Nightfall in Arcadia and it was quiet while the car passes by while throwing newspapers until he immediately stopped for almost hitting a boy revealing that its Toby who's running away. Before the driver notice, something fast passed over the car and leaving traces of fire footsteps.

Driver: What the heck was?

Toby continues to run away from what it seems to be a living fire cat.

Toby: Oh, what are you doing, Tobes? Only an idiot races a creature with four legs.

Toby ran to the alley but the wooden fence was in the way.

Toby: I can do this! Whoa!

Toby make the jump and tries to climb over before the fence fell down. Toby crawl back away from the fire cat until YN arrive with his bike to save Toby.

YN: Hop on!

Toby hops on and grabs another helmet from the seat.

Toby: Go, go, go! Go, go, go!

YN: So long, fire cat!

Before they could leave, the engine of the bike shut off on its own.

Toby: Hey, maybe save the jokes for when we aren't gonna die.

YN: Come on!

YN restarted the engine and step on it to escape. But the fire cats chase after them.

Toby: Go, go, go, go, go!

YN: Hey, dont tell me what to do! You're the one who took that stupid rock to your science class!

Toby: First, it's not a rock. It's volcanic slag. And how was I supposed to know there was a flaming monster hiding in it?

YN: You bought a magic rock off a troll named "Mervin the Monster Dealer." What did you think would happen, Tobes?

Soon they arrive in the alley where they meet the rest of the team. Blinky, Aarg, and Jim.

YN: Blinky, please tell me you guys got it!

Blinky: Of course, Master YN. You've lured the luminaire right into our stratagem.

Aarg: Stra-ta-gem?

Jim: He means "brilliant trap."

Just then, they fire creatures arrived and everyone back away from them.

Jim: What are you waiting for? Throw it!

Blinky: Um, Master Jim, you said this was a luminaire, when that is obviously an infernal hellheeti.

The hellheeti approaches them while the human grab and start throwing trash at it.

Aarg: Should I punch it?

Toby: Yeah, let him unleash the fury!

Blinky: Not yet, Aarg!

Jim: It came from a rock! How many four-legged flaming creatures come out of rocks?

Blinky: As a matter of fact, 11. Thirteen, if you consider-

Aarg: Can I punch it?

Trio: Yes!

Blinky: No!

Aarg punches it as it fell in the trash bin. But that didn't made anything better as it split into 3.

Blinky: I was going to add, "Make sure you do not feed the fire by attacking it!"

Aarg: Oops.

Toby: Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.

Two of them jump and crawl on the walls to corner them all.

YN: They can crawl on walls!?

Jim: If we don't want to feed the fire, how do we put it out?

Blinky: You have sour sap, dew dredge, lumpkin oil-

Jim: What about water?

Blinky: That's the obvious one. Where would we get enough of that?

Toby: A hellheeti hydrant!

Jim: Aarg?

Aarg: On it.

Aarg gives Jim a lift and toss him over the creatures as he summons his armor and sword before slicing the fire hydrant. Causing the water to burst out as it extinguished the fire creatures with Jim deflecting the waters at them.

Toby: Adios, fire cats.

Blinky: Well done, Master Jim. Another victory for our Trollhunter.

Jim: "Trollhunters." Come on, guys, it's a team effort.

YN: From now on, lets not use anything from the trollmarket for any grades.

Jim: Uh, guys, the fire hydrant?

YN: Leave it to me.

YN grabs it and puts it back with his metalbending before uses earthbending to reinforce it.

YN: All done.

Toby: So cool that you can metalbend.

Jim: It's getting close to dawn. You guys better get back to Trollmarket.

The trolls nod agreement before they part ways.

The next morning, the trio were on their way to school with their bike as they're having a small talk during the way.

Toby: She passed up your famous egg white manchego omelet?

Jim: Yep.

Toby: I mean, it's been like a month, and she's still not talking to you about the whole hospital thing?

Jim: Not a word.

Toby: Brutal. You know a woman is beyond angry when she starts dishing out the silent treatment.

YN: Definitely watch out for the quiet ones.

Jim: I don't know how to fix this unless I tell her the truth.

YN: Have you thought of telling her?

Jim: If I do, they'll send me to the crazy house.

Toby: Then you had to go and make things worse by promising Claire you were gonna save her brother.

Jim: He's trapped in the Darklands. I can't just leave him there, Tobes.

YN: Must I remind you that Gunmar is there as well?

Jim: Don't remind me.

Once they arrive to school, they park their bikes before Toby notice someone is coming by.

Toby: Oh, no. Dillweed, five o'clock.

Steve: Lake, rockhead, Jumbo.

Steve passes by before Jim notice Steve got his teeth fixed.

Jim: They fixed your tooth. Now, all they gotta do is fix your face.

Steve: What did you just say? When I get you alone, payback's coming.

YN: (Scoff.) Doubt it.

Soon they head to classes where some of the classmates discuss about Strickler.

Mary: I heard he was run out of town by the mob.

Darci : I heard he got a mail-order bride and moved to North Korea.

Mary: As if. Where do you think Mr.
Strickler went, Jimmy-Jam? You should know. You were his fave.

Jim: Who, me? Oh, uh I don't know. He probably just needed a vacation.

Toby: You really think Strickler might come back?

Jim: After what went down, he'd be a fool to ever show his face again.

YN: I would not underestimate Strickler when he has other plans that doesn't involve Bular anymore.

Soon Claire turn around to talk to the trio.

Claire: So when are we saving my brother?

Jim: Claire, we can't just waltz into the Darklands.

Toby: We just saved the trolls by keeping Killahead Bridge closed. Imagine what they'll do to us if they find out we want to open it.

Claire: Guys, this is my brother and Notenrique's driving me nuts. You know how many times I have to change him? He knows how to use the toilet. He chooses the diaper.

YN: That's the least problem you have.

Jim: I get it. We'll get him back. We just can't risk releasing Gunmar.

Claire: Admit it, you're going back on your word.

Jim: I'm not.

Claire: You are.

Jim: I am not.

Claire: Are.- ow!

Claire look down and see it was a rock that hit her foot. Lead by YN who used his earthbender.

YN: Claire, this isn't a game. This is a life risking situation. We need time to plan this out.

Claire: I...sorry.

Jim: Okay, if it makes you feel any better, Blinky said we can bring you.

Claire: To Trollmarket? Seriously? When? Are we going now?

Jim: After school.

YN: Until then, stay silent.

Claire nods before the class begins with coach Lawrence.

Lawrence: All right, butts in seats. You too, Nunez. Since Strickler's a no-show, I'm subbin' in. We got some book-learnin' to do.

Mary: You spend so much time with Lake, you're practically swimming in him.

Claire: We're just friends. End of story.

Lawrence: Okay, people, who can tell me what happened in the year 1989? No, seriously, I don't remember. It was a crazy year. Really, Palchuk?

After school, they arrive under the bridge with Claire.

Jim: You ready?

Claire: If this helps me get my brother back, yeah, I'm ready.

Jim: Just remember, saving Enrique is our little secret. If any of them were to find out-

Claire: Don't worry, lips are sealed.

YN: Especially from your parents.

Claire: Got it.

Toby hands the crystal key to Claire before demonstrating her how to open.

Toby: Now, you're gonna want to start drawing a semicircle.

Before he realized, he saw claire already made a semicircle successfully.

Toby. Oh! You have it. Okay, never mind.

Once she opens it, they all enter as the crystal stairs begin to glow.

Claire: Wow! The crystal staircase. This is more than I-I-I never would have...

Toby: Oh Hold up a sec! We need a few ground rules here, okay? The locals are not friendly to outsiders. The first time we came here, Jim almost got killed while YN-

Claire just runs downstairs, not hearing a word from Toby.

Toby: You think she heard any of that?

Jim: Not a word.

YN: Does she ever wanted to hear any of that?

Once she made it downstairs, she was amazed to see the entire trollmarket from her view.

Claire: It's-It's beautiful.

YN: Breathtaking, am I right? Happens every time we enter here.

Jim: Welcome to Heartstone Trollmarket.

Claire: This place is beyond...It's beyond beyond! I want to live down here.
Can I live down here?

Jim: Mm, yeah, no, I don't think so.
I don't think that's a good id-

She then runs off to the Trollmarket.

YN: Yeah I don't think she's gonna leave until she gets her brother back.

As she runs through the market, some of the trolls notice a human girl running around until she spotted Blinky and Aarg before the trio catches up.

Claire: You're...You're...

Aarg: Aarg.

Blinky: Well, if it isn't the fair Claire. We've been expecting you.

Claire: Blinkous Galadrigal. Jim told me you helped him face Draal and slay Bular. And that Vespa! Best birthday ever. Your wisdom must rival that of the Venerable Bedehilde.

Blinky: (Gasp.) You've read A Brief Recapitulation of Troll Lore?

Claire: Volumes 1 through 47. It took me a while to decipher the symbols.
But once I got past the Fifth Declension, I started to get the hang of it.

Blinly: Haha! She read the book.
She read the book!

YN: You let her read the book?

Jim: She was interested with the book.

Aarg: She's a flower.

Claire runs around the trollmarket again until she meets Vendel. Vendel however, did not approve her welcome until she speaks troll language which surprised him.

Vendel: She speaks Troll. And Trollmarket is honored to have you as well. Oh, Blinkous! If only the amulet had chosen such a learned and delightful fleshbag.

Jim: Hey!

YN: Since when can you speak troll language?

Claire: Notenrique's been tutoring me.

Jim: That was awesome, Claire. Vendel loves you and he hates everyone!

Claire: Mr. Blinky, Trollmarket is amazing and there's so many cool things. But if it's okay, there's one thing I have to see.

Blinky just gaze at her to see how kind she truly is. Soon they arrive to what appeared to be a security locks.

When Aarg opened it, they pass through only to see the remaining of the killlahead bridge.

Aarg: The bridge.

Blinly: More specific what used to be Killahead Bridge. Every piece accounted for, even the Eye Stone.

Claire slowly approaches the remaining bridge.

Blinky: Hopefully, this will give the girl some closure. She does understand why we cannot allow the bridge to open?

YN: We did try to convince her.

Toby: Well, you said it yourself, we'd be fools to open the bridge and risk letting Gunmar out. Right, Jim?

Jim: Oh, of course. We'd be crazy to do that.

YN: Who among us isn't crazy?

Claire: Hey, buddy, it's your sis. Don't you start thinking I've forgotten about you. We're gonna get you back. I promise. See you soon, little chicharrón.

Claire: Thank you for giving me that.

Blinky: Young Tobias, would you be so kind as to give Miss Claire the rest of the tour? I need to share a word with our Trollhunter and Earthbeaker.

Claire: Earthbreaker?

YN: I can manipulate rocks. Earthbender for short. Plus I can metalbend too. We'll talk about it later.

Claire nods before she follow Toby and Aarg for the tour while Blinky and Jim are working on Jim's scooter.

Blinky: The drive belt's slipping. Pass me the wrench.

Jim hands him the wrench while YN is working on something else.

Jim: Hey, you're right.

Blinky: So, you brought Claire to Trollmarket. You really like this girl. No secrets between you two. Screwdriver?

Jim hands him the screwdriver.

Jim: I thought you liked her too, Blink.
Everyone else did. Well except for YN.

YN: Hey, there's a difference between liking and trusting.

Jim: Noted.

Blinky: She's lovely. I can see why you'd go to the ends of the Earth for her. Or say, the Darklands? Sometimes, the heart leads you down paths you should not cross.

Jim: How did you?

Blinky: Figure it out? Your devotion to this girl is as obvious as a glow worm to a huldre fish. Plus YN told me about it. Although I fail to see how she is a witch.

Jim: (To YN.) Seriously?

YN: You spilled the beans when you told Claire, Jim. Besides, if she's gonna join in, wouldn't hurt to give them a heads up before jump in the lava.

Jim: Alright, alright. But Blinky, it's her brother. I made her a promise. I-

Blinky: But you know the danger. If you went in alone, you'd be killed. Which is why we will answer every call.

Jim: You said I have to answer every call.
Now- Wait, did you just say "we"?

Blinky: Aarg, YN, and I discussed it. We knew you were going in, with or without our approval. But if Claire's brother is important to you, then he's important to us.

Jim looks at YN as his friend knows the question.

YN: I never said I didn't mention about how important family are.

Blinky: For folly or for fraught, we are a team.

YN: Nevertheless, we'll need all the advantages we can get. Better yet, build it. Check it out.

YN shows them two of his new equipments he has.

Jim: Is that uh...a measure tape?

YN: Something like that. When I showed my uncle I can do metalbending. We went through some plans to see what we can do to make a game changer. Just wait till you see how cool it'll be in action.

Just then, a troll arrive in the room and catches her breath.

Blinky: Spit it out, Bagdwella.

Bagdwella: Your friends are about to be turned into pâté!

They ran to the heroes forge and see that the machines are going haywire.

YN: I can't believe we turn our back only to see a disaster!

Jim: Claire!

Claire: I'm fine for now. Help him!

Toby: I swear, I didn't touch anything!

Draal: The controls!

Draal tries to shut it off with the button but nothing works.

Draal: This blasted arm!

Blinky. There's a manual kill switch inside the Soothscryer! Go, Master Jim!

Jim: Help Toby and Claire, I'll kill the switch.

YN: (Grin.) Perfect opportunity to test my gear!

Jim equip his armor while YN uses his new equipment by throwing the chain with his metalbending. Successfully to attached the stone before swinging towards Toby.

Toby: Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh! Oh, my gosh!

YN manage to catch Toby before the traps could hit them.

Toby: Thanks, YN. You guys make it look so easy. Nice equipment by the way.

Claire: Okay, I can use your help now.

YN: Hang on, I got you!

YN swings to another platform and summoned his staff and offers it to Claire.

YN: Grab on. I'll pull you up.

While YN is helping his friends, Jim reached to the Soothscryer and reach his hand inside to try to shut down the traps successfully. Once that was over, the heroes forge goes back to normal.

Claire: Is this normal?

Toby: Nothing's normal around here. Get used to it, sister.

YN: Blinky, Soothscryer.

Everyone look at the Soothscryer, only to see that its glowing.

Blinky: It's calling to him, at last.

Before they could do anything, the Soothscryer sucked him in before the glow faded.

Toby: Jim? Jim? Jim?

Aarg: No Jim.

Claire: What do you mean, "No Jim"? There was definitely a Jim.

Blinky: He has been summoned.

YN: Summoned by who?

Blinky: Summoned by the Trollhunters. But not to worry, he's in the void.

Claire: What do you mean, he's in the Void? The Void sounds like a very empty word. A bad word.

Toby: Yeah. And are these happy ghosts we're talking about here, or soul-sucking poltergeists?

Blinky: They will not suck his soul. They will merely peer into it.

YN: But why now of all the time they had?

Blinky: Vendel did once said that Soothscryer needed time. He is now under the spiritual guidance of Master Trollhunters.

Toby: Ghost guidance counselors? Jim gets all the cool stuff.

Just then, Jim appeared back and everyone rush towards him.

Toby: Hey! You're back from the other side, dude!

Claire: Wow! So trolls and ghosts exist.
What's next? A Midsummer Night's Dream? Fairies?

Blinky: Fairies? Preposterous! Fairies lost the war to the pixies centuries ago.

YN: How bout Chupacabra?

Claire: Seriously?

YN: What? You've seen trolls are real. Why not a Chupacabra?

Blinky: (To Jim.) What did they say?

Jim: They said they won't stop us.

Draal: What would my father stop you from?

Jim: From going into the Darklands. But if we're going in, they said the only way we're getting out alive is if we kill Gunmar.

YN: This will be dangerous, Jim.

Claire: Nothing is more dangerous than to save my brother from the darklands.

YN: There are always a bigger dangerous after another. 

Jim: But with Strickler gone, maybe we have a chance.

YN: Then we must prepare ourselves for the worst.

Time skip to next day.

The next day, the humans are in the gym with the entire school while watching the mascot dancing as students applauding and cheering before coach Lawrence speaks.

Lawrence: Give me an A!

Students: A!

Lawrence: Give me an R!

Students: R!

Lawrence: Give me a C!

Student: C!

Lawrence: This is taking way too long.
Give me an "adia"!

This confused everybody until he speaks again.

Lawrence: (Scoff.) What's that spell? Arcadia!

The students cheer as the mascot mole stand in front of the coach.

Lawrence: Go Moles! Go, Moles. Before we begin, I have a few announcements.

While that was going on, we see the trio are in the crowd while having a conversation about Jim's dream.

Jim: And his eye is glowing. And then, the dream just keeps reminding me that I'm completely way out of my league.

YN: Its clear that they don't know you well. And underestimated too if we look for anything to help us. Right Tobes?

Toby: Who is that masked mole? You ever wonder?

Jim: You didn't hear a word we said just then, did you?

Toby: Sure, I did. You had no problems sneaking into the Darklands when it was to save Claire's brother, but now that Kanjigar says you've got to face Gunmar, you're having nightmares about him and are freaking out that you're way out of your league.

This surprised the Trollhunter and the earthbender to hear Toby actually listened.

Toby: I can multi-task, Jimbo.

YN: And you're wondering who's under that mask?

Toby: Well yeah.

Jim: It's Bill Aronstein.

Toby: Bill moved to Wisconsin. This is someone else's artistry. Someone with feminine wiles.

Jim: What? What feminine wiles? How do you even know that it's a girl under there?

Toby: Uh, trust me, dude. I know women, and that is all woman under there.

Jim and YN look at each others with a confused look.

Lawrence: Hey! All right, mole, that's enough! Go back into your burrow or whatever! Okay. Principal Levit has taken ill with the flu. He's asked me to handle announcing the students the faculty's nominated for the year-end Spring Fling King and Queen. The nominees are: Shannon Longhannon! I'll pronounce it soon, Shannon.

Mary: (To Claire.) It's gonna be you.

Claire: No, it's not.

Mary: It is every year.

Claire: And, every year, I don't care.
Lawrence: Darci Scott!

Darci: Wait, what? Really? Yeah!

Lawrence: The third and final nominee is Mary Wang!

Mary: Me? Not you? (Laughs cheerfully.)

Claire: (Shock.) You? I mean, that's so awesome.

Lawrence: And now, for the boys. Steve Palchuck!

Steve: That's right, plebes! Obvious!

Lawrence: I know, yeah. Get over here, Steve. Eli Pepperjack!

The students boo at Eli.

Lawrence: Hey, no booing!

Eli: I have friends!

Toby: (To Jim.) You're worrying too much about Gunmar. Relax, dude. Now that the play's over, you can focus on your training full time.

YN: He does have a point. If we ever gonna go face Gunmar, we should come up with new moves and skills.

Lawrence: And finally, Jim Lake Junior! 

Toby: (Gasps.) That's you! (Laughs.)

Jim: What?

Steve: Really? Buttsnack?

YN: Thank god its not me.

Eli: Time for some friendly competition!

Steve: Eat snack, Pepperjack!

Lawrence: Our nominees will compete in a series of challenges to win your vote. Each nominee will propose a theme for the dance. I like disco! I've got to boogie! That is all.

Everybody begin to leave while the trio discuss the situation.

Jim: How am I gonna find time to-

Toby: That's not what's important, Jimbo! Here's what is: You've got a chance to be king of the school! You know what that means? (Gasps.) That would make me duke. Jim Lake for Spring King!

Time skip

Jim was back in the void where he's discussing with the other Trollhunters about Gunmar. How the sword and armor is meant to protect rather than kill Gunmar. Worst comes to worst, they tell him not to go down to the darklands and risk everything to find one human baby. Soon Jim returns to the heroes forge as Draal came to meet him.

Draal: Jim, did you see my father? I did.
Did he speak of me?

Jim: Yeah. He wished the Soothscryer could let you in, but, you know, the rules are the rules.

Draal: (Sighs.) It's all right, Trollhunter.
You don't have to lie to protect my feelings.

Jim: He said we can't kill Gunmar. I would only be leading my friends to their death.

Draal: Too bad. I was looking forward to proving him wrong.

Jim: (Chuckles.) So was I.

Just then Aarg arrive to see Jim.

Jim: Aarg, what's wrong?

Aarg: Blinky.

Blinky: But if I consult Gringold's Grimore, cross-reference it with Axle's Forbidden Almanac Of course, it's there! It's true!

Jim: How long's he been like this?

Aarg: Long time.

YN: Way too long.

Jim: Maybe you should switch to decaf.

Blinky: According to legend, only one scholar, the Dishonorable Bodus, uncovered a method of wounding Gunmar.

Jim: The Trollhunters just told me there wasn't any way. How do you do it?

Blinky: No one knows. Gunmar had Bodus and his students hunted down and dispatched in a most unpleasant manner.

Blinly shows them the book he's holding.

Blinky: But here, this book, The Final Testament of Bodus This is the last surviving copy of his work! This is the key! And I'm going to burn it.

Everybody gasped in shock.

Aarg: Long time.

Blinky: YN, if you may?

YN nods and grabs the book before throwing it to the ground and burns it while yelling.

YN: RAAAAAAAAAAGGHHH!!!!

Jim: No! What are you doing? That book might tell us the-

Blinky: Bodus was being hunted! He knew he had to keep it secret!

Toby: Oh, no!

Everybody tries to put the fire out but Blinky and YN stop them.

Blinky: Burn, baby, burn!

Claire: No, don't!

Claire uses a blanket to put the fire out.

Toby: Did Blinky and YN just destroy our only chance at getting Gunmar?

Claire: Or my baby brother!

Jim: What were you thinking, YN? And where did you even get the flamethrower!?

YN: (Smiles.) I trade it at the trollmarket. I've always wanted use these.

Blinky: You don't understand. Bodus hid the secret within the book. Watch.

Blinky blows the ash of the book, revealing a secret message.

Claire: It's a message.

YN: Oh man, thank god that worked.

Jim: What does it say?

Blinky: "In darkest tide, when Daylight darest wane. The Myrddin Wylt obscured a Shadow's bane."

Toby: What's a "Myrddin Wench"?

Claire: It's an ancient name for Merlin.
Shouldn't someone be taking a picture of this or something?

Toby pulls out his phone and takes a picture before Blinky continues to read it out loud.

Blinky: "Three forces elemental thou must seek. In marshland, caverns deep, and mountain's peak. Where worthy perish, ye will prevail in night and eclipse all who quarry with thy might."

Toby: Anyone else freaked out a little bit by this evil perish poem?

Jim: No. It said we can prevail! We can win! He hid a Shadow's bane.

Aarg: Gunmar's bane?

Blinky: It's referencing a weapon of insurmountable power, formed by three forces unhallowed Of course!

Blinky goes to the shelves and grab the books.

Blinky: It must be the Triumbric Stones! Three shards of legend tied to Gunmar's lifeblood, lost to the ages.

YN: So say these shard are something we need. If we find these stones.

Jim: We can kill Gunmar! Blinky, you madman, you did it!

Toby: We make the weapon and wham! Gunmar is done-mar!

Aarg: Caution.

Blinky: Indeed!

Blinky: The Triumbric Stones have been hidden for centuries, but if I can decipher this text, Master Jim, then you shall-

Claire: -"Eclipse all who quarry with thy might."

YN: So we have a plan. First, locating the stones, then we find and grab them. And finally-

Toby: -We make a cool weapon against Gunmar!

Jim: Where can we find the stones?

Blinky: It can be anywhere, we'll need time to their location.

YN: In the meantime, I say we prepare ourselves. Doubt it'll be waiting with a birthday cake.

Everybody agrees and left while Blinky figure out where are the stones hidden.

Time skip to next day

Once again, they in school where the school bell rings as the trio arrive in the gym.

Toby: Jim, this is what you're wearing?

Jim: I wear this every day, Tobes.
What else would I be wearing?

Toby: Your costume! (Deep breath.) In a few minutes, you're selling everyone your theme for the school dance.

YN: I wouldn't use the word "selling", Tobes.

Jim: Tobes, look, I'd love to be Spring King. Who wouldn't? But I'm just a little preoccupied right now with not getting killed.

Toby: There are fates worse than death, Jimbo. In high school, anyway. This is our chance to get the school to finally recognize how cool we are.

Jim: We?

Toby: If you become Spring King, it'll open up a whole new bracket of women.
I'm talking cheerleaders, senior cheerleaders. (Gasps.) Dare I dream? Community college dropouts.

YN: (Scoff.) Forget this. This ain't worth my time.

YN walks away from the group.

Toby: Whoa, where are you going?

YN: I got better things to do than something that doesn't last forever. Heck staying alive is more like it. Good luck with this king and queen stuff.

YN left the gym, leaving his friends behind.

YN POV

After everything that's going on. Toby only concern is the king and queen stuff. Glad I wasn't picked for becoming a king. As if I'd be a king or evens serve a king or queen. I decided to head outside for some fresh air for at least until the event is over. I decided to find something to keep myself occupied to kill time until I spotted something out in the field.

A troll who somehow can manipulate shadow?

YN: What the...?

I ran to the field to see who is that troll and what was he doing in the middle of the field. It look like he was digging something until he spotted me. Even with his weird shadow magic, he couldn't have gone far. Before I could even start looking for him, something emerged out of the ground and I saw its a mud golem. I scoff and use earthbending to tear it down but for some reason it didn't work.

YN: You gotta be joking.

The mud golem raise its arm and goes for a strike before I dodge it and punch towards its side. However, my hand got stuck due to its mud before the golem knock my back with its elbow.

YN: That wasn't supposed to happen.

I pull out my staff and use my metalbending to grapple at the golems shoulder, swinging around to swing my staff to its head before landing. Successfully taking its head off until I notice it grew its head back.

YN: "Always go for the head." They say...

I got back to my stance until Jim came with his armor and stabbed the golems back as it got stuck as well.

Jim: That wasn't supposed to happen!

YN: Right? That's what I said.

The golem spins around until it grabbed Jim.

YN: Jim!

I ran to help until the golem kicked Jim towards me and we both crashed to the goal.

YN: Ow...

Jim: Can't you just, I don't know, use earthbending on it?

YN: Did you think I didn't try? Its under some kind if spell!

Jim: Then lets go for the limbs!

YN: Jim wait, don't!

Jim didn't listen as he charges it, at first he's been doing good as he cut its limbs until he realized it grew back easily.

Jim: Or not. How do we fight something that regenerate fast?

YN: That things a golem, right? If must have a core somewhere inside.

Jim: Okay so we find its core.

YN: Keep it occupied while I find it.

Jim nods and distract it while I stomp my feet. Despite that the golem can move, I can see through the golem and luckily I found it.

YN: The core is at its chest, beneath the heart area!

Jim: Got it!

Jim throws his sword at its chest and it went through with the core before the golem collapsed in front of us. We catch our breath and I went to pick up the core while Jim retrieved his sword.

YN: So that's what he did...

I crush the core with my bare hands.

Jim: You know someone who created that?

YN: Only for a moment, it was a troll but unlike any troll I've seen. But he can mani-

I was cut off by the siren with Lawrence voice.

Lawrence: James Lake? Lake, are you here?

Jim: Oh, no! The costume!

YN: It ain't worth it, Jim.

Jim: Yeah, but come on. At least for Toby.

YN: (Sigh.) Fine, I got an idea.

Jim: Really?

I said nothing else and push Jim who fell in the mud.

Time skip, 3rd POV

Claire and Toby try to buy time for Jim as much as they could until coach Lawrence was about to announce Jim disqualified. However, Jim arrive just in time and is covered in mud with YN next to his friend. 

Toby: What the heck is that?

Lawrence: What's going on here?

Jim ignored them as he walks to the center of the gym.

Steve: Looks like you've been digging in the dirt, Lake. What the heck are you supposed to be?

Eli: He looks like a mole!

The students begin to realize what Eli said and they begin chanting mole for Jim.

Jim: No, no, no! I'm not a mole! I'm just-

Toby snatches the microphone and speaks to it.

Toby: Jim Lake Junior here to present his theme Mole Mania!

The crowd cheers while the mascot mole does a victory dance.

Steve: Mole Mania is not even a theme!

Claire: (Grabs the microphone.) The people have spoken. Jim is the winner!

Lawrence: (Grabs the microphone back.) Oh, apparently, Claire's the queen. But, yes, Jim wins the challenge! Mole Mania is the theme, but if I see one drop of mud on my gymnasium floor Just dress like normal!

Jim: (To YN.) Thanks, YN.

YN: Consider it a thank you for saving my butt back there.

Lawrence: At any rate. (Clears throat.)
there has been a sudden departure. I have heard word that Principal Levit has taken an indefinite leave of absence.
We wish him well. But he sent an e-mail recommending an interim replacement, which we all support. Please welcome Principal Strickler!

This shock the trio to see that Strickler is back as the crowd clapping their hands for him. 

Jim: (Whispers.) What is he doing here?

Toby: (Whispers.) I thought you said he would be a fool to ever come back.

YN: (Whispers.) Unless he has plans which I doubt it's something good.

Strickler hold the microphone and speaks to the entire school.

Strickler: (Smiles.) I'm very glad to be back and excited to get started. But let it be known, with me in charge, things are going to change.