Here it is everyone, I didn't forget about it, Branch's gift. My long promised Trolls Christmas story. Now just a disclaimer I wrote this story back in July, long before Trolls Holiday came out, I didn't even know or heard about Trolls Holiday when i wrote this. But while Trolls Holiday was a sequel to the movie this is supposed to be a prequel set a year before the events in Trolls allowing me not to mess up any of the Trolls canon. So put on your elf hats and your ugliest Christmas sweater (I know you all have one) and let's get going.
Chapter one of four.
Narrator: A lot of people believe that Branch's journey to find happiness began on the day the trolls were taken by Chef, but what they don't know is it actually started a year before that on a snowy Christmas eve in the hidden village. See Christmas is a big deal for trolls. It's there most favorite Holiday of all their many Holidays, and trust me trolls have a lot of Holidays. For the trolls Christmas is about the importance of family and spending time with the trolls they love, and for them every troll is family. And if it wasn't for Poppy's determination to spread the Holiday cheer to Branch and show him the true meaning of family, he might not have became the troll he is now.
It was the day before Christmas in the hidden troll village. All the trolls big and small, young and old was getting ready for their most favorite Holiday in all the world. Cooper and Biggie had just finished chopping down a flower to put in the middle of the village to decorate with lights and streamers, the twins Satin and Chenille was busy in their pod making Christmas sweaters to give all their troll friends for Christmas, and Guy Diamond was busy making Christmas cards and decorating them with a little bit extra glitter.
As Biggie and Cooper was putting up the Christmas flower King Peppy walked up to the two of them carrying a basket of fruit cake. Every Christmas King Peppy would go pod to pod and deliver fruit cake to troll families in the hidden village in what had became a holiday tradition in the troll tribe. and despite the fact that he wasn't as young as he use to be Peppy still had the strength and energy to make his annual holiday fruit cake run, A tradition he hoped Poppy would continue when she was queen and long after Peppy was gone.
"Merry Christmas!" Peppy said to Biggie and Cooper as they started hanging decorations on the flower.
"Merry Christmas King Peppy." Biggie said, standing on Cooper's head to reach a tall petal on the tree. Cooper'a neck was started to wobble and shake under Biggie's weight. He was starting to wish he called one of the smaller trolls like Smidge to help decorate the flower.
"Um Cooper can you move to the right a little." Biggie said as he tried to hang a red ornament with a snowflake painted on it. "I still can't reach the petal."
"You know this would be a whole lot easier if you were two ounces lighter." Cooper griped.
"Well if I got thin who would be Santa troll for the kids each Christmas?" Biggie said
"Oh while it's on my mind." Peppy said pulling out a couple fruitcake and handing one to each of them. "One for you." Peppy handed one of the cakes to Biggie. Cooper wheezed as he felt even more weight from the fruitcake added to him. "And one for you." Peppy sat one on Cooper's back. Not able to hold anymore weight Cooper's legs collapsed under him and both Cooper, Biggie and the two fruitcakes all tumbled to the ground.
"Cooper," Biggie scolded when he landed on the ground.
"Sorry, Guess I couldn't hold anymore wight." Cooper apologized. Peppy laughed at the unfolding event.
"Hard as a brick, just as my wife use to make them."
"You still got it Peppy." Biggie chuckled picking his fruitcake off the ground as Fuzzbert walked up to the trio.
"Ah Fuzzbert, merry Christmas." Peppy said "Have a fruitcake." Peppy tossed a fruitcake to Fuzzbert, and watched it land right on top of him crushing him under the weight.
"Oops Sorry Fuzzbert." Peppy said lifting the fruitcake off of Fuzzbert, whose head was spinning after being hit with the rock hard loaf of cake. Peppy turned to Cooper and Biggie "Would one of you help carry Fuzzbert's cake back to his pod.
"I'm on it." Cooper volunteered, putting the fruitcake on his back and carrying it to Fuzzbert's pod.
"Oh Biggie have you seen my daughter." Peppy asked after Cooper and Fuzzbert left.
"Yeah she is reading Christmas stories to the kids in the library. You know Poppy, she loves hanging out with the kids."
"That's true." Peppy chuckled "She would spend all day with those kids if I didn't make her help out with the royal duties. Well, I got to finish my fruitcake run, see you later, Merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas Peppy!" Biggie waved bye.
Inside the library, Poppy was reading to the troll children the Christmas Carol, telling them about Scrooge and how he hated Christmas and it took being visited by three ghost to soften his cold heart.
"But Poppy?" Harper asked when the story was finished. "How could anyone hate Christmas?"
"Yeah," A young purple troll said "You get to open presents, drink hot coco."
"And then watch your parents on the couch when they are napping." A creepy young green troll kid said with wide eyes. All the other kids shivered at that mental image.
"Scrooge just did." Poppy said "He didn't understand the importance of the Holiday and the joy that comes with it. But once he was paid visits by the three ghost his eyes were finally opened and realized the true meaning of the holiday and was a changed man because of it.
"Man I love Christmas," A yellow troll child said. "All the beautiful Christmas music, the Christmas dinner with the family, the presents."
"And don't forget getting to catch Snowflakes on your tongue" Another blue troll child said.
"Yes that's all nice" Poppy said "But remember children, Christmas is about family, and as trolls we are all family, rather we're related by blood or not. Which is why, tonight we are going to throw a big Christmas bash for every troll in the village to celebrate our joyous holiday. And Everybody is invited.
"Everybody?" The creepy green troll child said appearing out of Poppy's hair and wearing Poppy's cowbell on her head.
"Everybody." Poppy mimicked. "And believe me when I say children, this part is going to rock." Poppy then took her cowbell and started banging on it as the library pod opened and Poppy stepped out.
"Rocking around the Christmas tree at the Christmas party hop." Poppy hopped next to Creek and put a Santa hat on his head and a invitation to the party before spinning him around. "Mistletoe hung where you can see every couple tries to stop. Poppy then interrupted a couple about to kiss under the mistletoe by putting invitations in front of their mouth. Poppy then used her hair to launch on top of the Christmas flower and wrap stringers around the whole thing top to bottom.
"Rocking around the Christmas tree let the Christmas spirit ring." Poppy jumped from the flower and landed in front of some trolls singing Christmas carols being led by Suki, "Later we'll have some pumpkin pie and We'll do some caroling.
Poppy grabbed the carol book and started leading the other trolls in song with her. "You can get a sentimental feeling when you hear: Voices singing let's be jolly, deck the halls with boughs of holly.
Poppy continued dancing around the troll village, beating her cowbell and handing out invitations to the Christmas party. Rocking around the Christmas tree have a happy holiday. Poppy grabbed Cooper and started leading him in a dance. Everybody's dancing merrily in new old fashioned way. Fuzzbert and a group of other trolls like him walked up and started playing the sax while Poppy jumped on top of the Christmas flower again and dumped her basket of invitations onto the group of cheering trolls to grab.
Meanwhile down on the ground Biggie put his pet Glow worm Dinkles in a Santa hat in red suit as he had him pose for a Christmas photo.
"Ok Mr. Dinkles." Biggie said as he got behind the camera to snap the photo. "Say Ho, Ho, Ho."
"Mew!" Was all Dinkles said as the photo was snapped. As Biggie hung it up on the wall in his pod he glanced the photo over and scratched his chin in thought.
"Hmm, it's missing something." That's when Guy Diamond walked up and shot glitter out of his butt on to the photo giving Mr. Dinkles a big white beard in the photo to make him look more like Santa.
"That's it!" Biggie cheered.
"You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear:" Poppy slid down the stringers on the flower. "Voices singing let's be jolly deck the halls with boughs of holly."
Poppy led the entire troll village arm in arm as they marched down the troll village.
"Rocking around the Christmas tree have a happy holiday." For the big finish she had the trolls build the image of a Christmas tree with their body's and used their hair to create the form of several different color lights and streamers. Everyone's dancing merrily in their new, old fashioned way!"
Once the song was over and the trolls stopped to catch their breath they heard the slow clapping of Branch standing under the shade of a flower, a look of disapproval painted over his face.
"Unbelievable guys, really. Seriously I could here you from a mile off."
"Oh good, I thought we wasn't spreading our Holiday cheer enough."
"No don't say good. If I can here you, you know who else can? The bergens!"
"Here we go again." Cooper said rolling his eyes.
"Come on Branch it's Christmas." Satin scolded.
"All the more reason for the bergens to come and get you. What better way for a bergen to celebrate the Christmas cheer then to come and snack on milk and trolls."
"Branch, nobody has seen a bergen in nineteen years." Poppy said
"They'll be back someday, and when they do don't come running over to me saying I told you so."
"Whoa easy there mate." Creek said suddenly popping up riding a butterfly. The butterfly landed on the ground allowing Creek to gently hop onto the ground. Creek turned to the butterfly "Thanks for the safe passage my friend." Creek allowed the butterfly to fly away before turning to Branch. "Just try to relax and get into the holiday spirit. A little holiday spirit might make you feel a little bit more happier. Have a cookie." Creek handed Branch a Santa cookie. Branch stared at it for a couple seconds before grabbing it. Poppy smiled when she saw Branch grab the cookie and thought he was about to warm up to them. Only to see Branch toss the cookie behind him causing it to land in the dirt.
"Bah humbug." Branch snorted Every troll in the village suddenly snapped when they heard that.
"Oh my gah!" Smidge cried.
"He just said 'bah humbug'." Harper said pulling onto Poppy's dress. "Poppy Branch just said 'bah humbug', he is just like Scrooge."
"Now, Harper, let's not start throwing comparisons around like that." Poppy said "Let me handle this." Poppy walked up to Branch and cleared her throat to begin talking.
"Branch I know you aren't exactly the most social troll in the village, you like to be left alone and I respect that decision of yours. But this is Christmas, the one time of the year to celebrate the important things of our life. To celebrate family and those closest to you. Which is why for one day, I would like to invite you to put aside your hermit like nature, and celebrate with the rest of your troll family in the spirit of the Christmas holiday. Which is why I would like to invite you to join the rest of your troll family for a special Christmas Party.
"It's going to be the jolliest." Suki said
"The merriest..." The twins said
"The most happiest Christmas party ever," Cooper finished.
Poppy then pulled out a invitation for Branch. The invitation opened up like a pop up book with green lettering that said "Your invited" with a little paper figuring of Branch singing "jingle bells bergens smells the chef just laid a egg. And got kicked out of Bergen town while all us trolls got away." The little Branch figurine then shot out red and green glitter all over Branch's face. Branch just gave the biggest non amused look while the glitter sprayed all over him. Branch took the invitation from Poppy's hand and for a brief second all the trolls thought that Branch was going to accept the invitation and join the party. That was, until Branch threw the invitation to the ground and stomped on it, destroying the whole thing.
"Oh my gah!" Smidge gasped again while the other trolls watched the thing unfold in horror.
"I won't be caught dead at one of your parties Poppy. But someday you will be. Let me put explain this clearly to you so your tiny little brain can understand. I am not going to your party, I will never go to any of your parties, I am not going to get in the Christmas mood, I... HATE... CHRISTMAS!" Branch then stormed off leaving a heartbroken Poppy hurt as she stared down at what was left of the invitation she made Branch.
"Poppy." Harper said as she walked up to Poppy. Poppy bent down to pick up the pieces of the broken invitation. "Is Branch Scrooge?"
Poppy sighed and she tried her best to give Harper a small smile and keep her positive and optimistic attitude that she was known for. "No Harper, he's not. I'll find someway to get Branch into the Holiday spirit. There must be someway to get Branch to have a change of heart. Nobody deserves to be alone for Christmas, not even Branch." Poppy then turned to her friends. "Come on fellow trolls, let's get Branch in the Christmas spirit!"
I just had to have Branch say "Bah Humbug" considering I could totally see him as the Scrooge character if someone made a parody of that. Hope your liking this so far. Chapter 2 will be uploaded sometime next week. take care.