Ages
Nixxie(6) Mikey(7) Donnie and Leo (8) Raph (9)
"Can we go trick-or-treating this year?"
The morning commotion of the kitchen halted in to a silence at the sudden request of the only female in the Hamato household.
Mikey immediately sprang up from his seat at the notion, grinning excitedly as scenarios of awesomeness came to his mind.
"Yeah, yeah, we can dress up in costumes, get all the candy in New York and -OOH!!" The orange clad turtle turned and eagerly pointed a finger at Donnie who paused in mid-bite of his cereal, his ears crossing slightly as he glared annoyed at the digit entering his personal space.
Mikey, unperturbed just kept on keeping on at 120%.
"D, you can make us candy sacks that lead to the pocket dimension for UNLIMITED CANDY STORAGE!"
Nixxie covered her mouth with her napkin, as she giggled at her brother's unbridled enthusiasm, whilst Donnie just looked tired from the antics. Chuckling to himself, Splinter placed a clawed hand on top of Angelo's smooth noggin endearingly.
"Considering tonight is Halloween, why don't we give Purple until next year to, uh , pocket extension the sacks, eh Orange? " He suggested, not wanting to completely shut down his more sensitive child.
Donnie rolled his eyes, using a spoon from the table to smack the offending finger from infront of his face.
"OW!"
"Respect my bubble, Angelo."
"Ayo, that was my spoon!" Raph exclaimed, snatching it back.
"I'm down for going uptown, Nix, sounds like fun! " Leonardo grinned, seeing the immediate reaction in his sister.
The fur on her cheeks seemed to fluff up and her tail began to sway side to side as the kit all but bounced in her seat in anticipation. "We can make matching costumes!" The petite fox turned her gaze to the unsure father who seemed to visibly tense up un lder his daughters gaze.
More lethal than any special moved used by his ancestors and more deadly than any weapons that he faced at an action packed star...were the Nixxie Puppy Eyes.
Any color of brown that you may have been able to have seen was gone as Nixxie looked up to the rat with eyes that glimmers in the light, looking impossible big as she clasped her hands together beneath her chin.
"Can we go, papa?" -30HP "Please?" -10HP "It will be so fun! -20HP "Pretty please, papa? " -40HP
!!K.O.!!
With every request,it was as it metaphorical arrows were being shot through his heart. He never stood a chance...his daughters kawaii meters were just immeasurable.
" Alright. If you can find costumes that cover...this situation" He gestured to his mutant features. "Then I will take you to get candy. "
The Hamato kids cheered, all of them moving to leave the table before Splinter cleared his throat.
"Eat first. Then go make costumes. Until them, my show is on."
At least they had the decency to wait until their dad was out of the room before running off to Nixxie's rooms.
Raph picked Nix up in his arms, and set her ontop of his shoulder.
"So, ya have anything in mind for what we should be, princess?" The red clad alligator turtle asked, causing a grin of delight to grace the girls lips.
"Exactly!"
The four looked at her, waiting for her to continue. Before Leo swisher his hand in a circular motion. "Exactly...what?" He asked in request for the 6 year old to explain.
"I'm going to be Princess Peach! And Raph will be Bowser, Don and Leon will be Luigi and Mario! "
Mikey jumped up and down smiling.
"Ooh what about me?!"
Nixxie grinned
"Yoshi!~"
"...I LOVE YOSHI! This is gonna be the best Halloween ever!"
Raph, Leo and Donnie watched their youngest siblings happily as they jumped up and down, wrapped in each other's hug.
You could almost see the youngest siblings energy they were putting off.
"I'm could with it, dibs on being Mario!!", Leo smirked at the annoyed look Donnie was giving him.
"Fine...at least Luigi has his own mansion, you plebeian." Donatello snarked right back as he began to make plans to the best route to get maximum candy.
Leo just blew a raspberry at his younger twin.
Costume Making Montage*
"Say, Hot soup!"
"HOT SOUP!!"
Splinter chuckled to himself as he pressed the shutter button on his camera, capturing the moment of his children's first Halloween forever.
The trip through the sewer system with five kids was hard enough, but in a trenchcoat ? Agonizing! And this fake beard was so itchy!
"Nixxie, sweetie, where did you get this fake beard from again?" He couldn't help but ask as he climbed first on the ladder that went uptown.
"Oh, I made it! " She replied happily from her spot on the back of a climbing Raph's shell, in-between his shoulder ridges.
Splinter felt a small wave of dread wash over himself as his paused momentarily before lifting up on the manhole cover to checkbif the coast is clear.
"Oh, h-how sweet...a-and what is it made from?"
" I brushed all the the fur you left on your chair! My new book says it good to recycle and that it will save the world! Do you like it papa?" The girl exclaimed, the gold painted tinfoil crown slipping to the side as she pushed the accessory back in the place between her fluffy ears.
The fur from...his chair...
An image of himself sitting in his favorite chair came to his mind. The spilled soup...the silent but deadly toots... The image of him wearing a look of relief as he scratched his own butt while wearing his terrycloth robe and tidywhities seeped through his mind like poison.
"Ayo, you okay dad? You look all pale like you saw a ghost" Raph pointed out, oblivious to his father's plight.
The not so subtle snickering from the other three below showed that he wasn't the only one with this teain of thought.
"Ah, yes...g-good job, sweetie.." Splinter praised with a strained smiled before climbing out of the hold and made sure each one of his children came out okay.
With a newfound enthusiasm, all five of the children looked around with a feeling of awe. Although only in an alleyway, they could see the massive skyscrapers reaching up to the heavens from being the concrete walls.
"Wooow, everyone's so...so.." Mikey trailed off, Nixxing fluidly finishing her brother's sentence as she snuggled closer against her eldest brother's shell.
"Big..." She said with a slightly intimated tone of voice.
For only a second time in the past twenty-four hours, the children were silent...mostly...
"Hey...hey Donnie, bet you I can jump higher than a skyscraper~" Leo said with a cocktail tone that only Leonardo could make sound charming.
Donnie looked at his brother like his was sprouting two heads. "Wha-no, Leo, that impossible.!"
"Nuh-uh! I know I can jump higher!" Leo pressed on, his grin getting more shit eating with every passing second.
"And just how is that?!" Donnie demanded, throwing his hands up in an exasperated motion.
"Because skyscrapers can't jump, stupid!"
It was as if time stood still.
...
"I'm going to destroy to to the very last molecule!"
Raph wrapped an arm around Donnie's torso while his was in mid leap, pinning his arms to his sides.
"Calm down, Luigi. No going all evil scientist on Halloween. " Raph lightly scolded , setting his brother back down, before Michaelangelo look his place, using his big brothers arm and shoulder like a pirate standing on a mast.
"Enough talking,candy ahoy!"
Mikey shouted, pointing to the entrance of the alley. Across the street, was a lovely looking neighborhood of red brick townhouses on a street lined with cute trees ranging around fifteen feet and covered in a mass of red, orange, yellow and brown leaves that gave a satisfying crunch sound when the kids laced in many a costume walked to and through house to decorated house.
Fegetting her nerves, Nixxie began to pat her hand against Raph's shoulder rapidly as she was filled with an extifed energy that had to be let out.
Ususally in rapid but gentle pat attacks.
"Let's go, let's go, let's go!"
Splinter smiled, enjoying the expressions of innocent childish joy that blossomed upon his children's faces before motioning to the entrance.
"Alright let's go. Now, stay together. I want a headcount before every house!" He said taking the excited group to the closest house on the block.
"Okay Pops/Papa!"
The children all but ran up the steps of the home, a lovely plump woman with chocolate toned skin and warm hazel eyes stood, dressed like a witch but with jeweled butterfly and dragonfly hair clips decorating the voluminous, thick dark shoulder length hair that was also topped with a pointed hat that was fixed on to the side of her head with a headband. Nixxie's eyes immediately transfixed on to the multiple shades of green rhinestone frog pendant on the hat.
"Trick or treat!" The boys exclaimed holding out their bags, except with Mikey still talking. "Smell my feel, give me something good to eat! If you don't, I do swear, I will burn your under-" The youngest boy was cute off as Raph's hand now cover his mouth as the Bowser look alike glowered at him.
"Yoshi's don't talk."
Mikey blinked before holding a 'thumbs' up with an
' I got the sauce your slinging' knowing look.
"Yoshi~!"
"Ugh.." Donnie falcepalmed as Leo laughed as his youngest brothers antics.
Splinter sweatdroped from behind his camera on the sidewalk.
"M'mamm, your froggie is really pretty!" Nixxie pointed out to the very amused looking woman who seemed to be laughing behind her hand.
"Oh? You mean, Mr.Shoe-Fly Pie?" The woman asked motioning to her hat with a smile, causing the girl to nod.
"Mhmm, I really like frogs and lizards!" Nixxie chirped from her perch on 'Bowser's' shell.
"And turtles!" Declared Leon as if reminding her of critical information.
"And turtles" NIxxie giggled
"Well, thank you, darlin', I made it myself actually! My name is Mrs. May Oldee and I run a little arts and crafts group for kids down at the library and this was our project last spring! You know, the group meets at 5 pm on Tuesday's, Thursday's and Saturday's. You all should come as long as your...father? As long as your father doesn't mind!" She offered, giving a nod to the waiting Splinter.
Nixxie stared up to the woman in surprise at the offer. She and Mikey loved art but her brother was more free-form and wouldn't do well in a library for to long but...
"Um, Mrs. Oldee, can I still join if im a mu-"
"IF SHE IDENTIFIES AS A FURRY?!"
Leo butted in panicked, picking up on what his sister was about to say.
Everyone just looked at him like he was a loon before looking up to a flabbergasted looking May Oldee.
"I..well, yes, It should be just fine. If that's what she's comfortable with" She said to assure the little girl before looking over to whom she assumed was their guardian to make sure what she said was appropriate and recieved a thankful nod in return to the bearded slightly squat man.
'Must be a phase." May thought to herself fondly, remembering when one of the boys in her group came wearing an inflatable Trex costume for a solider month. "Well here is a card with the meeting days and times along with the Library's address! " She said placing the card in to the girls candy sacks along with a few tootsie pops and fun size candy bars. "We hope to see you there, Miss...?" May paused her words before laughing a bit. " My dear, I don't believe I got your name!" She said putting candy in the boys buckets.
Nixxie smiled adorably as she introduced her family.
"My name is Nixxie and im Princess Peach tonight! This is my oldest big brother, Raph! He's dressed like Bowser and I'm trapped on shell since a castle would have been to heavy to bring with us!. " She said with a slightly pout before motioning to her middle brother. "That's Leo, he's Mario because Ralph says he has to be the center of attention " Donnie snickers while Leo gives Raph an offended gasp " and that Donnie! He's Luigi because Lecause calls Don Second place all the time. "
"Hey!"
Leo just smirks at his brainy brother.
"Tell me I'm wrong." Leo sassed with his hands on his hips.
Raph scolded. "Both of ya stop. Leo. Don't be a sore winner."
Nixxie continued, paying her siblings no mind as she pointed to Michaelangelo.
"And this is Mikey! He's a Yoshi, 'cause Yoshi's my favorite!"
May will always swear that she heard three hearts break simultaneously.
"Y-Yoshi~" Sniffled a smiling weepy eyed Mikey who then looked over to his brother with a smug grin that was nails on a chalkboard for the three older brother's souls.
"It's very nice to meet you all! And Miss Nixxie, I hope to see you next week! Happily Halloween!" The warm woman called as they walked back down the steps to a headcounting Splinter with Nixxie waving back happily to the woman who gave out maternal vibe.
" Bye bye, Mrs. Oldee! See you next week! "
The Hamato family continued their night of getting treats for until it was well after dark and all their bags were filled near to the brims.
After a trek home the kids took their candy to their respective rooms to hide it from each other and their father.
Nixxie, being the only girl in a household of boys, learned very quickly that there was one place in the lair that one of the boys would ever willingly go.
Panty Drawer.
Dumping her treats in to the drawer, Nixxie began to put all of her clean underwear on top of the candies until you couldn't see it unless you moved something.
Haha!
Now she'll have candy until Christmas! Maybe even Easter!!
Getting out of her costume and into her fleece hooded red-fox footed pajamas, Nixxie grabbed a few pieces of candy before wandering out to the TV room. She smiled, seeing her father back in just his robe sitting in his comfy chair, beard free and her brother's out of costume and in their ' life colors' footie pajamas eating some sweets and watching a Lou Jitsu Movie, Kung Fu Chowder.
Scampering over to the boys on the floor, she snagged a cushion and sat herself in-between Raphael and Donatello.
"...This was the best Halloween ever..."
The brother's gave their own voices of agreement as Splinter fell silent.
He thought of his life, the memories of his childhood. He may have had...fewer Halloweens than fingers on his hand.
When...when she left, celebrating any holiday in general seemed pointless.
Unless you could count the Holiday themed parties her threw and attended as a celebrity, Splinter hadn't celebrated with persons who actually mattered to him until he found them...
His children...
His family...
Now...now he had every reason in this world to atheist do this much.
Celebrate holidays...
Make memories...
"I agree, Nixxie, dear. This really has been the best Halloween ever."
The Fennec and the Turtles look led up to their dad, smiling happily at the warm feeling they got from theirs father's words.
By the time the credits started to roll from the movie, the chair held a curled up sleeping middle-aged rat and the was an adorable turtle cuddle-puddle with Nixxie sleeping on the cushion, using Donnie's forearm as a pillow. The poor turtle grimacing in his sleep as drool escaped the girl mouth.
End.