Hello all! This is my second story idea, I hope someone besdies me likes it!
Disclaimer: I don't nothin'. Not even myself(I sold myself for half a brain). So it goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway, I don't own the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.(but I can dream) By the way there is a position as my editor that is still open, any takers just email me!!
'January was a cold month,' There was no doubt about that in Leonardo's mind as he and his 3 brothers patrolled the rooftops of their city keeping an eye for potential crimes or Purple Dragon gang members. 'It is cold. Maybe even colder then cold, possibly freezing.' He thought sullenly. But they were honor bound to patrol these streets for the sake of the people who lived down there. Most nights it was actually relatively quiet. A purse snatching here, a taxi cab stick-up there—nothing really. That is until a few weeks ago and they started to notice a change. Less and less were they running into crimes of any sort, in fact even now this whole block was silent, still as if it were afraid to make a noise, and draw attention to itself. Normally, even though this was unusual behavior for a slum in the heart of New York, they wouldn't have been worried too much. In fact everyone but Leo had been happy for the lull in crime. It meant less time patrolling and less time up there where it was so cold. Then, the other crime started. Not petty crimes, but violent ones. Murders. Over the past couple of weeks a rash of murders had been committed. All were in allies, parks, and other places that it was less then desirable to be after dark. The police so far had no leads, they just knew that whoever was killing these people was very good, a professional perhaps, leaving nothing other then the dead victims at the crimes scenes.
"Leo, there's nothing out here," Mikey began to whine, "It's cold, we've been running up here for almost 4 hours, and again there is nothing out here!"
Leo held his hand up, motioning to halt. All three brothers halted in the middle of a roof top that had an alley going around one sides, a street on either side and the wall of the next building for it's fourth side. They all looked expectantly towards Leo. He was gazing out at the city that surrounded them. Minutes past in silence until finally Raph spoke up, "Uuhh Leo? Are you ok?"
Leonardo looked up with an ugly glare on his face, "No, Raphael. It is not O.K., I am not O.K. There is a violent murderer out there tonight, and Mikey here is asking if we can just forget about him and go home! There are people down there whose lives depend on us catching this criminal, and all you guys want is to go home and watch TV?!" Leo's voice got angrier and darker until her was practically just growling at the end of his rant.
Raphael reached out to touch Leo's shoulder, "Geeze Leo, you know we want this guy just as much as you do, but beatin' yourself up for not findin' him by now isn't gonna us help catch him. And neither is us freezin' to death. We've been patrollin' a long time now, maybe he just isn't out tonight."
"I'm sorry Leo, I can stand to be out here a few more hours if it means that much to you. Who knows, maybe we'll get lucky tonight." Mikey said with a small apologetic smile.
Leo shook his head and sighed, "No Mikey, I'm the sorry one, it just gets to me. And I took my frustration out on you. We can go, we have been out here a--CLUNK!" Instantly all four brothers had their hands on their weapons. Leo made a hand sign towards the alley side of the building; they all felt a sort of excited dread bubbling inside their chests. Maybe Mikey was right, and tonight really was the night!