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They're animals
They've always been animals
So why was April so surprised to see them like this?
Ever since they were young; they've had a taste for meat, flesh of any kind.
Splinter had to find this out in the hard way.
Seeing them in the blood of a man, chest ripped apart, organs and rips gushing out with bitmarks around the opening and the tots happly eating away the human flesh like it was candy.
It was horrific for the rat, contemplating if he should run away, and abandon the monstrous creatures, or keep them and care for them as their father?
He couldn't say no and abandon then like that, they were still young he could try and find them a new way of food, one that doesn't require death.
The days went by and Splinter tried anything he could find that was edible, but they wouldn't except, the tots would gage and push away anything that wasn't meat, he tried finding ways they could survive with other types of meat, but finding meat was..... difficult to day the least, so he had one option. To hunt.
It made for a good resource and bigger portions to eat later. The tots would carve thier jaws into the meat like it was a hot knife cutting butter, they always wanted seconds.
And Splinter had to provide, the more he hunts the more food they have to feed off of.
Splinter never expected to be eating the creature he use to be, eat his once own kind was, a nerve wracking and treacherous. Painful at times. But he had to eat somthing.
The years flew by, finding a home to forever live, the tots growing to children, once they got of age, yoshi had to teach them how to hunt properly and how to stick to the shadows.
The training begin and they are now teens, asking to the surface and discovery who they are in society.
Dining in on anything that had meat on it, including thier second fav food, pizza.
Meeting the human friends that always smelt delicious, but they couldn't eat thier friends that would be rude.
Since they have human friends now they have to eat more secretive now, hiding away the leftover meat and blood stains, cleaning after every meal. It was exhausting.
"Big catch today dudes!" Yelled the youngest helping dragging the broken man back to the lair so they can fest on, locking the blood off his knuckles, mouth drooling at the juciy flesh the man carried.
Throwing the body to the living area, without hesitation they dug thier teeth into the flesh, ripping and tearing the muscles and joints apart, carving open the belly with his teeth, mikey threw his face to the stomach tearing the flesh and painting blood over his face, grapping a kidney and fingers to nibble on.
"Mikey! stop taking all the good stuff, leave some for us!" Cried the red one breaking and ripping the arm out of socket to eat like a drum stick.
Let's finish this quickly, April and Casey will be here soo-" the leader refraind getting cut of by the sounds of the metal bars moving with soft taking.
"Casey you really have to start paying more attenti-" turning around to face the turles the two humans stand there frozen, becoming paler by the second. The silence was broken by the orange turtle reaching out a hand with the kidney as an offering,
"You want some?"
The red head became green and whipped her head around to barf loudly.