A Trollhunter turned King

Friends Close, Enemies Closer

back in the forge, most of the group just watched as the half troll paced in anger. Others were talking about how to handle the situation they had gotten themselves into.

"What could she want?" Eli asked, somewhat overhearing the conversation between Claire, Toby, Blinky, and Douxie. They had been discrete about what they said, knowing not to really reveal things about the future, but the slim framed teen was more than just curious.

"Unfortunately, we know not of what the evil queen seeks, young Elijah." Blinky replied, placing a hand on his chin in thought. A growl sounded from the middle of the forge, gaining everyone's focus. Jim was doing his best to keep his emotions in check but it was getting increasingly harder to do so.

"That B!tch!!!" Jim yelled, switching halfway from English to trollish, summoning Excalibur and sending it flying towards the wall. Upon impact, the ground shook and a massive crack was broken into the wall. Jim grabbed at his horns and yanked them back trying to do anything to get his mind off of the problem.

"Dude, chill." Mary said, glaring at Jim as the dust and quakes settled. Jim had had enough of the Asian girls smart as$ comments and glared back at her with a growl, his irises glowing teal as his markings flared in the same color.

"Calm? Please?" ARRRGGH! Asked softly and quietly as he was the closest to Jim, and the only one that could handle a blunt attack from the once trollhunter, even if they all knew Jim would never do it on purpose.

"If we've screwed up time enough to have an early visit from her, then there is no way in hell I'm going to be calm." Jim snapped at the mossy troll. The others inwardly cringed when Jim unintentionally told the other teens that they were from the future.

"Screwed up time? What are you talking about?" Darci asked from behind Steve out of pure fear for the angry half troll, not that the blond would be any good as protection against the trained fighter.

"Oh, good going, Jimbo." Toby half groaned, as if to speak for everyone else, their expressions matched the comment. The half troll glared at his best friend and Toby glared back, knowing that backing down would just make the situation worse.

"Ok so there is one detail we've been keeping from you guys." Claire confessed, she knew that there was no keeping the secret any longer if Jim was going to lose control of his powers and instincts. "We're from about three years in the future." she said, gaining wide eyed looks from the four confused teens.

"Well, the only one who is really from the future is Jim," Douxie corrected, looking at his brother as he started pacing again. "We all just have our future selves memories, so we know a lot of things about what's supposed to happen." the wizard added.

"You guys are from the future, more or less?" Eli asked, correcting his question half way through to go off of what Douxie had said.

"Basically." Toby offered after his and Jim's stare down was cut off. ARRRGGH! Had given up on trying to help the half troll and walked back over to the rest of the group at the stairs.

"Wait, so who knows and who doesn't?" Mary asked, still sitting on one of the last steps, pointing around to the group in question.

"You four and Archibald are the only ones out of us that don't have your memories." Blinky explained, gesturing to the cat that was perched on the shoulder of his familiar as usual.

"Uh, guys?" fear and concern lacing the high pitched words. The group looked to the short teen who was on the top step and the tallest aside ARRRGGH! With his position. Eli shakily pointed to the middle of the forge with wide eyes. The group turned to look at Jim.

The half troll had stopped pacing and was facing away from the stairs, seemingly staring down the opposite entrance/exit to the forge. His ears were the only thing they could see as they were twitching and flicking in every direction, listening for something. The stance concerned most of them.