Hey guys! Now, some of you may be thinking, I THOUGHT U LOST INTEREST! WHY ARE U FREAKIN CONTINUING THE STORY! Well, the answer to that is, I just recently had a feeling that me losing interest in this story is one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made. I think this story would be really fun for me to continue. I don't know if I would be updating this very often, but I will try. But please don't kill me if I take a really long time updating! I just never get the time, and sometimes I get writers block. Writers block is the WORST THING EVER!! Oh, and btw I am working on Branch's Blog. It is just I can't really copy and paste the reveiws on my phone, which makes things difficult. So! Let's get to the story!
Branch, Poppy, and River spent the next day preparing for the journey. River was showing Branch and Poppy around the place, talking about how she got supplies and how she made her home.
"It took me years to gather what I needed to survive, but this tree only took me a day and alot of energy to hollow out." River told them
"So you're saying that you created all this in 24 hours!?!" Poppy exclaimed, "How old were you!?!"
"I think I was around 12 years old." River answered
Both Poppy's and Branch's jaws dropped as they heard that. A preteen created this masterpiece! Wow.
"Where did you even learn the magic to create such a thing?" Branch questioned her, "In your memory, it seemed like you were having trouble with magic."
"Well, I self taught myself. It took alot of practice, but I finally learned to control my powers." She replied
"Wow. Now, where are your supplies so that we can start preparing?" Branch asked
"Down in the basement. Follow me." River motioned them to follow and she led them to the flight if stairs they climbed up earlier.
After alot of more stairs, River finally stopped and turned towards a door. She rummaged through the pockets in her animal skin coat to find a ring with alot of keys on it. She fiddled with the keys before bringing out one and unlocking the door with it. They then walked in to see a really large room with aisles of supplies with walk ways in between them. On the shelves of the aisles nuts, fruits, sticks, and even dried meats were stored. To the right was a door to another room, and to the left were animal skins.
"This is most prepared I have seen anyone in my life!" Branch awed
"What about you?" Poppy said, puzzled
"This is just one room of supplies. All these supplies," He gestured to the thousands of organized nuts, fruits, and meats, "is about how much supplies I have in my bunker at the old village. And I bet she has even more supplies than what's in here."
"Yep, true that. I have at least three more rooms just like this one." River smirked
"See what I mean?" Branch said
"And I thought no one can beat Branch when it came to being prepared." Poppy snorted
"Do you have any bags to put the supplies in?" Branch asked
"Yeah, but they are pretty big for you." River told them
"Oh. Well, where are the bags me and Poppy had at least?" Branch asked
"They are with the animal skins over there." River pointed to two bags on the floor
Branch walked over to grab the bags. Once he got them, he looked up to see animal heads hung on the wall. It kinda grossed him out that a troll would kill animals and hang their heads on a wall. Infact, no troll should eat meats. Branch never did. He started to wonder how Poppy thought about seeing all this stuff. He walked back over to Poppy and River to see them chatting.
"What's in that room?" Poppy pointed to the door on the right of the room
"Thats where I skin the animals I hunt and it is where I prepare the meat to be dried and stored." River explained.
"I have never heard of a troll that ate meat!?!" Poppy exclaimed, "Eating something that came from another living just seems... wrong."
"Well I'm used to eating meats. That's what my kind eats the most." River admitted, "I do eat fruits and veggies, but the environment which my kind lives in and is used to is in the mountains. That makes it difficult to grow things. So my kind has just gotten used to eating meats."
Poppy shivered in disgust, "I think I'm gonna stick to fruits, candy, and cakes. Thank you very much."
River rolled her eyes and smirked as she grabbed a bag that was right by the entrance to the room. She walked down the aisles and started to stuff the thing she thought she'd need in it. Branch handed Poppy her bag and she looked inside. Seeing that it was empty she let out a gasp of surprise.
"Uh, hey, River?" Poppy shouted down to River who was still getting supplies.
"Ya?" She replied
"Where are the stuff that I had in this before?"
"You mean the bunch of colorful paper, scissors, and annoying glitter that was in there? Uhh, I just gotta say that there's no more glitter."
"WHAT!?! WHAT DID YOU DO WITH ALL OF IT!!!" Poppy exclaimed
River walked back to them with a stuffed backpack.
"Umm, I was looking at what you had in your backpacks while you were in the dungeon sleeping, and, well, I opened the glitter and it got everywhere." River rubbed the back of her neck, an embarrassed look on her face, "I tried to clean it up, but it was sticking everywhere, I just couldn't gather it all up. So I kinda got frustrated and knocked over the whole thing?"
"Ha! That sounds like something I would do." Branch snickered
Branch shut up immediately when Poppy shot him a death glare. She was obviously NOT happy that all her precious glitter was gone. Poppy then stomped away in anger mumbling to herself.
"I can't believe it! There was so much glitter now it's GONE!" she muttered.
"Any chance you saw any useful supplies in her backpack?" Branch asked River in a whisper
"Nope not one useful item." River answered, "It was all just colorful things that I didn't get the use of. "
"To imagine if we didn't run into you." Branch sighed
"Hmph, well, some of your stuff is still in your bag, but you can grab whatever you think you'd need from here." River offered
"Thanks." Branch replied
Once the three finished preparing, they followed River to the entrance of the tree.
"So, where should we start looking?" Poppy asked once they got outside
"I think the best place to start is back at the volcano." River suggested, "Maybe if they survived, they would've made themselves somewhere to live near it."
"Good idea, but do you remember where the volcano is?" Branch asked
"Not really, but I know a way to find out." River held out her hand, "Gudius lighticus!"
As she said those words, a ball of light started to form. The ball of light hovered above them, as if waiting for the next command.
"This is a simple spell I learned from Master Ivy when I was a still a small child." River told Poppy and Branch, "It will guide us to the volcano."
And with that, the ball of light saw that they were ready and started floating away. They then all started to follow it, letting the journey begin.
And there you have it! This was just their prepration, but I have a lot of things planned for the future! I am really excited to get this story up and running once again! remember to leave a review!