Chapter 4: New friends but even they can't protect a child from himself

The next weeks went by well, Fox mostly hung around Michelangelo and Donatello, Juliet noticed he seemed at great ease with them which surprised her but she took it as a blessing. Juliet mostly spent of her time wacthing the turtles, she felt a bit unease at first around them but that didn't last too long after getting to know the turtles better.

Leonardo seemed like the leader of the group and was extremly respectful towards Splinter and helped break up fights when they came up. Leo (as he told Juliet to call him, all the turtles told her to call them their nicknames) also lended her a book after cacthing Juliet reading it when she found it in the living room.

Donatello was the inventor/thinker of the group, the others teased him about being a nerd but he was cool about it, when Juliet dropped in on him she would wacth and listen to Donnie as he told her about his inventors or worked on them but she never helped because she was clumpsy around machines.

Raphael was the hardest to talk with, he is the hot head of the group but he was cool and kept Fox from bugging Michelangelo to death even though Donnatello told Juliet that Raph didn't like kids much. Mostly if Juliet talked with him it was after pactice when he tell her some about the weapons he used or other things involing fighting and weaponry. Juliet also noticed she and Fox was about the only people that could tease Raphael and not leave with bruises or thearts of bodily harm.

Michelangelo was the kid of the group, most of the time he was cracking jokes, skatebroading or other things, Juliet could see why Fox hung around him often. Mikey was good company if you needed a laugh and he let Juliet and Fox sleep in his room while he slept in the living room.

Master Splinter was the person Juliet often spoke with, he was a stern teacher but she could see he was kind, he and she often spoke about Japan since it was the one place Juliet wanted to go all her life, he also told her about how he came to America and how the turtles came to be. Who ever dumped that mutantage need to see a dose of it. What happen was so unfair. Juliet thought to herself after she was told what happen.

Juliet was sitting in the living room reading one afternoon when someone garbed the book. "Hey!" Juliet objected and garbed for the book, Michelangelo held it out of garbing range. "Uh uh Juliet, you been reading to much today. You read any more and you turn into Donnie." He -said. "I heard that Mikey!" Juliet heard Donatello yelled from his lab and she took adavnagte of Mikey's distraction and garbed for her book. Juliet jumped over the couch and snacthed her book back. "What the?" Michelangelo asked. "Looks like she got you bro." Raphael said and Juliet took a formal bow.

"Thank you, thank you. Now if you will excuss me I'm going to read this book." Juliet said and walked to the room she was sleeping in. She sat on the bed Fox slept on, Juliet slept on the floor but she didn't tell the guys. She sat down in the corner and started reading until there was a knock on the door. "It's open." Juliet called not looking up from her book. "Hey there you are." She looked up at Donatello.

"Hey Donnie." Juliet greeted. "How your arm?" He asked. "Better, it doesn't hurt unless I bump it aganist something." Juliet said, Donatello walked over. "Let me see." She held out her arm and he touched it gently in different spots and asked if it hurt where he touched, right where the break was Juliet nodded grimcing in pain. "It does look better. You have had your arm broke before?" He asked, she nodded.

"Yea, when I was in the hospital a year ago they took some x - rays and found I had broke my arm before but I don't remember how or when." She answered. "That why your arm is healing faster then it would if you hadn't broke it before but take it easy." He advised, Juliet nodded but saw Fox was not with him. "Hey where is Fox?" She asked. "I think he is with Michelangelo." He said but then Michelangelo walked in. "Hey do you guys know where Fox is?" He asked.

"I thought he was with you." Donatello said, Michelangelo shook his head. "I thought he was with you and he not with Leo, Raph or Master Splinter." He said. "He's gone topside." Juliet said standing up. "But he was told not too." Donatello said. I know, I know. You, the other turtles and Master Splinter told Fox and I to stay away from the surface and out of the sewers because of some scumball called the Shedder and his soldiers and two other mutants called Beepbop and Rocksteady. Juliet thought.

"He doesn't always listen." She said to them. "What are ..." Raphael asked as Juliet came into the living room. "Fox is gone. I know the places he might go and I'm going to look for him." Juliet answered his unfinished question. "You can't go alone. You don't know your way around the sewers." Donatello said, Juliet looked at him. "Then show me. I can go top side without attracting atteion but you guys can't." She said, Leonardo looked at his brothers and Juliet could have swore they seemed to be holding something back.

"Alright but come back in an hour. We'll show you to to the surface." Leonardo said and Juliet followed him and the three other turtles. After walking for a good ten mintues we came to a ladder that led up to a man hole, Ralphael opened it and looking around dorpped back down. "Be careful." He wraned, Juliet nodded. "I will be." She said to them. "This man hole will stay open, when you get back leave it open and one of us will close it when you get back." Leonardo said as she climbed up. "Ok, be back in a flash." Juliet said as climbed into the sunlight.

When Juliet got out into the sunlight she had to blink a few times to get her eyes to adjust to the sudden change in light after that was done she walked to where Rus's house was, it was tore down now since he left no way to pay for it and no one wanted it so they tore it down but some of it still stood. "Fox?" Juliet asked coming around the corner of one of the walls, it was there she found a note pinned to the wall by a dagger it read:

To the girl that takes care of the boy

Your young ward has been captured,
if you want to see him alive again
come to the abandoned lot near the
park and bring the artifact.
You know where and come alone
or the boy dies.

"Damm it!" Juliet yelled, the men who killed Rus now had Fox! "I have to get him." She said but the her wacth went off: she had five mintues till she was to report back to the turtles. Juliet garbed the note and stuff it in her pocket and headed to the man hole making a plan.
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Hey Lady Icefire here first I like to say I did not own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but I own the
new charaters and the plot of this story so no copying. And I ask that you
please read and response, I accept all criticism and compliments.