Just a little bit of a change my friends. Had this idea bubbling for quite a while so I thought I'd give it a crack. Not too long a story I don't think but enough to keep you all satisfied? I hope so! Enjoy my dear readers.
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Ain't No Cry Baby
a.k.a
Big Brothers Don't Get Scared
Chapter 1 Scary Movies
Raph cautiously looked around as he clambered into the pit with his pillow. He had asked his brothers to join him to secretly watch the late night horror movie marathon. Leo being the teacher's pet said it would be wrong to betray Master Splinter's trust, typical goody two shoes that he was. Donnie said he had some new blah, blah book he wanted to read (boring!) and Mikey, well, Mikey was a baby. He knew the little dork would chicken out on him.
Settling in front of the TV, Raph flipped the remote control and punched the buttons until he found the right channel. It was their loss anyway. They were all big babies really, they didn't have the guts to watch a scary movie. The intro music started and Raph grinned.
"Bring it on!" he whispered excitedly.
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An hour into the first film and Raph wasn't even half as brave as he was when the movie began, not that he would actually admit it. He was hugging his pillow and peering over the top, bright green eyes wide with shock he watched the most horrible thing he could have ever of imagined. The crew of a mining ship sat around a table having breakfast after their friend (after been attacked from some face hugging creature, that was suctioned to his face); had woken up after said creature had finally detached itself and died. Raph watched with mounting horror as the man began to writhe on the table in terrible agony. There was a spurt of blood, a crack of bones and well, a vicious alien burst out of his chest.
"Aaah!" the nine year old ducked behind his fluffy white barrier. His heart racing, Raph dared to look back at the screen. Surely it couldn't get much worse than that, could it?
He was wrong. The film just got more and more scary, more and more violent and more and bloody. It never occurred to him at all to turn the TV off but darn it! He could do this! He had to prove it to himself more than anything that he wasn't a baby.
After too much blood, gore and violence the film finally ended and feeling totally numb Raph immediately turned off the TV. Silence descended in the lair, quiet and oppressive. Raphael stayed where he was for a moment hugging the pillow as if his very life depended on it. Sure it was a horror movie marathon but enough was enough. He didn't think he could get through another movie like that.
Looking around Raph quickly scrambled out of the pit and imagining the horrid insectoid like alien jumping out of every dark shadow, the boy bolted to his room turned on every light he had and dived under the security of his bed's warm blanket.
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