Reader: Revolt

Reader: Be The Earth Troll

Your name is ______ _______ and you are the only troll on earth. Well, as far as you know. You've never seen or heard of any others so you just assumed, not that it matters to you anyway. You sighed as you toyed with the little glass vial in your hands, watching the black and white smoke swirl around as you did so.

You live alone in your little apartment with only the occasional visit from your guardian, Dolorosa Maryam, and you've lived here since you were just a young troll. Dolorosa had explained to you that it was for your own good, or else you would have been culled for being a mutant blood. At that point you sighed again, placing the vial safely in your pocket and heading out the door on your way to school. You didn't actually mind school, even though the humans complained about it a lot. You currently have very nice teachers and four amazing friends, John, Dave, Rose and Jade. You smiled thinking about them. Well, you and Dave were a bit more than 'just friends' and you had been for a while now.

Your other friends had come up with possibly the most unsubtle scheme to get the two of you together, because you apparently did a terrible job at hiding your feelings. So John had kept Dave busy, chatting with him by the lockers, and Rose had done the same with you. John and Rose stood back-to-back and quickly side-stepped as Jade ran up behind you and shoved you hard towards Dave, the force of the impact knocking you to the floor on top of him.

"I-I-I..." you had stuttered, staring wide eyed into his equally wide, bright red ones. The fall had knocked his aviator shades clear away and you had had no idea that his eyes were bright red. They were beautiful, you had thought before coming to your senses and scrambling to get off him. But before you could, he had wrapped his arms around you and pulled you back down hard, his lips pressed against yours.

When he pulled away he had said, "You can get off me now, I can't breathe." To which you had hurriedly obliged, sitting up and realising you had a crowd, as well as your three friends laughing so hard you were worried they might burst a lung or something. Dave was still lying there and you offered your hand to him, helping him up. He rubbed his eyes and Rose, who was laughing the least, got his shades for him, to which he grumbled a thanks and you helped each other stand up.

"I can't... believe... that actually... worked," John managed, catching his breath after his giggle fit with Jade. Jade wiped a (probably imaginary but you don't know for sure) tear from her eye and said, "me neither." Your back was really hurting and you could imagine Dave's was too, so you glared hard at the three of them, pouting a little. Dave wrapped an arm around your waist and you sighed, smiling weakly at your friends.

Back to the present, you were about a block away from the school. Nobody knows you are a troll. You fiddled with the gold bracelet on your wrist, which magically makes you look like a human. Not much different to your usual self, other than the skin colour change and your lack of horns and fangs. Dolorosa had given you the bracelet as a child and told you to never take it off. As you got older the rules slackened a bit to 'never take it off in public', (which you figured should probably be a general rule of thumb for most articles of clothing.)

Dolorosa, along with her two sisters, Porrim and Kanaya, had schooled you on everything troll, from blood colours to quadrants, and in return you had told them everything you knew about earth and its inhabitants. Porrim and Kanaya had never actually visited you in person, but instead you talked over a chat client called Trollian. Well, Kanaya did, Porrim just borrowed her account sometimes. Her tag was grimAuxillatrix. Yours is (T/T).

You reached the school gates and was tackle hugged by John from behind. You squealed embarrassingly and covered you're mouth, pretending you hadn't. John and Jade were laughing again, it seemed to you like that was all they ever did. You just smiled at them. Feeling familiar arms wrap around your waist, you leaned into your boyfriend Dave.

Dolorosa had messaged you last night, saying it was almost time for your return home, to Alternia. You weren't quite sure what she meant, as you hadn't collected the last soul needed for your journey. To get back to Alternia you needed ten exiled carapacian ghost souls, five Dersite and five Prospitian, which you kept in the vial you pocketed earlier. You currently had only four white and five black. You didn't know what you were supposed to do with them, but Dolorosa had said that she knew.

She had also told you that soon your friends would discover who you really were and she gave no definition of how. That thought terrified you. What if your bracelet broke and you were revealed as an alien to all of humanity? You would be whisked away to area 51 by the government and experimented on to be sure. Maybe Dolorosa would be able to save you. You doubted this very much. They would just capture her and experiment on her too. You then came to the realisation that you watched way too many movies and that there was no way anything like that would actually happen. Probably. Maybe.

"What's wrong?" A warm voice whispered into your ear, jolting you out of your thoughts. You hadn't even realised that you all had started walking to class. Had the bell gone? It didn't matter, even behind his shades, Dave could read you like a book. You kissed him on the cheek.

"Just thinking about aliens," you answer honestly.

A questioning look flashed briefly across his poker face, not that you could really see it past his shades, but still, you knew it was there.

"Maybe you should talk to John about that sort of stuff if it's bothering you."

"Good idea!" You said flashing him a bright smile before you skipped over to where John was walking and started talking about your thoughts, of course minus the fact that you were an alien.