Warning: This chapter contains a lot of painful fights, but no blood/gore added.

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Intro

Aggie: You can do it solo

Queen Poppy and King Branch: But then you'd be all by yourself

King Trollex: So it'd be more fun to share this one with someone else!

King Quincy and Queen Essence: Together we will soar across the sky and beyond!

Delta Dawn: So turn up your voice!

Queen Barb: Stand up and sing along!

All Normal Trolls and Magic Musical Trolls: All different voices, our melody's ringin'
We're living in harmony! Yeah, we're livin' in harmony!
Our song is much stronger with every Troll singin'

We're livin' in harmony!

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At the dining room of the Phaigong resort, Delta was looking at her new phone, and received a notification from her email. She opened it and gasped as she galloped in front of the dining hall to announce.

"Hey, ya'll, ay just done got an email frawum Mayor Travor." The Country leader held up her phone.

"Since when done ya get an email?" Buckaroo asked.

"Whel, ever'one in Harmonious Land has one, so why can't ay give it ayy try?" Delta explained, "Anyway, ay done got an email frawum Mayor Travor, ayn' he done said he'll host thay ...err Harvest Mowon Festival today in Anticque."

"Really? Well, it's not that obvious because the festival has a lot of farmers, and who were better farmers than the Trolls who have Country traits," Aggie explained, making all Normal Trolls stare at her confusingly, "I'm talking Normal Country and Magic Country Trolls."

Now they understood.

"Ayn' he even done said he done needed some bodyguards ta protec him during the festival," Delta added while reading her email.

"For what exactly?" Lownote questioned.

"Well, guys, some Trolls here can be selfish, and want riches from Rich Trolls. Not all Trolls can be good," Aggie said.

"I can understand that, but that's not a Troll's purpose to do anything bad," Poppy spoke.

"Poppy, we're all different from each other. Sometimes, they have a reason to be different from a real personality of a Troll, like Branch when he isolated himself from Pop Village after his grandmother died," Aggie pointed her palm at Branch, who hung his head down sadly, "Or Creek when he betrayed you Pop Trolls just to save himself."

"Now that's true," DJ Suki crossed her arms as the Snack Pack nodded and murmured in agreement.

"Okay, fine, but I don't know if we're cut out to be bodyguards," Melody pointed.

"Well, if we do a good job, each of us can get paid," Branch stated.

"Well, at least we can accept that if we want to adjust," Quincy added.

"Plus, we can still have fun in the festival for our last day here in the beach before we can go back to the condo. We still have more time to do something back in Magickina City before the hole opens," the Master of All Music suggested.

The other Trolls cheered in excitement.

"Oh well, we'll just make the most of it," Stereo chuckled.

"You know, guys, my dad's half-sister and her family participate in the festival, so why can't we meet them? She's also a Magic Techno Troll, so I need some training while you guys have fun," Aggie suggested with all of her friends nodding in agreement.

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The Main Trolls travelled out of the resort, and decided to walk to Aggie's relatives' house. It wasn't that very far as it took only 10 minutes to make it there.

Outside the house, there were two Trolls standing and waiting happily. One was a female Magic Techno Troll who had green hair, orange eyes, and wore a blue blouse and yellow pants. The second one is her Magic Country Troll husband with red hair, yellow eyes, and wore a farmer's gear.

Aggie happily saw her two relatives as she ran towards them with her arms spread wide, "Aunt Dolly! Uncle Elliot!"

"Yee-haw! how's our colawful little niece a-doin'?" Elliot asked while pinching Aggie's cheek.

"I'm darn good, Uncle Elliot! thanks faw letting us enjoy the harvest jambawee!" The colorful Magic Musical Troll answered.

"It's no trouble. We know you were friends with Normal Troll Royalties. It's the best we could do," Dolly smiled.

"Anyway, I think you've heard of my new boyfriend, King Trollex?" Aggie walked towards Trollex who was carrying a heavy bag of bottled drinks, and she threw him in front of her uncle and aunt.

"Greetings, Mr. and Mrs. Galido." Trollex waved nervously, but Dolly and Elliot glared at the Techno king while crossing their arms, indicating they didn't like Trollex as Aggie's boyfriend when they found out about the news, "How have you been uh with all the...waves and stuff around here since your farm was built near the sea?

"We lost our awful old farm hand ta one ov them tsunamis last week," Elliot mentioned.

Trollex laughed nervously with guilt, "Oh! My bad! I am so sorry. I didn't mean to open that wound, sir."

Dolly then turned her gaze to the Country leader behind Trollex, "And you must be Delta Dawn, leader of the Country Trolls," she pushed Trollex aside, and shook hands with the Delta.

"Howdy, ya'll, how come i've nevuurr done heard ov ya befawe?" The Normal Country Mayor asked.

"Probably because Aggie's father and I were... not very close, but we still keep in touch," Dolly replied.

"That there's ayy mighty good result," Delta snickered, "So, is this here festival some kaand av fun ayn' games?"

"Well, there were different games in this festival, but these games required strength, agility, and speed," the female Magic Techno Troll declared.

"You Trolls should enter the Tough Games, " Her husband suggested.

Barbpopped her head forward in excitement, "I heard games! What games? I'm in!"

"Every harvest festival, there's ayy competishun ta be thay ...uhh roughest toughest Troll in Harmonious Land! Ayn' thay ...uhh leaders would be selecting witch playe will hold thay ...uhh festival! lukily faw us, this here year is Anticque's turn!" the male Magic Country Trolls said.

"Yeah! Wish I could play!" Aggie scoffed while crossing her arms.

"Aggie, you know you get too carried away. The last competition ended with fifteen Trolls ending up in the hospital," Dolly reminded while putting a hand on her shoulder.

"I'm aware, but I only caused nine of them," the young Magic Musical Troll rolled her eyes.

"A-speakin' av awful strong hands, y'all should meet our newest help. Hey, Slasher!" Elliot called.

Two galloping hooves were racing forward as a Magic Country Troll with a stereotypical large grey sun hat, cowboy boots, and a light red scarf around his neck. He wore a black turtleneck shirt accompanied by a dark grey vest, over it is a light gray jacket with dark gray cuffs and black tassels below. He wore black fingerless gloves and ivory white pants with ripped thighs. He jumped over the fence, and halted in front of the Trolls.

"Whel, howdy!" he greeted while lifting his hat, "Whel lookie here! Ya must be the famous Mastuurr ov All Music, Agatha Galido," he offered his hand to her.

Aggie accepted as she shook hands with Slasher, "Call me Agatha again, ay will drown ya. It's Aggie."

"Done heard some darn good things about ya lately, little layy. It's all ovuurr sociaal media ayn' thay ...err news. So what are y'all a-doin' so far away frawum the city?" Slasher asked.

"Whel, we're just mowuntayn climbing, but we done took this here oppawtunity ta have ayy vacashun on the beach, ayn' befawe we done decided ta leave, we're just a-visitin' faw the festival, ayn' ay done needed a-trainin' faw my newly done found watuurr magik," Aggie answered.

Dolly giggled in excitement, but Aggie frowned while glancing at her, "Oh, so it's a perfect timing that you don't need to enter the games this year. And you can also cheer on your strong friends who want to enter."

While Dolly was talking, Trollex looked down on his hands, seeing they were too small compared to the strong Trolls around him. He began to realize that maybe being strong could make Aggie's relatives accept him. He then told Dolly while placing his hand on her shoulder, "You know, she can also cheer for me."

Suddenly, Elliot laughed loudly while slapping his hoof, "Wait, y'all?"

Trollex turned to him, "Yeah! I can compete, can't I?"

Dolly then elbowed Trollex on the stomach, making him wince in pain, and forcing him to release his hand off her arm.

"Sawry, y'all's highness, but ay don't think sensitive passive types would last right awful long in the games," Elliot chuckled ridiculously.

"I may be passive, but I can be brave too. I have some fight in me," the Techno King growled.

"Huh," Slasher suddenly placed a hand on Trollex's shoulder, "Whel then, little Technoness, why don't ya help me wrangle that there pig?" he pointed at a fat pink pig in the muddy pig pen.

"Simple. Watch me," Trollex showed a brave face while holding his chest up.

Barb was right behind him for support, "Just remember, your rep with your possibly future in-laws is on the line here. So, no pressure at all, you totally will not make a fool of yourself to everyone important in your life."

Barb's speech suddenly made Trollex doubt himself as he gulped nervously. He was only doing this to impress his girlfriend's family, and he was afraid he might get himself hurt, but it was worth the risk just to get Aggie's family's respect.

"Go get em' tiger shark," the Rock Queen pushed Trollex towards the pig pen.

"Oh, Trollex, you don't need to do this," Aggie insisted.

"Oh, my best friend totally does!" Beat chuckled as he cheered for his friend, "Take it fast, Trollex! Yeah!"

Trollex jumped over the fence, and quietly approached the sleeping pig. When he got closer, Trollex jumped over the pig, and pinned him down. But suddenly, the pig woke up, and went wild when it felt Trollex was on top of his back. Trollex almost fell off the pig as he held tight on it, trying to wrangle it down, but the pig was moving wildly like a bull.

"Hek yeah, King Trollex! Ride it, Trollex! Riding that there hog way into thay ...uhh naheet ayn' all thay ...uhh way into thay ...uhh mawning!" Holly cheered with her cyan pom-poms.

"This is so beautiful," Val snickered as she held her phone up to record the whole scene.

"Doing great, King Trollex!" Demo exclaimed before whispering to Val, "Send me that video later."

Some Trolls, including Aggie, watched helplessly as Trollex tried to wrestle the pig down, but it kept struggling to break free from the Techno Troll's grasp.

Just then, when Trollex looked up, Slasher leapt and pushed him out of the way. Slasher slammed the pig down, and tied its hooves together with his hair when his hat was removed.

Trollex stretched his neck as he felt the bones on his shoulders make cracking sounds with small stings inside, "Ow! My clavicle!"

"Don't wawry, little Techno King," Slasher stood in front of Trollex as he put his hat back on his head, "Ya nevuurr done stood ayy chance."

When Slasher walked out of the pig pen, Trollex gritted his teeth and glared at him.

Impressed by Slasher's skill, Elliot escorted him into the house while Aggie and the Normal Trolls stayed behind with the Master of All Music helping her boyfriend up, and McJagger wrapped bandages around Trollex's right arm.

"Don't let them get to you, Trollex," Aggie said while caressing his arm, "And hey, you don't need my relatives to respect you. They will eventually."

But Trollex scoffed as he growled, "Oh I'm entering those games."

Dolly then interrupted the moment, "Aggie, maybe we can start the water training now. We'll do it at the beach," she walked down the sandy path, leading to the beach.

Aggie groaned while rolling her eyes as she followed her aunt.

"Umm, excuse me?" Synth cut in as everyone turned to him, "Can I join the training too?"

The other Trolls stared at one another confusingly.

"Uh, Synth, you don't need to train. You already have water powers," Laguna reminded.

"Yeah, but think about the other skills the Magic Techno Trolls have that I can't do," Synth smiled.

But Dolly laughed hysterically, "What?! You, a Normal Techno Troll, have water magic?! That's impossible!"

"It's true. We had magic two days ago," Guy Diamond objected.

"And Synth was born with water powers," Trollex added.

Synth demonstrated by emerged water from the ground like a geyser.

Dolly watched, and nodded, "Hmm, yes, I can see that, but I can't train you."

All the Trolls exclaimed in disbelief as Synth lowered the water back on the ground, "What?!"

"Why not?" Rhythm and Blues asked in unison.

Dolly then walked forward to approach Synth, "Because you're a Normal Techno Troll! We Magic Techno Trolls should train other Magic Techno Trolls. It's part of our tradition."

"But Dolly, I mean no disrespect, but maybe teaching Synth some new water skills can be good for him, and it might improve his skills," Essence protested.

"Well, I mean no disrespect, Your Funkness, but Magic Musical Trolls should teach fellow Magic Musical Trolls. Trolls within our tribe, not outside of our tribe, clearly Normal Trolls. We have never taught Normal Trolls with magic before... hundreds of years ago. It can't be done," the female Magic Techno Troll told the Funk Queen before turning to the Techno ambassador/prince, "So, I'm sorry, I can't teach you anything," this made Synth stared in disbelief. He could believe a Magic Techno Troll, especially that is Aggie's relative, can't teach him other water skills of the Magic Techno Troll. Dolly then turned around, and walked to the direction of the beach, "Come on, Aggie, let's get to training."

"But, Aunt Dolly," Aggie wanted to reason with her aunt about letting Synth train, but she was cut off.

"It's final," Dolly said.

Aggie sighed in defeat as he turned to Synth, who frowned like a crying kitten. She wanted Synth to train with her since that's what he wanted, but she couldn't argue with her aunt as she followed her to the beach.

While the aunt and niece were gone, Dante said quietly to Synth, "It does sound like Trollist, doesn't it?"

"It's so not fair," Synth shook his head.

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At the Anticque plaza, the Magic Classical Troll announcer, Wando, stood on a stage, and spoke through the microphone to all kinds of Magic Musical Troll attending the festival. The Main Trolls were part of the crowd as well.

"Welcome all to Anticque, where the annual Harvest Moon Festival was held this year! To kick things up, we have the great Mayor Travor Eastburn here to user in this here Tough Games!" Wando gave the microphone to Mayor Travor.

The Harmonious Land Mayor chuckled, "How kind, Wando. Howdy, Trolls! Ay hereby welcome y'all ta anothuurr year ov celebrating the awful hard wawk y'all done faw y'all's farms that there continue ta feed the citizens ov Harmonious Land! I'm awful happy ta kik off the start ov these games that there will challenge the toughest Trolls ta show theuurr skill in dominance. Darn good luk ta y'all!"

Travor then emerged a giant rock from the ground, and exploded it into pieces, starting the game.

All of the participants in the Tough Games took off, running fast to compete in the first event: the mud pit race. Delta, Holly, Buckaroo, Gust, Barb, Val, Melody, Smidge, Branch, Cooper, Prince D, Dante, and Trollex participated in the games as well. Unfortunately, in the wave of imps running, Trollex found himself caught, falling down to the ground and getting stepped on by the many Trolls that were running.

During the race, an obstacle they had to conquer was a huge climbing wall, to which Slasher attempted to get over first, but Barb easily leapt off of him and took the lead, as Slasher closely followed him. With the other Trolls successfully climbing over the wall Trollex, however, tried to climb over the wall, but slipped and fell into a mud puddle, where a vicious ground shark attacked him. Gladly, the Techno King escaped over the last second of almost getting killed.

At the next event, the rope submission game, Branch found himself tied up, losing to Slasher, who was the one who tied her up, as he smiled at the ladies, while Trollex gulped nervously when a Magic Rock Troll came at him with a rope.

The next game that anyone partook in was the tug of war as the team of Trollex, Delta, and Slasher faced the opposing team of Trolls, trying to pull the rope to their side. Both sides struggled for a bit until the rope snapped in half, making Trollex fall into the mud pit, where a shark attacked him again as he barely escaped.

Finally, there was a wrestling game, as each Troll tried to overpower the opposing Troll. Slasher had Delta in a submission hold, but the Country leader was able to maneuver his way out and get Slasher laying down on his back. Meanwhile, a bunch of Trolls leapt onto Trollex, squishing him on the mud as they tried to get the pin on him. Once all of the Trolls crawled off, Trollex then saw the shark leapt up from the top of the fence, prepared to elbow him down.

Trollex cowered and shouted, "WHAT THE FISH—!"

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Meanwhile, while Dolly was training Aggie for his water magic, Synth walked by the beach where they were as he was accompanied by Stereo, Laguna, DJ Suki, Rhythm, Blues, Guy Diamond, Tiny Diamond, Lownote, Poppy, and Biggie. These Trolls were the only ones who didn't participate nor watch the games as it was too extreme for them. They stayed with Synth for support for his plans to convince Aggie's aunt to train him.

"Um, excuse me?" Synth interrupted the training session as Dolly groaned and Aggie dropped the water that she manipulated, "Sorry to interrupt your lesson, but even if you don't want to teach me, I still want to learn more for my water powers."

Dolly glared at Synth, "Being a prince and ambassador you're too stubborn to understand. I don't teach Normal Techno Trolls to control water magic. You can figure it out for yourself."

"I can't figure out if I don't know other skills!" Synth shouted, "You know, if you only teach Magic Techno Trolls, why don't I challenge you to fight with water if you're very good at teaching?"

The other Trolls around them gasped, even Aggie. She couldn't realize that Synth had an aggressive side like this before.

But Dolly laughed ridiculously, "Ha! Like if I ever teach to do that! Sorry, I'm too busy to teach someone non-Magic Musical!" She turned to Aggie to continue training her.

Synth angrily tightened his fist, and sent water whips at the back of Dolly's head, making her halt. Dolly halted.

"Fine. You want to learn so bad? Study closely!" Dolly smirked as she rose two streams of water from the sea, and sent them both at a charging Synth, who fell back. She joined the two streams together, encircling both Synth and herself in a forceful ring of water, "Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you!"

Synth edged away from the ring and redirected the water away. The resulting blast hit Aggie. Dolly built a water wall in defense, which Synth slid up. He stood on the shoreline. Dolly directed the full blast of water at him. However, Synth was able to direct the blast away.

"You can't knock me down!" The techno ambassador declared with determination

The other Trolls cheered as Stereo exclaimed, "Go, Synth!"

Synth charged at Dolly as she drew up a wall of water, which he redirected it away, and attempted to land blows, but Dolly ducked them all. She whipped water, and threw Synth into the water. Synth emerged from the water, shaking out his hair, and summoned a small pillar of water, where he proceeded to send a series of water discs at his opponent. Dolly splashed up most of them using her wrists, except one which she dodged. She looked at Synth in irritation. The Techno prince, now back on the ground, attacked by sending a stream of water at her. However, Dolly generated it into a larger stream of water and sent it full force at him. Synth was sent back several feet.

Synth exhaled as he rose suddenly, and summoned two larger water pillars behind Dolly, and sent them down at her, which Dolly manipulated to break them apart into water droplets.

"Well, I'm impressed. You are excellent at water magic," Dolly spoke.

"But you still won't teach me, will you?" Synth guessed with a death-stare.

"No," the Magic Techno Troll answered.

Synth rose over sharply, sending a wave of water at Dolly from the sand, who merely rose herself onto a water pillar She charged straight at Synth, who sent a powerful stream of water his way. Dolly avoided the attack, instead controlling Synth's stream of water which she slid across. She surged past him, and stoke him down, knocking his blue neon hairband off in the process.

Synth fell roughly to the ground as Dolly landed on the shoreline. She rose a tower of water, and manipulated the stream overhead of her opponent. She transformed the water into sharp water shards, and sent them down at Synth. He became trapped in the flurry of water daggers, and appeared still for a moment. The Trolls gasped in horror at the scene. Synth lifted his head, and began to struggle, attempting to break free as Dolly casually strolled away.

"This fight is over!" She announced

But Synth refused to accept the defeat, "Come back here. I'm not finished yet!"

"Yes, you are," Before Dolly could continue strolling away, she noticed Synth's hairband, and picked it up,

"This is my family's hairband..."

"No, it's not. It's mine! Give it back!" Synth shouted, trying to break free.

This is my mother's family traditional betrothal hairband, made by one of my distant great-grandmothers to the love of her life, Georgius," Dolly explained while sinking the water shards down into the sand, freeing Synth

"Wait, that was one of my distant great-grandfathers...," Synth said, remembering one of his ancestors' names. Then, it came to him, "My ancestor was supposed to marry yours?"

The other Trolls gasped. They were puzzled by the theory. Dolly is a Magic Techno Troll, making her ancestors all Magic Musical Trolls, while Synth and Trollex's ancestors are Normal Techno Troll. And since Dolly's ancestor was supposed to marry a Troll named Georgius, which Synth mentioned he was his ancestor. Does this mean Georgius... is a Magic Musical Troll, a Magic Techno Troll?

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Soon the games were over as the announcer Wando said, "For the first time in Tough Games History, we have a tie! The winners are Slasher and the Mayor of the Country Trolls, Delta Dawn!"

The Magic Country Troll and the Normal Country Troll leader stepped on stage with the crowds cheering.

The other Normal Troll contestants were sitting at the wooden bleachers.

"Alright, so he has the 'physical advantage'," Trollex spoke with McJagger wrapping his injured left arm with a bandage, "I'm better at other things, like singing!"

Slasher then pulled out a guitar, and announced, "I'd like ta take this here oppawtunity ta sing ayy quik sawng ay done wrote just now, about me winning."

"Oh, come on!" Trollex shouted angrily.

Slasher: Sweet victory!
I smell it sweet!
From up above the Normal Land
To the land where Harmony is neat!

Sweet victory
With everything I do
With every talent
I'm so much talented than you

While the other Trolls appreciated Slasher's song, his amazing voice, and handsome charms, Trollex shook his head down sadly, realizing Aggie's uncle and aunt was right about him. He was too weak to join the Tough Games. In fact, he was too weak at anything. He wasn't as strong as he thought he would be for Aggie. He even hated when Slasher sang the song that humiliate Trollex a lot.

"Trollex, I think you've had enough for now. Let's head back to the house and get you clean," Essence suggested.

While Slasher was singing, he stared directly at Trollex.

Slasher: King Trollex, you suck, you know?

Tears formed in Trollex's eyes, and turned around to walk out of the festival.

Slasher: Did you hear something?
It was just the wind

When the song ended, the Trolls cheered for the singer as the Normal Trolls left with Trollex, comforting him.

Back at the beach, when the light beams of the sun from the surface disappeared, Dolly explained about her family's tradition as her ancestor made special hairbands as marriage bands, indicating that a Troll who wore that was married instead of a ring.

My ancestor, Xenia, made this hairband for your ancestor, Georgius, when they got engaged. She thought they would have a long, happy life together. She loved him.

"But he didn't love her, did she?" Synth guessed, "It was an arranged marriage. Grandpa Georgius wouldn't let your family's stupid customs run his life. That's why he ran away, and was with the Normal Techno Trolls, marrying my other ancestor, Sedna. It must have taken a lot of courage."

Dolly sighed as she realized that the rule of Magic Techno Trolls training other Magic Techno Trolls would be unfair to any Trolls, even for Normal Techno Trolls. It didn't show real harmony between the two tribes. Synth was an example that whenever a Troll needed help from another tribe, they should've helped instead of following the rules and traditions of a certain tribe.

Dolly then turned to Synth as she gave the hairband back to him, "I was wrong. Even if our tribes are different, we can be the same, and it's unfair if I never teach you water magic... if you want to learn, then I'll give you a chance."

Synth gasped happily as the rest of his friends cheered for him. The Techno ambassador bowed respectfully, "Thank you."

Aggie then rushed to Synth, and hugged him, "Do you hear that? We're gonna be classmates!"

Later when the night came, at Dolly and Elliot's house, while Trollex glumly walked up the stairs, something strange made him stop in his tracks: under Slasher's door, there was an ominous pink glow, one that seemed strangely... intriguing.

Trollex, wondering what could be on the other side of the door, commented, "Well, that's troubling,"

Slowly, he opened the door to Slasher's room, and just before he could look very far, the source of the glow was seen inside an open case that was sitting on Slasher's bed. When Trollex walked up to it to get a closer look, what was inside the case made Trollex gasp and comment, "Oh my Troll. A genuine diamond edge firepower precision rifle! How...how in the world did he get one of these?!"

As on cue, Slasher, who was leaning against the door, appeared, asking, " Why don't ya ask me, little king?"

Trollex was quickly startled, shouting, "Oh snap," He turned around to face Slasher, "Why do you have this...uh... sir?! You are aware this kind of weapon can kill-,"

Slasher interrupted him, and guessed correctly, "...Troll leaduurr."

"Yes, that," Trollex was startled from Slasher's answer,

Slasher then started to approach Trollex, closing the door behind him while saying, "It ain't naw obvious. That's kinda the point."

Trollex began to nervously back away, "Okay, well w-w-while I'm relatively concerned by your possession of this, I'm also glad my instant dislike of you has been validated!"

But then, he felt Slasher's horse tail wrap around his neck as Slasher threw Trollex to the floor. Before the Techno King could get up, Slasher got on top of Trollex and wrapped his hands around his neck, trying to suffocate him. Trollex gasped for air while trying to fight back before he saw a wobbly vase on the table and used his fins to kick the table, making the vase fall and hit Slasher, shattering upon impact.

At the beach, the sound of the vase breaking got Aggie's attention during his water training as she stopped controlling water, and turned her head, looking at her uncle and aunt's house, wondering what was going on inside.

Being able to successfully escape, Trollex quickly scrambled to his fins while trying to get to the door, but before he could turn the knob, Slasher caught him by the hair, and covered his mouth, muffling his screams while trying to suffocate the Techno Troll again.

Trollex fought as hard as he could, but he wasn't strong enough to break the hold, and soon, he became weak due to the lack of oxygen.

Slasher, seeing Trollex's heart beating weakly, chuckled sinisterly, " Pathetik."

All of a sudden, Slasher felt a startled pain at the back of his head as he suddenly dropped Trollex, and roared in pain.

When Trollex fell to the floor, he saw that Aggie had busted into the room, and was now hitting Slasher behind his head with a chair, and she looked absolutely, and horrifyingly, furious. When her boyfriend was under attack, Aggie showed her furious side as she never wanted to allow anyone to hurt Trollex like that. After hitting him a few times, Aggie tried to climb onto Slasher's back so she could knock him out unconsciously, but Slasher grabbed Aggie, and threw her hard against the wall, knocking her out cold.

Trollex gasped, seeing Aggie look so helpless as he crawled to her, "Aggie." His blurry vision caught sight of Slasher recovering from the hit, and approaching the two. Slasher grabbed Trollex and Aggie by their hair and dragged them outside without being seen.

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Slasher took the two to the basement, throwing them inside. Trollex landed on the floor safely while Aggie landed beside him, but her Funk leg got caught in a bear trap, making her shout in pain.

"AAAAAHHHHH!"

" Ay'd kill y'all, but ay feel like there's mawe leverage between the othuurr Nawmal Troll leaders if ay don't!" Slasher stated with his sinister smile, "Plus, y'all little Trolls ain't wawth thay ...uhh cleanup."

With that, Slasher left and slammed the door shut before Trollex could rush to keep it open in time, signifying that they were both trapped.

"Aggie!" Trollex remembered how hurt Aggie was now as he rushed down to her aid, "Oh Troll!" He opened the bear trap, and removed it from her Funk leg.

"Trollex, I'm fine," Aggie answered with a weak smile, "I got worse than this during the flower tufts at my cousin's wedding. But I caught that flower bouquet and it was so worth it. You just have to get out there, and mess up that brown nosing bully for me!" She caressed her boyfriend's cheek.

"But I can't break through it. I'm not strong enough," Trollex hung his head down sadly.

"Not with your hands, baby. Use what you're good at."

"I'm not good with my hands?"

Aggie raised an eyebrow with an unamused expression.

"Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah," Trollex understood what Aggie meant as he used his newly-developed water magic, and sliced the door open with it, "I...I probably should've used this earlier, huh?"

"I love you, honey...but for Troll's sake!" Aggie groaned while chuckling.

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Back at the festival, on stage, Travor approached the microphone and stated loud and proud, "My dear Trolls ov Antique, ay, Mayor Travor Eastburn, hereby showuurr this here year's harvest with the glow ov the true Harvest Mowon!"

Travor placed a mirror on the ground, and then used his earth magic to lift the mirror up with the earth structure so it hits the light of the moon from tiny holes from the surface made by the roots of the trees above, and reflected the light all over the crops of Harmonious Land.

All of the Trolls that were at the festival watched in awe while inside of a random building, Slasher readied his rifle and prepared to shoot Magic Musical Mayor.

However, a gun clicked made him turn his head to find angry Normal Troll leaders, except for Trollex, with their weapons. Quincy, Essence, and Barb had their guitars as their weapon, Trollzart with his baton, Poppy and Branch formed small-sized cannons with their hair, and Delta with a real gun in her hand, ready to shoot. Delta's gun was given by Travor earlier for her bodyguard work.

"Uh, excuse me. The Troll?!" Delta exclaimed angrily.

Slasher tried to play it casually, "Ms. Delta Dawn! Ay done thought y'all was still at thay ...err ceremony!"

Barb rolled his eyes and retorted, "You thought we wanted to stand around with other Trolls, excited about corn and stuff while you enjoy yourself doing whatever you want?"

The assassin knew that he was caught, but decided to toy around with the leaders, " Huh. Ayn' now, y'all seem disappointed in me"

"Yeah, well, we're not fans of someone who hired us to be his bodyguards," Branch said.

Slasher then began to walk around the leaders, "Y'all's majesties, come on. Y'all know, Magik Musical Trolls these days might've known y'all as Nawmal Trolls, but befawe y'all done came, they nevuurr done heard av y'all aw y'all's kaand. But faw othuurr Trolls who already done heard ov ya, they was angry at what y'all's ancestaws done ta us, ayn' they nevuurr get ovuurr theuurr mistakes."

While the assassin kept this up, the leaders suddenly found themselves feeling conflicted by the Magic Country Trolls' words while they frantically tried to keep their weapons ready in case he needed to shoot.

Then, Slasher commented, "Why struggle ta hold ayy grudge on someone against ya? when ya could partnuurr up with me ayn' kill. the ones who blamed ya faw y'all's ancestaws' mistakes? a-startin' with the one who treats ya like nothing."

"Hmm, I guess that's true," Trollzart nodded, looking down.

"We can take down those Trolls who doubted us to make a difference."

"Yeah, I'm sick of others treating us like life-ruiners!" Poppy growled.

"Y'all know what? We're in!" Delta grinned.

Slasher grinned in victory, until he heard another gun click as behind him. Trollex had the rifle in his hands, ready to fire at Slasher, who looked at him in disbelief. As he glared at the Techno King, who he was shocked that he escaped, and the leaders were only pretending to agree with Slasher just to give Trollex some time to catch up.

"Took you long enough, Lex!" Barb laughed before turning to Slasher, "Ha ha! You should've seen your shocking face!"

However, the leaders then saw that Slasher had his horse tail behind him, and the tail was holding a dagger, ready to stab any of them,

"Okay, cliche, much?" Trollzart retorted.

Slasher then made Delta fire her gun, trying to hit Trollex, who used the rifle to block the bullet.

"Oh, you monster!" Essence shouted as she punched Slasher's face with her front paw, pushing him away from her and her fellow leaders before they charged to fight him. The seven leaders went into combat with Slasher, but he grabbed Barb, Poppy, and Branch and threw them at the remaining leaders, making them collide to the ground and drop the rifle. Trollex tried to reach for the rifle, but Slasher used his boot to pin Trollex's arm.

"Y'all dumb Nawmals lost the uppuurr hand fast," Slasher chuckled as he grabbed the rifle.

Barb then smirked, "Ha! You seem to have forgotten something, dumb-dumb!" She then let out a whistle a few times, trying to call for Val and maybe the other ambassadors might get her attention as well.

Unfortunately, Val, Holly, Lownote, and Dante were too distracted, watching Synth with his new skills of water magic.

Barb groaned and commented, "Ugh, dang it, Val."

"I shouldn't have hired Dante," the Conductor deadpanned.

Slasher smiled as he turned to the leaders, " It's ayy shame, Y'all's Majesties. We done might actually make ayy darn good team... Ah whel."

However, none of them wasn't ready to give up yet as Quincy shouted, "In your dreams, you sly Magic Country Troll!" He kicked Slasher in the ankle, knocking him back before Trollzart headbutted him against the wall. With Slasher dropping the rifle, Trollex scrambled to grab it.

Slasher and the other leaders squared off again as Branch rammed Slasher's head with a lamp before Poppy punched him in the face. The assassin swiped the two Pop leaders away with his tail, and about to deal a punch to Branch, but Delta punched him away from them. Quincy used his hair to grab and throw Slasher into the corner of the wall, with Trollex using the rifle to fire a warning shot close to his head.

The 8 leaders carefully cornered Slasher as Quincy, Essence, and Barbpointed their guitars at him, same with Trollzart worth his baton, Poppy and Branch with their hair cannons, and Delta pulled out her gun, ready to fire.

Slasher, however, decided to take a shot at her, " Ay still think it's embarrassing. You're wasting ayy lot ov potensheeal relying on ayy weak little—"

Trollex fired another warning shot, "You gonna finish that little sentence..., Partnuurr?" He added the last word in a Country accent.

Slasher grimaced and whispered, "Vermin."

Trollex declared, ready to shoot, "Who's weak now, you—?"

Before he could finish, the door swung open, hitting Trollex in the face as the ambassadors arrived. Holly was the one kicking the door with her left front and hind legs.

"Okay, we're here!" Val declared.

Synth then noticed his brother behind the door, "Hey bro, what are you doing behind the door?"

Seeing his chance to escape, Slasher kicked the gun out of Delta's hand, and pushed her out of the way, running to the open window, "Maybe ya'll get me next tahm, Y'all's Majesties."

Delta had her gun out in case Slasher came back as she and the other leaders charged towards the window looked on at the festival, concerned about Travor's safety, and tried to catch the assassin, but he was nowhere in sight. The leaders glared sharply, hopefully they will stop him someday.

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The next morning, the Main Trolls were ready to leave as they packed their bags, and put them into a bus. Dolly was wrapping bandages around Aggie's leg while scolding for being defeated by Slasher.

"I can't believe you let him trap you, Aggie. Haven't we taught you better?"

"I was seeing red, Aunt Dolly! And he was slippery!" Aggie complained.

"Excuses! You're better than that, Aggie!" The Magic Techno Troll reprimanded.

After Trollex finished packing and closing his suitcase, he couldn't bear hearing Dolly scolding Aggie like that. He stepped in, and defended his girlfriend, "You know, she protected me. And maybe I'm not a strong Troll, but Aggie has the strength enough for both of us!"

While Trollex was speaking, Aggie was so touched that he defended him, and even commented how stronger she is than him and Slasher combined.

Trollex then continued, "You two are getting on her case about her getting hurt by a psychopath you hired?! Shame on both of you!"

"Aw, fish boy, look at you. Speaking like a big boy in his big fins!" Barb cooed supportively.

Just then, Elliot approached Trollex, and nodded quietly before he and Dolly marched back inside the house.

"Wow! He nodded!" Aggie exclaimed happily as she stood up with crutches, "He's never acknowledged your input like that until now!"

"So, is that progress?" Trollex asked.

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Somewhere in Harmonious Land, Slasher was hiding at the Hideaway Motel, where he was talking to someone on the phone.

"Ugh, ay done failed ta kill thay ...err target at thay ...err festival," he confirmed, "But don't wawry, ma'am, it won't happen agayn"

"I' better not!" At the other line of the phone, an angry female voice with a British Accent was heard with yellow fingers drumming on the table. It was a Magic Classical Troll with red eyes and yellow hair, wearing a pink dress with a magenta ribbon around the waistline, "I won' this irresponsible Troll dead! I don'' care who you have to go through! Make I' happen!"

As she shouted on the phone, 5 of her children were too distracted from even listening to her. Two of them have colors while three were still gray. The oldest one was a male Classical Troll with yellow eyes and orange hair, and the second oldest was a female Techno Troll with the same eye and hair color as her brother. These two older siblings were practicing playing their music while the other 3 gray Trolls still haven't chosen their music yet as they were playing with their toys together.

"Understood," Slasher replied on the phone as the female Magic Classical Troll put the phone down.

When Slasher put down the phone, he twirled the gun in his hand, "I'll get him next tahm," he chuckled evilly as he turned off the light.

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Hey guys, I hope you like my new chapter! Special thanks to MasterClass60 for helping me with my story. She helped me speed things up a bit. I owe this chapter to her.

Anyway, this chapter is based on Helluva Boss: The Harvest Moon Festival. I know that show is a little adult-ish, so I decided to erase cursed words, and replaced them with kid-friendly ones. There was also fighting, but no blood/gore added here. I also added the water fighting scene from Avatar: The Last Airbender.

This chapter has a lot of revelation, like one of Trollex and Synth's ancestors might be a Magic Techno Troll who might've stayed with the Normal Techno Tribe during the separation of the Troll tribes, which explained Synth being born with water powers. Slasher was hired by a Magic Classical Troll who might've been Travor's wife or ex-wife as he was revealed to be irresponsible to take care of her family. The rifle Slasher used is to kill any Troll leader, but it was never confirmed that leaders are immortals. Instead, the rifle would use to kill any Troll protected and unprotected, especially with bulletproofs vests and armors.

Dolly was based on my father's older half-sister, but because I don't know much about her, I only made-up Elliot as Dolly's husband, and she kept her name instead of using her husband's last name.

I hope you like this chapter very much. This is the last chapter of the Trolls staying on the beach, so the upcoming chapters will be back to main towns and cities of Harmonious Land. Please comment if you like this.