Authors Note: Holy shit did this story get a lot of attention. I didn't expect so many comments but i am extremely happy about it. I hope this chapter is to everyones liking. ^_^
A New Life
Chapter 1 - Growing Up Troll
His large bird lusus was something entirely foreign to John. It had been a few days since escaping the caves and his lusus had finally found a place that John guessed was going to be a place for them to live. The bird seemed to expect him to know how to properly build a hive yet he wasn't exactly sure what to do. Sure he was just supposed to give orders and the giant robots would do all the work but he didn't even understand where to start. While the robots were moving material and his lusus was busy John wandered away from them. He floated over the sand moving down the beach looking for anything that he thought was interesting. He quickly found a large grey hive that to him looked rather silly, but from flying with his lusus he knew it looked similar to what many lived in. Yet to him he felt like it was wrong, he didn't really know what he thought a hive should look like but it wasn't that. He slowly lowered to the ground and then began to shuffle around the sand. It was annoying but he thought that it was better not to be seen by others floating around.
He heard a chirping coming from the hive and saw a purple wiggler looking at him. He made a squeaking noise in response and began to move back towards him. The two sat making noises back and forth at each other until Johns lusus came in search of him. He gave John shit before he picked him up and carried him back towards the finished hive. John chirped at his large lusus happy that it and the robots had finished the house on their own. Yet the large lusus gave him shit once again for not being here to do such an important thing himself. John growled low in his throat in annoyance at being given shit. Yet the lusus ignored him and went in to their hive. He was set down as the lusus dropped food down for him. John looked at the food and turned away refusing to eat it. The lusus chirped and moved the food to where he had turned his head, yet john refused to eat it again.
After at least an hour of trying to force him to eat the lusus left the room in an attempt to find him something else. John wandered around the hive looking at everything trying to figure out what the place was like. What the most confusing thing ever was the large violet recuperacoon full of green slime. He was leaning over the edge going to lick it out of curiosity when his lusus returned and saw what he was doing. It pulled him back and chirped louder than normal clearly scared by what he was about to do. That was the start of John getting an hour long lecture on sopor slime and about not eating it.
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He was outside wandering around his hive waiting for his lusus to get back with some food when he spotted another wiggler. It was strange for other trolls to be near here since there weren't many hives around except for Gamzees. He looked carefully from where he was standing before moving closer to the troll. He walked over slowly looking the other troll over and jumped when it turned to look at him. It was a blueblood that was below him in status. He didn't usually care about other wigglers that wandered around but its eyes had caught his attention.
The wiggler had a normal right eye but her left eye was separated in to 7 pupils. Her eyes made him very interested so he chirped at her. She looked at him and after a moment of staring she jumped on John trying to fight. He didn't stop her instead just allowed her to do what she wanted. When she was about to bite, John used his horns to push her off. She backed up and then ran at him again but this time John side stepped her. He wasn't interested in fighting with her so he just chirped at her and then used his wind abilities to hold her down. She seemed confused as to why she couldn't move but before either of them could communicate more John heard his lusus making noises behind him. He turned and chirped back at it in response as he landed beside you.
John squeaked at him and then he chirped back at John. After a few minutes a low growl released from Johns throat and then he made the wind stopping her from moving disappear. She stood back up and growled at him but when she was about to jump on John his lusus picked her up. She was set on its back and then his lusus did the same with John before flying to the hive.
John and the girl were set on the roof of Johns hive where the lusus had collected food. There was normal food for a troll wiggler and then a few strange things that a normal troll wouldn't touch at that age. John went for the strange looking fruits eating them in a heartbeat while the other troll after cautiously looking around began to eat the other food there. When they were done eating John chirped at the female troll happily. She chirped in response and after talking for a while John knew her name. She was a blueblood named Vriska that lived in a hive quite a ways away. She had explained to him that she had wandered over here while looked for something to do. Her lusus wouldn't leave her hive so she could do what she wanted for as long as she wanted.
John and Vriska talked for a while quickly becoming friends. She was your average blueblood unlike John and yet unlike most trolls she didn't seem to mind his strange habits too much. She found him to be quite interesting, and John found her to be nice although she was very aggressive and controlling. At the end John's lusus flew her back to where she said her hive was and John went down stairs into his room to sleep while it was gone. He went in to his room and pulled as much fluffy stuff on to his floor as possible. He hated using his recuperacoon because he felt gross when he had to sleep in the slime. He wasn't as affected by the dreams that he experienced as his lusus said he would be so he didn't see a reason to sleep in the sopor slime. His lusus would always get angry at him for not sleeping in it but wouldn't do anything unless it looked like he needed to be in it. If John happened to have a night terror then for a couple days his lusus would force him to use the recuperacoon, but other than that he was allowed to sleep where he wanted too.
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Half a sweep later
John was walking around his hive looking around for his lusus which had disappeared that morning. He had a suspicion that it had gone to see Vriska since that was where it usually was if it wasn't home but he wasn't really sure. When he had searched the whole hive and not found the large bird he gave up. He sighed deciding that he would be fine if he went and got what he wanted from the forest alone. His lusus had gotten hurt the week before and he needed to go restock his medical herbs. He had realized that his lusus was rather clumsy and came back with lots of random wounds so he always tried to stay as stocked up on medical herbs as possible. He could always go to the where the lowbloods lived to buy herbs since they had a lot of market like areas, but that could end badly and he didn't want to have to hurt anyone so he would settle with finding the herbs himself in the forest. Even though the forest was still in the low bloods area he had less a chance of running in too them inside the forest then if he was walking in to the middle of one of their towns.
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John had finally arrived at the forest; he had gotten there quickly since he flew when he could sense that no one was around to see him. He moved around walking through the forest looking for the medical herbs that his lusus had taught him about. He was collecting as much as he possible could so that he wouldn't need to come back for a while since it was quite far from his hive. While he was bent over picking herbs he could sense people walking a little behind him. He stood up and turned to see 2 trolls about his age. One was a short troll in a black shirt with stubby little horns while the other was a troll with different colored glasses with 4 horns. John smiled at them and right when he was about to say something a large animal attacked from beside them. John jumped in front of the group instinctively using his wind abilities to stop the animal pushing it back until it had given up. The small troll suddenly yelled from behind him, "WHAT THE FUCK IT'S YOU?"
John looked at the troll both worried and confused. He had just used his powers in front of 2 complete strangers and he knew that this was dangerous. He was a mutant and could get in tons of trouble for showing his abilities in front of them, "Um. Do I know you?"
He walked towards him suddenly, "I MET YOU IN THE BROODING CAVES FUCKASS."
John remembered the small red wiggler that he protected when he attacked the big monster, "Oh you're the little guy I protected that day."
He looked at him angry, "I HAVE A NAME FUCKASS."
John frowned, "So do I. It's John"
"Well then John what are you doing in such a place, usually blue bloods refuse to come here. It more of a place for low bloods." Was all he said in response.
John frowned, "If you tell me your names I'll tell you what I was doing."
The two trolls clearly seemed suspicious but the loud one answered you in the end, "Karkat."
John looked at the other troll with a smile, "Hi Karkat. I was just here picking herbs for my lusus. He tends to get injured a lot so I try to keep my medical supplies full."
The other troll standing more behind Karkat whispered but of course due to his superb hearing John knew what he said, "He's a mutant KK."
John frowned, "It would be best if you guys don't say anything to anyone about my situation. Seeing as I know something that Karkat doesn't want anyone else to know."
Karkats eyes widened, "FUCK."
John didn't want to threaten them but he couldn't let them tell anyone about his mutation. As a mutated troll if they told people and it got out he could get culled. If the empress didn't find his ability to be useful she would have him culled in a heartbeat. His chances of not being killed were higher as a blueblood but it could still happen. John watched as the 2 talked before the one in the back started to leave and Karkat walked towards you, "We need to talk alone."
John nodded agreeing with what the smaller was saying, "Okay just let me collect a few more herbs and then we can go talk at my hive. If I don't hurry home anyways my lusus will kill me."
Before he could even lean down John to pick more herbs he heard a loud chirping sound behind him. Karkat laughed, "Speak of the devil."
John turned and stuck his hands up, "Calm down I'm just collecting herbs I'm not doing anything bad."
When the bird landed Vriska jumped down from his back. She smirked, "Hey shorty. Hi John"
Karkat looked at her annoyed, "Shut up Vriska."
John laughed, "So I guess you guys know each other already then."
Vriska walked up to him and put her arm of his shoulder, "Yep. I met him a little while ago while I was with Eridan."
John looked at Karkat, "Oh you know Eridan too. That's cool."
Karkat nodded but didn't say anything as John looked back at Vriska, "So why were you borrowing birdie today?"
Vriska looked at Johns lusus, "I used him to fly to Eridans hive to pick up the weapons he owed me. I dropped some off at your house before we headed here too find you."
John nodded, "I keep telling you I don't want any weapons."
Vriska smirked, "Then why did you build a weapons room in to your hive."
John frowned, "I didn't. I took off while they were building and my lusus decided to do it since I wasn't going to."
She shook her head, "That's so weird John. Don't tell anyone else about that they'll think you're a freak. You don't need to do anything else to point out that you're a mutant. You already have a ton of strange hobbies as it is."
John frowned, "I can't help being different."
Karkat spoke suddenly, "But you can always try to not act different. I mean you don't want to get culled do you?"
John looked at Karkat, "It's okay because I'm a blueblood you don't have to worry too much about it. If they find out I'm a mutant I have less a chance of getting culled because my abilities can be useful. Although that's not saying she won't want to cull me still."
Suddenly Vriska hit him upside the back of his head, "Stop being so full of yourself already, you know that she could still cull you. So stop using your abilities in front of people you don't know."
John sighed, "I know. I don't mean to use them but I do. Sorry."
Vriska smirked, "Anyways no more talking about that. Lets all head back to your house and check out the weapons I got ya."
John just smiled and they all jumped on birdies back flying back to his hive.
Authors Note: Also I said their would be a list of relationships on this chapter but i dont have the time tonight so I'll do it on the next chapter probably. Hopefully everyone enjoyed this. Please comment if you liked.
Also sorry for not making the part in the brooding caverns longer I just didn't know what else to write. But i added more to this area to try and make up for it. ^_^