Hey Guys, this Chapter is going to be one big dump of expostion so...Grab a snack and listen to a great instrumental track while reading this is going to take a while
I won't bore you by going over everything, after much stammering Donatello managed to squeak out 'She's Pregnant' April and Casey congradulated him, with Casey slapping him on the back so hard he nearly fell over, Splinter was silent for a few moments but the look of surprise on his face let Donatello know that his beloved sensai wasn't expecting this.
"I never imagined this would ever happen." Splinter said "Donatello..."
But before Splinter could say anything more they heard the ear shattering sound of a horn blowing, Fossil was announcing the Return of the Fellowship Herd.
The Fellowship Herd came slowly into Felly Forest, Matoaka was being held in the wing-arms of her Husband, Zander.
Leo saw Matoaka and rushed over "What happened?!" He asked
"Her Royal Highness is in desperate need of a nap." Bill said "She got a few hours of sleep at Wayne Manor, but as the sun started to rise, we got news Joker had been spotted, and no one wanted to stay knowing Joker was not in Arkham."
The TMNT didn't know about any of this so they watched as Matoaka was carried to bed.
At Wayne Manor, Aurora had struck up a conversation with Belladonna after her interview. Belladonna mentioned Donatello's reaction to pregnancy.
After a few moments of silence, Aurora sighed, she mentioned that she had been a wandering hlessil since she was eight years old, protected only by her psychic powers and ironically by her blindness, then she found herself in the Garden of a Deer Man, who upon discovering her status as a hlessil whose origanal herd had been destroyed, With no Herd to fall back on, and no knowladge of the post revolution world, the Deer Man took her in, not as an adopted daughter but as an apprentice, one thing she had been learning from the Deer Man was about the plight of Father's Rights (This was a strictly dealing with Human Fathers, none of these issues applied to Humanimals, but as the Deer-Man was half human, he was deeply concerned with Human Troubles)
Aurora gave Belladonna the basics, like how Human Fathers have no say other pregnancy, If the Man wants the baby, but the Mom doesn't she gets to have an abortion, on the other claw if the man doesn't want a baby but the Mom wants to keep it, and then she laid on the horror stories, of Men not being able to pay their child support getting thrown in jail...Belladonna began to sweat, all though she had been born a Human, she had been living as a Humanimal for so long, she had not been thinking about these darker things women do to men.
So returning to Felly Forest, Belladonna, had this weighing heavily on her mind. Aurora had mentioned a kind of potion that under no circumstances be consumed by any mammal but could be consumed by all reptiles including Dragons, the Loco Weed Potion, drink the Loco Weed Potion and you will abort.
Belladonna didn't want to abort the egg inside her, but she did want to make Donatello happy, child support was something Humanimals just didn't engage in, Cubs belonged to the entire herd so no Mom would ever need hundreds of space bucks to raise her cubs.
Belladonna saw Donatello standing with his brothers, and April, Casey, Splinter...And a Giant Crocodile Mutant she had never seen before.
"Donatello..." Belladonna said softly coming up to him
"Belladonna." Don began to say
"Donny..." Belladonna said "...I just want to say that you don't have to worry about paying child support, Humanimals don't do that kind of thing, if you don't want to raise the cub, the Herd can raise the Cub perfectly well."
"Child support?" Don honestly never considered that "Belladonna what are you talking about?"
"Donny...I realize I should have talked to you before I got pregnant." Belladonna was talking a mile a minuite
"Belladonna..." Don said placing a finger under her chin "I'm not mad anymore, I've had time to think about it...And I'm willing to do this...If we work together I think we can raise a child together."
"Really?" Belladonna felt herself get choked up "Oh Donny!"
Then as the civilian Humanimals talked to each other in the forest, a Scorpion Man whose exoskeleton had a brillaint green shine. Came forth and approched Aurora
"Aurora!" Exclaimed the Scorpion "Did you give the Queen your message?"
"Not yet." The Pangolin said "Matoaka collapsed before I could."
Bill reconized the Scorpion "Emerald? Is that you?"
"Hey Bill!" The Scorpion Man said "Long time no see!"
The Scorpion Man had four arms with normal hands underneith his arms with the pincers, these four normal hands, clasped Bill's large furry hands.
"You two know each other?" Ichabod asked
"Oh yeah!" Bill said "Those three days I disapeared, This guys helped me cure my bladder infection."
Jonathan Crane, was standing with Ichabod, he wasn't there when Bill told his story about participating in a scatological pornography.
"Bladder infection?" Jonathan asked "Did I miss something?"
"It's a good thing you missed it." Ichabod said with a disgusted look on his face "Trust me Father, you don't want to know."
"What is this secret?" Edward asked Aurora
"I was hoping that Queen Matoaka could be hear, but I guess you can tell all you guys, there is a counterbalence to the Gaia Emerald, should the Current Beast King or Queen be unfit to rule, or if the Gaia Emerald fall into the hands of a usurper, then should that emergency ever happen then a Beautiful Golden Rose would sprout and the Golden Rose will be found and wielded by the Prince or Princess of Beasts!"
"Prince or Princess?" Bill asked "You mean Amalthia? She's only one year old?"
Aurora raised her claw "In this context Prince or Princess doesn't mean son or daughter of the King or Queen, in this context, this Prince or Princess is more like the vice president, or a deputy, someone who can take over should the current King or Queeen is unfit to rule or should the Gaia Emerald, fall into nefarious hands, then only the Prince or Princess can wield the Golden Rose, and the one who wields the Golden Rose can counter any command given by the one holding the Crown, while the one holding the Emerald can enslave, the one who holds the rose can set the slaves free."
The Turtles remembered the being controlled by Eleanor wielding the Gaia Emerald, how helpless they felt, this sounded good.
"Sounds good." Leo said "Who is this Prince or Princess, and where can we find them?"
"Unfortunatly I don't know." Said Aurora
"Well ain't that just dandy." Raph said irritated "What good does that do us?"
"Hang on." Fossil said as he stepped forward "How come I never heard of this Golden Rose? I've been a Shaman all my life?"
"Very few Humanimals know of the Golden Rose, because very few Animals were affected by the Great Tyranny of the Unicorns back in the Medievil Times...As a Dinosaur, your kind were out of the loop, until Humans cloned your kind, brought them back to life in the 20th Century, so the Dinosaurs have been slumbering for that time when it happened."
"Whoa! Whoa!" Bill exclaimed "The Tyranny of the Unicorns? When were the unicorns ever Tyrannts?"
"A long time ago they were." Aurora said "In my herd we had an Anchient Tortoise for a Shaman whose could trace his ancestry all the way back to the times of King Nightshade, the Black Stallion...This story is going to take a while so you might want to grab a snack and sit down."
Emerald the Scorpion is not related to Emerald the Chameleon from Mutant of New York
