- Hello ? The little troll says in the darkness.

He didn't know where he was, the moon was rising in the night sky. Walking in the dark, he saw nothing and it was impossible to describe his colors in total darkness.

He stumbled and fell face first in a water puddle. Rubbing his forehead and groaning in pain, he got up and continued his way, trying to find his village, passing without realizing it above the borrowing of a dragon ....

... And the taste of water made him want to vomit.

* * *

- A team of hunters in the village? Poppy repeated what the SnackPack had told her.

In the village, the princess was chating with her friends. It was when she heard this news that she felt fear invading her, trying to keep her cool.

- Yes, Pepy telling us this morning, GD confirmed.

- A team of hunters 24 hours a day in the village, added DJ, your father will eventually manage to catch the two dragons.

Poppy looked down at her sandwich as the SnackPack continued to chat. A team of dragon hunters? Why his father didn't tell her about it? And what would happen if they managed to capture Hairless?

- Guys? ... Poppy tried to get their attention.

Seeing the head she had been doing for a few months, the SnackPack turned to look at her. They knew she was hiding something from them, and understood perfectly if she did not want to talk about it .... It was obvious that she loved Branch!

- Yes Poppy? Biggie asked

- What ... what do you think about dragons? She finally asked.

The question had slightly surprised her friends, a silence start between them, until the voice of Smidge put an end to it:

- This NightFury didn't look very happy in his cage.

Poppy felt somehow relieved, at least some could see what she had seen.

- And this little dragon looked like a child who wanted to play ... Biggie added.

- Yes, maybe we should try to know them ... Biggie proposed, After all, the dragons have been friends of the Trolls a long time ago!

- It's a joke, guys!? A voice cut them off.

The SnackPack turned to Creek, he held a throw-net in his hands, showing that he was the leader of the hunters. Poppy looked down, not daring to look at the weapon that had hurt her dragon's tail.

- The dragons are wild monsters! And if we do nothing, they will kill us all! Here is the proof!

He gently put his hand on Poppy's cheek and pulled away the strand of hair from her face so everyone could see the little scar on her cheek. The one Hairless had accidentally made on the night of their meeting. The SnackPack was shocking, and Poppy hid her scar again with embarrassment.

- That's what they do! Don't you forget what this little dragon did despite his size? Creek got angry, And that other dragon that attacked our boat?

Hearing all this things was too much for the pink troll, slowly she put her sandwich on the table and walked away. Noticing this, the SnackPack stopped her:

- Poppy, where are you going? Satin asked

- You don't have classes with Branch today, you have something else planned? Chenille wondered.

- I uh ... I have to go see Skylar for Cliff clean Oxy's enclosure, she explained, happy to have an excuse.

Then, without another word, she take direction to Skylar home. Creek watched her go, wondering why she had not chosen to stay with him.

- Can I finish her sandwich? Cooper asked from nowhere.

Quickly, Poppy had joined Skylar. The ferret trainer troll talk with a light pink troll, riding the only female in the whole farm, a pretty white ferret named Whippet. The lilac troll seemed overexcited:

- You just have to gently pull on her fur to tell her what direction to take, she will understand! He explained.

The pink troll nodded nervously, pulling a little too hard on Whippet's fur. The ferret squeaked and dropped her rider who fell in Skylar's arms.

- A little too much, San, he laughed

- You should have just told me she had fur as fragile as your beautiful wings! San replied, blushing as she realized what she had said.

- Hi Skylar, Poppy greeted them, San immediately went down from his arms and returned to Whippet to apologize, you know where is Cliff?

- He's cleaning Stitch's den, it was horribly dirty, Skylar laughed slightly.

Poppy turned her gaze to the little red troll, cleaning the home of Skylar's youngest ferret. He was completely disgusted when Stitch left another "cupcake" in the spot he had just cleaned. As a baby, he still did not understand there was a place for this.

- Good, he'll understand that what he did to Keith was awful, Poppy said and sat on the fence.

Skylar did the same, looking at San who had managed to caress Whippet's muzzle. In a sad tone, he confided:

- I can not believe I have to get away from her, he says, Creek tell me as hunters, knowing that I knew how to deal with wild animals ...

That surprised her, he was one of the hunters? But another detail made her rather laugh:

- Wild animals ? But Oxy is a walking potato! She pointed to Skylar's ferret.

The animal that had heard his name, got up on his four paws and approached his troll friend to have some scratches behind the ears. Skylar laughed:

- Ferrets have fangs, and sometimes, fear takes over, it's not their fault ... How do you think this scar appeared on the tail? It was Oxy who bit me when he was sick! So I get revenge and took your tail, right, big ball of fur ? He joked, laughing at the half-tail of his ferret and hugging his friend's head against him.

* * *

After one hour flying over the forest, and 23 hide-and-seek game, Hairless and Poppy had returned to the lake. As the pink troll told him about the last party that had taken place in the village, Hairless had taken a giant ice piece between his jaws.

- You draw ? Again ? Poppy asked as Hairless try to draw in the snow with the giant ice piece.

He thought he had succeeded, smiling and turning his gaze to the snow-covered princess after their game of hide-and-seek. But she frowned at what he was trying to draw:

- It's another dragon?

Hairless let out a grunt of victory, nodding; was he finally going to tell her? He put his ice piece back in the snow and tried to draw a smaller dragon, ready to be devoured by this monster; he was trying to show what he had found, Claws.

- It's a fish? Are you hungry?

- No no no ! He grunted in his language, He wants to attack the village, you must understand! But he knew she didn't understand, Powy! He growled, which made Poppy laugh softly, knowing that he was trying to pronounce her name.

She gave him another salmon that she had bought in the village, Hairless grunted before taking it, shaking his body to drive the snow off his saddle and start eating it. He was a little despairing, how to prevent them from danger without revealing to them who he was ...

He had raised his eyes to the sky, seeing the moon in the sky ... Got it ! In a week, it would be a full moon and he could find the volcano!

He knew it would be dangerous, but it was his only hope.

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