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Garden full of scars

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Summary:

Branch lives in the woods making a living off the slauves and potions to give to the medical trolls each troll has speical abilites but branch hasn't been able to use hers in years its to the point where everyone thinks she doesn't have any.
But she does she just can't use them.
After all nothing can grow if the plant is stressed.

Chapter 1: Sage

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Branch grinned as she leaned over the pot in her alchemy room of her home, she had built into an old tree her bunker near her home hidden from sight.

The home and surrounding areas were lush and green and gave off fairy tale and Alice in wonderland vibes a massive garden consumed both the front and back of the tree the front was herbs and flowers the back had fruits and veggies and other foods and medical type plants.

Branch however was minding her own business as she was packing a bag to take to the village with a large jar in her paws it was a thick substance almost like honey it was a medical syrup made with yarrow the medical trolls had requested it and it had taken her a little over six months as she had to hunt down the yarrow plants as well as a few other ingredients for it such as honey this batch was for the much older trolling's who had trouble taking their medicine she was humming a soft melody with her hair pulled up in a pony tail and wearing a dress that looked like it was made from a Lily flower when suddenly the door bursts open and  poppy enters with her friends to bother the troll who is in the middle of getting ready to leave and when the door slams open she jumps and the jar slips and falls to the floor breaking.  She almost misses poppy and her friends calling out to her in greeting. But she looks up fire burning in her eyes. 

"hey branch!"
"namaste"
"oh dear branch! are you okay?"
"you made me drop it...."
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"YOU MADE ME FUCKING DROP IT! DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'VE JUST DONE!!!! IT TOOK ME WEEKS TO PREPARE THAT WEEKS!!! NOW I GOT TO START THIS SHIT ALL OVER AGAIN!!!! OF ALL THE DUMB ASS BULLSHIT I PUT UP WITH EVERY FUCKING DAY YOU HAVE THE FUCKING NERVE TO BARGE INTO MY FUCKING HOME AND MADE ME DROP IT NOW ITS FUCKING RUINED I HAD BEEN WORKING ON THAT MEDICINE FOR THE FUCKING CLINIC FOR SIX FUCKING MONTHS AND YOU GO AND RUIN IT IN A FUCKING SECOND!" branch is screaming and grabbing at her hair in anger tears welling up in her eyes as they rolled hotly down her face

"I WORKED MY ASS OF FOR THE INGREDENTS I NEARLY LOST MY FUCKING HAND TO A VENOMUS NEWT! AND FOR WHAT ALL THAT PROGRESS TO BE RUINED IN A DAY GET OUT OF MY POD GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!" 

She lunges at them and they let out yelps of fear and quickly leave.

Branch slams her door shut with a final roar of anger and rage as she turns to stare at her months of hard work ruined in just a few sort seconds.

What was she going to do? she didn't have any more yarrow!

Branch was so upset she just started to clean up the sticky mess.

However.

The medical trolls and king peppy were very upset with poppy and her friends they had come and told them what had happened thinking the king would be on their side not expecting the king to have been talking with one of the healers and had informed them of such as they went later on in the day to go check up on branch hoping she was okay she might not be able to use her gift anymore but she had her skills that the medical community and the adults and elders relied on as the medical trolls healing abilities could only do so much and branches medicine that she made picked up the slack while their gifts where healing Her's laid hidden in her skills and in her ability to grow plants of all kinds but for now they needed to go and check up on branch and make sure she was okay.

When they arrived with king peppy, they found branch was hugging her knees in her brewing room when king peppy and the healers arrived with the ingredients, she'd need to even get a head start on the syrup again.
"Go away poppy I hate you so much you ruin everything!" King peppy felt his heart break a bit for branch she sounded so defeated.

"it's not poppy" branch looked up at the troll with tears still streaming from her eyes but quickly wipes them away.

"You always give us extras of the ingredients you collect branch" healer willow green says with a soft smile. 

"So, I brought some of the extra we can spare" she says holding the basket out with a smile.

Branch was genuinely touched that the healers had the necessary ingredients that she needed and were willing to give them back to help her make the syrup again telling her not to worry about it and to take her time making it and the trolling's would get over it.

Branch was just grateful that they were willing to be patient with her while she rebrewed the medicine for the clinics.

 

Chapter 2: Lavender

Notes:

So branch is an alchemist and has abilities tied to plants but because of stress from both the fear of bergens and poppy just being poppy she can't use them she used to be able to when she was little drove her grandma nuts because she had the same ability and branch was just a lil gremlin child using vines to sneak a cookie before dinner.

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Branch sighed in relief she had finally finished the medical syrup and had dropped it off at the medical center she had dropped it off a few weeks ago she did it in the dead of night when she knew poppy and her friends were asleep thanking every deity, she could think of that the clinic was open during the night in case of emergency.

Now she had choices she could make whatever she wanted she was running low on her soap might be a good time to make some more to build up her stock again couldn't hurt to have some to trade either.

She could also make tea mixes she hadn't done that in a while.

Maybe she should make cough drops for the colder months.

Hmm the choices she could make!

However, she really did need the soap, but she also wanted to dye the white spark rabbit fur that a guard had given her she wanted to make a new winter blanket out of it would her fingers be stained for a few months if she did it yes would it be worth it also yes.

But soap she really needed that so soap it was that she was going to make she had the ingredients for it so why not and so she headed back to her home looking over her shoulder occasionally to make sure she wasn't being followed and went home locking up behind her she leaned on the door blinked unlocked the door and at random lifted a rock and grabbed the key that she kept forgetting to remove and brought it inside and strung it up on a necklace there now poppy and her fucking lackies couldn't get in well they might if cooper let them in but she highly doubted it he knew better then to betray the trust she had given him as her friend by giving the guy a key to her pod to take care of her plants when she was away on trips to gather items that didn't grow anywhere near where they lived. 

With that finally done she leaned against the door and locked it with a sigh she threw the empty bag onto the floor grunting as she dropped the bag of coins given to her on the counter, she pulled her hair free of its confinement and flopped onto the sofa in the living room and screamed into the cushions and once she felt better she stopped and rolled over on to her side and grabbed the throw blanket on the back of the sofa and curled up under it she closed her eyes a few minutes of sleep wouldn't kill her right?

Branch woke up groggy and she sat up and looked out the window well tried she had the curtains drawn to many times of seeing poppy's overly cheerful face before she had coffee lead her to mostly keep the curtains closed so she got up staggered a bit and walked over to the window and pulled open the curtains and let out a sigh as poppy was there her face pressed up on the glass.

"MORNING BRANCH!" she screamed, and branch blank face slowly started to close the curtains.
"WAIT! My dad wants to talk to you!" she says. 

"I'm busy for the next few days tell him I'll talk to him when I'm done with my latest project your highness" she says. 
"Call me poppy!" poppy says. 

"And okay!"  with that poppy runs off and branch just groans and goes about her day grabbing the coffee and starting a pot and going about getting some food and the journal of soap scents that she had jotted down over time she grunts and grabs the fresh pot and starts drinking straight from the pot.

Good lord her grandpa would laugh if he saw what she was doing before telling her to get a fucking mug.

Branch flipped through her journal and picked a scent she had written down and blinked with a chuckle sage and lavender.

Some of her two favorite scents.

Later on in the day Branch was in the front of her home harvesting sage she had some dried lavender from a few months ago when she had harvested it.

She blinks as a shadow falls over her and she tilts her head up.

"hello king Peppy" she says smiling up at the king who smiles back at her as she works he starts talking about random things with her.

"branch i need to talk to you about something"
"what is it?"

"we're not the only trolls out there"

"what?"

Chapter 3: Tangled

Summary:

How do the pop trolls send messages with messenger bugs of course!

Unless your branch in witch case
You might want to check the flower box.

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Branch stares at the king "I beg your fucking pardon?"

Peppy smiles weakly "there are other types of trolls"

"Oh I am well aware of that I'm not a fucking idiot."

Peppy's face pales drastically as branch stands up pushing her hat back and narrowing her eyes before looking up at the sky as the wind blows

"Nature doesn't forget and it will talk when one lends it's ear." she says pushing her hair behind her ear and locks him with a gaze her eyes glowing "trees hold history king peppy" she says voice echoing as she walks towards him and stops in front of him and for the first time peppy realizes how long it has been since he towered over the other troll and now it would appear she towers over him.

He looks at her and blinks swearing he saw the past Keepers of the string standing behind her but when he blinks they are gone and the only one standing in front of him is branch.

He swallows and looks at her with a determined expression and she raises one thick eyebrow at him.

He opens his mouth and speaks what he wanted to say. 

"I want you to use your powers to send them invitation's  to try and rebuild the relationships our music's once had with each other."

A strong gust of wind blasts them from the side sending branches hat flying as he shields his face from the wind and as her dress snaps to the side she does not look away from the king.

"You wish to have me use my power to send a letter to the other tribes? I'm surprised you know my powers not that strong yet you want me to attempt something I haven't done in years Your Highness" Peppy looks at her with an expression she could only describe as amusement mixed with mild annoyance.

"You claim its not in your power but I've seen you do things with your power that others can't"
Branch tilts her head and smirks faintly "Oh now you have my attention king peppy"
She leans forward "Let me tell you something though"

"you want me to abuse my power to send letters to a bunch of trolls and TWO OF THEM ARE GOING TO BE NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE THEY LIVE UNDERWATER AND THE OTHERS IN A FUCKING FLYING SHIP!"

She yells waving her arm at the sky and then the other to the massive pond behind her "if I do this I will be out of commission for a few days and I Expect to be left alone to recover." she says rubbing her face.

"I understand"

"No your Highness I don't think you do" 

Branch says turning to go find her hat "good bye king peppy I will contact you when I have sent the letters" she says walking in to the vastness of her garden to find her wayward sun hat.

King peppy stands there watching as she walks away and once she's out of sight he turns and walks away frowning he swore he could see the past leaders of pop standing in the trees but whenever he blinked they vanished.

Was he going crazy?

He shook his head he was just tired that was it no way was he seeing the past kings and queens and the holders to protect the strings.

He couldn't being seeing those.

He didn't have the ability to see ghosts.

Did he?

Branch however was unaware of the kings issue as she looked at her hat floating in the middle of the pond and with a tilt of her head a vine shot out of the ground and grabbed the hat and brought it back to her and as she held it she looked at the sky with a sigh.

There goes her plans to make the soap she wanted to now.

She turns to look at her home a large tree hollow and sturdy she'd been told by trollings when they saw her home and the area surrounding it that it looks like a home plucked from a fairy tale.

Now she thought tilting her head again.

Where did she put that parchment. 

She had a long night of writing formal invitations.

She sighed as the trees and the plants around her seemed to laugh at her.

This was going to be along night.

Chapter 4: Root

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Branch groaned as she dug out her paper and sat at her desk she hated being the only one the king relied on when it came to diplomatic bullshit.

He should just adopt her if he keeps going on about how she had better skills then his own child.

She sighed and started working on the invitation same thing just addressed differently and was formal as hell.

"Stop laughing you damned trumpet flower you're the one who has to eat the message to send it to the classical trolls" she hisses at the large trumpet flower on the window still to outsiders it didn't look like it was making any noise.
But to branch it was laughing and loudly at her.

That got it to shut up as she stood letter rolled up into a tiny tube and she held it to the flower that moved and seemed to swallow the tiny tube of paper and wax.

"One down. Four to go" she says with a sigh as she heads outside the letter for the techno trolls? sealed in a glass bottle as she walked towards the forest, she knew there was an ocean beach just past the forest.

It took time for her to get to the ocean and when she did she sighed and lifted her dress up and off leaving her in her slip she had been wearing under it and she walked into the water and waded out as far as she dared and held out the bottle and commanded kelp to come up and grab it and take it to techno reef.

Two down. 

Three to go.

She waded back to the shore grabbed her dress and started walking back. "Now to figure out how to get it on to the Funk ship" she mutters her best bet was to wait for it to hover over a flower filled field and hope and pray that someone on that ship had a garden.

The country trolls? she just had to use a desert jasmine to send it to them she had one at home.

The Rock trolls?

Maybe a Venus flytrap that might work.

She hummed as she worked she was feeling so tired but had to get this done she spotted the ship and acted quickly sending the flower via a buttercup praying it got to the right sender.

when she finally got home she sent the final two.

Then she blacked out.

The flowers and the kelp?

Well the notes got to the right trolls alright.

Trollzart got the letter ejected right at his feet from a nearby flower much to his confusion and Suprise as he picked it up.

Trollex got a bottle to the face by a very active piece of kelp that went still after it hit him in the face with the bottle Ohhh he was totally going to eat that kelp trouble causing piece of plant.

Low note had a flower spit a roll of paper at his feet addressed to the leaders of funk. He took the flower for research that should not have happened.

delta found a rolled up letter sticking out of a cactus flower that was growing in her office mini cactus that was weird then again magic was weird.

Barb had a Venus fly trap throw up a wet letter at her feet. "Uhhhh you good plant dude??" she didn't even know plants could vomit that was really weird to her.

but each letter said the same thing.

Pop was formally inviting them to their village for peace talks and amendments for what had happened in the past.

they wanted to start over.

To try and be friends again as they had learned life could be dangerously to short for them and their fellow trolls to hold grudges and hate towards one another and wanted to fix what they had broken hundred's of years ago.

The leaders didn't have to come if they didn't wish and could send their ambassadors if they wanted with promises that pop wouldn't do anything to them they just wanted to fix everything.

Besides one line of the letter was...worrying

                           we wouldn't survive a war between all the tribes our own is already dangerously small to much has happened. we CANNOT LOSE MORE TROLLS PLEASE.

Believe us when we say

we do not want war 

only peace

please.

We won't last if any of you declared a war against pop

 

Chapter 5: AUTHOR'S NOTE

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To our fellow readers this is coffeeg speaking...and I would like to inform u all that NightengalesMidightmelody will taking a short hiatus due to personal matters. But don't worry I have her permission and support carry on well try to update the fics to the best of my abilities.

Thank u for understanding.