Turtles Forever

Sons of the Silent Age

April, Casey along with the girls, Elizabeth and the turtles, were on a bridge, while Mikey and Donnie were preparing a raft in the river below them. "Well, what are we still hanging around here for? The sun's about to set! Let's raft down the river like we said that we're gonna and get this camping trip in gear! Yo, Leo, what do ya say? What's going down, bro?" Casey asked Leo.

"Down? The river, I suppose." Leo replied.

"Yeah, right. Okay, Leo." Casey murmured.

"Attention ladies and gentlemen and teenage mutant ninja turtles! This is the first and final boarding call for the U.S.S Turtleriffic! The most happening party cruise at this side of, um, uh, Casey's grandma's barn house! Tickets please, tickets!" Mikey shouted.

"Oh, I got your ticket right here!" Raph shouted. He jumped down, crashing into the water, splashing Mikey.

Everyone got on the boat as it slowly took them down the river as nighttime rolled around. "The river's so perfect. Flowing just as it has for tens of thousands of years. Ancient, mysterious, alive." April said.

"Gee, April, you make it sound almost spooky." Mikey replied. Suddenly, a noise startled everyone.

"W-What was that?" April stammered. A small owl flapped its wings as it soared across the raft flying away.

"It's just a barn owl, nothing to be scared of." Casey laughed.

"Sometimes, sometimes Casey can be so cool, like now. Focused and grown up, mature even." April said to Donnie. Casey let out a loud burp.

"You were saying?" Donnie asked.

"Oh my gosh!" April exclaimed. Everyone looked over to what she was looking at to see a large nuclear power plant. "I didn't know that we live so close to one of these."

"I saw in the local news that they're closing this place down." Casey answered.

"Finally, someone's come to their senses." April said.

"Ah, yes, nuclear power plants. Once heralded as the future of energy. But they become the purple dragons of energy productions. Hard to clean up after even harder to get rid of. But it looks like those cooling towers have already been rigged for demolition. So, this is one nuclear plant that no one has to worry about anymore. Any questions, class?" Donnie asked.

"Hey, Leo, help me out here, bro? Up there on the left, is that the turn to ox bow lake that Master Splinter told us about?" Casey asked Leo.

"Hmm? Yeah, that should be the way to Norwhattacagi." Leo answered and looked back down into the water again.

"Norwhattawhati?" Mikey said.

"Norwhattacagi. That's what the Indians that used to live here called the lake. It means, lake of the lost tribe." Donnie told him.

Casey steered the raft, docking it by the shores of the riverbed and everyone got off to set up camp. As the tents were set up, they gathered around the campfire, telling jokes. "Oh yeah, well I got one for you! How come Utroms are always lonely?" Casey asked everyone.

"Beats me." Raph replied.

"Cause they ain't' got no body. Get it? No body." Casey replied.

"Hey, I got one, Case! How do you measure an Utrom?" Mikey asked him.

"In inches." Mikey answered. "In inches! They don't have feet!" Yuuki and April laughed before looking over at Leo who was standing away from the group, looking out to the river. April glanced over at Yuuki, who shook her head. April sighed and got up as she left walking over to him.