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Trials of the Cloaking Brooch

░ The Brooch ░

Chapter 1 Chapter 2

ROTMNT

Summary: On his way to the Run of the Mill pizza, Leo spots out the corner of his eye a glint behind a trash can. He lingers over to investigate only to see a lost clocking brooch. Timidly he picks it up and twirls it in his fingers only to realize that he no longer had 3 green fingers but 5 human skin-toned fingers his eyes glance up at the semi-reflective trashcan to see a human form staring back at him. As he was about to investigate more, a beep from his phone caught his attention. it was a snap from April to the group chat with her and his brothers. He opened it up to see her lying on a desk with the caption "I'm sooooo bored." He glanced back up at the human reflection and an evil glint appeared in his eyes. He stood up shoving his phone back in his pocket and began his walk to April's school.

A/N: This is a book I am almost finished within A03 I wanted to post it here as well here is that link if you prefer to read it there. https://archiveofourown.org/works/41621709

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Leo was bored and looking for something to do. He peaked his head into Donnie's lab to see him typing away at his computer very much in the zone. Leo has learned his lesson by now not to mess with his brother when he is in the zone. He quickly wandered away in search of his other brothers, Ralph wasn't hard to find as he was in the dojo punching at the punching bag and just like his other brother completely in the zone. Mikey was a bit harder to find as he hide in the corner of the living room with his sketchbook doodling away and once again in the zone.

Leo sighed in the defeat of finding something to do with his brother when his stomach let out a very loud grumble. Leo looked down at his stomach before looking back at all his brothers when an idea popped into his head. 'if I'm hungry my brothers most definitely are, I should go get pizza for everyone!' His mind was made and he left the sewers.

Leo strutted his way to the graffitied wall that held the portal to 'the Run of the Mill pizza play' when he saw something glimmer out the corner of his eye. He leaned back to get a better view to see some kind of gem hiding behind a trash bin. He lingers over to investigate only to see a lost clocking brooch. He has seen many of these but was never able to get his hands on one due to the costly price that came with the brooch and the comfort he has with his current living arrangements. Timidly he picks it up and twirls it in his fingers only to realize that he no longer had 3 green fingers but 5 human skin-toned fingers his eyes glanced up at the semi-reflective trashcan to see a human form staring back at him.

As he was about to investigate more, a beep from his phone catered his attention. it was a snap from April to the group chat with her and his brothers. He opened it up to see her lying on a desk with the caption "I'm sooooo bored." He glanced back up at the human reflection and an evil glint appeared in his eyes. He stood up put his phone back in his pocket and began his walk to April's school forgetting completely about his pizza plans.

It was nearing 3:30 when he arrived at the school as the bell had just rung and the students began filing out. Leo's initial reaction is to hide as he ducked behind a lamp post but quickly revived curious looks. He was used to having people look at him weirdly but this was different none of the looks had any malic or grossed looks behind them only curious like they were curious about the way a teen would be trying to hide behind a lamp post. Leo looked back down at his hand and outfit and reassured himself that he looked human. He laughed at himself before confidently jumping out from behind the post and into the courtyard.

His smile radiated the entire area as he waved at people passing by and shooting finger guns at the cute girls. As he was giving a wink to one girl he didn't notice the person carrying way too many books in front of him. The two collapsed into each other and fell back, books falling around them. Leo rubbed his head as he looked up at the person who he ran into only to see his very good friend April O'Neil.

He enthusiastically jumped up grabbing April's books as fast as he could, "April!" He shouted in glee.

April's face converted from an expression of anger to recognition to confusion as she looked up at the strange boy who said her name in a tone she recognized. "Do I know you!" She responded sassily and grabbed the books back from Leo.

Leo's smile grew, "April it's me, Leo!" April's face then turned to shock as she dropped her books again and jumped into investigating. She moved around him so fast taking in every detail. "Can't get over my good looks huh!" Leo taunts flicking his newfound hair out of his face.

"How are you? What! Why!" April began questioning adjusting her glasses to be sure she was not seeing things.

"I found a clocking brooch!" Leo stated proudly, "Now you can hang with your favorite bro." He flicked his hair once more.

A mischievous glint flashed in her eye, "You know I actually have something I can use your help with" April grabbed his wrist and pulled him into the school building. Leo attempted to grab as many of her books off the floor as he could before getting yanked away.

They finally stopped at a locker that April quickly opened and grabbed her books out of Leo's hand and threw them into the locker. As soon as the door to the locker opened Leo was immediately memorized as he looked at the mirror and fully saw himself.

He shared many characteristics of Lou Jitsu which is to be expected. He has dark black hair that mostly fits into a very loose ponytail but has strands framing his face and he shares the same pointy chin as his father. As for his outfit wore a black tee shirt and black jeans with a baby blue bomber jacket on top.

Leo leaned in closer to admire all his new features and kept poking at his hair, his baldness was something he grew used to but he was always jealous of the human's long hair.

April closed the locker diverting his attention back to her who currently looks annoyed since he was talking while he was admiring himself.

"As I was saying!" She complained, "I really need to interview the MTG club for the school paper but the president refuses to let me interview them until I beat them at a game. I was going to get Donnie to teach me how to play but since you are a master strategist you might be able to help me right now."

Leo looked at her confused with a raised eyebrow, "the what club?" April just rolled her eyes and grabbed his wrist again dragging him down the hall.

They stopped when they reached a classroom filled with students chatting and shuffling cards. April immediately made a B-line to the back of the room where a small group was chatting among themselves on top of the tables. As soon as the group of teens saw April approaching the red-headed girl in the center stood up facing April with her arms crossed. April reached her hand out, "Alsie, I'm April O'Neil and I am here to talk to you about an interview for the school paper about your school."

"April I know who you are and why you are here, we legit talked last period about this." The redhead raised her eyebrow and smirked clearly humored by April's introduction. "Are you ready to play?"

"Actually I will not be facing you but my friend Leo will!" April then pulls Leo in front of her. Leo flashes a big smile and reaches his hand out.

The redhead looked at him questioning before shaking his hand, "I haven't seen you around here?"

"That's cause he is.. homeschooled!" April quickly thought up an excuse. Alsie nodded in understanding.

"Well, it doesn't matter to me who plays." She shrugged and looked over at Leo, "Do you have a deck?" Leo just gave a simple shake of a head confused at what she was talking about she smiled anyway and gestured to one of her friends to hand her a deck, "Let's go with an all-blue deck." he nodded and went to the back of the room where they had free decks of cards sitting.

"Since it's your first time I'm going to go easy and play my all-red deck," she said as she reached in her back grabbing a deck of cards and then leading them over to a table with two play mats already rolled out. "Magic the Gathering is really simple to play. Imagine you're the grand battle commander, and your creatures are your frontline. Any monsters you have on the table can defend you. As well as creature cards, you'll also have an array of spells, artifacts, enchantments, and more. Everything is powered by your lands, or mana if you will.

The goal is to kill each other, each of us will start with 20 health points. At the start of every turn, you will want to place down a land card if possible. At the top of each card is the amount of mana you will need to summon the card and the only way you get mana is by the number of lands you have. To use any cards you will tap the card by turning it sideways this is also how you keep track of how much mana you have used." She explained as she shuffled her deck by placing the cards down in random order into seven different piles Leo took his deck and mimicked her.

She then handed him a black card with the words, 'On Your Turn' written on top. "This will help you understand how to play. on your turn there are 5 phases, the first is the Beginning first you untap all your tapped cards, and you then must draw a card from your deck. The second phase is your main phase this is when you can cast sorceries, instants, creatures, artifacts, enchantments, etc. You can also activate any abilities, just as long as you have enough mana. Next is combat, where you can decide if any of your untapped creatures can attack, at the bottom of each creature card are its power and defense, the power is the number of points a creature can deal and the defense is how much it can block. Note when you first summon a creature you will have summoning sickness and will not be able to attack until the next round. Next is the second main phase this happens after I declare if I am blocking or using any intents and you can cast any spell or activate abilities. The final phase is the end step this is you declaring that your turn is done." She finished explaining as she placed her now shuffled deck in the corner of her play mat and Leo copied, "Get it?" Leo smiles and nods as both he and her pull 7 cards from their deck.

"I'll let you go first," She offers and Leo looks at his deck and pulls out an island land, passing his turn.

She then pulls out mountain land followed by a 1/1 Tin Street Cadet. Leo places another island and places a 2/1 Waterkin Shaman with flying and a +1/+1 whenever another creature with flying enters. She places another Mountain and attacks with her Tin Street Cadet which states 'Whenever Tin Street Cadet becomes blocked, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.'

'that's just like the mutant silverfish' Leo thinks, 'if I block it it will create another' he allows the creature to attack taking 1 health. Leo then places his land and another Waterkin Shaman and decides to attack with his Waterkin and she takes 2 damage.

"Bo ya!" He shouted in victory, "Looks like you're getting watered down!" He quips gaining a smile from Alsie.

On her turn, she summons a land and a 2/2 Spellgorger Weird which gains +1/+1 when she cast a noncreature spell. she then attacks again with her Tin Street Cadet and Leo takes the hit once again. Leo cast land and a 2/1 Cloudkin Seer which gives him another card and adds +1/+1 to his Waterkin since the Cloudkin has flying. He takes advantage and attacks with both his Waterkins. She blocks one with her Spellgurger destroying one of his Waterkins and the Spellgurger but he took 3 damage from her with the second Waterkin.

Leo fistbumps April excited at his lead Alsie giggles at his excitement before placing another land and another 2/2 Spellgorger and attacks with her Tin Street Cadet taking a point off Leo. Leo then places another land and summons a Windstorm Drake which gives all his creatures flying +1/+0 and since it has flying it also gives his Waterkin +1/+1. He attacks with both his 3/2 Waterkin and 3/1 Cloudkin. She blocks the Waterkin with her Spellgorger destroying both but takes the 3 damage from the Cloudkin which she is unable to block due to its flying.

With her limited cards, she places a land and passes her turn. Leo ran out of his lands but taped two lands to cast a Glint Instant on his Cloudkin to give it +0/+3 not that he needed to as both his creatures have flying and were able to attack her dealing 6 damage leaving her with 6 health remaining. Leo began cheering on his early victory. "Looks like you're in some hot water!" He quips again keeping with his water theme.

Alsie Then Plays her instant shock on him which deals him 2 damage and casts an Act of Treason Sorcery which takes control of one of his creatures takes his 3/3 Windstorm Drake and attacks him with her 1/1 cadet and his 3/3 Drake. She also Cast another shock Instant-on his Cloudkin to deal 2 damage to it. "All is fire in war" she laughs with her own pun.

"it's all water under the bridge," Leo said before pulling out his instant Glint to give his Cloudkin +0/+3 in an effort to save it but he still took the 4 attacks which brought his health down to 11. when he draw his new card he was happy to see another 2/1 Cloudkin which will also give him the ability to grab another card. which he got another land which he needed to cast Unsummon a card he has had in his hand since the beginning to take back his Cloudkin and resummon it to draw yet another card but he forgot to count his mana and was left with 2 mana left which the Cloudkin needs 3.

"Dang it" he cursed under his breath for making such a careless mistake, but he quickly recovered and attacked with both his 3/1 Cloudkin and his returned 3/3 Windstorm dealing Alsie a total of 6 damage and taking her out of the game. It took Leo to process his win before he jumped out of his seat cheering. "Looks like you have been wiped out! bo ya!" He jumped up and flicked his hair which sounded is his new favorite thing to do. April Jump up and down cheering him on.

Alsie giggled at his behavior, "I could tell you would like to blue deck." She commented as she began to put her deck away, "You look like someone who likes to think ahead and strategies. You pick up the game pretty well." she smiled at him which immediately caused him to blush in return. "Well, O'Neil I guess that completes your end of the deal now it's time for me to complete my end."

April pulls Leo into a hug before running over to Alsie with a pen and notebook. Alsie took a look over at Leo who was looking through the deck reading all the cards and what effects they have and began thinking of better strategies, Alsie smiled at his interest, " You can keep that deck if you want, and Leo you are welcome to join the MTG club we meet every Tuesday after school. Also, I am here every day after school if you want to play one-on-one again but next time I won't let you win." She winked before walking away with April.

"Let me win!" Leo retorted receiving a laugh from Alsie before she closed the door to the teacher's office for more privacy for April's interview. Leo then looks over at her fellow club officers for answers, "What does she mean by letting me win?!"

The officers shrugged before returning to their game. Leo wanders over to see their game, it looks much different than his game with Alsie, there are many more colors on the mats and many more creatures each with different effects. He looked around the room to see all the students invested in their battles some battles were one-on-one and some had four players.

The thing Leo took the most note of when looking around the room was how comfortable everyone was with him being in their presence and vice versa. The only times he gets these feelings are when he is with his brothers and sometimes when he is in the hidden city but this feels different he almost feels human. He smiled before sitting down next to one of the officers asking him questions about the game and watching him play. He kindly led him through everything and explained his every move.

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