AN: Hey there, FFdotNet! I'm listening to hard rock stuff for this chapter, for the character. :3 And I kinda like how I even gave an origin for both Donnie's crush on April, AND how much he hates having his face touched. And that last one is Leo's fault. :3 Also, for some reason, I'm already thinking up a 'sequel' of sorts where the turtles meet their mom. KRemember that ALL reviews are looked at, read, and appreciated greatly, and that I sit in my own stink to write this stuff for you… seriously, I am as I type this because I haven't taken a shower yet. :/
Kudos to miceaholic for reviewing again! And Donnie is adorable when he confuses himself! όωὸ
Rachel: Lee/Leo knows the god-like thing because of his dreams. Doux/Donnie, being the genius AND having mutagen splashed on his head means that he has hyperintelligence. I don't care if hyperintelligence isn't a word, I'm making it one, and the hyperintelligence allows his brain to make the translations faster. That and their mom told them. Their mom has the experience about things, and they made assumptions based on what they were told. Correct assumptions, but still assumptions. Also, Lee/Leo and Doux/Donnie are a little more perceptive about their environment than Rae/Raph and Milos/Mikey are. I'll fix it with Rae/Raph and Milos/Mikey by making them unsure about colors, mostly Milos/Mikey because he isn't afraid to admit that he's wrong.
Aliengirl13: Thank you for your affection! And the turtle words all are based off of human words, like fallus= fallow and frosir=frost. :3 And to be honest… I have no clue where this stuff comes from, other than my brain. A sequel of sorts, as I've mentioned, is already in the works. :3
Mistystar123: Thanks for the feedback! ^^ And it IS adorable! TT FTW!
Neoshewolf: Thanks, I tried to get in as many origin stories as possible without having too many. ^^
Guest: Thank you for liking it so much that you confused yourself! It's fun to confuse others, but not so much yourself. And there is the distinct possibility that this IS canon, and it was that wanting to know that allowed me to create this. And you're welcome! :3
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The Fiercest Flame
His mother called him Rae. He was his mother's favorite, and he knew that for a fact. He had brothers, of course, and they were all colors like him. Lee and Milos were a couple of weirdoes, always asking their mother to tell them of humans and how they killed everything around them. Then there Doux, who was a probably human in a past life. After all, why else would the brigis (AN: nerd) think so much? Rae had always wanted their mother to tell them of his father, but all she knew was that his name was Slash and that he was filled with hate towards humans. Rae has always wanted to meet his father. He thought that they would get along great. Lee talked about his dreams all the time, and how there were colors and lights. Rae talked about how crazy Lee was. A lot of the time, Rae slept. He had dreams, but he never remembered them. He had nothing special going on in his head like his brothers, and this angered him.
It was when he heard Lee announcing that he had escaped the egg did he decide he was fed up with being stuck in there, so he assaulted his shell. He kicked it, he head-butted it, he even went as far as to bite at the shell until he tumbled out into the egg in front of Lee. Doux came right after, and Rae stopped paying attention to them. He gave a small glare at what he thought were the humans watching them and began to beat Lee with his head in an attempt o challenge him for dominance. Lee probably would have responded if one of those darned humans hadn't PICKED HIM UP! The human put him next to his brigis brother, and after getting over the shock that a human touched him, he made an attempt at the life of the human's claw, yelling Human does not touch Rae! but Doux stopped him. He heard his younger brother grumble something about anger and managing, but Rae ignored it. Instead, he focused on Milos, who ambled by. Rae almost-smirked when Milos ran head first into the side of whatever they were in. Milos doesn't like this place anymore said turtle whined quietly.
Lee was grabbed gently by a human claw and was put inside another, smaller thingy-they-were-being-held-in. Be careful what you wish for, Milos retorted Rae, and Doux was picked up next. Milos gave a weird almost-smile that seemed to almost apologize. Milos was put in the thing as well, and Rae was next. Unlike his brothers, Rae squirmed and tried to fight his way out of the strong grip on him. He was put in whatever it was as well, and the humans babbled at each other. Rae tried once more to nip at a talon that grabbed Milos. Looking up, he saw that the human was tracing the center of Milos' shell, probably telling the other human where the tenderest meat was on a turtle, and Rae growled at the humans. They only ever wanted to destroy everything, and they could if they wanted to so long as they left his brothers alone. No human was going to eat Milos or Lee or Doux, no matter how annoying they are. Milos was gently laid back on the brunid stuff they were on, but he was on his back. Rae, Milos flew! The little turtle chirped excitedly to him, and Rae just gave his younger brother a blank stare. His brothers are weird.
The human was taking them somewhere. Who knows where; but still, another place that wasn't here. Rae hazarded a glance at the sky. It was so big, so… was the color lee? He didn't know, but he guessed Milos and Lee did. They knew everything relating to humans. The human almost them, and Rae hissed at him How dares human drop us?!
The human stared at something, then began to follow whatever it was staring at. Rae didn't care if the human was a male or a female, only that it was human. Rae looked in the direction of where they were going, and saw that they were following another human. Of course Rae huffed, and Milos gave him a confused look. Eventually, they stopped and Rae began to fume. This human did not tell them what to do! He sat and refused to move. There were two other humans down that way. He could hear them and— no, they didn't have scents. This confused him and he wanted to know why the humans didn't have scents. A loud noise came from below them, and Rae relished in the fear-scent coming from the human carrying them.
Two more humans came up behind them, and the human carrying the turtles sprung into action, taking all of them out. A thingy that had something in it— was it some sort of human egg?— broke against the clearly-dominant human's back. The human dropped them and whatever they were in broke, scattering the four of them. Raph felt the front of his shell go numb as it banged against the ground, bouncing and landing hard on his belly. Glowing stuff fell off the human's back and onto Rae and his brothers, and he felt pain. So much pain. His brothers looked like they were in pain too, but he couldn't tell. His eyes were blurring, and he just wanted to fall asleep to make the pain go away. He wanted to, but he couldn't because that human was screaming too loud for him to even try. He did manage to get to sleep, however, when the pain started to fade away. And to him, it was bliss.
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Rae woke up groggy. His head was full of fluff, and his shell was numb. Why was his shell numb? Then he remembered: the human had dropped him and he had landed on the edge of his shell. Hate filled Rae. How dare the human drop him! He forced himself to sit up and tried to stand up on his hind legs, only to fall back down. At his failure, he folded his front legs in front of his underside and stuck out his lower lip, glaring at everything he laid eyes on. The ground. His brothers. A random shelled creature scurrying by. The creature confused him, so he stared at it. It turned to him, twitching little legs all over its face. Rae squeaked and slapped it away. That was not a turtle. He hoped.
His brothers had begun to wake up, so he crossed his forelegs again and stuck out his lip again, faking anger once more. He looked over to see two of his brothers standing without any visible difficulty. Rae didn't need to fake being mad anymore. One of his brothers was looking into another's mouth, the third standing by and seeming worried about something. The one standing by had strange dots all over the top of his beak, a little bit under his eyes for the most part. The one with his mouth being opened forcefully, he could tell, had a sort of gap in those white things in his mouth. The last one had nothing special about him other than his squinty eyes, like the human that had dropped him. Rae growled quietly. How dare his brother of all beings resemble a human!
His brother with the mouth-gap slapped away human-eyes and glared at him, telling him off for it. Dot-face looked over at him, and pointed at him to his brothers, who were trying to get gap-face onto his feet. So THAT'S how they did it. They helped each other. All three managed to walk over to him—entirely on their hind legs. Even more anger filled him. Spotty, maybe it was Milos, tried to poke at the missing piece of his plastron, but Rae slapped away his front claw. That's where I landed when the human dropped me he scowled, glaring over once again at the furry creature laying close by. Squinty, probably Lee, suggested that they go wake him up. Rae suspected that it was to help the thing with a human scent, so he refused. He still came along anyways when might-be-Milos had to drag him over. Let's walk! PLEASE Rae? the dot-faced turtle whined the whole way, Rae being as stubborn as ever. They worked their way towards the fluff-thing, and they sat in a row. Dot, him, Hole-mouth, and Squinty. He was the only normal one here.
When the fuzz-creature woke up, it seemed like he couldn't see too well. It blinked a few times, then scrambled away from them. Rae smirked; it better fear them. It stared at each of them, taking them in. It was almost as if it hadn't seen a turtle before. Then again, they had been changed. In what ways, he didn't know. His front claws were weird, and it had become more natural for him to walk on his hind legs— his brothers, at least. The thing had switched its gaze to him, and he glared at it as its eyes darted over him as a whole, taking in his fierce eyes and missing piece of shell. It looked a little sad when it saw his missing piece of shell, and Rae bristled. It had caused his shell to be broken! It moved on to Holey, who was probably Doux, and Rae looked around and spotted the creature with legs on its face again. It had crawled toward maybe-Milos and he looked mesmerized by it. It crawled onto his claw, and maybe-Milos shoved the thing into his face. It almost climbed into Rae's open mouth, which had been agape at the prospect that Milos would allow something so ugly to touch him, and Rae almost shrieked again, spitting it out and backing away some. Milos looked sad at it, but leaped into action when the fluffy thing made to leave— literally. Please don't leave, Daddy! the little turtle cried, and Rae scoffed. That no-brain seriously thought that this thing that had been a human was their father? Doux grabbed the creature's other leg, forcing it to sit back down with a drawn out huff. Maybe-Doux let go, but Milos still hung on tight, whining and keening We need Daddy, Daddy can't leave, he keeps us safe. Maybe-Lee was staring the thing, so Rae shared a look with Doux. I still don't trust him Rae whispered to him, and nodded his head a little, probably thinking again.
Rae thought that he hated humans, but this thing used to be human, and it wasn't that bad. After all, it could have eaten them, but it didn't. He was still angry, though.