Switching Destinys

Prologue

~20 year ago~

Hickory stood outside basking in the warm sun on the mountain with a large smile on his face, Dickory was nearby chopping some wood to store for winter months, hickory wanted to help but he was to small to chop or carry the logs of wood so instead he was given a different job, To sing to keep the boredom away.

Hickory sang the yodeling song's he had learned from dickory, he was still practicing his pitches sometimes he would go a bit to high or to low which dickory always corrected him. Or sometimes when hickory felt bad for messing up dickory would start singing really horribly to make him laugh.

"Hickory you're getting a little quite over there" Dickory called out from his work while hickory had gotten distracted by the clouds and let his voice quiet down to barely a whisper, he scowled at himself before taking a deep breath and singing as loudly as he could for his brother. when his breath was all used up he took another deep breath ready to sing again when he was stopped by a strange rumbling under his feet.

The rumbling got louder and louder the ground shaking grew more and more with the sound, it wasn't familiar to Hickory but it was to Dickory who froze in shock for a second before throwing his axe aside and started to run to his brother.

"Hickory! RUN!!" Hickory turned confused to his brother just as a large rock tumbled down in-between them blocking each other from sight for a second, more and more rocks, dirt,trees and log's started falling down towards them.

"D-Dickory"?! Hickory walked back away from the growing slide of earth making a larger gap between him and his older brother. A stray log suddenly went flying from the avalanche and smacked Hickory in the chest making him trip backwards and off the cliff ledge behind him.

"AHHHHHHHHH"! Hickory screamed as the ground disappeared under him and he was falling through the air, He fell through tree's and landed on a steep hill that he rolled down roughly before landing in a river which washed him away with its tough current.

"D-d-dicko-Cough Cough- Help"! Hickory tried keeping his head above the water but it was to deep for him and the current to strong and he was pulled under unable to get air until he blacked out.

Hickory was woken up by the sound of whispers around him, He slowly opened his eyes to find many colorful blurry faces staring and whispering around him.

"oh hes awake"!

"is he ok"?

"looks like he took quite a tumble"

"his clothes are very odd"

"where did he come from" Hickory couldn't tell who was saying what as he slowly sat up and took in his surroundings. The trolls around him were bright colored with tall hair of different colors and shapes, he even saw some that didn't wear clothes and seemed to have some sort of shiny stuff all over them.

The troll in front of him was wearing a cloak and that was about it, he had orange skin and tall pink hair and wore some sort of crown made of leaves, in one of his arms was a tiny pink baby with pink hair.

"hello there little troll my name is king peppy, we found you here on the shore, do you remember your name" Peppy knelled beside hickory talking gently and slowly.

"h-hickory.." Hickory answered slowly, his head hurt and he was feeling tired. he felt himself tipping back only for Peppy's other arm to stop him from falling.

"its ok just one more question, are you alone? do you have family near by"? Peppy asked trying to keep hickory awake a little longer, he didn't want to take the child if he had family nearby but the other's were getting antsy standing around in the open but he couldn't just leave the child like this.