Hello, guys! How are you guys? Yeah, I know stories in this tag is basically like finding water in a desert, but we will make a lake of the Trollhunters tag yet! I hope. This show seriously needs more traffic. By the way, if you want to watch this show, it's a Netflix original created by Guillermo del Toro! The main lead of the show, Jim, is voiced by the late Alton Yelchin (RIP Alton. May he get many movie roles in heaven)
Another day, another sleepless night, another exam he had to study for.
Ah, sophomore year. Poor Jim Lake had to suffer through such a year. Sophomore year was hard enough already. To add being the savior of a whole race of mystical creatures was basically murder! He was already half-way into the year, but he already wished for the sweet embrace of death.
"Ah, come on, Jimbo, it's not that bad," his friend, Toby, said.
"Oh, yeah? Well then you try being the hero of trolls, Tobes. It's hard!", Jim replied.
A girl ran up to them. "Hey guys! How've you been," she greeted.
"Claire! Hi, and well, I'm practically dead," Jim responded, slumping over in mild exhaustion, "I mean, I know I'm supposed to be Trollhunter, and I'm supposed to respond to every call, but can't I just get a little break every now and then?"
"Yeah, I know how you feel," Claire began, "I-I mean, I don't know, since I'm not the Trollhunter, but I also sometimes feel like I need a break from the whole...mystical creatures, and constant fighting, and fake baby brothers."
"Actually, speaking of fake brothers, how's NotEnrique?", Toby asked, trying to light up the conversation with something less depressing. It didn't help much. It only annoyed Claire further.
"What do you think," she asked, sarcastically, "He's being a brat! He keeps hiding my homework, so I have to look all over my stupid house just to find it, and afterwards he makes messes, which I have to clean up, mind you, and by this point, I'm tired, and I want to sleep, but I can't because-"
"Woah, slow down, Claire! You're gonna hyperventilate if you keep talking this fast," Jim chuckled, putting his shoulder on her shoulder. The signs of hyperventilation went away, and Claire's breathing slowed. She looked up at Jim with a sort of...love in her eyes, and said, "Thanks, Jim."
Awkward silence filled the space between them, until shouting could be heard from afar.
"What the heck?", Jim exclaimed, swerving his head to the source of the distress. The others did the same, and immediately ran to a secluded part of school, where there were no cameras. There, Steve Palchuk, school bully, was raising Eli's backpack way above his head, while simultaneously kicking him down every time Eli got near.
"Wow, what a pipsqueak! Can't even reach for his backpack!", Steve howled. Jim groaned loudly, and grabbed Palchuk's attention. "Hey, what are you looking a-"
A fist connects with Palchuk's face, and surprisingly, it isn't Jim's this time.
The school bully is knocked out cold by a chubby girl in a black skirt and leather jacket, someone who no one's ever seen before. She massages her fist.
"Thanks…? What's your name", she asked. Jim stuttered, "Uh...Jim. Jim Lake."
"Yeah, thanks for distracting him for me, Jim. Of course, punching him wasn't necessary, but I really, really hate bullying. You understand, right?" This girl seemed oddly chipper for just knocking out the school's biggest bully.
"Um...yeah-yes! Yeah, I do understand."
Toby interrupted, "Excuse me, who the heck are you?"
In that moment, the school bell rings. "Oh, shoot! It was nice meeting you, guys!" With that, she ran off. Claire, Toby, and Jim just stood there, wide-eyed for a few seconds before looking at each other in disbelief. "You guys…saw that, right," Claire asked. "Like, I wasn't hallucinating that girl, right? She was real?" "Yeah, I definitely saw that," Toby responded, "And it...was...awesome!"
Palchuk moaned in pain. The group whipped their heads towards him. That was Jim's cue to usher to his friends to leave while he told them he'd inform one of the teachers about Palchuk's "unfortunate accident."
The year was getting more and more strange.
Wow, new girl, new year, am I right? Yeah... maybe not. I might come up with the next chapter soon, so please wait until then! I am currently procrastinating on my homework so...yeah. Should probably start that.