraction,” she instructed them.

“Got it,” Princess Poppy whispered.

A small group consisting of Queen Rose, Synth, Laguna, Billy Reverb, Amalthea, and Branch, followed the Party Crashers to their vehicle (which looked like a wine barrel). Majesty, Sylvan, and Billy’s rock unicorn followed them. Princess Poppy and the Snack Pack followed them from behind but they climbed on top of the trees and hid with Fauna peeking from the bushes.

As for Synth and Laguna, they help the rescue team sneak into the vehicle by swimming underwater.

“Did you see where Bruce is?” Laguna asked Synth.

“Right there,” he answered in a whisper.

The group split up to find Bruce. Queen Rose saw him get flung into a cell and later, she witnessed Archer Pastry arguing with Bash. “We already have the guy we came for, let’s leave while we—”

Bash punched the wall. Then he turned to Archer and yelled, “WE AREN’T LEAVING WITHOUT ALL THE POP TROLLS! AND THAT’S THAT!” Then he stomped off.

Archer followed at a safe distance, muttering to himself. “”Go to Vacay Island” they said. “It’ll be easy,” they said,” he mumbled.

John Dory, who was hiding in another place, picked up a twig and snapped it. The Party Crasher guards looked up and tried to find the source of the noise but John Dory already sneaked away and Branch, Billy Reverb, and Queen Rose knocked them down with a punch. As for Synth and Laguna, they swam behind the other Party Crashers and pulled them underwater while Amalthea levitated the party crashers to the tree, where the rest of the trolls are hiding to knock them down. Queen Rose sneaked over to Bruce’s cell and whispered, “hi, don’t worry, I’ll get you out of here.”

Then she picked the lock with a dagger while the Party Crashers were distracted by John Dory’s twig snapping.

“Hey!” Bash shouted as he tried to find the source of the noise but Amalthea levitated him to the tree where the rest of the trolls knocked him down and dropped him into the ground like the others.

“Finally, we got away from them,” Princess Poppy said as she got off the tree with the others after Queen Rose’s team rescued Bruce.

“Yeah!” John Dory said as he sauntered out of hiding, like a drunken man. Then he noticed the troll they rescued. “HEy Spruce! How’s it going?”

“That’s not my– John Dory?” Bruce gasped as he reared back in shock.

“Spruce?” Branch gasped as his jaw dropped open.

“Branch? Oh Branch!” Bruce cried as he immediately went to hug him. “Nice to see you little brother!”

“Another Brother!” Princess Poppy screeched in shock.

“Now is not the time,” the troll queen warned her. “Let's go back to the cantina before the bomb explodes.”

They got away in time as the vehicle exploded into pieces.

“What did you put in there?” Branch asked her.

“It’s an exploding potion I made from the extract for exploding plants but I added fool’s gold mushrooms in there,” she answered.

“Did you make them hallucinate?” Bruce asked her.

“Yeah, it’s a good distraction,” Princess Poppy complimented her.

Back at the cantina, Bruce was finally reunited with the yellow vacaytioner and as a thanks, they held a rave to celebrate. The trolls and the vacaytioners have fun but Queen Rose felt so sad that she went outside and sat by the door alone.

“Where did Rose go?” Bruce asked Branch.

“I don’t know but she felt depressed,” he answered.

Bruce thought of something and went outside, where he sat beside Queen Rose.

“Branch told me that you’re feeling depressed,” Bruce said.

“Really?” The troll queen gasped.

“Yeah,” he nodded.

“I miss Grandma so much. I don’t know what I’ll do without her,” Queen Rose added.

“I went through the same thing when our Moms died,” he said. “Like my Grandma said; the ones who love you will always be with you.”

“How did you know?” She asked him.

“There’s this song I learned back then, it helped me get over my grief and it works on anyone I helped here,” he said.

Immediately, Bruce thought of something so he took out a ukulele and started singing a beautiful song to a saddened troll queen.

They say that you're a drowner,
And we're parted by the sea,
But I can keep you floating,
If you just hold on to me,

I'll keep you safe, I'm on your team,
And when it feels like just a dream,
Believe it's true,
Because I do,

And someday if there's a war,
On some not-so-distant shore,
And lines are drawn,
I'm never gone,

This star's your guide,
And I am always on your side.

After the song, Queen Rose had never felt better as she looked at Bruce.

“Now that I feel better, thanks for breaking me out of my depressive state,” she said as she hugged him.

“Glad to help,” he said as he took her back to the party.

“Now that everything is settled, you go and talk to Branch,” she said.

Bruce took a deep breath and approached Branch to start the conversation.

“How have you been?” Bruce asked Branch. “I heard our tribe was in hiding.”

“I’ve been… okay,” Branch told him. “We’re actually trying to find our tribe, we keep asking if anyone’s seen them, but no-one has.”

“I see,” Bruce said as he was contemplative for a moment, then asked; “Did you find our other brothers?”

“Just you and John Dory,” he said as they both looked at John, who was pressing his cheek against a table and petting the wood.

“Is he okay?” Bruce asked.

“He’s had a rough few years apparently, and just recently regained his sanity. I think he needs help,” he answered.

“Mmmm,” Bruce agreed as John Dory scooted close to him.

“Why did you change your name? Spruce was so cool and gender neutral,” John Dory asked.

“I like Bruce better. I don’t want a neutral name, I want a masculine name,” He said.

“Tsk, I see how it is,” Branch said.

Then Princess Poppy joined the conversation. “Hi!”

“And who is this lovely lady?” Bruce asked Branch.

“I’m his girlfriend!” She answered as she hugged Branch’s arm.

“GIRLFRIEND!” They gasped.

“I forgot to introduce myself, I’m Queen Rose, Branch and Princess Poppy grew up with me as wards under the care of my late grandma, Queen Celestia,” Queen Rose added.

“That’s nice,” John Dory said, “I'm going to call you Funny Hair.”

“I'm actually Queen Rosetta but I go by Queen Rose,” she replied sternly.

“LOOK AT WHAT WE FOUND!” Hickory shouted as he and Dewdrop showed up, holding a soaking wet Archer Pastry between them.

“Should we torture him?” Blaze asked but Queen Rose held him back.

“No, just dry him up and bring him somewhere comfortable,” she said. “He needs to be in a warm place.”

“Got it,” Dewdrop said as they left with Archer Pastry.

After having fun in the cantina, the Techno trolls went into their hut and came out without their clothes. The Snack Pack and their allies were inside the angler bus, getting ready to sleep but the loud noise caught their attention.

“Do you guys want to go night swimming with us?” King Trollex asked Queen Rose.

“Sure, why not?” Princess Poppy answered as she took off her clothes, revealing her plus-sized body with a rounded double wide butt and she is revealed to be well endowed with J-cup breasts and a full grown under hair. She had glitter freckles dotted behind her neck, shoulders, breasts, and any part of her body. Branch blushed hard upon seeing the sight of her.

“Poppy, it’s not wash day,” Queen Rose said.

“I know, but it makes no sense to swim in our clothes, remember when we were kids, we’d play together during bathtime,” she said. “And not to mention every wash day, we'd swim at the waterfall while our clothes were being washed and dried.”

“Really? That’s it then,” She smirked as she took off her outfit. Billy Reverb noticed that Rose is a plump, hourglass figured buxom, complete with H-cups, and a heart-shaped backside with a fair amount of rose thorns herself. Attracted to her, he decided to join himself but Branch followed suit.

“Wait for us,” he said as he removed his clothes, which made the two gasp when they saw Branch and Billy in the buff. Branch is husky to start with while Billy Reverb is bulky himself but he has muscles, which made Rose love him even more. They also have a lot of oak and palm leaves as well.

“Don’t forget me, it felt so good to be out of those neck ruffles,” Guy sighed as he appeared in the nude while carrying baby Tiny in his arms. Unlike the others, he's smooth.

“Looking good fellas!” Hickory called out as he and Dewdrop stripped off their own clothes. Hickory turned out to be muscular with a lot of hair on his body while Dewdrop had a rectangular body shape with C-cup breasts and four strong legs. 

“You're joining in too?” DJ Suki asked. She had also taken off her clothes, revealing she has a pear shaped body, and a B-cup bust. She is fuzzy on her body herself.

“Yeah, it's like Wash Day over again,” Poppy answered. “What are you doing with Demo?”

“He and the hard rockers are joining in the fun,” she answered as all of the hard rock trolls ran out of the angler bus without their clothes on. They also display a variety of androgenic hair as well, ranging from a shrub to a tree.

“You guys also have a wash day?” Branch asked Billy Reverb.

“We have concerts where we can party all night in the nude,” he answered.

“Really, maybe it should coincide with Wash Day,” Queen Rose said.

“By the way, you guys have thick parts, like me,” Demo added. Being husky himself, he was able to proudly display his naked body like his fellow hard rockers.

“Thanks,” Branch said humbly.

They all waded into the water. Bliss Marina sang a party song as they had a late night party on the beach. Queen Rose, Princess Poppy, and Branch would pick shells and collect them in buckets while everybody else danced in the water.

C'mon jump in
Ocean's perfect, so are you
You can be a mermaid too
Dive down deep beneath the sea
We've got neutral buoyancy

'Cause it's a mermaid party
An underwater mermaid party
Let's ditch that boring derby
It's an underwater mermaid party

Moonlit waters so warm
And crystal clear
Our love is endless
And time disappears

Kisses and dances
That last eternally
We can rest in peace in the ocean
If you don't let go of me

It's a mermaid party
Anything goes at the party
If you're hungry there's beef jerky
At the underwater mermaid party

It's a party
An underwater mermaid party

Time to say arrivederci
To the underwater mermaid party

As the night swimming shifted from a wild rave to a romantic dance, Billy Reverb couldn't resist thinking about Queen Rose so he decided to go up and talk to her.

“Rose, I couldn't resist thinking about you when you first came to Volcano Rock City, “ he said.

“Well, you're the first troll I laid eyes on ever since I broke up with my last boyfriend and never fell in love again before the quest,” she responded.

“Oh, I'm sorry it happened to you,” he gasped. “And I heard you dumped all of your suitors.”

“How did you know?” the troll queen asked her.

“Branch told us!” Hickory added.

“Aww hair!” she exclaimed.

Meanwhile, Branch and Princess Poppy were holding hands, swimming circles around each other. Their hair extended to form patterns in the water as they spoke.

“I’m so happy you’re reuniting with your brothers!” she told him, “Is it as wonderful as you imagined?”

“Actually,” he said, “I never imagined seeing them again. I thought they were dead. But now they’re back and it’s great to see them. But John Dory’s a mess, and Spruce is Bruce, and I’m an uncle… And there’s no telling if Clay and Floyd are still out there. It’s all so overwhelming.”

“That sounds overwhelming,” Princess Poppy said as she spun him, “But I’m actually jealous. I can’t wait to see my family and learn what crazy things they’ve been up to.”

“That is so you,” Branch smiled and kissed her forehead. Then they both dove underwater and continued swimming.

After the night swimming, they went to sleep for the night. On the next day, they got ready to leave. Bruce, Synth and Laguna volunteered to join in the quest and while they were packing up, Bruce and his wife, whose name is Brandy, were having a conversation.

“Are you sure you’ll all be okay while I’m gone?” Bruce asked her.

“We’ll hide if anything happens,” Brandy reassured him. “You go help your family and your people.”

They kissed, and Bruce’s thirteen children joined them in a massive group hug. Soon, they are ready to depart.

“Queen Rosetta, if the time is right, call us with the emergency battle cry,” King Trollex instructed her.

“I will, I promise,” Queen Rose told him. They clasped hands as Amalthea watched them, and nodded in approval.

Everyone prepared to leave as they packed up supplies for the trip. Princess Poppy and Branch kept some shells they found while DJ Suki and Demo held hands. Hickory and Dewdrop shook the hands of as many Techno Trolls as they could.

“Good luck on your quest,” King Trollex said.

“Please save all of us!” Bliss Marina added.

“Don't worry, I will not stop until I unite all of the troll tribes,” Queen Rose said as they waved goodbye to their new friends.

The angler bus opened its mouth and the techno trolls waved goodbye to their members who joined the main party as they entered the angler bus with the other trolls, a captured Archer Pastry, and their critters. As soon as they entered, the dragons and the angler bus started flying together in the sky, leaving Vacay Island to travel to find the Classical Trolls.

Chapter Text

The Angler Bus and the dragons landed on the beaches of the mainland after flying over the ocean. The critters and the trolls got out of the angler bus to continue the journey on land.

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Once upon a time, far to the eastern valley, there was a shining city built into a crystalline mountain. The city was known as Mount Rageous, and the people who lived there were known as Rageons. They had tall slender bodies, metallic-colored skin, and colorful hair. They dressed in long flowing clothes such as the cotehardie to match their hats like coifs, hoods, flat caps, bycockets, chaperons, and feathered hats for men, and kirtles with braided hairstyles, veils or hats like flowerpot hennins and torques or cylindrical hats with cloth bands for women.

Mount Rageous looked like paradise with its polished walls, crystal-like plants, and many more in its aesthetics, but there was a plague among the people. When most Rageons turned 30, their bodies started crystallizing, and by the time they were 40, they were too heavy to move. They couldn’t be tested for it until they're in their 20’s. Those who were immune were put in charge of the city while those who were not, were encouraged to start families right away. Teenagers spent their time partying in the pleasure district. Most of the royal family, the elite class, and a few of the inhabitants were immune.

Most of them had given up on finding a cure, but four years ago, a man came to town offering an elixir that could prevent crystallization. The elixir became very popular among the youth, and a certain pair of twins became the elixirs’ top spokespeople.

While the Snack Pack were on Vacay Island, there was a big sale in the city. Those twins: Velvet and her brother Veneer were putting on a big performance. They are both pearly-white-skinned humanoids with green hair, deep-blue eyes and lavender-pink rosy cheeks but there were major differences. Velvet had her long hair tied in a ponytail with fuschia lipstick and grayish light blue eyeshadow, wearing a golden long-sleeved short dress with purple, violet, and indigo diamond prints, purple and bluish indigo split tights, purple crystal-like boots with matching two pairs of bangles, a pair of chokers, and a purple columbine mask with a sweet-heart shape on the top. Veneer on the other hand, wore his hair in a quiff with grayish cyan eyeshadow and green lipstick, wearing a golden turtleneck cotehardie with the bottom resembling a jester’s collar with multiple triangular appendages with blue, indigo, and purple diamond prints, blue and purplish indigo split tights, blue crystal-like boots with one matching pair of bands, a choker, and a blue columbine mask with smooth curves and clean cut line with a matching blue, indigo and purple jester hat with gold bells.

Both:
Roll on up Mount Rageous,
Come on in Mount Rageous,
Sunday here we go again,
Live in me Mount Rageous.
Here you live Mount Rageous,
Here you breathe Mount Ragous,
While your temple still survives,
You at least are still alive.

Velvet:
I got things you won't believe,
Name your pleasure I will sell.
I can fix your wildest needs,
I got heaven and I got hell.

Both:
Roll on up, for my price is down.
Come on in for the best in town.
Take your pick of the finest wine.
Lay your bets on this bird of mine.

Veneer:
What you see is what you get.
No one's been disappointed yet.
Don't be scared give this a try,
There is nothing you can't buy.

Velvet
Name your price, I got everything.
Hurry, it's going fast.

Veneer
Borrow cash on the finest terms.
Hurry now while stocks still last.

But not everyone in Mount Rageous agreed with the elixir. The nonbinary ruler, Monarch Zircon, watched the performance from the castle window. They shook their head with disapproval. They didn’t trust the elixir or the man who sold it, but they needed to gather evidence to see if there was anything wrong with it.

Both:
Roll on up Mount Rageous,
Come on in Rageous,
Sunday here we go again,
Live in me Mount Rageous.
Here you live Mount Rageous,
Here you breathe Mount Rageous,
While your temple still survives,
You at least are still alive.

The song came to a screeching halt when Chef ran her nails across the speakers. Everyone, even the performers, cringed away in fear.

“Hey Chef…” Veneer said nervously as he waggled his fingers in half-greeting.

Chef nodded at him in greeting then turned to all the salespeople and customers.

“Show’s over, go imbibe at home,” she ordered.

The Rageons that were there fearfully scattered away until nobody was left. Chef turned back to the twins, who were trying to sneak away.

“Your manager is here,” she told them, “He wants a word with you.”

Velvet and Veneer both gave a nervous thumbs up, then followed her back to their mansion. Unbeknownst to anyone, a shadowy figure watched them leave from an alleyway. He also had pearly-white skin and deep-blue eyes like the twins but he had long, red-orange hair with short strands framing his face while the rest was tied in a low ponytail, a green knee-length cotehardie with a matching cloak draped on his left arm, an ornate belt, dark green pants, and gold boots. The figure sneaked away and left his hiding place as fast as he could.

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Dear Diary,

I couldn’t believe that Branch is now reunited with two of his brothers, I couldn’t stand how John Dory is always up in his antics, especially how he was such a messy eater but at least he’s been making progress in recovering, thanks to Bruce. Now, we are on our way to this rumored abandoned Bergen golf course. Rhonda has been sniffing those dirty pairs of knickers that Branch found back in John Dory’s hideout and knows where this other brother is so she’s been leading our entire party to find that location. I don’t know what is in there but I’ll make sure we find the Classical Trolls and convince them to unite with us in our battle against the smoke monster.

Queen Rose closed her diary after writing another entry and she sighed in relief as she stretched back with Majesty comforting her.

“So how will Rhonda find that place where Clay is living?” Holly Darlin’ asked them.

“Branch used that old pair of funderdrawers and let Rhonda sniff it to find his other brother,” Princess Poppy answered.

“How did he get those artifacts so fast when we were in that treehouse?” Val wondered.

“I got tricks up my sleeve,” he answered.

“Wow Branch, you're very clever, for a knight,” Queen Rose complimented.

“Yeah, I am,” he sighed.

Meanwhile, Bruce was talking to Guy Diamond as he taught the new father how to care for Tiny Diamond.

“You’re doing well in taking care of your son,” Bruce complimented Guy Diamond.

“Thanks, I'm new to this,” Guy thanked him.

“No problem, I had thirteen experiences with child-rearing,” Bruce said.

“Really?” he gasped.

Suddenly, Rhonda stopped in front of the chainlink fence. The trolls got out of the wagons when they stopped to see what was going on.

“HALT,” a loud voice barked. A male troll stood on top of the fence with his hands holding a spear. The light shining from behind him made his features hard to see.

“Everybody stay where you are!” He spoke as he climbed down the fence. He landed in front of the trolls, but Queen Rose could see him clearly.

“I'm Queen Rosetta of the Platinum Trolls and I'm here with my group to find the Classical Trolls,” Queen Rose announced.

“What? No you’re not! The Queen of the Platinum trolls is an old troll named Celestia,” he gasped.

“My grandmother, Queen Celestia is dead and I'm her granddaughter and successor,” she answered.

“Your grandmother!?” The troll gasped as he leaned forward in shock, getting a good look at Queen Rose’s face. “But that would mean that…” He turned around to the course and shouted. “OPEN THE GATES!”

A door opened near the group, the troll ushered them and their critters inside. He was revealed to be a light periwinkle colored troll with multi-colored hair of mint cream, periwinkle, and powder blue streaks, tied in a ponytail with side bangs on the right side of his face, wearing a celeste colored short sleeved tunic with grayish blue, long sleeved undershirt, and black pants.

“I’m Prince Linden by the way!” he called over his shoulder.

“Prince?” Queen Rose wondered out loud.

They followed him through the park, noticing how the different mini golf holes had been converted into homes for the different types of trolls. The most numerous trolls seen in the place were bright yellow with glittery bodies, gemstones, and little wings that flew around like bees. The males were wearing long tunics with fitting or flowing robe-like sleeves with matching caps or hats while the females were dressed in medieval dresses with high waisted skirts and matching hairstyles, hats or headdresses.

“Wow, this is amazing,” Princess Poppy gasped.

“It’s a golf course turned into a hideout,” Branch added.

“This place is beautiful,” Satin sighed.

“My my…” Queen Rose stopped abruptly when she heard a familiar voice.

A bluish purple Jazz Troll with a long scarlet mane floated midair, twirling a clarinet in his left hand. “Hey Rosebud,” he winked at her.

“CHAZ!” She gasped out of anger.

“That’s your ex?” Demo asked her.

“Yeah, and what are you doing here?” She growled.

“Hiding from Bergens, obviously,” he answered.

“Yeah, right, so that you can break someone else’s heart,” she said with a snarky tone.

“Let me at him!” Billy growled as he trudged towards Chaz.

“Oh no, angry boyfriend alert!” Demo said.

“I heard from a grapevine that you broke her heart,” Billy said.

“I dissolved our relationship and expected her to be mature about it,” Chaz retorted.

“So what, we didn’t expect a big fat loser like you to be here!” Billy added.

“That’s rich, coming from a chubster like you,” Chaz smiled smugly.

“What did you say you foul mouthed oaf!” Billy shouted in a fit of rage and fought Chaz.

“What’s going on?” Bastion asked as he and Jasmine stepped out. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at them. A pair of twin trolls appeared as well. One of them was carnation pink with pink eyes, an orange nose, a beauty mark under her right eye, light yellow hair adorned in streaks of orange, salmon, yellow, coral, and pink, tied in half-pigtails with her bangs swept to the left, wearing a folly red kirtle with paned sleeves that expose her soft pink blouse and a hi-lo skirt to match her maroon tights. The other twin was mauve with purple eyes, a steel pink nose, a beauty mark under her left eye, and golden yellow hair with bold streaks of purple, orange, yellow and pink tied in half-space buns with her bangs swept to the right, wearing an electric purple bodice with a peplum, a lavender blush blouse, and dark purple pants.

“This troll says she’s the queen of the Platinum Trolls,” Linden said, pointing to Queen Rose.

“You?” Jasmine asked as she stepped closer.

“What about Queen Celestia, my mother?” Bastion asked.

“Grandma died to save us and the Platinum Trolls from the smoke monster,” she answered.

“She is your grandma too?” One of the twin daughters asked as they stepped closer.

Queen Rose nodded out of sadness in reply as she took out the music box from her hair.

Bastion gasped. “That music box! That was my wedding present to Jasmine! If you have it, that means…”

Queen Rose's eyes widened in recognition. “You’re my parents!” she exclaimed.

Everyone watching the exchange gasped. Princess Poppy squealed. Branch and his brothers’ jaws dropped. Billy and Chaz, still locked in combat, stood frozen in shock.

“Awww, Rose found her parents,” Princess Poppy exclaimed in excitement.

A tall, blue-skinned troll appeared from a nearby mini golf hole to see what was going on. He wore a green tunic with long sleeves, white pants, and a roundlet turban.

“Bastion, Jasmine, I heard some noises outside and I came out to see……” he stammered when he saw Branch, John Dory, and Spruce altogether in the place.

“Guys?” he asked.

“Clay?’ Bruce looked up at him.

John Dory sped up to him and started poking him. “Who lit Clay on fire?” He asked in confusion. Clay looked down at the new group that arrived. “Uh, explanation please?”

“It’s a long story,” Bruce yelled up to him.

“This is awesome!” Princess Poppy shouted. Branch stood next to her, too stunned to speak.

“I had no idea that you’re my dad, I only heard of you from grandma,” Queen Rose said as she talked to her father for the first time.

Bastion hugged her. “I always hoped you were okay while living with my mother,” he told her. “Come on, we have to introduce you to your siblings. You’ve already met your younger brother, Linden.” He gestured to the young prince. “And those two are your little sisters Aurora and Twilight.” The twin girls happily waved to Queen Rose.

Jasmine joined in the hug too. “This is amazing! I’m going to tell Trollzart and the other tribal leaders. They all have to know!” she said.

Word soon spread all around Putt Putt Village that the eldest daughter of the Regents had arrived with an entourage of friends. Everybody was excited to meet the new Queen Rose and a feast was held to celebrate.

“Dad, you saved lots of trolls from the corrupted bergens!” Queen Rose gasped.

“Yes. ever since the attacks began, we’ve tried to save as many trolls as we could. When we found this place, we thought it would be a clever hiding place,” Bastion told her.

“There's something I don't understand, I barely knew you or mom and I didn't know I have a brother and two sisters,” she said.

“Well, we were never able to contact you,” Bastion said, “There were so many dangers, we couldn't risk leaving this place.”

“What he is trying to say is, when we had you as an egg, your father encountered a bergen alone and he was able to escape before it found him,” Jasmine added. “Knowing what might happen to my tribe if the bergens find us, we left you with your grandmother and we lived in a distance from the troll tree so that we could be prepared to help our tribe when they get captured by those monsters but as we helped them, someone else got them out of bergen town.”

“Wait a minute Jasmine, so you are one of the Pop trolls? We've been looking for them,” Princess Poppy said.

“Grandma said that they're her people too, she had been looking for them but she found the troll tree abandoned,” Queen Rose added.

“We’ve been looking for them for a long time,” Jasmine said. “But the only one we’ve found is The Accountant.” She pointed to Clay, reuniting with his brothers. John Dory was playing with his hair, Bruce was examining his tunic, and Branch was talking to him.

“Trollzart, how did you and the other trolls end up here?” Biggie asked an older classical troll with creamy white hair that had a tall puffy appearance, a black doublet with golden borders, and rings.

“We got attacked by bergens with lava effects and we had no choice but to escape. Bastion and Jasmine found us and led us here to safety,” he answered.

“That's the same thing that happened to the other troll tribes,” DJ Suki said. “The hard rock trolls, the county trolls, and the techno trolls experienced the same thing but I don't know if the funk trolls were also in danger of being attacked.”

“They’re probably fine.” Trollzart said, “The Funk Trolls are very advanced and always prepared for emergencies.”

“But we kept in touch just in case,” Bastion said.

“Okay, now that things are settled, the reason I came here with my group, we are looking for the troll tribes and unite them all to fight those evil bergens and the smoke monster that terrorized us,” Queen Rose said.

“Smoke monster? You mean the Jinn?” he gasped.

“Is that what they are called?” Bruce asked.

“Yes, all I know is that they came from the desert in the south,” he answered.

“You already have the tools needed to unite all the trolls, the ancient call to battle and prophecy,” Trollzart said to Queen Rose.

“I heard the word prophecy multiple times,” Queen Rose said.

“What is the prophecy?” Princess Poppy asked.

“The song in the music box, it was meant to be a lullaby that troll moms sang to their babies,” Bastion said. “But King Quincy once told me that the song has a secret and I was shocked to learn that the secret it kept is the prophecy.”

“You mean the Starlight Waltz?” Queen Rose asked as she cranked the music box and played the starlight waltz.

“That's the one,” he said.

“I usually play this song every night when I miss Grandma,” Queen Rose said.

“Awww!” Aurora and Twilight cooed in unison.

While Queen Rose bonded with her family, the Snack Pack explored the Village and met the different trolls who lived there. There were Mariachi Trolls with their cow horned sombreros and colorful ribbons in their hair, BarberShop Trolls who traveled in groups of four and wore jaunty matching hats, and Polka Trolls, who were short and had little flowers decorating their hair.

“I love how you braid your hair with flowers,” Princess Poppy complimented the polka trolls.

“Thanks, we Polka Trolls love to tune in with nature,” one of them said.

“How did you partake in protecting this place?” Branch asked the Mariachi Trolls.

“Si, we would use our weapons to fight the invaders, you should see Linden and his sisters when they protect this place from an invading Bergen,” one of them answered.

“So what kind of music do you guys sing?” Biggie asked some BarberShop Trolls. In response the quartet sang a short harmony. Biggie clapped in delight.

“You guys should sing like that,” he said to the BroZone brothers. The three older brothers all looked away in different directions.

Trollzart and the other Classical Trolls were very interested in meeting Amalthea.

“Your species transcends music,” he told her. "It’s a great honor to be related to you.”

“The pleasure is all mine,” Amalthea said.

They hung out with the trolls living in the Hole N’ Fun until it was time to go to sleep. On the next day, the Snack Pack and their allies were ready to go but two of the Classical Trolls volunteered to join them. They were Minuet Sonata and Dante Crescendo but there were three additionals as well.

“Dante Crescendo, Minuet Sonata, with my blessing, you two must help the high queen save our kingdom,” Trollzart said to a pink haired Classical troll, who is wearing a black cotehardie with white borders and a wide brimmed hat with a white feather, and a female classical troll with light green hair is tied at the top with a hairband that has a feather decoration, a blue choker with a light blue heart that match her dress, red lipstick and a beauty mark on the right side of her upper lip.

“We will,” the pink haired classical troll, named Dante Crescendo said.

“Can we go too Daddy?” Twilight asked Bastion.

“You three are old enough so you can,” he answered before turning to Queen Rose. “Take care of your siblings.”

“I will, dad,” Queen Rose said.

“We love you all very much.” Jasmine told her children.

“Mom, dad, it's been a short while since I met you but I'm so happy to know you more,” Queen Rose said.

“You're an adult my little flower, you are delicate but strong like a rose with thorns, you take after us,” Jasmine responded to her daughter.

“Mother had taught you well,” Bastion said as he looked at her.

They embraced tenderly one last time.

Bastion:
If happiness was a tangible thing
It would be you
If you'd have told me the feeling you'd bring
I'd think it untrue
And people search for a wonder like you
All of their lives
You still amaze me after all this time

You pull me in like some kind of wind
Mesmerized by the hold I'm in
Leave you here, I don't wanna
I wanna

Love you as one does
I, I will protect you at all costs
Keep you safe here in my arms
I, I will protect you at all costs
At all costs

Queen Rose:
What's pain? When I look at you? No way
I could explain you, even if tried to
I'll never dream like used to do
If someone tried to hurt you, I don't

See how that could happen
I'd fight for you in ways you can't imagine
Felt this, no, I haven't, I hope
It would be all right to stay right here beside you

Both:
And love you as one does
I, I will protect you at all costs
Keep you safe here in my arms
I, I will protect you at all costs
At all costs

If you're ever feeling like you're lost
I'll come find you
Man all fronts, there's no ocean I won't swim across
To be right by you
And not just once, here and now I swear on my response
I'll remind you

And love you as one does
I, I will protect you at all costs
Keep you safe here in my arms
I, I will protect you at all costs
At all costs

“Awww, this is so heartbreaking!” Princess Poppy sobbed.

“I’m even more excited to find our families,” DJ Suki said.

“Me too!” Cooper exclaimed.

“King Quincy is here,” Queen Rose gasped as a strange light appeared from above.

“But where is he?” Clay asked her.

“What I learned about funk trolls is that they are technologically advanced,” she answered.

“Whoa!” Princess Poppy gasped as she and the BroZone stared at the light shining above them.

Soon, a lot of bubbles appeared and took the Snack Pack, their allies, their wagons, and animals up as Queen Rose waved to her parents before she was taken up in a bubble.

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, twenty years ago, the funk trolls lived in an advanced flying city. No predators could get them, and they could contact any other tribe any time they wanted. They were ruled by the beloved King Quincy and Queen Essence, who were blessed with twin eggs. For them life was perfect, but that perfection didn’t last long. One day while the queen was sunning her eggs, a bird swooped by and snatched one away. The entire ship tried to follow the bird, but to no avail, for the bird had flown into the Pop woods, from which no one had ever returned.

The king and queen did not give up, even after their other twin, Darnell was hatched, they held out hope that their other son was alive out there. Even when horrible beasts came out of the woods and attacked their ship. Even when they got away from the troll kingdom after news of Bergen attacks reached them, they still fiercely believed that their lost prince was out there somewhere, and that he would come home again.

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The bubbles brought the trolls and their critters to a technologically advanced city within a ship. Overlooking it is a grand castle. Its architecture is an amalgamation of various design styles, with 13 spires, turrets, and towers, gold-tipped finials, stained-glass rose windows and columns with hand-carved embellishments.

“Wow!” Queen Rose gasped when she gazed at the sight of the place itself. It was more amazing than the castle that she lived in.

“This is grander than the Platinum castle,” Branch added.

“Welcome travelers to Vibe City!” A voice called down to them. A flying turntable platform hovered down to them. On it was a pink Funk Troll who looked almost exactly like Cooper. He had thick dreadlocks with gold rings, a gold star earring, gold tinsel on his neck, and bracelets.

“Wow, you look exactly like me!?” Cooper gasped.

“YOU!” The Funk Troll gasped as he immediately started examining Cooper. “You’re him! My brother!”

“What?” Cooper asked in shock.

“What!?” Branch and his brothers all did a double-take.

“WHAT!?” The Snack Pack shouted in unison.

The Funk Troll did a happy dance and activated a microphone in his turntable. “Mom, Dad, we got him!”

“Is that King Quincy and Queen Essence?” Queen Rose gasped.

“Yup!” The funk troll grinned at them.

Two trolls appeared before them. a purple-skinned Funk Troll with a yellow nose, colorful hair with dreads of pink and blue at the right, with a tuft of fur that's not part of the dreads on the left, and a blue beard. His fur and neck were covered in golden tinsel strips and he wore a golden cape with a star pattern, as well as jeweled rings on the fingers/toes of his front limbs, a golden crown, and a star earring on his left ear, which matched the one worn by the identical troll. Beside him stood a blue-skinned Funk Troll with a purple nose, bands of thick silver tinsel segments on her neck, matching the long silver and golden tinsel-like fur that covers her body, and her blue hair fashioned into dreads and styled back behind her head. She wore a golden tiara, and a matching band that secured her hair in an updo. Her face was covered in glitter and she had thick sparkly silver eyelashes.

“Is that him? I think our search is finally over,” the blue funk troll said.

“Our son is finally home,” the purple funk troll added.

“Wait, are you my mom and dad,” Cooper gasped.

“Yes, we've been searching for so long to find you,” King Quincy said. “And Prince Darnell here is excited to see you.”

“My precious son!” Queen Essence cried as she embraced Cooper and kissed him repeatedly. Soon Cooper was enveloped in a four-way group hug.

“This is wonderful!” Princess Poppy exclaimed to Queen Rose, “Family reunions are happening all over!”

“Aww, this is just like how we found out that Rose here is our sister,” Linden said.

“Yeah, I know,” Queen Rose agreed.

“I'm so glad I have you as our older sister,” Aurora said.

“Now we can spend time with you,” Twilight added.

“This calls for a celebration!” Queen Essence announced. They arranged for a big party in the center of the ship. All the Funk Trolls gathered around a stage on which the royal family stood.

“MY SON HAS RETURNED!” King Quincy proclaimed as he held up Cooper’s hand.

The crowd of Funk Trolls applauded and cheered. They all looked like the royal family, but in random colors, varied hairstyles, and some of them were either bipedal or quadrupedal. They didn’t wear much clothing, except for hats or headdresses, cloaks, jewelry, and veils. The royal family broke into song as their entire tribe, sang, danced along and played musical instruments with them.

Gotta make a move to a town that's right for me
Town to keep me movin', keep me groovin' with some energy

Well, I talk about it, talk about it
Talk about it, talk about it
Talk about, talk about
Talk about movin'

Gotta move on
Gotta move on
Gotta move on

A-won't you take me to Funkytown?
Won't you take me to Funkytown?
Won't you take me to Funkytown?
Won't you take me to Funkytown?

Won't you take me to Funkytown?
Won't you take me to Funkytown?
Won't you take me to Funkytown?
Won't you take me to Funkytown?

Gotta make a move to a town that's right for me
Town to keep me movin', keep me groovin' with some energy

Well, I talk about it, talk about it
Talk about it, talk about it
Talk about, talk about
Talk about movin'

Gotta move on
Gotta move on
Gotta move on

A-won't you take me to Funkytown?
Won't you take me to Funkytown?
Won't you take me to Funkytown?
Won't you take me to Funkytown?

Won't you take me to Funkytown?
Won't you take me to Funkytown?
Won't you take me to Funkytown?
Won't you take me to Funkytown?

Won't you take me down to Funkytown?
Won't you take me down to Funkytown?
Won't you take me down to Funkytown?
Won't you take me down to Funkytown?

(Won't you take me to) Funkytown?
(Won't you take me to) Funkytown?
(Won't you take me to) Funkytown?
(Won't you take me to) Funkytown?

Take me, won't you take me?
Take me, won't you take me?
Take me, won't you take me?
Take me, won't you take me?

I wanna go to Funkytown
I wanna go to Funkytown
I wanna go to Funkytown
I wanna go to Funkytown

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Meanwhile, Viva had been uneasy ever since she got out of the Wellness Center. She dared not ask Creek about what happened, so she did some secret investigating. She talked to other trolls who’d been to the wellness center, and they described strange dreams of having their blood sucked out of them. She also followed Creek around the village, watching him sneak in and out of his pod, which no one else went into.

Meanwhile, King Peppy called a group of four trolls of the village to a special meeting, and told them they must train extra hard to prepare for possible invasion by enemy trolls. When he was done, Viva came and asked him.

“Say Dad, did Mr. Fortune ever tell you about his life before he rescued us?” She asked him.

“Only once,” King Peppy said. “He was a knight in service of a kingdom in the South. He protected them with all his might, but one day while he was out fighting, his wife passed away. He was so heartbroken, he resigned from his post and left the kingdom. Then he wandered the world until he heard about us.”

Later, Viva asked Doctor Moonbloom the same question, and got a slightly different story.

“He told me he protects us because we remind him of his people. He was a knight who kept them safe. They’re gone now. Lost long ago to a great tragedy that spared only him. For a long time he looked for ways to fill the void they left behind. “And now I have found it in you,” he said. Isn’t that a sweet thing to say?”

“Yes,” said Viva in discomfort, “Very nice.”

One story after the other, Viva started having doubts about Famin Fortune and his story. Feeling more and more curious, she started to follow Creek until she found him talking to Famin Fortune.

“The Party Crashers have all failed,” Mr. Fortune said. He had such a sour look on his face. “And we're almost out of fresh ingredients.”

“Don’t worry Boss,” Creek reassured him. “The missing ones are all on their way here, and they’ll bring lots of new ingredients with them. It’s all destiny.”

“If I believed in destiny, I wouldn’t have made that deal with the Bergen Chef!” Famin snapped. “You don’t know what I’ve had to put up with to keep those Bergens in line!”

Viva gasped softly while she hid. Famin Fortune knew the Bergens! She slipped away from her hiding place, keeping the things she heard to herself so that she can find someone trustworthy to tell the truth.

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In the Funk Ship, Queen Rose, Princess Poppy, DJ Suki, Val Thundershock, Holly Darlin’, Minuet Sonata, Amalthea, and Dewdrop were relaxing in the royal suite after a day of shopping in its city.

“Say Poppy,” Queen Rose asked, “You’ve been dating Branch for a while, when did you realize you liked him?”

“Oh my gosh, it’s hard to say, hmmm… Well it’s not like I felt it all at once. It was more like I slowly realized over time how much he means to me. There’s so much I like about him; his face, his singing, his protective nature, the poems he recites when he thinks no one is listening, the moments when he’s vulnerable and he gets that cute expression… wait a minute! Is there someone you like?”

“Well…” Queen Rose stammered as she played with her hair.

“I know how you feel,” DJ Suki said, “I’ve been attracted to the rock troll Demo ever since he joined our group.”

“Romance is such a wonderful thing isn’t it?” Dewdrop asked with a dreamy smile.

“It sure is,” said Val, thinking about Gust.

“You know, I have been taking care of John Dory ever since he escaped and went mad but I have to keep my distance,” Amalthea said.

“Really?” Queen Rose asked her,

“Yeah, love takes time for it to grow,” Amalthea answered.

“Same with me and Branch,” Princess Poppy said as she started dancing around and singing.

Been running so long
I've nearly lost all track of time
In every direction
I couldn't see the warning signs
I must be losin' it
'Cause my mind plays tricks on me
It looked so easy
But you know looks sometimes deceive

Been running so fast
Right from the starting line
No more connections
I don't need any more advice
One hand's just reaching out
And one's just hangin' on
It seems my weaknesses
Just keep going strong

Head over heels, where should I go?
Can't stop myself, out of control
Head over heels, no time to think
Looks like the whole world's out of sync

Been running so hard
When what I need is to unwind
The voice of reason
Is one I left so far behind

I've waited so long
So long to play this part
And just remembered
That I'd forgotten about my heart

Head over heels, where should I go?
Can't stop myself, out of control
Head over heels, no time to think
Looks like the whole world's out of sync

Head over heels, where should I go?
Can't stop myself, out of control
Head over heels, no time to think
Looks like the whole world's out of sync

Head over heels, where should I go?
Can't stop myself, out of control
Head over heels, no time to think
Looks like the whole world's out of sync

Head over heels, where should I go?
Can't stop myself, out of control
Head over heels, no time to think
Looks like the whole world's out of sync

“Well, that is natural when feeling in love,” Amalthea said.

“But love is more than just falling in love, it's more complicated than you think,” Queen Rose added. “I am starting to feel some feelings for Billy Reverb but should I go for it? I never fell in love again after Chaz broke my heart.”

“Don't worry Rose, you’ll finally see that you both are meant for each other,” Princess Poppy said.

“Yeah, me and Lil’ Ted, my boyfriend back with the Country Tribe, love each other, despite his stutter,” Holly said.

“Okay, I'll give it a little time,” Queen Rose agreed with them.

Meanwhile, Prince Darnell was taking the men on a tour of the city.

“Wow, Cooper, your home city is beautiful,” Branch said.

“Thanks, we built this ship after our tribe became isolated from the others,” Prince Darnell answered.

“Branch, I wanna ask you, did you have a shot with Rose?” Billy asked Branch.

“No, she's been very stubborn and frigid ever since she got her heart broken by Chaz but if you have a chance with her, you should go for it,” he answered. “I'm just here to keep Rose from making bad decisions and keeping her safe but she knows how to defend herself.”

“I don't know, she's regal and I'm a rocker,” he complained.

“I know what it’s like to fall for someone out of your league,” Branch said as he started singing to them.

Uptown girl
She's been living in her uptown world
I bet she's never had a backstreet guy
I bet her momma never told her why

I'm gonna try for an uptown girl
She's been living in her white-bred world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am

And when she knows what
She wants from her time
And when she wakes up
And makes up her mind
She'll see I'm not so tough
Just because

I'm in love with an uptown girl
You know I've seen her in her uptown world
She's getting tired of her high-class toys
And all her presents from her uptown boys
She's got a choice

Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh

Uptown girl
You know I can't afford to buy her pearls
But maybe someday when my ship comes in
She'll understand what kind of guy I've been
And then I'll win

And when she's walking
She's looking so fine
And when she's talking
She'll say that she's mine
She'll say I'm not so tough
Just because
I'm in love

With an uptown girl
She's been living in her white-bred world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am

Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh

Uptown girl
She's my uptown girl
You know I'm in love
With an uptown girl

After he sang his song, Bruce patted Branch’s shoulder. “You still got it, little brother,” he said as Branch beamed at the complement.

“You’ve already met her parents,” Hickory told Billy. “Leaving a good impression with them is the first step to a relationship.”

“You did talk to them right?” Gust asked Billy.

“Yeah,” he sighed.

“Then, it's all good,” Hickory said as he patted him on the back.

“You guys are a fun crowd to hang out with,” Prince Darnell called over his shoulder.

“Yeah, I agree with my brother,” Cooper added.

In King Quincy’s quarters, the funk king had Archer Pastry feeling comfortable in a spare room.

“We have some questions for you,” KIng Quincy told him.

“I ain’t telling you nothing about nothing,” Archer said defiantly.

“We’re not going to hurt you, it’s perfectly safe,” he said.

“Yeah right. You just want me to let my guard down. It won’t work.” he huffed.

“Ok, so why are you trying to kidnap these trolls and who is it for?” He asked him as he showed him the picture of the Brozone.

Archer stayed silent.

“If you're not going to answer, a friend of ours will help us,” he said.

“What friend?” Archer asked but he was cut off when Prince Darnell appeared.

“Were almost there to Mount Rageous,” Prince Darnell announced.

“What?!” Archer Pastry gasped as the ship flew its way to Mount Rageous.

Chapter Text

The Funk Ship was sailing to Mount Rageous as it flew through the valleys.

“What is this place?” Princess Poppy asked Queen Essence.

“This is Mount Rageous,” Queen Essence told her, “The ruler here is kind, and they might know where your tribe is.”

“So who is this friend that you are talking about?” Queen Rose asked her.

“Monarch Zircon of Mount Rageous, they’re our trading partner,” she answered.

“So they're nonbinary?” Branch asked him.

“Yes, and please be respectful to them and their adoptive children,” Queen Essence advised them.

“No problem, I remember meeting some officials in the platinum royal court who are nonbinary,” Queen Rose said.

“That's good,” Prince Darnell smiled at her.

“How was the interrogation?” Branch asked King Quincy, who returned from his quarters.

“Your prisoner isn't talking, he keeps on resisting me,” he answered.

“It will take time for him to open up,” Princess Poppy assured him.

“Mount Rageous, it's gonna be awesome when we see it,” DJ Suki said excitedly.

“I can't wait to try their food,” Cooper squealed. He is now wearing a flat cap with a purple feather attached on it by a brooch.

“I can't wait to meet the inhabitants there,” Satin squealed.

“Maybe we should try out their fashion,” Chenille suggested.

“What are the Rageons like?” Biggie asked.

“They love music and dancing and big celebrations,” Prince Darnell answered.

“I couldn't wait to negotiate with their leader,” Queen Rose sighed with relief.

“Here we are!” King Quincy announced.

The ship stopped in front of the entrance to the city. The trolls went out to the terrace of the ship to take a look.

“Where are all of the inhabitants?” Queen Rose asked them.

“I don't see any of them,” Branch groaned.

“I see them!” Princess Poppy shouted as she saw a crowd coming up to them.

“Here they come,” King Quincy said as he noticed a group of Rageons walking towards them

“Hello, welcome to Mount Rageous,” a nicely dressed pink skinned Rageon greeted them. She had pink eyes and her hair was tied in two coiled plaits that cover her ears with matching cauls but the rest was long and loose with a tiara made of rubies and full, curved bangs framing her face. Her gown is cherry pink and cerise with gold details and intricate prints. A group of rageons appeared beside her, led by the same rageon who followed Velvet and Veneer. The members are composed of celeste-skinned enby rageon with heterochromia, a blue right eye and a green left, blue nail polish, azure lips, blue, orange, and yellow long hair in a side shave, wearing a sleeveless blue cotehardie over a neon green shirt in split shades with an attached cape and neon colored green and teal stripes, dark blue pants, and Hollywood cerise boots, a pale purple rageon boy with blue eyes, grayish periwinkle blush, blue nails, and short turquoise hair, wearing a raspberry colored cotehardie with rose bonbon prints, amaranth purple pants, and tekhelet boots with blue hem to match the feather on his hat, a pink skinned female rageon with her parted hair in split colors, with yellow on the left and orange on the right with violet eyes, pink makeup, yellow nails, and star-shaped face paint, wearing a pink circlet that matches her earrings, choker, and belt, dark peach colored shoes, and her outfit consists of a black, gray and white dress in checkers with a long sleeved light peach undershirt, a female bluish mauve rageon with aquamarine hair, tied in a curled low ponytail, matching lips, sky blue eyeshadow, and green eyes, wearing a green kirtle in violet geometric prints and chartreuse edges over a long-sleeved indigo chemise, a white veil, and a chartreuse circlet that matches her nails, and a pair of twin sisters who wore their hair in a half-crown braid with curls and matching identical dresses but one of them has Alice blue skin with glaucous blue eyes, pink makeup and bright pink and blue hair, wearing a pink split colored long sleeved dress with blue hearts and a gold trim, pink heart-shaped earrings, and pearl jewelry, while the other has lavender blush skin with robin egg blue eyes, dark red and oxford blue hair that match her devilish colored make-up and nails, she wears a red split colored long sleeved dress with black and deep gray five pointed stars with silver trim, pastel red star-shaped earrings, and silver jewelry.

“Whoa!” Queen Rose gasped.

“They're so tall,” Branch whispered to Princess Poppy.

“My name is Princess Cerise, this is my boyfriend Marvel, and these are my adoptive siblings, Lux, Gloss, Silke, Cashmere, and the twins, Glimmer and Shimmer,” the pink skinned rageon introduced herself and her group.

The trolls all held up their hands and waved hello through the ship’s window.

“We’re here to give you all a warm Mount Rageous welcome,” Princess Cerise announced.

“A welcome?!” Branch gasped.

“It's traditional for them to do a welcome song when a visitor comes here,” King Quincy informed them.

“Good to know,” Queen Rose sighed.

“Everyone ready?” the male orange-haired rageon asked the group, who nodded in agreement.

Upbeat guitar music was heard as Cerise started to sing while she and the group showed around the trolls in the city. Many rageons performed, danced and sang along with the princess and her group. The buildings are clean and straight that replicate items in a girl’s jewelry box like cheap plastic jewelry, ranging from the villages and town to the central city itself. They can see gold, silver, and metallic plants and trees with crystalline leaves and flowers, grass, and animals that are bigger than their critters.

Princess Cerise:
Welcome to Mount Rageous
Come on, come this way
Where the greatest creations are all on display
There's no other place just as full of surprise
Where your dreams and your reality can collide
You wanna dance on beat?
Or to have hair touch down to your feet?
Go to outer space?
Well, hey, you've come to the right place

All:
'Cause here in the city of Rageous
You can turn all your wanting to wishing
No what-ifs and no wonders
Oh, here in the city of Rageous
It's unlikely that you'll be unhappy
With so much to discover
A home for me (me)
For you (you)
And all of us (us)
The city of Rageous

Marvel:
So like, this is the first king, Magnifico
And he built Rageous many years ago
With a big smile and his kindness would glow
No, no, no, I'm totally kidding! But he is powerful
He's just like us with a twist

Lux:
And someone who'd be Glossy’s first kiss (Gloss: oh, dear!)

Princess Cerise:
A magic swish
And there you have it, poof, there's your wish!

Ooh and, hey in a legend, when you turn eighteen?
You get to give your wish in a ceremony
And he keeps them safe, every wish he acquires
And once a month he grants someone's greatest desire
It was just a tale to tell so that we all have hope anyway

Branch:
Did it hurt?

Princess Poppy:
Do they cry?

Princess Cerise:
Oh, no, and they won't even miss it when they say "goodbye"

All:
'Cause here in the city of Rageous
You can turn all your wanting to wishing
No what-ifs and no wonders
Oh, here in the city of Rageous
It's unlikely that you'll be unhappy
With so much to discover
A home for me (me)
For you (you)
And all of us (us)
The city of Rageous

The rageons finished the song with an elaborate group pose. The trolls applauded them.

“Wow, you sure know how to practice the song,” Queen Rose complimented.

“Thanks, and I hear you want to see my auncle, Zircon,” Princess Cerise said.

“Yes, lead the way, your highness,” she responded.

Soon, a four-seated carriage, driven by a servant with large unicorns with crystal coats, shiny, gradient manes and tails, crystal-like horns, and polygonal eye reflections pulling it, appeared before them. A blue rageon in a medieval style livery got off from the back of the carriage while a yellow rageon in a matching uniform sat on the driver’s seat, driving the carriage. A group of mount rageons with metallic helmets, cowls, chainmail, and knee-length cotehardies with pants, boots, and armor, holding swords, shields, and halberds accompany the carriage while riding on horses with a similar aesthetic as the unicorns. The rageons gave the trolls, who are in their ship, a ride through the city as they got in the carriage.

“I've never seen a carriage this long,” Queen Rose gasped in wonder.

“This is one of the royal carriages, saved for special occasions,” Marvel explained.

“I got it on my sixteenth birthday,” the princess added.

“Your king can grant wishes?” Cooper asked.

“It's just a legend, but my ancestor, Magnifico is the founder of this kingdom,” Princess Cerise answered.

“Cool,” Cooper and Biggie grinned at each other.

“Is that the marketplace? I wanna go there to buy new textiles there,” Satin squealed when she saw the marketplace.

“Me too!” Chenille agreed with her sister.

“I'm afraid, it's forbidden to go there,” Marvel said.

“Why?” Legsly asked him.

“It's dangerous there because of the incidents that are happening,” he answered.

“What kind of incidents?” Branch asked him but Marvel remembered something and stopped there.

As they passed by the marketplace, Princess Cerise sighed out of sadness, which made King Quincy notice her becoming pale from the sight of it.

“Is everything okay in your kingdom?” King Quincy asked her.

“Auncle Zircon is trying so hard to make sure the plague must be stopped, we tried everything to find a cure to the crystallization but rumors circulated about the strange elixir that is causing dissent among them,” she answered. “I'm afraid that this would mean they'll cause a rebellion.”

“Don't worry princess, we'll help you with trying to find a cure for your people,” he assured her.

“Thanks,” she thanked them.

They soon arrived at the castle, which has a huge wall built around it and a moat with water, surrounded by colorful fish and crystalline lotus flowers. It has gothic revival architecture with a crystalline design motif, stacks of gems on the tip of its spires, geode-like texture on the walls, gold details, and at the front is a crystal-like fountain with crystalline plants all over the area that is surrounding the place. An older rageon appeared at the golden front door. They had misty rose skin with golden eyes, rose gold long hair with a curled quiff at the right side of their head, a crystalline crown with diamonds, wearing a black cotehardie with wide sleeves over a white shirt, golden geometric patterns and trim with a fur collar, darker pants and boots with a long, blue cape. A group of rageons in uniform, wearing matching hats blew on golden trumpets to signal the arrival.

“Wow, you’re cool,” Princess Poppy said.

“Thank you!” They thanked her with a smile.

“Trolls, I'd like you all to meet my auncle, the monarch of Mount Rageous, Zircon,” Princess Cerise introduced the older rageon. The trolls all bowed deeply, Monarch Zircon did the same.

“Zircon, it's so nice to meet you, your majesty,” Queen Rose said.

“The pleasure is all mine, high queen of the troll kingdom,” Zircon answered.

“High queen? What happened to Queen Celestia?” Prince Darnell asked his dad.

“Bastion told me that she died sacrificing herself to save her tribe from the mad jinn,” King Quincy answered.

“I was there when that happened,” Cooper added.

“We couldn't thank her enough,” Queen Essence sighed out of gratitude.

“Moment of Silence for Queen Celestia!” Princess Cerise announced it to the other rageons. They all pressed their fists to their hearts and bowed their heads in reverence. After the silence of reverence was finished, Zircon started speaking.

“Well, you all better come inside,” Monarch Zircon said. They led the funk ship inside the castle, which caught the trolls’ attention. The interior is decked with crystals hanging from the ceilings, with geode-like walls, has golden lined staircases, and luxurious furniture. There are lots of portraits of the royals and nobles alike with tapestries and pictured stained glass windows.

“So tell me, why do you want to see me?” they asked the trolls, who were standing in the funk ship’s terrace.

“We came here because we are on a mission to unite all of the troll tribes to fight against the mad jinn as you call them and his minions, there are also reports of corrupted Bergen attacks on the other tribes,” Queen Rose answered. “And we’re looking for the long-lost Pop Tribe.”

“We will talk about it on the next day because you've been very exhausted from your journey,” they said. “My sister, Ruby and my brothers, Alexandrite and Agate will also be here with the other officials for the meeting too.”

“Thank you, your majesty,” Princess Poppy thanked them.

After having dinner with the royal rageons, the funk ship stayed in the guest suite and rested on the top of the dresser but the main party stayed in the royal suites inside Vibe City.

“Wow, I never expected the rageons to be this tall,” Princess Poppy said as she sat on the bed.

“I like them,” said Queen Rose, “They’re like lanky porcelain dolls.”

“We played with them when we were kids,” DJ Suki chuckled.

“I’ve never slept inside a castle before,” Dewdrop squealed in delight. “It’s exciting.”

“Tomorrow, we have to be there for the meeting,” Princess Poppy said.

“At least, I came prepared,” Queen Rose smirked while opening her suitcase, revealing a lot of dresses, hats, headdresses, and a box filled with jewelry inside.

“Can we make some alterations for the dresses that you used to wear?” Satin asked.

“Satin and I want to fix things up,” Chenille added.

“Sure, I don't need my old outfits anymore,” Queen Rose responded. “I got the right outfit for me to wear tomorrow.”

The next day, the meeting finally came as everybody was getting ready in Vibe City.

“If we're gonna have a meeting with the rageons, we need to be presentable,” Branch said in another royal suite with the men as they picked out the outfits they wanted to borrow or choose.

“You saying we gotta take baths?” Tiny Diamond asked.

“It is what we need to look our best,” Prince Darnell answered because King Quincy let the men use the royal bathhouse.

John Dory was running around in the suite, trying to get away as Clay and Bruce tried to catch him.

“Do you need help with giving that troll a bath?” an orange-striped Funk Troll with purple and red hair tied in a bun and a blue nose asked him as he tried to get John Dory to the bath. He has a purple goatee and wears golden-framed headdress with rose-colored feather, small studs on his ears, and a cape with a sparkling yellow, feathery collar.

“Oh dear,” Clay sighed.

“Ugh, he smelled so gross from hiding in the forest and acting mad for too long,” Bruce groaned.

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“This is like Wash Day again,” Queen Rose said as she and the ladies were taking a bath in the bathhouse.

“Hello ladies,” a pair of funk trolls chorused as they enter the room. They are both bipedal but one of them is a blue and purple-striped Funk Troll with darker purple hair tied by a yellow headband. She has a blue nose, arms and legs. On her right ear, she has a golden planet-shaped earring, on the left a couple of golden studs. She has two golden bands with one around her left arm and the other on her left leg. She also has a thick golden choker around her neck and a toe ring on her right foot. The other is yellow and orange-striped with pink hair, nose, arms and legs, and blue eyes. She has blue star-shaped hairbands that tie her hair into two buns on the sides. She has golden stud earrings in both ears, a bracelet on her right arm, a couple of anklets on her left leg, a toe ring on her right foot, and two golden chokers around her neck.

“What are your names, ladies?” Queen Rose asked them.

“I’m Rhythm and this is my younger twin, Blues,” the purple funk troll answered.

“More twins!” Satin and Chenille chorused.

“Hi, are you two joining our group?” Princess Poppy asked them.

“We’re here to assist you while you’re on our ship,” Rhythm said.

“All our resources are at your disposal,” Blues added.

“Thanks,” the girls thanked them.

After preparing, the funk ship and the royal Rageons arrived at the throne room, as Zircon sat on a golden throne at the right with Princess Cerise sitting on the left. Many rageons in fancy clothing arrived as they were led by a pink rageon with mismatched fuschia and coral pink eyes, crimson hair, wearing the same tiara as her niece but the gems are emerald green to match her green gown. A pair of male twin rageons with ivory skin, orange eyes, and salmon pink hair that were fixed in the opposite directions, wearing flat caps with feathers, identical black cotehardies with gold details, beige colored pants, and black boots, appeared as well. The funk ship floated beside them.

“Welcome, esteemed court members, we are gathered here to discuss the crisis that is happening to us and it is not only to our kingdom but to the others as well,” Zircon announced to his entire court.

The Snack Pack and their allies appeared on the terrace of the ship, all dressed up in formal outfits, fancy hats or headdresses, and accessories that they chose. Queen Rose still wears her signature jewelry but her hair is styled in a braided updo and she wears a white dress covered in golden threads, a hot pink chest section, the entire outfit is covered in golden diamonds, and a high translucent pink collar with a golden fringe to finish it.

“Thanks for letting us borrow your outfits,” Holly thanked Queen Rose as she showed off Poppy’s old blue gown. It still has a square collar, paned shoulders, long, flared outer sleeves, and pastel blue inner sleeves but it was altered to fit her horse half.

“No problem,” Princess Poppy replied, now wearing the same blue gown with a square neckline, panned style shoulders with bishop sleeves, and wrist ruffles with her flower crown and hennin.

“We made a few alterations because they chose the outfits they want to wear,” Satin said as she and Chenille showed off the ball gowns that they wore in their last ball.

“Okay everyone, let the meeting begin,” Zircon announced.

“Your majesty, we got news about the lava effects that is occurring on the rageons who drank the mysterious elixir!” A lavender skinned Rageon with blue and yellow gradient hair, wearing a purple chaperon with brooch, a white cotehardie with colorful geometric patterns, dark purple pants, and blue boots.

“Kid Ritz, please be patient,” Zircon said.

“My mother’s trusted maidservant is dying and she can’t go through everyday without her, when will the crystallization plague end?” A gray skinned Rageon asked. She has white freckles, pastel pink eyes, bright pink lips and blush, blue eyeshadow, and light pink and blue hair that is tied in a half-braid, wearing pastel shades of purple and pink split colored kirtle over a white chemise with purple shoes, silver jewelry, and a purple torque with a band of cloth wrapped around her head.

“It’s alright Dazzler, I’m here for you,” Cashmere said.

“The farmers are dying, we need that elixir to cure them now,” one of the lords suggested.

“Haven’t you heard Kid Ritz and our sibling, that thing is too dangerous and we cannot risk any losses because of it,” one of the royal twins, Prince Alexandrite, whose hair is fixed to the right side of his face with a golden cape that is draped on his left arm shouted.

“But we don’t know what is dangerous about it unless we see it for ourselves,” the other royal twin, Prince Agate argued with his brother. His hair is fixed to the left side of his face and his cape covers his right arm.

“Boys! This is not the time,” the older, crimson haired Rageon princess, named Ruby scolded them.

“I say, we go to war with that mad jinn!” An older male Rageon with a red and orange color scheme in fancier clothing suggested with a loud voice.

“But Lord Padparadscha, we don’t know if he’s dangerous, we might slip into a lion’s den with a viper on our heels!” A female older Rageon in a holographic color palette, wearing a fancy gown and a heart shaped hennin responded.

Everybody argued left and right until Zircon cleared his throat to catch their attention and stop their fussing.

“Royalty, nobility, gentry, you can tell us the news one by one but we’ll hear from our guest here, Queen Rosetta first,” they declared.

The entire throne room went silent under their ruler’s orders. Then, Zircon turned to the funk ship, where the trolls are standing on its balcony.

“Queen Rosetta, let us know why are you here today?” Zircon asked her.

“The reason that I am here, Your Majesty, is to unite all of the troll tribes to band together and fight the mad jinn called Fortune,” she answered. “He has been attacking every troll tribe all over the troll kingdom, which led them all to hiding.”

“The smoke monster is attacking you all too?” they asked them.

“Yes, your majesty,” Princess Poppy answered.

“Those actions he caused are just making the prophecy set in motion, it can be found in a song,” King Quincy added.

“So, what is this talk about a prophecy in a song?” Monarch Zircon asked.

“We thought it was just a lullaby, but it turns out to be so much more,” Queen Rose explained.

“We funk trolls have a copy of the entire lyrics,” King Quincy said.

King Quincy showed everyone the scroll, containing the lyrics as Queen Rose took out the music box from her hair and played it. The lyrics on the scroll read:

Constant as the stars above
Always know that you are loved
And my love shining in you
Will help you make your dreams come true
Will help your dreams come true

The lamb lies down and rests its head
On its mother's downy bed
Dolphins play in the moonlight's glow
And butterfly dreams of a violet rose
Dreams of a violet rose

The light will shine in darkest dreams
Like heroes shining armor gleams
Flying wings beat like a bell
Music plays and heartbeats swell
Music plays and heartbeats swell

The shields surrounding your sad heart
Cannot keep our love apart
Truth unites our family
And sacrifice for harmony
And sacrifice for harmony

I'll cradle you in my arms tonight
As sun embraces the moonlight
The clouds will carry us off tonight
Our dreams will run deep like the sea
Our dreams will run deep like the sea

Constant as the stars above
Always know that you are loved
And my love shining in you
Will help you make your dreams come true
Will help your dreams come true

Everybody was shocked to see the lyrics appearing before them in a scroll that even Queen Rose was amazed.

“So this is the prophecy that King Thrash, Trollzart, and everybody else told me?” she gasped out of disbelief.

“King Cygnus entrusted it to our tribe for safekeeping,” King Quincy answered.

“It’s beautiful, but what does it mean?” Branch asked.

“The pop trolls are in hiding, the rest of the troll tribes are being attacked, and you guys in a quest to unite them all, the prophecy is all happening right now,” King Quincy explained.

“Are you telling me that they're in hiding?” Queen Rose asked.

“Now I remember,” Branch gasped. “Mister Fortune said he would take us to a safe place where nobody can find us!”

“So he's setting everything that the prophecy is talking about into motion?” Zircon asked them.

“I guess so,” he shrugged.

“Wait, that smoke monster is making it happen?” Alexandrite became curious, so did his brother.

“No wonder these trolls are here,” Agate agreed with him.

“And your majesty, we tried to get this party crasher to talk but he wouldn't answer so we brought him to you as well,” King Quincy said as the guards appeared with Archer Pastry.

“Yeesh, so many tall people.” Archer cringed in discomfort.

“Mr. Pastry,” King Quincy told him, “Everyone here is very high ranking in their communities. And we all want you to know that you don’t have anything to gain by withholding information from us. And if you do tell us, we can protect you from whomever is threatening you.”

Archer sighed, “Okay, set me down somewhere and I’ll tell you.” The guards placed him in the middle of the table, where he couldn’t run away, and everyone could see him.

“So, this creepy smokey creepy guy came along and told us to get all those boyband guys,” he gestured to Branch and his brothers. “He didn’t say why, but he did threaten to drop us from the sky if we didn’t get them.

The rageons and trolls listening gasped in reaction. Branch and Queen Rose exchanged glances. John Dory slumped down to his knees. Bruce and Clay both looked at their feet.

“And this so-called “creepy guy” is he who we think he is?” King Quincy asked.

“Yeah, Famin Fortune or whatever he’s called,” he answered.

“Is that what he calls himself?” a female voice asked as a cloud of blue smoke appeared in the throne room.

“Who was that?” Princess Poppy gasped.

“Whatever this is, I don't like it,” Branch added.

“Who goes there?” Queen Rose declared.

“He never knew that his actions were the cause for the troll prophecy to happen,” a voice answered.

“Aisha, it's good to see you again,” Zircon said as a cyan blue skinned jinn appeared in a puff of smoke. She has dark blue curls and turquoise eyes. She wears a set of peacock feather earrings, followed by a golden necklace with a peacock shaped pendant. She wears a blue dress with a two-tone blue triangle-inspired design, peacock feather prints located on the both V-cut neckline and the short sleeves, worn over her long-sleeved midnight blue dress. Around her waist is a magenta belt with both golden diamond-shaped studs and a golden diamond-shaped buckle, which are tied together by tassels hanging from the front. She also sports two emerald green anklets around her left ankle, matching her accessorized necklaces, along with blue pointed flats and a cape that resembles a peacock’s tail.

She took out a diamond-shaped green bottle with a silver cap, which she opened and colorful smoke flew out of it. A plus sized older female jinn in a yellow color scheme, a warmer purple dress with yellow trims over a dark purple chemise with long sleeves, dark purple shoes with lighter trims and yellow soles, and a veil over her head, a skinny male jinn with powder blue skin and bright blue hair, wearing a emerald green cap, a long chartreuse scarf, and a forest green tunic with a dark green rope belt tied around his waist with deep green pants and olive green shoes, and several colorful Jinn children emerged from the bottle.

The trolls all flinched away in fear, but Queen Rose is ready with a fighting stance.

“Please don't be afraid, I am Aisha, we are jinns too but we are not like Haqid,” she explained.

“Haqid, that means malevolent,” Princess Cerise said.

“You mean Mister Fortune?” Branch spoke up.

“Fortune, is that what he calls himself?” the skinny young jinn asked them.

“Yes, Safi,” she answered. “He killed both Amir and our sister, Fairuza, poor Sakina, she and her siblings lost their parents because of him.”

“You have jinns living here? I don't get it?” Princess Poppy asked Aisha.

“Let Diamante tell you all about who Haqid is because it's hard for me and my family here to talk about him,” Aisha said.

“Father?” Zircon asked an older rageon beside him. He has pale blue skin with shiny, iridescent white hair with a holographic shine, blue eyes, and he wears an iridescent silver cotehardie over a ruffled turtleneck shirt, glittery diamond pants, and black boots.

“Everybody, it’s time you all know who this mad jinn, Fortune is,” the older Rageon said.

Chapter Text

As the former king, Diamante stood up, he started telling everybody the story that happened a long, long time ago.

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Once upon a time, in the southern desert, the Jinn kingdom lived under the rule of a wise sultan. There was great turbulence in the kingdom, many creatures tried to attack them. Only the royal army could fight them off. And the greatest soldier was General Haqid. He was strong, stoic, handsome, and intelligent. He had a few admirers, but the only one he wanted was Fairuza. She was a turquoise colored jinn who was very prim and proper and didn’t speak to others. Many saw her as unapproachable, Haqid saw her as perfect for him.

However, Fairuza had no interest in Haqid. She was already married to an orange jinn named Amir. Amir was fat, had a bald spot, and many of his friends joked that he is too short for any woman to handle him. To Fairuza, he was the handsomest, most wonderful man in the world because of his kind soul and his intelligence. And to Amir, Fairuza was the loveliest, most wonderful woman in the world.

Haqid watched them start a family as his envy grew with every child they had. One day he couldn’t take it anymore. So he invited Amir to join him on a nightly patrol. Amir went along happily, but in the middle of the night when Amirs’ back was turned, Haqid drew his blade, and stabbed him in the back. And to make sure no one would find the body, he took out Amir's core and swallowed it, leaving the body to wither away to dust.

He went back in the morning, saying that Amir had run off and disappeared but Safi, Fairuza’s sister who saw everything, gathered Amir's body and told Aisha, who turned out to be a powerful sorceress, about what really happened to their brother-in-law as he asked the undertakers to prepare for his funeral while he undergo a purifying ritual. Out of anger, Aisha created a spell that befit an egoistic man like him by writing it down in a black scroll and used the ink that matches Haqid's colors.

Haqid went to Fairuza, who was deep in mourning during the funeral, and attempted to seduce her but she wouldn’t have anything to do with him, and told her to leave. In a fit of rage, he attacked her, and strangled her to death. In the process, Aisha recited the curse and it struck Haqid that he lost his colors because Aisha wrote his colors into the curse. The curse made him go mad that his men tried to fight him off while everybody else escaped to the city, where the sultan's palace is but the guards who fought him off sacrificed themselves as Haqid killed them and ate their cores one by one.

Aisha kept her sister's core inside her pendant while her family hid inside diamond bottles as she traveled to and from Mount Rageous in order to find help.

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After Diamante finished the story, everybody gasped in shock while the trolls felt bad for Aisha and her family.

“I thought I was the only one who was going through the five stages of grief when my grandma, Queen Celestia died but it turns out, Bruce got through them well,” Queen Rose said.

“You two are not the only ones, me and my siblings also ended up going through the five stages of grief when my beloved younger sister, Quartzine and her husband, Varnish, died of an incurable illness when Cerise was a baby, it was hard to talk about it to my niece,” Zircon explained.

“Same with me, it's hard for me and Safi to tell our nieces and nephews about what happened to their parents,” Aisha added.

“How long have you been like this?” Princess Poppy asked Aisha.

“Ever since I lost both Amir and Fairuza, I couldn't let go of the grief because he caused anger to us,” she answered. “I want revenge on him.”

“That's the same thing I was thinking of when grandma died,” Queen Rose gasped.

“Aisha, you played a part in the troll prophecy but for the noblest of cause,” King Quincy said to her.

“You really think so?” She asked him.

“Yes, you did what you can to save them,” he answered before turning to the enby ruler of Mount Rageous. “Zircon, can I ask if we can analyze the strange elixir that you're talking about?”

“It’s being sold as a supposed cure-all at the marketplace's pleasure district. I don’t allow anyone in my court to buy it,” Monarch Zircon answered.

“My younger siblings help sell it, I tried to reconnect them there but I couldn't bear to see what they had become, thanks to it,” Marvel added.

“It's alright Marvel, my love,” Princess Cerise said as she comforted him.

“I confiscated this one from a rageon who ended up in a rehabilitation center so please tell us what you discovered,” Alexandrite said as he placed a drop of the elixir into a dish for King Quincy to examine.

“I’ll take this to the Funk Ship.” he said as the advanced tech scanned the drop and analyzed it.

“Are the other Jinn here too?” Branch asked.

“The rest of my people are back in the capital city, hiding,” Aisha answered. “It's too much for us to bear about what is happening to him. He’s become much stronger than the average Jinn, and his powers are still growing.”

“While we escaped, he ate the cores of his parents and the men under his command who tried to fight him off, while his younger brother left with us,” Safi added as she hugged the children close.

“Was that forbidden?” Queen Rose asked Aisha.

“Yes, it's forbidden by law,” she answered. “It’s just like eating someone's heart and the penalty for doing it is severe.”

“We have analyzed the elixir,” King Quincy announced when he appeared with a piece of paper in his hand

“What have you found out?” Zircon asked them.

“There’s blood in it, troll blood. And, jinn blood too. I think it might belong to Famin,” he answered

“So what does it do?” Branch asked King Quincy.

“I hate to say this but the elixir mutates them into a mindless lava monster,” King Quincy answered.

“So the one who consumes it would be cursed too?” Queen Rose asked. “That also happened to the bergens that we fought before.”

“Where did you fight them?” Zircon asked them.

“At Volcano Rock City,” Princess Poppy answered.

“So he weaponized his own curse to gain followers,” Zircon said, “But why would he be so fixated on the Pop Tribe?”

“Maybe it was their happiness that he wanted because it is so strong, but for what…” Queen Rose said but she was cut off when one of Zircon’s servants appeared.

“Your majesties,” a purple skinned rageon said as he entered the hallway, “Someone is here to see you, we found him in the castle kitchen taking scraps while living in the hole of the castle walls.”

In his hand, the servant held a blue pop troll with dark pink hair, wearing a white shirt, black pants, and a large black belt. He smiled when he saw BroZone.

“Hey guys,” he said.

“FLOYD!” Branch, John Dory, Bruce, and Clay all get ready to leap across the table toward their final brother. Floyd jumped from the servants' hand to the table and to them in the funk ship's terrace. They all hugged each other tightly. Everybody clapped for them.

“Where have you been?” John Dory loudly asked.

“I’ve been living between the castle walls to hide from troll hunters,” Floyd explained. “Then I heard a delegation of trolls was visiting and I hoped you might be among them. I missed you all so much.”

Branch pressed his and Floyd’s foreheads together. “We missed you too.”

“This is my girlfriend Princess Poppy of the Pop Trolls,” Branch introduced his girlfriend to him.

“Hiiiii!” Princess Poppy said as she waved eagerly.

“And this is my friend Queen Rose of the Platinum Trolls,” he then introduced Queen Rose.

“Nice to meet you,” Queen Rose responded as she curtseyed.

“This is a lovely reunion.” Queen Essence said. “I’m glad something good has come out of these dark times.”

“Most of us are reunited with their families but not everybody is complete,” King Quincy said.

“Ok, now that we know who he is and what we're preparing for, can we know what we should do?” Queen Rose asked Zircon.

“Since you are all reuniting the tribes, what you should do is find the Pop Tribe and reunite them on that same spot,” Zircon instructed them.

“Thanks your majesty, we'll leave for tomorrow,” she answered.

Back at Vibe City, Archer Pastry couldn't sleep because he heard everything about his gang's employer and who he really is, thanks to his captors and the rageons. Prince Darnell visited the room to talk about it.

“Are you feeling okay?” He asked him.

“Not really. I’ve gone against my own kind and learned we were working for a mass-murderer who wants to, I don’t even know what. And I have nowhere to go from here.” Archer said.

“It's alright, the truth may hurt but it will take time for you to realize this,” the prince answered.

“Realize what? That I’m all alone and have nothing?” Archer asked.

“Maybe you’re better off with someone other than your own kind.” Prince D answered.

“You mean it?” He asked him.

“Yes, you do, everybody deserves a second chance in life but everybody else never wanted it,” the prince answered.

Queen Rose was overhearing it from her room as tears fell from her eyes while she slept. It was going to be a big day tomorrow.

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The next day, they bid Zircon and their people farewell after breakfast and the funk ship left Mount Rageous to find the Pop trolls. King Quincy and Queen Essence were commanding the ship to have their crew search for their location when they noticed some dots appearing in the radar.

“Bergens! Get ready everybody!” Branch gasped.

As they prepared their weapons, they saw a flag waving at them, which had a windingle sewn on it.

“What is that?” Queen Rose wondered. She and the Snack Pack, along with their allies are back to their signature quest outfits that they usually wear during their travels.

“Don’t be frightened,” a man’s voice called out to them, “We just want to talk to you.”

“Who goes there?” she asked out loud.

“Hi,” A short, green Bergen, wearing a crown waved at them. He is dressed in a red tunic with white trim, blue pants, brown boots, and a red fur cape but he wears chainmail armor over the tunic. “I am King Gristle Jr. of BergenTown. My friend Bridget said you helped her in the woods.”

“I am Queen Rosetta, granddaughter of the late Queen Celestia and high queen of the troll kingdom,” she announced.

“Bridget, it’s so nice to see you again,” Princess Poppy squealed as she and the trolls peeked from the terrace of the funk ship when she saw Bridget again.

Branch and the other trolls were confused by what was going on because they were used to seeing Bergens as monsters.

“I didn’t know trolls had a kingdom,” King Gristle said.

“It is but now, it’s being rampaged by the Bergens with lava effects and the Party Crashers,” Queen Rose said.

“Are you guys saying that there are Bergens who look like lava?” He asked her.

“We fought them back in Volcano Rock City,” Princess Poppy explained.

“Whoaaaa!” King Gristle exclaimed.

“You never knew about the split between your people?” Branch asked him.

“No, we just knew that some of them left,” he answered.

“Maybe after years of depression, they left Bergentown to find happiness somewhere and they ended up being swayed by Chef, who is now working for that mad jinn, Famin Fortune,” Queen Rose explained. “Whom we learned from Zircon that he’s been the one behind all of the attacks in the Troll Kingdom.”

King Gristle didn’t know what to say to all that, he couldn’t believe what is happening to his people.

“I’m sorry what happened to your people, but if we come together, we can make things right for our kingdoms and be free from this calamity to come,” Queen Rose continued.

“Seriously?” Branch asked angrily.

“Branch, the Bergens of Bergentown are not what you think, they put the past behind and we can’t just exclude them, they need a chance to fight back as well,” Princess Poppy argued back.

“If they don’t, they’ll be ransacked by Chef and her Bergens, which happened to the other troll tribes,” Queen Rose added.

“Fine with me!” Branch snapped, “You don’t know what it was like living with them. They didn’t eat us because they were corrupted, they ate us because they enjoyed it. They ate my,” he stopped and glanced at his brothers, “They ate our grandmother, because they enjoyed it.”

Everybody gasped when they heard what he said. Princess Poppy knelt down and hugged Branch from behind. John Dory, Bruce, Clay and Floyd all gathered round him and stroked his head to comfort him.

“Branch, how did your grandma get eaten? Grandmama Celestia told me that Rosiepuff is her best friend but she never knew what happened to her,” Queen Rose said.

“It was the day before Trollstice,” Branch said, “We thought it was safe, I thought it was safe. I was practicing singing, I was so focused on the song I didn’t realize a Bergen came into the cage, didn’t know it was reaching for me until Grandma pushed me out of the way. Do you know what that’s like? To lose your last family member and have it be your fault? I’d have been grey forever if Famin hadn’t cured me. And now…” his voice trailed off, and he slumped to the floor.

“Of course, I have known what it’s like to think that you’re alone, I thought I was the surviving member of this dynasty when grandma died until I met my long-lost parents and realized that I have a brother and two sisters,” Queen Rose said, lowering her voice as she went up to Branch and comforted him..

"You’re not alone in this and it’s hard to let go of the past, especially for our parents when they were separated from the pop tribe when the Bergens arrived,” Linden added.

Queen Rose sighed as she took Branch’s hand and helped him stand up as she sang a song.

Queen Rose:
You're not alone
Together we stand
I'll be by your side
You know I'll take your hand

Branch:
When it gets cold
And it feels like the end
There's no place to go
You know I won't give in

Both:
No, I won't give in

All:
Keep holding on
'Cause you know we'll make it through
We'll make it through
Just stay strong

Both:
'Cause you know I'm here for you
I'm here for you

There's nothing you can say (All: nothing you can say)
Nothing you can do (All: nothing you can do)
There's no other way when it comes to the truth (All: comes to the truth)
So keep holding on (All: keep holding on)
'Cause you know we'll make it through
We'll make it through

Branch:
So far away
I wish you were here
Before it's too late
This could all disappear

Both:
Before the doors close
And it comes to an end
With you by my side
I will fight and defend
I'll fight and defend yeah, yeah

All:
Keep holding on
'Cause you know we'll make it through
We'll make it through
Just stay strong

Both:
'Cause you know I'm here for you
I'm here for you

There's nothing you can say (All: nothing you can say)
Nothing you can do (All: nothing you can do)
There's no other way when it comes to the truth (All: comes to the truth)
So keep holding on (All: keep holding on)
'Cause you know we'll make it through
We'll make it through

Hear me when I say when I say I'll believe
Nothing's gonna change
Nothing's gonna change destiny
Whatever's meant to be will work out perfectly

All:
Keep holding on
'Cause you know we'll make it through
We'll make it through
Just stay strong

Both:
'Cause you know I'm here for you
I'm here for you

There's nothing you can say (All: nothing you can say)
Nothing you can do (All: nothing you can do)
There's no other way when it comes to the truth (All: comes to the truth)
So keep holding on (All: keep holding on)
'Cause you know we'll make it through
We'll make it through

There's nothing you can say (All: nothing you can say)
Nothing you can do (All: nothing you can do)
There's no other way when it comes to the truth (All: comes to the truth)
So keep holding on (All: keep holding on)
'Cause you know we'll make it through
We'll make it through

“Thanks, Rose, I thought I was the only one who went through this,” Branch thanked her.

“You're not alone in this,” Queen Rose said. “You're just going through the five stages of grief but yours is incomplete.”

“Yeah, I need some time to get through this,” he said.

“To make this closure official, I remember that my dad told me about the Bergen that entered the cage where grandma died, it was Chef,” King Gristle said.

“So?” Branch asked.

“So, we banished Chef, she’s not one of us anymore,” King Gristle explained. “We gave up on eating trolls, and there’s nobody in our town who would hurt you.”

“We got some bad news, she formed her own town, the bergens who left joined her side, and they're working for Famin Fortune,” King Quincy explained.

“Isn't that the smoke monster that scared us when the trolls are escaping?” King Gristle wondered.

“Yes, it's the jinn who use the Pop trolls for his nefarious purpose,” Queen Essence explained.

“Uh-oh!” King Gristle and Bridget said in unison.

“We can spread light on your sitch!” a voice proclaimed. “That walking pile of dreadfulness is out to perform the resurrection ritual!”

“Who said that?” Princess Poppy asked.

“Oh look, it's King Cosmo and Captain Nyxx,” Queen Rose gasped when she saw two space trolls appearing to them with their levitation and landed on the terrace of the funk ship. One of them was a dark blue space troll with blue hair, and the other was a blonde space troll with a circlet, a belt, and armor. He was holding a spear on his right hand firmly.

“Greetings! So happy to see you! I’m King Cosmo of the Space Trolls and this is my right hand man Nyxx, he’s happy too,” he said.

“Hmmph,” Captain Nyxx deadpanned.

“Condolences to you Queen Rose and I’m sorry for what happened to your grandmother, she’s quite a grand dame, fun loving and sweet,” King Cosmo said to her.

“It's been so long ever since you visited the Diamond Citadel and taught me in combat,” Queen Rose said.

“Hello my friends,” Amalthea said as she floated up and hugged her fellow space trolls.

“How do you know what he’s planning?” Princess Poppy asked.

“We have our sources that we don’t want to share, but what we know is that man’s plan will result in serious consequences,” King Cosmo said.

“I have been asking myself that question during my bargaining stage when I was mourning grandma’s death but now, I feel better,” Queen Rose said.

While they spoke, King Gristle and Bridget stared at the strange new troll species in wonder. This was more amazing then anything they’d seen in their sheltered lives.

“What is this bringing the dead back to life about?” DJ Suki asked them.

“Did I hear something like a ritual?” Val asked as well.

“It wasn’t put into detail but all we know is that the resurrection ritual already happened in the past,” Captain Nyxx said.

“Wait, did it happen before?” Princess Poppy wondered.

“Poppy,” Queen Rose said, “There’s something we need to tell you.”

The royal funk family led them down a hallway to their records room.

“Once upon a time, our world was without song or dance,” Prince D explained to them as he showed them the vinyl records that show the story itself. “Then the Trolls created the strings, and life was one big party.”

“Oh, yeah.. I-I've heard this story before,” Princess Poppy smiled.

“That is, until the Pop Trolls tried to steal our strings,” he continued.

“Steal your strings? But – But, why?” she gasped because she was never told anything.

“I remember, King Cygnus the Wise defeated Pop Elder Brook so that the other troll tribes would get their strings back, and his best friend Tansy took over as the king of the pop trolls,” Queen Rose said. “That’s why the platinum trolls became the ruling tribe because King Cygnus was chosen to be the ruler of the entire troll kingdom for his wisdom and his determination to protect all trolls.”

“Who is Brook?” Legsly asked Prince Darnell.

“What did she do that prompted King Cygnus to defeat her?” Smidge added.

“And how do these things we are hearing about, connect with what we are facing today?” Branch wondered.

“Well, I’ll tell you how it all went down,” Prince Darnell answered as he started to sing with the funk trolls.

Started off a team
Party 'til we fall asleep
Even on the street, when we disagreed
We did it on beat (did it on beat)
Respect the unique (right), anything less if it's was weak
The music of the strings made life complete (facts)
'Til that one day that changed everything
The Pop Trolls started snatchin' up all of the strings (oh no)
Puttin' melodies on top of popular beats
They cut us out of the scene
And then forgot what it really means (not even publish us)
Shoulda seen between all of the scheming

It seems like the Trolls they stole from were meaningless
Walkin' around like they were the geniuses
But it's only samples, autotune and remixes (no, Lord)
I'm a vegan, I don't have no beef with them (no, Lord)
Gotta protect my kingdom
But the dream is to sing again (yes, yes)
Being friends, seamless blend
Harmony ain't hard when the keys within you win

First, it was all love (at first, it was all love)
Hands up, superstar love (stars up)
That you can have it, you can have it all, love (and you can get it how you want)
But then you took it, took it all, love, all, love (they took it all)
Turn it up louder (turn the music up louder)
Sing along, get the crowd up (get the crowd up, come on)
But then you took it all, love (took it all, love)
Then forgot all about us (oh), but it's all love

I feel you
Sounds good in my ear when I hear it like that
I feel you
I say I look good to the mirror and it says it right back (nothing says it like that)
I feel you
A little love wouldn't kill you (a little love wouldn't kill you)
You really did me wrong, it was real cruel (it was real cruel)
Had a lot of love and I still do, 'cause I feel you

Next morning, the elders were on it (man)
They saw the warning signs, couldn't ignore it (look)
Had to figure out how to save the way of life they had made
So they made a play
The Pop Trolls were comin' for it all
All for one and one for all
So the only way we saw (how we saw it)
It was one thing left to be done (what?)
Each leader grabbed a single string and said "Run!"

“And we never lived in harmony again,” King Quincy finished.

“So that’s why no one came to rescue us…” Princess Poppy said. Then she turned away from everyone. “I need to be alone for a bit.”

“Wait!” Queen Rose said as she took her hand, “What happened in the past was awful, but nobody holds you accountable for what Brook did.”

“But you never said anything about it before,” Princess Poppy cried and wouldn't look at her.

“Grandma and the nobles tried to keep this secret from you ever since she found you and the snack pack because they didn’t know if you and your friends here were ready to face it,” she explained.

“But Rose, I am ready to face this, it’s just really hard to accept it,” Princess Poppy said.

“Okay, I’m sorry that they were protective of this secret, they didn't tell you because it might crush you all but grandma was waiting for the right time to reveal everything and……” Queen Rose sighed. “There’s a family secret that I want to show.”

She revealed the scroll from her hair and unraveled it, showing the platinum royal family tree. Every family member was recorded in pictures but there was a leaf sticker on a picture beside a soft pink-skinned platinum troll with rose gold hair. Queen Rose peeled off the sticker, revealing a blue-haired troll with orange skin and a pink nose.

“Who’s that?” Princess Poppy asked her.

“That’s King Tansy, he’s your ancestor,” King Quincy answered.

“Yeah, he almost looks like my dad but with different colors,” Rose said.

"Did you say he looks like your dad?” Branch asked her.

“Yeah, I kept mistaking the orange troll to be my dad whom I never met before until I saw what he really looks like and I even speculated that my mom and dad are the figurines in the music box,” she explained.

“That makes sense,” Prince Darnell said.

“Can I borrow the music box that you’re keeping?” King Quincy asked Queen Rose.

“Sure,” she answered as she took out the music box and cranked it. The music box played the song and King Quincy noticed the similarities between the golden statues on it and the pictures at the scroll.

“Those are the figurines of King Tansy and Queen Lyra on the music box,” he said.

“Dad gave it to mom as a present when they got married but they left it with me when I was given to grandma for my safety,” she said.

“Your parents must've done so much to show how much they love you,” Prince Darnell said.

“Yeah, and come to think of it, King Tansy and Queen Lyra look like my parents but in different colors,” Queen Rose said.

“That’s a sign that you two are family,” Queen Essence told them.

“So that means Princess Poppy and I are distant cousins because Cygnus and Lyra are brother and sister,” Queen Rose gasped. “He did choose the right troll for the job, and it turned out to be his best friend who is the love of his sister’s life.”

“I guess destiny has a way of bringing both bloodlines together,” Princess Poppy said as she and Queen Rose hugged each other.

“Okay, let’s get back to the discussion, so Brook was able to complete the ritual, her husband came back to life but he attacked her and tried to eat her so King Cygnus finished them off, but what does it have to do with that mad jinn?” Demo asked them.

“We think he might be planning to perform the same ritual to resurrect the dead,” Captain Nyxx told him.

“But we don’t know who he would want to resurrect,” King Cosmo added.

“You’d have to be pretty messed up to go against the laws of nature,” Prince D stated.

“I didn’t know Brook is such a nutcase to try and bring her husband back but why wouldn’t she let go of the grief?” Branch asked King Cosmo.

“You know how being obsessive can drive them to do insane things,” he shrugged.

“Fairuza!” Queen Rose blurted out but she clasped her mouth in a hurry.

“Who is that?” King Cosmo asked her.

“She’s Famin Fortune’s obsession,” she answered. “We learned about it from Zircon and the jinns who lived in Mount Rageous.”

“I didn't know their leader knew better,” Captain Nyxx said.

“They had a jinn family come and go as they pleased to send messages,” Branch explained. “It was hard for them because it was the sorceress's sister whom he was obsessed with.”

“Lava Bergen!!” Bridget screamed when she saw a corrupted Bergen in full black armor with a horned helmet appear in front of King Gristle and his entourage. Gristle drew his sword and wielded it with shaking hands as Chad and Todd pointed their spears. The corrupted Bergen lumbered closer and closer.

“BATTLE STATIONS!” Queen Essence called out to the Funk Trolls, who got ready with their weapons. Captain Nyxx drew his spear and stood protectively in front of King Cosmo and Amalthea.

The corrupted Bergen knocked away King Gristle’s sword and the two guards’ spears. He and Bridget clung to each other in terror. But out of the blue, Queen Rose jumped from the terrace of the funk ship and drew her sword, which glowed golden yellow at the edges and white at the center of the blade. She lunged at the corrupted Bergen and with just one slash, she sliced its head off.

“WOO–HOO!” Queen Rose yelled as she leaped from a tree trunk and jumped as she landed back on the terrace.

“How did you manage to fight that corrupted Bergen in one slash?” King Gristle asked her.

“She and her friends learned that technique from General Cygnus,” Captain Nyxx answered.

“You knew the general?” DJ Suki asked him.

“It was a secret that was passed down because his ancestors learned it from us,” he answered.

Then, Bridget poked the body with the sword's hilt.

“What should we do with this?” she asked out loud.

“We could study it,” Queen Rose suggested.

“So, King Cosmo, do you know where the Pop trolls are?” Princess Poppy asked King Cosmo.

“Yes, we’ve seen the red dome where they live. We will lead you to them,” he answered.

“Thank you,” she thanked them.

“Brace yourselves when we meet the Pop trolls, we'll use the head as evidence,” Queen Rose added.

They set course for the northeast, and went out with the Bergens riding behind them.

Chapter Text

As the Funk Ship landed in the spot where King Gristle Jr. and his Bergens will set up camp, John Dory was so excited to see the Pop Trolls again and introduce them to Rhonda, except he couldn’t find Rhonda. He looked all over and was about to leave the camp when Bruce stopped him.

“What are you doing?” Bruce asked him.

“I can’t find Rhonda,” he answered.

Bruce sighed and gestured to Clay. “Come on, we'll help you.”

They ventured into the plains between the ship and the Pop Dome. Floyd and Amalthea saw them leave and followed at a small distance. John Dory was crawling around on his hands and feet sniffing the ground like a critter.

“So… how have you been?” Clay asked.

“I’ve been living in the woods for twenty years, how do you think I’ve been?” He said it with no sarcasm or real emotion.

“What I mean is… All that talk about the five stages got me thinking. Did you ever really accept that Mom and Mother died?” Bruce said.

John Dory stood straight up and marched into Clay’s personal space.

“First, they didn’t die, they disappeared. Second, of course, I accepted it. How could I not when I was suddenly in charge of everything?” He sighed,

Bruce interjected, “Yeah but you didn’t have to be. We had Grandma and our neighbors and our fans. But you still—”

“I did what all the oldest brothers are supposed to do! I took care of you!” He shouted

“You smothered us! And when we called you out, you ran off!” Clay spat.

“You’re the ones who ran off! I just respected your wishes!” John Dory protested.

“Oh my,” a new voice was heard around them. “What a charming family spat.”

Famin Fortune appeared out of the darkness, full size, holding a struggling Rhonda in his right hand. She bit Fortune’s hand, which made Fortune drop her and she ran up to John Dory to protect him.

“Is that….” Bruce stammered.

“Oh no!” Clay gasped.

Famin Fortune lunged at the three and was about to grab John Dory, Bruce, and Clay. Rhonda tried to save John Dory from being grabbed by the smoke monster by pulling his vest but a piece of it was ripped off and she fell onto the ground while all three of them were taken away. She spotted Floyd and Amalthea and told them everything that happened. Linden, Aurora, and Twilight, who were looking for them, appeared panting in front of them.

“Floyd, Amalthea, what happened to them?” Linden asked them when the three came up to Floyd and Amalthea.

“The smoke monster got John Dory, Bruce, and Clay!” Floyd explained to them. “Rhonda tried to save him but she only got this.”

He gave Linden, Aurora, and Twilight the piece of John Dory’s fabric and Linden placed it in his pocket.

“We’ll save this when we’re going to look for them but right now, we got a camp to build,” he said.

“Ok, we’ll tell everybody about it when we get there,” Floyd agreed as he, Amalthea, and Rhonda followed him back to the camp, where Branch and Princess Poppy were helping King Gristle Jr. and Bridget set up the tents.

“It’s so great you’re giving the Bergens a chance.” Princess Poppy told him.

“Thanks,” he sighed.

“Look, I know you’re Droopy Branch right now, but you know who else is in there?” she cooed. “Dreamy Branch. The guy who kept us safe when we were little. You wrapped your leaf vest around me and told us everything would be okay.”

“Yeah well, maybe Dreamy Branch is dumb and Droopy Branch just sees things as they are,” he chuckled

“Well, you know what ya gotta do to Droopy Branch? You gotta hit him in the gut! HI-YA!” She said as she gave Branch a karate chop in the belly. Branch doubled over in pain.

“You’re not supposed to literally hit me!” he groaned.

“Yeah I am,” she said. “Like this; HI-YA!” she said as tried to chop him again, but this time he stopped her.

“You are really something else,” he said as he squeezed her hand, “Even after everything we’ve seen you still come smiling through.”

Branch:
If you said goodbye to me tonight
There would still be music left to write
What else could I do
I'm so inspired by you
That hasn't happened for the longest time

Princess Poppy:
Once I thought my innocence was gone
Now I know that happiness goes on
That's where you found me
When you put your arms around me
I haven't been there for the longest time

Both:
Oh, oh, oh
For the longest time
Oh, oh, oh
For the longest

Branch:
I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall
And the greatest miracle of all

Princess Poppy:
Is how I need you
And how you needed me too
That hasn't happened for the longest time

Both:
Maybe this won't last very long
But you feel so right
And I could be wrong
Maybe I've been hoping too hard
But I've gone this far
And it's more than I hoped for

Princess Poppy:
Who knows how much further we'll go on
Maybe I'll be sorry when you're gone

Branch:
I'll take my chances
I forgot how nice romance is

Both,
I haven't been there for the longest time

I had second thoughts at the start
I said to myself
Hold on to your heart
Now I know the woman that you are
You're wonderful so far
And it's more than I hoped for

Princess Poppy:
I don't care what consequence it brings
I have been a fool for lesser things

Branch:
I want you so bad
I think you ought to know that

Both:
I intend to hold you for the longest time

Meanwhile, Queen Rose was sharpening her sword when Billy Reverb entered.

“Billy, what are you doing?” Queen Rose asked him.

“I’m just here to see you,” he answered smoothly. “I couldn’t resist how beautiful you are.”

“I heard you, Billy,” she said. “And lucky for you, I am devilishly good with an array of weapons.”

“Is that a brag?” he teased her.

“Had a lot of practice with them and it makes a good workout,” she said.

“Oh, I take that back, you are impressive,” he complimented.

“And you too, with the greatsword of yours,” she responded.

“Today’s the day, my dear Crown Jewel,” he said. “The pop trolls will be found.”

“I hope they will be okay,” she said as Billy Reverb started singing to her.

Billy Reverb:
Oh thinkin' about all my younger years
I wish it was you and me
I was young and wild and free

Now everything’s changing better for me
I’ve been down that road before
But that's over now
You came along and gave me more

Baby you're all that I want
When you're lyin' here in my arms
I'm findin' it hard to believe
We're in heaven
And love is all that I need
And I found it there in your heart
Isn't too hard to see
We're in heaven

Queen Rose:
Oh once in my life I had find someone
But my world has turned around
In the end, I was feelin' down

Yeah nothin' can change what you mean to me
Oh there's lots that I could say
Cause I got now
And our love will light the way

Both:
And baby you're all that I want
When you're lyin' here in my arms
I'm findin' it hard to believe
We're in heaven
Yeah love is all that I need
And I found it there in your heart
It isn't too hard to see
We're in heaven

Queen Rose:
I've been waitin' for so long
For somethin' to arrive
For love to come along

Billy Reverb:
Now our dreams are comin' true
Through the good times and the bad

Both:
Yeah I'll be standin' there by you, oh!

And baby you're all that I want
When you're lyin' here in my arms
I'm findin' it hard to believe
We're in heaven
And love is all that I need
And I found it there in your heart
Isn't too hard to see
We're in heaven, heaven

Whoa, oh, oh!
You're all that I want
You're all that I need

Suddenly, they rushed outside to see Linden, Aurora, Twilight, Floyd, Amalthea, and Rhonda rushing into the camp with bad news.

“Everybody, John Dory, Spruce, Clay!!!!!” Floyd shouted.

“Floyd, calm down, what happened to them?” Queen Rose asked them

“They’ve been captured by Famin Fortune!” he answered.

“How did he get them?” Princess Poppy asked him.

“He lured them using Rhonda but she was able to set herself free,” Amalthea answered while petting Rhonda.

“Oh no!” Branch gasped.

“If it’s a war Fortune wants, it's a war he shall get!” Rose announced.

Soon, the tents were already set up as all of the bergens in the army appeared and stayed there. Legsly helped the cooks with providing food for the entire army while the rock trolls assisted the blacksmiths with making weapons and armor. In the main tent, the leaders came up with a plan.

“Guys, we got a solution in sending you all into the pop dome,” Prince Darnell said as he presented some drones.

“What are these? Are they drones?” Floyd asked them.

“They’re not just ordinary drones,” he explained. “Dad will send these drones to the pop dome and project holograms of you all because not all of us can enter it.”

“Why do we need holograms?” Biggie asked.

“We have a feeling that the smoke monster is out there somewhere and we have to take precautions on how we’re going to see what is the Pop dome,” King Quincy answered.

“We made these drones that create hyper-realistic holograms that can interact with anyone, everything you do, the holograms can do it too,” Prince Darnell added.

“How will it work?” DJ Suki asked him.

“Can we have a piece of your hair each?” King Quincy asked them.

“Sure, grandma kept this just in case it comes in handy,” Queen Rose said as she revealed a dagger from her belt and cut off a strand. Then, she handed it to Princess Poppy, who gave it to Branch, and so on. The Snack Pack, Floyd, Linden, Aurora, and Twilight each placed the hair strands in each drone and King Quincy activated one. The activated drone projected Biggie’s hologram.

“Wow, you guys sure know how to make awesome gadgets,” DJ Suki squealed.

“Thanks,” Rhythm thanked her.

“Alright, positions,” King Quincy said as he went in front of a control panel that he set up and stood in front of it.

As the Snack Pack and Floyd positioned themselves on the table, King Quincy sent the drones through his control panel. The drones flew into the Pop dome and projected Queen Rose, Linden, Aurora, Twilight, Floyd, and Snack Pack’s images into the dome to make them look like they were entering. The Pop Trolls looked up from their morning tasks and gasped at the sight of strangers entering their safe homes.

“Hello,” Princess Poppy shouted as she waved at them all.

“Who are you?” Viva asked.

“We’re Pop Trolls like you guys,” Biggie said. “And we brought our friends here to meet you.”

“You’re the Missing Children?” Everybody gasped as more Pop Trolls came out to meet them. Four male trolls noticed Floyd, Linden, Aurora, and Twilight as they appeared in the pop dome behind Queen Rose. One of them is a purple skinned troll with glitter freckles, red hair, a lilac nose, purple eyes, pointy ears and a barely visible stubble. Three trolls appeared behind him, a munsell blue skinned glitter troll with, blue eyes, semi-light blue hair, pointy ears, and a lime green nose, a short orange skinned troll with a pink nose, orange eyes and purple hair with light white streaks, tied in a ponytail, and a glitter troll with yellow sparkly skin, green eyes, a lime green nose and rainbow colored hair followed the first one.

“Hi, I'm Ablaze, and these are my teammates, Hype, Trickee, and Boom,” he introduced himself and his friends.

“Hi, I'm Aurora,” Aurora introduced herself to them.

“Aurora, you have a beautiful name,” the blue glitter troll named Hype complimented her.

“Thanks,” she responded with a sweet tone in her voice.

“What's your name, beautiful troll,” a tropical indigo troll with wild, federal blue hair that is tied in a ponytail with an indigo hair tie, Veronica purple nose, and jonquil eyes, wearing a toga asked Twilight.

“I'm Twilight,” she answered.

“Oooh!!! My sisters are getting their own boyfriends!” Linden cried with tears of joy.

As the Snack Pack started telling their lost loved ones the truth, King Quincy and Queen Essence used holograms to communicate with the Pop Tribe inside the dome but Pop Trolls recoiled away from the pictures and scenes that show strange-looking foreigners.

Queen Rose then stepped forward as she tried to introduce herself. “I am Queen Rosetta of the–”

“We don’t care.” King Peppy cut her off. “As far as we're concerned, you're just one of the people who brainwashed our children.”

“I guess you didn’t know the ballad of my great aunt Lyra and her beloved Tansy,” Queen Rose smirked.

“So? Why should I care about your family history?” he responded.

“Dad,” Princess Poppy explained. “It’s our family history too. Those trolls she mentioned are our ancestors and Lyra and Cygnus are brother and sister so she’s our distant relative.”

Viva stepped closer when she heard that.

“Are you Princess Poppy?” she asked.

“Yep!” Princess Poppy said as she proudly put her fists on her hips.

“Oh my gosh! I’m your twin sister, Viva!” Viva squealed.

“You guys, I have a sister!” Princess Poppy shouted at her friends.

“Awww!!” Queen Rose, Aurora, and Twilight awed in delight.

“Am I the only one without a long-lost sibling?” Tiny Diamond shouted.

Princess Poppy:
I'm blindfolded on this carriage ride
That they call life

Viva:
Keep tryin' to make it through that next turn
Knuckles white and holdin' tight

Princess Poppy:
So here I go, taking the curve

Viva:
But I know that I'm never alone

Both:
I think of you and how you never let me go

Princess Poppy:
I feel connected (Viva: connected)
Protected (Viva: protected)

Both:
It's like you're sitting right
With me all the time

Princess Poppy:
You hear me (Viva: you hear me)
You're near me (Viva: you're near me)

Both:
And everything else is gonna be all right

'Cause nothin' can break this
Nothin' can break this
Nothin' can break this tie
Connected

Connected inside

Viva:
It's not an accident
The time we spend apart

Princess Poppy:
But now we're so close
That I can always find you
Right here in my heart

Viva:
You've given me
Something I need
And I don't ever want it to end

Princess Poppy:
Because of you

Both:
I know I've found my strength again

Princess Poppy:
I feel connected (Viva: connected)
Protected (Viva: protected)

Both:
It's like you're sitting right
With me all the time

Princess Poppy:
You hear me (Viva: you hear me)
You're near me (Viva: you're near me)

Both:
And everything else is gonna be all right

'Cause nothin' can break this
Nothin' can break this
Nothin' can break this tie
Connected

Princess Poppy:
Connected inside

Both:
Every time that I breathe
I can feel the energy
Reachin' out, flowing through
You to me and me to you
Wake or dream
Walk or stand
You are everywhere I am
Separate souls
Unified
Touchin' at the speed of life

Princess Poppy:
I feel connected (Viva: connected)
Protected (Viva: protected)

Both:
It's like you're sitting right
With me all the time

Princess Poppy:
You hear me (Viva: you hear me)
You're near me (Viva: you're near me)

Both:
And everything else is gonna be all right

Princess Poppy:
Connected (Viva: connected)
Protected (Viva: protected)

Both:
Now, you're in my mind,
Now, I’m doing fine

Princess Poppy:
You hear me (Viva: you hear me)
You're near me (Viva: you're near me)

Both:
And everything else is gonna be all right

'Cause nothin' can break this
Nothin' can break this
Nothin' can break this tie

Princess Poppy:
Connected (Viva: connected)

Both:
Connected inside

Viva:
Connected (Princess Poppy: connected)

Both:
Connected inside

Princess Poppy:
Connected (Viva: connected)

Both:
Connected inside

They finished the song and hugged each other but Viva couldn’t touch her because the projection was just a hologram.

“Oh, you’re here but I can’t touch you,” Viva said.

“Sorry, we didn't feel safe coming here in the flesh.” Princess Poppy explained.

“I always want to hug you when we reunite but we can't,” she said.

“When you live in a lie for so long, you only see a mirage or an illusion until the sting of truth snaps you out of it,” Queen Rose answered.

“I know this is hard to swallow,” Branch said, “But Famin Fortune isn’t the hero you all think he is.”

“How can you say that?” King Peppy asked. “He’s the one who cured you of your greyness!”

“He only did that to make himself look good, he’s been using us just like the Bergens used to,” Floyd explained.

“Floyd?! You're back!!” Boom, the rainbow-haired troll smiled at him.

“Heeeyyyy,” he shouted.

“How are things for you?” Branch asked them.

“It was good for a while until it started to get weird,” The orange skinned troll with purple hair named Trickee asked him.

“What do you mean by weird?” He asked them.

“Actually, most of us, including us four, are starting to question things about him because of her engagement to Creek and how many trolls were feeling strange in the wellness center, some things are becoming more suspicious,” Ablaze spoke out.

“Who’s Creek?” Branch asked him.

“He’s the village guru. He and Famin Fortune are very close.”

“Yes, and that’s exactly why you’re still living inside a mirage while the entire troll kingdom is falling into ruins,” Floyd responded.

“Oh my!” Several trolls gasped and looked at each other in concern.

“I think we should hear them out,” Doctor Moonbloom whispered to King Peppy.

“You’re not the only ones who got attacked, the entire troll kingdom is collapsing because of him and you’re being saved for last,” Queen Rose said through her hologram as King Quincy projected the visions of the troll leaders and their kingdoms.

“Troll Kingdom?” Mags Gumdrop wondered as she looked at the different leaders’ pictures. “You mean those guys?”

“They're nice guys,” said DJ Suki.

“That’s why you can’t trust Famin Fortune,” Floyd said. “I’ve seen what he can do and John Dory, Bruce, and Clay are now his hostages.”

“What?” Doctor Moonbloom gasped as she clasped her hand to her face in shock.

The trolls were in shock when they heard that three of the BroZone members were captured by the same jinn that saved them.

“So what will we do?” Ablaze asked them.

“We fight against a common enemy!” Queen Rose answered.

At the tent, Queen Rose signaled Val Thundershock, Demo, Billy Reverb, and his band, Blaze Powerchord, Dewdrop, Hickory, Holly Darlin’, Gust Tumbleweed, Synth, Laguna Tidepool, Dante Crescendo, Minuet Sonata, Lownote Jones, Rhythm and Blues, Darnell, and Floyd to start the drumming with the boombeasts as she started to sing. When Creek noticed what was going on, he trembled in fear.

Queen Rose:
You've been deceived
Famin Fortune is not the man he claims to be
He's more vicious than I could have ever comprehended
When he attacked, Celestia sacrificed herself
This is not what I expected or intended
But now that it's happened I don't regret it

‘Cause I have seen
Him show his true colors, in shades of green
Saying that you aren’t safe because of us and
That's a lie, lie, lie, lie
And I-I know I can't do this on my own and

If it's not us then who and when?
If we don't fight he knows he wins
Not allowed
Knowing what I know now
The lengths he'll go there's no amount
I won't sit back watch this play out
That's my vow
Knowing what I know now

Princess Poppy:
Get up, yah!
Know I'm not the only one that's (yah)
Fed up (yah)

Branch:
Wait 'til they hear our feet go dun, dun, dun, dun (yeah)

Legsly:
I don't think he's prepared for what's coming

All:
A revolution hit the ground runnin'

Queen Rose:
If there's one thing he can't keep down
Uh-huh

Queen Rose and Princess Poppy:
It's us and the strength we've found
It's too loud (All: loud)

Queen Rose:
Knowing what we know now (All: knowing what we know now)

Guy Diamond:
And who, who knows if we'll succeed?

DJ Suki:
But we-
Won't stop and we won't retreat or turn round

All:
Round

Queen Rose:
Knowing what we know now

All:
Knowing what we know now

Soon, they started doing the stomp dance in the intersection that many troll children started to copy the dance too.

All:
Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo
Hoo-ha-hoo-ha-hoo-ha
Hoo-hoo-hoo

Billy Reverb:
Can he tell what we're becomin'? (Hoo)

Hickory:
Hear it in the way we're drummin' (hoo)

Holly Darlin’:
I was sweet but now I'm something else (oho)

All:
Yah, yah, yah, yah! (Hoo-hoo)

Synth:
Ain't it nice of us to drop in (hoo-ha)

Val Thundershock:
To take what's ours to take it back in? (hoo-ha)

Floyd:
He thinks we're nothing (hoo)

Queen Rose:
But we're something else! (Ha)

All:
Yah! (Hoo)

Viva, remembering what she discovered, decided to step up and explained it all.

Viva:
I've seen too many bad things that I can't keep count
He loves one thing more than himself
His pride (pride)
Knowing what I know now

All:
Knowing what I know now (hoo-ha-hoo)

Viva:
The good in him, I've watched it melt
I was fooled by the love I felt
So profound
Knowing what I know

Queen Rose:
I know (hoo)

Princess Poppy:
I know (ha)

All:
We know now (hoo)
Knowing what we know now

Chapter Text

After the song ended, Queen Rose took out the conch shell from her hair and immediately blew on it, which reached out to all of the troll tribes but with the funk technology amplifying the horn’s sound, it created a powerful sound blast that destroyed the pop dome.

“Hmm? Huh? What is that? The bergen’s shouts to attack us?” Trollzart wondered.

“No, that's the ancient call to battle,” Bastion answered.

“There's only so many sounds you can make with a snail,” a short classical troll with pink hair, light pink cheeks with freckles, and pink hair with light brown eyes. He wears a light blue robe with a dark pink tunic named Forte Crescendo shrugged.

Soon, the Classical trolls eventually left Hole N’ Fun on the backs of eagles and larger birds with Bastion and Jasmine leading them to where their children were. Among the country trolls, they heard the sound of the horn.

“Let’s go,” Delta Dawn shouted as they left the camp altogether and galloped to their destination.

Meanwhile, in Vacay Island, the techno trolls and the vacaytioners gasped at the sound of the horn.

“Holy mother of techno music, it's the emergency troll battle cry,” Trollex gasped.

“We go help them, mom?” Bruce Jr. asked Brandy.

“And all of the trolls honey,” Brandy answered.

“Heh, and everyone who is big to us,” Windy added.

Famin Fortune was in the deep part of the forest, conferring with Creek.

“It sounds like the Platinum Pet has found my precious ones,” he said.

The horn’s sound blast also destroyed his crystal ball and it shattered into pieces, which knocked him off the table as well.

“Those Platinum Trolls have been ruining everything!” He groaned.

“But Fortune, all of the pop trolls are going to betray you,” Creek said.

“Not if you make sure they don’t side with the other tribes,” he responded.

“I will rest assured, they will come back to you just wait,” he sheepishly answered as he slinked away.

Back at the tent, Queen Rose, Princess Poppy, Branch, and their allies had all of the leaders gathered for a meeting. Sir. Cygnus, Bastion, King Trollzart, King Trollex, Queen Barb, Delta Dawn, King Quincy and Queen Essence, King Peppy, Tresillo, Dickory, Viva, the members of Kismet, and the other troll leaders were gathered on top of the table while King Gristle Jr., Chad and Todd were sitting around it. The Snack Pack and the troll tribes sat at the side tables.

“Welcome kingdom leaders and tribe leaders, I’ve summoned you all here because you are the controlling powers to not just your kingdoms but also the people under you,” Queen Rose said as she stood in front of them. “Together, you all want to protect your respective kingdoms so we need to discuss battle plans to fight Famin Fortune and severe his army of followers!”

“I know, it’s made up of corrupted bergens and corrupted Rageons,” Val added.

“Yes Val,” she agreed. “This upcoming war will be severely brutal! The troll kingdom is in ruins thanks to them and many of us are struggling to find a safe haven to hide from them so we have no other choice but to fight him as one.”

“She’s right, we have to band together as one!” Queen Barb shouted.

“Nobody in the Troll Kingdom ever cared about us,” King Peppy stated. “Why should we care about any of them?”

King Quincy said, “You don’t know what we’ve been through! Most of us have been hunted, trapped, and driven out of our lands!”

“Yeah,” said King Peppy, “All the same things we went through when the Bergens imprisoned us! But that was what you wanted wasn’t it? Sorry to disappoint you!”

“WHAT?” Everyone cried out in confusion.

“Don’t play dumb! We know you were behind them finding us!” He added.

“We had nothing to do with that!” Conductor Trollzart said.

“Ya’ll are being manipulated!” Delta Dawn said. “That crazy smoke man has you all confused.”

“Out mother died because of him and you have the gall to disrespect the platinum trolls’ authority in ruling all of the Troll Kingdom!” One of Rose’s aunts shouted back.

“You have no authority with us,” King Peppy retorted. “As far as we see it, you’re just another enemy.”

As the blame went on and on towards each other, Queen Rose’s eyes started to dilate from yellow to golden yellow and her hair became wild like a lion’s mane. In a sudden, Queen Rose unleashed a sonic scream. The sound was so explosive and it was amplified by funk technology as everybody braced themselves. Soon, Queen Rose’s powers caused a massive chain of natural disasters like storms, landslides, tsunamis, blizzards, and volcanic eruptions. The phenomena that she caused formed a gigantic white lion, made out of light, roaring at Pop Village that caused some of their pods to fall from the trees. When Queen Rose stopped screaming, she was able to revert to her normal state and regained her composure and soon, all of the leaders were blown away by her powers.

“She’s got the same power as King Cygnus the Wise!” Trollzart gasped in wonder.

“Now that I got your attention, YOU SHOULD ALL BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES, being distrustful and blaming each other won’t get you anywhere, none of the troll tribes had done anything wrong to the pop trolls,” Queen Rose explained. “All of us were attacked by the Bergens but many of the Bergens who attacked all of you never let go of the past, unlike Gristle and the people of Bergentown!”

“She’s right, we are all on the same page,” Princess Poppy explained.

“Yeah right,” King Peppy rolled his eyes.

“And if you don’t believe that Bergens can change, see if you’ll ignore this!” Queen Rose shouted as she flipped the corrupted Bergen’s head with her hair into the air, and thunked it onto the table which shocked everybody.

“What IS that?” King Peppy asked in disgust.

“Queen Rose sliced off a corrupted Bergen’s head on our way to find all of you when it attacked King Gristle Jr. and his entourage,” Princess Poppy answered.

“These bergens are a result of the split between King Gristle’s bergens and Chef’s bergens,” Branch explained.

“So they are the ones who consume Famin Fortune’s elixir,” King Quincy gasped,

“If these monsters can be killed, the game will be changed, we will take the fight to them!” Queen Barb shouted. “The Rock Trolls and I have come up with a full assault plan.”

“We are not working with you psychos! We’re going home!” Sky Toronto announced.

“We can’t go home immediately ya cowards! I’ve seen this before and this is the proof that the corrupted Bergens are the real evil ones here,” Queen Barb shouted as she stabbed a dagger on the table.

“All it proves is that Bergens have gotten even worse than before, and we are not gonna risk our people dealing with them,” King Peppy answered back.

“Excuse me, we stopped eating trolls for years after the last Trollstice but Chef and the others return to those ways,” King Gristle Jr. explained. “My late dad banished her already and the other Bergens who hated me joined her, it’s too late to give up, they are now joining the smoke monster’s army!”

“Look who I found here, I sensed that this troll has been sowing lies for years,” Bastion announced as he arrived in the meeting, painfully dragging Creek by his tail as Bastion’s hair flared out like a lion’s mane out of anger. Jasmine followed behind him with a calm look on his face.

“Bastion? Jasmine?” King Peppy gasped. “We thought you were dead!”

“You’ve just been hiding out this whole time? You cowardly old windbag!” Creek spat.

“I may be an old windbag to you but I have been stronger from protecting many trolls back in the abandoned golf course from any threat that might happen,” Bastion scolded Creek as he flipped him over like a pancake. “A real leader sacrifices for others and I see that the pop trolls still have weaklings as leaders!”

“Decades of no contact and now all you do is insult us. Why would we want to work with you?” King Peppy demanded.

“Because I tried to keep you on the right path and you easily believe that poser whose inauthentic acts of kindness is the way to get you to his side, only for him to use you all as tools and throw you away when you become useless!” Bastion said

“That “poser” rescued us and was there for us when nobody else was. What did you ever do?” Creek responded.

“Jasmine and I have been planning to rescue all of the pop trolls from captivity until that oaf stole this opportunity from me,” he responded loudly.

As Bastion got stuck in a shouting match, Princess Poppy noticed Creek from a distance, who tried to lie his way but Bastion continuously cut him off.

“You look just like Brook,” Princess Poppy gasped.

“You mean Elder Brook, who tried to use the strings to resurrect her husband but ended up being eaten by that same person?” Queen Rose blurted out, which caught everybody’s attention.

“Hey, I remember that story, the tragedy of Elder Brook, lost her husband, tried to resurrect him but he came back as a flesh eating monster that attacked her!” Queen Barb agreed with her.

“Yeah, bringing someone back from the dead only results in bringing shame to the family! No wonder that Creep is just a delusional oaf like his ancestor!” Delta Dawn added.

“Creek,” Viva crossed her arms as she spoke, “Do you know what they’re talking about?”

“I, uh, have no idea,” Creek said with false conviction.

Now King Peppy crossed his arms. “I think you know more than you’re letting on,” he said.

“Well, it makes sense that the apple doesn't rot far from the tree,” Bastion responded.

“Haha! LOSER!!!” Queen Barb shouted.

“Nobody couldn't deny that,” King Quincy said.

“Ohhhhhh!!!!” King Trollex commented.

“I hate to burst everybody’s bubble but I already told these precious trolls the whole truth about Famin Fortune,” a familiar blue smoke answered as Queen Rose recognized her.

“Aisha! It’s good to see you again!” Queen Rose gasped as she appeared before them with her family.

“I came earlier than the sultan because he ordered me to come here earlier while he prepares his army to travel here,” she responded. “I see that you’re all prepared but most of the pop trolls here look like they still live in a delusional world of their own.”

“And who are you?” asked Sky Toronto, “Another know-it-all come to insult us?”

“I’ve come to help you!” Aisha said in a thundering voice. “I am Aisha, the sorceress of the desert!”

As she announced it, her voice scared the pop trolls as soon as she appeared in her normal form. In a minute, she called down and soon, Princess Poppy raised her hand to speak.

“Go ahead, Princess Poppy,” Queen Rose responded.

Princess Poppy addressed her people. “I know you think you have it better in the dome, but Famin has you all dressing the same, he tells you whom to marry, he makes you do mandatory sauna days which is super sus. Deep down, you have to be tired of living like this,” she said to the Pop Trolls.

“She's right, you're not living in freedom, this is just like being imprisoned by the bergens all over again,” Queen Essence agreed.

“Plus, I found out that the person that my former gang worked for is a mass-murderer who wants to use you all as knick knacks,” Archer Pastry said as he stood up and told everybody what he heard.

“Not to mention, Famin Fortune killed our brother in law and our sister,” Aisha added.”You don't know how me, my brother, my mother, and my nephews and nieces felt when we lost them both, It's all because of him so I cursed him for the noblest of cause!!!”

Doctor Moonbloom and several other Pop Trolls gasped in terror at the meeting. Then, Viva remembered something and spoke up.

“Everybody, I remember something,” Viva said. “I became more doubtful of Famin Fortune as the years went by so I decided to follow Creek and see what he’s up to. That’s when I found out that Famin is in league with the Bergen Chef and he’s got an army of evil bergens.”

“What?” Everybody gasped.

“I knew it! This severed head is a real proof of it,” Queen Barb shouted with glee.

“And plus, we discovered that the wellness center was actually draining something from us,” she responded honestly.

“What? Why didn’t you tell me?” King Peppy gasped.

“You could have listened,” Viva stated.

“My analysis is correct when I found out that the elixir contains troll blood and jinn blood,” King Quincy said as he showed them a paper containing the analysis.

“So that is what has been drained from us!” Trickee said with a queasy look on his face.

“I feel so violated!” Hype cried as Aurora, who was beside him, gave her comfort.

“The corrupted Bergen’s head and King Quincy’s analysis proved that Famin Fortune is just using all of you to weaponize his own curse in order to gain followers,” Branch explained.

“You don't mean…..” Boom gasped.

“Elder Brook stole the strings to resurrect her husband and all of the troll elders band together with King Cygnus the wise to get them back,” Delta Dawn added. “That's what the smoke monster has been planning too!”

“That's exactly what happened, and it happened before,” Queen Essence said as she backed her up.

“Yes, and it's going to happen again, history is repeating itself!” Queen Rose said.

“And we have no other choice but to unite and stand against Famin Fortune, he’s the reason why this disaster is happening,” Bastion agreed with his daughter.

King Peppy stood up and said, “We will join you for the sake of our missing trolls being returned to us, but for no other reason,” Then he turned to Creek, “You beat it.”

“Yes! We did it!!” Queen Rose shouted as she hugged her friends altogether.

“Yeah, take that Creep!!” Val mocked him.

“What are we waiting for? Let's prepare for battle!!” Princess Poppy announced.

@@@@

While they got ready, the disgraced Creek retreated back to Famin Fortune, who was preparing the ingredients for the ritual. John Dory, Bruce, and Clay were trapped in a fish tank with no water and Chef, a recovered Bash and the party crashers, Velvet and Veneer were with him.

The twins were dressed in white versions of their usual dress and shirt with pink ruffled shoulders and black, gold and red diamond patterns to match their dark brown tights, and pink platform boots with gold soles and curled capes that face towards each other, with Velvet’s facing right and Veneer's facing left but there are details that also sets them apart as well. Velvet has red lip gloss and nail polish, her short dress has its skirt in a triangle-like pattern of pink and white, a single pink bracelet on her right wrist, a white winged columbine mask with gold details and purple feathers, round golden earrings, and her hair is bundled with her bangs being stylized into curls and clefs, while retaining her long ponytail. Veneer's shirt has a skirt-like bottom which resembles a jester's collar with multiple triangular appendages and a ball on each end with red fingerless gloves, a matching purple, gold, and white diamond patterned domino mask, a matching jester hat with gold bells, and his hair is curled upwards, with parts of it being laid down at the back of his scalp.

“I failed! The Pop Trolls agreed to join the other tribes!” he said.

Famin groaned in frustration, “I gave you one job!” he told Creek.

“You didn’t say anything about freaky magic glowing troll divas!” Creek protested.

“No matter anyway, once the ritual is complete everything will be perfect,” he scoffed.

“Perfect for You! What about me? You said you would bring my family line back into glory!” he yelled.

As he said it, Velvet snickered at Creek for his pathetic protest.

“Relax, go meditate, I’ll handle everything,” he smirked.

“You don’t handle anything!” Creek shrieked, “You’re just all talk, and then you slink away leaving everyone else to handle things for you! You’re just an oily fraud aren’t you?!”

“FOR GODS’ SAKE, BE QUIET!” Famin screamed as he turned around, and shot out his extending black fingernails into Creek's body as Chef, Bash, and the Party Crashers snickered at his misery while Veneer gasped. Creek had barely any time to gasp in pain before Famin’s nails glowed in iridescence and sucked every last drop of Creek’s essence from his body, draining him of color and crystallizing him. Clay, Bruce, and John Dory all gagged at the sight. When Famin retracted his nails, Creeks’ body collapsed on the ground and shattered, much to Veneer's horror.

“Mr. Fortune, you won't crystallize us like that useless troll? We did everything we can to sway Mount Rageous to your cause,” Velvet pleaded to him in a sweet, seductive voice.

Famin caressed her face. “Not to worry my little starlets. You have been most useful. Just remember that without me, you’re nothing but a pair of talentless hacks sponging off your older brother,” As he spoke, he grabbed both their faces and squeezed them until they hurt.

“As for you,” he said as he looked at Bash and the party crashers. “I’ll give you all one more chance. Get me the six sacred strings, and you can imbibe as much of my product as you please.”

“You got it,” Bash said as he gave him a thumbs up.

“But what about us? What should we do?” Velvet asked him.

“You two will be my standard bearers,” he ordered. “You will lead the troops into battle while I tend to the important things.”

“We're stars, not soldiers, all we do is just sing and dance to entertain the masses, we're not meant to fight in gruesome stuff like that,” Velvet complained like a spoiled brat.

“Yeah, about that, we're not fit for fighting, it's too brutal and violent and….” Veneer added while being polite but he was cut off.

“What my calm brother says is that we're too weak for this,” Velvet said with a calm voice.

Famin poked Velvet in the forehead. Suddenly all her blood vessels turned black and she started shuddering violently. “Fun fact about my elixir,” Famin said, “Once you imbibe enough of it, you basically become an extension of my own body. And I can make my body do anything.” Velvet fell on all fours, growling and hissing like a predator, which scared Veneer in the process.

Famin snapped his fingers, and Velvet reverted to normal. “I think you’ll do just fine on the battlefield,” He smiled smugly.

“You wouldn't dare!” she protested. “We can't survive this battle, we're too weak for this and I don't wanna lose my beautiful face in a dirty, gruesome way.”

“You don’t have any choice,” Famin said menacingly as he fishooked her mouth with his thumb. “You two can either fight for me willingly, or I have you fight each other.”

Velvet wiggled out of his grip. “I don't have time for this kind of mess, I want a part that requires my talent, but not in a battlefield, I don't want to get messy in this stupid war, this is too gritty!” she whined.

As he was threatening Velvet in a shouting match, Veneer sneaked away from them and sneaked into the shadows. Having enough of his overbearing ways, Velvet left the place, stomping away as well. Then, Famin Fortune turned to Chef.

“Go on ahead, gather the faithful! And don’t forget the auxiliary fighters!” He ordered to Chef.

“With pleasure, Great Famin Fortune,” Chef said as she bowed and walked backwards.

After running away in fright, Veneer returned to the mansion, where a orange paper hairball-like creature with purple arms, the top part of her hair tied in a bun with a purple hair scrunchie, green eyes, white framed cat-eye sunglasses with green lenses, buckteeth, and wears pink lipstick greeted them.

“Veneer, how was the meeting? I cleaned the entire place and kept it in order as you said,” she said.

“There's no time Crimp, I have to tell the monarch about this,” he responded

“About what?” the creature, named Crimp, asked him.

“Just come with me,” he insisted.

Veneer took off his mask and jester hat as he ran out of the mansion with Crimp clinging on his shoulders. He got on a crystal horse and rode on it through the city as fast as he could, even as far as to jump over the moat and the castle gates to get to the castle. When he got to the castle, he got off the horse and ran for the front door but he was stopped by two of the guards.

“HALT! Who goes there!” One of the guards asked him.

“Guards, please I need to see Zircon, I got something to tell them!” Veneer said as he pleaded to them.

“What's going on?” Zircon asked when they and their family appeared.

“Your Majesty, I…….” Veneer stammered but soon, he vomited black iridescent vomit on the road between them. “Famin Fortune is preparing for war and he's preparing to use me and Velvet as pawns, I know I'm not into these gritty stuff but…...”

He vomited the second time before he could finish his sentence.

“For war?!” Zircon gasped.

“Yes,” Veneer answered.

“Let him in,” Zircon ordered the guards as they opened the front door and let Veneer inside the castle. Gloss ran to him and helped him. As Crimp got off Veneer’s shoulder, five hairball-like creatures in different styles saw her.

“Crimp? Is that you?” one of the hairball-like creatures trailing with the royal rageons asked them when Crimp got off his shoulder.

“Guys, you're here!” Crimp cried as she reunited with the group.

“We've been looking for you,” a tall, hairball creature with a mustache cried with joy.

“Veneer, right?” Gloss asked him.

“Yeah?” Veneer croaked as he vomited in the soil of a potted tree.

“I’m Prince Gloss, but I use the title for social occasions, and it looks like you're sick,” Gloss said as he helped him get up.

“Veneer, I'm so glad you came my brother,” Marvel gasped as he saw Veneer. “You won't believe how much I missed you and Velvet.”

“Marvel, you won't believe what is going to happen, Famin Fortune is declaring war and he's planning to use me and Velvet as a tool for it,” he said.

Everybody gasped in shock as they looked at Veneer, who felt sick.

“That wretch!!” his brother clenched his teeth.

“I don't feel so good,” Veneer moaned in pain as Gloss helped him walk to the castle but when he felt like throwing up, he ran to the nearby potted plants to vomit there.

“Your majesty, we have to get ready for war too, all of the kingdoms are preparing to fight Famin Fortune as well,” Marvel told them.

“Really?” they asked.

“Yes,” he nodded.

“And the sultan also sent us the message that he and his army are preparing for war as well,” Marvel added.

“Then, we're going as well,” Zircon agreed with him.

They waved a hand at the silver skinned rageon with cyan colored hair, wearing a dark blue and vibrant blue cotehardie, chainmail, matching deep blue pants, and armor pieces

“Captain Jaguar!” Zircon commanded.

“Yes your majesty,” be asked them.

“Tell my brother, Alexandrite, to ready his army while I prepare mine and don't forget to prepare the cannons, catapults, and ballistas, we have a war to fight,” Zircon ordered to the captain.

“Yes, your majesty,” he complied.

“Be careful out there, Auncle,” Princess Cerise added. “I'll take care of things here in the castle with the others.”

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The night after the meeting, Queen Rose was sitting on a mushroom, pondering about the revelations that she and the other leaders revealed with Aisha.

“I don’t get it,” said Queen Rose, “I thought they would be so happy to know the truth.”

“When you spend so long believing a lie, the truth can be too painful to accept right away,” Queen Essence said sadly.

“But at least we got the pop trolls on our side,” Princess Poppy added.

“I don't know, I feel like they still don't trust the other troll tribes,” she nodded.

“Maybe we can gain their trust with a nice gesture.” Dewdrop suggested.

“Yeah, it's always a good idea,” Princess Poppy agreed.

“Thanks, maybe I should try that, like how grandma was able to gain your trust,” Queen Rose said.

“Yeah, she did, but look at you, you united all of the trolls, you gained the trust of the bergens, the vacaytioners, and the rageons, you achieved more than your ancestors did in the past,” she added.

“I did? I DID!!” Queen Rose gasped.

“We got new arrivals!” Branch shouted as the leaders assembled to meet them.

Soon, Zircon, Prince Alexandrite and their army arrived with their cavalry, footmen, cannons, ballistas, trebuchets, and catapults. Beside them, a husky green jinn with a goatee, and mustache, wearing a red long sleeved tunic with golden hem, a long black sleeveless vest with golden details, a gold belt, matching maroon trousers, ornate armor, an Arabic helmet is secured by a yellow turban around his head, and black boots appeared in a form of a green smoke. All of the members of the jinn army are wearing the same thing as the green one but he is set apart by his ornate brooch. The sultan appeared in a puff of blue smoke and when he revealed his true identity, he is a burly older man with pearly white skin and sky blue hair, a full mustache and beard, wearing the ornate version of the husky jinn's outfit but in black, green and purple with golden armor and his brooch is very intricate and geometric.

“Your majesty, you've arrived and you both have new company,” Queen Rose said.

“I am Hakim, the new general of the sultan’s army,” he introduced himself. “I see you're the little troll queen who is planning to fight my predecessor, the disgraced Haqid.”

“Yes, sir,” she responded.

“Your message has brought us hope once again to fight back against him,” he said. “We just want to say thank you.” He bowed deeply to her.

“You're welcome,” Queen Rose responded as she curtseyed in return.

“We are forever grateful to you for helping us find the strength to rise up against Haqid and fight,” the sultan said.

“Thank you, your majesty, “ she thanked them.

“Sultan, you've arrived on time,” Aisha said as she bowed to him.

“Aisha, you've been a great help to us, and now, we're going to fight that traitor once and for all,” he said to her.

They went inside their designated tents to sleep for the night until the next day, which is the day before the battle. All of the trolls, vacaytioners, rageons, and bergens are preparing for the day to come as they learn and practice fighting skills together, eat together, make weapons together, and set up tents with each other.

Dear diary,

The mood is stupidly hopeful as we make camp on the eve of war against Famin Fortune and his black, purple, and green clad army of corrupted bergens, ugly goons, and evil rageons. The days ahead are dark and our alliances uneasy but we are united in this humble camp, where everyone be they troll, crasher, bergen, worm, vacaytioner, rageon, oaf, plant, or whatsit, come to terms with the brevity of life. Watch as they fortify themselves with camaraderie, grab-tails, and delicious food that we love to share. And that upside down troll over there? Why, that’s Benji, and you don’t wanna know what he’s up to his neck in.

Queen Rose closed her diary after writing her latest entry and left her sleeping quarters, which she shared with Princess Poppy to discuss some battle plans. King Gristle Jr. and the troll leaders, the Snack Pack, and their allies are back to their positions but they are joined by Zircon, Alexandrite, Captain Jaguar of the Rageon Army, the sultan, and Hakim.

“Okay everybody, today is the day before we fight off Famin Fortune and his army so we need to be prepared,” Queen Rose said.

“I’m not gonna lie to you but taking down Famin Fortune and his army isn’t gonna be easy,” Branch added. “It’s not gonna be fun, we will lose good people along the way.”

“But….” King Peppy murmured.

“We do have some important advantages, our magic, our tactics, and we unite as one,” Queen Rose said.

“Yeah, she ain’t wrong about that one Popsqueak,” Queen Barb said. “This right here is a fight to the death. That I can guarantee that we fight honorably.”

“The key to our attack is not about violent stabbings or loud battle cries, it’s stealth,” Queen Rose answered before she turned to King Trollex. “King Trollex, with your underwater skills, you’ll lead the squadron up through the river and wait for my signal to ambush the enemies there with traps and release the water from the dam that we made.”

After pushing a doll version of King Trollex to his position, she turned to Viva with a plan.

“Viva, you will lead your pop troll squadron in the west to converge with the jinn royal army in the east to ambush the enemies,” Queen Rose instructed as she pushed a doll version of Viva and the cupcakes, representing the pop trolls in her squad from its position in the west to the doughnuts that represent the jinns. General Hakim agreed with it too.

“Floyd here, what should I do?” He asked them.

“Can you and Rhonda go and find your brothers to where they were being held so that you can rescue them?” She asked him.

“Thanks,” Floyd thanked her.

“And the rest of us will line up here for the battle, me, the rest of the leaders, and the Snack Pack will stay in our position as the rocks hurled by the birds and the griffins. We will lead the charge, the cavalry and the lancers will also be at the front and the rest of the fighters at the back, forming a triangular position to spear the enemies firsthand while the vacaytioners, cannonmasters, and the archers, led by Jussy, Biggie, Riff, and Aurora, will stay in the trees to wait for my signal,” she said as she pushed the doll versions of herself, the Snack Pack, their allies and the troll leaders with some gummy bears behind them.

“You sure know how to plan this,” King Quincy said.

“Years of training with Sir. Cygnus really paid her off,” Bastion added.

“I taught her everything she knows,” Sir. Cygnus agreed.

“Guys, I know this is your shtick but shut the hair up,” Queen Rose shouted as she moved the enemies to the spot where the cookies that represent the archers are. “At the key moment, we’ll fall back and draw them to the forest and the river, where the techno trolls and the archers will ambush them with water, a rain of fiery arrows, rocks, and cannonballs. There is only glory and victory!”

Everybody cheered in response to her plan, knowing that they would win. They came out of the tent to see the progress. Some of them are practicing with their weapons under the tutelage of one of the hard rockers and Captain Nyxx while the others are helping out preparing the weapons. As Queen Rose watches them all from afar, Billy Reverb comes up to her.

“Okay guys, you're doing great,” Queen Rose said confidently.

“Our new warriors seem ready to fight. Are we?” Billy asked her.

“You won't believe what they did during target practice, the rageons fired a cannon and it blew a hole through eight trees,” Dante Crescendo said.

“Thank you, Dante and they did a great job. The wood will be useful to rebuild the kingdoms,” Princess Poppy thanked him.

“How do I use this sword?” A male rageon with green colors, wearing armor, asked Princess Poppy as he showed her the sword.

“I'll teach this guy how to use that,” Billy Reverb said as he led him back to the training grounds.

“Listen up, everybody!” Branch shouted. “We've got one day before the war begins. Let's get to work.”

Meanwhile, Famin Fortune’s war camp was messy and dirty as the Rageons and Bergen on his side were all arguing with each other that they had no time to eat, train, or sleep while Chef was always the one who does all the work.

“Famin Fortune always makes me do everything,” Chef grumbled as she was creating something for him. “I can't do the job done.”

“Famin Fortune, sir, we got them,” Bash called out as he and the Party Crashers strolled into camp holding up the six troll strings.

“Excellent!” Famin said as he knelt down to take the strings. “Just in time! Good work boys!”

“As you promised, what will we get?” Pow asked him.

“Your refreshments are over there,” Famin gestured to a low table covered in bottles, “Help yourselves.”

“Yes!” They all cheered as they ran to the table and drank as much as they could. Soon, they gained lava effects after consuming them. Famin Fortune went back to his tent to have a word with John Dory, Bruce and Clay, who were being imprisoned.

“I do hope you’ve been practicing.” Famin told them. “You will soon give the most important performance of your mediocre lives.”

“What do you even want us for?” Bruce complained. John Dory was rocking himself while Clay stress-combed his hair.

“It’s painfull simple,” Famin explained as he strung the strings on a troll-sized guitar. “You play the resurrection song while I lure my beloved’s soul back from the afterlife. Once the song reaches its climax, the ingredients will arrange themselves into a new body which will coincide with the returns of my beloveds’ soul. Do this for me, and I in return will not kill you.” He grinned viciously as he said the last part.

“But bringing someone back from the dead is a taboo!” Bruce protested calmly.

“Only if you do it wrong, which I won’t,” Famin dropped the guitar into the fishtank.

“But bringing someone back from the dead has serious consequences!! You don't know what happened to the troll who tried it and paid the price!” John Dory shouted.

“She was just the first person to try it,” he said. “I have done research and perfected the process. A resurrected person needs sustenance to stabilize their minds, and I have two hundred people who will provide it with their own lives. Once that is done, I shall implant memories of love into her so she’ll be even more perfect than she was before.”

“But you don't understand, she actually paid the price and she doesn't love you, you're just delusional! NO WONDER EVERYBODY CALLS YOU A MAD JINN!” John Dory spat back.

For a second, Famin looked furious. Then he composed himself and knelt down so he was eye level with the three brothers. “You clung to the fantasy that you could bring your loved ones back by singing the perfect harmony. I’m actually going to bring my loved ones back. And unlike you three, I’m going to make sure they never, ever leave me.” The stolen cores inside his body glowed bright white through his doublet, giving him a sinister look. He glared at the three brothers until they were too intimidated and looked away. “And by the way,” Famin said as he got up and left the tent, “You sound just like your mother.”

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That night, all of the trolls, bergens, vacaytioners, and the rageons had a toast together as they had a feast, composed of a mix of troll food, bergen food, vacaytioner food, and rageon food. They shared it with each other as they bond.

“Hello, I just wanna say thank you all for coming,” Queen Rose said as she held a goblet with wine. “Tomorrow, Famin Fortune and his faction will be ready to face an army that is going to band together as one and win!”

“Yeah, tell them baby!” Billy Reverb shouted with glee.

“Yes, and even if we lose anybody, I want to say that getting to know you is the greatest honor in my life,” she added. “Whatever unification really means, I know you all tried, and I see how good you all did in every way, and I love you so much. Let's live tonight however we want because we're all gonna fight to victory!!!”

“HUZZAH!!!” Everybody shouted as they toasted with her.

As they eat and bond with each other, most of the Pop Trolls sit apart from the rest of the alliance but they notice that everybody is having fun together with their poetry and singing contests as the minstrels accompany them with their instruments. In the middle, some bergens, trolls, and rageons were seen dancing to it.

Dewdrop and Hickory approached the Pop Trolls “You guys want to compete with us?” Hickory asked them. “You can sing whatever you want.”

A paint-splattered troll with bright turquoise skin, ultramarine hair, and a blue nose named Harper stood up. “Sure,” she said. She was soon followed by a purple troll Milton Moss and a purple female troll with turquoise hair named Ripley Wisp. Milton Moss asked Smidge to dance with him while Ripley Wisp flirted with Satin as they ran to the middle.

“The song is about to play, let’s get to the dancefloor,” Branch and Princess Poppy said as they went to the middle of the circle and the musicians were about to play an instrumental piece.

“Let's go, Rose!” Billy said as he put down his goblet and dragged Queen Rose to dance with him. Many couples started to join in the fun and dance together, with Branch and Princess Poppy, Minuet Sonata and Blaze Powerchord, Gust Tumbleweed and Val Thundershock, Demo and DJ Suki, Aurora and Hype, Rhythm and her boyfriend, a purple funk troll named Big J, Twilight and her new date, the indigo haired pop troll named Eagle. They started to dance the reel as they shuffled through the floor and spun around the floor.

“My niece would love to dance to that song,” Zircon sighed.

“Yeah, if Bruce would be here, we'd both dance on the dancefloor,” Brandy agreed.

“And me and John Dory can dance while we float in the air,” Amalthea added.

Meanwhile, Queen Barb noticed Viva was sitting alone and thought of something.

“Hey,” She approached Viva. “I think we got off on the wrong foot earlier. You wanna dance to the next song?”

“You want to dance with a reviled Pop Troll?” Viva asked sarcastically.

“Oh there’s nothing to revile about you,” Queen Barb said flirtatiously. Then she quickly added “Seriously, I like you.”

“I’ll give you one dance,” Viva said after thinking about it.

“Alright!” Queen Barb cheered as she took Viva’s hands.

Soon, the minstrels started to play a song while a Rageon singer was singing a poem that she wrote, backed by a choir of trolls.

Dancing to the feel of the drum
Leave this world behind
We'll have a drink and toast to ourselves
Under a Violet Moon

Tudor Rose with her hair in curls
Will make you turn and stare
Try to steal a kiss at the bridge
Under a Violet Moon

Raise your hats and your glasses too
We will dance the whole night through
We're going back to a time we knew
Under a Violet Moon

Cheers to the Knights and days of old
the beggars and the thieves
living in an enchanted wood
Under a Violet Moon

Fortuneteller what do you see
Future in a card
Share your secrets, tell them to me
Under a Violet Moon

Raise your hats and your glasses too
We will dance the whole night through
We're going back to a time we knew
Under a Violet Moon

Raise your hats and your glasses too
We will dance the whole night through
We're going back to a time we knew
Under a Violet Moon

Close your eyes and lose yourself
In a medieval mood
Taste the treasures and sing the tunes
Under a Violet Moon

Tis my delight on a shiny night
The seasons of a year
To keep the lanterns burning bright
Under a Violet Moon

Raise your hats and your glasses too
We will dance the whole night through
We're going back to a time we knew
Under a Violet Moon

Raise your hats and your glasses too
We will dance the whole night through
We're going back to a time we knew
Under a Violet Moon

Everybody cheered for them after the song finished.

“Wow, you two did a good job dancing to that song,” Riff complimented her.

“Thanks,” said Viva in a breathless voice. I’ve never heard music like that before.”

“You should try dancing to it more, especially when we have a victory feast,” Queen Barb crooned.

“I think I will, especially if you’re there with me,” the younger princess responded.

“Really?” She asked, blushing.

“Really,” Viva said as she patted the Rock Queen's cheek.

Soon, Queen Rose decided to end the celebratory night with another toast.

“Here's to real harmony!” Queen Rose added as she lifted her golden goblet.

“Here's to us, a celebratory night before our courageous ride to battle!” Branch added as he lifted his glass.

“And to rescue our brothers from that mad jinn!” Floyd declared as he toasted his cup.

“And to avenge Queen Celestia!” Sir. Cygnus added with his wine glass.

“Cheers everybody!” Princess Poppy said as she raised her glass with them all.

“Cheers!” They all chorused as they toast to each other.

After celebrating, they went to bed on time and slept until the fateful day arrived. Instead of the usual sight of love and warmth, everybody is preparing for battle. All of the rageons, the bergens, and some of the vacaytioners, who would be archers, were putting on armor and helmets while the trolls wore the white and gray armor of the platinum tribe with diamond, triangle, and other geometric designs etched on them. It is worn over a chainmail-like suit with fingerless gloves and leg warmers attached to the pants and sleeves and different helmets. They were duplicated and given different varieties by the funk tribe to suit their anatomies. The cavalry and knights were wearing crusader helmets, bascinet helmets, close helmets, burgonets, great helms, and frog mouth helmets while the foot soldiers wore kettle hats, pot helmets, nasal helmets, sallets, copper gate helmets and spangenhelm. The Rageons and the jinns were already known for their signature armor and helmets but the Bergens wore viking helmets with their chainmail and armor while the vacaytioners wore leather armor with some metal pauldrons and bracers. Their critters also wore armor as well as the entire army were ready to leave but those who would work as healers decided to stay in the camp with Fuzzbert, Brandy, Jasmine, and Gia Grooves leading them.

“Rose, is there something wrong?” Princess Poppy asked her best friend. She is wearing the platinum tribe’s suit of armor with a cage-like visor on her head but she added a blue cape. The other leaders, their friends and the snack pack were also wearing armor but each of them have different customizations. Queen Barb wore a black and red cape with a crown that is secured on his forehead which resembles spikes and is black gold in color, inlaid with red gemstones and chains encircling around her face, Delta Dawn added a green cape on hers with golden Celtic designs and an ornate circlet with green gems, King Quincy and Queen Essence wore a funk troll variety of the armor like their tribe with ornate crowns, Trollex has his armor customized to fit a techno troll like his tribe members did but with neon colors and finished it off with a red cape, and Trollzart is dressed in a classical troll variety of the armor that his tribe suggested but wore a yellow cape and a circlet.

“Yeah, I guess,” Queen Rose answered as she appeared in shining white and golden armor over a silver suit with a long, golden yellow cape attached at the back, the golden shoulder-pads, bracers, tail armor, and the golden details on the cuirass, plackart, and faulds were covered mostly in a luminous diamond pattern, her white cuisses and golden hexagon-shaped knee pads were connected, which had golden details to match the greaves and rerebraces. Her hair was tied in a twice-banded low ponytail. She placed a golden crown with sharp kite-shaped white gems on her head.

“Whoa Rosethorn, is that Odette the Swan Queen’s crown?” Queen Barb gasped her she saw the crown on her head.

“Yeah, this was her crown, I always wanted to wear this when I was a child,” she answered. “But deep down, I’m not sure if I can lead this confidently, this war sends chills down my spine to my tail.”

“It’s okay to be scared. I’m scared too. But as long as we have hope, things will turn out alright,” Princess Poppy assured her.

“Thanks,” she thanked her. She and Princess Poppy pressed their foreheads together.

“Okay, I’m ready,” Queen Rose sighed as she got up and took her sword and shield.

The Snack Pack and their huge circle of friends also customized theirs with different colors on the details and capes of their own choices but Billy Reverb stood out among them as he displayed the black and gray armor that he wears over a raven black suit with thick shoulder-pads, luminous diamond patterns on the cuirass and faulds, and hexagon texture-like pattern on the shoulder pads, silver details, and pentagon shaped knee pads attached on the bottom of the cuisses. Biggie, on the other hand, wore a tunic over his armor and a nasal helmet to match Riff and Aurora. They are all armed with their signature weapons and ready to fight. Archer Pastry is wearing the typical armor of a foot soldier.

“Queen Rose, thanks for letting me wear this suit of armor,” Billy Reverb thanked her.

“It looks good on you,” she beamed.

“The darkest hour is nigh upon us, but deep down, there is always hope,” King Quincy said.

“Even though we would lose anyone along the way?” Queen Rose asked them.

“Yeah, and come to think of it, when Famin Fortune gets what he’s after, he would be left with no one by his side, he’ll only be alone with a corpse that eats him,” Queen Essence answered.

Queen Rose and the troll leaders came out of the tent in full armor as everybody watched to see them and the warriors leave for battle. Soon, she took a deep breath and started to sing.

Queen Rose:
Have you ever wanted something
That was so clear in your mind that you could taste it?

“You mean like eating berries?” Princess Poppy asked her.

Queen Rose:
Um, sort of
It's a feeling like a rumbling in your gut
That you could finally be faced with
A billion needy faces, I guess what I mean to say is

For the first time in my life
I might have to be ready for this
Ready to be the one who's leading from the front

Gotta come into my own
Gotta come into my throne
Gotta take charge and have Fortune’s plan blown

And although I kinda feel unsteady
Now I need to be ready for this

Some trolls who act as drummers started drumming to the beat as Queen Rose continued singing and marching

Have you ever felt like you're willing to die
To save the people of your kingdom?

“By die, you mean use my weapons to rip Fortune apart?” Smidge asked her with enthusiasm.

Queen Rose:
That's a start!
Cause right now, we need a leader
And it seems to me that
Destiny has picked me to be that
If you'll permit me

So who's with me?

Then, she started dancing along as the tone of the song changes to a marching band music.

Wouldn't it be super to see more of this land?
Join up now if you like travel
Come on boys, hop in the saddle
Lotta sights to see here together, hand in hand
Not to mention the camaraderie

Yes siree, you'll form life-changing friendships
With the folks along the way

Branch:
And destroy Famin Fortune in the bash!

Queen Rose:
Okay…

Suddenly, all of the Bergens, the vacaytioners, the Rageons and jinns altogether appeared and joined in the singing with the trolls.

All:
It's time now to act
They're on the attack
When they move to strike
We will fight biting back!

We'll follow your lead
This is our Troll creed
We'll sharpen our blades
And use our speed!

From this moment on, you can count on us
To be resolute and make them fuss
Our weapons are all whet
And we're set to seize the day
So I say, " Oh hey, come, crush him and his threat!"

Queen Rose:
Well, that's a little violent
Can we tone it down?

Queen Barb:
Oh, don't be put off by their snarlin'

Minuet Sonata:
That's their enthusiasm, darlin'!

Queen Rose:
Eh, they just seem a little feral-y right now

Princess Poppy:
Don't worry, honey
That's their thing
Keep singing

Queen Rose and Princess Poppy:
We're super duper grateful
To have you folks aboard

All:
Can't wait to crush that liar now!

Queen Rose:
Oh, Trolls...

Then, she got on Majesty, who was wearing white and golden armor as well while the troll leaders and the cavalry got on their mounts and rode to battle behind her.

For the first time in my life
Maybe I can be ready for this
I can be the marshal leading the parade

I can come into my own
And I think I've always known
My destiny could never be postponed
When Fortune brings the battle here
I must appear like I'm ready for this

Peppy:
They're dancing along
They're singing her song

Trollex:
Surprised?
Why, I knew she could do it all along

Quincy and Essence:
She's bound to pass the test as high queen of the trolls
Like her grandma, she’s just like a thorny rose!

Delta Dawn:
She's filled with potential that we could guide

Trollzart:
I concur

Troll leaders:
Stick with her, you'll be on the winning side

With Queen Rose riding Majesty, they all sang together as they marched into battle as the banners that represent each kingdom and the troll tribes were waved in the sky.

All:
For the first time in our lives
We know that we are ready for this

Queen Barb:
We'll show that jinn a fight he won't forget!

All:
It's time to take a stand

Queen Rose:
It is time to lend a hand!

All:
Huzzah!

Queen Rose:
Against that Fortune and his deadly threat!

All:
We cannot take it anymore
The time has come to go to war
Prepare to fight, we're ready for...
THIS!

Queen Rose:
I really hope that I'm ready for this..

Chapter Text

The battle is finally at hand as everybody in the heroic army is gathered in the northern part, protecting Pop Village. Queen Rose, now riding on Majesty, along with Princess Poppy on Fauna, Branch riding on Sylvan, the rest of the Snack Pack, their allies, and the troll leaders, also riding critters and mounts, are at the frontlines with the spearmen and the cavalry and the foot soldiers, led by Archer Pastry behind them while King Gristle Jr., Zircon, Prince Alexandrite, and the sultan were also in the frontlines of their army as well, riding crystal horses and crystal unicorns. Biggie, Riff, and Aurora, with the archers and the siege weapon operators were positioned on the rocks above the field.

The trolls rode on different critters, with the pop trolls riding pop unicorns, flyer bugs, adult cuddle pups, kitty critters, puffalos, swag stags, western golden crickets and other insects, the funk trolls have their floating platforms, the classical trolls were riding on the backs of large birds and griffins, the country trolls were hitched on adorabulls and saddle spiders, and the hard rock trolls were mounted on rock unicorns and dragons. The platinum trolls are riding solions, umbrigises, aurorses, and, twolves, while the subtribes rode on various critters as well. Variations can be seen in the unicorns, pegasi, dragons, and the other animals as well.

Trollzart appeared riding on the back of a hawk and landed between Queen Barb and King Quincy.

“They’re here everybody, in numbers and weapons far greater than our own,” Trollzart informed them.

“Guys, numbers don’t win a battle,” Queen Barb said as she rode proudly on a dragon. She is armed with her axe and a shield.

“But I bet that might help,” King Quincy added as he strapped his laser sword on his belt.

Suddenly, Famin Fortune’s army appeared on the horizon with Chef leading them from behind. There were corrupted Bergens that were armed with weapons and rolling cannons down the hill. There were also corrupted Rageons, now sporting black veins, with some driving chariots, pulled by giant tigers with lava effects and holding lances on the other hand, while the others were marching with their weapons. What Branch noticed is that the Party Crashers were with them but they also had lava effects, and all of them were wearing black, dark purple, and green armor with horned helmets. Among them were burly, monstrous mechanical soldiers that appeared in their enemies’ side. He also observed that they were being powered by the stolen pop troll essence.

“Here goes victory,” Queen Rose sighed as she pulled out her sword and pointed it. The war horns blared out loud and the army cheered with battle cries. Chef noticed the shouting from her enemies as she and all of Famin Fortune’s army looked at them from afar. The corrupted Bergens snarled and growled while the corrupted Rageons hissed like cats.

“FORWARD!” Chef shouted.

“Ewww, they act so feral just to scare us while we’re doing battle cries,” Queen Barb said with disgust.

“They are mindless monsters because Famin Fortune has them under his control,” King Quincy said.

“Are you all with me?” Queen Rose asked them.

“To the death,” Princess Poppy answered.

“Now! FOR HARMONY!” Branch shouted and the army cheered.

“FOR THE TROLL KINGDOM!!!!” Queen Rose shouted.

“Go!” Smidge yelled.

“Go! For the Troll Kingdom!” Demo added.

“Let’s BREAK THEM UP!” Val screamed.

The two armies charged at each other, with the alliance forming an arrow formation and Famin Fortune’s army was erratic and asymmetrical. As soon as they were about to clash, the spearmen and the cavalry lowered their lances and spears, pointing them in their enemies’ direction. When the two armies meet, they fight so hard against each other, with the trolls vs the party Crashers, King Gristle, Zircon, the Bergens, Rageons, and the jinns vs. the corrupted Bergens, corrupted Rageons and the mechanical soldiers. Biggie, Riff, and Aurora watched from their positions as the Classical Trolls and the Funk Trolls flew into the battlefield on the backs of birds and griffins, who were carrying giant rocks and dropped them onto the enemies’ cannons, the mechanical soldiers, and giant bombs, destroying them and crushing the enemies at the same time. Princess Poppy faced Chef in the middle of a battle with her swords glowing pink.

“So you’re the big bad Bergen Chef that terrorized my people? You’re not as scary as I thought,” Princess Poppy said as she stood on the head of her pop unicorn Fauna.

“We’ll see how scared you are when I deep-fry your boyfriend!” Chef screamed as she swiped at the troll and her steed with a meat cleaver. “Or when I roast your idiot sister! Or when I slice your almighty Platinum Queen into sashimi!!”

But Queen Rose hurled a heavy ax at Chef while chopping off a party crasher's ax arm, which hit her on the face, causing serious injury.

“Poppy, go and fight her! Give her your best shot!” Queen Rose cheered as she chopped off a corrupted rageon’s head with her sword.

“Got it!” Princess Poppy responded as she continued to fight Chef.

You could never know what it's like
Your blood like winter freezes just like ice
And there's a cold lonely light that shines from you
You'll wind up like the wreck you hide behind that mask you use

And did you think this fool could never win?
Well, look at me, I'm a-coming back again
I got a taste of love in a simple way
And if you need to know while I'm still standing you just fade away

Don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did?
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
I'm still standing after all this time
Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind

I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah

Once I never coulda hoped to win
Starting down the road leaving me again
The threats you made were meant to cut me down
If our love was just a circus you'd be a clown by now

You know I'm still standing better than I ever did
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
I'm still standing after all this time
Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind

I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah

Don't you know that I'm still standing better than I ever did
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
I'm still standing after all this time
Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind

I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah

Finally, she picked up a spear and threw it at Chef, stabbing her and a strange looking amulet in the process. Soon, colored lights shot out of it as the charm smashed into pieces and it flew into the trolls, which gave them more strength than ever to fight back. Then, Aurora looks at Biggie while she stands with the archers.

“Fire!” Aurora shouted as a command to Biggie.

Biggie fires an arrow which sparks in mid-air. A phoenix swoops down bursting into flames as it does and creates a wall of fire that burns the corrupted army.

“Whooa!! This is awesome!!” Queen Barb shouted as she chopped the corrupted Bergen's head in one swish as the blade of her axe glows neon red.

“We got more to fight!” Demo added.

“We need a little help here!” Prince Alexandrite shouted.

“Got it!” Blaze Powerchord gasped as he rushed to help him.

“You go ahead,” Queen Barb said as she continued fighting.

Meanwhile, Famin Fortune was preparing in the woods for the ritual while the brozone were still in the fish tank. John Dory had been crying all night and was now standing in a daze. Bruce and Clay were freaking out. And Famin had threatened to literally eat one of them if they didn’t perform the song he set out.

Famin gave the signal to start playing. Clay reluctantly picked up the guitar. Famin stuck his own fingernails down his mouth and pulled out a glowing orange core. He held it aloft in his right hand and with his left hand he poured sand and ash into the middle of the symbol he painted on the ground. As he did, he chanted in a language unlike any other.

Back at the camp, Aisha’s locket glowed turquoise and floated in midair.

“Amir?! His core is here too?” Aisha asked the locket.

“Famin Fortune might be doing something to Amir’s core!” the pink glitter troll, Gia Grooves answered.

“Oh no, I must protect my sister's core at all costs,” she said.

Unknown to Famin Fortune, Floyd, who wore platinum armor with a knight helmet, joined by Rhonda were sneaking to rescue his brothers when he was joined by Sir. Cygnus, who is wearing the same armor and armed with a sword and shield. He is riding a female night variation of a solion.

“What is that?” Floyd gasped.

“It's the resurrection ritual, elder Brook did that before,” Sir. Cygnus answered.

“Elder Brook the disgraced?” He gasped.

“Yes, it was told as a cautionary tale but now, this tale is repeating itself,” the old troll answered.

“I got an idea, Rhonda and I will rescue my brothers while you fight that mad jinn off,” Floyd said, which he agreed.

“Let's do this together, CHARGE!” The old knight shouted as he drew his sword and they both rushed to the fray.

In a flash, Sir. Cygnus leaped towards Famin Fortune with his sword and shield and attacked him, knocking him down before he could complete the chant. Clay stopped playing music, but not before a lightning bolt shot from the guitar to the center of the symbol. The symbol glowed deep red, and the earth quaked beneath their feet. A hole shaped like a seven pointed star opened in the center, revealing a deep well of red and yellow light. The hole expanded and from out of it arose a horrible humanoid monster draped all in yellow, pulling itself up with arms as tall as trees.

“You FOOLS!!!” Famin screeched. “Now Look What We’ve Summoned!!!!!!”

The monster stood all the way up. Its features were half-concealed by the yellow hood that covered it. What little skin they could see was dried and leathery, its hands were nothing but bone, connected by sheer willpower, while its torso was swollen like a rotted corpse. When it got its bearings, it roared a deafening roar that was heard across the battlefield. A roar that rattled everyone’s bones and left their ears ringing. The heroes were frightened, the corrupted army actually paused what they were doing, too stunned to move.

“What is that?” Floyd gasped as he broke the fish tank with a nearby ax and helped his brothers escape with Rhonda. He took the guitar and stashed it in his hair.

“It’s some kind of death demon,” John Dory said

“Let's get back to camp,” Clay said as they got inside Rhonda and went back to the camp inside of her. When Rhonda appeared in the camp and spat all four brothers out, Aisha, Jasmine, Brandy, Fuzzbert, Twilight, Bridget, and the others greeted them.

“Bruce, thank goodness you’re safe,” Brandy sobbed as she picked her husband up.

“Brandy, my sweetheart, you won’t believe what happened when Famin Fortune was planning to use me, John Dory, and Clay for,” he explained.

“We got more injured trolls, Bergens, and rageons to attend to,” a vacaytioner named Lenny said as the classical trolls and funk trolls that were riding on large birds and griffins and used to bombard rocks on the corrupted army appeared, delivering their injured allies and comrades back to the camp for medical attention.

“We need some help to cure this Bergen,”

“Okay,” John Dory sighed as he helped Bridget bring the injured to the medic. Clay noticed that Floyd was about to leave.

“Floyd, are you going back to fight?” He asked him.

“Yeah, I have something to return to the troll leaders,” Floyd answered.

“What can I do in this camp?” Clay asked again.

“Clay, you go and help them heal the injured, I’ll go back to the battlefield,” Floyd instructed him before he returned to the battlefield. He started using his whip to bring down corrupted Bergens and corrupted rageons to keep himself and the guitar in his hair safe. Meanwhile, King Gristle Jr. and Zircon noticed that all of the corrupted bergens and the corrupted rageons were paralyzed.

“What happened to our enemies?” Zircon wondered. They poked a stunned Bergen they had been fighting with a sword. Suddenly, the Bergen snapped out of his trance and flailed his weapon around in a crazy manner.

“Look out!” King Gristle shouted as he stabbed the Bergen with his sword.

“Thanks, King Gristle,” Zircon thanked King Gristle as they went back to fighting their foes.

Back at Mount Rageous, Veneer tried to get out of bed but his lower legs had black veins that he stumbled and fell into the floor. In a minute, Crimp and Gloss rushed to his room to check on him.

“Ach! I couldn't feel my legs,” Veneer cried.

“Are you okay?” Gloss asked him.

“My legs are paralyzed,” he answered.

“He's not the only one,” Marvel added.

“What do you mean?” Veneer asked his brother.

The prince, the brothers, and Crimp rushed to the castle hall, where Princess Cerise, Cashmere, Lux, Silke, Shimmer and Glimmer, and all of the servants, nobles, and court members of the castle were tending to their fellow rageons, who were paralyzed and placed in makeshift cots. Veneer, who is being carried by Gloss, notices that Velvet is in one of them. Her veins were black once again and she was whimpering like a wounded animal.

“We found her paralyzed in the mansion,” Shimmer informed them.

“This is why auncle doesn’t trust that mad jinn and Aisha is right about him, they should’ve thought first before they consume that thing,” Princess Cerise sighed out of anger.

“I agree, they should’ve thought first before they try that elixir that you’re all talking about,” Crimp agreed.

“I shouldn’t leave her like this,” Veneer cried as he hugged Gloss while his legs were being paralyzed.

“Marvel, I’ll leave you with your brother and sister,” Lux said as they tended to the other Rageons while Marvel stayed by Velvet’s side and Veneer clung tight to Gloss.

Floyd returned to the battlefield and returned the strings back to King Quincy and Queen Essence, Trollzart, Trollex, Delta Dawn, and Queen Barb but he gave the pink string to Princess Poppy instead.

“Is this what I think it is?” she asked him.

“It’s our tribe’s sacred string, Famin stole it along with all the others and now we need you to use it,” he explained.

“Use it for what?” she asked him.

The monster came rampaging out of the forest. All the trolls cringed in fear at the sight of it but Queen Rose squinted her eyes at it and thought of something so she turned to Bastion.

“Dad, you lead the rest of the trolls in the fight, I'll deal with this oaf,” Queen Rose said to Bastion, who rode a white variation of a solion.

“Go ahead honey, and be careful,” he said.

“And dad, tell mom that I love you both, you've sacrificed so much for me, now it's my turn,” she said as she rode off with Majesty. She and Majesty climbed on the monster and removed its hood, revealing its twisted face. The monster later screamed as the platinum queen started to hurt it with her sword. Sir Cygnus continued to torment Famin Fortune with his attacks.

“Hello you mad jinn, remember me?” Sir. Cygnus asked as he taunted the mad jinn while using his attacks.

“YOU AGAIN!” Famin growled as he extended all ten on his nails and started slashing at the Platinum soldier.

“Looks like your resurrection plan has been foiled, no wonder your delusions only lead to failure,” he mocked as he dodged Famin’s attacks and the two fought. Back at the battlefield, the corrupted army couldn’t move anymore as the monster tried to reach out to eat them but Queen Rose continued to hurt it with slices and slashes.

“What is that thing?” Queen Essence asked King Quincy when they saw the monster.

“That is supposed to be Fairuza but it’s not her,” he answered.

Queen Rose and Majesty kept on tormenting it as she let the trolls, Bergens, and the rageons attacked it while she used her attacks as a distraction for it to be out of control. The monster knocked away its attackers like it was swatting flies but Queen Rose continued to attack it relentlessly.

“Now that is a rock troll fighting style,” Queen Barb shouted while swinging her ax.

“How was she able to do that?” King Quincy asked her.

“I have no idea that she can hold her own during this battle,” Trollzart added.

“Poppy, guys,” Queen Rose called out from the monster while she distracted it.

“Yeah?” Princess Poppy responded

“Direct the power of the strings to me!” Queen Rose commanded the troll leaders as she fought the monster with her sword.

Princess Poppy did it without hesitation, so did the five troll leaders and soon, the strings’ magic went into Queen Rose’s sword as she started to fight the monster in the center with Majesty while Sir. Cygnus fought Famin Fortune in the forest.

This ain't where the legends come from
You're not what a hero looks like
Pretty little flower, won't you sit back down and go play nice?

Keep talking, keep laughing
One day you'll wish you hadn't
All the people want fire, fire
Maybe it's time they meet their dragon

If you're gonna hold me down
And you're not gonna let me in
Into your castle walls
None of you can keep them

'Cause if I gotta
Bu-bu-burn it all down
Then we'll burn it all down
My oh my look at who ends up bigger this time
And if I gotta
B-b-break it all down
Then let's break it all down
Bye, bye, bye
Playing with fire
And we'll burn it all down

The strings’ light surrounded Queen Rose in a cocoon. Just like before in the war meeting, her eyes dilated, her hair became a mane, and she let out a sonic scream that shook the earth. In response, the monster knocked her out of the sky with its skeleton hand; she hit the ground hard enough to make a crater. But she got back up, and from her back sprouted brilliant dragonfly wings. She flew into the air to continue the fight. Majesty continued to scratch and claw the monster to distract it.

This is where the bruises come from
This is when the game gets ugly
These blood, sweat, tears keep running
Licking my plate 'cause I'm so hungry

Keep talking, keep laughing
One day you'll see what happens
All the people want fire, fire
It's about time they meet their dragon

If you're gonna hold me down
And you're not gonna let me in
Into your castle walls
None of you can keep that

She zipped into the fight and continued to fight the monster with the power of the strings in her sword and Majesty continued to distract it but when it reached the river, the techno trolls, the cannon masters and the archers started to attack the monster. Famin slashed Sir Cygnus across the chest with his nails. Sir Cygnus grunted in pain but kept fighting. Meanwhile, on the battlefield, Branch felt an incredible ache. He examined his hands and saw that he was losing his blue color, fading back into his old gray self. Princess Poppy and the Snack Pack rushed to his aid.

'Cause if I gotta
Bu-bu-burn it all down
Then we'll burn it all down
My oh my look at who ends up bigger this time
And if I gotta
B-b-break it all down
Then let's break it all down
Bye, bye, bye
Playing with fire
And we'll burn it all down

The fight continued at Sir. Cygnus, who is gravely injured, continued to fight Famin Fortune. Soon, he sliced off his fingernails in half with his sword.

I've dealt with all types of fascists
Started a faction, stuff that I only imagined
Digital action, none of us lackin'
Tuck it right under my fabric
Frabbin' my sword, then move like an Aston
Hudrlin' mystical hatchets, oh yeah
For all my enemies danger is imminent
Soon as we go in, yeah, deal with adrenaline
Time to get ill again, then we start rollin', yeah
See all these opps, they all gon' drop, they burst and float away
These burning flames around my heart, so y'all gon' burn today
Feel like Rambo, snap and arrow and pull it
Man, ain't nothin' to it, I'ma reign supreme
Set the scene in gasoline fluid
Burnin' like furnaces, I'm gettin' turbulent
No one's impervious, your end is permanent
Sendin' subservient servants to suffer a fiery grave at it's earliest, buried it

'Cause if I gotta
Bu-bu-burn it all down
Then we'll burn it all down
My oh my look at who ends up bigger this time
And if I gotta
B-b-break it all down
Then let's break it all down
Bye, bye, bye
Playing with fire
And we'll burn it all down

As soon as Queen Rose zipped towards the monster, she stabbed through it with her sword, and burst out of it on the other side, causing it to erupt because the power of the strings fought back inside it while Sir. Cygnus shattered Famin Fortune’s core into pieces by plunging his sword into it, causing both the mad jinn and the monster to explode and the strings’ power zipped all over the place, which made Branch regain his colors again. As soon as the mist dissipated, everybody was standing in the battlefield while the remaining corrupted rageons, bergens, and the party crashers were back to normal but Zircon, and King Gristle Jr. had them return to their kingdoms in chains. The bodies of Chef and the deceased were collected and returned to be given a proper burial. The six troll tribes were now gray while the platinum trolls, the Snack Pack and their allies still retain their colors.

“We did it, we won!” King Gristle Jr. shouted.

“I knew we could do it!” Zircon cheered.

The bergens, rageons, and vacaytioners all cheered and hugged each other as the rest appeared from the camp and rushed to greet them all.

“What happened to your colors?” Bastion gasped when he and Jasmine saw the pop tribe had become gray.

“We don’t know,” said King Peppy. “I think something happened to our string.”

“Queen Rose used the power of the strings to fight the monster and won,” Princess Poppy answered.

“So that means….. But at what cost? We’re gray forever!” Branch gasped as he started crying for the pop tribe’s colorlessness.

“No, there is still hope,” Princess Poppy assured him. “It's not the end of the world.”

“Where is Queen Rose?” Viva asked them.

What they saw was Queen Rose, she has gone back to normal, kneeling before Sir. Cygnus’s dying body in the ruined pop village. The wellness center had also been reduced into ruins.

“Sir. Cygnus, you’re gravely injured, let’s get you to Fuzzbert for medical attention,” Queen Rose said.

“No, there is no need,” he answered.

“But…..” she stammered.

“Heroes sometimes must sacrifice themselves so others may survive, and I fulfilled it,” he told her.

“So that means,” she said.

“I knew this time would come when I choose who I would live for and for whom I would die for, and I made the right choice, I gave my life for this kingdom and for all of you, long live Queen Rosetta II,” he sighed as he gave her his magic, which made him lose his color. Sir. Cygnus took his last breath and died in her arms. Everybody stood silently in reverence for the old knight.

“I'll miss him so much,” Branch sighed out of sadness. He and Princess Poppy embraced each other tenderly.

“Me too,” Smidge added.

“Sir. Cygnus prepared himself for this, he just wanted to fight Fortune and put an end to his reign of terror so this is his sacrifice,” she explained.

“We will all miss him, he gave it all up for us, including his life,” Bastion said as he comforted her.

As everybody mourned for the knight's death, Queen Rose sighed and started singing.

Queen Rose:
He did it for us, the ultimate sacrifice
He gave me his trust, and look how we paid the price
This bloodshed could have been avoided
If I convince Fortune to stop this together
I took the village and I destroyed it
I know I could have done better
Better, instead of letting you down

Bastion:
Come on Queen Rosetta, why the frown?
In the last 10,000 years
You're the first one to change this town

Princess Poppy:
You can do this, now I know it!
For your story has just begun
You can't quit now, hair, you owe it
There's still damage to be undone

Branch:
You've changed their minds, you've touched their hearts
Spread the truth to all of us
The stage is wrecked, the crowd is gone
But by hair, Rosetta!
The show, it must go on

Soon, the trolls regained their colors upon realizing their music came from themselves and what Queen Rose had done for them made it stronger.

All:
We can do this
We can build it
Best troll kingdom, you've ever seen!
Twice the buildings, we can fill it

Bastion:
With more trolls that you can dream!

Princess Poppy and Branch:
It starts with you, you know, it's true

All:
Fulfill your destiny!

Queen Rose:
So long as I've got all of you with me!

Soon, all of the trolls, Bergens, vacaytioners, rageons, and Archer Pastry started helping with rebuilding Pop Village, which became more beautiful than ever, with a mix of pods, mushroom homes and medieval style buildings. It earned the trust of the pop tribe for their effort and the princess-now Queen Poppy received a castle of her own as a gift from Queen Rose. It is a fairytale castle, boasting soaring mushroom shaped spires, turrets, with whimsical curves and a slender storybook figure. In return for rebuilding the pop village, the pop trolls helped them rebuild Lonesome Flats, Symphonyville, Techno Reef, and Volcano Rock City, since Vibe City still has its castle intact. Each of the troll leaders were given a castle each, which is inspired by the royal castle in the Platinum Tribe’s old home, with its architecture being a blend of various styles, including Romanesque, Gothic, and Byzantine but with some customized details based on their tribe’s aesthetic. Queen Barb received a Late Baroque style castle with angular roof shapes, turrets and pointed spires but it is black and it attracted the gargoyles to live with her as castle guards, Delta Dawn loved her new gothic European style castle, which is just right for her, reaching a height of only 77 feet with downhead flower shaped or half pumpkin shaped roofings, flowers as spires, and turrets, King Trollex got the fortress-looking, mid-15th century citadel style castle with seashells and pearls decorated on the walls, and King Trollzart was amazed at how his gothic french castle is built with ornate spires and turrets, sheet music-inspired rooftops, bird nests as balconies and cream colored walls.

Satin and Chenille:
To build the kingdoms, I think we need some hair and lumber.

Guy Diamond:
Good thing we have them
Check out this awesome number!

Demo:
Start with foundation.

Blaze Powerchord:
A remedial creation from me

Guy Diamond, Demo, Blaze Powerchord:
It's as easy as can be!

Queen Rose:
No time for crying, we got a lot of work to do
And we gotta try and make the best of what's in ruins

Queen Poppy:
New coat of paint!

Viva:
And some furniture of mastery

Queen Rose, Queen Poppy, and Viva:
With a little luxury!

Meanwhile, the BroZone are helping out with rebuilding new pods and buildings.

John Dory:
After the battle,
This village will dazzle
Enemies, hanging by a thread

Clay and Floyd:
With a bit of bravado
Maybe tomorrow, we'll be cleaning up this heap

John Dory:
Fortune’s army in shackles

Spruce:
They are now in brambles

BroZone:
They're all arrested and behind bars
Nature abhors a power vacuum, it leaves room for you and me
Now we’ll need our own vacation tree

As for Aisha, she and the other jinns picked up all of the cores of all of the jinns who were eaten by Famin Fortune and planned to give them a proper send-off. Aisha clutched the cores of Amir and Fairuza in her hands.

Aisha:
This place reeks of mess, but there's hope in the air
This is over and done even though it’s unfair

Great troll knight Sir. Cygnus, died for his friends
Even though he is gone, that is not where it ends!

I am finally relieved, feeling better than before
My grief and my pain exit in my backdoor

The sky is all clear and I can spread my wings
It’s time to let go of all the strings!

Finally, Trollstopia is finished and the largest, tallest crystal castle, which is inspired from Renaissance architecture with the spires topped with finials decorated with the flowers that represent the tribes and subtribes from Queen Rose’s music box, overlooking the entire city. As they unveiled the statue of King Cygnus the Wise at the center of the new city, everybody cheered for them.

All:
We can do this (Queen Rose: We can do this)
We'll be better (Queen Rose: We'll be better)
Unification can take a while (Queen Rose: Though it may take a while)
All us creatures, clear their ledger

Queen Poppy:
And we're doing it with a smile

Queen Rose:
We made a difference, wait and see

Queen Rose and Queen Poppy:
We're gonna do this, you and me

Everyone:
And then tomorrow this kingdom will have a great and happy day today!

Chapter Text

A week had passed since the final battle and everybody had decided to settle down in their newly rebuilt home kingdoms but Trollstopia became a cornucopia of culture. The city had different districts dedicated to every tribe, like the rock themed buildings of Rock Hollow, which sported sharp simplistic lines and angles, the simple thatch-roofed houses and farms of Country Corral, the flower-shaped living quarters of Classical Crest, the underwater district of Techno Lagoon, the new spaceship, Vibe Town, and the Platinum Trolls’ new district, Platinum City. Queen Poppy and Queen Rose were taking a walk in the forest with Fauna and Majesty accompanying them as well as Queen Poppy’s new pet, Perky the grinchilla, who is bonding well with her best friend’s new pet flutterpups.

“So Queen Poppy, how was your first night in your new castle?” Queen Rose asked the new pop queen. She was wearing a long sleeved hot pink dress with double puffed upper sleeves, a sweetheart neckline, and a hi-lo skirt, light blue pants, and her usual gold leg warmers with two pairs of bracelets, small hoop earrings, and a new seven-pointed tiara.

“It was new but Dad and Viva will get used to living there, despite the culture shock, the fashion, and the many rooms, it looks like a labyrinth or should I say, fabyrinth,” Queen Poppy answered. She wore a vibrant blue gown with a deep v-neckline that almost reached to her shoulders, Juliet sleeves, a light blue gradient on the skirt with flower prints, her usual leg warmers, and a new crown.

“Yeah, and nice pun right there,” Queen Rose giggled. “So how are things with Branch?”

“He’s doing well, bonding with his brothers, and plus, Amalthea is helping John Dory get over his madness,” she answered. “How about you?”

“Me and my family are bonding even more,” the platinum queen answered. “I got messages from the other leaders through the space trolls that King Gristle Jr. is asking Bridget out on a date, Aisha and her people are rebuilding the village after having a mass funeral for their deceased loved ones, and Zircon had Velvet undergo rehabilitation while serving time in prison but his people got the cure to the crystallization thanks to the jinn fruit but as for me and Billy, our relationship is blossoming.”

“That is great to hear,” Queen Poppy squealed.

As they were walking, the rest of the Snack Pack and the friends that they made from different tribes came to greet them.

“Hey guys!” The two troll queens shouted as they waved at them.

“Guys, you’re here too!” Holly Darlin’ shouted as she was being accompanied by a short blue-green country troll with a light orange nose, red hair, and a soul patch on his chin, wearing a light yellow bycocket, a pale green short sleeved tunic over a white long sleeved shirt, black pants, and fingerless gloves.

“Yeah, how was your interaction with the different tribes?” Queen Rose asked them.

“It was hard at first but we were able to get through it,” Val answered.

“Everybody was so inspired by your spirit that we decided to let our fellow trolls interact with each other,” Synth added.

“Hey guys, guess what, many trolls wanted to have their outfits made from us and our dress shop is getting a lot of orders,” Satin said. “Plus, Ripley Wisp asked me out as well.”

“Yeah, and lots of pop trolls would ask us for advice when it comes to fashion,” Chenille added.

“I met my older brother, his wife and my niece CJ Suki and I introduced Demo to them!” DJ Suki squealed.

“I introduced Tiny to my parents and sisters,” Guy Diamond squealed as he held Tiny in his arms.

“Milton Moss asked me to dance with him at the ball,” Smidge added.

“Have you thought of what gown you want to wear for the coronation ball?” Queen Rose asked her.

“The twins are going to make me one of those fancy Classical dresses with the big hoop skirts.” she gushed.

“Wow, that’s awesome, and you’re going to match it with the rolled circlet that you’re planning to wear?” Legsly asked her.

“Yeah!” she answered.

“It’s so nice that our kingdom is finally back on track after so many years of isolation that resulted in the crisis that united us together,” Queen Poppy said.

“We were the ones who fulfilled the prophecy,” Branch added.

“I couldn’t have done it without you,” said Queen Rose, “Thank you all.”

“Come to think of it, are you ready for your coronation?” Branch asked her.

“Yeah, this quest really shaped me to the leader that I want to be, I struggled so hard to try and be as great as my ancestors that I didn’t know what kind of leader I have become,” she answered.

“Yeah, it’s not your lineage that made you great, it’s you,” Queen Poppy told her.

“Thanks,” she thanked her.

Soon, Queen Rose’s actual coronation was coming up and preparations were being held. As Satin and Chenille designed her coronation gown, Queen Rose reminisced over the journey she had gone through with her friends and allies.

“Wow! After all these years, it’s finally here,” Queen Rose said as she looked at the white gem on her hand.

“Yeah, and I’m so happy we’re finally together again,” Bastion added.

“Not just us and our families, the entire troll kingdom is back together again, thanks to you,” Queen Poppy said.

“This is what King Cygnus the Wise and his sister always wanted but this dream took a long time to happen,” Queen Rose said.

“It is a prophecy that was written before the great isolation of the tribes happened,” her dad added.

“Our ancestors knew that this would happen?” Branch asked Bastion.

“They did,” he answered.

“Bastion, sir, I-I-I want to ask permission to date your eldest child,” Billy Reverb said.

“You already did, you took care of my daughter and protected her,” he said. “You’re the right troll for her.”

“Really, even though I beat up her ex for breaking her heart?” The hard rock troll gasped.

“Yes, you know, you make a better consort for her when you two get married,” Bastion said.

“Thank you….can I call you dad?” Billy Reverb asked sheepishly.

“Yes, you may because I took care of lots of trolls back in the Hole N’ Fun that I feel like their father,” Bastion nodded.

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The ceremony finally took place at the front of the new Prism Castle. A massive rug covered the steps and flowers of all kinds bedecked the castle entrance. Great banners of the seven troll tribes were hung up with the tribal symbols emblazoned on them. A unicorn for the Pop tribe, a dragon for the Rock tribe, a griffin for the Funk tribe, a swan for the Classical tribe, twin koi fish for the Techno tribe, a buffalo for the Country tribe, and a solion for the Platinum tribe. Everybody arrived in their fancier but formal outfits and matching headwear to see the ceremony and catch up with each other. Veneer and Gloss walked hand in hand as they, along with Princess Cerise and the other adoptive children appeared with Zircon and their delegation as well. Veneer wore a white and cream split cotehardie with purple prints, dark brown tights, red fingerless gloves, and pink boots with gold soles with a white flat cap adorned with a red feather and his hair tied in a low ponytail.

“Barb, it's good to see you again,” Viva shouted. She was now wearing an off shoulder red kirtle with slashed details on the puff sleeves and elbows that show off her white chemise, gold details, and a matching hennin with a white veil.

“Hey!” Queen Barb said as the two kissed. She was now wearing a maroon strapless gown with a slit on the right side, a form bolero shrug with a turtleneck collar fastened with a gold button and tight sleeves, black leather bustier, black cape, fishnet tights, and a pointed crown with rubies.

“Nice dress,” Viva complemented Queen Barb.

“Same to you,” Queen Barb responded, “That's a lot better than those boring, matching togas you used to wear.”

“Oh yeah, we don’t miss those. But the fancy headdresses take some getting used to,” Viva said.

“The twins really went all out,” a pop troll named Nova Swift said as she passed by. She had bluish-purple skin, blonde side shaved hair, icy-blue eyes and a dark purple nose with a flash tattoo on the left side of her head above the ear and a beauty mark on the right side of her face, wearing a purple and violet gown with white fur trim and star shaped prints, and a small, heart shaped headdress adorned with pink octagon shaped gems and and a feather at the center.

“Don’t worry, you’ll get used to them, the Rageons’ double pointed hennin style is in trend thanks to me,” Twilight said, flaunting her v-necked, off shoulder gown, which is in bold shades of purple, orange, yellow and pink, a white collar, and gold details on the bodice to match her new double pointed hennin, which styled her hair in high pigtails and a veil in pastel colors. Eagle accompanied her, wearing a vibrant blue cotehardie, dark blue tights, a flat cap with a feather and pop themed jewelry.

“Besides, the Platinum Trolls’ fashion is a melting pot of all kinds of music but don’t worry, your tribe will find their sense own style,” Aurora added, who was wearing a matching off shoulder gown with Juliet sleeves and gold embroidery but the lower sleeves are long and flared and the colors are in orange, yellow, coral, and pink to match her veiled steeple hennin. Hype accompanied her in his new, blue tunic with long, puffed sleeves, a matching chaperon, and blue and white psychedelic print pants. Ablaze, Trickee, and Boom also show off their coronation flair with black and gray formal cotehardies with different long sleeves, basically kimono, bishop, and tight sleeves, blue and white or blue pants, and they set themselves apart with their hats. Ablaze was wearing a roundlet hat with a liripipe, Trickee wore a black felt hat with a yellow band, and Boom fancied himself in a fancy bycocket hat with rainbow colored feathers.

King Quincy and Queen Essence arrived with Prince D and Cooper, wearing fancier capes and crowns. They were greeted by the vacaytioners, who were very fascinated by Funk technology.

“Your technology is so amazing,” a female vacaytioner in orange colors said.

“We’ll be happy to share some of our knowledge with you,” Queen Essence told her.

“Thanks,” the vacaytioner thanked her.

“All of the troll leaders, the snack pack, and the allies who have been instrumental, you all have roles in the coronation,” Rose’s chaperone said. “The procession is about to start!”

“Got it, sir!” Prince D responded.

“Let’s go!” Queen Barb said as they rushed off to join the procession.

Everyone sat in chairs waiting for Queen Rose to arrive as they gathered in the mushroom stage. The trolls and the vacaytioners are at the front and the rageons, jinns and the Bergens at the back. A procession of trolls and critters appeared from the castle and moved to the stage.

The first to appear were a group of older trolls in modest but embroidered robes, then came the troll leaders as they display their royal regalia, accompanied by the guards between them and the others, then, Viva, Val Thundershock, Holly Darlin’, Synth, Dante Crescendo, and Lownote Jones appeared behind the guards, holding the banners of their respective tribes. DJ Suki, Cooper, Jussy, Prince D and Emi, Smidge, Biggie and Mr. Dinkles, Satin and Chenille, Legsly, Fuzzbert, the BroZone, Amalthea, and the members of Kismet appeared after the banners, followed by Rhythm and Blues, Minuet Sonata, Laguna Tidepool, Gust Tumbleweed, Demo, Blaze Powerchord, and Billy Reverb. The Snack Pack and their allies held items of their respective tribes that would be used for the ceremony. The twin princesses Aurora and Twilight held the orb and the scepter respectively and Prince Linden, who was now wearing a Celeste blue doublet with paned puff upper sleeves and black pants with a flat cap adorned with a feather and a surcoat appeared, holding the crown of harmony on a cushion. The classical troll orchestra was playing music as the procession went on.

As soon as Queen Rose appeared, they all stood up in reverence and the music was changed while a choir sang as she made her appearance. Her hair was tied in a thick braid with smaller braids and two braids were fixed in a loop around her ears, similar to her mother’s but the difference is that she had smaller braids woven in her braid, adorned with colorful ribbons and the braided loops were adorned with colorful gems. She wore a white and cream colored gown with bishop sleeves, golden details, rainbow colored pointed ellipses and heart embroidery on the upper sleeves and at the bottom of the skirt, and a translucent cape with a diamond necklace adorned with a sapphire pendant but it was covered by a golden yellow velvet cloak with a long train and fur trim, which was held by seven glowflies in colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and pink. Majesty and several solions led the guards to walk at the end of the procession. When Queen Rose had finally reached the mushroom stage, sitting on the throne, everybody went back to their seats.

“So this is the high queen of the trolls,” Veneer gasped,

“Lovely isn’t she?” Gloss asked him.

The ceremony started with the recognition of the trolls to acknowledge Queen Rose as their high queen. Then, the oath recitation was being performed.

“Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the troll kingdom,” the elderly troll asked her. “according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the respective laws and custom of the same? Will you, in your power, cause law and justice and mercy to be executed in all judgments?

“I solemnly promise so to do,” she answered.

After the oath taking, many rituals were conducted for Queen Rose as Bastion and Jasmine, who were wearing the same outfits that the figurines of King Tansy and Queen Lyra wore but in different colors with Bastion wearing a feathered flat cap and Jasmine wore a jeweled circlet with a veil, were beaming with joy as their eldest daughter was being anointed as queen. When the anointing was over, the crown ceremony finally came.

“Trolls, Bergens, vacaytioners, rageons, all of the friends of the troll kingdom, the time has come for crowning of the new high queen of the troll kingdom,” the leading troll announced as he placed the white gem at the center. “To the troll tribes, each of your leaders were given the gems of the crown of harmony, which were handed to you by the jewel beetles after the death of Queen Celestia. You may now deliver your blessings upon the coronation of Queen Rosetta II.”

The troll leaders stood up and one by one, they placed the gems to their rightful place.

“The Hard Rock Tribe bless the high queen,” Queen Barb said as she placed the red gem on the right side of the crown.

“The Country Tribe bless the high queen,” Delta Dawn said as she placed the orange gem beside the red one. She is dressed in a fancier jade green gown with a square neckline and bell sleeves, a chrome orange cape, and a flower crown.

“The Classical Tribe bless the high queen,” King Trollzart said as he placed the yellow gem. He wore a fancier dark blue cotehardie with bell sleeves and fur trim with a yellow cape and a crown.

“The Hinterlands bless the high queen,” Tresillo said as he placed the green gem beside the yellow one. He was now wearing an ornate peridot green tunic and a chaperon.

“The Techno Tribe bless the high queen,” King Trollex said as he placed the blue gem beside the green. He was dressed in a blue surcoat with paned upper puff sleeves, deep blue pants, white shirt, and a red cape with a gold crown.

“The Funk Tribe bless the high queen,” King Quincy said as he placed the purple gem next to the blue gem.

“As your best friend and ward to the late Queen Celestia, the Pop Tribe bless the high queen,” Queen Poppy said as she placed the pink gem between the purple and the white. She showed off her pop look in a vibrant blue gown with a v-neckline, large, paned puffed upper sleeves that show off the light blue layer underneath, the pop troll crown and a steeple hennin with a rainbow colored veil.

After the crown of harmony had its jewels returned, Queen Rose continued to sit on the throne as the elderly troll would display the different symbols to her, from a jeweled blunt sword, some ancient horseshoes, the conch shell that she used to call all of the trolls for the final battle, the sacred rings and bracelets, the sashes, and the pendants. Soon, Twilight appeared, carrying the sacred orb on a cushion and the elderly troll carefully took the orb to place it on Queen Rose’s right hand. Then, he carefully took the scepter and placed it on her left hand. Finally, the crowning moment has come.

“By the power vested in me by the power of Harmonia, I hereby crown thee Rosetta the II, queen of the platinum trolls and high queen of the troll kingdom,” the elderly troll announced as he placed the crown of harmony on her head.

“Long live the queen!” Everybody cheered for her.

The classical troll choir started to sing in reverence to Queen Rose after she finally wears the crown of harmony on her head. Everybody started tossing flower petals out of joy.

The Queen Rosetta cometh
Behold, behold
Her majesty here before us
Behold, behold, behold
Behold, behold (behold, behold)
The Queen Rosetta cometh
Behold, behold (behold, behold)
Her majesty is
Her majesty is here!

After the ceremony was over, a party was held to celebrate and the couples danced the starlight waltz. Everybody was having fun as they chatted with each other and ate food from the buffet. The troll leaders are free from the capes that they have to wear, including Queen Rose.

“Wow, this is a celebration that we’ll never forget,” Queen Poppy said.

“Yeah, it’s all thanks to us,” Queen Rose added.

Then, Hickory, who is dressed in a chartreuse doublet with a green sash and pants with a matching flat cap adorned with beads, and Dewdrop, now wearing a matching gown with a square neckline, puffed long sleeves and a bustle for her hindquarters with an escoffion decorated with beads, approached them.

“Y'all look mighty fine in your royal trappings,” Dewdrop praised Queen Rose.

“Thank you,” Queen Rose thanked her.

“Guess what, we’re moving in together at the Country Corral,” Hickory said.

“And once we’re properly settled, we’re inviting all y'all to the housewarming!” Dewdrop added.

“Thanks guys,” Queen Poppy thanked her.

Dewdrop kissed Queen Poppy and Branch on both cheeks. Hickory did the same. Then the pair returned to the buffet.

Then the Jinn Sultan approached them. He is now wearing red formal robes with a white tunic, golden sash, cream colored trousers, and boots with a matching white turban decorated with a golden jeweled fastener and a red feather.

“You are all very brave people and I’m deeply honored to know you,” he told them. “Expect more visits from the Jinn.”

“Thank you sir,” Queen Poppy thanked him.

“We would be honored,” Queen Rose added. “Me, Queen Poppy, Holly Darlin’, Synth, Dante Crescendo, Lonwote Jones, and Val Thundershock will form the tribal council to help me with ruling the entire troll kingdom, I can't do it alone.”

“Very wise decision,” The Sultan said in approval.

“Awesome party!” said King Cosmo as he floated overhead. “It’s so great being around other trolls again! I think even Nyxx is having a good time!”

Nyxx gave an approving head nod while keeping his face stoic.

“That’s a sign that he’s happy,” King Cosmo explained.

“We appreciate you guys so much,” Queen Rose told him, “Come visit us anytime you want.”

King Cosmo winked and shot finger guns at them, then he flew off. The trio watched the crowd of Trolls, Bergens, Vacaytioners, Rageons, and Party Crashers have fun. Everyone was so happy.

“So that is what living in harmony is,” Queen Rose said as she watched everybody get along.

“This is more than I could have ever dreamed,” Branch said in awe.

“I think I feel one more song coming on,” Queen Poppy smiled.

Queen Rose:
I remember when I first met you
We were simply two worlds apart

Queen Poppy:
We were so distant and you
You weren’t listening to your heart

Branch:
Day by day we stood side by side
Yet we were still so far away

Queen Rose, Queen Poppy, and Branch:
'Cause in a great symphony
You shouldn't ever play alone

All:
It's like a dream
Now we're finally together
Finally forever
Feel the music inside your heart
This is our song
Now we're finally together
Finally forever
Since we've got each other
We're stronger more than we ever been

Queen Barb:
We can play this music together

Viva:
In a perfect sweet harmony

John Dory:
It's just too good to be true

Amalthea:
But count on that's the way it should be

King Quincy and Queen Essence:
Day by day, we stand side by side

Cooper and Prince D:
Now we're no longer so far away

Trollzart:
'Cause in a great symphony

Bruce, Clay, and Floyd:
You shouldn't ever play alone

All:
It's like a dream
Now we're finally together
Finally forever
Feel the music inside your heart
This is our song
Now we're finally together
Finally forever
Since we've got each other
We're stronger more than we have ever been

Delta Dawn:
Light as a feather up in the sky

Hickory and Dewdrop:
We were carried by the wind

Billy Reverb
Now we are closer, eyes in the eyes

Kismet:
And the magic will begin!

Snack Pack:
It's like a dream
Now we're finally together
Finally forever
Feel the music inside your heart
This is our song
Now we're finally together
Finally forever
Since we've got each other

All:
It's like a dream
Now we're finally together
Finally forever (Queen Rose: Finally forever!)
Feel the music inside your heart
This is our song
Now we're finally together
Finally forever (Queen Poppy: Finally forever!)
Since we've got each other
We're stronger more than ever

Queen Rose, Queen Poppy, and Branch:
'Cause we're finally together