Chapter 384 - 384. Little turtle

''Kendra, come here, I need to show you something!'' A voice called her and she slipped out her body and suddenly found herself staring at huge humans walking here and there with big smiles.

''What is going on?'' Kendra looked down and saw herself a miniature form of a turtle. ''Eh?! Turtle?''

''Yes. Luckily for you, these humans do not eat turtle meat as they found turtles wise and let them in peace. As a turtle, you can travel their world and see many things and they will not kill you.'' A big turtle stood next to her and laid down. ''Try to go on my back. I'll show you a few things.''

But easier said than done. Trying, again and again, to climb on top of her, Kendra huffed. ''So slippery.''

''Of course. Continue trying.'' The big turtle couldn't help her anyway, as her legs were short and she couldn't reach her back anyway.

Trying it over and over again and falling down made human notice them. Tiny turtle trying to climb on the back of the big turtle. They never saw such a strange behaviour, so they looked at it. They let nature do its own work, so they didn't try to help. Just watched and cheered as the little turtle almost succeeded, to fail again and roll down.

But after trying many times, Kendra was too tiered, sat next to the big turtle and then fell asleep. The big turtle looked at her and when one small human child tried to touch the small turtle, she snapped her mouth at it.

Childs parents pulled the child away and let it watch the turtles from the nearby bench. ''Let nature go its own way. These creatures have their own reasonings. Let them be and watch.''

Few humans that had strange uniforms watch the turtle nudging the small turtle and then it woke up. With strange stubbornness and persistence, it tried, again and again, to climb on big turtles back and after who knows how many thousands of tries, it succeded.

Cheers of humans could be heard as they saw the small turtle falling asleep and a big turtle walking away with it. The boy stared at the little turtle and his eyes became red. ''It is so tiny but it tried hard in what it wanted. Mom, does that mean I need to work hard on my wishes as well?''

''And what is your wish?'' His parents smiled at him warmly. not noticing the red shine in the child's eyes.

''I want to become like our General, conquer worlds and clean them up from monsters.'' His eyes looked up and he saw few flying vehicles flying over his head. 

''As long you want it and work hard, you can become someone by his side and follow him to the other worlds.'' His mother patted his head and stoof up. ''Let's go back home. Soon it will be time for our monthly power feeding.''

The big turtle just passed with exhausted little turtle and stopped. ''Did you hear them?''

Kendra laid sprawled on big turtles back and blinked with her tiered eyes. ''What is that about? What power feeding? And why does the sun feel strange? Where is the warmth, where is the energy?''

The big turtle walked slowly away. ''Their light source was called Moal. From the story that I heard, this world found a way to exploit the sun and took it down from heaven to use it as a continuous light source. Instead of that, they put a fake sun upstairs that just starts glowing in early morning hours and then at night turns off. The worst is, there are no moons, no stars, nothing. Just darkness everywhere.''

Kendra felt strange fear slowly rising in her tiny heart. ''Complete darkness? But why did they do that to themselves? If there is no real sun and moon, the water, the life energy, the animals... everything would get messed up. And complete darkness is never good.''

''They captured few of the dark ones from that place and made them talk about the ways of the universe and portals. Now they do atrocities to the other worlds in the name of a strange belief. Human's are ultimate beings and they have right on the multiverse.'' The big turtle sighed. ''Let me take you to the power feeding.''

''There is another question. Why are they eating energy?'' Kendra felt a bit more energised as she could rest on big turtles back. 

''I'll show it to you. And then explain.''The big turtle slowly walked the main road, while strange round vehicles passed her, not even scratching her tiny little bit. 

Kendra looked at humans sitting inside the strange bubbles, that rolled on their own, not needing to drive it. The bubbles had some kind of sensors and would slow down, or go around any creature that happened to be on the street and if nothing else, it would wait until the creatures leave.

There were some people again in this strange uniforms that picked the big turtle and carefully took her to the corner of the street with a big smile. They looked at the tiered small turtle and smiled warmly. ''Sorry for the inconvenience. Please stay by the side of the road. Thank you in advance.''

Kendra blinked at them with big eyes and they just left her. She stood up on her shaking legs and tried to look after them, but as they had long legs they were fast gone. ''Who are them?''

''They are protectors of all simple beings. I told you, this world does not touch animals. Only if they are in direct danger to be squashed dor hurt they get the report and come to rescue. This world lacks animals as you can see. After they took the sun away, the animals started naturally decimating and humans stopped consuming their meat to protect them from extinction.'' The old turtle started walking by the side of the road and stopped near the stream, that could be heard not far away.

What Kendra saw there made her whole body shake and she plopped down...