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A day from a leader’s life!
Summary: Rak is a great leader and has many responsibilities. It’s not always easy to take care of them, but is nothing he can’t he handle.
Warning: This story take place in the Season 3 of the webtoon so it contains some spoilers.
Rak Wraithraiser is the great leader of the most known team from the Tower. Rak knows that, as a big and fantastic leader like him, he has a lot of important things to do every day. It’s hard, but he is strong and he wants to get stronger.
And because he has so many things to do he made a list:
1.Go to sleep early so you can get stronger
2.Wake up early so you can get stronger
3.Drink water so you can get stronger
4.Eat so you can get stronger
5.Train so you can get stronger
6.Get stronger so you can be stronger and so you can punch blue turtle when he makes fun of you
These are his normal duties every day. Simple, but helpful.
But as a great leader, he has more duties than the normal ones. Because a leader has to make sure his teammates are in a good condition.
Sounds easy? Well..most of it is easy.
He has good teammates. The warrior turtle and tracksuit turtle are the most responsible turtles from his team. They know the importance of a good schedule and they take care of their health as everyone should do. The red turtle and useless turtle don’t disturb Rak, because even if they don’t do much, they eat and drink as much as not to make Rak worry for their health. The lizard and the ghost eyeball turtle are making his life hard sometimes but is nothing he can’t deal with. Even the new turtles that joined their team, like the big-eyed turtle, are having normal schedules so Rak doesn’t have to worry about them.
But in every team exist the black sheep. In Rak’s team, these black sheep are a certain blue turtle and black turtle. Rak is 100% sure that two turtles never heard about a good schedule before or about taking care of their health. Oh, no! Because these two are the most self-sacrificing, STUPID turtles Rak ever seen.
Every day, he has to take care of them to not push themself too much and every day Rak feels he lose his sanity a little bit more.
But as a responsible person, he made a list of how to take care of the two idiots too.
First, he has to wake both of them up. This is the easiest part because the three of them go to sleep together, so he knows his turtles slept enough to have the energy for the day. But sometimes, they like to fuck his brain cells and that morning was one of these special times in which Rak knew his sanity will deteriorate.
When Rak woke up, no one was in the room. He sighed knowing what is going to happen and went down to the kitchen.
Exactly as he expected, the blue turtle was typing on his light-sparkling cube with a mug in his hand and the black turtle was arranging on the table the plates with food.
“Black turtle, you made the breakfast for everyone…again?”
“From when are you awake?”
“YOU CAN’T MAKE BREAKFAST FOR EVERYONE IN 5 MINUTES!”
Rak felt a vein was going to explode. He approached by Khun and looked straight in his eyes.
“And you, blue turtle? When did you wake up?”
“10 minutes ago and I made myself some coffee! Now leave me alone, stupid gator.
Rak looked around and spotted on table three other empty mugs in which he was sure there was coffee. Rak felt his blood boiling.
"That’s your fourth coffee, blue turtle!” Rak said and Khun twitched. Rak knew he caught Khun with the lie. He wanted to punch both of them, but he refrained.
“….I can drink 4 coffees in 10 minutes!”
Rak grabbed with his claws the two boys and threw them back in the bedroom, ignoring their complaints.
“Each turtle needs to sleep for 8 hours! Go back to sleep! I’ll wake you in an hour!” He heard the two groan, but Rak knew they were going to do what Rak told them. Even if they do stupid things like this, Rak can trust his turtles.
“Stupid turtles, ruining my schedule!” Rak murmured, going back in the kitchen to make sure his other teammates turtles are taking care of themself.
The second thing he has to do is to make sure the two turtles eat properly. And this is where the chaos starts.
Black turtle doesn’t have a big problem with eating adequately. He learned in FUG the importance of three meals in a day and 2-3 snacks. The black turtle’s biggest problem is that he forgets to drink water. But this problem is always quickly resolved by Rak throwing a bottle of water in the black turtles’ head and says: “Drink it!”.
Instead, the blue turtle is eating his days! If Rak can make that idiot have three meals a day he can consider it a big victory.
“BLUE TURTLE THAT’S YOUR FIFTH COFFEE AND YOU HAVEN’T EATEN ANYTHING YET!”
“I am not hungry! I’ll eat later.”
“I need coffee to function!”
“EAT SOMETHING AND DRINK WATER!”
Rak feels his blood boiling. If this is how he wants to play, then let’s have fun.
“Gator what are doing? PUT ME DOWN!”
“Blue turtle refuses to eat, then I have to make him do it.”
“I already have told you I am not hungry…mhmp!” Khun couldn’t finish his sentence, because Rak shoved a spoon with food. (because the others can’t cook, all the food was prepared by Bam, so no one was poisoned!)
“If the blue turtle doesn’t want to eat alone, I have to force him! You can try to escape, but nor you nor I will leave this place until the plate is empty. Oh, I almost forgot about the water.”
“More you complain more we will stay here!”
The third thing Rak has to do is to make sure his turtles are training in a proper way. And by a proper way, he means he has to make sure these stupid turtles don’t overwork themself.
At this part, the blue turtle is more reasonable, because even with his firefish, his stamina is not the best. Khun’s problem is when he is working on his lighthouse too much, but Rak knows how to handle this. All he has to do is throw himself on the lighthouse and Khun will stop, because he knows Rak will do that again if he continues his work. On the other place, the black turtle… likes to eat Rak’s brain cells.
“Black turtle, the training finished! Why are you still here?”
“Huh? Oh, uhm…I wanted to practice a bit more, so I remained after you all left.”
“Wait…you were here all this time?”
“THE TRAINING FINISHED 4 HOURS AGO!”
“Uhm…yeah, but I really need to practice this attack more so I can b able to use it in the next battle…”
“I DO NOT CARE! IF I CAN FORCE BLUE TURTLE TO EAT, I CAN FORCE BLACK TURTLE TO STOP TRAINING TOO!”
Rak took Bam and put him over his own shoulder and left the training room. Bam said nothing, knowing the fact that even the smallest sound will make Rak even angrier.
The fourth thing Rak has to do is to make sure his turtles go to sleep at a decent hour. This is both the duty Rak detest the most and the one that makes Rak’s life a living hell. Why? Because those two can go 3 days without sleeping if Rak wouldn’t be there. But even if it is hard, Rak has a perfect plan.
The first step is to find the two turtles. This is the easiest part because he knows exactly where they can be. If they are not in the kitchen or their room then…
Bam is, again, in the training room.
Bam looked at his friend a little scared, knowing Rak is going to scream at him.
“It’s just 11 pm! I am not tired so I’ll stay…”
“I DIDN’T ASK IF YOU ARE TIRED OR NOT! I SAID IT’S TIME TO SLEEP, I DIDN’T ASK IF ‘YOU WANT TO GO TO SLEEP’!” Rak grabbed Bam by his waist with his claw and took him up going to get the blue turtle. Bam said nothing more.
Khun could be in just one place…his office.
“Blue turtle, time to sleep!”
“You don’t know to knock at the door? And what are doing with Bam?”
“The same thing I am going to do with you too…put you to sleep.”
“What? You are not my mother. I can go to sleep when I want!”
“You understood wrong, just like the black, turtle so I will explain again: I DIDN’T ASK IF YOU WANT OR NOT TO GO TO SLEEP!”
Rak took Khun in the same way he took Bam and went to their room, throwing the two boys in their beds.
“Ugh…gator! I have plans and strategies for the war to do! I don’t have time to play with you!”
“Khun..calm down a bit, please. I don’t Rak is playing.”
“Black turtle is right, blue turtle! Now go to sleep!”
Here comes the second step begins: Make these two sleep.
“We can’t fall asleep in 5 minutes, gator!”
“IT PASSED AN HOUR ALREADY!”
“Sorry, Rak…me and Khun aren’t used to go to sleep this early!”
“Yeah…I mostly go to sleep at 4 am.”
“Same or an hour earlier.”
“THIS IS NOT A PROPERLY, GOOD AND RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR! You two sleep or I will apply force and I am sure none of us want this scenario to happen, but if I have to I will.”
Another hour passed and finally, to Rak’s happiness, his turtles fell asleep. Rak sighed and took two blankets and covered Khun and Bam. He sat down on the floor, looking at them, his eyes softened at the sight of the two sleeping boys.
Rak finished all his duties so, he can finally relax. He kissed the two boy’s foreheads and stayed in the silence of the night, the only noise that could be heard was their heartbeats.
As he always does, Rak stays and looks at Khun and Bam, and remembered everything they went through. He remembered how many times he almost lost them, how they thought Bam was dead for 7 years, how Khun became cold and closed his feelings in him. How Bam was hurt by Rachel again. How he almost lost Khun because of Rachel and how for two years he was in a coma. He almost lost the blue turtle again after they woke him up. His turtles are always in danger and Rak…and Rak is afraid that he will lose them.
Tears were falling from Rak’s red eyes because just when he is alone with the night he can give free rein to the emotions he hid in his big heart because behind his mask of a strong leader, Rak was a good friend who cares about his two precious turtles.
And…as in every night, he put his claws on the two sleeping boys’ hearts, wanting to make sure these two are still there with him. He was watching at them and said:
“God Turtle…if you really exist, please listen to my prayer. I will make sure these two will eat and drink water. I will make sure they won’t overwork themself and I will make sure they will sleep 8 hours. I will make sure they are not hurt. I will take care of their health. I will even make these two idiots realize they are in love with each other. I will get stronger so I can protect them. I will fight for their safety. I will do all of these things so please God Turtle…please…if you really are there…if you really exist…please…I’ll do everything I need to do to take care of them so please…don’t take blue turtle and black turtle away from me again.”
