Chapter 2
After trying to clean up the four new friends, the rat took them in as part of his family. Over the next few days, the rat noticed that there was a slight change every day to the five of them. During that period, the rat saw that each of the five had doubled in size. The five of them took care of each other. The mammals kept the reptiles warm when it was cold, while the reptiles gave most of their food to their mammailian friends. This kept up for the next couple of months. As each month passed by, the family became more human, but still retained most of their animal features. At about 6 months after their mutation, the five of them were walking unsteadily, but still walked non the less.
The rat, was the first to notice their growing intelect.The squeaks slowly formed into more human baby sounds, while he started talking. It was hard at first for the rat to speak, for his voice box was still changing, and he was not used to saying human words. About three more months passed before he could speak about as normal as a articulate 3 year old child. Soon, the rat tought the others the names of things. He didn't care if the other four, didn't understand him, it was the bonding that mattered to him. It was a year after their mutation for the others to start speaking. The rat, who called him self Splinter, had found some discarded pizza one day. Splinter told the four that the food was called pizza.
"Piazza?" The Chinchilla asked.
"Close. Listen closely now, pizza." Splinter replied.
Splinter was shocked that one of them had spoken their first word.
"Pizza." The rabbit copied.
"Good."
"Pizza pizza pizza!" The turtle cried.
All four of them cried pizza at the same time, though the chinchilla still called it piazza. Slowly, Splinter gave the four of them words to use from scraps of paper that he had found while scavaging. Trying to find names for the members of his family to suit them, he looked through every book he could find, but could not find any. Though, without names, the four knew who Splinter was talking to. Trying to hide from the humans, the five of them kept moving from place to place. It was several years until they found a suitable place to live without having to move again. Three years had gone by after their mutation where Splinter could look at the the four, who he considered sons, and could compare them to normal children. Though they were still considered animals in some people's eyes, they could pass off as humans if properly disguised.
The four had been learning ninjitsu for a year by Splinter, who told them to either call him sensei or Master Splinter from the moment they started practicing. It was hard for them to call him that, for they had called him father or Splinter since they could talk. Their routine for practicing at the time was simple enough. They would first practice what they learned the previous day, then learn a new tecnique afterwards in the morning. Then they would practice everything that they learned from the previous two days at night. The four had gotten some training gear to wear, including bandanas.
End of chapter 2
You thought I was going to tell who had which bandana, didn't you? Well I didn't, because I want to keep it a suprise on who is who until the time is right. If you want to guess who is who, go right ahead