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Ottoman-chan was what people like to call an underdog, no one expected much from an Uma born in a small town where none of the horses made it international, or even national, once in a while they would organize small races for the Uma's but even that would be a rare occasion. Everyone including Ottoman-chan herself thought that leaving this place and joining the national league was impossible, but she was determined, she remembered her mother's words before she fell off the stairs and died…
“join the national league for me Ottoman-chan… I believe you can do it”
So she never gave up, and this is how the journey of Ottoman-chan becoming a national- wait no… no one's here for a compelling story they're all here for the damn yuri! Let's get to the fun part then, when Ottoman-chan finally go to Tracen Academy!
Ottoman-chan and Osman finally arrived at the Tracen Academy, it was a beautiful day outside, the sun was shining but the birds weren't singing, they weren't in the mood to do so, instead all you could hear were the people talking and the cars after all we're in the heart of Tokyo it's gonna be loud! Ottoman-chan was starting to get overwhelmed by all this noise so she ran straight into the Academy without even saying good morning to Tazuna like every other Uma would. This of course gained her a lot of weird looks, but it's not like she cared, in fact she wasn't even looking where she's running which led to her falling straight into the fountain full force. Osman, who barely even managed to figure out what's going on or where he was even supposed to go to get the paperwork, almost had a heart attack when he saw what Ottoman-chan was doing.
“OTTOMAN-CHAN!” he yelled and ran to her “ARE YOU OKAY?!” he saw Ottoman-chan get up from the fountain, her bag she brought and everything inside it was soaked, of course she herself was covered in water too which also meant her favorite outfit which she wore for this special day was ruined and she was gonna have to change before going to class. She nodded slowly as tears streamed down from her face barely keeping it together at this point.
“And what is happening here?” the two saw Uma, dressed in the academy uniform approach, she was tall, pale as if she lived in a basement her entire life and had long black hair
Ottoman-chan looked at her and managed to say a few words “I- I'm a new student”
“Ah, welcome to the Tarcen Academy, I'm Russian Empire-san!” the tall Uma helped Ottoman-chan get up “How about I take the two of you to the president?” both of them nodded
They finally arrived in front of the door, the entire time they were walking, Ottoman-chan was getting weird looks, he wasn't sure why exactly was that but he assumed it's because she's covered in water and not because they're racist or something.
“This is the presi- oh okay fuck you” Russian Empire-san started but changed her mind on what to say as Ottoman-chan walked in to the room not even knocking like it was her own house “those new one's…” she sighed. Meanwhile Osman was sweating at this point from stress and what Ottoman-chan just did actually made it worse
“Can you show me our cabin?” he asked pretending like he's completely fine
“Yeah sure, follow me” Russian Empire-san started walking away, Osman followed
“Hello!” Ottoman-chan walked into the room
“Huh- who?- who the fuck are you- OH WAIT THE NEW STUDENT… right, right” the Uma said and hid some papers into her desk “I'm the president of Tracen Academy: Britain-sama, and you are Ottoman-chan I assume?”
Ottoman-chan nodded enthusiastically “I'm ready to join the national league!”
“That's great, but first, here are keys to your room” Britian-sama got up and handed the other Uma the keys “second of all, I'm kinda in a rush as you can see so we're gonna skip the Eclipse First, Rest Nowhere talk okay? I don't have time for this” Ottoman-chan looked at Britain-sama confused, this is definitely not how she imagined meeting the legendary triple crowned Uma: Britain-sama the Great Emperor herself! The image she had in her head was this confident Uma, with pride in her voice, so much that it could even intimidate one!... Not someone looking like an alcoholic father who gets way too little sleep…
“Yeah… that's fine!” Ottoman-chan said nervously, fidgeting with the keys she just got
“Great, you can go to class then” Britain-sama said “The bell is in 3… 2…” and as she was about to say one it rang which made Ottoman-chan run out of the room as fast as she entered it. She ran as quickly as she could to her class, which wasn't easy because she has no idea where to even go, but she managed to arrive on time.
After class ended it was finally time to practice on the race course, something Ottoman-chan was looking forward to as it was completely different from what they had back home. When she arrived after changing she saw a crowd of Uma's watching the course. Ottoman-chan was intrigued, they were supposed to train what they are looking at, is the teacher explaining some theory? She got closer and finally saw it, next to the railing stood an older guy with glasses, holding a timer in his hand while 2 Uma's raced on the track, both of them were really fast but even so one of them couldn't catch up to the other, the only thing Ottoman-chan could see was the haircolor of the two, the faster one was blonde while the other one had dark brown hair.
“Excuse me, who are they?” Ottoman-chan asked one of the Uma's standing next to her
“You really don't know them?!” the Uma responded surprised “wait right, you're the new kid!”
“I am” Ottoman-chan said
“Well, these two are the fastest horses running in the Twinkle Series! The blonde one is going to the US next week and the brown one is going to Paris for the European Debry!” the Uma explained “You can only dream of being like those two, no one ever matched their speed, not to mention how the blonde one is the daughter of the president herself! She's aiming for the triple crown like her mother!”
Ottoman-chan listened to every word the Uma said, when she was finally done she continued watching the Uma's but focused on the blonde one ‘I want to be as fast as her, maybe I could go international too!’ she thought ‘I should approach her after training!’ she smiled proudly when suddenly she heard someone yell “Good job you two! Another record beat! Keep going and you'll have all the crowns you could wish for!” Ottoman-chan couldn't hear the rest of what was said but she could tell the two Uma's started bickering while one of them kept laughing.
Suddenly she felt someone touch her shoulder, when she turned she saw her trainer Osman “there you are, ready for some training?” Ottoman-chan smiled and nodded, she remembered seeing the two Uma's run, she wanted to be as fast as them… no, even faster!
She trained for 2 hours, she wanted to train some more but Osman told her to go finally get settled instead, she wasn't the happiest but stopped anyway. She went to her room and surprisingly didn't see anyone there, he would assume she doesn't have a roommate but she could see stuff on the other side of the room. He decided to not pay attention to it and continue unpacking, while doing so she thought of what to do next, she wanted to meet the Uma he saw earlier but she wasn't sure how could she even do that, in the end she decided to try and find her at the racing course in the evening.
When it was finally starting to get late and she was getting ready to leave, an Uma walked into the room, she had white hair and clearly just came back from training. Both of them just stared at each other and looked as surprised and confused to see each other.
“I'm Ottoman-chan” one of them finally spoke up “I'm not gonna bother you I'm about to leave-”
“Oh- wait!- I'm Austro-Hungary-san” the white haired one said “But why are you leaving?!”
“I have to see someone!” Ottoman-chan ran off without saying anything else
As Ottoman-chan was running to the race course she was hoping that she would actually run into the mysterious Uma. The chances were slim but she's the main character so surely it's gonna work out right?
Of course she found who she was looking for thanks to her main character powers, she saw the blond haired Uma running in the dark. As Ottoman-chan got closer she started seeing more and more details about the Uma, she was amazed by her running skills and style, the way she seemingly knew every strategy, her every move was thought out and yet it seemed like it was natural to her, she didn't even have to think about it or focus. For a split second she saw her beautiful blue eyes, as they both looked at each other for that second Ottoman-chan could feel her face getting red, she quickly shook her head and saw the blonde haired Uma stop right next to her after running another lap.
Ottoman-chan looked at her, she wanted to say something but it was as if she couldn't say a word, her mind went blank she didn't even know what to say, the blonde Uma was looking at her, she wasn't smiling, her face was emotionless, serious, almost intimidating but Ottoman-chan didn't care about any of that “H-Hi!-” Ottoman-chan finally spoke up after few seconds of silence which felt like eternity “I'm Ottoman-chan!-”
The blonde Uma looked up and down as if examining Ottoman-chan, after that she responded “America-sama… my name's America-sama”