Chapter 21
The next day, Rosie had returned to the border against her King's wishes but, she wasn't alone. Sage and River were there to make sure that she went in this time to accomplish the mission. The woman stared at the flower hedge even more scared and nervous. She shakenly put on her backpack to carry the Love Potion during trip back to the Pop lands. After being attacked during what was supposed to be her first and only attempt, Rosie couldn't help but fear what could be waiting for her in the Rock lands now. What if the creature that attacked her last time was still roaming right around the border too?
" I can do this. I can do this. I can do this. " Rosie repeated whispering to herself.
The female pulled out a helmit from her hair and carefully put it on. After tighten the buckle, she test knocked her safety headwear. Sage inpatiently growled, only for River nudge his shoulder reminding him to not scare off the helper who they needed to return back to them. Rosie was all they had. Sage turned his head dismissively rolling his eyes and folding his arms.
Then the match Maker pulled out the Primrose petal extra cautiously that she had collected yesterday. It had taken no damage in the backpack miraculously but,maybe that could be something to do with the magic. She didn't really know for sure. The scrapbook wasn't clear on everything. The red skinned troll sighed. This was definitely not her proudest moment.
With the magical petal in hand, the scared Pop troll slowly walked to the hedge. She whistled to herself to calm down her nerves as she parted section of the special hedge and stepped through. The hedge immediately fixed itself,like there had been no disturbance to begin with. River and Sage turned to each other once their only hope was gone. River seemed confident in the idea of everything working out while Sage wasn't so sure himself.
" Tonight I'll be reuniting with the crown and you,my friend, will be doing whatever you with your Princes-" River said getting lost in his imaginary future and wrapping an arm around Sage's shoulders.
" Prince." Sage corrected with a bitter attitude.
"Right. Whatever your into..."
Meanwhile in the dark Rock lands... Rosie made it out safely to the other side. She looked around checking for any threats before fully stepping out. Luckily for her there was nobody. However there were a lot more smaller and newer roses growing at the bottom while the rest of the Rose hedge was mid regaining it's fullness. It was still choppy here and there but,it looked somewhat better. And also there were even more rocks filling up a couple gaps on top of the most of the bottom growing roses. The pile of large rocks near by was clearly the source of them since it had gotten shorter and smaller.
" Strange..." Rosie commented confused.
The Pop troll looked up searching for one of the more bigger roses to take a petal from. Once spotting a rose that was big enough to match the size of her Primrose petal,Rosie got to work. She climbed on to the top of one the rocks closer to her and turned her purple and white tipped hair into a staircase all the way to the choosen rose.
While going up the makeshift stair, Rosie kept on glancing behind her paranoid. The last thing that she needed right was either getting caught by another predator and die this time or getting caught by a Rock troll and possibly be held captive for the rest of her life. Not to mention the Rock trolls had an reputation of being extremely violent, mean and scary. Of course the Pop trolls didn't know for sure if that was true but, they were never told that they were wrong either. The music genre tribes don't mix so why would they know anything about each other?
Rosie reached out to grab a petal and gently plucked it out. She held the two different flower petals out near each other, comparing them as she went back down to the soil ground. By the time her feet touched the solid dirt, her hair had regained it's orginal shape,length and form. The Match Maker stared the two potion ingredients with rising guilt and shame for a brief moment. It painfully stung her heart causing it to ache.
" Let's just get this over with... " Rosie told herself disappointed.
The woman took action again by walking down the minor hill. She ignored the uncomfortable silence that inhabited the area and the hidden eyes near her. The troll jumped onto one of the mushroom heads, belonging a extremely long line of them, and off in front it. Unknown to the Pop troll,it had an face and arms. The alive mushrooms very attentively watched the uninvited guest contuine her journey until she was out of sight. The mushroom turned to it's friend and began to whisper what it had just witnessed. It's friend passed it on to it's other neighbor,who contuined to spread the news. It was like a game of telephone.
An half hour later...
Just outside of Volcano City, Rock trolls were loading larger rocks into their flying, fish like in appearence,beasts. These animals were ten times their size. The Rock trolls were the least quiet as they worked. Some were cursing at each other lost in an argument or talking to fellow co-workers how they deeply disliked their current job or simply growled as they carried and pushed the cargo into their working creatures. The inside of the beasts had no stomach or any other organs strangely enough and yet it was somehow alive and breathing.
A random female Rock troll,sent by the new and current King of Rock, was checking the progress being made. She watched everyone silently until her eyes caught sight of the mushrooms passing on a message. The unknown troll approached the end of the line and gave the last mushroom her ear. It whispered something to her.
"Oh! Got it. "
Then the Rocker ran to her critterbike and urgently hopped on. She pulled on the handles twisting them causing the critter to start it's engine. It made a loud growling noise as it took off like a motorbike at full speed. A dust cloud was left behind the now traveling female, which annoyed some of the male trolls that were standing near her a minute ago. They coughed moving away from the fading cloud.
" Your fault that you got caught,Dumbass."
" Shut Up,Fox!"
Soon the critterbike was parked before the Royal family of the Rock lands' castle. The troll mentally carrying a message,dashed into the large building going straight to the throne room. One of the newer heavy doors was already open. The female troll ran almost becoming out of breath to the only troll standing in front of their King's throne platform,several troll feet away.
The young King of Rock was sitting on his throne alone with an electric guitar in his hands. His calves and feet hang off the left arm rest. There was orginally a second throne next to his but, that one had been put away in storage. The bright lighting of the room highlighted the accents of his muddy redish skin, raven hair, brown eyes and plum nose. His dark silver two circle piecings next to and going upwards from one his right eyebrow and small hop earrings slightly shined. His black and white checker board tank with torn edge on where a sleeve would had been on a shirt and ripped navy jeans had formed a couple temporary folds from how the unbothered Ruler sat.
" Vang. " The female troll said.
" Roxy?" The none Royal male troll turned around.
Roxy whispered into his ear what the mushroom had told her. Vang blinked with an confused express overtaking his face. What had been delivered to his him was certainly an interesting message that he had never heard before.
" What does it mean?" Vang whispered.
" I'm Listening..." The King said abruptly still eyeing his guitar.
Roxy and Vang turned to their King, who was mid tuning his favourite instrument. His glance struck some fear into his two subjects causing them both to stand up straight. Roxy respectfully raised her voice to ensure the ruler would hear her. Vang however waited patiently for her to do all of the talking,since she was the one who came with the message.
" News from the Whisprooms, Your Rockness." Roxy nudged Vang's shoulder. "You can tell him."
" No. You tell him. "
" But he likes you. " Roxy lied looking directly at Vang with her hands on her hips.
" Really?" Vang asked surprised.
King Rowan gave the two Rockers an annoyed sideeye as he turned his body around while still sitting down. The way he sat was how most trolls normally sat down but, his back wasn't striaght. His feet touched the platform while his hands rested his black and white guitar on his lap. His one hand still held the upper neck firmly. His brown eyes darken staring down at his workers.
" I'm waiting..." King Rowan stated.
" A paw pole is in monkey storage." Vang said confidently after clearing his throat.
" What?" Rowan commented blankly.
"You know how sometimes you buy stuff but,then don't have space for it in your home? Well some troll bought a pole and has that very same problem... " Vang guessed then looked at Roxy again. " It doesn't make any sense."
Rowan's left eye twitched while he felt his anger raise within him. His grip on the neck of his electric guitar tighten and his finger curled. He hated when his people brought and retold him nonsensical messages from the Whisprooms and it happened every time when came to those mushrooms.
" I'll deal with it! " Rowan snarled.
The Rock King shot up abruptly from his throne lurching his raven hair up at something hanging from the ceiling. Roxy folded her arms and stepped aside further away her co- worker with an knowning look in her eyes. She lifted up one curled hand to lips while she side eyed Vang unimpressed,like he had done or was going to do something stupid.
" Hmenm." Roxy softly exclaimed fake coughing.
" What?" Vang questioned confused.
Rowan swiftly swung himself across the room wielding his guitar like sword. Vang, who was standing too close in their leader's way, got knocked down to the floor by the hard instrument as Rowan let out exclaimed a sound only enraged warming. Roxy watched the whole scene play out like it was a common occurrence. In seconds their boss was gone leaving the work friends alone with each other. Vang laid on the floor still processing everything and unintentionally staring in shock at the female troll's bare feet, which one of them had a toe ring.
" That was close..." Roxy commented placing her hands on her hips while looking down at her friend.
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