OK Folks, need to break from all my multi-chapter stories as I try to figure out what happens for them, time for an idea I've had for a while but couldn't figure out where to place it in the timeline decided to do something I really don't like to do and make this a one-shot I really don't like to make one-shots I don't know I tend to feel any story of mine worth its salt has to be multiple chapters preferably in the double digit numbers and that's probably because of my 'leave no stone unturned' habit with writing stories every character's feeling must be explored thoroughly but anyway the character being rescued Glacia is not the same as Glacier my Mutant Arctic Fox Character, Glacia is meant to be a thinly veiled parody of an author who started on Fanfiction dot net, I mean the whole 'Wrote a very popular romance novel' should all but give it away but her species is visual pun on the author's penname go to YouTube's Honest Trailer Video for the story she wrote will say what her penname was right at the beginning.
It was a scandal to end all scandals! The revelation that the author of the romance novel that had taken the Wrangler Empire by storm was a Humanimal! Oh the shame! Oh the humiliation! The mysterious author tactfully chose to reveal herself once she had learned how much she had the wealthy Wrangler consumers by the um…Throat…And she announced her ransom for the sequel she would be freed and relocated to the heart of the Wrangler Empire's Enemy the Federation both herself and her two cubs or else no one will ever find out what happens next!
The Lords and Ladies of the Wrangler Empire had no choice too many of their wealthy citizens both the women and the husbands of the women had sent messages demanding they give the author what she wanted so that their appetites may be satiated.
Upon learning the Wrangler Empire wanted them to go to Planet Polaris to take some of the Royal Family's Slaves to Earth the Fellowship Crew immediately suspected a trap but the Wrangler Lords and Ladies were like 'No trap, we mean it just please take these Humanimals to Earth before every marriage in the Wrangler Empire ends in bloodshed!"
Marzipan upon hearing the news was like "Polaris? Cornelius Oolou was originally Planet Polaris! I've got to show him this message!"
Cornelius Oolou was the one Soldier of Castle Vortex who was a friend to the Humanimal Slaves before Ichabod came along, while Oolou himself could not liberate any of the Humanimals he did befriend them on the sly and tried to help them out whenever he could to make their burdens a little more bearable.
During their many long drives to do shopping for the Castle Cornelius told Marzipan his story, he was once the Happy Prince of Planet Polaris, he never saw the Humanimal Slaves as anything more than utilities like doorknobs or windows, but one day when he was ten years old, he was struck by an odd whim, perhaps it was fate but he was tired of seeing the ugly face of the gargoyle in the Great Hall, he decided the try to turn it around so he wouldn't have to see its ugly face anymore and after some struggle he got it to turn around and in doing so revealed a secret passage he never knew was there, following it to a secret room, he discovered one of his ancestors placed all sorts of treasures of Old Earth Memorabilia before the Wrangler Empire decided to erase all mentions of pre-empire history from the public, to keep all history a secret to keep the people ignorant so they wouldn't question anything, his ancestor his treasures rather than destroying them much of which was old earth media including books and movies!
What was initially elation at finding hidden treasure quickly turned to a slow painful realization of horror for the Young Prince reading through Old Earth History he learned there was a time Humans that were like him, that was humans who had black skin were enslaved in America, reading through a book titled 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' in which under the genuine belief he would suffer in the torturous afterlife of Hell for all eternity if he freed the Black Slave Jim, Huck decides 'I'll go to Hell' that struck the young prince to the heart as he realized the depths of the hypocrisy of his life!
In the middle of the night, he took all the slaves that were his, removed all the fancy gold and jeweled ornaments that showed they were royal slaves as he said to them "I have gone insane, no longer can I stay here…" He opened the gate and said "You are free to go, you are no longer my property…"
Hesitating for only a moment or two the slaves deiced not to look a gift horse (Er, so to speak) in the mouth, and made a run for the planet's wilderness.
Cornelius took a personal space cruiser and set off for…He had no idea where…Just away…Of course he running out fuel and had to make a stop of the first inhabitable planet he could find and that happened to be Planet Alderbaren where he was made a soldier of Duke Vortex and in a way he was as much a slave as the Humanimals, just because he had a salary and got to eat fine food and play poker with the other soldiers didn't make him any less a prisoner.
Upon showing the message to Cornelius in his new Earthport Apartment, Cornelius blinked a few times to make sure he wasn't seeing things and then he said "I remember her all right. Glacia…One of the two Water Dragons who pulled my Mother's chariot…Two magnificent creatures…To think there was a time I couldn't wait to be old enough to ride the Dragon Chariot…" He shuddered "Thank you for showing this to me Marzipan, I want to go with you…This is something I need to see for myself."
The trip to Planet Polaris was completely without incident, that just went to show how serious the Wranglers were about this, make sure no harm came to the Fellowship while they did this errand.
Before they left, the Fellowship had studied the copies of Glacia's book they received to see what all the fuss was about why she was able to haggle for her freedom with this book.
Let's just say…They could see why it would appeal to Wranglers.
Ichabod after reading felt this was a horrid depiction of the subjects it was trying to portray "The scene where the man spanked the girl until she was crying…Left me sick to my stomach…" Ichabod said "…It was like an anti-aphrodisiac." Edward Green who had actually been that kind of relationship where he had met a Wrangler Woman Rose Thorne who talked him into 'playing games' which was mostly just seeing how much pain he could tolerate, before he finally threw her out his back was covered in scars from her whipping him. More than once he threw the book against the wall in disgust as got reminded of his past relationship and had to fight to resume reading it.
Upon landing in front of the Polaris Palace, the doors to the Humanimal Barn opened, and out stepped a magnificent blue-green Water Dragon with two young Boy-Cubs behind her.
"Fellowship Herd," She said in her British accent "I am most grateful you could come to take me and my two sons to Earth."
"What about your mate?" Belladonna asked "The one who pulls the chariot with you?"
"He's not coming." Glacia sniffed "I can no longer stand him, he's not romantic enough for me…"
"Not romantic?!" Belladonna was flabbergasted "I know you probably didn't have any choice in choosing him to be your mate, but he's the father of your children! Not being romantic enough is no reason to leave the father of your children to rot as a slave! I mean you don't have to stay with him on Earth…"
Rather than address her concerns, Glacia locked her horns, with Belladonna's and everyone could see the difference between the two water dragons, Glacia was clearly twice as large as Belladonna, twice as heavy, she tossed Belladonna to the ground, Donatello was horrified
"Belladonna!" He shouted as he rushed to her side
"Never start a fight, you know you can't win." Glacia said coldly "The law that governs all Humanimal-Kind, if you were a real Dragon Belladonna, you'd know that…"
Glacia turned to her children "Come boys." and with that the three water dragons pranced onto the ship as if they were royalty not the slaves of royalty.
Don scowled with disgust, as Belladonna wept as the words 'If you were a real dragon' echoed in her head, ever since she had confessed she hadn't been born a Humanimal but rather a Human and at five years old she had been transferred to a Dragon Body because her body was doomed because of genetic disorder called Batten Disease the news had apparently spread like wildfire across the Wrangler Empire.
The Fellowship Crew did their obligation of returning to Earth with the three Water Dragons but now their opinion of Glacia had changed, she wasn't just a hack writer; she was quite possibly one of the nastiest Humanimals they had ever met.
Fossil the Velociraptor Shaman begged the Fellowship Crew not to be so harsh with her as they may have to work with her in the future "She is clearly very cunning…We could utilize her savviness…"
The Fellowship Herd began protesting this immediately. They didn't care how savvy she was they never wanted to see her again after they returned to Earth.
The other Ninja Turtles who came along for the ride began voicing their disgust,
"Belladonna's objections were perfectly reasonable!" Leo said "Simply not being romantic enough is no reason to leave the father of your children to rot as a slave! And rather than address her concerns she reacted with violence!"
While his brothers were reading Fossil the riot act, Don was simply sitting beside Belladonna, who was curled up on the floor weeping. Don was absolutely miserable because his wife was miserable and he couldn't think of any way to help her. What could he possibly say? He had no idea how he could assure her she was a real dragon because he was neither a Humanimal nor a Water Dragon he knew anything he said would just be like a mother's soothing baby talk after her child got shoved to the ground at the playground…No there was no way he could quantify what a 'real dragon' was in a way that could comfort his equally nerdy wife.
Don sighed, the world of the Humanimals a 'Tuniverse' as Mikey had coined it a universe where at random intervals, music comes down from the sky like weather and the natives of the universe burst into seemingly spontaneous song and dance was in many ways more alien to Don the many alien planets of his own universe, he often felt inadequate because of Natives innate ability to wax lyrical while his own overly analytical and scientific mind made it hard for him to even imagine 'speaking romantically' 'whispering sweet nothings' was so hard for him because they were nothings, shallow and empty flattering words that just wasn't him!
But he remembered how upon meeting Belladonna he had become much better at showing his feeling through touch and not just with her, he had become much more willing to give comforting touches to his friends.
'What can I do?' He mused to himself 'Only my best.' As he tenderly began to stroke Belladonna's furry cheek.
He was silent no words, no attempts and soothing shushings, as he indulged his primordial turtle instinct to stroke her face.
As a Red Eared Slider he still had the animal instinct to stroke his beloved's face, in the same manner the primitive animal flutters his front claws against his mate's face during courtship. That was the instinct of himself and his brothers rather than kissing, in fact Don was pretty sure it was only from observing human television shows and sometimes passing by humans of the surface that they even knew about kissing and while such observances of human media did get the idea ingrained into their psyches, when upset, Don found himself placing a hand under Belladonna's jaw for comfort.
Softly, gingerly he stroked her furry white cheek, Belladonna stopped crying as she noticed this, and Don moved to stroking her beautiful purple horns.
"Belladonna…" He said quietly "…Do your horns hurt?"
"Not my horns." Belladonna sniffled "My neck though, feels like I pinched a nerve."
"She could have broken your neck tossing you like that." Don said "When we get home I'll see what we can do about your neck."
Then he slid his hands down from his horns, his thumb neared her eye.
"What are you doing?" Belladonna asked
"Just…Keep your eyes closed." Don said "I…I just want to feel that really soft skin just below your eye."
Delicate as a butterfly he stroked his thumb just below her eye, Belladonna giggled, Don smiled
When they reached First Earth and Glacia and her children left the ship, Belladonna quietly said to Don
"Thank you…" She said
Don held her head in his hands and said "Hey what are friends for?" and kissed her cheek.
So yeah, it kind of amazes me how 'churring' has become TMNT fanon but not the actual mating habits of terrapins which in I find a lot more fascinating