For a while my dreams were a mix of feelings of pain and being haunted by a twisted figure who seemed to be made of flesh and bones, with straw for hair! I ran and ran down a twisting path that was getting ever darker and darker….And then I woke up…

I found myself in a sofa bed and I was in some strange underground place, there was water on both sides of this room…What was this place?

I turned my head and there was the Turtle who found me, sitting in an armchair and reading a book.

"Hey." He said softly "You're finally awake."

That's when I finally noticed my right legs was bandaged up tightly, and had two splints on it.

I also noticed I was not wearing my black ninja clothes, I was wearing a white nightgown I never had before, my white human like 'head-fur' was also out of its pony-tail and was tumbling down to the small of my back.

The Turtle was blushing "Yeah…We realized we couldn't wait for our Human Friend April, to bring you some fresh clothes, your clothes were so filthy we had to get you out of them and begin operating immediately. Of course while Splinter was working on your leg, were took some bath towels and rapped them over you so the only things that were exposed were your legs and your tail.

I probably did need to be taken out of my clothes, nice to know these Mutants were complete gentlemen about it though.

"By the time we were done…" The Turtle said "…April came by with an old nightgown for you to wear, we opened up the sofa bed and I volunteered to stay up and watch you for when you woke up, so you wouldn't be too freaked out waking up in an unfamiliar place."

"Thanks…Um…" I realized we never told each other our names.

"I'm Donatello." The Turtle said "You can call me Don."

"I'm Yuki." I said blushing slightly under my fur.

"Yuki?" Don recognizing the Japanese word "As in…Japanese for Snow?"

"Yeah." I chuckled "My Dad wasn't feeling particularly creative when he adopted me so he named me after my snowy white coat."

"Who adopted you?" Don asked

"He's an Old Japanese Man." I said delicately "He runs one of the many Dojos where they teach kids Martial Arts…However there is a lot of the place the kids don't see."

"I see…" Don said rubbing his chin "…And…Just how…Did you…Come to be what you are…" (He hesitated to say Mutant in case I might take it as an insult) My brothers and I…And Our Father…We became what we are when we were splashed by some glowing ooze that came from a canister that fell out of a truck."

"Wow!" I exclaimed "My story…Might be more…Magical than yours…When I was a stray kitten, my Dad found me sleeping on some ley lines near a butcher shop…"

I wasn't expecting Don to immediately know what I was talking about but he said "Yes…A butcher shop would be an inviting place for a stray cat…Please continue…"

"Dad saw the mystical energies entering me as I was sleeping…And he knew what would happen very shortly…He took me to his Dojo and within 24 Hours I began transforming into something more intelligent and humanoid, he trained me in the ways of Ninjitsu so I could protect myself."

"Our Father did the same with us…" Don said "…Strange though…" He said "…If simply sleeping on a ley line can cause Mutation, why isn't New York crawling with Mutants?"

"Apparently most Animals will avoid ley lines for that reason." I said "They can sense the supernatural energy…Young Animals may not be able to detect or since I was so little back then I may have been so exhausted I collapsed on the spot…" I then realized something

"How come I didn't wake up while I was being operated on?" I asked Don "Do you have any anesthesia down here…"

"I…Do have some squirreled away for emergencies." Don chuckled "But actually we didn't need to the hard stuff this time…Really all Splinter needed to do was flush and clean your wound and then bandage it…So we brought out sort of the more 'organic' equivalent a bowl that contained a steaming herbal brew was place near your nose to keep you unconscious while he worked."

I then noticed a clock on a table besides the sofa bed "3:30 AM?!" I exclaimed "And you stayed up that long just to wait for me to wake up?!"

"Really Yuki I don't mind." Don said "I do tend to be a bit of an insomniac anyway…There have been times when I've gone for days without sleep while working on something."

"Well…Thanks for everything." I said

"It was my pleasure." Don said "Get some rest…We'll help you contact your Sensei in the morning."

And with that Don went to bed.

But I couldn't sleep, I flopped back on my pillow, remembering the terrifying figure from my dreams…It was slowly coming back to me…

What was slowly coming back to her? Find out next time? Also the explanation for the cause of Yuki's Mutation when I was rolling the cause of Yuki's Mutation during character creation I got 'Random Mutation' which means 'Animal was literally just born a Mutant' and they give Splinter as an example and while yes Splinter did seem unusually intelligent for a rat he still needed the ooze to become a Humanoid so to me Random Mutation is just stupid so in my mind I substitute 'random' with 'magic' as opposed 'science' means of Mutation like 'radioactive ooze' or 'genetic experimentation'