Heya everyone! It comes so quickly doesn't it? Another year passes and it's Christmas Time once again! I've been wanting to write a TMNT Christmas fic but I couldn't think of a good one, but I think I thought of a good one.
Hope you enjoy it!
A Christmas to Remember
Chapter One
"Christmas time, Mistletoe and Wine
Children singing Christian rhymes
with logs on the fire and gifts on the tree
A time to rejoice in the good that we see"
Mona sang softly to herself as she sorted through the box of Christmas Decorations. There was a week to go until Christmas and she was making sure the lights were working and the decorations were all in order before the turtles arrived with the tree to put up in the middle of the lair.
As she held up some tinsel, she suddenly felt Klunk start to play with it as he took it in his mouth and paws.
"Oi!" she laughed as the ginger cat pulled at it "Let go you silly cat! It's for the tree not you!"
Klunk meowed and continued to bat the tinsel with his paws as Mona tried to pull it away from him.
"That darn cat!" came a voice from above. Mona looked up and saw Master Splinter looking down at her and Klunk.
"Naughty thing huh?" laughed Mona as she yanked the tinsel away from Klunk and placed it back in the box "Where are those boys?" she said "They should be here by now!"
"I'm sure they'll be home soon" said Splinter "I just hope they don't damage the tree on the way through the sewers"
No sooner did Splinter speak than some noises came from the entrance and Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo came in carrying a huge Christmas Tree on their shoulders.
As they walked in Michelangelo was singing 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' at the top of his voice.
"We're back!" shouted Leonardo over Michelangelo's singing.
"We can see that" said Splinter "And hear very clearly!"
"Can we put the tree down now! It's killing my shoulders!" said Donatello "Ok" said Leonardo "Set it down then we'll hoist it up!"
They dropped the tree and looked towards Mona and Splinter. Mona cocked her head on one side as she saw there were only three turtles.
"Where's Raphael?" she asked out of curiosity at where her mate was.
"Huh?" said Michelangelo who had stopped singing when they dropped the tree. The three turtles looked around.
"He was right next to me" said Michelangelo looking over his shoulder.
"Raph?" called Leonardo "Raphie boy?" said Michelangelo.
"Hrrpphhh!" came a muffled sound from the tree.
"Ahhh!" cried Michelangelo "The tree's talking!" "Heellllffff!" came the voice again.
"It's a speaking tree!" cried Michelangelo stepping back "Our Christmas tree is talking!"
"No it isn't!" said Donatello "Tree's don't speak!"
"Well this one does!" said Michelangelo.
As he stared at the tree he suddenly heard the voice come again.
"GET THIS THING OFF ME!" "That's Raphael!" cried Mona. Michelangelo ran over and lifted a branch where the voice was coming from and saw Raphael laying flat on his stomach with the tree on top of him!
"Hello Mikey" he said with a frown "Now, could you make yourself useful and GET THIS BLOODY TREE OFF MY SHELL!" he shouted the last words.
"Oh no! Sorry Raphael!" said Donatello grabbing one end of the tree and lifting it, then Mona and Michelangelo pulling him out from underneath.
"Oh hun, are you alright?" asked Mona hugging Raphael close. "I'm ok" said Raphael hugging her back "But I'm gonna kill those green morons I have as brothers for dropping the tree on me!"
Splinter giggled a little whilst Leonardo, Donatello and Michelangelo looked worried.
"Why don't you save the killing for later Raphael" he laughed "And help get this tree up?"
Raphael sighed in a disappointment
"Fine" he said letting go of Mona and walking over to help his brothers stand the tree up in the middle of the room.
Leonardo, Michelangelo and Donatello sighed with relief and stood the tree up in a large pot and filled it with earth.
It was hard work but they managed in the end.
"Phew!" said Donatello "That's was tough!"
"But we can at least decorate it now?" asked Michelangelo excitedly "Can we do it now? Can we? Can we please?"
Mona laughed at how excited Michelangelo was. He did look very sweet when he got really excited, he really was like a kid at Christmas.
"We can Mikey" she said in a sweet voice "Let's get started shall we?"
"Yippie!" cried Michelangelo.
The other turtles rolled their eyes but they instantly got stuck in to hang the decorations on the tree and around the lair.
As they decorated the tree Michelangelo began to sing again, this time he started singing Wizzard's 'I Wish it could be Christmas Everyday'
"Oh I wish it could be Christmas everyday!" he sang in a very loud off key voice "When the kids start singing and the band begins to play! Oh I wish it could be Christmas everyday, so let the bells ring out for Christmas!"
Raphael looked pained at Michelangelo's singing but Mona continued to laugh and sing along.
"Mona!" said Raphael "Stop encouraging him!"
Leonardo punched Raphael shoulder and chuckled "Leave her be Raph" he said "They look happy"
Raphael shrugged and pulled out some tinsel from the tree whilst Donatello placed a couple of ladders next to the tree so they could reach the top.
They started by placing some lights on the tree (Donatello had made sure the lights were working before he placed them on the tree) then placed the baubles and tinsel on the branches.
Mona smiled as the smell of pine filled her nose and warmed her up inside.
Splinter stood at the bottom of the tree and watched as his sons and Mona decorated the tree, he enjoyed watching them get into the Christmas Spirit and decorating the tree together.
Michelangelo still continued to sing and laugh as he hung a few baubles on the tree and tossed some tinsel to Leonardo who draped it over a branch.
"Hey!" cried Mona "Where's the star?" she held up the box of decorations and showed it was completely empty.
"I don't know where it is!" said Donatello from the top of the tree "Me neither!" called Raphael.
"Not guilty" said Leonardo "Don't look at me!" said Michelangelo stopping his off key singing to answer.
"Finally!" said Raphael "At least you stopped Mikey from singing horribly" "Hey!" said Michelangelo.
Mona laughed again and looked around until she saw Klunk on the floor playing with what looked like a shiny ornament.
Mona narrowed her eyes and walked over to the chubby ginger cat only to see that he was playing with the Christmas Star!
"Klunk!" she cried "Let go of that! That's the Christmas Star not a toy!" she tried to pull it out of the cat's paws.
Splinter laughed hard, as did the other turtles as Klunk meowed and kept trying to grab it with his claws.
"Damn your cat Mikey!" said Raphael "He had to go and steal the star didn't he?"
Michelangelo went a bit pink and shrugged his shoulders "He just wanted to play!" he said.
Mona soon succeeded and climbed the ladder that Raphael was on so she could put it on top of the tree.
As she tried to reach, she realised it was still a long way to reach, so Raphael bent down and lifted her up so she could place it on the top.
She succeeded and there it sat, the crowning glory of the tree, shining and sparkling.
"All done!" Mona called as Raphael gently lowered her down and nuzzled her neck making her giggle and stroke the back of his head.
Splinter rolled his eyes at the sight of Mona and Raphael nuzzling and kissing like lovesick teenagers.
"When you've finished up there..." groaned Donatello as he climbed off his ladder and put it away "We can start our little Christmas ceremony?"
Raphael laughed and picked Mona up Bridal style and jumped down the ladder ninja style.
"Fine!" he said "Let's get started"; he smirked at Mona evilly making her shiver in pleasure. He knew how much she loved his smile.
Michelangelo and Leonardo rolled their eyes and Splinter just shook his head at the love birds.
"Ok" said Donatello "Are we ready for the lighting of the tree?"
"We are Ready Donatello" smiled Splinter "It is a tradition we all love and one that Monalisa is yet to experience"
He looked up at Mona who was beaming and gripping Raphael's hand in excitement.
Donatello soon walked over with a button connected to the tree and all the other decorations.
"Ok everyone!" he said excitedly "Let us begin!"
Everyone then began to count down from ten, Michelangelo shouted loudly above everyone else as they counted down.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1!" shouted everyone, then Donatello pressed the button and instantly the tree and all the decorations lit up and sparkled making the whole lair look like Santa's grotto!
As it lit up everyone shouted at the tops of their voices "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"
Mona was almost swept off her feet at how beautiful the place looked.
"Wow!" she said "It looks so beautiful!"
"Doesn't it?" said Splinter "Well done my children, you have made this lair look so festive"
"Well that's the decorating done" said Leonardo "We still have the food and presents to sort out though"
"At least April and Casey are helping with the present buying topside and I've been able to go online and order stuff to send to April's" said Donatello "And they're coming around later to help"
"Very good" said Splinter "Until they arrive may I suggest we get all this cleared up and then we rest"
"Good idea Master" said Leonardo walking over to pick up the empty decoration boxes. Mona took out the vacuum cleaner and began to suck up all the pine needles and fallen strands of tinsel from the floor.
As she looked around the lair she felt her heart beat and her stomach tingle. The lair so looked so pretty and it was nice seeing everyone especially Michelangelo happy and excited about Christmas.
But deep down underneath her happiness and excitement, she felt a twinge of sadness. Her thoughts began to wander back to her family back in Wisconsion and how they would be dealing with Christmas.
This would be their third Christmas without her, never knowing what happened to her after those Purple Dragons kidnapped and attacked her.
Mona continued to vacuum around the tree and held in her tears not wanting to show anyone her hidden sorrow.
Lol! I wanted to write a funny scene in there! Poor Raphael!
But poor Mona's upset.
