There was a cracking sound,and suddenly a little turtle was seeing the world for the first time, he had heard various sounds for a while now, some frightened him,like the time he heard the screams of his siblings as they were torn from their eggs and eaten, he thought nothing could be more frightening, but he was wrong. As he looks around,something urged him to go towards the body of water that seems to becon him urgently, he moves as best he can not knowing that he is driven by basic instinct,as he moves toward the body of water,he is conscious of others around him heading in the same direction, he hears a screeching sound and suddenly the poor friend in front of him is gone,he doesn't have time to grieve but redoubles his effort to get to the water quickly. After what seems like forever and a lot of missing companions he made it. He slides unhesitatingly into the water,never even stopping to consider how he knows how to swim. As he dives under the water,he is concerned to see large bodies of other living things under the water as well, suddenly he is not swimming alone but a much larger turtle swims up to him and says 'come with me if you want to stay alive ' our little turtle follows immediately. While swimming the much larger turtle says I'm Frank by the way,have you chosen a name for yourself as yet? No replies our young one, then Oslo it is replies frank.
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Oslo The Turtle
Short StoryBorn in a world of predators Oslo must learn to survive, and quickly, unless he wants to be next on the menue.