To those who stayed with this story welcome to the final chapter and thank you all for staying and reviewing it really kept me going on this story.

Chapter eleven:

Once the DJ felt she had everything she needed to help Branch to be able to dance his wooing dance for Poppy and sing to her Suki then made her way back down the troll tree. The orange haired troll had several bugs helping her with all of her music equipment, the DJ was careful that they were not spotted by the rest of the snack pack as they made their way down the troll tree and the orange haired troll had to admit this wasn't a task which was managed easily. Once Suki was in the clearing at the base of the troll tree she let out a relived sigh glad that none of the other members of the snack pack had spotted her coming down here. The orange haired troll then looked around the clearing for Branch but no matter how hard she looked Suki couldn't see him any were. "Branch…?" The DJ was carefully to call this out as quietly as she could.

"I'm here." He said from the nearby shadows of a mushroom which caused Suki to give a gasp and a start of surprise.

The orange haired trolled spun round to look at him, she placed her hands onto her chest and looked at the Branch with wide eyes. "You scared me!"

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to, being this colour makes me harder to see in the shadows. Can I be of any help setting your equipment up?"

"No thank you." With this said the DJ then started to set her music equipment up in the clearing, Branch watched Suki as she worked, the efficacy with which she worked clearly showed how many times over the years the orange haired troll had set this equipment up. Once the DJ was happy with her work, Suki got ready to start playing the music but before she did so the orange haired troll looked at Branch and said to him. "Are you ready?"

The grey troll gave her a nod and then said softly. "Yes, I am as ready as I am going to be."

Suki returned her nod with one of her own, she turned the volume on her equipment up and then hit play. As soon as the music filled the air Branch began to dance, as he started to move the orange haired troll knew that her eyes were wide and her mouth was open, she could hardly believe how well Branch danced. The DJ closed her mouth, she looked up into the troll tree she could see a pink blur moving quickly through the tree, which caused Suki to smile to herself, then the orange haired troll also noticed that the traitor was looking down from his prison pod at the dancing grey troll, she glared at him but he ignored her and continued to watch Branch dance. The DJ then turned her attention to Branch, if he felt the eyes of the other grey troll on him then the grey troll didn't show it and Suki decided to take her que in this matter from the troll who was soon to be her King and ignored the traitor.

Though the healer didn't show it on the outside he did feel the traitor watching him dance but Branch was determined that the other grey troll wasn't going to stop him living his life or from wooing Poppy as he wanted to. So Branch ignored him, instead of letting the traitor make him falter or question what he was doing the healer focused on the hope and the love her held in his heart for his princess and danced with all of the joy he felt. As he moved the grey troll could already feel the words of the song he was going to sing for Poppy starting to form in his mind and Branch smiled to himself, as he felt his confidence that this second time things would go well was growing with every moment. To the healer it felt as if every step of his dance and every beat of the music he danced to took him a little closer to his goal…Poppy.

When Poppy heard the music filling the air around her she froze for a moment, the princess had recognised this music instantly, her eyes went wide and quickly she started forward. "Poppy where are you going?" Biggie asked her with concern, even as he and the rest of the members of the snack pack quickly started to follow the pink troll through the troll tree.

"That's Branch's music!" Poppy called back to him, before she broke out into a run heading to the edge of one of the troll trees branches to try and work out where the music was coming from. Once she reached the edge of the branch the princess quickly looked around and she soon realized that the music was coming from below her. Hastily Poppy started to make her way down the troll tree, she followed the music moving as quickly as she could determined to get to where Branch was and dance with him again as well as accept him as her mate this time. Soon the princess was in the clearing at the base of the troll tree, the grey troll had his eyes opened as he danced this time, as he noticed Poppy Branch smiled at her, she smiled back at him then crossed the clearing and as the healer held his hand out towards her he princess put her hand into his. The grey troll closed his hand around that of the pink troll, they danced side by side in perfect harmony almost as if they had danced together like this a million times before.

As the two trolls danced Branch turned blue slowly but surely, the eyes of the princess went wide as she noticed that the one she loved was once more became blue, the wide eyes of Poppy became even wider as ever after his colours were returned the healer was still glowing with blue light. Slowly Poppy herself started to glow with pink light, the princess knew that this showed their bond as two soul mates, it marked Branch out for all to see as her royal soul mate and she loved the idea that now all of the other trolls knew that the blue troll was well and truly off limits to any of them. As the music began to end Branch performed the lift just as he had before and as he brought the princess down to the ground he smiled at her and said softly in a perfect echo of the first time they had danced together. "I love you Poppy."

"I love you too." The pink troll said in her own turn and the two glowing trolls shared a brief kiss after this confession.

As they pulled apart from this kiss the now blue troll lifted his angelic voice in song for only the second time since he had returned from heaven, he sung to Poppy of always being there for her whenever she needed him, his song told the princess that he could see her for who she really was, Branch confessed his love for her once more through this song and the healer also told her how beautiful he thought her true colours were. After he got part of the way through his song Poppy joined her voice to his and the two troll's voices harmonised perfectly, not that this surprised any of the other trolls listening to them, but this did not mean that the other trolls now listening to the new couple didn't enjoy listening to their performance. When the two troll's finished singing, they shared a second brief kiss, they kept this kiss short because there were well aware that all around them the other trolls of the troll tree were cheering for them. A few moments later Peppy was walking over to the couple who had by now stopped glowing, he slipped his old crown onto the head of his daughter where it seamlessly joined her flower headband and then from his hair produced a crown for Branch which he placed onto the head of the blue troll. The old troll smiled at them, he took a step back, bowed formally to the new couple before crying out with all of his might. "Your new Queen and King."

The cheering of the trolls grew even louder if that were possible, the new Queen and King knew that this meant there was going to be a spontaneous party and sure enough their hunch was proved correct as only a few moments later music was playing full blast and the trolls were having the time of their lives partying. Poppy and Branch however had quietly slipped away from the party, they were walking through the troll tree together heading for the royal pod as they walked Poppy spoke to her new King. "I guess that means we are married my love?"

"From what I understand of royal troll tradition yes, your father just joined us in marriage…If you'd rather I gave you back the crown and went back to my own pod though…" Branch got no further, Poppy kissed him hard and then yanked him inside the royal pod with her.

Four years later:

The young King was as loved by his people just as his Queen was, as over the years which had passed since being crowned King the blue troll had shown himself to be a good King, he was known to be down to earth, wise, fair and a planner. All of the trolls had to admit that the blue troll was the perfect complement to his, party loving, bubbly and enthusiastic wife. Even though he was King Branch still practiced his healing and although he no longer had a healer's round the King was often called on for difficult cases. A year after Peppy had married them Branch had given Poppy a gold ring set the whole way around it's middle with blue stones in his two shades of blue to ware on her middle finger of her left hand as a sign that they were married. Poppy had returned this romantic gesture on the part of her husband by finding out were Branch had brought the ring from and having one made but with pink stones round the centre and it now sat on the middle finger of Branch's left hand. It had been on their two year wedding anniversary that the blue troll had presented his wife with a book of his best poetry, something which the Queen treasured and loved to read as often as she could.

As for the traitor, he was remained in prison and his hair was still cut off regularly to prevent him from having a weapon. Despite the fact he was proving to be a model prisoner Poppy refused to release him, she didn't want him causing any more trouble for herself, Branch or any of the other trolls in her care and her people stood by the pink troll's decision in this mater after all they had seen the harm the traitor could do first hand. The other reason that the Queen refused to release the traitor was because despite all of the time which had passed any time Creek noticed Branch around the troll tree he would follow the King with hungry eyes, a look which Poppy didn't like in the slightest.

When the royal pod came into view at last King Branch smiled it felt wonderful to come home after a long day, a few seconds after the blue troll had thought this a couple of excited young voices yelled. "DAD!" Just moments before the King was tackled by a blue and pink blur.

Branch chuckled, the blue troll looked down onto his twin son and daughter, who were hugging him hard, the little girl was all pink like her mother and had been named Pansy, Shimmer for the two grandmothers she would never know and the boy had the same two shades of blue as his father for his colouring, he was called Sky, Peppy for his two grandfathers neither of whom he would know either…Peppy's death three years ago had been quite hard for Poppy at first, but she was comforted both by the fact that he had slipped away quietly in his sleep one night just after the twins had made their way into the world and by Branch who had told her to remember what he had been told in heaven, that even though they couldn't be seen those who were no longer here they were still with them.

"Have you two been good for you mum today?" The King asked his children.

"We were extra good…We sang to the baby to sleep today for mum! Oh, and mum says she has decided on the name." Pansy said in a big rush of words before she and her brother set to tugging on their father's clothes. "Come on you need to get home so mum can tell us what our sisters name is!"

Laughing openly now the blue troll, quickly made his way home, when he came in the door of the royal pod, as had become a ritual for them both Branch removed his crown he settled it on the table next to Poppy's, he then hung up his long green Kings cloak on the peg by the door were he always put it when he got home. Poppy and he had long ago decided that in their pod they were just Poppy and Branch mother and father too two…well now three young trolls not the King and Queen. The Queen looked up from rocking their new daughter she smiled across at her husband, the blue troll smiled back before crossing the room to Poppy's side he placed a kiss to her cheek before looking down at their daughter in her arms, she was a lovely shade of deep purple and had pink hair towards the base of her head which faded from that to purple and then to royal blue. "The twins tell me you've chosen a name for her love?"

"I have and I hope you will like it. I decided to call her Rosiepuff."

Branch found himself grinning widely at his wife. "I think that is the perfect name thank you my soul mate."

"I'm glad you like it my soul mate." Poppy said smiling back at her husband, glad to see that he was happy with her choice of name for their new daughter. The blue troll gave his wife a soft quick peck on the lips, which she returned and then the couple shared a loving smile. They may not have known at the start that this was where their path was going to take them but they were both more than happy with their lots on life and they knew that they wouldn't have their lives any other way than it was now.