*Laughs as bluepickles92 and Laughter's Tears beat Foot Tech Ninja with sword and giant wooden mallet*
Ok, now that we have had a small streak of vengeance on the ninja, we can continue on with the story. Now this is going to be very short but I'll update with a very long chapter in a few days. As long as I get at least some reviews for this chapter.
Ok, this chapter goes out to bluepickles92 and Laughter's Tears for beating up that Foot Tech Ninja.
Warning: AHHH! I'm kidding there's no cliffhanger.
Randomly begins singing: All I want for Christmas is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
Shapes began standing out as he forced his eyes open. He stared intently at the shapes, trying to make sense of them. They were familiar somehow. He was certain he knew them but it this moment he felt fuzziness cloud his mind and a hazy milky white color fog over half of his vision. He reached out towards an unmoving form in front of him and grasped at something hard. He pushed himself to his feet and gripped the object in his hand very tightly. He glanced up at screaming voices, although he couldn't exactly hear the cries.
Then, the haze fogged over his mind and he remembered.
The blades met in a flurry of sparks. Then a shadow loomed behind him. The ninja, the blade, up and down goes the sword.
Up and down…
Move forward.
Black shape, two green, struggling shapes.
Then everything cleared. Raph found himself behind the Foot tech ninja, who was having too much fun enjoying Mikey's and Donny's cries to pay attention. The red banded turtle also found one's of Leo's swords in his hand.
Up and down…
He remembered and brought the sword up, the blade almost reached the ninja's shoulder. He drew the blade back then sent it forward. The ninja fell and the sword, with a small amount of blood on the tip, clattered to the ground.
Mikey and Donny scrambled out from underneath the Foot ninja and stared at their brother with a look somewhere among amazement, bewilderment, respect and fear.
It was then a gasp rang out through their home. The turtles turned and all yelled at once.
"April!"
Two hours later, both April and Casey were sitting on the couch and holding Mikey and Donny in their laps while the tots slumbered while battling their dreams.
"How do you think they found the place?" April asked in a whisper.
"Maybe he fell in," Casey suggested, "Like I did."
April frowned in uncertainty and said, "A ninja Casey?"
"Yeah, you're probably right."
April breathed a heavy sigh and then transferred the purple clad ninja into Casey's lap beside the sleeping and mumbling Michelangelo, "I'm going to go check on Leo and Raph."
Casey nodded and watched the two turtles squirm from nightmares in his lap before rubbing their shells in a comforting matter.
When April entered the 2nd largest of the empty rooms of the what was deemed a 'house' she froze in surprise but she was suddenly torn between yelling when she realized that Leo was up and awing at the scene. The eldest turtles had his red banded brother in his arms, the little tot had his head against Leo's plastron, sleeping soundly and so amazingly cute, had his little thumb stuck in his mouth.
April went to speak up when Leo shushed her and then got up from the mattress before tucking his young brother within the blankets. The blue clad turtle motioned to the doorway, since the place, like their previous home, lacked doors to separate the rooms. Once a fair distance from he door, Leo turned to April.
"What happened, all I understood was ninja and danger from Raphael's babbling before he broke down and I suppose I'm injured for a reason."
April took a deep breath, "It was a Foot Tech Ninja."
"What! They've found this place!"
April reached out and put, what she hoped, was a comforting hand on Leo's shoulder, although this was difficult, considering he was much taller than her now. She had to remember he was older now. Although the only thing that had seemed to change was his height. But what a change it was!
"Leo listen, he was a lone scout. We've searched the surrounding tunnels. He was alone and had no way to contact any other Foot ninja."
"But what about him?" Leo asked worriedly, and then slapped a hand over his mouth when his voice rose to a very high pitch. He didn't want to wake Raph up.
Then, the question that had been at the back of his mind sprang onto his tongue "Donny? Mikey?"
"They're fine," April said calmingly, "They're in the living room with Casey," she explained, pointing down what the assumed was a tunnel that worked as a hallway that connected the main room to the four smaller rooms.
"As for the ninja, we're sorry, I came in just in time to see Raph using one of your swords on the ninja."
Leo's eyes grew wide. A four year old, killing with a blade in his hands? It wasn't possible, this couldn't be. His shock must have shone more brightly than a neon sign because April was quick to defuse his worry.
"Calm down Leo, Raph didn't," April soothed, "He simply knocked the guy out. When the ninja came to he tried to escape. Casey went after him at first and apparently no one warned him about that drop in the southwest tunnel."
"But, no one could survive that fall," Leo stated.
"We used some climbing ropes and found him, well, what's left of him anyways. He isn't going to tell anyone Leo, he doesn't have the mouth to or even arms to write it out. You guys are safe, we tried to do what we could, but he was already a jigsaw puzzle."
Leo breathed a sigh of relief and then felt a shiver run down his spine.
"But how did he find us?" Leo asked.
April opened her mouth when one of the tots came bustling into the hallway, "ANIKI!"
Leo bent down, further than he normally had before and caught the speeding purple and green blur with a quaint whisper of, "Donatello…"
"I'm sorry Aniki!" he sobbed as he was held tightly.
"Sorry for what?"
"This," April responded, holding up what Leo recognized as the medicine bottle his younger brothers had given him.
Needless to say, he was now confused, "What does that have to do with everything that happened?"
"You little brother here," April said, motioning to Don, "Went back to your old home, which the Foot Tech Ninja was searching to try to find any trace of where we disappeared to. The ninja saw Donny and followed him back to Leatherhead's, then to here. Leatherhead came by some time ago and explained that that was probably what happened but I didn't want to believe it."
Leo glanced down at the purple clad tot in his arms and frowned at the sniffling and murmured apologies. He simply held the tot tightly and nuzzled his head affectionately.
"Shh," he cooed quietly, moving back and leaning against the wall, "It's ok. We're all safe. Shh…"
"Leo?" April asked, expecting the eldest turtle to at least say something to the purple clad turtle.
"He's four April," Leo said as an explanation, "I'll talk to him later, after he's calmed down, but I think he's learned his lesson."
Sorry, but I warned you it was short. Ok, now I'll be making the final decision about what ultimately happens to them. Do Raph, Donny and Mikey stay turtle tots? Do all of the turtles get turned back into 16 year olds?
Now, for those of you that voted on my poll on my profile, the winning decision right now is Surprise Me, which I will base on a drawing of three cards, whichever I pick is the ending you get. I have plans for a sad ending, a bittersweet one and a happy one, but which choice on the polls covers which ending I won't tell you.
I am not doing all three of them though. I would, but I have other stories to work on. So, make sure those last minute votes get in quickly, oh and if you want to vote on the poll and leave a vote in a review I'll count it as two votes, and you can vote more than once, but only one vote per review, meaning if you leave a second review with another vote, I'll count it.
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~Moonsetta