Well, here' the first chapter of the sequel to "I Shall Atone." I know I didn't say anything last time, but for the sake of the story, assume that it takes place after the Fast Forward season. The Shredder has come back (I mean, duh—they didn't kill him so they might as well announce that he's coming back in the 2008 season) and the guys are back to fighting for their lives.
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Leo stood in the living are of their old lair, surveying the third home they had lost as a result of their endless fight with the Shredder. The lair was still standing, unlike their first two homes, and looked just as it had the day Saki himself had entered their home and attacked them. They had moved all of their things into their new lair leaving this one looking much as it had when they had moved in.
It seemed like so much had changed in the month since the attack. Leo still couldn't move his right hand, and although he was able to use his left hand he was having a hard time accepting the fact that he might never use two katanas again. The turtles and Master Splinter were still trying to adjust to a new home. The Shredder had been keeping a low profile, and Leo was nervous that meant he was planning something big. They had lost too much already; he didn't want to have to defeat the Shredder again.
Leo had thought that after Ch'rell had been banished they had gotten rid of him for good. But, not for the first time, he had been wrong. The Shredder had returned and they whole process had started over again. Leo sighed and rubbed his left hand over the scars on his plastron. They weren't the first he had received from his fights with the Shredder, and they probably wouldn't be the last. The Shredder had taken too much from him and his family, and Leo was determined to end the cycle for good this time.
"You can count on it, Shredder," he said into the heavy silence. "I shall end this—I shall avenge!"
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So there's the prologue. I hope you enjoyed it. I'm thinking there's going to be more action in this story than in "I Shall Atone," but there'll be as much if not more focus on the guys' emotions too. Thanks for reading—I'll update as soon as I can.