Toddler Turtles Christmas

Christmas Under neath New York

Disclaimer: I don't own the turtles – just so you know.

There is one more chapter after this one - so we're nearly home.

In the streets of New York it was lightly snowing, as barely sole was out walking the streets. Most people were tucked up in their beds asleep, for it was the early hours of the morning. All around the city, young eyes were awakening to the joy of finding their stockings filled with toys and lollies. Then running in to wake up sleeping parents before moving down to the Christmas tree where presents lay.

Underneath the streets and even the subway tunnels of New York, a pair of blue eyes opened and stared at the room in front of him. He noticed at the end of his bed, where he had placed a stocking with the letter "M" on it, was now filled with lollies.

"It's Christmas!" Mikey go up and bounced on the floor. He tapped his brother on the top bunk, "Wake Up! You got presents!"

He bounced over to his older siblings and jumped on Donnie's bed to wake him up. Donnie grumbled to his brother to get off, but Mikey was already climbing up to wake up the oldest brother.

"Hey Leo, get up! Santa's been!"

"Mikey I'm sleeping!" Leo muttered.

Mikey jumped off his older brother's bed. He danced around to his own bed.

"That wasn't me!" Raphael yelled, before Splinter thought it was him. He wasn't going to get blamed for what Mikey did. Then Raphael saw Mikey pull a lolly out of his stocking and he too jumped down with a loud thud.

"Raphael!" Splinter called.

"Yeah that was me that time!" Raph was already pulling all his lollies out of his stocking and counting them.

Donnie watched as his little brothers got stuck into their toffees and he too thought he'd better get to his, before they did.

"Hey look they're full with lots of lollies! Mine's got a toy truck!" Raphael held up his shiny red toy.

"I got a toy space ship!" Donnie said, as he found his toy.

"I got a plane, see and it flies too," Mikey throw his so it landed on his bed.

"Hey Leo got a blue boat!" Raphael had moved over next to Donnie and was going through his brother's stocking.

"Hey get out of it!" Leonardo jumped down and swatted the young green hand out of his things.

"Leonardo, use the ladder!" Splinter called gently from his room.

"Hey Splinter," Mikey grabbed his stocking and ran into his father's room and jumped onto the bed.

"Here have a lolly!" Mikey offered the old rat. The old rat smiled and took the lolly off his little son.

"Thank you Michelangelo," Splinter said.

"See I got a toy plane and it flies!" Mikey was excited.

Suddenly three other little turtles ran and jumped onto the bed.

"Merry Christmas, Splinter!" Donnie and Raphael said, hugging their father.

"Merry Christmas, my sons," Splinter returned their hugs.

"Merry Christmas Splinter," Leonardo held out a card and a strange looking object wrapped in paper that had been covered with three fingered hand prints.

"We said we'd get you a present!" Mikey started bouncing again.

"Why thank you my sons," Splinter took the gift and began to open it, as his young sons watched.

He opened it to reveal a paper-maeche figure which had been painted brown and the words written in felt pen – "Best Dad in the world". Splinter could tell Leonardo had written it because the writing was cursive.

"See it's you!" Mikey cried.

"I can see you have worked hard my sons. Thank you for such a lovely gift, I will keep that on my bedside table always," Splinter told his sons.

"Now who's my secret Santa?" Mikey asked with a mouth full of toffee, as he faced his brothers.

"Do we eat and talk at he same time Mikey?" Splinter warned in a soothing way. He didn't want to get angry at his sons on this special day of the year, but he also didn't want them to forget their manners.

"Sorry," Mikey said, with mouth full of toffee still.

"How about you all go get your presents and we go into the lounge room?" Splinter suggested. The four boys were off immediately – they were itching to open their presents and to find out who their secret Santa was.

Splinter had to help Raphael carry his huge present into the room, so that it wouldn't break.

"Wow! That's a big present!" Mikey said, as he eyed Raphael's gift which was covered in a table cloth.

"I think whoever that's for should go first," Donnie suggested.

"This one's for Mikey," Raphael said, as his little brother jumped up and grabbed the cloth and whisked it off to reveal a cardboard castle, painted red and orange and green.

"Yeah! I got a castle!" Mikey jumped up ad down with excitement.

"Mikey, what do you say?" Splinter reminded the happy turtle.

"Thank you Raphie, you're the bestest brother in the world!" Mikey and Raphael hugged and then sat down together, while Leonardo went next.

"I'm your secret Santa Donnie," Leonardo said, as he handed a small parcel to his brother.

"Thank you, Leo," Donnie thanked his brother and opened it to reveal Leonardo had made him a Lego van with the worlds on paper stuck on with sticky tape – "Turtle-Van".

"Donnie?" Splinter asked, when it was time for someone else to go.

"May I go last Master Splinter?" Donnie asked.

"Alright, Michealangelo?"

Mikey jumped up and handed his –present to his oldest brother.

"Thank you Mikey," Leonardo accepted the gift. He opened up to find a crayon picture of himself and Mikey playing together and also a piece of paper with words written on it.

Leo's a good brother because:

He protects me from things in the sewer

He helps me when I am hurt

Leo is nice when I am sad

Leo lets me climb into his bed when I am scared

Leo shares his toys with me

The paper looked like Splinter had helped the young turtle write out some of the words, but it was still a gift from Mikey's heart. Leonardo thanked his baby bother again.

"Finally Donnie you must be Raphael's secret Santa?" Splinter asked.

"Yeap, he you go Raphie. I hope you like it."

Raphael got hold of the package and ripped open to find a red toy car.

"Cool!" Raphael was pleased with his present.

"But wait there's more, Master Splinter can you help me bring the rest out?" Donnie asked his father. Splinter went to help Donnie carry out a small racing track, which also had three other cars on it.

"Master Splinter helped me make this so we can all play on it!" Donnie said, as he revealed to the others their very own slot cars, complete with grandstand of old figurines watching the track. Donnie had found some old Smurf figures and even a star wars figurine and glued them onto the grandstand.

"Mikey you got the orange car and Leo's got the blue one. Mine's the purple car."

The four boys were hooked – the rest of the presents abandoned as they raced each other on the slot cars race track until Lunch time. They hadn't even had breakfast until Splinter relized why Mikey complained he was starving.

Splinter managed to get his four boys away from the new toy and into have their Christmas Day Lunch. Splinter was hoping that after lunch would be the perfect time for his presents to his sons would be revealed.

Nearly there – one more chapter to go. Hope you liked this chapter.

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