(A ray of light shines down on a leather-bound storybook. The book opens and a voice narrator, named John Dory the Pop Beast, begins reading its text)
John Dory: Once upon a time there was a lovely princess. But she had an enchantment upon her of a fearful sort which could only be broken by love's first kiss. She was locked away in a castle guarded by a terrible fire-breathing dragon. Many brave knights had attempted to free her from this dreadful prison; but none prevailed. She waited in the dragon's keep in the highest room of the tallest tower. For her true love and true love's first kiss.
(John Dory chuckles and rips out a page of the book and closes it. Well, that's okay!)
John Dory: Like that's ever gonna happen. What a load of -!! (toilet flushes)
("All Star" by Smash Mouth Playing)
(We see an outhouse and hear the sound of a toilet flushing. Out steps John Dory, a Pop Beast, who tugs at his vest and shakes his foot of the page still stuck to his shoe. He looks lovingly at the swamp he and his four brothers call home, and goes about their daily routine. Which is taking a mud shower, brushing their teeth with bugs, bathing in a muddy pond, gathering giant slugs for dinner, and painting a warning sign)
(In a nearby village, an angry mob gather up to go after the brothers. Bruce and Floyd helped out with dinner as the brothers sat down to eat. At night they gather their torches and pitchforks and enter the swamp, trampling over John Dory's warning signs. Branch and John Dory see them after investigating the commotion, rolling their eyes. The villagers stop outside the brother's home, unaware that Branch and John Dory are sneaking up behind them)
(One villager moved a bush away to see the pod)
Villager 1: Think they're in there?
Villager 2: All right. Let's get it!
Villager 1: Whoa. Hold on. Do you know what those things can do to you?
Villager 3: Yeah, they'll grind your bones for its bread.
(Branch chuckles, revealing himself and John Dory to be standing behind the mob)
Branch: Yes, well, actually, that would be a giant.
(The mob gasps)
John Dory: Now, Pop Beasts, oh they're much worse. They'll make a suit from your freshly peeled skin...
(The two brothers slowly approaches as the villagers back away in fear)
Villager: No!
Branch: They'll shave your liver. Squeeze the jelly from your eyes! Actually, it's quite good on toast.
Villager 1: Back! Back, beast! Back! I warn ya!
(The villager waves his torch in Branch's face. Branch casually licks his fingers and pinches the flame, extinguishing the torch. The villager drops it)
Villager 1: Right.
(Branch and John Dory terrifies the mob with a great frightening roar, their spit extinguishing all the remaining torches. They wiped their mouths and waits for the villagers to stop shouting)
Branch: (whispering) This is the part where you run away.
Villagers: (gasping)
(The brothers laugh as the men drop their torches and pitchforks and run away as fast they can)
John Dory: And stay out!
(Clay, Bruce, and Floyd came out of their hiding places)
Bruce: Hey Clay, what's the count of villagers coming to our swamp?
Clay: The 47th time they've come to us.
John Dory: Now that's how we Pop Beast!
Branch: That makes absolutely no sense.
(Floyd looks down and picks up a wanted poster dropped by one of the villagers. He reads it aloud)
Floyd: "Wanted. Fairytale creatures". Oh man, those poor guys.
John Dory: Ah, forget about 'em, Floyd. They don't bother us, we don't bother them.
(The four brothers walked back to the pod)
(Floyd sighs and walks off, dropping the poster to the ground)
YOU ARE READING
Trolls x Shrek Au
AdventureThis story is about five beast brothers: John Dory, Bruce, Clay, Floyd, and Branch. They all lived in isolation in the swamp in their Grandma's pod. They enjoyed their lives there until a ruler named Lord Farquaad dumped fairy tale creatures in thei...
