𝓢𝓾𝓷𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓜𝓲𝓭𝓷𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 ~ 𝓑𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓱 𝔁 𝓯𝓮𝓶 𝓣𝓻𝓸𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓻 / 𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓴 1

2. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓽𝔂 𝓓𝓲𝓼𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻

I stood in front of my mirror in the bathroom, I was already running late to the biggest Party ever! I stood tripping as I fought myself through setting my hair up in a high ponytail and braiding my last braids, out of my red bangs on each side of my face. I almost tripped as I stood in front of my front door, I dusted my dark blue dress off and sprinted out the door, almost forgetting to close it after myself. I got closer as I could already hear the loud music banging through the forest, 'DJ always have the best beats' I thought to myself.
I wasn't even focusing on my surroundings as I suddenly bumped into something, or someone, we both fell to the ground and the other Troll dropped all the stuff he was carrying. I looked up to see Branch. He dusted his clothes off as he stood up, "I'm so sorry! I should have seen where I was going!" I quickly spoke, positioning myself differently on the ground, now sitting on my legs. He stuck out a hand to me, instead of picking his forest supplies up, wanting to help me up first.
"I'm sorry too, I should have avoided you instead of letting you bump into me." he chuckled, then apologised.
So he has humour. I took his hand as he helped me back up to my feet. "Thanks." I bend down to pick up his branches and handed them to him, "Thanks." He said as well, we stood in silence just looking at each other, my cheeks got heated, I placed my hand on my cheek, feeling it. I was afraid I was getting a fever. He noticed my Rosy cheeks and how I felt them. His cheeks getting a light colour on his grey skin.
He cleared his throat, "uhm, I should get going-" he said as he started walking past me. "Wait! Please come with me to the party." I asked, quickly turning around to him. He looked over his shoulder at me, us facing each other again. He turned as well, he looked like he was thinking. "That's a big risk Juniper, I rather stay in my bunker where it's safe." He said, "you could come with me?" He suggested, holding his hand out for me. He was caring about my safety as well. I looked back to where the music was coming from, I really wanted to go to this party. Branch didn't need an answer to get the hint, he let out a breath and just walked away. I turned to answer, but as I turned, I was met with nobody.
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I arrived at the Party destination. Drums was hammered on, firefly's were shining the place bright up, and every Troll were swaying, dancing and jumping to the beats DJ was making. Poppy stood on a big mushroom, jumping up and down. She motioned for me to join her, but I joined the crowd on the ground instead, blending in with my surroundings. I was met with Smidge and Cooper dancing and having fun. Biggie was there too, but he was now getting carried around by the crowd. "Oh I love y'all so much" he said wiping a tear.
"June, you showed up!" Cooper chuckled, panting heavily as he stood jumping in his place.
"Yeah, just ran a little late" I answered as I started moving my feet and swaying my hips and arms to the music. While every Troll was having fun, DJ accidentally had her mouth wide open and a firefly flew in her mouth! She was shook by the accident, but followed the vibe. Her eyes and mouth lightened up as long as they were open.
A big caterpillar crawled by. Creek, Satin and Chenille stood on it throwing glitter balls out in the crowd, with the help of the twins hair.
I jumped around, enjoying the music. I suddenly saw something in the corner of my eye, my movements slowed as I focused, I saw Branch looking at all of us partying. I tried waving to him, but he just shook his head as he turned on his heel, his gaze facing back towards the forest. As he did, I felt the feeling of disappointment, which was rare for a Troll, I weirdly wanted him to be here. "June? What's wrong, don't you enjoy Poppy's Party?" Cooper asked, still panting from all that dancing. "I do! I do! But I just saw something, it's not important." He was about to respond when Smidge flew by-
wait, flew by? Me and Cooper quickly turned around, my eyes widening in surprise. More heads turned, followed by the rest of the village. She had glitter all over her face as she laid on the ground. Creek must have hid her by accident. We all gasped, afraid of her reaction.
She then quickly stood back up, yelling "YOLO!" as the bear started up again and she started dancing again, and the party went on. That was quickly forgotten as everyone started jumping and dancing to the beat once again.
I slowly moved my body again. Cooper spun me around, trying to cheer me up. I chuckled along with him, letting him spin me, he was really one of my best friends.
He has convinced me to join Poppy on the mushroom, as we danced our way up beside her.
"More GLITTER!" Poppy shouted and big Glitter bombs and lasers shot up in the air making a big Glitter explosion! It was pretty extreme! The lasers blinded all of us and the pressure of the glitter made us all take a step back, but it was all worth it because it was so beautiful in the end.
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A little did the Trolls know that another place at the same time, were the Bergen who got thrown out of BergenTown 20 years ago today, because of them. After all those years, the chef was still searching for the missing Trolls. As glitter has been following the wind, she stopped all she was doing to investigate where the glitter came from. She quickly sat up a telescope, looking out. "I can't hear you!" Poppy shouted in the distance as a glitter figure of her got shot up in the air, a small cheering was heard.
"Trolls." The Chef realised, a smirk growing in her face. She quickly got ready to go and get those Trolls.
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"Okay everyone, I just wanna take a moment- and get a little real." Poppy shushed the crowd as she was preparing her speech, our dad got up on the mushroom with us. "POPPY!" Biggie suddenly interrupted, "THATS MY FRIEND, I KNOW HER-" He said exited, but some of the Trolls quickly shushed him, King Peppy cleared his throat as Poppy turned to him again. "I'd like to take a moment, to celebrate our king- My father. Who, 20 years ago this night, saved all of us." Poppy spoke taking his hand. "From those dreaded-" Poppy continued but quickly got interrupted again by loud, deep, footsteps. The whole crowd of Trolls slowly turned heads in fear of what they were gonna see. Poppy's eyes met mine, both of us looking worriedly at each other. "Bergens." King Peppy finished Poppy's cut off sentence. Our houses were dangling side to side, by the pressure of the big footsteps in the ground, while everyone was jumping up and down. We were suddenly met by big feet and a very tall figure, a Bergen.
It stood smirking, with a big belt-bag and in the old Chef clothes. "Gotchá"
Cooper got so scared, he pooped cupcakes, the Bergen stood very surprised and confused looking at Cooper. "Uh... Cupcakes?" Poppy quickly picked up the cupcakes, offering them. The Bergen's smirk grew as she opened her bag. Poppy dropped the cupcakes. "RUN!" She shouted making all the Trolls run in different directions. "Mr. Dinkles! Has anyone seen Mr. Dinkles?!" Biggie shouted with Mr. Dinkles on his back, he unfortunately got the Bergen's attention. I tried running to his rescue but he got snatched. "No Biggie!" I shouted, she got her eye on me as I did. Luckily I noticed in time, as she reached down to snatch me. I ran for my life, or as fast as my legs could take me. "Blend in!" "Blend in!" Poppy ran around shouting, helping other Trolls hide. I saw a trail of little Troll kids, standing frozen in their spot. They must've been so frightened they don't know what to do, they've never experienced a Bergen Attack. I ran in their direction, I quickly took one of their hands as i made a chain of Trolls, Cooper was following. I led us in the Grass as our hair changed colour into green as the tall grass surrounding us, blending in. Cooper let out a breath of relief, he must've been holding it. Even though he was hid in it us, the Bergen snatched him, he simply had a longer neck than he thought. "No Cooper!" I cried out as the Bergen was pushing his head down in her bag.
"Run Smidge!" I heard Poppy shout, turning my head in the direction of her voice. Smidge ran for her life, but it wasn't fast enough, as her legs was short. The Bergen took her by her hair, the same with Satin and Chenille. They didn't run in the same direction, and got taken by their hair. "Everyone! Minimize your auras!" Creek screamed as he got Poppy's attention, he got taken by the Bergen as well. Poppy couldn't let that happen, she swung her hair and Creek got a hold on it. "Creek hold on!" She was holding back as well as she could, but she struggled to stay on the ground, her feet slipping. "Poppy let go!" I shouted as I ran to her, holding her down. "It's too strong!"
"Never!" She shouted back, protesting me. No matter how hard Poppy pulled, she wasn't half as strong as a Bergen 10 times bigger than her. Poppy got ripped out of my hold as the Bergen shoved both Creek and Poppy in her bag!
"No! Poppy!" I shouted out falling to my knees. "Bad Bergen! Bad, Bad, Bergen!" My dad was kicking the Bergens foot. The Bergen reached down to take him, "Dad!" I stood up, running as fast as I could, taking his hand and running through the legs of the Bergen, I ran under a mushroom and blended in with the grass under it. The Bergen bend down, it couldn't see us anymore. I stood still, almost not breathing. The Bergen breathed out as she scoffed and gave up on us. She had enough Trolls to impress BergenTown's new King.
"Thanks for throwing the biggest, the loudest-" she started. "The Craziest party ever!" Cooper finished as he stuck his head out the bag. The Bergen stuck him down again and zipped up the bag, it turned around, kicking a house on the way, heading back to BergenTown where it belonged.
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the trolls, of those who remained, slowly emerged from their hiding spots. I was looking around on the damage the Bergen had made. The big footsteps making a deep mark in the ground, the houses it pushed to, which fell from its hanging spot and shattered... It was a mess, Branch was right after all.
We all gathered together again, everyone looking worriedly up at my dad. "Is it coming back?" One of them asked. "What are we gonna do now?" Another Troll asked, covered in paint. I looked concerned at my dad as well, wondering what he had to say to all of this.
"We have to find a new home! Hurry, we have to leave, before the Bergens come back for the rest of us!" I couldn't believe my dad, I get he's gotten older, but he can't give up on his daughter, Trolls from his Village, Us..
"What? We have to rescue them! We have to rescue Poppy!" I spoke up angrily, standing up from my sitting spot.
"No Juniper, we have to run!" Dad said as he was leading the Trolls in a direction. "What about 'No Troll left behind' ?!" Those words made him turn around, he must've forgotten his own motto. "I'm sorry Sunshine, that was a long time ago, and I'm not the king I once was." He sadly answered as he continued his plan.
"Then I'll go! I will go and save my sister, I will go and save all of them!"
"No Juniper, it's too Dangerous! I've already lost one of my daughters, I can't loose you either..." I could see he was afraid. "I have to at least try-" "No! You can't go to BergenTown by yourself." I sighed as I knew he was probably right.
"Then I don't go by myself, I have to get some help."