Tales Of Arcadia Ficlet Collection

☆ Why We Don't Listen To Draal ☆ [Trollhunter!Claire]

Requested by RiddleMaster and based on the comics by pie-hell on Tumblr

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"I know it's just acting but I really can't help but freak out!" Claire sighed as she shifted Enrique to her other leg and quickly turned the page of the book Blinky was having her read. "I've never kissed a boy before! What if I sneeze in his face or something?!" Just the mere thought of kissing Jim made her stomach feel like she had butterflies dancing around in it.

"Hmmm." Draal mumbled absent-mindedly as he shifted through the pile of books. Claire wasn't even sure if he was paying attention to her ranting, but she was grateful he didn't try changing the subject.

"I know Trollhunters are all about being afraid but this is like masonic levels of fear I'm dealing with! I shouldn't even be comparing Jim to a troll!"

"If the enemy you are caving is indeed not a troll, perhaps you can take measures to banish your fear." Draal suggested and Claire cocked her head in confusion. "Have you read about Grit-Shakas yet?"

"As in...the totem?" Claire asked, faintly recalling the book of Gum-Gum relics Blinky had her read to prevent herself from being cursed or destroy properly in case Bular or his changelings decided to use one on her or themselves when battling with her.

"The same."

Grit-Shakas...ah now she remembered. It was a Gum-Gum totem used to give Gum-Gums to abolish their fear in battle, but she wasn't sure what it would do to a normal troll like Draal or even a human like her. The idea of using one to overcome her fear of messing up on the kissing scene with Jim was appealing but the last thing she wanted to do was mess around with charms that had strange side effects.

"Come on, Draal! Using a magical item the Gum-Gums built for battle is a gross misuse of its power!" Claire scoffed as she quickly shifted Enrique back towards her as he nearly pitched face forward into the book. "As if I'd be desperate enough for that!"

"Just throwing it out there." Draal replied with a shrug as he picked up a book and opened it to the middle.

Claire tried to go back to her reading her book, but the idea of using a fear banishing charm kept gnawing at her. Mary had already suggested she could practice by kissing her own arm so she wouldn't end up awkwardly kissing Jim.

"You wouldn't happen to have one lying around?" She asked Draal, who lowered his book enough to give her a grin

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"This was a terrible idea! Who's idea was it to give Claire a charm used by those mean trolls?!" Mary yelled as poor Claire buried her face onto the floor while Blinky tried to console her.

"Draal convinced her, there is no way Blinky or Aaaarrrggh would have suggested she would use one." Darcy commented, giving the said blue troll a dirty look.

"Draal! This is all your fault!" Mary screeched as she flung herself at him and pounder her small fists on his arm. Normally Claire would have laughed at the uncomfortable and frightened look on Draal's face since Mary was the only human to ever frighten him thanks to her embarrassing comment about how he was way cuter than Claire on the first day he ever met the three humans. But at the moment she was too busy trying to forget the embarrassing scene that happened at school before the play rehearsals.

Claire had slipped the Grit-Shaka on in the middle of class when Mary managed to get Jim to switch seats with her so he could sit by Claire. According to Darcy, Mary and several students, Claire started acting very cocky and doing the most outrageous things like barging into the teacher's office to drink their coffee, solve an impossible college level problem in the math class, and nearly kissed Jim in the middle of lunch saying "Are you ready for an afternoon of passion and tragic Shakespearian woe, mi amor?" while Toby, Jim's best friend, recorded the whole thing while Jim was giving her the most confused look.

And to make things worst, she nearly got a tattoo on her back, taunted Blinky as he and Aaaarrrggh tried to catch her to remove the charm and ran into the sewers to confront Bular before the totem slipped off and shattered. Claire would have been Bular's dinner if Darcy hadn't yanked her out into the sunlight.

"Just let Bular kill me..." Claire groaned.

"He nearly did kill you." Darcy reminded her.

"I think we could all take this as a new lesson for today: never ask Draal for romantic advice." Blinky stated and gently patted Claire on the back.

"Yeah, that's why you have me to help you out C-Bomb!" Mary huffed as she walked back over to them. "I'm pretty sure Draal has zero ideas on how to really deal with first kisses between crushes."

"Next time ask me for help." Blinky added, to which Claire groaned in response.

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Seriously, Tumblr is a great place to find various au stuff for Trollhunters like Role Swap au where Draal is the human Trollhunter, Bular isn't killed but he becomes allies with Jim, various other characters become the Trollhunter instead of Jim or when he perishes in battle.

And even I am working on a dragon rider au that's a HTTYD X Trollhunters crossover where Jim discovers dragons hiding in the caves of Trollmarket and another where the characters of HTTYD (movies and TV series) play the roles of the Trollhunters characters. Might write a little chapter on those two when I have the chance.