Barbara the Belonging

Meeting with the Eye of Death

Metal dragged along rock, creating an unpleasant noise, and it soon grated her ears. But, it also brought her back to consciousness.

As Barbara woke up, she looked up to see she was in a dark hallway.

Then, after being dragged up a flight of stairs, she found herself in what looks like a dungeon.

In front of her was Dictatious, who was leading the Gumm-Gumms.

If she had the energy to break free from these chains and take down the Gumm-Gumms, she would've stabbed him in the back.

Eventually, they came to a stop.

Dictatious turned to face the Trollhunter and saw that she was glaring right at him.

"Ah, you're awake. Good. I prefer not having to hear your useless threats during the way here. Besides, I gave you a chance to comply easily." He stated with a smug grin.

The armored woman remained glaring at him, trying to be intimidating, but it seemed like the green troll found nothing to be intimidated by.

"Unchain her and throw her in." Dictatious ordered, and the two Gumm-Gumms removed the chains and shoved her into a cell.

"Strip her of her armor."

Two goblins crawled in and pulled on her armor, but she fought back by summoning her sword and pushing them off, and they scurried away in fear.

"Get your filthy hands off of me!" She yelled and quickly got up to attack the green troll.

However, before she could even escape her cell, long, pointy orange spikes closed in on her, and as she swung her blade at it, it electrocuted her and knocked her to the ground.

Dictatious chuckled at her poor attempt to fight back.

"Your brother thinks you're dead. If he knew what you were doing-"

"Silence, human, and I'll have someone see to it that you're cared for. The Dark Underlord listens to us." The green troll stated, but Barbara was too angry to even listen and attempted to grab him through the gaps of the spikey cell.

Unfortunately, she shocked herself in the process, and Dictatious backs away.

She hisses from the painful shock and pulls her hand back.

"Have it your way. Reserve your strength. You'll need it. You may have saved the baby, but you cannot save yourself."

Dictatious and the Gumm-Gumm soldiers turn to leave the area, and Barbara's furious expression morphed into despair.

Never would she have thought that Blinky's brother would be alive, and the contrast of the nice things he had spoken about the green troll seemed like the one she just met wasn't even Dictatious at all.

At that moment, she felt upset at the thought of Blinky finding out and how distraught he would be when he had been grieving and mourning for him all these years.

In the Heartstone, Crystal quietly teleports inside and hears the Krubera Queen talking.

She hides behind one of the giant orange crystals and listens in on the conversation.

"The Trollhunter has gone too far. The denizens of Troll Market will not be safe until Killahead Bridge is destroyed once and for all." The queen spoke to Vendel with a stern face.

"You know as well as I, Userna, the pieces cannot be destroyed." The elder troll argued.

"No... but they can be thrown into a hole so deep that no living thing can hope to find them." Usurna stated.