Arcadia retold

Fourteen: bitter sweet sixteen

A strange creature flys above the sky's of Arcadia before it lands on a tree near Jim's house

In Jim's house, Jim (in his troll form) is sleeping in his bed as the curtains were over his window to prevent him from turning to stone by the daylight

Jim suddenly walks up as he swore he heard the sound of a creatures breath coming from just outside the house, Jim just shrugged it off as he thought it was just nothing

"Wake up, wake up!" Barbara exclaimed in excitement as she entered the room holding a pile of poorly made pancakes with a candle on top on a tray in her arms "don't want to sleep through your big day"

"Big day?" Jim asked as he sat up

"The big day you start with-, mom's special pancakes!"

Barbara handed Jim the tray as Jim saw that the syrup face his mom drew on it look like it was screaming in horror and agony

(Since barbecue had to bake him, I would see why)

"He looks like he's screaming" Jim pointed out as he saw the pancakes

"He's exited" Barbara corrected "I know, I know, you always hated your birthday, but you're sixteen! This is a big one, we should do something tonight"

"Oh, mom, you know I don't want to-"

"This isn't up for discussion, no one should be alone on their birthday, when you've had your fill, I have another surprise for you downstairs"

Barbara then walked out of the room, leaving Jim alone as he sighed before eating the candle first before getting to the rest of the pancakes

It wasn't dangerous for Jim to eat inedible things, even his own mother wasn't worried about it because when Jim was only a year old Barbara gave her blue skinned with horns son a couple of blocks to play with, Barbara saw with horror that Jim was eating the blocks with huge bites that caused Barbara to run to the medical supply and use them to examine Jim for any internal damage, to her surprise the things her son ate weren't seeming to do anything bad to Jim, if anything they seemed to be processed like normal food as Barbara thought it was harmless for Jim to continue doing this given that she didn't even know what Jim was until years later when Jim discovered the amulet as it brought blinky and argh into his life

Back in the present as Jim had just finished his breakfast, he got a call from Toby on his walkie-talkie that he had to answer it

" war hammer to trollhunter, copy?" Toby asked over the walkie talky

"Copy" Jim answered in a serious tone "what is it tobes?"

"Look out your window!" Toby said excitedly to Jim "with your armor on so you don't turn into stone of course!"

Jim quickly armored up before opening his window to see from across the street that Toby was holding out a sign shaped cake that said Jim on the top and the number sixteen on the bottom, there was large troll shaped bite on the m thought Jim saw

"I think a bird or something tore away a piece of your drawing, tobes" Jim said over the talkie

"Ah, that was argh, he thought the cake was real, or maybe he just likes the taste of paper" Toby explained to Jim "any word from Claire?"

"Well, later during the night, I jumped onto her roof to see if I could get my bag with the glamour mask in it, but she agreed before giving me the bag but she seemed angry at me, probably because I destroyed her house"

"Dude, you didn't destroy her house, her fake brother did"

"I know, I told her what happened and she, really, seemed heartbroken that her brother was swapped with a troll while the real Enrique was trapped inside the dark lands"