Mᴜᴛᴀɴᴛ Aᴘᴏᴄᴀʟʏᴘsᴇ 6: Tʜᴇ Vᴀʟʟᴇʏ

09 || 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒

Actual photo of Downtown Spokane! (Partial)

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Thankfully the girls made it back home in one piece, arriving to the side doors of the school without being seen by guards or other members of their community. Quickly, they rushed inside, holding their treasures they found in the city. They giggled and ran up the stairs, sprinting to Vincent's bedroom so they could set their belongings down and take a breather. "Here we are." Vv says, opening the door and letting Osa in, placing their items on the nearest table. "We can finally rest." She turned to her bed where she found Bethany is not wrapped in the blankets. "Duke must have Beth..." She put her hands on her hips.

"It's best you go find her. She might be hungry." Osa says to Vv, unzipping her backpack. "Oh, and if the boys or anyone asks about where we got these things--"

"We found 'em down the street. Got it." Vincent says, walking to the door. "Come on. Leave your stuff. We need to find our boys."

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"Next week?" Donnie sharply asked Duke, sitting in the same chair in the library. He thought it was crazy that a little wedding was being planned for next week. "We just got here."

"Leo is okay with this from what Vv told me." Duke chuckled, setting his empty mug down on the nearest table.

"Pfft--" Don scoffed, holding his empty coffee mug in his bionic hand. Then, he remembered he had something important to do. "I gotta go find Ranger and ask him something." He says, getting up from the chair. "I'll see you later?"

"Sure thing." Duke nodded.

Donatello left the library, walking the halls to search for a teenage mutant wolf. He needed to speak to Ranger about the Arrows and why they are not at the hospital. It didn't take Donnie very long to locate the wolf in the school's main office organizing items he's found. "Hey, Ranger." The mutant turtle greeted, walking through the door.

Ranger is behind the counter, stacking crates full of folders and notebooks. "Don, what's up?" He asked.

The turtle leans on the counter, folding his phalanges together. "I wanted to ask you something. It's about the Arrows."

"Shoot." Ranger said, still stacking papers and notebooks into crates.

"When my group and I went out, the place was trashed. No one was there." Donnie got straight to the point. "Do you have an idea why they left or where they went?"

Ranger's left ear perked at Donnie's words. His shiny black nose twitched and his golden eyes look at his much taller reptilian friend. "Wow... I'm sorry to hear about them being gone, Donnie. And no. I don't think I know why they left or where they've gone."

The mutant turtle tapped his flesh index finger down on the surface of the counter, unsure of this 'plot twist'. "Hm... Leo will just have to speak with the leaders about this."

"You're probably right." Ranger stroked his light grey fur on his head, indicating he is thinking and stressing over this entire thing. "If you need any help with things, let me know."

"Absolutely," Donnie said, backing away from the counter. "Thanks, Range."

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𝙰 𝙵𝙴𝚆 𝙳𝙰𝚈𝚂 𝙻𝙰𝚃𝙴𝚁...
𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝟷𝟸𝚝𝚑, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟾

Having a meeting was a good idea. A leader meeting.

At this very moment, he sat in the passenger seat of Bayard's truck, looking out the window and seeing different buildings go by. Leo isn't sure what to expect at this meeting other than greeting the leaders. But quickly, his thought would come off of the meeting whenever he saw a Stalker or a Runner roaming the city. He's glad to be inside this truck. "So, where is this meeting? A carousel?" He turned to Bay.