In The Wild

Chapter Seventeen: Erasure

The outfits Satin and Chenille made were beautiful.

Branch and Poppy had matching yellow vests with hearts in them and wore heart-shaped glasses.

When they were finished, Satin and Chenille simply left the room.

" I can't believe this." Poppy said." Why were Satin and Chenille acting like that?!"

" I don't know, Poppy." Branch replied." Let's jus -"

Then they heard a crash outside.

Poppy and Branch ran outside to find two funk trolls. As they saw Poppy and Branch, one drew out a weapon.

" Woah, wait!" Branch stuttered." We're not going to do anything. We promise."

" You promise?" The funk troll said.

Branch and Poppy nodded.

" Who are you?" Poppy asked.

" I'm Prince D, and this is my brother, Cooper." He responded.

" I'm Branch, and this is Princess Poppy." Branch said.

" Princess?" Cooper questioned.

" Yeah, I'm Queen Viva's sister..." Poppy muttered." I'm sorry for what she did-for what she's been doing."

" How can you say that when you didn't even know what she did!" Prince D shouted.

" W-wait, what did she do?" Poppy asked.

" She killed our parents." Cooper said.

Then, a terrible thought entered Poppy's mind.

' Those bodies.'

' They were their parents?'

The four trolls stood in silence.

A few tears rolled down Poppy's face before speaking.

" Branch. We need to kill Viva."

" Poppy." Branch said, shocked." She's your sister."

" So?" Poppy exclaimed. " That doesn't make what she's doing right! How many trolls she's killed already!? I'm not letting her do this anymore! We're killing Viva. Do you guys wanna help?"

The two brothers exchanged looks.

" Yeah." They replied in unison.

" Great. " Poppy said. "Here's how we're gonna do it."

. . . .

The pop troll armada was on back on its way to Pop Village.

The pop trolls that were carrying Barb threw on the floor again and left.

" Ughh." Barb groaned. She really didn't appreciate being thrown on the floor.

" Hello, sweetie." Viva said." Are you ready?"

" For what?!" Barb grumbled.

" For your pop-ification, silly!" Viva answered, then kneeled." You're so cute!"

" What the hell's a pop-ification?" Barb asked.

" Well, let me show you!" Then Viva popped off her original arm , replaced it with the microphone arm, and began singing.

As she sang, rings of light began appearing around Barb and transformed into a bright pink egg. When it cracked open, Barb looked different. She was wearing pink legwarmers and red hoop earrings, and her eyes had no pupils or irises.

There were just two hot pink scleras staring back at Viva.

. . . .

" Since we're going to play on stage with Viva, we'll be close enough to grab the microphone arm, and when we do, Prince Cooper and Prince D will jump on Viva,which will immobilize her long enough for us to kill Viva!"