(8 hours ago)

While Marinette was doing her sting operation to defeat the Evilustrator, over in Arcadia, Jim had cycled to the dentist to see if Toby was available to talk. But he was surprised to find that Toby was still being worked on.

"Tobes," Jim exclaimed as he walked into the operating area, relieved to see his best friend despite the unpleasant situation the rounded boy was in.

"Ey, Him (Hey, Jim)," Toby greeted from the dentist's chair, his mouth held open by a mouth pry. Jim was very happy to see the boy, but after an incoherent conversation with Toby, translated by the dentist, Jim learned that his best friend was not going to be available for a long while.

"How much longer is this going to take?" Jim asked incredulously. His question was quickly answered when the dentist pulled out a freaky looking tool from his lab coat pocket and turned it on, causing Toby to groan as the dentist brought the tool closer to his mouth.

'Yeah, this could take a while,' Jim thought to himself.

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(Time Skip)

Soon enough, it was nighttime. After Jim realized that Toby would take a long time at the dentist yet again, he went to school and was delighted with the news Marinette gave him at lunch.

But now, he was at his house with Toby, while the rounded boy moved his mouth around to get more feeling in it after what it went through earlier.

"Eight hours! I can't believe it takes eight hours." Jim griped as he paced the kitchen floor, Toby standing in front of the fridge while he fidgeted with his jaw.

"Two molars, plus insertions, and some cleanup," Toby listened as Jim stopped his pacing and stood in front of Toby.

"Okay, Tobes. You are never going to believe this," Jim exclaimed as he went to get to his bag at the other end of the room.

"My mouth still feels sore," Toby groaned as he watched Jim before he turned to the fridge and opened the freezer, pulling out a box of frozen pizza.

"Check this out," Jim emphasized as he pulled the amulet out and turned to face Toby, holding the relic in front of him.

"Do you have any aspirin?" Toby whined as he held the frozen pizza box to his cheek as a stand-in ice pack.

"Tobes, pay attention," Jim chided as Toby caught a whiff of the contents inside the box, before Jim looked at the amulet in his hands.

"For the Glory of Merlin, Daylight is mine to-" Jim began, only to be interrupted by Toby microwaving the pizza from the box.

"Go on," Toby encouraged as he got the slice of cooked pizza from the microwave.

"It worked last night," Jim groaned.

"Are you punking me right now?" Toby asked as he struggled to close the microwave door.

"Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait," Jim said before he closed his eyes, and focused. In response, the amulet began to glow.

"Holy champignon!" Toby yelped as armor formed around Jim.

"Now how cool is this?" Jim exclaimed excitedly as he looked down at his armored body.

"Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh! So cool, so cool, so cool!" The rounded boy gushed.

"Dude, you know what this means, right? You have a sacred responsibility here," Toby rambled as he began pacing in front of Jim.

"That's what they said!" Jim exclaimed in relief.

'Maybe Toby's starting to understand!' the Trollhunter thought in excitement.

"Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh! Oh, my- " Toby gushed in excitement, spinning around to release his pent up energy. All while he held his uneaten pizza in his hand, only to stop his spinning to take a bite and ground himself.

"You have to use these new powers for the benefit of all mankind. You have to use this to kick Steve's butt," Toby proclaimed, pointing his pizza-filled hand at Jim, whose relief fell at his words.

'Okay, I might have spoken too soon,' the Trollhunter thought in disappointment.

"... Really? I show you a glowing sword and a suit of armor as magical as Mari's Miraculous, and that's how you respond?" Jim questioned incredulously, displaying the very sharp sword.

"Seriously! It's butt-kicking time!" Toby exclaimed right before he started mimicking karate, and even attempted a karate kick with ease.

"Wait also, who's "they"?" Toby asked when he finished his karate demonstration and straightened up.

"Well, that's the part that I've been freaking out over!" Jim began, right before Blinky knocked on the back door.

"Wh- What- what the heck is that?! I thought you said that Mari said that akuma couldn't come over here!!" Toby exclaimed when he spotted the troll through the door's window.

"Don't open the door!" the rounded boy shouted in protest, only to be ignored when Blinky burst through the door.

"Aha! Master Jim!" Blinky proclaimed as he walked through the door threshold, arms extended in greeting.

"AH! I'm calling 911!" Toby screamed as he hid behind Jim. But before he could do anything Aaarrrgghh!!! attempted to enter the house, only to get stuck in the small doorway.

"No, Animal Control. Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh. They talk," the rounded boy yelped in a panic as he ran behind the counter to both hide and grab his phone, peeking over the top of it to keep an eye on the invaders.

"I knew it was but a matter of time before the amulet called to us," Blinky exclaimed, as Aaarrrgghh!!! tried to get through the doorway.

"Called' to you?" Jim asked, confused that the amulet had that sort of function.

"Actually, no. We've been spying on you," Blinky admitted, revealing his and Aaarrrgghh!!!'s creepy pastime over the past few days.

"Spy on you," Aaarrrgghh!!! repeated as he did a 'I got my eye on you' gesture at Jim with a chuckle, and went back to trying to get through the door.

"Well, keeping a close watch," Blinky offered, trying to make their choice of action seem less creepy as Aaarrrgghh!!! finally got through the door with a loud rumble, landing on the floor.

"Door small..." Aaarrrgghh!!! groaned from the floor. Meanwhile Toby was still hiding behind the counter and finally called up Animal Control, only for them to hang up when he tried to explain.

"You told your stout little friend about us?" Blinky asked, seeing Toby's reaction as something to worry about, nervously clasping his four hands to keep them busy.

"Um, is that a problem?" Jim questioned, not seeing what the big deal was.

'I already told Marinette about them and it paid off. What was wrong with Toby knowing?' the Trollhunter wondered to himself.

"Master Jim, we trolls have gone to great lengths to keep our existence secret from your kind, lest there be panic," Blinky explained as Aaarrrgghh!!! reached over the kitchen counter and grabbed Toby, lifting and dropping him onto the counter. The large troll's action only made the rounded boy scream in terror.

"Oh, my gosh, Oh, my gosh, Oh, my gosh, Oh, my gosh." Toby squealed to himself in panic, grabbing a ladle that was laying on the counter and held it in front of him to defend himself.

"Like that," Blinky deadpanned as he gestured to Toby's panicked state, using it as an example of how humans normally act around them, while Jim walked over to Toby to calm him down.

"It's all right, Tobes," Jim reassured as Toby swung the ladle around to keep himself safe. Aaarrrgghh!!! just sniffed, and licked it, which made Toby panic even more.

"They're like nine feet tall," Toby rambled to himself in his panic, using the ladle as a shield.

"This is my best friend, Toby D," Jim introduced, smiling at the two trolls.

"He has like 800 eyes. We're going to die," Toby exaggerated, still using the ladle as a weapon while he still panicked.

"Hardly. Your friend is the Trollhunter. His noble obligation is protective," Blinky soothed.

"Like "protecting"..." Toby began, only to start calming down, lowering the ladle and thinking over Blinky's words.

"You mean like a superhero? Like Ladybug and Chat Noir?" the rounded boy asked out loud.

"Oh, can I be his sidekick? With a cool superhero name like Deathblade or Snipersnake?" Toby wondered, calming down completely as he sat on the counter, questioning Jim's new job, now seeing that he was going to be a superhero just like Marinette.

'Dang... why couldn't I be a superhero too?' the rounded boy questioned.

"Just wait. Who would I be protecting?" Jim asked. Even with the information Marinette had given him, he still didn't know what he had to do.

"Us," Aaarrrgghh!!! answered, gesturing to himself and Blinky while he spoke.

"And mankind. From bad trolls... As well as goblins, gruesomes, and the occasional rogue gnome," Blinky explained while Toby started tapping Blinky with a ladle. Soon enough, Blinky had enough when Toby started tapping his face.

"Do you mind?" The six eyed troll asked Toby, making him back off with his investigation.

"The mantle of Trollhunter is a sacred responsibility, one which has never been passed to a human before. This is a momentous occasion," Blinky gushed as he leaned in closer to Jim with each sentence, leaving the poor boy speechless as he backed away. But they were soon interrupted when they heard a car pull onto the driveway.

"Oh- it's my mother! Upstairs, quick!" Jim exclaimed before he led the trolls and Toby to the stairs.

"Mother?" Aaarrrgghh!!! asked as they all ran up the stairs, and quickly hid in the house's bathroom, locking the door behind them, as Barbara walked in through the door. But then Aaarrrgghh!!! accidentally made a loud thud to alert the woman's attention.

"Jim? It's me!" Barbara called out from the ground level of the house.

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Upstairs, Jim held the bathroom door closed, hoping to keep his mom from finding the trolls hiding with him and Toby.

"She's not supposed to be home til midnight!" Jim whispered tensely as he faced the others in the bathroom with him, when Aaarrrgghh!!! began to suddenly sniff Toby.

"Mmm... You smell like cat." Aaarrrgghh!!! sighed in contentment, much to Toby's sense of weirdness.

"My nana has a Siamese," Toby explained, a little creeped out by Aaarrrgghh!!! saying that, before the troll took another sniff.

"Tasty." Aaarrrgghh!!! said to himself, before he licked his lips at the thought of the tasty morsel.

"I forgot my phone. Are you okay in there?" Barbara asked from the other side of the door, causing worry among the four of them. Toby then looked around for something to help as Jim turned to face the door, leaning against the frame.

"Um, I'm fine. I mean, my stomach's a little, uh," Jim stuttered out, trying to think of the excuse on the fly, right before Toby starts plumbing the toilet with a plunger to help sell the lie.

'I have two trolls hiding in the bathroom, what else was he supposed to do?' Jim wondered to himself. But it wasn't helping him, so he tried to silently tell Toby to stop, since it would only cause Barbara to worry even more.

"Uh, you know, I might have a food poisoning situation," the Trollhunter tried to explain, attempting to get Barbara to leave the bathroom door.

"Honey, I'll get you some medicine, okay?" Barbara exclaimed, leaving her spot in front of the door.

'Thank god it worked,' the Trollhunter thought to himself. But his relief was short-lived when the amulet started to glow.

"Okay, what's this going on here?" Jim asked Blinky, not understanding why the amulet was glowing so brightly. Toby only stepped closer to his best friend, after he dropped the plunger, to get a better look.

"The amulet reacts to your emotional state. You appear to be in some distress," Blinky explained, revealing the logic behind the amulet as Toby turned off the lights in the bathroom so the amulet would glow undisturbed, and began ogling at it.

"You think?" Jim rhetorically questioned Blinky as Toby thought over some of what Blinky had said before. All while Aaarrrgghh!!! reached over to the light switch and turned the lights back on.

"I have another question," Toby began, turning away from ogling at the amulet, as Aaarrrgghh!!! flicked the lights on and off.

"Speak, Theodore," Blinky addressed Toby, as Aaarrrgghh!!! repeatedly clicked the light switch again. Toby glanced up at the gray skinned troll in annoyance before looking back at Blinky.

"It's Toby, actually. Or Tobias. If Jim's the first human Trollhunter, like you said, then who or what was the Trollhunter before him?" Toby asked to kill three birds with one stone, i.e. clearing up his name pronunciation, stopping Aaarrrgghh!!! from clicking the lights back on and off again, and getting more information from Blinky.

"The glorious mantle has been passed from troll to troll for hundreds of years," Blinky answered while they all stood in the dark, the only light coming from the amulet on Jim's chest.

"And the previous Trollhunter, had died right?" Jim asked, seeing that the information Blinky had told them was lining up with what Marinette had told him earlier. Not that he doubted Tikki, but it did help to have a more direct, and current source.

"Turned to stone and smashed," Blinky confirmed.

" 'Kanjigar the Courageous' was his name. Brutally slain by a ruthless troll named Bular." the six-eyed troll continued, unknowingly confirming yet another detail Jim had learned about. But it didn't stop him from freaking out after hearing it again.

"Don't worry, dude. This Bular guy probably just got lucky!" Toby comforted as he placed a helpful hand on Jim's shoulder, bringing him out of his shock, before turning the lights back on.

"The evidence does not suggest that. Bular is a formidable opponent," Blinky argued, not exactly helping.

'At least he's being honest, despite not reading the room,' Toby thought to himself.

"Then Kanjigar, he was just off his game or something, right?" Jim asked, trying to see if there was a chance that he might survive with his limited skills.

"Doubtful. Kanjigar was perhaps the most alert and able of all the Trollhunters," Blinky countered, dashing Jim's hopes away with his honest response.

'Okay, he could stand to be a little less honest,' Toby mused in his thoughts.

"But not the best, I'm betting," Jim argued, still trying to find some kind of hope for himself.

"Oh, the very best. Many songs and sagas have been written about him," Blinky revealed, once more crushing Jim's hopes as he looked over at Toby for some help.

"Uh, I think what my friend here is a little worried about is, if this-" Toby began, trying to translate what Jim had been trying to say.

"Bular," Aaarrrgghh!!! interrupted while he picked his nose with the toilet scrubber, offering the correct term for the boy, much to his slight annoyance at being interrupted.

"Yeah, I got it," Toby thanked Aaarrrgghh!!! before he continued his query.

"If Bular could defeat Kanjigar..." The rounded boy continued as he turned to face Blinky again.

"Smash to pieces," Aaarrrgghh!!! inputted as he put the toilet scrubber in his mouth to get his boogers off it. Jim only leaned against the wall and slid to the floor, clutching his head to try and process this new information.

"Then what's going to happen to Jim?" Toby asked, finishing his question as he gestured to his panicking best friend.

'No wonder Tikki hadn't really said anything about the gorey details... if Marinette had known, she would do everything in her power to make sure I don't do this,' Jim thought to himself in his panic.

"A most appropriate, if troubling, query, Tom-" Blinky attempted to answer Toby, accidently getting his name wrong again but quickly corrected himself.

"Tobias! Of course, we would never expect Master Jim to engage in battle without the proper training. Not at all," Blinky assured, providing some relief for the two boys.

"See! Nothing to worry about. Now how long does the training normally take?" Toby asked as he helped Jim from the floor, before turning to face Blinky with a tense smile.

"Oh... Decades," Blinky answered, taking his time to respond due to counting the amount of years on his twenty fingers.

"And... how long do I have?" Jim asked, not hopeful that the answer would be one that he would like.

"A day or two." Blinky responded honestly with a nervous smile, while Aaarrrgghh!!! made a 'half and half' gesture with his hand.

'Yeah I'm massively screwed,' Jim thought to himself as he moaned in disbelief, slapping his face in exasperation. But it was soon interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Jim? I have medicine and ginger ale. Come on out!" Barbara exclaimed on the other side of the door while knocking on it a few more times, making Jim roll his eyes in exasperation.

'Great, yet another thing I need to worry about,' Jim groaned in his thoughts, before turning to face the door.

"I'm fine, really!" Jim called out, trying to get his mom to leave so she wouldn't discover the trolls in their bathroom.

"I'm a Doctor. I'm gonna treat my own son," Barbara proclaimed as she held a cup in her hands, waiting outside the door. Unfortunately for Jim, his mother was stubborn.

"I just... need a little privacy!" Jim exclaimed from the bathroom, which only worried his mother more.

"You're worrying me! Oh," Barbara worried as she reached for the door, only to spill some of the ginger ale on her sleeve. The spill caused her to look down at it, while a blue light showed through the cracks of the door. But by the time Barbara looked up, it was gone.

"I'm coming in," The doctor proclaimed, as she reached for the door. But Jim beat her to it and opened it, revealing he had managed to deactivate the amulet, and was alone in the bathroom, flushing the toilet and pinching his nose.

"Whew. See, all good!" Jim said as he walked out of the bathroom, going past Barbara. When the boy left, she looked inside, only to see that nothing was out of the ordinary.

"Huh. Okay," Barbara mutters to herself as she pinches her nose to stop herself from picking up any bad smells, and then leaves.

Had she stayed a second longer, she would have found the others in their hiding spot in the shower as Aaarrrgghh!!! sniffed Toby again.

"Stop sniffing me giant troll dude!" Toby whispered as he was wedged between the two trolls, feeling a little annoyed with his current predicament.

"Smell like cat." Aaarrrgghh!!! sighed in contentment as he held Blinky and Toby close to him to prevent them from getting caught.