Chapter 5: Friend or Enemy?
The girl held her arms out and looked down. She wished they stopped staring at her like had an extra was far from the case. She moved her shoulder blades.
"Cool!" The orange mask turtle shouted with a huge grin. He ran to her and looked at her back. "Guys look she has wings!"
"We see that Mikey." The purple masked said staring.
She moved away self-consciously. The last thing she wanted anyone to see was her wings. She closed them tightly against her back. That always made them sore and it was a bit painful but she wanted them to show as little as possible. Her wings were a gray color and it was freckled with black.
"It's ok your among friend's here no need to be shy." The purple mask turtle said with a welcoming smile.
She felt her body relax. Her wings moved out a bit and as sore as it felt to do so it was a relief to have them out like this. She felt a smile play on her lips.
"How long are they?" Mikey asked excited. She looked at him. Something about the light in his eyes and his smile made her want to show him.
She spread her wings, they were 12 feet in length from tip to tip. She wince a bit from the pain she felt. It felt good to spread them. It has been so long. As the purple mask turtle went to get a good look at her wings and Mikey gazed in wonder at them. She looked to see Raph and Leo looking though her coat. They emptied it out. There were some tissues, her can of spam, a water bottle and a penny. She watched as they went though her coat then when they found nothing else Leo handed it back to her and she took it.
"Sorry about that." Leo said
"Its fine I guess-" Her stomach growled and she bushed a bit.
"You hungry?" Raph asked.
"Well you did interrupt me when I was having dinner." she felt my mouth quirk up in a smirk.
"Here you can have some of our pizza." Mikey smiled and held open a box of pizza.
Never has anyone offered her pizza. She looked at the two slices as if it were a gourmet dinner and who was she kidding it was the best dinner she seen in weeks. She felt her heart warm at bit she took a slice in her hands and ate it as slowly as she could try to savor the taste. It tasted amazing. The sauce dripped on her tongue and the crust so good! It tasted as good as she thought of when she ate the pizza crusts. She wanted to swallow it whole but she didn't want to look like a savage. So she took her time.
"If you want more there is more in the box there." Mikey pointed to a box by the TV.
"Thank you." She finished off the slice and took the other slice. She nibbled on that slice.
"You're welcome…ummm…" Mikey tilted his head "What's your name?"
She looked at them. She hasn't had anyone call her by name in so long. She looked at the turtles that looked at her waiting for to tell them her name.
"Just call me-."
"Oh! Oh! How about Raven? No wait raven wings are black. How about bird girl or-" he rambled.
"It's Allie. Just call me Allie."
"What is going on here?!" A voice says from behind. Allie jumps and turns around.
Standing a few feet away from her was a huge brown rat. Her eyes widened. Mutant turtles and now a giant mutant rat?! Why should she even be surprised? She stared at the rat in what looked like a robe.
"Sensei this is Allie. Raph found her and they were attacked by Footbots. He brought her in here when she passed out in the middle of battle." Leo explained.
"Raphael is this true?" The rat turned to Raph
Raph looked down. "Hai Sensei."
"I'm sorry sir Raphael was trying to help. I will go now." she said feeling bad for getting the red masked turtle in trouble.
"Do you a home to go to?" The rat asked as she started to put on her coat.
"I…yes I do." she answered looking away.
The rat smiled. "Your parents must be worried about you."
"Actually sir…I don't have any parents."
The rat looked at her for a moment. She could tell right away she didn't have a home or place to go to. She looked pale and unhealthy. He would never turn his back on someone in need.
"Who takes care of you then?" he asked
"I take care of myself." she answered straightening her back.
"You can stay if you wish to we have a spare room and bed." She turned as the rat explained. She smiled.
"I don't need anyone to taking care of me." she said
"Well we don't want to. But from what my sons have told me the Kraang have been taking mutants from the streets and it is much safer here."
She looked him in the eyes as he smiled. She could have sworn he saw right though her. She sighed knowing he must have known she didn't have the best living conditions.
"I guess I have no choice then do I?" she took off her coat.
"My name is Master Splinter." He said bowing.
"Allie."
Leo stepped forward. "Well didn't properly introduce ourselves" He stepped to the side and gestured to the purple and orange mask. "This is Donatello also known as Donnie. This is Michelangelo also known as Mikey. I am Leonardo but you can call me Leo." Then he gestures to his red masked brother. "And this is Raphael or Raph for short."
"Nice to meet you all and know your names." She said looking at each of them.
"Let me call April. She might have some spare clothes to lend you." Donnie says as he walks into a room to make the call.
"Let me show you to your room." Leo smiles.
Leo showed her around the lair. He seemed formal and polite. She nodded when he explained things and mostly she kept quiet taking in every detail of the underground home. It smelled mostly of pizza and sewer but she will get use to it like all the things she has been getting use to over the past weeks. She set her coat in her room and smiled at how well kept it was. Leo gives her some bed sheets a pillow and a blanket. She thanked the leader. When the tour was finished she walked into the main room where Raph was punching a dummy and Donnie and Mikey watched some kind of anime. Leo joined them and she followed Leo.
"I'm sorry Allie but April said she will come in the morning with some new clothes and pajamas for you." Donnie said with a frown.
"Oh…that's alright I am use to sleeping in my clothes anyway." She said nonchalantly. She winced and turned to see the brothers all staring at her as if she was a mutant…well she is a mutant.
"Why do you sleep with your clothes on?" Leo asked her.
Nice going Allie…how you gonna dig yourself out of this hole? She tried to think of something to say to them but no lie sounded good. So she did what she normally did when something like this happened. She ignored the question.
"This show is really cool." she smiled at the TV.
"If you like this show you might like Space Heroes" Leo said
"I'm not picky." She smiled at him.
Raph watched as Allie and Leo talked with each other. He punched at the dummy and looked at them as they smiled and laughed. He could have been- should have been doing that! He saved her! Why isn't she talking to him! Her wings seemed to relax a bit and spread a little as she spoke. The tense girl he seen on the street wasn't the girl he was seeing talking to her brother. He wanted a smile too! Raph punched the dummy again so hard they I swung hit him knocking him off his feet he fell on his shell.
Everyone looked at Raph. Allie frowned trying to figure out what happened.
"Dude be careful he's learning to fight back." Mikey joked which Allie laughed at.
Raph looked at her. She had a nice smile and a laugh at sounded almost was good as her singing. She saw him looking at her and she sobered up quickly.
"Sorry." she mumbled. She went to go help him up. She pulled him so hard he also feel forward on top of her. "Sorry." She said it more nervously.
"I didn't even get a chance to push myself up. How did you do that?" He asked a bit of shock showed in his eyes and his voice.
"I…" she looked uncomfortable. "I am a bit stronger then a normal human…"
She tugged at her long sleeve shirt and looked away as if she done something wrong. Raph wanted so badly to comfort her, to cheer her up but he didn't know what to say. Donnie always knew what to say and he came in right on cue.
"You don't have to be scared Allie. Nobody is going to judge you here." He said sincerely.
"You should like I am in a therapy group." She gave a half heatedly laugh.
"What else…can you do?" Leo asked which made everyone look at her again waiting for a response.
How she hated being put on the spot! "Well…" She debated to tell them or not and she figured. They opened up their home to her why shouldn't she be honest.
"I can fly a little…I am still learning. I can create illusions in people's heads as well as mutants I guess because it worked on you guys. I can use my mind to lift things up but heavy objects give me a nose bleed. I have abnormal human strength and speed. And I can see thing for at least 20 feet farther than a normal human being and also my hearing is better also."
The turtles stared at her which made her more uncomfortable then before. She would like nothing better than to shrink to the size of a flea and jump her way out of there. But she waited for them to ask one of the worst questions they could ask about her. She didn't want them to but she can see Donnie's gears already turning.
"How can you so many mutations and yet…you look so human?"Donnie asked and Allie instantly grew pale. The fear in her eyes lasted no more than a second. Leo saw it right away.
Her face went blank then she gave him a dry bored stare. "The wings aren't enough for you?"
"Well no. I mean…most mutants we seen…they come out more…well mutated. You look so normal compared to most mutants." He looked a bit nervous.
She frowned. She saw Leo watching her carefully. He was reading her like a book. She looked at him for a moment as she answered. "Well maybe I am different from most mutants."
She could see Donnie getting ready to fire another question before she can stop him Leo did. "Hey guys I think it's time we let our guest get some sleep don't you? Besides we still have training tomorrow."
"Training?" she asked her curiosity getting the better of her. She didn't really want to sleep yet.
"Our ninja training so we can keep people from stealing." Raph gave her a pointed look. She narrowed her eyes.
"So you guys are ninja turtles…" She said trying to ignore Raph.
"Yup." Leo answered.
She made a note of that. "Well I guess I will hit the hay then."
She let the turtles walk ahead she took the rear and they each went into their own rooms. Leo pointed out which room was there and hers was right across from Leo's room down the tunnel and a few feet down from Mikey's. She watched each of them enter their rooms saying goodnight to one another. She entered her room and put her sheets onto her bed it made a tiny squeaked under her weight. She kicked off her boots which she uses to keep on when she went to sleep in her apartment. Her coat was lying on a chair across from her bed. She closed her eyes and sighed before trying to drift off to sleep.