Hey! Back again for the second chapter! Hope you enjoy, and again, leave a review for a chance for the next chapter to be your idea! If you haven't noticed, Moon can read minds. This is going to be the only 'power' in this because it helps to make the character flow. I had an idea, the first person to guess what real life game Moon was playing in chapter one will somehow be worked into a chapter...good luck!

Point of view for this story is...Turtle! SageandSky's suggestion!

I DO NOT own Wings of Fire.

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Turtle's eyes snapped open as his alarm clock rang. He snatched his phone off of his desk and shut it off, not wanting to wake up Umber, who was next to him. Turtle checked the time, just to be sure that he set the alarm correctly, as he had never had to use it before. Six in the morning, as planned. Umber stirred a little in his sleep, muttering something about fluffy cows. Turtle smiled, he thought it was kind of funny that they were both related to the schools founders, Turtle to Tsunami, and Umber to Clay. Now Turtle could go do some swimming before school, as he had gotten up two hours early. He wrote a note for Umber and left it on his nightstand.

Hey Umber, just went to do some swimming before school started, don't worry about me, I'll be back at around seven-thirty if you want to talk to me. See you soon!

-Turtle

That should be good. Turtle grabbed his swim shorts and left the room. As he was leaving the boys dormitory building, Turtle noticed how quietit was, even with it being a school campus. Birds were still chirping, but it was so different from the house he lived in. When he woke up early in the morning for whatever reason, whether to talk with his friends on video chat without being interrupted, to go swimming without his many brothers there too, or even to just read a book in quiet. There was always a bunch of noise. His brothers snoring, cars shorting past outside, or maybe even one of his brother's televisions would be on because they forgot to turn it off. His house was huge, a mansion four stories tall, and all of his siblings went to private school. He had three sisters, too. There was Tsunami, one of the Jade Academey founders, Anenome, who like him was really into fantasy, magic, and anime, and Auklet, who was still only five years old (tried and probably failed to convert dragon years to human years) and she was adorable.

With thirty-four siblings, it was easy to get overlooked by their parents. Luckily he preffered that over being paid attention to all the time. Maybe with their classes, he wouldn't get noticed too much. Umber was great, but he didn't know about the other five who he would be meeting in about two hours. He made it to the gym, and walked across the clean floor. The gym was huge, walls that reached about double the height of the basketball hoops, enough room for two different basketball courts to be placed with space in between, and many different colored lines to indicate what sport boundaries they were for. He looked to the right, and saw the label for the boys locker rooms with the girls to the left. Walking across the gym took him to the pool, which had three sections. One for recreation, one for racing, and one for diving. He quickly changed his clothes in the locker room, and jumped into the pool.

It was great to be in the water again, but when wasn't it? The water was his element. The one sport he actually liked doing. The water was clean, refreshing, and in this case, filled with chlorine. He swam a couple of laps, and did a few dives, and practiced his strokes, when a voice from overhead startled him,

"Turtle!" It was Umber.

"Oh, hey Umber! What's up? The sun still hasnt fully risen."

"I decided to get up at six-thirty, to try and figure out my laptop, and asked for your help. Then I realized that I'd been asking for help from thin air. Then I saw your note. When did you wake up?"

"Half hour before you did, wanna get in?"

"Um, I actually don't know how to swim…"

"What?" How could anyone not know how to swim? It was the best. He made a pact with himself, right then and there, that if Umber agreed with it, he would teach him how to swim.

"Yeah, I never felt the need to, and we don't live anywhere near a deep area of water, and we don't own a pool. So…"

"Do you want me to teach you?" Turtle asked, Umber's face brightened.

"Sure! I was actually hoping you'd say that."

"Alright then, it's settled. We'll wake up early and I'm going to make you the best swimmer you can be."

"We can't start today though."

"Why?"

"A, I don't have a swimsuit. B, I came here to ask you to help with the laptop."

"Well, A's a good reason, but sure, I'll help with your laptop." Turtle climbed out of the pool, and dried off using the towel he'd brought. He changed back into his pale green t-shirt and jeans, and double checked to make sure he didn't need to reapply his hair dye colored to match his clothes. After walking out, he saw Umber waiting at the door, it took him a second to see him, his amber shirt and tan shorts blended in with the walls behind him. His skin and hair didn't stand out either, being s chocolate brown. He looked very similar to Clay.

"So? Ready to try and figure out some tech stuff?" Turtle asked.

"Not really, but thanks for the help." Umber said, sounding really grateful. They walked to the cafeteria and Umber pulled his laptop out of his backpack. Together they worked on it until Umber had figured out the computer and had exactly what he wanted. He had organized everything into folders and had an image of a sunlit swap for a screensaver. It was around then that from his gym back, Turtle heard his phone alarm ring.

"Oh shoot! I need to go grab my backpack! Umm...I'll see you at class!" Turtle shot down the path to the dormitories, and saw many filing outside of the doors. Sure, about seventeen students weren't that much, but he had about five minutes to get his things, and put his other things away. Luckily he'd left the window unlocked and a crack open. I ran to the side of the building, and spotted my dorm. Throwing open the window, I climbed inside and got what I needed. Throwing my gym bag onto my bed I jumped out, shut the window, and raced to the main building. I met Umber outside of the classroom about one minute before the bell rang, it was a little moving that Umber had waited outside to make sure Turtle made it on time. Turtle bent over, panting, running wasn't exactly his forte.

"Thanks...for...waiting...for...me." Turtle gasped out, breathing heavily. Umber walked in, and just before Turtle put his foot in the door frame, the bell rang. That was either okay or really bad, he wasn't liking his chances. Luckily, it was Tsunami who was sitting at the desk in the front of the room. Dyed blue hair, and sapphire blue yoga pants and tank top. Turtle looked at Tsunami, waiting for her to yell, but she just smiled.

"Hey Turtle, Umber. No, you're not late. It's the first day, I'm not that strict." Turtle and Umber made their way to the two empty desks which were closest to the door. He looked around and saw five other students there. One was wearing all black and had a star struck expression, one who looked like a rainbow and was excitedly fighting around in her seat. He looked to their left, and saw two boys, one who was pretty tanned, sandy colored hair and clothes, which were shorts and a t-shirt, smirking at them in a casual way. To his side was a pale boy staring at his desk wearing icy blue clothes, a hoodie and jeans. Most of what Turtle could see was the boy's hair, combed forward and white, though slightly bluer than his backpack.

Wait, weren't there seven students to a class? Turtle looked around, and saw what he was looking for, near the back of the room, a girl with fire-y orange hair and red clothes. She was sulking, and looked angry. Turtle took his seat, and noticed that he was sitting next to the rainbow of a teenager. Tsunami looked at them all, beaming. As if she was glad she'd arranged their group with these students. She took a quick roll call, making sure that everyone was there. The midnight girl was named Moonwatcher, but she preferred to be called Moon. The rainbow girl was named Kinkajou, with the fire girl named Carnelian. The sand boy was named Qibli, and the ice boy was named Winter. Those weren't going to be very hard to remember, he had a knack for remembering names.

For that first class, they mostly talked about what it would be for, like turning in their homework, going over announcements, and talking about what exciting things were going on. To get to know each other better, Tsunami had them all say their favorite color and one thing interesting about them, starting on the left with Winter.

"Well, I'm not going to expose any of my secrets to any of you," Winter said pompously, Turtle was taken aback, he was expecting Winter to be, well, more introverted, "but my favorite color is blue, and freezing temperatures don't really bother me." He finished. Tsunami moved on to Qibli, though her expression showed that she was just as shocked as Turtle was.

"Eh, I'm pretty normal, but my favorite color is yellow, and I am a sandcastle expert in case we ever go to a beach. Sand's the best." Tsunami smiled, and moved on to Moon.

"Umm...my favorite color is black, and I really like robotics and computers." she answered quietly. Next was Kinkajou.

"I like all colors! I don't have a favorite, though if I had to choose one, it would be Qibli's, yellow. Hmm, something interesting about me, well, I like climbing, and I'm pretty good at parkour." Now Turtle.

"Oh geez, well, my favorite color would be green, and I like to go hunting for treasure, even if it's just cool looking rocks, like these." he said, and showed them the bracelet he had, there were six rocks in it, which he had chipped away from where a meteor had crashed, they were pretty special to him. Now it was time to learn a little more about a Umber.

"I guess my favorite color's brown, and I once had a pet baby alligator." he finished, ignoring the awed looks he got.

"Woah!" Kinkajou said, "an alligator? How long did you have it and what did you name it?"

"Well, I had it for a day, before my brother said it would grow to big and I needed to let it go, and for the time, I named it Scales."

"Creative." Qibli commented.

"Give me a break, I was six."

"You were?" Turtle asked.

"You can talk about Umber's gator later, it's Carnelian's turn." Tsunami pointed out, though Carnelian looked like she would have been happy not having to share. She remained silent for a few seconds.

"What's her favorite color? Will you tell us something interesting about yourself if we get it right?" Kinkajou asked. Carnelian didn't respond, she was just blankly staring at her desk, unmoving. Turtle scanned the expressions of the other students in the room. Winter looked understanding, as if he'd experienced this kind of situation before. Qibli looked expectant, like he wanted to know her better, so they could be friends.

"Good luck with that." Turtle thought. Moon looked...scared? It was hard to tell. Kinkajou looked excited, like she had for the entire class. He glanced over at Umber, and he looked like he wanted to go and give her a hug and say that everything was okay. Wow, all these people who wanted to help Carnelian and be her friends, and she was pushing them all away. Turtle sort of got it, she might have trust issues, or maybe wanted to be left alone. Kinkajou started guessing colors,

"Green? Orange? Purple?" she asked, "is it yellow? You look like the kind of person who likes yellow." she giggle a bit after she said that, although that turned out to be a mistake.

"SHUT UP!" Carnelian yelled, "If I don't want to share anything, don't make me! I don't know why you care about me right now, because I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF YOU!" Everyone sat in silence, even Tsunami was too stunned to speak. After a few painstakingly longed moments, with Carnelian glaring at everyone, the bell rang, and she stormed off into the mass of students.

"Um...you guys have free period for the next class, we only have so many teachers." Tsunami said, composing herself for her next class. The six remaining students walked out, and started talking when they got outside when Qibli broke the silence,

"Well, she seemed, angry."

"Understatement of the year." Umber replied.

"We don't know what she might be going through though." Moon pointed out.

"Either way, I know that you're all going to say yes to this, even you Winter," Turtle said, resolute on this decision, "we're all going to try to be her friends, aren't we?"

Slowly, all of the, nodded, with Kinkajou being the first and Winter being the last.

"Well, anyone hungry?" Kinkajou asked, "We have an hour to eat."

"Sure, hopefully by next period, Carnelian will have calmed down." said Qibli. Together they walked to the cafeteria. There worked out a group name for if there were ever any school projects, and after much debate and a bit of joking. They settled on Jade Wings, which Moon said was based off of a book she'd read as a child but couldn't remember the name of. They ate for a bit, talking about random things, like one of the games on their computer that Moon had played and liked. Favorite foods, and some personal projects they had. Eventually, the bell rang, and the group went off to find Carnelian and finish the day…

Well that was fun! What did you think? Remember, leave a review for a chance for the next chapter to be your idea! Thanks to SageandSky for the suggestion that this chapter be on Turtle, it was fun to write. Stay tuned for more to come. AshEmber OUT!