When you were still here|| TADC PAST FIC

A not-so-fun adventure

[Note before reading!!:

This timeline happens when Ribbit and Kaufmo were alive and not abstracted, therefore, there is no Pomni in this this story since she joined a lot later! (for now). The characters relationships between each other are obviously not the same as the present timeline, it applies with their personality too. But don't worry, when i focus on the present timeline it'll be as accurate as how they are in the show...
Meanwhile, in the circus there is Ragatha, Jax, Ribbit, Gangle, Zooble (the most recent one to arrive), Kaufmo and Kinger]

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3rd person POV:
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Heavy door knocks could be heard amongst the hall, even if it was only meant to be heard on the room who was being knocked.

The green frog sleeping in his dorm couldn't even wake up properly because a certain someone was almost about to break his door, and he obviously knew who it was.

Still, with his sleepy eyes and tired body he managed to get out of his bed and clench onto the door handle, unlocking it.
When he opened the door he met the face he already knew it was gonna show, 'surprisingly early tho' he thought.

"Jax...?" he firstly asked, his unconsciously soft voice betraying how sleepy he still was feeling.

"Well there u are sleeping beauty-!" Jax joked, taunting him, completely ignoring the fact that he almost broke his door trying to get an answer.

"What happened to you? Everyone already went to breakfast, Caine is going kinda crazy about today's adventure again..." Jax kept talking.

"Wha-?.. how late is it?? Are you sure everyone just didn't wake up too early today?" The green frog asked confused and skeptical.

"Hah...who would've thought YOU would wake up so late?, the one who always gets mad at me for arriving too late to the adventures-" Jax pointes out, taking the opportunity to excuse how irresponsible he usually is, well-knowing his friend was quite literally the opposite.

"Yeah whatever-.. i dont know what happened to me... i guess i couldn't rest well." Ribbit tried to remember the reason behind his lately nap problems, but he wasn't able to formulate a coherent answer.

"Anyways.. We should be getting prepared by now, another adventure is coming up." Jax shrugged it off, meanwhile leaning towards the door frame, distracting himself by looking at the ceilings decoration, "paciently" waiting for his friend to leave his room.

"Another one??, yesterday we had like three. I swear if Caine keeps us like this i will- ugh..." Ribbit protested, his limbs almost tripping when walking over to his bed to organize it before leaving. He exhaled heavily, trying to maintain his usual calm.

As he went to grab the matress, his hand suddenly started... glitching?...

"Not again please..." he murmured to himself trying to stay as quiet and calm as possible, tho it wasn't working.

Every time this happened, it felt like something or someone was tearing up his hand with all the strength of the world. To him, the pain was almost unbearable.

Even if so, this wasn't the first time happening. Actually it would come to be the third.
First one was during an argument he had...
Second one was yesterday, during the last adventure.
And the third one is just happening...

Weird, right?. That's what he thought all of these times.
But he's too scared and nervous anyways to tell someone about it. Not even his closest friend Jax.
So he just swallowed his own pain in, gripping hardly onto his arm trying to stop it.
While trying to keep it hidden, he noticed Jax looking at his direction, so he inmediatly tried acting normal, hiding his glitched hand inside the matresses of the bed.