Later at four-thirty in the morning, King Quincy had his arms resting on the balcony, an arm holding up his head as he looked at the night sky with a uninterested expression. The air did feel cool on his face, but he never appreciated. Deep down inside Quincy, he was just glad that now Will wasn't his problem anymore, and that he just hoped that if his sons ever break up with Will, it was going to be another gay Funk troll's problem for him to be having to cheat behind his back. Quincy hoped that it will be the case.

Suddenly, he perked up when the sound of rapid pacing of feet was heard from behind him and he turned to see Essence. "Essence? What are you doing up so—?" His sentence was interrupted by a smack to the face by her hand.

"You son of a bitch! How could you do something like that?!" Essence's face was pissed-off. Quincy's hand rubbed the side of his face where he was slapped. "We are suppose to be loyal to our citizens! Not threaten them to a fucking death sentence!"

Quincy argued back, "He was making you upset, Ess, I had to do something!"

"Don't you 'Ess' me, Quincy! And do you think I am upset now?! No! In fact, I was starting to like the fact that Will was going to be our son-in-law until he called me up saying that you threaten him into having a three-way intercourse with our sons!" Quincy was taken back, karma had finally struck him as he heard his wife blare at him saying that Will contacted her telling about his threat. How did he even get her number?

Essence withdrawn herself back to the other room where Quincy followed by a foot distance where she was in their bedroom, a suitcase was open on the bed, full of clothes of her own.

"Where are you going?" Quincy asked.

Essence shut the suitcase as her gaze turn to him. "Until you learn that not everyone is a threat to our family..." she grabbed the suitcase and turned to him, but not looked at Quincy, "I'm going to stay at a friend's house, your face makes me sick." She gave him the cold shoulder as she strutted out the bedroom and slammed the door behind her, leaving a unattended alone in the room with a guilt-filled air strewing in.

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Adam, a green-colored Funk troll with pink dreads, a single dad, knocked on his daughter's pink door. "Lily, sweetie? Are you almost done packing?"

"Almost!" A small female voiced answered from the other side. Lily, in her room, was a light-purple five-year-old Funk troll with red braids in a low ponytail. On her bed was an open backpack full of stuff: clothes, books, coloring books with colored pencils and a sharpener, her swimsuit, and her toothbrush with toothpaste. As Lily checked her backpack once more, she rubbed her chin, thinking of another thing she might as well need before going to her uncle's.

She saw a lined-up collection of her favorite characters from her favorite show: Fraggle Rock. Lily owned both the puppet and cartoon version of that show. There were five characters from the show all lined in a row: Gobo, Wembley, Red, Boober, and Mokey. Lily picked up Gobo and hugged him tightly before declaring. "I'm taking you, Gobo, we can go on adventures!" She stuffed Gobo in her backpack and zipped it up, she threw the backpack over her shoulder and got out of her room where her dad was waiting.

"Which one did you take, sweetie?" Adam asked her, holding her hand.

"I took Gobo, so we can go on adventures!" Adam chuckled at his daughter.

"You know you could always take more than one, sweetie, it is perfectly okay with me if you take two Fraggles with you." Adam assured Lily, who shook her head politely at the offer.

"I'm okay, Daddy, besides, Mokey has to take care of Lanford and you know how Wembley gets when he is in the dark." Their conversation ended shortly when they both got outside, Will was outside on the curb.

Lily ran up to Will. "Uncle Will!" He embraced the little troll in his arms.

"Hey, sweetheart, ready for my place?" Lily did a motion of her head, a nod. "Great. Hey, why don't you check your garden while I talk to your dad, okay?" Will pointed at a small bed of flowers where all kinds where growing in a messy rainbow.

"Okay, Uncle Will." She went over to the bed where she was gently patting the dirt in order to make sure that the dirt was moist and not hard and dry. Will went over to his older brother, who was thirty-two, and the adult conversation began.

"She's got everything, yes?"

"Yeah, she chose Gobo to take with her."

"Really? He was my favorite when I was little, you know?"

"I know, Will, I've heard you sing the damn intro when you were six over and over again like a broken record player."

"So what's going on with work?"

"My boss wants my ass to be there tomorrow at seven in the morning. Seven I tell you!"

"My boss is worse, just found out he was a piece of shit."

"Why is that?"

"Homophobic. Huge one, too."

"He doesn't know?"

Will scoffed. "Of course not, he just found out that Corral, my best friend, is a lesbian and wants me to fire her. I already told her about what was happening and she just broke down in my office."

"Does Jessie know?"

"I haven't heard, I say she must be pissed."

"Must be hard on Corral—she was just fine working there."

"I don't know, I did offer her a list of other jobs she could work at instead, but she refused."

"How come? At least those other jobs are gay-friendly."

"I get that, but she just insisted that she wanted to prove Avery that being gay doesn't mean she will get the business down under."

"Her choice, my friend, her choice."

Lily returned a short while later. Her hands clinging to bits off dirt she had wiped off afterwards. "My flowers dirt is still wet, Uncle Will; I am going to wash my hands."

"Alright, sweetie." Lily dropped her stuff on the sidewalk and ran back to the house. She ran back outside quickly, her hands now clean.

Adam picked up his daughter and hugged her. "Have fun, love bug, listen to your uncle, okay?"

"I will, Daddy." Lily got up on Will's back afterwards. "Bye Daddy!" Adam waved back at his daughter before the uncle/niece trio walked off.

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The room was undeniably a cool and cozy one. Both of the twins slept peacefully in the bed; Cooper snoring loudly as his hair was a bit tangled while Darnell had his back turned as he breathed calmly. Darnell then turned to the other side where his face grazed soft fluff by accident, he exhaled quietly, remembering last night's fun. Darnell nuzzled his face to where the fluff was growing more and more on him, he did a little moan. His hand was now over the fluff, feeling the Funk troll's chest. Then, Darnell smiled to himself as moved his hand over more to Will's right side where Cooper was sleeping and motioned his fingers a bit. To where he heard his brother laughing.

"Ha ha! Stop it, Will!" Cooper chuckled out.

Playful... Darnell thought. His eyes were still closed. Darnell moved his hand more down to Will's body, biting his lip playfully as he went down more. Cooper actually turned to his side and did the same thing. Finally, Darnell was now at waist level, his hand squeezing Will's side to let him know what was up. His hand then grabbed, only to feel his brother's hand. Not Will's dick. Both twins were now sitting up and awake, seeing that it was a fluffy body pillow that they were trying to seduce.

Darnell groaned before rubbing one of his eyes. "Where's Will...?"

Cooper looked around before seeing a Post-It note on the lamp, he took it off: Getting niece for three-day stay at my place. Be back soon. (PS, had a great time last night) (Smiley-face emoticon).

Cooper huffed before laying back down and held up the sticky note between his fingers. "He went to pick up his niece."

"Lily?" Darnell grabbed the Post-It note and read it, sighing afterwards. He changed the subject afterwards. "I'm tired..."

"Then just sleep," Cooper sighed out, "it's not like she's gonna come in here and see two trolls sleeping in her uncle's bed."

"That's exactly what it's going to be." Cooper turned to his brother, a raised eyebrow was added. "Sorry, like I said: I'm just tired."

"Then just sleep in...nobody is gonna bother us..." Cooper repeated once more, adding another sentence to it.

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"Alright, Lily, what do you wanna do today?" Will asked his niece over his shoulder as she was on his back. Lily had gotten out her coloring book and pencils along with a two-by-two size miniature drawing desk. She was coloring a white flower green with its stem a bright purple.

"Can we go to the carnival today? Pretty please, Uncle Will?" Lily bounced on his back a bit in anticipation.

"Sure, why not? Sounds like a lot of fun."

Lily cheered out a "Yay!" before asking. "Can we go now?"

"Ummm...why not we get your stuff ready at the house, then we can go. 'Cause we can't lose our stuff now while we're there." Will answered his niece.

"Okay Uncle Will." It wasn't until then Lily did a gasp and exclaimed out. "Uncle Will, be careful!"

"What? What is it?" Will was looking around the streets to see why Lily was warning him but didn't see any danger, she then patted her shoulder for his attention and pointed the pavement.

"You almost stepped on her!" Lily was pointing to a ladybug that was crawling on a piece of grass.

"Oh, my bad," Will apologized before walking around the piece of grass and continued. "Man, Lily, you've got some extraordinary eyes over there." Will remarked.

"What does that mean?"

"It means that it is remarkable; somewhat talented."

Lily beamed. "Thanks, Uncle Will."

They got to the house where Will got Lily off his back with her stuff and opened the door for her. She ran in there and went to her room (which was the guest room) and got her stuff out. Will was outside the doorway with his arms crossed. "Lily?"

"Yeah, Uncle Will?" Lily turned to him.

"I'm going to clean myself up while you get your stuff out and we'll head out, okay?"

"Okay," Lily returned to her backpack and had already gotten out her coloring pages and Gobo. She was humming the Fraggle Rock theme song as she gotten out her clothes. Then, her ears perked up with her teal eyes all wide. She had heard something, but it sounded muffled. She shrugged, assuming it was nothing and went back to her things. The sound was heard again, Lily sighed before shaking her head.

"Very funny, Uncle Will, trying to scare me." Lily called out in sarcasm. She turned and crossed her arms with a smirk to see if her uncle came out from behind the door, nothing. Her smirk was then going more and more down the more no troll came out. She poked her head out the doorway to see the bathroom door closed with hearings of running water. The noise returned and she immediately had her whole body up against the wall, her eyes alert. She only knew that her Uncle Will was the only troll who lived here—nobody else.

She looked back up to the bed where Gobo was slumped over, his tail—the Fraggle creatures had tails—was scrawled over the bed. She remembered that in the bottom of her bag was her adventure hat. In the show, Gobo had a relative by the name of Uncle "Traveling" Matt, an explorer who was going on travels in "space," only in reality he was on the surface of Earth. Lily had a hat just like the explorer's one. She got to her bag once more and dug out her adventure hat, dusting it off in the process, and put it on. She then grabbed Gobo and punched the air with a fist.

"Time for an adventure, Gobo! Explorer Lily: Case of the Mysterious Noise."

Lily stuck her head out the doorway once more, looking around to see if anybody was around. Nobody. She threw Gobo over her shoulder and she laid on the floor on her belly. Pretending that she was somewhat like a stealthy ninja, she crawled on the clean floorboards, passing the closed bathroom. She could here the noise more louder more, coming from her uncle's closed bedroom door. She stood up from the floor and attempted to reach for the knob, no luck. She jumped a few times to reach it, still no luck. After pondering for a moment while tapping one of her front feet, she took the Fraggle off her back and gripped his tail. She made a loop with Gobo's tail and wrapped it around the knob. With one end of the tail in her hand, she wiggled the knob a bit before shifted the tail, pulling the right side down. The door opened.

Lily pushed the open door a bit with a slight creak to it. The noise was no longer muffled and was now clear. Lily was almost taken back by how loud it was but she continued her adventure. She looked around the room and already spotted her first clue: a green hat that was laying on the floor. Lily picked it up, she removed her hat and placed the green one on her head, immediately covering her eyes. She giggled a bit before the sound was now returning. Lily saw that the noise was coming from her uncle's bed, she walked over to it and saw that two figures had their heads over the covers.

Lily's eyes widen with amazement as she kept her gaze at the mysterious sleeping silhouettes, their bodies were going up and then down, indicating they were breathing. She just had to know who the creatures were. Lily thought of a lot of things: conjoined twins who wanted to sleep; creatures from uncharted swamps or forests that never saw or heard of a bed and wanted to know what a bed is used for; or perhaps a long dragon with four separate lungs.

Lily did a squeal of excitement, already wanting to see the creatures. She walked over to the edge of the bed and got up. She was careful not to touch anything or put pressure on the mattress so they wouldn't wake up. She crawled to the little space in the middle of the bed, between the creatures. Lily turned to the creature on her left, the thing was sleeping peacefully; Lily turned to the creature on her right, the thing was making a loud noise. She sat down and lifted the sheet curiously, she did a little gasp and fully flipped the blanket over.

It wasn't any of the creatures she imagined, it was just a troll. A Funk troll. Lily knew who this troll was, it was none other than Vibe City's long-lost royal Prince Cooper. Lily watched as he was snoring. "Wow..." Lily whispered. She hugged Gobo tightly before she whispered into the male Fraggle's ear. "Gobo, look, he's sleeping in my uncle's bed. Isn't it amazing?"

"It sure is, Explorer Lily," Gobo said, Lily was mimicking his voice to help. She then bursting out laughing, not controlling her volume as the sleeping Cooper began to stir. Lily did surprised sound as she watched him sit up and yawn. Cooper then rubbed his eyes and smacked his lips. His eyes accidentally landed on the five-year-old as he was then jumped in surprise, covering himself with the blanket.

Lily giggled at Cooper's reaction before she greeted him. "Hi,"

Cooper looked around the room for a bit before he returned with an awkward: "U-Umm...hi..."

Remembering that she was wearing the green cap, she took it off and stood up. "I believe this belongs to you." Lily put the cap on Cooper's messy bed hair.

Taking a few glances at his sleeping brother, Cooper shook him awake. "Darnell? Darnell, wake up!"

"Uh, wha...?" Darnell sat up, "What time is-" Darnell saw Lily and did the same thing Cooper did and she laughed. The bathroom door opened and a puff of steam escaped from the room and Will got out from the bathroom rubbing a small white towel on his face. He walked into the room to see his niece sitting on his bed with Cooper and Darnell up in shock and embarrassment.

Lily began to jump on the bed while exclaiming. "Uncle Will! Uncle Will! I found the mysterious noise solved!"

"Oh, did you now?" Will asked her, looking extremely calm at the situation. Darnell buried his face into his hands and muttered something.

"Uncle Will, are you ready for the carnival yet?"

"Carnival?" Cooper questioned.

"Mm-hm, me and Uncle Will are going today. Did you wanna join us?"

Will stepped in and sat down on the bed next to Lily. "Lily, sweetie, I think they just got up. Why don't we go to the carnival without them so they could refresh themselves up so they could meet us there, okay?"

"Okay, Uncle Will." She hopped off the bed and went to the other room, afterwards, Cooper sighed out in relief.

"Well, that was an embarrassing way of meeting Lily." Cooper said.

"Oh, come on, it wasn't that bad." Will assured him.

Darnell moaned out, "But it was, Will, I'm too embarrassed right now. She doesn't even know the relationship we are having."

"Darnell, she's gonna figure it out some way." Will reassured.

A small little "Oh no!" was heard and all three trolls got up and ran into the guest bedroom. "What? What is it, sweetie?" Will asked in a worry tone. He only then saw Lily zipping up a much more smaller backpack.

Lily bursted out the answer: "I forgot I was suppose to meet the others today!"

Darnell looked at the young female Funk troll. "Others? S-Sweetie, what others?"

"She is in this club for children with big imaginations who want to explore. She joined six months ago before she went to school." Will answered. Lily hurried and kissed her uncle on the cheek before rushing out the door.

"I'll be back soon, Uncle Will! I won't be late!" She called out.

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Lily was in a club otherwise known as "The Adventurers Club." It was an age range between eight-year-old's and twelve-year-old's. Lily was one of the youngest members of the group there. It was a treehouse somewhere in a forest outside the Troll Kingdom. One of the group members was Tiny Diamond. When Lily got there, she saw that the ladder which was just ropes and thick branches were still hanging. Lily climbed up and was greeted by a Rock troll, Bentlee, a nine-year-old. "Come on, Lily, the meeting's already started."

Lily got inside the treehouse and seated herself on the rug between the Country troll, Clampers, and the glittery troll, Tiny Diamond. A yellow Pop troll with pink hair by the name of Nova got up, she was the leader. "Alright, is this everyone?"

A Techno troll raised its hand before calling out: "Shirley is missing; she's sick."

"Alright, so minus one then." Nova said, she then cleared her throat. "As we all know, we are adventurers, we go on quests."

"That's right!" Tiny Diamond declared. "And as adventurers, we never give up!"

"Exactly," Nova pointed out, "so that is why I called all of you because this adventure is a big one. How big you ask? Well, just last week, I found what could've been the biggest clue ever!"

"What is it then, Nova?" Clampers asked. On cue, Nova went over to a cabinet and pulled out something hard and heavy, she laid it down on the floor for everyone to see. Lily's eyes widen. On the floor, a concrete footprint that was the size of a baby troll. Looking like something it belonged to a reptile.

"I found this when I was picking strawberries for my grandma's berry tart. It was in my backyard so I grabbed my dad's casting kit from the garage and made a print of it."

"It's big!" A Country troll exclaimed. "What do you think it belongs to?"

Nova shrugged. "That's what has been on my mind all day! I even asked my grandpa about and do you know what he suggested?"

"Tell us," Bentlee said.

"He said it could of belong to a exotic creature on the brick of extinction, he said he saw one of those when he was a child at his parents farm."

"Did he describe it at least?" Tiny Diamond asked.

"He said that it was as tall as a skyscraper, full of dark feathers, and had a face of a aborted blob fish."

"Sounds ugly." The Techno troll said.

"That's what I said to my grandpa." Nova pointed out. It didn't take long for Lily to raise her hand. "Yeah, Lily? What is it?"

"Did your grandpa say where does it live?"

"Oh, yeah, he did. He said that it lives in big, dark caves." That was when the group did an interested "Ooh!" at Nova's answer. "And the main event for the meeting is 'cause we are gonna hunt down this creature on Thrusday at seven p.m."

"But, isn't that, like, during the nighttime?" Bentlee asked.

"Yes, my grandpa said this creature are nocturnal. So we are going to follow it."

Lily was practically vibrating in so many ways. She was going on another adventure, and, going to hunt a mythical creature she never knew it even existed. She jumped out of her spot and ran around the room as she cheered: "Woo-hoo! I get to go on adventure! I am so excited!" As she was sing-songing to herself, Nova approached the hyperactive trolling.

"Uh...Lily?"

Lily stopped and asked cheerfully, "Yeah?!" The looks. The looks the trolls faces they had on were distressing.

Nova got closer to the Funk troll. "Lily, look, as much as we like you in our group. But...well..." Nova fidget her fingers. Lily's smile got more and more down the longer Nova pondered in silence.

"Well what? Is something wrong?" Lily questioned.

Bentlee stepped in, filling in for Nova. "Look Lily, as much as we like you in our group in all. But we cannot have you going on this adventure."

"How come...?" Bentlee kneeled and placed a hand on her shoulder.

"It's too dangerous for you, Lily, and, well, you're too young."

"But...but..." Lilt tried to argue back but couldn't find anything else to say. The room stood still as she had her head down. Lily sighed heavily, she was extremely disappointed that this time she would not go.

"Lily! Time to come to the carnival!" The sound of her uncle's calling voice made her ears perk up, along with the slight noise of the festival's music. Her uncle was waiting for her.

She grabbed her bag and put it over her shoulder. "Coming Uncle Will..." Lily softly answered. She dragged herself out the treehouse, where the other trolls where commenting:

"Don't be so sad, Lily, you'll go on other adventures when you are older." Bentlee said.

"Yeah, Lily, we can go on adventures with you all the time!" Tiny Diamond added.

Lily threw her bag on the ground and she gripped one of the ladder's branches. "Thanks you guys, but...I get it..."

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Will waited patiently outside the shrubs where Lily emerged from. Darnell and Cooper by his sides. The rustling occurred and Lily came out of the woods. "Hey, pumpkin, how did the meeting go?" Will asked in a soft tone. Lily looked down on the ground and shuffled her feet a bit.

"It went okay, Uncle Will..."

Cooper frowned a bit, knowing that this wasn't the side of Lily he knew this morning. "Did something happen, sweetie?"

"No..."

Darnell approached the young female and got down to her level. "Lily, if there's something wrong, you can come and talk to us." Darnell assured her, he lifted up her chin. "Is there something that happened in the meeting?" Lily nodded slowly. "Mind if you tell us?"

Lily shifted a bit. "Well, we had this meeting about a creature we were suppose to capture on Thursday. A-And I wanted to join them but they said it was too dangerous for me and that I was too young." Lily had her head lowered before adding a depressing: "I guess they could be right..."

Cooper sighed and kneeled to the five-year-old. "Lily, listen, they say that because they are just looking out for your safety. They just don't want you to get hurt is all. Yes, you may be too young, but that doesn't mean they want you to not go on any adventures. It's just that there are standards when it comes to exploring; and safety is one of them." Lily lifted up her head.

"So they were just looking out for me?" Lily sniffled.

"Of course, honey, that is what most people do. I know you're a bit disappointed sweetheart, but hey, maybe we should have some fun to cheer you up?"

Lily sniffled once last time before wiping her eyes and beamed. "Okay!"

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Corral hunched over the toilet, hugging it, and retched out her breakfast. She coughed for a bit before wiping her mouth. What was in the toilet bowl were chunks of egg, toast, bacon, and orange juice all in a vomit stew. She had been acting this way for a few days now, she couldn't understand why. The vomiting, the sudden urge of urinating every time, weird cravings of food, and a sudden gain of a few pounds. She also felt bloated and she noticed that she was late on her menstrual cycle.

She pulled the handle down and flushed down the vomit. A bitter aftertaste of bile filled her mouth. Corral grabbed a plastic cup and filled it from the faucet and rinsed her mouth out, she repeated this again and spat out the water again. She opened the bathroom door where Jessie's dads, Andrew and John, stepped back so Corral made her way over to the couch and flopped on it.

Andrew, a hot-pink Country troll with dark-green hair and a white tank-top with jeans, a transgender gay male. He stepped cautiously to the Techno troll. "Corral, honey, this is the third time this week you threw up. I'm worried sick about you." The centaur-like troll said in a worry tone, having a slight feminine accent to him.

John, a purple troll with yellow hair and a thick mustache, stepped in, a regular gay male. "My husband is right, hon, we should take you to a clinic or somethin'."

Corral sat up, "You guys, I'm fine. It may be a sort of stomach bug. I just need to fight it is all."

Andrew and John looked at each other, then back at Corral, Andrew approached Corral once more, clutching something in his grasp. "Sweetie, I think there is one way to find out what it is..." Andrew reached out his arms and opened his hands, revealing a pregnancy test. "Because I had those exact same symptoms when I was pregnant with Jessie."

Corral set down the urinated test on the counter of the bathroom. She looked at the males in front of her. "What happens next?"

"We wait and see what the results are," John directed. "If it's got two lines, then call me a grandfather."

They waited for a few minutes outside the bathroom door where Corral was in with the pregnancy test. Finally, the door opened and the Techno troll came out, the plastic stick in her hand. John and his husband got up and hurried towards the woman. "Corral, sweetie, did you see them?" Andrew asked.

Corral nodded a bit, reaching out and showed the test at the two males. It had two lines; Corral was pregnant.