Bounty Hunters

The Trolls stood there, looking at the Trio of sisters, The one in the center, holding her guitar, the second one playing trumpet, and the third playing violin. The oldest curled her fingers on the nylon strings of her classical guitar.

"Looks like we hit the jackpot, the Rock and Pop Queens, Now, how about you two hand over those strings," The oldest Troll said strumming on her instrument as Eddy looked at Barb, asking if she was being serious.

"That's Lupe, Mina, and Chica, The Mariachi Sisters, they are a group of mercenaries" Barb explained as she turned to them.

"No way we're handing over our strings, get lost" Barb ordered as Eddy looked at them, telling the trio to look around.

"You got an army of Rock Trolls, a village of Pop Trolls and some Techno Trolls in the bus, how do you think this will go down?" Eddy asked, pulling out his sword as Twiggy pulled out her crossbow, aiming it at the Trio.

"Don't Worry,Twiggy and I can handle the three of them by ourselves" Eddy said to the two tribes, the Rock Trolls deciding to let Eddy and Twiggy handle it, and the Pop Trolls who we're not one to fight.

"You three are mercs, you could at least tell us, who hired, before we get to the fighting, as a formality" Eddy suggested as Lupe smirked saying they did not reveal information about their clients as Eddy ran at Lupe, faster than the eye could see, slicing with his sword as the neck of her guitar split in two. pushing the blade against her torso.

"Walk away now!" Eddy ordered as Chica, swung her violin, the two clashed weapons and Lupe took this opportunity to get away as Mina blew on her trumpet, sending a gust of wind at Eddy while a crossbow bolt shot the horn out of her grip.

"I Don't think so," Twiggy said, her crossbow limbs closing as a blade shot out and she charged at the trumpet player swinging her crossbow sword, the blade slicing through the air. Eddy kicked off Chica, grabbing her Violin and the two fought over it. Eddy being stronger, pulling the weapon from the Troll, tossing it away, and clattering on the ground.

"Can't we just settle this peaceful, maybe with a song?" Poppy offered as the five were fighting

Eddy let go, feeling Lupe bash her guitar over his head as he looked at the older sister, spinning as his sword tore through her torso, leaving a nasty cut as Lupe screamed, clenching her stomach and falling over as Mina and Chica stopped their fighting looking at Eddy who simply held his sword towards the two sisters. All of a sudden locks of pink hair grabbed their arms making them all drop their weapons.

"That's Enough!" Poppy called out getting upset as she mentioned she wasn't letting them go until they agreed to stop fighting. Eddy looked at the sisters, saying if they agreed to stop the fight, they would not try anything and help the wounded sister.

"Deal, just help our sister" Mina agreed as Chica nodded as Eddy looked at Poppy, saying they agreed to stop fighting as Poppy withdrew her hair.

"Now, can we all calm down, before someone else gets cut," Eddy said pulling out a bandana rubbing the blade of his sword, Twiggy said she would treat Lupe's wound as she looked at some of the Pop Trolls, telling them to get her some Cherryberries, Green Root, and Floral Fungus" Twiggy called out as some of the Trolls ran off.

After 20 minutes of looking around the Trolls came back with the ingredients as Twiggy was glad she packed a medical kit to their battle, sewing Lupe's wound shut while Guy handed her the ingredients. Twiggy crushed them up into a small bowl turning the mixture into a thick paste.

"Ok Lupe, I'm going to apply this to your wound, and fair warning this is really gonna hurt, I mean HURT but it only lasts a few seconds," Twiggy said pouring the creamy mixture on the Troll's wound as Lupe screamed in pain, complaining how hot the mixture felt.

"Quit whining, it only lasts a second, you don't want your cut getting infected," Twiggy said rubbing the mixture into the cut before bandaging up the wound, helping Lupe up as Eddy looked at her, asking who hired them to steal the strings as Mina looked at Lupe, saying that they helped with her wound, it was the least they could do.

Lupe nodded, telling them that the guy who hired them was a pale troll with black hair and that he hired the other mercs to collect the strings, they don't know anything about him, but mentioned they had to beat some of the other Mercs to get this Job.

"Look, what did this Troll offer you, I can double it if you help us" Barb offered, seeing the opportunity to hire some of the best mercenaries money could buy as Lupe sighed.

"He did not pay us, he said those who brought him a string would get a spot in his new empire" Lupe finger quoted as Poppy looked at her, asking if they really thought they could steal the string of Pop music.

"Yeah, We did not believe it at first but he had the Classical string, we just thought the Pop string would be the easiest to nab, your tribe isn't really known to be good fighters" Chica stated as Barb let out a laugh at the Pop Trolls expense.

"Wait, you said this 'Troll' had the Classical String" Eddy called out holding up his sword as the trolls looked at him.

"Relax, I'm just putting it away" Eddy replied putting the blade in its sheath as Lupe nodded, saying it was golden yellow and had the sound of a whole orchestra with one pluck as Eddy shook his head.

"That's no Troll, that's Lord Deyo, the guy you're working for, he's a demonic overlord from my time" Eddy explained as they looked at him confused. Eddy explained that long story short he and Twiggy were from the future and trying to stop Deyo from enslaving all the Trolls as the Mariachi Sisters looked at each other.

"You're being serious, the guy is a demon, but he looked like a Troll, we just thought we were uniting the Trolls," The sisters said upset at the idea of allying with a demon.

"Music Gods have mercy on us," Lupe said, clenching her arms together as Barb looked at Eddy, telling him it was weird that they also knew of these alleged Music Gods as Lupe looked at her.

"They are the creators of all Music and formed the Harp of Harmony as their final gift to Troll-kind before ascending to the next plain" Lupe informed as Poppy looked at them.

"I'm Sorry, Music Gods. This is the first I'm hearing of it" Poppy called out as Eddy looked at her, a bit shocked but not disappointed, saying they allegedly created Music, the Six Gods were once normal Trolls, the first leaders of their respective Tribes, the created music and before ascending, each Troll plucked a hair from their head cast it into the Harp of Harmony as their last gift.

"That's what I just said," Lupe said as Branch scoffed, saying it was just a myth and that he did not believe in deities as Barb huffed.

"Look Gods or no Gods, will you help us?" Barb asked as the Sisters nodded, saying there was no way they would let a demon hold the strings as Barb put her hands up, saying that it was good to hear, asking if they were alone or if Deyo hired the other mercs.

"He hired everyone, Everyone at the bar agreed to help them, except the Yodelers, they got trapped in an avalanche and missed open mic night" Mina explained tuning her violin that was damaged in their battle.

"Could you get in contact with them, if Deyo hasn't hired them it would be good to have the Yodelers in our pocket" Barb claimed, mentioning they were among the top 4 mercs as Branch asked who these other Mercenaries were as Lupe pulled out a magazine showing a bio of the best Mercenaries and Bounty Hunters.

A/N Mercenary/ Bounty Hunter Rankings

1. Chaz- He doesn't even to fight, he uses his music to put other Trolls under his spell, making them easy to move on

2- Reggaeton- a three Troll group consisting of fierce fighters, little is known about them

3- KPOP- They are a large group consisting of Five Trolls who use speed and stealth tactics to capture their mark

4- The Yodelers- These two Trolls have powerful voices and are masters of disguise, preferring infiltration tactics to achieve their goal as opposed to brute force

5- The Mirachi Sister- This Trio of Sisters are quick with their finger and even more so with their weapons, prideful and tend to bite off more than they can chew

6- Barbershop Boys- The Quartet of Trolls aren't the best fighters but are extremely patient and don't give up, their work often goes unnoticed

7- Little Miss Polka- the youngest Troll on this list, despite her young age the Troll is resilient and never gives up, she's more likely to break you into coming with her using annoying attitude and polka music