Masked in Green

Name Game (part one)

This is part one! I promise to finish it when I can!! -A

The Name Game.

A sister, now give that a moment to sink in. At fifteen years old you are given a sister. Now this sister is also fifteen but she’s younger than you pretty exciting right? Now think about it this way, from my point of view. You are a mutant turtle, a teenage mutant turtle, trained in the art of Ninjitsu, a teenage mutant ninja turtle. You’ve lived with your three teenage mutant ninja turtle brothers and your mutant rat sensei in the sewers of New York for the past fifteen years of your life, in a little under a year though you have gone to the surface for the first time and had to save a girl’s life. The first time you set foot in the real world you had to fight for your life, your brother’s lives and this girls’ life. Something like that makes you cautious, then you are given leadership of the team it’s your job to protect them. OK now you can add in our ‘sister’ who might I add is human.  I’m also going to add two more things. One, humans have tried to dissect us i.e. Agent Bishop, two; I don’t completely trust her amnesia, even if my younger brother Donatello says that’s what she has. When I told Master Splinter about my feelings all he said was.

“Now go meditate on that.” So here I am meditating about the possible new threat while they are out there welcoming her to our family, well excuse me for being a little slow to trust.

“Hey Leo we need your help down here!” Our baby brother Michelangelo called up to me, I leapt up and basically flew down the stairs worrying about what she had done to my family, I drew my double katana as I came over the bridge. Stopping before I got the couch I noticed she was nowhere to be seen, odd, what I found even more odd was that all three of my brothers were sitting cross-legged on the floor with April, whom we saved.

“Uh guys? What are you doing?” I asked. A pile of differently bandanas littered the floor in the middle of their little circle. Mikey held up a pink mask to his orange one.

“Trying to find a mask for Amie.” He said smiling. Raph whacked him upside the head clutching a black band.

“We are not naming her Amie nitwit!” I looked at them awestruck, all this was for her? They were going to give her a mask and a name? Sensei came into the room and help up his hand for silence.

“My sons, Kodomo is a strong believer of the Greek Gods perhaps you could name her after one of them also you should make her feel like she fits in while you are picking her mask color.” He walked into his own room and closed the door leaving us to ponder what he said.

“Make her fit in; well you guys are turtles so her mask should be green.” April grabbed a green bandana from the bottom of the pile, the guys all nodded and casted the masks they were holding back into the pile. First Mikey’s pink, Donnie’s silver, and Raph’s black landed last. They looked up at me like I should be as excited as they were, so I sighed under my breath and sat down between Mikey and Donnie. April continued talking after we had all cleaned up the pile of masks. “Strong believer of Greek mythology… Donnie we need a list of all the Greek goddesses that start with A.” Donnie raced off to get his laptop coming back roughly two minutes later with it in hand.

“A list of all the Greek goddesses starting with A; there is, Amphitrite: Greek Goddess of the sea and wife of the God Poseidon. Aphrodite: Olympian Goddess of love and beauty. Artemis: The Greek Goddess of the hunt, nature and birth. Asteria: - Goddess of the stars and the last immortal to live with man. Atalanta: - A competitive warrior Goddess, adventurous and an amazing runner. She was turned into a lion by Aphrodite. And last is Athena: Goddess of war, wisdom and domestic crafts. She was one of the Olympian Goddesses too.”