(This is an introduction for a character for a message board I post at. I don't know if I am going to write more or not. I don't own the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I only borrow them for my own insane idea's.)
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"In the white freeze, I never spoke of tears, or opened up to anyone including myself.
But I would like to, find a way to open to you.
Been a while don't know if I remember how too.
I'm here waiting on the edge, would I be all right showing myself to you. It's always been so hard to do.
Stray.
No regret cause I got nothing to lose.
Ever, stray
So I'm gonna live my life as I choose, until I fall.
Stray"
-Stray "Wolf's Rain"
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Stray
New York City.... City of lights, sound, laughter, but also a city of ultimate despair, hatred and anger. Not a place one would call paradise, but still they were there looking for it.
"Daddy?" The young women's soft voice broke the still of the moment. Her eyes were a deep, rich brown that almost appeared black in the limited light, a little to big for her face. They made her appear much more innocent then she was in her twenty-three years. "I can smell it, Daddy can you. One of our kind?" She scented the air, pushing her short, curly brown locks out of her eyes, her thick mane not wanting to obey her wishes.
The man next to her also tested the aromas around him He was tall, but lean, also with dark hair that was graying towards the sides. His icy blue eyes flashed as he smiled down at his daughter. "I think your hope is allowing your imagination to run wild on you again." He smiled in a good-natured way, but he could see the disappointment that flashed along the small women's face.
"Listen I'm beginning to feel hungry, why don't you go into one of those shops we passed back on the street and get us something to eat?" She hesitated at her Father's request, not liking being broke up.
"You're just trying to distract me." Her face was stubborn; he could just barely see it in the poorly lit alleyway.
"It doesn't matter, if I'm hungry you should go get me food." His last request came out a bit harder then he had meant for it to, but she shouldn't disobey.
"Fine!" She turned heel, a tiny growl escaping her mouth as she moved. " I'll be quick..." He watched her small frame being swallowed by the shadows around her. He shook his head amused. She was just like her mother.
The man made his way slowly down the alleyway scenting the air again; just to be sure he hadn't been mistaken about what his Daughter had thought. He froze when he heard a scream, still in place; he listened and now could perceive the sounds of a struggle.
He moved swiftly, a blur of light and sound, but it was no man that ran from the alleyway. It was a large male wolf. Grey in color with an x shaped scar running across his chest. He moved with knowledge of the city, keeping to the shadows. Following the victims pitiful cries he came across the scene of a women being, raped, mugged or any other manor of horrible thing human's tended to do to one another, he leapt into the air.
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More stirred in the city that night then just a wolf.... "Quiet Mike I hear something." Four indefinite shapes moving with a skill that almost seemed supernatural leapt from rooftop to rooftop. The one in the lead raised his hand to stop the group and turned to scold the smaller one behind him.
"Leo I think your just paranoid..." The sound again, a woman's lone scream. The lead figure stepped forward into the moonlight; his person took a more distinctive shape. The regular populace would have been horrified by what they saw, but not the other shadows, for they were his brothers and shared his mutated state. They were four giant humanoid turtles. Leo peered off the rooftop his blue bandana being picked up by the breeze and tousled.
"Donnie can you place the sound?" He turned to look at the turtle in the purple bandana next to him. Don nodded.
"Two streets over that way." He pointed toward the west. Leo followed his hand with a nod.
"Then what are we standing here for?" A figure with a red bandana burst through between them. "Lets go already!"
"Raph..." Leo and Raph exchanged deadly glares before Leo shook his head. "Lets go." He leapt over the side of the building landing gracefully on the fire escape and started to make his way down. Don and Raph followed, and Mike, the smallest turtle in his orange bandana, brought up the rear.
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The Turtles silently stalked in the shadows, stopping just outside of the dim light of a street lamp to assess the situation. What they saw next mystified them. Just as Leo gave the signal to attack a large shape flew out of the darkness a bit of a distant away from them.
They froze watching as a huge dog tore into one of the nearest gang members to it. Going straight for the man's throat and an instant death for one of the woman's attackers.
"My God...."Leo could hear Donnie exclaim under his breath. "It's a wolf!" Leo watched the animal go for a second man, noting its size and strength he realized Don was right. The second man fell under the wolf, and the four Turtles watched perplexed at what was going on. Leo had to wonder what would have driven this animal to this place and why it would know to attack these men. He looked around for the animal's master wondering if maybe someone had commanded it to do this act, but could sense no one in the shadows.
He did see the wolf in perfect fluid motion dive for a third thug, mouth open wide and fangs tainted red with blood. But he never reached his target, a shot cut through the air and the wolf fell, making a sound that was more like a moan then any thing else.
Leo had to feel pity for the brave animal, but his thoughts were cut short by the exclamations of the remaining gang members. "What the fuck?!" He followed there gaze and his eyes too grew wide, laying were the wolf should have fallen was not an animal but a nude man... bleeding profusely and gasping for air. "We should get out of here..." One of the thugs was whimpering staring in fear at the dying body. Leo realized the woman that had started this conflict had long sense ran and he couldn't blame her, this was getting a bit to odd even for his tastes.
"Daddy?" Every head, both human and turtle turned to the sound of the small female voice. Standing on the very edge of the lamplight was a woman, bags in her hands, tiny frame shaking, as she appeared to be trying to see around the crowd.
The body of the man moaned again, the last sound it would ever make and the girl turned a deathly pale..."Daddy!" Dropping the bags to the ground, contents forgotten she pushed her way through the thugs to the now prone body of the creature that was her father. "No Daddy.... I told you we shouldn't separate..." She fell against her father's back sobbing. He small frame shaking racked with remorse for her loss. Everything was still for a moment, the whole situation so odd, no one was really computing all of it.
The girl was the first to move, she turned fiercely on the thugs, anger on her face. "You did this humans! Didn't you... you killed my father!" She jumped to her feet unafraid staring the men down; the same one that had fried the first shot brought his gun up again.
"Just stay away from us! Whatever you are or I'll pop you one too!" Leo heard something whiz by his face and saw Raph's weapon, his sai connect with the gun and knock it from the thugs hand. Looks were drawn to the spot the weapon had come from. The four turtles stepped out of the shadows.
"I don't think so punk." Raph growled. "You've caused enough trouble tonight." The two sides looked ready to square off, but it was a bright glow that caused their attention to once again be drawn to the girl. She was struggling to control herself, her body ridged and her fists clenched.
"How dare you touch my Father!" The light flashed so bright turtle and human alike had to cover their eyes. A shape leapt from the light and another wolf, this one smaller and brown connected with the man that had been holding the gun moments before. He was dead before he hit the ground; the wolf growled and dived toward another thug. The turtles watched the confusion as the men tried to escape the wolf and each turtle grabbed at the thugs as they ran by them, but fear drove these men to escape and Leo was just about to grab one when a small form collided with him. It was the wolf; she knocked him the ground paws on his chest she growled, her muzzle just inches from his face.
He was uncertain what to do, he didn't really want to fight this creature, it didn't seem evil, but he would if need be. She stopped growling and sniffed at him, brown eyes going from an insane fire and slowly melting to sorrow. She jumped off of him, and licked his hand as if apologizing. The men were gone, his brothers were posed weapons ready to defend him but they relaxed as the small wolf trotted back to the man's body. She sat whining in remorse and nudged at his still hand with her nose.
Leo pulled himself off of the ground and froze as she howled. It was the most desolate sound he had ever heard. It tore into his soul and made him feel incredible loneliness. Looking to his brother's faces he knew they felt it too.
In a bright flash she was human again, laying against her father's body sobbing. She was nude, like the man had been when he had changed but didn't seem to notice or care. Her world had collapsed and she just wanted to crawl into a hole and die.
The four brothers' exchanged looks with one another. None of them knew what to do, what to say. Leo took the lead, noting her clothes where they had fallen at her change he picked them up and tried to wrap her shirt around her.
She just sort of crumpled into a ball. Giving up everything, her body no longer responding. Leo looked up at Don, Raph and Mike and they looked back at him, there eyes filled with pity. They all knew what it was to be different, but no matter what had ever happened they had always had each other. Now this girl had nothing. Leo rose, scooping the woman's small frame up into his arms. Her eyes were closed and she didn't respond. He wasn't sure if she was asleep, passed out or just in such a state of shock that she didn't move.
Silently the turtles moved back into the shadows, the girl in Leo's arms. The place that had moments before been filled with so much action now lay silent. The bags, no longer cared about or remembered blew in the wind. The body of the man that had given his life to help another lay prone in the darkness of the alleyway, gone but not forgotten.
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"In the white freeze, I never spoke of tears, or opened up to anyone including myself.
But I would like to, find a way to open to you.
Been a while don't know if I remember how too.
I'm here waiting on the edge, would I be all right showing myself to you. It's always been so hard to do.
Stray.
No regret cause I got nothing to lose.
Ever, stray
So I'm gonna live my life as I choose, until I fall.
Stray"
-Stray "Wolf's Rain"
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Stray
New York City.... City of lights, sound, laughter, but also a city of ultimate despair, hatred and anger. Not a place one would call paradise, but still they were there looking for it.
"Daddy?" The young women's soft voice broke the still of the moment. Her eyes were a deep, rich brown that almost appeared black in the limited light, a little to big for her face. They made her appear much more innocent then she was in her twenty-three years. "I can smell it, Daddy can you. One of our kind?" She scented the air, pushing her short, curly brown locks out of her eyes, her thick mane not wanting to obey her wishes.
The man next to her also tested the aromas around him He was tall, but lean, also with dark hair that was graying towards the sides. His icy blue eyes flashed as he smiled down at his daughter. "I think your hope is allowing your imagination to run wild on you again." He smiled in a good-natured way, but he could see the disappointment that flashed along the small women's face.
"Listen I'm beginning to feel hungry, why don't you go into one of those shops we passed back on the street and get us something to eat?" She hesitated at her Father's request, not liking being broke up.
"You're just trying to distract me." Her face was stubborn; he could just barely see it in the poorly lit alleyway.
"It doesn't matter, if I'm hungry you should go get me food." His last request came out a bit harder then he had meant for it to, but she shouldn't disobey.
"Fine!" She turned heel, a tiny growl escaping her mouth as she moved. " I'll be quick..." He watched her small frame being swallowed by the shadows around her. He shook his head amused. She was just like her mother.
The man made his way slowly down the alleyway scenting the air again; just to be sure he hadn't been mistaken about what his Daughter had thought. He froze when he heard a scream, still in place; he listened and now could perceive the sounds of a struggle.
He moved swiftly, a blur of light and sound, but it was no man that ran from the alleyway. It was a large male wolf. Grey in color with an x shaped scar running across his chest. He moved with knowledge of the city, keeping to the shadows. Following the victims pitiful cries he came across the scene of a women being, raped, mugged or any other manor of horrible thing human's tended to do to one another, he leapt into the air.
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More stirred in the city that night then just a wolf.... "Quiet Mike I hear something." Four indefinite shapes moving with a skill that almost seemed supernatural leapt from rooftop to rooftop. The one in the lead raised his hand to stop the group and turned to scold the smaller one behind him.
"Leo I think your just paranoid..." The sound again, a woman's lone scream. The lead figure stepped forward into the moonlight; his person took a more distinctive shape. The regular populace would have been horrified by what they saw, but not the other shadows, for they were his brothers and shared his mutated state. They were four giant humanoid turtles. Leo peered off the rooftop his blue bandana being picked up by the breeze and tousled.
"Donnie can you place the sound?" He turned to look at the turtle in the purple bandana next to him. Don nodded.
"Two streets over that way." He pointed toward the west. Leo followed his hand with a nod.
"Then what are we standing here for?" A figure with a red bandana burst through between them. "Lets go already!"
"Raph..." Leo and Raph exchanged deadly glares before Leo shook his head. "Lets go." He leapt over the side of the building landing gracefully on the fire escape and started to make his way down. Don and Raph followed, and Mike, the smallest turtle in his orange bandana, brought up the rear.
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The Turtles silently stalked in the shadows, stopping just outside of the dim light of a street lamp to assess the situation. What they saw next mystified them. Just as Leo gave the signal to attack a large shape flew out of the darkness a bit of a distant away from them.
They froze watching as a huge dog tore into one of the nearest gang members to it. Going straight for the man's throat and an instant death for one of the woman's attackers.
"My God...."Leo could hear Donnie exclaim under his breath. "It's a wolf!" Leo watched the animal go for a second man, noting its size and strength he realized Don was right. The second man fell under the wolf, and the four Turtles watched perplexed at what was going on. Leo had to wonder what would have driven this animal to this place and why it would know to attack these men. He looked around for the animal's master wondering if maybe someone had commanded it to do this act, but could sense no one in the shadows.
He did see the wolf in perfect fluid motion dive for a third thug, mouth open wide and fangs tainted red with blood. But he never reached his target, a shot cut through the air and the wolf fell, making a sound that was more like a moan then any thing else.
Leo had to feel pity for the brave animal, but his thoughts were cut short by the exclamations of the remaining gang members. "What the fuck?!" He followed there gaze and his eyes too grew wide, laying were the wolf should have fallen was not an animal but a nude man... bleeding profusely and gasping for air. "We should get out of here..." One of the thugs was whimpering staring in fear at the dying body. Leo realized the woman that had started this conflict had long sense ran and he couldn't blame her, this was getting a bit to odd even for his tastes.
"Daddy?" Every head, both human and turtle turned to the sound of the small female voice. Standing on the very edge of the lamplight was a woman, bags in her hands, tiny frame shaking, as she appeared to be trying to see around the crowd.
The body of the man moaned again, the last sound it would ever make and the girl turned a deathly pale..."Daddy!" Dropping the bags to the ground, contents forgotten she pushed her way through the thugs to the now prone body of the creature that was her father. "No Daddy.... I told you we shouldn't separate..." She fell against her father's back sobbing. He small frame shaking racked with remorse for her loss. Everything was still for a moment, the whole situation so odd, no one was really computing all of it.
The girl was the first to move, she turned fiercely on the thugs, anger on her face. "You did this humans! Didn't you... you killed my father!" She jumped to her feet unafraid staring the men down; the same one that had fried the first shot brought his gun up again.
"Just stay away from us! Whatever you are or I'll pop you one too!" Leo heard something whiz by his face and saw Raph's weapon, his sai connect with the gun and knock it from the thugs hand. Looks were drawn to the spot the weapon had come from. The four turtles stepped out of the shadows.
"I don't think so punk." Raph growled. "You've caused enough trouble tonight." The two sides looked ready to square off, but it was a bright glow that caused their attention to once again be drawn to the girl. She was struggling to control herself, her body ridged and her fists clenched.
"How dare you touch my Father!" The light flashed so bright turtle and human alike had to cover their eyes. A shape leapt from the light and another wolf, this one smaller and brown connected with the man that had been holding the gun moments before. He was dead before he hit the ground; the wolf growled and dived toward another thug. The turtles watched the confusion as the men tried to escape the wolf and each turtle grabbed at the thugs as they ran by them, but fear drove these men to escape and Leo was just about to grab one when a small form collided with him. It was the wolf; she knocked him the ground paws on his chest she growled, her muzzle just inches from his face.
He was uncertain what to do, he didn't really want to fight this creature, it didn't seem evil, but he would if need be. She stopped growling and sniffed at him, brown eyes going from an insane fire and slowly melting to sorrow. She jumped off of him, and licked his hand as if apologizing. The men were gone, his brothers were posed weapons ready to defend him but they relaxed as the small wolf trotted back to the man's body. She sat whining in remorse and nudged at his still hand with her nose.
Leo pulled himself off of the ground and froze as she howled. It was the most desolate sound he had ever heard. It tore into his soul and made him feel incredible loneliness. Looking to his brother's faces he knew they felt it too.
In a bright flash she was human again, laying against her father's body sobbing. She was nude, like the man had been when he had changed but didn't seem to notice or care. Her world had collapsed and she just wanted to crawl into a hole and die.
The four brothers' exchanged looks with one another. None of them knew what to do, what to say. Leo took the lead, noting her clothes where they had fallen at her change he picked them up and tried to wrap her shirt around her.
She just sort of crumpled into a ball. Giving up everything, her body no longer responding. Leo looked up at Don, Raph and Mike and they looked back at him, there eyes filled with pity. They all knew what it was to be different, but no matter what had ever happened they had always had each other. Now this girl had nothing. Leo rose, scooping the woman's small frame up into his arms. Her eyes were closed and she didn't respond. He wasn't sure if she was asleep, passed out or just in such a state of shock that she didn't move.
Silently the turtles moved back into the shadows, the girl in Leo's arms. The place that had moments before been filled with so much action now lay silent. The bags, no longer cared about or remembered blew in the wind. The body of the man that had given his life to help another lay prone in the darkness of the alleyway, gone but not forgotten.