Sorry that this chapter was a couple of days late. I've been in another state and was to busy to really get this updated. I'm back now though so it's update time. Let's do this!
As Creek attempted to make his getaway five bergens surrounded Poppy. Poppy grabbed a stick from the tree to use to defend herself as the bergens inched closer to her. The bergens eyes spelled murder, they were not about to let their king surrender without a fight, and if they could kill the princess challenging him for the throne, that would ensure they would stay and Creek would remain in power. As the bergens closed in further, Poppy snapped the stick in half, held a half in each hand with the pointy side facing the bergens and prepared herself for the attack.
But suddenly the bergens stopped in their tracks when they felt a stinging pain come from their necks and shoulders. The bergens turned around angrily and saw Smidge with a army of about a dozen trolls all armed with bows and arrows.
"Archers, ready your weapons!" Smidge ordered. The trolls were standing on a branch above the bergens heads. They each took out a arrow from their quiver and readied it, pulling the string back as they awaited the order.
Smidge waited until each of the bergens turned to face the archers, then just before they started to charge Smidge gave the order.
"Fire!" The trolls let the arrows fly, each one hitting the bergens in the shoulders, neck, and upper torso. The arrows knocked the bergens back but one arrow was not going to be enough to stop those bergens and Smidge new it.
"Archers, ready your weapons again!" Smidge ordered, the trolls quickly obeyed "And fire!" The trolls fired and the bergens attempted to shield their face from the onslaught of arrows heading their way. They screamed out in pain as they felt the arrows stabbing them in the arms.
"Again!" Smidge ordered, the trolls readied their bows again "Fire!" The bergens screamed in pain as they felt arrows stabbing into them again. Despite the arrows being about the size of a toothpick, their edges were still incredibly sharp, enough to draw blood whenever the arrows hit it's target. The bergens started to fall back, hoping to get away from the wave of arrows being shot at them.
"Ground troops, charge!" The bergens suddenly heard. The bergens looked down at the ground and saw Branch leading a army of trolls, all armed with different weapons, straight toward them. With a throw of his spear Branch led the attack. The other bergens charged after their enemy but the trolls had the momentum and the determination. The spear Branch threw hit a bergen in the kneecap, the bergen lifted his leg up and took several hops backwards as he clinched his knee. It was then that Satin and Chenille used their conjoined hair as a way to trip the bergen and send him falling backwards on the hard and unforgiving ground.
Cooper and Biggie also joined in on the fray, the two of them charged a huge group of bergens swinging their hair and striking every bergen in the way.
"Take this, and that, and another this, and this one too!" Cooper screamed as he struck every bergen that he could see, striking them in the arms, and legs and tender areas, causing each bergen to flee in pain. Cooper was distracted whipping a couple bergens in the legs that he didn't notice another bergen coming at him from behind. Luckily Biggie was there to whip the bergen right in the butt, causing him to leap in the air in pain and run off yelping like a whipped puppy.
With the bergens distracted by the other trolls, Poppy saw her opportunity to find Creek. The little coward ran off the second the trolls started attacking, and Poppy was desperate to make sure he wasn't going to get away. Poppy spotted a flash of purple at the corner of her eye and saw Creek running towards a tree close to Pride Tree. Poppy turned to run after him but before she could reach him she got stopped by three familiar bergens.
"Not so fast there little princess!" Gretchen growled
"Yeah, we got some unfinished business to do!" Greasy said. Earl just laughed in agreement. Poppy readied herself for a fight, but before she could strike she saw a rock get thrown from a nearby tree, hitting Earl in the head and knocking him down. The other two turned and saw Guy Diamond holding his stick in the air and chanting a battle cry as he leaped in tree, wrapped his hair around Greasy's neack and landed on his head and began striking him again, and again with his stick.
"You go get Creek, I got this!" Guy Diamond said as he continued whacking Greasy over the head. Poppy nodded and ran toward where the tree she saw Creek enter.
"Hold on Greasy I'm coming for you." Gretchen said attempting to help help her fellow bergen. But Guy Diamond quickly turned around and planted his stick in Gretchen's right eye.
"Ow, my eye, my eye!" Gretchen screamed rubbing her eye with her hands and running away, leaving poor Greasy to continue to get beat over the head by Guy Diamond.
Branch took out a dagger and stabbed one bergen in the foot. As that bergen screamed in agony, Branch wrapped his hair around another bergens arms and swung up enough to stab another bergen right in the butt before swinging himself over to another bergen and stabbing him in the shoulder. As those those bergens ran away screaming Branch landed on the ground and turned his attention to another bergen. The bergen witnessed what Branch had done to the other three and once he saw Branch was looking at him, he ran away screaming.
"Yeah you better run!" Branch said chasing after the bergen with his dagger, "Come back here you chicken!" After chasing him around for half a mile Branch wrapped his hair around the bergens leg and dragged the screaming bergen toward him where he promptly beat the snot out of him. The bergen tried to escape but only managed to claw a few inches away before Branch pulled him back in.
"Uh uh, I didn't say you could leave." Branch laughed as he finished beating up the bergen. After he was finished Branch walked away whistling happily to himself, leaving the poor bergen laying on the ground in a bloody pulp.
He never saw a bergen come from behind him and pick up a rock, never saw the bergen throw it right in his direction until the rock made contact with the back of his head. Branch instantly fell to the ground, his head spinning and his vision blurry. The force of the blow left him in a daze, there was no way he could see clearly enough the bergen coming at him with a knife.
Back at Pride Tree, Smidge and the archers had switched to using flaming arrows on the bergens. The archers made sure to aim for articles of clothing when firing the flaming arrows, that way when they shot them they would ignite the clothes on fire, burning the bergen's skin. Rosiepuff was on the same tree branch as the archers fighting a bergen of her own when she noticed Branch laying on the ground and the bergen about to stab him.
Rosiepuff's motherly instincts crept into gear, even though Branch was not her son she treated him like he was ever since he lost his real mother. No way was she going to let him die. Stabbing the bergen she was dealing with in the hand with a dagger, she ran over to the archers, grabbed one of their bows, took a couple of their non flammable arrows out of the quiver and loaded them both in the bow at the same time. She also placed the dagger right in between the two arrows, and without hesitation she jumped off the tree branch, pulled the string back and let it fly. Both the arrows and the dagger shot strait towards the bergen, and just as the bergen was raising his knife ready to stab Branch the two arrows stabbed the bergen in the back. It was the dagger that killed him though, burrowing itself right in the middle of the back, he fell over dead right in front of a very surprised Branch.
"Rosiepuff?" he had no idea the sweet and often calm and timid Rosiepuff could do something so violent. Rosiepuff just happily shrugged, not knowing another bergen was coming after her until Branch took out his own dagger, told Rosiepuff to get down and threw it, hitting the bergen right between the eyes and causing it to fall dead. Rosiepuff returned the same surprised look that Branch gave her just earlier.
"We're even" Branch said pulling the dagger out of the Bergen's head and returning to battle.
Meanwhile another bergen was chasing a terrified Fuzzbert across the field. Fuzzbert didn't have any arms so fighting was utterly impossible for the small troll. Thankfully however what he lacked in arms he gained in brains. He might not be able to fight the bergen but he could lure him in a trap. Doing just that, Fuzzbert darted towards a nearby log, running into it and forced the bergen to go in after him.
Unfortunately for the bergen, he was a little to big for the log and when he followed after Fuzzbert he ended up getting stuck. His head and shoulders stuck out of the front in, and his hips down stuck out form the bottom. If Fuzzbert could talk he would be laughing at the annoyed bergen trapped in the log and growling in frustration as he struggled to get loose. The bergens anger quickly turned to fear when he saw Satin and Chenille walking toward him each holding a boat paddle in their hand.
"Wait, what are you doing?" The bergen asked nervously. His question was answered when the twins stretched out their hair to each each side of the log and started beating him with the paddle, Satin the head and Chenille the butt. After about ten good whacks each with the paddle the twins then pushed the log away and watched it roll down the hill and out of sight.
Back at the Pride Tree, Greasy chased a terrified Cooper into the royal throne room where Suki was still trapped in the fish tank.
"Let me out, let me out!" Suki pleaded,
"Let me in, let me in!" Cooper jumped into the fish tank and clutched onto Suki in fear as Greasy and Gretchen closed in on them.
"Please don't eat me!" Cooper begged when the two bergens reached the tank.
"Pardon me," The two bergens heard a troll with a British accent say from behind him. The two turned and saw Biggie standing at the doorway.
"Hey, whose the big guy?" Greasy asked
"You talking to me?" Biggie growled, taking offense to what Greasy called him.
"Uh, oh you called him a big guy." Cooper said
"You talking to me?"
"You shouldn't have called him that."
"ARE YOU TALKING TO ME!?"
"Oh now their in for it."
"MY NAME IS BIGGIE!"
Biggie then ripped off a branch from the troll tree, snapped it in two with his teeth and charged the now terrified bergens.
Earl finally arrived to the tree but paused when he heard what sounded like a fight going on inside. The sound of glass shattering and terrified shrieks caused him to step back in fear. The other two bergens then all ran out screaming and covered in broken glass from the fish tank Biggie smashed over them. Biggie stepped out with Cooper and Suki laughing as the three bergens ran off in fear.
Poppy finally caught up to Creek, the tree the two of them were on had caught on fire do to being struck by lighting but it didn't seem to affect Poppy, she was determined to make Creek pay for his actions.
"Murderer!" Poppy growled as she approached Creek, who was cowering at the edge of the tree branch.
"Poppy please have mercy," Creek pleaded. He was literally shaking with fear. He could see it in Poppy's eyes that she was ready to end him, and the next words Poppy spoke not only confirmed it, but sent a shiver down his spine due to pure terror.
"You don't deserve to live."
"Poppy please, I am family," Creek needed someway to get out of this. Maybe if he passed the blame to someone else Poppy would spare his life. "It was the bergens who are the real criminals. It was their plan, their idea."
What Creek didn't intend on however was for his three most trusted bergens, Greasy, Gretchen, and Earl to overhear him double crossing them.
"Why that no good backstabbing sell out!" Gretchen growled. It was then that Branch arrived with a army of trolls all caring spears. The trolls pressed the three bergens into a wall. Feeling that Creek was no longer worth fighting for due to his betrayal the three bergens put their hands up in surrender.
"Why should I believe you?" Poppy asked "Everything you ever told me was a lie."
"What are you going to do, your not going to kill your own uncle are you?"
"No Creek," Poppy admitted. Deep down part of Poppy wanted to kill him, to make him feel what her father felt when Creek killed him. But Poppy knew her father wouldn't approve of her killing in in revenge. And Poppy loved her father to much to kill his brother, even if he deserved it "I'm not like you."
"Oh thank you." Creek breathed a sigh of relief "You are to kind. I'll make it up to you I promise. Is there anyway I can repay you?"
"Run!" Poppy said. Creek's eyes went wide in surprise. She was using the same words on him he used on her years ago. "Run away Creek, and never return."
Creek's head hung low in shame as she started to walk off. "Um yes of course, as you wish.." Creek then spotted some burning ash on the edge of the tree, and a wicked smile curled his lips. "your majesty!" Creek then picked up the ash and thew it at Poppy's face. Poppy screamed in pain as the ash hit her and she temporarily fell to the ground. Creek then took out a dagger and lunged at her.
The sound of Poppy's scream from being burned caught Branch's ear. He quickly turned to see Poppy on the ground and Creek coming at her with a dagger. Thinking fast Branch quickly called out to her and threw her his dagger. Poppy spotted the dagger at the corner of her eye and quickly caught the handle side and turned around just in the nick of time for their blades to clash.
Down on the ground Suki had joined in on the battle and hit a bergen on the two with a stick. The bergen yelped and grabbed his aching toe. It was then that Satin and chenille swung down on a branch and squirted lemon juice in the bergens eyes. The bergen screamed again and took a step backwards tripping over a vine Biggie and Cooper set up as a trap. The bergen fell allowing other trolls to tie the bergen on the ground in vines. As the struggling bergen worked to get free Gretchen ran up and whispered about Creek's betrayal in his ear.
"Um... I surrender." The Bergen said to the trolls after hearing the news. All the other bergens walked up to the trolls and surrendered too, causing everyone, especially Branch to tilt their heads in confusion.
"Um, what is happening?"
On top of the tree Poppy and Creek continued clash swords, the tree was starting to crumble around them due to the fire, but the two was too distracted in their battle to even notice.
"Why Creek?" Poppy roared as she wrapped her hair around Creeks arm and threw him against the tree bark. "Why did you do it? What did I ever do to you? What did Dad ever do to you?"
"Your father was king!" Creek growled as he picked himself off the floor and grabbed his dagger. "And you was born!"
Creek swung his dagger, but thankfully Poppy was able to react by dodging to the right, swinging her hair and able to swing to another branch. Creek growled in frustration before swinging to the other branch after Poppy. Just as the branch he was on collapsed causing him to barely miss falling into a sea of flames.
As Creek landed on the branch, Poppy came after him from behind tackling him to the ground and started punching him and yanking out his hair. Creek kicked her off of him and pulled out his dagger again about to charge. But lighting struck the tree again causing fire to form right between the two of them. There was no way the two could reach each other without getting burned. The two paced across the branch both glaring at each other trying to plan out their next move. It was Creek that ended up making the first move. Using his hair he grabbed the highest branch of the burning tree and shot himself high in the air. Poppy watched as he turned himself around in midair and chunked his dagger at her. Thinking fast Poppy dodged to the right causing the dagger to impale itself on the tree bark next to her. Then before Creek could return onto a solid surface Poppy shot out her hair as well and wrapped it around Creek's neck stopping him in his tracks. She then threw him as hard as she could to the left causing him to hit the ground hard, and right at the bergens feet.
As Creek got back to his feet and beat his fist against the dirt angry from defeat, he looked up to see a angry look on the faces of the bergens.
"Ah my friends."
"Friends? I thought he said we were the enemy." Gretchen said to Greasy.
"Yeah," Greasy replied "That's what I heard."
Creek's eyes went wide in terror, because it was then he realized they heard him selling them out.
The two bergens turned to Earl and asked his intake. Earl didn't say anything other then laughing and licking his chops. Creek realized what they were planning on doing and in a fit of panic he started begging and pleading the bergens not to do it, and tried to talk some sense into them. When none of that worked he ran for the hills, the bergens chasing after him. Poppy didn't intervene, she wouldn't kill him, but at the same time she didn't have to save him either. When she heard a blood curling scream off from the distance that she recognized as Creek's she breathed a sigh of relief and knew that it was all over.
The rain started to fall as Poppy made her way down the tree. As she watched as the rain put out the fires across her kingdom she saw each of her friends and her mother walk out of the smoke safe, and unharmed.
Guy Diamond then pointed to the Pride Tree and Poppy knew what she needed to do. As she walked to the tree she stopped and gave Guy Diamond a big hug.
"Thank you, for knocking some sense into me."
"It's what I'm here for." Guy Diamond said. "Now it is time."
Poppy broke from the hug and noticed Branch pulling out a crown for Poppy, the same crown that Peppy once wore when he was king. Poppy took the crown and pulled Branch in for a big hug and kiss.
"I couldn't have done this without you, thank you."
"Anytime." Branch said. Then Poppy made her way up the tree, followed closely by Guy Diamond. Rain drops soaked her skin and hair as she made her way slowly up the tree, she still couldn't believe it. Just twenty four hours earlier she was living in the forest with Cooper and Biggie completely forgetting her life back home. Now she was becoming Queen, just like she dreamed when she was a little troll.
Down on the ground Rosiepuff watched on, a single tear of joy fell across her face as she watched her little girl take her place in the circle of life. Words couldn't describe the joy she was feeling. It was just a hour ago that she believed Poppy was lost forever now she was alive and well and taking her place as queen. As she watched in joy Branch walked up to her and wrapped a arm around his adoptive mother.
"I can't believe you found her." Rosiepuff said
"Actually she found me."
Poppy reached the edge of the top branch and stared over her kingdom and all her subjects. As she stared down at her crown for a brief second she wondered if she was ready for this. She missed so many years of training, so many years of her mother teaching her how to be a good queen. What if...what if she wasn't ready?
"Remember." Poppy heard her father saw from the sky.
Yes, yes she was ready. And without another second of hesitation Poppy put on her crown, signalling her as the new Queen. The trolls cheered and Guy Diamond held up Poppy's left arm presenting her to the kingdom.
"Poppy, Queen of the Troll lands!"
One more chapter guys, then this story will be wrapped up. I have a something special planned for the final chapter that wasn't in the movie but I felt would give this a more Trolls type ending so don't miss it.