"I thought I was going to have to find Emerald, but it turns out all I had to do was find you!" He pointed at me. "Ha! In your dreams!" I told him. "What makes you think that I'm going to give you my magic?" Creek chuckled lightly. "Well if you won't give it to me, then I guess I'll have to take it!" He glared at us. "Fine then! Let's do this!" I shouted to everyone. They raised their fist. "Yeah!"

Ocean pulled us aside and started whispering. "Isn't this going to be too easy?" Ocean asked us. "I mean there's over five trolls here, plus the birds on our side and there's only one of him." Branch nodded. "Yeah, isn't that a little weird?" We all nodded in agreement. We continued whispering until we felt a strong wind pull us apart from each other. We all turned back around and looked at Creek. Apparently, he found the the Ultimate Power Chord and somehow managed to put it back together and must've used it to turn everyone in the cage into his own personal Rock Zombies. He turned to everyone in the cage. "Get them!" He ordered. They all started running to us. We all got into our fighting positions and ran to them.

Guy Diamond ran after me. I used my hair to fight him off. I swooped it over him and he ducked. I continued fighting him off, as I looked around at everyone. Trollex ran after Branch and Poppy, and they were both struggling to fight him off. Riff ran after Ocean and DJ ran after Journey. Emerald and Iris gathered up as many doves and song sparrows as they could, and went to fight Creek off. Creek continued blasting the Ultimate Power Chord at all of them. A few times, he actually hit some of them, and those that were hit turned the backs on all the other doves and song sparrows. River ran off and hid, like Ocean told him to do. Adventure started fighting off all the doves and song sparrows that had been Zombiefied by Creek.

I continued with Guy, although I was feeling weaker by the minute. "AHHHHHHH!!" I turned to the sound and saw Barb running after Ocean with a bat. "Ocean turn around!" I called to him urgently. He turned, saw Barb, and ducked to avoid her. "Thanks!" He shouted to me. "Your welcome!"

During the time I had looked away, Guy grabbed me and started dragging me towards Creek. He had to pull hard, because I was resisting. "Somebody help!" I shouted. Ocean heard me and used his hair to push Guy out as far as he could to push him out of the way. As soon as he let go of me, I blacked out from exhaustion. The last thing I remembered seeing was Guy grabbing me and the terrified look on Ocean's face.

*A Few Minutes Later*

I woke up because of the throbbing pain in my head. I groaned and started rubbing it. I sat up and looked around. I could tell I was in a different part of the forest because I couldn't see the heart tree that Emerald lived in. I also didn't see anyone. I guess they must have gotten captured. I can't seriously be the only one left, right?

I try standing up to look around, but stopped when I felt a sting in my right leg. I fell back down, and looked at my leg. There was a bandage on it, so there must be somebody else here. I looked around me. There was a small campfire a few feet away from me. I was on a purple sleeping bag and a few feet away was a blue sleeping bag. I wonder who that belongs too? Crack!

I look up and turn to my right. What was that? I saw a shadow coming closer to me. I grabbed the nearest thing near me, which was a pinecone. The shadow slowly approached me and I swung the pinecone and threw it with all my might. I t flew and hit the shadow. "Ow!" Shouted a familiar voice.

The shadow emerged and revealed Ocean?! He was holding a lamp and started rubbing his head, as he walked toward me. "Seriously? What was that for?!"

"I thought your were Creek." I answered and tried to stand back up. I hissed from the pain my leg and sat back down. I crossed my arms and pouted. "Great."

Ocean walked over to the other sleeping bag and sat down. He turned off the lamp, so I had to rely on the fire's glow to see anything. I turn to him. "Are we the only ones who didn't get captured?" He nodded. "As far as I know yes, but Journey could be wandering out there somewhere."

"What happen after I passed out?" I asked. "Well...." He started.

*Flashback* (Told from no one's point of view)

After Esmerald passed out, Guy had made his way back over to her and was about to grab me again, until Ocean grabbed her and pulled her to safety. Then he used the technique Branch learned in hair-jitsu called "stamp-the-bow" and pushed Guy out of the way. Then Riff came out of nowhere with a cup of coffee and dumped it on Ocean. He shook the coffee off his head. "Seriously Riff?"

Riff walked up to him. "I'm a zombie!! Or something?" Ocean shook his head and pushed him out of the way. Then started running to Poppy and Branch. Meanwhile Creek was getting even more annoyed with the fact that he couldn't get all the trolls turned to rock zombie. So, he plugged the guitar up into a speaker and blasted it. Instead of turning everyone into Rock Zombies, like he wanted, the guitar blew everyone that wasn't Zombiefied, away from each other.

Iris, Emerald, and the other doves got blown into their home tree, which collapsed as they smashed into it. Journey and Adventure, got blown all the way out of the forest entirely. Poppy and Branch got blown to the right of the forest. As for Ocean he got blown to the far back of the forest. Before he flew off, he used his hair to grab Esmerald and River. River lost his grip and went tumbling down into a hole. "I'll find Iris and Emerald!" He shouted to Ocean. "Okay!" Ocean told him. Esmerald went crashing into a hole surrounded by branches with thorns. One of her legs got caught on a really big thorn, and her leg got cut really bad.

Ocean used his hair to lasso her out as fast as he could and they both crashed into a field. Ocean got up, found some bandages, and bandaged Esmerald's leg. Then he made sleeping bags out of leafs, made a fire, and got up to go get some more fire wood.

*End Of The Flashback* (Back to Esmerald's Point Of View.)

"And then, once I came back, I got a pinecone to the head!" He glared at me. I shrug. "Anyway, can you walk at all?" He asked. I shook my head. Why can't I speak?! "Okay then... Just turn your hair into another wagon and follow me." He stood up and started walking. I turned my hair into a wagon and started steering it beside him. Crack! I turned at the sound. Ocean did too. We both got ito our fighting positions. Since I couldn't fight standing up, I grabbed some pinecones. Ocean stared at me. "Seriously? More pinecones?" I nod. "Yeah. I can't stand and it worked pretty good on you." I smirk at him. He rolled his eyes. Yay! I can speak!

I heard flapping. It must be Iris!! "Ocean stand down! I think that's Iris!" I tell him. He slowly starts lowering his hands. We both stay silent and listen. Ocean grabbed two of the pinecones. "Ohhh. So now you like the pinecones!" I smirked. He ignored me and continued staring at the bush. Slowly the figure emerged, just as Ocean threw the pinecone. Then the figure started jumping and waving it's wings to get the pine cone off. "Okay that's the last time I listen to Iris!" The figure walked toward us and revealed........ another dove?! He was white like most doves I had seen, but what made him different was he had a few orange, red, and yellow feathers on his wings that blended into the white. When it was off he flew up to us. "Okay which one of you threw that pinecone?!"

I immediately pointed at Ocean. "He did!" Ocean turned and glared at me. "Really?!" I shrug. The dove started looking us up and down. Me and Ocean just stood there confused and creeped out. "What are you doing?" Ocean asked him. The dove stopped looking at us. "Oh sorry! I didn't even tell you my name." He realized. "The name's Phoenix. One of my friend's Iris sent me to look for any missing trolls. She told me that once I find any one I need to lead them back to the Heart Tree. So follow me!" He started walking. Me and Ocean looked at each other shrugged, and started following Phoenix.

*30 Minutes Later*

"And then I was all you can't massage the bleachers until you add the oils, so Iris goes..." This guy can talk more than Adventure can! He's done said more in half an hour, then Adventure can say in 2 hours!
"Well anyway, I'm sure you two are very excited to be going back home soon."

"You got that right!" Ocean told him. "I like being here, but I miss my home, my friends, and my family." Phoenix nodded as he listened to Ocean. Then he turned to me. "And what about you? I'm sure you have to be excited." I just stood there silently not wanting to let them know the truth. They both stared at me and I started wishing I could disappear. "Yes..." I made a very slow reply. They both looked confused. "Okay there is no way your excited with that little voice." Ocean said. Phoenix nodded in agreement. "What gives? Your not excited to see your friends or family?" Phoenix asked me. "Well yes and no." I answered. Ocean stared at me. "What's that suppose to mean?"

"Well..." I started. "I am happy that I'll get to go back home to see my friends and family, but I'm also upset because I don't want to leave here. I love it here! I have lots of friends, I get to be out in nature whenever I want without having to worry about my pollen allergy and my cat allergy. I can go places without having worry about putting a mask on my face." Ocean stared at me in disbelief. "So your telling me the only reason you want to stay here is because your scared of going back to your home and facing what's happening right now with your family and friends?!" I looked at him confused and slightly upset. "What's up with you?!"

"Me?! What's up with you?! You would rather stay here and never go back to see your family and friends all because your scared of some virus! I've been here for over a year and I haven't got to see any of my friends or family aside from my little brother! You and your friend have only been here for a few days! Have you even thought about how your family would feel if they weren't frozen right now? How worried they'd be if they found out you were gone? How upset your friends would be if you weren't there to answer their phonecalls? Yet while all that could be happening you wouldn't care because your so scared to face the world and deal with the problems it throws at you!!"

I looked at him with disbelief that he would say something like that to me. I suddenly felt very angry and hurt. "Yeah? You really think that? Well guess what the only reason why I'm gray right now is because I do miss my friends and family! I miss sitting at the cafeteria table at school and talking to them! I miss sitting on the chairs in the band classroom and playing my clarinet with Ambrosia! I miss the fun performances that we'd do every year! I miss taking my dog outside and playing with him! I miss watching game shows with my family and playing board and card games with them! I even miss play arguing with my sister over who's cuter together when it comes troll ship names!"

I felt tears brimming in my eyes. I turned to him. "I even missed you, but if that doesn't matter to you then that's fine with me." I started rolling past him. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go scheme a plan to free our friends." I started rolling the wagon as fast as I could away from him and Phoenix. As I rolled by Phoenix I noticed him sitting on the ground eating a bag of popcorn. Where did he even get that?! I didn't stop to ask and kept rolling past him. I rolled past the Heart Tree, past a bunch of small animals and past the stone entrance. When I got tired I stopped, undid the wagon, sat cris-crossed on the ground and began crying.

A/N: Word count: 2,250 Seriously hope you enjoyed that cause it took me a week and a half to write!!😁😁😁😀😀😃😃😃😄😄😄 So I need to go because its like 9:35pm over here. So I gotta put this phone up right now because I have school tommorow and I gotta go to bed! Before I go I just want to wish Justin Timberlake and Branchie one last Happy Birthday!! 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎁🎁🎁🎁 Make sure you check out the Happy Birthday update I posted in my oc book! So anyway Bye Everyone!!😃😀😁

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