Maddie the First

Let the Good Times Troll

The three children were flying their kites as it was a good day for it. Starscream was pulling off tricks while Pippa casually flew hers and Maddie tried to copy Starscream. But she accidentally tripped on a rock and let go of her kite. Maddie ran after it as it fell down a cliff, onto the beach below. Seeing stairs that lead down to the beach, Maddie walked down them to get her kite. Pippa asked where Maddie was going and Maddie simply replied that she was going to get her kite.

Pippa advised her not to as that's where the castle trolls lived. They live in a cave by the water. Pippa described them as being green and creepy. But Starscream assured Maddie that they don't come out during the day. He then offered to go grab Maddie's kite but she wanted to go on her own. She walked down the stairs until she reached the beach. She found her kite on the ground with a tear in it. As she examined her kite, she heard clattering coming from inside the cave.

She looked inside to see what the commotion was when a yellow eye suddenly looked through a hole in the rocks. It was a troll. This scared Maddie, making her drop her kite and run back up to her siblings. The troll called after her, trying to tell her that she lost her kite. But Maddie was long gone. Seeing that she wasn't coming back, the troll reached out and took the kite. It was now dinner time and it was time for dessert that both Starscream and Primus were excited for. This felt like a good time for Maddie to ask her father a question.

"Dad, what do you know about the castle trolls?" Maddie asked

"Why? Why do you ask, Maddie?" Primus asked her

"Well, I saw one today, and--"

"You saw a troll?"

"The castle has trolls?" Sarayah asked just now hearing about this

"You don't know about the trolls?" Primus asked his wife, "Surely you've heard the story of King Gideon and the castle trolls."

"No."

"No," Maddie replied with her mother

"Can I tell it, dad?"Starscream asked

"Sure. Go right ahead, Starscream," Primus said

Starscream started the story, "One night long ago, When our great-grandpa King Gideon was king, he heard a loud thumping outside the castle. So he went out to see what it was. And right in the courtyard, He saw a bunch of green, bug-eyed trolls Banging their clubs."

In a flashback, we see King Gideon discovering the trolls banging their clubs on the castle ground, believing that they were attacking the castle. He called for the guards to protect the castle.

Starscream continued his narration, "The guards bravely charged the trolls and chased them all the way back to their cave. And no one's seen a troll outside the cave ever since."

"Whoa!" Maddie said amazed

"That night, King Gideon proclaimed that the trolls must stay down in their cave, and we stay up here-- that's the castle rule," Primus explained to Maddie, "It's safer that way for everyone."

Maddie had never heard this story until now and was shocked by what happened all those years ago. But she did wonder what they were up to that night. the next morning, Lil Vent was sleeping on Maddie's bed while Maddie slept at the window. As she slept, her kite from yesterday flew up to the window and started to tap on the window, waking Maddie. When she saw her kite, she opened the window to let it in, seeing that it had been repaired.

But she was surprised to see it after accidentally leaving it the day before. But she soon realised that the troll she saw yesterday likely fixed it. Robin was shocked that Maddie had seen a troll. But all of them were shocked after Maddie said that she was going to the cave to thank the troll. Maddie was starting to realise that maybe the trolls weren't as bad as they were made out to be.