Blood or Bonds?

6

The Moment Bruce entered Bergen Town was terrifying.

Spending most of his teens here living day after day fearing if they were going to be next made him shut the place off forever and never come back

But seeing Trolls and Bergen's singing, dancing and high-fiving each other just for his baby brother's concert made him feel unwell

But it kind of gave him an ease of mind

Still, the hate he felt just won't go away.

Why? Why now? Why did they choose to be happy now?

His parents could be alive, John wouldn't have been such a perfectionist, they would all be happy

He's been with John for so long being the second oldest, he saw the spiral and Branch egg

He could have helped, but John never let him

“Be a kid, Spruce!” John said, “I can handle it, Spruce” If Bruce was allowed to goof off, why wasn't John?

And then Bruce bumped into a Troll, “Sorry…” Bruce quickly apologized and there he saw a Troll with Green Hair and Snow Goggles.

“Spruce?” John Dory said, “It's Bruce now… what happened to goodbye forever?” Bruce said as John visibility froze “Look Spr-Bruce I'm sorry how I was at the band I'm still trying, but I'm not better” Bruce will give John that he was honest.

“So, why are you here?” Bruce wanted the truth, at least John will give him that it's the only thing he knows he will actually get “I thought you were all dead… so I sometimes come back to… well, cry” John said as Bruce sighed.

As much as he's mad at John Dory, he's still his big brother. Bruce just gave him a short hug “Well I'm alive Branch's alive… Clay and Floyd beats me” Bruce said as he saw Branch and his friends leave the stage getting ready to go to their next stop.

“Look, I'm going to Branch next venue. I promised him I'll be there. I don't know what you want to do but just… don't be John Dory” Bruce said as he tried leaving, but John grabbed his arm “Wait! Spr- Bruce”.

John took a deep breath, “Please let me try. I can't guarantee anything, but please… I missed you four” Bruce sighed because by all that is Trolly he missed his big brother.

“Fine, but be ready to walk we have to go to Mount Rageous” John did a small chuckle as he whistled and from the ground a caterbus came out “Don't worry, we got good old Rhonda” John said as he opened the door for Bruce as he saw the moderate living conditions

“Have you lived in here?” Bruce asked “Yeah, but not all the time I met Rhonda,” John was thinking now “A good 12 years ago? I think then I lived inside her” John said as he started driving.

“Now on the important note,” John said as he focused on the road, “Where's Mount Rageous?” Bruce grabbed the Map Branch gave him “Uhh take a right, and it's a city above a mountain and clouds and full of teenagers” The moment Bruce said Teenagers both of them shudder.

Teenagers were just too much and they are speaking from experience.

1 they're easy to anger, 2 they have no thoughts for anyone and 3 their dumb

And from experience they did all of that

John put Rhonda in autopilot while he looked at the map until

Rhonda crashed into a tree because she saw an animal

“Rhonda!” John said, looking at his friend with worry while Bruce looked around and saw a Golf Course, of course it was a Bergen one and abandoned.

“It looks like they might have things here, let see if there's any usable stuff to patch up Rhonda” Bruce said as John followed and the air here feels stiff

Like they were walking to a hunter's den

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Mount Rageous was still pretty far so they stopped for a bit, letting their cater bus rest

Branch was making burgers on the grill he packed while Trickee was focused on making some pineapple juice while Ablaze and Hype were still asleep

Boom was just drawing on a paper, so it was pretty peaceful

“I wonder how everyone is doing in Troll Village” Boom said “Probably Singing, Dancing and hugging” Trickee said as he poured everyone some juice in a small cup

Until they all went gray

“What?” Branch said as he looked at himself he wasn't depressed. actually he was pretty happy with Bruce and him now reconnecting and him seeing him on his tour.

“Boom?” Branch said as he saw Boom was also gray his rainbow hair looked like a dark pencil look.

Trickee was also Grey

Why? Why was everything gray?

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Many things happen when Branch left

Poppy got invited by someone named Queen Barb, she learned of the strings, she went by herself to help with the party, and Biggie went with her

They say Symphonyville destroyed and Barb's true intentions, went to the Lonesome Flats, went all out with the most historical songs in all of Pop History and got arrested

Escaped with their new friend Hickory got hypnotized by someone with a heart chest hair, found the funk trolls and learned what Pop did

And now here she was in Volcano Rock City, and she destroyed the strings

She looked at everyone who got turned into a rock zombie, and she helped them up while Barb held unto the destroyed strings

“What have you done” Barb said as she looked at Poppy with so much hatred “You destroyed music” Barb said as Poppy looked so guilty “Leave it to Pop, history repeats itself”

Poppy was actually mad.

She never did anything. All she did was try to help every other tribe “No Pop didn't do anything” if Branch was here he would have helped ground her but no, she isn't taking this disrespect of her tribe

She was Queen, and she's not taking the fall for someone else's actions. “All I did was save everyone from what Hard Rock was doing tell me Queen Barb what differences you made was soo different from what my ancestors did so long ago”

Poppy said, looking at Barb for an answer, but she got nothing. “Exactly I told you this before we are completely different. When something doesn't work out how you want it you shift the blame” Poppy said as she saw the Funk Royalty

“I was like you until I learned from those who showed me to listen.” Poppy smiled at them as they returned it in kind

“But in the end, we are all to blame. I may have destroyed the strings, but it's us who chosed to not listen to our differences because we never learned from our ancestors”

The whole crowd was silent until a sound happen

A love for Pop made his heart known while their brother started to beatbox to the beat as their parents looked at them with pride

“Those are my sons, making music” then a love for country started beating as she stomped her hooves and clapped her hands. She looked at her people as the copied her

The crowd joined in making the stadium full of sound, making their noise heard from the silence until

“Queen Barb can't take our music away because that where it comes from,” Queen Essence spoke “It started with the strings, but now it comes from us” King Quincy continued “Yeah, it comes from our lives” Delta Dawn said “Our experience!” King Trollex added “Our Culture” Queen Essence added lastly as she gave Poppy the floor.

(Poppy)

Let me hear you sing