A Family Worth Fighting For

chapter 1: unexpected views

Dispite the chilly autumn day, the air seemed heavy, thick with fog, it was like any other day in New York, izzy had just moved here from her previous home, she wasent used to the big city. All the people walking around, the talking, the cars on the street, it was all to much for her sometimes. Izzy moved here from a country state, she sat in her classroom, pencil tapping against the desk waiting for this nightmare to end, for school to let us go for winter break, a time to let us do whatever we wanted. Soon the bell rang, she grabbed her bag, and darting out if the room, she had a long walk ahead of her. She walked along the streets, not paying much mind to her surroundings, the world seemed fuzzy in this moment, could be the fog, the fog made it almost impossible to actually see anything in this city now. izzy went to the park, her bag in hand and sketchbook in the other. She loved to draw her surroundings, the trees, flowers, it was all enjoyable to draw and color. She sat down, the grass underneath her was wet from the fog, but it didn't phase her, she grabbed her pencils and began sketching out the park in front of her, it wasemt long before she finished her sketch. Packing up her bag and leaving the park it had been a few hours that had passed, the once docile streets of new York where overrun with people just getting off of work, it was a nightmare. As she walked home she heard commotion on the rooftops, strange, it sounded like talking. She decided to investigate this talking she heard, what was it? Maybe some people that climbed up the fire escapes? She climbed up the fire escape that was on the building the talking came from and peeked over seeing creatures, what where they? Where they aliens? She took out her phone and snapped a picture, but she forgot the flash, creating the spotlight all on her the creatures turned to her, intimidating looks spread across their faces, she backed up, nearly falling off of the ladder she was standing on. Izzy shoved her phone into her pocket and slid down the ladder, and onto the ground, soon the creatures where chasing after her, she didn't know what they where, or what they would do when they caught her. They chased her into an alley, cornering her against the dead end, seemingly no escape, no way out as these creatures walk twords her, she was in trouble now

Izzy looked down at the sewerhole cover, a horrid option but it was the only was to go. She lifted the sewer cover and dropped down I to the sewer, gagging at the smell, but she ran, hoping they wouldn't follow down here. She was wrong, they did indeed follow her, one of them did. The biggest turtle and the scariest one at that. It was a one way sewer tunnel, with other smaller sewer lines connecting to it. Suddenly the blue turtle flew out of one of the tunnels, almost grabbing izzy, he soon ran after her quickly picking up speed. The more she ran the more it seemed to get..warmer? Yes warmer there where light at the end, a way out? No a sewer tunnel wouldn't just end like that, izzy's thoughts where interrupted by a purple and orange turtle jumping out in front of her. They had her cornered, and with no possible escape route, she was doomed, izzy dodged to the side, hoping to throw these turtles off they're groove, she threw the orange one off. However the purple turtle seems to have predicted her moved using his mechanical arm to grab her backpack, holding it over his head, out of reach. His brothers soon joining beside him as the light from what seemed like a home lit up they're colors and outlines. They didn't look all that scary anymore "what now..?" One of them whispered, hinting that a human now knows where they lived "I don't know..maybe we take them do dad..?" Another one chimed in, they where discussing something, while keeping an eye on the girl

Izzy was on the ground, her body shaking from the adrenaline that was coursing through her veins, what was going to happen to her, thoughts running through her head 'oh God, this is how I die isint it'. Soon she heard the blue one speak up "mikeyyy help me with this" he stated, leaning on his sword. The orange one came running up to the blue one and the human, happy to help, the orange turtle reached down for the girls arm, as did the blue one, together they half carried her, bringing her somewhere. Izzy shrank away from them a little bit, unsure what they're motives where, her mind still racing at the fact that she was going to die, or be eaten, mostly by the red one, he was large and appeared the be a carnivores creature. They all came into a room with what looked like a TV on the wall- Really it was only a light picture but it was the best they had. In a big yellow chair, someone sat. you wouldn't be able to tell who- since they were sitting in the chair and the turtles were at the moment some meeters behind it. "Dad.." the red one spoke. "we accidentally got seen by a human and they accidentally found hour home and-" the red one got cut off, by what seemed to be a tiny rat man jumping off his chair and turning to them. "WHAT-?" He looked furious, as the four turtles bowed in respect to what seemed to be their father? Izzy would assume it's they're father, or perhaps just they're caretaker?

Izzy jumped by the loud yelling, she looked at the ground, maybe if she didn't look at them they wouldn't see her. Pretty stupid thought, because it was obvious they saw her. The rat man gave a judgemental look, skeptical, with a good reason, a human finding four humanoid turtles and a rat man? "First. Get her to delete the photo, then one of you order food." What? That was it? Izzy thought, the orange and blue turtles brought her over to the couch, sitting her down. Izzy curled up, taking the least amount if space humaly possible, the orange turtle staying by her side the entire time, as the blue one left to join his red brother. The orange one soon piped up, very loudly "hello! My name is mikey! MI-KA-EY" the orange turtle practically shouting in her ear. Izzy just glanced at mikey, swallowing the golf ball sized knot in her throat, she didn't say anything, her voice would have been to squeaky and high pitched. She grabbed her phone, turning the phone away from him so he wouldn't see my password, she opened her photos app, deleting the photos she didn't want to start anything anyway...

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THIS IS NOT FINISHED, I JUST WANTED TO POST THE FIRST CHAPTER, ITS ROCKY AND THIS IS MY FIRST FANFIC