Chapter Six
Innocently Unaware
Meanwhile, in a room in the residential area, Sonia the Chameleon was looking after the younger children.
Since Pandora and Kemeko had arrived in Mutopia with the turtles, Jake, Splinter and Mona, Sonia had been put in charge of the girls. She had been shocked to see the New Yorkers arrive so unexpectedly, though she loved it when Pandora and Kemeko came to visit, she never imagined she would see them so soon.
She thought back to the night before when they arrived and how Pandora and Kemeko had been brought to her room by Tania the Panda for her to keep an eye on them.
Flashback
Sonia sat in her play-room or rather Girl-Cave as she now called it, on a pink bean bag reading a teen novel as she listened to some music through some large earphones.
Time seemed to go so fast for the young Chameleon girl, for a long time she had been known as the only child in Mutopia and as much as she enjoyed the attention of the adults when she first became who she was now, even though she didn't remember much of her life before she mutated, only being a small child, she did find it difficult as she had no-one of her own age to play with.
But as time had gone on, she had formed a close bond with Pandora when she first met her, and then Freya and Loki were born two years later and then Kemeko arrived not long after that, she was very happy.
Though she was a lot older than the younger children, she still enjoyed playing games and watching cartoons with them as well as pretend play and make-believe, although she was starting to enjoy things more for her age now she was a pre-teen such as make-up, fashion, music and dancing and her playroom and bedroom which had once been filled with toys and cartoon posters had changed to books, video games, DVDs, magazines and the posters had changed to bands she liked to listen to along with the odd film poster.
Though despite all that, she still kept some old games and toys in her room since she shared them with the younger children, especially the Geckolings.
In fact she had become really close with Tania the Panda as she enjoyed experimenting with make-up and trying new fashions.
But what Sonia really wanted to do was learn to fight so she could join the Chicago Knights and become a crime fighter. In fact, each of the Chicago Knights had been teaching her some basic martial arts and she had been able to show she could hold her own when practising and sparring, though she had been told it would be a few years until she could join the Knights on patrol and missions.
But she was happy to wait and enjoy being young, unlike Pandora, who wanted to get out there in the field with her parents and uncles now.
Sonia chuckled to herself as she thought of Pandora and how every-time she saw her in New York or she came to Mutopia with her parents she would ask to join them, only to be told she was too young and to stay behind.
Sonia would then get the pouting mutant to join her in an activity, whether it was watching TV, playing games or spending time with Kemeko which would cheer the young turtle/lizard hybrid up instantly.
Just then, Sonia was pulled from her train of thought when the door opened and Tania the Panda appeared.
"Sonia Honey?" she called.
Sonia pulled her earphones off her ears and looked up to see the female Panda looking a little flustered.
"Tania?" she asked, her scales going yellow due to curiosity.
"I'm sorry to disturb you sweetheart." Tania said "But your Uncle Tyroth has an important job for you to do, and he's sorry to place it on you so suddenly."
"What is it?" Sonia asked standing up and carefully folding the page in her book so she wouldn't loose her place.
"You've got a couple of guests to entertain." Tania said pushing the door open more and to Sonia's shock and amazement, her skin changing from yellow to a slightly pink colour, she saw Pandora and Kemeko standing there.
"Sonia!" Pandora ran over to the Chameleon, pulling Kemeko with her and the two girls hugged her close.
"Hey there!" Sonia cried "Where did you two come from?"
She looked up at Tania who walked in and sat on a chair near them.
"What's happened?" asked Sonia as she hugged the lizard/turtle mutant girl, and human Japanese girl.
Tania took a breath and explained everything to Sonia to which the Chameleon girl turned yellow again as well as a slight blue with worry.
"We'll explain everything properly later, they're at the Temple of the Well right this minute, I'm keeping an eye on the Geckolings right now as they're still napping."
"Okay Tania." Sonia nodded understanding.
"Well done Honey." Tania said "I know you'll look after the girls until Raph, Mona and Leo return."
"You count on me!" Sonia said with a smile, her skin turning pink.
End Flashback
Sonia had been more than happy to look after the girls, even though they were rather shocked as well as little tired from all the excitement earlier in the evening.
Later on when Mona, Raph and Leo had come to collect the girls to get them to get as it going to be dawn soon, Sonia had seen them, Mona especially look so drained and tired and she wanted to know what had happened yet no-one spoke to her about what had taken place much to her annoyance.
It was only the following evening that before everyone was to go to the canteen for breakfast that she had been told about everything that had happened by George.
She had been shocked to learn that Mona had found her two brothers, or rather they had found her, and she was horrified when she learnt of how Shredder had almost killed Callum and how the only way to save him was to be mutated by the well.
She was also curious to meet Jake and Callum, but George informed her that he would introduce her once the Freeman brothers had settled and things had calmed down from Callum's difficult mutation.
Now things were calm, and after having a hearty breakfast provided by Louie in the canteen, the children were enjoying some playtime together.
Sonia had put on some upbeat music and was sitting on her pink beanbag.
Pandora was standing in the middle of the room demonstrating her ninja skills that she had learnt with Splinter whilst Kemeko and the Geckolings were sitting on the soft floor watching whilst clutching soft toys.
Kemeko was hugging Geisha Bear whilst Freya was holding a Soft Red Dragon toy and Loki was clutching Ninja Bear.
Pandora stopped pretending to fight then bowed to which Sonia, Kemeko and the Geckolings clapped and cheered.
"Pandora's clever!" Kemeko grinned.
"I can't wait to be a ninja!" Loki said "I want to be just like my Uncles!"
"I want to be like dad!" Freya said hugged her Dragon toy "I'll be a great Dragon Warrior! Just like him!"
"I want to follow my daddy too!" Kemeko said "I love my daddy!"
Sonia laughed.
"I can't wait to be one of the Chicago Knights." she said "I've been doing well with my training! Especially from Uncle Tyroth and Aunt Sephie."
"Mummy says she'll teach me the ways of her Kung Fu once I've learnt all the basics." Pandora said as she sat down and started to fiddle with Cuddles "But I want to learn now."
"Good things come to those who wait." Sonia said with a smile, "Never thought I'd hear myself saying that." she thought to herself.
"I want to be all the five animals." Pandora said.
"What animals?" asked Loki "There are animals in Kung Fu?"
"Yeah!" Freya said "Like Kung Fu Panda!"
"Kung Fu follows animal styles." Sonia explained "Aunt Mona told me so, Sarah said the same."
"The Tiger, the Crane, the Snake, the Praying Mantis, and the Monkey!" Pandora confirmed "Mummy does a lot of Crane! That's her favourite!"
"Will she teach us?" asked Loki "I want to be like a Monkey!"
"Not a Tiger?" asked Freya "I want to be a Tiger! So I can be ferocious like Tigeress in the movie! And strong like Daddy!"
Sonia laughed again.
"I'm sure you'll find your styles!" she smiled "I know you four will!"
"I can't wait!" Pandora said "Then I'll be able to go on adventures and fight with mummy, daddy and my Uncles."
"But until then you'll going to have to wait Little Geisha." a voice from the doorway was heard and the five kids turned to see Raphael appear "You're not old enough yet."
"Hi Daddy!" Pandora grinned.
"Hi Uncle Raph!" Sonia, Kemeko, Freya and Loki said together.
"Hello!" Raphael smiled and walked in "You kids having fun?"
"Yes we are!" all children said together.
"Great!" Raphael said before kneeling down to Pandora.
"Where's mum?" asked Pandora "And Where's Uncle Callum and Jake? Is Uncle Callum okay after he was mutated?"
The other children looked at Raphael worried, and also wondering how Jake and Callum were doing, especially the Geckolings as they hadn't offically met Jake and Callum yet.
Raphael's smile faded.
"Little Geisha." he said "Remember what I said to you last night? That Uncle Callum found his mutation difficult to accept?"
Pandora nodded silently.
"Uncle Callum is still very angry." Raphael explained "And Mummy is upset right now, as is Uncle Jake."
"But mummy saved him!" Pandora said "Uncle Callum should be happy!"
"Yeah!" Freya and Loki said.
"Aunt Mona saved him!" Kemeko said "He's alive!"
Sonia just sat in silence, having known the full reason of why Callum was angry and where he was now, she also knew George had gone to talk to him.
"It's hard to explain Princess." Raphael said "But right now, mummy and Uncle Jake are resting, I just came to check on you to make sure you and Kemeko are okay."
"Where's daddy?" asked Kemeko.
"He's with Tyroth at the moment Lotus Blossom." Raphael said "But he'll come and find you soon."
"Okay Uncle Raph." Kemeko said hugging Geisha Bear.
Raphael hugged Pandora and kissed her forehead.
"You kids have fun okay?" Raphael said standing up "I got to go now, but I'll be back later."
"Okay daddy." Pandora understood nodding her head.
"Don't worry Uncle Raph!" Sonia smiled "I'll look after them."
"I know I can count on you Sweetie." Raphael said "You're my top babysitter for my Little Geisha! Apart from Michelangelo." he added aside.
Sonia grinned again and as Raphael left the room she turned to Pandora.
"Hey!" she said "How about we do some dressing up?"
"Yeah!" Pandora said "Sounds like fun!"
"Me too!" Freya said.
"Maybe we can make each other up too?" Sonia suggested as she went to a box in one corner of the room full of dress up clothes as well as to a chest of drawers where she had make up and face paints.
"Yeah!" Pandora agreed then turned to Loki "And how about we give Loki a make-over?"
Loki's eyes widened as all the girls looked up him evilly.
"Me?" he squeaked "Um...Uh oh!"
Awwww! Such cute moments with the kids! And Sonia has grown up from when we first met her back in Tyroth Darkstorm's fic 'Ancient Legacy' which you can find on his page.
I wanted to write a scene away from all the drama and tense moments, one more happy and I think may lead to some comedic moments as it now looks like Loki's got the girls ganging up on him! lol! I'd run if I were you Loki!
See you next chapter!