Part of That World
Back at the LED castle, Trollex was called to the throne room where his parents sat down in each of their golden shell-shaped thrones. The princes have their own thrones besides each of their parents. Trollex's throne was a medium-sized white shell next to his father's, while Synth's throne was a medium-sized aquamarine shell next to his mother's. Trollex was now being admonished in front of his parents and brother with Laguna floating next to the royal family with her pen and clipboard while Beat was behind the open doors outside of the room.
"I just don't know what we're going to do with you, young Troll!" King Ocean sighed loudly.
"Dad, I'm sorry, I just forgot, I..." Trollex confessed, but he was cut off.
"As a result of your careless behavior, the entire celebration was ruined! You were supposed to host your very first rave, but you failed to show up!" The king of Techno yelled.
Laguna cut in, and snapped, "And I was supposed to be in charge to get you ready! This is one of the careers I was best known for. Now thanks to you, I am the laughing stock of the entire kingdom!"
But Beat couldn't stand of letting his friend get punished as he zoomed inside towards Laguna, "But it wasn't his fault!" When the antrollpologist backed away, she was near the king and queen, making Beat feel afraid of them. He started to explain, "Ah, well, first, ahh, this shark chased us. Yeah, yeah! And we tried to... but we couldn't... and," Beat made a growling shark sound with the King and Queen glanced at each other, "'Ggrrrrrr!'" and he got back to his normal voice, "and-and we... 'whoa!' Oh, and then we were safe," Beat sighed, and explained more, "But then, we found this object here, and we don't know what it was made of, but we...
"Object?" This got King Ocean's attention as Beat gasped that he couldn't believe he said too much, and hid inside Trollex's hair, "What? Oh, you went out to get more Land Troll materials again, didn't you? DIDN'T YOU?!"
"Nothing bad happened," Trollex grinned sheepishly.
King Ocean sighed while touching his head, feeling like he was having a headache, "Oh, Trollex, how many times must we go through this? You have no time to collect Land Troll stuff! You have more obligations as future king than thinking about all these!"
"Dad, I have all the time!" Trollex talked back.
"They are nonsense! We have all wonderful things here in Techno Reef and the whole ocean. Do you think I want my heir grow up to abandon and disrespect his own culture?"
"I'm 20 years old! I'm too old to abandon my own culture!"
"Don't you take that tone of voice with me, young Troll. As long as you live under my ocean and I'm still sitting on my throne, you'll obey my rules!
"But if you would just listen..."
"Not another word! And I am never, NEVER to hear of you collecting more Land Troll stuff again! Is that clear?"
Trollex wanted to talk back to his father, but his lips wiggled and his glare changed to frown as he swam away out of the throne room with Beat in town.
King Ocean floated back on his throne in stress as Queen Seastar laid both her hands on her husband's hand. When the king looked at his queen, who had a concerned look on her face, Ocean realized he went a little too far. For him, it wasn't bad for Trollex to take interest on anything that was from land, but Ocean only wanted for his son to take responsibilities as king seriously, and shouldn't abandon his own life as a Techno Troll.
On his throne, Synth felt bad for his brother. He knew their father had pressured Trollex too much, so they didn't spend much time together as brothers. They were supposed to have fun and rave together, but their father dragged Trollex away, leaving Synth lonely and rave alone. Synth understood Trollex taking interest in the land, and he didn't need to investigate to know his brother well.
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Back in the Magic Castle, Aggie was sent to the throne room where her parents were sitting, and her half-siblings stood disappointedly beside their mother. Gust was at the back, watching while feeling guilty for betraying his friend.
"I can't believe you would do such a thing, young lady!" King Galileo groaned frustratingly for his youngest daughter's antics.
"Dad, I'm sorry, I can't help myself!" Aggie apologized.
"I never forbid you to collect ocean stuff, but you went further than I expected! I told you to just stay on the beach or in the shallow waters!" Galileo reminded her.
Aggie rolled her eyes, "Those parts are so boring. There's plenty of beautiful underwater stuff out there!"
"You can't go that deep! What if you'll drown? What if you'll never reach the surface?!" Queen Bernadette asked worriedly.
"I already know how to swim!" the princess replied.
"What if you get lost and run out of air? Do you think I want to let our little girl get herself killed under there?!" Galileo held his daughter's chin up with care.
But Aggie yanked her head away as she didn't like how overprotective her parents are to her, "Whoa, Mom, Dad, I'm 18 years old! I'm not a child!"
"Your father and I don't like that attitude of yours, young lady! We're just trying to keep you safe!" Bernadette shouted.
"I can take care of myself!"
"That is enough!" Galileo growled, making Aggie stand still in fear, and Gust kept his mouth shut.
"Until we figure out what we would do to you, you are grounded!" The Magic Musical Queen declared.
"Mom! No! This isn't fair!" Aggie cried.
"No! It is done!" Galileo held his hand up as a sign for his daughter not to argue anymore, and the decision was finalized.
Aggie wanted to argue, but she hung her head down in defeat as she slowly walked out of the throne room, not before murmuring at Gust at her left.
"Thanks a lot, Gust."
Gust frowned as he felt that he got his best friend into trouble. He then looked back the King and Queen of the Magic Musical Trolls, and tilted his hat in respect before galloping out of the room
"Hm! Teenagers. They think they know everything. You give them an inch, they blabber all over you," Noel scoffed.
"Do you think... we were too hard on her?" Galileo asked.
Agnes then shook her head, "Definitely not, Uncle King Galileo. Why, if Aggie was my daughter, I'd show her who was boss. None of this 'studying ocean things' and other such nonsense. No, sir. I'd keep her under tight control."
"Yeah, if she was my daughter too, I would show her that everything she did was so wrong. A little tough love would make them better Troll later!" Noel added.
While his stepchildren were talking, Galileo raised his head, and beamed that he got a good idea from them, "You're absolutely right, Agnes, Noel."
"Of course we are," Agnes nodded.
"Aggie needs constant supervision," the king of Magic Musical clarified.
"Constant," Noel added.
"Someone to watch over her, to keep her out of trouble," Bernadette stated.
"All the time..." Noel and Agnes glanced at each other.
But then, Galileo pointed his finger at his stepchildren, "And YOU TWO are just the Trolls to do it!"
Both Noel and Agnes gasped in surprise.
"What? Why us?" Agnes questioned.
"She looked up to both of you, so you have to watch over her," Bernadette pointed.
Both Noel and Agnes shrunk because of their big mouths for giving their stepfather and mother their idea of someone to watch over Aggie, and that's them. They marched out of the throne room angrily, defeatedly accepting the job.
"How do we get ourselves into these situations?" Noel muttered, "We should be taking care of our own business!"
"Yeah, like you writing symphonies, and I am trying to make new sounds on my bass, not tagging along after some headstrong teenager," Agnes sneered.
Just then, behind the pillar, they saw Aggie taking out a bag from her hair, and quickly ran off to another hallway.
Curiously, and as their job, Noel and Agnes wanted to know what their little sister was doing.
"Hmm? What is that girl up to?" Agnes said as the two quietly followed their sister.
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In Techno Reef, Trollex and Beat swam away from LED castle as they were heading towards a small cavern, covered by a circular large stone. Trollex pulled the stone open for Best to enter, followed by Trollex himself before closing the entrance.
Inside the small cavern was actually a large grotto with a vast treasure trove of objects, antiques, artifacts, and other stuff that he has collected. Inside were hollowed out shelves for which he stored and displayed his discoveries. His collection had included silverware, candles, candleholders, fishing equipment, barrels, thimbles, globe, an hourglass, pottery (even metal pots), a smoking pipe, chess pieces, clocks with Roman Numerals, furniture made of wood, pocket watches, compasses, corkscrews, Classical music boxes, parasols, a birdcage, Non-Techno musical instruments, helm, Jack in the Box, heavy sport balls, sports helmets, two blender cups with lids, toy vehicle models (airplane, cars, trucks, and carriages), frames of pinned butterflies, renaissance-themed paintings, and matching clothes of a shirt and pants, and dress.
"Trollex, are you okay?" Beat asked while Trollex was lying down on the floor, and holing a metal fork.
Trollex sighed sadly, "If only I could make my parents understand. I just don't see things the way they do. Land Trolls won't change me. I don't see how a world can make such wonderful things... could be bad, even for a Techno Troll like me."
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In the Magic Castle, Aggie quietly went to another hallway with Noel and Agnes following her behind. She looked around to see if anyone saw her before pushing the button to open the wall of her secret room. She quickly got inside, and the wall slowly closed, not before Noel and Agnes quietly snuck in before the wall closed tightly.
Inside Noel and Agnes were hiding behind large boxes as they looked around in shock. They saw the room was full of sea collections. Aside from real seashells, clams, coral utensils and plates, sea glasses, and seaweeds, there was also open clams with shiny pearls, fish scales in frames, underwater disc records, seashell pencils and pens, coral scrunchies, colorful sea pebble jewelries, colorful sea stones, pieces of colorful coral, seashell spoon, fork, and knife, sea sponge headphones, small statues and large paintings of Techno Trolls, and small dried star fishes in a small box. There were also skeletons of other sea creatures hanging by the strings from the ceiling, like dolphins, sea turtles, sea otters, seals, sea lions, sting rays, manta rays, sun starfish, and different kinds of small fishes.
Aggie knelt down on the floor, and poured the sea crystals from her bag, and stared at how they glow in the dark.
"If only I could make them understand how much these things meant to me. I don't want the m to see I'm too weak to explore a world where Land Trolls... can't live in it," Aggie told herself.
Aggie: Look at this stuff
Isn't it neat?
Wouldn't you think my collection's complete?
Wouldn't you think I'm the Troll
The Troll who has everything?
Trollex then sang his own verse without knowing he was on a duet with the princess he had never met yet.
Trollex: Look at this trove
Treasures untold
How many wonders can one cavern hold?
Looking around here you'd think
Sure, he's got everything
Aggie kept singing without knowing she was singing with the prince of Techno that she didn't know yet.
Aggie: I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty
Trollex: I've got whozits and whatzits galore
Trollex/Aggie: You want thingamabobs?
I've got twenty!
Trollex: But who cares?
Aggie: No big deal
Trollex/Aggie: I want more
For Trollex's part of the song, only Beat was listening, while at Aggie's. thought she was alone while she was singing, but she never knew that her older half-siblings were listening.
Aggie: I wanna be where the Trolls are
I wanna see, wanna see 'em ravin'
Swimming around on those, what do you call 'em?
Oh, fins
Trollex: Flippin' your fins, you don't get too far
Legs are required for jumping, dancing
Strolling along down the, what's that word again?
Street
Trollex: Up where they walk
Aggie: Down where they swim
Trollex/Aggie: Up/Down where they stay all day in the sun/underwater
Wanderin' free, wish I could be
Part of that world
Aggie: What would I give if I could live in these waters?
While Noel and Agnes didn't like how their sister took too much interest in living underwater, they turned, and saw a giant opened megalodon jaw. They yelped in fear before backing away, and falling on boxes of sea jewelries.
Trollex: What would I pay to spend a day warm on the sand?
Trollex/Aggie: Bet'cha on land/sea, they understand
Bet they don't reprimand their children
Young trolls, sick of swimmin'/standin'
Ready to stand/swim
And ready to know what the people know
Aggie: Ask 'em my questions and get some answers
Trollex: What's a fire and why does it, what's the word?
Burn?
Trollex/Aggie: When's it my turn?
Wouldn't I love, love to explore that shore up above?/world down below?
Out of the sea/Under the sea
Wish I could be
Part of that world
When Noel and Agnes got up from falling into the boxes, they carried the boxes on their heads, and tried to balance themselves, but they couldn't see where they were going. Noel accidentally bumped into Agnes, causing both siblings to fall down, making a loud crash along with the boxes of sea jewelries, and alerting Aggie with their sounds. She turned and saw her angry two siblings while wearing the sea jewelries all over their heads.
"Noel! Agnes!" She exclaimed in fear that her siblings found her in her own secret room.
When Noel and Agnes got up, Noel tried to remove the jewelry off him, "Aggie! What are you, mad? How could you... what is all this?!"
"It, uh, it's just my... collection," Aggie grinned sheepishly.
"Oh. I see. Your collection. Hmmm..." Agnes nodded while spinning an underwater Techno disc.
Then the two siblings yelled while shaking off the sea objects off them, "IF MOM AND UNCLE GALILEO KNEW ABOUT THIS PLACE...!"
"You're not gonna tell them, are you?" Aggie pleaded, "Oh, please, Noel, Agnes, they would never understand what I've been working for."
"Agatha, sis, you're under a lot of pressure in here, especially that there is less oxygen in here," Agnes insisted as she held Aggie by the hand, and dragged her towards the wall, which was the door out of the room.
"I agree with our sister. Come with us, we'll take you out, and get you something warm to drink." Noel agreed as he continued to push his youngest sister out with his younger one.
Aggie looked back at her collection, wanting to know that they were safe and nothing broken until the wall closed.
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Back in Trollex's grotto, after the song, Trollex stared at the pan pipes that he collected earlier before starting to feel bored.
"Come on, Beat, let's get out of here before mom and dad found out about this place," Trollex told the Beat Drop Button before the two swam towards the exit, and Trollex closed it so no one would discover the place.
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I LOVE MAKING THIS CHAPTER SO MUCH! Since the beginning of summer, I have already planned for this chapter, and I've been wanting to make this. I've been making a lot of edits while listening to the original song, and I think this is perfect.
The song doesn't belong to me.
Song:
Part Of Your World by Jodi Benson
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