#but i have sooo much power i could rat him out to my entire small town

[cranberrv]

storytime!!! tw: guys who don’t know how to treat confident and beautiful women

the cute blonde i talked about turned out to be an asshole ☹️ my parents are good friends with his dad so i assumed he would be just as sweet as his dad, but holy was i wrong!!! we’ve only been texting for a few days and he goes ‘is it grippy’ and i was like ummm what, then he started going ‘it’s a simple question blah blah blah’ and i was like ‘ur fkn disgusting’ because he is just so rude and that is not how you talk to a girl, nonetheless a family friend! at least apologize or something. but i unadded him. it’s so weird to me because i have never had an experience like that on snap before, so it was really shocking. it wasn’t even the fact that he said it, its the fact that he was such a dick even after the fact.

[owaowabetch]

Uh Oh (Sykkuno x F!Reader)

Oneshot (maybe part of a series??? idk we’ll see): The Prequel to “Impasta” in which reader meets the gang for the first time and experiences a betrayal. Mainly Friendship

Warning: non-beta, I wrote this in one go and full sent it. 

You were a small time Twitch streamer that had recently befriend a streamer with a much larger audience, ValkyRae.  You had been talking back and forth for quite some time, since Rae’s dm to you weeks ago. You were mainly an rp channel where you played games like GTA, The Sims, and Animal Crossing. Though you gained a lot of your followers from playing League, though it mostly consisted of hate-followers that would only critique your gaming, even though you were pretty good at it. But it doesn’t bother you too much *que sob*

You were streaming GTA on a RP server playing an amish girl on a Rumspringa and wreaking havoc. You and your ‘gang’ had successfully finished hitting a bank truck ,causing your character to rake in a few thousand dollars, when you got a message from Rae asking you if you had wanted to play a few rounds of the popular game among us. 

“Alright guys, a friend asked if I wanted to join her lobby of among us. I know it’s different from the stuff i usually stream, but is that something you guys would be cool with?” You asked your chat and watch an influx of people messaging ‘yes’ or ‘pog’. You take a sip of your Starbucks and picked up your phone to message Rae that you’ll be joining. “Fair warning, I’ve never played among us. So we’ll see how this goes, guys” 

While you waited to be invited to the discord and into the lobby, you chatted with your viewers for a bit. “I just realized that I’m really awkward around new people. Like when I’m playing on the GTA Rp Server, I’m not myself, I’m a character you know? So it’s easier to talk with other people, cause they’re also role playing. Plus I don’t think I can call anyone in the discord a musty dusty rat bitch lol or sell them drugs, it’s not that kind of game...unless?...” You laugh as you login to your discord and accept the invite to the discord “alright guys! here we go~”

You enter the discord call and hear people talking. 

“Y/N!” Rae exclaims “Guys this is my new friend y/n”

“Hi” Responding to the various voices greeting you

“OK, so the code is in the chat and so are the bubbles, so your chat can see who is talking and what not” Rae explains

You input the code and saw your little character in the space ship. “Oh god guys look at us!” You ran your little character around the ship “How do we change colors? I’m not feeling this blue and I saw Rae with her lil creepy mask”

You read your chat tell you what to do so you went to the little computer to change the blue to white and clicked through all the hats til you decided on the pink flower. “How about this guys? Yellow is my favorite color but its taken”

“Alright, you ready y/n?” Rae asked

“Yup” you respond by running circles around her character

“OK i’m starting. Don’t forget to mute and close chat. You can open it back up if your imposter or dead” Rae sang “Good luck~”

“Alright chat I gotta close you til the game is done? I guess” You hum as the words ‘crewmate’ pop up. “Well at least i’m not imposter, i know the game. I mean who hasn’t at this point. I just never played it, seems to be to nerve wracking”

You open the map icon and run to where the closet yellow exclamation point was, which was admin. You make sure to note all the colors around you in there as you swipe your card “Alright, green, yellow, brown,red, and orange” You repeated the colors over and over again as you make your way into electrical when you notice something “Ok uh green is following me? I don’t know why but its freaking me out.” The lights turn off and you start freaking out “Oh god, this is where I die. Don’t I? You know what do it. Kill me! It’s probably a good idea. I’m kind of an idiot and it’ll help me figure things out on my own without the pressure” You follow the arrow pointing to a panel and you click on it “What am i supposed to do? You know green, this would be the perfect opportunity to murder me in cold blood... is this how you do it?” You flip the switches so that they are all bright green and the lights turn on “YAS BITCH, I did it” 

The green character kind of just circles your body as you do tasks in electrical, you do download, wires, and power diverter. “Ok BUT WHY IS HE FOLLOWING ME!!” 

An orange body had been reported and that two others had died (bright green and pink) and the person who reported the body was black or as his name read ‘Abe’ “Ok, so this body was in admin on card swipe”

“Well this body couldn’t have been me or y/n” Sykkuno says “I was following her this entire time”

“Yea, I’d like to know why lol? You were kinda freaking me out dude” You laugh a bit trying to play off how nervous you were to call him out on it

“Oh No! I was protecting you” Sykkuno explains “I promise”

“Sykkuno? Are you already simping for someone?” Rae feigns exasperation 

“No really guys!” He explains nervously “The new person always dies first, so I was just trying to protect her.”

You hum and smile mischievously “Unless, your just trying to gain my trust only to murder me in coldblood in front of my bestie Rae, to prove your superiority over her!?!”

Rae gasps “Really Sykkuno!?! I’m voting you just for that!”

“Wah? No wait! It’s not like that really” Sykkuno starts laughing as Rae votes “Oh God did you really vote for me?”

“Yes” Rae says and you start laughing 

“So anyways, Leslie’s body is in admin?” Hafu says wanting to talk more about the body and get all the sus’s and clears

Though you gasp when you realized a few things “wait I have some info to share” teasing Sykkuno had loosened you up a bit “it was me,green,yellow,brown,red, and orange in admin. Then me and green, uh Syyykkkuunnoo? Sorry if i didn’t say your name right, left and went into electrical, then lights were called and I fixed them before finishing off my tasks in there. So the body must’ve died during lights unless she left and came back into admin after lights were fixed? which doesn’t make much sense, sooo yea” you smiled “look at me chat! being all smart and shit” 

“yes” Poki agrees “I left admin also with Rae just before lights were called”

“Ok, so I know that puts sus on me, but I went straight to lights when they were called” Hafu says “Someone on the right side must’ve vented when lights were off. Like I was entering the hallway from storage with Tina when lights got fixed and we went to reactor room together. So it couldn’t have been me. Maybe Tina? I dont know which way she come from, but it was not me”

“That is true. I did meet up with Hafu at storage, but I don’t know man” Tina says “ I was doing download in comms”

“Oh god” You tell chat “I don’t know whether to believe Hafu or not. I know she is really good, along with Toast, but he hasn’t said anything”

“Well it is seven and we don’t vote on seven, so we can skip. Just putting a sus on Hafu” Rae says

“Yes please do” Hafu says as she votes to skip

“Do we know where the other bodies are?” Poki asks as the seconds start to dwindle down to zero “Also Toast? Why are you so quiet?”

“I’m trying to figure out a new strat, so don’t you worry. I’ll catch the killers” Toast starts to evil laugh and that was the end of the meeting.

“Ok we’re susing Hafu for this.Though I don’t think it’s her only cause I remember watching one of her imposter plays and it would be a too obvious kill,since so many people were there, it just doesn’t make sense, so someone venting in and killing is plausible or could be a self report? I don’t know lol It’s my first game” You run with Sykkuno and finish up your tasks together. Though lights were called when you both were at shields, you can see the vent pop open and in your little vision bubble you see a flash of red “Whelp this is where I die, I’d like to rate Sykkuno an 8 out of 10 for protecting me, but obviously I am now died” True to your word Rae killed you and you saw Sykkuno running around like a headless chicken when he reports your body 

“Oh God! They got her when I was trying to protect her!” Sykkuno exclaims 

“Sykkuno! You were supposed to be protecting her!?” Rae shouts “What happened? Did you kill her in cold blood? hmm?”

“smh Rae, you murdered me right in front of Sykkuno” You sigh “Well chat looks like I’m dead and we can speak now”

“No!” Sykkuno denies “I said I was going to protect her. I wouldn’t kill her after saying that”

“Well she’s dead now Sykkuno! Where’s the body?” Toast dramatically says

“It’s in shields. It happened when lights were off” Sykkyno says “I’m sorry y/n, I couldn’t protect you”

“Aw that is so cute” You pout at his apology, it wasn’t his fault. It was dark, so obviously he couldn’t see

“Well I don’t think Sykkuno did this, He said he was protecting her to everyone, so I can say that he’s crew” Hafu says “I’m at light panel, I remember seeing Poki and Tina there”

“I can confirm this” Poki says “So Toast let’s hear your big brain play. What’s your strat?”

It was silent for a minute, before Toast admits that he doesn’t have one.

“Ok so we can all agree that Toast is the imposter right?” Rae says “Vote him outta here!”

“Yep” Tina agrees hitting that vote on him and many follow suit

“Wait guys! WAIT! I do! I do have a strat” Toast screams out “Uhhh... wires! The wires guys!”

“Lol they’re gunna vote him off” You watch people voting “Rae is probably gunna win this”

“Yea, you’ve done that pay before” Poki laughs

“Don’t worry I’ll skip Toast” Sykkuno says 

“Why would you skip if we’re on 6?” Rae asks “Is Toast your imposter buddy?”

“Wah? I said I was protecting y/n, why would I kill her?” Trying to make his innocence obvious 

“Unless you killed her by accident or Toast did and you’re trying to protect him like the Simp you are!” Rae accuses him

Tina starts to also question Sykkuno “Wait a second, I dont think I’ve seen you do a single task this entire game! You’ve just been following y/n all around! We should vote him off next!”

“Guys, I swear it’s not me, it just doesn’t make sense” You can hear him plead “Oh no guys, how did this get twisted? It’s Rae! But how did it go to thinking Sykkuno as imposter?”

The meeting ends with Toast screaming into the abyss as he is yeeted out with Sykkuno telling him that he voted to skip.

“Ok then chat, looks like the imposters are gunna win, lets talk for a bit” You sigh and start reading the comments “ I know that I didn’t talk much with them, but I’m just awkward in general and I don’t know what to say to them. This is the first time playing with a group like this where i’m supposed to be myself and not a character.”

The words Defeat appeared on screen and there was Hafu and Rae as imposter. “I honestly didn’t think it was Hafu”

“Hafu was that you that killed Leslie in admin? I didn’t think it was “You asked when you returned to the lobby

“NO! I got framed by my own partner” Hafu explains before taking her bathroom break

“How did Rae get that kill cause I was with her?” Poki asks

“I vented from Caf back into admin when lights were off” Rae laughs “and I vented into shields and killed y/n right in front of Sykkuno!”

“Im sorry for not being able to protect you” Sykkuno runs circles around my character “Next round I’ll do better! I promise”

You laugh and start chasing after him in the ship “What if you end up as imposter?”

“Then I’ll have to look away as my imposter buddy kills you” Sykkuno laughs behind his hand and clears his throat “Im joking, Im joking, I promise”

“Wow Sykkuno” You tsk and run over to the opposite side of the room “I don’t know if I want your protection services now”

“Uh” Sykkuno splutters “I’m joking I promise! I won’t kill you as imposter”

“Wait til Corpse hears you simping over someone else” Poki says before starting the game

“Wait Hafu is still in the bathroom!” Rae exclaimed, but it was to late to stop the game from starting, so she’ll have to jump in when she comes back. Though you swear you feel your heart jump out of your chest when the words Imposter read on you screen. The 1st of the night for you and another in a row for Hafu.

“Oh God guys. Hafu is in the bathroom, but she has to carry us” You start to panic “What we do we do!?! Wait is Sykkuno seriously gunna follow us? Should we kill him or would that be to obvious?” You see the chat tell you that it would be to obvious and that it would be better to maybe frame him, but it seems to mean to you “Should we kill someone in front of him? You know to test his loyalty? It’s a terrible idea”

Though before you go on to fake tasks, you see Sykkuno standing on top of Hafu’s body, so you also go ontop of Sykkuno’s and to the outside perspective you are protecting Hafu, but really for you it’s to ensure that your imposter partner is going to be walking around and killing people,once she comes back from the bathroom. It seems that Hafu is back from the bathroom as her yellow character starts making her way away from you both. You and Sykkuno make your way to admin when lights get called and Sykkuno starts to wiggle his body around into a corner. It seems as though he wants you to stack with him in a corner, but before you do you double back when you see a body pass by and kill them, though you start to laugh when you see your character kill Rae, before ‘stumbling’ into Sykkuno’s view in the corner. You both stay there as lights turn back on and go on card swipe. You think about juking Sykkuno, but realize that it’ll look sus on you for ditching him. So you two just walk around ‘completing’ tasks as every once in a while the lights would go off and you two will stack on each other or wait for doors to open which you had been closing alot of them. 

“Honestly guys I’m at a point were I just wanna murder someone in front of him” You start to evil laugh as you both stack in the corner of medbay as lights start turning on when a body got called

“It’s toast, it’s toast, it’s toast” Hafu chants as it was her who reported the body “I saw him kill Poki”

“oh she self reported” you note and click on Toast’s name but not locking in your vote just in case. You also noticed that four people had died “She killed three people!?! Wow she is beast in this game! Holy Shit guys”

“see, from my perspective it’s hafu. I didn’t see the kill, but I did see blood splatter and Hafu immediately reported the body and blamed me, so it has to be Hafu. I’m voting her” Toast explains and votes her

“no no no no no no no. I saw you kill her when lights got fixed.” Hafu describes her side and what she did in that round “ Ok guys I was afk for like the first 20 seconds and I see Sykkuno and y/n there standing on me in caf., and I’m just doing my tasks, which I finished by the way, so I’m just going back and forth going to cams and just walking around to find any dead bodies. So if you saw cams on in the last 30 or so seconds it was me. I’ve also been fixing lights too! Peter and Leslie should be able to vouch for me on that! But on this round of lights I’m making my way to go help fix them when i see blood flicker in my little bubble and as it starts to get bigger I see Toast walking away from it. Its Toast. It is 100% Toast.” She locks her vote on him “Vote him please. If you don’t vote then you’re either imposter or just throwing”

“I don’t know guys” You start and hover your mouse over the green checkmark next to Toast’s name “I’ve been with Sykkuno the entire round and we did guard Hafu’s body. For Hafu to say that she saw Toast kill, but toast didn’t see Hafu kill? It just doesnt make sense so I’m voting Toast” You lock your vote in when Hafu reminds everyone that crew has to vote together since it is on six. Reminding Peter and Leslie that Hafu has been fixing lights got their votes, but Sykkuno was hesitant “You know I can never vote Toast guys, but I have been with y/n this entire time and I know it’s not her. So, I’m sorry Toast but uh” He locks his vote in for either Hafu or Toast? Who knows if he’s simping over Toast hard.

“Sykkuno?” You can hear Toast tremble his voice “Sy-sykkuno? Who did you vote for? Sykkuno!?!?! Do- Don’t tell me...did you really vote me?”

“I uh “ He clears his throat as the votes get out and all of us had voted Toast 

Toast gasps “Sykkuno!?! How could you!?!?!”

“I’m sorry! I just trust y/n!” Sykkuno explains as Toast’s body once again gets yeeted out into space. 

“Wow guys, looks like we’re gunna win our first imposter game!” You wiggle around happily “and we literally did nothing...wait we killed Rae! We got our revenge from the last round mwua hahahahaha”

Sykkuno and I run circles around each other before walking back into medbay. You can see Hafu kind of trailing behind and the doors get locked with us three in it, but Hafu is just standing there. “Chat what is Hafu doing? Why is she just standing there” You can see Sykkuno step on the med scan “Wait she wants ME to kill SYKKUNO! Oh god that is so evil lol but i’m so useless as imposter, so I might as well get in at least 25% of the kills” 

Once Sykkuno steps off you just murder him and you see that you had won.

“I- I can’t believe you just killed me!?! I trusted you y/n” Sykkuno exclaims

“Sykkuno” Rae sighs “she KILLED ME in caf! Why did no one NOT SEE MY CHOPPED BODY IN CAF!”

You just laugh “I’m sorry Sykkuno, but my chat was telling me that Hafu wanted me to kill you”

“Yea, cause I did like all of the kills and sabotages” Hafu recounts who and how she killed 

“Sykkuno, you giant simp. I can’t believe you vote me” Toast tsk’ed 

“I can’t believe y/n was the imposter! and she killed me!” Sykkuno shakes his head “you know what i’m no longer protecting you anymore”

“Wait Sykkuno I’m sorry. Really” You giggle 

“No no no it’s ok, it’s all part of the game” Sykkuno reassure you that he is not actually mad and that he hoped you had fun “But i wont be protecting you from now on, I have scars now”

So, you play a few more games before calling it quits and end your stream. Later on, you find that Sykkuno started following you on Twitter and Instagram, You totally did not stalk both of his pages and you totally don’t think that he’s cute.....

SideNote: You totally murdered someone in front of Sykkuno and he totally didn’t snitch on you. Instead he protected you as you ran around killing more people in front of him and like the giant Simp he is he totally went ‘I neva snitch on you Daddy, I hold a brick for you Daddy’.

[sanderssidesstuff]

Hecate's Fate - Chaper 4

Summary: Patton's Chapter! He gets his weapon and you get understand how his powers work. Plus actual plot!

Warnings: Food, weapons (tell me if I missed anything)

Words: 4,037 (I didn't even realize it was this long)

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Notes: Uh so like I'm friends with a lot of optimistic people so Patton is like the easiest to write, also like side characters are great

Patton woke up the opposite of Logan. When he awoke, the entire cabin as up getting ready. Patton was in a set of grey silk pajamas that one of his new siblings gave him. His new glasses were on a little nook by his bed, the colors threatened to overwhelm him, before he put on the glasses. Patton stretched and got off his bed with a smile. Last night flashes through his mind, getting claimed was interesting, but the colors disappearing was amazing. He never thought of seeing the colors as a curse, but they did tend to overwhelm him sometimes. He silently thanked his mom for the gift and got out one of the Camp Half-Blood shirts and tan pants that he was given yesterday. He looked around for somewhere to change and saw nothing.

"Hey!" Someone above him shouted, "Patton, right? Are you looking for somewhere to change?" He nods and the person jumps down, "You can either change on your bunk or in the bathroom. We have two so take your pick. I’m going to look for our head councilor, bye." The person grabs a blue bracelet along with a white beanie and walks into the crowd of kids getting dressed.

Patton finds the bathroom empty and changes. His face still looked like it had on makeup and his hair was perfect despite the fact it almost always looked like a rats nest when he wakes up. He takes off his glasses and stares at the blurry shape that is him.

Without his glasses, Patton is legally blind, the main reason for that is the colors. The colors, or auras as they are more commonly called, had been in Patton's life as long as he could remember. No one else in his family had this power and no one but his mom knew that he could see the colors. After a few years, Patton figured out what the colors were and how to use them as an advantage.

The colors were what people felt, most people had red, blue and yellow on a daily basis. He saw pink sometimes with couples and black with people who had depression. Patton figured most of it out himself, but some colors still confused him, colors like gold, sliver, and periwinkle specifically. After that major revelation, he had quickly learned he could influence other people’s emotions. Patton didn’t do it often, he just made people happy, but the cost of changing their emotions was great. He’d get whatever he’d change, if he gave someone happiness, he’d get the sadness. He only changed emotions in moderation, and the emotions he changed were ones he could deal with. Staring at himself, Patton saw no colors, he knew that he couldn’t see his own emotions, but he still hoped he could, eventually.

Knock! Knock! Knock!, "Hey hurry up we’re heading to breakfast soon." Patton quickly put back on his glasses and changed his shirt. He walked back to his bunk and put the pajamas back in the chest he was given. Looking at the chiton in the chest, Patton thought about his new mom. Aphrodite didn’t have the best stories about her, she was often jealous and only really had relationships because of lust. Having two moms wasn’t a surprise to him, his mom is pan, but his mother falling in love with such a women like Aphrodite was new. His mom looked for kind women and looking at all the people around him, which totaled to about 15 kids, he didn’t think that it was the type of person he wanted to be related to.

"Hey Patton," someone says, snapping Patton out of his musings, "You good?"

His smile was back on when he answered, "Yes, of course. Did I send mixed signals? Do I need to change the channel?"

"Ok, most half-bloods have a hard time adjusting to having a nice bed and food all the time. I don’t know your living situation, so I had to ask. Oh I’m Gretchen by the way, CC said I could lead you around today. I’m using they/them right now, but that could change so just ask if you have any questions." Gretchen held out their hand and Patton shook it. "We have breakfast first, after we will get you a weapon. You have to have a weapon, before you say anything. Monster will find you and kill you if you don’t kill it first. Now let’s get to breakfast." Gretchen leads Patton to a table and leaves him with the rest of his siblings. Gretchen runs off to another table and kisses a person with glasses. Their aura turns pink and spreads to to other people, then some one pushes them over and says something to them that Patron can’t hear. Gretchen walks back over, still pink, and sits next to Patton.

"Who was that?" Patton questioned after they had sacrificed some of their food to the gods.

Gretchen glances in the direction of the person they kissed and blushed, "Oh yeah. That’s my boyfriend, Joseph. People have been shipping us for years before we got together, he just makes my life complete." Their pink aura grows pinker and Patton realized something. He could see the aura with his glasses on.

"Whoa, you’re pink! How cool!' Patton squeals, "Is it because you love him so much? Because that is sooo cute!"

Gretchen looks down at their hands, "Sorry, usually I can reign it in. Yeah, downside of our mom is that, when I experience extreme emotions, I glow. I can control it sometimes, but I guess Joseph distracted me today. Is that all you’re eating?"

"That’s usually what I say! Does it drive you bananas? Did I catch your grape?" Patton grabs an apple along with some eggs. With the two new things added to his plate, the oatmeal he’d been eating looked small.

"Good." Gretchen musied his hair, then sighed, "Forgot about Aphrodite's blessing. For the next two days up to a week, you won’t be able to mess any of that up. Mine lasted three days and it was terrible. I hate having my hair styled. How about you?"

"It was weird to not wake up with my hair in my face, but I look so pretty! I how the eye shadow makes my eyes pop! And the fact that mom mad my freckles glow! Did you see that yesterday? These new frames also match up perfectly with Logan's! This is all so cool!"

"Wow, I don’t think anyone has said that about their first day of camp. Most are still scared and really want to leave." Gretchen had finished eating by now and was messing with a knife that had appeared out of no where. All around people start to stand up and walk back over to the cabins.

"Is breakfast over?" Patton questions as Gretchen stands up.

"Yep." The p popping. "Now to get you a weapon, judging by your build and height. I think you’d be good with a small weapon, maybe a short sword or a dagger? You’ll know your weapon when you see it. Follow me." Gretchen leads Patron towards the cabins and behind a grey building to a small shack. They open the door to show weapons lining the walls. Bows were near the back now, swords were near the front. Looking at all of them, Patton attempted to grab a spear that glowed sliver. Gretchen stretched out their hand and stopped him.

"Not that one." Their eyes wetted a little, but no tears fell, "That belonged to a brave man and I can’t see anyone else, but him wielding it."

"Who?" Patton stared at Gretchen as a dark blue light started to radiate from them.

They wiped their face and the glow recedes, "No one that you need to worry about right now. Anyway let’s get you a weapon. How about this one?" They point at a sword that was shaped like a leaf. Patton shook his head no and kept looking. After a while of Gretchen pointing out different weapons and Patton saying no, he saw it. It was bronze with a leather hilt. On the side was some writing,

"Loloi" Patton read.

"It means there is always love. It’s fitting for you, as a son of Aphrodite, we always try and find love everywhere." Gretchen translates.

"I love it! This is my weapon. I’m sure of it." Patton looks over at Gretchen who’s face showed that they didn’t think it was the best idea.

"It is a nice dagger, but if you were to fight, you’d have to get in really close to your opponent. You’d have to be quick and agile. Are you sure you want it?"

"Yes." Gretchen sighs and gestures Patton to walk out the door. "

"Put that in the sheath that it came with and strap it to your pants, you got it? Ok, let’s go back and see what the rest of the cabin is doing. Only the Athena cabin really sticks to a schedule, the rest of the campers just go wherever.

Patton stares at everything as they walk over to the basketball courts. He sees some fields in the distance, a few kids making the strawberries grow and goat men playing what looked like a bunch of sticks tied together. Some campers were playing volleyball and Patton saw Roman with a sword, fighting a person with two swords. Roman was not doing well and fell. Patton winced as the sword Roman was holding, cut his arm slightly. The other person stopped automatically and gave Roman an arm to help him up. Gretchen was getting father away so Patton couldn’t see the rest of the exchange. Patton thought he saw Logan talking with Joan when they passed the building that Thomas said was the crafts hut. Gretchen waved at a little girl who was tending to a fire in the middle of the he cabins and led Patton over to Big House. Gretchen stopped suddenly and turned around.

"Oh right! Sorry I forgot I was taking you somewhere." Gretchen says nervously and touches rubs their wrist. "Uh, guess I’ll do my thing later. Let’s go find the rest of our siblings and stand next to me, I get a little scatter brained when I’m left with my thoughts."

"Are your thoughts that a-maze-ing?" Patton asks.

Gretchen snorts, "No it’s more along the lines of… uh. I don’t know what I was going to say, lost my train of thought."

"It fell off the tracks?" Patton giggles while Gretchen just sighs, smiling.

"Are you known for your puns? No don’t answer that, I love puns. I’m not very good at them though." More people pass by and Patton hears a sound, "Looks like it’s time to rotate." The person who checked Patton over yesterday walks by and Gretchen asks him a questions, "Hey! Will, do you know where the Aphrodite cabin is supposed to go?"

"Uh I think you are learning first aid today? Wait Patton, why aren’t you wearing the brace I gave you? Did Aphrodite make it vanish? Here wear this for the next few days," Will pulls out another brace out of nowhere, "if you don’t I will find you and force you to wear it." Patton nods and puts on the brace. "I think Austin will be teaching, with the new kid, other Roman. Unless he’s pouting, he’s really mad that he can’t use a sword. He wants to attack, but his build makes him a perfect archer."

"Ah, where are we going to be, you know the girls will want to sit outside." Gretchen replies helping Patton to make sure the brace is on properly.

"I know, that is why you are learning by the strawberry fields. Austin knows and is waiting. I just dropped off the supplies." Will looks directly at Gretchen and smirks, "You are learning how to treat burns."

"You are such a gorgon. Come on Patton, I’ll show you the strawberry fields." Gretchen walks briskly away from Will and Patton, after he waved goodbye, follows, practically running to catch up with them.

"Why are you so mad about burns? What did they ever do to you?" Patton questions once he catches up with Gretchen.

"They made me miss three weeks of practices and it still hasn’t healed. I walked with a limp for about 18 of those 21 days. I know how to treat burns and Will knows it." They mumble some words that Patton would never repeat. They give Patton an apologetic smile and start to speak, "Sorry, it’s just embarrassing to think about how I got my own burn." They lift up their leg and point at a part of their leg that was discolored. "We’re not going to discuss this ever unless I bring it up. Ok? Coolio, Let’s go!" Gretchen led Patton to where the rest of the Aphrodite cabin was next to the strawberry fields.

Patton focused some what on the lesson, but mostly he was focused on making sure he was smiling. He knew he had a problem with feelings, despite the fact he couldn’t see his own feelings, he would always bottle up the 'bad' feeling of sadness and anger and only feel the one he though were good. He didn’t do it in purpose, he just hid his feelings. When Virgil, Roman, and Logan found out, they had an intervention. They would help him learn to actually express his emotions, and he would tell them if he had a bad day. The only thing was now that he was at this new place, surrounded by all theses new people, he was sure if he could. Emotions were never his strong suit and, despite his wonderful mom helping him, he still wasn’t sure what he felt half the time. He was snapped out of his thoughts when someone tapped him on his shoulder. He looked up to see Gretchen telling him something.

"Whatcha say, Gretch?" Gretchen’s face darkens and they pause for a second.

They growl back, "Don't call me that. That is not my name and no one calls me that." Patton shrinks back and Gretchen realizes what they just say, "Sorry, that is not my name. If you want to call me by a nickname, Goober is a good choice. Anyway time for lunch come on."

"Okie Dokie, then! What are we having for lunch? I hope pizza! I’m a vegetarian, but I love cheese pizza! Are there going to be cookies? Also what are we doing after lunch, anything special?"

"We are going to sit and talk about our feelings for the next hour." Gretchen said with a straight face.

"Well, I’m gonna need a lot of cookies then." Patton started to mentally tally how many cookies it would be, however before he got to one he heard laughter.

"Sorry, dude. Wait are you cool if I call you dude, bro, brother, man, or anything stereotypically masculine." Gretchen looked concerned for a second.

Patton answers with a smile. "I’m ok with it, kiddo!"

"Ok, good, gotta ask. Anyway, do I need to work on my sarcasm again? I thought I was getting better at it. To actually answer your question, we have the crafts hut, lava wall and/or training then a break before dinner. We might not have cookies at lunch, but I know a guy who can get us some." They wink and hand Patton a cookie that they made appear.

"Amazing! You should always eat a cookie when you get stressed, and when your are super stressed," Patton whispers in their ear, "eat a second cookie."

"Whoa, slow down there getting a little excited. Let’s go and eat." They lead Patton to the dinning area and sit down. To Patton’s delight there was pizza and it was vegetarian! Patton at two slices before he got too full to eat.

After the lunch he ate, Patton was ready to sleep, however it was time to go to the craft huts and he was inspired to make some art. The entire Aphrodite cabin walked as a group, gossiping about who’s dating who and the newest fashion trends. Patton focused intensely on everything they say. Apparently, Thomas and Joan were really close friends, but most people thought they were dating, the thing is Talyn and Joan were also being shipped together, so some wars were happening (what boats had to do with people, Patton had no idea). Some kid named Connor, son of Hermes, had a crush on a girl named Katie, daughter of Demeter and Chiron was considering reinstating three-foot races. Patton tried to keep track of each name that was mentioned and decided to figure out what name went to each face. One of the boys, Micheal, kept pushing Lacy to ask out a girl she said she liked, but Lacy just wanted to go slow. Lacy pushed Micheal back and asked him why he wasn’t asking out Karolin, apparently the girl he was obsessed with. CC, the head-camper, put the two of them on opposite sides of the group (somehow they ended up right next to each other again and gossiped some more).

Eventually they made it to the crafts hut and everyone split up to do their own projects. Patton floated to and from each group to see what they were doing. Korbin was painting a portrait of his dad, a famous actor that Patton had never heard of, and Sam was making a clay sculpture of a dragon, she giggled the entire time she painted it (purple, white, grey, and black). Patton saw everyone working on their own projects, so he walked around staring at all the different types of materials that went into each masterpiece. Patton eventually walked over to a desk full of art supplies that no one was working on. He sat down and started to draw, he didn’t know exactly what he wanted but that didn’t matter, he’d find someone to give it to.

He heard a sound that was similar to the conch he heard last night. CC tapped him on his shoulder and directed him towards the exit. She stuck her left hand out, put out her index finger and rubbed it with a fist, her face scrunched up in a questioning expression. Patton gave her a confused look and looked around at everyone else, hoping for someone else to explain. CC sighed and grabbed the closest person to her. She pointed at Patton and moved her hand away from her face, her index finger hooked. Korbin nods, looks at Patton and starts the speak.

"Do you want to climb on the lava wall or do you want to train with your dagger? Sorry, we forget that not everyone knows sign language."

Patton nods energetically, "I’ll train! That’s so cool! Does everyone know sign language here? Or is it just this cabin?"

CC laughs and Korbin answers, "Everyone knows enough to talk to her, but all of us knows more than the rest of the camp so we can talk to her without her staring at out lips."

"Amazing!" Korbin directs Patton towards the arena where someone was stabbing a dummy with a sword that was glowing gold, "Who is going to teach me to use Loloi?"

Korbin pulls out a sliver dagger and slashes at a dummy that wasn't being used, "I am. We'll start with the basics and then go on from there. Let’s start with holding it, first you…" Patton focused on everything Korbin taught and quickly got down the basics.

By the time the conch sounded, Patton was tired and just wanted to sleep. He walked with Korbin back to the cabin and saw Gretchen was grabbing something off their bed.

When they saw Patton they put on a smile, "What’s up? Did you have a nice day? Sorry I had to disappear after we got to arts and crafts, I just needed to do something. He/Him by the way."

"It’s cool, kiddo! I made something really awesome in crafts, I can’t show you it yet, it’s a surprise." Patton’s voice had dropped when he said that last part. "What about you? Doing anything interesting?"

"Nah, just practicing." Gretchen faced Patton and stared before speaking, "You look dead on your feet. Sleep, someone will get you up when it is time for dinner." Gretchen pushed Patton on to his bed and tucked him in. He also took off Patton's glasses and put them on the nook by his bed.

He quickly fell asleep and dreamt about something weird. In his dream, a young lady stood over a cauldron whispering something in a langue that Patton couldn’t understand. A second lady, who looked to be pregnant, came over and put something in the cauldron and waved her hands around it, speaking in the same langue as the lady before her. An old lady came over and did the same as the one before her. The three ladies looked over at Patton and spoke in unison.

"Young one beware, your gift will be needed soon and you must be prepared."

The younger one spoke, "The path my son chose will not be easy, do not despair.

The old lady spoke next, "You and the others will play an important factor in the battle." The pregnant one disappeared and the other two looked worried, "The mother has gone missing and you must search for her." The old lady explained

The two spoke together, "Chiron will get the news in a fortnight and you must be a part of the quest. You will be given time to train, use it wisely. Now wake and warn my son, the son of Athena, and the son of Apollo. Wake up. Wake up! WAKE UP!" Patton snapped up and hit someone in the forehead.

"Ow!" The person exclaims, "Patton, man, you are so hard to wake up." Patton searches for his glasses, his eyes shut so he doesn’t overloads his brain. He put them on and opened his eyes to see how he hit.

"I am so sorry, Lacy! You surprised me! Is it time for dinner?" Patton asks stretching.

"Yes! I’ve been trying to wake you up for the past ten minutes, you kept whispering something about a missing lady. Are you ok?" Lacy looked genuinely concerned, but Patton pasted a smile on his face.

"I’m okie dokie! Let’s eat dinner!" Patton hoped out of bed, thanking Aphrodite for her blessing, making it easier to leave the cabin quickly.

"Ok? Dinner already started, but if we hurry, we can still get some good food." Lacy spoke, leading Patton to the mess hall. Patton keeps the smile on his face despite the inner turmoil. He guessed the lady was Hecate, he also knew that Vigil would freak out if he told him, Roman would want to rush off and do the quest, and Logan would want to analyze everything that Patton saw. He was conflicted, if he said something, he’d ruin any joy that the other three had found, but if he said nothing, he’d mess up any advantage that they would have. Gretchen must have noticed something on Patton face, because he sat next to Patton and stared.

After a few minutes of staring Gretchen spoke, "Patton, something is wrong. What is it?"

Patton mentally debated wether or not to tell him anything, "I had a dream and now I’m worried. I have no idea what to do and it’s stressing me out."

"Ok, what was the dream about? Most half-bloods have prophetic dreams, is the end of the world happening again? That would suck, we just finished a war like 6 months ago."

Patton's eyes widen, "Nope, not saying anything. Please stop asking." Gretchen looked at Patton surprised, but didn’t say anything. Patton stood up and walked to the cabin, determined not to tell anyone till he needed to. When everyone came back from dinner, he pretended to be asleep. Someone poked his shoulder, but he didn’t respond. Eventually the chatter died down and everyone went to sleep. Patton fell asleep and didn’t have any dreams like .

[princessofthedarkrealm]

Stroke of Midnight - Chapter 13 (Pennywise x reader)

“So, what goes with being your mate?”

You and Pennywise were sitting by the creek. You were between his legs with your chin resting on your arm, which was resting on his propped up leg. You yawned widely for about the hundredth time that day. Between the late June heat and you and Pennywise’s wild bout of love making at the cliffs the day before, your body was crying for sleep.

“Well, it would not be much different from what you humans call dating,” was his response.

“Sooo we just do fun stuff together and have sex?”

Pennywise reached out to stroke your hair. “If that is what my kitten wants.”

You sat up straight and turned your torso sideways. “I know what I want, but what else is there? There has to be more to it than that.”

Pennywise leaned in towards you, a sadistic grin on his face. “Do you want more, my dear?”

You raised an eyebrow at him. Why did you feel like you were trying to negotiate with the devil all of a sudden? “I don’t know yet and it would depend on what it is,” you said carefully.

“You’ve seen some of the things that I can do. Do you want to be able to do that?”

Your mouth started opening and closing like a fish. Things that he could do? Like, his special abilities?

You gestured at yourself. “I would be able to have powers?”

Pennywise giggled. “Of course. You are my mate. If you want to have some of my…gifts…” he leaned forward until his lips brushed your hair. “I can make it happen.”

Your heart was pounding, your sleepiness forgotten. You started wracking your brain, trying to think of all that Pennywise was capable of: shapeshifting, making people see things, teleporting, and perhaps mind reading, which you were not entirely sure of that one. And then an idea hit you. You felt all the blood rush to your head.

“I’m not going to become like…” you pointed at Pennywise. “whatever you are, right?”

“Oh no, not at all,” Pennywise said quickly. “It would take a lot more for that. And I’m sure you’re not quite ready to go that far.”

You let out a shaky breath. You didn’t know if you wanted to go that far ever.

“Ok. This is an awful lot to process right now.”

Pennywise started vigorously rubbing your back. “I know, kitten. We don’t have to talk about it anymore. We can just relax.”

You leaned sideways and rested your head against his chest. “I just don’t want to lose you. That’s all I know. You mean so much to me.”

Pennywise put his arms around you and pulled you close to him. “You mean so much to me too.”

**********

Crunch! Crunch! Rustle!

Crunch! Crunch!

You woke up on your couch. It was almost full dark outside. None of the lights were on in your house that you could see. Your stomach growled like you hadn’t eaten all day long.

Crunch! Crunch!

You sat up and almost felt kind of dizzy. You hated when you napped for too long. You heard more crunching and rustling sounds coming from your kitchen. You got up to go investigate. When you got to the kitchen, you reached for the light switch, expecting to find a large rat.

It was a rat. One with buck teeth, red lips, and wild orange hair.

You stared at your clown lover with a mix of shock and annoyance on your face.

“Pennywise, what are you doing?”

There was cereal everywhere. On the table. On the floor. Pennywise stood in the midst of it all. He was holding up his hand, picking individual pieces of cereal out if it and throwing them on the floor.

“What kind of cereal is this? It is nasty. How can you humans eat it?” He popped the rest of it in his mouth and started chewing.

You put your hands on your hips. “That was my Lucky Charms.”

Pennywise started giggling. “Lucky Charms. Yummy marshmallows.”

You would have laughed if you didn’t feel like pulling your hair out. For as large and intimidating as Pennywise was, he was like a kid sometimes. Your stomach rumbled again. It was time for a distraction.

“Hey Penny, let’s go eat out.”

“Eat out? Like we did last time?”

“Yeah. You can bring Roman out. And we can go eat. At the Rocket.” You tried to put as much pep in your voice as possible, hoping he would get the hint to get out of your poor kitchen.

Pennywise threw the handful of cereal that he had just grabbed behind his shoulder. You grimaced. “Alright. I go with you to eat out. And then we come back and you let me eat you out.”

“Okay, fine. Whatever.” You started massaging your forehead. You had told Pennywise two days ago what the other meaning of that phrase was. Now you were almost beginning to regret it. You told him to lock the door behind him and grabbed your keys to go wait for him in the car.

**********

You dunked your piece of pork roast into your mashed potatoes and shoved it in your mouth. Brown gravy dribbled down your chin.

“Umhmm.”

Roman watched you with a bemused expression on his face. You grabbed a napkin and dabbed at your chin.

“You really are hungry, aren’t you?” he asked.

You nodded. “Umhumm,” you said, your mouth full of food.

“You didn’t eat today?”

You chewed for a minute and swallowed before you answered. “I did. But I’m just so hungry. I don’t know why.” You dunked your roll in your potato gravy and took a big bite.

“Well you won’t find me complaining. Nothing wrong with a big appetite.”

You got some potatoes on your fork. “And that’s another thing. I never see you eat. The last time we came here, you didn’t eat either,” you pointed out. You shoved your fork back in your mouth.

“Well my tastes aren’t exactly what you would call normal human food.” Roman waved his hands about as he talked.

You were about to take another bite, but your hand froze halfway to your mouth. “Oh? And uh…what do you eat?”

“Well I usually have a tendency to eat small…” Roman waved his hand about.

“Animals?” you threw in quickly.

Roman chuckled silently. “You could say that.”

“Oh.” You frowned and lowered your fork. You imagined Pennywise sinking his teeth into a poor rabbit. And then another thought hit you. Would you have to eat like that as well now that you were his mate?

Roman leaned over and placed his hand on the table in front of you. “You’re not going to have to eat like that no.”

You gave him wry smile. “Reading my mind?”

“I didn’t have to. I know you.”

“Can you read people’s minds?” You pushed your mashed potatoes around with your fork, your appetite suddenly diminished.

“In a sense. As soon as I meet someone, I can tell what’s utmost on their minds. And I at least know who they are as far as, like, their name.”

“Did you know my name at first?”

Roman smiled at you. “Of course.”

“And will I be able to… read minds as well?”

Roman furrowed his brow as though deep in thought. “I don’t know what you’ll be able to do, to be honest. Or how many more times we’ll have to mate before your abilities would start to develop.”

You felt your stomach flip flop. A deep blush crept into your cheeks. You folded your hands in your lap. You and Pennywise really were together now. You remembered yesterday when you were next to the water, when you felt him changing inside you. You put your hands between your legs. You wanted to feel him inside you again so badly.

“You okay?” Roman asked, his voice full of concern. “Your face is bright red.” He reached out to touch your cheek with the back of his hand. It felt cool against your burning flesh.

“I’m just tired,” you told him. 

It was only a half lie. True you hadn’t felt as tired since you started eating, but you didn’t want to tell him the real reason behind your sudden hormonal flare-up. And after the conversations the two of you had had today, as badly as you wanted to be with him again, you were almost reluctant to now. You had a feeling there were things that Pennywise wasn’t telling you, but you weren’t about to press him. You were just going to have to trust him to tell you when he was ready, just like everything else that you had learned about him.

But were you ready for his truths to become yours as well?

@fuck-the-clown  @honk-honk-bitches  @hoe-for-daddywise @floatingwithpennywise  @dallonweaksme  @wtf-it  @lesteefightme  @penny-trash  @guttinqteeth @booklover2929  @red-balloons-and-popcorn  @unidash @bill-istvan @smileysam13579  @daddywiseskarsgard 

[brightlotusmoon]

Sneak Peek, “The Spirit Within” #2

So, @lacrymosa99 had joyfully requested that I expand my TMNT 2012 Season 5 headcanon of “Leo and Mikey become Spiritual Intuition Bros, discover their powers together, have loads of fun, and hang out with Ghost Dad Splinter and become like psychic mediums for the family and Unfairly Departed Rat Dad, with hilarious results.” And I was all excited and got to work, because that does make for a really good story with tons of character development. I posted some of the start a few days back. Now I decided to post some more. Except it is still in the Angsty-Fluff stage, not the Sweet-Fluff stage or the Silly-Fluff. The boys gotta practice! And there are side effects! And Leo has no freaking clue what he’s doing! And Mikey may have all that raw talent but he needs discipline and commitment! And Donnie has a new toy! And I am actually learning to write Leo better because of this, I can totally sympathize with him for the first time without muttering “Wonder Boy” under my breath. Turns out, using Mikey as the focal point lets me dive into the turtle’s heads easily, as long as they care about Mikey, I can work with them like whoa. I shall also tag @jumpybox and @mysillylittlesoapbox because there was interest expressed, and Angel123, who doesn’t have a Tumblr. Not gonna apologize for repeated themes, because you should know me by now. This story, which when finished will become part two of The Sunshine Child series, is Canon Divergent. I shall be following the show for the most part, but these stories are meant to be supplemental and take place in that mysterious time lapse between episodes that Ciro loves to gloss over. Who knows what happens offscreen? They don’t really tell us. This is actually a good thing for us writers, because we can write little things that could or should happen in the show but obviously won’t. I am rambling. All right. Lacrymosa, I hope you like where this is going. I mean, you can totally ask for it to change, I give you permission since you made the request. But I have Plans and Plots, sooo. Yeah.

He waited a few days before testing his unspoken theory; he didn’t want to spook his brothers, But it was time now.

Leonardo settled himself before the dojo tree, calling up this new spiritual power like the flow of a river. He sensed Michelangelo kneeling beside him, and that rush of spiritual power from his baby brother was like a burst of oxygen, blooming life and warmth and sunlight. He reminded himself to not feel envy or jealousy. It was just Mikey.

Mikey spoke in a whisper, but to Leo it was a shout. “It’s like my whole brain just expanded and I feel everything.”

Leo frowned. That wasn’t quite his experience; his spiritual feelers were more refined and detailed, seeking out information. Mikey’s seemed more like a solid mist spreading everywhere, eager and childlike in curiosity. How deeply could Mikey sense things? Has Sensei known all this time? Should Leo have known? Why hadn’t Sensei prepared him for something like this?

Sighing, Leo bit his lip, huffed, and concentrated again. His aura rose around him, streamlined and steady, taut and waiting, patient and quiet. It hummed comfortingly.

And then that flowing sunset orange mist nudged it, carefully wrapping around the edges of Leo’s energy, prodding so gently, trying to find a way to ask politely. Leo reminded himself to relax completely. Mikey had an insatiably curious nature, naturally his spiritual energy would be the same. But Master Splinter had never mentioned auras being able to expand so rapidly outside their own boundaries.

“Mikey,” he hissed. “Quit poking me.”

“M’not,” Mikey hissed back. “It’s doing that by itself.”

“What, you can’t control it?” Leo jerked back in horror, his eyes snapped open, his head whipping to the side.

Michelangelo slowly opened his eyes and turned to smile at Leo. It was a kind, gentle smile, easy and delicate. Something in his eyes…his pupils were dilated and the strips of summer blue were glittering. “I never said that,” and Mikey’s voice was different, soft and sweet like a kitten’s purr. Leo blinked, and sunset color surrounded Mikey, tapping and bouncing against his skin like waves. Around his head, the aura looked like a radiating star, like a solar eclipse with Mikey’s head as the moon. Mikey opened his mouth in a grin, and the color was there too, puffing like vapor from his mouth.

“Leo,” the colors said, “Don’t worry. It’s all good. Everything is awesome.”

Leo watched as Mikey’s aura only brightened and widened, spilling out into the dojo, colliding with the tree and lighting it up with colors he had only seen in outer space. He couldn’t breathe. He pressed both hands to his chest. It was too much. As Leo felt himself slide sideways, he saw a white core of power, ringed in summer blue, the color of his brother’s eyes.

 . . . .

“…eo? Leo, I’m sorry. You gotta wake up. Can you hear me? Please, big brother, we need you!”

It was Mikey’s voice, but it was Mikey as a child, tormented by endless nightmares, scrabbling to cling to Leonardo’s plastron in tears, and Leo would automatically embrace him tightly, so tightly, and murmur, “Shh, little brother. I’m here. I’ll keep you safe. I’ll always keep you safe.”

“Guys, did you hear that? He said something!”

“Are you sure, Mikey? He hasn’t even moved in six hours.”

“Donnie, I swear, he said something! Leo, say it again? Leo! Leo, please! Wake up, wake up!”

“Mikey, don’t shake him! Quit it, ya shellhead. What did you do again?”

“Stop it, Raph, I didn’t do anything, I swear! No! Lemme go! Leo!”

“Ow! Mikey! Stop hitting me!”

“Raph, ease up. Maybe Mikey can connect with him. They were meditating with their new spiritual intuitions, after all.”

“It’s been six hours, Don. Ya think something would’ve, y’know, happened?”

“M-maybe he’s lost. In the colors.”

“Mikey, you’re making less sense than usual.”

There was blackness, then whiteness, then a rush of colors like a rainbow erupting. His own dark gray-blue, Mikey’s amber orange, Donnie’s soft violet purple, Raph’s deep crimson red. They danced around each other frenetically, and the orange fringed them all, mist flowing like water and air, curling in a strange attempt to calm them.

“Leo, I had a bad dream, there was a big monster with teeth and he hurt Papa and then he tried to hurt you, and I couldn’t find Raphie or Donnie, and I was alone and no one could help…”

“Mikey, it wasn’t real, you know that. Dreams aren’t real. They’re all in your mind. Your mind wants to scare you so you can learn to be brave.” Those lamp-like eyes shone at him. “You’re already brave. I bet you don’t have nightmares.”

He smiled. “Of course I do Mikey. I have nightmares about losing all of you. But then I remember that I will wake up and you’ll all be here.”

The hug got tighter. “I’ll always be here, Leo. Promise you will be too?”

“I promise, Mikey…promise…s’okay…it’s okay…”

“LEO!” The shout was full of amber orange and he flinched. He felt something – someone – close to his head.

“Leo? Can you hear me?”

He groaned, his entire body feeling weighed down. “D-Don?”

“Oh, thank science. Can you open your eyes?”

“Nnngghh…” He pried his eyelids open and his vision was filled with russet eyes framed in purple. He decided to try breathing, and was grateful when oxygen filled his lungs. “Donnie. Mikey? What happened?”

“Leeoo!” And then Mikey’s freckled face was all he could see as Donnie was shoved aside with a grunt. “Leo, what happened? What did you see? I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to do whatever I did. It just went everywhere. I couldn’t figure out how to pull it back. I think I exploded you! I’m so so sor--”

“Mikey, Mikey…” As he struggled on his elbows, Leo realized he was lying on a mattress, still in the dojo, his head on a pillow. There was equipment lying around him. His head was pounding. He took several deep gulps of air and rolled his head, neck, shoulders. Everything seemed to be all right. He was just wrung out. Donnie was holding up a tablet-like device pointed at Leo.

“What is that, Don?”

“Hm? Oh, something Dr. Rockwell built for me. It scans the body and the brain like a CT scan. Neat, huh? Anyway, you’re completely fine, except you went into a near coma for six hours, and your brain activity was wild.”

“When did Rockwell build that?”

Don waved a hand. “I dunno, a week ago. I hadn’t gotten a chance to use it on anyone but myself. It uses Kraang tech to pinpoint accuracy, so I can tell if there’s internal damage, brain injury…plus, it helps keep track of April’s psionic powers. I figured I could track these new abilities you and Mikey have been displaying.”

“Don, can you look at me while you’re talking?”

“Sorry.” Donatello, glanced up from the screen, frowning. “Does anything hurt? Do you think you can stand up?”

Leo rubbed his head. “I’d love something for this migraine. Raph, help me up.”

Standing was much better than he had expected. Raph held onto him like he expected Leo to fall, but Leo squared his shoulders, cracked his neck, and sighed. Ugh, Sensei had not prepared him for this. “That feels better. Now. Mikey…”

And when he looked next to Donnie, he realized that Mikey had taken a few steps back and was trembling, head down, hands twisting.

“Mikey, wait. Hey. It’s okay. I’m fine.” Leo spread his arms, spun easily on one foot, grinned widely. But his littlest brother stayed, and the shaking increased, until there were tears at the corners of his eyes and tiny whimpers in the back of his throat.

Raphael ran to his side, throwing an arm around him, green eyes wide and alarmed. “Mikey, what’s the matter with you? Don’t tell me you’re gonna pass out too!”

But Mikey could only shake his head back and forth, and his breathing became harsh, and Raph was now embracing him completely, staring at Leo and Donnie in utter frustration and worry. “Donnie, use that thingy, quick! Make him stop!”

As Don scanned the freckled turtle, small beeps came from the tablet and Don jumped back, frowning. “Wait, I don’t get…hang on…there’s a massive energy fluctuation! Can you hold him still? I need to bring this closer to his head…”

Leo began to feel the rush of his spiritual energy flow and expand, and this time it felt insistent, impatient, searching. All he could do was hang on and watch as his aura moved toward Mikey’s aura, which responded by widening and enfolding Leo’s own. Leo gawped, watching the colors curl and wrap around each other. But then, dark spots began to appear in Mikey’s orange, and Leo suddenly felt chilled. His blue appeared to be trying to cover the spots.

Donnie was tapping furiously on the screen. “It’s like an electric storm. It looks like his neurons are rapidly misfiring.”

“English, please!” Raph snarled.

“I think he’s having some sort of seizure!” Don yelled. And then Mikey let out a strangled scream and slumped bonelessly in Raph’s arms.

Leo’s scream was just as strangled.

Sensei hadn’t prepared him for this!