Ninjas & Princesses (TMNT Book 1)

Talking and Busted

Sapphire's POV

We rushed to mine and April's apartment as I continued to repeat that name in my head. 

Leonardo. 

When we got there, April and I ran to her room and attacked her closet. "Sapphire what are you and April doing?" Ember asked. "Yeah, your kind of scaring me." Addie said. I just ignored her and continued searching April's closet. We finally found a box filled with a bunch of old stuff from when April's dad was working with Sacks when I was a baby.

We found notebooks, a camera, and a bunch of video cassettes. One of the notebooks was labeled 'Project Renaissance.' When I looked through the notebook, I saw that symbol that was left on that shipping container. It's a Japanese symbol that means 'family.' My friends sat on the ground circling me and April. I found a video camera and charged it. April grabbed a cassette and put it in the camera. We scooted closer to her and I saw April as a little girl. "Good evening this is April O'Neil reporting live from mine and my baby sister Sapphire dad's lab. I know it sounds pretty boring, but actually he does some pretty cool stuff here, huh Saph?" Young April says pointing the camera towards me. I'm in my high chair. I looked so cute. Baby me smiles at young April and I'm cooing. 

"Time to put the camera away April. You need to feed Sapphire." I heard my adopted dad say. I don't remember his voice, but seeing April sniffling made me realize how much she loved him. I side hugged her and the girls joined in.

"And now I will show you something amazing. It's supposed to be from another planet in outer space." Young April says. Then we see Eric Sacks injected something into a turtle. "Mr. Sacks, what sort of experiments are you doing here?" Young April asks. We see Mr. Sacks and my adopted dad laughing while holding me. Then Mr. Sacks says, "That's a very complicated question. We're trying to change the world." He explains. 

"Look at the camera. Hello Splinter." We see young April talking to a rat. I don't remember her having a pet rat. Of course, I don't remember I was only a baby. "And these are mine and Sapphire's little turtles; Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello." Young April says as the video shows four different small turtles. 

"I knew it!" April said. The vigilante. We saw him, we saw them. And Sapphire and I knew them when we were small, because they were our pets. They were our childhood pets, and they were named after Italian Renaissance painters." My sister says talking like a crazy person.

I can't believe it. I knew My Leonardo, even before that day when I met him when I was seven. He has certainly grown into something amazing. When our eyes locked, I felt this feeling in the pit in my stomach. Like butterflies were flying around in my stomach. I remember blushing a little bit when he looked at me. He makes me feel things I have never felt before towards a guy before. I think I fallen in love with him.

Ember's POV

To think that Raphael my turtle boy, my hero who saved me last night, was alive in April's and Saph's dad's lab, just as a normal turtle. He was so cute when he was little. I still can't believe how big he's gotten over the last eight years. He is very hot. Ay Dios, what am I thinking? I've gone loco. Have I seriously fallen for Raphael? I think I have. I finally found someone that accepts me and doesn't call me a freak.

Daisy's POV

My Donatello. The turtle I met in the junkyard when I was seven, has returned into my life, and he was created in Mr. Sacks' lab fifteen years ago. He was so handsome when I saw him on the roof. He's really, really, tall. He looked so cute with his glasses. When I looked up at him, and gazed into his hazel green eyes, I felt my heart flutter, and my cheeks felt warm. It was impossible for me to feel this way. I never felt this way for a guy ever. Donatello, my genius turtle has made me feel the impossible. I have fallen hard, for that seven foot, glasses-wearing, high-tech, genius of a turtle.

Addie's POV

This... was... so.... AWESOME!!!! My turtle, who has a hot, sexy, surfer accent, was back! He was so handsome and super funny. I wonder if he loves pizza? I wonder if he loves me like I love him? What a minute...love? Do I love Michelangelo? ...I do. Because he meant the world to me when I met him in the alley behind my family's bakery when I was seven. He told me he liked my hair, because it reminded him of cotton candy. He made me smile, he made me laugh. And now he's making me feel things I've never felt before towards a guy. I am in love with my surfer turtle dude. My Michelangelo.

*With the turtles*

As the turtles were walking home, they each couldn't help but think about that one girl with different beautiful colored hair. Leo couldn't stop thinking about Sapphire. Her blue hair was so beautiful, flowing in the breeze. Her icy blue eyes that he could get lost into. He remembered her from when he was a child, how she wasn't afraid of him and was the first human to accept him.

Raphael couldn't stop thinking about Ember and her fiery spirit, and her ruby red hair. He saw her fighting back against the Foot in the subway. She was a little firecracker. He liked her spirit. He remembered meeting her all those years ago. How he saved her from those bullies that tried to cut her beautiful hair. And last night when those drunks almost raped her. Then he saved her again during the hostage situation. He feels like her hero. He feels something towards her that he hasn't felt before.

Donatello thought about how Daisy looked at him. She was so mesmerizing with her purple hair and she looked so intelligent with her pretty glasses. He felt feelings that were new to him. She was a true beauty.

Michelangelo couldn't help but think about the cutie with the pink hair. She has become even prettier since he last saw her when he was seven. She was perfect. He loved everything about her. Her smile, her giggles, her cotton candy colored hair. He wanted to call her his Dudette, but he felt like maybe she didn't have those feelings towards him. Or did she?

The turtles quietly returned home, being as quiet as they could without their master knowing. If he knew they disobeyed him... game over. 

"Is he here?" Raphael whispered. 

"I don't see him. Donnie?" Leo asks his genius of a brother. 

"My thermal scans indicate that there may be a slight possibility that he's not here." Donnie answers. "He's not here guys, he's not here." Mikey says while being shushed by his brothers. 

"Okay fall in... quietly." Leo says threatening his brothers. They landed softly as possible inside the lair, but Mikey made the most noise. "So, guys. If it wasn't already obvious with that pink hair girl, Addie, dibs." Mikey whispered pointing to his self, telling his brothers that Addie was his. 

"Shush. If Master Splinter catches us, he'll send us back to the Ha'shi." Leo says. "I ain't going back to the Ha'shi." Raph says. "Every time we're in the Ha'shi is because of you." Leo fires back, while shoving Raph's shoulder. "Well bro, you don't have to worry about me dragging you down anymore." Raph says shoving Leo's face. "What's that supposed to mean?" Mikey asks. "I'm going out on my own. First chance I get." Raph says. 

"How we gonna finish our hip-hop Christmas album bro? You're the hype man." Mikey says. This ended in a big shushing war against the brothers. "You got spit in my eye." Raph fires at Mikey. Then Leo has the last shush, then says, "He's not going anywhere. We all stick together." 

"Sorry I spit in your eye bro." Mikey says, but then Donnie interrupts by saying, "Uh, guys, guys. We got a bogey." Once he said that a flashlight turns on and all the brothers freeze in place.

The brothers have never been more terrified in their whole lives. Any normal teenager would have been grounded for sneaking out, but the turtles would get worse punishments from their sensei. 

Master Splinter, the mutated rat, who is the father/sensei to the turtles, hits Leonardo in the back of the legs, which causes him to fall. "Where have you been?" He asked. Raph tried to think of something, but Splinter just choked him with his tail, then released him. "Uh, I forgot to soak my retainer." Donnie says trying to sneak passed his sensei, but Splinter stops him by tripping him with his tail. 

"Oh, I'm totally sleepwalking. Look Mikey's sleeping and walking. He's totally innocent." He says, but Splinter hits him as well. Leaving all four brothers in pain. "Enough! You disobeyed a direct order. Why did you go above ground?! What happened?!" Splinter asks enraged at his sons. 

None of them says a word. Not wanting to tell him about them fighting the Foot Clan or meeting the girls. "Very well. If that's how it's going to be...to the Ha'shi!" Splinter orders his sons, which they all groan at. It was going to be a long night.