TURTLE

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Turtle looked at them, his jaw dropping.

"Let me get this straight. Darkstalker gave Qibli animus magic and he turned evil, so you want me to... take away his magic abilities?"

Kinkajou, Moon, and Winter all nodded their heads.

"Please? I know you're sensitive about your soul, but Qibli's already gone too far." Moon asked.

Turtle nodded his head. "Sure. I mean, yes. Absolutely."

He found a stick and whispered to it. Beside Kinkajou, Winter whispered to both Moon and her,

"Isn't a stick a bit of a terrible choice when it comes to potentially stopping an all-powerful-he-could-destroy-us-in-a-single-bat-of-an-eye dictator from rising right now?"

Kinkajou giggled. "I think it's a very good stick. Saving the world again."

Turtle came back. "Did it work?"

Moon shrugged. "We still don't know. Can you teleport us to Qibli to confront him? We have no idea where he is right now."

Turtle nodded again. "Sure. Have fun,"

"Nuh-uh," Kinkajou suddenly chimed. "Us includes YOU, Turtle."

Turtle glanced at the others. All of them confirmed Kinkajou's statement. Turtle sighed. This is my chance to prove to myself that I'm a hero. Plus, that's more time with Kinkajou... Turtle wanted to smack himself. Am I doing this just for Kinkajou to be proud of me? Not because I'm a good dragon? What is wrong with me? The other three looked at him impatiently. Turtle snapped back to focus and enchanted the same stick to teleport them back. A while later, with nothing happening, Winter interrupted the silence by saying,

"What's taking so long?"

"I don't know!" Turtle responded, repeating the exact enchantment he meant to say in his head.

"Are you implying that you're uncomfortable doing this?" Moon asked. She sighed. "It's alright Turtle, your soul is worth protecting-"

"No! I meant like my animus magic is literally NOT working!" Turtle said.

That's when it all hit them.

"Qibli must have thought we'd go to you," Kinkajou realized, a bit later than everyone else. "Oh no! He must have taken your animus magic away! Turtle, I am so, so sorry."

Turtle slumped. I was doing nothing before, but I still had magic. Now that I don't have anything at all, I'm just useless now. He thought.

"Well, now what?" Winter snapped. "Are we going back to Anemone?"

Turtle shook his head. "Anemone supports Darkstalker. If anything, she would use her magic on us to prevent us from taking away Qibli's animus powers."

Winter grumbled to himself, a layer of frost covering the grass.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Kinkajou said. "We're going to do it the hard way. And I know the exact dragon that can help us."
This is it, Turtle thought. It's us against two of the most powerful dragons in all of Pyrrhia. If we don't make it out alive, then... at least I died doing something heroic.


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