*Checks my checking account after the Holidays* A HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT DOLLARS IN THE HOLE? WHAT THE FU...(BLEEP) *technical difficulties please stand by* (BLEEP)
Okay so maybe I spent a little to much over the Holiday season. I cant help it if I got a lot of people to shop for. The good news is with the Christmas money I received and the fact that I'll get paid again at my job this week I can start building my checking account up again.
Anyway thanks for being patient while I was gone for the Holidays. I know you have come to expect my Trolls stories to be updated once a week so I appreciate your patience and understanding.
Anyway, hope you all had a great Christmas, Happy new year now let's get on with it shall we?
Raider and Poppy parked their boat on a island just a little under a mile away from Raider's tribe. When they reached the Jungle tribe it would be to dangerous to risk their boat being spotted. So from hear they would have to travel by dragon.
Usually that wouldn't be a issue for Poppy, but after her near death experience Poppy was without her trusted Starfire, not only that, she was without a weapon.
Luckily though Raider had that covered, down in the cellar Raider had special made armor and weapons that she had made throughout the past years with Oaken. Grabbing a breast plate and helmet Raider tossed the two items to Poppy. "Put these on, they are specially made out of Shadow's molted scales."
Poppy gave somewhat a disgusted look at the armor when she heard that it was made from Shadow's scales but Raider persisted. "Trust me with the weapon you are going to be using you are going to need this to protect you."
"What do you mean, with my weapon?"
"You'll see," Raider tossed her the rest of her armor, after a couple of minutes Poppy was covered head to toe in Night Fury armor.
"This stuff smells."
"This is going to save your life." Raider then tossed Poppy a ax, Poppy raised a single eyebrow as she noticed the ax looked like just a ordinary ax, but Raider soon pointed out "Press the small button on the handle."
Poppy did as she was instructed and soon the ax lit up in electricity not only that the electricity went through her entire body, Poppy was both terrified and amazed at how it didn't electrocute her.
"A Night Fury can produce electricity throughout it's entire body, Now you can too. Not only does the electricity give you a extra weapon but also protection. Nobody's going to try to hit you if your coated with electricity."
"How did you make this?"
"I picked up some tricks on that island. Now turn off the electricity you don't want to use it all up before we even get to my tribe, now come on."
Poppy rode on the back of Shadow, clinging on to Raider as they sped as fast as Shadow could take them. They reached the island within five minutes, and hid in the clouds as she studied the situation below.
The mountain tribe had indeed completely taken over the island. The surviving Jungle trolls were being treated as slaves or worse. Several trolls was forced to work in the crop fields, pulling the plows like cattle, many of them on all fours due to the weight of the plows while being whipped by one of the mountain trolls.
One of those trolls was Raider's mother, a red skinned troll with black hair like Raider's. Watching from the skies Raider watched in horror as her mother was on all fours in the knees, exhausted and sweaty as she pulled a heavy plow across the fields. A mountain troll followed closely behind kicking her and striking her with a whip on her back as she plowed.
"Faster Red, you stupid filthy ox!" The mountain troll ordered "The storms about to come any second and I want these fields finished and plowed before it does!"
"Please Marshall," Raider's mother Red cried, her face coated in the dirt that had been kicked in her face throughout the long day. "I've been out here plowing since sunrise, I'm tired, I'm hungry, I need a break."
"You'll get to eat when your finished, not a second later." Marshall smacked Red across the face, Raider watched on with hatred in her eyes seeing what that monster was doing to her mother. "Now move you dumb ox! Or you will be spending the night locked in the stocks like that other dumb pig."
"Her name is Jo."
"She's a dumb stupid pig, and your a dumb stupid ox! Now move!" Tears streaming down her face Red struggled as she moved the plow again, her arms and legs shaking from both the weight and exhaustion.
"Jo?" Raider gasped upon hearing her name.
"Who's Jo?"
"My best friend as a child. She was the one I was playing with the day they attacked." Raider noticed on the other side of the island Jo, a young glittering purple troll with silver hair bent over as her wrist and neck were locked in a stocked. A flash of lightning flashed above them and a heavy rain started to fall on the island. Several mountain trolls kicked and threw mud in Jo's face, and laughed as Jo just cried unable to do anything.
One mountain troll took the humiliation even further, he opened Jo's mouth and forced her to eat mud and laughed as she spit it out.
"What's the matter you filthy pig? I thought pigs loved mud?"
"If anybody's a pig Cotton, it's you!"
Cotton, not liking how he was being addressed picked up a stick off the ground and struck her against the face. "It's that attitude that got you here to begin with. If you had just let those men have their way with you like you was told you wouldn't be in here. Instead you kicked them in a mud puddle and left one of them a broken nose. Your lucky I stopped them from messing up that pretty face of yours. Our men don't want to sleep with ugly women now so behave or your next punishment will be a lot worse."
"Why are you doing this Cotton? We never did anything to you people. We are a peaceful tribe."
"Because your filth, and this is all your good for." Cotton walked off leaving Jo sobbing as the rain washed off the mud on her face, unable to fight back or escape the stocks she was locked to.
Raider had seen and heard enough, as another lighting strike fell from the sky Raider lifted her sword in the air, the lighting struck her sword and went through both her and Poppy's body all the way to Shadow. Shadow opened his mouth and charged his strike, then Poppy watched in amazement as Shadow shot out a electric blast from his mouth and lighting shot out of Raider's sword, blasting several mountain trolls, electrocuting them.
As thee mountain trolls laid on the ground electrocuted Shadow flew to the middle of the crop field and started running towards her mother.
"You go rescue the ones in the stocks, I've got these." Raider replied to Poppy. Poppy nodded and ran towards the stocks.
Running towards her mother, Red broke out in tears when she saw Raider run up to her and work on freeing her.
"I thought I would never see you again."
"I'm back mom!" Raider wept "And I'm never leaving you again. I'm so sorry I left."
"Oh baby if you stayed they would have made you a slave to."
"I shouldn't have been gone this long, I should have come back sooner."
Her mother shushed her as Raider cut the chains with her sword freeing her from her bonds. "It's okay my child, your here now, that's all that matters. Now let's free the others."
"Your not freeing anyone." Marshall suddenly growled, drawing his sword from his sheath. Raider pushed her mother behind her as she took out her own sword.
"That is a very bad mistake sir." Raider taunted.
"The only mistake is you showing your face." Marshall growled before lifting his sword above his head ready to lower it on Raider's head. Raider didn't flinch or even look intimidated in the slightest she pressed a button on her sword and struck the sword in the ground, suddenly electricity flowed forward across the ground, making it's way to Marshall. Marshall screamed as he felt the electricity go throughout his body and he soon fell to the ground, his body charred, never to get up again.
"How did you..."
"Sadly I'm not the same girl I was when I left mother. I kind of picked up a few tricks."
"I suppose none of us are the same now. Let's free the others before more mountain trolls show up.
Jo's vision was blurred due to her tears and the rain that fell from the sky. She didn't see or hear Poppy approach until she heard the stocks opening and the sweet feeling of her hands and neck being free to move again. As Jo looked up she saw a young pink troll she never had seen before. Despite not knowing who this young girl was, the fact that she just freed her gave her ease that she was a friend.
"Thanks, who are you?"
"My names Poppy, and I'm a friend of Raiders, I'm here to rescue you."
Jo's head started spinning when she heard Raider's name. Was it true after five years she had returned? "This has to be a dream, Raider's been gone for five years. We had lost all hope she would ever return to save us."
"She's back, and we're getting you out of here, we're getting you all out of here."
"The only place your going is in the ground Missy," Cotton growled running out to the stocks with a sword in his hand.
Jo wasn't scared of him this time, finally free of her bounds Jo felt the motivation that she could take him this time. Grabbing a whip from the ground that she saw Cotton use on another prisoner earlier she swung the whip and knocked the sword from Cotton's hands. She then swung the whip again, and again, striking Cotton all over until he fell to the ground, shielding his face with his arms.
Jo then kicked between Cotton's legs causing him to curl over in pain. Jo grabbed Cotton by the hair and dragged him to the very stock she was held in and clamped him in.
"Let's see how you enjoy a nice of your own medicine Cotton." Jo picked up a clog of mud and stuffed it in Cotton's face forcing him to swallow it. Free and motivated Poppy and Jo worked on freeing the rest of the prisoners, once they were all freed their next attention was on the dragons.
"Where are they holding your dragons?"
"In cages in the battle arena." Jo replied. "They've been having them fight for sport."
"That's horrible," Poppy gasped "Why would someone do that to these beautiful creatures?"
"These guys are sick, and heartless." Jo replied "They made us do things, me do things that have left us scarred for life. I don't know if I will ever get over it. But right now I'm more concerned about my dragon. I hope my Hurricane is okay."
Leading Jo and the other jungle trolls into the battle arena they attacked the mountain trolls that occupied the arena, striking down most of them until the last remaining few retreated from the arena. Jo was the first to run up to the cages, grabbing the keys and freeing the dragons.
"Hurricane!" Jo cried out. After a couple of seconds a blue and black Home Wrecker ran up to Jo, wrapping her wrings around her owner, cooing and licking her face. "Oh Hurricane I've missed you so much I never thought I would see you again. Let's make these Mountain trolls regret what they did to us.
With all the dragons free the Jungle trolls quickly got the upper hands. There anger and taste for vengeance fueled them throughout battle. Poppy with her ax, Raider with her sword, and Jo with a whip in one hand and a mace in the other, all paired up with their dragons it wasn't soon before the vast majority on the mountain trolls started fleeing back to the mountains.
"Yeah you better run you cowards." Jo screamed "You better think twice before you try messing with us again."
It was right then that a arrow came flying pass Jo, grazing her arm. Jo quickly grabbed her arm and cringed in pain as she felt the stinging burn of where the arrow grazed her. Concerned Poppy ran and checked on her.
"It's not a deep cut, you should be okay." Poppy then turned to Raider.
"Who did that?"
"Rector." Raider pointed out as a giant mountain troll almost twice their size came storming out of the bushes. Rector was armed with a crossbow in one hand and a large machete in the other. "The leader of the Mountain tribe."
Raider and Rector traded glares for a couple minutes as Rector approached the group. Poppy wanted to strike but Raider signaled against it, whispering that this fight was hers alone.
"This was the troll I saw that killed my father. He's mine."
Rector was the first to speak when he finally approached the group. He chuckled at first then shook his finger at Raider's reaction and taunted her "So, the lost sheep has finally returned to her herd. You know your mother told me a lot about you, how you would return and stop us. I laughed of course thinking she was crazy. Looks like I underestimated your stupidity though."
"What you call stupidity Rector, I call determination for my people."
"Then they can watch, as I slaughter you like the pig you and your people are."
"We'll see who is the last one standing," Taking out her sword she readied herself as Rector took out his crossbow and fired.
Raider didn't move from her spot, or even flinch, she was prepared. The second Rector shot his arrow she took out her sword and sliced the arrow right in two. Now it was her turn to strike. Charging Rector she shot lighting from her sword, Rector barely had time to dodge it in time and when he did he had no time to counter his attack before Raider struck again with another blast, this one hitting him and sending him into a tree.
Rector slowly picked himself up off the floor. Taking out his crossbow he shot another arrow, then charged at Raider with his machete. He swung wildly, trying desperately to hit this annoying troll, but Raider dodged each and every one at ease. After nearly a minute of trying and failing to strike her, Raider took out her sword and struck the machete out of Rectors hand. Rector screamed in pair as the electricity from Raider's sword burned him. He tried to take out his bow again but the second he did Raider sliced it in two. Raider's entire suit soon became covered in electricity and with one quick swing she delivered a electric punch to Rectors gut, sending him falling to the ground as he got burned by the electricity.
Raider walked up to the defeated Rector and pointed her sword at his throat daring him to make a move. Defeated Rector closed his eyes and lowered his head.
"Do it, you've waited five years for this, avenge your home, strike me down."
As much as Raider was tempted to do so instead she returned her sword to her sheath, much to the surprise to everyone who was witness.
"Only a coward kills a unarmed troll. As much as I hate you for what you did to my people, and how little I would feel for you if you died, I will not murder you in cold blood. That would make me just as bad as you." Raider then turned her back on Rector, but not before issuing one last command.
"Now go, and don't ever show your face here again."
Rector thought he had found a advantage with Raider's back turn, instead Raider saw it coming. When Rector pulled out a arrow and lunged at Raider, Raider calmly turned around and ran her sword through Rector's chest, killing him withing seconds. With the death of the mountain's trolls chief, their reign of terror ended, and the jungle troll was freed.
Raider fell to her knees exhausted, panting heavily as the rain continued to poor, recognizing her people was finally free. She then buried her face in her hands and wept at the fact that she allowed her people to suffer at the hands of these monsters for five years and only came back because she needed backup to take out another monster.
Her mother, Poppy, and Jo all ran and wrapped their comforting arms around Raider, shushing her and trying to calm her down.
"It's over Raider, it's over, you saved us all." Red replied
"I should have never been gone this long though."
"It's okay" Jo insisted, "It's okay your hear now, and it's over."
"You don't understand. While I was gone, I got involved in another war, I got involved in this war against a band of Dragon hunters. I put the dragons above my home, and you all needlessly suffered because of me. I'm so sorry."
She expected someone to criticize her over her priorities, but instead her mother just wrapped her tighter in her arms. "Your forgiven my child."
"And now since you are all free." Poppy chimed in, "We could really use your help with the hunters. Their only getting stronger, and their leader Blood isn't going to stop unless we stop him."
"You risked your lives for us. We are indebted to you." Jo replied kneeling before Poppy. "I will join you."
"We all real." Red replied
Both Poppy and Raider smiled, they had found their army.
A special thanks to RiveraJacobed1 for allowing me to write the things that I did to her character. Originally that role was to go to Harper but since I already had Reby and Raider in the story I didn't want to leave her out but also didn't want to completely rewrite the character so thanks for allowing me to do what I did to you even if it did involve a little bit of torture.
Anyway this is my last update of 2018. It's been a fun year and I look forward to you following me over to the new year. I got lots of big plans for not just Trolls but other fandoms as well and hope you join me for the ride.
Happy New Year.