Okay, I own nothing! This is an alternate ending to Enter the Dragons. I tried to have the story relate to the episode close as possible!
"Mistress Karai!" I awake to the sound of Chaplin's cries. It takes a second to remember where I am. Then it all comes back: We are at the final battle with the Shredder. Although we have destroyed the mystics, the Shredder is still able to use his power to put the building in ruins. Although I am unharmed, I notice that the acolytes, the rat, and the turtles, along with the Tengu Shredder, are not in sight. "Karai, you're alive." I turn to see Agent Bishop and Dr. Stockman. "Now if you haven't notice, we are losing. You need to use your connection with the Shredder now before it is too late."
"Stand back," I order as I sit in my meditation pose. I take a deep breath and concentrate. I can feel the Tengu Shredder. His powers are becoming weaker. Although my eyes are closed, I can feel the changes around me. His army is disappearing and the city is turning back into New York. Meanwhile, Bishop has left, ordering Stockman and Chaplin to 'protect' me.
"What is happening?" Stockman asks.
"The Tengu Shredder is pulling all of his energy back into himself". I answer. I start to feel hopeful. However I sense that the Tengu is turning into a dragon, along with the turtles who are with him. Despite the turtles' new form, I can feel the turtles deflected by the Shredder's power, until only Leonardo remaines. Despite my best efforts, the Tengu Shredder is still winning. Yet how can this be? I am not linked enough with the Shredder?
Then I realize something. To be linked with the Shredder is to be one with him. What happens to me happens to him. Could that possibly mean that the only way to destroy the Shredder is to destroy myself? I shake my head in disbelief. If that is true then why would the Tengu try to kill me when he first arrived to the city? Yet as I tried to consider this theory, I know that it is very possible that at the time I was not linked with the Shredder's energy as I am now. The Shredder and his mystics might not have even realized this possibility.
Anger fills me. After all, why should I, Karai, the daughter of Oroku Saki, have to end my life? It was the turtles' fault that the Tengu Shredder was back, not mine! Then a striking pain hits my heart: Leonardo! I can feel Leonardo's pain as he is hit by the Shredder's dire flames. All the anger and revenge melts away as I realize that I am the only one who can bring down the Tengu Shredder. With this realization in hand, I concentrate harder to connect my energy with the Shredder's.
"I have the link with the Shredder's energy!" I tell Chaplin and Stockman. "And now he will pay!" As I feel the Tengu's energy fill me, I sense the Shredder's hold on Leonardo lift. He feels my energy, I think to myself. Before long, I feel the Tengu dragon come near me. Despite the warnings from Chaplin and Stockman, I continue to concentrate.
Now you shall know the true meaning of pain and suffering!!
The green field that surrounds me now engulfs the dragon as well. I open my eyes to see white light, and the Shredder return to his form, minus his armor. I feel pain strike through me. Yet I know I must continue on. I concentrate all my strength on him. Soon I hear his anguish cries mixed within my own. Although the pain is unbearable, I know I have to keep going.
Karai, NO!! That voice…it isn't Chaplin's, and it certainly isn't the Shredder's, it is Leonardo's. I trun my head to see the green turtle across from me. Our eyes met. His eyes are filled with…surprise? Sadness? Regret? I reflect that my heart no longer is filled with revenge or hate towards him, but with...affection. Regret fills me. How long has my heart long for his? How differently would things have been for the two of us if I had taken Leonardo's offer to start a new life so long ago? Yet as I continue to look at him, and feel the Tengu Shredder start to gain control, I realize I have no choice. Leonardo, please forgive me.
I lean back to let death take me. As I hear the big explosion that takes out the Shredder's life as well as my own, I send Leonardo this last thought which I hope he never forgets: Leonardo, my heart is forever yours.
Feedback is appreciated! Also there is one more chapter after this which will be from Leo's point of view.