Heya Readers!

Here's my newest fic!

It's gonna be a little shorter than my previous TMNT fics, though I say that, it might be a little longer than planned depending what comes into my head, I dunno.

But I hope you enjoy it all the same!

The Box Has Opened

Chapter One

First Anniversary

"Whoa! It looks amazing!"

"It's going to be a day to remember, at least I know we'll remember it!"

The turtles, Splinter, Mona, April and Casey stood in the middle of the TV area in the lair staring up at how it was decorated.

It was exactly a year since Pandora was born and they were now celebrating her first birthday.

Mona and Raphael were very excited and had spent hours going over the preparations.

There was a large pink banner saying 'HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY PANDORA' in large black letters along with a large table of snacks and drinks and lots of pink and red balloons as well as a chair filled with presents and in the middle of table was a huge iced cake with one candle and words written in icing 'Happy Birthday Pandora'.

"I think you and Mikey did a good job there Don." said Mona looking at the banner.

"Thanks Mona." said Donatello "And she can keep it and look back on it when she's older."

Mona nodded happily.

"Those balloons are great too." she said "Well done Leo."

"Well some of them took a lot of lung power, but I had Donnie's helium machine too."

"We did hear Mikey and Casey getting high off it earlier." said Mona "I could tell from the squeaky voices!"

"Tell me you didn't laugh!" said Casey "I was having a whale of a time!"

"Me too!" agreed Michelangelo "I laughed so hard I got tummy ache!"

"Just be thankful that you didn't puke up that chilli pizza you had for lunch earlier." said Casey "You went greener than you already are!"

"And the cake looks brilliant." said Raphael admiring the birthday cake "You got a good hand there April!"

"Oh and the little turtle cupcakes!" Mona added holding up one and cooing over it. There was a large platter filled with cupcakes with green icing and shaped like the turtles heads all with a mask in the colours of blue, orange, red and purple and the one Mona was holding up had a red mask on it. There were also some cakes with brown hair and a pink headband on them, and April had even tried doing some that looked like Splinter.

In fact before they could get eaten, Casey took some pictures of April baking them and on the platter so they had some memories.

"I can only try." said April as Mona placed the cupcake down "I'm not a masterchef, but I wanted to create a pretty cake for the little geisha."

"You did great April!" said Mona happily as she hugged her friend tightly.

"And it looks so tasty!" said Michelangelo as he eyed the cake. His eyes were bright and longing for it.

"Hands off bro!" Raphael said slapping the back of Michelangelo's head, snapping the young turtle back to reality "You can have a piece when we've sang Happy Birthday to my daughter."

Splinter laughed heartily and looked around the room.

"You have all done a great job." he said "And now we merely wait until our little birthday girl is ready."

"Hopefully not too long." said Michelangelo "She can't nap forever."

"We'll go check on her." said Raphael "But no sticky fingers on the food till we get back with Pandora!"

"Ok." said Michelangelo licking his lips at the sight of all the party food and not being able to eat it.

"We'll keep an eye on him." said April winking at Raphael.

"Don't worry Mikey." said Leonardo "You'll get dibs on the snacks when Pandora arrives."

Michelangelo grinned.

Raphael and Mona walked up to Pandora's bedroom where they saw the little reptile laying in her crib.

Pandora had been sleeping but now she opened her tender blue eyes to look up at her adoring parents who leaned over the side of the bars to look in.

"Rise and shine birthday girl!" Mona cooed "It's a big day!"

Pandora gurgled and waved her tiny arms as Raphael leaned in and gently scooped her up.

"You're a year old now Pandora." said Raphael as he nuzzled his daughter and made her giggle.

"You got a big surprise outside waiting for you, but first mummy's gonna pretty you up!"

Pandora giggled again and placed her tiny hands on her daddy's face making Raphael kiss her hands and nuzzle her nose again.

"Not that you need prettying up much my little geisha." Raphael added as he kissed the tip of his daughter's nose "You're always beautiful! Just like your mother!"

Mona laughed and wrapped her arms behind her mate whilst resting her cheek on the back of his shell.

"And as sweet as her father." she added softly making Raphael squeeze Pandora tighter and lean his head back to nuzzle his mate.

After a few moments of standing there whispering sweet nothings to their daughter, Raphael turned to Mona and handed Pandora to her.

"I'll leave you two girls to it." he said.

He kissed Pandora's nose and nuzzled her again.

"Daddy will be waiting for you downstairs sweetheart." he said "And we've got loads of surprises for you!"

Pandora gurgled happily and placed her tiny hands on Raphael's face before Raphael kissed her tiny fingers and left the room.

As soon as he was gone, Mona held her baby up before her.

"Ok little Geisha." she said "Time to pretty you up for your first birthday!"

Pandora gurgled and gasped happily as Mona laid her on the floor on one of her large turtle shaped floor pillows and walked over to a small wardrobe in the corner of the room where there was a tiny pink silk kimono style dress with big sleeves, red flowers on it and red silken sash along with a baby pink lotus flower headband.

It had been a gift from Splinter not long after Pandora was born, and he had hoped Pandora would wear it for her first birthday. As soon as Mona had seen it, she couldn't wait to place it on her daughter but she decided to wait until the actual day.

Making sure Pandora's nappy was clean, Mona set to work on prettying her daughter up for her birthday.

"I've always dreamed about what it would be like to do this..." said Mona aloud, "I've always wondered if I would ever get the chance to do this, and now I'm finally doing it."

Thinking back to when she was younger, Mona had sometimes dressed up her dolls and pretended, to her embarrassment she had a baby, preferably a girl to pamper and dress up.

Her mother even said when she was human and still living in Wisconsin that when Mona was a baby she enjoyed dressing her up.

"I wonder how mother would take to you my precious one?" Mona asked softly as she undressed Pandora out of her little white onesie and prepared her birthday dress "I'm sure she'd love you...if they could see past the reptilian features..." she touched her scaly face and sighed "But I guess we'll never know..." she said sadly.

Mona sat Pandora up slightly and gently and carefully slid the dress over her head, she tried to be careful and quick so as not to agitate her baby daughter but luckily she had no problems and was able to fasten up the dress and tie the bow at the back.

Mona smiled widely as she gazed upon her daughter in her first little dress and soon set to work in preparing her hair.

Even though Pandora only had a little bit of hair on her head, Mona was able to comb it gently then place the headband on her head.

When she was finally finished Mona picked up her daughter and gazed upon her.

"You look so lovely!" she said "Your daddy, uncles, Aunt April and Grandfather Splinter are going to think you look beautiful!"

Pandora gurgled again and Mona set her down again to place some tiny red and pink slippers on her feet.

"Now, shall we take Ninja Bear and Geisha Bear to the party?" asked Mona picking up Geisha Bear and Ninja Bear from the Crib and holding them up before Pandora.

At once Pandora gurgled and giggled again as she held out her tiny hands.

"Ok then sweetie!" said Mona "We'll take them too!"

She placed Geisha bear in Pandora's arms whilst she took Ninja Bear.

"Ok then my precious little geisha." said Mona "Let's make an entrance!" she gently picked Pandora up and carried her gently with one arm out of the room to greet the rest of the family.

So Pandora's about to celebrate her first birthday! Hope her family make it one to remember!

Stayed tuned for the next chapter to see how the party goes!