just now realizing that i had said that i would post the other two parts of my au on here and completely forgot... so imma do that now..
Please keep in mind that the ages of the tots and April are:
April: 5 years
Raph: 4 years
Donnie: 3 years
Leo: 3 years
Mikey: 2 years
Also, this part takes place several months after the initial mutation of the boys.
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A 5 year old April is wandering around the streets of New York, trying to find a place to take cover before the rain hits later that night. She had seen on a newspaper that it was going to rain soon, and she remembers hearing someone mention that it was going to rain tonight. She sees a pretty dark alleyway that doesn't appear to have anyone in it and decides to take cover there, hiding amongst the trash and under the trash bags, hoping they can cover her enough to make sure she doesn't get too wet. Then, she hears it, something shuffling nearby, a hiss and then some growling, and then it stops. Soon the hissing and growling is being shushed by someone she can only hear and not see.
🤍:
"Shh Red..! You'll get us caught if you keep being noisy like that.." He sighed, turning towards the other three turtles on the ground, his tail curled around his legs as he crouched down and separated Blue and Purple so they would stop arguing while Orange was crawling around and playing with the trash he would find laying around.
Yoshi's ears twitched as he heard some of the trash bags shuffle and move when there was no wind as Red growled in the direction of a pile of trash bags that was bigger than the others. Hearing and seeing this, he stood in between Red and the pile of trash bags while the other three tots hid behind Red. Purple was hissing, Blue was hiding behind Purple, and Orange was in his shell in Blue's arms.
Yoshi growled at the pile of trash bags, every hair on his body standing on end as the bags continued to move around until one of them fell down and revealed a human child, she was quite dirty, her clothes were covered in dirt and grime, torn in some places more than others, and her very curly hair was just below her shoulders in length.
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April stared at Yoshi for a long while, not saying anything as he stared right back at her. Both of them started like that until Purple nearly jumped at April, hissing like a wild animal, at which point April realized she was staring at a giant rat man and four very strange looking turtles and she started to scream, both out of shock and fear. Yoshi quickly shushed her, hoping to get her to stop screaming before someone showed up, which wound up working when she stopped screaming and just stared at the five of them open-mouthed.
🤍:
He stood there, and stared at her for only a moment longer before quickly saying "please don't tell anyone.." he had clasped his paws together and was basically begging her to not tell anyone about them.
"I don't have anyone to tell.. nobody listens to me anyways..." She had mumbled the last bit but he still heard all of it regardless, hearing this he stopped begging and stared at her for a moment, "where are your parents little one?" He asked her, crouching down so he was more eye-level with her.
Red had stopped growling when April stopped screaming, Purple was growling but at least he wasn't hissing, Blue seemed more comfortable but still stayed behind Purple, and Orange was out of his shell and staring at April. Yoshi took note of all of this as he talked with the young girl, learning that get name was April and that she didn't have any parents as they were gone, he wasn't sure if that meant that she was abandoned or if they were dead but he wasn't going to ask either way.
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He stared at her, watching as the big rat man (they aren't calling him dad yet bc it's only been a few months) talked with the strange girl, she looked so interesting, but he could tell just based on the sounds coming from the others to not trust her just yet, so he waited... and waited... and waited. Until he got so bored he decided to ignore the desperate chirps from the others as he waddled/crawled over to April and stared up at her, his tiny tail wagging behind him when she looked down at him and waved, which he responded to by waving back at her.
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He watched Orange go towards the strange human and chirped at him, trying to get him to come back because it wasn't safe, he knew how to speak like the large rat man did, but when he was defensive or scared like this, he couldn't form any proper words and just chirped in desperation. He then watched in horror as the girl reached down and started to pick up Orange, to which Purple responded by charging over and biting her arm, refusing to let go until she put Orange back down.
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April cried out in pain as she looked at Purple and the small amounts of blood coming from her arm before she set Orange back down and backed away from Purple once he let go of her arm, wincing at the pain from the open wound. "Why did you bite me?!" She shouted, holding her arm, while trying to get it to stop bleeding as she glared at Purple, backing up further when he hissed at her before dragging Orange away and chirping at him, scolding him for going near the strange person.
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"Purple! Don't bite people!" Yoshi scolded quickly, Purple turning to him and growling, chirping while pointing at April and trying his hardest to communicate with Yoshi before growling in frustration at not being able to talk properly and sitting down while crossing his arms, he was very obviously pouting about being scolded even though he was just trying to protect Orange. His tail curled near his legs while he glared at the floor, growling whenever Orange or Red tried to get close to him, only relaxing slightly when Blue went over and comforted him.
🤍:
"Are you alright April? I'm so sorry about him.. I'm still trying to teach them to not bite.." He crouched down near her and held out his paws, silently asking for her to put her arm in them so he could inspect the wound. "I'm okay.. I just wasn't expecting it.." She said, wordlessly complying and giving him her arm, flinching when he grabbed some antiseptic and put it on her arm where Purple bit before adding a bandaid. "Well, I'm glad you are alright.." He paused and thought for a moment, resting one of his paws on her arm over the bandaid before saying, "Would you like to stay with us? It's not very clean but it keeps us safe and out of the rain.." He looked up at her waiting for a response as she stared at him, her mouth hanging open again.
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She stood there for a while, thinking about it as Yoshi stood up to his full height and picked up the three youngest turtles, leaving Red on the ground since he was able to walk already. She watched him do this before finally deciding, "I think I'd like that.."
