Diane has lived with the Striders for a year now. She is the only one in the apartment because the Striders were strifing, again. She hears the doorbell ring. She opens the door and sees a basket with a blanket in it. She looks around to see who left it but she couldn't see anyone. She takes it inside and brings it to her room. She moves the blankets to see a grub. Its eyes and body were a lime-ish green. Its horns looked like Karkat's sickles. Diane decided she wanted to keep this wriggler. I guess I'll call her Coeran. It's too dangerous here right now, I'll keep it in here while I learn a bit about grubs. That night after she cooked dinner, (she didn't wanna eat pizza again) she brought some in her room to feed Coeran. Coeran munches it happily. The next morning, she gave Coeran breakfast and waited for Karkat to come over. When Karkat arrived the Striders went to get groceries.
"Karkat, how does the hemospectrum work?"
"WELL IN ORDER FROM THE BOTTOM IT'S RUST BLOODS, BRONZE BLOODS, GOLD BLOODS, LIME BLOODS, OLIVE BLOODS, JADE BLOODS, TEAL BLOODS, COBALT BLOODS, INDIGO BLOODS, PURPLE BLOODS, VIOLET BLOODS, AND FUCSIA BLOODS."
"What are lime bloods like?"
"WELL THEY USED TO BE REALLY COMMON. THEN THE CONDENSCE HAD THEM HUNTED DOWN AND CULLED FOR THEIR EXTREMELY POWERFUL PSYCHIC POWERS. NOW THEIR EXTINCT. WHY?"
But what about Coeran? He's a lime blood. "Just curious. You're not on the Hemospectrum though."
"DON'T REMIND ME."
"Alright." The Striders then walk through the door, with no groceries.
"Guys, I told you to get groceries."
"Yeah, but then we realized we left our money back here and now it's too late."
"Fine, I'll work with what they have then. Karkat, do you wanna stay for dinner?"
"I'M FORCING JOHN TO WATCH A ROMCOM WITH ME TONIGHT."
"Alright. See ya later, I guess," says Diane. She then reheated some leftover ham and gave some to Coeran.
She continued to make dinner and give Coeran some for a week before Karkat came over while the Striders strifed. "Hey Karkat!"
"HEY DIANE."
"I'm curious, what are grubs like?"
"WELL, THEY REALLY DEPEND ON THE TROLL THEY'LL PUPATE INTO, PERSONALITY WISE. THEIR HORNS STAY THE SAME THOUGH. THEY SQUEAK INSTEAD OF TALK UNTIL THEY PUPATE. THEY EAT PRETTY MUCH LIKE NORMAL TROLLS DO. THEY EVENTUALLY PUPATE AND WHEN THEY LEAVE THEIR COCOONS THEY ARE YOUNG TROLLS. WHY ARE YOU ASKING? AND DON'T EVEN FUCKING SAY 'OUT OF CURIOUSITY'"
She sighs and says, "Because I have a secret, and you need to PROMISE you won't tell anyone."
"FINE FUCKASS. NOW TELL ME, WHY DO YOU KEEP ASKING ABOUT TROLLS?"
"A few weeks ago, while they were strifing, the doorbell rang. I went out and there was a basket with a grub in it. I saw that it was a lime blood and I don't know how to take care of it very well. I don't wanna tell the Striders because, well you see how they strife."
"WHAT DID YOU NAME THEM? HOW LONG HAVE YOU HAD THEM?"
"Her name is Coeran and I found her about a week ago"
"CAN I MEET HER?"
"Sure." Diane leads him to her room where they saw a basket with a grub in it.
"SHE LOOKS ABOUT READY TO PUPATE."
"Anything I need to know about pupation?"
"JUST FEED HER A BIT MORE BECAUSE SHE'LL BE A PUPA FOR ABOUT A WEEK."
"Alright." She then leaves and comes back with 4 plates of leftover ham. One for Karkat, one for Diane, and 2 for Coeran. They go back out and put the plates in the sink right when the Striders walk in. "Sup guys."
"I need an apple juice." Dave says.
Dirk chuckled and adds, "because he lost again."
Diane tosses him an unopened apple juice. Two days later, Coeran pupates.
She goes to Karkat's hive that day and tells him, "Coeran pupated today."
"OK. WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH HER IN A WEEK WHEN SHE'S A TROLL?"
"I really don't know. I still wanna take care of her. Should I tell them about her? I guess I could get them to not strife her. At least, not with real weapons."
"I GUESS YOU DO HAVE SOME CONTROL OVER THEM SINCE YOU COOK THEIR FOOD."
"That and I'm Dave's girlfriend, or I guess in troll terms, matesprit." She pauses and adds, "I'm definitely going to tell them after she's done pupating."
"HOW HAVE THEY NOT FOUND OUT ABOUT HER ALREADY?"
"They aren't allowed in my room. I make sure they don't go in there." Diane smirks when she thinks about how she keeps them out. Diane and Karkat eat pizza and then she leaves.
A week later Coeran becomes a troll like a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. The date was October 20th. Diane had already bought some clothes for her, a black turtle neck with the symbol she'd found in her basket after she pupated and some jeans. Coeran could already walk. "Hi Coeran." Coeran repeats her name. "Come on, follow me." Coeran follows her into the living room. "Dirk, Dave, I'd like you to meet Coeran." They simply stare at the newly pupated troll. "Well say hello, today's her wriggling day."
"Hello Coeran," Dave says. Earlier that day he'd been told by Diane that she wanted her to meet someone. So this is who she wanted me to meet.
"Hello." Everyone is surprized at how fast she learns to talk. They then get all their troll friends to meet Coeran.
"Sh-E's so CUT-E!" says Feferi.
"For a land dwweller, I guess she's kinda cute," Eridan says.
"Wow, today'2 her wriiggliing day?"
"Yup," Diane says smiling.
"5HE5 5O L1177L3!"
"4ww sh3 n33ds to h4v3 som3 ic3cr34m."
"where did you efur find her?" Nepeta asks.
"When she was a grub, about a month ago, she was in a basket on my doorstep."
"And you never told us?" Dirk states.
"Do you really think I would've trusted you with a grub?"
They all celebrate (evven Eridan). Before everyone leaves, they eat icecream (2ollux'2 ha2 honey on iit). Coeran even got some. "Yummy" Coeran says licking her lips after her first bowl. Sollux puts honey on her second one and Coeran's face lights up. Everyone leaves and Coeran draws pictures of that night. She isn't even that bad at it. She does a pretty good picture of all of them and Diane puts it on the fridge. Dirk goes and gets some wood to make practice weapons.
"She's going to sleep in the guest room guys," Diane decides. "It's going to become her room."
She leads Coeran to her new room and everyone goes to bed. Coeran keeps the light on, drawing for a few hours before falling asleep. In one month she has the vocabulary of a 5 year old.
Diane pesters Karkat:
DH: Is it normal for young trolls to learn how to talk so fucking fast?
CG: NOT REALLY.
DH: She talks like a 5 year old. (that's about 2 sweeps)
CG: WOW, SHE IS LEARNING TOO FAST.
DH: Exactly.
CG: MAYBE IT'S A LIME BLOOD THING?
DH: I guess so. Now she's accidentally making shit levitate.
CG: WELL THAT'S NORMAL.
DH: I wonder what other powers she'll have.
CG: WE'LL FIND OUT.
They both sign out and a few months later Karkat comes over. Coeran is sitting on the couch with Diane.
"Karkat!" Coeran says.
"HEY GUYS."
"The Striders are done making practice weapons, starting tomorrow they're going to start teaching her how to use them," Diane says. Just then, Dirk floats into the room and then starts hitting himself. Coeran giggles. Then everyone notices that there is a faint lime glow around him. "Coeran? Are you doing it?"
"Yeah, he was going through my stuff," Coeran says giggling.
"Can you please put him down for a second?"
"Ok Diane!" she says still smiling. She then stops making him float and the lime glow stops before Dirk falls on the floor. Everyone in the room (except Dirk) laugh. "I've been working on controlling it."
Still laughing, Karkat says, "GOOD JOB. THAT WAS REALLY FUNNY."
"Not funny Coeran!" Dirk growls.
"She needed to practice on something Dirk," Diane says.
"Seriously, how is it fair that she gets levitation and mind control?"
"Wait, she has mind control?"
"Yeah, she can get into people's heads really easily," Dirk says as if it were obvious. Karkat and Diane glace at each other.
"Yeah, I've been practicing levitation, mind control, and mind reading."
"Coeran, how long have you been able to read minds and control them?" Diane questions worriedly.
"About 2 months."
"I think when you first started would've been a good time to tell us."
"I would've if a me from an alternate timeline hadn't shown up and told me not to. She said Dave from that timeline sent her, so I trusted that me and didn't."
"What else did that you say?"
"She also said to get a pesterchum and look up a game called Sburb." Dirk resets an old laptop and gives it to Coeran. They set up her pesterchum with the chumhandle guerillaConcealment before picking her web browser to be Metis. They use Coeran's new Metis browser to find Sburb. They see it's a free download. It interested all of them and right when they were going to hit the download button, a Coeran appears in the room. Everyone stares at her, even the other Coeran.
"Don't play Sburb. It'll kill you all," she said before she was zapped out of the room, presumably to her own timeline. Everyone was confused as to how a game could kill you so they find a playthrough (which happened to be by a Rose). They never played it, and life went on like normal. Some of the trolls filled buckets within that year and all of Coeran's friends happened to be the result.
Yay! Long second chapter! Plz, review, as long as it's constructive criticism, I'll be happy. I wanna be a better writer.