Wings Of Fire as Humans [BEING REBOOTED]

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Turtle was back at home, thinking about another one of his uneventful days, all the while nibbling at the edge of a cookie. Suddenly his phone went off and he brought it out of his pocket lazily. It was a text from his friends.

Rainbow: Hi!

Moon: Hi!

Turtle: Hello

Sandyboi: Hola me amigos!

Winter: *mis

Rainbow: Did you guys hear about the new Chem teacher?

Sandyboi: Yeah. What was his name? Darksmocher? Dankcreeper?

Rainbow: XDDD

Moon: It's Darkstalker.

Winter: Isn't that a wonderful name?

Sandyboi: Still better than yours, Elsa XP

Winter: Arrrrgh! Well, what the heck does 'Qibli' even mean? Huh?

Sandyboi: Uh...

Moon: I think it means a hot or warm southerly wind.

Sandyboi: I'm hot alright ;)

Winter: No you're not, you cactus licker!

Rainbow: Lol

Winter: ...

Sandyboi: Are you giving me the cold shoulder, Winter?

Winter: Qibli-

Rainbow: You should try to be a little more ice Winter.

Winter: Guys!

Sandyboi: Ooh! Icy what you did there, Kink!

Winter: Stop IT!

Moon: I'm sorry Winter but...Don't be a snow-b

Winter has logged off

Sandyboi: Too much?

Moon: Probably

Turtle didn't pay attention to what happened next and tossed his phone on the bed, focusing on the cookie instead. This was pretty much how all their chats went. With Qibli and Winter bickering more than half the time and Turtle sitting behind his screen and observing. That was literally all he did. Just blobbing into the background and letting other, more capable people, take the spotlight. It was a habit now.

No, he wasn't antisocial, he just didn't like being the one. You know, the one who always managed to save the day. The one everyone looked up to.

Actually, he wouldn't mind being the one, but he knew he couldn't. He just wasn't someone people would expect to actually be able to do anything. So, he'd stopped expecting himself to do something either. He'd accepted himself as the guy who tripped over his own shoelaces in the first five minutes of a movie, had to be rescued at 15 mins, messed up the plan at 30 and ran away or died at the end.

He had just finished his cookie when he heard loud murmurings outside his door. It sounded like muffled quarreling. He was not really surprised because it could very well be Anemone or Tsunami arguing with each other or their parents. That happened way more than it should and he had to hide in his room for the entire day for the fear of running into an angry sister or mom.