I picked up the crystal with upmost care and cradled it within my hands. It's long chain seemed to go on forever as I stood back up. Toby ran up behind me at this point and looked over my shoulder.

"Dude, that looks like a Spirit Stone!"

"A what?"

He rolled his eyes. He was borderline obsessed with stones, crystals, and minerals. "It's a type of crystals, you uncultured swine. It's one of the many crystals that has been tied to emotions. I can't remember what this one specifically supposedly does though."

As he was talking, I was turning the necklace in the light. It shined in such a way that it reminded me of a fallen star. It's bright pink pigment reminded me of the one crystal I truthfully knew; Rose Quarts. But it looked more, to say the least, enchanting. It had probably six parts with white tips that then connected together into one flat piece. The chain connected looked like those with dog tags but felt as strong as leather.

It was the strangest of combinations, yet it just compelled me to look at the beauty of it even more.

"Hey wait, can I have it?" I chuckled at him and shook my head. "You told me coming here wasn't going to be worth it! No way are you going to have the thing that proves you wrong." I was wrapping the chain around my hand as I spoke. The length was easily about five feet maybe a little less. I placed it gently in the front pocket of my jeans with the chain wrapped up in circles.

Should I tell him that it spoke to me?

I looked back at my best friend as he was struggling to up the channel of the bridge.

It could wait. It might of been all in my head anyway.

I jumped on my bike and started pedaling home.

While walking our bikes to our respected houses, we encountered my mom on her way to the hospital for a night shift. I had sure she had the dinner I made her that morning and that she would go to sleep once home from the long shift.

"Jim, you seriously mother your mother a lot." I rolled my eyes jokingly at his statement.

How did I know he would say that again.

"I worry a lot about her, Tobes. It's just how it is." He shrugged and smiled at me. "ANYWAY! I'm gonna head home to Nana. I'll look up more stuff about that crystal you found! Maybe I'll find something special about it." I smiled back at him as he started to walk toward his side of the street.

"Alright! See ya!" I gave him a short wave as I walk up to the garage and open the door. I set my bike on it's stand and took off my helmet. I walked into my house and flung my stuff onto the couch. I pulled the crystal back out of my pocket and stared at it's luminescence.

It was like one of those crystal lamps you see on Ebay or something. Just shining and full of light. There was only one thing wrong with the beautiful sight.

I never turned on a light.

"Alright, you weird rock. You said my name earlier, say it again. Prove that it's not all within my head." I held it up with two fingers and raised it up higher. I squinted at the object and shook it lightly. "Oh come on! Work!" I stuck my tongue out slightly in concentration.

"I swear, I will give you to some rock collector if you don't start talking!" After that, it started shaking violently.

Oh no.

I held it tighter in my grasp as it started to hum at a low volume.

"Alright! Alright! I'm sorry! I won't give you to some stupid rock sniffer! I promise! Just stop!" I forced the crystal into my right hand and pulled it into my chest.

It stopped.

The humming went quick and the vibrations come to a halt. I opened my fist to see that it was now flashing. It was as if it was a bright pink police siren.

"You." I started with hesitance. "Stopped."

I then turned it's brightness up a couple notches and flashed twice. I looked at it in awe. "Wow." My enchantment with the object grew until my attention was pulled away by a loud crash in my basement.

"Ugh, it must be those pesty raccoons again." I pocketed the crystal and got onto my feet. I didn't even noticed that I fell backwards onto the couch until then. I grabbed a small bat that was again the living room wall and put it over my shoulder. I stepped slowly toward the basement door and opened it as softly as possible. I walked down the steps gently for two reasons.

One being that loud noises would make the raccoons aware of my presence. The second one being that I didn't want to fall on my ass.

I reached the bottom of the stairs with ease and reached up to turn on the light. I pulled the chain lightly and then instantly put the bat up in swinging position. I looked around the floor with quick shifting eyes.

"Uh?" There was no trace of any raccoons. Nothing at all!

"Whoever is down here! Show yourself!" I slowly step toward the other side of the room and then everything went dark.

"What the!" I looked around full of fright. What happened to the light? I got up against the furnace fire to use it as a source of light. "Who's there!" I then felt some type of presence behind me. I turned slowly around to see four glowing eyes looking at me.

"MASTER JAMES!" I screamed and fell over myself. Last thing I remember was a giant wack to the back of my head.

I wake up rubbing the back of head due to a splitting headache. When I opened my screwed shut eyes, I see two sets of feet and a pair of fist on the group before me. They didn't seem human at all.

Is that, stone?

I scream once again and stood up instantly. "WHAT ARE YOU!?" I thought I had my bat still in hand so I started pointing it towards them.

But I don't.

I started putting my hands up toward them instead as the one with more eyes stepped closer. "I'm very sorry master James! We didn't mean to scare you!"

"How do you know my name!?" He raised two of his four arms up in defense as he advance one step closer. "I heard the amulet say it." I looked at him with a confused look.

"Amulet?" He started rubbing the back of his neck with one of his many hands. "Well, it was an amulet to me. Somewhat of a stone to you." I started to pull out the long chained crystal from my pocket.

"You mean, this?" I held it by it's bundle up chain. It's shine still being bright and full within the dark room. The stoned man creature opened up another set of eyes and started nodding. "Yes that is the one!" I looked at him with a little more shock due to the sudden addition on his face.

"OH! My apologies, master James. I heard humans have a fear of things in multiples of sixes, so I tried my best to keep my third pair shut while in conversation. Yet, I couldn't compel myself when you pulled out the Trollhunter's amulet."

I tilted my head slightly, no longer in horror but now swimming in confusion. "Trollhunter?" He raised his arms up in the air with a giant smile on his face, two bottom teeth slipping above and onto his lip. "Yes! The Trollhunter! The protector of the trollish and human kind! Yet you, master James, are something so much more!"

I backed up into the wall a little more as I took in his friend's appearance for the first time. He was a tall and brutish kind of figure. Just his build alone gave me fear. "What are you then?" The one with many eyes started to laugh lightly. "Well, we're trolls! Aren't we AAARRRGGHH!?" His friend nodded. "Yes. Trolls."

His friend isn't as fluid in language as he is, huh?

I looked in between the two and then at the crystal.

"What does that mean for me then? What am I to you?" The smaller one came closer to me and grabbed my shoulders with two of his four hands. The other two grabbing at my arms.

"You my dear boy, are the Gulumabag azclipsuth! Or the Human Eclipse!" I looked at him with wide eyes. I was trying to speak but my throat instantly became dry. My tongue felt heavy within my own mouth.

This feels worst than that time Toby shoved me into Claire direction to try to get me to ask her out.

I started to stutter my words out my mouth slowly. "What-Wh-What if, I, decline?" I looked at me with a sorrowful look. "Why decline such a high honor? You get to be a hero for your kind!"

I looked him deep in the eye, or I should say, eyes. "Because I'm only fifteen." He let go of my arms yet still had his stone hands on my shoulders. "Such a young one. But, the amulet knows it chose and you are said chosen. Master James, I understand the fear the must over come you right now. But I must also say that fear is our one true motivator for our kinds. That and love. Yet, you cannot have one without the other. The amulet cannot re-choose it's wielder, not until it's chosen one perishes. But I can state that there has been those picked who never wanted to be a hero. They were ones of few that could not get the courage or the will to try to master the power that it gives."

He reaches for my hand that held the crystal and put the rock into my hand. He closes it softly, or as softly as he could with his rocky hands.

"But it is yours now. I am just here to guide you if you so wish it. Same with my companion here. I must say that as the Human Eclipse, you would be the knight of light and darkness. You will be able to command light and grow with the use of emotions and training. Once called upon, you will save those closest to you from the GumGums. Or evil trolls that will come to attack your kind as well as my own kin. You would be our knight in light since we cannot fight unless in the dark."

He let go of my shoulders and backed away slowly. "But it is still your choice. Young James. None of the Trollhunters have ever been truthfully forced to go with the role that they were destined my the amulet to hold. But it was in the name of love and valor that they decided to grab hold of their source of power and defend themselves and the world they reside. You may not seem needed now, but you will be soon. Especially since once the GumGums will soon find out that the amulet has changed shape and still has a body attached to it."

He bowed lowly toward me and then smiled as he rose. "So I shall give you a couple of nights. To think and to ponder. To give you the chance to weigh out what ifs and possibilities. But I still warn you, human. There are people willing to destroy and conquer for that weapon within your hands. Yet, everything within life if a choice. So you shall have yours. We will be back within three days. Three sleeps shall fall upon you before you can make your final decision. But I must ask you one small favor, master James."

He took a step forward once more and placed a comforting hand on my left shoulder. "Please, do not speak of us to anyone. Humans mind would malfunction at the mere thought of their world being possessed by what they believe as fork tales. If you must, speak to those that you know you upmost trust and behold. Someone that you know would advise you best and comfort you in the most educating ways. May that be a friend or family. But not one that you barely know and acknowledge. That is when heroes have fallen."

Him and his friend start to leave up my staircase, noting that no else was within the area. His large friend going first and struggling to escape the small door way. The one with many eyes looked at me once more and smiled.

"Also, before I forget. My name is Blinky. One of the trainers of the Trollhunters. Again, please, consider all that I have stated. I have a person bias on which path you will travel, yet I will understand which ever you chose. Farewell, young warrior and may the heart of spirit guide you." He then went the rest of the staircase to help shove his friend through the basement doorway.

I was staring at them as they left. Not knowing what to say or what to think. My body felt like I had ran multiple miles and then decided to do an Iron-man race. So, as if on auto pilot, I went up the stairs several minutes later and stumbled up the staircase to my room. I hoped the door and sat on my bed. I looked up at my desk and stared intensely at the walkie talkie which Tobes was the owner of the other.

So I can be a hero. A short life lived man, fighting for the innocence of two races. Two kinds. Fighting darkness and keep those from harm. Would that mean that I would be protecting people like Toby? My mom?

Claire?

I looked down at the crystal within my palm and watched it glow.

Or I can be a normal teenager. Not knowing what this can do or what I would miss. Live a normal life. End a normal life.

I looked back toward the black walkie talkie and grabbed it with a slight movement of my hand.

"Jim coming in to Tobes. I have something to talk to you about."

I looked back toward my hand where the chain was like a small pool within my hand.

Tobes picked up on the other end rather quickly. "Yeah bud?"

"I'm struggling with a huge decision and I need your help. Come to my house tomorrow. Mom has another night shift." I clutched the pink stone within my hand and it's glow intensified in color tremendously.

"And it might change our lives. Forever."