Trust Me

Chapter 6: Running to see... What?!

Branch was still in the same spot where he was left. Except he was trying to put the fire out, that was on top of his head. No matter what he did, the fire would just come back.

"Argh! Get off!" He yelled. Suddenly the fire stopped. And it wasn't there anymore. Branch looked up confused. He didn't even have any burn marks on his hair. It was perfectly fine. He tried growing it, twirling it, creating stairs with it and everything that he would normally do. It was fine. He then felt a burning sensation in his hands. But it didn't hurt. It just felt hot.

He looked down to his hands. "What is going o- WOAH!!!" He hands shot out blue fire balls. He tried to aim them away from the direction of the troll tree. Stop! He thought. And it stopped.

"Practice. I need to practice this, whatever it is!" Branch said to himself. But what he didn't know is that the 'mystery' troll was watching the entire time. 

Time Skip My Dudes And Dudettes (One Week Later)

Branch had been practicing his fire powers for the past week now. And he was getting the hang of it. He just didn't know that the same troll was watching him every day. Branch couldn't stop thinking about Poppy and what she said. Yes, he was jealous! But he was also telling the truth and who knows what Stream is planning. If he hurt his wife, Branch would lay down a serious beating.

He practiced different types of tricks like, 3, 4, 5 fire balls at once, creating one huge explosion and creating a blue force field that could protect him from anything. And he practiced in the same spot everyday. A secret place deep in the forest. So nobody could find him.

"Hello." Or so he thought. He spun around to find the mystery troll standing less than 10 meters away from him.

"I know what you can do, Branch." He said in a deep raspy voice.

"Who are you?" Branch asked.

"Not important. But what is important is that you need to tell me everything you know about those powers of yours."

Branch didn't want to tell this person anything. "I don't know anything." He said.

"That's a lie. And you've always had them."

Branch gasped at that statement. His whole life? He's always had these? Impossible.

"Then how come they've just come out now?" Branch asked confused and angry.

"Because they can only be released when you have pure anger and hatred against something or someone."

Branch was mad at someone. Stream. But he felt that a little bit of anger went towards Poppy. She didn't believe him. But it's not her fault. Nobody would believed him. He stared at the ground, lost in his thoughts. But he was snapped back to reality by the mystery troll saying,

"You might want to go check on your wife, King Branch." Then the creepy troll disappeared into the shadows. Branch started getting worried and he had more rage then ever before. He sprinted back to the troll tree as fast as he could. He got there in just a few minutes. He ran to his house and Poppy wasn't there. He check behind he tree, on top of the tree, their favourite hang out space. She was nowhere to be seen.

Suddenly a bunch of trolls ran up to him saying things like,

"Where have you been?"

"Everybody's freaking out!"

"Where's Queen Poppy?!"

"We need you, King Branch!"

"Please hel-" Branch stopped all the trolls and asked, "Wait, what?! Where is Poppy?!"

"She's gone!"

Branch almost had a tear in his eye. He stopped talking and looked forward and saw Stream grabbing Poppy by the wrist and pulling her away. Long story short, Branch has never ever EVER felt this much anger and determination. His hair started to light up, his eyes glowed a bright blue and his hands glowed brighter then when they were in the bergen pot.

All the trolls around him backed up and gasped at the sight of their King. He ran faster then he ever did before (Yes, even faster then when he was running back). He got to where Stream was holding Poppy. He had the same knife around her neck.

"Branch, so nice of you to join us!" He said sarcastically.

"Let her go." He said.

"Umm, no. Not until you've shown me where the-" 

"STOP!" Branch, Stream and Poppy looked around to see the mystery troll standing in front of them, without his cloak on.

Branch gasped.

"Birch?"

Poppy looked at Branch confusingly. While Stream just silently laughed.

"Branch, who is that?" Poppy asked.

"My... Brother."

Okay, so I honestly don't think that this was a great chapter. My mind kind of went elsewhere.

But give me your opinion and suggestions for the next chapter!

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy!

*Bows awkwardly and waves weirdly*