Wow, some of you had some pretty strong reactions to the last chapter. Must mean I'm doing my job right.

Poppy had been walking deep into the desert all night. She had no idea where she was heading nor did she care as long as it was far away from the Troll lands. Over ran with guilt and exhaustion, Poppy eventually fell to her knees just as the sun was starting to rise the next morning. She had no idea how she still had any tears left in her system but as she fell to her knees in the hot desert sand, she closed her eyes, hung her head down low and let a few tears flow down her cheeks as she finally went grey. She couldn't be happy anymore, she was the one responsible for her fathers death after all. All Poppy wanted right now was to be reunited with her father. She couldn't live like this, not as a outcast, not in the middle of the desert with very little water. As she finally gave in to her exhaustion from running all night, she fell face first in the desert sand and passed out, not even caring if she ever woke up again, because at least then she could be reunited with her father.

A hour later voices could be heard coming from the distance. They sounded like two people arguing over something.

"Cooper, I'm hungry." One voice said in a deep British accent.

"Well maybe we could be home right now if you hadn't stopped by the gift shop and bought that stuffed glowworm toy!" The troll called Cooper said. Cooper was a four legged troll with black hair that hung down like dreads and wore a green hat on his head. His skin was pinkish with stripes and he had a long neck that made him resemble more of a llama than a troll. "You know we only have a limited amount of money as it is Biggie, that is only to be used to by supplies and food. And you buying that stuffed glowworm is a complete waste of money."

"But it's so cute." Biggie said. Biggie, like his name suggested was a chubby troll about twice the size of a normal sized troll and had blue skin and very light blue hair that was almost white. "I think I will call him Mr. Dinkles."

It was right then that Cooper spotted some crows gathering around something in the middle of the desert. "Well at least the the birds are starting to get breakfast." It was right then that Cooper squinted his eyes to see what it was that the crows were gathering around. Then his eyes went wide and he went into panic mode "Oh my gosh it's a troll! We got to do something!" Cooper then charged after the crows while Biggie followed closely behind, calling after Cooper while asking what was going on. Cooper didn't respond as he ran straight into the swarm of crows, shooing them off and causing them all to scatter.

"Shoo, get out of here you filthy poachers!" Cooper hollered "Trolls are not on the menu." Cooper kicked the last crow away before walking over to check on their mystery grey troll, that's when Cooper's eyes widened again.

"Oh my gosh, Biggie it's a child."

"What?" Biggie gasped running over to inspect the child laying on the ground. The troll had a couple drops of blood peaking out of the skin from where the trolls started to peck at her but other then that the troll seemed to be alive. Cooper checked the girls pulse and breathed a sigh of relief when she found she was still alive. Cooper then lowered his neck and used it to scoop the girl up and place her on his back.

"Come on, we got to get this kid to our home before those crows decide to come back."

"What is a kid doing out here in the middle of the desert anyway by herself?" Biggie asked curiously.

When Poppy finally woke up a couple hours later she found herself surprisingly comfortable and in a soft bed. She had no idea how she got there considering she was in the desert when she passed out. As she sat up in her bed she started to inspect her surroundings and saw a small table to her right with a lamp sitting on it and a bookshelf to her left. Poppy was still trying to wrap her head around how she got here when the door to the room she was in opened up and saw two new trolls came walking in. One on four legs carrying a bowl of soup on his head, and another much bigger troll carrying a glass of water. The big troll was also wearing a apron like he had been cooking.

"Well looks like our mystery troll has finally woken up." The four legged troll said

"Where am I?" Poppy asked "Who are you two and how did I get here?"

"Oh, our apologies for not properly introducing ourselves when we first entered the door. You must be so confused and scared right now. I'm Cooper and this here is my friend Biggie."

"We found you in the desert unconscious." Biggie said. "We rescued you and brought you home here with us. You nearly died"

"We saved your life." Cooper said

"Thanks for your help." Poppy said still in a depressed tone. She got out from the bed and accepted the soup and water the two got her and walked out of the room, her head hung low in sadness.

"Hey where you going?" Cooper asked

"Nowhere." Poppy said

"Gee," Cooper said "She looks blue."

"I'd say more grey." Biggie said "I'm more blue"

"I mean she's depressed." Cooper said "I know she's grey but she wouldn't be if she wasn't feeling blue. Something's bothering her Biggie."

"Oh." Biggie said as he walked up to Poppy who had found herself a seat on a stool in the living room to eat her soup. "So what's bothering you kid?"

"I'd rather not talk about it." Poppy said

"Well, where are you from?" Cooper asked

"Doesn't matter I can't go back."

"Oh, well your welcome to stay with us." Cooper said "We don't really belong to any kingdom. We actually sell to multiple surrounding kingdoms hence us choosing to live in a forest right outside different areas. It's our business. Cooper and Biggie's trade factory! Welcome to the team."

"Whoopie." Poppy said in a sarcastic tone.

"Well is there anything we can do?" Biggie asked

"Not unless you can change the pass." Poppy said

"You know kid, in times like this we have a saying." Biggie said "You got to put your past behind you."

"Look kid." Cooper joined in. "Bad things happen and there's nothing you can do about it right?"

"Right." Poppy said

"Wrong!" Cooper corrected "When the world turns your back on you, you turn your back on the world."

"That's not how I was taught." Poppy said

"Then maybe you need a new lesson." Cooper said "Now repeat after me. Hakuna Matata."

"Hakuna Ma-what now?"

"Hakuna Matata." Biggie said "It means no worries."

"Hakuna Matata" Cooper started singing what a wonderful phrase"

Hakuna Matata," Biggie joined in "ain't no passing craze."

It means no worries, for the rest of your days. Cooper then helped Poppy up off her stool and started dancing with her, Poppy couldn't help but start to crack a small smile as Cooper started doing a Egyptian like dance across the floor acting silly as he and Biggie both sang together. It's our problem free, philosophy Hakuna Matata.

"Hakuna Matata?" Poppy asked still confused.

"Yeah it's our motto." Biggie explained

"What's a motto?"

"Nothing what's a-motto with you?" Cooper said before bursting out laughing at what he just said.

"You know kid." Biggie replied "These two words will solve all your problems.

"That's right, take Biggie for example. Why, When he was a smaller troll

"When I was smaller TROLL!" Biggie sang so loudly Cooper had to rub his ear to stop it from ringing.

"Very nice." Cooper said

"Thanks."

"His appetite was huge and it had to be filled" Cooper sang "He would pig the troll out during every meal."

"I'm a sensitive soul, though I seem thick skinned. And it hurt that my friends never took downwind. And oh the shame.

"He was ashamed"

"thought of changing my name of my name"

"Oh what's in a name?"

"And I got downhearted."

"How'd it make you feel?"

"Whenever I..."

"Hey Biggie," Cooper interrupted, covering Poppy's ears. "Not in front of the kid."

"Oh sorry". Biggie replied. Poppy raised a eyebrow in confusion. Cooper then drug out a beanbag chair out of the closet for Poppy to plop down on as the two of them continued to sing and dance.

"Hakuna matata, what a wonderful phrase. Hakuna Matata, ain't no passing craze."

Poppy started feeling something she didn't think she would ever feel again, happiness. In fact she was so happy that her skin turned back to it's original pink coloring and she got up and joined the two trolls in singing.

"It means no worries" Poppy belted out "For the rest of your days."

"Yeah sing it kid!" Cooper said

"It's our problem free." They all sand together "Philosophy, Hakuna Matata."

"So you got a name kid?" Cooper asked as he helped Poppy off bean bag chair and led her into the kitchen.

"I'm Poppy."

"Well Poppy, If your going to stay here you got to be a part of our business." Cooper then opened the fridge door and started to pull something out of the fridge. "Let me introduce to you our product...Cupcakes!"

"Cupcakes?" Poppy raised a brow again confused.

"Uh huh." Biggie said "Me and Cooper make the best Cupcakes in the land. They are a high demand in the surrounding kingdoms." Biggie then picked one up and handed it too Poppy. "Here try one."

Poppy just shrugged as she took a bite of the cupcake. Her eyes then went wide in shock and as she swallowed her mouth dropped to the floor "This...is the best tasting cupcake I have ever tasted."

"See." Cooper gloated "What did I tell you?"

"So do you like it here Poppy?" Biggie asked

"I think I could get use to this place." Poppy said "As long as you teach me your cupcake recipe."

Cooper chuckled "Welcome to the team."

Poppy quickly settled down in her new home. Cooper and Biggie took her to one of the nearby kingdoms to buy new clothes and other items to make herself comfortable in her new home. As the years went by Cooper and Biggie not only taught her their secret cupcake recipe, but also how to make cinnamon rolls, brownies and other sweets. Cooper and Biggie loved their new team member, but they didn't just treat her as just a employee, but also as family. Poppy was like a little sister to them and they treated her as such. They would run around the forest having having fun and enjoying the carefree life all day.

Fourteen years had passed since Poppy was taken into Copper and Biggie's care and on the day of Poppy's twentieth birthday Cooper and Biggie bought her a blue two piece swimsuit. Poppy wasted no time going into her room and changing into her swimsuit as the three of them hit the lake.

"It means no worries." Poppy sang as they hit the lake "For the rest of your days."

All three of them started singing as they dig cannonballs into the lake "It's our problem free, philosophy. Hakuna Matata, Hakuna Matata, Haukuna Matata." The three of them splashed each other around, trying to see who could get each other the most wet. Poppy won, creating one splashed that soaked Cooper and Biggie from head to toe in one swipe.

As the three of them stepped out of the lake and dried off Poppy couldn't help but just belt it out "Hakooooouunaaa matataaaaaaa. HAKUNA MATATA!

As the three walked off laughing and enjoying life, Poppy had long since forgotten about her old life.

Deep in the troll lands Smidge arrived in a bunker deep in the woods. Nothing had been the same since Creek became King. Creek allowed the bergens to run freely across the troll lands, and help themselves to any of the trolls food and water. As part of the treaty that Creek made with the bergens the bergens couldn't just eat a troll for no reason, there was only two reasons that Creek allowed them to eat a troll. One, was by order of the king as punishment for any troll who dared questioned his authority, and two, for any troll that passed away so that Creek wouldn't have to worry about planning funerals. When Peppy was King whenever a troll died he would go and visit the family members and plan a funeral himself as a way to show how much he cared for his people. But now that Creek was king he would just feed the deceased troll to the bergens and be done with it, much to the anger of the family members.

Also thanks to the bergens the kingdom was starting to run out of food thanks to their big appetites, and no other troll kingdoms would trade with them as long as the bergens was in the troll lands. Because of that Creek had no choice but to force a lot of his staff to travel to other kingdoms and buy food for the kingdom the old fashioned way. But those trips would often take days meaning the kingdom would often wait days at a time before getting anything to eat once their current food supply ran out.

After dealing with Creek for fourteen years, Branch had finally had it, and in secret he had started to form a rebellion to try to take Creek down. He had built a bunker deep in the woods where Creek nor any of the bergens could find it, and there Branch would hold his rebellion meetings.

Smidge knocked on the door three times and a eye slot opened from below his feet at the door mat. "What's the password?" A feminine voice said.

"Cupcakes and rainbows." Smidge said.

"Correct!" The girl sang happily as she unlocked the hatch and allowed Smidge inside.

"I knew I shouldn't have left you two in charge of creating the password." Branch griped to Satin and Chenille once Smidge was inside. "Branch had yet to regain his colors since the day of Peppy's funeral. As a matter of fact most of the trolls in their kingdom had since gone grey thanks to Creek. Creek still had his colors obviously because he thought he was doing a great job. the twins forced themselves to keep their color by trying their hardest to keep a positive spirit despite their situation and despite being part of the rebellion, but just about everyone else had lost their color.

"What's wrong with the password?" Satin asked

"It doesn't scream rebellion," Branch said "It sounds like more like the password to some fraternity club."

"What? I'm just trying to keep positive feeling."

"Yes, and while your doing that Creek will continue to feed every troll that disagrees with him to the bergens." Branch smarted off.

"Boy, talk about a buzzkill." Chenille whispered to her sister.

"By the way how is the ideas for attracting more recruits coming?" Branch asked "We need as many trolls as possible if we stand any chance of overthrowing Creek."

"Me and Chenille just finished making some fliers to hand out to people," Satin said handing one to branch to show him "Take a look."

Branch's eyes widened in shock and he crumbled up the paper in rage when he read what it said

"Join our rebellion and take and get a chance to meet and take a picture with our glowworm mascot? Are you kidding me?"

"Hey people will join anything in order to pose with a cute animal." Chenille said

"Yeah, because nothing screams rebellion like taking a picture with a stupid glowworm!" Branch yelled

Satin and Chenille then went to the box that their glowworm mascot was sitting in and covered his ears.

"He can hear you!" Satin chastised

"He didn't mean it Jerry." Chenille said to the glowworm.

Branch rubbed his forehead in frustration "Does any of you realize how serious this situation is? Creek is destroying our once great kingdom, and you are all making this whole rebellion out to be as if it is some type of fraternity club! This is not a game, the entire Troll Lands is at risk as long as Creek is in power!"

"And just how do you expect to take him?" Smidge said "We certainly don't have the numbers to take Creek and his bergens out and the only trolls that have agreed to join so far is you, me, the twins, former Queen Rosiepuff and Fuzzbert here." Smidge pointed to Fuzzbert. "But he doesn't even have hands to carry a weapon. No other troll is willing to join and fight out of fear of Creek's punishment. I'm sorry Branch but to attack him with our numbers the way it is would be suicide."

"Then I will find other trolls, in other kingdoms that will be willing to help us." Branch said "All the other kingdoms hate Creek too as well as the bergens, surly they will be able to help us defeat Creek."

"And just what if they don't?" Satin asked getting serious.

Branch sighed "If they don't then I will approach Creek alone and take him out in secret when his back is turned. I will except the bergens wrath for taking out their king but at least we will be freed from Creek. If we don't get anymore help, then at least none of you will have to die because of my rebellion."

"Are you sure about this Branch?" Rosiepuff asked concerned.

"If it means getting rid of the worst king in history, then yes." Branch said "Meeting is adjourned for the day. I will leave first thing tomorrow to find help."

All of the trolls got up and left the bunker, save for Rosiepuff who walked over to Branch with concern in her eyes.

"Don't try to talk me out of this Rosiepuff." Branch said "I'm doing what I have to do for our kingdom."

"I'm not trying to talk you out of it Branch." Rosiepuff said "But I am concerned that part of you actually wants to die."

"Now what makes you think that?"

"I can see it in your eyes." Rosiepuff said "Ever since your mom died four years ago you have been so full of anger."

"She didn't die Rosiepuff, she was taken!" Branch snapped "By Creek! He killed her just because she spoke out against him, he had the whole kingdom watch, as he fed her to those Bergens. So yeah, maybe I do have a death wish, but as long as I take Creek down I could care less what happens to me."

"Is this what Poppy would want of you though? Would Poppy want you to act like this?"

Branch had turned his head away from her to pack up some supplies but stopped and turned to face Rosiepuff when she mentioned Poppy's name.

"Why did you bring her up?"

"I know you loved her Branch, you loved her almost as much as me and Peppy did. You two where meant to be even if you didn't know it at the time. I know you have been through a lot Branch, you have lost everybody you ever loved but so have I. Don't let the troll that Poppy knew, the part of you that Poppy loved die just because of those bad memories. Even if you do get the help you need to fight against Creek do you really think you can take a life? Do you think that will get you closure? It will continue to haunt you the rest of your life Branch, you will never be the same. Would Poppy be happy if she knew you are willing to take a life? Would she want that for you?"

"Poppy is dead Rosiepuff." Branch replied with a hurt tone in his voice. He didn't realize that his words hurt Rosiepuff too but he didn't care. He didn't care about much anymore these days. "Peppy is too. What Poppy would have wanted, it doesn't matter any more."

Rosiepuff lowered her head and sighed, Branch really had changed throughout the years. And as she turned to leave Branch alone in his bunker, she turned her head and said one last thing then left.

"Just be careful which path you take, for there may be no turning back."

And we have our new Branch, I do hope you like him. I tried to picture what I thought the actual Branch from the movie would do in a situation was like and I couldn't help but picture him starting a rebellion.

Till next time.