It was cold. Even after the snow had finished falling and the wind stopped blowing, it was still freezing cold. The boys had no idea where they were going. The trail that Leo had left behind was gone and now his brothers were just aimlessly calling out his name.
"Leo!" shouted Mikey over and over again.
"Leo, it's your brothers. We didn't mean to make you freeze the summer." Donnie added.
"We're sorry! It's all Raph's fault!" yelled Mikey.
"Hey!" retorted Raph.
"Well it was." Mikey said, as if it was obvious.
Raph threw a snowball at his head thus starting a childish snowball fight between Mikey and Raph.
Don stood on the sideline shaking his head. "Guys, stop."

They weren't listening.
"Seriously, one stray snowball could hit the navigational systems on your bikes and cause them—"
A clump of flying snow had hit Mikey's GPS.
"—to malfunction." Donnie even wondered why he bothered.
Electrical sparks and shuddering noises started to make the system shake. Don knew what would follow after.
"It's gonna blow!" They quickly all ducked for cover and just in time. The snow trekker blew up in flames and caused a chain reaction with the other two. When the explosions ceased, Don gave Mikey and Raph an exasperated glare.
"Uh, oops." Raph apologized.
As they stood up to collect themselves, a huge pile of snow fell from a tree branch and covered them.
"Ah man, as if being cold-blooded wasn't hard enough." complained Don, as he brushed off the snow.
"None of this would've happened if Leo just told his secret." Raph imputed.
As they trekked on, the began to freeze more and more by the minute.
Mikey was especially freezing. "Snow. It had to be snow. H-he couldn't-t have warm tropical magic that covered the f-fjord in white sand and warm...fire!"
That last one didn't make sense.
Raph and Donnie looked up to see what he was talking about and found themselves looking at a little cabin with the lights on and smoke rising from the chimney. Mikey suddenly had a burst of motivation to get the warm fire which caused him to slip and crash into his brothers who all slid into the freezing waters of a little creek in front of them. They groaned and muttered about how cold it was. With their bodies becoming stiff and numb, slowly they stood and waddled to the cabin.
As they wobbled closer, they saw there was a sign that hung from above but was covered in snow. Don reached up and knocked the snow off.
"'Wandering Hun's Trading Post'." He read aloud.
Another sign shook. "Oo! 'and Sauna'!" Mikey exclaimed excitedly.
Good enough for them.
They opened the wooden door and were instantly greeted by a blast of warm air. The shack was lined up with the usual summer items that you'd use this season. Not that it did any good now. The turtles were looking around as they examined the place when suddenly they heard, "Yoo hoo."

They turned and saw a short but very built man with his blonde hair pull back into a very long ponytail and a scar on his left cheek. He was dressed in a sleeveless straight line cut kimono-like shirt that showed off his massive biceps and has large purple dragon tattoo curling around his arm.

"Big summer blowout," He said, giving a little wave. "Half off swimming suits, clogs and a sun balm of my own invention, yo?"

Raph and Mikey just stared at him. He had to be joking with this weather going on outside.

"Oh. Great," remarked Don. "For now how about boots –winter boots and snow suits?"

"That would be in our winter department." The man, assumed named Hun, pointed to the area which was almost bare of anything. As luck would have it, there were three male outfits still left on sale.

"Oh." Don took in the lack of stock as he and his brothers shuffled over.

Mikey grabbed his shoes and an orange and brown suit and went over to purchase along with the maroon and charcoal suit chosen by Raph and the purple and olive green suit selected by Donnie. He spoke up asking, "We were just wondering, has another young man–the king perhaps, I don't know, pass through here?"

Hun chuckled. "Only one crazy enough to be out in this storm is you guys."

Just then, the door opened and in stepped two females covered in snow. They stomped their feet so that their boots wouldn't track slush and pointlessly tried to wipe the snow off them before taking in the shop.

"You guys and those ladies," Hun added. "Yoo hoo, big summer blowout."

The girls just ignored him and split into separate directions. One headed and grabbed a climbing rope and pick, while the other girl stood in front of Raphael and stared him down. Raph just stood there and listened to her deep breathing. Now that he could see her clearly, he noticed that there were brown curls sticking out from her ski cap and her startling golden brown eyes that complimented her mossy green, reptilian skin.

"Candy." She spoke.

Raph blinked. "Huh?"

She bent forward and narrowed her eyes. "Behind you."

"Oh. Right. Sorry." Finally understanding what she meant, Raph moved out of her way.

The girl knelt down and tossed the rock candy onto the counter as the other one gently set down the rope and pick.

"Oh a real howler in July,right?" inquired Hun as he rung up the items. "Wonder where it could be coming from."

"The North Mountain." answered the shorter of the girls.

Don processed this while muttering, "North Mountain?" He was about to ask the girl more but he didn't get the chance.

"That'll be forty bucks." priced Hun.

The girls clearly were not happy with that cost.

"Forty? No ten." argued the shorter girl.

Hun shook his head and explained. "See, this is from our winter stock where supply and demand have a big problem."

"You want to take about a supply and demand problem?" argued the gray skinned girl. "We sell ice for a living."

"Ooo, that's a rough business to be in right now." Agreed Mikey as he snickered at the idea of ice selling. "I mean that is really–"

Raph glared at him sending the message to shut up.

Mikey cleared his throat."–that's unfortunate."

The conversation apparently had moved on because Hun was continuing with current charge of the items. "Still 40. But I will throw it a visit to Hun's Sauna. Yoo hoo, hi Dragons." He then did a finger waved to the door in the far corner.

Through the steam covered window, young teens to early adults popped from nowhere embraced in humidity replied with a 'Yoo hoo' and finger wave back.

Raph and Don, along with the snow-covered girls, just stared except Mikey who just waved back.

"Ten's all we've got. Help us out." The short girl pleated with Hun.

"Okay." Hun then switched and separated the candy from the rope and pick. "Ten will get you this and no more."

The short girl pondered it whereas green skinned girl was frustrated with that deal. Raph however wanted to get this show on the road; he had a brother to find.

"Okay just tell me one thing, what was happenin' on the North Mountian? Did it seem –'magical'?" he asked.

The gray skinned girl pulled down her scarf that covered her nose and mouth and breathed a sigh of exasperation. He could see distinctly now that she was a mutated reptile like him and his brothers. "Yes," she said with a hint of annoyance. "Now back up while I deal with this crook here."

Hun took an offense to that. He slowly arose from his seat and stood so high that he overshadowed everyone. She made a terrible mistake of insulting him.

"What did you call me?" He questioned slightly torn.

In a blink of an eye, he carried the mutant on his shoulders as the short girl tried to stop him but her efforts were useless. Hun effortless tossed the reptile out of his shop and into the freezing cold. The other girl ran after her thrown friend as Hun slammed the door on both of them. As the short girl dusted off some snow from the mutant, a young man with long, black hair ran up to them with an eager expression.

The short girl just simply shook her head. "No Casey, we didn't get your candy."

Casey's smile immediately vanished. "You didn't? Oh come on!"

The mutant girl piped in. "But we did find us all a place to sleep. And it's free."

Casey turned his head to the wooden stable shed near them. It was moderately sized but at this late in the night it was the perfect place to stay out of the cold.

Back in the store, the brothers were awestruck at what just occurred.

"I'm sorry about this violence." apologized Hun as he made his way back to his spot behind the counter. He then muttered something about fish and then placed a jar of compacted olive colored fish, but it was unclear what he was speaking about. Thereon he went back to talking business. "Just the outfits and the boots, then?"

Raph and Mikey nodded but Don glanced at their items then gazed out the window. He had a idea that just might work in their brothers hunt for their eldest.

Outside the shop and inside the shed, a voice could be heard along with a mandolin being strummed. Casey plucked at his instrument as the mutant girl laid in a stack of hay while the short girl tweaked some parts on their large snowmobile.

"Lizards are better than people, Mona don't you think that's true?" sang Casey.

"Yeah people will beat you and curse you and cheat you," joined in Mona. "Everyone of thems bad, except y'all."

"Aw thanks, Mona." the short girl replied.

Casey continued with his song. "But people smell better than lizards."

Mona glared at him but Casey ignored it.

"April, don't you think I'm right?" he asked the short girl in song.

"That's once again true, for all except you." April responded with chorus.

Casey grinned and shook his hair. "You got me, let's call it a night."

April set down her tools and smiled. "Good night."

Mona sank more snug in the hay. "Don't let the frostbite bite."

Just as the all were drifting to sleep, the shed door swung open causing the three to jump up startled, praying that it wasn't the angry shop owner to throw them out of their only sanctuary. But it was just three turtles dressed appropriately for the frigid weather.

"Nice song." commented Raph.

Mona sighed a sigh of relief. "It's just you guys. What do you want?"

Don stood upright; it was his cue to be the peacekeeper. "We want you guys to take us to the North Mountian."

Mona and April just gazed at them before Casey fell back on his pile of hay and put his beanie over his face. "We don't take people places."

Raph wasn't having it. "Let me break it to yah this way."

He then threw a heavy sack at him that hit Casey's stomach with a substantial thud. Casey jolted upright now listening to them.

"Take us up the mountain." commanded Raph with rage.

"Please." added Don gently.

Mona quickly took the bag from Casey's lap and dug inside it to find the candy, rope and pick that the girls wanted to purchase earlier. The act was kind but the girls and Casey didn't understand what they wanted to do with the dangerous North Mountian.

Donnie clearly understood what their faces were saying. 'The North Mountian was no

place for royalty. They'd heard it all before so he clarified why they needed to go. "Look, we know how to stop this winter."

April sighed, the turtles just bought them the supplies they hopelessly needed. How could they say no? "We leave at dawn."

Casey and Mona lied down once again on their hay to go to sleep but Raph terminated any chance of that.

"We leave now." Raph ordered then walked outside with his brothers following after. He was antsy enough as it was, he couldn't possibly wait until morning to trek to the mountain.

After a few minutes of getting the large snowmobile charged up, Casey sat at the engine to confirm it was working well the entire way while April perched at the wheel with Don next to her and the others in the back. The six of them rode through the darkness at incredible speed, staying on the lit path away from the trees and rocks.

"Hang on! We like to go fast." warned April.

"I like fast!" declared Don as he put his feet up on top the snowmobile.

April quickly pushed off his feet. "Whoa whoa, get your feet off this is brand new! Seriously, were you raised in a barn?" She spit on the machine and wiped off Don's muck off the silver paint.

Don wiped his face of her spit. "Uh no, I was raised in a castle."

Turning the corner, Mona jumped in the conversation. Early on the ride, the turtles explained how it was really their brother you had created the eternal winter all over Arendelle.

"So tell me, what made the king go all ice crazy?" asked Mona.

Mikey shrugged. "It was all Donnie's fault. He got engaged but then Leo freaked out because Don had only just met her, y'know that day. Leo said he wouldn't bless the marriage–"

April got interested in the conversion now. She looked at Don while interrupting Mikey contemplating, "Wait, you got engaged to someone you just met that day?"

Mikey nodded answering for Donnie. "Yeah anyway, Don got mad and then Leo got mad so then he tried to walk away and Raph grabbed Leo's glove–"

April was so hung up on the previous statement, she set the mobile on auto-drive. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. "Hang on. You mean to tell me you got ENGAGED to someone you just met that day?!"

Don rolled his eyes. "Yes, pay attention."

"The thing is though, he wore the gloves all the freakin' time and I thought, 'maybe he has a thing about dirt.'" input Raph.

"What, your father never warned you about strangers?!" April argued. She still wasn't over the subject of Don getting engaged to someone he had just met.

Donnie looked at her up and down and slowly skooted away. "Yes they did. But Irma is not a stranger."

April took that as a challenged. "Oh yeah? What's her last name?"

Don scoffed but realized he actually didn't know her last name. He didn't want to appear like a fool so he simply said, "Of the Southern Isles."

"What's her favorite food?" questioned April.

"Sandwiches." stated Don.

"Best friend's name?"

"Probably Rachel."

"Eye color?"

"Beautiful."

"Bra size?"

"Bra size doesn't matter."

"Have you had a meal with her yet, what if you hate the way she eats? What if you hate the way she farts?"

"Farts? Excuse me miss, she is a princess."

"All girls do it."

"Okay!" Mona had enough of this discussion. "Can we please just move on?"

Donnie ignored her. He wasn't finished with proving how April was wrong. "Look it doesn't matter, it's true love."

"Doesn't sound like true love." muttered Mona.

"Are you some sort of love expert?" challenged Raph.

Mona didn't respond. Of course she wasn't an expert. She had never found anyone special to cherish in her life. "No," she admitted. "But I have friends who are."

April smiled because she knew who Mona was speaking about; they were also her friends too. Suddenly something jolted April's attention out of the corner of her eye. Mona caught onto it as well. Something was following them through the forest and it didn't feel right. Slowing down the engine, Casey got the message that they were being stalked which made the hairs on his neck stand. The turtles, however, didn't seem to realize what was going on.

Raph just laughed bitterly. "You have friends who are love experts? I'm not buyin' it."

Mona was too wrapped up in making sure they were safe to respond with a comeback. "Stop talking."

Raph just looked at her. She had to be kidding if he was just going to drop it; she had

started the fight and they were going to finish it. "No no no no no, I want to meet these–"

Mona threw her hand over his mouth to silence him. "No I mean it."

He evidently wasn't happy with that action and took her hand off his mouth. He groaned

and opened his mouth to say something else but Don hushed him.

April stood up in her seat and shone a light to look farther ahead in front of them. There appeared to be nothing which was a good sign. She moved the light towards her right, scanning the forest for any trouble but saw nothing. Turning towards the back, it seemed to be the exact same thing. Nothing. But Mona peered in the darkness swearing to herself that she knew something was there watching them like prey.

Instantly, multiple pairs of eyes glowed in the darkness followed by hungry growls. April and Mona's eye sparked with fear.

"Casey go!" barked April.

Casey started the engine and they sped away with a pack of ravenous wolves at their heels.

Mikey was scared. "What are they?"

"Wolves." answered Mona.

"Wolves?" repeated Don.

The wolves were gaining speed. April urged Casey to go faster as Mona started rummaging through the supplies.

"What do we do?" Don asked.

"I got this." Mona pulled out piece of firewood and quickly lit it with the engine's flame. "Just don't fall off and don't get eaten."

"But we want to help!" insisted Raph.

"No!"

"Why not?" nagged Mikey.

"Because I don't trust your judgement."

Don took offense to that. "Excuse me?"

Mona moved him out of the way and kicked off one of the bloodthirsty creatures as it pounced at them. "Marrying a girl you just met and having your brothers not question it?"

"It true love!" yelled Don as he grabbed Casey's mandolin and swung it, smacking another wolf off.

"My mandolin!" cried Casey.

Suddenly something jerked on the back of Mona's jacket and she was pulled off the snowmobile being dragged off by a wolf. With seconds before being a midnight snack, Mona grabbed on a rope hang off the edge.

"Mary!" Raph shouted.

"It's Mona!" Mona shrieked with pain as the wolves nipped at her.

Thinking fast, Raph grabbed the torch from April and set a rolled blanket on fire. Before it could fully enflame he threw it at Mona instructing her to duck as it hit the wolves, knocking them off her. More wolves began to multiply around them as Mona quickly hopped back on the ride.

"You almost set me on fire!" yelled Mona as Raph pulled her up.

"But I didn't!" countered Raph.

"Is everyone okay?!" April shouted.

They all nodded but stopped when they saw ahead of them. They were heading towards a cliff with no way off except miraculously leaping to the other side of the mountain.

"Get ready to jump Casey!" yelled Don.

"You don't tell him what to do!" She grabbed the sack of tools and with the help of Mona pushed each of them onto the snowmobile and out of the sled extension. "I do!"

They were reaching closer to the edge by the second.

"Jump Casey!" April unlatched the sled and Casey sped farther gaining enough speed to jump.

Each of their hearts leaped in their chests, feeling as if they were going to jump out of their throat. It had been a while since the turtles had felt that rush of close death. The last time was their outdoor training session with Splinter before he had left on his trip. Within seconds, everyone on the snowmobile was with Casey on the engine and had landed safely but April was still in the sled. Establishing that she wouldn't make it at this length, she jumped off the edge of it just as it lost altitude and plummet to the bottom. She crashed into a plush pile of snow just dangling off the brim of the cliff.

April looked back to see the wolves on the other side not daring to make the same choice as them. She looked down and saw with dismay that the sled was a mangled piece of junk now set on fire.

"But I just paid it off." she whimpered.

April was starting to slip but before she could fall, Don threw the pick tied to the rope for her to grab on which she grasped onto like there was no tomorrow. Donnie quickly pulled with such strength that within seconds she was on solid, level ground.

April lied in the snow breathing, frustrated with loss of the sled.

"We'll replace your sled." noted Don. "And everything in it."

Mona sighed with disappointment at the previous events.

Mikey's face fell. He wasn't known with being the mature own but now seemed like a good call. "And we understand if you guys don't want to help us anymore."

The three off them slowly walked away hoping that Mona, April and Casey called after them.

Casey nudged at April. "C'mon guys, let's help them out."

Mona groaned. "I don't want to help them out, in fact this whole thing has ruined me for helping anyone ever again."

"They'll die on their own!" argued Casey.

"I can live with that." Mona stated.

April turned and looked at the brothers walking on their own. "But we won't get our new sled if they're dead."

Mona gave her a look; April had a point. "Sometimes I really don't like you guys."

April called back at them. "Hold up, we're coming!"

"You are!" Mikey exclaimed thankfully. "Great!"

Casey caught up to them with Mona and April behind. The six of the continued to the top just as the sun peeked over the horizon bringing forth a new day with new challenges to come.