To Give is to Force

Chapter 1: A new kind of curse

-Sarah's POV-

I stood at the oven, waiting for the pizza I had on the baking stone to finish. When you had four rowdy teenage ninjas to feed as well as a master and yourself, you'd better get the food coming. I drummed my three fingers on the countertop and tried to ignore the itch underneath my small shell, the brown hair I'd just cut short again falling into my dark brown eyes. Yea, for those who love to spoil, I am a mutant turtle, but I started off as a human girl (explains the hair and small shell, no?) and after I mutated I took up residence with the Hamato family being the resident cook for them all. "Guess who!" my cousin April called, walking into the kitchen, carrying a large box in her arms.

"Dexter Speckman!" I said jokingly.

"No," she said between giggles, "although I can be just as devious!"
"DON'T STEAL MY LEATHER PANTS!"

At that, the two of us burst out in gut-busting laughter, which happened to attract the attention of one person in particular. Michelangelo came waltzing into the kitchen, the look on his face saying something along the lines of "I sense a disturbance in the force!" "SARAH!" he shouted. Before I knew what was going on, Mikey had just tackled me.

Being in a very shocked state, I got a little bit weak in the knees, which caused the two of us to fall to the floor. We were about nose to nose when he said something, "You cut your hair? You look so cute!"
"Get. Off. My. Face!" I said angrily.

He crawled off me, "Awww!" April pretend pouted, "This was just getting funny!"

"Sorry!" Mikey exclaimed.

"Will a slice of my pizza cover the apology?" I asked innocently.

"Nope!" she said slyly, "Not that I won't take a slice to-go, though!"
"Then what will?!" Mikey and I asked in unison, "JINX! YOU OWE ME A SODA! NO YOU DO! NO YOU-!"

April cut us off by taking stuff out of the box, shoving a Wii and wii-mote into Mikey's hands and a game box and microphones into mine, "Live stream. After dinner. ALL OF YOU." She said shortly.

"Who sent this?" I asked, looking at the game box 'Ju-On the Grudge, uh oh.'

"Your friends, Jordan and Laura." She replied, "They also said they're coming to visit you… tonight if they can."

My eyes widened, I hadn't told them about what happened to me, and from most of the humans the guys and I had saved from a distance I didn't think they'd be willing to accept me as I was anymore.

"Really," I said with a fake smile, "That's really nice," too bad I'm a freak of nature they'd never recognize now…

"Heck yea it is!" Mikey cheered, radiating happiness again, "We all get a chance to meet some of your human friends!"

DING! The oven timer brought us out of the conversation at hand. "PIZZA'S ON!" I shouted loudly, which was followed by the appearance of the rest of my friends/surrogate family, "What took so long?" Raphael inquired testily.

"Nice to see you too, Raphie-boy." I said teasingly, I was one of the only people in the lair who could get away with teasing the hotheaded turtle, the simple reason being that he won't hit girls.

"Not to be rude," Donnie started carefully, "But what did take so long? Whenever one of us orders a pizza it's here in a matter of minutes."
"OHOHOHO you'll see." I sneakily, putting my pizza in an old Mario's box and putting it on the table.

"Hey," Leo began casually, "This one tastes different than the rest of Mario's."
"Yea," Donnie said, exploring various conclusions, "It tastes a lot fresher and stuff."

"Well, I actually cooked this one." I said, most of them giving me a look like I just broke their brains.

"I'd better skedaddle," April said, grabbing her slice and mouthing "YOU'D BETTER GET STARTED SOON!"

I nodded and quickly brought the subject up, "Hey, Mikey," I began, which seemed to fix his brain for the time being, "Do you know what goes great with pizza?"
"Would the answer be VIDEOGAMES?"

"HECK YES!" I shouted, which fixed everyone else's brains, "Go play then." Leo said calmly.

"Normally we would, but this is my hundredth Let's Play, so I'd like to make it special." I said, in an extremely innocent voice and using the puppy-dog-eyes-of-doom, I'd like you all to at least watch us play and do commentary with me and Mikey."

AWKARD PAUSE….. "Fine." They all murmured in agreement as I smiled sneakily.

LATER….. (YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO TELL WHO'S WHO FROM THE SCREENNAMES)

ShadowKat96: Hi, everyone! This is my hundredth video and we're going to be starting a new let's play, BUT FIRST, I will introduce the other people here with me. you all know Mr. Epic Mike from all my other lets plays

Mr. Epic Mike: HIIIIIIIIIII!

ShadowKat96: You're helping me with this even though it's a single player, right, Mike?

Mr. Epic Mike: Yup, I'm controlling where we look.

ShadowKat96: And I'm controlling movement. Next up in the introductions, Rock'EmSock'EmRagebot !

Rock'EmSock'EmRagebot: …hi…

ShadowKat96: Gee someone's social.

Rock'EmSock'EmRagebot: why are we using these dumb screen names?!
ShadowKat96: Excuse me one sec, audience.

I covered the microphone with my hand and looked up at Raph (Mikey and I were on the floor while the other three were bumming it on the couch), "I do this to protect our identities, if any of the purple dragons or Shredder watch this, and I'd be surprised if they did, they'd just think we sounded familiar and there'd be no proof of who we really were if he did, he'd have that Stockman dude trace this broadcast and find y'all."
He knows it's serious biz if I say "y'all"

ShadowKat96: We're back. Mike, you can introduce the rest of the guests if you want.… here's a note card to help out with the rest… I would have let Ragebot do it, but he's being grumpy.

Rock'EmSock'EmRagebot: Shaddy, you are so lucky I don't hit girls. l(

Mr. Epic Mike: If you even attempted that, errrmm…. Kaito would have stopped you.

Rock'EmSock'EmRagebot: Mreh.

Mr. Epic Mike: Alright, without further ado… tell me if I pronounce this right, Shaddy… Te presento a DonJuandeSciencia!

ShadowKat96: You pronounced that perfectly!

DonJuandeSciencia: UHhHHNnn… Hiiii?

ShadowKat96: (giggles)

DonJuandeSciencia: What?

ShadowKat96: Nuthin'! OK, Mike, last one, let's do this!

Mr. Epic Mike: Alright, Last, but certainly not least, KaitoBushidoSama!
KaitoBushidoSama: Hey, everyone! Nice to be here, and I hope we have a lot of fun tonight!

ShadowKat96: Alright, now that introductions are over, what are we playing?

Mr. Epic Mike: Ju-On the Grudge!

ShadowKat96: Alright, grudge let's start now!

[GAME STARTS]

Rock'EmSock'EmRagebot: Isn't this game supposed to be scary? (just scenery)

ShadowKat96: Hey, plants! Hello, plants!

Plants: Hey, Shaddy! :D

Mr. Epic Mike: DON'T TRUST THE PLANTS!
ShadowKat96: [GASP!] it's the house! :o

DonJuandeSciencia: What's so scary about a house?
Mr. Epic Mike: You'll see! :D

ShadowKat96: NOOOOOOOOOOOO! DON'T GO UPSTAIRS! EVERYONE DIES WHEN THEY GO UPSTAIRS!
KaitoBushidoSama: That is pretty scary…

DonJuandeSciencia: I don't know if I wanna watch anymore!

[GRUDGE GIRL APPEARS AND MAKES THAT FREAKY NOISE THAT I DON'T KNOW HOW I WOULD SPELL IT. Insert your own spelling to enhance the writing.]

EVERYONE: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Suddenly, there was some sort of force that seemed to pull me and everyone else into the TV as we screamed bloody murder… everything going black in a mass of dark, long hair….

Just cause I feel like it, I'll make this extra long for you all, just make sure to favorite and review!

I woke up, my head spinning as I tried to sit up, feeling the same way I had right after I had gotten mutated. "owww…" I groaned, "who ran me over with a phantom train?"
I finally managed to sit up and straightened out my skort (hey, I'm modest at all costs, even if it means wearing a butt mullet) and shirt and tightened my long boots as I looked around my surroundings. This was, as it is many times, easier said than done.

The area I had unfortunately landed in was a warehouse that was obviously abandoned or extremely late on paying their electric bill. Luckily enough for me, there was a flashlight right beside one of my feet along with a crap-ton of batteries. I greedily grabbed them and put them into my skort pockets, quickly turning it on to look at my surroundings. Nothing but a lot of boxes and stuff, "Hello?! ANYONE?!" Donatello's voice broke through the silence which came from a pile of –dare I admit it- BARRELS!.

I ran over to the congregation of evil and gave a swift and powerful kick to them which broke Donnie out of their dangerous game of Kagome Kagome (kudos to Master Splinter with all the ninja training and whatnot) "STOP MATING IN FRONT OF ME!" I shouted loudly, only wishing PewdiePie could see his first ninja turtle bro taking out some barrels.

"Um, thank you." Donnie said, probably weirded out by the gung-ho method I'd used to get rid of the containers, "Where are we?"

I turned on the flashlight in time to see a dog and a young boy run by, "This may sound insane," I began, looking at him with fear in my eyes, "but I think we're inside the actual game!"

"I'd believe about anything by now." Donnie muttered, "from you to the heartless to all this freaky haunting stuff, it's hard to know what's real or not."

"If that's true, then let's be extra careful." I said.

We walked into the next room turning off the flashlight as our eyes had adjusted to the darkness which was a mistake because this room was significantly darker than the previous one and that's saying something.

"Aaaaaaaa!" Donnie screamed, "Something's got me!"

"Relax, it's just me." I said comfortingly, "Oh, and btw, you scream like a girl, and I would know."

"Aw, shut up." He said and I think he may have been flushing.

"Uh… Don?"

"Yea?"

"Did you, uh, grab my ankle, like, just now?"
"No."
"You mind turning on the flashlight?"

(actually decided on a grudge noise spelling) "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuukkkkkkkkkkk kkkkkkkkkkkkkk"

When the flashlight turned on, I saw her. She was small, extremely pale, and caked with blood. I screamed "Shake it! SHAKE IT LIKE A MOTHER-HUGGER!" and repeatedly shook my ankle until she let go. I jumped on top of Donnie (like a piggy back ride) and shouted "RUUUUUUUN!" I guessed at the time he was so scared that he didn't even object to my order.

We didn't run, we FLEW all the way into another room. The noise soon ceased and we breathed a sigh of relief. "I think-... we lost...-her…" Don said, gasping for air as he was panicking as well as I think I was holding on too tight.

I lowered myself down and held onto the vertical sash on his shell, "why're you doing that?" he asked.

"This makes it easier to stick together." I said quietly.

He shrugged and we went along the pathway for a little while, "We're lucky Kayako didn't kill us on the spot," I said uneasily, "she's a powerful onryō."

"Yea, let's be happy we're ok." Donnie murmured.

I noticed something out of the corner of my eye, an old elevator up a flight of stairs. "Hey, that's convienent," Don said shakily, the two of us climbing the steps, "Maybe the dog took the elevator."
I giggled nervously, "If Klunk can do it, so can a dumb old dog." I said. When we got there, you guessed it, "BROKEN?!" I hissed angrily, "Do we have to do everything?!"

"Well, I can probably fix the generator and turn it back on." Donnie said in a calming tone as we came to the generator.

Donatello looked over the machine for a little bit, before looking at it's back, Here's the problem," He said quoting Mythbusters , "The powercord's missing."

"Then my 'spidey sense' tells me it's in that dark, vine covered room with the kitty-cat-brat, cockroaches, snakes and God-Knows-What else." I said sarcastically

"Really?"
"All other options have been exhausted. May as well get it overwith."

As previously stated, this room was coated with kudzu, but this substance had eaten through the windows, letting moonlight in to illiuminate our surroundings. The flashlight Donnie was currently weilding seemed to advertize our location to whoever was in the area, Kayako, the kitty-cat-brat, or dare I say SlenderMan. I saw the powercord tangled up in a particularly thick coil of ivy, I pointed to it for my friend to see, and he cautiously picked it up. "OK, let's go back." He said.

"Wait," I said quietly, picking a scribble up off of the floor, as soon as I did, Toshio (the kitty-cat brat) grabbed my arm. "MRRRRROOOOOWWWW!"
"SHAKE IT!"
screamed as Donnie tried to pry Toshio's hand off of my wrist. Finally I got away after two whole minutes of screaming and prying, he released me.

We sprinted back to the generator, hastily re-attatched the powercord and ran up the stairs, stopping as we gasped for air, "What- ...did we do... - to deserve - ...this?!" I said angrily at the sky, "Was this about me pantsing Hun earlier this week?!"

"You pantsed him?"

"Yup, ninja blood all up on deck."

We paced around for a little bit (like, in circles [really, do this to calm your heart down after terror]) until we were calm enough to go into the elevator, which was incidentally open. 'don't look a gift horse in the mouth' but before we could get in to safety, "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKKKKKKKKKKKK KKKKKKK".

"What the-" I began before Kayako dropped from the ceiling , limbs twisted and looking directly up at us two mutants. "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuukkkkkkkk kkkkkkkkkkkkk" "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" we screamed bloody murder as we ran away only to meet her at the other end "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuukkkkkkkk kkkkkkkkkkkk" this sent us into the elevator to calm down. I actually started to cough and choke a little bit, the tiny bit of asthma I had acting up again. Donatello beat on my shell to aid with my coughing until I stopped. "T- thank you." I whispered, a last cough coming out.

"No problem." He said. The elevator suddenly lurched, Donnie and I grabbed onto eachother in fear, 'CAN'T WE GET A FREAKING BREAK?!'

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuukkkkkk kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk" the elevator doors opened only to engulf us in the onryō's hair again… suddenly there was a flash of light, maybe salvation, maybe something from Iblis. I only hoped I could get out alive and wake up, if I couldn't I wouldn't be the only one going down.

-End chapter 1