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It was the afternoon and Trollex was training with Alpha and Yamato in the training grounds while you were having DJ lessons.

Your grandmother was teaching you while Orion, Beat and Iris were watching, your grandfather had been out all day helping Bliss Marina and visiting Synth to see how things were going in Trollstopia so he wasn't here at the moment.

She was showing you the right times to spin the turntable and what buttons to press when playing techno music or mixing, it was fun and you had learnt quite a lot about using a DJ booth.

When the training was over Trollex went to his room to rest for a while, since the training (not surprisingly) often left him feeling exhausted. You didn't mind though, he needed to rest, he'd come out soon.

You stared at the empty chair in concern, you and everyone else had just finished Dinner, but your dad never showed up.

After Orion and Alpha had left, Aurora also stared at the same empty chair her oldest son would have been sitting in

"I hope Trollex is ok, he never misses dinner" Aurora said, looking worried

"Don't worry honey, he's probably still asleep, you know how tiring the training is for him" Triton said, but he also looked pretty worried himself.

They both decided to leave it, but you didn't.

You got up and swam to his room, the door was already open so you swam in, you saw him sitting on his bed looking scared and worried, he was mumbling things like "what if I'm not strong enough?" And "what if I don't make it out alive!?" And "what if I fail like last time?" But You couldn't hear what else he was saying, you frowned when you noticed there were bruises and wounds (that had been treated) on him, you frowned sadly at that, since Yamato joined as a second mentor in training Trollex, they had all began doing physical fights with each other it was mainly to help Trollex learn how to doge and block attacks, but unfortunately he was not always successful....

You looked at him sadly, you felt so sorry for him...

You were snapped out of thought when you heard whimpering, you looked up to see tears welling up in his eyes.

That was it

You swam over to him "daddy?" You asked softly, looking at him worriedly

Trollex jumped at the sound of your voice, He quickly turned to you, wiping his tears away and forcing a warm smile on his face "h-hey, sweetie....is everything ok?" He asked, trying his best to sound like his usual cheerful self.

You sighed and looked at him in concern, you swam up to him and hugged his waste, looking up at him sadly "daddy, you can talk to me, I'm here for you, please tell me what's wrong, I wanna help you" you said, wrapping your tale around his waist as he wrapped his around you.

he sighed, his fake cheerful smile finally dropped into a sad, tired expression

"I'm just worried baby....what if I fail like In the world tour, and If after I fail....something bad happens to you, uncle Synth, Aunt Bliss, your grandparents and Alpha and his family and.....well everyone...what if he dose something bad to the kingdom" Trollex said, looking more worried, he tried to find the appropriate words to use, and he didn't want to go into full detail because it would definitely end up frightening and really upsetting you, you are just a child after all...

You hugged him and said "you won't daddy, I know your brave, mommy also knew the same thing because she made the weapon for you, and I know you won't let him win because you care about me and the tribe, you can do it daddy, I believe in you!" You looked up at him and gave him a soft warm smile.

He seemed to calm down and he smiled back "thank you my little angel" he said softly, nuzzling your nose with his and peppering your face with kisses, you giggled and both hugged again.

He got up off of his bed and grabbed your hand, looking down at you lovingly and said "baby girl, come with me, I wanna take you somewhere" You nodded and both swam out of the LED castle.

you both started swimming among the houses untill you finally arrived at a playground. He sat down infront of a sandpit and put you onto the other side.

You looked around. The place was covered by seaweeds and some small shell creatures. this lace had obviously not been visted in a long time. But why not?

You looked back at your father in confusion. He looked lost in thought as he looked around the place as well. His face expressed sadness but he also looked peacefull. When he finally looked back at you he started speak "Sweetie, I'm...I'm gonna tell you a story about your mom and I... Because..I think you need to know. I wanted to tell you when you got older, but I can't hold it back anymore"

You looked at him in surprise at first, but you frowned when you saw he looked sadder, you grabbed his right hand, and squeezed it gently, he smiled softly and gently stroked your hand with his fingers.

He took a deep breath, and the story began.

"I was three years old when my parents allowed me to expreince the rave. It was my first rave, and it was awesome. My mom played the musics mixing old songs and new songs together. My Father was next to her, but enough to give her space to move around. We went into the crowd from time to time to interact with others. I didn't know that day, but I would meet someone that would change my life" he said smiling a little

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A young Trollex zoomed throughout the crowd with his father behind him, laughing as he played and danced with other baby trolls, and surprised older trolls, by zooming between them creating confusion and surprise on their faces. As he played his game to his next couple of victims, he suddenly bumped into someone and both rolled over and over by the until they reached the edge of the crowd. When they finally stopped rolling, they both looked at each other and laughed and waved to each other. Then Trollex asked her name but she couldn't speak yet so the only thing what he heard was baby noises."M/n?! where are you dear?!" He heard a nervous female voice say from the crowd of colorful techno trolls He quicky turned where the voice came from and started yelling "Over here!" a few times before a hot pink skin troll with pink scales on her cheeks and fins appeared in front of him and hugged the baby tightly who Trollex now knew her name was M/n. She was followed by another troll, with sky blue skin and dark blue hair and eyes. He hugged M/n as well.As he smiled at them, he suddenly heard someone hum angrily behind him and he froze. Because the tone of the voice wasn't good.He turned around seeing his upset father staring at him with his arms crossed. "I told you not to leave my line of sight. What if you ended up outside of the reef, or lost in the crowd and got hurt?! You are in big troube young man!"

Trollex looked down guiltily. He didnt want to go that far, but he was so into his game that he didnt notice he was out of his sight. Triton grabbed his son's hand, and quicky flew towards the heart shape Coral statue but not before apologising to the other baby techno trolls parents for his son's behavior. They nodded and said it's okay, the matter is nobody got hurt.And waved back as they went back into the crowd.

Trollex looked back at M/n for the last time watching as she dissapeared slowly in the crowd. He had a strange urge to see her again.

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"Five years had passed since I first saw her. I tried to find her after the rave, but I never could. Until one day, my Father decide to take me to this playground where we are now, to have fun after I finished my lessons" Hearing this, You looked around once again in confusion. Seeing this, Trollex laughed a little before he continued. His eyes looked around as he revived the memories. "Back then it didn't looked like this now. It was a fun place for sure..."

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Trollex was excited to finally have the chance to play with other kids. His sister and brother were to young to be able to play with him. Bliss was five, while Synth was only a few months old.

As he heard the children's voices, he quicky zoomed over between them. His father sat down on a nearby rock and watched over his son to make sure he didn't end up in any trouble. As Trollex played with the kids, he suddenly noticed a girl playing in the sandpit alone away from others. He looked at her closer and realized, she was the same girl who he met five years ago.

What was her name? oh right. M/n. He somehow couldn't forget the name easily.

he quickly swam to her and sat down front of her "Hi, You might not remember me, but I am Trollex and we met in a rave five years ago. M/n isn't it?"

M/n looked up at him curiously, wondering how he knows her name...until she remembered her parents talked about how the prince accidentally crashed into her when she was a one year old.

"You meant THAT kind of meeting when you zoomed into me?" She asked with a smile. "Your greeting style is interesting prince Trollex" she giggled

"Yeah..sorry about that" He laughed nervously "I just really like messing with people in raves. Anyway, what are you doing?"

"I am building sand castle and sand sea snail" She pointed to her two masterpieces. 'They both looked really good' Trollex thought to himself.

"I am Currently making my sea horse as a statue" she said, adding more sand to said statue

"Sea horse?" He asked curiously

"Yeah, he's behind you Your kinda blocking his view" she said chuckling softly

Trollex turned around and jumped in suprise as he saw a sea horse watching over him curiosuly."I see..hey can I help too?" He sat down next to her. She nodded "Sure"

And they both made statues and had fun together until the time almost came for both of them to go home. Coral looked over at her mother who gave her a signal that they will get going soon.

She turned back at Trollex who was now making the heart shaped Coral where the royal family DJ booth was.

"Hey,...can you keep a secret?" She asked carefuly.

Trollex stopped and looked at her and nodded.

She sighed and explained to him her problem. She didn't know why but she felt he understood her. "I have Asperger syndrome, it is a pervasive developmental disorder that is characterized by an inability to understand how to interact socially" After she finished she looked down at her statue. Her sea horse rubbed his head against her trying cheer her up.

"And that's why I am alone. And...i'm afraid you will leave me too if you spend time with me any longer..." she sighed Trollex grabbed both of her hands and looked into her eyes deeply."Don't worry I won't do that. I promise you that I will never leave you all alone"

She looked at him skeptical but nodded and smiled "ok" After he let her go, both of their parents went to them saying it's time to go, They waved before both of them left.

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"Wow she must have been great at art right? I bet those statues were amazing" You said in awe.

Trollex nodded "Oh yeah..she was a talented artist, She could make a lot of things from almost anything. She was very creative and imaginative"

You then remembered what your mom told your dad, looking confused you tilted your head at the side in confusion. "Daddy, how did this Aspergers affect her exactly?"

Trollex started thinking before he spoke "Well, she had artistic interest and talents. She showed great skill in her area of interest at an early age and proceed to effectively get better at it later in life. You know Like those amazing paintings you saw on her bedroom wall, or any other crafts what you got at your birthdays. She made everything with her own hands"

"And the weapon and armor too? Like what you will use against Freddy right?" You asked excitedly, your eyes sparkling with awe.

He nodded before he continued "She had high level of integrity as well which means she didn't got involved in complex and unnecessary "drama" didn't play games that included wrestling with others, and could been quite straightforward in situations. This was one of her special ability what I really liked in her" he said smiling

"Especially how she handled your aunt when she had dramas from time to time" He laughed thinking back to those situations "She had detail orientation skills too and also had the ability to persist where many others might fail in things which were in her interest circle. Another thing what was interesting that of regiments and a great propensity to flourish in matters of routine and patterns. Whereas the average troll may struggle to conform to certain routines or components of certain routines, she typically took quite well to such pattern and made significant strides there in"

You couldn't help but smiled to hear what amazing skills your mom had. You wished you would have seen those with your own eyes though...

You looked away in sadness for a miniute before turning back and asking "Why would these be a problem? these are amazing skills"

Trollex nodded but his expression became a concerned one " the problem was, that she had poor social skills which made her isolated from others. She also had speaking differences such as lack of verbal rhythm, monotone pitch and a different inflection on certain words" he said "Therefore, she was often unable to control her voice's volume according to some techno trolls, She couldn't understand jokes, irony and sarcasm either, and she sometimes tended to dominate the conversation. Like, she could talk about her interests for hours and if you didn't tell her to stop she simply couldn't recornize that it was enough.She also couldn't understand some things in the comunication as well which caused misunderstandings from time to time, so both I and Alpha needed to be patient to not jump into conclusions. Over time, she could learn when she needed stop in conversation but still tended to go into it so deeply in an analysing way that overwhelmed trolls sometimes.. She liked to overthink and analyzing things you see. She really had high knowledge in everything which interested her. Which was useful from time to time"

You nodded in understanding. Outside the social issues and stuck with the same routines, your mom sounded like a talented smart techno troll. Now you were really curious about what happened after the they talked at the playground.

You looked up at him "did you guys see each other after that?" You asked

He nodded

"Yeah We started spend time together very often after that. I even could visit her parents where I saw all the cool items her father had made. I even befriended the sea horse too. We liked playing tag or hide and seek together. Your mother even joined in from time to time. Later on I introduced her to Alpha. He is older than we were yet I was still the tallest" He laughed "Your mother was careful at first. Not just because of how intimdating Alpha looked, but because after Lily, she did not trust those who she didn't know well. But later on she warmed up to him and now as a trio we spent our free times together" he smiled fondly " I remember they always tried to hold me back to prevent me from ending up in trouble with my pranks" he chuckled "I couldn't help it, I really liked pranking others"

You chuckled but then you remembered something "hey daddy, uncle Synth told me that you used to pull dangerous pranks, and then he said you stopped one day, why did you stop?" You asked

Trollex blinked looking away sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head nervously, he made a mental note to have a 'little talk' with Synth about telling you stuff like that, he didn't want you knowing he was a huge trouble maker as a kid and teenager as it might encourage you to sneak out and cause a lot of trouble for techno trolls, like he did...but as for why he stopped well....

Trollex sighed "it's because...I got my mom hurt" he closed his eyes as the memories came back

You looked concerned and listened as he began telling the story

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A 19 year old Trollex was setting up his latest prank, he was messing with the DJ booth, so when a button was pressed it would blow up, it wouldn't be harmful in anyway. At least, that's what he thought.

An hour had passed since then, M/n swam up to him looking worried, "Lexy are you sure this is safe?"

Trollex smiled at her, grabbing her hand and squeezing it reassuringly "yeah don't worry M/n, it'll just startle whoever uses it"

Alpha and Beat floated a few feet behind them looking disappointed. They both shared worried looks with each other. This wasn't going to end well at all....

Just then his mother swam up to the DJ booth and Trollex chuckled, waiting to see the shocked look on his mother's face, M/n worriedly watched the scene, she had a bad feeling about this....

When Aurora pressed the start button it began to spark and shake, she looked at it in confusion and worry, wondering what was wrong with it.

She quickly moved to press the stop button, but as she pressed it, it sparked and injured her hand, she yelped in pain and looked at the now panicked adjusted booth fish.

The DJ booth fish was clearly startled by what was happening and quickly shocked her good hand in fright, it then began to slowly swim away, Alpha quickly swam over and held it to prevent it from swimming away and to calm it down.

She then passed out from the electric shock.

Trollex, Alpha, Beat and M/n were frozen in complete shock and horror, both of them couldn't even move, Trollex was on the verge of tears, feeling guilt and regret build up in him.

Alpha then quickly zoomed into the LED castle to presumably go and get the royal doctors while Trollex Beat and M/n zoomed over to Aurora, looking at her worriedly.

A few hours later Aurora had woken up, she was completely fine and her heart wasn't effected in anyway but her hands were badly injured and she wouldn't be able to use the DJ booth properly, after Trollex came in to see if she was ok he got a big scolding from both his parents and siblings about the incident, Trollex didn't fight back or make any sarcastic remarks like he usually would when having an argument, he just endured it sheepishly, looking down with guilt and shame.

After Aurora had recovered from the shock, her and Triton had a talk with each other.

Because his mother was far to traumatised to touch the DJ booth (or any other electronic devices) and his fathers injuries (that he got from Freddy) they both made a decision to hand the crown over to Trollex so he could host raves and take care of king duties properly.

Trollex excepted the crown quickly, mainly out of guilt and in a way to hopefully make it up to his parents.

This it still haunted him

Even now.

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