Part two of Tales of the Hidden City Ya'll
I own nothing except the stuff I made up
Donnie VS. Witch Town!
It was the day of the Peace Festival, an Annual Celebration of the day the Town's founder made peace with a large giant Yokai that lived in the Mushroom Forest, if they gave him a certain potion, he wouldn't flatten the place. Sounded fair. Who would collect what was drawn out of a hat. Krysta got Rose Petals and her classmate Gentry got the Yokai worms. Gathering the Rose Petals was easy enough and the other ingredient gathers were done.
Gentry was not Krysta not only heard her cringe at the fact she had to get them. But wasn't very good at catching them when she used magic to make them crawl out of the ground where they would speed off. It would've been easier just to dig down where they were and surprise them.
"Hey Mira," Krysta said as she kept a grip on the paper bag holding her petals. "Why didn't you have me find the worms. Not to throw anyone under the bus. But Gentry hates dirt and I've been hearing them non-stop all morning."
Mira turned to her. She was a large portly witch with pink skin and pointed elf ears. She wore a purple witch hat and dress with an indigo cape to match her hat and moon clip. She had golden hair flowing around her face and shoulders with a lizard-like cat familiar on her shoulders. "We must follow every tradition to a T my dear. That makes the potion taste its best. Besides." She added with a slightly teasing smile. "I would've thought you'd be more excited. It is said that those chosen to gather Rose Petals will experience True love in the future."
"Wha-what-wha-excusemewhat!?" Krysta stuttered completely flustered her tail and fur completely bristled out even her hair reacted. The cat's ears suddenly pricked Mira gasped happily and went off to the gate indicating visitors. Krysta went up to the gate quickly with Mira already being there as the little Will-O-Wisp cats began to sing.
"Good day Hello please sign our visitor's log." The cats sang like they had for her handing a scroll towards to her pleasant surprise Donnie and April. When April did, she was given green Witch Clothes with a cape "You stay don't go!" They sang crowding Donnie. "We pledge not to turn you into a Frog!" They finished putting Donnie in a Frog Suit last time that did that it was Hueso.
Krysta thought about her own Witch Town outfit a Navy Tunic with a Silver cape and black pants with white boots. As April looked over herself impressed. "Whoa now that's a cool greeting!" she said flapping the cape a little as Krysta giggled.
Donnie just growled aggressively pulling the Frog suit off himself. "Hey guys!" she called.
"Krysta Hey!" April said as they high fived.
"How Delightful you all know each other." Mira said as Donnie scoffed rolling his eyes.
"What's with him? He's usually stoic not Sultry." Krysta whispered.
"I told him I didn't want help with my science project and wanted Mystic powers to bling, it up." April said back in a low volume as Donnie glared.
Krysta was instantly confused. "Wait why isn't he helping you?" she asked. April wordlessly pulled out her phone and showed her three pictures from the last three years. One had the floor becoming lava. Another had a Potato battery come to life and terrorize the class grabbing Dale's face with Donnie screaming in the corner of the frame. "Got it." She said simply.
"This has all been smoke and mirrors!" he snarled slightly. April huffed.
"I apologize for my skeptical friend here." April sighed.
"Yeah, me too." Krysta muttered rubbing the back of her head.
"Oh, Pishaw today is all about making peace. Even with our crankiest of neighbors." Mira assured them. "For Today is our Peace Offering Festival! Started Six Hundred years ago by our esteemed founder, Abigail the good!" Mira said with a flourish pointing her wand at the at the bronze statue of a smiling portly witch with a large, pointed nose and witch outfit riding on a broom.
"Yeah, today is kind of a big deal for Witch Town." Krysta pointed out.
"But it is also a day of fun! So, you three kids go! Go and have some Mystic Fun." Mira cheered.
"You know the feeling of 'fun' is a chemical reaction in the brain so Mystic Fun will always be science fun ZING!" Donnie said chuckling as April glared at him.
"You did not just zing our hosts." She hissed angrily.
"You know I don't pass up a good zing." Donnie quietly whispered.
"You're embarrassing me!" she hissed back.
Mira looked at Krysta. "Uhhh he's just in a mood! How about you go help with stuff there!" she said shoving Mira away. The mayor went on her way as Krysta grabbed Donnie and turned him towards her.
"Donnie! Listen I don't know what crawled up your butt and died! But this festival is very important to the people of Witch Town! It's not just a historical holiday! It's a literal peace agreement between the town and a giant Yokai. They're making him a potion to keep him from smashing the town for another year! As is their agreement! Abigail the Good started the whole thing! If that Giant thinks he's being cheated or poisoned, he'll kill things! Many things! Please avenge your sweet, sweet science another day! For the Love of the Sistine Chapel!"
"Not to mention Donnie I really need the help for that Project!" April added.
"Mmm hmmm" Donnie grunted insincerely.
"Don't make me use this!" April growled pulling out her bat.
"Fine!" Donnie said calmly, putting up his hands defensively. "For you April, for one day only I just let something go." He grumbled.
They then saw a flash of color. Gentry was using her spell to get the worms again. She was wearing a indigo jacket and hat with large ears that had earrings folded down in her teal colored hair. She had a light blue tube top and pink skirt.
"From Soil to Sky I summon the beasts of the underworld!" she called as bolts of magic from her cauldron that zapped the ground. Krysta had realized though that was a good way to give the worms a heads up. So, when they came out, they quickly jumped away while she hopelessly dove for them.
"Whoa that was so cool!" April said as Gentry sighed when she couldn't catch them.
"Oh yes very cool!" Donnie asked.
"Like a sonic wave in the earth that would've forced them up ah, Ah?" Krysta asked, trying to help Donnie be happier by finding common ground.
"The Sonic wave would've stunned the worms allowing for easy capture. But to each their own Donnie said as he quietly lets something go!" Donnie snippily replied snapping his teeth as Krysta huffed.
"Darn missed another one." Gentry huffed.
"I can't believe you just did that!" April said impressed "So Cray!"
"Thanks!" Gentry replied standing up. "I've gotta collect the Annias worms for tonight's Peace Offering potion! They're so hard to catch and I'm like totally behind."
"They wouldn't be if you just dug into the ground instead of forcing them up. That's how they know." Krysta pointed out.
"I'd rather not honestly." Gentry pouted before April continued lifting her mood.
"I know exactly how you feel! I got a Project on Chairs that I'm way behind on." April replied.
"Chairs? No wonder she wants magic to make it more interesting." Krysta thought.
"I was hoping to find a spell to give it some Razzle Dazzle," April explained wriggling her fingers a little.
"I don't have much time but in honor of Peace Offering Day I'd be happy to help you out." Gentry replied with a smile. She and April really seemed to gel, Krysta wondered if she should invite her along for the next Girl's night. "Would something like this work?" she asked, having her finger circle the top of her cauldron.
"Let the sedentary sparkle!" she said zapping a nearby chair with a newt Yokai sitting on it. Small fireworks began to burst from it.
"Wow!" April said in awe her eyes widening and her jaw dropping while Donnie's eyes narrowed, and his teeth clenched tightly.
"Oooh…Fireworks…..Science never would have thought of something it was the…..original inventor of!" he growled through his teeth.
"Yeah, but you can't attach actual fire works to a chair without it exploding." Krysta noted. Donnie gave her a death glare.
"Uhhhh for now at least?" she asked a bit nervously sensing she had made a mistake.
"What was that?" Asked a witch that rushed over. "Did I hear thou doth need dazzly enhancements?" she asked eager to help but faking having not been spying on them. "Perchance this!" she said contorting her body as green magic shone around her making the Yokai chair float in the air and spin aimlessly around them.
"That kind of looks painful…" Krysta hummed in thought at her. But it was then more Witches came.
"Sweet ya'll are amazing!" April said as Mira laughed having heard the commotion.
"How lovely we're helping our guests dazzle up some chairs I love it! Splendid!" Mira said happily ready rally the other witches. "Come one come all, lets show our guests what we Witches can do!"
Within minutes all kinds of spells were going off. One that put a chair in a sparkly bubble one that covered it in a blue aura. Another that made their chair grow wings some grew green gooey roots several were floating. There were others that were changing into different types of chairs and one was even glowing rainbow.
"You guys rock! There's so much to choose from!" April said excitedly.
Donnie however was glaring into the ground feeling nothing but contempt for this whole situation. Krysta noticed this. "Donnie calm down, they're just party spells nothing major."
Donnie let out a growl. "THAT'S IT! NO MORE! I am unclenching my teeth!" he shouted. "Your mystic magic is not amazing, it is simple and soft! There I Said it!"
"Donnie!" Krysta hissed.
"You slight us on Peace offering day?" Mira growled getting angry now.
"He didn't!" Krysta said in his defense.
"He promised he wouldn't!" April added with a glare at Donnie.
"April I'm sorry I can stay quiet no longer! You should've selected me to help with your project!" Donnie snapped. "Science is King and I shall prove it through a combination of Biology and Physics that I like to call SOOOONNNNNGGGG!" he shouted pulling out the Speaker functions and even some electronic keyboards and autotune devices on his battle shell as Krysta huffed.
"Wait what!?" April asked. Donnie began dancing as April sighed embarrassed and Krysta just stared at him with a half-lidded look and slightly slumped over. Donnie began dancing around with lasers and a massive amount of bass beating everywhere.
"Let me show you the things that science can do it's good for me and it's good for-" One laser went astray, Krysta yelped quickly putting up a large ice block that took the blow instead of the Founder statue it almost destroyed.
The Witches screamed in horror. "He almost destroyed the statue of our beloved founder!" one of them shouted as the Newt Yokai from before was still floating on her chair.
"It was an accident! He never meant to go this far!" Krysta defended desperately as Donnie looked shocked and stunned by what almost happened.
"Please we'll just get a spell for my project and go!" April begged.
"Fine in honor of Peace Day we will allow this slight to pass on these terms." Mira said coldly. And it was then that other witches started isolating them.
Krysta turned to April. "I promise worse case scenario I'll help you!" Krysta, assured.
"Thank you, Krysta!" April said in relief as Donnie let out an audible Hrumph.
"Listen we've got our own problems and don't need to deal with yours!" Gentry growled at Donnie. "I Still need to get those worms in the next hour. If I don't get them, it won't be good."
"Won't be good you say?" Donnie asked sliding right up into her in a cool pose his arms cross. "How about I get you these worms and in exchange you can focus on helping April get a spell for her science project."
"What really?" April asked surprised by Donnie's sudden leniency.
"My peace offering for losing my cool earlier." Donnie replied.
"Great! I'll show you where I've been hearing them the loudest. You two spell hunt!" Krysta said, grabbing Donnie and pulling him along to where she was out of sight scared Donnie would lose it again.
They found themselves out covered in a bright soft baby blue light as Krysta's ears perked. "Okay this spot should do. Now Donnie," she said gripping his shoulders. "This is important! These worms are the main ingredient to the Peace Potion! But they CANNOT! Follow me now CANNOT be tampered with! No advanced aging, no, genetically modifying no resizing, I don't even want you dying them purple Understand!" she said pressing her face right up against Donnie's her snout pointed down.
"Yes, I get it! I Will simply collect the worms." Donnie replied.
"Okay, I've gotta go take my spot by the cauldron in the town square, remember Donnie! Hell you can even do the sonic wave thing BUT NOTHING ELSE!" she said loudly and firmly. She pointed at him as she slid away giving him a glare before disappearing out of sight.
"Donnie huffed but once he was sure she was gone he immediately did the exact opposite of what she told him. After using a Jack Hammer to pull out a bunch of Adolescent worms he then used a drone from his battle shell to begin making them age rapidly making them look deformed and gross and twitched a little in their dishes. Donnie laughed Maniacally. Something that was heard by Raph and Slash.
"Uh oh that's Donnie's evil laugh, I hope he's not getting into trouble or doing the exact opposite of what someone told him to do." Raph said worriedly.
"Relax, I doubt he can cause to much trouble out here. The People of Witch Town are actually, pretty chill you'd have to be insulting them in everyway or almost wrecking their founder statue to really piss them off." Slash assured him.
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"I Found a spell that launches you into the air and back down safely on the chair." April chirped happily showing a small cauldron Gentry had made for her.
"Oooh I need me some of that!" Krysta said, her tail wagging. She could not only have lots of fun, but it'd be good for Parkour as well. Okay I'll meet you in the town square!" Krysta said running.
"Everything's going smoothly now we just need Donnie," April said confidently.
"Ladies!" Donnie said proudly holding up a jar of worms that twitched and looked almost dead smushed together in a jar. "Science the academic disciplines!
"Ewww what's with those worms they look way off." Gentry squicked.
"Oh, they're fine they looked a little small, so I speed aged them with, say it with me SCIENCE!" he declared with a fist pump before huffing at their lack of reactions. "You did not say it with me."
"Well, we're out of time so they'll have to do!" Gentry said grabbing the Jar as Donnie smugly followed. They soon came to the center of the town around a giant cauldron. April tried to make herself unseen still embarrassed and wary. Thank Heavens Krysta had been here.
She stood as calmly as she could trying not to shuffle to much her ears twitching nervously as Mira began speaking. "Gather, gather, gather! Once again, our splendid festival, comes to a close with the traditional peace offering potion." Mira said as Krysta and the other Witches including a young fluffy bunny Yokai beside her placed their ingredients into the cauldron. Gentry arrived and threw in her worms as Krysta backed up and tried to make herself look as small as possible with the Giant coming.
Mira waved her hands over the cauldron. "The year has gone by oh so sweet, the Peace offering potion is now complete!" she said with a smile. Everyone began to cheer as everyone whistled. "As peace offering day ends our old friendships are renewed!" Mira added.
"Well would you look at that, hated and I still saved the day," Donnie said smirking.
"Wait is that why you did this?" April asked with an arched eyebrow sounding slightly hurt.
"No, it's because I was sorry, about being close-minded and about how wrong they were." He said quickly.
"Donnie," Krysta growled having been listening. She heard and felt powerful footsteps which shut her up. She looked up with large eyes in fear as the monster towered over them. Like Attack on Titan.
Donnie and April were looking up in fear as well. It was a huge blue skinned horned giant with fisheyes and lips and large whiskers on its face with a pair of blue underwear. "Ohhh the Great Morgan! Accept our peace offering and leave us for another year!" Mira said reverently as the other Witches bowed their heads. The Beast picked up the cauldron and swigged down the whole thing. But then Donnie shoved through the crowd with a victorious laugh.
"Your mystic Potion was brought to you by science! How do you like them worms!" Donnie said pointing up at the Giant as he drank the whole thing not really caring. Krysta glared and was about blow a small frigid breeze on the back of Donnie's neck when the Monster Gag and suddenly turned a bright orange.
"Something is amiss his orange hue points to worms improperly aged!" Mira called, pointing at the giant.
Krysta sharply turned to Donnie who smiled nervously as she barred her teeth with her ears flattening against her head. "You…DIDN'T!" she snarled with a sharp hiss.
The Monster roared and lifted up its arms to smash the founders statue. Krysta however was quick to act and engulfed Morgan in a frigid wind to freeze him solid. She grunted in pain as she tried push herself.
"Wait don't if I save the day with my tech, they'll have to admit science is better!" Donnie shouted as he activated his Tech-bo.
"DONNIE!" April shouted angrily.
"I AM ACTUALLY GOING TO STRANGLE HIM AT THIS RATE!" Krysta snarled in her thoughts as Donnie went in for the attack.
"Witches give Krysta more power!" she said as several of them began channeling power into her some of them even doing the weird looked painful method of casting as she managed to encase him up to his shoulders in thick ice.
Krysta panted falling to her knees. "I can't go on!" she gasped as she looked up to see the ice starting to break as Morgan got one arm free, much to her horror.
"Occum's Razor!" Donnie shouted hitting him hard. Getting a few more hits in as the monster now even more enraged grabbed the rocket extension at the end of his Tech-Bo and broke it off before punching Donnie and causing him to crash into April. The cauldron she had now broken and splashed all over her trusty bat soaking it in the magic and turning it green. With a Lemon-lime colored aura around it.
"Wow!" she said in awe as Donnie shook out the cobwebs. Morgan now completely free charged up a ball of power in his mouth before firing it at their direction. "LOOK OUT!" April said rushing ahead of Krysta and Donnie swinging her bat as hard as she could. The now Mystic Bat clashed and parried against the ball before April managed to swing it causing the ball to be sent back to its owner. Making him stumble back as several witches began zapping him and trying to lead him out of the town. Which at this point had been damaged in several places around the main square and outskirts with magic fire hazards happening around them.
"Dang Witches got game!" April said impressed.
"Lucky Mystic Swipe," Donnie huffed.
"Oh admit it already," April said rolling her eyes. "Sometimes Mystic Powers aren't all that bad!" she said spreading her arms out to emphasize her point.
"I will not!" Donnie snapped defiantly.
"AAHHG!" April shouted angrily. "Why!? All I've asked is for you to be a little open-minded about magic! But you've been a stubborn jerkass! Why are you so obsessed with proving me wrong on this!?" April shouted.
"Because I'm the science guy! Solving problems with my tech is all I'm good for!" Donnie admitted.
Krysta gasped in shock as April looked at Donnie sadly just as shocked. Did he really think that?! "Donnie…" she muttered surprised.
"But when you chose magic over me, I got scared!" Donnie admitted tearing up a little. "Because, if Mystic Powers can do everything, I can do but better. Then why would you guys even need me?" he asked brokenly looking down at his Broken Tech-Bo.
April grabbed his face to make him look at her gently of course. But she looked at him worried and concerned but a bit upset. "How can you say that, Donnie!?" she said before letting him go and pointing at him with a determined look. "Now you listen to me Donnie! You aren't important to me because of your tech or science! You're important to me because of you!" she emphasized.
"Magic, science they're just tools it's how you use them that matters." Krysta pointed.
April nodded. "Right and you choose to help people Donnie." Donnie's eyes shimmered but he smiled at this.
April smiled back, "If you ask me, I don't think mystic powers or science is better than the other. If anything, they're strongest together, just like us we work best when we're a team right?" she asked holding up a fist to bump.
"Right!" Donnie said happily fist bumping back before he was karate chopped by April. "Auugh Wha- April!" he whined in response.
"Which is why you should've just said what you were feeling in the beginning instead of fighting us all day." April scolded.
"Yeah, you're right I'm sorry. I really caused a mess huh?" Donnie asked nervously.
"Yeah, a huge one!" Krysta scolded before Morgan roared again.
"But segway April might I suggest a Mystic science team up?" Donnie asked.
"Now you're talking!" April shouted rushing forward as Donnie activated his Jet pack and flew up.
"APPPPRRIILLLL O'NEEEEEILL AND BAT!" she shouted, increasing her speed with Donnie's help and her mystic bat flaring up with emerald, green fire as she slammed it the side of the Beast's head. They then darted around him getting hits, in as he stood in place trying to swat at them.
"Fibonacci!" Donnie shouted getting a good hit in with his broken Tech Bo. He grabbed April's hand and and they flew higher into the air.
"Mystic Science BASH!" They shouted slamming both of their weapons into his head making him stumble and fall to his knees and pass out as the two took a pose their eyes glowing brightly. Krysta sense some kind of power bubble within them.
The Witches gathered around surprised. "Thanks for the accidental power up Gentry you da witch!" April said happily pointing to her bat.
"People of Witch Town Hear me!" Donnie declared. "I was wrong to not be more open-minded. It is just that Mystic Powers are the one thing I have not been able to solve! As a Man of science it is maddening to finally come across something you do not understand! Especially when your dum-dum brothers totally do. And wave their dum-dum weapons and their dum-dum hands all the dum-dum time!" he said quickly taking a breath. "But that is just a long way of saying I am sorry." He said not noticing the smile that Krysta and April gave him.
There was silence before Mira shouted. "SEIZE HIM SEIZE THE SCIENTIST!" she shouted as they raised pitch forks and torches. Donnie and April backed away nervously.
"Perhaps you do not appreciate how rare a heart felt apology is for me." Donnie suggested nervously.
"WAAAAAAAAAIIIIT!" Krysta shrieked, making them stop. "Donatello is a scientist. But he is also a stupid teenage boy, who only just turned fifteen! And he was being insecure because he felt like he wasn't good to anyone anymore. We've all been there, like we're being replaced or traded up. And Donnie, I guess felt like he had to earn his place. I remember being told about a time where Witches hated science because they thought it would replace them."
The witches murmured amongst themselves about that being true. "But both are still here, and they can co-exist and they have! As much as my friend was being an ass and ignoring my warnings, I assure you He never meant to hurt anyone. He just wanted to prove a point. That he now knows he never had too."
The witches lowered their tools looking a bit thoughtful. It was then Mental Leo appeared to Krysta. "That's great you've hooked them bring it home!"
"Witches and Scientists! The One thing they have in common is humanity thought feelings and the desire to be loved and needed!" she said her eyes shimmering as she gripped at her chest.
"AWWWWWWWW!" the crowd went.
"Alright Krysta you have convinced us we will not have them arrested. On ONE condition!" she added with a growl it was after that the three spent the rest of the day Donnie especially helping to rebuild the destroyed parts of the town. With April and Krysta promising to monitor his science stuff.
Eventually they sat by a fountain as they finished exhausted. "Okay, that's part one part two you be back to scrub cauldrons at my school without science. And you're buying me a dozen cupcakes from Unbearleavable Sweetness. Later. I know you're loaded." She said with a slight glare which Donnie knew he had earned.
There was suddenly screaming and bouncing towards the founder's statue was an inflated Macaque Yokai and two Yokai cops that Donnie vaguely recognized from when they had met up with Leo and Hueso after Italy. "OUR SACRED STATUE IS IN DANGER AGAIN!" one of the Witches cried out.
"April jump in at two o Clock in ten seconds swing at five as hard as you can!" Donnie quickly instructed as April jumped in once she had She swung as hard as she could where Donnie directed and sent the ball of Yokai flying.
After that the two Krysta tagging along in her usual outfit sat at the table where Raph had collapsed at. "So how was your day?" Donnie asked.
Raph merely grunted in response.
I have restored the original speech between Donnie and April you're welcome! Yeah Donnie won't be arrested but he is working towards earning Witch Town's forgiveness.
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