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Midnight Call!

King Peppy woke up to someone banging on his door waking him up, surprisingly not waking his daughters up, and went to open the door hurriedly. Nobody wakes him up in the middle of the night, unless it's an emergency. Did someone get taken again?

He opened the door to see a troll that looked like he had seen the dead risen. “What's wrong!?” He said loudly, and worriedly. 

“There was…” The troll looked haunted for a moment again then said, “Someone was running into pods late at night, and woke the poor trolls in there up and-”

“So it's just a reckless troll?” Peppy said, a little annoyed. Why does he have to be awake for this?

“Um no…there's more to the story…” The troll said nervously. Fiddling with their hands a bit.

There's more? “Go on.”

The troll took a deep breath and started to speak, “You see we chased this troll around when it started a ruckus, but they were very fast and lost them a few times.” This still sounds like a trouble maker. “But we managed to track them down to the center of the troll tree, and we were able to identify them and…”

“You caught them?”

“No…we kinda froze up when we realized who it was.” 

Froze up? Who is this troll to cause such a shock?

“And who was it?” The king said curiously.

The troll started to stumble at their words, “It's……..Um someone we thought dead….and um….they are-” 

“Ok, calm down.” Peppy said patting their back looking calm, but on the inside was freaking out. Someone we thought was dead!? Who!? “How about you take me to them instead?”

“Right!” The troll said, started walking. The king follows, realizing he has no idea where they are going. “Oh by the way, where are we going?”

They froze up a bit, looking like they wanted to run, “To the Hospital.” the troll said In a shaky voice.

The king's eyes went wide, what happened to that poor troll?

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Floyd layed there in the hospital bed reading a book, with clean bandages wrapped around him. Branch sat next to him, holding on to his hand, the right one, looking at the book Floyd was reading.

It had been an hour since he was checked in to the hospital, after it turns out that he was being chased by other trolls. Guess running around the troll tree like a mad troll gets others attention. But he wasn't complaining, it got him to the hospital. 

Floyd turned his head towards Branch. His baby brother looks very gray, and sad. But he seems to be gaining color, but not much. Though his hair has indigo streaks in it. 

Branch turned his head towards his older brother, noticing that he was looking at him. His little brother had a concerned look on his face. “Are you ok?” He asked.

Floyd smiled at him, like he wasn't injured and blind in one eye, “Better with you around.”

Branch smiled a little and snuggled up to his older brother. Floyd went back to reading his book pretending to read. 

It hit Floyd hard when they told him that he was blind in his left eye. Well not blind he's missing an eye. He wonders if Bridget knew, she said it was bad, but was never specific. Though to be fair to her, he was having a meltdown, and probably didn't want to stress him out more.

He looks towards the bracelet he still has on. I wonder if she's ok? Did she bring the key back to the Chief so she won't get in trouble? He hopes so otherwise-

Out of nowhere the hospital door to his room slams open. Startling both him and Branch, and both looked up towards it, and he couldn't believe his eyes.

There standing at the entrance to his hospital room was King Peppy looking very surprised and shouted,

“FLOYD!”

“KING PEPPY!” Both Branch and Floyd also shouted.

What is he doing here!?