Fifteen-year-old Ryan slouched at the back of the classroom, trying his best to pay attention to the teacher's droning voice.
His black hair fell into eyes as dark as midnight, framed by tired bags that made him look either stressed, brooding, or just plain creepy. Every day he wore the same clothes: a white shirt and blue trousers, different shirts, same tired colors.
Ryan wasn't popular, wasn't particularly smart, and certainly wasn't someone anyone noticed. No friends, no crush, no straight A's.
Barely muscular, no hobbies, no job, no siblings, no plans for the future, he was just… there. Not rich, not broke, thanks to his dad, and somehow still managing to scrape through to Grade 10. He had a reputation, of sorts, for keeping to himself, quietly fading into the background where no one paid him much mind.
*Bell rings*
"That's all for today, kids. Make sure to hand in your homework tomorrow, okay?" said Miss Sarah.
"Yes, Miss Sarah," the students replied dully.
"Another day, another long walk home," Ryan muttered as he packed his bag and left the school.
While walking past a group of boys his age, he tripped and fell face-first onto the pavement.
"Yo, this guy looks so broke, I bet his whole wardrobe is thrifted!" one of them snickered.
"Look at him, man! skinny as a stick, no wonder girls avoid him," another added.
"And his bag's open? Who walks around like this?"
One of the boys yanked him up by the collar and got inches from his face. "Negative aura, bro," he sneered.
Ryan wiped the dirt off his face. What's that even supposed to mean?
"We're not done yet," the first boy said, grinning cruelly. "Your broke-ass face could use a few new bruises."
"SON! Come on, say goodbye to your friends, let's go!" a man called from a nearby Lamborghini.
"You got lucky," the boy hissed before running off to the car.
"Loser."
"Pathetic."
"Clown."
"Human buffering."
"Background noise."
"Do you even own a mirror?"
The rest muttered their insults as they walked toward their flashy cars, laughing among themselves.
Ryan dusted off his clothes and continued his walk home, his stomach twisting with humiliation.
As he walked through his neighborhood, he noticed a green stuffed T-Rex lying on the ground.
This is probably that part of the movie where the character picks up the toy hoping it's magic or something, he thought, and without a second glance, he hopped over it and kept walking.
"What a dimwit! Making me go through the trouble of getting in his bag!" the toy shouted. Before Ryan could react, it darted after him and slipped into his open bag unnoticed.
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Ryan got into the two bedroom apartment his father could afford, threw his backpack on the couch without a second thought and made some ramen.
When done, he sat down on the dining table to eat and watch SpongeBob SquarePants on his phone, while the green stuffed dinosaur secretly tried to get out of his bag.
"why must I be plagued by the constant presence of these two insufferable simpletons!..." said Squidward (from SpongeBob SquarePants)
"Haha, relatable" Ryan said as he drank his coffee whole.
Once done with eating, he washed the dishes and took a shower, it was only when he came out of the shower in a yellow robe that he saw the green stuffed dinosaur staring at him.
His heart skipped a beat
His heart skipped two beats.
And after a third, he fell to the ground with a thud.
He awoke to the stuffed T-Rex staring at him
"You blathering, puffed-up windbag of a half-witted turnip! If ignorance were a currency, you'd be the wealthiest fool in the land, your intellect is as barren as a wasteland, your wit as dull as a rusted spoon, and your presence as welcome as a wasp at a picnic!" The dinosaur said
"Ah great, it even talks! You're here to tell me the asteroid was a fake news?" Ryan asked with a smirk
"WOW and here I thought evolution was meant to make people smarter!!" The dinosaur replied
"Okay cut it out! Who are you?... And What do you want?" Ryan asked
"Firstly, I'm your brother," the toy said, puffing out its tiny chest. "My name is Trevelyan Eden Noble, and I need both you and our sister's help!"
Ryan rubbed his temples. "Right. I definitely had too much coffee."
"I'm serious, our mother, was the former queen of Mirabelia, Queen Belladonna was cheated on by the king when I was four, the king got tired of her for some reason and banished her and me from the palace when she was pregnant for you and our sister"
"He married another woman who turned out to be barren, and ordered the guards search the kingdom for my mother, as he thought she'd put a curse on the new queen, the only good thing was the citizens knew that she was a kind woman who helped the kingdom a lot during her reign as queen, and she was once a humble villager too" he continued
"Hey hid her long enough for her to give birth to you and your sister, and the rumor spread that the former queen had given the king two more children, the king ordered the killing of every infant child ever born in the kingdom as he was crazy"
"So you're saying my mom's a queen, my dad, the 'King' cheated on her, I have a sister, and a dinosaur brother?" Ryan asked, rubbing his eyes.
"Yes, wait NO I'm not a dinosaur, listen, mom journeyed far and wide actually no she just went to the local witch, who gave her a transportation orb that was able to open a forcefield and mom gave you to her personal guard who'd insisted on joining her even when banished and gave your sister to the maid in waiting, now the king and the new queen is dead"
"Our mom's suffering from a disease and according to the same witch, we need a peculiar looking flower to heal her, and the kingdom is in chaos as three different kingdoms are attacking, plus a great evil is coming, the time which the evil witch Heather and her apprentice Tilia plan on destroying the entire magic realm and after that they plan on destroying the human world too!"
"That's a lot of um, occasions, and me and my supposed 'sister' are the saviors?!!" Ryan asked
"No, only that royals have more powers, speed and stamina than a regular magic being, and I can't convince three kingdoms not to destroy our broken kingdom, and I can't take over the throne because my real body is in the infirmary as it takes at least a month to fully heal"
"So your spirit came to find me and my supposed 'sister'?"
"Exactly and she's your twin sister too your real name is Kasper Noble or Ryan Kasper Noble, and our sister is Jade Wynter Noble and we're going to find her, according to the information I got from the 'finding my siblings' orb made by the witch, she's in the same school as you" Trevelyan said
"Don't you think that's too much information?" Ryan asked
"No, because I came for a reason and I'm not wasting time!"
"Well, I'm going to bed, good night, and if I'm not dreaming, and I see you again tomorrow, I'm going to need you to explain what's going on, because I understood nothing of what you said"
"What?! But I have so much more to say, and it's still evening…."
"Goodnight" saying that, Ryan slumped on his bed and plundered on if his entire life was a lie.