Inspired by my crazy freaking childhood cause I was the Floyd of my 4 siblings family-

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The sun was slowly rising and reflecting it's golden rays on the white coat of snow covering the forest. In the main tree of the village, a pod was gently moving in the cold breeze- inside of it was a not so perfect family just waking up for the day.

Grandma Rosiepuff woke up to the tickles of the sun on her eyelashes. She yawned, rubbing her eyes as she sat up in the bed- she saw that her clock alarm hadn't rang, and she immediately knew what that meant- she sighed and got up from her bed to walk downstairs.

As she expected, she found the oldest brother already placing breakfast on the table. She crossed her arms and he smiled at her when he noticed her presence;

- OH! Hey, Grandma ! John Dory smiled, his goggles already on his head.

- John... what hour were you up this time ? She asked him, concerned.

The little trolling had the bad habit to wake up very early in the morning before the sun would get up every single day, and since he couldn't fall back asleep- he would turn off her alarm and make his brothers breakfast.

- Oh uh- John Dory looked akward, Uhm... something likeeeee... 4 in the morning? He grinned, scratching the back of his neck, I'm not tired though !

Grandma sighed, shook her head- she had tried to help the oldest brother sleep better but no matter what she tried, she could never help him to get a normal shedule.

- John, baby, you know you need your sleep ! She remind him

- But I couldn't !! He groaned, sleeping is boring- Only Spruce thinks it's fun ! Talking about Spruce, I have to wake them up now ! 

- But it's 6 in the morning—

- YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, John Dory placed the last plate on the table for baby Branch, Something magical happened during the night... I have to tell them !

Without another word, the evergreen haired trolling rushed to their shared bedroom upstairs. Grandma, knowing she wouldn't be able to catch him sat down at the table and started to eat her own breakfast- which she was surprised, actually tasted pretty good !

John Dory kicked the door open in a loud sound. He opened the lights, throwing his arms in the air;

- TIME TO WAKE UP, LOOSERS.

Everyone groaned in protest. Clay raised from his pillow, the book that had been opened on his face fell into his lap.

- Huh? The middle child rubbed his eyes, John ! It's too early !! He flopped back into the matress.

- Close the lighttttt ! Spruce mumbled into his pillow.

Floyd meanwhile, slowly sat in his bed with his blanket wrapped around him. He was holding his huge unicorn plush in his arms as he slided off his bed lazily, his head leaning foward as he tried to stay awake.

- CMON GUYSSS, John Dory urged them and pull off Clay's blanket and throwed it on the ground, which revealed the huge amount of books that were hidden under the covers, YOU NEED TO SEE THE SURPRISE !!

- ... Surpriiise ? Floyd repeated in his little morning voice, his pink eyes opening lazily.

- It's the Rhonda commercial again, is it– Spruce grumbled as he still started to climb off the upper bed.

- NOOOPE, WATCH THIS !!

He used his hair, throwing them on the curtain to open it and reveal the landscape outside of their pod; the tree was covered in a white blanket of snow. The trollings all gasped in shock;

- Snow ! Branch that had just woken up clapped his hands in excitement.

- ..... You know what that means– Spruce started.

- That our electricity bill is going to burst ? Clay asked concerned if they could manage the budget.

- NO ! Snowball fight ! Spruce screamed in his face, WHICH I'LL WIN !!

That made the yellow haired kid giggle; the hearthrob frowned;

- What are you laughing at-

- You ? Win the snowball fight ?? PFF- Please ! Even Branch could beat you in a snowball fight !!

He pointed to the baby which Floyd was now holding in his arms instead of the unicorn plush.

- Are you saying I would loose ??

- GUYSS ENOUGH CHIT CHAT, I made breakfast !! John Dory pushed everyone out of the bedroom.

After Breakfast...

The door leading to the yard bursted open and Clay ran out of the pod in his well... underwears. He laughed loudly as he jumped around the yard, kicking the snow and screaming like a maniac.

- CLAY !! Grandma Rosiepuff stood in the door frame, HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND ?? GET BACK IN THIS POD RIGHT NOW !!

Clay turned around, groaning loudly and gesturing to the snow under his feet:

- BUT GRANDMAAA!! He protested, IT MAKES ME FEEL FREEEEE !!!

- I'M NOT GONNA TELL YOU AGAIN, YOUNG TROLL, BRING YOU AND YOUR BLUE STRIPED UNDERWEAR BACK IN HERE. NOW !!!

- FINEEE !! AH-

He then slipped on an hidden spot of ice and fell in the freezing snow, face first. Spruce passed by him, laughing loudly as he saw the trolling get up, shaking.

- BUAHA !! And you still think your goofy banana hair could still beat me in a silly snowball fight ?? You can't even stand up !

- Snowball fights aren't goofy ! Clay hissed back at him, FIRST OF ALL, you need to make sure that the snow is the good composition ! THEN SECONDO, You need a very solid fort that can handle–

- WHAT- I DON'T CARE- Spruce kicked snow on his face and walked away.

- CLAY !!! Grandma shouted again, Is he still out there with only his underwears on ?? She asked no one in particular

Clay was about to get up only for a certain trolling with goggles to pull him up:

- Bro what are you even doing– go put clothes on–

- No ! I'm a free man ! He crossed his arms, even though he was shaking.

- You're gonna breathe to death !! Floyd said, concerned, bringing him his clothes.

- Do you mean freeze– John Dory corrected him.

- That's exactly what I said ! Floyd frowned at him, Here, I brought you your coat !

Clay eventually accepted to give up for freedom and choose avoiding hypothermia instead- the brothers were all happily screaming and running around the yard behind their pod, Rosiepuff was actually afraid they could get complains from the neighborhood–

Luckily for her the screaming calmed down as everyone started to play new games.

John Dory had got the idea to show Floyd how to make a snowman- which the toddler was not so good at it yet. His snowballs kept falling in pieces between his mittens.

- It's not working ! He complained, saddened.

- Keep trying ! John Dory, meanwhile, was pushing what he thought was huge snowman base around the place, Hmm... is it big enough ? He wondered out loud

It was literally Branch's size-

- Hmm...Branch looked at it, Biggie !

John Dory groaned and kept pushing the snowball around- until Clay came running and crashed into his hard work-

- CLAY!! John Dory yelled, LOOK WHAT YOU DID !! You ruined Branch and Floyd's snowtroll !!

Floyd was starting to tear up as he saw Mr.Frosty's butt that been crashed by the accident. Clay did not felt bad, but he wanted to avoid getting grounded by Grandma- so he still tried to act is if he cared- which he didn't.

- Oh- well I am surely sorry about this, he got up and chased the snow off his coat.

- snif, It's okay Clay ! Floyd rubbed his mittens in his face to hide the tears, I'll just sing his funeral...

He got up on his little feet and placed his hand in front of his forehead to do the salute;

Frosty the snowmannnnn !
Was a happy jolly soul !
With a corn cob pipe and a button nose...
And two eyes made out of coal !

- .... wait, who's frosty?? Clay interrupted.

- ... HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW WHO FROSTY IS??!? Floyd's little innocent heart was deeply offended by this, WAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!-

But then Spruce shoved a snowball in Floyd's mouth to shut him up- which the toddler spitted it out gagging;

- EW, YELLOW SNOW-

- Oh yeah I forgot Rhonda did her wee wee over there ... John Dory looked at where Spruce had took the snow, Good aim Spruce !

Only there were still tensions between Spruce and Clay and the situation triggered their sibling-fight reflexes-

- HEY ! Clay yelled at Spruce, HE WAS DOING JACK FROST'S FUNERAL DUMMY !!

- FROSTY- Floyd corrected them, FOR ONCE in his life-

- YOU'RE THE ONE WHO KILLED FROSTY- Spruce yelled back

- I DID NOT, JOHN DID!

- WHAT?! The square head child gasped.

- HE WAS IN MY WAY ! Clay excused himself out of any responsability, FROSTING WOULD STILL BE ALIVE IF JOHN DORY'S BUTT WASN'T THAT BIG-

- Sqware, Branch was eating the yellow snow.

- BRANCH GET THAT OUTTA YOUR MOUTH !! Clay picked up the baby, THAT'S IT ! SPRUCE HAS TRIED TO POISON BRANCH, THIS MEANS...
👹 W A R 👹.

- GASP... SPRUCE DID WHAT?? Floyd was terrified, HOW COULD YOU??

The pinked haired trolling randomly tried to punch John Dory's chest, tears of anger rolling down his cheeks. The goggle head just stared down at him not feeling any pain.

- Wut-

- YOU TRIED TO POISON BRANCH ! YOU... YOU.... HUH... YOU UHM....

- ... humpback whale, Clay proposed.

- HUMMING COWBELL !

- .... HOW DOES THAT EVEN MAKES SENSE- Spruce was just done with everything at this point please call 911 for him.

- WAR IT IS !! Clay jumped on the destroyed Frosty the snowman, Spruce, you keep JD's stinky butt in your team ! I'll make a fort with Floyd and Branch !!

Floyd forgot his anger toward John Dory and gasped, excited to make a fort;

- LIKE A PRINCESS CASTLE ??? YAAAYYYY!!! He joined Clay not realizing what war meant at all.

- YAAAY, Branch copied Floyd and they ran away to choose a spot for their fort with Clay.

Spruce and John Dory just stared at the whole thing.

-.... So I like the war thingy, but do you know how to build a fort at least- John Dory asked his younger brother.

ABOUT AN HOUR LATER...

After many plans and two broken shovels, Clay, Floyd and Branch had made an incredibly solid and proud fort in their delimited part of the yard. They had made a huge pile of snow and then digged into it so the walls would be super large and impossible to break down.

On the other side of the yard, Spruce and John Dory were still struggling- they had not any smart ass trolling on their side of the team to help them and their fort was just snowballs forming a line on the ground- it would protect them from Branch only, Clay would just over it.. and if they were lucky Floyd would trip over it.

When being part of a trolling snow forts & snowballs war, you had to know the rules ! First of them was absolutely NO HUGS were allowed- second, throwing a snowball at Branch is forbidden -Floyd had insisted over that- and last finally- no yellow snow. Never again.

Spruce was now laying down on his stomach as he held binoculars, looking at the other fort- he was waiting for any sign of an attack from the youngests while John Dory fixed one of the snow walls that had fell down [again].

- Why do I gotta fix the wall that YOU made fall?? He asked Spruce again, I say I should be the one in charge becaus-

- I know, I know- you're the leader- Spruce mocked, Now fix that wall stinky butt-

He used the binoculars to look closely at Clay's fort- only he couldn't see through them because 1) they were completely frozen and 2) the walls of the other fort were way much taller than their fort. Spruce groaned; how would they know when Clay would attack??

Their solution wasn't that far- in the other fort, Clay was looking at blueprints he drew in the ground of their way much bigger fort- Floyd joined his side to look above his shoulder;

- Whatcha doing ?? Floyd asked curiously.

He grabbed into Clay's hair for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON, playing with it as he listened carefully.

- Haven't you been listenin—

- No.

Clay just glared at him and kept talking;

- It's the blueprints of our fort !! Clay gestured, see, if we prepare well we are sure to win this snowball fight against Spruce !

Floyd looked at the drawings, not really understanding the complicated illustrations.

- Can our castle have a unicorn too? Floyd kneeled down.

- What?

- OO! And princesses' dresses too !!

As he said that he started to draw on his very important blueprints without asking, and Clay pushed him off;

- FLOY WHAT ARE YOU-- DON'T-- THE PLANS !!

Floyd landed on his butt next to Branch who was somehow looking through their own binoculars. The second youngest started to tear up once again;

- B-But I thought we were making a princess castle !!

The middle child rolled his blue eyes- of course, that was probably the only reason that Floyd had wanted to join his team. He thought they were gonna play castles ! He would have accepted if that had been any other day, he loved Floyd with all his heart and was able to let him have his interests- but right now, a princess would be in great danger inside of this very fort- it was WAR, how many times would he have to repeat it ??

- If you wanna play princesses, go ask Miss Spruce or something, Clay glared as he took the time to redraw his destroyed blueprints.

Dissapointed, the 5 year old took Branch in his arms and left the fort.

In the other fort, John Dory had finished fixing up the wall- until Floyd walked into it destroying it once again, making John Dory officially loose it;

- OH SERIOUSLY-

- What are you doing, guys ? Floyd asked Spruce curiously, hoping their game would be more fun than "war".

- I'm making snowballs, Spruce told him, aren't you suppose to be in Clay's team?

He was sitting in a corner making as much snowballs ready to throw as possible- if they couldn't get a solid fort they at least should get good attack material.

- Clay told me that you would play castles with me ! Floyd smiled widely.

Branch cooed in his arms, clapping his little hands: no matter the game he just was happy to be there with his brothers.

John Dory just sat there with his arms crossed over his chest; the game was boring when he wasn't the one in charge ! Spruce had no sense of leadership ! At this point even playing castle sounded more fun !

- Urggghh, if this isn't going to be fun here, I'm making my own fort by myself ! John Dory got up and walked away.

- Bye stinky butt- Spruce at this point was just tired of hearing everyone complain anyway.

The oldest trolling glared at him, kicked the wall he just fixed, blowing a raspberry. Spruce throwed the snowball he was holding in his hand;

- YOU PIECE OF SH-

- LANGUAGE, YOUNG MAN !! Rosiepuff shouted to Spruce from the pod.

- BUT HE DESTROYED MY FORT !!! Spruce gestured to the fort.

- I DIDN'T !! Floyd thought that Spruce was accusing him.

- I WASN'T TALKING YOU-

- NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY WITH ME, WAAAAAAH- He ran out of the fort letting Branch there.

- Floflo ! The baby reached out with grabby hands.

- Hm- welp, start working- Spruce placed Branch in front of the destroyed wall so he would SOMEHOW fix it.

Eventually all the brothers had made their own fort in every corner of the yard- it was a real battle field, with no one fighting yet.

John Dory had made his fort close to the pod- only since he was bad at making things by himself and always asked his brothers to do it for him- his fort DID look bad- it wasn't even a SNOW fort, he gad just find old Trollmazon boxes and was hiding behind them.

Clay had finished his super solid fort; it even had a flag with his name on it- he was ready to attack anyone that would approach.

Spruce well- it wasn't the best neither the worst- but the walls would constantly fall. His plan was now all turning around this one surprise he had been hiding from Clay that would sure make him win...

Everyone was glaring at each other- well except Floyd. He was not part of the war, he just wanted to make a princess castle.

He had placed his own fort, decent one, close to a tree branch that made a little roof of crytals above his castle. He liked the way the light reflecting through it would make rainbows appear on the ground.

- RAINBOWWW !! His eyes sparkled again, he had been staring at it for the last 20 minutes.

Except him cheering, it was complete silence in the yard...all the brothers were waiting for something to happen

...

- ....okay this is getting boring, ATTAAAACCCK!!!! Clay yelled, he had an armor made out of an old trash bin.

John Dory and Spruce weren't ready yet and jumped on their feet. The snowballs started flying across the yard- and since Rosiepuff was too busy doing the laundry, she wasn't paying attention to the chaos.

- WOAH- I WASN'T READY !! Spruce yelled at Clay, until he got hit in the face with a snowball, falling backward, D'OH-

John Dory laughed loudly at him, happy he actually managed to hit him, and grabbed snow in his hands to throw it toward Clay's fort. It barely hit it, so he leaned over to grab more snow and try again.

Floyd, meanwhile, had noticed what was happening now; he got up on his little feet, using both of his hands as a support to stand up. He looked above the wall of his fort, shocked to see his brothers fighting.

- GUYS ! GRANDMA WOULDN'T SUPPORT THIS !! He tried to bring them some common sense, but of course no one would listen to him.

Clay ran to Spruce, protected by his trash bin armor. He throwed as much snowballs as he could on the second oldest brother, screaming loudly.

- YAAAAAARRRHHH- D'OH !—

He fell back as he got hit by a snowball in the face- he chased it only to see... green paint on his mitten ??

Spruce laughed loudly; his plan had worked !! He had put paint in the snowballs he had been preparing !! Clay gasped in shock;

- THAT'S CHEATING !!! He said, angry at his older brother.

- IT'S NOT ! NO ONE SAID I COULDN'T IN THE RULES !! Spruce proudly as he held another colored snowball, HEY JOHN !!

Like an idiot, the oldest brother's head popped from behind the amazon boxes and was welcomed by a yellow colored one on his chest.

- MY NEW COAT !! He looked down at the paint, before grabbing another snowball.

- GUYS !! Floyd walked out of his little fort, STOP IITTT!!! He stomped his little feet on the ground.

The fight got more intense -everyone getting covered in paint because of Spruce- and the brothers just did not realized how bad this was trully getting.

Soon the entiere yard was covered in paint, and the brothers were all panting and exhausted from the war. Still they had no idea who had won since they were all still standing up in the battle field.

- You... had .... no right to put paint in those !! John Dory accused Spruce, upset... mostly because he wasn't the one that had this amazing idea.

- No one ever told me that I couldn't ! Spruce said, his gloves were covered in the paint that had stain on the tissue, I respected the rules !

- MY FACE IS GREEEEN !!! Clay screamed at him.

- Yeah, Spruce giggled, that clearly means that I WIN ! He said proudly, before receiving another snowball on the back of his head from John Dory;

- No way idiot ! I win !

But then he received another snowball in the face from none other than Floyd-

- I WIN, BECAUSE I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO ISN'T AS... AS....

- ....stubborn as an armadillo ? Clay proposed

- DID YOU JUST INSULTED RHONDA ??? JD gasped in horror.

- YEAH! Floyd shouted, STUBBORN AS AN ARMOR-PILLOW !!

- Amadillo- Spruce corrected again.

- THAT'S WHAT I SAID!!

Until he got throwed another snowball in the face and fell backward.... and just started crying....again.

- snif... WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!

- Urghhh, Spruce groaned, okay who throwed this one-

- It wasn't me ! Clay defended himself

- Me neither ! John Dory rolled his eyes.

...

- Wait— if none of us throwed it then who—

SWOOSH !

SWOOSH !

SWOOSH !

And 3 more snowballs in their faces, making all of the brothers fall back in the snow.

Sitting on the other side of the yard in a little tower of snow, a certain little baby troll with blue hair laughed out loud.

- BRANCH WINS !! Floyd cheered.

The other older brothers just groaned- yep. Branch had won the snowball battle !

- Wait my face is still green- Clay complained.

THE END.