The Other Side
A TMNT Fanfiction
Part I: The First Night
Kent, a student at Chris Bradford's dojo, was walking back to his apartment on a warm May night at exactly 10:39 p.m. with a Red Oak Bokken by his side. He was not a particularly talented student, but he spent every free moment he could get on training himself with all means of combat. Jujitsu, Ninjutsu, Karate, Sharp-shooting, Parkour, Boxing, Wrestling, you name it. Instead of focusing his skills on one particular style, he had some skill in everything, thus, he always had some sort of weapon at his side. He managed to make a living off of beta-testing and pro-gaming, which was fine by him.
As he passed an alleyway, he heard a suspicious thud. He looked. A giant creature with a bit of red cloth around its head had pinned down a fellow student from the dojo. Kent wasn't one who took kindly to unknown monsters or backing down from an obvious fight. "Hey!" he called out to the abomination. It looked up to receive a blow of red oak to the face, splintering the bokken.
The creature seemed hardly phased by this. It latched its three-fingered hand onto Kent's wrist, flipped him with a ninjutsu move, and gave a hook to Kent's stomach. Kent spat blood from the impact. the creatures hand was scaly, like a lizards. It grabbed his face and lifted him. Kent found a wall to fix his feet onto and used it as leverage to maneuver over the creature onto its back. It had some sort of hard covering on its back, like a turtle's shell. the thing ran backwards in an attempt to ram him into the wall behind him. Kent dropped off its back and shot his legs up. The monster stopped movement altogether, dropped into a ball and moaned. Kent lifted the creature that had retracted into its shell and threw him into a nearby sewer.
The adrenaline left. Kent began to feel the full impact of the damage cause by the creature. Kent nearly passed out from the pain. He stumbled home, coughing up blood as he went. He managed to make it into his apartment but passed out on the steps to his room.