Devil made a deal.

Not with humans but with animals.

He wanted the humans power but human race was protected by God.

He needed them to defeat God.

Most of the animals accepted the agreement.

Turtle race was one of them.

Our protagonist… was a turtle.

*   *   *

I was a human.

I knew it was a dream from the beginning.

But I didn’t resist its flow.

I looked at my surroundings. It was a simple human house. There wasn’t anything that took my interest so I just went outside.

The light from sun was too strong for me that I closed my eyes for a while.

When I opened my eyes there was a colourful and crowded street. Too many humans at one place, it scared me at first.

But I said in my mind “I need to go right now.”

No, it was a strange sight. I wanted to stay there a little more. Why was I going? Where was I going?

Still, I walked away from there.

My feet were walking into narrow streets.

After some time, I arrived where I wanted to be.

There was a wooden door that opens to a big building in front of me.

Like I didn’t want to disturb the people inside, I opened the door slowly.

When I stepped inside, there were two feelings in my heart.

Two opposite feelings.

First one was comfort.

But it didn’t belong to me… The only feeling that belonged to me was fear. The fear to suffer because who I am, the fear to die.

I understood what this place was.

It was a church.

It was a link between the God and the world.

*   *   *

The body that I saw everything from, stopped when it entered inside the building.

Then, surroundings started to glow.

I involuntarily looked at the ground.

There was a little turtle there.

*   *   *

The man knelt to come near me, and said “What a nice little turtle, but what are you doing here, you are not allowed to come in.”

I was trembling.

His voice, his smiling face, his interrogating eyes, all of them scared me.

After all those years I finally understood why human were that powerful.

They had an aura that none of us would have no matter how hard we tried.

We really were inferior.

*   *   *

He touched my forehead with his forefinger.

I woke up from my nightmare.

I woke up to my nightmarish life.

I was just a powerless turtle.

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Sun was shining as always. But it was noon already.

My shell was really hot. I didn’t know why but when sun came over me I didn’t woke up.

Instead I saw that nightmare.

Before hurting myself much more, I decided to go to a tree's shadow.

But in a dead forest it was hard to find a tree that can cover a 5m long turtle.

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I decided to go deep into the forest. Even if most of them didn’t have leaves, they could still protect most of my body with theirs.

Where I slept was a shore near a lake. The big sized races like turtles couldn’t make themselves comfortable in forests, obviously there is not much place because of trees, so we lived on the outskirts of forests.

Why were we living near a forest when there were more comfortable places?

Because demons were controlling forests and they were our leaders.

When we made an agreement with Devil, we didn’t know about the others. Still, when we saw them, we didn’t care about them. Because we thought they were our allies against humans. Oh, we were wrong.

When the time to conquer human lands came, I and many others understood what we were to them. Stepping stones. Even if we won, they wouldn’t keep their promises. It didn’t matter though. Because we lost. In every attempt.

Ahh, anyways, those were old days. And I don’t want to bore… umm… someone.

*   *   *

Speak of the devil.

As I stopped when I found a good spot to cool myself off, 2 demons came while loudly talking.

“Oh look at that, 6LDG, a cute turtle.”

“That’s the legendary coward, right? What a nice grey colour you have!”

“It was a good decision to come here. I heard turtle meat is delicious.”

Those ******’s. They were men of a Lord Demon. I knew it because of the blue band on their arms.

“You can’t kill me, so just go.”

I dealt with them for years. Because there were two things they needed to know that even if they tried their hardest, they still wouldn’t have been able to get me.

First, because of my talents, I couldn’t get more powerful.

Second, because of my talents, I didn’t lose any fight.

“We will see, let’s fight.”

Umm… maybe someone needs to know what they look like.

They both were from the goat race. 6LDG had goat legs while they both had horns and dark red skin. The other goat's horns were longer and he had human legs. He was 7LDG I guess.

“Okay, let’s fight.”

So the short fight started.

<6LDG & 7LDG vs. 2LGT>

<7LDG activated Demonic Jump.>

<6LDG activated Demonic Jump.>

It was a basic skill that goats could use. With red and black lights coming behind them, they jumped right on me. They were quick, but at the same time, stupid.

Not knowing your enemies' talents, not knowing how it didn’t die for all these years, they could die from a mistake like that.

<2LGT activated Fog of Cowardice.>

When I became fog, they just fell inside me, and stood there not knowing what to do.

Like I said, you can’t kill me.

<2LGT activated Calming Gray.>

But neither can I.

With the 2 goats falling asleep, I slowly walked away.