ATTENTION EVERYONE! IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.

I wanna say this is kind of an AU story... sort of... kind of. Yeah

I'm not sure how to explain what kind of story this is, but I will try my best. This is a story FOR THE REVIEWERS! When I say this, I mean that you guys will be the ones deciding what happens in this story :D At least to as far as I am able to do XD

This is a THANK YOU STORY for all my reviewers and viewers for all your support and kind words throughout the year! Seriously guys, thank you so much.

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1)Send me a character that you want to add into this story

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OH! And another important thing.

DON"T MIND THE TITLE! I know the title sounds weird, and it might not make sense right now, but it'll make sense in future chapters, I promise.

I shall also take any ideas you have, or at least, I will try to. I wanna try and make this story realistic to a certain point, so try not to give me too crazy of ideas.

Examples would be: ….Suddenly an alien with the power to control minds crashed through the wall possessing Nicole and having her stab Arinna with a spoon until she bleed out gummy bears….

Stuff like that XD Though that does sound kind of funny.

Anyway, here we go!

Nicole was 20 years old and had a mission.

….A crazy, strange, and out of this world mission, but she wouldn't change her mind about what she was doing. She wouldn't regret it either.

She just thought it was weird. Why her? Why was she placed in this kind of situation? It was usually Arinna who got involved in weird phenomenons.

…And that is actually what happened. Arinna got involved in some weird stuff and just dragged Nicole along for the ride. That is how things have always gone in their friendship.

Nicole wasn't joking with this. When Arinna got involved, the ride known as their friendship was like a never ending roller coaster that is only made up of loops, scary dark tunnels, flashing cameras, and questionably stable support beams that creaked and screeched, but never seemed to break.

So Nicole wasn't really surprised when Arinna suddenly banged against her door at 3 A.M in the morning. Stumbling out of bed and to the door, Nicole swung it open with a grunt.

"Huh?" she grumbled, squinting at her unwanted guests.

"Nicole!' As soon as the door was open, Arinna called out her name. Realizing she was standing in an apartment complex and had practically screamed it, Arinna shrunk, took a quick glance around, and tried again. "Nicole." she said in a voice so quiet, she almost couldn't hear. There was a panic nervousness in her voice that Nicole hadn't heard for a long time.

"…What?" she asked hesitantly, afraid to know the answer.
"You're my best friend. I can… I can trust you with anything, right?" Arinna shifted her weight on her heels, switching her gaze from Nicole to her feet nervously. It wasn't often that Nicole saw her friend so distressed and worried.

"Yeah Arinna. Of course you can." Nicole stepped out of her apartment and into the hall. "What's troubling ya?"

"You… you can't tell anyone, okay? I mean it Nicole, this is super serious." Arinna stammered out. "You can't even tell your parents or brother!"

"Arinna." Nicole said.

"I mean it! Not a soul!" Arinna was glaring at Nicole, her nose scrunched and her lips slightly puckered.

…It was more of an angry pout than a glare, Nicole decided.

"Okay." She held her hands up. "I promise not to tell anyone."

"Scouts honor?"
"I was never a good girl scout."

Arinna huffed. "Then I'm leaving. I'll handle this one my own-"

"Wait-" Nicole grabbed her arm. "I'm kidding. I swear on my whole career and on my parent's eventual grave not to tell anyone." Nicole didn't know what exactly she was promising too. Most likely something strange that will cause her a lot of trouble and maybe even put her in danger.

That happened sometimes when Arinna made you promise something.

But she would make the promise anyway. Arinna was her best friend after all. They made a pact when they were younger while playing in the mud that they would always have each other's backs, even if they were miles away from each other. They were mud Sisters. (Yes, that is a thing)

It was actually the main reason Nicole stayed here in New York; too look after Arinna. With no family, the recent lost of her older brother and with her basically living on the streets, Nicole swore to help Arinna as much as she could. And as much as Arinna would allow.

She had offered to let Arinna stay with her, but she didn't want to cause her trouble. So Arinna refused, saying she could figure out her own problems. She said she was fine with the life of a hobo.

Though who is ever completely okay with the life of a Hobo?

Arinna was nodding to herself, as if second guessing her decision to come her. She took another glance around. "So um… okay, this is gonna sound strange."

"I have no doubt."

"I was on the other side of town, going through trash cans-"

"Gross."

"When I heard something moving… in the trash can."

"Probably a Cat."

"When I moved the trash bags-"

"That is really unsanitary-"

"Stop interrupting!" Arinna snapped, throwing her hands down in anger. Nicole quickly held her hands up in surrender.

"Sorry, go on."

"….When I moved the trash bags I found something. Something kind of weird."

"Well it is the trash. Who knows what people throw out now a days?"

"Exactly what I was thinking." Arinna was nodding her head. "So I thought I would take a peek but… then they started to cry."

Okay, that was weird. "It started… to cry." Nicole repeated the words slowly. "Wait did you say They? They started to cry?"

"Yeah." She nodded. "Like um… babies. And, y'know, that really freaked me out, cause I thought it was a baby. And I mean, who in the world is cruel enough to put some babies in the trash, right?"
"…Right." Nicole nodded numbly. "But they weren't babies, right?"

Arinna hesitated. "Kind of?"
"What do you mean kind of?"

"It is exactly what I mean. They are babies, but they aren't babies all the same." She was waving her arms around frantically. "And that is why I am here, because I couldn't just leave them there, so I brought them with me and now I don't know what to do!"

"You brought them with you-?!" Nicole held up a finger. "Wait, I should have known you would do something like that. Just tell me one thing, was exactly is it that you brought here?"

Arinna stood there for a few seconds, chewing on her bottom lip. Taking a step backwards, away from the apartment door, Arinna shuffled to a plant that was pushed into the corner of the hallway. Reaching behind the plant, where she had apparently hid something, Arinna pulled out a box.

"…This." She announced

"A box?"

"No, they are inside the box."

"Well, open the box."

"I can't do it out here. Someone might come by." Arinna hissed, taking another sweep of the perimeter. "Can we go into your apartment?"
"You want me to let you and whatever weird little thing you have inside that box into my home?"

"Yes." She looked pale. "And they aren't a thing. They are babies."

"You just said they were only kind of like babies." Nicole was starting to freak out, her voice getting high and squeaky.

"I did, and they are." She nodded.

"…Well whatever. I don't see the harm in that. So long as they doesn't eat my Oreo's that I stored in the fridge, sure thing." Nicole shrugged, motioning for Arinna to enter. Arinna gave her an odd look.

"You put your Oreos in the fridge?"

"Are you seriously questioning that when you just told me you were digging through someone else's trash can like 5 minutes ago?" Nicole folded her arms.

"Touché." Arinna nodded curtly, shuffling into the apartment. Sighing, Nicole followed, closing the door behind her.

"Okay, so what is the big secret Arinna? Did you find puppies or something?"
"Close in size… I guess." She shrugged, gently placing the box down on the coffee table. Sitting on the couch, she inched a little closer to the box, motioning for her friend to sit down.

Hesitant, Nicole did as asked and sat on the other side of the coffee table. "Okay so… what?"

Arinna gave her a long look before reaching for the box. "Promise not to freak out?"
"I can't keep a promise I am unsure I can keep."

"Then why did you promise not to tell a anyone about what I am about to show you." She yanked her hand back, as if the box burned her.

"Because I know I can keep that promise." Nicole glared at her. That seemed to surprise the younger adult, and her shoulders relaxed.
"Oh…" she smiled, reaching for the box again. "Okay, just try not to scream or anything like I did."

"You screamed?" Now Nicole definitely felt worried.
"It was more of a surprised yelp I suppose." Arinna shrugged, tugging open the edges of the box to reveal the contents inside. Nicole didn't know what to say. What could she say? This was beyond anything she had ever seen.

Seriously, was she suppose to scream, faint, or just stare at… them? What even were they?

"Uh... um… okay so… Yeah no, I don't know what I am looking at." Nicole leaned forward a bit, resting her chin against her hand.

"I figured you wouldn't. They are babies." Arinna let out a shaky sigh.

"Dude, those aren't babies. Babies aren't green." Nicole pointed to the box. Inside, placed in the middle of several blankets, were two small green infants. Though, being green apparently wasn't strange enough, because they also had shells. Like, turtle shells.

Were they turtles?

She wasn't even sure! They just sat their, blinking up at her and wiggling around.

"They are babies." Arinna insisted. "Baby turtles."

"Aren't baby Turtles like… this big?" Nicole showed the size with her palm, in fact, baby Turtles usually weren't suppose to be bigger than her palm.

"You would think, but no." Arinna ran her hand through her hair. "These babies though… they were in the dumpster. And one of them was crying and looking at me… He was so scared Nicole, and he was looking at me like I was the only one in the whole entire world that could help him! And I just… Nicole I don't know what to do." She stammered.

"And how did you think I could help?" Nicole was dumbstruck. What could she do for some weird turtle/human baby?

"I-I dunno I just… I didn't know what else to do." Arinna's voice cracked. "He was crying and he looked hurt so… I just… I dunno."

Nicole closed her mouth. Looking to the babies, she blinked a few times. "Arinna I just can't…" she paused, raising her gaze to her friend. "Hurt?"
"Well, I think so. It is his legs." Arinna nodded numbly.

All weirdness aside, if these were babies, and one of them was hurt, they had to get it some help. "One of them is hurt?"

Arinna nodded. "The little one."

"Show me."

Arinna almost jumped out of seat, bring the box a little closer. "H-Here." She stuttered, pointing inside to the two babies. They both had yellow eyes and dark green skin, however one of them was much smaller than the others. Arinna had pointed to the smallest baby, to the child's knees and lower legs. Moving around the coffee table, Nicole took the box from her distressed friend and placed it on her lab. Looming over the opening, she peeked into the little turtle babes.

The little one was staring at her, his hands, which definitely were more like a human's than a turtles, were rolled up into tiny fists and resting next to his head. He blinked at her, titling his head curiously. (The Bigger one on the other had was just laying there, struggling to stay awake. Must've been tired.)

Anyway, the little one didn't seem to be in pain, but Nicole assumed that Arinna had moved the blankets enough so the baby's legs were completely surrounded and protected. Moving a few of the covers Nicole reached out to run her finger's over the leg muscles.

They weren't as large or as strong as his arms. Carefully grabbing the baby's ankles, she lifted his legs up. The baby didn't seem to feel pain from the action and only opened and closed his little mouth. Even if he didn't feel pain though, Nicole could tell something was wrong.

Her two years at medical school was enough experience to know. "He isn't injured." She announced.

"He isn't?" Arinna let out a sigh of relief.

"His leg muscles are just very weak right now. Muscle weakness. Kind of like… Muscular Dystrophy." She announced

"Muscular what?" her friends eyes doubled in size, pooling with concern. "Is it… bad?"

"I'm not saying it is Muscular Dystrophy, but it has similar traits to it." Nicole explained quickly. "It just means his muscles are weak, most likely from either lack of protein or a birth defect. Or maybe… it is from whatever caused him to be like this." She motioned to him.

Arinna nodded her head, looking to the large baby. "What about him? Is… Is he okay?"

Nicole shrugged, looking back into the box. The bigger one, now that she was looking, seemed much healthier than the other. He was large, darker skinned, and overall seemed like a healthy little guy. No problems that she could tell.

Then again, she wasn't exactly a vet, so how could she be 100 percent sure?

"I don't see any problems." Nicole admitted. "I'm not a vet though."

Arinna let out a sigh of relief. "That is good. So… you agree with me then that these two aren't like normal turtles or babies?"

"Of course." Nicole snorted at the obvious question. "I wanna say this is some form of mutation."

"Mutation?"
"Yeah, haven't you seen the mutants movies? They are like Godzilla, but much cuter."
"Nicole." Arinna narrowed her eyes.

"Sorry, little joke. But I'm serious, this has got to be some sort of weird mutation. Like a uh, a mix between turtle and human DNA!"

"How is that possible?" Arinna looked into the box. The little baby inside with the leg problems instantly looked to her, smiling. She smiled back.

"I dunno, you're the one who found them. As I said, who knows what you will find in the trash now a days."

"It is a good thing I found them when I did." Arinna admitted, reaching into the box. She seemed hesitant, but carefully grabbed the blankets around the little baby, wrapped her fingers around his shell and lifted him up. Careful with his legs, she wrapped him up in a bundle and cradled him in her arms. Nicole had seen Mother's hold their children like that all the time. "A few minutes after I pulled him out of the dumpster, the garbage truck arrived and dumped the whole thing. They would have crushed both of them and wouldn't have even known they were in there."

"Jeez." Nicole's throat felt dry. "They are really lucky babies then to have a Hobo like you around."

Arinna stuck her tongue out at her friend, chuckling. "Yeah, but now I don't know what to do with them."

"You could always give him to a Zoo." Nicole shrugged, looking back inside the box at the large baby. She hadn't even realized he was staring at her. "…" she stuck her tongue at him, and almost bit her tongue when he stuck his tongue right back out at her. "Dude, this baby is cheeky." She gasped.

Arinna rolled her eyes. "They aren't normal Turtles though." she disagreed, suddenly growing protective over the babe she was hold and wrapped her arms around him a little tighter. "They are curious and… And I think they have the intelligence of a normal human baby."

Nicole blinked. "What? Like… you think they'll grow like a normal human?"

Arinna didn't answer immediately, but slowly nodded. "Maybe."

"That's insane Arinna." Nicole looked back down at the baby in the box.

"What else am I suppose to say then Nicole." Arinna snapped, flinching when the baby in her arms began to fuss. "Oh, no. Sorry, so sorry." She quickly apologized, patting his back soothingly.

Nicole watched the scene quietly. Arinna was always a softie, unable to leave anyone or anything behind. With a heavy sigh, she nodded her head. "Okay, I see what you mean. And if we bring them to any where else they might just dissect them to see what in the world happened to make them they way they are."

Arinna looked utterly horrified. "Exactly why I came to you!"
"Don't yell." Nicole hushed her. "We'll figure something out. For now, you and the… little guys, can stay here tonight."

"Are you sure about that?" she looked surprised.

"Not really." Nicole admitted. "But why not? I'm too tired to think up some amazing plan anyway. It is better we sleep on it."

"…Yeah. I guess you are right." Arinna agreed, smiling down at the little bundle in her arms. Nicole smiled back, freezing when the baby still in the box held his arms up towards her.

"… Arinna, it is doing something." She pointed down into the box.

"He wants you to pick him up." Arinna explained.

"Pick him up?" Nicole looked horrified. The baby suddenly began to squeak, opening and closing his palms at her. "Eck."

"Don't say eck. He likes you." Arinna narrowed her eyes at her friend. "Just pick him up like you would any baby."

"I've never held a baby before." Nicole disagreed, looking awkward and unsure.

"You have too. You held your little brother all the time when he was a baby." Arinna disagreed.
"My little brother didn't have a shell."

"Big difference. Just pick him up before he starts to cry." Arinna ordered.

"No way-" just as Nicole began to protest, the baby in the box began to sniffle. "Ah. No. No no no, don't you dare." She pointed to the baby, flinching when tears began to pool in his eyes.

"Nicole…" Arinna growled. "Making a baby cry makes you the biggest jerk in the world."

"That is totally unfair." Nicole huffed. "I don't mean to make him cry- Oh come on, don't cry." Nicole frowned when the baby began to hiccup and sniffle. Rubbing at his eyes with his little fist, and he opened his mouth to let out a wail. "Ah! Okay! Okay!" quickly reaching into the box, Nicole wrapped her fingers around the baby's shell.

Lifting him up, she paused, allowing the baby to hover in the air. He had stopped crying instantly and stared up at her.

"…" Nicole slowly brought the baby closer, resting him against her arms, yet trying to hold him away as far as possible. "Hmmm." She looked distressed. "Arinna, I dunno what to do."
"Just hold him, that is all he wants." Arinna rolled her eyes.

"How are you so sure about that?" Nicole scoffed.

"Women's intuition."

"I'm a Women and I feel no intuition that is telling me this." Nicole sighed, bringing the babe a little closer. His mouth was open a bit and he looked up at her with wide eyes.

"…La." He made a little noise, giving Nicole a toothless smile.

Nicole had never felt her heart melt that fast with just one little smile. "Oh my gosh, he is cute." Her eyes doubled in size.

Arinna giggled. "Aren't they? And they were squeaking and making little noises the whole time I was coming over her." She explained.

"Cute."

"…We should name them." Arinna insisted with a smile, suddenly completely loving the idea of keeping these two little babies.

"Name them?" Nicole gawked at her. "Arinna you know what happens when you name things. You grow attached!"

"What is wrong with growing attached to this two little cuties?" Arinna cooed, pressing her cheeks to the baby in her arms. The baby cooed right back at her.

"A lot of things Arinna. You can't keep them."

Arinna frowned at her friend. "Why not?"

Nicole opened her mouth, but found she couldn't answer. "I…" she sighed.

"There is nothing wrong with keeping these two." Arinna huffed, making her point clear. She had no intention of giving these two up. If they were in the trash that meant someone had thrown them away, and that wasn't okay! These two were sweet little babies who had done nothing wrong! "I'm keeping them. And you know what, I'm going to name this little guy right now." Rising to her feet, Arinna began to pace the room, looking down at the little baby for inspiration on what to name him. "Hmm. What to name you?"

"Turtle baby number one." Nicole offered with a sigh, knowing there was no way she would be able to convince her friend against this idea. How in the world were they suppose to take care of these two? Did you feed them baby food or turtle food? What if they got sick? There are so many things that could go wrong that neither of them could prepare for! And the piece to resistance for Arinna's plan… is that they would be raising these two. They would become parents in one night.

Nicole wasn't sure she could do that. She never thought of herself as an amazing role model, and she didn't have any idea on how to be a Mother…

"John?" Arinna asked, cutting into her thoughts.

"You aren't naming him John." Nicole shook her head in agreement.

"Phil?"

"No." Nicole sighed again. "…Call him Crippled Turtle."

"Nicole!" Arinna huffed. "I will never call him that, that is rude."

"I'm just saying, that is literally the only way I can tell these two little guys apart anyway." She shrugged, looking down at the turtle within her own arms.

"One is bigger and one is smaller, that is how you should tell them apart, not that one is crippled and one isn't." Arinna shook her head. Turning around, she started to pace again. "I'm giving this little guy a good name." she insisted.

"Fine, fine." Nicole leaned back into the couch, staring down at the turtle in her arms. He was staring up at her, pulling slightly on her shirt, as if he liked the feel on the cloth on his finger tips. She was wearing a super soft Pajama shirt. Y'know, the ones that are super fluffy.

"Oh! I know! Sebastiano!" Arinna declared.

"Seba-what?" Nicole looked over her shoulder at her friend. "What kind of name is that?"

"Y'know, like the Renaissance Artist. Sebastiano Del Piombo." She began to explain. "Vincent…" she frowned at the mention of her older brother. "Vincent always loved Sebastiano's work. My Mom even had a picture when I was younger of a portrait he drew. The Dorotea."

"What was that one again?" Nicole frowned.

"The picture of that girl. We always had it in the living room."

"Oh yeah." Nicole nodded, remembering her many visits to Arinna's old house. "That picture actually always freaked me out. It was like that women was staring into your soul."

'Nicole." Arinna chuckled.

"It is true!"

Arinna laughed, gently bouncing the newly name Sebastiano in her arms. "Do you like your name Sebastiano?" she inquired. The baby just stared at her.

"That is still a really weird name. Why not just call him… Sebastian or something? Or… Seba for short?"

"Nicole-"

"Or Tiano?"

"That sounds like a girls name." Arinna snorted.

"Bastiano?"

"No."

"Sebas."

"It is Sebastiano, Nicole. I'll even compromise, you can call him Sebastian for short."

Nicole let out a sigh. "Okay, fine… What should we name this one?" she looked down to the baby in her arms.

Arinna frowned, titling her head. "Well, maybe you should name him?"
"Bartholemew." She instantly answered.

"…No." Arinna shook her head.

"That isn't fair. You got to name Sebas-that one." She pointed to Sebastiano.

"Yeah, but I also wanted to name him John and Phil, and you said no to those two, so no." Arinna stuck out her tongue.

"Gregory."

"See, you acted like the names I was saying were weird, but yours are just as weird." Arinna pointed to her.

"Gregory and Bartholemew are not weird." Nicole scoffed, sounding insulted.

"Neither are John and Phil."

"No, those names are weird. I knew a John and a Phil, and both of them were weirdos." Nicole whispered, as if she needed to keep this info on the down low.

"That doesn't mean every John and Phil are weirdos Nicole." Arinna sat down on the couch, placing Sebastiano in her lap. Sebastiano in response clapped his hands a few times. Shocked when doing so made a clapping noise, he jumped, looking around wildly. Hesitant, he did it again, looking very pleased with himself. Arinna chuckled at the sight.

"….I dunno then.' Nicole admitted.

"You could go for a renaissance kind of name like I did." Arinna offered.

"I don't know many Renaissance artists." Nicole sighed.

"Well there is… Leonardo, Giovanni, Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello… Uh… Nicola." Arinna began to list them off.

"I could name him Nicola, after me." Nicole cackled.

"He is a guy." Arinna sighed.

"Nicola was a guy too… I think…" Nicole looked confused. "What other names do you got?"

"Altichiero-"

"Too long and hard to remember."

"Lorenzo. Brunelleschi-"

"Ugh, no." Nicole shook her head.

"Giovanni, Filippino, Paolo, Hubert-" Nicole snickered at the name, motioning for Arinna to continue. "…Rogier, Jean, Hugo, Hieronymus-"

"Picasso." Nicole suddenly announced.

"What?" Arinna looked surprised.

"I suddenly just remembered that name. Picasso." She announced. "I remember looking at some artwork drawn by him back in middle school. I like his name."

Arinna seemed to be thinking the name over herself and nodded. "I like it too." She smiled. "So there is Sebastiano, and Picasso. The two little turtle babies."
"The strange little turtle babies." Nicole corrected, poking Picasso's tummy. The baby squealed in shock, grabbing her hand. Nicole snorted. "…Dude. Are we seriously doing this?"

"Doing what?"
"Keeping these guys?"

Arinna blinked a few times. "…Can we?"

"That isn't the question Arinna. I said, are we?"
"I dunno, are you saying we can?"

Nicole let out a large sigh. "I guess."

"Then yes, we are." Arinna grinned. "I've grown attached."

"I told you that would happen if you named them." Nicole shook her head.

"I can't help it. They need me." Arinna smiled softly.

"…Yeah, I guess." Nicole shrugged, poking Picasso's forehead. "You know this is crazy though, right? And I'm not good at taking care of kids."

"Well, it is a good thing I am. And yeah… I'm aware it sounds a little crazy." The two friends laughed.

Ending Author's notes:

PICASSO Belongs to BlackHooded001

SEBASTIANO/SEBASTIAN belongs to EpicThunder101

Nicole and Arinna belong to Me

ALRIGHT! Here we are people! The start of a strange story with random nonsense and hopefully some sense XD There is also one other OC character currently in this story that just hasn't been introduced. His name is GIOTTO.

So if you have an OC character you want to add named GIOTTO, I may not be able to accept him just because we already have one. I'll take any other characters though :D

REMINDER, THIS IS AN OC STORY SO… A LOT OF OC'S.

I'll try to introduce OC's from this point on one at a time though, so we don't get confused.