Oh I am actually going over the 1000 limit more than I though. Well that's a good thing when practicing. I still have issues writing really long ones though. 7/13.
Raph stood on the rooftop with his arms crossed, bleeding from a thin line across his shoulder caused by Fishface's butterfly knife.
"What was that good for?! We could take them! And you distracted me!" He pointed accusingly at Leo.
"Did you forget our mission already?" Leo glared at his angry brother. "Find. Donnie. Not get caught up in some tussle with Fishface and Rahzar!" He made a gesture towards the battle they had just parted.
"I'm sure we can take them on AND find Donnie.." Raph mumbled under his breath. "..So what's next Fearless? Any idea where we should look?" He sighted, it was frustrating not to know where their brother was, or if he had gotten into any trouble, and he had to take it out on something, or someone.
"Okay, we should check the purple dragons next and then-"
"The purple dragons? Are you kidding me? No way could those lamos take any of us!" Raph puffed, the idea was absurd, unless they somehow had set up a really good trap. But they were too stupid for that, only time they managed something was with Fishface or someone else's help to run things.
"It doesn't hurt to check." Was all Leo could respond with.
"Quit wasting time, we could check that last!"
"Well... do you have any suggestions then?" Leo looked at Raph sceptically while Mikey sighted.
"Do you guys reeeally need to have one of those day where you argue aaall the time right now?" Mikey complained. He just wanted to find his brother, clearly something was off since he still was nowhere to be seen, and they hadn't found a single clue to his location yet. He decided to text April to explain what was going on while his brothers were busy arguing, no point listening to their blabber.
"There!" He sent the text, it only seemed fair to update her, as they had not left any explanation whatsoever when they asked her if she had talked to Donnie earlier. It might go faster if she looked around too...
Mikey sighted and looked a bit annoyed and slightly tiredly at his brothers who seemed to be able to go at it all day, he supposed they were worried and grumpy from the less than successful search.
Donnie was shaking slightly after the warm water stopped, it was a lot colder with wet fur than no fur. He shook himself to try get the water out, Splinter raised a towel to guard himself from the oncoming spray of water. Then he wrapped it around Donatello to help dry him off.
"Okay, okay, thanks for the help but I really can take it from here…" he mumbled as his father helped him. At least it was nice to be clean, and have that experience over with. He made a big note to not get dirty again.
"Guys?! Anyone here?" Donnie froze when he heard a familiar voice call throughout the lair, his ears perking up and looking in the direction of the voice.
"It seems we have a guest." Splinter lifted his son up and out of the tub, carefully placing him down on the floor. He smiled a little as Donatello hurriedly rushed off with the towel still on his back.
"Perhaps it is best to get a hold of the others." He calmly walked after the 'cat'.
Donnie rushed through the lair, perhaps she would be able to understand him, or at least partly. He hoped at least. Even if she couldn't he would be glad just seeing her face.
"APRIL!" He was glad to see her, something about her always cheered him up, and her face was really nice to see right now.
"Guys..?" April looked around the lair, it seemed awfully empty. She had walked here after school to get some answers, their call had been to say the least a bit odd and short. But perhaps calling would have been a better choice, as they seemed to be out somewhere. She was about to call when she got a text message.
"Hm?" She pushed at the pop-up text on her T-phone and checked. "Oh, it's from Mikey... I wonder what-" She read the message.
"What? Donnie is missing?" That seemed odd… Then she heard something, it sounded like…
"A cat..?"
April looked up in surprise as a cat came running towards her, seemingly greeting her happily, and maybe a bit desperately as well.
"Eh? What?" She stepped backwards in surprise as the cat jumped, it took her completely off guard and she partly caught it in her arms as it nearly jumped right into her.
"Uhm.. Hello to you too?" She adjusted the cat in her arms a bit to hold him more properly.
Donnie rushed to greet April, he moved to hug her in his excitement, but it turned into a jump as he in his haste nearly forgot his current height. He realised his odd action too late and was already unable to stop himself, landing right into April.
"I'm so sorry! I– I didn't mean to jump like that..!" He stuttered in a panic. Quite embarrassed by his miscalculations.
The cat suddenly seemed upset or at least slightly stunned as if it hadn't really caught up with what had just happened. She looked around, perhaps it had been scared of something and rushed up to her? But fear didn't seem like the right description for how the feline was acting…
"Well aren't you an odd little kitty~?" She scratched him on the head and petted the cat to calm it down. It seemed to have taken a bath, since it wasn't really dry and it had dropped a towel on the floor, must have been on it. Perhaps that was the cause?
"Have you seen the others around~?" She talked soothingly to it as she looked around.
Donnie looked up at April, she was talking to him like he was a baby… in a ridiculous voice… He wasn't sure how he should feel about that. He felt a bit awkward, to be honest. He was actually in April's arms, he both liked it and felt really… weird about it. With the way she was treating him, awkward was probably the best description, until she scratched his head.
"Oh, that feels really good." He said in surprise, more to himself than anything, as the others clearly didn't understand him. Donnie could feel himself melt in her arms and it all just seemed so cosy and nice all of a sudden, he just wanted to forget everything and relax. He felt something vibrating deep in his chest as he breathed, it felt a bit odd and it took him a moment to realise what it was.
"Aww you're purring~ Aren't you a cuddly little kitty~?" April hugged him and listened. Now he kinda felt a bit embarrassed as well, he wasn't quite sure why but he couldn't stop it. At least his brothers didn't see him like this, he'd never live it down…
April hugged the cat, it seemed like the sweet and cuddly type. She started to walk around to see if anyone was still here. A moment later Splinter appeared.
"Oh no, this is going to be humiliating..." The turtle in purple realised Splinter was probably going to..
"Ah, I see you have already found Donatello." He said. April blinked in confusion and looked at him, not understanding the rat's statement at all.
".. What?"
Yupp, there it was. He'd love to see Splinter try explain this one, but he'd rather be able to do it himself, if he could.
"Okay guys! You need to stop RIGHT now!" Mikey put his foot down and looked a tad angry, glaring at his brothers.
"Our bro is missing, and when someone is missing, you don't argue! You look for them!" He pointed at them, they stared back, slightly surprised by Mikey's mood swing.
"So you guys better get it together! Or I'm eating your pizzas!" He glared them both down, letting his threat hang in the air. And although his threat wasn't exactly of the serious kind, his brothers had gotten the message and realised their mistake.
"I... …" *Raph grumbled a little. Not quite wanting to look straight at Leo, he crossed his arms and looked away.
"I'm sorry… I guess..." He mumbled, almost inaudible. "I'm just a bit... worried, is all..."
"I'm sorry?" Leo smiled slightly at his brother's confession.
"You heard me!"
"Alright, alright... I'm… sorry too... truce?" Mikey looked happily at his brothers, finally they were getting somewhere!
"Now how about we go look the Kraang up? They always do funky stuff!" Mikey suggested. His elder brothers both looked at him in silence. Somehow Mikey being the most useful one and making the best suggestions right now surprised them, despite it occasionally happening from time to time, in-between his distractions.
"That's… not a bad suggestion." Leo finally managed to say.
