Thank you all so much for all the kind reviews. I was not expecting so many people to favorite it and review it so thank you all.
At a different part of the Troll lands a purple troll was gathering himself some lunch. He had picked himself a wide range of fruits ranging from berry's to plums and mangoes. On top of his purple skin, the troll also had blue hair which turned green at it's tip. He also wore yellow pants and for the most part preferred to go shirtless. This troll also wore a huge scowl on his face, for this troll was the kings brother Creek, and now that Princess Poppy was born he was no longer first in line for the thrown.
Creek had always been jealous of his older brother Peppy. When they were kids it was Peppy that their father always spent time with, showing him all around the kingdom and telling him how to be a proper king, while Creek was always the one who stayed home and was forced to help his mother with chores around their pod. Creek loved his mother, but being the second born in a royal family he always got second helpings of everything. Peppy was the one always getting the attention, Peppy was the one who fellow trolls bowed toward when they stepped outside, Peppy was the one that was destined for greatness. Not that Creek didn't get any royal treatment, he was still a prince after all. Trolls would bow to him as well, but not as much as with Peppy, and if the two of them ever stepped out together all the Trolls chanted "All hail our future king, Prince Peppy" Not even acknowledging that Creek was royal too.
Thus, Creek's jealousy soon turned to full out hatred. Creek wanted the thrown, he deserved the thrown. He was smarter than Peppy, he spent hours in his room each day as kids meditating, discovering the secret of inner peace and spiritual auras. He spent years trying to discover the secrets of the universe, while Peppy spent all his time going on father, son trips across the troll lands without him. Oh how he wished he had what Peppy had.
"Life's not fair." Creek griped as he bit into a plum. "I will never get to be king now that Peppy had that little hair ball has been born." Creek then stared at the plum that he bit into "It's a shame really, I would have been a magnificent king."
"Talking to your food?" Creek suddenly heard a feminine voice say from behind him. Creek cringed as he recognized the familiar voice as Suki, or as Creek called her, the kings royal stooge.
"What do you want?" Creek was not in the mood to talk to anybody right now, let alone Suki.
"I am here to inform you that King Peppy is on his way," Suki said in a firm voice giving Creek a stern look "So you better have a good excuse for not showing up this morning."
Creek groaned, he figured Peppy was going to approach him about not showing up to Poppy's presentation. But to send Suki ahead of him to criticize him was just plain insulting.
"And just like that I have lost my appetite." Creek snapped tossing his bowl of fruits off the table and watched as they fell to the ground below.
"Ha, your lose more then that when the king is through with you." Suki said "He's madder then a bergen with a tooth ache."
Creek glared at Suki with hatred in his eyes. If there was any troll in all the troll lands he hated more then his brother it was Suki. Suki was always getting on his case about how he should treat his brother better, and how he needed to show Peppy respect as king. Oh how he longed to shut that stooge's mouth up.
"Oh I just quiver in fear!" Creek snarled as he clinched his feet and bared his teeth as he slowly made his way toward Suki.
Suki started to step backwards in fear. She could see the anger in Creek's eyes and knew that when angry Creek could get violent. Sensing the tension in the room, Suki tried to calm Creek down.
"Now don't act this this Creek, I'm just the messenger...Ack!" Suki suddenly felt Creeks hair rap around her neck.
"What was that you was saying Suki?" Creek cracked as he had Suki wrapped around his hair.
"Creek!" The two of them turned their heads to see King Peppy walk into the door "Release her."
"Impeccable timing your majesty." Suki wheezed as Creek released his grip around her neck, Suki collapsed to the floor gasping for air holding onto her neck.
"Well, if it isn't my older brother?" Creek cracked, trying his best to put on a happy face as he walked up to greet his older brother. "What has come up that you must feel to brace me with your presence?"
"Rosiepuff and I didn't see you at Poppy's presentation this morning."
"That was today?" Creek gasped trying to give the expression that he forgot about the presentation. He didn't though, he knew for a fact that it was this morning and he didn't want to be there and remind himself that he was no longer next in line for the thrown. He wasn't going to let Peppy know that though. So as he grabbed a walnut from a bowl on his kitchen counter and opened a drawer to take out a pair of nutcrackers, Creek put on his best innocent routine.
"Oh I feel so terribly awful." Creek then cracked the nuts with such force a piece of the shell flew off and hit Suki in the temple. Suki instantly started rubbing her temple to ease the pain from the impact.
"Must have slipped my mind." Creek finished, popping the walnut pieces in his mouth.
"Yes," Suki responded, not buying his story in the slightest. "Well as slippery as your mind may be, as the king's brother you should have been first in line!"
Creek showed Suki a clenched fist, signalling for her to shut her trap. Suki instantly hid behind Peppy.
"Oh I was first in line. Until that little hairball was born."
"That hairball is my daughter," Peppy snapped, "And your future Queen."
"In that case I'll practicing my curtsy." Creek smarted off before attempting to walk off. Peppy wasn't finished with him yet though.
"Don't you turn your back on me Creek!"
"Oh no Peppy." Creek replied "Perhaps it is you, who shouldn't turn their back on me."
That did it. Peppy shot his hair out and wrapped it around Creek's right leg and drug him forward. Peppy then pressed his foot on Creek's hand and glared down at him.
"Is that a challenge?"
"Temper, Temper." Creek replied calmly. He wasn't ready yet to challenge Peppy for the thrown. Not at this moment at least. "I wouldn't dream of challenging you."
"Pity," Suki replied, she actually wanted to see him try. If anything else just to see Peppy wipe the floor with Creek. "Why not?"
"Well when it comes to brains I have the lions share, but when it comes to brute strength? I'm afraid I'm on the shallow end of the gene pool." Creek then walked to his front door, opened it and extended his hand. "Now if you excuse me, I would like to finish my lunch in peace."
"Fine," Peppy replied "But I expect to see you at tonight party in Poppy's honor."
"Yeah, yeah, I'll be there now please leave!" Creek snapped. Peppy and Suki obeyed and left Creek's pod, but not before they each gave him a threatening glare as they walked out.
"Oh there's one in every family sire" Suki said as the two walked off "I actually have two in mine. And they always know how to ruin special occasions."
"What am I going to do with him?" Peppy wondered.
"You could always give him a nice shave."
"Suki?" Peppy laughed
"And just think," Suki continued "You could then stop by the store and by him a nice rainbow toupee." Peppy couldn't help but burst out laughing at the though of Creek in a rainbow toupee.
Sure enough, Creek was actually at the party. Much to Peppy's surprise. Granted he was only there to avoid another lecture from Peppy like this morning, and he didn't hang out with any of the other trolls, choosing to sit under a tree by himself and watch as the party unfolded. But him just showing up was a miracle.
Suki, on top of being Peppy's majordomo was also the best DJ in the entire troll kingdom. And on nights like tonight, she switched out her palace attire for a pair of headphones made out of yellow yarn and worked on the turntables.
While Suki was working the stage, Peppy and Rosiepuff was down on the grass greeting all the trolls, and thanking them for coming. The village trolls of course, kept congratulating them on their daughter, many of which bringing gifts. Two trolls, a pair of troll twins conjoined by the hair brought a whole wagon full of outfits.
"For the new princess" the twin trolls said at the same time. One of the twins was blue and the other was a shade of pink slighter paler then Poppy
"Whoa those are a lot of outfits." Queen Rosiepuff gasped, staring at the wagon full of baby outfits.
"Thanks." The pink twin said "I'm Satin and this here is Chenille my twin. We're fashion designers and run a fashion shop not to far from here selling our own designs. When we heard about the new princess me and Chenille have been hard at work these past two weeks designing outfits for her." Both Satin and Chenille both picked up a outfit to show the King and Queen. The first one was a two piece T-shirt and skirt. The shirt was white and had "Mommy's royal princess" written on it with glitter while the skirt was black. The outfit Chenille was holding was a orange Onesie with the words "Future Queen written on it.
"I love them," Rosiepuff said taking the outfits "Thanks."
"Your very welcome" The twins said as they bowed.
"Sire." A yellow troll guard said walking up to King Peppy.
"Yes Smidge?" Peppy asked "Report?"
"Me and the other guards has finished doing the rounds. No bergens in sight."
"Good" Peppy breathed a sigh of relief. "I would hate for this special celebration to be ruined by those nasty creatures."
As Creek sat under the tree a small green troll child walked up to him holding a picture he drew.
"Hey Prince Creek? Your not going to join the others on the dance floor?"
Creek tried to put on his best happy face for the child even though inside he was anything but happy.
"I would love to child, but I have a bad back. Getting out there and dancing would just mess it up."
"Oh." The troll child said, believing Creek's story. "Anyway I made you something I thought you might like." The child then handed Creek a picture of the entire royal family that he drew in crayon. It included the King and Queen, as well as Creek and baby Poppy in Rosiepuff arms.
Creek let out a low growl at the sight of another reminder of the new princess. But the growl was low enough so that the kid couldn't hear. As cold as he was, he didn't want to break the child's heart there in front of a crowd of people. If Peppy was already mad at him for before, breaking a child's heart would really get him scolded . So he accepted it and put on a fake smile and said "Thank you" to the child but as soon as the child walked off Creek wadded the drawing up, got up from under the tree and chunked it in a nearby garbage can.
Suki was still rocking the turn tables when a firefly suddenly flew into her mouth. Suki coughed and gagged in surprise of something flying into her mouth. Her coughing though suddenly turned into loud gasps as suddenly lights began to shoot out of her mouth and eyes.
"Hey" Suki gasped at the sudden bright lights "What's going on? I can't see? What's happening?"
Everybody who witnessed the event started laughing and cheering, finding the situation hilarious. Even Peppy and Rosiepuff couldn't help but chuckle.
"Stop your laughing whoever you are," Suki griped, not being able to tell you where the laughing was coming from thanks to the firefly blinding her vision "I will gladly report you to the king."
Little did she know that King Peppy was also laughing. He also walked up behind her on the stage and lifted her up off her feet, hanging her by a tree branch over the crowd as a disco ball.
"Hey who did that?" Suki demanded, still not able to see, or know what was going on. "What's happening out there? Somebody better tell me this instant or so help me I will report you all to King Peppy after the party is through! Do you people hear me?"
Every troll just ignored her as they piled under where Suki was hanging and danced under the light.
"Aw man!" Suki griped, realizing that nobody was going to come to her aid.
After the party Guy Diamond was at home making a painting of Poppy on his wall out of glitter. He had almost everything complete just one thing remained. Then it donned on him, her green head band. He got out a can of green glitter and spread the green over Poppy's forehead to resemble the head band. Guy Diamond stepped back from his painting and smiled. Proud of the painting he had done.
"Welcome to the world Princess Poppy."
