Trollex's Story

Chapter 1

15 years later....

Trollex was possibly the best, and happiest, DJ known to Techno Reef. He'd only run two raves in his lifetime, but both were filled with fun, lights, and music. Everyone had a blast at the end of the night, and Queen Twilight was immensely proud of him. His father, however...

"Techno trolls are supposed to have only a specific color palette!"

"Oh, here we go again! Why must you bring this up every! Single! Time!"

"Because it's been a concern of not just me, but the entire tribe! Including you, except that you refuse to accept it!"

"I have accepted it, but not in the kind of way you have! He is our son!" After the queen's final outburst, there was silence. King Gill sighed.

"You're right. He's still our son. And if he's going to be king in a few years, he deserves us to cut him some slack."

"We?"

"Alright, fine! Just me." Trollex listened as his parents had an argument inside of their room. He was sticking his fin ears as close to the door as he could without getting caught. He looked inside the keyhole again and saw his father swimming to the door. The troll dashed back a bit and pretended he was just swimming by. His father opened the door and was rather surprised to see Trollex there. He put on a smile that looked like it was forced a bit too hard, and swam past his son. Twilight sighed and hovered next to Trollex.

"You heard all of it, didn't you?" She said, still watching her husband swim away. Trollex nodded and she put her hands on his shoulders, pulling him closer. "Don't listen to him, ok? You are perfect the way you are, because you're my little guppy." She ended the sentence by hugging Trollex. He'd known for years now what they were going on about, and was surprised it's been going on for so long. His father had been waiting so long, excited to see if Trollex had inherited a more obvious trait from Gill. Techno trollings only got their glow in the dark patterns when they turned 3 years old. When Trollex got his rainbow stripes, his father, out of all the tribe, was the most shocked. They'd never had a troll like Trollex before, they stuck to only a certain color palette that fit their calling. The royals had combinations unlike the tribe, but it was only a few colors. Trollex was literally every color of the rainbow!

After the hug, Twilight left to find her husband, leaving Trollex there with his thoughts. And his thoughts told him.....to......EXPLORE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE REEF! He zipped off past the Techno trolls in the palace to the most lively part of the reef.

Trollex skidded to a stop in front of a hole in the coral and reached in, feeling around for something. Or someone. His hand came out with a rather grumpy Beat Drop Button Fish. "Hey! What did you-Prince Trollex?" He stopped his rant when he recognized the young prince. "Yo, what are you doing here?!"

"First, please, for the last time! No titles. We're friends! And second, my parents are busy with stuff and no one else is around, so I figured we could go explore a bit!" Trollex said.

Beat sighed. "Alright, I'll come." Trollex did a flip in the water and zipped off with his friend. "So where are we going?"

"I was thinking of...hmmm...ooh! How 'bout the Twilight Zone?" Trollex snickered at the reference to his mother's name while Beat halted in his tracks.

"What?! Dude, do you know how dangerous that is?!" Beat said. But it was too late. Trollex was already diving down into the deep. Beat had no choice but to follow him. Once he caught up and they looked around at the darkness around them, Beat protested, "I heard there are angler fish down here! They lure you in with a shiny light! But guess what?! It's not a shiny light, it's their antennae! And YOU are DEAD!"

"Beat, buddy, relax!" Trollex said. "I don't need to chase the light. I AM THE LIGHT!" He shouted, then lit up to his maximum. Beat saw something else light up behind them. And it wasn't a Techno troll, or an Angler Fish.

"MIDNIGHT SHARK!" Beat shrieked. Trollex turned around to see the purple shark charging right at them. It was about three times the troll's size, with white glow in the dark markings along its size, pearl white eyes, and sharp teeth. Trollex grabbed both ends of its jaws so he got a nice view of the inside of its mouth. Then he gagged.

"Bro, seriously, what did you eat?" He said. The shark broke free and tried to snap at Trollex, but Beat shoved him out of the way.

"ONE TECHNO TROLL AND ONE BEAT DROP FISH!" Beat screamed on the way up. They swam up until the shark's eyes couldn't adjust the the light of the Techno trolls' festivities. After a couple minutes of resting, Beat was all up in Trollex's face. "WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT FOR?! WE ARE SO LUCKY WE DIDN'T TURN OUT TO BE SHARK CHOW BACK THERE! AND WE ARE ESPECIALLY LUCKY THAT NO ONE WILL FIND OUT, RIGHT?" Beat added that last part nervously.

"Actually, you might want to rethink that." Someone said. Beat and Trollex looked up and found a hot pink troll up there holding hands with a dark purple trolling.

"Bliss!" Trollex exclaimed in delight. He zipped up and wrapped his arms around her, forgetting the fact he was also smothering the trolling in between them. He noticed the lump of scales between them and backed off immediately and apologized.

"It's ok, Prince Trollex." The trolling said dizzily. He started to mumble gibberish then held up a thumbs up and fell asleep.

"Troll sitting again?" Trollex asked his sister.

"Oh, yeah. Big time stuff now. I'm taking care of Riptide and Seaweed's triplets after this one."

"Oof."

"What? What's so bad about that?"

"I heard they're total monsters. Anyway what are you doing here?" Trollex asked.

"I'm supposed to tell you to come inside for dinner." Bliss said.

"Wait, we've only been out here for like, 5 minutes! ....Huh. I guess it took a bit longer than I thought to find Beat's place." Trollex realized. He said bye to Beat and followed his sister into the palace.