Learning To Be Human | TMNT Leo X OC Love Story

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My previous life was relatively boring and routinely before mutation.

I would "swim", if you could call it that, about the sea, trying not to get eaten by fish. I myself would feast on the smaller plankton that also struggle to survive. Eating and living was not what humans would call "the prime of my life". Before mutation, I was utter trash, and nothing.

The fateful day where the mutagen seeped through my body and I regrew a new larger form, was one I will never forget. It was incredibly painful, for I never experienced pain before that. It felt like I was on fire. I can confidently say that now that I have gotten used to my body and felt the flame of the world. I was being torn apart, put back together and being reformed into the shape of a person.

The surrounding fish and sea life quickly swam away from my transformation. The water felt like it became more cold than it was before. It wasn't until I looked down that I realized my skin was completely bare. I was not far from a dock, so I swam towards it in hopes to gain a grounding of my situation.

It was dark outside, so I was thankfully not immediately yelled at for being nude. The wooden dock was damp from the sea, and a plastic tarp lay a few meters from me. I didn't realize it, but I was trembling. I hobbled with my new legs onto the tarp, and covered myself, feeling warmer. I closed my eyes, and slept.

When I came to, a person was shaking me awake. A green faced person with a blue stripe along their face.

"Hey, are you okay?" They asked.

I sat up abruptly, the tarp falling from my side. I did not know how to speak human language, or even process it yet, so I was silent. The green person widened their eyes and hastily put the tarp back on me while looking away.

"Don't do that! Who are you, anyway?"

I stared back, blank faced.

"No name? Can you talk?" After their freakout, they squatted down to face me eye to eye. "Hello?"

They waved their hand back and forth in front of my face. I saw a green palm with white bandages surrounding their three digits. It was enormous compared to my head.

"Do you want to talk?" They put their hand to their chin. "Can you talk?" They looked back to me.

"Well, my name is Leonardo."