Trollex and Roxie's Story

Chapter 12: Trollex

~10 minutes earlier~

The guards took Cooper, D, and Roxie away. Quincy, Essence, and I couldn't do anything after they took them away.

Delta and Trollzart looked at us apologetically.

But just as they left, a couple more guards came in, throwing a familiar troll inside another cage. 

"Poppy!" Everyone but me shouted.

"Guys!" Poppy said in a little relief. "Wait, I just saw Prince Cooper, Prince D, and Roxie leave, what's going on?"  

"They...took them away..." I weakly and quietly said. I looked up for the first time since the other had left. Everyone looked depressed.

"But...Roxie was right, we can't stop fighting, if we really care about our music...we got to fight back..." I said as I got up. 

Quincy and Essence got up as well. "Trollex is right, we have to stand together and fight. For all our music's sake." Essence said.

Everyone also got up and nodded. 

But then suddenly the cages disassembled and the ground rose around each of us for everyone but Poppy and the roof rose up.  

The roof rising up revealed a large crowd of trolls, from all the tribes.

The ground rose with lava, just enough that we could stand. 

I could hear Barb singing, followed by talking, but I wasn't listening, in fact, I didn't truly care. I just wanted to know Roxie, Beat, and the rest of my tribe was okay.

My thoughts were spinning around rapidly, but it was all broken by a blinding light shining on me.

I looked left and right frantically. I heard a slight gasp and turned my head to see Roxie.

Thank goodness she's okay. I thought. But then I heard a loud strum of a guitar and a loud thud.

I looked at the stage behind me and noticed a black rock that had cracked open, revealing Branch, but a rock zombie Branch.

"Rock on!" He shouted. "Who's ready to get rippen tattoos everywhere but our faces in case we still need office jobs, yeah!?"

All us leaders looked at him in alarm.

"You're turning everyone into rock zombies?!" Poppy shouted from her cage.

'Yup, can't wait to party with you Poppy." Barb said as she jumped as was carried into the air.

Essence and Quincy were the first to be hit with a powerful blast.

Then she hit me.

Around me a rock formed, the heat being trapped inside. My mind was loosing thoughts, I couldn't think straight. I tried to think of anything that would keep my thoughts alive.

I thought about my tribe, I thought about Beat, I thought about Roxie, but nothing helped.

My rock started to crack open, revealing a new side of me.

I had white skin with fins that transitioned to a deep blue grey. My fins were wrapped in fins nets and I had a raggy jean jacket that was above my waist. My left ear had a large, sliver loop earring that went from my skin white to a dark red. I was also wearing a spiky hair band, the same as my bracelets. I had dark black eye shadow that covered my glowing red eyes. 

I heard multiple gasps from the crowd, some whispers and whines, but I just stood there motionless.

The rest of the time I stood there along with the other leaders as mindless zombies.