Legsly and Poppy hugged each other as they attempted to keep balance on the shaking ground.

It was a very odd earthquake, because when they looked in the distance where the Trolls were lecturing Branch on winning Poppy's affection, they showed no reaction to the trembling.

"What's going on?" Poppy tripped and fell to the ground, where everything was more unsteady.

The ground cracked open just a teensy bit where red lights flashed from it, revealing a figure.

Nothing but a sillouete could be seen when she first appeared, but as more cracked opened up and more light shone, their appearance was clear.

Poppy noted in her brain, already seeing that this Troll was going to be a threat.

This Troll was the same Troll Trollex met, Queen Barb.

Barb smirked as she played a bunch of chords on an electric guitar.

"Hello there! I'm Poppy! Queen of Troll Village! A music where we all sing in harmony!" She sang the last word, and Legsly added another note. They held it out, hoping Barb would show friendliness and join them, but she didn't.

"That's nice." Barb said sarcastically. "Name's Queen Barb, and I'm the current ruler of Volcano Rock City."

The two other Trolls, Riff, and Thrash popped their heads out from behind her.

"You're kind of a co-leader until I die. My name still had King in it. King Thrash."

"I have no royal title. I'm just here because I want to be!" Riff grinned- until Thrash whacked his head with a drumstick.

"Shut up!"

Riff dizzily fell on the ground. "no."

Thrash tackled Riff, fighting like a ten year old with him.

"That looks fun!" Legsly bounced into the air and hoped to land on them, but was pulled back by Poppy.

"Don't make them more mad!" Poppy walked over to Barb and began explaining the friendly side to her.

"Are you friendly? I know I'm friendly! I love nothing more than to sing and dance and hug and dance and hug and sing and hug and dance and sing and hug and dance and-" She gasped, as Barb went to kick her.

"Where is your string?"

"What string? Balloon string? Shoe string?" Poppy listed a bunch if different uses of strings.

"Your pop string." She took out her guitar and revealed the rock and techno string

"What's a pop string?" Poppy looked at the two red strings curiously, and had an urge to touch them.

Barb turned away. "Peppy has obviously told you about the strings, right?"

Poppy shook her head.

"They seem like magical artifacts that are what define a village of Troll's existence." Legsly observed, somehow appearing on the visible side of the case,

Barb pushed her away, landing in Riff's arms. 

"Oh hi." Riff waved, dropping her on the ground.

Legsly remained on the ground and waved back to him.

( A/N - I just realized Legsly looks a lot like Bridget, mostly by the hair. I wonder if she's replacing her as Poppy's best friend in this movie. That would make sense since Anna Kendrick and Ester Dean are best friends from their years working on Pitch Perfect. )

"Yeah, they are magical artifacts. If your genre's string is destroyed, you can't sing or play any music. Which is what I plan to do. I'm gonna gather all six and destroy them right in your faces- except rock."

Poppy was still confused, "What other Trolls?"

Barb groaned. "You don't know anything!"

Barb shouted that statement pretty loud, gaining the attention of a few other passing Trolls.

Branch stopped paying attention to Peppy and looked over. "Who's that?"

Peppy patted his head with a stick. "Pay attention!"

Branch snatched the stick and broke in half. "Who is that Troll Poppy's talking to? I've never seen her before."

Peppy knew every single Troll in the village, and occasionally bragged about it to Branch often. He looked annoyed that Branch interrupted him during a lesson on Poppy, but confidentally turned to see who Branch was referring to.

"That's-" He dropped the eraser and chalk in his yellow-orange hands and rushed over to defend his daughter.

"Barb! Get away from my daughter!" Peppy pulled Poppy back and pushed her over to Branch.

Thrash jumped out, greeting Peppy with a punch to the face.

"Dad!" Poppy smacked Thrash with her hair. "You're not getting our string, whatever it is!"

Branch out his hands on his hips and agreed, though having no clue what was happening or what the troll was talking about. "Yeah!"

Barb and Thrash looked each other for a few seconds, unsure on whether they were going to listen or not.

Barb closed her guitar case and tossed it to Riff. "Fine, but we will be back. After obtaining the other three strings, we will return for yours."

"Oh yeah? Well, we'll be ready!" Poppy shouted confidentially, pushing away the fear deep down.

"We'll return in two days, in mid-afternoon. You better be ready." Thrash marked it down on his calender- also known as the back of Riff's hat.

"Marker is seeping into my soul." Riff pulled his hat further down his head.

"That's too soon!" Poppy already knew what she was going to do, but she would need more time.

"No, it's not soon enough." Barb winked at her then walked into the forest.

"Hey! Who's gonna fix this random crack in the ground?" Legsly stuck her head through the hole the rock trolls entered in.

Branch shoveled a pile of dirt on Legsly's head. "Problem solved."

Legsly ate it. "yUm." ( ThistleCat06 )

"Don't waste dirt!" Riff jumped out of the forest and hopped on Legsly's back, forcing her to spit the dirt out. ( GeorgeBeard4 )

Riff hopped back into the forest, disappearing for good.

"Am I the only one here who doesn't know what's going on?" Branch watched the troll skip away, puzzled on what was happening.

Legsly got up and shrugged. "Something about magical stings."

King Peppy attempted to sneak away, but Poppy refused to let him leave them without answers. "Dad.."

He turned around and innocently smiled.

"Who was that?" Poppy asked.

Peppy had no choice but to answer. "There are other kinds of Trolls."

Hearing the conversation, Biggie joined the group curiously. "What do you mean other kinds of Trolls? You mean glitter trolls, giraffe trolls.. Branch trolls?"

Peppy shook his head. "Different trolls defined by a genre of music." He turned to a nearby scrapbook that was forbidden to be opened without permission. Poppy asked to see it millions of times, but Peppy declined her requests. Today though, it would finally be revealed on what was inside.

"Our ancestors created six strings, each for a different type of music. Pop, that's us." He pulled on a lever, making the water in the water far spread out, showing a staircase leading to a lyre holding a single pink string.

He strummed it, causing it to react by emitting a bright pink heart,  "We're part of Pop Village."

He pointed at another page of the book, where giraffe trolls wearing strange outfits appeared to be dancing. "Funk, belonging to Wire City, led by King Quincy, Queen Essence, and Prince D, also known as Prince Doper. I don't know what happened to them. They've been rather quiet for last two decades."

Cooper used his neck to view the scrapbook, and looked at them in curiosity. "They look familiar."

Peppy avoided eye contact with Cooper, hiding something else, but everyone was too blind to see it— except Branch.

Branch eyed the past king suspiciously, knowing there was something off. He could easily sniff out any lies from anyone. It was a weird trait he had since birth.

Peppy continued. "Classical of Cloud City (or whatever the poster said) led by the conductor Trollzart. He doesn't identify himself as king. They're pretty friendly as long as you show generosity and kindness to them. Otherwise they get hostile. Trollzart doesn't believe in royalty, just equality. They're unorganized when it comes to the law system, but somehow it works."

"They look so cute!" Poppy booped the felt Trollzart on the nose and wiped the glitter on Branch's vest.

"Besides the abundant amount of glitter that is undoubtedly floating around there and the unorganized government, they look like my type of people." Branch wiped it on to Mr. Dinkles, passing the glitter around like a germ.

Peppy rolled his eyes and resumed. "Techno, Techno City. Ruled by King Trollex, the youngest leader out of them all. He still lives by his deceased parent's rules despite disliking them. All the rules are simple and laid back there besides arranged marriages. His parents died too soon, and he never had his marriage arranged and he can't find a Troll that he can legally marry. That rule gets kind of complicated."

Poppy felt bad for him. "I could marry him!"

Branch stared at her, waiting for her to take the statement back, but she didn't. "You don't even know this guy."

"It's color coded, he has to find someone that looks just like him, but a girl. Pretty dumb, but I guess his grandparents at OCD." Legsly read the book.

"Yeah." Peppy added, making all the Broppy shippers sigh in relief.

"Country, Lonesome Flats, led by Mayor Delta Dawn. Protected by deputy Dickory, older by a few minutes to Hickory. They're not extremely hostile like the rock trolls, but they take a while to trust people. One time they tied me in a rope and tried to feed me to a moo-nster."

Branch chuckled. "Moo-nsters are herbivores, they must be dumb."

"Nah, only their rancher Hickory can be a little dumb. Not as dumb as rock Troll Riff. Leading us to the final strimg-carrying tribe, rock. Volcano Rock City is ruled by the heartless King Thrash and the callous Quern Barb, Thrash is Barb's father. Riff is like a royal friend or something. He just hangs with them all the time for some weird reason. They've been trying for years to steal the strings and wipe out other music genres. They haven't succeeded in that, but they did scare some trolls away into forming their own minor communities without strings. Jazz and reggaeton. Led by Chaz and Tresillo (I just learned how to pronounce that)."

Peppy flipped to a map and showed where everyone loved. He pointed to a tall mountain that no Troll had dared to climb due to frigid temperatures, yet the jazz Trolls somehow seemed to have found heat there. "Jazz Peaks," he slid his finger down to a lake. "Reggaeton Reservoir."

"That's all, now please Poppy, I know you'll be tempted, but please don't interfere with this war. You just became queen and saved us from the Bergens, take a break from adventure." Peppy scratched his back and left after hugging Poppy.

Branch held up his fingers, counting down the seconds before she excaimed something predictable. "Three... Two... One.."

"We should help end this war!"

( yay I did it- )