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Sticks and stones

Part 1/?

Trolls Au fic

When a mysterious troll comes to town dressed as a tiny tree costume, Branch is bewildered to find that it’s someone completely new but unfortunately not unfamiliar.

1808 words

Warnings: extremely close to the third movie this part is. But it changes as it goes on in other parts. Dad’s an asshole.

A/N: please don’t be mad that only Branch and Poppy are going on the adventure, I really struggle with some of the Brozone brother’s personalities (mostly Floyd and clay) and I just genuinely think that Bruce would be too upset to even look at their dad so. Yeah. Anyways enjoy! Also dad is insufferable I don’t want anyone to like him :)

Plenty of years ago, The troll tree stood tall, and trolstice was on the horizon, but Willow and Barry had a family to take care of, especially a new egg. Willow sat in her pod humming to the egg in her nest of hair. Barry was dealing with their oldest.

“Johnny, buddy, you can handle taking care of your brothers can’t you, besides my mom is here!” Barry grinned down at John and patted his head. Fixing the goggles on his face. John Dory seemed appalled at the idea of taking on such a responsibility.

John shook his head. “No! I’m still a kid! I have a life to leave, and you’re just running away?”

“Don’t call it running, it sounds less cool.” Barry walked away from John, not wanting to see him upset.

“It’s not Cool, it's totally not cool!” John yelled, trudging after his father.

While they argued. Willow cradled the egg with a frown, staring at the two of them. Her heart broke as she saw little Floyd walking up to her.

“You’re leaving?” Floyd’s voice cracked tears piling in his eyes. Willow pulled him up into her lap.

“Well, yeah, but not because of you or any of your brothers, but your dad and I have to find a better place for us to live. Instead of living at risk every day.” She brushed his hair out of his face. She kissed his forehead gently.

Floyd nodded. “Yeah but why do you both have to go?” He asked, looking up at him. Her eyes softened.

Willow played with a little bit of his hair. “We’ll cover more ground and be back in no time, and don’t worry, I have you all in my heart. Always. I’ll find you in due time.” she placed her hand on her chest, pointing to her Hugtime necklace.

Willow frowned when Floyd didn’t smile at her back. She sighed softly then got an idea “Floyd, I need to ask you to do something, it’s a really important job you understand?” She tilted her head and pointed at Floyd with a stern finger.

He nodded. Stepping closer as she gestured to him to do so. “Promise me, that you’ll always take care of your brothers, you’ll always show up when they need you, and you’ll always tell them you love them. Stay understanding and brave, yeah?” She caressed his cheek and then kissed it softly. “One more thing, always be there for Bitty B. Understand?” She hands the egg to Floyd.

Floyd tears up and nods his head. Barry calls her name and Willow stands, giving each of her boys a kiss to their heads then grabbing her bag. She followed her husband out of the pod quickly.

She was determined to find a place to keep her kids safe, and if she couldn’t find one,

She’d make one

Present day:

Queen Poppy was having an annual troll reunion party, where every troll from every tribe came together and had a big party! Poppy was absolutely thrilled about it. Shaking Branch violently in her pod as she let satin and chenille pick her dress for the celebration.

“The first Annual Troll reunion! Oh this is the biggest party I’ve ever planned for. I'm so excited I could explode!” She squealed, pulling Branch in for a bunch of butterfly kisses.

Branch laughed and waved a hand at Poppy “Woah, woah, yeah this is big, but have we figured out a guest list? What if someone walks in and they’re someone we’ve never even met?” He placed a loving hand on Poppy’s shoulder. Poppy grinned wider

“The more the merrier!” She exclaimed as she fixed her crown in her head. Stepping behind the screen to change into Satin’s pick for a dress. She steps back out and the twins instantly shake their heads, pulling out another dress, Chenille’s choice, for her to try on. Poppy takes it and tries it on.

Branch smiled sweetly, her excitement infectious in the situation he can’t help but feel socially paranoid towards. “Poppy, I love you, and I’m really excited for you, but you have to figure out the best way to protect the village when there’s new trolls coming left and right.” He felt Satin putting a bow on his vest, he didn't fight it.

Poppy giggled softly. Walking out in the new dress and twirling as she grinned at her boyfriend. “Then what do you think we should do?” She asked before getting shoved back behind the screen for another dress, their duo pick.

Branch laughed softly, standing straight up. “The simple option is to give everyone scalable cards that say their name, so we can prove they are who they say they are.” He smirked, crossing his arms, waiting for her response.

When Poppy walks out in her new dress, it matches her crown perfectly, Satin lets out a loud squeal, while Chenille simply claps and jumps up and down. Branch’s eyes soften as he sees Poppy in a big pink, yellow, and orange dress that perfectly resembles her personality, firey, but absolutely beautiful to be around.

Poppy walked up to him. Placing a hand on his cheek. “Branch I love that Idea, but I don’t want to scare off potential friends, and besdies if anyone sees anything suspicious they’ll alert you immediately. Now I need to finish getting ready, I love you!.” She kisses his cheek but he’s suddenly pushed out by Chenille, as Satin begins on Poppy’s hair.

He laughed softly, walking away from the pod and making his way to his Bunker. As he walked he heard other Trolls discussing how excited they were, he smiled feeling a warmth spread through his heart. Pride? Love? Either way it reminded him of how much he looked up to her.

While on the way he caught sight of Floyd being absolutely babied by Holly, a country troll, he chuckled at the sight watching her trying to do his hair in any other way possible. Then he saw his other brother, Clay, with Viva. They were talking about the evening, when Viva spotted Branch she waved, prompting Clay to do so as well.

Branch waved back and looked at the ground thoughtfully, a natural smile forming on his face. He placed a hand on his cheek. Sighing softly. He couldn’t believe the progress he’d made since he and Poppy stopped the Bergens together. He was happy; Really happy, and nothing was going to get in his way now.

He thought so, until he ran into a tree. “Oof! Ow…where’d this tree come from?” He stepped back, looking the stump up and down, he gasped when the tree turned around and faced him. “AAAAAAGH” he yelled, the tree began panicking and sprinting away. He flung his hair toward the small tree. Wrapping around it, and finding out it wasn’t a tree at all, but a troll in a tree costume. “Who are you! Why are you in a tree costume, you’re not good at disguises.”

The troll mumbled. “Sparky said the tree costume would work.” He slowly turned to Branch. “Well, this is awkward, but I was looking for a troll named Johnny…no that wasn’t his name it was John Dory! Yeah! Him!” He shot up from his place on the dirt Evan as Branch still had him tangled in his hair.

Branch shook his head. “John Dory, what do you want with my brother?!” He threatened him by squeezing him in his hair. The opposite troll yelped softly. Followed by a groan.

“Why do I have to explain myself to you?” Branch didn’t have a second to respond before he was being thrown to the ground with his own hair. The tree troll laughed triumphantly. “Hah! You’re strong for a Troll who’s so demanding.” He pulled the tree costume off, his blue hair fluffing up and him fixing his leaf adorned pants

Branch grumbled as he stood up. Patting himself off. “Who are you, and why do you want to talk to John?”

“Well now that you ask, it makes me feel like I’ve gotten wrinkly, he had my face! I mean come on!” The man laughed. He stepped forward to be better seen in the light, Branch’s judgmental confusion made him shake his head, placing his hands on his hips “aren’t you a ball of sunshine, I’m Barry! short for Barberry? his dad! Obviously!”

Branch’s world stopped, it was then he realized there were so many eyes on him and the troll. He grabbed his hands, pulling him off to the side. “What do you mean by his dad?” Branch asked with his head against his.

“Uh…his…papa? His padre? What else could I mean?” He snorted softly. Pushing Branch’s shoulders away from him

“You…prove it.” He looked up and around, wondering if it was not worth the fight.

“What? How do I prove that I’m the DNA of another- ugh fine,” Barry reached into his pocket and handed out a small Polaroid picture. In it was him with a much younger troll beside him, holding a big fish by his head. “He was really young when he caught his first.” He grinned at it, as if it were a distant memory.

Branch took it from him, taking a closer look to be sure. “Wait…that’s…where have you been?” His voice lowers and his eyebrows furrow. He stepped back crossing his arms as he turned away,

“What? What do you mean?” Barry asked before snorting softly. Branch cringed at him, he does look a lot like John. Which does not help with Branch’s accumulating anger.

Meanwhile, Poppy walked up to Viva, running her fingers through her styled hair. “Hey, have you seen Branch? Viva’s eyes sparkled at Poppy’s dress “1: you look incredible! I love everything about it! 2: He grabbed some random guy and took him into that bush over there.” She said pointing toward the Bush Branch was in. She walked up to the bush slowly. Hoping he was okay.

Branch throws his hand in the air. “John Dory is my older brother.” Barry stared for a moment, before circling him. Then stopping he reared up slightly wrapping his arms around his shoulders.

Poppy pushed open the bush and Barry lifted Branch into the air. “I’m your dad!” Branch yelled out struggling to get out of his grasp.

Poppy gasped, punching Barry with her hair. Causing him to fly away and hit a tree. She rushed to Branch and hugged him. “Are you okay? Are you injured at all.did he say he was your dad?” She deflated slightly at the realization. Branch nodded, looking at his defeated father.

“Yeah, but it’s no harm done. We have to get John Dory, he has some explaining to do.” Branch said, walking up to his dad’s body. “So does he.” He said glaring down at Barry crossing his arms,

A/N: I wrote this on a whim one evening because I can, and now this is taking my life. I'll most likely also post this on wattpad or ao3. But I really wanted to test the waters and see what I could do with this. Follow me for more! I don't wanna do a tag list lmao

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